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The Titan


by

Theodore Dreiser




CONTENTS

       I  The New City
      II  A Reconnoiter
     III  A Chicago Evening
      IV  Peter Laughlin & Co.
       V  Concerning A Wife And Family
      VI  The New Queen of the Home
     VII  Chicago Gas
    VIII  Now This is Fighting
      IX  In Search of Victory
       X  A Test
      XI  The Fruits of Daring
     XII  A New Retainer
    XIII  The Die is Cast
     XIV  Undercurrents
      XV  A New Affection
     XVI  A Fateful Interlude
    XVII  An Overture to Conflict
   XVIII  The Clash
     XIX  "Hell Hath No Fury--"
      XX  "Man and Superman"
     XXI  A Matter of Tunnels
    XXII  Street-railways at Last
   XXIII  The Power of the Press
    XXIV  The Coming of Stephanie Platow
     XXV  Airs from the Orient
    XXVI  Love and War
   XXVII  A Financier Bewitched
  XXVIII  The Exposure of Stephanie
    XXIX  A Family Quarrel
     XXX  Obstacles
    XXXI  Untoward Disclosures
   XXXII  A Supper Party
  XXXIII  Mr. Lynde to the Rescue
   XXXIV  Enter Hosmer Hand
    XXXV  A Political Agreement
   XXXVI  An Election Draws Near
  XXXVII  Aileen's Revenge
 XXXVIII  An Hour of Defeat
   XXXIX  The New Administration
      XL  A Trip to Louisville
     XLI  The Daughter of Mrs. Fleming
    XLII  F. A. Cowperwood, Guardian
   XLIII  The Planet Mars
    XLIV  A Franchise Obtained
     XLV  Changing Horizons
    XLVI  Depths and Heights
   XLVII  American Match
  XLVIII  Panic
    XLIX  Mount Olympus
       L  A New York Mansion
      LI  The Revival of Hattie Starr
     LII  Behind the Arras
    LIII  A Declaration of Love
     LIV  Wanted--Fifty-year Franchises
      LV  Cowperwood and the Governor
     LVI  The Ordeal of Berenice
    LVII  Aileen's Last Card
   LVIII  A Marauder Upon the Commonwealth
     LIX  Capital and Public Rights
      LX  The Net
     LXI  The Cataclysm
    LXII  The Recompense




Chapter I

The New City


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.

"By-by, dearie," he smiled, as the train-bell signaled the approaching
departure.  "