Weybridge and Shepperton destroyed

1 At dawn, the soot-smudged narrator grips the newel post and stares at the front door

2 Through a field gate near Byfleet, the narrator sees six field guns aimed at the pines

3 The narrator and the artilleryman reach the crowded ferry beach where Wey meets Thames

4 At the Shepperton ferry, a man in a blue jersey points across the sunny Chertsey meadows.

5 Glittering fighting-machines stride across the meadows towards the guns

6 Waist-deep at Shepperton, the narrator dives for the water as a Martian strides behind him

7 At Shepperton a shell bursts in the fighting-machine's hood and the head flies apart

8 The headless fighting-machine reels across the Thames into the tower of Shepperton Church

9 The Heat-Ray cuts across the Thames in a ridge of steam just ahead of the narrator

10 Scalded and half blind, the narrator lies collapsed on the bare gravel spit

11 A Martian's huge metal foot slams into the gravel spit a score of yards from the narrator

12 The narrator watches four Martian machines carry their fallen comrade upstream