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00:00:00Music
00:00:29man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile. Cold, scanty, and embarrassed in
00:00:36discourse, backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dreary, and yet somehow lovable. At friendly
00:00:44meetings and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye,
00:00:50something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in the silent
00:00:55symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often than loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere
00:01:02with himself, drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages, and though he enjoyed
00:01:08the theatre, he had not crossed the doors of one for 20 years. But he had an approved tolerance for
00:01:15others, sometimes wondering almost with envy at the high pressure of spirits involved in their
00:01:21misdeeds, and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. In his character, it was
00:01:28frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance in the lives of down-going men.
00:01:35It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of
00:01:41opportunity, and that was the lawyer's way. Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him to Mr. Richard
00:01:49Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man-about-town. It was reported by those who
00:01:56encountered them in their Sunday walks that they said nothing, looked singularly dull and would
00:02:01hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend. It chanced on one of these rambles that their way
00:02:08led them down a by-street in the busy quarter of London. The street, with its freshly painted shutters,
00:02:15well-polished brasses and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of
00:02:21the passenger. Two doors from one corner, however, the line was broken by the entry of a court, and just
00:02:30at that point a certain sinister block of building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was two
00:02:37stories high, showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story, and a blind forehead of discoloured
00:02:44wall on the upper, and bore in every feature and marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.
00:02:52Did you ever remark that door? asked Mr. Enfield, and when his companion had replied in the affirmative,
00:02:59it is connected in my mind, added he, with a very odd story.
00:03:04Indeed? said Mr. Utterson, with a slight change of voice. And what was that?
00:03:11Well, it was this way, returned Mr. Enfield. I was coming home from some place at the end of the world,
00:03:18about three o'clock of a black winter morning, when all at once I saw two figures. One, a little man who
00:03:25was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and the other, a girl of maybe eight or ten, who was running as hard as was able
00:03:32down a cross street. Well, the two ran into each other, naturally enough, at the corner, and then
00:03:37became the horrible part of the thing, for the man trampled calmly over the child's body and left her screaming on the ground.
00:03:46It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see. It wasn't like a man. It was like some damned juggernaut.
00:04:00I gave a shout, collared my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was already quite a group
00:04:04about the screaming child. He was perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one look,
00:04:11so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running. The people who had turned out were the
00:04:17girl's own family, and pretty soon the doctor for whom she had been sent put in his appearance.
00:04:24The doctor was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary, with a strong Edinburgh accent and about as emotional
00:04:29as a bagpipe. Well, sir, every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw him turn sick and white with
00:04:36desire to kill him. I knew what was in his mind, just as he knew what was in mine.
00:04:41And killing, being out of the question, we did the next best. We told the man that we could and would
00:04:47make such a scandal out of this, as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
00:04:52If he had any friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them.
00:04:57And all the time, as we were pitching it red-hot, we were keeping the women off him as best we could,
00:05:02for they were as wild as harpies. I never saw a circle of such hateful faces.
00:05:06And there was the man in the middle, with a kind of black, sneering coolness.
00:05:13Frightened, too, I could see that, but carrying it off, sir. Really, like Satan.
00:05:20If you choose to make capital out of this accident, said he, I am naturally helpless.
00:05:28No gentleman, but wishes to avoid a scene, says he.
00:05:35Name your figure.
00:05:37Well, we screwed him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family.
00:05:40The next thing was to get the money.
00:05:46And where do you think he carried us but to that place with the door?
00:05:50Whipped out a key, went in, and presently came back with a matter of ten pounds in gold
00:05:55and check for the balance on coots, drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can't mention,
00:06:02although it is one of the points of my story.
00:06:04But it was a name at least very well known and often printed.
00:06:07Toot, toot, said Mr. Utterson.
00:06:12I see you feel as I do, said Mr. Enfield.
00:06:16Yes, it is a bad story, for my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with.
00:06:20A really damnable man.
00:06:22And the person that drew the check is on the very pink of the proprieties.
00:06:27The pair walked on again for a while, in silence.
00:06:32Mr. Utterson then asked rather suddenly,
00:06:35I want to ask the name of that man who walked over the child.
00:06:40Well, said Mr. Enfield, I can't see what harm it would do.
00:06:46It was a man of the name of Hyde.
00:06:50Mr. Utterson sighed deeply, but never said a word more.
00:06:54That evening, Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in the somber spirits and went into his business room.
00:07:03There he opened his safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Henry Jekyll's will,
00:07:11and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
00:07:15The will was holograph for Mr. Utterson, though he took charge of it now that it was made,
00:07:21had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it.
00:07:24It provided not only that in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll, MD, DCL, LOD, FRS, etc.,
00:07:31all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his friend and benefactor, Edward Hyde,
00:07:37but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months,
00:07:44that the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay.
00:07:50This document had long been the lawyer's eyesore.
00:07:57It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life,
00:08:02to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
00:08:05And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had swelled his indignation.
00:08:10Now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge.
00:08:14I thought it was madness, he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe.
00:08:21And now I begin to fear it is disgrace.
00:08:25A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune,
00:08:28Dr. Jekyll gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies,
00:08:32all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine.
00:08:36And Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.
00:08:41Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well.
00:08:46And to this rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception.
00:08:49And has he now sat opposite sides of the fire,
00:08:51a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty,
00:08:54with something of a stylish cast, perhaps,
00:08:57but every mark of capacity and kindness.
00:09:00You could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson
00:09:03a sincere and warm affection.
00:09:07I've been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll, began the latter.
00:09:10You know that will of yours?
00:09:14A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful,
00:09:18but the doctor carried it off gaily.
00:09:20Oh, my poor Utterson, said he.
00:09:23You are unfortunate in such a client.
