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"
Well
,
you
may
,
some
day
,
"
he
replied
,
"
but
not
to-night
.
I
scarcely
think
you
want
to
now
.
This
is
too
much
,
Aileen
--
really
impossible
.
"
He
drew
himself
up
and
looked
at
her
--
cool
,
unbelieving
,
the
light
of
control
,
even
of
victory
,
in
his
eyes
.
As
he
had
suspected
,
it
was
not
truly
real
.
She
would
not
have
killed
herself
.
She
had
expected
him
to
come
--
to
make
the
old
effort
.
Very
good
.
He
would
see
her
safely
in
bed
and
in
a
nurse
's
hands
,
and
would
then
avoid
her
as
much
as
possible
in
the
future
.
If
her
intention
was
genuine
she
would
carry
it
out
in
his
absence
,
but
he
did
not
believe
she
would
.
The
spring
and
summer
months
of
1897
and
the
late
fall
of
1898
witnessed
the
final
closing
battle
between
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
and
the
forces
inimical
to
him
in
so
far
as
the
city
of
Chicago
,
the
state
of
Illinois
,
and
indeed
the
United
States
of
America
,
were
concerned
.
When
in
1896
a
new
governor
and
a
new
group
of
state
representatives
were
installed
Cowperwood
decided
that
it
would
be
advisable
to
continue
the
struggle
at
once
.
By
the
time
this
new
legislature
should
convene
for
its
labors
a
year
would
have
passed
since
Governor
Swanson
had
vetoed
the
original
public-service-commission
bill
.
By
that
time
public
sentiment
as
aroused
by
the
newspapers
would
have
had
time
to
cool
.
Already
through
various
favorable
financial
interests
--
particularly
Haeckelheimer
,
Gotloeb
&
Co.
and
all
the
subsurface
forces
they
represented
--
he
had
attempted
to
influence
the
incoming
governor
,
and
had
in
part
succeeded
.
The
new
governor
in
this
instance
--
one
Corporal
A.
E.
Archer
--
or
ex-Congressman
Archer
,
as
he
was
sometimes
called
--
was
,
unlike
Swanson
,
a
curious
mixture
of
the
commonplace
and
the
ideal
--
one
of
those
shiftily
loyal
and
loyally
shifty
who
make
their
upward
way
by
devious
,
if
not
too
reprehensible
methods
.
He
was
a
little
man
,
stocky
,
brown-haired
,
brown-eyed
,
vigorous
,
witty
,
with
the
ordinary
politician
's
estimate
of
public
morality
--
namely
,
that
there
is
no
such
thing
.
A
drummer-boy
at
fourteen
in
the
War
of
the
Rebellion
,
a
private
at
sixteen
and
eighteen
,
he
had
subsequently
been
breveted
for
conspicuous
military
service
.
At
this
later
time
he
was
head
of
the
Grand
Army
of
the
Republic
,
and
conspicuous
in
various
stirring
eleemosynary
efforts
on
behalf
of
the
old
soldiers
,
their
widows
and
orphans
.
A
fine
American
,
flag-waving
,
tobacco-chewing
,
foul-swearing
little
man
was
this
--
and
one
with
noteworthy
political
ambitions
.
Other
Grand
Army
men
had
been
conspicuous
in
the
lists
for
Presidential
nominations
.
Why
not
he
?
An
excellent
orator
in
a
high
falsetto
way
,
and
popular
because
of
good-fellowship
,
presence
,
force
,
he
was
by
nature
materially
and
commercially
minded
--
therefore
without
basic
appeal
to
the
higher
ranks
of
intelligence
.
In
seeking
the
nomination
for
governorship
he
had
made
the
usual
overtures
and
had
in
turn
been
sounded
by
Haeckelheimer
,
Gotloeb
,
and
various
other
corporate
interests
who
were
in
league
with
Cowperwood
as
to
his
attitude
in
regard
to
a
proposed
public-service
commission
.
At
first
he
had
refused
to
commit
himself
.
Later
,
finding
that
the
C.
W.
&
I.
and
the
Chicago
&
Pacific
(
very
powerful
railroads
both
)
were
interested
,
and
that
other
candidates
were
running
him
a
tight
chase
in
the
gubernatorial
contest
,
he
succumbed
in
a
measure
,
declaring
privately
that
in
case
the
legislature
proved
to
be
strongly
in
favor
of
the
idea
and
the
newspapers
not
too
crushingly
opposed
he
might
be
willing
to
stand
as
its
advocate
.
Other
candidates
expressed
similar
views
,
but
Corporal
Archer
proved
to
have
the
greater
following
,
and
was
eventually
nominated
and
comfortably
elected
.
Shortly
after
the
new
legislature
had
convened
,
it
so
chanced
that
a
certain
A.
S.
Rotherhite
,
publisher
of
the
South
Chicago
Journal
,
was
one
day
accidentally
sitting
as
a
visitor
in
the
seat
of
a
state
representative
by
the
name
of
Clarence
Mulligan
.
While
so
occupied
Rotherhite
was
familiarly
slapped
on
the
back
by
a
certain
Senator
Ladrigo
,
of
Menard
,
and
was
invited
to
come
out
into
the
rotunda
,
where
,
posing
as
Representative
Mulligan
,
he
was
introduced
by
Senator
Ladrigo
to
a
stranger
by
the
name
of
Gerard
.
The
latter
,
with
but
few
preliminary
remarks
,
began
as
follows
:
"
Mr.
Mulligan
,
I
want
to
fix
it
with
you
in
regard
to
this
Southack
bill
which
is
soon
to
come
up
in
the
house
.
We
have
seventy
votes
,
but
we
want
ninety
.
The
fact
that
the
bill
has
gone
to
a
second
reading
in
the
senate
shows
our
strength
.
I
am
authorized
to
come
to
terms
with
you
this
morning
if
you
would
like
.
Your
vote
is
worth
two
thousand
dollars
to
you
the
moment
the
bill
is
signed
.
"
Mr.
Rotherhite
,
who
happened
to
be
a
newly
recruited
member
of
the
Opposition
press
,
proved
very
canny
in
this
situation
.
"
Excuse
me
,
"
he
stammered
,
"
I
did
not
understand
your
name
?
"
"
Gerard
.
G-er-ard
.
Henry
A.
Gerard
,
"
replied
this
other
.
