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THE ENGLISH MAIL NEWS
Killed At The Altar
Dublin
The Very Reverend Dr. Kavanagh, who has been the local parish priest for the last eight years, and was widely known, was standing at the altar engaged in the performance of his office when a statue of an angel ornamenting the front part of the structure fell without warning upon his head.
The Mercury
If Rowland Sinclair had been a particularly religious man, he might have assumed he was dead. The first thing he saw once the blackness receded was saints. The flicker of candles gave their sculptured faces a kind of ethereal life.
He was lying on a pew. There was something cold and wet on the side of his head, and something hammering within it.
“Rowly, are you all right, mate?”
Clyde.
Rowland groaned and sat up.
The wet compress a
