Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-07
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years in less than a week. The shock
came about the time Of the Easter va
cation. n fell from a clear sky. Chef
wynd and another youth had been
found guilty of indiscretions that could
not be overlooked by the powers at
Harvard. The true story never quite
came to light, but there was a great
deal of talk about two chorus girls.
and a brawl in which one of the young
women was severely beaten.
Chetwynd was bundled off to Europe.
with his mother. to stay until the thing
blew over. or. at least. until Horace
could clear his perturbed brain of the
something that seemed to clog it. Be
sides. there were the ugly wspa
accounts to be lived down; that is to
say. the stories that We're printed In
the Boston and New York papers. It
goes without saying that the Corinth
Courier ignored the matter. There was
not a line of it in the columns of the
local Horace Blagden owned
the publisher of the Courier, body and
soul. as we'll as considerable of the
stock in his newspaper.
Todville u~nhesitatingly assisted in
giving voice to all the tales. true and
untrue, that came to notice. There was
general rejoicing among the inmates
OF the Seaman's Home. and along the
water front. In the barrooms and
g%rogshops there We're contests be-
tween all who struggled to create the
coarsest jests at The expense of the
! great n spotless man OF Corinth. If
he could have heard them, the subject
OF these ribald qu;ps would have shriv-
eled within himself. and groaned.
Eric n Mary We're wise enough to
hold their tongues. and to curb a very
natural citation. From affair off. they
watched the comings and goings of the
Rev. MIR. Presbrey, and somehow their
keen me consciousness told them that
ne, too. i'm his own way, rejoiced in the
downfall of Chetwynd. who had long
been a thorn in his side; a thorn he
could not we'll afford to extract, but
must endure in patient h~umility-as. for
instance, the Hindo fanatic suffers him.
self to lie on his bed of pointed spikes.
In course of time, Mrs. Blagden and
Chetwynd returned to Corinth.. The
summer was waning and raw, fog laden
winds We're sweeping in from the sea.
sweltering in the heat, Horace Blag-
den's heart was feeling the raw, chill
winds of the sea-; there was no warmth
in the world for him. Something had
frozen within him, and it would never
thaw. He went to Boston to meet the
returning voyagers; he came back with
them to Corinth. outwardly as proud
and confident as ever, but inwardly as
desolate and humble as the lowliest of
Lazaruses.
The sore that III him most was the
n that opened every time he thought
of Mary Blagden's children. Why could
1t not have been one of them instead
OF ChetWynd? Why should an ironical
m%alevolent fate have led his son into
the very mire he had prescribed for
hers? Horace could not understand
why God had done this thing to him,
while Mary's son was so available.
Corinth received the hayward youth
without reserve. Houses and arms were
opened to him. Just as Horace expect
ed: and the tactless assistant paying
teller in h bank who politely asked II
Chetwynd was to return to Harvard
next week, was the one who lost his
place in order that the presidents son
might begin his career as q banker
a little earlier than his father had In
tended. to be sure, but in accordance
ranged. The tactless teller assisted fate
to a certain extent by putting the ques-
ton, for Mr.. Blagden was in some-
what of q quandary as to how he could
make room for Chetwynd without re-
moving a competent employee. OF curse
employe would never have asked IL
Chetwynd were to return to Harvard.
1t made 1t very easy to remove him.
Chetwynd rather objected to going
into the bank at first. He vas quite
. sure he could make the crew at Yale,
II the governor wound only 30 uOWn TO
New Haven and Fix it up with the
heads of the institution. 1t did not en-
ter his head that a man so powerful
as Horace Blagden could fail to I'M
fluence the officials of any college. in
spite of the Harvard episode. But Hor-
ace said he hoped he would never be
called upon to resort to anything 30
desperate as the sending OF a son OF his
to Yale!
So Chetwynd began his career AZ q
banker sullenly. n In defiance Of
what he considered his own best inter-
eSts. He started q mustache, and In
sisted that It was his right to smoke
cigarets. having taken a course in the
art At college.