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Chapter I. The New City
Chapter II. A Reconnoiter
Chapter III. A Chicago Evening
Chapter IV. Peter Laughlin & Co
Chapter V. Concerning a Wife and Family
Chapter VI. The New Queen of the Home
Chapter VII. Chicago Gas
Chapter VIII. Now This Is Fighting
Chapter IX. In Search of Victory
Chapter X. A Test
Chapter XI. The Fruits of Daring
Chapter XII. A New Retainer
Chapter XIII. The Die Is Cast[62]
Chapter XIV. Undercurrents
Chapter XV. A New Affection
Chapter XVI. A Fateful Interlude
Chapter XVII. An Overture to Conflict
Chapter XVIII. The Clash
Chapter XIX “Hell Hath No Fury – ”[81]
Chapter XX “Man and Superman”
Chapter XXI. A Matter of Tunnels
Chapter XXII. Street-railways at Last
Chapter XXIII. The Power of the Press
Chapter XXIV. The Coming of Stephanie Platow
Chapter XXV. Airs from the Orient
Chapter XXVI. Love and War
Chapter XXVII. A Financier Bewitched
Chapter XXVIII. The Exposure of Stephanie
Chapter XXIX. A Family Quarrel
Chapter XXX. Obstacles
Chapter XXXI. Untoward Disclosures
Chapter XXXII. A Supper Party
Chapter XXXIII. Mr. Lynde to the Rescue[145]
Chapter XXXIV. Enter Hosmer Hand
Chapter XXXV. A Political Agreement
Chapter XXXVI. An Election Draws Near
Chapter XXXVII. Aileen’s Revenge
Chapter XXXVIII. An Hour of Defeat
Chapter XXXIX. The New Administration
Chapter XL. A Trip to Louisville
Chapter XLI. The Daughter of Mrs. Fleming
Chapter XLII. F. A. Cowperwood, Guardian
Chapter XLIII. The Planet Mars
Chapter XLIV. A Franchise Obtained
Chapter XLV. Changing Horizons
Chapter XLVI. Depths and Heights
Chapter XLVII. American Match
Chapter XLVIII. Panic
Chapter XLIX. Mount Olympus
Chapter L. A New York Mansion
Chapter LI. The Revival of Hattie Starr
Chapter LII. Behind the Arras
Chapter LIII. A Declaration of Love
Chapter LIV. Wanted – Fifty-year Franchises
Chapter LV. Cowperwood and the Governor
Chapter LVI. The Ordeal of Berenice
Chapter LVII. Aileen’s Last Card
Chapter LVIII. A Marauder upon the Commonwealth
Chapter LIX. Capital and Public Rights
Chapter LX. The Net
Chapter LXI. The Cataclysm
Chapter LXII. The Recompense
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When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood. He must begin again.
It would be useless to repeat how a second panic following upon a tremendous failure – that of Jay Cooke & Co. – had placed a second fortune in his hands. This restored wealth softened him in some degree. Fate seemed to have his personal welfare in charge. He was sick of the stock exchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all. He would get in something else – street-railways, land deals, some of the boundless opportunities of the far West. Philadelphia was no longer pleasing to him. Though now free and rich, he was still a scandal to the pretenders, and the financial and social world was not prepared to accept him. He must go his way alone, unaided, or only secretly so, while his quondam friends watched his career from afar. So, thinking of this, he took the train one day, his charming mistress, now only twenty-six, coming to the station to see him off. He looked at her quite tenderly, for she was the quintessence of a certain type of feminine beauty.
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Still another was a Mr. Rambaud, pioneer railroad man, to whom Addison, smiling jocosely, observed: “Mr. Cowperwood is on from Philadelphia, Mr. Rambaud, trying to find out whether he wants to lose any money out here. Can’t you sell him some of that bad land you have up in the Northwest?”
Rambaud – a spare, pale, black-bearded man of much force and exactness, dressed, as Cowperwood observed, in much better taste than some of the others – looked at Cowperwood shrewdly but in a gentlemanly, retiring way, with a gracious, enigmatic smile. He caught a glance in return which he could not possibly forget. The eyes of Cowperwood said more than any words ever could. Instead of jesting faintly Mr. Rambaud decided to explain some things about the Northwest. Perhaps this Philadelphian might be interested.
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