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00:00:01Mr Utterson, the lawyer, was a man of a rugged countenance
00:00:26that was never lighted by a smile.
00:00:29Cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse,
00:00:32backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dreary
00:00:35and yet somehow lovable.
00:00:39At friendly meetings and when the wine was to his taste,
00:00:42something eminently human beaconed from his eye,
00:00:45something indeed which never found its way into his talk,
00:00:48but which spoke not only in the silent symbols
00:00:51of the after-dinner face,
00:00:52but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.
00:00:57He was austere with himself, drank gin when he was alone
00:00:59to mortify a taste for vintages,
00:01:02and though he enjoyed the theatre,
00:01:04he had not crossed the doors of one for 20 years.
00:01:07But he had an approved tolerance for others,
00:01:11sometimes wondering almost with envy
00:01:12at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds,
00:01:16and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
00:01:22In his character, it was frequently his fortune
00:01:24to be the last reputable acquaintance
00:01:27in the lives of down-going men.
00:01:29It is the mark of a modest man
00:01:32to accept his friendly circle ready-made
00:01:35from the hands of opportunity,
00:01:37and that was the lawyer's way.
00:01:40Hence, no doubt, the bond that united him
00:01:43to Mr Richard Enfield,
00:01:45his distant kinsman,
00:01:47the well-known man about town.
00:01:49It was reported by those who encountered them
00:01:52in their Sunday walks that they said nothing,
00:01:55looked singularly dull,
00:01:56and would hail with obvious relief the appearance of a friend.
00:02:00It chanced on one of these rambles
00:02:02that their way led them down a by-street
00:02:04in the busy quarter of London.
00:02:07The street, with its freshly painted shutters,
00:02:10well-polished brasses and general cleanliness
00:02:13and gaiety of note,
00:02:14instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
00:02:18Two doors from one corner, however,
00:02:21the line was broken by the entry of a court,
00:02:24and just at that point,
00:02:25a certain sinister block of building
00:02:27thrust forward its gable on the street.
00:02:31It was two stories high,
00:02:33showed no window,
00:02:35nothing but a door on the lower story,
00:02:37and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper,
00:02:41and bore in every feature
00:02:42and marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.
00:02:46Did you ever remark that door?
00:02:50Asked Mr. Enfield,
00:02:51and when his companion had replied in the affirmative,
00:02:54it is connected in my mind,
00:02:56added he,
00:02:57with a very odd story.
00:03:00Indeed?
00:03:01Said Mr. Utterson,
00:03:02with a slight change of voice.
00:03:04And what was that?
00:03:06Well, it was this way,
00:03:08returned Mr. Enfield.
00:03:09I was coming home from some place at the end of the world,
00:03:13about three o'clock of a black winter morning,
00:03:15when all at once I saw two figures.
00:03:19One, a little man who was stumping along eastward at a good walk,
00:03:22and the other, a girl of maybe eight or ten,
00:03:25who was running as hard as was able down a cross street.
00:03:28Well, the two ran into each other,
00:03:30naturally enough, at the corner,
00:03:32and then came the horrible part of the thing.
00:03:35For the man trampled calmly over the child's body,
00:03:39and left her screaming on the ground.
00:03:42It sounds nothing to hear,
00:03:44but it was hellish to see.
00:03:48It wasn't like a man.
00:03:50It was like some damned juggernaut.
00:03:54I gave a shout,
00:03:56collared my gentleman,
00:03:57and brought him back to where
00:03:58there was already quite a group about the screaming child.
00:04:02He was perfectly cool and made no resistance,
00:04:05but gave me one look,
00:04:06so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me like running.
00:04:11The people who had turned out were the girl's own family,
00:04:14and pretty soon the doctor for whom she had been sent
00:04:17put in his appearance.
00:04:19The doctor was the usual cut-and-dry apothecary,
00:04:22with a strong Edinburgh accent
00:04:23and about as emotional as a bagpipe.
00:04:25Well, sir, every time he looked at my prisoner,
00:04:29I saw him turn sick and white with desire to kill him.
00:04:32I knew what was in his mind just as he knew what was in mine,
00:04:36and killing being out of the question,
00:04:38we did the next best.
00:04:40We told the man that we could and would make such a scandal out of this
00:04:44as should make his name stink from one end of London to the other.
00:04:47If he had any friends or any credit,
00:04:50we undertook that he should lose them.
00:04:52And all the time, as we were pitching it red-hot,
00:04:55we were keeping the women off him as best we could,
00:04:57for they were as wild as harpies.
00:04:59I never saw a circle of such hateful faces.
00:05:02And there was the man in the middle,
00:05:05with a kind of black, sneering coolness.
00:05:08Frightened, too, I could see that,
00:05:10but carrying it off, sir, really, like Satan.
00:05:15If you choose to make capital out of this accident, said he,
00:05:20I am naturally helpless.
00:05:24No gentleman but wishes to avoid a scene, says he.
00:05:29Name your figure.
00:05:32Well, we screwed him out to £100 for the child's family.
00:05:35The next thing was to get the money.
00:05:41And where do you think he carried us but to that place with the door?
00:05:45Whipped out a key, went in,
00:05:47and presently came back with a matter of £10 in gold
00:05:50and cheque for the balance on coots,
00:05:52drawn payable to bearer and signed with a name that I can't mention,
00:05:57although it is one of the points of my story,
00:05:59but it was a name at least very well known and often printed.
00:06:04Tut-tut.
00:06:05Said Mr. Utterson.
00:06:07I see you feel as I do, said Mr. Enfield.
00:06:11Yes, it is a bad story,
00:06:13for my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with,
00:06:15a really damnable man,
00:06:17and the person that drew the cheque
00:06:19is on the very pink of the proprieties.
00:06:22The pair walked on again for a while, in silence.
00:06:27Mr. Utterson then asked rather suddenly,
00:06:31I want to ask the name of that man who walked over the child.
00:06:34Well, said Mr. Enfield.
00:06:38I can't see what harm it would do.
