# Along the road from Chobham or Woking

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- Published: 2017-05-31T08:35:51+00:00
- Author: Roman Xavier Hudson

Everything was then quite invisible, hidden by the deep pit and the heap of sand
that the fall of the cylinder had made. Anyone coming along the road from Chobham
or Woking would have been amazed at the sight–a dwindling multitude of perhaps a
hundred people or more standing in a great irregular circle, in ditches, behind 
bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to one another and that in short,
excited shouts, and staring, staring hard at a few heaps of sand.
 The barrow of
ginger beer stood, a queer derelict, black against the burning sky, and in the sand
pits was a row of deserted vehicles with their horses feeding out of nosebags or
pawing the ground. After the glimpse I had had of the Martians emerging from the
cylinder in which they had come to the earth from their planet, a kind of fascination
paralysed my actions. I remained standing knee-deep in the heather, staring at the
mound that hid them. I was a battleground of fear and curiosity.