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fled backward into the crowd, or stood as if transfixed. Two or three of them fainted in the red light.

With chilled face and twitching nerves Abner pushed to the front of the crowd and stared. The northern window of the office had fallen in; a blast of air had swept the smoke out of the room and set out its interior in fiery brightness. In this shining scene, Abner saw the black, shapeless bulk of a man slumped over on a burning table.