The Invisible Man | Chapter 14 : At Port Stowe | Summary

Marvel and Griffin go to Port Stowe. While Griffin steals coins from a banking company, shops, and inns, Marvel sits on a bench outside an inn. An elderly mariner joins him and tells Marvel about a newspaper story of an invisible man in the area. Marvel quizzes him to find out if the article mentions the Invisible Man's having any pals. After checking to make sure the Invisible Man is not present, Marvel tells the mariner he has information about the Invisible Man. Before he can confide in him, Griffin assaults his ear. Marvel informs the mariner that the reports of an invisible man are a hoax as Griffin pulls him away.

The mariner watches as Marvel is "suddenly whirled about" and moves "in a curious spasmodic manner" and with "occasional violent jerks." He observes Marvel's walking down the road talking to himself in a way suggesting "protests and recriminations." Later that day, the elderly mariner hears a report about "a fist full of money traveling selling without visible agency" and a man who grabbed at the money, only to be knocked down.

The Invisible Man | Chapter 13 : Mr. Marvel Discusses His Resignation | Summary

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Mr. Marvel was marching painfully to Bramblehurst. He carried
three books bound together and a bundle wrapped in a blue tablecloth. He looked all tired and anxious. A voice accompanied him all
the time. He tried to flee, though he claimed he did not. The voice
warned him that he would be killed if he tried to give a slip.
The 'Invisible Man' was all upset thinking that all the happenings
would find a place in the newspapers and he would be searched
about everywhere. He wanted to use Marvel as a tool though Marvel
thought that he was a weak tool and could not be of much help
to the voice.
Marvel told the 'Invisible Man' that he was too weak to be of any
substantial help. Moreover, he might mess his plans. It would be better
if death becomes his pal and free him from the pain and helplessness.
Marvel's arguments cut no ice as they had no effect on the
'Invisible Man'. The 'Invisible Man threatened him to do as was
told and not to make lame excuses for resignation. Marvel carrying
the burden on his body and the burden of threat in his heart, had to
obey the mighty 'Invisible Man' willy-nilly. He passed up the street
of the village and was in total ignorance of his future.

The Invisible Man | Chapter 12 : The Invisible Man Loses His Temper | Summary

Mr. Hall and Teddy Henfrey hear unusual sounds coming from the parlor and smell an "unpleasant chemical odour." They rap on the door and ask if everything is all right. Although Bunting replies it is and tells them not to interrupt, Hall and Henfrey are not reassured. They continue to eavesdrop and hear bits of an agitated conversation and what "sounds like throwing the table-cloth about." Mrs. Hall catches the two eavesdroppers, and before she can send them on their way, she sees a door across from the inn open. Huxter, the shopkeeper, appears and calls out, "Stop thief!" and then runs across the yard.

Everyone in the tap except Mrs. Hall rushes outside and sees Huxter make a "complicated leap in the air" and fall down. People on the street join the crowd and chase after Marvel. Griffin stays behind and tackles Mr. Hall, a laborer, and three passersby. He throws Hall through the air, trips the laborer, and tackles the others. The fallen men are then "kicked, knelt on, fallen over and cursed" by the crowd chasing after Marvel.

Inside the inn, a trouser-less Cuss rushes out of the parlor and calls for people to hold Griffin. He tells them, "Don't let him drop the parcel! You can see him so long as he holds the parcel." Unbeknownst to Cuss, Griffin has already passed the parcel to his accomplice and is no longer visible. Once outside, Cuss "join[s] the tumult," where he, too, is "knocked off his feet into an indecorous sprawl."

Griffin then goes on a rampage. He destroys the festival booths, breaks all the inn's windows, and hurls a streetlamp through a window before leaving Iping for good. The villagers flee to hiding places and the streets remain deserted for "the best part of two hours before any human being venture[s] out again."

The Invisible Man | Chapter 11 : In the Coach and Horses | Summary

Cuss and Bunting are in Griffin's rooms, examining items he left behind in order to understand the earlier events of the day and to investigate Griffin. They discover three books titled "Diary." They attempt to read one of the diaries but are unable to decipher the letters and symbols. Cuss surmises some of it is written in Greek and suggests Bunting can read it. As they discuss this, Marvel knocks on the door and enters the room. He says, "Stand clear!" and then leaves. Cuss and Bunting assume the intruder is a sailor who accidentally entered the room, and Cuss locks the door. As he does, someone sniffs.

As Bunting bends his head to pore over a book, he feels a pressure on the back of his neck and hears a voice whisper, "Don't move, little men ... or I'll brain you both!" Griffin had entered the room with Marvel. He chides the men—as he pushes both of their heads toward the table—for invading "an investigator's private memoranda" and his "private rooms" and demands to know where his clothes are. After threatening the men by telling them he could "kill [them] both and get away quite easily," he promises to let them go unharmed if they do what he says. He tells them he needs clothing, accommodation, and his three books.

The Invisible Man | Chapter 10 : Mr. Marvel's Visit to Iping | Summary

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The villagers in Iping engage in the Whit Monday festivities, seemingly unconcerned about the events earlier in the day. The narrator says, for them, "It is so much easier not to believe in an invisible man." An injured Jeffers rests in the Coach and Horses parlor, and Mr. Wadgers retreats behind the locked doors of his house. Around four o'clock Marvel enters the village and goes to the Coach and Horses. He climbs the steps, opens the parlor door, and leaves when Mr. Hall tells him the bar is in another room. Marvel walks to the yard "upon which the parlor window opened" in "an oddly furtive manner," and leans against a gatepost and smokes. He then reappears, carrying three books and a bundle tied in a blue cloth.

His odd manner attracts Mr. Huxley's attention. When he sees the strange man go into the yard, he chases after him. Griffin, an unseen force, stops Mr. Huxley. He catches Huxley's shin "in some mysterious fashion" so "he [is] no longer running" but flying through the air, then landing on the ground

Character Sketch Of Mr. Marvel | The invisible Man | Chapter 9

Mr. Marvel is a unique figure, bearded, plump and short of
limbs. His very sight can make anybody get amused. He wears
funny silk hat, twine, and shoelaces, substitute for buttons at initial
points of his robes. He is a jolly old tramp, resourceless and lives
perhaps on charity. He does drink and that too perhaps to forget
his pitiable condition. In spite of his tattered condition, he looks
somewhat satisfied and tries to enjoy his stay in the midst of nature.
He is a fickle minded person. When he is threatened by the invisible
man, he changes his mind to help him. This fickle-mindedness
makes him a practical man and he knows how to make best of the
prevailing condition. He does know that an invisible man is a man
of power and can do anything. He accedes to his demand and gets
ready to help him. He is not stubborn and he cannot afford to be so.
He easily submits to some temptations put before him. He appears
to be an interesting character.

The Invisible Man | Chapter 8 : In Transit | Summary

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Gibbons, a non-professional expert in natural history was lying on
the big open downs. Within a couple of miles, there was not a trace
of a human being. He was dozing. Suddenly he heard the sound of
a man sneezing, coughing and then sweating savagely. He looked
up but no trace of anyone present over there. The voice continued
to swear and the words used by the voice were definitely from the
mouth of a refined and civilized man. It grew to a climax and then
it diminished, inch by inch, and died away in the distance, going
in the direction of Adderdean. It finally came to a silence with
choked sneeze. Gibbons had no knowledge about the bizarre
happenings at Iping. He got disturbed by the strange occurrence.
He got up and hurried down the hill towards Iping.