He pointed to the hearthrug where Maggie was to stand.
"Ready!" he shouted to Steinmetz.

"Come!" The German ran in, and Paul closed the barricade.
The rabble poured in at the open door, screaming and shouting.
Bloodstained, ragged, wild with the madness of murder, they crowded to the barricade.

There they stopped, gazing stupidly at Paul.
"The Moscow Doctor--the Moscow Doctor!" passed from lip to lip.

It was the women who shouted it the loudest.

Like the wind through a forest it swept out of the room and down the stairs.