Latest / Audiobooks & Scary Stories / The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Transcript

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this reading, which comes from a
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: work in the public domain, The Strange Case of Doctor
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Jekyll and Mister Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Story of
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: the Door. Mister Utterson, the lawyer, was a man of
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: cold scanty, and embarrassed in discourse, backward in sentiment, lean, long, dusty, dreary,
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and yet somehow lovable at friendly meetings, and when the
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: wine was to his taste, something eminently human beacon from
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: his eye, something indeed, which never found its way into
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: symbols of the after dinner face, but more often and
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: loudly in the acts of his life. He was austere
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: with himself, drank gin when he was alone to mortify,
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: a taste for vintages, and though he enjoyed the theater,
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: But he had an approved tolerance for others, sometimes wondering
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: almost with envy at the high pressure of spirits involved
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: in their misdeeds, and in any extremity inclined to help
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: rather than to reprove I inclined to Cain's heresy, he
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: used to say, quaintly, I let my brother go to
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: the devil in his own way. In this character, it
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: was frequently his fortune to be the last reputable acquaintance
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: and the last good influence in the lives of down
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: gooing men. And to such as these, so long as
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: they came about his chambers, he never marked a shade
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: of change in his demeanor. No doubt, defeat was easy
• 1:29
  Speaker 1: to mister Utterson, for he was undemonstrative at the best,
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: similar catholicity of good nature. It is the mark of
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready made
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: from the hands of opportunity, and that was the lawyer's way.
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: His friends were those of his own blood, or those
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: whom he had known the longest. His affections, like ivy
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: or the growth of time, they implied no aptness in
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: the object. Hence, no doubt the bond that united him
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: to mister Richard Enfield, a distant kinsmen, the well known
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: man about town. It was a nut to crack for
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: many what these two could see in each other, or
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: what subject they could find in common. It was reported
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: by those who encountered them in their Sunday walks that
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: they said nothing looked singularly dull, and would hail with
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: obvious relief the appearance of a friend. For all that
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: the two men put the greatest store by these excursions
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: counted them the chief jewel of each week, and not
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: only set aside occasions of pleasure, but even resisted the
• 2:30
  Speaker 1: calls of business, that they might enjoy them uninterrupted. It
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: chanced on one of these rambles that their way led
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: them down a by street in a busy quarter of London.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: The street was small and what is called quiet, but
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: it drove a thriving trade on the week days. The
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, in all emulously
• 2:50
  Speaker 1: hoping to do better still, and laying out the surplus
• 2:53
  Speaker 1: of their grains in coquetry, so that the shop front
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: stood along that thoroughfare with an air of invitation, like
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: rows of smiling saleswomen. Even on Sunday, when it veiled
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: The street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighborhood,
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: like a fire in a forest, and with its freshly
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: painted shutters, well polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: Two doors from one corner on the left hand, going east,
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: the line was broken by the entry of a court,
• 3:28
  Speaker 1: and just at that point a certain sinister block of
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: building thrust forward its gable on the street. It was
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: two stories high, showed no window, nothing but a door
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: on the lower story, in a blind forehead of discolored
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: wall on the upper, and bore in every feature the
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and disdained.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on the panels.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Children kept shop upon the steps. The schoolboy had tried
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: his knife on the moldings, and for close on a
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: generation no one had appeared to drive away these random
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: visitors or to repair their ravages. Mister Enfield and the
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: lawyer were on the other side of the by street,
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: But when they came abreast of the entry, the former
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: lifted up his cane and pointed, did you ever remark
• 4:18
  Speaker 1: that door? He asked, and when his companion had replied
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: in the affirmative, it is connected in my mind, added
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: he with a very odd story. Indeed, said mister Utterson,
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: with a slight change of voice. And what was that? Well,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: it was this way, returned mister Enfield. I was coming
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: home from some place at the end of the world,
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: about three o'clock of a black winter morning, and my
• 4:43
  Speaker 1: way lay through a part of town where there was
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: literally nothing to be seen but lamps, street after street,
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: and all the folks asleep, street after street, all lighted
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: up as if for a procession, and all as empty
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: as a church. Till at last I got into that
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: state of mind when a man listens and listens and
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: begins to long for the sight of a policeman. All
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: at once I saw two figures, one a little man
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: who was stumping along eastward at a good walk, and
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: the other a girl of maybe eight or ten, who
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: was running as hard as she was able down a
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: cross street. Well, sir, the two ran into one another
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: naturally enough at the corner, and then came the horrible
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: part of the thing, for the man trampled calmly over
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: the child's body and left her screaming on the ground.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see.
• 5:31
  Speaker 1: It wasn't like a man, it was like some damned juggernaut.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: I gave a few helloa, took to my heels, collared
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: my gentleman, and brought him back to where there was
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: already quite a group about the screaming child. He was
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: perfectly cool and made no resistance, but gave me one
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: look so ugly that it brought out the sweat on me,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: like running. The people who had turned out were the
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: girl's own family, and pretty soon the doctor for whom
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: she had been sent put in his appearance. Well, the
• 6:00
  Speaker 1: child was not much the worse, more frightened, according to
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: the saw bones, And there, you might have supposed, would
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: be an end to it. But there was one curious circumstance.
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: So had the child's family, which was only natural. But
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: the doctor's case was what struck me. He was the
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: usual cut and dry apothecary, of no particular age and color,
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: with a strong Edinburgh accent, and about as emotional as
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: a bagpipe. Well, sir, he was like the rest of us.
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: Every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.
• 6:40
  Speaker 1: I knew what was in his mind, just as he
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: knew what was in mine. And killing being out of
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: the question, we did the next best. We told the
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: man we could and would make such a scandal out
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: of this as should make his name stink from one
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: end of London to the other. If he had any
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: friends or any credit, we undertook that he should lose them.
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: And all the time as we were pitching it in
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: red hot, we were keeping the women off him as
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: best we could, for they were as wild as harpies.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: I never saw a circle of such hateful faces. And
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: there was the man in the middle with a kind
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: of black, sneering coolness. Frightened too, I could see that.
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: But carrying it off, Sir, really like Satan. If you
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: choose to make capital out of this accident, said he.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: I am naturally helpless, no gentleman, but wishes to avoid
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: a scene, says he name your figure. Well, we screwed
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: him up to a hundred pounds for the child's family.
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: He would have clearly liked to stick out, But there
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: was something about the lot of us that meant mischief,
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: and at last he struck. The next thing was to
• 7:44
  Speaker 1: get the money. And where do you think he carried us?
• 7:46
  Speaker 1: But to that place with the door whipped out, A
• 7:50
  Speaker 1: key went in and presently came back with the matter
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: of ten pounds in gold and a check for the
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: balance on coutses drawn, payable to bearer, and signed with
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: a name that I can't mention, though it's one of
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: the points of my story, but it was a name
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: at least very well known and often printed. The figure
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: was stiff, but the signature was good for more than that,
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: if it was only genuine. I took the liberty of
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: pointing out to my gentleman that the whole business looked apocryphal,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: and that a man does not, in real life walk
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: into a cellar door at four in the morning and
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: come out with another man's check for close upon a
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: hundred pounds. But he was quite easy and sneering. Set
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: your mind at rest, says he. I will stay with
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: you till the bank's open and cash the check myself.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: So we all set off, the doctor and the child's father,
• 8:37
  Speaker 1: and our friend and myself, and passed the rest of
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: the night in my chambers, and next day, when we
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: had breakfasted, went in a body to the bank. I
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: gave in the check myself and said I had every
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: reason to believe it was a forgery, not a bit
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: of it. The check was genuine. Tut tut, said mister Utterson.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: I see you feel as I do, said mister Enfield. Yes,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: it's a bad story. For my man was a fellow
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man.
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: And the person that drew the check is the very
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: pink of the proprieties celebrated too. And what makes it
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: worse one of your fellows who do what they call
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: good blackmail. I suppose an honest man paying through the
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: nose for some of the capers of his youth. Blackmail
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: house is what I call the place with the door.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: In consequence, though even that, you know, is far from
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: explaining all he added, and with the words fell into
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: a vein of musing. From this he was recalled by
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson, asking, rather suddenly, and you don't know if
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: the drawer of the check lives there A likely place,
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: isn't it, returned mister Enfield. But I happened to have
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: noticed his address. He lives in some square or other,
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: and you never asked about the place with the door,
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: said mister Utterson. No, sir, I had a delicacy, was
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: the reply. I feel very strongly about putting questions. It
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment.
