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mantled convent of Herkenrode in the ancient 

 bishopric of Liege. Here he sought among the 

 rubbish of the lumber-room for wood-carvings 

 which might be used in the rebuilding of the 

 prebendal stalls. His search discovered many- 

 boxes of colored glass, the origin of which no 

 one knew, and whose existence even had been 

 forgotten. Thinking to embellish some of the 

 curious triangular windows above the triforium, 

 he purchased the whole store for two hundred 

 pounds of our money, and presented it to the dean 

 and chapter as a tribute of affectionate devotion 

 to the cathedral. There was more than he had 

 supposed, and the large figures of some of the 

 fragments indicated a coherent design. 



"This chapel was fenced off from the aisles, 

 and here the canon's wife and daughter, devot- 

 ing themselves to the solution of the puzzle, 

 slowly pieced out the varying connections. They 

 worked patiently for weeks, with a steadily in- 

 creasing excitement of success, untir [and here 

 his grasp grew tremulous and close], lying col- 

 lated on this pavement where we stand, only a 