00:06:41It was a man of the name of Hyde.
00:06:43Mr. Utterson sighed deeply, but never said a word more.
00:06:49That evening, Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in the somber spirits
00:06:55and went into his business room.
00:06:58There he opened his safe,
00:07:00took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Henry Jekyll's will,
00:07:06and sat down with a clouded brow to study its contents.
00:07:10The will was holograph for Mr. Utterson,
00:07:13though he took charge of it now that it was made,
00:07:16had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it.
00:07:19It provided not only that in case of the decease of Henry Jekyll,
00:07:23MD, DCL, LLD, FRS, etc.,
00:07:26all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his friend and benefactor, Edward Hyde,
00:07:32but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's disappearance or unexplained absence
00:07:36for any period exceeding three calendar months,
00:07:39that the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay.
00:07:45This document had long been the lawyer's eyesore.
00:07:52It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and customary sides of life
00:07:56to whom the fanciful was the immodest.
00:08:00And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had swelled his indignation.
00:08:05Now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge.
00:08:09I thought it was madness, he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe.
00:08:16And now I begin to fear it is disgrace.
00:08:20A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune,
00:08:23Dr. Jekyll gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies,
00:08:27all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine.
00:08:31And Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.
00:08:36Where Utterson was liked, he was liked well.
00:08:41And to this rule, Dr. Jekyll was no exception.
00:08:44And has he now sat opposite sides of the fire,
00:08:46a large, well-made, smooth-faced man of fifty,
00:08:49with something of a stylish cast, perhaps,
00:08:52but every mark of capacity and kindness.
00:08:55You could see by his looks that he cherished for Mr. Utterson
00:08:58a sincere and warm affection.
00:09:02I've been wanting to speak to you, Jekyll, began the latter.
00:09:05You know that will of yours?
00:09:09A close observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful,
00:09:13but the doctor carried it off gaily.
00:09:15Oh, my poor Utterson, said he.
00:09:18You are unfortunate in such a client.
00:09:21I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will.
00:09:25You know I never approved of it, pursued Utterson.
00:09:29My will? Yes, certainly, I know that, said the doctor a trifle sharply.
00:09:35You have told me so.
00:09:37Well, I'll tell you so again, continued the lawyer.
00:09:40I have been learning something of young Hyde.
00:09:45The large, handsome face of Dr. Jekyll grew pale to the very lips,
00:09:50and there came a blackness about his eyes.
00:09:53I do not care to hear more, said he.
00:09:58This is a matter I thought that we had agreed to drop.
00:10:02What I heard was abominable, said Utterson.
00:10:07Well, I can make no change.
00:10:10You do not understand my position, returned the doctor,
00:10:13with a certain incoherency of manner.
00:10:17Utterson reflected a little, looking in the fire.
00:10:20I have no doubt that you are perfectly right,
00:10:25he said at last, getting to his feet.
00:10:28But, uh, since we have touched upon this business,
00:10:33and for the last time, I hope, continued the doctor,
00:10:37there is one point I should like you to understand.
00:10:39If I am taken away, Utterson,
00:10:43I wish you to promise me that you will bear with him
00:10:46and get his rights for him.
00:10:49I only ask you to help him for my sake,
00:10:53when I am no longer here.
00:10:57Utterson heaved an irrepressible sigh.
00:11:00Well, said he,
00:11:02I promise.
00:11:24Nearly a year later,
00:11:26London was startled by a crime of singular ferocity,
00:11:30and rendered all the more notable
00:11:32by the high position of the victim.
00:11:35The details were few and startling.
00:11:38A maidservant, living alone in a house
00:11:40not far from the river,
00:11:42had gone upstairs to bed about eleven.
00:11:44Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours,
00:11:47the early part of the night was cloudless,
00:11:50and the lane, which the maid's window overlooked,
00:11:52was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
00:11:55It seems she was romantically given,
00:11:58for she sat down upon her box,
00:12:00which stood immediately under the window,
00:12:03and fell into a dream of musing.
00:12:06And as she so sat,
00:12:08she became aware of an aged, beautiful gentleman
00:12:11with white hair,
00:12:13drawing near along the lane,
00:12:14and advancing to meet him,
00:12:16another and very small gentleman.
00:12:20Presently, her eye wandered to the other,
00:12:24and she was surprised to recognize in him
00:12:27a certain Mr. Hyde,
00:12:29who had once visited her master,
00:12:31and for whom she had conceived a dislike.
00:12:35He had in his hand a heavy cane,
00:12:37with which he was trifling,
00:12:38but he answered never a word,
00:12:40and seemed to listen with ill-contained impatience.
00:12:44And then, all of a sudden,
00:12:45he broke out in a great flame of anger,
00:12:49stamping with his foot,
00:12:51brandishing the cane,
00:12:52and carrying on like a madman.
00:12:56And next moment,
00:12:57with ape-like fury,
00:13:00he was trampling his victim underfoot,
00:13:02and hailing down a storm of blows,
00:13:05under which the bones were audibly shattered.
00:13:08At the horror of these sights and sounds,
00:13:13the maid fainted.
00:13:15It was two o'clock when she came to herself
00:13:21and called for the police.
00:13:23The murderer was gone long ago,
00:13:25but there lay his victim,
00:13:27in the middle of the lane,
00:13:29incredibly mangled.
00:13:31The stick with which the deed had been done,
00:13:34although it was of some rare
00:13:36and very tough and heavy wood,
00:13:38had broken in the middle,
00:13:40under the stress of this incensate cruelty.
00:13:43And one splintered half
00:13:46had rolled in the neighbouring gutter.
00:13:48The other, without doubt,
00:13:49had been carried away by the murderer.
00:13:53A purse and gold watch were found upon the victim,
00:13:56but no cards or papers,
00:13:59except a sealed and stamped envelope,
00:14:02which he'd been probably carrying to the post,
00:14:04and which bore the name and address
00:14:07of Mr Utterson.
00:14:14This was brought to the lawyer the next morning.
