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"
Well
,
Bessie
,
"
he
inquired
of
his
handsome
,
healthy
,
semi-blonde
wife
,
one
evening
,
"
what
would
you
do
if
you
were
I
?
"
She
was
gray-eyed
,
gay
,
practical
,
vain
,
substantially
connected
in
so
far
as
family
went
,
and
proud
of
her
husband
's
position
and
future
.
He
had
formed
the
habit
of
talking
over
his
various
difficulties
with
her
.
"
Well
,
I
'll
tell
you
,
Wally
,
"
she
replied
.
"
You
've
got
to
stick
to
something
.
It
looks
to
me
as
though
the
winning
side
was
with
the
people
this
time
.
I
do
n't
see
how
the
newspapers
can
change
now
after
all
they
've
done
.
You
do
n't
have
to
advocate
public
ownership
or
anything
unfair
to
the
money
element
,
but
just
the
same
I
'd
stick
to
my
point
that
the
fifty-year
franchise
is
too
much
.
You
ought
to
make
them
pay
the
city
something
and
get
their
franchise
without
bribery
.
They
ca
n't
do
less
than
that
.
I
'd
stick
to
the
course
you
've
begun
on
.
You
ca
n't
get
along
without
the
people
,
Wally
.
You
just
must
have
them
.
If
you
lose
their
good
will
the
politicians
ca
n't
help
you
much
,
nor
anybody
else
.
"
Plainly
there
were
times
when
the
people
had
to
be
considered
.
They
just
had
to
be
!
The
storm
which
burst
in
connection
with
Cowperwood
's
machinations
at
Springfield
early
in
1897
,
and
continued
without
abating
until
the
following
fall
,
attracted
such
general
attention
that
it
was
largely
reported
in
the
Eastern
papers
.
F.
A.
Cowperwood
versus
the
state
of
Illinois
--
thus
one
New
York
daily
phrased
the
situation
.
The
magnetizing
power
of
fame
is
great
.
Who
can
resist
utterly
the
luster
that
surrounds
the
individualities
of
some
men
,
causing
them
to
glow
with
a
separate
and
special
effulgence
?
Even
in
the
case
of
Berenice
this
was
not
without
its
value
.
In
a
Chicago
paper
which
she
found
lying
one
day
on
a
desk
which
Cowperwood
had
occupied
was
an
extended
editorial
which
interested
her
greatly
.
After
reciting
his
various
misdeeds
,
particularly
in
connection
with
the
present
state
legislature
,
it
went
on
to
say
:
"
He
has
an
innate
,
chronic
,
unconquerable
contempt
for
the
rank
and
file
.
Men
are
but
slaves
and
thralls
to
draw
for
him
the
chariot
of
his
greatness
.
Never
in
all
his
history
has
he
seen
fit
to
go
to
the
people
direct
for
anything
.
In
Philadelphia
,
when
he
wanted
public-franchise
control
,
he
sought
privily
and
by
chicane
to
arrange
his
affairs
with
a
venal
city
treasurer
.
In
Chicago
he
has
uniformly
sought
to
buy
and
convert
to
his
own
use
the
splendid
privileges
of
the
city
,
which
should
really
redound
to
the
benefit
of
all
.
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
does
not
believe
in
the
people
;
he
does
not
trust
them
.
To
him
they
constitute
no
more
than
a
field
upon
which
corn
is
to
be
sown
,
and
from
which
it
is
to
be
reaped
.
They
present
but
a
mass
of
bent
backs
,
their
knees
and
faces
in
the
mire
,
over
which
as
over
a
floor
he
strides
to
superiority
.
His
private
and
inmost
faith
is
in
himself
alone
.
Upon
the
majority
he
shuts
the
gates
of
his
glory
in
order
that
the
sight
of
their
misery
and
their
needs
may
not
disturb
nor
alloy
his
selfish
bliss
.
Frank
Algernon
Cowperwood
does
not
believe
in
the
people
.
"
This
editorial
battle-cry
,
flung
aloft
during
the
latter
days
of
the
contest
at
Springfield
and
taken
up
by
the
Chicago
papers
generally
and
by
those
elsewhere
,
interested
Berenice
greatly
.
As
she
thought
of
him
--
waging
his
terrific
contests
,
hurrying
to
and
fro
between
New
York
and
Chicago
,
building
his
splendid
mansion
,
collecting
his
pictures
,
quarreling
with
Aileen
--
he
came
by
degrees
to
take
on
the
outlines
of
a
superman
,
a
half-god
or
demi-gorgon
.
How
could
the
ordinary
rules
of
life
or
the
accustomed
paths
of
men
be
expected
to
control
him
?
They
could
not
and
did
not
.
And
here
he
was
pursuing
her
,
seeking
her
out
with
his
eyes
,
grateful
for
a
smile
,
waiting
as
much
as
he
dared
on
her
every
wish
and
whim
.
Say
what
one
will
,
the
wish
buried
deep
in
every
woman
's
heart
is
that
her
lover
should
be
a
hero
.
Some
,
out
of
the
veriest
stick
or
stone
,
fashion
the
idol
before
which
they
kneel
,
others
demand
the
hard
reality
of
greatness
;
but
in
either
case
the
illusion
of
paragon-worship
is
maintained
.
Berenice
,
by
no
means
ready
to
look
upon
Cowperwood
as
an
accepted
lover
,
was
nevertheless
gratified
that
his
erring
devotion
was
the
tribute
of
one
able
apparently
to
command
thought
from
the
whole
world
.
Moreover
,
because
the
New
York
papers
had
taken
fire
from
his
great
struggle
in
the
Middle
West
and
were
charging
him
with
bribery
,
perjury
,
and
intent
to
thwart
the
will
of
the
people
,
Cowperwood
now
came
forward
with
an
attempt
to
explain
his
exact
position
to
Berenice
and
to
justify
himself
in
her
eyes
.
During
visits
to
the
Carter
house
or
in
entr
'
actes
at
the
opera
or
the
theater
,
he
recounted
to
her
bit
by
bit
his
entire
history
.
He
described
the
characters
of
Hand
,
Schryhart
,
Arneel
,
and
the
motives
of
jealousy
and
revenge
which
had
led
to
their
attack
upon
him
in
Chicago
.
"
No
human
being
could
get
anything
through
the
Chicago
City
Council
without
paying
for
it
,
"
he
declared
.
"
It
's
simply
a
question
of
who
's
putting
up
the
money
.
"
He
told
how
Truman
Leslie
MacDonald
had
once
tried
to
"
shake
him
down
"
for
fifty
thousand
dollars
,
and
how
the
newspapers
had
since
found
it
possible
to
make
money
,
to
increase
their
circulation
,
by
attacking
him
.
He
frankly
admitted
the
fact
of
his
social
ostracism
,
attributing
it
partially
to
Aileen
's
deficiencies
and
partially
to
his
own
attitude
of
Promethean
defiance
,
which
had
never
yet
brooked
defeat
.
"
And
I
will
defeat
them
now
,
"
he
said
,
solemnly
,
to
Berenice
one
day
over
a
luncheon-table
at
the
Plaza
when
the
room
was
nearly
empty
.
