They closed on the white man with a yell; a passing group of their compatriots joined the affray; the whole mass surged in around the tall fellow.

Harrigan's head went back and his eyes half closed like a critic listening to an exquisite symphony.
"Ah-h!" he whispered to himself.

"Watch him fight!" The policemen struck the outer edge of the circle with drawn clubs, but there they stopped.

They could not dent that compacted mass.

The soldiers struggled manfully, but they were held at bay.