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 CHAPTER II

KING GEORGE'S STATUE

ladies and the children had not yet arrived at the Lutheran church when a great outcry was suddenly heard in the direction of Bowling Green, and Mistress Dean came to a full stop as she said in a tone of fear:

"I really do not dare go any further. I am certain that something terrible is being done there, and if we go on it may be to find ourselves so hemmed in by the throng that it will be impossible to get away until after the orgy is at an end."

"If you call the pullin' down of King George's statue a orgy, then I allow you must be the wife of a Tory," a fishwoman, who heard the remark as she was passing hurriedly, stopped to say sharply.

"I am not the wife of a Tory!" Mistress Dean replied emphatically, "and as to that, those who know Jacob Dean, the silversmith, can testify."

"If you're of his family it will do you good to see what is goin' on," the woman said with a laugh as she disappeared at a quick pace, leaving 23