CHAPTER XXI.
A Matter of Tunnels The question of Sohlberg adjusted thus simply, if brutally, Cowperwood turned his attention to Mrs.Sohlberg.

But there was nothing much to be done.

He explained that he had now completely subdued Aileen and Sohlberg, that the latter would make no more trouble, that he was going to pension him, that Aileen would remain permanently quiescent.

He expressed the greatest solicitude for her, but Rita was now sickened of this tangle.

She had loved him, as she thought, but through the rage of Aileen she saw him in a different light, and she wanted to get away.
His money, plentiful as it was, did not mean as much to her as it might have meant to some women; it simply spelled luxuries, without which she could exist if she must.