Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-09-12


N.-Hestcr leaves the prison and lives IN re-
tirement with her child. Nl-The0uthorities
propose % take the Child from is mo, her Rev.
Arthur nimmesdae prevents i. Nll-koger
lbilingsWOrth becomes physician 20 Dlmmes-
dale, who is an INVALID, and goes TO live in
TD0nl adjoining the minister's. SO on tho
storY proceeds through no chapters each one
grV'Iing Ia interest to the end.
10 ul
Once more, therefore, tho train Of ven
cradle and majestic fathers was seen
moving through broad pathway Of the
people, who drew back reverently, on
either side, as tho governor and magis-
trates, the old and wise men, the holy
ministers, and all that were eminent
and renowned, advanced into the midst
OF them. When they We're fairly in the
market place their presence was greeted
by a shout. This-though doubtless it
might acquire additional force and vol
ume from the childlike loyalty which
the age awarded TO its rulers-was
felt TO be an iTrepressible outburst
of enthusiasm kindled in the auditors
by that high strain Of eloquence which
was yet reverberating in their ears.
Each felt the impulse in himself and
in the same breath caught it from his
neighbor Within the church it had
hardly been kept down; beneath the sky
it pealed upward to the zenith There
were human beings enough and enough
Of highly wrought and symphonious
feeling TO produce that more impressive
sound than the organ tones Of the blast,
OF the thunder, or the roar Of the sea-
even that mighty swell Of many voices
blended into one great voice by the uni
versal impulse which makes likewise one
vast heart out Of the many. Never from
. the soil of New England had gone up
such a shout Never on New England
soil had stood the man so honored by his
mortal brethren as the preacheri
How Jared it with him them Were
there not the brilliant PARTICLES Of a halo
in the air about his head? So ethereal
lied by spirit as he was, and 50 apothe-
osized by worshiping admirers, did his
footsteps In the procession really tread
upon the dust Of earth?
AS tho ranks Of military men and
civil fathers moved onward, all eyes
were turned toward the point where the
minister was seen to approach among
them. The shout died into a murmur
as one portion of tho crowd after an
other obtained a glimpse Of him. How
feeble and pale he looked amid oil his
triumph The energy-oT say. rather,
the inspiration which had held him up
until he should have delivered the sacred
message that brought its own strength
along with it from heaven-was with
drawn, now that it had so faithfully
performed its Office. The glow, which
they had just before beheld burning on
his check. was extinguished like flame
that sinks down hopelessly among the
late-decaying embers 1t seemed hardly
the face Of man alive, with such a
deathlike hue; it was hardly man
with life in him that tottered on his
path 50 nervelessly, yet tottered, and
did not falll
Ono Of his clerical brethren-it was
the venerable John Misunderstanding
the state in which Mr.. Dimmesdale was
left by the retiring wave Of intellect and
scnsibility, stepped forward hastily &c
offer his support. The minister tremu.
lously but decidedly repelled the old
mans arm. He still walked onward, il
that movement could be so described
which rather resenblcd the waverina
effort Of an infant with its mother,
arms in view outstretched TO tempt hin
forward. And now, almost impercepti
bio as were tho latter steps Of his prog
ress, no had come opposite tho wen re
WONDERED and weather darkened scat
fold, where long since, with all tina
dreary lapse of time between, Hestei
Is Prynne had encountered the worlds IL
nominous stare There stood Hester
holding little Pearl by the handl Ant
there was the scarlet letter on hei
rbroast The minister here made a pause
although the music still played tn,
stately and rejoicing march to which
the procession moved. II summoned
him onward-onward to tho festival
but here he made pause.
Bellingham for the last few momentl
had kept an anxious eye upon him. IL,
now left his own place in the procession
i1and Advanced.to give assistance, judgin.
~ from Mr.. Dimmesdaic's aspect, that h,
galnust otherwise inevitably fall. Blu
there was something in the latter's ex
-gipgassion that warned back the magis
h trate, although a man not readily obey
ing the vague limitations that pass from
enc spirit 70 another. The crowd, mean
while, looked ON with awe and wonder
This earthly faintness was, in thei
view, only another phase Of the minis
ter's celestial strength, nor would j
have seemed a miracle too high to b
wrought for one so holy, had heascende,
before their eyes, waxing DINNER an,
brighter, and fading at last into tn
light of heaven.
He turned toward the scaffold an
stretched forth his arms.
"Hester, said he, ''come hitheri Come
my little Pearlr
It was CHASTITY look with which b
regarded them, but there was somethin
at once tender and strangely triunlhan
in it. The child, with the birdlike me
ton which was one of her characteristics
few to him and clasped her arms aoou
his knees. Hester Prynno-slowly,il s
impelled by inevitable fate and agains
her strongest will-likewiso drew naai
but paused before she reached him. I A
tins instant old Roger Chillingwtrt
thrust himself through the crowd-+ol