CHAPTER XI

IN THE "COACH AND HORSES"

Now in order clearly to understand what had happened in the inn, it

is necessary to go back to the moment when Mr. Marvel first came

into view of Mr. Huxter's window.

At that precise moment Mr. Cuss and Mr. Bunting were in the parlour.

They were seriously investigating the strange occurrences of the

morning, and were, with Mr. Hall's permission, making a thorough

examination of the Invisible Man's belongings. Jaffers had partially

recovered from his fall and had gone home in the charge of his

sympathetic friends. The stranger's scattered garments had been

removed by Mrs. Hall and the room tidied up. And on the table under

the window where the stranger had been wont to work, Cuss had hit

almost at once on three big books in manuscript labelled "Diary."

Diary!" said Cuss, putting the three books on the table. "Now, at

any rate, we shall learn something." The Vicar stood with his hands

on the table.

Diary," repeated Cuss, sitting down, putting two volumes to

support the third, and opening it. "H'm--no name on the fly-leaf.

Bother!--cypher. And figures."

The Invisible Man