Summary
A naïve bride’s lullaby shatters when she discovers the gilded ring on her finger is soldered to deceit: the groom who swore forever is a card-sharp already married, his kisses counterfeits tossed across a green-felt altar. In the chill aftermath, a phalanx of do-gooders in starched collars rip her infant from her arms—apprenticed to a tyrant of the soil who treats small backs like plowshares. Cast into the urban dusk, Ann Fenton trades innocence for the steely shimmer of self-reliance, stitching days together with threadbare dignity. Seven winters later, the past returns in top-hatted silhouette: Fenton, the gambler, now a murderer’s shadow. Yet fate, once a jailer, pivots; she meets a quiet craftsman whose touch is mortar, not mirage. A lawful marriage, a cradle that rocks without fear, and the refrains of a reclaimed child turn her former lament into a soaring contralto of domestic grace while handcuffs click shut on the bigamist and the gallows await his last shuffle.
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Young, innocent, confiding, it is a shock to Ann Fenton to learn that her supposed husband is not a business man, but a gambler, and that her marriage is bigamous. The child is taken from her by a Helping Hand Society and apprenticed to a brutal farmer. She is left upon her own resources. Seven years later Fenton again crosses her path, but she finds happiness in honorable marriage while her betrayer is taken away to face a murder charge, and the Song of the Soul now rises in full, pure tones from the breast of the happy wife and mother.
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