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hin circle of bright metal showed bet [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n the top and the
body of the cylinder. Air was either entering or escaping at the rim with a
thinsizzling sound.
They listenedrapped on the scaly burnt metal with a stickandmeeting
with no responsethey both concluded the man or men inside must be
insensible or dead.
Of course the two were quite unable to do anything. They shouted
consolation and promisesand went off back to the town again to get help.
One can imagine themcovered with sandexcited and disorderedrunning
up the little street in the bright sunlight just as the shop folks were taking
down their shutters and people were opening their bedroom windows.
Henderson went into the railway station at oncein order to telegraph the
news to London. The newspaper articles had prepared men’s minds for the
reception of the idea.
By eight o’clock a number of boys and unemployed men had already
started for the common to see the “dead men from Mars.” That was the form
the story took. I heard of it first from my newspaper boy about a quarter to
nine when I went out to get my Daily Chronicle. I was naturally startledand
lost no time in going out and across the Ottershaw bridge to the sand pits.
The War of the Worlyilai:
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