Mrs.
Hand was watched very closely, and a suborned maid discovered an old note she had written to Cowperwood.

An attempt to persuade her to leave for Europe--as old Butler had once attempted to send Aileen years before--raised a storm of protest, but she went.

Hand, from being neutral if not friendly, became quite the most dangerous and forceful of all Cowperwood's Chicago enemies.

He was a powerful man.

His wrath was boundless.