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. At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road. Then I fetched out the servant,... Stab me not with that keen steel! Cant them; cant them over! know ye not the goblet end? Turn up the socket! So,