e the doors closed. The Morlocks laugh out loud thinking that he is trapped. The time traveler makes an attempt to lite the match but it only lites on the match box. He defeats one of the Morlocks and gets on his time machine and pushes the lever forward in a panic. Then he goes hurling forward in time. He is on the time machine in an awkward position. He stops and when he does he is on a beach and two large crustaceans try to eat him so he accelerates into the future 30 million years or more and the sun grows bigger and more dull. Then the world becomes dark and the air is difficult to breathe. When he thought life was extinct he sees a life form swimming in the water "the size of a football". He then returns to his laboratory but in a different location because of the Morlocks tampering with its location in the future.The editor and the medical doctor don't believe his fantastic story even for an instant. The medical doctor can't recognize the species of flower that the time traveler had in his pockets but that didn't change his mind at one bit. The narrator even said that "The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. The editor called his story a "gaudy story". The narrator comes back to find the time traveler and sees him carrying a camera to his laboratory. He heads to the laboratory as a result of clinking and thud sounds. He enters the lab and witnesses just a flash of the time machine and the time traveler. Then with a whirl of wind and dust the time traveler disappeared.I enjoyed this book but I can't believe how the time traveler acted being a logical and scientific man. Like when he went the future he encountered a new kind of people and they led him to a building where they reside. He just left his time machine behind; he could have had those people help him t...
