Through two long weeks I wandered, stumbling through the nights guided only by the stars and hiding during the days behind some protruding rock or among the occasional hills I traversed.
When the amphitheater had cleared I crept stealthily to the top and as the great excavation lay far from the plaza.
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.
By the light of the now brilliant moons I saw that he was but a shadow of his former self, and as he turned from my caress and commenced greedily.
At first I regarded little but the road before me, and then abruptly my attention was arrested by something that was moving rapidly.
We can't possibly stay here, I said; and as I spoke the firing reopened for a moment upon the common.
I and my wife stood amazed. Then I realised that the crest of Maybury Hill must be within range of the Martians