00:09:26I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will.
00:09:30You know I never approved of it, pursued Utterson.
00:09:34My will? Yes, certainly, I know that, said the doctor a trifle sharply.
00:09:40You have told me so.
00:09:42Well, I'll tell you so again, continued the lawyer.
00:09:45I have been learning something of young Hyde.
00:09:50The large, handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips,
00:09:55and there came a blackness about his eyes.
00:09:58I do not care to hear more, said he.
00:10:03This is a matter I thought that we had agreed to drop.
00:10:07What I heard was abominable, said Utterson.
00:10:12Well, I can make no change.
00:10:15You do not understand my position, returned the doctor,
00:10:18with a certain incoherency of manner.
00:10:22Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
00:10:25I have no doubt that you are perfectly right,
00:10:30he said at last, getting to his feet.
00:10:33But, uh, since we have touched upon this business,
00:10:38and for the last time, I hope, continued the doctor,
00:10:42there is one point I should like you to understand.
00:10:44If I am taken away, Utterson,
00:10:48I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him
00:10:51and get his rights for him.
00:10:54I only ask you to help him for my sake,
00:10:58when I am no longer here.
00:11:02Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh.
00:11:05Well, said he,
00:11:07I promise.
00:11:29Nearly a year later,
00:11:31London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity,
00:11:35and rendered all the more notable
00:11:37by the high position of the victim.
00:11:40The details were few and startling.
00:11:43A maidservant, living alone in a house
00:11:45not far from the river,
00:11:47had gone upstairs to bed about eleven.
00:11:49Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours,
00:11:52the early part of the night was cloudless,
00:11:55and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked,
00:11:57was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
00:12:00It seems she was romantically given,
00:12:03for she sat down upon her box,
00:12:05which stood immediately under the window,
00:12:08and fell into a dream of musing.
00:12:11And as she so sat,
00:12:13she became aware of an aged, beautiful gentleman
00:12:16with white hair,
00:12:18drawing near along the lane,
00:12:19and advancing to meet him,
00:12:21another and very small gentleman.
00:12:25Presently, her eye wandered to the other,
00:12:29and she was surprised to recognize in him
00:12:32a certain Mr. Hyde,
00:12:34who had once visited her master,
00:12:36and for whom she had conceived a dislike.
00:12:40He had in his hand a heavy cane,
00:12:42with which he was trifling,
00:12:43but he answered never a word,
00:12:45and seemed to listen with ill-contained impatience.
00:12:49And then, all of a sudden,
00:12:50he broke out in a great flame of anger,
00:12:54stamping with his foot,
00:12:56brandishing the cane,
00:12:57and carrying on like a madman.
00:13:01And next moment,
00:13:02with ape-like fury,
00:13:05he was trampling his victim underfoot,
00:13:07and hailing down a storm of blows,
00:13:10under which the bones were audibly shattered.
00:13:13At the horror of these sights and sounds,
00:13:17the maid fainted.
00:13:19It was two o'clock when she came to herself
00:13:26and called for the police.
00:13:28The murderer was gone long ago,
00:13:30but there lay his victim,
00:13:32in the middle of the lane,
00:13:34incredibly mangled.
00:13:36The stick with which the deed had been done,
00:13:39although it was of some rare
00:13:41and very tough and heavy wood,
00:13:43had broken in the middle,
00:13:45under the stress of this incensate cruelty.
00:13:49and one splintered half
00:13:51had rolled in the neighbouring gutter.
00:13:53The other, without doubt,
00:13:54had been carried away by the murderer.
00:13:58A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim,
00:14:01but no cards or papers,
00:14:04except a sealed and stamped envelope,
00:14:07which he'd been probably carrying to the post,
00:14:09and which bore the name and address of Mr Utterson.
00:14:19This was brought to the lawyer the next morning.
00:14:23And with his same grave countenance,
00:14:25he hurried through his breakfast
00:14:26and drove to the police station,
00:14:29whither the body had been carried.
00:14:31And as soon as he came into the cell,
00:14:33he nodded.
00:14:36Yes, he said.
00:14:39I recognise him.
00:14:41I am sorry to say that this is Sir Danvers Carew.
00:14:46Good God, sir, exclaimed the police officer.
00:14:49Is it possible?
00:14:51And the next moment,
00:14:52his eyes lighted up with professional ambition.
00:14:55Oh, perhaps you can help us to the man.
00:14:57And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen
00:15:00and showed the broken stick.
00:15:04Mr Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde.
00:15:07But when the stick was laid before him,
00:15:10he could doubt no longer.
00:15:12Broken and battered as it was,
00:15:14he recognised it for one that he had himself
00:15:17presented many years before
00:15:18to Henry Jekyll.
00:15:23It was late in the afternoon
00:15:25when Mr Utterson found his way
00:15:27to Dr Jekyll's door,
00:15:29where he was at once admitted by Poole,
00:15:32the butler,
00:15:33and carried down by the kitchen offices
00:15:35across a yard,
00:15:36which had once been a garden,
00:15:38to the building,
00:15:39which was indifferently known
00:15:40as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.
00:15:44It was the first time that the lawyer
00:15:46had been received
00:15:47in that part of his friend's quarters.
00:15:49And he eyed the dingy, windowless structure
00:15:52with curiosity and gazed around
00:15:54with a distasteful sense of strangeness
00:15:57as he crossed the theatre.
00:15:59At the further end,
00:16:01a flight of stairs mounted to a door
00:16:03covered with red bays,
00:16:05and through this,
00:16:07Mr Utterson was at last received
00:16:08into the doctor's cabinet.
00:16:11A fire burned in the grate,
00:16:14a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf,
00:16:16and for even in the houses
00:16:18the fog began to lie thickly.
