The Secret Of Glamis

In a certain drawing room the other afternoon we were talking of some well-known superstitions and, among others, of that secret room in the oastle of Glamis, which, Sir Walter Scott tells us, is known only to the earl of Strathmore, nis heir-apparent, and one other person in whom the earl may choose to confide. One of our party told z' an amusing story concerning i?.ki secret chamber of Glamis. Once, when stopping at the castle in autumn, a curious and indiscreet visitor took advantage of the host's absence to suggest a plan by which the whereabouts of the hidden chamber should be revealed. The castle was full and it was proposed that each guest should hasten to his or her room and hang his or her pillow out of the window, while one visitor was told to mark off such window as displayed no white signal. In the middle of carrying out this pretty plan the master of the castle returned unexpectedly and great was his wrath at this unseemly curiosity. Never had the owner of Glamis appeared in so towering a passipn. The display of temper is hardly to be wondered at, for the Glamis secret is regarded with an extraordinary seriousness by thé Strathinore family and when iuiparted to the heir has been known to fill him with gloom hard to dispel.- Sketch.