Text about Got the Gift goes here. It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube.  A similar tube was handed to each of the three, and the seven proceeded to distribute themselves at equal distances along a curved line between St. George’s Hill, Weybridge, and the village of Send, southwest of Ripley. A dozen rockets sprang out of the hills before them so soon as they began to move, and warned the waiting batteries about Ditton and Esher.  At the same time four of their fighting machines, similarly.