The War of the Worlds - 2 - THE EARTH UNDER THE MARTIANS - 7

by H. G. Wells in English Fiction Stories

VII. THE MAN ON PUTNEY HILL. I spent that night in the inn that stands at the top of Putney Hill, sleeping in a made bed for the first time since my flight to Leatherhead. I will not tell ...Read Moreneedless trouble I had breaking into that house—afterwards I found the front door was on the latch—nor how I ransacked every room for food, until just on the verge of despair, in what seemed to me to be a servant’s bedroom, I found a rat-gnawed crust and two tins of pineapple. The place had been already searched and emptied. In Read Less