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The Witch of Prague

CHAPTER I
10/20

The singing died away, the benediction was given, the second Gospel was read, the priest and the people repeated the Bohemian prayers, and all was over.

The countless heads began to move onward, the shuffling of innumerable feet sent heavy, tuneless echoes through vaulted space, broken every moment by the sharp, painful cough of a suffering child whom no one could see in the multitude, or by the dull thud of some heavy foot striking against the wooden seats in the press.

The Wanderer moved forward with the rest.
Reaching the entrance of the pew where she had sat he was kept back during a few seconds by the half dozen men and women who were forcing their way out of it before him.

But at the farthest end, a figure clothed in black was still kneeling.

A moment more and he might enter the pew and be at her side.


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