Through them the quarry zigzagged, pulling slowly but surely away. The kids weren't just on that one street - they had dispersed over the entire vicinity by now, for a radius of a block or more in every direction, in frisky, milling, homeward-bound groups. He sidestepped, got out of their way as often as they did his, and he began to fall behind the other, lose ground. The kids parted, screaming in delighted excitement, as Greeley tore through them after the bandit with uptilted gun, but he couldn't just callously knock them flat like the man before him had. If it had been hazardous to take a shot at him in the store, it would have been criminal out here. In through them the sprinting man plunged, knocking over right and left the ones that didn't get out of his way quickly enough.
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It was a couple of minutes past three now, and a torrent of young humanity came pouring out of the building by every staircase and exit, flooding the street. There was a school midway up the street toward the next avenue. The store entrance adjoined a corner that gave the fugitive a few added seconds of shelter, and as Greeley flashed around it in turn, again the breaks were the lawbreaker's. A slice of hindmost heel was all he saw of the man.
Greeley hit the sidewalk only seconds after him, big as he was and with a panic-stricken woman to detour around. “Then the bandit turned tail and broke for the open.
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