Godfrey sprang up and snatched his revolver just as some of his servants arrived and announced that the people in the church were being killed.

Acting on his first impulse, he ran to the place, calling to his guard to follow him, which they did so tardily that he entered it alone.

Here a sight of horror met his eyes.
The building was full of dead and dying people.

By the altar, dressed in his savage witch-doctor's gear, stood Alulu, a lamp in his hand, with which evidently he had been firing the church, for tongues of flame ran up the walls.

On the altar itself was something that had a white cloth thrown over it, as do the sacred vessels.