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If you come you must submit to the presence of others . '' `` Very well , Mr. Sluss , '' replied Cowperwood , cheerfully . `` I will not come to your office . But unless you come to mine before five o'clock this afternoon you will face by noon to-morrow a suit for breach of promise , and your letters to Mrs. Brandon will be given to the public . I wish to remind you that an election is coming on , and that Chicago favors a mayor who is privately moral as well as publicly so . Good morning . '' Mr. Cowperwood hung up his telephone receiver with a click , and Mr. Sluss sensibly and visibly stiffened and paled .