A very frightened person came to see the priest on duty at Notre Dame de Paris. He was terribly agitated and asked the priest to protect him from "them". The priest asked who "they" were, and the man said: "Look over there - they are coming. They’ll kill me".
The priest looked and saw nothing. When he looked back, the man was gone. He had fled up the steeple stairs. Just when he had reached the top, the bells started to ring in the hour, and one of the giant things unfortunately hit him square in the head, so he stumbled and fell through the opening straight down to the pavement. The priest heard the splash and ran outside, where a crowd was gathering. He knelt beside the corpse, murmured a prayer and then looked in the dead man’s pocket. He found a British passport made out to the name of John St. John Tredillian.
Immediately, he had the body covered and asked for the British consul to be notified. The consul arrived in no time, looked at the passport, then asked that the covering sheet be removed. For a goodly time he looked at the dead man, then turned to the priest and said, "The name doesn’t mean a thing to me. But his face sure rings a bell!"
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