The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-03-24

this Pearl. The child was returning with
Hester from watching at the house or
Governor Winthrop.
Come up hither. cried Dimmesdale
you have both stood here before; but
was not with, YOU Come, and we Will all
three stand together
So the three stood there, holding each
other hands in the darkness. And little
Pearl looked up and said Minister
vii. thou stand here with mother ana me
tomorrow at noontideg Then great
light suddenly cleaned far and Wide over
the muffled sky. 1t was doubtless but
the ordinary phenomenon of a meteor
hut II threw the whole town into ra-
dance and made the Scarlet Letter on
,stbe breast of Hester Prynne glow with
fierce brightness
They cast their eyes aloft and great
letter A. marked out in lines or dull req
light, seemed to appear in heaven, Al
that instant. and in that light, they were
aware of the figure of old Roger Chil-
lingworth standinP not far from the
; scaffoli watching them
"Worthy sir" said Chillngworth, VINO
now advanced to the foot OF the scanod.
| sPlous Master Dimmesdale can TINS 10
vouq We men of study need close look
| ing after. Come, sir. let me lead you
| home. These booksl These books'
! ~ will go home with you, answered.
Dimmesdale weakly
rho next day all. Boston said that a
great red letter-the letter A-had an
reared in the sky to signify Angel Tor
| that as good Governor winthrop had
/ that night been made an angel, II had
, doubtless been held fit that there should
be some notice thereof.
! Hester had been so shocked by the
! condition in which Arthur Dimmesdale
| had revealed himself to her on the night
/ whom she stood with him on the scaffold
| tbat shr resolved upon bold course or
| action She saw clearly the manner OF
| her husbands revenge, and. In spite OIL
| ber oath. determined that she would warn
Dimmesdale of his teril and announce 70
| him the true relation in winch GINNING
worth stood to her.
I "oatni,,g a favorable opportunity. she
! snole with her husband and begged him
| r. snare Dimmesdale. But ne answered
| that Il was not given to him to pardon
| only to revenge.
| 1T is our fate lie said
Then she warned him that she would
! reveal all to the clergyman
400 thy way" replied he.
Earning that Dimmesdale had gone
/ 80 ,-isit the Apostle Eliot among his In
| dian converts IN the wilderness. Hester,
knowing the path by which he would re-
! t,,,n intercepted him in the forest. There
| she rev called to him the fact that Roger
| cbillineworth was her husband, tnat ne
! knew Of the ministers participation in
! her guilt. and she showed tne young
| a,aro,y,ran what he himself had begun
| 10 srspect by intuition. that the old man
] was stretching his victim upon bed OF
daily physical and mental torture In the
! ,,urs,,lt of an Unsuitable revenge.
Cut off for seven years from all except
| tho most formal intercourse with her
Kind. Hester's thoughts had taken bolder
| and wilder flights than were common 70
4 a. ordinary feminine intellects of those
Avs she now seemed all strength
T, where DimmesdaIe seemed all weakness
| In the dim aisles of the primeval forest
i che now urged the young man to take
| tho step which she had refused to take
for herself--to fee to other lands. There
he could escape the vengeance Of Roger