"There were excited cries of "Hold him!" "Invisible!" and so forth and a young fellow a stranger in the place whose name did not come to light rushed in at once caught something missed his hold and fell over the constable's prostrate body. Half-way across the road a woman screamed as something pushed by her; a dog kicked apparently yelped and ran howling into Huxter's yard and with that the transit of the Invisible Man was accomplished. For a space people stood amazed and gesticulating and then came panic and scattered them abroad through the village as a gust scatters dead leaves. But Jaffers lay quite still face upward and knees bent at the foot of the steps of the inn."