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"
Yes
?
"
said
Adye
.
"
Powdered
glass
,
"
said
Kemp
.
"
It
's
cruel
,
I
know
.
But
think
of
what
he
may
do
!
"
Adye
drew
the
air
in
sharply
between
his
teeth
.
"
It
's
unsportsmanlike
.
I
do
n't
know
.
But
I
'll
have
powdered
glass
got
ready
.
If
he
goes
too
far
...
"
"
The
man
's
become
inhuman
,
I
tell
you
,
"
said
Kemp
.
"
I
am
as
sure
he
will
establish
a
reign
of
terror
--
so
soon
as
he
has
got
over
the
emotions
of
this
escape
--
as
I
am
sure
I
am
talking
to
you
.
Our
only
chance
is
to
be
ahead
.
He
has
cut
himself
off
from
his
kind
.
His
blood
be
upon
his
own
head
.
"
The
Invisible
Man
seems
to
have
rushed
out
of
Kemp
's
house
in
a
state
of
blind
fury
.
A
little
child
playing
near
Kemp
's
gateway
was
violently
caught
up
and
thrown
aside
,
so
that
its
ankle
was
broken
,
and
thereafter
for
some
hours
the
Invisible
Man
passed
out
of
human
perceptions
.
No
one
knows
where
he
went
nor
what
he
did
.
But
one
can
imagine
him
hurrying
through
the
hot
June
forenoon
,
up
the
hill
and
on
to
the
open
downland
behind
Port
Burdock
,
raging
and
despairing
at
his
intolerable
fate
,
and
sheltering
at
last
,
heated
and
weary
,
amid
the
thickets
of
Hintondean
,
to
piece
together
again
his
shattered
schemes
against
his
species
.
That
seems
the
most
probable
refuge
for
him
,
for
there
it
was
he
re-asserted
himself
in
a
grimly
tragical
manner
about
two
in
the
afternoon
.
One
wonders
what
his
state
of
mind
may
have
been
during
that
time
,
and
what
plans
he
devised
.
No
doubt
he
was
almost
ecstatically
exasperated
by
Kemp
's
treachery
,
and
though
we
may
be
able
to
understand
the
motives
that
led
to
that
deceit
,
we
may
still
imagine
and
even
sympathise
a
little
with
the
fury
the
attempted
surprise
must
have
occasioned
.
Perhaps
something
of
the
stunned
astonishment
of
his
Oxford
Street
experiences
may
have
returned
to
him
,
for
he
had
evidently
counted
on
Kemp
's
co-operation
in
his
brutal
dream
of
a
terrorised
world
.
At
any
rate
he
vanished
from
human
ken
about
midday
,
and
no
living
witness
can
tell
what
he
did
until
about
half-past
two
.
It
was
a
fortunate
thing
,
perhaps
,
for
humanity
,
but
for
him
it
was
a
fatal
inaction
.
During
that
time
a
growing
multitude
of
men
scattered
over
the
countryside
were
busy
.
In
the
morning
he
had
still
been
simply
a
legend
,
a
terror
;
in
the
afternoon
,
by
virtue
chiefly
of
Kemp
's
drily
worded
proclamation
,
he
was
presented
as
a
tangible
antagonist
,
to
be
wounded
,
captured
,
or
overcome
,
and
the
countryside
began
organising
itself
with
inconceivable
rapidity
.
By
two
o'clock
even
he
might
still
have
removed
himself
out
of
the
district
by
getting
aboard
a
train
,
but
after
two
that
became
impossible
.
Every
passenger
train
along
the
lines
on
a
great
parallelogram
between
Southampton
,
Manchester
,
Brighton
and
Horsham
,
travelled
with
locked
doors
,
and
the
goods
traffic
was
almost
entirely
suspended
.
And
in
a
great
circle
of
twenty
miles
round
Port
Burdock
,
men
armed
with
guns
and
bludgeons
were
presently
setting
out
in
groups
of
three
and
four
,
with
dogs
,
to
beat
the
roads
and
fields
.
Mounted
policemen
rode
along
the
country
lanes
,
stopping
at
every
cottage
and
warning
the
people
to
lock
up
their
houses
,
and
keep
indoors
unless
they
were
armed
,
and
all
the
elementary
schools
had
broken
up
by
three
o'clock
,
and
the
children
,
scared
and
keeping
together
in
groups
,
were
hurrying
home
.
Kemp
's
proclamation
--
signed
indeed
by
Adye
--
was
posted
over
almost
the
whole
district
by
four
or
five
o'clock
in
the
afternoon
.
It
gave
briefly
but
clearly
all
the
conditions
of
the
struggle
,
the
necessity
of
keeping
the
Invisible
Man
from
food
and
sleep
,
the
necessity
for
incessant
watchfulness
and
for
a
prompt
attention
to
any
evidence
of
his
movements
.
And
so
swift
and
decided
was
the
action
of
the
authorities
,
so
prompt
and
universal
was
the
belief
in
this
strange
being
,
that
before
nightfall
an
area
of
several
hundred
square
miles
was
in
a
stringent
state
of
siege
.
And
before
nightfall
,
too
,
a
thrill
of
horror
went
through
the
whole
watching
nervous
countryside
.
Going
from
whispering
mouth
to
mouth
,
swift
and
certain
over
the
length
and
breadth
of
the
country
,
passed
the
story
of
the
murder
of
Mr.
Wicksteed
.
If
our
supposition
that
the
Invisible
Man
's
refuge
was
the
Hintondean
thickets
,
then
we
must
suppose
that
in
the
early
afternoon
he
sallied
out
again
bent
upon
some
project
that
involved
the
use
of
a
weapon
.
We
can
not
know
what
the
project
was
,
but
the
evidence
that
he
had
the
iron
rod
in
hand
before
he
met
Wicksteed
is
to
me
at
least
overwhelming
.
