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Opposite was the brick Court House every window lacking at least one pane, the steps yellow with dirt and tobacco juice, the doorway and the bricks about the upper windows bullet-dented and eloquent with memories of the feud which had long embroiled the whole county. Not that everybody took part in it but, on the matter, everybody, as an old woman told him, "had feelin's."
"Thankful, yer Grandmother!" raged the Father, but somewhat breathlessly. "I don't want t' hear yer excuses, nor what ye've done! I can see through ye just as if ye was a pane o' glass! It's the carin' for the old man without a penny o' cost that ye've thought about! It's the makin' o' a few flowers for a few cents!" he pointed to the table "when the lad ought t' be at his books!
And think of putting it through a window. That's accuracy for you. Say, if he can do that in a game I shall be proud to know him. Anyway, I shall not regret handing over that twenty-five." "It'll cost him nearly that to set another pane of plate glass," I suggests. "No, Torchy, no," says Old Hickory, wavin' his hand.
Shafts of light stole past the blind, increasing in intensity. It still rained, now and again it pattered against the pane. The wind must have shifted, because, for the first time, there came, on a sudden, the clang of a distant clock striking the hour, seven. Then, with the interval of a lifetime between each chiming, eight, nine, ten. So far, in the room itself there had not been a sound.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, when it began to grow dark, Katrina said they might as well "turn in"; it was no good their sitting up any longer, torturing themselves. During the afternoon Jan had gone over to the window, time and again, and peered out through a little corner of a pane that had remained clear, though the rest of the glass was thickly crusted with frost flowers.
Then he looked at the window, now a square pane full of purple cloud cleft by livid sunset, and for an instant he smelt evil as a dog smells rats. He remembered that the proprietor had told him that he should lock the door, and would come later to release him.
In the June nights she stood at her window, only one small pane of which would open, watching the mists shifting and curling in the moonlight, or the sheet lightning which now and then revealed the lake in the bosom of the mountains, or appeared to lay open the whole sky. But June passed away, and there was no change.
In the room were 'an old stool or two, an old picture over the chimney, two windows, an old table, and so on. She forced a pane in a window, 'and got out on a small shed of boards or penthouse, and so slid to the ground. She did not say, the alderman added, that there was any hay in the room.
He broke the pane of glass nearest it, hoping that the crash might awaken Christine, if she were still there. But after the clatter died away there was no sound. He then noisily raised the sash and stepped in. What a rush of memories came over him as he looked around the familiar place! There was the spot on which he had stood and asked for the love that he had valued more than life.
Ruth went to the shed where she kept her pony, threw saddle and bridle on him and led him to the step, where she usually mounted. The door of the schoolhouse was closed. Trailing the reins over the pony's head, she ran to one of the windows a small one in the center of the side wall, dust-begrimed, with one pane of glass missing.
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