title: The Ladies of Shallot
author:  Glinda McKinney 
description: While teaching some of the world's great books to high school students in Mississippi and Tennessee, Ms. McKinney decided to try her hand at writing about some of the characters she had nurtured in her imagination for several years. She enrolled in creative writing and began her first novel. These days, she continues writing; substitute teaches; teaches four-year-old Sunday School; helps coach the local high school tennis team; "reads 'til her eyes bleed"; finds joy in her circle of friends; recently bid farewell to Babycakes, her cat of almost 24 years; and most of all spends as much time as possible with her family. Her second book, BOUND FOR EBENEZER, recently joined THE LADIES OF SHALLOT on her bookshelf. She invites you to contact her at glindamckinney@att.net.
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  # THE HOLDING UP OF LADY GLANEDALE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### HERBERT JENKINS
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
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  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  "MORE trouble, Tommy," remarked Gladys Norman one morning as James
  
  
  Thompson entered her room. He looked across at her quickly, a keen
  
  
  flash of interest in his somnolent brown eyes.
  
  
    
  "Somebody's pinched Lady Glanedale's jewels. Just had a telephone
  
  
  message. What a happy place the world would without drink and crime
  
  
    
  "And women," added Thompson, alert of eye, and prepared to dodge
  
  
  anything that was coming.
  
  
    
  "Tommy, you're a beast. Get thee hence!" and, bending over her
  
  
  typewriter, she became absorbed in rattling words on to paper.
  
  
    
  Thompson had just reached the third line of "I'm Sorry Made You
  
  
  Cry," when his quick eye detected Malcolm as he entered the outer
  
  
  office.
  
  
    
  With a brief "Good morning," Malcolm Sage passed into his room, and
  
  