We'll see how Blackford gets on with her." Bassett was troubled by other things that summer than his son's education.

Harwood's declaration of war in the White River Canneries matter had proved wholly disagreeable, and Fitch had not been able to promise that the case might not come to trial, to Bassett's discomfiture.

It was a hot summer, and Bassett had spent a good deal of time in his office at the Boordman Building, where Harwood's name no longer adorned the door of Room 66.

The 'Advertiser' continued to lay on the lash for his defeat of the appropriations necessary to sustain several important state institutions while he carried through his corporation bill.

They were saying in some quarters that he had lost his head, and that he was now using his political power for personal warfare upon his enemies.