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Updated: May 9, 2025
There was some difficulty in deciphering the memorandum, for it was cross-barred with miscellaneous observations in inks of various colours red, blue, and green. As it is dangerous to garble law papers, we shall lay the document before the public just as it appeared. Copy from first leaf of the Cookery-look.
Such things were symptomatic though indeed one scarce knew of what on the part of a young lady betrothed to that curious cross-barred phantom of a Mr. Porterfield. But I am bound to add that she gave me no further warrant for wonder than was conveyed in her all tacitly and covertly encouraging her mother to linger. Somehow I had a sense that she was conscious of the indecency of this.
He had not a scrap of beard on his face, and though swarthy and dark as to his countenance, was light as to his hair, which hung in quantities down his back. He was dressed from head to foot in a suit of cross-barred, light-colored tweed, of which he wore the coat buttoned tight over his chest, as though to hide some deficiency of linen.
The old room, the quiet moonlit quadrangle into which the cross-barred casement looked, the quaint aspect of everything that he had seen for weeks and weeks; all this predisposed Philip to dwell upon the story he had just been reading as a faithful legend of two lovers whose bones were long since dust.
The word was unnecessary, for I was staring fixedly in the direction of that which evidently had occasioned her uneasiness. It was a small square window, so low-set that I assumed it to be that of a cellar, and heavily cross-barred. From it, out upon a tangled patch of vegetation, shone a dull red light! "There's no other light in the place," my companion whispered.
"The walls, lined with black oak panels, or dark hangings that fluttered mysteriously each time the wind blew, were funereal indeed; and so high and narrow were the windows, that little was to be discerned through them but cross-barred portions of the sky.
The old room, the quiet moonlit quadrangle into which the cross-barred casement looked, the quaint aspect of everything that he had seen for weeks and weeks; all this predisposed Philip to dwell upon the story he had just been reading as a faithful legend of two lovers whose bones were long since dust.
Kit crossed the wall, and almost expected to hear the cottage growl. Warily he approached. As he did so, the warrior aspect of the cottage grew upon him. It was less a cottage than a tiny fort. There were only three windows, one on each side the door, and a dormer. The lower windows though latticed were cross-barred; and the door of massive oak, iron-studded, was heavy enough for a castle.
I would give my old cavalry boots to have heard him. Bah you anarchist dog! Now, damn you, answer me straight or I'll make you. Your name?" The Cossack leaned over the desk, his eyes blazing fiercely, shaking his fist. "No nonsense now; do you think we can't prove it? Quick your name?" The prisoner folded his arms and stared up at the cross-barred window, half closing his eyes.
No doubt the lord who dwelt in Haddon Hall in the fifteenth century would have thought it very absurd if you had told him that within four hundred years it would not be necessary for country gentlemen to live in great stone dungeons with little cross-barred windows and loopholes from which to shoot at people going by.
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