A few days before the disastrous night expedition the last figure in
the procession appeared to those sick eyes.

The old priest now comes in his golden robe, the two boys holding
each side of it. He is looking just as he did when he died, save
that when he walked in St. Lambart there was no shining round his
head. But this is illusion and contrary to reason, since no one has
a shining about his head. I must take some medicine.

Note here that Karl Heinz absolutely accepts the appearance of the
martyred priest of St. Lambart as actual, while he thinks that the halo
must be an illusion; and so he reverts again to his physical condition.

The priest held up both his hands, the diary states, "as if there were
something between them. But there is a sort of cloud or dimness over
this object, whatever it may be. My poor Aunt Kathie suffered much
from her eyes in her old age."

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One can guess what the priest of St. Lambart carried in his hands when
he and the little children went out into the hot sunlight to implore
mercy, while the great resounding bell of St. Lambart boomed over the
plain. Karl Heinz knew what happened then; they said that it was he
who killed the old priest and helped to crucify the little child
against the church door. The baby was only three years old. He died
calling piteously for "mummy" and "daddy."

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