00:14:18And with his same grave countenance,
00:14:20he hurried through his breakfast
00:14:21and drove to the police station,
00:14:24whither the body had been carried.
00:14:26And as soon as he came into the cell,
00:14:28he nodded.
00:14:31Yes, he said.
00:14:34I recognise him.
00:14:36I am sorry to say that this is Sir Danvers Carew.
00:14:41Good God, sir, exclaimed the police officer.
00:14:44Is it possible?
00:14:46And the next moment,
00:14:47his eyes lighted up with professional ambition.
00:14:50Oh, perhaps you can help us to the man.
00:14:52And he briefly narrated what the maid had seen
00:14:55and showed the broken stick.
00:14:59Mr Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde.
00:15:02But when the stick was laid before him,
00:15:05he could doubt no longer.
00:15:07Broken and battered as it was,
00:15:09he recognised it for one that he had himself
00:15:12presented many years before
00:15:13to Henry Jekyll.
00:15:18It was late in the afternoon
00:15:20when Mr Utterson found his way
00:15:22to Dr Jekyll's door,
00:15:24where he was at once admitted by Poole,
00:15:27the butler,
00:15:28and carried down by the kitchen offices
00:15:30across a yard,
00:15:31which had once been a garden,
00:15:33to the building,
00:15:34which was indifferently known
00:15:35as the laboratory or dissecting rooms.
00:15:39It was the first time that the lawyer
00:15:41had been received
00:15:42in that part of his friend's quarters.
00:15:44And he eyed the dingy, windowless structure
00:15:47with curiosity and gazed around
00:15:49with a distasteful sense of strangeness
00:15:52as he crossed the theatre.
00:15:54At the further end,
00:15:56a flight of stairs mounted to a door
00:15:58covered with red bays,
00:16:00and through this,
00:16:02Mr Utterson was at last received
00:16:03into the doctor's cabinet.
00:16:06A fire burned in the grate,
00:16:09a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf,
00:16:11and for even in the houses
00:16:13the fog began to lie thickly.
00:16:15And there,
00:16:16close to the warmth,
00:16:18sat Dr Jekyll,
00:16:20looking deathly sick.
00:16:22He did not rise to meet his visitor,
00:16:24but held out a cold hand
00:16:26and bade him welcome in a changed voice.
00:16:30And now,
00:16:31said Mr Utterson,
00:16:33as soon as Poole had left them,
00:16:35you've heard the news.
00:16:37The doctor shuddered.
00:16:39They were crying it in the square,
00:16:42he said.
00:16:43I heard them in my dining room.
00:16:46One word,
00:16:48said the lawyer.
00:16:49Carew was my client,
00:16:50but so are you,
00:16:52and I want to know what I'm doing.
00:16:54You'd not be mad enough
00:16:55to hide this fellow.
00:16:58Utterson,
00:16:58I swear to God,
00:17:00cried the doctor.
00:17:01I swear to God,
00:17:02I will never set eyes on him again.
00:17:05And indeed,
00:17:06he doesn't want my help.
00:17:07You do not know him as I do.
00:17:12He's safe.
00:17:13He's quite safe.
00:17:14And mark my words,
00:17:16he will never more be heard of.
00:17:20The lawyer listened gloomily.
00:17:23He did not like his friend's feverish manner.
00:17:25You seem pretty sure of him,
00:17:29said he,
00:17:30and for your sake,
00:17:31I thought you may be right.
00:17:33If you came to trial,
00:17:34your name might appear.
00:17:36I am quite sure of him,
00:17:39replied Jekyll.
00:17:40I have grounds for certainty
00:17:41that I cannot share with anyone.
00:17:45But there is one thing
00:17:46on which you may advise me.
00:17:47I have...
00:17:49I have received a letter,
00:17:52and I am at a loss
00:17:53whether I should show it
00:17:54to the police.
00:17:55I should like to leave it
00:17:57in your hands,
00:17:58Utterson.
00:17:59You would judge wisely.
00:18:01I am sure I have
00:18:03so great a trust in you.
00:18:07You fear, I suppose,
00:18:08it might lead to his detection,
00:18:11asked the lawyer.
00:18:13No.
00:18:14I cannot say that I care
00:18:15what becomes of Hyde.
00:18:18I'm quite done with him.
00:18:21I was thinking of my own character,
00:18:24which this hateful business
00:18:26has rather exposed.
00:18:31Utterson ruminated a while.
00:18:35He was surprised
00:18:36at his friend's selfishness,
00:18:38and yet he was relieved by it.
00:18:39Well, he said at last,
00:18:43let me see the letter.
00:18:46The letter was written
00:18:47in an odd upright hand
00:18:49and signed Edward Hyde,
00:18:51and it signified,
00:18:52briefly enough,
00:18:53that the writer's benefactor,
00:18:54Dr Jekyll,
00:18:55whom he had so long
00:18:57unworthily repaid
00:18:59for a thousand generosities,
00:19:01need labour under no alarm
00:19:02for his safety
00:19:03as he had means of escape
00:19:05on which he placed
00:19:06a sure dependence.
00:19:07Hmm, I'd be the envelope,
00:19:11asked the lawyer.
00:19:12I burnt it,
00:19:14replied Jekyll,
00:19:16before I'd thought
00:19:17what I was about,
00:19:18but it bore no postmark.
00:19:21The note was handed in.
00:19:27Shall I keep this
00:19:28and sleep upon it,
00:19:29asked Utterson.
00:19:30I wish you to judge
00:19:33for me entirely,
00:19:35was the reply.
00:19:39I have lost confidence
00:19:40in myself.
00:19:44On his way out,
00:19:45the lawyer stopped
00:19:45and had a word or two
00:19:46with Poole.
00:19:48By the by,
00:19:49he said,
00:19:49there was a letter
00:19:51handed in today.
00:19:52What was the messenger like?
00:19:54But Poole was positive
00:19:56nothing had come
00:19:57except by post.
00:19:59And only circulars
00:20:00by that,
00:20:01he added.
