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There it was, at first a wraith, a that they will obey any ortlet, how- suggestion on the point of vanish ever abominable. The very heavens ing, and then illuminated and em- had been fouled by this obscene and bodied, a celestial maggot stuck to pallid worm, crawling over those the round of a cloud like a cater-eternal verities to which eyes had pillar to the edge of a leaf. We been lifted for light when night and gazed at it silently, I cannot say trouble were over-dark. God was for how long. The beam of light dethroned by science. One looked might have pinned the bright larva startled at humanity, seeing not the to the sky for the inspection of inaccustomed countenance, but, for a Then some moment, glimpsing Instead the terested Londoners. body spoke. "I think it is coming baleful, lidless stare. of the evil of our way."
the alime, the unmentionable of a I thought so too. I went indoors, nightmare....... calling out to the boy as I passed A deafening crash brought us out his room upstairs, and
to of bed in one movement I must where the girls were asleep. Three have been, dozing. Someone cried miles, three minuter! It appears "My children!" Another rending: waken children uproar interrupted my effort to to be harder to when a Zeppelin is coming your shepherd the flock to a lower floor. way. I got the elder girl awake, There was a raucous avalanche off lifted her, and sat her on the bed. glass. We muddled down somehow for she had become heavier, I forget how. I could not find noticed. Then I put her small ais-the matches. Then in the dark we ter over my shoulder, as limp and lost the youngest for some eternal Indifferent as a half-filled bag By seconds while yet another explosion this time the elder one had muggled shook the house. We got to the into the foot of her bed, resigned cellar stairs, and at last there they to that place if the other end were all were, their backs to the coals. disputed, and was asleep again. sitting on lumber.
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little tremulous exciternent, as if it "Come on down," I said,
were one of the party. It reached We were turned away We went into the central room.upwards curiously in a long, intent would have assisted; all the help put costs round them, answering flame, and then shrank flat
with that Was wanted was there. A eager and innocent questions with what it had learned. We were ac-stranger offered me tobacco inconsequence, had the cellar door companied by grotesque shadows. pouch, and it was then I found my and a light rendy, and then went They stood about us on the white rainproof was a lady's, and thera out to inspect affairs. There were and unfamiliar walls. We waited.fore had no pipe in its pocket, more searchlights at work. Bright Even the shadows seemed to listen The sky was suspect, and Wednesday, 10th, Jan. at 10 am. diagonals made a living network on with us; they hardly moved, except watched it, but saw only vacuity Wednesday, 25 Jan. at 10 a.m. the overhead dark. It was remark when the candle-flame was nervous.till one long beam shot into it. Wednesday, 7th Feb. at 10 amable that those rigid beams should Then the shadows wavered slightly searching slowly and deliberately not rest on the roof of night, but]We waited. I caught the boy's eye, the whole mysterious ceiling, yet that their ends should glide noise-and winked. He winked back. The hesitating sometimes,
and going lessly about the invisible dome. youngest, still with sleepy eyes, was back on its path as though intelli- The nearest of them was followed, trembling, though not with cold, and gently suspicious of a matter which when in the zenith, by a faint oval this her sister noticed, and put her it had passed over too quickly. It of light. Sometimes It discovered arms about her.. His mother bad peered into the immense caverns of and broke on delicate films of high her hand on her boy's shoulder. a cloud to which it had returned, fair-weather clouds. The shells There was no more noise outside. illuminating to us unsuspected and were still twinkling brilliantly, and I was time, perhaps, to go up to horrifying possibilities of hiding- the guns were making a rhythmless see what had happened. I put places above us, baying in the distance, like a zum-raincoat over my pyjamas, and went We expected to see the discover- ber of alert and indignant hounds. into the street. Some of my neigh-jed enemy boldly emerge But the Zeppelin had gone. The bours, who were special constables. Nothing came out. Other beams by Biring diminished and stopped.
hurried by. The enigmatic night, now had joined the pioneer, and They went to bed again, and as for a time, for five minutes, or five the night became bewildering with I had become acutely depressed, and seconds (I do not know how long a dazzling. mesh of light. Shells the book now had no value, I turned it was), was remarkably still and joined the wandering beams, those in myself, assuring everyone, with usual. It might have been pretend-sparks of orange and red. A world. the usual confidence of the military ing that we were all mistaken. It of fantastic chimney-pots and black expert, that the affair was over for was as though we had been merely rounds of trees leaped into being the night. But once in bed I found dreaming our recent excitements. between us and the sudden expan I could see there only the progress Then, across a field, a villa begansion of a fan of yellow flame. A humanity had made in Its move-to blaze. Perhaps it had been stun-bomb! We just felt, but hardly. ment heavenwards. That is the way ned till then, and had suddenly heard, the shock of it. A furious with us; never to be concerned with jumped into a panic of flames. It succession of such bursts of light the newest clever trick of our en-was wholly involved in one roll of followed, a convulsive opening and that terprising fellow-men till a sudden fire and smoke, a sudden furnace shutting of night. We saw turn of affairs shows us, by the so consuming that, when it as sud-when midnight is cleft asunder it Immediate threat to our own exis-¡denly ceased, giving one or two has a flery inside. tence, that that cleverness has add- dying spasms, I had but an impres The eruptions ceased. Idle and ed to the peril of civilised society, sion of fames folling out of win-questioning, not knowing we had whose house has been built on the dows and douts to persuade me that heard the last gun and bồmb of the verge of the pit. War now would what I had seen was real. The affair, a little stunned by the be not only between soldiers. In night engulfed what may have been maniacal rapidity and violence of future wars the place of honourjan illusion, for till then I had never this attack, we found ourselves
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over portant street, we had seen ed me, with wrth at the work of row of humbler dwellings, Kaisers and Kings, for we know which the dust was still hanging in celestial portent Illuminate briefly a what is possible with them, but with a faint mist, had been demolished, little of the future of mankind. dismay at the discovery that one's and one could only hope the stories [from "Waiting for Daylight"|"CALCHAO" fellows are so docile and credulous about that place were far from true.Í
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