The Invisible Man
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28H. G. Wells Hall passed her husband in the passage and ran on first upstairs. Someonesneezed on the staircase. Hall, following six steps behind, thought that heheard her sneeze. She, going on first, was under the impression that Hallwas sneezing. She flung open the door and stood regarding the room. “Ofall the curious!” she said.She heard a sniff close behind her head as it seemed, and turning, wassurprised to see Hall a dozen feet off on the topmost stair. But in anothermoment he was beside her. She bent forward and put her hand on thepillow and then under the clothes.“Cold,” she said. “He’s been up this hour or more.”As she did so, a most extraordinary thing happened. The bed-clothesgathered themselves together, leapt up suddenly into a sort of peak, andthen jumped headlong over the bottom rail. It was exactly as if a hand hadclutched them in the centre and flung them aside. Immediately after, thestranger’s hat hopped off the bed-post, described a whirling flight in the airthrough the better part of a circle, and then dashed straight at Mrs. Hall’sface. Then as swiftly came the sponge from the washstand; and then thechair, flinging the stranger’s coat and trousers carelessly aside, and laughingdrily in a voice singularly like the stranger’s, turned itself up with its fourlegs at Mrs. Hall, seemed to take aim at her for a moment, and charged ather. She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently butfirmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room. Thedoor slammed violently and was locked. The chair and bed seemed to beexecuting a dance of triumph for a moment, and then abruptly everythingwas still.Mrs. Hall was left almost in a fainting condition in Mr. Hall’s arms onthe landing. It was with the greatest difficulty that Mr. Hall and Millie,who had been roused by her scream of alarm, succeeded in getting herdownstairs, and applying the restoratives customary in such cases.“‘Tas sperits,” ...
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