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"George W. Stener," said his honor, while the audience, including Cowperwood, listened attentively. "The motion for a new trial as well as an arrest of judgment in your case having been overruled, it remains for the court to impose such sentence as the nature of your offense requires.
That was the worst possible confession to make to Stener although under the circumstances it was the only one that could be made for he had no courage to face danger. So it was that now, Stener stood by Cowperwood meditating pale, flaccid; unable to see the main line of his interests quickly, unable to follow it definitely, surely, vigorously while they drove to his office.
Cowperwood was an active young man with an enviable record as a broker and a trader on 'change. He proceeded to demonstrate to Mr. Stener not only in theory, but in fact, how this thing of bringing city loan to par could be done. He made an arrangement at that time with Mr. Stener, the details of which you have heard from Mr.
It might not be fair to punish Cowperwood for seizing with avidity upon a splendid chance to get rich quick, they thought; but it certainly was not worth while to throw a veil of innocence over such palpable human cupidity. Finally, both lawyers were through with Stener for the time being, anyhow, and then Albert Stires was called to the stand.
As he saw it now, therefore if he took one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this city money and went after this Seventeenth and Nineteenth Street matter it would not mean that he was spreading himself out too thin, for because of this new proposition could he not call on Stener for more as a loan in connection with these other ventures? But if anything should happen well
The old contractor might be induced to leave that. He hurried to his home, secured his runabout, and drove rapidly to Stener's. As it turned out, however, much to his distress and confusion, Stener was out of town down on the Chesapeake with several friends shooting ducks and fishing, and was not expected back for several days. He was in the marshes back of some small town.
"He said, as far as I can remember," replied Stener, "that there were a lot of political schemers who were trying to frighten me, that if I didn't give him three hundred thousand dollars we would both be ruined, and that I might as well be tried for stealing a sheep as a lamb." "Ha!" yelled Shannon. "He said that, did he?" "Yes, sir; he did," said Stener. "How did he say it, exactly?
He must arrange to meet Stener at the station and talk to him before any one else should see him. Clearly this was going to be a hard, dreary, strenuous day. Third Street, by the time he reached there, was stirring with other bankers and brokers called forth by the exigencies of the occasion.
Cowperwood was one of the first and one of the youngest to see how it could be done. When he first talked to Stener he was twenty-eight years of age. When he last did business with him he was thirty-four. The houses and the bank-front of Cowperwood & Co. had been proceeding apace.
When they reached the court the same little pen in which Cowperwood had awaited the verdict of his jury several months before was waiting to receive him. Cowperwood, senior, and his other sons sought places in the courtroom proper. Eddie Zanders remained with his charge. Stener and a deputy by the name of Wilkerson were in the room; but he and Cowperwood pretended now not to see each other.
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