[Narrator: Richard Burton ("The Journalist")]
My heart lightened gloriously as the rising sun struck the world to fire about me with its rays. The shadow had at last been rolled back, and I felt a wave of emotion close to tears. The torment was ended. The people scattered over the country, desperate, leaderless, starved. The thousands who had fled by sea - including the one most dear to me - all would return. The pulse of life, growing stronger and stronger, would beat again!
As life returns to normal, and man is again supreme, a question of grave and universal interest is the possibility of another attack from Mars. It may be that across the immensity of space, they have watched the fate of their pioneers, have learned their lessons, and even now await their opportunity. Can we any longer regard this planet as safe?
It may well be that this time of peace is only a reprieve. Perhaps the future belongs not to us - but to the Martians...
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