"If ever you get on your feet, Frank," he said, "you can remember me
if you want to, but I don't think you'll want to. It's been nothing
but lose, lose, lose for you through me. I'll undertake this matter
of getting that appeal to the Governor without any charge on my part.
Anything I can do for you from now on is free gratis for nothing."
"Oh, don't talk nonsense, Harper," replied Cowperwood. "I don't know of
anybody that could have done better with my case. Certainly there isn't
anybody that I would have trusted as much. I don't like lawyers you
know."
"Yes--well," said Steger, "they've got nothing on financiers, so we'll
call it even." And they shook hands.
So when it was finally decided to pardon Stener, which was in the early
part of March, 1873--Cowperwood's pardon was necessarily but gingerly
included. A delegation, consisting of Strobik, Harmon, and Winpenny,
representing, as it was intended to appear, the unanimous wishes of the
council and the city administration, and speaking for Mollenhauer and
Simpson, who had given their consent, visited the Governor at Harrisburg
and made the necessary formal representations which were intended to
impress the public.
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