AuthorChapter 6
The Heat-Ray and the Crowd's Flight
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1 Night after the massacre on Horsell Common.
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2 On a June evening, young Woking shop people walk arm in arm along a lane to the common
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3 At dusk on the Horsell road, a row of onlookers stands frozen in profile.
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4 A chain of furze bushes bursts into flame one by one, racing toward the watching crowd
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5 The Heat-Ray passes just over the heads of the crowd at the corner of Horsell Common.
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6 A mounted policeman gallops through the crowd, hands clasped over his head, screaming
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8 In the black cutting on the way back to Woking, the panicked crowd crushes its own weakest.
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