“When I say here ,” said the mariner, to Mr. Marvel’s intense relief, “I don’t of course mean here in this place, I mean hereabouts.”

“An invisible man!” said Mr. Marvel. “And what’s he been up to?”

“Everything,” said the mariner, controlling Marvel with his eye, and then amplifying, “every⁠—blessed⁠—thing.”

“I ain’t seen a paper these four days,” said Marvel.

“ Iping ’s the place he started at,” said the mariner.