00:20:03This news
00:20:04sent off Utterson
00:20:05with
00:20:06renewed fears.
00:20:10Presently after,
00:20:11he sat on one side
00:20:12of his own hearth
00:20:13with Mr Guest,
00:20:15his head clerk,
00:20:16upon the other,
00:20:17and midway between
00:20:18a bottle of a particular
00:20:19old wine
00:20:20that had long dwelt
00:20:21unsunned
00:20:22in the foundations
00:20:23of his house.
00:20:24There was no man
00:20:25from whom he kept
00:20:26fewer secrets
00:20:27than Mr Guest.
00:20:30This is a sad business
00:20:31about Sir Danvers,
00:20:33said Utterson.
00:20:34Yes, sir,
00:20:36indeed,
00:20:36it has elicited
00:20:37a great deal
00:20:38of public feeling,
00:20:40returned Guest.
00:20:42The man,
00:20:43of course,
00:20:43was mad.
00:20:45Hmm,
00:20:46I'd like to hear
00:20:47your views on that,
00:20:48replied Utterson.
00:20:49I have here
00:20:51a document
00:20:52in his handwriting.
00:20:54It is
00:20:55between ourselves,
00:20:56for I scarce
00:20:57know what to do
00:20:57about it.
00:20:58It's an ugly business
00:20:59at the best.
00:21:00But, uh,
00:21:01there it is,
00:21:03quite in your way,
00:21:05a murderer's autograph.
00:21:08Guest's eyes
00:21:09brightened,
00:21:10and he sat down
00:21:10at once,
00:21:11and he studied it
00:21:12with passion.
00:21:15No, sir,
00:21:16he said.
00:21:17Not mad,
00:21:19but it is
00:21:20an odd hand.
00:21:23And by all accounts,
00:21:25a very odd writer,
00:21:26said the lawyer.
00:21:27And then the servant
00:21:29entered with a note.
00:21:31Is that, uh,
00:21:32from Dr. Jekyll,
00:21:33sir?
00:21:34inquired the clerk.
00:21:35I thought I knew
00:21:37the writing.
00:21:37Anything private,
00:21:39Mr. Utterson?
00:21:41It's only an invitation
00:21:42to dinner.
00:21:43Why?
00:21:44You want to see it?
00:21:45Uh, one moment.
00:21:48I thank you, sir.
00:21:49And the clerk
00:21:49laid the two sheets
00:21:51of paper alongside
00:21:52and sedulously
00:21:53compared their contents.
00:21:56There was a pause
00:21:57during which Mr. Utterson
00:21:59struggled with himself.
00:22:02Why do you compare them,
00:22:04guest?
00:22:05He inquired suddenly.
00:22:07Oh, well, sir,
00:22:08returned the clerk,
00:22:09there's a rather
00:22:10singular resemblance.
00:22:12The two hands are
00:22:12in many points
00:22:14identical.
00:22:15Only
00:22:16differently sloped.
00:22:21Rather quaint,
00:22:23said Utterson.
00:22:24It is, sir,
00:22:25as you say,
00:22:26rather quaint,
00:22:27returned a guest.
00:22:29I wouldn't, uh,
00:22:31speak of this note,
00:22:32you know,
00:22:33said the master.
00:22:34Oh, no, sir,
00:22:36said the clerk.
00:22:37I, uh,
00:22:37I understand.
00:22:39No sooner was
00:22:41Mr. Utterson alone
00:22:42that night
00:22:43that he locked
00:22:44the note
00:22:44into his safe
00:22:45where it reposed
00:22:47from that time forward.
00:22:49What?
00:22:49He thought.
00:22:51Henry Jekyll
00:22:52a forge for a murderer
00:22:53and his blood
00:22:56ran cold
00:22:57in his veins.
00:22:58Time ran on.
00:23:20Thousands of pounds
00:23:21were offered in reward
00:23:22for the death of
00:23:23Sir Danvers
00:23:24was resented
00:23:25as a public injury.
00:23:27But Mr. Hyde
00:23:28had disappeared
00:23:28out of the ken
00:23:29of the police
00:23:30as though he had
00:23:30never existed.
00:23:32Mr. Utterson
00:23:33was sitting by his
00:23:34fireside one evening
00:23:36after dinner
00:23:36when he was surprised
00:23:38to receive a visit
00:23:39from Poole.
00:23:40Bless me, Poole,
00:23:41what brings you here?
00:23:43He cried.
00:23:44And then,
00:23:45taking a second look
00:23:46at him,
00:23:47what ails you?
00:23:49He added.
00:23:49Is the doctor ill?
00:23:51You know the doctor's
00:23:53way, sir,
00:23:54replied Poole,
00:23:55and how he shuts
00:23:56himself up.
00:23:57Well, he's sharp
00:23:58again in the cabinet
00:23:59and I don't like it, sir.
00:24:00I wish I may die
00:24:02if I like it.
00:24:03Mr. Utterson, sir,
00:24:05I'm afraid.
00:24:08The man's appearance
00:24:09amply bore out
00:24:11his words.
00:24:11His manner was
00:24:12altered for the worse.
00:24:14And except for the moment
00:24:15when he had first
00:24:16announced his terror,
00:24:18he'd not once
00:24:18looked the lawyer
00:24:19in the face.
00:24:21Come,
00:24:22said the lawyer.
00:24:24I see you have
00:24:24some good reason,
00:24:26Poole.
00:24:26I see there is
00:24:27something seriously amiss.
00:24:30Try to tell me
00:24:31what it is.
00:24:34I don't say, sir,
00:24:36was the answer.
00:24:38But will you come
00:24:39along with me?
00:24:40And see for yourself.
00:24:45It was a wild,
00:24:46cold,
00:24:47seasonable night
00:24:48of March,
00:24:48with a pale moon
00:24:49lying on her back
00:24:51as though the wind
00:24:52had tilted her.
00:24:53The square,
00:24:54when they got there,
00:24:55was full of wind
00:24:56and dust.
00:24:57Poole led the way
00:24:59to the back garden.