00:16:20And there,
00:16:21close to the warmth,
00:16:23sat Dr Jekyll,
00:16:25looking deathly sick.
00:16:27He did not rise to meet his visitor,
00:16:29but held out a cold hand
00:16:31and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
00:16:35And now,
00:16:36said Mr Utterson,
00:16:38as soon as Poole had left them,
00:16:40you've heard the news.
00:16:42The doctor shuddered.
00:16:44They were crying it in the square,
00:16:47he said.
00:16:48I heard them in my dining room.
00:16:51One word,
00:16:53said the lawyer.
00:16:54Carew was my client,
00:16:55but so are you,
00:16:57and I want to know what I'm doing.
00:16:59You'd not be mad enough
00:17:00to hide this fellow.
00:17:03Utterson, I swear to God,
00:17:05cried the doctor.
00:17:06I swear to God,
00:17:07I will never set eyes on him again.
00:17:10And indeed,
00:17:11he doesn't want my help.
00:17:12You do not know him as I do.
00:17:17He's safe.
00:17:18He's quite safe.
00:17:19And mark my words,
00:17:21he will never more be heard of.
00:17:25The lawyer listened gloomily.
00:17:28He did not like his friend's feverish manner.
00:17:30You seem pretty sure of him,
00:17:34said he,
00:17:35and for your sake,
00:17:36I thought you may be right.
00:17:38If he came to trial,
00:17:39your name might appear.
00:17:41I am quite sure of him,
00:17:44replied Jekyll.
00:17:45I have grounds for certainty
00:17:46that I cannot share with anyone.
00:17:50But there is one thing
00:17:51on which you may advise me.
00:17:52I have...
00:17:54I have received a letter,
00:17:57and I am at a loss
00:17:58whether I should show it
00:17:59to the police.
00:18:00I should like to leave it
00:18:02in your hands,
00:18:03Utterson.
00:18:04You would judge wisely.
00:18:06I am sure I have
00:18:08so great a trust in you.
00:18:12You fear, I suppose,
00:18:13it might lead to his detection,
00:18:16asked the lawyer.
00:18:18No.
00:18:19I cannot say that I care
00:18:20what becomes of Hyde.
00:18:23I'm quite done with him.
00:18:26I was thinking of my own character,
00:18:29which this hateful business
00:18:31has rather exposed.
00:18:36Utterson ruminated a while.
00:18:40He was surprised
00:18:41at his friend's selfishness,
00:18:43and yet he was relieved by it.
00:18:46Well?
00:18:47He said at last,
00:18:48let me see the letter.
00:18:50The letter was written
00:18:52in an odd upright hand
00:18:54and signed Edward Hyde,
00:18:56and it signified,
00:18:57briefly enough,
00:18:58that the writer's benefactor,
00:18:59Dr Jekyll,
00:19:00whom he had so long
00:19:02unworthily repaid
00:19:04for a thousand generosities,
00:19:06need labour under no alarm
00:19:07for his safety
00:19:08as he had means of escape
00:19:10on which he placed
00:19:11a sure dependence.
00:19:13Hmm.
00:19:14I'd be the envelope,
00:19:16asked the lawyer.
00:19:16I burnt it,
00:19:19replied Jekyll,
00:19:21before I thought
00:19:22what I was about,
00:19:23but it bore no postmark.
00:19:26The note was handed in.
00:19:31Shall I keep this
00:19:33and sleep upon it,
00:19:34asked Utterson.
00:19:35I wish you to judge
00:19:38for me entirely,
00:19:39was the reply.
00:19:44I have lost confidence
00:19:45in myself.
00:19:49On his way out,
00:19:50the lawyer stopped
00:19:50and had a word or two
00:19:51with Poole.
00:19:52By the by,
00:19:53he said,
00:19:54there was a letter
00:19:56handed in today.
00:19:57What was the messenger like?
00:20:00But Poole was positive
00:20:01nothing had come
00:20:02except by post,
00:20:04and only circulars by that,
00:20:06he added.
00:20:08This news
00:20:09sent off Utterson
00:20:10with
00:20:11renewed fears.
00:20:13Presently after,
00:20:16he sat on one side
00:20:17of his own hearth
00:20:18with Mr. Guest,
00:20:20his head clerk,
00:20:21upon the other,
00:20:22and midway between
00:20:23a bottle of a particular
00:20:24old wine
00:20:25that had long dwelt
00:20:26unsunned
00:20:27in the foundations
00:20:28of his house.
00:20:29There was no man
00:20:30from whom he kept
00:20:31fewer secrets
00:20:32than Mr. Guest.
00:20:33This is a sad business
00:20:36about Sir Danvers,
00:20:38said Utterson.
00:20:39Yes,
00:20:40sir,
00:20:41indeed,
00:20:41it has elicited
00:20:42a great deal
00:20:43of public feeling,
00:20:45returned Guest.
00:20:47The man,
00:20:48of course,
00:20:48was mad.
00:20:50Hmm,
00:20:51I'd like to hear
00:20:52your views on that,
00:20:53replied Utterson.
00:20:54I have here
00:20:56a document
00:20:57in his handwriting.
00:20:59It is
00:21:00between ourselves,
00:21:01for I scarce
00:21:02know what to do
00:21:02about it.
00:21:03It's an ugly business
00:21:04at the best.
00:21:05But, uh,
00:21:06there it is,
00:21:08quite in your way,
00:21:10a murderer's autograph.
00:21:13Guest's eyes
00:21:14brightened,
00:21:15and he sat down
00:21:15at once,
00:21:16and he studied it
00:21:17with passion.
00:21:20No, sir,
00:21:21he said.
00:21:22Not mad,
00:21:24but it is
00:21:25an odd hand.
