k with her favorite nephew that she might look after
him), and his sister Dollie, only six years old. The plan was that she
should stay until Christmas, when her father was to come and take her
home. Aunt Maria, with the help of honest Maggie Murray, kept house
for Harvey, who found his hands and brains fully occupied in looking
after the interests of the Rollo Mills, which gave employment to two
hundred men, women and children.

All went well with the young superintendent for some months after the
assumption of his duties. He was alert, and surprised every one by his
practical knowledge. He was stern and strict, and, after warning
several negligent employes, discharged them. This did not help his
popularity, but, so long as the directors were satisfied, Harvey cared
for the opinion of no one else.

When dull times came, Superintendent Bradley scaled down the wages of
all, including his own. The promise to restore them, as soon as
business warranted the step, averted the threatened strike. Within a
month the restoration took place, but every employe was required to
work a half hour over time without additional pay.

A strike was averted for the time, but the friendly feeling and mutual
confidence that ought to exist between the employer and the employed
was destroyed. The latter kept at work, and the former felt that he
had not sacrificed his dignity nor his discipline.

But the discontent increased. One day Hugh O'Hara, the chief foreman,
and Thomas Hansell, one of the most influential of the workmen, called
upon Mr. Bradley, and speaking for the employes, protested against the
new arrangement. They said every man, woman and child was willing to
work the extra half hour, but inasmuch as the need for such extra time
indicated an improvement in business, they asked for the additional pay
to which they were clearly entitled.

Harvey was looking for such protest and he was prepared. He said it
was an error to think there was an improvement in business. While in
one sense it might be true, yet the price of the manufactured goods had
fallen so low that the mills really made less money than before. The
wages that had been paid were better than were warranted by the state
of trade. Now, when the employes were asked to help in a slight degree
their employers who had done so much for them, they would not do so.
O'Hara and Hansell, showing a wish to discuss the matter, the
superintendent cut them short by sayin