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"
Oh
,
"
she
exclaimed
,
jumping
up
,
"
how
wonderful
!
It
's
alive
.
I
caught
it
.
"
She
danced
up
and
down
,
and
Cowperwood
,
standing
before
her
,
was
sobered
by
her
charm
.
He
felt
an
impulse
to
speak
to
her
of
his
affection
,
to
tell
her
how
delicious
she
was
to
him
.
"
You
,
"
he
said
,
pausing
over
the
word
and
giving
it
special
emphasis
--
"
you
are
the
only
thing
here
that
is
wonderful
to
me
.
"
She
looked
at
him
a
moment
,
the
live
fish
in
her
extended
hands
,
her
eyes
keying
to
the
situation
.
For
the
least
fraction
of
a
moment
she
was
uncertain
,
as
he
could
see
,
how
to
take
this
.
Many
men
had
been
approximative
before
.
It
was
common
to
have
compliments
paid
to
her
.
But
this
was
different
.
She
said
nothing
,
but
fixed
him
with
a
look
which
said
quite
plainly
,
"
You
had
better
not
say
anything
more
just
now
,
I
think
.
"
Then
,
seeing
that
he
understood
,
that
his
manner
softened
,
and
that
he
was
troubled
,
she
crinkled
her
nose
gaily
and
added
:
"
It
's
like
fairyland
.
I
feel
as
though
I
had
caught
it
out
of
another
world
.
"
Cowperwood
understood
.
The
direct
approach
was
not
for
use
in
her
case
;
and
yet
there
was
something
,
a
camaraderie
,
a
sympathy
which
he
felt
and
which
she
felt
.
A
girls
'
school
,
conventions
,
the
need
of
socially
placing
herself
,
her
conservative
friends
,
and
their
viewpoint
--
all
were
working
here
If
he
were
only
single
now
,
she
told
herself
,
she
would
be
willing
to
listen
to
him
in
a
very
different
spirit
,
for
he
was
charming
.
But
this
way
--
And
he
,
for
his
part
,
concluded
that
here
was
one
woman
whom
he
would
gladly
marry
if
she
would
have
him
.
Following
Cowperwood
's
coup
in
securing
cash
by
means
of
his
seeming
gift
of
three
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
a
telescope
his
enemies
rested
for
a
time
,
but
only
because
of
a
lack
of
ideas
wherewith
to
destroy
him
.
Public
sentiment
--
created
by
the
newspapers
--
was
still
against
him
.
Yet
his
franchises
had
still
from
eight
to
ten
years
to
run
,
and
meanwhile
he
might
make
himself
unassailably
powerful
.
For
the
present
he
was
busy
,
surrounded
by
his
engineers
and
managers
and
legal
advisers
,
constructing
his
several
elevated
lines
at
a
whirlwind
rate
.
At
the
same
time
,
through
Videra
,
Kaffrath
,
and
Addison
,
he
was
effecting
a
scheme
of
loaning
money
on
call
to
the
local
Chicago
banks
--
the
very
banks
which
were
most
opposed
to
him
--
so
that
in
a
crisis
be
could
retaliate
.
By
manipulating
the
vast
quantity
of
stocks
and
bonds
of
which
he
was
now
the
master
he
was
making
money
hand
over
fist
,
his
one
rule
being
that
six
per
cent
.
was
enough
to
pay
any
holder
who
had
merely
purchased
his
stock
as
an
outsider
.
It
was
most
profitable
to
himself
.
When
his
stocks
earned
more
than
that
he
issued
new
ones
,
selling
them
on
'
change
and
pocketing
the
difference
.
Out
of
the
cash-drawers
of
his
various
companies
he
took
immense
sums
,
temporary
loans
,
as
it
were
,
which
later
he
had
charged
by
his
humble
servitors
to
"
construction
,
"
"
equipment
,
"
or
"
operation
.
"
He
was
like
a
canny
wolf
prowling
in
a
forest
of
trees
of
his
own
creation
.
