The smoke was being carried off faster now and, with his searchlight, Klingelhòfer saw on the east wall of the prayer hall a set of gold-embroidered hangings like those he had got from the chest. They were charred, and he saw that something was built into the wall behind them. When I asked him, many years later, if he knew what it was, he said “No,” and when I told him that it was the Ark of the Covenant, he said, “The Ark of the Covenant…. Well, well.” He himself was a vestryman of the Parish Church.