• 10:11
  Speaker 1: You start a question, and it's like starting a stone.
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: You sit quietly on the top of a hill, and
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: away the stone goes, starting others, and presently some bland
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: old bird, the last you would have thought of, is
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: knocked on the head in his own back garden, and
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: the family have to change their name. No, sir, I
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: make it a rule of mine. The more it looks
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: like Queer Street, the less I ask. A very good
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: rule too, said the lawyer. But I have studied the
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: place for myself, continued mister Enfield. It seems scarcely a house.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: There is no other door, and nobody goes in or
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: out of that one, but once in a great while,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: the gentleman of my adventure. There are three windows looking
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: on the court on the first floor, none below. The
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: windows are always shut, but they're clean. And then there
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: is a chimney which is generally smoking. So somebody must
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: live there, And yet it's not so sure, for the
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: buildings are so packed together about the court that it's
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: hard to say where one ends and another begins. The
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: pair walked on again for a while in silence, and
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: then Enfield said mister Utterson. That's a good rule of yours. Yes,
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I think it is returned Enfield. But for all that,
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: continued the lawyer, there's one point I want to ask.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: I want to ask the name of that man who
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: walked over the child. Well, said mister Enfield. I can't
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: see what harm it would do. It was a man
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: of the name of Hyde. Hum said mister Utterson. What
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: sort of a man is he? To see? He is
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance,
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: must be deformed somewhere. He gives a strong feeling of deformity,
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: although I couldn't specify the point. He's an extraordinary looking man,
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: and yet I really can name nothing out of the way, No, sir,
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: I can make no hand of it. I can't describe him,
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: and it's not want of memory. For I declare I
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: can see him this moment. Mister Utterson again walked some
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: way in silence, and obviously under a weight of consideration.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: You are sure he used a key, he inquired at last,
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: My dear sir, began Enfield, surprised out of himself. Yes,
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: I know, said Utterson. I know it must seem strange.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: The fact is, if I do not ask you the
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: name of the other party, it is because I know
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: it already. You see, Richard, your tale has gone home.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: If you have been inexact in any point, you had
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: better correct it. I think you might have warned me,
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: returned the other with a touch of sullenness. But I
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: had a key, and what's more, he has it still.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: I saw him use it not a week ago. Mister
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: Utterson sighed deeply, but said never a word, and the
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: young man presently resumed. Here is another lesson to say nothing,
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: said he. I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: us make a bargain never to refer to this again.
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: With all my heart, said the lawyer, I shake hands
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: on that. Richard searched for mister Hyde that evening, mister
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Utterson came home to his bachelor house in somber spirits
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: custom of a Sunday when this meal was over, to
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: sit close by the fire a volume of some dry
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: divinity on his reading desk until the clock of the
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: neighboring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: would go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night, however,
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: as soon as the cloth was taken away, he took
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: up a candle and went into his business room. There
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: he opened his safe, took from the most private part
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: of it a document endorsed on the envelope as doctor
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Jekyl's will, and sat down with a clouded brow to
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: study its contents. The will was holograph for mister utter Sun,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: though he took charge of it now that it was made,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: had refused to lend the least assistance in the making
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: of it. It provided not only that in case of
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: the decease of Henry Jekyl and D D C L
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: L L D F Rus, et cetera, all his possessions
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: were to pass into the hands of his friend and
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: benefactor Edward Hyde, but that in case of Dir Jeckyll's
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding three calendar months,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Jeckyll's shoes without further delay, and free from any burthen
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to the members of the doctor's household. This document had
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: long been the lawyer's iore it offended him, both as
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: and hitherto it was his ignorance of mister Hyde that
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: had swelled his indignation. Now by a sudden turn, it
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: was his knowledge. It was already bad enough when the
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: name was but a name of which he could learn
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: no more. It was worse when it began to be
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: clothed upon with detestable attributes. And out of the shifting
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: in substantial mists that had so long baffled his eye,
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I thought it was madness, he said, as he replaced
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: the obnoxious paper in the safe and now I begin
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: to fear at his disgrace. With that, he blew out
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: the direction of Cavendish Square, that citadel of medicine, where
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: his friend, the great Doctor Lanion had his house, and
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: received his crowding patience. If any one knows it will
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: be Lanion, he had thought the solemn butler knew and
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: welcomed him. He was subjected to no stage of delay,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: but ushered direct from the door to the dining room,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: where Doctor Lanion sat alone over his wine. This was
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: a hearty, healthy, dapper, red faced gentleman, with a shock
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous and decided manner.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: At sight of mister Utterson, he sprang up from his
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: chair and welcomed him with both hands. The geniality, as
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: the eye, but it reposed on genuine feeling. For these
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: two were old friends, old mates both at school and college,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: both thorough respectors of themselves and of each other. And
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: what does not always follow men who thoroughly enjoyed each
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: other's company. After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: up to the subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I suppose, Lanion, said he You and I must be
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyl has. I wish
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the friends were younger, chuckled doctor Lanion. But I suppose
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: we are, And what of that? I see little of
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: him now? Indeed, said utter son, I thought you had
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: a bond of common interest we had, was the reply.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyl
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: wrong in mind, And though of course I continue to
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: they say, I see, and I have seen devilish little
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: of the man. Such unscientific balderdash, added the doctor, flushing.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Suddenly Purple would have a strange damon and pitheus. This
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson. They have only differed on some point of science,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: he thought, And being a man of no scientific passions
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: except in the matter of conveyancing, he even added, it
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: is nothing worse than that. He gave his friend a
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: question he had come to put. Did you ever come
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: across a protegee of his? One? Hide? He asked, Hide,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: repeated Lanyon, No, never heard of him since my time.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: That was the amount of information that the lawyer carried
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: back with him to the great dark bed, on which
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: he tossed to and fro until the small hours of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the morning began to grow large. It was a night
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: darkness and besieged by questions. Six o'clock struck on the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: bells of the church that was so conveniently near to
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson's dwelling, And still he was digging at the problem.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: But now his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of the night and the curtained room, mister Enfield's tail
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He would be aware of the great field of lamps
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of a nocturnal city, then of the figure of a
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: man walking swiftly, then of a child running from the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: doctor's and then these met, and that human juggernaut trod
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the child down and passed on, regardless of her screams.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Or else he would see a room in a rich
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: house where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: his dreams. And then the door of that room would
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: sleeper recalled, and lo there would stand by his side,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: a figure to whom power was given, and even at
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and if at any time he dozed over, it was
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: or move the more swiftly, and still the more swiftly,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: even to dizziness through wider labyrinths of lamplight city, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And still the figure had no face by which he
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: might know it even in his dreams. It had no face,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: or one that baffled him and melted before his eyes.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: And thus it was that there sprang up and grew
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: apace in the lawyer's mind, a singularly strong, almost an
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: inordinate curiosity to behold the features of the real mister Hyde.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: If he could but once set eyes on him, he
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: as was the habit of mysterious things. When well examined,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he might see a reason for his friend's strange preference
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: or bondage, call it which you please, And even for
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the startling clause of the will. At least it would
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: be a face worth seeing, the face of a man
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: who was without bowels of mercy, a face which had
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but to show itself, to raise up in the mind
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: of the unimpressionable Enfield a spirit of enduring hatred. From
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that time forward, mister Utterson began to haunt the door
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in the by street of shops in the morning before
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: office hours, at noon, when business was plenty and time scarce,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: at night, under the face of the fogged city moon,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: by all lights, and at all hours of solitude or concourse,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: If he be mister Hyde, he had thought, I shall
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: be mister Seek And at last his patience was rewarded.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It was a fine, dry night, frost in the air,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the streets as clean as a ballroom floor, the lamps
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: unshaken by any wind, drawing a regular pattern of light
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and shadow. By ten o'clock, when the shops were closed,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the by street was very solitary, and, in spite of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the low growl of London, from all round, very silent.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Small sounds carried far. Domestic sounds out of the houses
