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Behold
then
at
once
on
the
North
Side
,
the
South
Side
,
the
West
Side
--
dark
goings
to
and
fro
and
walkings
up
and
down
in
the
earth
.
In
Lake
View
old
General
Van
Sickle
and
De
Soto
Sippens
,
conferring
with
shrewd
Councilman
Duniway
,
druggist
,
and
with
Jacob
Gerecht
,
ward
boss
and
wholesale
butcher
,
both
of
whom
were
agreeable
but
exacting
,
holding
pleasant
back-room
and
drug-store
confabs
with
almost
tabulated
details
of
rewards
and
benefits
.
In
Hyde
Park
,
Mr.
Kent
Barrows
McKibben
,
smug
and
well
dressed
,
a
Chesterfield
among
lawyers
,
and
with
him
one
J.
J.
Bergdoll
,
a
noble
hireling
,
long-haired
and
dusty
,
ostensibly
president
of
the
Hyde
Park
Gas
and
Fuel
Company
,
conferring
with
Councilman
Alfred
B.
Davis
,
manufacturer
of
willow
and
rattan
ware
,
and
Mr.
Patrick
Gilgan
,
saloon-keeper
,
arranging
a
prospective
distribution
of
shares
,
offering
certain
cash
consideration
,
lots
,
favors
,
and
the
like
.
Observe
also
in
the
village
of
Douglas
and
West
Park
on
the
West
Side
,
just
over
the
city
line
,
the
angular
,
humorous
Peter
Laughlin
and
Burton
Stimson
arranging
a
similar
deal
or
deals
.
The
enemy
,
the
city
gas
companies
,
being
divided
into
three
factions
,
were
in
no
way
prepared
for
what
was
now
coming
.
When
the
news
finally
leaked
out
that
applications
for
franchises
had
been
made
to
the
several
corporate
village
bodies
each
old
company
suspected
the
other
of
invasion
,
treachery
,
robbery
.
Pettifogging
lawyers
were
sent
,
one
by
each
company
,
to
the
village
council
in
each
particular
territory
involved
,
but
no
one
of
the
companies
had
as
yet
the
slightest
idea
who
was
back
of
it
all
or
of
the
general
plan
of
operations
.
Before
any
one
of
them
could
reasonably
protest
,
before
it
could
decide
that
it
was
willing
to
pay
a
very
great
deal
to
have
the
suburb
adjacent
to
its
particular
territory
left
free
,
before
it
could
organize
a
legal
fight
,
councilmanic
ordinances
were
introduced
giving
the
applying
company
what
it
sought
;
and
after
a
single
reading
in
each
case
and
one
open
hearing
,
as
the
law
compelled
,
they
were
almost
unanimously
passed
.
There
were
loud
cries
of
dismay
from
minor
suburban
papers
which
had
almost
been
forgotten
in
the
arrangement
of
rewards
.
The
large
city
newspapers
cared
little
at
first
,
seeing
these
were
outlying
districts
;
they
merely
made
the
comment
that
the
villages
were
beginning
well
,
following
in
the
steps
of
the
city
council
in
its
distinguished
career
of
crime
.
Cowperwood
smiled
as
he
saw
in
the
morning
papers
the
announcement
of
the
passage
of
each
ordinance
granting
him
a
franchise
.
He
listened
with
comfort
thereafter
on
many
a
day
to
accounts
by
Laughlin
,
Sippens
,
McKibben
,
and
Van
Sickle
of
overtures
made
to
buy
them
out
,
or
to
take
over
their
franchises
.
He
worked
on
plans
with
Sippens
looking
to
the
actual
introduction
of
gas-plants
.
There
were
bond
issues
now
to
float
,
stock
to
be
marketed
,
contracts
for
supplies
to
be
awarded
,
actual
reservoirs
and
tanks
to
be
built
,
and
pipes
to
be
laid
A
pumped-up
public
opposition
had
to
be
smoothed
over
.
In
all
this
De
Soto
Sippens
proved
a
trump
.
With
Van
Sickle
,
McKibben
,
and
Stimson
as
his
advisers
in
different
sections
of
the
city
he
would
present
tabloid
propositions
to
Cowperwood
,
to
which
the
latter
had
merely
to
bow
his
head
in
assent
or
say
no
.
Then
De
Soto
would
buy
,
build
,
and
excavate
.
Cowperwood
was
so
pleased
that
he
was
determined
to
keep
De
Soto
with
him
permanently
.
De
Soto
was
pleased
to
think
that
he
was
being
given
a
chance
to
pay
up
old
scores
and
to
do
large
things
;
he
was
really
grateful
.
"
We
're
not
through
with
those
sharpers
,
"
he
declared
to
Cowperwood
,
triumphantly
,
one
day
.
"
They
'll
fight
us
with
suits
.
They
may
join
hands
later
.
They
blew
up
my
gas-plant
.
They
may
blow
up
ours
.
"
"
Let
them
blow
,
"
said
Cowperwood
.
"
We
can
blow
,
too
,
and
sue
also
.
I
like
lawsuits
.
We
'll
tie
them
up
so
that
they
'll
beg
for
quarter
.
"
His
eyes
twinkled
cheerfully
.
In
the
mean
time
the
social
affairs
of
Aileen
had
been
prospering
in
a
small
way
,
for
while
it
was
plain
that
they
were
not
to
be
taken
up
at
once
--
that
was
not
to
be
expected
--
it
was
also
plain
that
they
were
not
to
be
ignored
entirely
.
One
thing
that
helped
in
providing
a
nice
harmonious
working
atmosphere
was
the
obvious
warm
affection
of
Cowperwood
for
his
wife
.
While
many
might
consider
Aileen
a
little
brash
or
crude
,
still
in
the
hands
of
so
strong
and
capable
a
man
as
Cowperwood
she
might
prove
available
.
So
thought
Mrs.
Addison
,
for
instance
,
and
Mrs.
Rambaud
.
McKibben
and
Lord
felt
the
same
way
.
If
Cowperwood
loved
her
,
as
he
seemed
to
do
,
he
would
probably
"
put
her
through
"
successfully
.
And
he
really
did
love
her
,
after
his
fashion
.
He
could
never
forget
how
splendid
she
had
been
to
him
in
those
old
days
when
,
knowing
full
well
the
circumstances
of
his
home
,
his
wife
,
his
children
,
the
probable
opposition
of
her
own
family
,
she
had
thrown
over
convention
and
sought
his
love
.
How
freely
she
had
given
of
hers
!
No
petty
,
squeamish
bickering
and
dickering
here
.
He
had
been
"
her
Frank
"
from
the
start
,
and
he
still
felt
keenly
that
longing
in
her
to
be
with
him
,
to
be
his
,
which
had
produced
those
first
wonderful
,
almost
terrible
days
.
She
might
quarrel
,
fret
,
fuss
,
argue
,
suspect
,
and
accuse
him
of
flirtation
with
other
women
;
but
slight
variations
from
the
norm
in
his
case
did
not
trouble
her
--
at
least
she
argued
that
they
would
n't
.
She
had
never
had
any
evidence
.
She
was
ready
to
forgive
him
anything
,
she
said
,
and
she
was
,
too
,
if
only
he
would
love
her
.
"
You
devil
,
"
she
used
to
say
to
him
,
playfully
.
"
I
know
you
.
I
can
see
you
looking
around
.
That
's
a
nice
stenographer
you
have
in
the
office
.
I
suppose
it
's
her
.
"
