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 CHAPTER XV

soon as the invaders were prostrated, the Anglo-Saxons began to make preparations for revenge. New dockyards were erected among the heaps of blackened ruins, and thousands of men worked day and night building new interstellar war-ships. The enemy's ships that had been thrown to the ground by James Tarrant's Electro-Ednogen apparatus were taken possession of. The dead were cleared out, and such hulls as were still serviceable were repaired and refitted. Besides these, several ships were collected together from the planets, and new ones were being daily turned out at the dockyards, so the Anglo-Saxons very soon had a formidable