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Cowperwood
,
Senior
,
saw
a
great
future
for
this
thing
;
but
he
did
not
see
as
yet
how
the
capital
was
to
be
raised
for
it
.
Frank
believed
that
Tighe
&
Co.
should
attempt
to
become
the
selling
agents
of
this
new
stock
of
the
Fifth
and
Sixth
Street
Company
in
the
event
it
succeeded
in
getting
a
franchise
.
He
understood
that
a
company
was
already
formed
,
that
a
large
amount
of
stock
was
to
be
issued
against
the
prospective
franchise
,
and
that
these
shares
were
to
be
sold
at
five
dollars
,
as
against
an
ultimate
par
value
of
one
hundred
.
He
wished
he
had
sufficient
money
to
take
a
large
block
of
them
.
Meanwhile
,
Lillian
Semple
caught
and
held
his
interest
.
Just
what
it
was
about
her
that
attracted
him
at
this
age
it
would
be
hard
to
say
,
for
she
was
really
not
suited
to
him
emotionally
,
intellectually
,
or
otherwise
.
He
was
not
without
experience
with
women
or
girls
,
and
still
held
a
tentative
relationship
with
Marjorie
Stafford
;
but
Lillian
Semple
,
in
spite
of
the
fact
that
she
was
married
and
that
he
could
have
legitimate
interest
in
her
,
seemed
not
wiser
and
saner
,
but
more
worth
while
.
She
was
twenty-four
as
opposed
to
Frank
's
nineteen
,
but
still
young
enough
in
her
thoughts
and
looks
to
appear
of
his
own
age
.
She
was
slightly
taller
than
he
--
though
he
was
now
his
full
height
(
five
feet
ten
and
one-half
inches
)
--
and
,
despite
her
height
,
shapely
,
artistic
in
form
and
feature
,
and
with
a
certain
unconscious
placidity
of
soul
,
which
came
more
from
lack
of
understanding
than
from
force
of
character
.
Her
hair
was
the
color
of
a
dried
English
walnut
,
rich
and
plentiful
,
and
her
complexion
waxen
--
cream
wax
--
-
with
lips
of
faint
pink
,
and
eyes
that
varied
from
gray
to
blue
and
from
gray
to
brown
,
according
to
the
light
in
which
you
saw
them
.
Her
hands
were
thin
and
shapely
,
her
nose
straight
,
her
face
artistically
narrow
.
She
was
not
brilliant
,
not
active
,
but
rather
peaceful
and
statuesque
without
knowing
it
.
Cowperwood
was
carried
away
by
her
appearance
.
Her
beauty
measured
up
to
his
present
sense
of
the
artistic
.
She
was
lovely
,
he
thought
--
gracious
,
dignified
.
If
he
could
have
his
choice
of
a
wife
,
this
was
the
kind
of
a
girl
he
would
like
to
have
.
As
yet
,
Cowperwood
's
judgment
of
women
was
temperamental
rather
than
intellectual
.
Engrossed
as
he
was
by
his
desire
for
wealth
,
prestige
,
dominance
,
he
was
confused
,
if
not
chastened
by
considerations
relating
to
position
,
presentability
and
the
like
.
None
the
less
,
the
homely
woman
meant
nothing
to
him
.
And
the
passionate
woman
meant
much
.
He
heard
family
discussions
of
this
and
that
sacrificial
soul
among
women
,
as
well
as
among
men
--
women
who
toiled
and
slaved
for
their
husbands
or
children
,
or
both
,
who
gave
way
to
relatives
or
friends
in
crises
or
crucial
moments
,
because
it
was
right
and
kind
to
do
so
--
but
somehow
these
stories
did
not
appeal
to
him
.
He
preferred
to
think
of
people
--
even
women
--
as
honestly
,
frankly
self-interested
.
He
could
not
have
told
you
why
.
People
seemed
foolish
,
or
at
the
best
very
unfortunate
not
to
know
what
to
do
in
all
circumstances
and
how
to
protect
themselves
.
There
was
great
talk
concerning
morality
,
much
praise
of
virtue
and
decency
,
and
much
lifting
of
hands
in
righteous
horror
at
people
who
broke
or
were
even
rumored
to
have
broken
the
Seventh
Commandment
.
He
did
not
take
this
talk
seriously
.
Already
he
had
broken
it
secretly
many
times
.
Other
young
men
did
.
Yet
again
,
he
was
a
little
sick
of
the
women
of
the
streets
and
the
bagnio
.
There
were
too
many
coarse
,
evil
features
in
connection
with
such
contacts
.
For
a
little
while
,
the
false
tinsel-glitter
of
the
house
of
ill
repute
appealed
to
him
,
for
there
was
a
certain
force
to
its
luxury
--
rich
,
as
a
rule
,
with
red-plush
furniture
,
showy
red
hangings
,
some
coarse
but
showily-framed
pictures
,
and
,
above
all
,
the
strong-bodied
or
sensuously
lymphatic
women
who
dwelt
there
,
to
(
as
his
mother
phrased
it
)
prey
on
men
.
The
strength
of
their
bodies
,
the
lust
of
their
souls
,
the
fact
that
they
could
,
with
a
show
of
affection
or
good-nature
,
receive
man
after
man
,
astonished
and
later
disgusted
him
.
After
all
,
they
were
not
smart
.
There
was
no
vivacity
of
thought
there
.
