Cover

A bell tolls among vines and decorative motifs.

Cover Detail

Close up of the bell, with its rope, clapper and a decorative edging.

Frontispiece

The young woman Bessie dressed in fine clothes and jewels, bordered by cherubs and angels.

"England's sun was slowly setting"

Trees and buildings against the evening sky. People gather the harvest.

"With its walls so tall and gloomy"

The prison tower set against the darkening sky.

"He with steps so slow and weary; she with sunny, floating hair"

Bessie begs the sexton not to ring the bell.

"Doomed this very night to die"

Basil Underwood sits in his prison cell.

Ornamental Pendant

"From that gloomy, shadowed tower"

The prison lies beyond a pond and a stone bridge.

"Curfew bell must ring to-night"

THe Sexton refuses.

"At the ringing of the curfew"

Three judges proclaiming, "At the ringing of the curfew, Basil Underwood must die."

"Sprang within the old church-door"

View of the door.