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CHAPTER LVI.The Ordeal of Berenice
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At the news that Swanson had refused to sign the bill and that the legislature lacked sufficient courage to pass it over his veto both Schryhart and Hand literally1 rubbed their hands in comfortable satisfaction.
“Well, Hosmer,” said Schryhart the next day, when they met at their favorite club—the union League—“it looks as though we were making some little progress, after all, doesn’t it? Our friend didn’t succeed in turning that little trick, did he?”
He beamed almost ecstatically upon his solid companion.
“Not this time. I wonder what move he will decide to make next.”
“I don’t see very well what it can be. He knows now that he can’t get his franchises2 without a compromise that will eat into his profits, and if that happens he can’t sell his union Traction3 stock. This legislative4 scheme of his must have cost him all of three hundred thousand dollars, and what has he to show for it? The new legislature, unless I’m greatly mistaken, will be afraid to touch anything in connection with him. It’s hardly likely that any of the Springfield politicians will want to draw the fire of the newspapers again.”
Schryhart felt very powerful, imposing—sleek, indeed—now that his theory of newspaper publicity6 as a cure was apparently7 beginning to work. Hand, more saturnine8, more responsive to the uncertainty9 of things mundane—the shifty undercurrents that are perpetually sapping and mining below—was agreeable, but not sure. Perhaps so.
In regard to his Eastern life during this interlude, Cowperwood had been becoming more and more keenly alive to the
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