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CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF KEMP’SHOUSElice, and the rest of them; it is under me–the Terror! Thisis day one of year one of the new epoch–the Epoch ofthe Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To beginwith the rule will be easy. The first day there will be oneexecution for the sake of example–a man named Kemp.Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away,hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armourif he likes–Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let himtake precautions; it will impress my people. Death startsfrom the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as thepostman comes along, then off! The game begins. Deathstarts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon youalso. To-day Kemp is to die."Kemp read this letter twice, "It’s no hoax," he said."That’s his voice! And he means it."He turned the folded sheet over and saw on the addressedside of it the postmark Hintondean, and the prosaicdetail "2d. to pay."He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished–the letterhad come by the one o’clock post–and went into hisstudy. He rang for his housekeeper, and told her to goround the house at once, examine all the fastenings of thewindows, and close all the shutters. He closed the shut-240
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF KEMP’SHOUSEters of his study himself. From a locked drawer in hisbedroom he took a little revolver, examined it carefully,and put it into the pocket of his lounge jacket. He wrotea number of brief notes, one to Colonel Adye, gave themto his servant to take, with explicit instructions as to herway of leaving the house. "There is no danger," he said,and added a mental reservation, "to you." He remainedmeditative for a space after doing this, and then returnedto his cooling lunch.He ate with gaps of thought. Finally he struck the tablesharply. "We will have him!" he said; "and I am the bait.He will come too far."He went up to the belvedere, carefully shutting everydoor after him. "It’s a game," he said, "an odd game–butthe chances are all for me, Mr. Griffin, in spite of yourinvisibility. Griffin contra mundum ... with a vengeance."He stood at the window staring at the hot hillside. "Hemust get food every day–and I don’t envy him. Did he reallysleep last night? Out in the open somewhere–securefrom collisions. I wish we could get some good cold wetweather instead of the heat."He may be watching me now."He went close to the window. Something rapped241
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CHAPTER XXVII. THE SIEGE OF KEMP’S
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lice, and the rest of them; it is under me–the Terror! This
is day one of year one of the new epoch–the Epoch of
the Invisible Man. I am Invisible Man the First. To begin
with the rule will be easy. The first day there will be one
execution for the sake of example–a man named Kemp.
Death starts for him to-day. He may lock himself away,
hide himself away, get guards about him, put on armour
if he likes–Death, the unseen Death, is coming. Let him
take precautions; it will impress my people. Death starts
from the pillar box by midday. The letter will fall in as the
postman comes along, then off! The game begins. Death
starts. Help him not, my people, lest Death fall upon you
also. To-day Kemp is to die."
Kemp read this letter twice, "It’s no hoax," he said.
"That’s his voice! And he means it."
He turned the folded sheet over and saw on the addressed
side of it the postmark Hintondean, and the prosaic
detail "2d. to pay."
He got up slowly, leaving his lunch unfinished–the letter
had come by the one o’clock post–and went into his
study. He rang for his housekeeper, and told her to go
round the house at once, examine all the fastenings of the
windows, and close all the shutters. He closed the shut-
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