be in a hurry,' said Dr Kemp to himself. Then the running man was hidden behind some houses; he came into sight and disappeared again — still running. But those who were nearer to him saw the terror in his face. He looked neither to the right nor left, but his wide eyes stared straight down the hill to where the lamps were being lit and there were people crowding together in the street. Everybody he passed stopped and began staring up and down the road, and asking one another, half afraid, why the man was running so hard. And then, far up the hill, a dog playing in the road growled and ran under a gate, and something — a wind — a noise of feet, a sound like heavy breathing — rushed by. People cried out. People jumped off the footpath. They shouted as the thing rushed past them down the hill, and they were still shouting in the street before Marvel was halfway there. They were running into houses with the news and shutting the doors behind them. He heard it, and ran even faster. Fear came hurrying by, rushed ahead of him, and in a moment had seized the town. 'The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man?
Chapter 14 In the Happy Cricketers
At the bottom of the hill was an inn called the Happy Cricketers. Inside, the barman leant his fat red arms on the table and talked about horses with a cabman, while a black-bearded man who spoke like an American talked to a policeman. 'What's the shouting about?' said the cabman, trying to see up the hill over the dirty yellow curtains in the low window of the inn. Somebody ran past outside. 'Fire, perhaps,' said the barman.
be in a hurry,' said Dr Kemp to himself. Then the running man was hidden behind some houses; he came into sight and disappeared again — still running. But those who were nearer to him saw the terror in his face. He looked neither to the right nor left, but his wide eyes stared straight down the hill to where the lamps were being lit and there were people crowding together in the street. Everybody he passed stopped and began staring up and down the road, and asking one another, half afraid, why the man was running so hard. And then, far up the hill, a dog playing in the road growled and ran under a gate, and something — a wind — a noise of feet, a sound like heavy breathing — rushed by. People cried out. People jumped off the footpath. They shouted as the thing rushed past them down the hill, and they were still shouting in the street before Marvel was halfway there. They were running into houses with the news and shutting the doors behind them. He heard it, and ran even faster. Fear came hurrying by, rushed ahead of him, and in a moment had seized the town. 'The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man? Chapter 14 In the Happy Cricketers At the bottom of the hill was an inn called the Happy Cricketers. Inside, the barman leant his fat red arms on the table and talked about horses with a cabman, while a black-bearded man who spoke like an American talked to a policeman. 'What's the shouting about?' said the cabman, trying to see up the hill over the dirty yellow curtains in the low window of the inn. Somebody ran past outside. 'Fire, perhaps,' said the barman.
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