All
that
they
could
do
,
in
the
main
,
he
fancied
,
was
this
one
thing
.
He
pictured
to
himself
the
dreariness
of
the
mornings
after
,
the
stale
dregs
of
things
when
only
sleep
and
thought
of
gain
could
aid
in
the
least
;
and
more
than
once
,
even
at
his
age
,
he
shook
his
head
.
He
wanted
contact
which
was
more
intimate
,
subtle
,
individual
,
personal
.
So
came
Lillian
Semple
,
who
was
nothing
more
to
him
than
the
shadow
of
an
ideal
.
Yet
she
cleared
up
certain
of
his
ideas
in
regard
to
women
.
She
was
not
physically
as
vigorous
or
brutal
as
those
other
women
whom
he
had
encountered
in
the
lupanars
,
thus
far
--
raw
,
unashamed
contraveners
of
accepted
theories
and
notions
--
and
for
that
very
reason
he
liked
her
.
And
his
thoughts
continued
to
dwell
on
her
,
notwithstanding
the
hectic
days
which
now
passed
like
flashes
of
light
in
his
new
business
venture
.
For
this
stock
exchange
world
in
which
he
now
found
himself
,
primitive
as
it
would
seem
to-day
,
was
most
fascinating
to
Cowperwood
.
The
room
that
he
went
to
in
Third
Street
,
at
Dock
,
where
the
brokers
or
their
agents
and
clerks
gathered
one
hundred
and
fifty
strong
,
was
nothing
to
speak
of
artistically
--
a
square
chamber
sixty
by
sixty
,
reaching
from
the
second
floor
to
the
roof
of
a
four-story
building
;
but
it
was
striking
to
him
.
The
windows
were
high
and
narrow
;
a
large-faced
clock
faced
the
west
entrance
of
the
room
where
you
came
in
from
the
stairs
;
a
collection
of
telegraph
instruments
,
with
their
accompanying
desks
and
chairs
,
occupied
the
northeast
corner
.
On
the
floor
,
in
the
early
days
of
the
exchange
,
were
rows
of
chairs
where
the
brokers
sat
while
various
lots
of
stocks
were
offered
to
them
.
Later
in
the
history
of
the
exchange
the
chairs
were
removed
and
at
different
points
posts
or
floor-signs
indicating
where
certain
stocks
were
traded
in
were
introduced
.
Around
these
the
men
who
were
interested
gathered
to
do
their
trading
.
From
a
hall
on
the
third
floor
a
door
gave
entrance
to
a
visitor
's
gallery
,
small
and
poorly
furnished
;
and
on
the
west
wall
a
large
blackboard
carried
current
quotations
in
stocks
as
telegraphed
from
New
York
and
Boston
.
A
wicket-like
fence
in
the
center
of
the
room
surrounded
the
desk
and
chair
of
the
official
recorder
;
and
a
very
small
gallery
opening
from
the
third
floor
on
the
west
gave
place
for
the
secretary
of
the
board
,
when
he
had
any
special
announcement
to
make
.
There
was
a
room
off
the
southwest
corner
,
where
reports
and
annual
compendiums
of
chairs
were
removed
and
at
different
signs
indicating
where
certain
stocks
of
various
kinds
were
kept
and
were
available
for
the
use
of
members
.
Young
Cowperwood
would
not
have
been
admitted
at
all
,
as
either
a
broker
or
broker
's
agent
or
assistant
,
except
that
Tighe
,
feeling
that
he
needed
him
and
believing
that
he
would
be
very
useful
,
bought
him
a
seat
on
'
change
--
charging
the
two
thousand
dollars
it
cost
as
a
debt
and
then
ostensibly
taking
him
into
partnership
.
It
was
against
the
rules
of
the
exchange
to
sham
a
partnership
in
this
way
in
order
to
put
a
man
on
the
floor
,
but
brokers
did
it
.
These
men
who
were
known
to
be
minor
partners
and
floor
assistants
were
derisively
called
"
eighth
chasers
"
and
"
two-dollar
brokers
,
"
because
they
were
always
seeking
small
orders
and
were
willing
to
buy
or
sell
for
anybody
on
their
commission
,
accounting
,
of
course
,
to
their
firms
for
their
work
.
Cowperwood
,
regardless
of
his
intrinsic
merits
,
was
originally
counted
one
of
their
number
,
and
he
was
put
under
the
direction
of
Mr.
Arthur
Rivers
,
the
regular
floor
man
of
Tighe
&
Company
.
Rivers
was
an
exceedingly
forceful
man
of
thirty-five
,
well-dressed
,
well-formed
,
with
a
hard
,
smooth
,
evenly
chiseled
face
,
which
was
ornamented
by
a
short
,
black
mustache
and
fine
,
black
,
clearly
penciled
eyebrows
.
His
hair
came
to
an
odd
point
at
the
middle
of
his
forehead
,
where
he
divided
it
,
and
his
chin
was
faintly
and
attractively
cleft
.
He
had
a
soft
voice
,
a
quiet
,
conservative
manner
,
and
both
in
and
out
of
this
brokerage
and
trading
world
was
controlled
by
good
form
.
Cowperwood
wondered
at
first
why
Rivers
should
work
for
Tighe
--
he
appeared
almost
as
able
--
but
afterward
learned
that
he
was
in
the
company
.
Tighe
was
the
organizer
and
general
hand-shaker
,
Rivers
the
floor
and
outside
man
.