00:25:00Now, sir,
00:25:01he said,
00:25:02you come as gently
00:25:03as you can.
00:25:04I want you to hear,
00:25:05and I don't want you
00:25:06to be heard.
00:25:08Mr. Utterson
00:25:09recollected his courage
00:25:10and followed the butler
00:25:11into the laboratory building
00:25:13through the surgical theater.
00:25:15Here, Poole motioned him
00:25:17to stand on one side
00:25:18and listen,
00:25:19while he himself,
00:25:21setting down the candle
00:25:21and making a great
00:25:23and obvious call
00:25:24on his resolution,
00:25:25mounted the steps
00:25:26and knocked
00:25:27with a somewhat
00:25:28uncertain hand
00:25:29on the red bays
00:25:31of the cabinet door.
00:25:33Mr. Utterson, sir,
00:25:35asking to see you,
00:25:36he called.
00:25:38A voice answered
00:25:39from within.
00:25:41Tell him I cannot
00:25:42see anyone,
00:25:44he'd said,
00:25:44complainingly.
00:25:46Thank you, sir,
00:25:48said Poole,
00:25:49with a note of something
00:25:50like triumph
00:25:51in his voice
00:25:52and taking up the candle,
00:25:53he led Mr. Utterson
00:25:54back across the yard
00:25:56and into the great kitchen.
00:25:58Sir, he said,
00:26:00looking Mr. Utterson
00:26:01in the eyes,
00:26:02was that my master's voice?
00:26:06It seems much changed,
00:26:09replied the lawyer,
00:26:10very pale,
00:26:11but giving look for look.
00:26:14Changed.
00:26:15Well, yes,
00:26:15I think so,
00:26:17said the butler.
00:26:18Master was made away with
00:26:19eight days ago
00:26:20when we heard him cry
00:26:21upon the name of God
00:26:22and who was in there
00:26:24instead of him
00:26:24and why it's still
00:26:26that stays there
00:26:26is a thing that cries
00:26:27to heaven,
00:26:28Mr. Utterson.
00:26:32This is a very strange
00:26:34tale, Poole.
00:26:35This is a rather wild
00:26:36tale, my man,
00:26:38said Mr. Utterson,
00:26:39biting his finger.
00:26:41Suppose it were
00:26:42as you suppose,
00:26:43supposing Dr. Jekyll
00:26:44to have been,
00:26:45well, murdered.
00:26:48What could induce
00:26:48the murderer to stay?
00:26:50Well, Mr. Utterson,
00:26:53you are a hard man
00:26:54to satisfy,
00:26:55but I'll do it yet,
00:26:56said Poole.
00:26:58All this last week,
00:27:00him,
00:27:01or it,
00:27:02whatever it is
00:27:03that lives in that cabinet,
00:27:04has been crying
00:27:04day and night
00:27:05for some sort of medicine.
00:27:07It was sometimes his way,
00:27:09the master's,
00:27:10that is,
00:27:10to write his orders
00:27:11on a sheet of paper
00:27:12and throw it on the stair.
00:27:14Well, sir,
00:27:14every day,
00:27:15I,
00:27:15and twice and thrice
00:27:17in the same day,
00:27:18there have been
00:27:18orders and complaints
00:27:20and I've been sent
00:27:21flying to all
00:27:22the wholesale chemists
00:27:23in town.
00:27:24Every time I brought
00:27:25the stuff back,
00:27:26there'd be another paper
00:27:27telling me to return it
00:27:28because it was not pure
00:27:29and another form
00:27:30to a different firm.
00:27:33Poole,
00:27:35replied the lawyer,
00:27:36if you say that,
00:27:37it will become my duty
00:27:39to make certain,
00:27:41much as I desire
00:27:42to spare your master's
00:27:43feelings,
00:27:43I shall consider it
00:27:45my duty to break
00:27:46in that door.
00:27:48Ah,
00:27:49Mr. Utterson,
00:27:50that's talking,
00:27:51cried Poole.
00:27:52There is an axe
00:27:53in the theatre,
00:27:54he continued,
00:27:55and you might take
00:27:56the kitchen poker
00:27:57for yourself.
00:27:59Taking the poker
00:28:00under his arm,
00:28:01the lawyer led the way
00:28:02into the yard.
00:28:03The scud had banked
00:28:05over the moon
00:28:05and now it was quite dark.
00:28:07The wind tossed
00:28:08the light of the candle
00:28:09to and fro
00:28:10about their steps
00:28:10until they came
00:28:12into the shelter
00:28:12of the theatre
00:28:13where they sat down
00:28:14silently to wait.
00:28:18London hummed
00:28:19solemnly all around,
00:28:21but nearer at hand,
00:28:22the stillness
00:28:23was only broken
00:28:24by the sounds
00:28:25of a footfall
00:28:26moving to and fro
00:28:27along the cabinet floor.
00:28:29So it will walk
00:28:32all day, sir,
00:28:34whispered Poole.
00:28:35Aye,
00:28:35and the better part
00:28:36of the night.
00:28:37Only when a new sample
00:28:38comes from the chemist
00:28:40is a bit of a break.
00:28:41Oh,
00:28:42it's an ill conscience
00:28:43there's such an enemy
00:28:43to arrest.
00:28:45But hark again,
00:28:47a little closer.
00:28:49Put your heart
00:28:49in your ears,
00:28:50Mr. Utterson,
00:28:51and tell me,
00:28:52is that a doctor's foot?
00:28:57The steps fell lightly
00:28:59and oddly
00:29:00with a certain swing,
00:29:02for all they went
00:29:03so slowly
00:29:03was different indeed
00:29:05from the heavy,
00:29:07creaking tread
00:29:08of Henry Jekyll.
00:29:08Utterson sighed.
00:29:12Is there never
00:29:13anything else?
00:29:15He asked.
00:29:17Poole nodded.
00:29:18Once,
00:29:19he said.
00:29:21Once I heard it weeping.
00:29:24Weeping?
00:29:25How's that?
