South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-09

could study too the Marian habits
1 learned that evolution had made
them all brain, cold. remorseless
intelligenceS unswayed by emotion.
They neither slept nor ate: they
We're sexless and their young were
| budded off, like the young of corals
Most horrible TO me was the fact
that they injected mems blood into
| their veins for nourishment
1t was this that drove me TO act
as ! did when the curate went raw
} ing mad. ! knew that his shouts
would warn the Martians of our
presence and 1 tried 20 silence him.
! He broke away and / caught him
in the kitchen where / felled him
with a meat-chopper. He dropped
stunned and then / saw two dark
eyes at the window. I fled TO the
/ coal-cellar and above me I heard a
tapping, tapping, and then the noise
across the floor.
l piled wood and coal over me
when I heard that tapping at the
cellar-door. Through crevices /
/ could see the terrible arm Of a
/ handling machine. waving. feeling
examining. Once it ran across the
heel OF my boot and nearly
/ screamed. Then it went away.
A week passed before ] dared
look out. About the peep-hOle was
massed quantities Of the red weed
, that the Martians had brought
evidently vegetation on Mars is red
I pushed it aside and gazed out
The garden was deserted.
I crept into a desolate world
About me was a smashed village.
struggled on through the outskirts
OF London and not until l reached
Wimbledon Common did I meet a
man. He had food and drink and
plans for the future. visions of a
/ people living in the great drains
until they had science enough 20
conquer their conquerOrs. stayed
with him until l had regained my
! strength and then walked into dead
London.
I The metropolis was stilled of all
/ its humming life Here and there
we're heaps OF dead withered by
/ Black Smoke; here and there were
signs Of destruction but il was little
! changed except for the horrible
, quiet. ! was near South Kensing-
! ton when / heard the mournful
/ bowling. "ulla. ulla!" Not until the
! next day did l see the hood of the
I giant that was making this sobbing
wall He did not move nor did
\ three others that | saw. standing
I strangely still Driven by fear. |
resolved TO end it all walked
I toward the Thing nearest me and
/ saw birds circling about the hood.
/ tearing at something within.
/ I scrambled hastily up a great
rampant and below me was the Mar
] tian camp. They were all dead.
/ nearly so OF them. some in their
machines and others prone upon
| the ground They could conquer
man but they had fallen before
mans relentless foe, the disease
] bacteria OF earth.
/ Whatever destruction was done,
\ the band OF the destroyer was stay
! ed All the "a Unit wrecks. the
\ blackened skeletons of houses that
stared so dismally At the sunlt
\ grass Of the hill. would presently be
I eChoing with the hammers OF the
restorers and ringing with the tap
ping of the rrowels. Al the thought
d I extended my hands toward the
+ sky and began thanking God. In a
/ year. thought lin a year
F Copyright. 1919 10y Post Publishing
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/ mission of and arrangement with. Hlr
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The Marble Faun," one OF the
most beautiful Of Nathaniel Haw-
rhOrnC'S TOmanc'~. condensed by
Rev. Paul Revere rockingham. will
be printed next.