Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-01-08

cannot forgive the woman. All rue
rigid rule of his fOrbears, all the
domination OF an unjust social order
grip him. Angel Glare. the prophet OF
emancipation, no longer exists, For
several days they lead a formal $50
lated existence. Tess, whose sole WISH
Is to please her idol, acquiesces In iils
attitude, and after a first wild out
burst at the injustice. does nothing 10
exonerate herself, and her one chahce
for reinstatement is bllghted by the
hooking witness of the vindictive por-
traits. No chaste-mlnded, unsophisu-
Gated peasant maid she, but the last
dregs of a decadent stock A separa-'
ton. temporarily at least, is decided
upon, and while Glare ranges afar, Tess
again creeps home. Joan, after the
first bitter reproaches for the mad as
obedience of her repeated .nJunctlonS
of secrecy treats the affair with her
usual fatalistic lightheartedness; but
the harsh words of the father In
drunken moment of excessive ances-
trail pride causes a dignifed departure
with the concilatory donation OF
half her means of subsistence and the
intimat.on that she is rejoining her
husband.
Determined, however, to make no
appeal to Clare's family, Tess easily
finds summer employment among the
farms; but with the coming OF WIN
ter and too lavish contributions to her
fam1ys support, prlvation stares her
In the face. Day after day she wan
ders on until at length on the high,
chalky tablelands, IN a great drab
field Of desolat.on, she finds the mean
est, most arduous Of tasks rendered
tenfold difficult by churlish boor OF
an employer in all the rancor of an ar
cient grudge against her. In the sting
ing rain and the chilling snow she tolls
increasingly, uncOmplainingly, living
wholly in the hope Of her husbands re-
turn. Songs that he loved she prac-
fees; the sweet, gay notes contrasting
sadly with her tragic lips and great,
Borrowing 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 EmmiGster vicarage. Of rare
spiritual as well as physical end0w-
ments, she would have undoubtedly
received a welcome at the hands of the
benevolent old clergyman and his wife,
but an empty house reverberates to her
knocking, and while she unobtrusively
awaits their return from church, she
overhears a wayside conversation be-
tween Angels two exemplary brothers
that sends her homeward with rended
heart.
The voice of a "ranter" triumphant
ly consigning a harmful of rustics to
eternal damnation caused Tess to
pause Cor moment in doorway, and
there On a platform of corn bags, in
sanctimonious side whiskers and semi
clerical black, stood Alec D'Urberville.
Animalism had yielded to fanaticism,
and the bold, rowing eye now g<oamed
with a ferocious righteousness. AS she
passed down the lane he came after
her, imploring forgiveness and offer.
ing redemption. Repulse after repulse
failed to deter Alec, who persisted day
by day, at first with marriage license
and holy words and then his former
passion uncontrollabfy revived by
Tess compelling beauty, his new
found religion dropped from him like
a cloak, the convert disappeared and
all the arts of man and devil were en-
ployed to ensnare the girl. And poor,
hopeless Tess, grinding on under a be-
numbing strain, was IN more danger
than her scorn of the man could real
ize Finally her fathers death, result
ing in the eviction Of her family from
their home, precipitated Tess doom,
and as a last desperate reparation to
her helpless mother and sisters, she
yields, with fatalistic calm, to the in
evitable.
To Sandborne, gay watering place,
melancholy specter of man, wasted
by illness and regret, comes in search
Of his lost bride, and in fashionable
boarding house Glare finds Tess and
learns the agonizing truth. Just be-
yond the town she overlook him, her
eyes wild and traneelike, her whole
body as if bereft of soul and will. -
have killed him. he tainted
me he called you by foul
name al. l owed it to you and I
owed 1t to myself. 1t came to
me as a shining light that / should get
you back that way"
With a final realization of the IN,
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 chlldren-the
world and its retribution quite forgot.
For five days they continued this
idyll.c state and on the sixth night
Tess half jestingly claimed sanctuary
among the conspicuous ruins OF the an
cient pagan temple to the sun at Stone
henge. With the dawn came the
guardians Of the law, looming dark
against the silver hoyzon. In grim,
inexorable circle they waited until the
suns level rays, relentlessly reminis-
cent of q bygone sacSficial day, fell
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