Summary of chapter 6 footprints

An eccentric scientist, Griffin, discovered a potent to become invisible. He swallowed certain drugs, discovered by him, and his body become as transparent as the sheet of glass though remained as solid as glass. Though Griffin was brilliant, he was lawless. His landlord dislike him and try to eject him so in Revenge he set fire to his house. To get away, without being seen, remove his clothes and bonded around on the streets of London, naked, in the winter chill, until he stepped in some mud and two boys noticed fresh muddy imprints of a pair of bare feet on the steps of a house. They followed the implants which appeared from nowhere, progressing down the street, till they disappeared completely. Being mid winter and bittery cold, Griffin could not do without clothes so he slipped inside a big London Store. When it closed, he fitted himself with warm clothes, shoes and hat. He then stole food from the kitchen of the restaurant and went off to sleep on a pile of quilts. In the morning, when he woke up, he saw a couple of assistants in the store, panicked and began to run. They chased him so to escape from them he became invisible again, by removing his newly found clothes. Shivering with cold, he hurried to Drury Lane, the centre of the theatre world, hoping to get a suitable disguise. He entered shop which sold costumes and came out wearing bandages around his forehead, dark glasses, false nose, big bushy side-whiskers, and a large hat. To escape unnoticed, he attacked the shopkeeper from behind and robbed him of all the money he could find. He then took a train to Iping village to avoid crowded London. He booked two rooms at the local Inn and told, Mrs Hall, the landlord's wife, who was trying to be friendly with him, that his face had been affected in an accident so he had come to Iping for solitude and did not want to be disturbed. Satisfied that has guest was an eccentric scientist, she prepared to excuse his strange habits and irritable temper. The stolen money did not last long so Griffin stole the housekeeping money from the clergyman. He and his wife was surprised to see that there wasn't a sign of anybody in the room yet the desk in the study had been opened and the money missing. Mrs Hall and her husband found the door of Griffin's room, which was usually shut and locked, open, so they peeped round the door, saw nobody inside and so decided to investigate. The bed clothes were cold, showing that the scientist had been up for sometime. They found the bandages and clothes, which he wore, lying about the room. Suddenly Mrs Hall heard a sniff close to her ears and a little later the hat on the bedpost leapt up and dashed into her face, the bedroom chair sprung into the air and charged at her, pushing them out of the room. The door slammed shut and locked itself after them. The Neighbours thought it was witchcraft but Mrs Hall's suspicion on Griffin for the theft at the clergyman's house, grew stronger, when he suddenly produced some ready cash, which he had earlier admitted he had none. Mrs Hall confronted Griffin, who became furious, threw of his bandages, whiskers, spectacles and even his nose. The horrified people, on seeing headless man, informed Jaffer the constable, who ended up jostling with a man becoming more and more invisible by discarding his clothes. He was helped by other people who were hit by blows that came out of nowhere. Jaffer was knocked unconscious, and Griffin wrenched himself free from the clutches of those, who were helping Jaffer to catch him, and escaped.