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."