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Dessert
later, a Martian appeared beyond the Clock Tower and waded down the river,
nothing but wreckage floated above Limehouse.
Of
the falling of the fifth cylinder I have presently to tell. The sixth star
fell at Wimbledon. My brother, keeping watch beside the women in the
chaise in a meadow, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills. On
Tuesday the little party, still set upon getting across the sea, made its
way through the swarming country towards Colchester. The news that the
Martians were now in possession of the whole of London was confirmed. They
had been seen at Highgate, and even, it was said, at Neasden. But they did
not come into my brother's view until the morrow.
provisions. As they grew hungry the rights of property ceased to be
regarded. Farmers were out to defend their cattle-sheds, granaries, and
ripening root crops with arms in their hands. A number of people now, like
my brother, had their faces eastward, and there were some desperate souls
even going back towards London to get food. These were chiefly people from
the northern suburbs, whose knowledge of the Black Smoke came by hearsay.
He heard that about half the members of the government had gathered at
Birmingham, and that enormous quantities of high explosives were being
prepared to be used in automatic mines across the Midland counties.
He was also told that the Midland Railway Company had
replaced the desertions of the first day's panic, had resumed traffic, and
was running northward trains from St. Albans to relieve the congestion of
the home counties. There was also a placard in Chipping Ongar announcing
that large stores of flour were available in the northern towns and that
within twenty-four hours bread would be distributed among the starving
people in the neighbourhood. But this intelligence did not deter him from
the plan of escape he had formed, and the three pressed eastward all day,
and heard no more of the bread distribution than this promise. Nor, as a
matter of fact, did anyone else hear more of it. That night fell the
seventh star, falling upon Primrose Hill. It fell while Miss Elphinstone
was watching, for she took that duty alternately with my brother. She saw
it.
"Look here, Hare-Lip, you
believe in lots of things you can't
see."
"What is it?" asked the little old
woman, and looked, and began to laugh.
- 'I
mean what I say,' the Mock Turtle replied in an offended
tone - And the Gryphon added 'Come, let's hear some of
YOUR adventures - ' 'I could tell you my
adventures—beginning from this morning,' said Alice a little timidly: 'but
it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person
then - ' 'Explain all that,' said the Mock
Turtle - 'No, no! The adventures first,' said the
Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful
time