The cab driver hardly had disappeared before a small group had congregated on the sidewalk before the portico that sheltered the effigy. The group swiftly grew into a small crowd, composed mostly of negroes and mulattos. Noisy before they caught a glimpse of the motionless figure, the spectators, after giving one glance, lest their animation and became a part of the whispering, nervous assembly.
The suppressed excitement became more pronounced when a negro band, ragged Haitians from the country, started a monotonous air on their tombs and notched calabashes. Nobody touched the effigy, not even the policemen attracted to the scene, who confined their energies to keeping the sidewalk clear.
The windows of the house itself remained shuttered and closed, although gleams of light indicated the family was awake, even if not desirous of protesting against uninvited visitors. As the hour grew later the crowd dwindled, those leaving hastening their steps as they passed through the deserted streets, with apprehension in their backward glances and frequent signs of the cross, incongruously supplemented with fingers crossed against the evil eye.
Fear of voodoo devils whose fearfully muttered names were often linked with the words, "death before sunrise," sent them hurrying homeward.
But before dawn the effigy had disappeared.
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