The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

Author:H.G. Wells [Wells, H.G.]
Format: epub, pdf, azw3
Tags: sf
Published: 2010-09-16T22:00:00+00:00

She turned without a word --they were both panting --and they went back to where the lady in white struggled to hold back the frightened pony. The robbers had evidently had enough of it. When my brother looked again they were retreating.

"I'll sit here," said my brother, "if I may"; and he got upon the empty front seat. The lady looked over her shoulder.

"Give me the reins," she said, and laid the whip along the pony's side. In another moment a bend in the road hid the three men from my brother's eyes.

So, quite unexpectedly, my brother found himself, panting, with a cut mouth, a bruised jaw, and blood-stained knuckles, driving along an unknown

lane with these two women.

He learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case

at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance. He had hurried home, roused the women --their servant had left them two days before --packed some provisions, put his revolver under the

seat --luckily for my brother --and told them to drive on to Edgware, with the idea of getting a train there. He stopped behind to tell the neighbours. He would overtake them, he said, at about half past four in the

morning, and now it was nearly nine and they had seen nothing of him. They

could not stop in Edgware because of the growing traffic through the place, and so they had come into this side lane.

That was the story they told my brother in fragments when presently they stopped again, nearer to New Barnet. He

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