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Updated: June 27, 2025
The thing that strikes me as strange in all of this is that if he was so nice and kind and gentle and remote a mere hired and therefore subservient agent how is it that he could have gone to Mr. Stener's office two or three days before the matter of this sixty-thousand-dollar check came up and say to him, as Mr.
In case he could not get through secretly with Stener's help, Cowperwood made up his mind that he would do this. His first move, he decided, would be to go at once to Stener's house and demand the loan of an additional three or four hundred thousand dollars.
Cowperwood to return all or at least a big part of the five hundred thousand dollars he had loaned him, and which Cowperwood had been actually using for his, Stener's benefit, and to refuse him in addition the money that was actually due him for an authorized purchase of city loan. Was Cowperwood guilty as an agent in any of these transactions? Not in the least.
Stener's secretary, told him that he had purchased such certificates, and on the strength of a falsehood, implied if not actually spoken, secured the check, and walked away. "Now, gentlemen, I am not going to enter into a long-winded discussion of these points at this time, since the testimony is going to show very rapidly what the facts are.
It would end Stener's career as an official would very likely send him to the penitentiary. It might wreck the Republican party's chances to win. It would certainly involve himself as having much to do with it. If that happened, he would have the politicians to reckon with.
"Well," he said, wearily. Cowperwood suffered intensely for him. What a shame! His father! He felt a great surge of sorrow sweep over him but a moment later mastered it, and settled to his quick, defiant thinking. As the old man went out, Harper Steger was brought in. They shook hands, and at once started for Stener's office.
So it was that Cowperwood was called to Stener's office. And once there, and not as yet recognizing either the hand of Mollenhauer or Simpson in this, merely looked at the peculiarly shambling, heavy-cheeked, middle-class man before him without either interest or sympathy, realizing at once that he had a financial baby to deal with.
There was another note, from Albert Stires, Stener's secretary, advising him not to buy or sell any more city loan that until further notice such transactions would not be honored. Cowperwood immediately sensed the source of this warning. Stener had been in conference with Butler or Mollenhauer, and had been warned and frightened.
I love you, Frank!" she declared. He unloosed her hands. "Run, sweet. To-morrow at four. Don't fail. And don't talk. And don't admit anything, whatever you do." "I won't." "And don't worry about me. I'll be all right." He barely had time to straighten his tie, to assume a nonchalant attitude by the window, when in hurried Stener's chief clerk pale, disturbed, obviously out of key with himself.
In order to understand exactly the motive for Mollenhauer's interest in Stener, and the significance of this visit and Stener's subsequent action in regard to it, it will be necessary to scan the political horizon for some little distance back. Although George W. Stener was in a way a political henchman and appointee of Mollenhauer's, the latter was only vaguely acquainted with him.
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