Putnam patriot., 1912-08-16
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Ing his only son enjoy the wealth an earlier generation had struggled to accumulate.
 Let the boy enjoy himself." he cried 10 expostulating friends. I've made money enough to keep him the rest Of his days in likeness if he chooses. The Baskford mills are built on d sol 1 foundation of hard cash, and If step out my brother David will run the whole thing, and all Harry viii have to do will be to draw his share Of the profits.
 Under DO circumstances could be- Heve tbat you are pursuing safe course with your son. his friend. Dr Bell had said gravely. Hasn't the lad aHg ambitions of his oWn?"
 tFall of em-wanJs to help me out n the mtii but l don't want him arouudt Time enough when I'm gone r ae has q taste for the knitting bust. neas. ] never had q good time when aas a yGHHgsfer, and want Harry to have his ling ehuekled Bashford.
 He won't thank you for 1t, Bash ford. muttered the doctor. turning on his heel and stamping of
 Dr. Bell was right Harry Bash. ford was recalled from his foreign travels to attend the funeral of his father. suddenly stricken with heart disease. After it was all over Harry and his mother departed for Europe, leaving the business in the hands of David Bashford, a man of many the ories and extraordinarily impractical in business affairs. Balanced by his partner. the dead man. he had man aged to pin himself down to conserva tive business methods
 Now that his brother was dead and the widow and son were travelling abroad, David allowed himself full swing in the matter of experimental improvements in the mills as well as dip into the excitement of Wal street speculation.
 When Harry and his mother were summoned home by a peremptory ca blegram from Dr Bell, they discover ed that David Bashford was a suicide and that they were penniless. Noi only had the Bashford mills been fore closed by creditors and sold to strangers, but even their home was lost through their share of the liabili- ties All this ruin had been wrought by David.
 When Maria Bashford recovered from the shock of these disclosures, she clung hysterically to her son, and would not permit him to leave her. Neither would she hear of his finding employment, in the mill where his fa- ther had ruled for many years.
 Bolstered by her false pride she kept him beside her They were allowed to remain in the old home for year at large rental-whieh remained un- paid. Bashford credit in the village of Bashford had all been unprecedented. and Maria strained il to the utmost. She closed her eyes to the fact that black Nick and his wife. Heppy, were working for her unpaid; she even be- moaned the fact that she could not keep second maid 10 help Heppy. She persisted in living in the same style 10 which she had become accus- toned and the tradespeople came to believe that Mrs Bashford had means of her own in reserve.
 All this false standard of living af- fected Harry Bashford keenly. He. too. was proud. but his was the pride of youth that sees no disgrace In work He was eager for the privilege ne nd hA even to the length of engaging pret- ty little cottage belonging to Dr. Bell and proposed to his mother that they move there and live upon his wages as a worker in the mill If she would