2025 January
I began walking, therefore, in a big curve, seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand.
I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians\’ Heat-Ray now that the college was cleared out of the way.
We can\’t possibly stay here, I said; and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common.
When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza.
So he got out of the fury of the panic, and, skirting the Edgware Road, reached Edgware about seven, fasting and wearied, but well ahead of the crowd.
And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London
At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road.