Kate concussed after the purse-snatch (p. 714)
The apparition receded, the red of its coat shrinking against the swinging view of Prospect St. and pavement and dumpsters and looming storefronts, Ruth van Cleve on its lurid tail and receding also, screaming bits of urban argot that became less faint than swallowed.
Context
The snatch's aftermath from inside Kate Gompert's just-concussed head: the scene's very first word for Poor Tony is "the apparition," before robber or robbery is even explained — the reader enters the panel mid-haunting. The chain that started with "less alive than undead" completes here.