Along here to Seventh Way!" There were women and children in the crowd as well as men.
The crowd converged on an archway, passed through a short throat and emerged on a wider space again, lit dimly.

The black figures about him spread out and ran up what seemed in the twilight to be a gigantic series of steps.

He followed.

The people dispersed to the right and left....

He perceived that he was no longer in a crowd.