Java entering an if statement that is false

I'm running into the strangest error in this program, which is confirmed when debugging it. I have the following code (boiled down to highlight the problem, of course):

BHFrame.java

public class BHFrame
{
  private boolean uSS;
  private StateSaver stateSaver;

  public BHFrame(boolean useInternalStateSaver)
  {
    //Init code

    uSS = useInternalStateSaver;

    //More init code
    System.out.println(uSS);
    if (uSS)
    {System.out.println("Entered 1");
      stateSaver = new StateSaver(title, false);
      stateSaver.addSaveable(getThis());
    }

    //More init code
    System.out.println(uSS);
    if (uSS)
    {System.out.println("Entered 2");
      try
      {
        stateSaver.loadState();
        stateSaver.putState(getThis());
      }
      catch (IOException ex)
      {
        alertUserOfException(ex);
      }
    }
  }
}

GUI.java

public class GUI extends BHFrame
{
  public GUI(boolean useInternalStateSaver)
  {
    super(useInternalStateSaver);
  }
}

Main.java

public class Main
{
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    GUI gui = new GUI(false);
  }
}

Output

false
false
Entered 2
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at bht.tools.comps.BHFrame.<init>(BHFrame.java:26)
    at bhms.GUI.<init>(GUI.java:5)
    at bhms.Main.main(Main.java:5)

The class BHFrame is extended and run from a child class that calls this constructor, but that really shouldn't affect this behavior. The problem is that, when false is passed to the constructor as useInternalStateSaver, the first if (uSS) is skipped, but the second is entered. Upon debugging, I found that uSS is false throughout runtime, including on the line of the second if statement, here