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The concentrated earnestness of Dick Vaughan had somehow communicated itself to the hound's mind. It was the hat and not the knife to which Dick pinned his faith the cheap, soiled, crimson-lined felt hat, with its horrid stains and its imprint of a boot-heel. "It may have belonged to this poor chap," said Captain Arnutt, pointing to the body of the shopkeeper.
The thirteen witches were long-legged, slender dancing gals, in tall black witch caps and long black capes, crimson-lined, and very little else. Each had long hair that swirled as she danced. Randolph chewed his lip, watching them thoughtfully. They came on with what was almost a valkyrie cry "Witches of the world, unite to make it clean, clean, clean, Witch clean NOW!"
The thirteen witches, slender witches, danced in waving their products and crying their chant, their crimson-lined capes swirling out to glimpse the audience their long, slender legs. They cried their chant as they pranced toward the dilapidated building. "Witches of the world, unite to make it clean, clean, clean, Witch clean NOW!" And each threw a spray of her product toward the building.
"Not one!" "What did he come for, then?" "Oh, you buy into a nigger regiment for promotion." These were the most important facts elicited by cross-examination. At last we shook hands warmly, promising to meet again somewhere, and the crimson-lined barge with the black Zouaves carried him away.
But those of the congregation who went there with other motives than to worship their Creator were sadly disappointed. The crimson-lined Brudenell pew remained vacant, as it had remained for several years. "Humph! not church-going people, perhaps! We had an English Jewess before, perhaps we shall have a Turkish Mohammedan next!" was the speculation of one of the disappointed.
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