00:21:28And by all accounts,
00:21:29a very odd writer,
00:21:31said the lawyer.
00:21:32And then the servant
00:21:34entered with a note.
00:21:36Is that, uh,
00:21:37from Dr. Jekyll,
00:21:38sir?
00:21:39inquired the clerk.
00:21:40I thought I knew
00:21:42the writing.
00:21:42Anything private,
00:21:44Mr. Utterson?
00:21:46Only an invitation
00:21:47to dinner.
00:21:48Why?
00:21:49You want to see it?
00:21:51Uh,
00:21:52one moment.
00:21:53I thank you, sir.
00:21:53And the clerk
00:21:54laid the two sheets
00:21:56of paper alongside
00:21:57and sedulously
00:21:58compared their contents.
00:22:01There was a pause
00:22:02during which Mr. Utterson
00:22:04struggled with himself.
00:22:07Why do you compare them,
00:22:09guest?
00:22:10He inquired suddenly.
00:22:12Oh, well, sir,
00:22:13returned the clerk,
00:22:14there's a rather
00:22:15singular resemblance.
00:22:17The two hands
00:22:17are in many points
00:22:19identical,
00:22:20only
00:22:21differently sloped.
00:22:26Rather quaint,
00:22:28said Utterson.
00:22:29It is, sir,
00:22:30as you say,
00:22:31rather quaint,
00:22:32returned a guest.
00:22:33I wouldn't, uh,
00:22:36speak of this note,
00:22:37you know,
00:22:38said the master.
00:22:39Oh, no, sir,
00:22:41said the clerk.
00:22:42I, uh,
00:22:42I understand.
00:22:45No sooner was
00:22:46Mr. Utterson alone
00:22:47that night
00:22:48that he locked
00:22:49the note
00:22:49into his safe
00:22:50where it reposed
00:22:52from that time forward.
00:22:54What?
00:22:55He thought.
00:22:56Henry Jekyll
00:22:57a forge
00:22:57for a murderer.
00:23:00And his blood
00:23:01ran cold
00:23:02in his veins.
00:23:03Time ran on.
00:23:25Thousands of pounds
00:23:26were offered in reward
00:23:27for the death
00:23:28of Sir Danvers
00:23:29was resented
00:23:30as a public injury.
00:23:32But Mr. Hyde
00:23:33had disappeared
00:23:33out of the ken
00:23:34of the police
00:23:35as though he had
00:23:35never existed.
00:23:37Mr. Utterson
00:23:38was sitting
00:23:39by his fireside
00:23:40one evening
00:23:41after dinner
00:23:41when he was surprised
00:23:43to receive a visit
00:23:44from Poole.
00:23:45Bless me, Poole,
00:23:46what brings you here?
00:23:48He cried.
00:23:49And then,
00:23:50taking a second look
00:23:51at him,
00:23:52what ails you?
00:23:54He added.
00:23:54Is the doctor ill?
00:23:55You know the doctor's
00:23:58ways, sir,
00:23:59replied Poole.
00:24:00And how he shuts
00:24:01himself up.
00:24:02Well, he's shut up
00:24:03again in the cabinet
00:24:04and I don't like it, sir.
00:24:05I wish I may die
00:24:07if I like it.
00:24:08Mr. Utterson, sir,
00:24:10I'm afraid.
00:24:13The man's appearance
00:24:14amply bore out
00:24:16his words.
00:24:16His manner
00:24:17was altered
00:24:18for the worse.
00:24:19And except for the moment
00:24:20when he had first
00:24:21announced his terror,
00:24:23he'd not once
00:24:23looked the lawyer
00:24:24in the face.
00:24:26Come,
00:24:27said the lawyer.
00:24:29I see you have
00:24:29some good reason,
00:24:31Poole.
00:24:31I see there is
00:24:32something seriously amiss.
00:24:35Try to tell me
00:24:36what it is.
00:24:39I don't say, sir,
00:24:41was the answer.
00:24:43But will you come
00:24:44along with me
00:24:44and see for yourself?
00:24:50It was a wild,
00:24:51cold, seasonable
00:24:52night of March.
00:24:53With a pale moon
00:24:54lying on her back
00:24:56as though the wind
00:24:57had tilted her.
00:24:58The square,
00:24:59when they got there,
00:25:00was full of wind
00:25:01and dust.
00:25:02Poole led the way
00:25:04to the back garden.
00:25:05Now, sir,
00:25:06he said,
00:25:07you come as gently
00:25:08as you can.
00:25:09I want you to hear
00:25:10and I don't want
00:25:11you to be heard.
00:25:13Mr. Utterson
00:25:14recollected his courage
00:25:15and followed the butler
00:25:16into the laboratory
00:25:17building
00:25:18through the surgical
00:25:19theater.
00:25:20Here,
00:25:21Poole motioned him
00:25:22to stand on one side
00:25:23and listen
00:25:24while he himself,
00:25:26setting down the candle
00:25:26and making a great
00:25:28and obvious call
00:25:29on his resolution,
00:25:30mounted the steps
00:25:31and knocked
00:25:32with a somewhat
00:25:33uncertain hand
00:25:34on the red baize
00:25:36of the cabinet door.
00:25:38Mr. Utterson, sir,
00:25:40asking to see you,
00:25:41he called.
00:25:43A voice answered
00:25:44from within.
00:25:46Tell him I cannot
00:25:47see anyone,
00:25:49he'd said
00:25:49complainingly.
00:25:51Thank you, sir,
00:25:53said Poole,
00:25:54with a note of
00:25:55something like triumph
00:25:56in his voice
00:25:57and taking up the candle,
00:25:58he led Mr. Utterson
00:25:59back across the yard
00:26:01and into the great kitchen.
