... color. A few of the moreindependent ones stepped boldly out of the line; then, after an irresolute half minute of staring at the greatpiles of coin and paper, the others followed, and men and women ... the entrance to the floor.There they stopped and peered frowning into the crowd. One of them, it was John Bagsbury, began givingswift instructions to the other two, and they followed with their ... inside them, and then walked brisklyover to the provision pit. They climbed the pair of steps outside the circle, and one waited on the rim, while the other wriggled his way through the dense...