Pleasure Reading ( Theodore Dreiser - The Financier ) p. 268 - 410

A very strange and new feeling came upon Frank's soul - the paternal sense of cruel revenge. Butler was shocked by the thought, that his beautiful daughter Aileen, grown up as a true  Catholic woman, who was really the only relief in the world of financial struggle - was bewitched  by the unknown spell  of thus scoundrel Cowperwood. And his only aim was to use his whole power, with help of financial giants, as Mollenhauer and Simpson  - to send him to the  jail. After the operation, with depositing credit check received from Stener, Frank was forced to hand over his own interest in the sinking fund in the immediate term. His  another loan was 500.000$ dollars was the fault of the Stener's inaccuracy,  but Butler's trick was to avoid the whole attack of the society, press and financial world to such huge treasury debt, and  decided to play the role of executioner in this story and to punish them both and to save the Republican Party from this disastrous fail. Frank decided to be rapider than then a and try to get another check to improve his current status on the exchange field and pay only a part of the debt to his most principal borrowers (the bank of  his father was on  the first place). But even the skill,  Frank's ingenuity and natural sharp mind didn't  help him in this matter. The power trio of tycoons of Philadelphia  was too high. During some short meetings with Eileen, he tried  to be as joyful and full of energy, trying mentally to pass  the storm of problems. Meanwhile, Frank's wife, Lillian, finally began to realize that her husband's heart was directed to  another woman, but this burning  issue had to be transformed into frozen one, she knew the situation of her husband . A few weeks of a mad scramble for the payment of any dividends, though not lead to anything. Stocks fell after the Chicago Fire, the lawsuit was officially filed, no meetings with any of  Simpson, or with  Mollenhauer  could help Frank. The charge was tough - embezzlement and misappropriation of funds of the city administration (Frank was forced to hire a lawyer and start to fight for his freedom against the processing power). His case caused a lot of publicity, as well as in Philadelphia and beyond it.