Then he continued to pace the dining-room until the morning's paper came. He gave them extraordinary but quite explicit instructions to lay breakfast for two in the belvedere study - and then to confine themselves to the basement and ground-floor. His servants, descending sleepily, discovered him, and were inclined to think that over-study had worked this ill on him. When dawn came to mingle its pallor with the lamp-light and cigar smoke of the dining-room, Kemp was still pacing up and down, trying to grasp the incredible. "He's not only invisible," he said, "but he's mad! Homicidal!" He sat down abruptly on the surgical bench. "But when does the Tramp come in? Why the deuce was he chasing a Tramp?" He caught up the paper again, and re-read the whole business. He dropped the paper and stared blankly in front of him. This extraordinary story probably a fabrication. Huxter in great pain - still unable to describe what he saw. "Ran through the streets striking right and left. Over the leaf the report in the morning paper had been reprinted. "Good Heavens!" said Kemp, reading eagerly an incredulous account of the events in Iping, of the previous afternoon, that have already been described. "An Entire Village in Sussex goes Mad" was the heading. He rent the paper open a couple of columns confronted him. "Now we shall get at the truth," said Dr. James' Gazette, lying folded up as it arrived. He dropped the paper, and his eye went seeking. "Disguised! Hiding it! `No one seems to have been aware of his misfortune.' What the devil is his game?" He caught it up, turned it over, and read the account of a "Strange Story from Iping" that the mariner at Port Stowe had spelt over so painfully to Mr. The morning's paper lay carelessly opened and thrown aside. Kemp did not live by practice, and in it were the day's newspapers. He turned aside, walked out of the room, and went into his little consulting-room and lit the gas there. The bulk of three cigars had passed into the invisible or diffused as a white ash over the carpet before he spoke again. "If a man was made of glass he would still be visible." And in ponds too! All those little pond-life things, - specks of colourless translucent jelly! But in air? No! In the sea there are more things invisible than visible! I never thought of that before. Thousands! millions! All the larvae, all the little nauplii and tornarias, all the microscopic things, the jelly-fish. "Is there such a thing as an invisible animal? In the sea, yes. Now and then he would argue with himself. He lit the dining-room lamp, got out a cigar, and began pacing the room, ejaculating. He shook his head hopelessly, turned, and went downstairs. He put his fingers to his slightly bruised neck. He walked to the head of the staircase, turned, and stared at the locked doors. "Barred out of my own bedroom, by a flagrant absurdity!" he said. He laughed, and put his hand to the locked door. "Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad - or have I?" Then, as he stood with an expression of passive amazement on his face, the rapid feet came to the door of the dressing-room and that too was locked. Kemp closed the door softly behind him, and the key was turned upon him forthwith. "No attempts to hamper me, or capture me! Or - "
Suddenly the dressing-gown walked quickly towards him. "Good-night," said Kemp, and shook an invisible hand. But it's real! Is there anything more that I can get you?" Three things happening like this, overturning all my preconceptions, would make me insane. Kemp stood in the middle of the room staring at the headless garment. Now, Kemp, I feel as though I must sleep or perish." And you - We can do such things - But to-morrow. It's horrible! But believe me, Kemp, in spite of your arguments of this morning, it is quit a possible thing. "I'm sorry," said the Invisible Man, "if I cannot tell you all that I have done to-night. He stood on the hearth rug and Kemp heard the sound of a yawn. Then he examined the keys of the bedroom and the two dressing-room doors, to satisfy himself that these also could be made an assurance of freedom. Outside the night was very quiet and still, and the new moon was setting over the town.
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He examined the two windows of the bedroom, drew up the blinds, and opened the sashes, to confirm Kemp's statement that a retreat by them would be possible.
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You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!Įxhausted and wounded as the Invisible Man was, he refused to accept Kemp's word that his freedom should be respected. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser.
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