00:26:03Sir,
00:26:04he said,
00:26:05looking Mr. Utterson
00:26:06in the eyes,
00:26:07was that my master's voice?
00:26:10It seems much changed,
00:26:14replied the lawyer,
00:26:15very pale,
00:26:16but giving look
00:26:17for look.
00:26:19Changed.
00:26:20Well, yes,
00:26:20I think so,
00:26:22said the butler.
00:26:23Master was made away
00:26:24with eight days ago
00:26:25when we heard him
00:26:26cry upon the name
00:26:27of God
00:26:27and who was in there
00:26:29instead of him
00:26:29and why it stays there
00:26:31is a thing that cries
00:26:32to heaven,
00:26:33Mr. Utterson.
00:26:37This is a very strange
00:26:39tale, Poole.
00:26:40This is a rather wild
00:26:41tale, my man,
00:26:43said Mr. Utterson,
00:26:44biting his finger.
00:26:46Suppose it were
00:26:47as you suppose,
00:26:48supposing Dr. Jekyll
00:26:49to have been,
00:26:51well, murdered.
00:26:53What could induce
00:26:53the murderer to stay?
00:26:56Well, Mr. Utterson,
00:26:58you are a hard man
00:26:59to satisfy,
00:27:00but I'll do it yet,
00:27:01said Poole.
00:27:03All this last week,
00:27:05him or it,
00:27:07whatever it is
00:27:08that lives in that cabinet,
00:27:09has been crying
00:27:09day and night
00:27:10for some sort of medicine.
00:27:12It was sometimes
00:27:13his way,
00:27:14the master's that is,
00:27:15to write his orders
00:27:16on a sheet of paper
00:27:17and throw it on the stair.
00:27:19Well, sir,
00:27:19every day,
00:27:20I, and twice
00:27:21and thrice
00:27:22in the same day,
00:27:23there have been orders
00:27:24and complaints
00:27:25and I've been sent flying
00:27:26to all the wholesale
00:27:27chemists in town.
00:27:29Every time I brought
00:27:30the stuff back,
00:27:31there'd be another paper
00:27:32telling me to return it
00:27:33because it was not pure
00:27:34and another form
00:27:35to a different firm.
00:27:38Poole,
00:27:40replied the lawyer,
00:27:41if you say that,
00:27:42it will become my duty
00:27:44to make certain,
00:27:46much as I desire
00:27:47to spare your master's feelings,
00:27:48I shall consider it my duty
00:27:50to break in that door.
00:27:53Ah,
00:27:54Mr. Utterson,
00:27:55that's talking,
00:27:56cried Poole.
00:27:57There is an axe
00:27:58in the theatre,
00:27:59he continued,
00:28:00and you might take
00:28:01the kitchen poker
00:28:02for yourself.
00:28:04Taking the poker
00:28:05under his arm,
00:28:06the lawyer led the way
00:28:07into the yard.
00:28:08The scud had banked
00:28:10over the moon
00:28:10and now it was quite dark.
00:28:12The wind tossed
00:28:13the light of the candle
00:28:14to and fro
00:28:15about their steps
00:28:15until they came
00:28:17into the shelter
00:28:17of the theatre
00:28:18where they sat down
00:28:19silently to wait.
00:28:23London hummed
00:28:24solemnly all around
00:28:25but nearer at hand,
00:28:27the stillness
00:28:28was only broken
00:28:29by the sounds
00:28:30of a footfall
00:28:31moving to and fro
00:28:32along the cabinet floor.
00:28:36So it will walk
00:28:37all day, sir,
00:28:39whispered Poole.
00:28:40Aye,
00:28:40and the better part
00:28:41of the night,
00:28:42only when a new sample
00:28:43comes from the chemist
00:28:45is a bit of a break.
00:28:46Oh,
00:28:47it's an ill conscience
00:28:48there's such an enemy
00:28:48to arrest.
00:28:50But hark again,
00:28:52a little closer.
00:28:54Put your heart
00:28:54in your ears,
00:28:55Mr. Utterson,
00:28:56and tell me
00:28:56is that a doctor's foot?
00:29:02The steps
00:29:03fell lightly
00:29:04and oddly
00:29:05with a certain swing
00:29:06for all they went
00:29:08so slowly.
00:29:09It was different
00:29:10indeed
00:29:10from the heavy
00:29:11creaking tread
00:29:13of Henry Jekyll.
00:29:15Utterson sighed.
00:29:17Is there never
00:29:18anything else?
00:29:20He asked.
00:29:22Poole nodded.
00:29:23Once,
00:29:24he said.
00:29:26Once I heard it weeping.
00:29:29Weeping?
00:29:29How was that?
00:29:31said the lawyer,
00:29:32conscious of a sudden
00:29:33chill of horror.
00:29:35Weeping,
00:29:36like a woman
00:29:37or a lost soul,
00:29:39said the butler.
00:29:39I came away
00:29:41with that upon my heart
00:29:42that I could have
00:29:42wept too.
00:29:45Poole disinterred
00:29:46the axe
00:29:47from under a stack
00:29:48of packing straw.
00:29:49The candle
00:29:50was set upon
00:29:51the nearest table
00:29:51to light them
00:29:53to the attack
00:29:54and they drew near
00:29:55with bated breath
00:29:56where that patient foot
00:29:58was still going
00:29:59up and down,
00:30:01up and down
00:30:03in the quiet
00:30:05of the night.
00:30:06Jekyll,
00:30:08cried Utterson
00:30:09with a loud voice.
00:30:10I demand to see you.
00:30:13He paused a moment
00:30:14but then came
00:30:15no reply.
00:30:16I give you fair warning.
00:30:18Our suspicions
00:30:19are aroused
00:30:20and I must
00:30:21and I shall see you.
00:30:23He resumed.
