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The
most
popular
local
stone
,
a
green
granite
was
chosen
;
but
Mr.
Ellsworth
promised
to
present
it
in
such
a
way
that
it
would
be
especially
pleasing
.
Cowperwood
,
Sr.
,
decided
that
he
could
afford
to
spent
seventy-five
thousand
dollars
--
he
was
now
worth
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
;
and
Frank
decided
that
he
could
risk
fifty
,
seeing
that
he
could
raise
money
on
a
mortgage
.
He
planned
at
the
same
time
to
remove
his
office
farther
south
on
Third
Street
and
occupy
a
building
of
his
own
.
He
knew
where
an
option
was
to
be
had
on
a
twenty-five-foot
building
,
which
,
though
old
,
could
be
given
a
new
brownstone
front
and
made
very
significant
.
He
saw
in
his
mind
's
eye
a
handsome
building
,
fitted
with
an
immense
plate-glass
window
;
inside
his
hardwood
fixtures
visible
;
and
over
the
door
,
or
to
one
side
of
it
,
set
in
bronze
letters
,
Cowperwood
&
Co.
.
Vaguely
but
surely
he
began
to
see
looming
before
him
,
like
a
fleecy
tinted
cloud
on
the
horizon
,
his
future
fortune
.
He
was
to
be
rich
,
very
,
very
rich
.
During
all
the
time
that
Cowperwood
had
been
building
himself
up
thus
steadily
the
great
war
of
the
rebellion
had
been
fought
almost
to
its
close
.
It
was
now
October
,
1864
.
The
capture
of
Mobile
and
the
Battle
of
the
Wilderness
were
fresh
memories
.
Grant
was
now
before
Petersburg
,
and
the
great
general
of
the
South
,
Lee
,
was
making
that
last
brilliant
and
hopeless
display
of
his
ability
as
a
strategist
and
a
soldier
.
There
had
been
times
--
as
,
for
instance
,
during
the
long
,
dreary
period
in
which
the
country
was
waiting
for
Vicksburg
to
fall
,
for
the
Army
of
the
Potomac
to
prove
victorious
,
when
Pennsylvania
was
invaded
by
Lee
--
when
stocks
fell
and
commercial
conditions
were
very
bad
generally
.
In
times
like
these
Cowperwood
's
own
manipulative
ability
was
taxed
to
the
utmost
,
and
he
had
to
watch
every
hour
to
see
that
his
fortune
was
not
destroyed
by
some
unexpected
and
destructive
piece
of
news
.
His
personal
attitude
toward
the
war
,
however
,
and
aside
from
his
patriotic
feeling
that
the
Union
ought
to
be
maintained
,
was
that
it
was
destructive
and
wasteful
.
He
was
by
no
means
so
wanting
in
patriotic
emotion
and
sentiment
but
that
he
could
feel
that
the
Union
,
as
it
had
now
come
to
be
,
spreading
its
great
length
from
the
Atlantic
to
the
Pacific
and
from
the
snows
of
Canada
to
the
Gulf
,
was
worth
while
.
Since
his
birth
in
1837
he
had
seen
the
nation
reach
that
physical
growth
--
barring
Alaska
--
which
it
now
possesses
.
Not
so
much
earlier
than
his
youth
Florida
had
been
added
to
the
Union
by
purchase
from
Spain
;
Mexico
,
after
the
unjust
war
of
1848
,
had
ceded
Texas
and
the
territory
to
the
West
.
The
boundary
disputes
between
England
and
the
United
States
in
the
far
Northwest
had
been
finally
adjusted
.
To
a
man
with
great
social
and
financial
imagination
,
these
facts
could
not
help
but
be
significant
;
and
if
they
did
nothing
more
,
they
gave
him
a
sense
of
the
boundless
commercial
possibilities
which
existed
potentially
in
so
vast
a
realm
.
His
was
not
the
order
of
speculative
financial
enthusiasm
which
,
in
the
type
known
as
the
"
promoter
,
"
sees
endless
possibilities
for
gain
in
every
unexplored
rivulet
and
prairie
reach
;
but
the
very
vastness
of
the
country
suggested
possibilities
which
he
hoped
might
remain
undisturbed
.
A
territory
covering
the
length
of
a
whole
zone
and
between
two
seas
,
seemed
to
him
to
possess
potentialities
which
it
could
not
retain
if
the
States
of
the
South
were
lost
.
At
the
same
time
,
the
freedom
of
the
negro
was
not
a
significant
point
with
him
.
