Pleasure Reading ( Theodore Dreiser - The Financier ) p. 410 - 612 ( final part ).

Mr. Stedger,  Frank's lawer was involved in a game of financiers, trying to use all his significant mastery to protect Mr. Cowperwood from the unity of great attackers. So, newly made prosecutor of Philadelphia ( Mr. Shannen )  and also a new head judge had been bribed by Butler, and so the chance to win this deal was really poor. The Cowperwood family was at the edge of depression and prostration, Henry Cowperwood transformed from a huge and important man in the Third Street to the strange and slim figure, curse by the shame of his son. After a long trial, three of the five judges, including the chief - Payderson - had accused the prosecutor's accusation   and appointed Frank  for a 5 years in the Eastern Pennsylvanian Prison. It was the first time in the life of Frank, when we finally lost control for a day, because his dream to be rich and prosperous man, the man of a luck was slowly falling down. His thoughts about his wife and children, about Aileen and parents were in the gloom  of endless obscurity. Of course, he could materially support them all, but the greatest grief of his soul was the loss of  his own time, the whole 5 years without his favorite business .
The  Eastern Pennsylvanian Prison wasn't the place for a former successful businessman and wealthy aristocrat .He was forced to change his blue silk suit, which so  was good on him and showed the power of his posture and the strength of his  winner nature just to  the ordinary cotton gray sweatshirt and pants worn with a quilted jacket and dress angled heavy boots - and wear all this for  more than five years. He was disgusted by the terrible prison cell and rats and unpeeled waste area, the smell of  its waste. There was only one broken chair, a couch without underwear and tight plaid. All the comfort of his former life had disappeared.
After two months of submission to the laws of the prison, diligent work in weaving backs of chairs and Frank's   important connections with the necessary people helped him rather much. As a rich person, he could load  wardens and guards with presents  and  to a get great benefit from it - he could have more frequent meetings with  with his dearest Aileen, his friend and outside protector Harper, more than that - he was able to work on the stock exchange through a figurehead, while the hype and trash talking around his name will not go out. In a small courtyard near  the cell, he created a small garden, started to study the stars ( trying to find  the star of his own destiny, which will lite with a bright flame in the heaven ) and his wife also brought him clean clothes and goodies.
After thirteen months of new life in the prison, Frank Algernon Coweperwood was finally released to the wild.  His hard fighter character and desire to be a clever prisoner, his ability to send money in the right pocket, and quality to choose the right people to help him, while he was imprisoned played a great role.  But in the addition to that,  the old Butler had died, because of his immeasurable sadness about Aileen.
The scandal of embezzling $ 500,000   bt Frank had gradually died down, and it was time for a new chapter in the life of a financier. He decided to go to Chicago to start a new business there, but before that there was another fall in the stock exchange in New York, almost repeating events of the "Black Friday". One of the most powerful banks in the U.S. declared bankruptcy and many stocks and rates began to fall in value. Only agility of mind and sobriety of thought helped Frank this week to make a million dollars for raising and lowering the rates of speculation.
His wife gave him a divorce, and  full of plans and ideas, Frank moved toward Chicago,  with a loving woman, confidence in his  power, thunder as the most successful man of Philadelphia for the past few years.