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chair closed the door and suddenly, a sound of slamming the door and locking
were heard. This terrorized Mrs. Hall and she was about to fall down from the
stairs. She was convinced of the thought that there were spirits in her inn’s
room and that the stranger had caused this to happen.

She moaned that her mother used to sit in the chair which hit her legs and
thought that how could it rise up against her. The neighbours of Mrs. Hall
thought that it was witchcraft which had caused such a thing to happen.

When the news of the burglary at the clergyman’s house reached other people
in the town, everyone started suspecting the strange scientist. Suspicion grew
stronger on him when he produced ready cash for his payment at the inn even
though he had told sometime back that he did not have money and was
waiting for a cheque to arrive. The village constable was called for and Mrs.
Hall did not want to wait for him. She went straight to Griffin as he had
appeared from the empty bedroom at the inn. She asked him what he had
been doing upstairs to her chairs and furniture. She also asked him how did
he come out of the empty bedroom or enter the locked bedroom.
Horrified- filled with terror; extremely shocked.
Prevented- keep (something) from happening.
Magistrate- a civil officer who administers the law, especially one who
conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary
hearings for more serious ones.
Knocked- collide with (someone or something), giving them a hard blow.

The scientist became really angry and started shouting that they don't
understand who or what he was and decided to show them the truth. He
removed his bandages, whiskers, spectacles and also his nose. It took him
just a minute to do all this and the people in the bar were horrified as they
looked at the headless man. Mr. Jaffers, the constable of the village was
surprised as he saw that he had to arrest a man without any head.

But Jaffers still wanted to do his duty as he knew that the magistrate wanted
him to arrest the person and it did not matter that he had a head or not. As he
threw away more and more of his clothes, he became more and more invisible
and finally, after Griffin removed his shirt, he was nowhere to be seen and
Jaffers was struggling to arrest a man who had become completely invisible.

People who tried helping Jaffers were also struggling as they were hit by
blows from nowhere. As Jaffers made his last attempt to catch hold of the
invisible man, he was knocked unconscious by the invisible man. Everybody
was shouting “hold him” repeatedly but Griffin had set himself free from them
and nobody could understand how to catch him.
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