El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-14

a welcome at the hands Of the benev-
Olent old clergyman and his wife, but
an empty house reverberates to her
knocking. and while she unObtrusive-
" awaits their return from church,
she overhears a wayside conversation
geuween Angels two exemplary
brothers that sends her homeward
with rended heart.
The voice OF a "ranter" triumphant
" consigning a barnful Of rustics to
eternal damnatiOn caused Tess to
Pause moment in a doorway, and
there on q platform OF corn bags, in
sanctiuonious side Whiskers and
semi-clerical blacks. stood Alec D'Ur-
berville- Animalism had yielded to
fanaticism and the bold. rowing eye
now cleaned with a rerOcious right
eousness- As she passed on down
the lane he came after her. imploring
Repulse 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
uucontrollably revived by Tess COM
pelling beauty, his new found 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 benUmbing
strain. was in more danger than her
scOru OF the man could realize. FL
raLy her fathers death. resulting In
the eviction Of her family from their
home, precipitates Tess doom, and as
a last desperate PREPARATION TO her
helpless mother and sisters. she
yields with fatalistic calm, TO the
inevitable.
To Sandbourne. a gay watering
place. a melancholy spectre Of a man.
wasted by Illness and regret, comes
In search Of his lost bride. and in a
fashionable boarding house Clare
finds Tess and learns the agonizinE
truth Just beyond the town she
overlook him. her eyes wild and
trance like; her. whole body as II be
reft Of soul and viii. I have killed
kim. he tainted me g.
he called you by foul name o
owed II TO you and owed il to my
self II came 20 me as
shining light that 1 should get you
back that way"
with a final realization OF the i'm
mensity Of her love and the piteous
plight IL 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
idyllic state and on tie sixth night
Tess half 1estngly claimed sanctuary
among the conspicuous ruins Of the
ancient pagan temple 10 the sun at
Stoneheuge. With the dawn came the
guardians Of the law. looming dark
against the silvery horizon. In a
grim, ineEOrable circle they waited
until the suns level rays. relentlesslv
reminiscent Of a bygOne sacrificia1
day. fell upon another victim. and
Tess, deserted by all the gods. awOke
Quietly she faced her captOrs. 7 am
ready she said
Eight metallic strokes SILVER the
morning air and from q nearby hill
stricken figure rivets involuntary
ewes on the flagstaff Of a sullen cage
Of building. For angel the prison
where Tess is confined has at this
fatal hour a deadly and significant
fascination Slowly. silently. a 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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densed by Nathan Haskell Dole. viii
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