I sat bathed in the faint, multicolored twilight that filtered through the three tall windows, wondering why she had chosen those three volumes for me to read, especially the McTaggart. She could have scanned a library of tens of thousands of books and not found one as perfectly suited as that one. It seemed to me it would hold little interest to anyone normal and certainly not enough interest to merit selecting it for a guest. It could be that it has a more broad-based appeal with them than I thought. Who knows, I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. I made a mental note to ask her if I could keep it.

The light outside grew brighter and I began to make out different shapes and scenes in the colored glass in front of me. There were nine different panels set into the three windows. I sat and studied each in detail as they took shape in the morning silence. One after another they burst into vivid reds, blues, yellows, greens, and whites and took on a life of their own. I studied their beauty, a bit bewildered, for half an hour or so until I recognized the pattern. There wasn't any. None of the panels, as near as I could tell, had anything to do with the Bible. I was very familiar with Eastern Orthodoxy, somewhat familiar with Protestantism and I found it hard to believe that Catholic icons could be so different, if this had even been a Catholic church.

The first two panels shared the same character, a young American Indian man. He was slim with medium length, straight, black hair. In the first scene, he sat at a workbench admiring a piece of jewelry. The middle panel on the left window showed the same young man sitting on a cliff above a southwestern pueblo kissing a young girl.

The third and fourth panel at the bottom of the left window and the top of the center one featured a different character, a young, tall, black boy. In the third, he was riding a white horse through open country, and in the fourth, he was dancing around a fire as part of a ceremony in a pueblo village similar to the one in the second scene.