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The
fact
that
she
could
ride
in
a
carriage
,
live
in
a
fine
home
on
Girard
Avenue
,
visit
such
homes
as
those
of
the
Cowperwoods
and
others
,
was
of
great
weight
;
and
yet
,
even
at
this
age
,
she
realized
that
life
was
more
than
these
things
.
Many
did
not
have
them
and
lived
.
But
these
facts
of
wealth
and
advantage
gripped
her
;
and
when
she
sat
at
the
piano
and
played
or
rode
in
her
carriage
or
walked
or
stood
before
her
mirror
,
she
was
conscious
of
her
figure
,
her
charms
,
what
they
meant
to
men
,
how
women
envied
her
.
Sometimes
she
looked
at
poor
,
hollow-chested
or
homely-faced
girls
and
felt
sorry
for
them
;
at
other
times
she
flared
into
inexplicable
opposition
to
some
handsome
girl
or
woman
who
dared
to
brazen
her
socially
or
physically
.
There
were
such
girls
of
the
better
families
who
,
in
Chestnut
Street
,
in
the
expensive
shops
,
or
on
the
drive
,
on
horseback
or
in
carriages
,
tossed
their
heads
and
indicated
as
well
as
human
motions
can
that
they
were
better-bred
and
knew
it
.
When
this
happened
each
stared
defiantly
at
the
other
.
She
wanted
ever
so
much
to
get
up
in
the
world
,
and
yet
namby-pamby
men
of
better
social
station
than
herself
did
not
attract
her
at
all
.
She
wanted
a
man
Now
and
then
there
was
one
"
something
like
,
"
but
not
entirely
,
who
appealed
to
her
,
but
most
of
them
were
politicians
or
legislators
,
acquaintances
of
her
father
,
and
socially
nothing
at
all
--
and
so
they
wearied
and
disappointed
her
.
Her
father
did
not
know
the
truly
elite
.
But
Mr.
Cowperwood
--
he
seemed
so
refined
,
so
forceful
,
and
so
reserved
.
She
often
looked
at
Mrs.
Cowperwood
and
thought
how
fortunate
she
was
.
The
development
of
Cowperwood
as
Cowperwood
&
Co.
following
his
arresting
bond
venture
,
finally
brought
him
into
relationship
with
one
man
who
was
to
play
an
important
part
in
his
life
,
morally
,
financially
,
and
in
other
ways
.
This
was
George
W.
Stener
,
the
new
city
treasurer-elect
,
who
,
to
begin
with
,
was
a
puppet
in
the
hands
of
other
men
,
but
who
,
also
in
spite
of
this
fact
,
became
a
personage
of
considerable
importance
,
for
the
simple
reason
that
he
was
weak
.
Stener
had
been
engaged
in
the
real
estate
and
insurance
business
in
a
small
way
before
he
was
made
city
treasurer
.
He
was
one
of
those
men
,
of
whom
there
are
so
many
thousands
in
every
large
community
,
with
no
breadth
of
vision
,
no
real
subtlety
,
no
craft
,
no
great
skill
in
anything
.
You
would
never
hear
a
new
idea
emanating
from
Stener
.
He
never
had
one
in
his
life
.
On
the
other
hand
,
he
was
not
a
bad
fellow
.
He
had
a
stodgy
,
dusty
,
commonplace
look
to
him
which
was
more
a
matter
of
mind
than
of
body
.
His
eye
was
of
vague
gray-blue
;
his
hair
a
dusty
light-brown
and
thin
.
His
mouth
--
there
was
nothing
impressive
there
.
He
was
quite
tall
,
nearly
six
feet
,
with
moderately
broad
shoulders
,
but
his
figure
was
anything
but
shapely
.
He
seemed
to
stoop
a
little
,
his
stomach
was
the
least
bit
protuberant
,
and
he
talked
commonplaces
--
the
small
change
of
newspaper
and
street
and
business
gossip
.
People
liked
him
in
his
own
neighborhood
.
