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The chimes, too, which had been playing, all through the siege, the music of Marot's sacred songs, happened that morning to be sounding forth from every belfry the twenty-second psalm: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" It was Palm Sunday, 23d of March.
It rises to a great height in the usual square tower-shape, but at each corner is flanked by a quaint, old-fashioned tourelle or towerlet, while in the centre is an airy elegant lantern of wood, where a musical peal of bells, hung in rows, chimes all day long in a most melodious way. Each of these towerlets is capped by a long, graceful peak or minaret.
But the Mexican landmark which appealed to me most pathetically was the quaint rustic belfry which stood solitary in the open space in front of the Mission buildings. Its strong columns were the trunks of trees that looked as though they might have grown there for the purpose of shouldering the heavy cross-beams from which the chimes hung.
It is an age to suffer poignantly, if you will; an age wherein to aspire to the dearest woman on earth, to write her halting verses, to lose her, to affect the clichés of cynicism, to hear the chimes at midnight and after it all, to sleep like a top. So Billy slept.
He had been fourteen years struggling up from all this; and now just as he had breathing space, and the time to give himself wholly to his work this weakness was upon him! Better, a thousand times, to give her up! In a house or two lights began to wink; the scent of wood smoke reached him, the distant chimes of bells, the burring of a stream. Next day his one thought was to get back to work.
And this time she said it out of a woman's knowledge of what life was to mean. They went in, to find that the Connollys had retired. Jean slept in a great feather-bed. And all the night the chimes in the College tower struck the hours In the morning, Jean went over to the church with Mrs. Connolly. It was Saturday, and things must be made ready for the services the next day.
In a sudden hush of the storm, she heard, faintly, the chimes in the library tower on College Hill. Ah, yes, it was Christmas Eve! How Boy had looked forward to Santa Claus! How many little things she'd made for his stocking! She drew a long, sobbing breath. Boy wouldn't want any of her love-things any more. She knew the chimes were playing, "Peace on earth, good will to men."
We are always planning a trip, but the money which we save for it goes into more plantings." They had been moving slowly toward the house, but now he stopped and his glance swept the sky and rested on Galeria. "It is the best valley of all! I knew it as soon as I saw it from the pass!" and the rapture of the scene was sounding in every syllable like chimes out of the distance.
Marsa, then, wished to forget? What secret torture gave to her beautiful face that expression so bitter, so terrible in its agony? She stood leaning there, gazing at the windows of the chapel. Broken words of prayers, of muttered verses and responses, reached her like the tinkling of far-off chimes, like the rustling of invisible wings.
It was twelve o'clock now; the chimes from the Gylingden church-tower had proclaimed that in the distance some minutes before. The honest Gylingden folk seldom heard the tower chimes tell eleven, and gentle and simple had, of course, been long in their beds. The old woman had a secret hatred of this place, and the unexpected sounds made her hold her breath.
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