Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-02-24

cousins was ~patroniZing when it was
not inimical. He lorded ii over them in
the most high handed fashion and his
teaching Justified him in that particu-
lar. Perhaps 1t was not altogether his
fault. Chetwyni might have been u
better boy and a more generous
had he not been the only son II heir
OF Horace Blagden, the great man OF
Corinth. The perfectly obvious fact
that other children loved his cousins
caused him. in his envy. to set his small
hand against them. az Well. He was
privileged tn treat them. one and all.
with the disdain his position recon-
mended to him. Was not he he scion
of a rich and highly respected family?
! Were not all other small creatures in
Corinth but clods in his path? Above
all. We're not these cousins of his Deepen
dent ON the bounty of his father. and
barely tolerated as such? Why. then.
was he not better h they. and why
not infinitely above those undiscrimin-
ating infants who elected, in their ig-
torrance to love them? In a more SEN
sitive soul than his, the truth would
nave smarted. But he was the son of
the great man OF Corinth and he knew
not the law of equality. He chose to
be the lord, whether they liked it or
not.
No child asked permission of it's
hiother to go up TO C~hetwynd's house;
Ivy w ~ up W lIe MlUtlOINeS
Therein lies the distinction and also the
difference.
Ihls narrative will not deal at length
with the children of The Giants Cas-
tie. 1t is the purpose of the narrator
to make his hearers acquainted with
the three of them while they were very
tiny persons. and then to carry them
over the years as quickly AS possible.
In the mean time. we ma AN come to
know Horace Blagden and his wife bet
ter. besides getting something of an in
ware view OF other people who attend
ed them In the capacity of subjects.
First. let us locate Cornith-by-ihe-
Sea. It is a place of some 5000 souls,
three hours from Boston by rail, and
Of no impofiansS MFish difsStiSR Sas
mas to ravel from Boston to reach The
lttle seaport, north or south. Suffice it
to say. 1t Is an old town. and it's first
families of today were known by the
same names 200 years ago. 1t is a
fled fashion. There is a port there,
where coast steamers call. and freight
ers put in; while from it's little har-
Dor a half hundred prosperous fish,
ing boats fare forth in season to reap
a harvest from the sea.
1t is said that once there was a time
when Corinth was without a Blagden,
but the period was of short duration. It
seems that Horace Blagden's great
grandfather went off to London TO re-
side, taking with him his sons and
daughters, his wife. his men servants
and his maid servants, but not his
asses. They remained in Corinth. In
time the men servants and the maid
servants returned, and hen the wife.
The war of the revolution was over.
She put the old house in order, and then
came her husband and his sons and
daughters. for none of them married in
the land across the sea. Since then
there has always been a Blagden IN
Corinth.
Generation of them accumulted the
fortune and the prestige that served
to make Horace Blagden, in his day,
the great man OF Corinth. More than
this. he was a recognized force in the
vast money centers of the land, for he
was rich even unto the point of COM
handing respect among the richest.
Blagden & Co. bankers. % Blagden
street, Corinth. was a powerful con-
Germ. 1t could lend money when times
were so hard that other institutions
trembled.
Horace Blagden, when he came out
of Harvard, went into the bank with
his father. Then he set out, not UNI
like the princes Of old, to find him a
wife from among the lordly of the land.
He journeyed far and came at last to
the wallis Of a city called Gotham. He
stormed a castle there N rescued a
beautiful maiden from the ogres whom
nature had constituted her father and
mother. just in time to keep them from
delivering her over to the mercy of an
English gentleman who owned a
coronet and a ducal palace. and nothing
else. except a ripping stud.
She was a Van Dykeman.
Then. out OF a fashionable school for
young ladies. came Horace Blagden's
only sister. Mary. She came out pre-
maturely, it may be added, to run away
with and marry the gallant youth VINO
afterward became the father Of the
two MidthorneS. cousins to ChetWynd
n wards of their unhappy mothers
brother.
1t had always been easy sailing for
Horace Blagden. He stepped into his
fathers shoes. so to speak, when the
old gentleman vacated them, and he
came at once, when he was little past
80, the great man of Corinth. He had
not married for love. On the other
hand his sister had. because she JOS
sessed the power to love. Perhaps that
is why Horace had such placid waters
on which to sail. while Mary had TOR
ever the roar of breakers in her ears.
Mary came to grief. She loved in
tensely-and once too often.
Briefly. let me explain it came to
pass that her children found them
selves securely established i'm the grey
house on the hill. unloved but tolerated
with q resignation that even they.
small as they were, could not fail to