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The Titan

CHAPTER III
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I don't want to go out there alone again.

It isn't pleasant for me." He squeezed her hand.
"If we can't arrange this thing at once I'll just have to introduce you as my wife for the present." "You haven't heard anything more from Mr.Steger ?" she put in.

She was thinking of Steger's efforts to get Mrs.Cowperwood to grant him a divorce.
"Not a word." "Isn't it too bad ?" she sighed.
"Well, don't grieve.

Things might be worse." He was thinking of his days in the penitentiary, and so was she.

After commenting on the character of Chicago he decided with her that so soon as conditions permitted they would remove themselves to the Western city.
It would be pointless to do more than roughly sketch the period of three years during which the various changes which saw the complete elimination of Cowperwood from Philadelphia and his introduction into Chicago took place.


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