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
the gravel pit. To those who appreciate the extraordinary irascibility of the Invisible Man, the rest of the encounter will be easy to imagine. But this is pure hypothesis. The only undeniable facts--for stories of children are often unreliable--are the discovery of Wicksteed's body, done to death, and of the blood-stained iron rod flung among the nettles. The abandonment of the rod by Griffin, suggests that in the emotional excitement of the affair, the purpose for which he took it--if he had a purpose--was abandoned. He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived. After the murder of Mr. Wicksteed, he would seem to have struck across the country towards the downland. There is a story of a
voice heard about sunset by a couple of men in a field near Fern Bottom. It was wailing and laughing, sobbing and groaning, and ever and again it shouted. It must have been queer hearing. It drove up across the middle of a clover field and died away towards the hills. That afternoon the Invisible Man must have learnt something of the rapid use Kemp had made of his confidences. He must have found houses locked and secured; he may have loitered about railway stations and prowled about inns, and no doubt he read the proclamations and realised something of the nature of the campaign against him. And as the evening advanced, the fields became dotted here and there with groups of three or four men, and noisy with the yelping of dogs. These men-hunters had particular instructions in the case of an encounter as to the way they should support one another. But he avoided them all. We may understand something of his exasperation, and it could have been none the less because he himself had supplied the
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voice heard about sunset by a couple of men<br />
in a field near Fern Bottom. It was wailing and<br />
laughing, sobbing and groaning, and ever and<br />
again it shouted. It must have been queer<br />
hearing. It drove up across the middle of a<br />
clover field and died away towards the hills.<br />
That afternoon the <strong>Invisible</strong> <strong>Man</strong> must have<br />
learnt something of the rapid use Kemp had<br />
made of his confidences. He must have found<br />
houses locked and secured; he may have<br />
loitered about railway stations and prowled<br />
about inns, and no doubt he read the<br />
proclamations and realised something of the<br />
nature of the campaign against him. And as the<br />
evening advanced, the fields became dotted<br />
here and there with groups of three or four<br />
men, and noisy with the yelping of dogs. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
men-hunters had particular instructions in the<br />
case of an encounter as to the way they should<br />
support one another. But he avoided them all.<br />
We may understand something of his<br />
exasperation, and it could have been none the<br />
less because he himself had supplied the