The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-03-01

wonder is the banqueting hall, or rath-
er a window therein. They never BAN
quet now in the hall, not even the
Engish, and indeed it is nigh empty Of
plenlshing except for tapestries on the
walls, which the ignorant take to be
carpets damaged in the As. The great
bowed window is said by travelled per-
sons 10 stand alone among windows,
1or IT Is twenty-eight feet in height and
more than half as wide, and all who
come to look at it count its little lozens,
as we call the panes, which are to the
numbe of two hundred and sixteen.
These panes are made of some rare
glass that has a tint of yellow in it,
SO that, whatever the weather is, to
any n inside the hall it looks to be a
sunny day. In the glen this glass is
not thought much of and they say it
should be renewed. The house is a bit
OLD and weary, and I dare say these
lozens are the only part Of it that would
shame renewal.
1t wa not, of course, here, but in
a coy little room where, however in
dlscrlminately you sit down, you sit
soft, that Mistress Lindinnock received
me. She was tatting (but that cannot
be the right word) at a new tapestry,
or mending an old one, which was so
voluminous that she o. out of it as
from the foam. She is such a little
person that when she stands up you
may think she has sat down; never
theless. she is so ready that contra
dictious men have stepped back hur-
riedly from the palm of her band, and
yet not been quick enough. She has al
ways, as I have said, been a fine friend
to me till this unhappy day.
All was we'll while we were talking Of
Christilly's case, into which I did not
have to go in much detail as I found
DR.. John had obligingly gone straight
to her with it from the manse yester-
day. I could not help inquiring, with
all the appearance of its being an Or
binary question, how he had taken to
Miss Julie Logan. Sharp, I got the
staggering answer. "He had nc OPP
portunity. for I had packed the woman
back to Edinburgh in the morning.
I have had worse blows than this to-
night, though at the moment I could
not have credited it; so I will only say
that on rallying I asked with cold
politeness when the young lady was
coming back.
Mistress Lindinnock, I could see, was
cycling me closely to find out how I
stood the news, but she replied at once,
like one prepared for war. "Never, I
hope; I don't like your Miss Julie Log
an, my good sir"
I will not say that w in that stern
moment I took no pleasure in hearing
her called my Miss Julie Logan. Also
it gave me an opportunity to reply with
the thunderbolt. THAT is what I want
her to be-"
She stamped her foot at me, but I
never weakened.
IT demand her address," I said. She
refused it, and I replied loftily that it
mattered not as I was confident she
would write to me.
She raised her arms at that, like one
appealing to a higher power, and said,
IF she writes to you I give the thing
up" Once she swung me round very
raized and said on her tiptoes, II could
tell you things about her that would
make you drop her in the burn, though
you were standing in the middle of it
with the jade in your arms"
I replied in my stateliest hat I would
stand in the middle of the ocean with
Miss Julie Logan on those terms; and
I meant it, too, though I am no SWIM
mer.
I daresay I was a rather dignified
spectacle, towering there very erect
with my arms folded; at any rate, she
looked like one cowed who had never
been cowed before; or else she became
cunning, for she cajoled with me to do as
she, my old friend, wanted, saying en-
dearing things about how much she