The
weak
note
in
this
whole
project
of
elevated
lines
was
that
for
some
time
it
was
destined
to
be
unprofitable
.
Its
very
competition
tended
to
weaken
the
value
of
his
surface-line
companies
.
His
holdings
in
these
as
well
as
in
elevated-road
shares
were
immense
.
If
anything
happened
to
cause
them
to
fall
in
price
immense
numbers
of
these
same
stocks
held
by
others
would
be
thrown
on
the
market
,
thus
still
further
depreciating
their
value
and
compelling
him
to
come
into
the
market
and
buy
.
With
the
most
painstaking
care
he
began
at
once
to
pile
up
a
reserve
in
government
bonds
for
emergency
purposes
,
which
he
decided
should
be
not
less
than
eight
or
nine
million
dollars
,
for
he
feared
financial
storms
as
well
as
financial
reprisal
,
and
where
so
much
was
at
stake
he
did
not
propose
to
be
caught
napping
.
At
the
time
that
Cowperwood
first
entered
on
elevated-road
construction
there
was
no
evidence
that
any
severe
depression
in
the
American
money-market
was
imminent
.
But
it
was
not
long
before
a
new
difficulty
began
to
appear
.
It
was
now
the
day
of
the
trust
in
all
its
watery
magnificence
.
Coal
,
iron
,
steel
,
oil
,
machinery
,
and
a
score
of
other
commercial
necessities
had
already
been
"
trustified
,
"
and
others
,
such
as
leather
,
shoes
,
cordage
,
and
the
like
,
were
,
almost
hourly
,
being
brought
under
the
control
of
shrewd
and
ruthless
men
.
Already
in
Chicago
Schryhart
,
Hand
,
Arneel
,
Merrill
,
and
a
score
of
others
were
seeing
their
way
to
amazing
profits
by
underwriting
these
ventures
which
required
ready
cash
,
and
to
which
lesser
magnates
,
content
with
a
portion
of
the
leavings
of
Dives
's
table
,
were
glad
to
bring
to
their
attention
.
On
the
other
hand
,
in
the
nation
at
large
there
was
growing
up
a
feeling
that
at
the
top
there
were
a
set
of
giants
--
Titans
--
who
,
without
heart
or
soul
,
and
without
any
understanding
of
or
sympathy
with
the
condition
of
the
rank
and
file
,
were
setting
forth
to
enchain
and
enslave
them
.
The
vast
mass
,
writhing
in
ignorance
and
poverty
,
finally
turned
with
pathetic
fury
to
the
cure-all
of
a
political
leader
in
the
West
.
This
latter
prophet
,
seeing
gold
becoming
scarcer
and
scarcer
and
the
cash
and
credits
of
the
land
falling
into
the
hands
of
a
few
who
were
manipulating
them
for
their
own
benefit
,
had
decided
that
what
was
needed
was
a
greater
volume
of
currency
,
so
that
credits
would
be
easier
and
money
cheaper
to
come
by
in
the
matter
of
interest
.
Silver
,
of
which
there
was
a
superabundance
in
the
mines
,
was
to
be
coined
at
the
ratio
of
sixteen
dollars
of
silver
for
every
one
of
gold
in
circulation
,
and
the
parity
of
the
two
metals
maintained
by
fiat
of
government
.
Never
again
should
the
few
be
able
to
make
a
weapon
of
the
people
's
medium
of
exchange
in
order
to
bring
about
their
undoing
.
There
was
to
be
ample
money
,
far
beyond
the
control
of
central
banks
and
the
men
in
power
over
them
.
It
was
a
splendid
dream
worthy
of
a
charitable
heart
,
but
because
of
it
a
disturbing
war
for
political
control
of
the
government
was
shortly
threatened
and
soon
began
.
The
money
element
,
sensing
the
danger
of
change
involved
in
the
theories
of
the
new
political
leader
,
began
to
fight
him
and
the
element
in
the
Democratic
party
which
he
represented
.
