At Port Stowe
it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, In Which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J. A. Jaffers. Pretty straight story, eigh? Names and everything."
"Lord!" said Mr. Marvel, looking nervously about him, trying to count the money in his pockets by his unaided sense of touch, and full of a strange and novel idea. "It sounds most astonishing."
"Don't it? Extra-ordinary, I call it. Never heard tell of Invisible Men before, I haven't, but nowadays one hears such a lot of extraordinary things—that—"
"That all he did? " asked Marvel, trying to seem at his ease.
"It 's enough, ain't it? " said the Mariner.
"Did n't go Back by any chance?" asked Marvel. "Just escaped and that's all, eh?"
"All!" said the Mariner. "Why!— ain't it enough?"
"Quite enough," said Marvel.
"I should think it was enough," said the Mariner. " I should think it was enough."
"He did n't have any pals—it don't say he
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