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: were clearly audible on either side of the roadway, and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the rumor of the approach of any passenger preceded him
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: by a long time. Mister Utterson had been some minutes
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: at his post when he was aware of an odd
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: light footstep drawing near. In the course of his nightly patrols,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he had long grown accustomed to the quaint effect with
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: which the footfalls of a single person, while he is
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: still a great way off, suddenly spring out, distinct from
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: the vast hum and clatter of the city. Yet his
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: attention had never before been so sharply and decisively arrested,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and it was with a strong, superstitious provision of success
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that he withdrew into the entry of the court. The
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: steps drew swiftly nearer and swelled out suddenly louder as
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they turned the end of the street. The lawyer, looking
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: forth from the entry, could soon see what manner of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: man he had to deal with. He was small and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: very plainly dressed, and the look of him, even at
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: that distance, went somehow strongly against the watcher's inclination. But
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he made straight for the door, crossing the roadway to
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: save time, and as he came he drew a key
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: from his pocket, like one approaching home. Mister Utterson stepped
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: out and touched him on the shoulder as he passed.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Mister Hyde. I think mister Hyde shrank back with a
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: hissing intake of the breath, but his fear was only momentary,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and though he did not look the lawyer in the face,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: he answered coolly enough, that is my name. What do
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you want? I see you are going in, returned the lawyer.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I am an old friend of doctor jekyls mister Utter,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: son of Gaunt Street. You must have heard of my name,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: You will not find doctor Jekyll. He is from home,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: replied mister Hyde, blowing in the key, and then suddenly,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: but still without looking up, how did you know me?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: He asked? On your side, said mister utter son, will
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: you do me a favor with pleasure? Replied the other.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: What shall it be? Will you let me see your face?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Asked the lawyer. Mister Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: air of defiance, and the pair stared at each other
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: pretty fixedly for a few seconds. Now I shall know
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you again, said mister Utterson. It may be useful, yes,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: return mister Hyde. It is as well we have met,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And now propos he should have my address? And he
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: gave a number of a street in Soho. Good God,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: thought mister Utterson. Can he too have been thinking of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: the will? But he kept his feelings to himself and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: only grunted in acknowledgment of the address. And now said
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the other, How did you know me by description? Was
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the reply? Whose description we have? Common friends, said mister Utterson.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Common friends, echoed mister Hyde, a little hoarsely. Who are
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: they jekyl for instance, said the lawyer. He never told you,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: cried mister Hyde, with a flush of anger. I did
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not think you would have lied. Come, said mister Utterson.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: That is not fitting language. The other snarled aloud into
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a savage laugh, and the next moment, with extraordinary quickness,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: he had unlocked the door and disappeared into the house.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: The lawyer stood awhile when mister Hyde had left him
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the picture of disquietude. Then he began slowly to mount
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the street, pausing every step or two and putting his
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: hand to his brow, like a man in mental perplexity.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The problem he was thus debating as he walked was
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: one of a class that is rarely solved. Mister Hyde
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: was pale and dwarfish. He gave an impression of deformity
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: without any nameable malformation. He had a displeasing smile. He
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice. All these were
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: points against him, but not all of these together could
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing, and fear with which
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson regarded him. There must be something else, said
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: the perplexed gentleman. There is something more, if I could
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: find a name for it, God bless me. The man
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: seems hardly human. Something trogloditic, shall we say, or can
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: it be the old story of doctor Fell? Or is
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it the mere radiance of a foul soul that thus
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: transpires through and trans figures its clay continent? The last
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I think for O, my poor old Harry Jekyl. If
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: on that of your new friend. Round the corner from
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the by street there was a square of ancient, handsome houses,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: now for the most part decayed from their high estate,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and lead in flats and chambers to all sorts and
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: conditions of men, map engravers, architects, shady lawyers, and the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: agents of obscure enterprises. One house, however, second from the corner,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: was still occupied entire. And at the door of this
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: it was now plunged in darkness except for the fanlight,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson stopped and knocked. A well dressed elderly servant
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: opened the door. Is doctor Jekyll at home? Pool asked
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I will see, mister Utterson, said Pool, admitting
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the visitor as he spoke into a large, low roofed,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: comfortable hall, paid with flags, warmed after the fashion of
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: a country house by a bright open fire, and furnished
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: with costly cabinets of oak. Will you wait here by
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the fire, sir? Or shall I give you a light
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in the dining room? Here? Thank you? Said the lawyer,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and he drew near and leaned on the tall fender.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: This hall, in which he was now left alone, was
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a pet fancy of his friend, the doctor's, an utter
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Sun himself was wont to speak of it as the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: pleasantest room in London. But to night there was a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: shudder in his blood. The face of Hyde sat heavy
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: on his memory. He felt what was rare with him,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a nausea and distaste of life. And in the gloom
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: of his spirits he seemed to read a menace in
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the flickering of the fire light on the polished cabinets,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the roof.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: He was ashamed of his relief. When Poole presently returned
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: to announce that doctor Jekyll was gone out. I saw
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: mister Hyde go in by the old dissecting room pool.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: He said, Is that right? When doctor Jekyll is from home?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Quite right? Mister Utterson, Sir, replied the servant, mister Hyde
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: has a key. Your master seems to repose a great
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: deal of trust in that young man. Pool resumed the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: other musingly, Yes, sir, he does, indeed, said Poole, we
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: have all orders to obey him. I do not think
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I ever met mister Hyde, asked utter son. Oh dear, No, sir,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: he never dines here, replied the butler. Indeed, we see
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: very little of him on this side of the house.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: He mostly comes and goes by the laboratory. Well, good night, Pool,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Good night, mister Utterson and the lawyer set out homeward
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: with a very happy heart. Poor Harry Jekyll, he thought,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: my mind misgives me. He is in deep waters. He
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: was wild when he was young, a long while ago,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to be sure. But in the law of God there
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: is no statute of limitations. Ay, it must be that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the ghost of some old sin, the cancer of some
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: concealed disgrace, punishment coming pede Claudo years after memory has forgotten,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and self love condoned the fault, and the lawyer, scared
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: by the thought, brooded awhile on his own past, groping
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: jack in the box of an old iniquity should leap
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to light. There his past was fairly blameless. Few men
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Yet he was humbled to the dust by the many
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: ill things he had done, and raised up again into
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: come so near to doing yet avoided. And then by
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a return on his former subject, he conceived a spark
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: of hope. This master Hide, if he were studied, thought
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: he must have secrets of his own, black secrets, by
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the look of him, secrets compared to which poor Jekyl's
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: worst would be like sunshine. Things cannot continue as they are.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It turns me cold to think of this creature stealing
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: like a thief to Harry's bedside. Poor Harry, what awakening
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and the danger of it? For if this Hide suspects
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the existence of the will, he may grow impatient to inherit.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I I must put my shoulders to the wheel, if
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Jekyl will but let me, he added, if Jekyl will
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: only let me. For once more he saw before his
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: mind's eye, as clear as transparency, the strange clauses of
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the will. Dar Jekyl was quite at ease. A fortnight later,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: reputable men, and all judges of good wine, and mister
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: had departed. This was no new arrangement, but a thing
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that had befallen many scores of times. Where Utterson was liked,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: He was liked well. Hosts loved to detain the dry
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: lawyer when the light hearted and loose time had already
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: their foot on the threshold. They liked to sit awhile
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: in his unobtrusive company, practicing for solitude, sobering their minds
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: in the man's rich silence after the expense and strain
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: of gaiety. To this rule, diar Jekyl was no exception,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: and as he now sat on the opposite side of
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the fire, a large, well made, smooth faced man of fifty,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: with something of a slyish cast, perhaps, but every mark
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of capacity and kindness you could see by his looks
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that he cherished for mister Utterson. A sincere and warm affection.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: I have been wanting to speak to you, Jekyl, began
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the latter. You know that will of yours. A close
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: observer might have gathered that the topic was distasteful, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the doctor carried it off gaily. My poor utter Son
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: said he you are unfortunate in such a client. I
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: never saw a man so distressed as you were by
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: my will, unless it were that high bound pedant Lanyon
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: at what he called my scientific heresies. Oh, I know
