The Romance of a Stranded Actress (1909)
A romance that is tinctured with some pain of stern reality and filled with intense human heart interest from the opening to the close of the story, holding to view, also, a living principle of the "Good Samaritan" whose heart goes out to the stranger in distress. It is a clean, wholesome lesson of sweet charity as against cold, heartless hypocrisy, with the final reward of virtue. Our young heroine, Agnes Hiller, is the leading lady of a theatrical troupe which comes to the little town of Hampton in one of the New England States. They meet with misfortunes, bad business, lack of funds, etc. The manager skips and leaves the company stranded. Agnes, just before the catastrophe, has sent her last dollar to her invalid mother; she has no means whatsoever. The landlord of the hotel has put her out and retained her baggage even to her small handbag. Misfortunes crowd upon her and while she is crossing the street she is run down by an automobile. The people who crowd about her as she lies insensible upon the ground, refuse to aid her. She is an actress, and the strong prejudice against such bars her from their consideration. The young curate of the village is passing and seeing the uncharitableness of the people, appeals to two ladies of his congregation to care for her. They indignantly refuse to shelter "an actress." The young parson carries the girl to his mother, who receives her. She is nursed tenderly back to health. The girl's patient forbearance and gratitude has won the affections of the mother and the heart of the young parson. In the meantime gossips get busy. A committee waits upon the parson and demands that the actress be sent away at once and "end the village scandal." The parson resigns his charge, begging the girl to marry him. Agnes, though she loves him, cannot bring further trouble on him, and she refuses him. The young parson decides to make one last appeal to the committee and goes to the house of one of the ladies who demanded that the actress leave the parsonage. When he enters he finds the old ladies playing bridge. Weeping, they beg his forgiveness, declaring they will renounce cards forever, but he leaves denouncing them as hypocrites. Calling at the home of a deacon, who was also one of the committee, he finds this dignitary half intoxicated with the accusing decanter of whiskey at his elbow. The young preacher returns to the parsonage, fully resolved to marry Agnes. They prepare to leave the village when the penitent and shamefaced committee call upon him, begging him not to leave. and offering no objections to his marriage to Agnes.
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