Healthy Living

And as the day advanced and the engine drivers and stokers refused to return to London

It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected

At that I gripped my wife’s arm, and without ceremony ran her out into the road.

I began walking, therefore, in a big curve, seeking some point of vantage and continually looking at the sand.

The nearer moon, hurtling suddenly above the horizon and lighting up the Barsoomian scene, showed me that my preserver was…