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I
have
told
the
circumstances
of
the
stranger
's
arrival
in
Iping
with
a
certain
fulness
of
detail
,
in
order
that
the
curious
impression
he
created
may
be
understood
by
the
reader
.
But
excepting
two
odd
incidents
,
the
circumstances
of
his
stay
until
the
extraordinary
day
of
the
club
festival
may
be
passed
over
very
cursorily
.
There
were
a
number
of
skirmishes
with
Mrs.
Hall
on
matters
of
domestic
discipline
,
but
in
every
case
until
late
April
,
when
the
first
signs
of
penury
began
,
he
over-rode
her
by
the
easy
expedient
of
an
extra
payment
.
Hall
did
not
like
him
,
and
whenever
he
dared
he
talked
of
the
advisability
of
getting
rid
of
him
;
but
he
showed
his
dislike
chiefly
by
concealing
it
ostentatiously
,
and
avoiding
his
visitor
as
much
as
possible
.
"
Wait
till
the
summer
,
"
said
Mrs.
Hall
sagely
,
"
when
the
artisks
are
beginning
to
come
.
Then
we
'll
see
.
He
may
be
a
bit
overbearing
,
but
bills
settled
punctual
is
bills
settled
punctual
,
whatever
you
'd
like
to
say
.
"
The
stranger
did
not
go
to
church
,
and
indeed
made
no
difference
between
Sunday
and
the
irreligious
days
,
even
in
costume
.
He
worked
,
as
Mrs.
Hall
thought
,
very
fitfully
.
Some
days
he
would
come
down
early
and
be
continuously
busy
.
On
others
he
would
rise
late
,
pace
his
room
,
fretting
audibly
for
hours
together
,
smoke
,
sleep
in
the
armchair
by
the
fire
.
Communication
with
the
world
beyond
the
village
he
had
none
.
His
temper
continued
very
uncertain
;
for
the
most
part
his
manner
was
that
of
a
man
suffering
under
almost
unendurable
provocation
,
and
once
or
twice
things
were
snapped
,
torn
,
crushed
,
or
broken
in
spasmodic
gusts
of
violence
.
He
seemed
under
a
chronic
irritation
of
the
greatest
intensity
.
His
habit
of
talking
to
himself
in
a
low
voice
grew
steadily
upon
him
,
but
though
Mrs.
Hall
listened
conscientiously
she
could
make
neither
head
nor
tail
of
what
she
heard
.
He
rarely
went
abroad
by
daylight
,
but
at
twilight
he
would
go
out
muffled
up
invisibly
,
whether
the
weather
were
cold
or
not
,
and
he
chose
the
loneliest
paths
and
those
most
overshadowed
by
trees
and
banks
.
His
goggling
spectacles
and
ghastly
bandaged
face
under
the
penthouse
of
his
hat
,
came
with
a
disagreeable
suddenness
out
of
the
darkness
upon
one
or
two
home-going
labourers
,
and
Teddy
Henfrey
,
tumbling
out
of
the
"
Scarlet
Coat
"
one
night
,
at
half-past
nine
,
was
scared
shamefully
by
the
stranger
's
skull-like
head
(
he
was
walking
hat
in
hand
)
lit
by
the
sudden
light
of
the
opened
inn
door
.
Such
children
as
saw
him
at
nightfall
dreamt
of
bogies
,
and
it
seemed
doubtful
whether
he
disliked
boys
more
than
they
disliked
him
,
or
the
reverse
;
but
there
was
certainly
a
vivid
enough
dislike
on
either
side
.
It
was
inevitable
that
a
person
of
so
remarkable
an
appearance
and
bearing
should
form
a
frequent
topic
in
such
a
village
as
Iping
.
Opinion
was
greatly
divided
about
his
occupation
.
Mrs.
Hall
was
sensitive
on
the
point
.
When
questioned
,
she
explained
very
carefully
that
he
was
an
"
experimental
investigator
,
"
going
gingerly
over
the
syllables
as
one
who
dreads
pitfalls
.
