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eyes were filled with the shaking blue glare, and their ears with the thunder.
There was a long hush—even the wind ceased. Then again the glare—but more bright, and again the thunder, but more terrible. And glare followed glare, and the thunder became continuous, and the wind came with redoubled fury, and the dust rose in clouds and hid the men, the one from the other.
Then came the rain, but not in drops and jets. Its fall was more like that of a
