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the clerk said " Ammon " loudly, while the audience 

 sat erect in a silence which might be supposed to 

 imply consent. Activity became at length noticeable 



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THE PREACHER 



in the organ gallery opposite, a hymn was given out, 

 and a man silliouetted against the window behind the 

 organ took hold of a handle and began to make back- 

 ward dives, as if bathing from the end of a rope. 

 The organist, with a histrionic swing of a somewhat 