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: he's a good fellow. You needn't frown. An excellent fellow,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and I always mean to see more of him. But
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a high bound pedant for all that, an ignorant, blatant pedant.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I was never more disappointed in any man than Lanyon.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: You know I never approved of it, pursued utter Son, ruthlessly,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: disregarding the fresh topic my will. Yes, certainly I know that,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: said the doctor. A trifle sharply. You have told me
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: so well, I tell you so again, continued the lawyer.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: I have been learning something of young Hyde. The large,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: handsome face of doctor Jekyll grew pale to the very lips,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: and there came a blackness about his eyes. I do
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: not care to hear more, said he. This is a
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: matter I thought we had agreed to drop. What I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: heard was abominable, said utter Son. It can make no change.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: You do not understand my position, returned the doctor, with
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: a certain, incoherent sea of manner. I am painfully situated,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: utter Son. My position is a very strange, a very
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: be mended by talking. Jekyl, said utter Son. You know me,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: I am a man to be trusted. Make a clean
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: breast of this in confidence, and I make no doubt
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I can get you out of it. My good utter son,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: said the doctor. This is very good of you, This
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: is downright good of you, and I cannot find words
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to thank you in I believe you fully. I would
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: trust you before any man alive, before myself, if I
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: could make the choice. But indeed it isn't what you fancy.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: It is not as bad as that. And just to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: put your good heart at rest, I will tell you
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: one thing. The moment I choose I can be rid
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: of mister Hyde, I give you my hand upon that,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and I thank you again and again, and I will
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: just add one little word, utter Son, that I'm sure
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you'll take in good part. This is a private matter,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and I beg of you to let at sleep, utter
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Son reflected a little, looking in the fire. I have
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: no doubt you are perfectly right, he said, at last,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: getting to his feet. Well, but since we have touched
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: upon this business and for the last time, I hope,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: continued the doctor, there is one point I should like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you to understand. I have really a very great interest
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in poor Hide. I know you have seen him. He
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: told me so, and I fear he was rude. But
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: I do sincerely take a great, a very great interest
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: in that young man. And if I am taken away,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: utter Son, I wish you to promise me that you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: will bear with him and get his rights for him.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I think you would if you knew all, and it
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: would be a weight off my mind if you would promise.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I can't pretend that I shall ever like him, said
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I don't ask that, pleaded Jekyl, laying his
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: hand upon the other's arm, only ask for justice. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: only ask you to help him for my sake. When
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I am no longer here, utter Son heaved an irrepressible sigh. Well,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: said he, I promise the koru murder case. Nearly a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: year later, in the month of October eighteenth London was
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: startled by a crime of singular ferocity, and rendered all
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the more notable by the high position of the victim.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: The details were few and startling. A maid servant living
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: alone in a house not far from the river, had
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: gone upstairs to bed about eleven. Although a fog rolled
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: over the city in the small hours, the early part
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: of the night was cloudless, and the lane which the
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: maid's window overlooked was brilliantly lit by the full moon.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It seemed she was romantically given, for she sat down
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: upon her box, which stood immediately under the window, and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: fell into a dream of musing. Never, she used to say,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: with streaming tears when she narrated that experience, never had
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: she felt more at peace with all men, or thought
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: more kindly of the world. And as she so sat,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: she became aware of an age of beautiful gentleman with
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: white hair, drawing near along the lane, and advancing to
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: meet him, another and very small gentleman, to whom at
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: first she paid less attention. When they had come within speech,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: which was just under the maid's eyes, the older man
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: bowed and accosted the other with a very pretty manner
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of politeness. It did not seem as if the subject
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: of his address were of great importance. Indeed, from his pointing,
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: it sometimes appeared as if he were only inquiring his way.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: But the moon shone on his face as he spoke,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: and the girl was pleased to watch it. It seemed
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to breathe such an innocent and old world kindness of disposition,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: yet with something high too, as of a well founded
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: self content. Presently, her eye wandered to the other, and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: she was surprised to recognize in him a certain mister Hyde,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: who had once visited her master, and for whom she
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: had conceived a dislike. He had in his hand a
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: heavy cane with which he was trifling, But he answered
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: never a word, and seemed to listen with an ill
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: contained impatience. And then all of a sudden he broke
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: out in a great flame of anger, stamping with his foot,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: brandishing the cane, and carrying on, as the maid described it,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: like a madman. The old gentleman took a step back,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: with the air of one very much surprised and a
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: trifle hurt, and at that mister Hyde broke out of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: all bounds and clubbed him to the earth, And next moment,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: with ape like fury, he was trampling his victim under
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: foot and hailing down a storm of blows, under which
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the bones were audibly shattered, and the body jumped upon
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the roadway. At the horror of these sights and sounds,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the maid fainted. It was two o'clock when she came
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: to herself and called for the police. The murderer was
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: gone long ago, but there lay his victim in the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the deed had been done, although it was of some
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: one splintered half had rolled in the neighboring gutter. The other,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: without doubt, had been carried away by the murderer. A
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: purse and gold watch were found upon the victim, but
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: no cards or papers, except a sealed and stamped envelope
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: which he had been probably carrying to the post, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: which bore the name and address of mister Utterson. This
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: was brought to the lawyer the next morning before he
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: was out of bed, and he had no sooner seen
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: it than been told the circumstances, than he shot out
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: a solemn lip. I shall say nothing till I have
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: seen the body, said he. This may be very serious.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Have the kindness to wait while I dress. And with
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the same grave countenance, he hurried through his breakfast and
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: As soon as he came into the cell, he nodded, yes,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: said he I recognize him. I am sorry to say
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that this is Sir Danver's carew good God, sir, exclaimed
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: the officer. Is it possible? And the next moment his
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: eye lighted up with professional ambition. This will make a
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: deal of noise, he said, and perhaps you can help
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: us to the man. And he briefly narrated what the
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: maid had seen and showed the broken stick. Mister Utterson
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: had already quailed at the name of Hyde, but when
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: longer broken and battered as it was. He recognized it
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: for one that he had himself presented many years before
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: to Henry Jekyl. Is this mister Hide a person of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: small stature? He inquired, particularly small and particularly wicked looking,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: is what the maid calls him, said the officer, mister
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Utterson reflected, and then raising his head, if you will
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: come with me in my cab, he said, I think
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I can take you to his house. It was by
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: this time about nine in the morning, and the first
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: fog of the season, A great chocolate colored pall lowered
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: over Heaven. But the wind was continually charging and routing
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: these embattled vapors, so that as the cab crawled from
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: street to street, missed utter sun beheld a marvelous number
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of degrees and hues of twilight. For here it would
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: be dark like the back end of evening, and there
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the light of some strange conflagration. And here, for a
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: moment the fog would be quite broken up, and the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: The dismal quarter of Soho scene under these changing glimpses,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: with its muddy ways and slatternly passengers, and its lamps
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: to combat this mournful re invasion of darkness seemed in
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the lawyer's eyes like a district of some city in
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: a nightmare. The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the gloomiest dye, And when he glanced at the companion
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: that terror of the law and the law's officers, which
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: may at times assail the most honest. As the cab
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: little and showed him a dinger street, a gin palace,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: a low French eating house, a shop for the retail
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: of penny numbers and two penny salads. Many ragged children
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: nationalities passing out key in hand to have a morning glass.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And the next moment the fog settled down again upon
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: that part as brown as umber, and cut him off
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: from his blaggardly surroundings. This was the home of Henry
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Jekyll's favorite, of a man who was heir to a
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: quarter of a million sterling. An ivory faced and silvery
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: smooth by hypocrisy, but her manners were excellent. Yes, she
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: said this was mister Hyde's, but he was not at home.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: He had been in that night very late, but he
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: had gone away again in less than an hour. There
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: was nothing strange in that his habits were very irregular,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and he was often absent. For instance, it was nearly