00:30:24If not by fair means
00:30:25then by foul.
00:30:27If not your consent
00:30:29then by brute force.
00:30:33Utterson,
00:30:34said the voice.
00:30:35For God's sake
00:30:36have mercy.
00:30:39That's not Jekyll's voice.
00:30:41It's Hyde's,
00:30:43cried Utterson.
00:30:44Down with the door, Poole.
00:30:46Poole swung the axe
00:30:47over his shoulder.
00:30:49The blow shook the building
00:30:50and the red bay's door
00:30:51leapt against the lock
00:30:53and hinges.
00:30:54A dismal screech
00:30:55as of mere animal terror
00:30:57rang from the cabinet.
00:30:59Up went the axe again
00:31:00and again.
00:31:01The panels crashed
00:31:02and the frame bounded.
00:31:03Four times
00:31:05the blow fell
00:31:06but the wood was tough
00:31:07and the fittings
00:31:08were of excellent workmanship
00:31:09and it was not
00:31:10until the fifth
00:31:11the lock burst
00:31:12and the wreck of the door
00:31:14fell inward
00:31:15on the carpet.
00:31:15The besiegers,
00:31:18appalled by their own riot
00:31:19and the stillness
00:31:21that had succeeded
00:31:22stood back a little
00:31:24and peered in.
00:31:27Right in the middle
00:31:28there lay the body
00:31:29of a man
00:31:30sorely contorted
00:31:32and still twitching.
00:31:35They drew near on tiptoe
00:31:37turned it on its back
00:31:39and beheld the face
00:31:40of Edward Hyde.
00:31:43He was dressed in clothes
00:31:44far too large for him
00:31:46clothes of the doctor's bigness
00:31:48the cords of his face
00:31:50still moved
00:31:51with a semblance of life
00:31:53but life was quite gone
00:31:55and by the crushed vial
00:31:58in the hand
00:31:58and the strong smell
00:32:00of kernels
00:32:01that hung upon the air
00:32:02Hudson knew that he was looking
00:32:04on the body
00:32:05of a self-destroyer.
00:32:11We've come too late
00:32:12he said sternly
00:32:14whether to save
00:32:16or punish.
00:32:19Hyde is gone
00:32:20to his account
00:32:21and it only remains
00:32:22for us to find
00:32:23the body of your master.
00:32:26But nowhere
00:32:27was there any trace
00:32:29of Henry Jekyll
00:32:30dead or alive
00:32:32still within an occasional
00:32:33awestruck glance
00:32:35at the dead body
00:32:35the searchers proceeded
00:32:36more thoroughly
00:32:37to examine the contents
00:32:39of the cabinet.
00:32:40At one table
00:32:41there were traces
00:32:42of chemical work
00:32:43various measured heaps
00:32:44of some white salt
00:32:46being laid on
00:32:47glass saucers.
00:32:49On the business table
00:32:50among the neat array
00:32:51of papers
00:32:52a large envelope
00:32:53was uppermost
00:32:54and bore
00:32:56in the doctor's hand
00:32:57the name of Mr. Utterson.
00:33:00The lawyer unsealed it
00:33:01in two enclosures
00:33:03fell to the floor.
00:33:05The first was a will
00:33:06drawn in the same
00:33:08eccentric terms
00:33:10as the one
00:33:10which he had returned
00:33:11six months before
00:33:12to serve as a testament
00:33:14in case of death
00:33:15and as a deed of gift
00:33:17in case of disappearance.
00:33:20But in place of the name
00:33:21of Edward Hyde
00:33:22the lawyer
00:33:23with indescribable amazement
00:33:25read the name
00:33:26of Gabriel John Utterson.
00:33:30My head goes round
00:33:32he said.
00:33:33He has been
00:33:34all these days
00:33:35in possession.
00:33:37He had no cause
00:33:37to like me.
00:33:39He must have raged
00:33:40to see himself displaced
00:33:41and he has not
00:33:42destroyed this document.
00:33:45He caught up
00:33:46the next paper.
00:33:47It was a brief note
00:33:49in Dr. Jekyll's hand
00:33:51and dated at the top.
00:33:53Oh Paul
00:33:54the lawyer cried.
00:33:56He was alive
00:33:57and here this day.
00:33:59He cannot have been
00:34:00disposed of
00:34:01in so short a space.
00:34:03He must still be alive.
00:34:04He must have fled.
00:34:05And then why fled
00:34:06and how?
00:34:08And in that case
00:34:09can we venture
00:34:10to declare this suicide?
00:34:19Why don't you read it sir?
00:34:21Asked Paul.
00:34:22Because I fear
00:34:25replied the lawyer
00:34:27solemnly.
00:34:29And with that
00:34:30he brought the paper
00:34:31to his eyes
00:34:32and read as follows.
00:34:35My dear Utterson
00:34:37when this shall fall
00:34:39into your hands
00:34:40I shall have disappeared.
00:34:42Under what circumstances
00:34:44I have not the penetration
00:34:45to foresee
00:34:46but my instinct
00:34:48and all the circumstances
00:34:49of my nameless situation
00:34:50tell me that
00:34:52the end is sure
00:34:53and must be early.
00:34:56Go then
00:34:57and read
00:34:58if you care
00:34:59the confession
00:35:01of your unworthy
00:35:02and unhappy friend
00:35:04Henry Jekyll.
00:35:07and try and
00:35:28then
00:35:28I was born to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to
00:35:46industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men, and thus, as might
00:35:52have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.
00:35:56And indeed, the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as I
00:36:03found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high and wear a more
00:36:09than commonly grave countenance before the public.
00:36:14Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures, and that when I reached years of reflection
00:36:20and began to look around me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I
00:36:26stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me.
