The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems

pulled at his lower lip. His eye went up and
down the staircase. Then he grunted and went
on up again.
"His hand was on the handle of a door, and
then he stopped again with the same puzzled
anger on his face. He was becoming aware of
the faint sounds of my movements about him.
The man must have had diabolically acute
hearing. He suddenly flashed into rage. 'If
there's anyone in this house--' he cried with an
oath, and left the threat unfinished. He put his
hand in his pocket, failed to find what he
wanted, and rushing past me went blundering
noisily and pugnaciously downstairs. But I did
not follow him. I sat on the head of the
staircase until his return.
"Presently he came up again, still muttering.
He opened the door of the room, and before I
could enter, slammed it in my face.
"I resolved to explore the house, and spent
some time in doing so as noiselessly as