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"
Yes
,
I
know
,
"
she
replied
,
even
as
he
gathered
her
close
in
his
arms
"
I
know
how
you
care
.
"
But
that
did
not
prevent
her
from
responding
to
him
warmly
,
for
back
of
all
her
fuming
protest
was
heartache
,
the
wish
to
have
his
love
intact
,
to
restore
that
pristine
affection
which
she
had
once
assumed
would
endure
forever
.
The
morning
papers
,
in
spite
of
the
efforts
of
Cowperwood
and
his
friends
to
keep
this
transfer
secret
,
shortly
thereafter
were
full
of
rumors
of
a
change
in
"
North
Chicago
.
"
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
,
hitherto
unmentioned
in
connection
with
Chicago
street-railways
,
was
pointed
to
as
the
probable
successor
to
Onias
C.
Skinner
,
and
Edwin
L.
Kaffrath
,
one
of
the
old
directors
,
as
future
vice-president
.
The
men
back
of
the
deal
were
referred
to
as
"
in
all
likelihood
Eastern
capitalists
.
"
Cowperwood
,
as
he
sat
in
Aileen
's
room
examining
the
various
morning
papers
,
saw
that
before
the
day
was
over
he
would
be
sought
out
for
an
expression
of
opinion
and
further
details
.
He
proposed
to
ask
the
newspaper
men
to
wait
a
few
days
until
he
could
talk
to
the
publishers
of
the
papers
themselves
--
win
their
confidence
--
and
then
announce
a
general
policy
;
it
would
be
something
that
would
please
the
city
,
and
the
residents
of
the
North
Side
in
particular
.
At
the
same
time
he
did
not
care
to
promise
anything
which
he
could
not
easily
and
profitably
perform
.
He
wanted
fame
and
reputation
,
but
he
wanted
money
even
more
;
he
intended
to
get
both
.
To
one
who
had
been
working
thus
long
in
the
minor
realms
of
finance
,
as
Cowperwood
considered
that
he
had
so
far
been
doing
,
this
sudden
upward
step
into
the
more
conspicuous
regions
of
high
finance
and
control
was
an
all-inspiring
thing
.
So
long
had
he
been
stirring
about
in
a
lesser
region
,
paving
the
way
by
hours
and
hours
of
private
thought
and
conference
and
scheming
,
that
now
when
he
actually
had
achieved
his
end
he
could
scarcely
believe
for
the
time
being
that
it
was
true
.
Chicago
was
such
a
splendid
city
.
It
was
growing
so
fast
.
Its
opportunities
were
so
wonderful
.
These
men
who
had
thus
foolishly
parted
with
an
indefinite
lease
of
their
holdings
had
not
really
considered
what
they
were
doing
.
This
matter
of
Chicago
street-railways
,
once
he
had
them
well
in
hand
,
could
be
made
to
yield
such
splendid
profits
!
He
could
incorporate
and
overcapitalize
.
Many
subsidiary
lines
,
which
McKenty
would
secure
for
him
for
a
song
,
would
be
worth
millions
in
the
future
,
and
they
should
be
his
entirely
;
he
would
not
be
indebted
to
the
directors
of
the
old
North
Chicago
company
for
any
interest
on
those
.
By
degrees
,
year
by
year
,
as
the
city
grew
,
the
lines
which
were
still
controlled
by
this
old
company
,
but
were
practically
his
,
would
become
a
mere
item
,
a
central
core
,
in
the
so
very
much
larger
system
of
new
lines
which
he
would
build
up
about
it
.
Then
the
West
Side
,
and
even
the
South
Side
sections
--
but
why
dream
?
He
might
readily
become
the
sole
master
of
street-railway
traffic
in
Chicago
!
He
might
readily
become
the
most
princely
financial
figure
in
the
city
--
and
one
of
the
few
great
financial
magnates
of
the
nation
.
In
any
public
enterprise
of
any
kind
,
as
he
knew
,
where
the
suffrages
of
the
people
or
the
privileges
in
their
possessions
are
desired
,
the
newspapers
must
always
be
considered
.
