- •In torpedo fashion; but his movements were apparently never He returned that night, and lo! the expected had happened.
- •It. He’s already offered me sixty-two for it. I can get it for
- •Ing when he came in.
- •It for the first year, but if you mind your p’s and q’s, they’ll cious and conservative investments and because of his cau-probably give you something as a gift at the end of that time.
- •It was fine to be getting on this way in the world and having such a good time.
- •In any woman. He was practical, methodic, orderly. His shoe At first, when Frank called, she did not have much to say.
- •I’m marrying you. We have independent means.”
- •In the whole thing. Butler could be made official garbage-And since then times had been exceedingly good with Ed-collector. The council could vote an annual appropriation ward Butler.
- •Vast advantage to him, and to devote all his attention to that.
- •Vague gray-blue; his hair a dusty light-brown and thin. His Cowperwood and thought how fortunate she was.
- •Impression, of course, that it was scattered freely in various
- •It was called—which interested him greatly. He rode on it occasionally when he was delayed or did not wish to trouble 109
- •It was Butler’s habit when he became involved in these
- •Intention all along of the two men to use these houses jointly.
- •In as tactful a manner as possible, that the dance afterward
- •Vain. My mother and father tell me I’m too vain as it is.” There was much jesting, some slappings of shoulders, some
- •Into her eyes, then left. Aileen’s bosom heaved. It was hard
- •I’m wild about you.”
- •It’s your business now, first, last, and all the time. You can’t not young, not vivid, not as unschooled in the commonplaces get your mind off of that.”
- •Its place. His large feet were incased in good, square-toed, well—
- •Ings for business purposes and residences in which Chicago
- •Voice. To his father he said a little later, “It’s panic, unless the majority of the banks and brokerage firms stand together.” commercial section since
- •In a position to help him were now as bad off as himself.
- •Voices could be heard faintly in the distance, far off to-
- •It was not time for love, and he felt it.
- •Ing about this, and it was puzzling him greatly.
- •Voted to the talents of Mollenhauer’s three ambitious daughters, a library and private office for himself, a boudoir and 174
- •If he were saved would he give the money back to Stener? If
- •Ing hourly worse since its inception the day before.
- •If we did anything which would look as though we were
- •Ing except loans, loans, loans, and the need of protecting
- •It.” He returned to his drawing-room and scanned both ac-He had never seen a map of Chicago before in just this clear, counts most carefully.
- •Ined. He hurried down the street to various bankers and bro-
- •It was in the face of this very altered situation that
- •Ing his father’s gloom. He was satisfied that there was scarcely When did you say he notified you not to buy city loan?” a coal of hope to be raked out of these ashes of despair, but
- •Indicated would trouble him or interrupt his great career.
- •Illegally, and he is very much wrought up about it. The mayor Stener will tell you that, if you ask him.” and the other city officials know of it now, and they may
- •It was decided to appoint a subcommittee “to investigate”
- •Impression that Cowperwood had desperately misused the City Treasurer.
- •It. We wouldn’t dare. We have men and women who have
- •Vest off, was listening to Aileen’s account of her troubles.
- •Vously.
- •Ing wits told her what to do.
- •Validity. It is more than likely that we owe this spectacle called He came out of the church after a time and returned home.
- •Ibly sad, despairing look.
- •It next. Ye’re young yet. Yer life is before you. I tremble for but Aileen did not see it at all.
- •I have yer best interests at heart. I love ye; but ye must. I’m
- •If you’ll let me. Will you speak to your mother, or shall I?”
- •Ings and communications for the time being, and even go Never! What could he mean by suggesting such a thing?
- •Ity known as hard common sense.
- •It appear that Stener was lying out of the whole cloth about 320
- •I can safely leave you.”
- •Investment into an accidental but none the less criminal mire of failure and exposure and public calumny and what not.
- •Very guarded references to his client, describes him as a nice,
- •Itable these few short years have been to him. Was George w. Stener worth any such sum up to the time he was re-He pointed to Cowperwood.
- •Incident like that? You know there wasn’t. He had never be-
- •Ishing the situation for the sheer sense of superiority it gave
- •If it wasn’t for the girl’s mother and her sister and her broth-
- •View of life, Mr. Butler, and I have another.”
- •I’m thinkin’. Why should ye want to be takin’ her away from
- •Ing was that the financier and the former city treasurer would
- •Ized that it would not be wise politically to stand out against what was wanted. Still, when he and Marvin learned that
- •It looks as if I have to go to jail or leave the country, and I’ve
- •It had been a terrific blow to her. Now to have this thing Steger is coming here in a little while to let me know. I had a suddenly broken to her in this offhand way, even though she 389
- •Ing judges in his favor, and that of the three agreed judges
- •It was that of the two housebreakers whom Cowperwood 405
- •Ing of extenuation in your case.” Judge Payderson paused
- •Into a street-car which ran to within a few blocks of the prison.
- •It, and something to read too. If you’re in business yet, I
- •If he did not get out before then she would be nearing twenty-The next day, however, she wrote him just the same, de-nine and he would be nearing forty. Would he want her then?
