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"
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
"
began
Haguenin
,
when
the
financier
entered
,
smart
and
trig
,
his
usual
air
of
genial
sufficiency
written
all
over
him
,
"
I
have
known
you
now
for
something
like
fourteen
years
,
and
during
this
time
I
have
shown
you
nothing
but
courtesy
and
good
will
.
It
is
true
that
quite
recently
you
have
done
me
various
financial
favors
,
but
that
was
more
due
,
I
thought
,
to
the
sincere
friendship
you
bore
me
than
to
anything
else
.
Quite
accidentally
I
have
learned
of
the
relationship
that
exists
between
you
and
my
daughter
.
I
have
recently
spoken
to
her
,
and
she
admitted
all
that
I
need
to
know
.
Common
decency
,
it
seems
to
me
,
might
have
suggested
to
you
that
you
leave
my
child
out
of
the
list
of
women
you
have
degraded
.
Since
it
has
not
,
I
merely
wish
to
say
to
you
"
--
and
Mr.
Haguenin
's
face
was
very
tense
and
white
--
"
that
the
relationship
between
you
and
me
is
ended
.
The
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
you
have
indorsed
for
me
will
be
arranged
for
otherwise
as
soon
as
possible
,
and
I
hope
you
will
return
to
me
the
stock
of
this
paper
that
you
hold
as
collateral
.
Another
type
of
man
,
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
might
attempt
to
make
you
suffer
in
another
way
.
I
presume
that
you
have
no
children
of
your
own
,
or
that
if
you
have
you
lack
the
parental
instinct
;
otherwise
you
could
not
have
injured
me
in
this
fashion
.
I
believe
that
you
will
live
to
see
that
this
policy
does
not
pay
in
Chicago
or
anywhere
else
.
"
Haguenin
turned
slowly
on
his
heel
toward
his
desk
.
Cowperwood
,
who
had
listened
very
patiently
and
very
fixedly
,
without
a
tremor
of
an
eyelash
,
merely
said
:
"
There
seems
to
be
no
common
intellectual
ground
,
Mr.
Haguenin
,
upon
which
you
and
I
can
meet
in
this
matter
.
You
can
not
understand
my
point
of
view
.
I
could
not
possibly
adopt
yours
.
However
,
as
you
wish
it
,
the
stock
will
be
returned
to
you
upon
receipt
of
my
indorsements
.
I
can
not
say
more
than
that
.
"
He
turned
and
walked
unconcernedly
out
,
thinking
that
it
was
too
bad
to
lose
the
support
of
so
respectable
a
man
,
but
also
that
he
could
do
without
it
.
It
was
silly
the
way
parents
insisted
on
their
daughters
being
something
that
they
did
not
wish
to
be
.
Haguenin
stood
by
his
desk
after
Cowperwood
had
gone
,
wondering
where
he
should
get
one
hundred
thousand
dollars
quickly
,
and
also
what
he
should
do
to
make
his
daughter
see
the
error
of
her
ways
.
It
was
an
astonishing
blow
he
had
received
,
he
thought
,
in
the
house
of
a
friend
.
It
occurred
to
him
that
Walter
Melville
Hyssop
,
who
was
succeeding
mightily
with
his
two
papers
,
might
come
to
his
rescue
,
and
that
later
he
could
repay
him
when
the
Press
was
more
prosperous
.
He
went
out
to
his
house
in
a
quandary
concerning
life
and
chance
;
while
Cowperwood
went
to
the
Chicago
Trust
Company
to
confer
with
Videra
,
and
later
out
to
his
own
home
to
consider
how
he
should
equalize
this
loss
.
The
state
and
fate
of
Cecily
Haguenin
was
not
of
so
much
importance
as
many
other
things
on
his
mind
at
this
time
.
Far
more
serious
were
his
cogitations
with
regard
to
a
liaison
he
had
recently
ventured
to
establish
with
Mrs.
Hosmer
Hand
,
wife
of
an
eminent
investor
and
financier
.
Hand
was
a
solid
,
phlegmatic
,
heavy-thinking
person
who
had
some
years
before
lost
his
first
wife
,
to
whom
he
had
been
eminently
faithful
.
After
that
,
for
a
period
of
years
he
had
been
a
lonely
speculator
,
attending
to
his
vast
affairs
;
but
finally
because
of
his
enormous
wealth
,
his
rather
presentable
appearance
and
social
rank
,
he
had
been
entrapped
by
much
social
attention
on
the
part
of
a
Mrs.
Jessie
Drew
Barrett
into
marrying
her
daughter
Caroline
,
a
dashing
skip
of
a
girl
who
was
clever
,
incisive
,
calculating
,
and
intensely
gay
.
Since
she
was
socially
ambitious
,
and
without
much
heart
,
the
thought
of
Hand
's
millions
,
and
how
advantageous
would
be
her
situation
in
case
he
should
die
,
had
enabled
her
to
overlook
quite
easily
his
heavy
,
unyouthful
appearance
and
to
see
him
in
the
light
of
a
lover
.
There
was
criticism
,
of
course
.
Hand
was
considered
a
victim
,
and
Caroline
and
her
mother
designing
minxes
and
cats
;
but
since
the
wealthy
financier
was
truly
ensnared
it
behooved
friends
and
future
satellites
to
be
courteous
,
and
so
they
were
.
The
wedding
was
very
well
attended
.
Mrs.
Hand
began
to
give
house-parties
,
teas
,
musicales
,
and
receptions
on
a
lavish
scale
.
Cowperwood
never
met
either
her
or
her
husband
until
he
was
well
launched
on
his
street-car
programme
.
Needing
two
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
dollars
in
a
hurry
,
and
finding
the
Chicago
Trust
Company
,
the
Lake
City
Bank
,
and
other
institutions
heavily
loaded
with
his
securities
,
he
turned
in
a
moment
of
inspirational
thought
to
Hand
.
Cowperwood
was
always
a
great
borrower
.
His
paper
was
out
in
large
quantities
.
He
introduced
himself
frequently
to
powerful
men
in
this
way
,
taking
long
or
short
loans
at
high
or
low
rates
of
interest
,
as
the
case
might
be
,
and
sometimes
finding
some
one
whom
he
could
work
with
or
use
.
In
the
case
of
Hand
,
though
the
latter
was
ostensibly
of
the
enemies
'
camp
--
the
Schryhart
--
Union-Gas
--
Douglas-Trust
--
Company
crowd
--
nevertheless
Cowperwood
had
no
hesitation
in
going
to
him
.
He
wished
to
overcome
or
forestall
any
unfavorable
impression
.
Though
Hand
,
a
solemn
man
of
shrewd
but
honest
nature
,
had
heard
a
number
of
unfavorable
rumors
,
he
was
inclined
to
be
fair
and
think
the
best
.
Perhaps
Cowperwood
was
merely
the
victim
of
envious
rivals
.
When
the
latter
first
called
on
him
at
his
office
in
the
Rookery
Building
,
he
was
most
cordial
.
"
Come
in
,
Mr.
Cowperwood
,
"
he
said
.
"
I
have
heard
a
great
deal
about
you
from
one
person
and
another
--
mostly
from
the
newspapers
.
What
can
I
do
for
you
?
"