When
asked
what
an
experimental
investigator
was
,
she
would
say
with
a
touch
of
superiority
that
most
educated
people
knew
such
things
as
that
,
and
would
thus
explain
that
he
"
discovered
things
.
"
Her
visitor
had
had
an
accident
,
she
said
,
which
temporarily
discoloured
his
face
and
hands
,
and
being
of
a
sensitive
disposition
,
he
was
averse
to
any
public
notice
of
the
fact
.
Out
of
her
hearing
there
was
a
view
largely
entertained
that
he
was
a
criminal
trying
to
escape
from
justice
by
wrapping
himself
up
so
as
to
conceal
himself
altogether
from
the
eye
of
the
police
.
This
idea
sprang
from
the
brain
of
Mr.
Teddy
Henfrey
.
No
crime
of
any
magnitude
dating
from
the
middle
or
end
of
February
was
known
to
have
occurred
.
Elaborated
in
the
imagination
of
Mr.
Gould
,
the
probationary
assistant
in
the
National
School
,
this
theory
took
the
form
that
the
stranger
was
an
Anarchist
in
disguise
,
preparing
explosives
,
and
he
resolved
to
undertake
such
detective
operations
as
his
time
permitted
.
These
consisted
for
the
most
part
in
looking
very
hard
at
the
stranger
whenever
they
met
,
or
in
asking
people
who
had
never
seen
the
stranger
,
leading
questions
about
him
.
But
he
detected
nothing
.
Another
school
of
opinion
followed
Mr.
Fearenside
,
and
either
accepted
the
piebald
view
or
some
modification
of
it
;
as
,
for
instance
,
Silas
Durgan
,
who
was
heard
to
assert
that
"
if
he
chooses
to
show
enself
at
fairs
he
'd
make
his
fortune
in
no
time
,
"
and
being
a
bit
of
a
theologian
,
compared
the
stranger
to
the
man
with
the
one
talent
.
Yet
another
view
explained
the
entire
matter
by
regarding
the
stranger
as
a
harmless
lunatic
.
That
had
the
advantage
of
accounting
for
everything
straight
away
.
Between
these
main
groups
there
were
waverers
and
compromisers
.
Sussex
folk
have
few
superstitions
,
and
it
was
only
after
the
events
of
early
April
that
the
thought
of
the
supernatural
was
first
whispered
in
the
village
.
Even
then
it
was
only
credited
among
the
women
folk
.
But
whatever
they
thought
of
him
,
people
in
Iping
,
on
the
whole
,
agreed
in
disliking
him
.
His
irritability
,
though
it
might
have
been
comprehensible
to
an
urban
brain-worker
,
was
an
amazing
thing
to
these
quiet
Sussex
villagers
.
The
frantic
gesticulations
they
surprised
now
and
then
,
the
headlong
pace
after
nightfall
that
swept
him
upon
them
round
quiet
corners
,
the
inhuman
bludgeoning
of
all
tentative
advances
of
curiosity
,
the
taste
for
twilight
that
led
to
the
closing
of
doors
,
the
pulling
down
of
blinds
,
the
extinction
of
candles
and
lamps
--
who
could
agree
with
such
goings
on
?
They
drew
aside
as
he
passed
down
the
village
,
and
when
he
had
gone
by
,
young
humourists
would
up
with
coat-collars
and
down
with
hat-brims
,
and
go
pacing
nervously
after
him
in
imitation
of
his
occult
bearing
.
There
was
a
song
popular
at
that
time
called
"
The
Bogey
Man
"
.
Miss
Statchell
sang
it
at
the
schoolroom
concert
(
in
aid
of
the
church
lamps
)
,
and
thereafter
whenever
one
or
two
of
the
villagers
were
gathered
together
and
the
stranger
appeared
,
a
bar
or
so
of
this
tune
,
more
or
less
sharp
or
flat
,
was
whistled
in
the
midst
of
them
.
Also
belated
little
children
would
call
"
Bogey
Man
!
"
after
him
,
and
make
off
tremulously
elated
.
