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"Frank Algernon Cowperwood," called the clerk, in his nasal, singsong way, coming forward, "have you anything to say why judgment should not now be pronounced upon you? If so, speak." Cowperwood started to say no, but Steger put up his hand. "If the court pleases, my client, Mr.
Certainly there isn't anybody that I would have trusted as much. I don't like lawyers you know." "Yes well," said Steger, "they've got nothing on financiers, so we'll call it even." And they shook hands. So when it was finally decided to pardon Stener, which was in the early part of March, 1873 Cowperwood's pardon was necessarily but gingerly included.
"It would take all of five days, Frank," Steger said, "but Jaspers isn't a bad sort. He'd be reasonable. Of course if we're lucky you won't have to visit him. You will have to go with this bailiff now, though. Then if things come out right we'll go home. Say, I'd like to win this case," he said. "I'd like to give them the laugh and see you do it.
"I move that that be stricken from the record as incompetent, irrelevant, and immaterial. The witness is not allowed to say what he thinks, and the prosecution knows it very well." "Your honor," insisted Shannon, "I am doing the best I can to have the witness tell a plain, straightforward story, and I think that it is obvious that he is doing so." "Object!" reiterated Steger, vociferously.
Steger shifted his position and came at the jury from another intellectual angle: "It was simply because Mr. George W. Stener at that time, owing to a recent notable fire and a panic, imagined for some reason perhaps because Mr. Cowperwood cautioned him not to become frightened over local developments generally that Mr.
Another, a small, sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned commercial man of some kind, he immediately disliked. "I hope I don't have to have that man on my jury," he said to Steger, quietly. "You don't," replied Steger. "I'll challenge him. We have the right to fifteen peremptory challenges on a case like this, and so has the prosecution."
The court-room was fully lighted. The bailiff, the clerk, and the stenographer were there. The jury filed in, and Cowperwood, with Steger at his right, took his position at the gate which gave into the railed space where prisoners always stand to hear the verdict and listen to any commentary of the judge. He was accompanied by his father, who was very nervous.
Besides, suits in plenty are an excellent way of tiding over a crisis of this kind until stocks and common sense are restored, and he was for many suits. Harper Steger smiled once rather grimly, even in the whirl of the financial chaos where smiles were few, as they were figuring it out. "Frank," he said, "you're a wonder.
He waved one arm comprehensively at the line of State reports, revised statutes, prison regulations, etc., the while he put the money in his pocket and Steger pretended to look. "A good idea, I think, Sheriff. Very good, indeed. So you think if Mr. Cowperwood gets around here very early Monday morning, say eight or eight-thirty, that it will be all right?"
This interesting venture bore the title of the Fargo Construction and Transportation Company, of which Frank A. Cowperwood was president. His Philadelphia lawyer, Mr. Harper Steger, was for the time being general master of contracts.
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