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Cowperwood could never quite forget that in listening to his lawyer's optimistic assurances. The actual beginning of the trial found almost all of the inhabitants of this city of six hundred thousand "keyed up." None of the women of Cowperwood's family were coming into court. He had insisted that there should be no family demonstration for the newspapers to comment upon.
The truth was that Cowperwood's continued propensity to rove at liberty among the fair sex could not in the long run fail of some results of an unsatisfactory character. As a matter of fact, in most cases he was as much sinned against as sinning, since the provocation was as much offered as given. The manner in which he came to get in with Cecily Haguenin was simple enough.
"Find out who that man is," ordered Mr. Judah Addison, the president of the bank, on seeing him enter the president's private waiting-room. Mr. Addison's office was so arranged with glass windows that he could, by craning his neck, see all who entered his reception-room before they saw him, and he had been struck by Cowperwood's face and force.
Cowperwood's father, on hearing this, bowed his head to hide his tears. Aileen bit her lower lip and clenched her hands to keep down her rage and disappointment and tears. Four years and three months! That would make a terrible gap in his life and hers. Still, she could wait. It was better than eight or ten years, as she had feared it might be.
One witness for the prosecution after another followed until the State had built up an arraignment that satisfied Shannon that he had established Cowperwood's guilt, whereupon he announced that he rested. Steger at once arose and began a long argument for the dismissal of the case on the ground that there was no evidence to show this, that and the other, but Judge Payderson would have none of it.
Here she had fought with Rita Sohlberg; here she had seen society come for a very little while only to disappear; here she had waited this long time for the renewal of Cowperwood's love, which was now obviously never to be restored in its original glamour. As he spoke she looked at him quizzically, almost sadly in her great doubt.
During this speech Cowperwood's brain had been reciprocating like a well-oiled machine. "My loans?" he inquired, suavely. "What have they to do with the situation? I don't owe Hull & Stackpole anything." "Very true. But a number of the banks are carrying securities for you. The idea is that a number of these will have to be called the majority of them unless some other way can be devised to-night.
The prison attendant realized that this man did not know the lingo of the place. "What did you bring?" he repeated. "How many years did you get?" "Oh!" exclaimed Cowperwood, comprehendingly. "I understand. Four and three months." He decided to humor the man. It would probably be better so. "What for?" inquired Kuby, familiarly. Cowperwood's blood chilled slightly. "Larceny," he said.
"Yuh got off easy," commented Kuby. "I'm up for ten. A rube judge did that to me." Kuby had never heard of Cowperwood's crime. He would not have understood its subtleties if he had. Cowperwood did not want to talk to this man; he did not know how. He wished he would go away; but that was not likely. He wanted to be put in his cell and let alone.
Most of their holdings, as in the case of Cowperwood's, were hypothecated at the various banks for loans and these loans invested in other ways. It was not advisable or comfortable to have these loans called, though the condition of no one of the triumvirate was anything like as bad as that of Cowperwood.
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