The Curse Upon Mitre Square — page 46: what you’re looking at

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38 THE CURSE UPON MITRE SQUARE. CHAPTER VI. ANNIHILATION OF THE MONASTERY. THE good monks of Holy Trinity, Aldgate, were regular in all their duties, and punctually at nine o'clock they betook themselves in solemn conclave to the church, to offer prayers that God might watch over the great city and protect it from disaster. They carried lighted candles and, preceded by the Prior, arranged themselves in order for procession, and marched towards the transept door of their - splendid abbey church, chanting the ancient Latin hymn, ato geen On| Je-su.- dulcis me-mo-ri-a. Ye guardian spirits, protect the holy men from the awful sight, the murder, the suicide, the desecrated church, the s:ene of deeds which had perverted the hallowed building to a place accursed by God and man ! * * % * * * The monks shut up their church and kept the fearful deeds secret, but no happiness or rest did they know after that fatal night. Ghosts of the cComicbooks €o mn