in trade of a sweetstuff stall. Everywhere there is a sound of

closing shutters and shoving bolts, and the only visible humanity

is an occasional flitting eye under a raised eyebrow in the corner

of a window pane.

The Invisible Man amused himself for a little while by breaking all

the windows in the "Coach and Horses," and then he thrust a street

lamp through the parlour window of Mrs. Gribble. He it must have

been who cut the telegraph wire to Adderdean just beyond Higgins'

cottage on the Adderdean road. And after that, as his peculiar

qualities allowed, he passed out of human perceptions altogether,

and he was neither heard, seen, nor felt in Iping any more. He

vanished absolutely.

But it was the best part of two hours before any human being

ventured out again into the desolation of Iping street.