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"
Where
's
your
shells
?
"
said
the
first
speaker
.
"
There
ai
n't
no
time
.
Do
it
in
a
rush
,
that
's
my
tip
,
and
do
it
at
once
.
"
So
they
discussed
it
.
After
a
while
I
left
them
,
and
went
on
to
the
railway
station
to
get
as
many
morning
papers
as
I
could
.
But
I
will
not
weary
the
reader
with
a
description
of
that
long
morning
and
of
the
longer
afternoon
.
I
did
not
succeed
in
getting
a
glimpse
of
the
common
,
for
even
Horsell
and
Chobham
church
towers
were
in
the
hands
of
the
military
authorities
.
The
soldiers
I
addressed
did
n't
know
anything
;
the
officers
were
mysterious
as
well
as
busy
.
I
found
people
in
the
town
quite
secure
again
in
the
presence
of
the
military
,
and
I
heard
for
the
first
time
from
Marshall
,
the
tobacconist
,
that
his
son
was
among
the
dead
on
the
common
.
The
soldiers
had
made
the
people
on
the
outskirts
of
Horsell
lock
up
and
leave
their
houses
.
I
got
back
to
lunch
about
two
,
very
tired
for
,
as
I
have
said
,
the
day
was
extremely
hot
and
dull
;
and
in
order
to
refresh
myself
I
took
a
cold
bath
in
the
afternoon
.
About
half
past
four
I
went
up
to
the
railway
station
to
get
an
evening
paper
,
for
the
morning
papers
had
contained
only
a
very
inaccurate
description
of
the
killing
of
Stent
,
Henderson
,
Ogilvy
,
and
the
others
.
But
there
was
little
I
did
n't
know
.
The
Martians
did
not
show
an
inch
of
themselves
.
They
seemed
busy
in
their
pit
,
and
there
was
a
sound
of
hammering
and
an
almost
continuous
streamer
of
smoke
.
Apparently
they
were
busy
getting
ready
for
a
struggle
.
"
Fresh
attempts
have
been
made
to
signal
,
but
without
success
,
"
was
the
stereotyped
formula
of
the
papers
.
A
sapper
told
me
it
was
done
by
a
man
in
a
ditch
with
a
flag
on
a
long
pole
.
The
Martians
took
as
much
notice
of
such
advances
as
we
should
of
the
lowing
of
a
cow
.
I
must
confess
the
sight
of
all
this
armament
,
all
this
preparation
,
greatly
excited
me
.
My
imagination
became
belligerent
,
and
defeated
the
invaders
in
a
dozen
striking
ways
;
something
of
my
schoolboy
dreams
of
battle
and
heroism
came
back
.
It
hardly
seemed
a
fair
fight
to
me
at
that
time
.
They
seemed
very
helpless
in
that
pit
of
theirs
.
About
three
o'clock
there
began
the
thud
of
a
gun
at
measured
intervals
from
Chertsey
or
Addlestone
.
I
learned
that
the
smouldering
pine
wood
into
which
the
second
cylinder
had
fallen
was
being
shelled
,
in
the
hope
of
destroying
that
object
before
it
opened
.
It
was
only
about
five
,
however
,
that
a
field
gun
reached
Chobham
for
use
against
the
first
body
of
Martians
.
About
six
in
the
evening
,
as
I
sat
at
tea
with
my
wife
in
the
summerhouse
talking
vigorously
about
the
battle
that
was
lowering
upon
us
,
I
heard
a
muffled
detonation
from
the
common
,
and
immediately
after
a
gust
of
firing
.
Close
on
the
heels
of
that
came
a
violent
rattling
crash
,
quite
close
to
us
,
that
shook
the
ground
;
and
,
starting
out
upon
the
lawn
,
I
saw
the
tops
of
the
trees
about
the
Oriental
College
burst
into
smoky
red
flame
,
and
the
tower
of
the
little
church
beside
it
slide
down
into
ruin
.
The
pinnacle
of
the
mosque
had
vanished
,
and
the
roof
line
of
the
college
itself
looked
as
if
a
hundred-ton
gun
had
been
at
work
upon
it
.
One
of
our
chimneys
cracked
as
if
a
shot
had
hit
it
,
flew
,
and
a
piece
of
it
came
clattering
down
the
tiles
and
made
a
heap
of
broken
red
fragments
upon
the
flower
bed
by
my
study
window
.
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
.
