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He
breathed
a
sigh
of
relief
.
She
did
n't
suspect
,
then
.
But
after
a
little
time
,
as
he
grew
more
and
more
in
sympathy
with
Aileen
,
he
was
not
so
disturbed
as
to
whether
his
wife
might
suspect
or
not
.
He
began
to
think
on
occasion
,
as
his
mind
followed
the
various
ramifications
of
the
situation
,
that
it
would
be
better
if
she
did
.
She
was
really
not
of
the
contentious
fighting
sort
.
He
now
decided
because
of
various
calculations
in
regard
to
her
character
that
she
might
not
offer
as
much
resistance
to
some
ultimate
rearrangement
,
as
he
had
originally
imagined
.
She
might
even
divorce
him
.
Desire
,
dreams
,
even
in
him
were
evoking
calculations
not
as
sound
as
those
which
ordinarily
generated
in
his
brain
.
No
,
as
he
now
said
to
himself
,
the
rub
was
not
nearly
so
much
in
his
own
home
,
as
it
was
in
the
Butler
family
.
His
relations
with
Edward
Malia
Butler
had
become
very
intimate
.
He
was
now
advising
with
him
constantly
in
regard
to
the
handling
of
his
securities
,
which
were
numerous
.
Butler
held
stocks
in
such
things
as
the
Pennsylvania
Coal
Company
,
the
Delaware
and
Hudson
Canal
,
the
Morris
and
Essex
Canal
,
the
Reading
Railroad
.
As
the
old
gentleman
's
mind
had
broadened
to
the
significance
of
the
local
street-railway
problem
in
Philadelphia
,
he
had
decided
to
close
out
his
other
securities
at
such
advantageous
terms
as
he
could
,
and
reinvest
the
money
in
local
lines
.
He
knew
that
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
were
doing
this
,
and
they
were
excellent
judges
of
the
significance
of
local
affairs
.
Like
Cowperwood
,
he
had
the
idea
that
if
he
controlled
sufficient
of
the
local
situation
in
this
field
,
he
could
at
last
effect
a
joint
relationship
with
Mollenhauer
and
Simpson
.
Political
legislation
,
advantageous
to
the
combined
lines
,
could
then
be
so
easily
secured
.
Franchises
and
necessary
extensions
to
existing
franchises
could
be
added
.
This
conversion
of
his
outstanding
stock
in
other
fields
,
and
the
picking
up
of
odd
lots
in
the
local
street-railway
,
was
the
business
of
Cowperwood
.
Butler
,
through
his
sons
,
Owen
and
Callum
,
was
also
busy
planning
a
new
line
and
obtaining
a
franchise
,
sacrificing
,
of
course
,
great
blocks
of
stock
and
actual
cash
to
others
,
in
order
to
obtain
sufficient
influence
to
have
the
necessary
legislation
passed
.
Yet
it
was
no
easy
matter
,
seeing
that
others
knew
what
the
general
advantages
of
the
situation
were
,
and
because
of
this
Cowperwood
,
who
saw
the
great
source
of
profit
here
,
was
able
,
betimes
,
to
serve
himself
--
buying
blocks
,
a
part
of
which
only
went
to
Butler
,
Mollenhauer
or
others
.
In
short
he
was
not
as
eager
to
serve
Butler
,
or
any
one
else
,
as
he
was
to
serve
himself
if
he
could
.
In
this
connection
,
the
scheme
which
George
W.
Stener
had
brought
forward
,
representing
actually
in
the
background
Strobik
,
Wycroft
,
and
Harmon
,
was
an
opening
wedge
for
himself
.
Stener
's
plan
was
to
loan
him
money
out
of
the
city
treasury
at
two
per
cent.
,
or
,
if
he
would
waive
all
commissions
,
for
nothing
(
an
agent
for
self-protective
purposes
was
absolutely
necessary
)
,
and
with
it
take
over
the
North
Pennsylvania
Company
's
line
on
Front
Street
,
which
,
because
of
the
shortness
of
its
length
,
one
mile
and
a
half
,
and
the
brevity
of
the
duration
of
its
franchise
,
was
neither
doing
very
well
nor
being
rated
very
high
.
Cowperwood
in
return
for
his
manipulative
skill
was
to
have
a
fair
proportion
of
the
stock
--
twenty
per
cent
.
Strobik
and
Wycroft
knew
the
parties
from
whom
the
bulk
of
the
stock
could
be
secured
if
engineered
properly
.
Their
plan
was
then
,
with
this
borrowed
treasury
money
,
to
extend
its
franchise
and
then
the
line
itself
,
and
then
later
again
,
by
issuing
a
great
block
of
stock
and
hypothecating
it
with
a
favored
bank
,
be
able
to
return
the
principal
to
the
city
treasury
and
pocket
their
profits
from
the
line
as
earned
.