00:36:32With every day and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus grew
00:36:38steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful
00:36:47shipwreck, that man is not truly one, but truly two.
00:36:58It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and
00:37:03primitive duality of man.
00:37:05I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if
00:37:11I could rightly be said to be either, I was only because I was radically both.
00:37:18And from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest
00:37:23the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure.
00:37:31As a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements, if each, I told
00:37:40myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable.
00:37:48The unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright
00:37:54twin, and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good
00:38:01things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence
00:38:06by the hands of this extraneous evil.
00:38:12How then were they dissociated?
00:38:17I was so far in my reflections when, as I have said, a sidelight began to shine upon the
00:38:23subject from my laboratory table.
00:38:26I began to perceive, more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality,
00:38:33the mist-like transience of this seemingly so solid body that we walk attired.
00:38:42Other agents, I found, to have the power to shake and pluck back that fleshy vestment, even
00:38:49as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.
00:38:55I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice.
00:39:03I knew well that I risked death, for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the
00:39:10very fortress of identity might, by the least scruple of an overdose or the least in opportunity
00:39:17in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked
00:39:24to it to change.
00:39:27But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions
00:39:38of alarm.
00:39:40I had long since prepared my tincture.
00:39:43I purchased at once from a firm of wholesale chemists a large quantity of a particular salt,
00:39:50which I knew from my experiments to be the last ingredient required.
00:39:56And late, one accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together
00:40:06in the glass.
00:40:08And when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the poison.
00:40:16The most wracking pangs succeeded, a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of
00:40:34the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
00:40:41And then these agonies began swiftly to subside.
00:40:46And I came to myself as if, out of a great sickness, there was something strange in my
00:40:53sensations, something indescribably new.
00:40:58And from its very novelty, incredibly sweet, I felt younger, lighter, happier in body.
00:41:08Within, I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running
00:41:14like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation.
00:41:20An unknown, but not innocent, freedom of the soul.
00:41:29I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked.
00:41:40One-fold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil.
00:41:45And the thought in that moment braced and delighted me like wine.
00:41:52I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations.
00:41:59And in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.
00:42:06There was no cheval glass at that date in my room.
00:42:10That which stands beside me as I write was brought there later on, and for the very purposes
00:42:15of these transformations.
00:42:17I crossed the yard wherein the constellations looked down upon me.
00:42:22I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house.
00:42:28And coming to my room, I saw for the first time the appearance of Edward Hyde.
00:42:38The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less
00:42:47robust, and less developed, than the good which I had just opposed.
00:42:54Again, in the course of my life, which had been, after all, nine-tenths a life of effort,
00:43:01virtue and control.
00:43:04It had been much less exercised, much less exhausted.
00:43:11And hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger
00:43:21than Henry Jekyll.
00:43:24Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly
00:43:31on the face of the other.
00:43:34And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance,
00:43:40rather than a leap of welcome.
00:43:46This too was myself.
00:43:50I lingered but a moment at the mirror.
00:43:53The second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted.
00:43:56It yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption, and must flee before
00:44:02daylight from a house that was no longer mine.
00:44:05When hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared, drank the cup, once more suffered
00:44:11the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character and the face of
00:44:18Henry Jekyll.
00:44:20That night, I had come to the fatal crossroads.
00:44:28Even at that time, I had not conquered my aversion to the dryness of a life of study.
00:44:33I would still be merrily disposed at times, and as my pleasures were to say the least, undignified.
00:44:43It was on this side that my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery.
00:44:53I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume,
00:45:00like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
00:45:06I smiled at the notion, seemed to me at the time to be humorous, and I made my preparations
00:45:11with the most studious care.
00:45:13I drew up that will to which you so much objected, so that if anything befell me in the person
00:45:19of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.
00:45:26And thus, fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities
00:45:35of my position.
00:45:38Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation
00:45:45sat under shelter.
00:45:48I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.
00:45:53I was the first that could plod in the public eye, with a load of genial respectability,
00:45:58and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into a sea
00:46:08of liberty.
00:46:11But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, safety was complete.
00:46:18Think of it, I did not even exist.
00:46:26The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified.
00:46:36I would scarce use a harder term.
00:46:41But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous.
00:46:50When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at
00:46:55the vicarious depravity.
00:46:59This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure,
00:47:07was a being inherently malign and villainous.
00:47:11His every act and thought centered on self, drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any
00:47:18degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone.
00:47:26Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde.
00:47:32The situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience.
00:47:45It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.
00:47:56I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate.
00:48:21Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, I had been out for one of my adventures,
00:48:29had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed with somewhat odd sensations.
00:48:38My eyes fell upon my hand.
00:48:43Now, the hand of Henry Jekyll was professional in shape and size.
00:48:49It was large, firm, white, and comely.
00:48:54But the hand, which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning,
00:49:03lying half-shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corda, knuckly,
00:49:10up a dusky, up a dusky pallet, and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.
00:49:21It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
00:49:23I must have stared upon it for nearly half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder,
00:49:35before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the crash of cymbals,
00:49:40and bounding from the bed I rushed to the mirror.
00:49:46At the sight that met my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy.
00:49:54Yes, I had gone to bed, Henry Jekyll.
00:50:01I had awakened Edward Hyde.
00:50:07How was this to be explained?
00:50:10I asked myself, and then with another bound of terror,
00:50:14how was it to be remedied?
00:50:15It was well on in the morning. The servants were up.
00:50:20All my drugs were in the cabinet. A long journey down two pairs of stairs,
00:50:24through the back passage, across the open court, and through the anatomical theatre.
00:50:29I had soon dressed, as well as I was able, in clothes of my own size.
