A Financier Bewitched It was interesting to note how, able though he was, and bound up with this vast street-railway enterprise which was beginning to affect several thousand men, his mind could find intense relief and satisfaction in the presence and actions of Stephanie Platow.

It is not too much to say that in her, perhaps, he found revivified the spirit and personality of Rita Sohlberg.

Rita, however, had not contemplated disloyalty--it had never occurred to her to be faithless to Cowperwood so long as he was fond of her any more than for a long time it had been possible for her, even after all his philanderings, to be faithless to Sohlberg.

Stephanie, on the other hand, had the strange feeling that affection was not necessarily identified with physical loyalty, and that she could be fond of Cowperwood and still deceive him--a fact which was based on her lack as yet of a true enthusiasm for him.

She loved him and she didn't.