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"
I
never
have
,
"
he
replied
;
"
but
there
's
no
telling
what
I
might
do
if
I
were
bantered
.
I
suppose
you
ride
and
canoe
?
"
"
Oh
yes
;
and
play
tennis
and
golf
,
too
.
"
"
But
where
would
a
mere
idler
like
me
stay
?
"
"
Oh
,
there
are
several
good
hotels
.
There
's
never
any
trouble
about
that
.
I
suppose
you
ride
yourself
?
"
"
After
a
fashion
,
"
replied
Cowperwood
,
who
was
an
expert
.
Witness
then
the
casual
encounter
on
horseback
,
early
one
Sunday
morning
in
the
painted
hills
of
Wisconsin
,
of
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
and
Caroline
Hand
.
A
jaunty
,
racing
canter
,
side
by
side
;
idle
talk
concerning
people
,
scenery
,
conveniences
;
his
usual
direct
suggestions
and
love-making
,
and
then
,
subsequently
The
day
of
reckoning
,
if
such
it
might
be
called
,
came
later
.
Caroline
Hand
was
,
perhaps
,
unduly
reckless
.
She
admired
Cowperwood
greatly
without
really
loving
him
.
He
found
her
interesting
,
principally
because
she
was
young
,
debonair
,
sufficient
--
a
new
type
.
They
met
in
Chicago
after
a
time
instead
of
in
Wisconsin
,
then
in
Detroit
(
where
she
had
friends
)
,
then
in
Rockford
,
where
a
sister
had
gone
to
live
.
It
was
easy
for
him
with
his
time
and
means
.
Finally
,
Duane
Kingsland
,
wholesale
flour
merchant
,
religious
,
moral
,
conventional
,
who
knew
Cowperwood
and
his
repute
,
encountered
Mrs.
Hand
and
Cowperwood
first
near
Oconomowoc
one
summer
's
day
,
and
later
in
Randolph
Street
,
near
Cowperwood
's
bachelor
rooms
.
Being
the
man
that
he
was
and
knowing
old
Hand
well
,
he
thought
it
was
his
duty
to
ask
the
latter
if
his
wife
knew
Cowperwood
intimately
.
There
was
an
explosion
in
the
Hand
home
.
Mrs.
Hand
,
when
confronted
by
her
husband
,
denied
,
of
course
,
that
there
was
anything
wrong
between
her
and
Cowperwood
.
Her
elderly
husband
,
from
a
certain
telltale
excitement
and
resentment
in
her
manner
,
did
not
believe
this
.
He
thought
once
of
confronting
Cowperwood
;
but
,
being
heavy
and
practical
,
he
finally
decided
to
sever
all
business
relationships
with
him
and
fight
him
in
other
ways
.
Mrs.
Hand
was
watched
very
closely
,
and
a
suborned
maid
discovered
an
old
note
she
had
written
to
Cowperwood
.
An
attempt
to
persuade
her
to
leave
for
Europe
--
as
old
Butler
had
once
attempted
to
send
Aileen
years
before
--
raised
a
storm
of
protest
,
but
she
went
.
Hand
,
from
being
neutral
if
not
friendly
,
became
quite
the
most
dangerous
and
forceful
of
all
Cowperwood
's
Chicago
enemies
.
He
was
a
powerful
man
.
His
wrath
was
boundless
He
looked
upon
Cowperwood
now
as
a
dark
and
dangerous
man
--
one
of
whom
Chicago
would
be
well
rid
.