- •Insulting to her father, ignoring him on every occasion, refusing as often as possible to eat at the same table, and when 456
- •Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, James Fish, and others and the Erie Canal, at a greatly reduced cost. It was a vision in the East, and Fair, Crocker, w. R. Hearst, and Collis p.
- •Vigor of body, was a solemn, conservative speculator as to
- •In the great wheat crops of the West, a quiet divorce was It was with this thought that he went to visit Aileen, and granted Mrs. Frank a. Cowperwood in Philadelphia, because to plan for the future.
- •Ics of that?
I can safely leave you.”
be a very satisfactory one, if we all try to interpret the facts correctly. This defendant, Mr. Cowperwood, comes into this Steger suddenly turned from the jury-box and walked to court to-day charged, as I have stated to you before, with his seat beside Cowperwood, while Shannon arose, calm, larceny, with larceny as bailee, with embezzlement, and with forceful, vigorous, much younger.
embezzlement of a specific check—namely, one dated Oc-As between man and man, Shannon was not particularly tober 9, 1871, drawn to the order of Frank A. Cowperwood opposed to the case Steger had made out for Cowperwood,
& Company for the sum of sixty thousand dollars by the nor was he opposed to Cowperwood’s having made money secretary of the city treasurer for the city treasurer, and by as he did. As a matter of fact, Shannon actually thought that him signed, as he had a perfect right to sign it, and delivered if he had been in Cowperwood’s position he would have done to the said Frank A. Cowperwood, who claims that he was exactly the same thing. However, he was the newly elected not only properly solvent at the time, but had previously district attorney. He had a record to make; and, besides, the purchased certificates of city loan to the value of sixty thou-political powers who were above him were satisfied that sand dollars, and had at that time or would shortly thereaf-Cowperwood ought to be convicted for the looks of the thing.
ter, as was his custom, deposit them to the credit of the city Therefore he laid his hands firmly on the rail at first, looked in the city sinking-fund, and thus close what would ordi-the jurors steadily in the eyes for a time, and, having framed narily be an ordinary transaction—namely, that of Frank A.
a few thoughts in his mind began: Cowperwood & Company as bankers and brokers for the city buying city loan for the city, depositing it in the sink-
“Now, gentlemen of the jury, it seems to me that if we all ing-fund, and being promptly and properly reimbursed. Now, pay strict attention to what has transpired here to-day, we gentlemen, what are the actual facts in this case? Was the will have no difficulty in reaching a conclusion; and it will said Frank A. Cowperwood & Company—there is no com-340
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pany, as you well know, as you have heard testified here to-not? A business man has a right to abrogate an agreement at day, only Frank A. Cowperwood—was the said Frank A.
any time where there is no specific form of contract and no Cowperwood a fit person to receive the check at this time in fixed period of operation entered into—as you all must know.
the manner he received it—that is, was he authorized agent You must not forget that in considering the evidence in this of the city at the time, or was he not? Was he solvent? Did he case. Did George W. Stener, knowing or suspecting that Frank actually himself think he was going to fail, and was this sixty-A. Cowperwood was in a tight place financially, unable to thousand-dollar check a last thin straw which he was grab-fulfill any longer properly and honestly the duties suppos-bing at to save his financial life regardless of what it involved edly devolving on him by this agreement, terminate it then legally, morally, or otherwise; or had he actually purchased and there on October 9, 1871, before this check for sixty certificates of city loan to the amount he said he had in the thousand dollars was given, or did he not? Did Mr. Frank A.
way he said he had, at the time he said he had, and was he Cowperwood then and there, knowing that he was no longer merely collecting his honest due? Did he intend to deposit an agent of the city treasurer and the city, and knowing also these certificates of loans in the city sinking-fund, as he said that he was insolvent (having, as Mr. Stener contends, ad-he would—as it was understood naturally and normally that mitted to him that he was so), and having no intention of he would—or did he not? Were his relations with the city placing the certificates which he subsequently declared he treasurer as broker and agent the same as they had always had purchased in the sinking-fund, go out into Mr. Stener’s been on the day that he secured this particular check for general office, meet his secretary, tell him he had purchased sixty thousand dollars, or were they not? Had they been ter-sixty thousand dollars’ worth of city loan, ask for the check, minated by a conversation fifteen minutes before or two days get it, put it in his pocket, walk off, and never make any before or two weeks before—it makes no difference when, return of any kind in any manner, shape, or form to the city, so long as they had been properly terminated—or had they and then, subsequently, twenty-four hours later, fail, owing 341
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this and five hundred thousand dollars more to the city trea-uncertain financial cogitation to assist in unraveling a possi-sury, or did he not? What are the facts in this case? What bly difficult financial problem; and then you have a case of a have the witnesses testified to? What has George W. Stener quiet, private financial understanding being reached, and of testified to, Albert Stires, President Davison, Mr.
subsequent illegal dealings in which one man who is shrewder, Cowperwood himself? What are the interesting, subtle facts wiser, more versed in the subtle ways of Third Street leads in this case, anyhow? Gentlemen, you have a very curious the other along over seemingly charming paths of fortunate problem to decide.”