The picture because of its simplicity, appealed to him.

He did not know that Mrs.Carter had never sanctioned its display.

"A personage," was Cowperwood's comment to himself, and he walked into the photographer's office to see what could be done about its removal and the destruction of the plates.
A half-hundred dollars, he found, would arrange it all--plates, prints, everything.

Since by this ruse he secured a picture for himself, he promptly had it framed and hung in his Chicago rooms, where sometimes of an afternoon when he was hurrying to change his clothes he stopped to look at it.

With each succeeding examination his admiration and curiosity grew.