00:29:26Said the lawyer,
00:29:27conscious of a sudden
00:29:28chill of horror.
00:29:30Weeping,
00:29:31like a woman
00:29:32or a lost soul,
00:29:34said the butler.
00:29:35I came away with that
00:29:36upon my heart
00:29:37that I could have
00:29:37wept too.
00:29:39Poole
00:29:40disinterred the axe
00:29:42from under a stack
00:29:43of packing straw.
00:29:44The candle was set
00:29:45upon the nearest table
00:29:46to light them
00:29:48to the attack
00:29:49and they drew near
00:29:50with bated breath
00:29:51where that patient foot
00:29:53was still going
00:29:54up and down,
00:29:56up and down
00:29:58in the quiet
00:30:00of the night.
00:30:02Jekyll,
00:30:03cried Utterson
00:30:04with a loud voice,
00:30:05I demand to see you.
00:30:06He paused a moment
00:30:09but then came
00:30:10no reply.
00:30:11I give you fair warning,
00:30:13our suspicions
00:30:14are aroused
00:30:15and I must
00:30:16and I shall see you.
00:30:18He resumed.
00:30:19If not by fair means,
00:30:20then by foul.
00:30:22If not your consent,
00:30:24then by brute force.
00:30:28Utterson,
00:30:28said the voice,
00:30:30for God's sake,
00:30:31have mercy.
00:30:34That's not Jekyll's voice.
00:30:36It's Hyde's,
00:30:38cried Utterson.
00:30:39Down with the door,
00:30:40Poole.
00:30:41Poole swung the axe
00:30:42over his shoulder.
00:30:44The blow shook the building
00:30:45and the red bay's door
00:30:46leapt against the lock
00:30:48and hinges.
00:30:49A dismal screech
00:30:50as of mere animal terror
00:30:52rang from the cabinet.
00:30:54Up went the axe again
00:30:55and again.
00:30:56The panels crashed
00:30:57and the frame bounded.
00:30:59Four times
00:31:00the blow fell
00:31:01but the wood was tough
00:31:02and the fittings
00:31:03were of excellent workmanship
00:31:04and it was not
00:31:05until the fifth
00:31:06that the lock burst
00:31:07and the wreck of the door
00:31:09fell inward
00:31:10on the carpet.
00:31:11The besiegers,
00:31:13appalled by their own riot,
00:31:15and the stillness
00:31:16that had succeeded
00:31:17stood back a little
00:31:19and peered in.
00:31:22Right in the middle,
00:31:23there lay the body
00:31:24of a man,
00:31:26sorely contorted
00:31:27and still twitching.
00:31:30They drew near
00:31:31on tiptoe,
00:31:33turned it on its back
00:31:34and beheld the face
00:31:35of Edward Hyde.
00:31:38He was dressed in clothes
00:31:39far too large for him,
00:31:42clothes of the doctor's
00:31:43bigness,
00:31:44the cords of his face
00:31:45still moved
00:31:46with the semblance
00:31:47of life
00:31:48but life
00:31:49was quite gone
00:31:50and by the crushed
00:31:52vial in the hand
00:31:53and the strong smell
00:31:55of kernels
00:31:56that hung upon the air,
00:31:58Utterson knew
00:31:58that he was looking
00:31:59on the body
00:32:00of a self-destroyer.
00:32:01We have come too late,
00:32:07he said sternly,
00:32:10whether to save
00:32:11or punish.
00:32:14Hyde is gone
00:32:15to his account
00:32:16and it only remains
00:32:17for us to find
00:32:18the body of your master.
00:32:21But nowhere
00:32:22was there any trace
00:32:24of Henry Jekyll,
00:32:26dead or alive.
00:32:27Still,
00:32:28with an occasional
00:32:28awestruck glance
00:32:30at the dead body,
00:32:30the searchers proceeded
00:32:31more thoroughly
00:32:32to examine the contents
00:32:34of the cabinet.
00:32:35At one table,
00:32:36there were traces
00:32:37of chemical work,
00:32:38various measured heaps
00:32:39of some white salt
00:32:41being laid
00:32:41on glass saucers.
00:32:44On the business table,
00:32:46among the neat array
00:32:46of papers,
00:32:47a large envelope
00:32:48was uppermost
00:32:49and bore in the doctor's hand
00:32:52the name of Mr. Utterson.
00:32:55The lawyer unsealed it
00:32:56and two enclosures
00:32:58fell to the floor.
00:33:00The first was a will
00:33:01drawn in the same
00:33:03eccentric terms
00:33:05as the one which
00:33:05he had returned
00:33:06six months before
00:33:07to serve as a testament
00:33:09in case of death
00:33:10and as a deed of gift
00:33:12in case of disappearance.
00:33:14But in place of the name
00:33:16of Edward Hyde,
00:33:17the lawyer,
00:33:18with indescribable amazement,
00:33:20read the name
00:33:21of Gabriel John Utterson.
00:33:25My head goes round,
00:33:27he said.
00:33:28He has been
00:33:29all these days
00:33:30in possession.
00:33:32He had no cause
00:33:32to like me.
00:33:34He must have raged
00:33:35to see himself displaced
00:33:36and he has not destroyed
00:33:38this document.
00:33:40He caught up
00:33:41the next paper.
00:33:42It was a brief note
00:33:44in Dr. Jekyll's hand
00:33:46and dated at the top.
00:33:48Oh, Paul.
00:33:49Paul, the lawyer cried.
00:33:51He was alive
00:33:52and here this day.
00:33:54He cannot have been
00:33:55disposed of
00:33:56in so short a space.
00:33:57He must still be alive.
00:33:59He must have fled.
00:34:00And then why fled?
00:34:01And how?
00:34:03And in that case,
00:34:04can we venture
00:34:05to declare this suicide?
00:34:06Why don't you read it, sir?
00:34:16Asked Poole.
00:34:19Because I fear,
00:34:21replied the lawyer
00:34:22solemnly.
00:34:24And with that,
00:34:25he brought the paper
00:34:26to his eyes
00:34:27and read as follows.
