He had turned aside from money getting when he heard what he
took to be a call to a better way of life. Now with the fires of youth
still in him and with the training and discipline that had come from two
years of reading, of comparative leisure and of thought, he was prepared
to give the Chicago business world a display of that tremendous energy
that was to write his name in the industrial history of the city as one of
the first of the western giants of finance.
Going to Sue, Sam told her frankly of his plans.
"I want a free hand in the handling of your stock in the company," he
said. "I cannot lead this new life of yours. It may help and sustain you
but it gets no hold on me. I want to be myself now and lead my own life in
my own way. I want to run the company, really run it. I cannot stand idly
by and let life go past. I am hurting myself and you standing here looking
on. Also I am in a kind of danger of another kind that I want to avoid by
throwing myself into hard, constructive work."
Without question Sue signed the papers he brought her. A flash of her old
frankness toward him came back.
"I do not blame you, Sam," she said, smiling bravely. "Things have not
gone right, as we both know, but if we cannot work together at least let
us not hurt each other.
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