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,
grain
and
commission
merchants
,
appeared
over
the
door
of
a
handsome
suite
of
rooms
on
the
ground
floor
of
a
corner
at
La
Salle
and
Madison
,
in
the
heart
of
the
Chicago
financial
district
.
"
Get
onto
old
Laughlin
,
will
you
?
"
one
broker
observed
to
another
,
as
they
passed
the
new
,
pretentious
commission-house
with
its
splendid
plate-glass
windows
,
and
observed
the
heavy
,
ornate
bronze
sign
placed
on
either
side
of
the
door
,
which
was
located
exactly
on
the
corner
.
"
What
's
struck
him
?
I
thought
he
was
almost
all
through
.
Who
's
the
Company
?
"
"
I
do
n't
know
.
Some
fellow
from
the
East
,
I
think
.
"
"
Well
,
he
's
certainly
moving
up
.
Look
at
the
plate
glass
,
will
you
?
"
It
was
thus
that
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
's
Chicago
financial
career
was
definitely
launched
.
If
any
one
fancies
for
a
moment
that
this
commercial
move
on
the
part
of
Cowperwood
was
either
hasty
or
ill-considered
they
but
little
appreciate
the
incisive
,
apprehensive
psychology
of
the
man
.
His
thoughts
as
to
life
and
control
(
tempered
and
hardened
by
thirteen
months
of
reflection
in
the
Eastern
District
Penitentiary
)
had
given
him
a
fixed
policy
.
He
could
,
should
,
and
would
rule
alone
.
No
man
must
ever
again
have
the
least
claim
on
him
save
that
of
a
suppliant
.
He
wanted
no
more
dangerous
combinations
such
as
he
had
had
with
Stener
,
the
man
through
whom
he
had
lost
so
much
in
Philadelphia
,
and
others
.
By
right
of
financial
intellect
and
courage
he
was
first
,
and
would
so
prove
it
.
Men
must
swing
around
him
as
planets
around
the
sun
.
Moreover
,
since
his
fall
from
grace
in
Philadelphia
he
had
come
to
think
that
never
again
,
perhaps
,
could
he
hope
to
become
socially
acceptable
in
the
sense
in
which
the
so-called
best
society
of
a
city
interprets
the
phrase
;
and
pondering
over
this
at
odd
moments
,
he
realized
that
his
future
allies
in
all
probability
would
not
be
among
the
rich
and
socially
important
--
the
clannish
,
snobbish
elements
of
society
--
but
among
the
beginners
and
financially
strong
men
who
had
come
or
were
coming
up
from
the
bottom
,
and
who
had
no
social
hopes
whatsoever
.
There
were
many
such
.
If
through
luck
and
effort
he
became
sufficiently
powerful
financially
he
might
then
hope
to
dictate
to
society
.
Individualistic
and
even
anarchistic
in
character
,
and
without
a
shred
of
true
democracy
,
yet
temperamentally
he
was
in
sympathy
with
the
mass
more
than
he
was
with
the
class
,
and
he
understood
the
mass
better
.
Perhaps
this
,
in
a
way
,
will
explain
his
desire
to
connect
himself
with
a
personality
so
naive
and
strange
as
Peter
Laughlin
.
He
had
annexed
him
as
a
surgeon
selects
a
special
knife
or
instrument
for
an
operation
,
and
,
shrewd
as
old
Laughlin
was
,
he
was
destined
to
be
no
more
than
a
tool
in
Cowperwood
's
strong
hands
,
a
mere
hustling
messenger
,
content
to
take
orders
from
this
swiftest
of
moving
brains
.
For
the
present
Cowperwood
was
satisfied
to
do
business
under
the
firm
name
of
Peter
Laughlin
&
Co.
--
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
he
preferred
it
;
for
he
could
thus
keep
himself
sufficiently
inconspicuous
to
avoid
undue
attention
,
and
gradually
work
out
one
or
two
coups
by
which
he
hoped
to
firmly
fix
himself
in
the
financial
future
of
Chicago
.
As
the
most
essential
preliminary
to
the
social
as
well
as
the
financial
establishment
of
himself
and
Aileen
in
Chicago
,
Harper
Steger
,
Cowperwood
's
lawyer
,
was
doing
his
best
all
this
while
to
ingratiate
himself
in
the
confidence
of
Mrs.
Cowperwood
,
who
had
no
faith
in
lawyers
any
more
than
she
had
in
her
recalcitrant
husband
.
She
was
now
a
tall
,
severe
,
and
rather
plain
woman
,
but
still
bearing
the
marks
of
the
former
passive
charm
that
had
once
interested
Cowperwood
.
Notable
crows
'
-
feet
had
come
about
the
corners
of
her
nose
,
mouth
,
and
eyes
.
She
had
a
remote
,
censorious
,
subdued
,
self-righteous
,
and
even
injured
air
.