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: two months since she had seen him till yesterday. Very well,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: then we wished to see his rooms, said the lawyer,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: And when the woman began to declare it was impossible,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I had better tell you who this person is, he added,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: This is Inspector Newkman of Scotland Yard. A flash of
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: odious joy appeared upon the woman's face. Ah, said she.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: He is in trouble. What has he done? Mister Utterson
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: and the inspector exchanged glances. He don't seem a very
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: popular character, observed the latter. And now, my good woman,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: just let me and this gentleman have a look about us.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: In the whole extent of the house, which but for
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: the old woman, remained otherwise empty, mister Hyde had only
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: used a couple of rooms, but these were furnished with
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: luxury and good taste. A closet was filled with wine,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: the plate was of silver, the napery elegant, a good
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: picture hung upon the walls, a gift, as utter Son supposed,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: from Henry Jekyll, who was much of a connoisseur, and
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the carpets were of many plies and agreeable in color.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: having been recently and hurriedly ransacked. Clothes lay about the
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: floor with their pockets inside out. Lockfast drawers stood open,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: as though many papers had been burned from these embers.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: The inspector disinterred the but end of a green check book,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: which had resisted the action of the fire. The other
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: half of the stick was found behind the door, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: as this clinched his suspicions, the officer declared himself delighted.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: found to be lying to the murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: You may depend upon it, sir, he told mister Utterson,
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: I have him in my hand. He must have lost
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: his head, or he never would have left the stick, or,
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: above all, burned the check book. Why money's life to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: the man. We have nothing to do but wait for
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: him at the bank and get out the handbills. This last, however,
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: was not so easy of accomplishment, for mister Hyde had
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: numbered few familiars. Even the master of the servant maid
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: had only seen him twice. His family could nowhere be traced,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: he had never been photographed, and the few who could
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: describe him differed widely, as common observers will. Only on
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: one point were they agreed, and that was the haunting
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: beholders incident of the letter. It was late in the
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: afternoon when mister Utterson found his way to Diar Jekyl's door,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: where he was at once admitted by pool and carried
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: had once been a garden to the building which was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms. The doctor
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and his own tastes, being rather chemical than anatomical, had
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: changed the destination of the block at the bottom of
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: the garden. It was the first time that the lawyer
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: had been received in that part out of his friend's quarters.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: And he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: crossed the theater, once crowded with eager students, and now
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden with chemical apparatus,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: and the light falling dimly through the foggy cupola. At
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the further end a flight of stairs mounted to a
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: door covered with red baize, and through this mister Utterson
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: was at last received into the doctor's cabinet. It was
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: a large room, fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: other things, with a chival glass and a business table,
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: barred with iron. The fire burned in the grate. A
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf. For even
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in the houses, the fog began to lie thickly, and there,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: close up to the warmth sat Doctor Jekyl, looking deathly sick.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: changed voice. And now said mister Utter son. As soon
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: as Poole had left them. You have heard the news,
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the doctor shuddered. They were crying it in the square,
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: he said, I heard them in my dining room. One word,
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer. Carew was my client. But so are you,
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: and I want to know what I am doing. You
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: have not been mad enough to hide this fellow utter son.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: I swear to God, cried the doctor. I swear to
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: God I will never set eyes on him again. I
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: bind my honor to you that I am done with
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: him in this world. It is all at an end.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: And indeed he does not want my help. You do
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: not know him as I do. He is safe, He
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: is quite safe, mark my words. He will never more
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: be heard of. The lawyer listened gloomily. He did not
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: like his friend's feverish manner. You seem pretty sure of him,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: said he. And for your I hope you may be right.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: If it came to a trial, your name might appear.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I am quite sure of him, replied Jekyl. I have
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: grounds for certainty that I cannot share with any one.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: But there is one thing on which you may advise me.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: I have. I have received a letter, and I am
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: at a loss whether I should show it to the police.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I should like to leave it in your hands, utter Son,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: you would judge wisely. I am sure I have so
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: great a trust in you. You fear I suppose that
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: it might lead to his detection, asked the lawyer. No,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: said the other. I cannot say that I care what
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: becomes of Hide. I am quite done with him. I
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: was thinking of my own character, which this hateful business
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: has rather exposed, utter Son ruminated. Awhile he was surprised
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: at his friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it, well
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: said he at last let me see the letter. The
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: letter was written in an odd upright hand, and signed
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde, and it signified briefly enough that the writer's benefactor,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: doctor Jekyl, whom he had longed so unworthily repaid for
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a thousand generosities, need labor under no alarm for his safety,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: as he had means of escape on which he placed
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: as sure dependence. The lawyer liked this letter well enough.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: It put a better color on the intimacy than he
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: had looked for, and he blamed himself for some of
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: his past suspicions. Have you the envelope, he asked, I
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: burned it, replied Jekyl, before I thought what I was about.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: But it bore no postmark. The note was handed in.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Shall I keep this and sleep upon it? Asked, utter son,
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: I wish you to judge for me. Entirely was the reply,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: I have lost confidence in myself. Well I shall consider,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: returned the lawyer. And now one word more. It was
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Hyde who dictated the terms in your will. About that disappearance,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: the doctor seemed seized with a qualm of faintness. He
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: shut his mouth tight and nodded. I knew it, said
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: utter Sun. He meant to murder you. You had a
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: fine escape. I have had what is far more to
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the purpose, returned the doctor solemnly, I have had a lesson,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: O God, utter son, what a lesson I have had?
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And he covered his face for a moment with his hands.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: On his way out, the lawyer stopped and had a
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: word or two with Pool. By the bye said he
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: there was a letter handed in to day. What was
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: the messenger like? But Pool was positive nothing had come
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: except by post, and only circulars. By that, he added,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: this news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Plainly the letter had come by the laboratory door. Possibly
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: indeed it had been written in the cabinet, and if
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that were so, it must be differently judged and handled
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: with the more caution. The newsboys as he went were
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: crying themselves horse along the foot Otways special edition Shocking
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Murder of an m p. That was the funeral oration
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: of one friend and client. And he could not help
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: be sut down in the eddy of the scandal. It
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: was at least a ticklish decision that he had to make,
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: and self reliant as he was by habit, he began
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: to cherish a longing for advice. It was not to
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: be had directly, but perhaps he thought it might be
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: fished for presently. After he sat on one side of
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: his own hearth with mister Guest his head clerk upon
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: from the fire, a bottle of a particular old wine
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles, and through the muffle
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: and smother of these fallen clouds. The procession of the
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: with a sound as of a mighty wind, But the
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: room was gay with fire light in the bottle. The
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: acids were long ago resolved. The imperial dye had softened
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: with time, as the color grows richer in stained windows,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: was ready to be set free and to disperse the
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: fogs of London. Insensibly, the lawyer melted. There was no
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: man from whom he kept fewer secrets than mister Guessed,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and he was not always sure that he kept as
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: many as he meant. Guest had often been on business
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: to the doctor's, he knew Pool. He could scarce have
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: failed to hear of mister Hyde's familiarity about the house.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: He might draw conclusions. Was it not as well, then
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: that he should see a letter which put that mystery
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: to write? And above all, since Guessed, being a great
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: student and critic of handwriting, would consider the step natural
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: and obliging. The clerk, besides, was a man of counsel.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: He could scarce read so strange a document without dropping
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: a remark, and by that remark mister Utterson might shape
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: his future course. This is a sad business, about Sir Danvers,
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: he said, Yes, sir, indeed it has elicited a great
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: deal of public feeling, returned Guest. The man, of course,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: was mad. I should like to hear your views on that,
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: replied Utterson. I have a document here in his handwriting.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: It is between ourselves, for I scarce know what to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: do about it. It is an ugly business at the best,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: but there it is quite in your way, a murderer's autograph.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Guest's eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: studied it with passion. No, sir, he said, not mad,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: but it is an odd hand and by all accounts,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: a very odd writer, added the lawyer. Just then the
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: servant entered with a note. Is that from doctor Jekyll? Sir?
