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"
Fogarty
?
"
"
Yea
.
"
Alderman
Tiernan
(
nervously
)
.
"
There
goes
Fogarty
.
"
"
Hvranek
?
"
"
Yea
.
"
Alderman
Tiernan
.
"
And
Hvranek
!
"
Alderman
Kerrigan
(
referring
to
the
courage
of
his
colleagues
)
.
"
It
's
coming
out
of
their
hair
.
"
In
exactly
eighty
seconds
the
roll-call
was
in
and
Cowperwood
had
lost
--
41
to
25
It
was
plain
that
the
ordinance
could
never
be
revived
.
You
have
seen
,
perhaps
,
a
man
whose
heart
was
weighted
by
a
great
woe
.
You
have
seen
the
eye
darken
,
the
soul
fag
,
and
the
spirit
congeal
under
the
breath
of
an
icy
disaster
.
At
ten-thirty
of
this
particular
evening
Cowperwood
,
sitting
alone
in
the
library
of
his
Michigan
Avenue
house
,
was
brought
face
to
face
with
the
fact
that
he
had
lost
.
He
had
built
so
much
on
the
cast
of
this
single
die
.
It
was
useless
to
say
to
himself
that
he
could
go
into
the
council
a
week
later
with
a
modified
ordinance
or
could
wait
until
the
storm
had
died
out
.
He
refused
himself
these
consolations
.
Already
he
had
battled
so
long
and
so
vigorously
,
by
every
resource
and
subtlety
which
his
mind
had
been
able
to
devise
.
All
week
long
on
divers
occasions
he
had
stood
in
the
council-chamber
where
the
committee
had
been
conducting
its
hearings
.
Small
comfort
to
know
that
by
suits
,
injunctions
,
appeals
,
and
writs
to
intervene
he
could
tie
up
this
transit
situation
and
leave
it
for
years
and
years
the
prey
of
lawyers
,
the
despair
of
the
city
,
a
hopeless
muddle
which
would
not
be
unraveled
until
he
and
his
enemies
should
long
be
dead
.
This
contest
had
been
so
long
in
the
brewing
,
he
had
gone
about
it
with
such
care
years
before
.
And
now
the
enemy
had
been
heartened
by
a
great
victory
.
His
aldermen
,
powerful
,
hungry
,
fighting
men
all
--
like
those
picked
soldiers
of
the
ancient
Roman
emperors
--
ruthless
,
conscienceless
,
as
desperate
as
himself
,
had
in
their
last
redoubt
of
personal
privilege
fallen
,
weakened
,
yielded
.
