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Coming
out
,
he
bought
a
Referee
.
He
became
alarmed
at
the
news
in
this
,
and
went
again
to
Waterloo
station
to
find
out
if
communication
were
restored
.
The
omnibuses
,
carriages
,
cyclists
,
and
innumerable
people
walking
in
their
best
clothes
seemed
scarcely
affected
by
the
strange
intelligence
that
the
news
venders
were
disseminating
.
People
were
interested
,
or
,
if
alarmed
,
alarmed
only
on
account
of
the
local
residents
.
At
the
station
he
heard
for
the
first
time
that
the
Windsor
and
Chertsey
lines
were
now
interrupted
.
The
porters
told
him
that
several
remarkable
telegrams
had
been
received
in
the
morning
from
Byfleet
and
Chertsey
stations
,
but
that
these
had
abruptly
ceased
.
My
brother
could
get
very
little
precise
detail
out
of
them
.
"
There
's
fighting
going
on
about
Weybridge
"
was
the
extent
of
their
information
.
The
train
service
was
now
very
much
disorganised
.
Quite
a
number
of
people
who
had
been
expecting
friends
from
places
on
the
South-Western
network
were
standing
about
the
station
.
One
grey-headed
old
gentleman
came
and
abused
the
South-Western
Company
bitterly
to
my
brother
.
"
It
wants
showing
up
,
"
he
said
.
One
or
two
trains
came
in
from
Richmond
,
Putney
,
and
Kingston
,
containing
people
who
had
gone
out
for
a
day
's
boating
and
found
the
locks
closed
and
a
feeling
of
panic
in
the
air
.
A
man
in
a
blue
and
white
blazer
addressed
my
brother
,
full
of
strange
tidings
.
"
There
's
hosts
of
people
driving
into
Kingston
in
traps
and
carts
and
things
,
with
boxes
of
valuables
and
all
that
,
"
he
said
.
"
They
come
from
Molesey
and
Weybridge
and
Walton
,
and
they
say
there
's
been
guns
heard
at
Chertsey
,
heavy
firing
,
and
that
mounted
soldiers
have
told
them
to
get
off
at
once
because
the
Martians
are
coming
.
We
heard
guns
firing
at
Hampton
Court
station
,
but
we
thought
it
was
thunder
.
What
the
dickens
does
it
all
mean
?
The
Martians
ca
n't
get
out
of
their
pit
,
can
they
?
"
My
brother
could
not
tell
him
.
Afterwards
he
found
that
the
vague
feeling
of
alarm
had
spread
to
the
clients
of
the
underground
railway
,
and
that
the
Sunday
excursionists
began
to
return
from
all
over
the
South-Western
"
lung
"
--
Barnes
,
Wimbledon
,
Richmond
Park
,
Kew
,
and
so
forth
--
at
unnaturally
early
hours
;
but
not
a
soul
had
anything
more
than
vague
hearsay
to
tell
of
.
Everyone
connected
with
the
terminus
seemed
ill-tempered
.
About
five
o'clock
the
gathering
crowd
in
the
station
was
immensely
excited
by
the
opening
of
the
line
of
communication
,
which
is
almost
invariably
closed
,
between
the
South-Eastern
and
the
South-Western
stations
,
and
the
passage
of
carriage
trucks
bearing
huge
guns
and
carriages
crammed
with
soldiers
.
These
were
the
guns
that
were
brought
up
from
Woolwich
and
Chatham
to
cover
Kingston
.
There
was
an
exchange
of
pleasantries
:
"
You
'll
get
eaten
!
"
"
We
're
the
beast-tamers
!
"
and
so
forth
.
A
little
while
after
that
a
squad
of
police
came
into
the
station
and
began
to
clear
the
public
off
the
platforms
,
and
my
brother
went
out
into
the
street
again
.
The
church
bells
were
ringing
for
evensong
,
and
a
squad
of
Salvation
Army
lassies
came
singing
down
Waterloo
Road
.
On
the
bridge
a
number
of
loafers
were
watching
a
curious
brown
scum
that
came
drifting
down
the
stream
in
patches
.
The
sun
was
just
setting
,
and
the
Clock
Tower
and
the
Houses
of
Parliament
rose
against
one
of
the
most
peaceful
skies
it
is
possible
to
imagine
,
a
sky
of
gold
,
barred
with
long
transverse
stripes
of
reddish-purple
cloud
.
