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over the edge of the precipice and down into the consuming inferno. For a terrible instant he thought he heard the sound of a woman's screams. There was a second explosionthe gas tank, he thought logicallyand then even more odious silence.
Reality gave way to hysteria, and he sank to his knees. He fell face first in the dirt. The earth itself muffled his desperate, unbridled anguish.

 
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