with crisscrossing bandoliers of grenades across the chest of his italian organ grinder 's suit and a submachine gun slung over one shoulder , the witch 's boss monkey hopped in on the flood of light and motioned for the prisoners to join him and his crowd of accompanying monkeys out into the hall , a crowd which flooded every hallway and adjoining space around the room , a crowd like the peasants who must have swarmed outside the cell of marie antoinette before she was executed .