The doctor would
have given a year of his life if only Rolla had had the courage to
examine the bones; there might have been bullet holes, or other
evidence of how they had met their death.
The Sanusian chose rather to back carefully away from the spot. She
walked hurriedly up the street she had just left, and before going
another block came across two skeletons lying right in the middle of
the street. A little farther on, and she began to find skeletons on
every hand. Moreover--and this is especially significant--the
buildings in this locality showed a great many gaps and holes in
their walls, such as might have been made by shell-fire.
This made it easier to understand something else. Every few yards or
so the explorer found a large heap of rust in the gutter, or what
had once been the gutter. These heaps had little or no shape; yet
the doctor fancied he could detect certain resemblances to things he
had seen before, and shortly declared that they were the remains of
motors.
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