Mr.James went to the cottages near to make inquiries as to the cause.

The first was locked up, but by knocking long and loudly at the door of the second, he at last succeeded in rousing Jacob Johnson, a deaf old man of eighty-three.
"Nobody come to church!" he repeated, when after some difficulty and much shouting the situation had been explained: "Well, 'tain't likely there should be! I'm told there's a German bomb there, one of the dangerous sort for going off.

Some men brought it yesterday in a motor car.

Spies of the Kaiser, they were.

It may explode any minute, they say, and wreck the church and everything near.