He
had
observed
that
race
from
his
boyhood
with
considerable
interest
,
and
had
been
struck
with
virtues
and
defects
which
seemed
inherent
and
which
plainly
,
to
him
,
conditioned
their
experiences
.
He
was
not
at
all
sure
,
for
instance
,
that
the
negroes
could
be
made
into
anything
much
more
significant
than
they
were
.
At
any
rate
,
it
was
a
long
uphill
struggle
for
them
,
of
which
many
future
generations
would
not
witness
the
conclusion
.
He
had
no
particular
quarrel
with
the
theory
that
they
should
be
free
;
he
saw
no
particular
reason
why
the
South
should
not
protest
vigorously
against
the
destruction
of
their
property
and
their
system
.
It
was
too
bad
that
the
negroes
as
slaves
should
be
abused
in
some
instances
.
He
felt
sure
that
that
ought
to
be
adjusted
in
some
way
;
but
beyond
that
he
could
not
see
that
there
was
any
great
ethical
basis
for
the
contentions
of
their
sponsors
.
The
vast
majority
of
men
and
women
,
as
he
could
see
,
were
not
essentially
above
slavery
,
even
when
they
had
all
the
guarantees
of
a
constitution
formulated
to
prevent
it
.
There
was
mental
slavery
,
the
slavery
of
the
weak
mind
and
the
weak
body
.
He
followed
the
contentions
of
such
men
as
Sumner
,
Garrison
,
Phillips
,
and
Beecher
,
with
considerable
interest
;
but
at
no
time
could
he
see
that
the
problem
was
a
vital
one
for
him
.
He
did
not
care
to
be
a
soldier
or
an
officer
of
soldiers
;
he
had
no
gift
for
polemics
;
his
mind
was
not
of
the
disputatious
order
--
not
even
in
the
realm
of
finance
.
He
was
concerned
only
to
see
what
was
of
vast
advantage
to
him
,
and
to
devote
all
his
attention
to
that
.
This
fratricidal
war
in
the
nation
could
not
help
him
.
It
really
delayed
,
he
thought
,
the
true
commercial
and
financial
adjustment
of
the
country
,
and
he
hoped
that
it
would
soon
end
.
He
was
not
of
those
who
complained
bitterly
of
the
excessive
war
taxes
,
though
he
knew
them
to
be
trying
to
many
.
Some
of
the
stories
of
death
and
disaster
moved
him
greatly
;
but
,
alas
,
they
were
among
the
unaccountable
fortunes
of
life
,
and
could
not
be
remedied
by
him
.
So
he
had
gone
his
way
day
by
day
,
watching
the
coming
in
and
the
departing
of
troops
,
seeing
the
bands
of
dirty
,
disheveled
,
gaunt
,
sickly
men
returning
from
the
fields
and
hospitals
;
and
all
he
could
do
was
to
feel
sorry
.
This
war
was
not
for
him
.
He
had
taken
no
part
in
it
,
and
he
felt
sure
that
he
could
only
rejoice
in
its
conclusion
--
not
as
a
patriot
,
but
as
a
financier
.
It
was
wasteful
,
pathetic
,
unfortunate
.
The
months
proceeded
apace
.
A
local
election
intervened
and
there
was
a
new
city
treasurer
,
a
new
assessor
of
taxes
,
and
a
new
mayor
;
but
Edward
Malia
Butler
continued
to
have
apparently
the
same
influence
as
before
.
The
Butlers
and
the
Cowperwoods
had
become
quite
friendly
.
Mrs.
Butler
rather
liked
Lillian
,
though
they
were
of
different
religious
beliefs
;
and
they
went
driving
or
shopping
together
,
the
younger
woman
a
little
critical
and
ashamed
of
the
elder
because
of
her
poor
grammar
,
her
Irish
accent
,
her
plebeian
tastes
--
as
though
the
Wiggins
had
not
been
as
plebeian
as
any
.
On
the
other
hand
the
old
lady
,
as
she
was
compelled
to
admit
,
was
good-natured
and
good-hearted
.
She
loved
to
give
,
since
she
had
plenty
,
and
sent
presents
here
and
there
to
Lillian
,
the
children
,
and
others
.
"
Now
youse
must
come
over
and
take
dinner
with
us
"
--
the
Butlers
had
arrived
at
the
evening-dinner
period
--
or
"
Youse
must
come
drive
with
me
to-morrow
.
"
"
Aileen
,
God
bless
her
,
is
such
a
foine
girl
,
"
or
"
Norah
,
the
darlin
'
,
is
sick
the
day
.
"
