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What was amiss, therefore, with himself and Stener and with Cowperwood as their or rather Stener's secret representative, since Strobik did not dare to appear in the matter buying now sufficient street-railway shares in some one line to control it, and then, if he, Strobik, could, by efforts of his own, get the city council to set aside certain streets for its extension, why, there you were they would own it.
No more money was to be used under penalty of prosecution. If Stener wanted to see any one he must see Mollenhauer. Sengstack, having received a telegram from Strobik informing him of their proposed arrival at noon the next day, had proceeded to Wilmington to meet them.
Strobik thought we ought to act pretty soon." "I'll tend to it, George," replied Cowperwood, confidently. "It will come out all right. Leave it to me." Stener kicked his stout legs to straighten his trousers, and extended his hand. He strolled out in the street thinking of this new scheme.
So finally, on the afternoon of October 26, 1871, Edward Strobik, president of the common council of Philadelphia, appeared before the mayor, as finally ordered by Mollenhauer, and charged by affidavit that Frank A. Cowperwood, as broker, employed by the treasurer to sell the bonds of the city, had committed embezzlement and larceny as bailee.
The thing to do was to return what they owed, and then, at least, no charge of malfeasance would lie against them. "Go to Mollenhauer," Strobik had advised Stener, shortly after Cowperwood had left the latter's office, "and tell him the whole story. He put you here. He was strong for your nomination. Tell him just where you stand and ask him what to do. He'll probably be able to tell you.
The services which Cowperwood performed during the ensuing year and a half for Stener, Strobik, Butler, State Treasurer Van Nostrand, State Senator Relihan, representative of "the interests," so-called, at Harrisburg, and various banks which were friendly to these gentlemen, were numerous and confidential.
Edward Strobik, the chief of them, and the one most useful to Mollenhauer, in a minor way, was a very spry person of about thirty-five at this time lean and somewhat forceful, with black hair, black eyes, and an inordinately large black mustache. He was dapper, inclined to noticeable clothing a pair of striped trousers, a white vest, a black cutaway coat and a high silk hat.
In this connection, the scheme which George W. Stener had brought forward, representing actually in the background Strobik, Wycroft, and Harmon, was an opening wedge for himself. Cowperwood in return for his manipulative skill was to have a fair proportion of the stock twenty per cent. Strobik and Wycroft knew the parties from whom the bulk of the stock could be secured if engineered properly.
Cowperwood had been recommended to him by some one Mr. Strobik, he believed, though he couldn't be sure. It was the custom of city treasurers to employ brokers, or a broker, in a crisis of this kind, and he was merely following what had been the custom.
But with Cowperwood acting privately for Stener it would be another thing. The interesting thing about this proposition as finally presented by Stener for Strobik to Cowperwood, was that it raised, without appearing to do so, the whole question of Cowperwood's attitude toward the city administration.
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