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No
one
in
Weybridge
could
tell
us
where
the
headquarters
were
established
;
the
whole
place
was
in
such
confusion
as
I
had
never
seen
in
any
town
before
.
Carts
,
carriages
everywhere
,
the
most
astonishing
miscellany
of
conveyances
and
horseflesh
.
The
respectable
inhabitants
of
the
place
,
men
in
golf
and
boating
costumes
,
wives
prettily
dressed
,
were
packing
,
river-side
loafers
energetically
helping
,
children
excited
,
and
,
for
the
most
part
,
highly
delighted
at
this
astonishing
variation
of
their
Sunday
experiences
.
In
the
midst
of
it
all
the
worthy
vicar
was
very
pluckily
holding
an
early
celebration
,
and
his
bell
was
jangling
out
above
the
excitement
.
I
and
the
artilleryman
,
seated
on
the
step
of
the
drinking
fountain
,
made
a
very
passable
meal
upon
what
we
had
brought
with
us
.
Patrols
of
soldiers
--
here
no
longer
hussars
,
but
grenadiers
in
white
--
were
warning
people
to
move
now
or
to
take
refuge
in
their
cellars
as
soon
as
the
firing
began
.
We
saw
as
we
crossed
the
railway
bridge
that
a
growing
crowd
of
people
had
assembled
in
and
about
the
railway
station
,
and
the
swarming
platform
was
piled
with
boxes
and
packages
.
The
ordinary
traffic
had
been
stopped
,
I
believe
,
in
order
to
allow
of
the
passage
of
troops
and
guns
to
Chertsey
,
and
I
have
heard
since
that
a
savage
struggle
occurred
for
places
in
the
special
trains
that
were
put
on
at
a
later
hour
.
We
remained
at
Weybridge
until
midday
,
and
at
that
hour
we
found
ourselves
at
the
place
near
Shepperton
Lock
where
the
Wey
and
Thames
join
.
Part
of
the
time
we
spent
helping
two
old
women
to
pack
a
little
cart
.
The
Wey
has
a
treble
mouth
,
and
at
this
point
boats
are
to
be
hired
,
and
there
was
a
ferry
across
the
river
.
On
the
Shepperton
side
was
an
inn
with
a
lawn
,
and
beyond
that
the
tower
of
Shepperton
Church
--
it
has
been
replaced
by
a
spire
--
rose
above
the
trees
.
Here
we
found
an
excited
and
noisy
crowd
of
fugitives
.
As
yet
the
flight
had
not
grown
to
a
panic
,
but
there
were
already
far
more
people
than
all
the
boats
going
to
and
fro
could
enable
to
cross
.
People
came
panting
along
under
heavy
burdens
;
one
husband
and
wife
were
even
carrying
a
small
outhouse
door
between
them
,
with
some
of
their
household
goods
piled
thereon
.
One
man
told
us
he
meant
to
try
to
get
away
from
Shepperton
station
.
There
was
a
lot
of
shouting
,
and
one
man
was
even
jesting
.
The
idea
people
seemed
to
have
here
was
that
the
Martians
were
simply
formidable
human
beings
,
who
might
attack
and
sack
the
town
,
to
be
certainly
destroyed
in
the
end
.
Every
now
and
then
people
would
glance
nervously
across
the
Wey
,
at
the
meadows
towards
Chertsey
,
but
everything
over
there
was
still
.
Across
the
Thames
,
except
just
where
the
boats
landed
,
everything
was
quiet
,
in
vivid
contrast
with
the
Surrey
side
.
The
people
who
landed
there
from
the
boats
went
tramping
off
down
the
lane
.
The
big
ferryboat
had
just
made
a
journey
.
Three
or
four
soldiers
stood
on
the
lawn
of
the
inn
,
staring
and
jesting
at
the
fugitives
,
without
offering
to
help
.
The
inn
was
closed
,
as
it
was
now
within
prohibited
hours
.
"
What
's
that
?
"
cried
a
boatman
,
and
"
Shut
up
,
you
fool
!
"
said
a
man
near
me
to
a
yelping
dog
.
Then
the
sound
came
again
,
this
time
from
the
direction
of
Chertsey
,
a
muffled
thud
--
the
sound
of
a
gun
.
The
fighting
was
beginning
.
Almost
immediately
unseen
batteries
across
the
river
to
our
right
,
unseen
because
of
the
trees
,
took
up
the
chorus
,
firing
heavily
one
after
the
other
.
A
woman
screamed
.
Everyone
stood
arrested
by
the
sudden
stir
of
battle
,
near
us
and
yet
invisible
to
us
.
Nothing
was
to
be
seen
save
flat
meadows
,
cows
feeding
unconcernedly
for
the
most
part
,
and
silvery
pollard
willows
motionless
in
the
warm
sunlight
.
"
The
sojers
'll
stop
'em
,
"
said
a
woman
beside
me
,
doubtfully
.
A
haziness
rose
over
the
treetops
.
Then
suddenly
we
saw
a
rush
of
smoke
far
away
up
the
river
,
a
puff
of
smoke
that
jerked
up
into
the
air
and
hung
;
and
forthwith
the
ground
heaved
under
foot
and
a
heavy
explosion
shook
the
air
,
smashing
two
or
three
windows
in
the
houses
near
,
and
leaving
us
astonished
.
