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They had nightsticks in their hands, and grim resolution in their faces; they cried, "Stand back! Stand back!" The crowd hooted, but gave slightly, and a few minutes later the doors of the building opened, and the first of the timid workers emerged. There was a howl, and then from somewhere in the throng a stone was thrown.
It was as though one sensed acutely the crouching of some Thing in its lair waiting silently, viciously, with sullen patience. A footstep sounded another. Jimmie Dale drew quickly back around the corner into an areaway. Two men passed in helmets swinging their nightsticks that beat was always policed in pairs!
Without any apparent preparation, the whole face of the crowd suddenly seemed to burst, the end closed in, and in a second one of the wildest hordes Hamilton had ever seen was at the school gates. There was a brief struggle and nightsticks were drawn. The crowd rolled back, then surged on, more angrily than before.
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