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The
sentence
ended
abruptly
.
I
remembered
my
inability
to
fix
my
mind
that
morning
,
scarcely
a
month
gone
by
,
and
how
I
had
broken
off
to
get
my
Daily
Chronicle
from
the
newsboy
.
I
remembered
how
I
went
down
to
the
garden
gate
as
he
came
along
,
and
how
I
had
listened
to
his
odd
story
of
"
Men
from
Mars
.
"
I
came
down
and
went
into
the
dining
room
.
There
were
the
mutton
and
the
bread
,
both
far
gone
now
in
decay
,
and
a
beer
bottle
overturned
,
just
as
I
and
the
artilleryman
had
left
them
.
My
home
was
desolate
.
I
perceived
the
folly
of
the
faint
hope
I
had
cherished
so
long
.
And
then
a
strange
thing
occurred
.
"
It
is
no
use
,
"
said
a
voice
.
"
The
house
is
deserted
.
No
one
has
been
here
these
ten
days
.
Do
not
stay
here
to
torment
yourself
.
No
one
escaped
but
you
.
"
I
was
startled
.
Had
I
spoken
my
thought
aloud
?
I
turned
,
and
the
French
window
was
open
behind
me
.
I
made
a
step
to
it
,
and
stood
looking
out
.
And
there
,
amazed
and
afraid
,
even
as
I
stood
amazed
and
afraid
,
were
my
cousin
and
my
wife
--
my
wife
white
and
tearless
.
She
gave
a
faint
cry
.
"
I
came
,
"
she
said
.
"
I
knew
--
knew
--
--
"
She
put
her
hand
to
her
throat
--
swayed
.
I
made
a
step
forward
,
and
caught
her
in
my
arms
.
I
can
not
but
regret
,
now
that
I
am
concluding
my
story
,
how
little
I
am
able
to
contribute
to
the
discussion
of
the
many
debatable
questions
which
are
still
unsettled
.
In
one
respect
I
shall
certainly
provoke
criticism
.
My
particular
province
is
speculative
philosophy
.
My
knowledge
of
comparative
physiology
is
confined
to
a
book
or
two
,
but
it
seems
to
me
that
Carver
's
suggestions
as
to
the
reason
of
the
rapid
death
of
the
Martians
is
so
probable
as
to
be
regarded
almost
as
a
proven
conclusion
.
I
have
assumed
that
in
the
body
of
my
narrative
.
At
any
rate
,
in
all
the
bodies
of
the
Martians
that
were
examined
after
the
war
,
no
bacteria
except
those
already
known
as
terrestrial
species
were
found
.
That
they
did
not
bury
any
of
their
dead
,
and
the
reckless
slaughter
they
perpetrated
,
point
also
to
an
entire
ignorance
of
the
putrefactive
process
.
But
probable
as
this
seems
,
it
is
by
no
means
a
proven
conclusion
.
Neither
is
the
composition
of
the
Black
Smoke
known
,
which
the
Martians
used
with
such
deadly
effect
,
and
the
generator
of
the
Heat-Rays
remains
a
puzzle
.
The
terrible
disasters
at
the
Ealing
and
South
Kensington
laboratories
have
disinclined
analysts
for
further
investigations
upon
the
latter
.
Spectrum
analysis
of
the
black
powder
points
unmistakably
to
the
presence
of
an
unknown
element
with
a
brilliant
group
of
three
lines
in
the
green
,
and
it
is
possible
that
it
combines
with
argon
to
form
a
compound
which
acts
at
once
with
deadly
effect
upon
some
constituent
in
the
blood
.
But
such
unproven
speculations
will
scarcely
be
of
interest
to
the
general
reader
,
to
whom
this
story
is
addressed
.
None
of
the
brown
scum
that
drifted
down
the
Thames
after
the
destruction
of
Shepperton
was
examined
at
the
time
,
and
now
none
is
forthcoming
.
The
results
of
an
anatomical
examination
of
the
Martians
,
so
far
as
the
prowling
dogs
had
left
such
an
examination
possible
,
I
have
already
given
.
But
everyone
is
familiar
with
the
magnificent
and
almost
complete
specimen
in
spirits
at
the
Natural
History
Museum
,
and
the
countless
drawings
that
have
been
made
from
it
;
and
beyond
that
the
interest
of
their
physiology
and
structure
is
purely
scientific
.
