Keating is convinced he is going to lose the Cosmo-Slotnick competition, and he is very frightened. If only he can force Heyer out and get promoted to partner before the results are announced.... He digs up some old dirt on Heyer and goes to the old man's house, where he threatens to expose Heyer unless he resigns from the firm. Instead, Heyer strokes out and dies. After the funeral, Keating learns that Heyer, with no surviving relatives, had left everything to him: two hundred thousand dollars plus Heyer's stake in the firm.
The results of the Cosmo-Slotnick competition are announced: The winning firm is Francon & Heyer! Keating's share of the prize money is twelve thousand dollars, but more importantly, he is celebrated as the young genius architect of the moment. He goes to Roark and offers him a check for five hundred dollars for his help with the winning design. Roark endorses the check back to Keating. Roark: This is a bribe; I am buying your silence—never tell anyone that I helped design that building. Keating: You egoist! I hate you! Wait ... I been under stress lately. I sorry. Bye.
Roark, down to his last dollars, learns that the Manhattan Bank Company is ready to accept his design on a new building. If he'll just agree to a few very, very minor changes.... Roark: Nein! Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Then Roark goes to his office, locks up, and hands the key to the landlord. He is busted. He looks up his buddy Mike, who gets him a job as a quarryman.
But Howard Roark will be back.
And that's the end of Part One.
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