Show HA IDEA FOR TESS tragic incident lingered long in authors memory A lather striking hing story of the origin of hardys toss tess has 1 just been told by noll munro alunro author of john splendid who 19 1 one ot of mr air hardys antl inti mato friends it deemi that when hardy vas uns a hoy boy ho lie used to go into dorchester to school and ho mado made tho acquaintance of a woman there who with her husband kept an inn sho was vas beautiful good and kind but mar ried to a dissipated scoundrel who was unfaithful to her one day sho she discovered her husband under tinder circum stances which so roused her passion that she stabbed him with noth ft it knife and killed him she was tried urn on and condemned to execution young ilard with another boy witnessed the execution from a tree that over overlooked looked the yard in w N ich the gallons was aas placed ho ile never forgot the rustle of the thin black gown the oman was wearing as bho sho was led forth by the tile warders A penetrating rain was falling tho the white hito cap wits no sooner over tho womans hrad than it clung to her fen feature tureh and the noose an put round the neck of what looked like a marble statue hardy looked at the scene with a illusion of Us its being unreal and mitt was brought to his lift complete senses when tho the drop fell with a thud and his corn companion on a lower branch of tho the tree fell fainting to tho tile ground tho tragedy haunted hardy and at last provided the emotional and gorno some of tho the matter for toss of tho the DUr bervi iles |