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Inquired the clerk. I thought I knew the writing anything private,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson, only an invitation to dinner. Why do you
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: want to see it? One moment? I thank you, sir,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: and the clerk laid the two sheets of paper alongside
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: and sedulously compared their contents. Thank you, sir, he said
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: at last, returning both. It's a very interesting autograph. There
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: was a pause during which mister Utterson struggled with himself.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Why did you compare them, guessed he inquired. Suddenly, Well, sir,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: return the clerk. There's a rather singular resemblance. The two
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: hands are in many points identical, only differently sloped. Rather quaint,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: said Utterson. It is as you say, rather quaint, returned guest.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't speak of this note, you know, said the master. No, sir,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: said the clerk. I understand, but no. Sooner was mister
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Utterson alone that night than he locked the note into
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: his safe, where reposed from that time forward what he thought.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyl forged for a murderer, and his blood ran
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: cold in his veins. Incident of doctor Lanyon. Time ran on.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Thousands of pounds were offered in reward for the death
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: of Sir Danvers was resented as a public injury. But
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: mister Hyde had disappeared out of the ken of the police,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: as though he had never existed. Much of his past
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable tales came out of
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent of
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: that seemed to have surrounded his career, but of his
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: present whereabouts, not a whisper from the time he had
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: left the house in Soho on the morning of the murder,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: he was simply blotted out, And gradually, as time drew on,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson began to recover from the hotness of his
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: alarm and to grow more at quiet with himself. The
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: death of Sir Danvers was, to his way of thinking,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: more than paid for by the disappearance of mister Hyde.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Now that that evil influence had been withdrawn, a new
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: life began for Doctor Jekyll. He came out of his seclusion,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: renewed relations with his friends, became once more their familiar
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: guest and entertainer. And whilst he had always been known
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: for charities, he was now no less distinguished for religion.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: He was busy, he was much in the open air.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: He did good. His face seemed to open and brighten,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: as if with an inward consciousness of service. And for
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: more than two months the doctor was at peace. On
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: the eighth of January, Utter Sun had dined at the
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: doctor's with a small party Lanyon had been there, and
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the face of the host had looked from one to
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: the other, as in the old days when the trio
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: were inseparable friends. On the twelfth, and again on the fourteenth,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: the door was shut against the lawyer. The doctor was
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: confined to the house pool said, and saw no one.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: On the fifteenth he tried again, and was again refused.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: And having now been used for the last two months
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: to see his friend almost daily, he found this return
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: of solitude to weigh upon his spirits. The fifth night
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: he had in guest to dine with him, and the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: sixth he betook himself to doctor Lanion's. There at least
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: he was not denied admittance, But when he came in,
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: he was shocked at the change which had taken place
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: in the doctor's appearance. He had his death warrant written
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: legibly upon his face. The rosy man had grown pale,
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: his flesh had fallen away. He was visibly balder and older.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: And yet it was not so much these tokens of
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: a swift physical decay that arrested the lawyer's notice, as
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: a look in the eye and quality of manner that
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: seemed to testify to some deep seated terror of the mind.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: It was unlikely that the doctor should fear death, and
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: yet that was what Utterson was tempted to suspect. Yes,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: he thought, he is a doctor. He must know his
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: own state, and that his days are counted, and the
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: knowledge is more than he can bear. And yet, when
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: I have had a shock, he said, and I shall
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: never recover. It is a question of weeks. Well. Life
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: has been pleasant. I liked it, yes, sir, I used
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: to like it. I sometimes think if we knew all,
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: we should be more glad to get away. Jekyll is ill, too,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: observed utter Son. Have you seen him? But Lanion's face
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: changed and he held up a trembling hand. I wish
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: to see or hear no more of doctor Jekyll, he said,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: in a loud, unsteady voice. I am quite done with
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: that person, and I beg that you will spare me
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: any allusion to one whom I regard as dead. Tut tut,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: said mister Utterson, And then, after a considerable pause, can't
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: I do anything he inquired, we are three very old friends, Lanion.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: We shall not live to make others. Nothing can be done,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: returned Lanyon ask himself. He will not see me, said
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I am not surprised at that was the reply.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Some day, utter Sun, after I am dead, you may
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I cannot tell you. And in the meantime, if you
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: can sit and talk with me of other things, for
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: God's sake, stay and do so. But if you cannot
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: keep clear of this accursed topic, then in God's name, go,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: for I cannot bear it. As soon as he got home,
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: utter Son sat down and wrote to Jekyl, complaining of
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: his exclusion from the house and asking the cause of
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: this unhappy break with Lanyon, and the next day brought
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: him a long answer, often very pathetically worded and sometimes
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: darkly mysterious. In drift. The quarrel with Lanyon was incurable.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: I do not blame our old friend, Jekyl wrote, but
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I share his view that we must never meet. I mean,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion. You
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship.
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: If my door is often shut even to you. You
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: must suffer me to go my own dark way. I
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: have brought on myself a punishment and a danger that
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: I cannot name. If I am the chief of sinners,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: I am the chief of sufferers. Also, I could not
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: think that this earth contained a place for sufferings and
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: terrors so unmanning. And you can do but one thing,
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: utter Sun, to lighten this destiny, and that is to
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: respect my silence. Utter Sun was amazed. The dark influence
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: of Hyde had been withdrawn. The doctor had returned to
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: his old tasks and amities. A week ago, the prospect
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: honored age. And now in a moment, friendship and peace
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: So great and unprepared. A change pointed to madness. But
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: in view of Lanion's manner and words, there must lie
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: for it some deeper ground. A week afterwards, doctor Lanion
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: took to his bed, and in something less than a
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: fortnight he was dead. The night after the funeral at
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: which he had been sadly affected, Utterson locked the door
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: of his business room, and sitting there by the light
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: of a melancholy candle drew out and set before him
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: an envelope addressed by the hand and sealed with the
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: seal of his dead friend private for the hands of g. J.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Utterson alone, and in case of his predeceased to be
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: destroyed unread. So it was emphatically superscribed, and the lawyer
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: dreaded to behold the contents. I have buried one friend
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: to day he thought, what if this should cost me another?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: And then he condemned the fear as a disloyalty, and
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: broke the seal. Within there was another enclosure, likewise sealed
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: and marked upon the cover as not to be opened
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: till the death or disappearance of doctor Henry Jekyll Utterson
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: could not trust his eyes. Yes, it was disappearance here again,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: as in the mad will, which he had long ago
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: restored to its author, Here again were the idea of
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: a disappear heheerance and the name of Henry Jekyll Brackett.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: But in the will that idea had sprung from the
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: sinister suggestion of the man hide. It was set there
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: with a purpose all too plain and horrible, written by
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: the hand of Lanyon. What should it mean. A great
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: curiosity came on the trustee to disregard the prohibition and
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: dive at once to the bottom of these mysteries. But
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: professional honor and faith to his dead friend were stringent obligations,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: and the packet slept in the inmost corner of his
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: private safe. It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: to conquer it. And it may be doubted if from
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: that day forth utter Son desired the society of his
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: surviving friend with the same eagerness. He thought of him kindly,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: but his thoughts were disquieted and fearful. He went to call, indeed,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: but he was perhaps relieved to be denied admittance. Perhaps
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: in his heart he preferred to speak with Pool upon
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the doorstep and surrounded by the air and sounds of
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: the open city, rather than to be admitted into that
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: house so voluntary bondage, and to sit and speak with
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: its inscrutable recluse. Poole had indeed no very pleasant news
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: to communicate. The doctor, it appeared, now more than ever,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: confined himself to the cabinet over the laboratory, where he
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: would sometimes even sleep. He was out of spirits. He
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: had grown very silent he did not read. It seemed
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: as if he had something on his mind. Utter Son
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: became so used to the unvarying character of these reports
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: that he fell off little by little in the frequency
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: of his visits. Incident at the window. It chanced on Sunday,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: when mister Utterson was on his usual walk with mister Enfield,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: that their way lay once again through the by street,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: and that when they came in front of the door,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: both stopped to gaze on it. Well, said Enfield, that
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: stories at an end. At least we shall never see
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: more of mister Hyde. I hope not, said Utterson. Did
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I ever tell you that I once saw him and
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: shared your feeling of it was impossible to do the
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: one without the other, returned Enfield. And by the way,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: what an ass you must have thought me not to
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: know that this was a back way to doctor jekyls
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: It was partly your own fault that I found it out,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: even when I did so. You found it out, did you,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: said utter Sun. But if that be so, we may
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: step into the court and take a look at the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: windows to tell you the truth. I am uneasy about
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: poor Jekyl, and even outside I feel as if the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: presence of a friend might do him good. The court
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: was very cool and a little damp, and full of
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: premature twilight, although the sky high up overhead was still
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: bright with sunset. The middle one of the three windows
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: was half way open, and sitting close beside it, taking
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: the air with an infinite sadness of me like some
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: disconsolate prisoner, utter Son saw doctor Jekyl. What Jekyl, he cried,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: I trust you are better. I am very low, utter Son,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: replied the doctor, drearily, very low. It will not last long.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: Thank god, you stay too much indoors, said the lawyer.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: You should be out whipping up the circulation like mister
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: Enfield and me. This is my cousin, mister Enfield, Doctor Jekyl,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: come now, get your hat and take a quick turn
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: with us. You are very good, sighed the other. I
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: should like to very much, But no, no, no, it
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: is quite impossible. I dare not. But indeed, utter Son,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I am very glad to see you. This is really
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: a great pleasure. I would ask you and mister Enfield up,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: but the place is really not fit. Why, then, said
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: the lawyer, good naturedly. The best thing we can do
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: is to stay down here and speak with you from
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: where we are. That is just what I was about
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: to venture to propose, returned the doctor with a smile,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: But the words were hardly uttered before the smile was
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: of such abject terror and despair as froze the very
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: for a glimpse, for the window was instantly thrust down.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: But that glimpse had been sufficient, and they turned and
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: left the court without a word, in silence too. They
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: traversed the by street, and it was not until they
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: had come into a neighboring thoroughfare, or even upon a
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Sunday there were still some stirrings of life that mister
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: Utterson at last turned and looked at his companion. They
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: were both pale, and there was an answering horror in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: their eyes. God forgive us, God forgive us, said mister Utterson,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: But mister Enfield only nodded his head very seriously and
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: walked on once more in silence. The last night, mister
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Utterson was sitting by his fireside one evening after dinner,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: when he was surprised to receive a visit from Pool.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Bless me, Pool, What brings you here, he cried, and
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: then taking a second look at him, what ails you?