He
was
thought
to
be
honest
and
kindly
;
and
he
was
,
as
far
as
he
knew
.
His
wife
and
four
children
were
as
average
and
insignificant
as
the
wives
and
children
of
such
men
usually
are
.
Just
the
same
,
and
in
spite
of
,
or
perhaps
,
politically
speaking
,
because
of
all
this
,
George
W.
Stener
was
brought
into
temporary
public
notice
by
certain
political
methods
which
had
existed
in
Philadelphia
practically
unmodified
for
the
previous
half
hundred
years
.
First
,
because
he
was
of
the
same
political
faith
as
the
dominant
local
political
party
,
he
had
become
known
to
the
local
councilman
and
ward-leader
of
his
ward
as
a
faithful
soul
--
one
useful
in
the
matter
of
drumming
up
votes
.
And
next
--
although
absolutely
without
value
as
a
speaker
,
for
he
had
no
ideas
--
you
could
send
him
from
door
to
door
,
asking
the
grocer
and
the
blacksmith
and
the
butcher
how
he
felt
about
things
and
he
would
make
friends
,
and
in
the
long
run
predict
fairly
accurately
the
probable
vote
.
Furthermore
,
you
could
dole
him
out
a
few
platitudes
and
he
would
repeat
them
.
The
Republican
party
,
which
was
the
new-born
party
then
,
but
dominant
in
Philadelphia
,
needed
your
vote
;
it
was
necessary
to
keep
the
rascally
Democrats
out
--
he
could
scarcely
have
said
why
.
They
had
been
for
slavery
.
They
were
for
free
trade
.
It
never
once
occurred
to
him
that
these
things
had
nothing
to
do
with
the
local
executive
and
financial
administration
of
Philadelphia
.
Supposing
they
did
n't
?
What
of
it
?
In
Philadelphia
at
this
time
a
certain
United
States
Senator
,
one
Mark
Simpson
,
together
with
Edward
Malia
Butler
and
Henry
A.
Mollenhauer
,
a
rich
coal
dealer
and
investor
,
were
supposed
to
,
and
did
,
control
jointly
the
political
destiny
of
the
city
.
They
had
representatives
,
benchmen
,
spies
,
tools
--
a
great
company
.
Among
them
was
this
same
Stener
--
a
minute
cog
in
the
silent
machinery
of
their
affairs
.
In
scarcely
any
other
city
save
this
,
where
the
inhabitants
were
of
a
deadly
average
in
so
far
as
being
commonplace
was
concerned
,
could
such
a
man
as
Stener
have
been
elected
city
treasurer
.
The
rank
and
file
did
not
,
except
in
rare
instances
,
make
up
their
political
program
.
An
inside
ring
had
this
matter
in
charge
.
Certain
positions
were
allotted
to
such
and
such
men
or
to
such
and
such
factions
of
the
party
for
such
and
such
services
rendered
--
but
who
does
not
know
politics
?
In
due
course
of
time
,
therefore
,
George
W.
Stener
had
become
persona
grata
to
Edward
Strobik
,
a
quondam
councilman
who
afterward
became
ward
leader
and
still
later
president
of
council
,
and
who
,
in
private
life
was
a
stone-dealer
and
owner
of
a
brickyard
.
Strobik
was
a
benchman
of
Henry
A.
Mollenhauer
,
the
hardest
and
coldest
of
all
three
of
the
political
leaders
.
The
latter
had
things
to
get
from
council
,
and
Strobik
was
his
tool
.
He
had
Stener
elected
;
and
because
he
was
faithful
in
voting
as
he
was
told
the
latter
was
later
made
an
assistant
superintendent
of
the
highways
department
.
Here
he
came
under
the
eyes
of
Edward
Malia
Butler
,
and
was
slightly
useful
to
him
.
Then
the
central
political
committee
,
with
Butler
in
charge
,
decided
that
some
nice
,
docile
man
who
would
at
the
same
time
be
absolutely
faithful
was
needed
for
city
treasurer
,
and
Stener
was
put
on
the
ticket
.
