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the two pointed to twelvejive, one of the observers remarked aloud on the fact. A
chorus of people replied that midnight had not yet come. Bob Eastman affirmed
that the slower clock was correct; he had set it himself only that afternoon. It
showed only four minutes before midnight.
These four minutes passed in complete silence except for a single utterance.
When the [slower] clock on the mantel showed only one minute remaining bifore
the guide to the saucer was due, Marian exclaimed in a strained, high-pitched
voice: "And not a plan has gone astray!" The clock chimed twelve, each stroke
painfully clear in the expectant hush. The believers sat motionless.
One might have expected some visible reaction. Midnight had passed and
nothing had happened. The cataclysm itself was less than seven hours away. But
there was little to see in the reactions of the people in the room
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