AuthorChapter 8
Friday night: the world goes on
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1 From above, Woking's lamp-lit roofs and a glowing train surround black Horsell Common
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2 By lamplight, the narrator draws a five-mile circle round the sand-pits on an old map
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3 In a London newspaper office, an editor spikes Henderson's telegram as a hoax
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4 Woking junction lies quiet in gaslight as villas burn far off toward Horsell
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5 Horsell Common lies silent under the stars on Friday night.
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6 A lone man crawls through the dark heather of Horsell Common toward the Martian pit.
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7 Friday night on Horsell Common, seen from high on the pine knoll.
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8 About eleven on Friday night, red-coated soldiers string out along Horsell Common's edge
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9 On the Chertsey road after midnight, the crowd watches a green star fall into the pines
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10 A faint green glow and thin smoke rise from the pine woods where the second cylinder fell
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