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: He added? Is the doctor ill? Mister Utterson said the man.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: There is something wrong. Take a seat, and here is
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: a glass of wine for you, said the lawyer. Now
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: take your time and tell me plainly what you want.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: You know the doctor's ways, sir, replied Pool, And how
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: the cabinet. And I don't like it, Sir. I wish
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I may die if I like it. Mister Utterson, Sir,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid now, my good man, said the lawyer. Be explicit.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: What are you afraid of? I've been afraid for about
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: a week, returned Poole doggedly, disregarding the question. And I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: can bear it no more. The man's appearance amply bore
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: out his words. His manner was altered for the worse,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: and except for the moment when he had first announced
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: his terror, he had not once looked the lawyer in
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: the face. Even now he sat with the glass of
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: wine untasted on his knee and his eyes directed to
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: a corner of the floor. I can bear it no more,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: he repeated, Come, said the lawyer. I see you have
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: some good reason. Pool. I see there is something seriously amiss.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: Try to tell me what it is. I think there's
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: been foul play, said Pool hoarsely. Foul play, cried the lawyer,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: a good deal frightened and rather inclined to be irritated
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: in consequence, What foul play? What does the man mean?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I daren't say, sir, was the answer. But will you
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: come along with me and see for yourself? Mister Utterson's
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: only answer was to rise and get his hat and greatcoat.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: But he observed with wonder the greatness of the relief
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: that appeared upon the butler's face, and perhaps with no
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: less that the wine was still untasted when he set
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: it down to follow It was a wild, cold, seasonable
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: night of March, with a pale moon lying on her
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: rack of the most diaphanous and lowny texture. The wind
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: made talking difficult and flecked the blood into the face.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: It seemed to have swept the streets unusually bare of passengers. Besides,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: for mister utter Sun thought he had never seen that
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: part of London so deserted he could have wished it otherwise.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Never in his life had he been conscious of so
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: sharp a wish to see and touch his fellow creatures.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: For struggle as he might, there was borne in upon
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: his mind a crushing anticipation of calamity. The square, when
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: they got there, was full of wind and dust, and
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the thin trees in the garden were lashing themselves along
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: the railing. Pool, who had kept all the way apace
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: or two ahead, now pulled up in the middle of
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: the pavement, and, in spite of the biting weather, took
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: off his hat and mopped his brow with a red
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: pocket handkerchief. But for all the hurry of his coming,
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: these were not the dews of exertion that he wiped away,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: but the moisture of some strangling anguish. For his face
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: was white in his voice when he spoke, harsh and broken, Well, sir,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: he said, here we are, and God grant there be
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong. Amen, Pool, said the lawyer. Thereupon the servant
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: knocked in a very guarded manner. The door was opened
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: on the chain, and a voice asked, from within, is
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: that you Pool? It's all right, said Pool, Open the door.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: The hall. When they entered, it was brightly lighted up.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: The fire was built high, and about the hearth the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: whole of the servants, men and women, stood huddled together
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: like a flock of sheep. At the sight of mister Utterson,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: the housemaid broke into hysterical whimpering, and the cook, crying out,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: bless God, it's mister utter Son, ran forward as if
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: to take him in her arms. What what are you
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: all here, said the lawyer. Peevishly, very irregular, very unseemly.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: Your master would be far from pleased. They're all afraid,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: said Poole. Blank silence followed, no one protesting. Only the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: maid lifted her voice and now wept loudly. Hold your tongue,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: Poole said to her, with a ferocity of accent that
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: testive to his own jangled nerves. And indeed, when the
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: girl had so suddenly raised the note of her lamentation,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: they had all started and turned towards the inner door
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: with faces of dreadful expectation. And now continued the butler,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: addressing the knife boy, reach me a candle, and will
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: get this through hands at once. And then he begged
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson to follow him. And led the way to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: the back garden. Now, sir said he you come as
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: gently as you can. I want you to hear, and
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to be heard and see here, Sir,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: if by any chance he was to ask you in,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: don't go. Mister Utterson's nerves at this unlooked for termination
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: gave a jerk that nearly threw him from his balance,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: but he recollected his courage and followed the butler into
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: the laboratory building, through the surgical theater with its lumber
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: of crates and bottles, to the foot of the stair.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: Here Poole motioned him to stand on one side and listen,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: while he himself, setting down the candle, and making a
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: great and obvious call on his resolution, mounted the steps
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: and knocked with a somewhat uncertain hand on the red
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: baze of the cabinet door. Mister utter Son, Sir, asking
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: to see you, he called, and even as he did so,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: once more violently signed to the lawyer to give ear
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: a voice answered from within. Tell him I cannot see
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: any one, it said, complainingly. Thank you, Sir, said Pool,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: with a note of something like triumph in his voice,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: and taking up his candle. He led mister Utterson back
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: across the yard and into the great kitchen, where the
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: fire was out and the beatles were leaping on the floor. Sir,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: he said, looking mister Utterson in the eyes, was that
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: my master's voice? It seems much changed, replied the lawyer,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: very pale, but giving look for look changed. Well, yes,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: I think so, said the butler. Have I been twenty
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: years in this man's house to be deceived about his voice? No, sir,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Master's made away with. He was made away with eight
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: days ago when we heard him cry out upon the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: name of God? And who's in there instead of him?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: And why it stays there is a thing that cries
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: to heaven, mister Utterson. This is a very strange tale. Pool,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: This is rather a wild tale, my man, said mister Utterson,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: biting his finger. Suppose it were as you suppose, supposing
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: doctor Jekyll to have been well murdered, What could induce
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: the murderer to stay? That won't hold water. It doesn't
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: commend itself to reason. Well, mister utter Son, you are
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: a hard man to satisfy. But I'll do it. Yet,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: said Pool, all this last week, you must know him
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: or it whatever it is that lives in that cabinet
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: has been crying night and day for some sort of
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: medicine and cannot get it to his mind. It was
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: sometimes his way, the master's, that is, to write his
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: orders on a sheet of paper and throw it on
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: the stair. We've had nothing else this week back, nothing
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: but papers and a closed door, and the very meals
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking well, sir.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: Every day, I and twice and thrice in the same
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: day there have been orders and complaints, and I have
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in town.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Every time I brought the stuff back there would be
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: another paper telling me to return it because it was
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: not pure, and another order to a different firm. This
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: drug is wanted, bitter bad, sir. Whatever for have you
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: any of these papers, asked mister Utterson. Poole felt in
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: his pocket and handed out a crumpled note, which the lawyer,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: bending nearer to the candle, carefully examined its contents. Ran Thus,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Doctor Jekyll presents his compliments to Messrs Maul. He assures
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: them that their last sample is impure and quite useless
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: for his present purpose. In the year eighteen, Doctor J
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: purchased a somewhat large quantity for Messrs M. He now
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: begs them to search with most sedulous care, and should
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: any of the same quality be left forwarded to him
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: at once expense is no consideration. The importance of this
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: to Dir J can hardly be exaggerated. So far the
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: letter had run composedly enough, but here, with a sudden
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: splutter of the pen, the writer's emotion had broken loose.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: For God's sake, he added, find me some of the
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: old This is a strange note, said mister Utterson, and
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: then sharply, how do you come to have it open?
