AuthorChapter 2
The cylinder found on the common
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1 A still June night over the sleeping suburb of Maybury Hill.
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2 On the night of the first falling star, the narrator sits writing by lamplight in his study.
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3 At dawn on Horsell Common, Ogilvy strides alone toward a huge ring of flung sand
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4 At dawn on Horsell Common, Ogilvy stands alone on the lip of the fresh crater.
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5 A close view of the cylinder's crusted rim at dawn.
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6 Ogilvy's eyes go wide: something inside the cylinder is unscrewing its top
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7 Alone on the crater floor at dawn, Ogilvy realises someone is trapped inside the scorching cylinder.
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8 A close look at the rim of the Martian cylinder on Horsell Common.
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9 Henderson raises a stick to the crusted cylinder as Ogilvy bends close and listens
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10 Ogilvy is out of breath and stops in the sunlit Woking street, pointing after Henderson.
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11 At a quarter to nine, the narrator hurries down a sunlit lane with the Daily Chronicle
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