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She
held
his
quite
warmly
.
"
Now
I
'll
hold
you
to
your
promise
,
"
she
gurgled
,
in
a
throaty
,
coaxing
way
.
A
few
days
later
he
encountered
her
at
lunch-time
in
his
hall
,
where
she
had
been
literally
lying
in
wait
for
him
in
order
to
repeat
her
invitation
.
Then
he
came
.
The
hold-over
employees
who
worked
about
the
City
Hall
in
connection
with
the
mayor
's
office
were
hereafter
instructed
to
note
as
witnesses
the
times
of
arrival
and
departure
of
Mrs.
Brandon
and
Mr.
Sluss
.
A
note
that
he
wrote
to
Mrs.
Brandon
was
carefully
treasured
,
and
sufficient
evidence
as
to
their
presence
at
hotels
and
restaurants
was
garnered
to
make
out
a
damaging
case
.
The
whole
affair
took
about
four
months
;
then
Mrs.
Brandon
suddenly
received
an
offer
to
return
to
Washington
,
and
decided
to
depart
.
The
letters
that
followed
her
were
a
part
of
the
data
that
was
finally
assembled
in
Mr.
Stimson
's
office
to
be
used
against
Mr.
Sluss
in
case
he
became
too
obstreperous
in
his
opposition
to
Cowperwood
.
In
the
mean
time
the
organization
which
Mr.
Gilgan
had
planned
with
Mr.
Tiernan
,
Mr.
Kerrigan
,
and
Mr.
Edstrom
was
encountering
what
might
be
called
rough
sledding
.
It
was
discovered
that
,
owing
to
the
temperaments
of
some
of
the
new
aldermen
,
and
to
the
self-righteous
attitude
of
their
political
sponsors
,
no
franchises
of
any
kind
were
to
be
passed
unless
they
had
the
moral
approval
of
such
men
as
Hand
,
Sluss
,
and
the
other
reformers
;
above
all
,
no
money
of
any
kind
was
to
be
paid
to
anybody
for
anything
.
"
Whaddye
think
of
those
damn
four-flushers
and
come-ons
,
anyhow
?
"
inquired
Mr.
Kerrigan
of
Mr.
Tiernan
,
shortly
subsequent
to
a
conference
with
Gilgan
,
from
which
Tiernan
had
been
unavoidably
absent
.
"
They
've
got
an
ordinance
drawn
up
covering
the
whole
city
in
an
elevated-road
scheme
,
and
there
ai
n't
anything
in
it
for
anybody
.
Say
,
whaddye
think
they
think
we
are
,
anyhow
?
Hey
?
"
Mr.
Tiernan
himself
,
after
his
own
conference
with
Edstrom
,
had
been
busy
getting
the
lay
of
the
land
,
as
he
termed
it
;
and
his
investigations
led
him
to
believe
that
a
certain
alderman
by
the
name
of
Klemm
,
a
clever
and
very
respectable
German
--
American
from
the
North
Side
,
was
to
be
the
leader
of
the
Republicans
in
council
,
and
that
he
and
some
ten
or
twelve
others
were
determined
,
because
of
moral
principles
alone
,
that
only
honest
measures
should
be
passed
.
It
was
staggering
.
At
this
news
Mr.
Kerrigan
,
who
had
been
calculating
on
a
number
of
thousands
of
dollars
for
his
vote
on
various
occasions
,
stared
incredulously
.
"
Well
,
I
'll
be
damned
!
"
he
commented
.
"
They
've
got
a
nerve
!
What
?
"
"
I
've
been
talking
to
this
fellow
Klemm
of
the
twentieth
,
"
said
Mr.
Tiernan
,
sardonically
.
"
Say
,
he
's
a
real
one
!
I
met
him
over
at
the
Tremont
talkin
'
to
Hvranek
.
He
shakes
hands
like
a
dead
fish
.
Whaddye
think
he
had
the
nerve
to
say
to
me
.
'
This
is
n't
the
Mr.
Tiernan
of
the
second
?
'
he
says
.
"
'
I
'm
the
same
,
'
says
I.
"
'
Well
,
you
do
n't
look
as
savage
as
I
thought
you
did
,
'
says
he
.
Haw-haw
!
I
felt
like
sayin
'
,
'
If
you
do
n't
go
way
I
'll
give
you
a
slight
tap
on
the
wrist
.
'
I
'd
like
just
one
pass
at
a
stiff
like
that
up
a
dark
alley
.
"
(
Mr.
Tiernan
almost
groaned
in
anguish
.
)
"
And
then
he
begins
to
say
he
does
n't
see
how
there
can
be
any
reasonable
objection
to
allowin
'
various
new
companies
to
enter
the
street-car
field
.
'
It
's
sufficiently
clear
,
'
he
says
,
'
that
the
public
is
against
monopolies
in
any
form
.
'
"
(
Mr.
Tiernan
was
mocking
Mr.
Klemm
's
voice
and
language
.
)
"
My
eye
!
"
he
concluded
,
sententiously
.
"
Wait
till
he
tries
to
throw
that
dope
into
Gumble
and
Pinski
and
Schlumbohm
--
haw
,
haw
,
haw
!
"
Mr.
Kerrigan
,
at
the
thought
of
these
hearty
aldermen
accustomed
to
all
the
perquisites
of
graft
and
rake-off
,
leaned
back
and
gave
vent
to
a
burst
of
deep-chested
laughter
.
"
I
'll
tell
you
what
it
is
,
Mike
,
"
he
said
,
archly
,
hitching
up
his
tight
,
very
artistic
,
and
almost
English
trousers
,
"
we
're
up
against
a
bunch
of
pikers
in
this
Gilgan
crowd
,
and
they
've
got
ta
be
taught
a
lesson
.
He
knows
it
as
well
as
anybody
else
.
None
o
'
that
Christian
con
game
goes
around
where
I
am
.
I
believe
this
man
Cowperwood
's
right
when
he
says
them
fellows
are
a
bunch
of
soreheads
and
jealous
.
If
Cowperwood
's
willing
to
put
down
good
hard
money
to
keep
'em
out
of
his
game
,
let
them
do
as
much
to
stay
in
it
.
This
ai
n't
no
charity
grab-bag
.
