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The hammering from the pit and the pounding of guns through louder
My fear rose at the sound of someone creeping into the house
Then I saw it was a young artilleryman weary street with blood and dirt
Anyone here coming
Yeah, think this thank you. What's happened?
They wiped us out hundreds dead, maybe thousands the heat ray the Martians
They were inside the hoods of machines. They've made massive metal things on legs giant machines that walked their tactics
They wiped us out machines fighting machines picking up men and bashing them against trees just hunks of metal
But they knew exactly what they were doing
Hmm. There was another cylinder game last night. Yes, it's it looked bound for London and
Carrie I hadn't dreamed there could be danger to carry in her father so many miles away. I
Must go to London at once and me got to report to headquarters. There's anything left of it
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I'd buy fleet we came upon it in but it was deserted. It's everybody dead
Not everybody look six cannons with gunners standing by
Those and arrows against the lightning. They haven't seen the heat ray yet
We hurried along the road to Raybridge suddenly there was a heavy explosion
the ground he
Windows shattered gusts of smoke erupted in the air
Quickly one on the other four of the fighting machines appear
Monstrous tricots higher than the tallest steeple
Striding over the pine trees and smashing
Walking engines of glittering metal each carried a huge funnel and I realized with horror that I'd seen this awful thing before
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Fifth machine appeared on the far bank it raised itself to full height
Flourished the funnel high in the air and the ghostly terrible heat ray struck the town
As it struck all five fighting machines exalted emitting deafening howls which roared like thunder
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The six guns we had seen now fired
Simultaneously decapitating a fighting machine the Martian inside the hood was slain splashed to the four winds and the body
Nothing now, but an intricate device of metal went whirling to destruction
As the other monsters advanced people ran away blindly the artillerymen among them
But I jumped into the water and hid until forced up to breathe
Now the gun spoke again, but this time the heat ray sent them to oblivion
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With a white flash the heat ray swept across the river
Scalded half-blinded agonized. I staggered from leaping hissing water towards the shore
I fell helplessly in full sight of the Martians expecting nothing but death
The foot of a fighting machine came down close to my head then lifted again as the four Martians carried away the debris of their fallen comrade
And I realized that by a miracle I had escaped
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Next morning the cry gathered on the common hypnotized by the unscrewing of the cylinder
Two feet of shining screw projected when suddenly the lid fell off
Two luminous disc like eyes appeared above the rim
A huge rounded bulk larger than a bear
rose up slowly
Listening like wet leather its lipless mouth quivered and slapped
And snake like tentacles writhed as the clumsy body heaved and pulsating
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A few young men crept closer to the pit
A tall funnel rose and an invisible ray of heat leapt from man to man
And there was a bright glare as each was instantly turned to fire
Every tree and bush became a mass of flames at the touch of this savage unearthly heat ray
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People clawed their way off the common and I ran too
I felt I was being toyed with that when I was on the very verge of safety this mysterious death would leap after me and strike me down
At last I reached mavery hill and in the dim coolness of my home
I wrote an account for my newspaper before I sank into a restless haunted sleep
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I woke to alien sounds of hammering from the pit and hurried to the railway station to buy the paper
Oh, a round me the daily routine of life working eating sleeping was continuing serenely as it had for countless years
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On whorsel common the Martians continued hammering and stirring sleepless
Indefatigable at work upon the machines they were making
Now and again a light like the beam of a warship searchlights swept the common
And the heat ray was ready to follow
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Along the edge of the common
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That evening there was a violent clash and I realized with horror that my home was now within range of the Martians heat ray
A dawn a falling star with a trail of green mist landed with a flash like summer lightning
This was the second cylinder
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