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."
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