suites for the most
modest of prices. Adam Davis was present and secured the secretaire of
buhl which the elder Cowperwood prized so highly. To Fletcher Norton
went the four Greek vases--a kylix, a water-jar, and two amphorae--which
he had sold to Cowperwood and which he valued highly. Various objects
of art, including a Sevres dinner set, a Gobelin tapestry, Barye bronzes
and pictures by Detaille, Fortuny, and George Inness, went to Walter
Leigh, Arthur Rivers, Joseph Zimmerman, Judge Kitchen, Harper Steger,
Terrence Relihan, Trenor Drake, Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Jones, W. C.
Davison, Frewen Kasson, Fletcher Norton, and Judge Rafalsky.

Within four days after the sale began the two houses were bare of their
contents. Even the objects in the house at 931 North Tenth Street had
been withdrawn from storage where they had been placed at the time it
was deemed advisable to close this institution, and placed on sale with
the other objects in the two homes. It was at this time that the senior
Cowperwoods first learned of something which seemed to indicate a
mystery which had existed in connection with their son and his wife.
No one of all the Cowperwoods was present during all this gloomy
distribution; and Aileen, reading of the disposition of all the wares,
and knowing their value to Cowperwood, to say nothing of their charm for
her, was greatly depressed; yet she was not long despondent, for she was
convinced that Cowperwood would some day regain his liberty and attain a
position of even greater significance in the financial world. She could
not have said why but she was sure of it.

Chapter LV

In the meanwhile Cowperwood had been transferred to a new overseer and a
new cell in Block 3 on the ground door, which was like all the others
in size, ten by sixteen, but to which was attached the small yard
previously mentioned. Warden Desmas came up two days before he was
transferred, and had another short conversation with him through his
cell door.

"You'll be transferred on Monday," he said, in his reserved, slow way.
"They'll give you a yard, though it won't be much good to you--we
only allow a half-hour a day in it. I've told the overseer about your
business arrangements. He'll treat you right in that matter. Just be
careful not to take up too much time that way, and things will work out.
I've decided to let you learn caning chairs. That'll be the best for
you. It's easy, and it'll occupy your mind."

The warden