00:50:37Had soon passed through the house, and ten minutes later,
00:50:40Dr. Jekyll had returned to his own shape, and was sitting down, with a darkened brow,
00:50:50to make faint of breakfasting.
00:50:55Small, indeed, was my appetite.
00:51:00All things seemed to point to this,
00:51:03that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self,
00:51:08and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
00:51:16Between these two, I now felt I had to choose.
00:51:23To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die those appetites which I had long secretly indulged,
00:51:30and had of late begun to pamper.
00:51:34To cast it in with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations,
00:51:41and to become at a blow, and forever despised, friendless.
00:51:50The bargain might appear unequal, but there was still another consideration in the scales.
00:51:56For while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would not be even conscious of all that he had lost.
00:52:06Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented Doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing, honest hopes,
00:52:19and bade a resolute farewell to the Liberty, the comparative youth, the light step,
00:52:26and leaping impulses and secret pleasures that I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde.
00:52:35For two months,
00:52:36I was true to my determination. For two months, I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to,
00:52:50and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.
00:52:54But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm.
00:53:02I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom.
00:53:10And at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.
00:53:27My devil had been long caged, and he came out roaring.
00:53:33And instantly, the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged.
00:53:39With a transport of glee, I mauled Kru's unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow.
00:53:48And it was not until weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium,
00:53:57struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
00:54:04A mist dispersed.
00:54:06I saw my life to be forfeit, and fled from the scene of these excesses.
00:54:16At once glorying and trembling, my lust of evil gratified and stimulated.
00:54:23My love of life screwed to the topmost peg.
00:54:31The next day came the news that the murder had been witnessed.
00:54:37That the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world.
00:54:41And that the victim was a man high in public estimation.
00:54:46I think I was glad to know it.
00:54:54I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.
00:55:02Jekyll was now my city of refuge.
00:55:06But let Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
00:55:13I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past, and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.
00:55:27You know yourself how earnestly in the last months of the last year I labored to relieve suffering.
00:55:33You know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.
00:55:47There comes an end to all things.
00:55:48It was a fine, clear January day, wet underfoot, where the frost had melted, but cloudless overhead.
00:56:02And the Regent's Park was full of winter chirruppings and sweets with spring odors.
00:56:08I sat in the sun on a bench, the animal within me licking the chops of memory.
00:56:17The spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
00:56:27After all I reflected, I was like my neighbors.
00:56:31And then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my good will with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.
00:56:42And at that very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea, and the most deadly shuddering.
00:56:57These passed away, and left me faint, and then, as in its turn faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, the contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation.
00:57:23I looked down, my clothes hung formlessly on my limbs, the hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.
00:57:39I was once more Edward Hyde, a moment before I had been safe, of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved.
00:58:01And now I was the common quarry of mankind, hunted, houseless, a known murderer, thrall to the gallows.
00:58:20My drugs were in one of the presses of my cabinet.
00:58:29How was I to reach them?
00:58:32That was the problem.
00:58:33Crushing my temples in my hands, I set myself to solve.
00:58:39A change had come over me.
00:58:41It was no longer the fear of the gallows, it was the horror of being Hyde that wracked me.
00:58:49In a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed.
00:58:55I slept after the prostration of the day with a stringent and profound slumber which,
00:59:01not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
00:59:04I awoke in the morning, shaken, weakened, but refreshed.
00:59:13I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast, drinking the chill of the air with pleasure.
00:59:22When I was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change,
00:59:29and I had but the time to gain the shelter of my cabinet before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde.
00:59:42It took, on this occasion, a double dose to recall me to myself.
00:59:48And alas, six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire,
00:59:56the pangs returned and the drug had to be re-administered.
01:00:03In short, from that day forth, it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics,
01:00:10and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug
01:00:14that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll.
01:00:23At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with a promontory shudder.
01:00:29Above all, if I slept or even dozed for a moment in my chair,
01:00:33it was always as Hyde that I awakened.
01:00:35My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment,
01:00:44began to run low.
01:00:47I sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught.
01:00:50I drank it, and it was without efficiency.
01:00:55You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked.
01:00:59But it was in vain, and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure,
01:01:07and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.
01:01:14About a week has passed, and I am now finishing this statement
01:01:18under the influence of the last of the old powders.
01:01:22This, then, is the last time.
01:01:31Short of a miracle,
01:01:34that Henry Jekyll
01:01:35can think his own thoughts
01:01:38or see his own face
01:01:41in the glass.
01:01:44And indeed,
01:01:48the doom
01:01:49that is closing
01:01:51on us both
01:01:52has already
01:01:54changed and
01:01:56crushed Hyde.
01:02:01Half an hour from now,
01:02:03when I shall again and forever
01:02:05re-indue that
01:02:06hated personality,
01:02:09I know how I shall sit
01:02:12shuddering and weeping in my chair
01:02:15or continue with
01:02:18the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening
01:02:22to pace up and down this room
01:02:25and give ear
01:02:28to every sound of menace.
01:02:35We'll hide
01:02:36to die
01:02:37upon the scaffold.
01:02:41Or will he find courage
01:02:43to release himself
01:02:44at the last moment?
01:02:51God knows.
01:02:54I am careless.
01:02:57And this
01:02:58is the true hour
01:03:01of my death.
01:03:03And what is to follow
01:03:05concerns
01:03:05here then
01:03:11as I lay down
01:03:11the pen
01:03:12and proceed
01:03:13to seal up
01:03:14my confession,
01:03:16I bring the life
01:03:19of that unhappy
01:03:20Henry Jekyll
01:03:22to an end.
01:03:31Down with the door,
01:03:32pull.
01:03:35公主
01:03:36and
01:03:45the
01:03:45and
01:03:49the
01:03:54.
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