As
Cowperwood
even
now
was
casting
hungry
eyes
in
the
direction
of
the
two
tunnels
--
one
to
be
held
in
view
of
an
eventual
assumption
of
the
Chicago
West
Division
Company
,
the
other
to
be
given
to
the
North
Chicago
Street
Railway
,
which
he
had
now
organized
,
it
was
necessary
to
make
friends
with
the
various
publishers
.
How
to
go
about
it
?
Recently
,
because
of
the
influx
of
a
heavy
native
and
foreign-born
population
(
thousands
and
thousands
of
men
of
all
sorts
and
conditions
looking
for
the
work
which
the
growth
of
the
city
seemed
to
promise
)
,
and
because
of
the
dissemination
of
stirring
ideas
through
radical
individuals
of
foreign
groups
concerning
anarchism
,
socialism
,
communism
,
and
the
like
,
the
civic
idea
in
Chicago
had
become
most
acute
.
This
very
May
,
in
which
Cowperwood
had
been
going
about
attempting
to
adjust
matters
in
his
favor
,
there
had
been
a
tremendous
national
flare-up
,
when
in
a
great
public
place
on
the
West
Side
known
as
the
Haymarket
,
at
one
of
a
number
of
labor
meetings
,
dubbed
anarchistic
because
of
the
principles
of
some
of
the
speakers
,
a
bomb
had
been
hurled
by
some
excited
fanatic
,
which
had
exploded
and
maimed
or
killed
a
number
of
policemen
,
injuring
slightly
several
others
.
This
had
brought
to
the
fore
,
once
and
for
all
,
as
by
a
flash
of
lightning
,
the
whole
problem
of
mass
against
class
,
and
had
given
it
such
an
airing
as
in
view
of
the
cheerful
,
optimistic
,
almost
inconsequential
American
mind
had
not
previously
been
possible
.
It
changed
,
quite
as
an
eruption
might
,
the
whole
face
of
the
commercial
landscape
.
Man
thought
thereafter
somewhat
more
accurately
of
national
and
civic
things
.
What
was
anarchism
?
What
socialism
?
What
rights
had
the
rank
and
file
,
anyhow
,
in
economic
and
governmental
development
?
Such
were
interesting
questions
,
and
following
the
bomb
--
which
acted
as
a
great
stone
cast
in
the
water
--
these
ripple-rings
of
thought
were
still
widening
and
emanating
until
they
took
in
such
supposedly
remote
and
impregnable
quarters
as
editorial
offices
,
banks
and
financial
institutions
generally
,
and
the
haunts
of
political
dignitaries
and
their
jobs
.
In
the
face
of
this
,
however
,
Cowperwood
was
not
disturbed
.
He
did
not
believe
in
either
the
strength
of
the
masses
or
their
ultimate
rights
,
though
he
sympathized
with
the
condition
of
individuals
,
and
did
believe
that
men
like
himself
were
sent
into
the
world
to
better
perfect
its
mechanism
and
habitable
order
.
Often
now
,
in
these
preliminary
days
,
he
looked
at
the
large
companies
of
men
with
their
horses
gathered
in
and
about
the
several
carbarns
of
the
company
,
and
wondered
at
their
state
.
So
many
of
them
were
so
dull
.
They
were
rather
like
animals
,
patient
,
inartistic
,
hopeless
.
He
thought
of
their
shabby
homes
,
their
long
hours
,
their
poor
pay
,
and
then
concluded
that
if
anything
at
all
could
be
done
for
them
it
would
be
pay
them
decent
living
wages
,
which
he
proposed
to
do
--
nothing
more
.
They
could
not
be
expected
to
understand
his
dreams
or
his
visions
,
or
to
share
in
the
magnificence
and
social
dominance
which
he
craved
.
He
finally
decided
that
it
would
be
as
well
for
him
to
personally
visit
the
various
newspaper
publishers
and
talk
the
situation
over
with
them
.
Addison
,
when
consulted
as
to
this
project
,
was
somewhat
dubious
.
He
had
small
faith
in
the
newspapers
.
