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"
There
is
a
house
on
fire
,
"
said
Challenger
at
last
,
pointing
to
a
column
of
smoke
which
rose
above
the
trees
.
"
There
will
,
I
expect
,
be
many
such
—
possibly
whole
cities
in
flames
—
when
we
consider
how
many
folk
may
have
dropped
with
lights
in
their
hands
.
The
fact
of
combustion
is
in
itself
enough
to
show
that
the
proportion
of
oxygen
in
the
atmosphere
is
normal
and
that
it
is
the
ether
which
is
at
fault
.
Ah
,
there
you
see
another
blaze
on
the
top
of
Crowborough
Hill
.
It
is
the
golf
clubhouse
,
or
I
am
mistaken
.
There
is
the
church
clock
chiming
the
hour
.
It
would
interest
our
philosophers
to
know
that
man
-
made
mechanisms
have
survived
the
race
who
made
it
.
"
"
By
George
!
"
cried
Lord
John
,
rising
excitedly
from
his
chair
.
"
What
’
s
that
puff
of
smoke
?
It
’
s
a
train
.
"
We
heard
the
roar
of
it
,
and
presently
it
came
flying
into
sight
,
going
at
what
seemed
to
me
to
be
a
prodigious
speed
.
Whence
it
had
come
,
or
how
far
,
we
had
no
means
of
knowing
.
Only
by
some
miracle
of
luck
could
it
have
gone
any
distance
.
But
now
we
were
to
see
the
terrific
end
of
its
career
.
A
train
of
coal
trucks
stood
motionless
upon
the
line
.
We
held
our
breath
as
the
express
roared
along
the
same
track
.
The
crash
was
horrible
.
Engine
and
carriages
piled
themselves
into
a
hill
of
splintered
wood
and
twisted
iron
.
Red
spurts
of
flame
flickered
up
from
the
wreckage
until
it
was
all
ablaze
.
For
half
an
hour
we
sat
with
hardly
a
word
,
stunned
by
the
stupendous
sight
.
"
Poor
,
poor
people
!
"
cried
Mrs
.
Challenger
at
last
,
clinging
with
a
whimper
to
her
husband
’
s
arm
.
"
My
dear
,
the
passengers
on
that
train
were
no
more
animate
than
the
coals
into
which
they
crashed
or
the
carbon
which
they
have
now
become
,
"
said
Challenger
,
stroking
her
hand
soothingly
.
"
It
was
a
train
of
the
living
when
it
left
Victoria
,
but
it
was
driven
and
freighted
by
the
dead
long
before
it
reached
its
fate
.
"
"
All
over
the
world
the
same
thing
must
be
going
on
,
"
said
I
as
a
vision
of
strange
happenings
rose
before
me
.
"
Think
of
the
ships
at
sea
—
how
they
will
steam
on
and
on
,
until
the
furnaces
die
down
or
until
they
run
full
tilt
upon
some
beach
.
The
sailing
ships
too
—
how
they
will
back
and
fill
with
their
cargoes
of
dead
sailors
,
while
their
timbers
rot
and
their
joints
leak
,
till
one
by
one
they
sink
below
the
surface
.
Perhaps
a
century
hence
the
Atlantic
may
still
be
dotted
with
the
old
drifting
derelicts
.
"
"
And
the
folk
in
the
coal
-
mines
,
"
said
Summerlee
with
a
dismal
chuckle
.
"
If
ever
geologists
should
by
any
chance
live
upon
earth
again
they
will
have
some
strange
theories
of
the
existence
of
man
in
carboniferous
strata
.
"
"
I
don
’
t
profess
to
know
about
such
things
,
"
remarked
Lord
John
,
"
but
it
seems
to
me
the
earth
will
be
’
To
let
,
empty
,
’
after
this
.
When
once
our
human
crowd
is
wiped
off
it
,
how
will
it
ever
get
on
again
?
"
"
The
world
was
empty
before
,
"
Challenger
answered
gravely
.
"
Under
laws
which
in
their
inception
are
beyond
and
above
us
,
it
became
peopled
.
Why
may
the
same
process
not
happen
again
?
"
"
My
dear
Challenger
,
you
can
’
t
mean
that
?
"
