r was delighted. It solved a ticklish proposition for him.

"I'm glad to have seen you," he said. "I'm glad we've met. I'll drop
in and talk with you some time when I'm down this way. We'll have lunch
together."

The State treasurer, for some odd reason, felt that Mr. Cowperwood was
a man who could make him some money. His eye was so keen; his expression
was so alert, and yet so subtle. He told the governor and some other of
his associates about him.

So the award was finally made; Cowperwood, after some private
negotiations in which he met the officers of Drexel & Co., was paid his
twenty thousand dollars and turned his share of the award over to them.
New faces showed up in his office now from time to time--among them that
of Van Nostrand and one Terrence Relihan, a representative of some other
political forces at Harrisburg. He was introduced to the governor one
day at lunch. His name was mentioned in the papers, and his prestige
grew rapidly.

Immediately he began working on plans with young Ellsworth for his new
house. He was going to build something exceptional this time, he told
Lillian. They were going to have to do some entertaining--entertaining
on a larger scale than ever. North Front Street was becoming too tame.
He put the house up for sale, consulted with his father and found that
he also was willing to move. The son's prosperity had redounded to the
credit of the father. The directors of the bank were becoming much more
friendly to the old man. Next year President Kugel was going to retire.
Because of his son's noted coup, as well as his long service, he was
going to be made president. Frank was a large borrower from his father's
bank. By the same token he was a large depositor. His connection
with Edward Butler was significant. He sent his father's bank certain
accounts which it otherwise could not have secured. The city treasurer
became interested in it, and the State treasurer. Cowperwood, Sr., stood
to earn twenty thousand a year as president, and he owed much of it
to his son. The two families were now on the best of terms. Anna, now
twenty-one, and Edward and Joseph frequently spent the night at Frank's
house. Lillian called almost daily at his mother's. There was much
interchange of family gossip, and it was thought well to build side by
side. So Cowperwood, Sr., bought fifty feet of ground next to his son's
thirty-five, and together they commenced the erection of two charming,
commodious homes