The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems The Invisible Man - Wells George Herbert.pdf - Cove Systems
arm, felled him, and smashed his head to a jelly. Of course, he must have dragged this rod out of the fencing before he met his victim--he must have been carrying it ready in his hand. Only two details beyond what has already been stated seem to bear on the matter. One is the circumstance that the gravel pit was not in Mr. Wicksteed's direct path home, but nearly a couple of hundred yards out of his way. The other is the assertion of a little girl to the effect that, going to her afternoon school, she saw the murdered man "trotting" in a peculiar manner across a field towards the gravel pit. Her pantomime of his action suggests a man pursuing something on the ground before him and striking at it ever and again with his walking-stick. She was the last person to see him alive. He passed out of her sight to his death, the struggle being hidden from her only by a clump of beech trees and a slight depression in the ground.
Now this, to the present writer's mind at least, lifts the murder out of the realm of the absolutely wanton. We may imagine that Griffin had taken the rod as a weapon indeed, but without any deliberate intention of using it in murder. Wicksteed may then have come by and noticed this rod inexplicably moving through the air. Without any thought of the Invisible Man--for Port Burdock is ten miles away--he may have pursued it. It is quite conceivable that he may not even have heard of the Invisible Man. One can then imagine the Invisible Man making off--quietly in order to avoid discovering his presence in the neighbourhood, and Wicksteed, excited and curious, pursuing this unaccountably locomotive object--finally striking at it. No doubt the Invisible Man could easily have distanced his middle-aged pursuer under ordinary circumstances, but the position in which Wicksteed's body was found suggests that he had the ill luck to drive his quarry into a corner between a drift of stinging nettles and
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Now this, to the present writer's mind at least,<br />
lifts the murder out of the realm of the<br />
absolutely wanton. We may imagine that<br />
Griffin had taken the rod as a weapon indeed,<br />
but without any deliberate intention of using it<br />
in murder. Wicksteed may then have come by<br />
and noticed this rod inexplicably moving<br />
through the air. Without any thought of the<br />
<strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong>--for Port Burdock is ten miles<br />
away--he may have pursued it. It is quite<br />
conceivable that he may not even have heard<br />
of the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong>. One can then imagine the<br />
<strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong> making off--quietly in order to<br />
avoid discovering his presence in the<br />
neighbourhood, and Wicksteed, excited and<br />
curious, pursuing this unaccountably<br />
locomotive object--finally striking at it.<br />
No doubt the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong> could easily have<br />
distanced his middle-aged pursuer under<br />
ordinary circumstances, but the position in<br />
which Wicksteed's body was found suggests<br />
that he had the ill luck to drive his quarry into<br />
a corner between a drift of stinging nettles and