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What
interested
him
much
more
than
the
final
departure
of
his
father
from
things
mundane
was
a
tri-cornered
conversation
between
Beatrice
,
Mr.
Barton
,
of
Barton
and
Krogman
,
their
lawyers
,
and
himself
,
that
took
place
several
days
after
the
funeral
.
For
the
first
time
he
came
into
actual
cognizance
of
the
family
finances
,
and
realized
what
a
tidy
fortune
had
once
been
under
his
father
's
management
.
He
took
a
ledger
labelled
"
1906
"
and
ran
through
it
rather
carefully
.
The
total
expenditure
that
year
had
come
to
something
over
one
hundred
and
ten
thousand
dollars
.
Forty
thousand
of
this
had
been
Beatrice
's
own
income
,
and
there
had
been
no
attempt
to
account
for
it
:
it
was
all
under
the
heading
,
"
Drafts
,
checks
,
and
letters
of
credit
forwarded
to
Beatrice
Blaine
.
"
The
dispersal
of
the
rest
was
rather
minutely
itemized
:
the
taxes
and
improvements
on
the
Lake
Geneva
estate
had
come
to
almost
nine
thousand
dollars
;
the
general
up-keep
,
including
Beatrice
's
electric
and
a
French
car
,
bought
that
year
,
was
over
thirty-five
thousand
dollars
.
The
rest
was
fully
taken
care
of
,
and
there
were
invariably
items
which
failed
to
balance
on
the
right
side
of
the
ledger
.
In
the
volume
for
1912
Amory
was
shocked
to
discover
the
decrease
in
the
number
of
bond
holdings
and
the
great
drop
in
the
income
.
In
the
case
of
Beatrice
's
money
this
was
not
so
pronounced
,
but
it
was
obvious
that
his
father
had
devoted
the
previous
year
to
several
unfortunate
gambles
in
oil
.
Very
little
of
the
oil
had
been
burned
,
but
Stephen
Blaine
had
been
rather
badly
singed
.
The
next
year
and
the
next
and
the
next
showed
similar
decreases
,
and
Beatrice
had
for
the
first
time
begun
using
her
own
money
for
keeping
up
the
house
.
Yet
her
doctor
's
bill
for
1913
had
been
over
nine
thousand
dollars
.
About
the
exact
state
of
things
Mr.
Barton
was
quite
vague
and
confused
.
There
had
been
recent
investments
,
the
outcome
of
which
was
for
the
present
problematical
,
and
he
had
an
idea
there
were
further
speculations
and
exchanges
concerning
which
he
had
not
been
consulted
.
It
was
not
for
several
months
that
Beatrice
wrote
Amory
the
full
situation
.
The
entire
residue
of
the
Blaine
and
O'Hara
fortunes
consisted
of
the
place
at
Lake
Geneva
and
approximately
a
half
million
dollars
,
invested
now
in
fairly
conservative
six-per-cent
holdings
.
In
fact
,
Beatrice
wrote
that
she
was
putting
the
money
into
railroad
and
street-car
bonds
as
fast
as
she
could
conveniently
transfer
it
.
"
I
am
quite
sure
,
"
she
wrote
to
Amory
,
"
that
if
there
is
one
thing
we
can
be
positive
of
,
it
is
that
people
will
not
stay
in
one
place
.
This
Ford
person
has
certainly
made
the
most
of
that
idea
.
So
I
am
instructing
Mr.
Barton
to
specialize
on
such
things
