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Just as the Abbot, prostrate before the altar, was chanting "_Sancte Johannes, ora pro n.o.blis_!" he heard a voice exclaim sufficiently distinctly: "_O coglione_!"
"What can be going on up there?" cried the Sub-prior, as he saw the reliquary move.
"The saint is playing the devil," replied the Abbot.
Even as he spoke the living head tore itself away from the lifeless body, and dropped upon the sallow cranium of the officiating priest.
"Remember Dona Elvira!" cried the thing, with its teeth set fast in the Abbot's head.
The Abbot's horror-stricken shriek disturbed the ceremony; all the ecclesiastics hurried up and crowded about their chief.
"Idiot, tell us now if there is a G.o.d!" the voice cried, as the Abbot, bitten through the brain, drew his last breath.
PARIS, October 1830.
