About half past four
I found people in the town quite secure again in the presence of the military , and I heard for the first time from Marshall , the tobacconist , that his son was among the dead on the common . The soldiers had made the people on the outskirts of Horsell lock up and leave their houses . I got back to lunch about two , very tired for , as I have said , the day was extremely hot and dull ; and in order to refresh myself I took a cold bath in the afternoon . About half past four I went up to the railway station to get an evening paper , for the morning papers had contained only a very inaccurate description of the killing of Stent , Henderson , Ogilvy , and the others . But there was little I did n't know . The Martians did not show an inch of themselves . They seemed busy in their pit , and there was a sound of hammering and an almost continuous streamer of smoke .