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gathering up pieces of glass; sometimes jumped up, trying to catch the feathers which were flying in the air. A police man arrived, his sabre clattering; the cries and moans increased.
“Catch him! Hold him!”
Someone carrying out the booty dropped it under the feet of a passer-by, causing him to fall at full length. A loud laugh rang out.
I saw on the ground a bleeding corpse, the face of which was completely covered by the hair.
“Holla, boys! here!”
This cry came from the interior of the court-yard, and immediately the crowd ran shouting in that direction. Curses filled the air. Somebody roared:
“Death! Death!”
A man on the second floor knocked down the wall between the windows with an iron pole. The lime and
