The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-11-20

me to ask, but snouIu IKE 10 20 50 Inuch'
And | should like very much to have you
go with me- Indeed it will give me great
pleasure to have your company
The BOYS thanks were uttered shyly but
warmly, and then he retreated at once to his
old place. The room was filling, and he was
too tlmd to say more. When | came down
after tea, equipped for my walk, found Phil
waiting in the hall, and Dan at hand with his
sourest face, but the graceful courtesy that be-
travnd his gentle breeding, to apologize for
what he was pleased to style'Phils presump-
ton
We were early, and while we waited, made
Phil tell me about the dear, lost moteer whose
voice was SO much like my own, and the old
home which he and Dan were never to see
again. though they hoped to do SO then
The father of Dan and Philip Doyne was the
last descendant of an ancient Irish family
the lands and hereditary honors of the Doynes
had long since passed had long since passed
from theiI possession, bet he had acquired
wealth in trade, and his cedrea had the gen
tie culture that harmonized with their gentle
blood Their home must have been both hand
some and stately. Mrs. Doyne, whose por-I
trait taken at the time of her marriage, was IN
possession of her sons, had most sweet and
winning beauty. She was an English irl,and,
like her husband, the descendants of a decayed
family
1t was in the terrible famine year that Mr..
IDoyne's business was ruined and his fortune
lost PERJURY threatened his household. Seem
lug disgrace hung over him. Heart and cour-
age failed. ..
Just at this period, his only daughter, beau
tiful girl of seventeen, was entced from her
home by an English lordiing. and deceived by
an illegal marriage. This completed his mis-
cry and made him mad He committed sui
eide
Mrs Doyne did not long survive her husband
She retreated very humble home in the
superbs Of Dublin, with her two boys. In al
few months her poor deluded daughter came
home to die. Mother and child rested in the
same grave, dying within a few hours of each
other.
The two boys alone survived of this sad
household wreck They were almost penni-
less. Dan was twenty he had earned a pitt
lance since his fathers death. He thought he
he could earn more in America, and
be beyond the disgrace that had befallen his
family. He and Phil came to New York. He
obtained employment in one of the great daily
newspaper establishments, and when knew
them, Phil employed there also. They
were pros porous and might have heen happy,
in spite of the past, but Dan would not forget
it. All that was bitter in it's memories clung to
MIN. He summed society, wore frown al
ways, and was angry if he saw Phil gay and
happy. He was morbid, both mentally and
green spectacles, and would have had Phil do
the same, but the lads joyous nature forbade.
To him the sun was bright, the sky blue, and
along the horizon line that shut out the future
from his view, lay roseate clouds, where Dan
saw Only thunder caps and threatening tenn
pest.
The boys gay, fresh nature, his ready wit, !
his kindly heart look complete possession of
me- This bright young life a beautiful
fo ihOurh ct
brief in ye&rs had been heightened out by Bit
ter experience. | was glad to take him TO my
heart of hearts, for my own sake, but the adop-
ton was not at all selfish, Not Old enough for
more venerable relation, [ could be as an
elder sister to the! lovely boy, and loving him
as ! did. | had faith that God would give me
wisdom to be a safe counsellor and friend to
him.
.. This faith has been4justifed The boys
warm affection never wAEered His confidence
in his tried friend was absolute. | used to won
der if ever before one human being so perfectly
and wholly trusted in another, and trembled
lest | might fail to comprehend and rightly use
the responsibilities of the situation. 1t was
not of myself, nor by my own strength; l know
but looking back upon those years, can res
call no instance where, in any important mat
ter, my voice or example did not influence him
for the right. How could it be otherwise,
, when | loved him SO, that had he been my
very own, by any nearest relation Of kinship,
he could not have been more precious to ne
nor more DESTROYS for his good -? The voice
that was like his mothers could CONTROL him al
ways, and often have I felt that he hung TOO
foudly upon its accents, making me, thereby
zoo much the arbter of his fate
How beautifully my young friend developed,
and how proud was Of him Gradually his
boyish graces were merged in the maturer ones
Of manhood, but his mind unfOlded far more
, rapidly. Almost before the down had darken-
ed upon his upper lip, he grew so strong and
, manly in character. that our relation seemed
likely to be reversed. so that should come to
t trust in, aud rely upon, and look up to him.
! This Icertainly did even more, year by year,
AMI not even the boyiSh impulsivsness, and
the almost chldiike and most winning grace
OF his atiectonate manner, that never quite de-
serted him, could prevent it.
I had drawn near to Philip Doyne, at first with
, almost the sole idea of dong him good. l re-
cefyed my reward, as think one always does,
in 81 ncere attempt to minister to another's
, welfare and happiness-and in kind l know
t that my life was made much brighter and hap-
, pier BY knowing him. l knew it then and
now that he my comforter is gone, how deep
, iy do | know and feel it; as my heart grows
f cold and desoate at the thought that | shall
see him no more.
f Three yesrs ago Dan Doyne died. He had
= long been ill, and very mOrose and irritable
Phil bore all like an angel, for in spite of his
impulsiveness, his temper was admirable, and
, his love and patience strong enough to endure
; the severest trials. saw it all, for / visited
the invalid often. He would see nobody but
, me, and with his dying BREATH he thanked me
for my kindness TO Phil, and besought me to be
= his friend always
r My boy came to me in his sorrow, as, in all
d that he enjoyed or suffered, he sought my SYM
-. ~. ,lN,1,. = 7 Yrryhk hN
might marry. But with an almost chivalrous
devotion aud reverence for the SEX think he
= had never known aught of that passion which
q leads man to single out one woman to be the
sharer of his life.
d Honest, industrious, generous, kind, pure in
n heart and life, relig ious-in a word pnGnLu, as
| Phil was, l longed to see his character crown
O ed by the perfectness Of worthy love, want
2 ed TO see the lonely man, to whom 10 human
}. creature owned kindred, in household of bis
own, with loving wife and children cluster
|, Jug round his hearth But thar hope died on
IT that dismal battle day
used to think no female heart could resist
/? his fine figure, his proud, bright face with his
- laughing blue eyes, his broad brow above
d which the clustering curls lay like crown
Is nor his winning manner, so full of the fine
courtesy which | think he inherited with his gen
: tie blood his ready wit that fash ed, bu
u never wounded nor his keen inteligen ce anG
brilliant conversational powers. l believe
q was right, for l have seen more than one
/; bright eye grow brighter at his approach, ani
" some pretty girls have sought my friend shiL
persistently, whose attentions l was all the
lie while conscious owed solely to Phil Doy'ne
lie Nevertheless L am glad to know, now, tia
10 Phil went heart whole to the wars, aud th a
- there is no young life incurably ssddened By
W his early death.
e. Phil was one OF the first to volunteer for the
b defence of his adopted country. He came to
n me, as was his wont to tell me what he meant
at to do he did not, as was usual ask my ad-
i'd vice 1t seemed as though his convictions
ne were so strong, that they amounted to a reve-
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