The Secret Of Glass Is

In a certaiií áiiiwing i : % the other afternoon we werë , talfcvaj"-f some well-known superstitions and, LBlL2 others, of that secret room in the castle of Glamis, vhich, Sir Walter Scott tells us, is ljnjpwn only to the eaj-[ oL Strathmore, his heir-appTrent, and oné other i person in whom the earl may choo3e ' to confide. öne of our party to!d us an ainusïng story concerning this 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 fufi 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 anti great was his wrath at this unseemly curiosity. Never had the owner of Glamis appeared in so towering a passion. The display of temper is hardly to be wondered at, for the Glamis secret is regarded with an extraordinary seriousness by the Strathmore family and when imparted to the heir has been known to fill him witü gloom hard to