Half Magic by Edward Eager

Author:Edward Eager [Eager, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-01-25T00:16:19+00:00

Other people saw them running, and began to run, too, without knowing why. In no time at all a panic began to spread, as it will when people start behaving in this way, without thinking.

"What's the matter?" said a man to another man who was running by him. "You look as if you'd seen a ghost!"

"I just did!" cried the man. "Look!" And he pointed at the fleeing Martha.

"Don't be silly. There's no such thing," said the first man, who happened to be a learned professor. He glanced at the misty Martha. "Marsh gas," he said. "Very interesting."

"Martians? Did you say Martians?" said a third man, who happened to be passing. "The Martians are invading us!" he cried, without waiting for an answer. He began to run and everyone who heard him began running, too.

By the time Jane and Mark and Katharine had dealt with the usher and emerged from the movie theater, pandemonium reigned in the street. Someone had called the fire department and turned in a general alarm. Someone else had telephoned the police and asked them to send the riot squad. The wails of approaching fire sirens and the screeches of police whistles added confusion to the scene.

A crowd of people rushed past the theater.

"The Martians have landed!" they cried, pointing back in the opposite direction. "We saw one of them, all transparent and horrible!"

Jane and Mark and Katharine looked up the street in the direction the people were pointing in. Far in the distance they could just make out the dim figure of Martha, running along all by herself. They ran after her.

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