00:34:31My dear Utterson,
00:34:33when this shall fall
00:34:34into your hands,
00:34:35I shall have disappeared.
00:34:37Under what circumstances
00:34:39I have not the penetration
00:34:40to foresee,
00:34:41but my instinct
00:34:43and all the circumstances
00:34:44of my nameless situation.
00:34:46Tell me that
00:34:47the end is sure
00:34:48and must be early.
00:34:51Go then
00:34:52and read
00:34:53if you care
00:34:54the confession
00:34:56of your unworthy
00:34:57and unhappy friend,
00:35:01Henry Jekyll.
00:35:02I'll see you next time.
00:35:32I was born to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts, inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of the wise and good among my fellow men, and thus, as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an honourable and distinguished future.
00:35:51And indeed, the worst of my faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as I found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to carry my head high and wear a more than commonly grave countenance before the public.
00:36:08Hence it came about that I concealed my pleasures, and that when I reached years of reflection and began to look around me and take stock of my progress and position in the world, I stood already committed to a profound duplicity of me.
00:36:25With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus grew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck, that man is not truly one, but truly two.
00:36:50It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man.
00:37:00I saw that of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, I was only because I was radically both.
00:37:11And from an early date, even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle, I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.
00:37:30If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable, the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin,
00:37:49and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.
00:38:04How, then, how, then, were they dissociated?
00:38:12I was so far in my reflections when, as I have said, a sidelight began to shine upon the subject from my laboratory table.
00:38:20I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mist-like transience of this seemingly so solid body that we walk attired.
00:38:36Certain agents, I found, to have the power to shake and pluck back that fleshy vestment, even as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.
00:38:47I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice.
00:38:57I knew well that I risked death, for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity might, by the least scruple of an overdose,
00:39:10or the least in opportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.
00:39:20But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.
00:39:33I had long since prepared my tincture.
00:39:37I purchased at once from a firm of wholesale chemists a large quantity of a particular salt,
00:39:44which I knew from my experiments to be the last ingredient required.
00:39:49And late, one accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the glass.
00:40:02And when the ebullition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage, drank off the poison.
00:40:11The most wracking pangs succeeded, a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death.
00:40:33And then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness.
00:40:45There was something strange in my sensation, something indescribably new, and from its very novelty, incredibly sweet.
00:40:57I felt younger, lighter, happier in body. Within, I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered, sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy,
00:41:12a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not innocent freedom of the soul.
00:41:21I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil,
00:41:39and the thought in that moment braced and delighted me like wine.
00:41:45I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of these sensations, and in the act, I was suddenly aware that I had lost in stature.
00:41:59There was no cheval glass at that date in my room. That which stands beside me as I write was brought there later on, and for the very purposes of these transformations,
00:42:11I crossed the yard wherein the constellations looked down upon me. I stole through the corridors, a stranger in my own house.
00:42:21And coming to my room, I saw for the first time, the appearance of Edward Hyde.
00:42:33The evil side of my nature, to which I had now transferred the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than the good which I had just opposed.
00:42:49Again, in the course of my life, which had been, after all, nine-tenths a life of effort, virtue and control, it had been much less exercised, much less exhausted.
00:43:05And hence, as I think, it came about that Edward Hyde was so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyll.
00:43:17Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.
00:43:27And yet, when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather than a leap of welcome.
00:43:39This, too, was myself.
00:43:42I lingered but a moment at the mirror.
00:43:46The second and conclusive experiment had yet to be attempted.
00:43:50It yet remained to be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption, and must flee before daylight from a house that was no longer mine.
00:43:59And hurrying back to my cabinet, I once more prepared, drank the cup, once more suffered the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more with the character and the face of Henry Jekyll.
00:44:13That night, I had come to the fatal crossroads.
00:44:22Even at that time, I had not conquered my aversion to the dryness of a life of study.
00:44:28I would still be merrily disposed at times, and, as my pleasures were to say the least, undignified.
00:44:38It was on this side that my new power tempted me until I fell in slavery.
00:44:47I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
00:45:00I smiled at the notion, seemed to me at the time to be humorous, and I made my preparations with the most studious care.
00:45:08I drew up that will to which you so much objected, so that if anything befell me in the person of Dr. Jekyll, I could enter on that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss.
00:45:19And thus, fortified, as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit by the strange immunities of my position.
00:45:31Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter.
00:45:40I was the first that ever did so for his pleasures.
00:45:47I was the first that could plod in the public eye, with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into a sea of liberty.
00:46:03But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, safety was complete. Think of it. I did not even exist.
00:46:18The pleasures which I made haste to seek in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified.
00:46:30I would scarce use a harder term.
00:46:33But in the hands of Edward Hyde, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous.
00:46:43When I would come back from these excursions, I was often plunged into a kind of wonder at the vicarious depravity.
00:46:54This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous.
00:47:05His every act and thought centered on self, drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man of stone.
00:47:20Henry Jekyll stood at times aghast before the acts of Edward Hyde.
00:47:27But the situation was apart from ordinary laws, and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience.
00:47:39It was Hyde.
00:47:40It was Hyde.
00:47:41After all.
00:47:42And Hyde alone.
00:47:43It was guilty.
00:47:46I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate.
00:47:52Some two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, I had been out for one of my days.
00:48:21I had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed with somewhat odd sensations.
00:48:33My eyes fell upon my hand.
00:48:38Now, the hand of Henry Jekyll was professional in shape and size.
00:48:44It was large, firm, white, and comely.
00:48:49But the hand, which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half-shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corda, knuckly, of a dusky pallow, and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.
00:49:16It was the hand of Edward Hyde.
00:49:19I must have stared upon it for nearly half a minute, sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder, before terror woke up in my breast as sudden and startling as the crash of symbols, and bounding from the bed I rushed to the mirror.
00:49:38At the sight that met my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin and icy.
00:49:49Yes, I had gone to bed, Henry Jekyll.
00:49:53I had awakened Edward Hyde.
