AuthorChapter 5
The Heat-Ray strikes the Deputation
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1 Thin black whips lash up from behind the sand-heaps across the swollen setting sun
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2 On the heath at sunset, the narrator's neighbour flings a hand toward the sand-heaps
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3 From the knoll, the narrator watches the Deputation carry a white flag toward the pit
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4 At dusk, three puffs of luminous green smoke rise one after another from the Horsell pit
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5 At dusk the Deputation stops dead before the pit on Horsell Common, white flag raised.
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6 At deep dusk on Horsell Common, the small Deputation stands frozen under its white flag.
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8 The narrator stands frozen on the knot of heath as the invisible Heat-Ray sweeps towards him.
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9 The unseen Heat-Ray burns a curving, smoking scar through the heather beside the narrator
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10 The Heat-Ray has passed.
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11 On the darkened common, the Heat-Ray's panic breaks the narrator.
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12 The narrator's tear-streaked face fills the frame as he runs through the dark heath.
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