The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-08-05

tempt more, SO the man was SENT TO
| find her. With the aid OF her own nurse,
to whom she con6ded the sad story, she
did all that was possible to relieve his
terrible sufferings. Both she and Dinah
silently made their way to the wounded
man that night, when the house was still,
but he died in her arms before the sun
rose the next morning.
"She felt it would be useless to tell
her people the sad story. 1t could do
her no good, and would bring sorrow to
them. The body was found the next
day, and was considered by all to be
that OF some strange Northern officer,
and she kept her secret.
"The end OF the war found her father
a penniless invalid. He had given his
entire fortune to the lost cause, and the
defeat had been too much for him. He
had but one earthly wish; that was, that
Dorothy would consent to marry John
Fenton, the son of all old friend, and
who was we'll able to give Dorothy and
her mother the luxurics they had had
all their lives. His wife and daughter
provided for, he could die in peace. To
please her parents, she consented to this
arrangement, and after her fathers
death, she, with her husband and moth
er, came north, glad to get away from
the old Southern home which had so
many sad associations.
"Mr. Fenton idolized his young wife,
and she thoroughly liked and respected
him, though her love for the young
lieutenant was yet too strong to permit
any deeper feeling for her husband.
Then came her son to fill her life, and
help her forget her grief Mr.. Fenton
was like child in his great happiness,
and ii his wife had asked for the moon
at that time, he would have thought it
his duty to have made every possible
attempt to get it for her. When it came
time to name the boy, Mrs. Fenton in
sisted on giving it name she had Sc
lected,-Dudley Forrston Fenton.
Why that particular name, sweetheart?
Where did you hear it?' asked her hus-
band. 1T is one / heard when 1, was
north before the war, and I admired it
very much. prefer it to any other
name
Excepting, of course, that of your
liege lord John Emerson Fenton, at
your service
"Mrs. Fenton smiled, but said moth
ing, and so the. boy was named. AS
time passed, and her hours were taken
up with her baby, she had no chance to
brood over her secret, and she was often
surprised to find how calmly she could
recall that terrible death of her lover,
and other incidents OF her brief engage
ment. She never dreamed that she
could be forgetting her first love, but
scarcely day passed without fresh proof
Of her husbands generous, noble nature,
and his absorbing love for her. She was
beginning to appreciate what a loyal
character his was, and what mistake
she had made when she married him
without telling him of Lieutenant For
riston.
Gone day, Mr.. Fcnton brought a
friend home to dinner, who had but re-
Gently returned from long trip abroad,
and had never seen the baby, hand
some, sturdy little fellow, nearly two
years old Mr.. Fcnton sent for the
child's nurse to bring him in. 4 have
forgotten what name you gave this
young man.
:" Dudley Forriston Fenton,' answered
his father
What! Dudley Forriston? After
Lieut.. Forriston, OF the New Haven
family OF that name?'
"Mrs. Fenton grew pale, but so far
her husband had discovered nothing. II
she could only tactiully change the con-
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