00:49:58How was this to be explained?
00:50:04I asked myself, and then with another bound of terror, how was it to be remedied?
00:50:12It was well on in the morning.
00:50:13The servants were up.
00:50:14All my drugs were in the cabinet.
00:50:16A long journey down two pairs of stairs, through the back passage, across the open court, and through the anatomical theatre.
00:50:24I had soon dressed, as well as I was able, in clothes of my own size, had soon passed through the house, and ten minutes later, Dr. Jekyll had returned to his own shape, and was sitting down with a darkened brow to make a feint of breakfasting.
00:50:47Small, indeed, was my appetite.
00:50:54All things seemed to point to this, that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
00:51:11Between these two, I now felt I had to choose.
00:51:18To cast in my lot with Jekyll was to die those appetites which I had long secretly indulged, and had of late begun to pamper.
00:51:30To cast it in with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations, and to become, at a blow, and forever, despised, friendless.
00:51:45The bargain might appear unequal, but there was still another consideration in the scales.
00:51:51For while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would not be even conscious of all that he had lost.
00:52:01Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented Doctor, surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes, and bade a resolute farewell to the Liberty, the comparative youth, the light step, the leaping impulses and secret pleasures that I had enjoyed in the disguise of Hyde.
00:52:27For two months, I was true to my determination. For two months, I led a life of such severity as I had never before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.
00:52:49But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of my alarm.
00:52:57I began to be tortured with throes and longings, as of Hyde struggling after freedom.
00:53:05And at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once again compounded and swallowed the transforming draught.
00:53:19My devil had been long aged, and he came out roaring.
00:53:29Instantly, the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged.
00:53:33With a transport of glee, I mauled Kru's unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow.
00:53:43And it was not until weariness had begun to succeed that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
00:53:56A mist dispersed. I saw my life to be forfeit, and fled from the scene of these excesses, at once glorying and trembling.
00:54:14My lust of evil gratified and stimulated my love of life, screwed to the topmost peg.
00:54:25The next day came the news that the murder had been witnessed, that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim was a man high in public estimation.
00:54:41I think I was glad to know it.
00:54:44I think I was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors of the scaffold.
00:54:55Jekyll was now my city of refuge.
00:54:59But let Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
00:55:11I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past, and I can say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good.
00:55:21You know yourself how earnestly, in the last months of the last year, I labored to relieve suffering.
00:55:28You know that much was done for others, and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.
00:55:37There comes an end to all things.
00:55:47It was a fine, clear January day, wet underfoot, where the frost had melted.
00:55:55But cloudless overhead, and the Regent's Park was full of winter chirruppings and sweets with spring odours.
00:56:04I sat in the sun on a bench, the animal within me licking the chops of memory.
00:56:12The spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
00:56:22After all I reflected, I was like my neighbours.
00:56:26And then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my good will with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.
00:56:37And at that very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me.
00:56:43A horrid nausea, and the most deadly shuddering.
00:56:52These passed away, and left me faint.
00:56:57And then, as in its turn, faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change in the temper of my thoughts.
00:57:09A greater boldness.
00:57:12A contempt of danger.
00:57:14A solution of the bonds of obligation.
00:57:18I looked down.
00:57:23My clothes hung formlessly on my limbs.
00:57:28The hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.
00:57:35I was once more Edward Hyde.
00:57:47A moment before I had been safe, of all men's respect.
00:57:52Wealthy.
00:57:54Beloved.
00:57:56And now, I was the common quarry of mankind.
00:58:03Hunted.
00:58:04Houseless.
00:58:05A known murderer.
00:58:10Thrall to the gallows.
00:58:15My drugs were in one of the presses of my cabinet.
00:58:22How was I to reach them?
00:58:26That was the problem.
00:58:28Crushing my temples in my hands, I set myself to solve.
00:58:33A change had come over me.
00:58:36It was no longer the fear of the gallows.
00:58:39It was the horror of being Hyde that wracked me.
00:58:43In a dream that I came home to my own house and got into bed.
00:58:49I slept after the prostration of the day with a stringent and profound slumber,
00:58:54which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
00:59:00I awoke in the morning, shaken, weakened, but refreshed.
00:59:08I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast,
00:59:12drinking the chill of the air with pleasure.
00:59:17When I was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change.
00:59:24And I had but the time to gain the shelter of my cabinet
00:59:28before I was once again raging and freezing with the passions of Hyde.
00:59:33It took, on this occasion, a double dose to recall me to myself.
00:59:43And alas, six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire,
00:59:50the pangs returned and the drug had to be re-administered.
00:59:58In short, from that day forth, it seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics,
01:00:05and only under the immediate stimulation of the drug that I was able to wear the countenance of Jekyll.
01:00:18At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with a promontory shudder.
01:00:23Above all, if I slept or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.
01:00:32My provision of the salt, which had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment, began to run low.
01:00:42I sent out for a fresh supply and mixed the draught. I drank it, and it was without efficiency.
01:00:50You will learn from Poole how I have had London ransacked.
01:00:56It was in vain, and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure,
01:01:02and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy to the draught.
01:01:07About a week has passed, and I am now finishing this statement
01:01:13under the influence of the last of the old powders.
01:01:20This, then, is the last time, short of a miracle,
01:01:28that Henry Jekyll can think his own thoughts or see his own face.
01:01:37In the glass.
01:01:42And indeed, the doom that is closing on us both
01:01:48has already changed and crushed Hyde.
01:01:56Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever re-indue that hated personality,
01:02:04I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair,
01:02:11or continue with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening,
01:02:17to pace up and down this room and give ear to every sound of menace.
01:02:26Will Hyde die upon the scaffold?
01:02:36Or will he find courage to release himself at the last moment?
01:02:41God knows.
01:02:46I am careless.
01:02:51And this is the true hour of my death.
01:02:56And what is to follow concerns.
01:03:00Here, then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession,
01:03:12I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll
01:03:17to an end.
01:03:22Down where the door pulls!
01:03:27Over the door!
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