The Invisible Man - LimpidSoft

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CHAPTER IX. MR. THOMAS MARVEL is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my helper. Help me–and I will do great things for you. An invisible man is a man of power." He stopped for a moment to sneeze violently. "But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct you–" He paused and tapped Mr. Marvel’s shoulder smartly. Mr. Marvel gave a yelp of terror at the touch. "I don’t want to betray you," said Mr. Marvel, edging away from the direction of the fingers. "Don’t you go a-thinking that, whatever you do. All I want to do is to help you– just tell me what I got to do. (Lord!) Whatever you want done, that I’m most willing to do." 86

CHAPTER X. MR. MARVEL'S VISIT TO IPING AFTER the first gusty panic had spent itself Iping became argumentative. Scepticism suddenly reared its head–rather nervous scepticism, not at all assured of its back, but scepticism nevertheless. It is so much easier not to believe in an invisible man; and those who had actually seen him dissolve into air, or felt the strength of his arm, could be counted on the fingers of two hands. And of these witnesses Mr. Wadgers was presently missing, having retired impregnably behind the bolts and bars of his own house, and Jaffers was lying stunned in the parlour of the "Coach and Horses." Great and strange ideas 87

CHAPTER IX. MR. THOMAS MARVEL<br />

is such a thing as an invisible man. You have to be my<br />

helper. Help me–and I will do great things for you. An<br />

invisible man is a man of power." He stopped for a moment<br />

to sneeze violently.<br />

"But if you betray me," he said, "if you fail to do as I direct<br />

you–" He paused and tapped Mr. Marvel’s shoulder<br />

smartly. Mr. Marvel gave a yelp of terror at the touch. "I<br />

don’t want to betray you," said Mr. Marvel, edging away<br />

from the direction of the fingers. "Don’t you go a-thinking<br />

that, whatever you do. All I want to do is to help you–<br />

just tell me what I got to do. (Lord!) Whatever you want<br />

done, that I’m most willing to do."<br />

86

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