It seemed to me that the pit had been enlarged, and ever and again puffs
of vivid green vapour streamed up and out of it towards the brightening
dawn--streamed up, whirled, broke, and vanished.
In a few minutes there was, so far as the soldier could see, not a
living thing left upon the common, and every bush and tree upon it that
was not already a blackened skeleton was burning. The hussars had been
on the road beyond the curvature of the ground, and he saw nothing of
them. He heard the Martians rattle for a time and then become still.
The giant saved Woking station and its cluster of houses until the last;
then in a moment the Heat-Ray was brought to bear, and the town became a
heap of fiery ruins. Then the Thing shut off the Heat-Ray, and turning
its back upon the artilleryman, began to waddle away towards the
smouldering pine woods that sheltered the second cylinder. As it did so
a second glittering Titan built itself up out of the pit.
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