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they asked to go up to the Midthornes'.
Therein lies the distinction n also the
difference.
This narrative will not deal at length
WIN 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 We're very
unv persons. and then to carry them
over the wears as quickly as possible.
IN the mean time, We may all come to
Know Horace Blagden and his wife bet
Ter, besides getting something of an IN
WARD View of other people who attend
eo them IN the capacity of subjects.
rhst. let us locate Cornith-by-th
Sea, 1t is a place of some 5000 souls.
lhree hours from Boston by rail, and
not half so far as the crow flies. 1t is
OF no Importance which direction one
mas to travel from Boston to reach The
niue seaport, north oil south. Suffice it
To SAY, 1T is an old town, and it's first
families of today We're known by the
same names 200 Years 6 1t is a
thriving place. after u slow and disni-
ned fashion. There is Il port there,
where coast steamer call. and freight
efs put in: While from its 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 Corlnth was without a Blagden,
but the period was of short duration. 1t
seems that Horace Rlasden's great
grandfather Went off TO London 10 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 INC the maid
servants returned, and then the wite.
me 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 II 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
manding respect among the richest.
Blagden 4 Co. bankers, % Blagden
street. Corinth was a powerful con-
Germ. 1t could lend money when times
We're so hard that other Institutions
Horace Blagden. when he came out
of Harvard, went into the bank with
his father. Then he set out, not I'M
like the princes of old. to find him d
wife from among the lordly Of the land.
de JouTneSed FAR and came at last to
the walls of a city called Gotham. He
stormed a castle there and rescued II
beautiful nader 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 M~idthornes. cousins to ChetWynd
and 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 be-
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 pos
sessed the power to love. Perhaps that
is why Horace had such placid waters
on which to sail, while Mary had for
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 in the grey
house on the hill. unloved but tolerated
with a resignation that even they
small as they were. could not fail te
appreciate.