The law of Satanism which demands that the elect of Evil, once started, must go the whole way, is once more fulfilled.

Gilles's soul must become thoroughly cankered, a red tabernacle, that in it the Very Low may dwell at ease.
"The litanies of lust arise in an atmosphere that is like the wind over a slaughter house.

The first victim is a very small boy whose name we do not know.

Gilles disembowels him, and, cutting off the hands and tearing out the eyes and heart, carries these members into Prelati's chamber.
The two men offer them, with passionate objurgations, to the Devil, who holds his peace.

Gilles, confounded, flees.