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CHAPTER XXI. IN OXFORD STREETMontague Street before I realised what I was running towards."Then I became aware of a blare of music, and lookingalong the street saw a number of people advancing outof Russell Square, red shirts, and the banner of the SalvationArmy to the fore. Such a crowd, chanting in theroadway and scoffing on the pavement, I could not hopeto penetrate, and dreading to go back and farther fromhome again, and deciding on the spur of the moment, Iran up the white steps of a house facing the museum railings,and stood there until the crowd should have passed.Happily the dog stopped at the noise of the band too,hesitated, and turned tail, running back to BloomsburySquare again."On came the band, bawling with unconscious ironysome hymn about ’When shall we see His face?’ and itseemed an interminable time to me before the tide of thecrowd washed along the pavement by me. Thud, thud,thud, came the drum with a vibrating resonance, and forthe moment I did not notice two urchins stopping at therailings by me. ’See ’em,’ said one. ’See what?’ said theother. ’Why–them footmarks–bare. Like what you makesin mud.’188
CHAPTER XXI. IN OXFORD STREET"I looked down and saw the youngsters had stoppedand were gaping at the muddy footmarks I had left behindme up the newly whitened steps. The passing peopleelbowed and jostled them, but their confounded intelligencewas arrested. ’Thud, thud, thud, when, thud,shall we see, thud, his face, thud, thud.’ ’There’s a barefootman gone up them steps, or I don’t know nothing,’said one. ’And he ain’t never come down again. And hisfoot was a-bleeding.’"The thick of the crowd had already passed. ’Lookythere, Ted,’ quoth the younger of the detectives, with thesharpness of surprise in his voice, and pointed straight tomy feet. I looked down and saw at once the dim suggestionof their outline sketched in splashes of mud. For amoment I was paralysed."’Why, that’s rum,’ said the elder. ’Dashed rum! It’sjust like the ghost of a foot, ain’t it?’ He hesitated and advancedwith outstretched hand. A man pulled up shortto see what he was catching, and then a girl. In anothermoment he would have touched me. Then I saw whatto do. I made a step, the boy started back with an exclamation,and with a rapid movement I swung myself overinto the portico of the next house. But the smaller boywas sharp-eyed enough to follow the movement, and be-189
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CHAPTER XXI. IN OXFORD STREET
Montague Street before I realised what I was running towards.
"Then I became aware of a blare of music, and looking
along the street saw a number of people advancing out
of Russell Square, red shirts, and the banner of the Salvation
Army to the fore. Such a crowd, chanting in the
roadway and scoffing on the pavement, I could not hope
to penetrate, and dreading to go back and farther from
home again, and deciding on the spur of the moment, I
ran up the white steps of a house facing the museum railings,
and stood there until the crowd should have passed.
Happily the dog stopped at the noise of the band too,
hesitated, and turned tail, running back to Bloomsbury
Square again.
"On came the band, bawling with unconscious irony
some hymn about ’When shall we see His face?’ and it
seemed an interminable time to me before the tide of the
crowd washed along the pavement by me. Thud, thud,
thud, came the drum with a vibrating resonance, and for
the moment I did not notice two urchins stopping at the
railings by me. ’See ’em,’ said one. ’See what?’ said the
other. ’Why–them footmarks–bare. Like what you makes
in mud.’
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