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"
Not
until
I
think
it
out
for
myself
.
I
do
n't
think
so
,
though
.
No
,
"
she
replied
,
with
an
air
.
"
There
,
Mr.
Guardian
Father
,
"
she
laughed
,
pushing
his
hand
away
.
Cowperwood
's
heart
bounded
.
He
would
have
given
millions
to
take
her
close
in
his
arms
.
As
it
was
he
smiled
appealingly
.
"
Do
n't
you
want
to
jump
in
and
come
to
New
York
with
me
?
If
your
mother
is
n't
at
the
apartment
you
could
stop
at
the
Netherland
.
"
"
No
,
not
to-day
.
I
expect
to
be
in
soon
.
I
will
let
you
know
,
or
mother
will
.
"
He
bustled
out
and
into
the
machine
after
a
moment
of
parley
,
waving
to
her
over
the
purpling
snow
of
the
evening
as
his
machine
tore
eastward
,
planning
to
make
New
York
by
dinner-time
.
If
he
could
just
keep
her
in
this
friendly
,
sympathetic
attitude
.
If
he
only
could
!
Whatever
his
momentary
satisfaction
in
her
friendly
acceptance
of
his
confession
,
the
uncertain
attitude
of
Berenice
left
Cowperwood
about
where
he
was
before
.
By
a
strange
stroke
of
fate
Braxmar
,
his
young
rival
,
had
been
eliminated
,
and
Berenice
had
been
made
to
see
him
,
Cowperwood
,
in
his
true
colors
of
love
and
of
service
for
her
.
Yet
plainly
she
did
not
accept
them
at
his
own
valuation
.
More
than
ever
was
he
conscious
of
the
fact
that
he
had
fallen
in
tow
of
an
amazing
individual
,
one
who
saw
life
from
a
distinct
and
peculiar
point
of
view
and
who
was
not
to
be
bent
to
his
will
.
That
fact
more
than
anything
else
--
for
her
grace
and
beauty
merely
emblazoned
it
--
caused
him
to
fall
into
a
hopeless
infatuation
.
He
said
to
himself
over
and
over
,
"
Well
,
I
can
live
without
her
if
I
must
,
"
but
at
this
stage
the
mere
thought
was
an
actual
stab
in
his
vitals
.
What
,
after
all
,
was
life
,
wealth
,
fame
,
if
you
could
n't
have
the
woman
you
wanted
--
love
,
that
indefinable
,
unnamable
coddling
of
the
spirit
which
the
strongest
almost
more
than
the
weakest
crave
?
At
last
he
saw
clearly
,
as
within
a
chalice-like
nimbus
,
that
the
ultimate
end
of
fame
,
power
,
vigor
was
beauty
,
and
that
beauty
was
a
compound
of
the
taste
,
the
emotion
,
the
innate
culture
,
passion
,
and
dreams
of
a
woman
like
Berenice
Fleming
.
That
was
it
:
that
was
it
.
And
beyond
was
nothing
save
crumbling
age
,
darkness
,
silence
.
In
the
mean
time
,
owing
to
the
preliminary
activity
and
tact
of
his
agents
and
advisers
,
the
Sunday
newspapers
were
vying
with
one
another
in
describing
the
wonders
of
his
new
house
in
New
York
--
its
cost
,
the
value
of
its
ground
,
the
wealthy
citizens
with
whom
the
Cowperwoods
would
now
be
neighbors
.
There
were
double-column
pictures
of
Aileen
and
Cowperwood
,
with
articles
indicating
them
as
prospective
entertainers
on
a
grand
scale
who
would
unquestionably
be
received
because
of
their
tremendous
wealth
.
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
this
was
purely
newspaper
gossip
and
speculation
.
While
the
general
columns
made
news
and
capital
of
his
wealth
,
special
society
columns
,
which
dealt
with
the
ultra-fashionable
,
ignored
him
entirely
.
Already
the
machination
of
certain
Chicago
social
figures
in
distributing
information
as
to
his
past
was
discernible
in
the
attitude
of
those
clubs
,
organizations
,
and
even
churches
,
membership
in
which
constitutes
a
form
of
social
passport
to
better
and
higher
earthly
,
if
not
spiritual
,
realms
.
His
emissaries
were
active
enough
,
but
soon
found
that
their
end
was
not
to
be
gained
in
a
day
.
Many
were
waiting
locally
,
anxious
enough
to
get
in
,
and
with
social
equipments
which
the
Cowperwoods
could
scarcely
boast
.
After
being
blackballed
by
one
or
two
exclusive
clubs
,
seeing
his
application
for
a
pew
at
St.
Thomas
's
quietly
pigeon-holed
for
the
present
,
and
his
invitations
declined
by
several
multimillionaires
whom
he
met
in
the
course
of
commercial
transactions
,
he
began
to
feel
that
his
splendid
home
,
aside
from
its
final
purpose
as
an
art-museum
,
could
be
of
little
value
.
At
the
same
time
Cowperwood
's
financial
genius
was
constantly
being
rewarded
by
many
new
phases
of
materiality
chiefly
by
an
offensive
and
defensive
alliance
he
was
now
able
to
engineer
between
himself
and
the
house
of
Haeckelheimer
,
Gotloeb
&
Co.
.
Seeing
the
iron
manner
in
which
he
had
managed
to
wrest
victory
out
of
defeat
after
the
first
seriously
contested
election
,
these
gentlemen
had
experienced
a
change
of
heart
and
announced
that
they
would
now
gladly
help
finance
any
new
enterprise
which
Cowperwood
might
undertake
.
Among
many
other
financiers
,
they
had
heard
of
his
triumph
in
connection
with
the
failure
of
American
Match
.
