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.
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