Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-10-03
THE SEXTON BLOOD.
BY ESTHER sERLEKESSErH.

governed so many generations Ihat,
to consider, It became necessity with
those having connection with the SET
tons. A passionate, affectionate,
clanish race, very headstrong, very
rich, they had long been power in
the land, Notwithstanding the charac-
teristic OF quick, ungovernable anger.
Not that Ogden Seton had not tried to
control his fiery temper while mis- wife
lived--at least he thought he had
but if he had been less often angry, it
was rather because OF her gentle in
fluence and tact than that he had
really disciplined himself. And when
his wife died, people said. "And now
there will be trouble with Victor"
Victor, with his handsome By-ronic
head, covered BY close curling black
hair, his dash and grace and extra
share OF the hot Seton blood--it was
not six months before there was
trouble.
How dare you, sin"
Father and son stood facing each
other in the handsome library, audit
was Ogden Seton who had spoken.
Because l am not a boy. Hove
Ada Grandmont and mean to marry
her"
"Ungrate:ul rascal, to DEFY your
father So this is your first step on
coming OF age?"
liam not obliged to sleep another
night under your roof, strand will
notm
And so Victor Seton dashed
passicnQtely from his home, and did
not return.
If Victor'S mother had been alive
but there was no one to interfere
with a pacific word between the hot
heads. The discovery that Victor
was paying court to the daugh-
ter ola man who had given him Of
Tense was the cause OF the trouble,
which increased as Victor was APP
preached on the subject, for lie loved
the innocent girl his father referred to
SO coldly. At first intimation that
mis- son differed from him Ogden Seton
flew into 4 passion. few hasty
words, and his handsome boy be
was SO proud OF was lost to him.
Victor, ON passing out, had said to
his sister that he should never return
that he was going abroad. A week
had passed, and Olives dark syes
were swollen with crying. yet not one
word had her father spoken OF his
secret relenting. She was like her
mother, gentle judicious, winning, and
yet more affectionate than the others
TO lose her mother and then hel
brother broke the girls heart.
But her swollen eyes were all the ex
pressions OF her grief. She so feared
her father in his anger, usually indul
gent as lie was, that she dared not
name her absent brother until he alb
ruptly preached the subject.
"Olive, do you know where Victor
ISL
mo, father"
Have you heard nothing from
hint9"
NO, sir. But-father-I think he
has gone abroad"
He had not the means"
''No, si-; but he could have borrow
ed money"
And as the weeks and months went
by, this conclusion was forced upor
Ogden Seton. Victor had college
friends who were off for London that
summer-probabIy he had gone witt
them. Though cut to the heart, Olive
was right in thinking that her father
would make his inquiries. So fiery
was his anger that even in hisgrief tht
memory OF it made him angry again
He had lost his son. He had only hi!
daughter. And by tenderly lovinghel
he tried to cancel the wrong done anC
relieve the secret sorrow OF his heart
He even met Olive in the street will
Ada Grandmont, yet made no sign.
Olive liked pretty, brown-eycd Ada
who had been her school friend. Sh'
had another confident, Roland Har
low.
Hc was young gentleman, reliable
as agreeable, whom everybody haC
confidence in-Ogden Seton included
and he very much admired Olive. IT.
thisconnection her father was not ad
verse. Roland was the son OF his part
ner in business. His frequency at til
house made him like one OF the fam
lily.
lie had dined one day at Mr.. Sci
toms table. There was other gentle
men present, and Olive presided at tn
table with tho gentle dignity whicl
made her, in her extreme youth an,
beauty, very attractive.
It was quiet family dinner, We
Olive left the gentlemen half an hou
to their wine; and while the other
were engaged in discussion, Mr.. SCI
ton bent his head and said, in a 10y
voice to Roland, who sat next him:
"Wait this evening after the other
have gone. ] want to talk to YOU"
Roland, noticed for the first time,
haggard, sunken look about Mr.. Sc
tons eyes, and look OF solicitud
came into his frank, blonde face.