The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-08-11

Determined, however, to make no ap-
peal to Clare's family, Tess easily finds
summer employment among the
farms; but with the coming of winter
and too lavish contributions to her
family's support, privation stares her
in the face. Day after day she wan.
ders on until at length on the high,
chalky tablelands, in great drab
field Of desolation she finds the mean
est, most arduous Of tasks rendered
tenfold difficult by churlish boor of
an employer in all the rancor Of an
ancient grudge against her. In the
the singing rain and the chilling snow
she tolls increasingly, accomplishing
~, living wholly in the hope Of her
husbands return. Songs that he loved
she practises; the sweet, gay notes
contrasting sadly with her tragic lips
and great sorrowing eyes. At length
distraught by the continued silence,
she bravely decides to seek news of
him from his parents, and walks the
long, tremulous miles to Emminster
V1carage. OF rare spiritual as we'll as
physical endowments, she would have
undoubtedly received a welcome at the
hands OF the benevolent old clergyman
and his wife, but an empty house rev.
erberates to her knocking, and while
she unobstrusively awaits their return
from church, she overhears a wayside
conversation between Angels two ex-
emplary brothers that sends her home.
ward with rended heart.
The voice of "ranter" triumphantly
consigning a harmful OF rustics to
eternal damnation caused Tess to
pause moment in a doorway, and
there on a platform Of corn bags, in
sanctimonious side whiskers and semi
clerical blacks, stood Alec D'Urber-
vile. Animalism had yielded to fam
atheism and the bold, rowing eye now
cleaned with ferocious righteous
ness. AS she passed on down the lane
he came after her, imploring forgive
ness and offering redemption. Repu!se
after repulse failed to deter Alec, who
persisted day by day, at first with a
marriage license and holy words and
then his former passion uncontrollably
revived by Tess compelling beauty, his
newfound religion dropped from him
like a cloak, the convert disappeared
and all the arts of man and devil were
employed to ensnare the girl. And
poor, hopeless Tess, grinding on under
a benumbing strain, was in more dan
ger than her scorn of the man could
realize. Finally her fathers death, re.
sulting in the eviction Of her family
from their home, precipitates Tess
doom, and as last desperate repara-
ton to her helpless mother and sis
tiers, she yields, with fatalistic calm.
to the inevitable.
To Sanbourne. gay watering place,
a melancholy spectre of a man, wasted
by illness and regret, comes in search
-,
clearinghouse Clare finds Tess and
learns the agonizing truth. Just be-
|yond the town she overlook him, her
eyes wild and trance-like, her whole
body as If bereft Of soul and will. II
nave Killed him. 1.-The tainted me-.
he called you by foul name I
owed 1t to you and / owed it to my
self. 1t came to me as shining
light that I should get you back that
way
With final realization Of the i'm
mensity Of her love and the piteous
plight it had brought upon her, Clare
held out tender, protecting arms, and
together they wandered through the
untrodden ways like two children-the
world and its retribution quite forgot
For five days they continued in this
1dyllic state and on the sixth night
Tess half jestingly claimed sanctuary
among the conspicuous ruins of the
ancient pagan temple to the sun at
Stonehenge. With the dawn came the
guardians OF the law, looming dark
against the silvery horizon. In a grim,
memorable circle they waited until the
suns level rays, relentlessly reminis-
cent OF a bygone sacrificial day. fell
full upon another victim. and Tess de.
serted by all the gods, awoke. Quiet.
ly she faced her captors II am ready"
she said.
Eight metallic strokes SILVER the
morning air and from nearby hill a
stricken figure rivets involuntary eyes
on the flagstaff of a sullen cage of
building. For Angel the pison where
Tess is confined has at this fatal hour
a deadly and significant fascination
Slowly. silently, black square creeps
up the pole and flutters chill against
the morning sky.
Tess, more sinned against than sin.
ming, had paid the great penalty.
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