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About this time, while the incidents of our tale are taking place, the pious frequenters of old St. Dunstan's Church noticed a most abominable odour throughout the sacred edifice.
A ponderous stone was raised in the flooring; the beadle, the churchwarden, and the workmen men shrank back-back; they could go no further.