There
was
no
trouble
in
this
,
in
so
far
as
Cowperwood
was
concerned
,
except
that
it
divided
the
stock
very
badly
among
these
various
individuals
,
and
left
him
but
a
comparatively
small
share
--
for
his
thought
and
pains
.
But
Cowperwood
was
an
opportunist
.
And
by
this
time
his
financial
morality
had
become
special
and
local
in
its
character
.
He
did
not
think
it
was
wise
for
any
one
to
steal
anything
from
anybody
where
the
act
of
taking
or
profiting
was
directly
and
plainly
considered
stealing
.
That
was
unwise
--
dangerous
--
hence
wrong
.
There
were
so
many
situations
wherein
what
one
might
do
in
the
way
of
taking
or
profiting
was
open
to
discussion
and
doubt
.
Morality
varied
,
in
his
mind
at
least
,
with
conditions
,
if
not
climates
.
Here
,
in
Philadelphia
,
the
tradition
(
politically
,
mind
you
--
not
generally
)
was
that
the
city
treasurer
might
use
the
money
of
the
city
without
interest
so
long
as
he
returned
the
principal
intact
.
The
city
treasury
and
the
city
treasurer
were
like
a
honey-laden
hive
and
a
queen
bee
around
which
the
drones
--
the
politicians
--
swarmed
in
the
hope
of
profit
.
The
one
disagreeable
thing
in
connection
with
this
transaction
with
Stener
was
that
neither
Butler
,
Mollenhauer
nor
Simpson
,
who
were
the
actual
superiors
of
Stener
and
Strobik
,
knew
anything
about
it
.
Stener
and
those
behind
him
were
,
through
him
,
acting
for
themselves
.
If
the
larger
powers
heard
of
this
,
it
might
alienate
them
.
He
had
to
think
of
this
.
Still
,
if
he
refused
to
make
advantageous
deals
with
Stener
or
any
other
man
influential
in
local
affairs
,
he
was
cutting
off
his
nose
to
spite
his
face
,
for
other
bankers
and
brokers
would
,
and
gladly
.
And
besides
it
was
not
at
all
certain
that
Butler
,
Mollenhauer
,
and
Simpson
would
ever
hear
.
In
this
connection
,
there
was
another
line
,
which
he
rode
on
occasionally
,
the
Seventeenth
and
Nineteenth
Street
line
,
which
he
felt
was
a
much
more
interesting
thing
for
him
to
think
about
,
if
he
could
raise
the
money
.
It
had
been
originally
capitalized
for
five
hundred
thousand
dollars
;
but
there
had
been
a
series
of
bonds
to
the
value
of
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
added
for
improvements
,
and
the
company
was
finding
great
difficulty
in
meeting
the
interest
.
The
bulk
of
the
stock
was
scattered
about
among
small
investors
,
and
it
would
require
all
of
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
to
collect
it
and
have
himself
elected
president
or
chairman
of
the
board
of
directors
.
Once
in
,
however
,
he
could
vote
this
stock
as
he
pleased
,
hypothecating
it
meanwhile
at
his
father
's
bank
for
as
much
as
he
could
get
,
and
issuing
more
stocks
with
which
to
bribe
legislators
in
the
matter
of
extending
the
line
,
and
in
taking
up
other
opportunities
to
either
add
to
it
by
purchase
or
supplement
it
by
working
agreements
.
The
word
"
bribe
"
is
used
here
in
this
matter-of-fact
American
way
,
because
bribery
was
what
was
in
every
one
's
mind
in
connection
with
the
State
legislature
.
Terrence
Relihan
--
the
small
,
dark-faced
Irishman
,
a
dandy
in
dress
and
manners
--
who
represented
the
financial
interests
at
Harrisburg
,
and
who
had
come
to
Cowperwood
after
the
five
million
bond
deal
had
been
printed
,
had
told
him
that
nothing
could
be
done
at
the
capital
without
money
,
or
its
equivalent
,
negotiable
securities
.
Each
significant
legislator
,
if
he
yielded
his
vote
or
his
influence
,
must
be
looked
after
.
If
he
,
Cowperwood
,
had
any
scheme
which
he
wanted
handled
at
any
time
,
Relihan
had
intimated
to
him
that
he
would
be
glad
to
talk
with
him
.
Cowperwood
had
figured
on
this
Seventeenth
and
Nineteenth
Street
line
scheme
more
than
once
,
but
he
had
never
felt
quite
sure
that
he
was
willing
to
undertake
it
.
His
obligations
in
other
directions
were
so
large
.
But
the
lure
was
there
,
and
he
pondered
and
pondered
.
