Untoward Disclosures Coincident with these public disturbances and of subsequent hearing upon them was the discovery by Editor Haguenin of Cowperwood's relationship with Cecily.

It came about not through Aileen, who was no longer willing to fight Cowperwood in this matter, but through Haguenin's lady society editor, who, hearing rumors in the social world, springing from heaven knows where, and being beholden to Haguenin for many favors, had carried the matter to him in a very direct way.

Haguenin, a man of insufficient worldliness in spite of his journalistic profession, scarcely believed it.

Cowperwood was so suave, so commercial.

He had heard many things concerning him--his past--but Cowperwood's present state in Chicago was such, it seemed to him, as to preclude petty affairs of this kind.