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: The man at Maw's was main angry, sir, and he
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: threw it back to me like so much dirt, returned Poole,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: This is unquestionably the doctor's hand, do you know, resumed
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. I thought it looked like it, said the
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: servant rather sulkily, and then with another voice. But what matters,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: hand of right, he said, I've seen him, seen him,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: repeated mister Utterson. Well that's it, said Poole. It was
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: this way I came suddenly into the theater from the garden.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: It seems he had slipped out to look for this
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: drug or whatever it is. For The cabinet door was open,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: and there he was at the far end of the room,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: digging among the crates. He looked up when I came in,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: gave a kind of cry, and whipped upstairs into the cabinet.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: It was but for one minute that I saw him,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: But the hare stood upon my head like quills. Sir,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: if that was my master, why had he a mask
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: upon his face? If it was my master, why did
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: he cry out like a rat and run from me?
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: I have served him long enough. And then the man
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: paused and passed his hand over his face. These are
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: all very strange circumstances, said mister Utterson. But I think
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: I begin to see daylight. Your master pool is plainly
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: seized with one of those maladies that both torture and
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: deformed the sufferer. Hence for aught I know, the alteration
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: of his voice, hence the mask, and the avoidance of
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: his friends, hence his eagerness to find this drug by
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: means of which the poor soul retains some hope of
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: ultimate recovery. God grant that he be not deceived. There
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: is my explanation. It is sad enough, Pool, and appalling
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: to consider. But it is plain and natural, hangs well
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: together and delivers us from all exorbitant alarms, Sir, said
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: the butler, turning to a sort of model pallor. That
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: master here, he looked round him and began to whisper.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: Is a tall, fine build of a man, and this
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: was more of a dwarf. Utter Son attempted to protest. Oh, Sir,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: cried Poole. Do you think I do not know my
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: master after twenty years? Do you think I do not
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: know where his head comes to in the cabinet door
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: where I saw him every morning of my life? No, Sir,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: that thing in the mask was never Doctor Jekyll. God
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: knows what it was, but it was never Doctor Jekyll.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: And it is the belief of my heart that there
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: was murder done, Pool, replied the lawyer. If you say that,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: it will become my duty to make certain Much as
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: I desire to spare your master's feelings, much as I
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: am puzzled by this note, which seems to prove him
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: to be still alive, I shall consider it my duty
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: to break in that door. Ah, mister Utterson, that's talking,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: cried the butler. And now comes the second question, resumed Utterson.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: Who is going to do it? Why you and me? Sir?
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Was the undaunted reply. That's very well, said, returned the lawyer.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: And whatever comes of it, I shall make it my
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: business to see you are no loser. There is an
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: axe in the theater, continued Poole, and you might take
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: the kitchen poker for yourself. The lawyer took that rude
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: but weighty instrument into his hand and balanced it. Do
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: you know, Poole, he said, looking up, that you and
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: I are about to place ourselves in a position of
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: some peril. You may say so, sir. Indeed, returned the butler.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: It is well then that we should be, Frank, said
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: the other. We both think more than we have said.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Let us make a clean breast this masked figure that
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: you saw, did you recognize it? Well? Sir? It went
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: so quick, and the creature was so doubled up that
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: I could hardly swear to that was the answer. But
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: if you mean, was it mister Hyde, why yes, I
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: think it was. You see, it was much of the
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: same bigness, and it had the same quick light way
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: with it, and then who else could have got in
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: by the laboratory door. You have not forgot, sir, that
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: at the time of the murder he had still the
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: key with him. But that's not all I don't know,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: mister Utterson. If you ever met this mister Hyde, yes,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer, I once spoke with him, then you
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: must know as well as the rest of us, that
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: there was something queer about that gentleman, something that gave
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: a man a turn. I don't know rightly how to
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: say it, sir, beyond this that you felt in your
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: marrow kind of cold and thin, I own I felt
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: something of what you describe, said mister Utterson. Quite so, sir,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: returned Poole. Well, when that masked thing like a monkey
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: jumped from among the chemicals and whipped into the cabinet,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: it went down my spine like ice. Oh. I know
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: it's not evidence, mister Utterson. I'm book learned enough for that.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: But a man has his feelings, and I give you
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: my Bible word. It was mister Hyde, I, I said
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: the lawyer. My fears inclined to the same point. Evil.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: I fear founded evil was sure to come of that connection.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: I truly I believe you. I believe poor Harry is killed,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: and I believe his murderer, for what purpose God alone
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: can tell, is still lurking in his victim's room. Well,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: let our name be vengeance. Call Bradshaw. The footmen came
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: at the summons, very white and nervous. Pull yourself together, Bradshaw,
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: said the lawyer. This suspense, I know, is telling upon
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: all of you, But it is now our intention to
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: make an end of it. Pool here and I are
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: going to force our way into the cabinet. If all
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: is well, My shoulders are broad enough to bear the blame. Meanwhile,
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: lest anything should really be amiss, or any malefactor seek
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: to escape by the back, you and the boy must
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: go round the corner with a pair of good sticks
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: and take your post at the laboratory door. We give
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: you ten minutes to get to your stations. As Bradshaw left,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: the lawyer looked at his watch, and now, Pool, let
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: us get to ours, he said, and taking the poker
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: under his arm, led the way into the yard. The
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: scud had banked over the moon, and it was now
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: quite dark. The wind which only broke in puffs and
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: drafts into that deep well of building, tossed the light
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: of the candle to and fro about their steps, until
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: they came into the shelter of the theater, where they
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: sat down silently to wait. London hummed solemnly all around,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: but nearer at hand, the stillness was only broken by
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: the sounds of a footfall moving to and fro along
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: the cabinet floor. So it will walk all day, sir,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: whispered Pool, and the better part of the night, only
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: when a new sample comes from the chemist. There's a
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: bit of a break. Ah. It's an ill conscience that
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: such an enemy to rest. Ah, Sir, there's blood foully
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: shed in every step of it. But hark again a
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: little closer. Put your heart in your ears, mister utter Sun,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: and tell me is that the doctor's foot The steps
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: fell lightly and oddly, with a certain swing. For all
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: they went so slowly. It was different, indeed, from the
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: heavy creaking tread of Henry Jekyl. Utter Sun's sighed. Is
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: there never anything else? He asked? Pool nodded once, he said,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: once I heard it weeping, weeping? How that said the lawyer,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: conscious of a sudden chill of horror, weeping like a
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: woman or a lost soul, said the butler. I came
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: away with that upon my heart that I could have
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: wept too. But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: Pool disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing straw.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: The candle was set upon the nearest table to light
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: them to the attack, and they drew near with bated breath,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: to where that patient foot was still going up and down,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: up and down in the quiet of the night. Jekyl
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: cried utter Son, with a loud voice. I demand to
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: see you. He paused a moment, but there came no reply.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: I give you fair warning. Our suspicions are aroused, and
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: I must and shall see you, he resumed. If not
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: by fair means, then by foul. If not of your consent,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: then by brute force. Utter Sun said the voice. For
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: God's sake, have mercy. Ah, that's not Jekyll's voice. Its hides,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: cried utter Sun. Down with the door, pool Pool swung
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: the axe over his shoulder. The blow shook the building,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: and the red baized door leaped against the lock and hinges.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: A dismal screech as of mere animal terror rang from
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: the cabinet. Up went the axe again, and again the
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: panels crashed and the frame bounded. For times the blow fell,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: But the wood was tough, and the fittings were of
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: excellent workmanship, and it was not until the fifth that
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: the lock burst, and the wreck of the door fell
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: inwards on the carpet. The besiegers, appalled by their own
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: riot and the stillness that had succeeded, stood back a
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: little and peered in. There lay the cabinet before their eyes,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and chattering
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, A
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: drawer or two open papers neatly set forth on the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: for tea the quietest room, he would have said, and
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: but for the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: commonplace that night in London. Right in the middle, there
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: lay the body of a man, sorely contorted and still twitching.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on its back,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: and beheld the face of Edward Hide. He was dressed
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: doctor's bigness. The cords of his face still moved with
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: a semblance of life, but life was quite gone. And
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: by the crushed file in the hand, and the strong
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: smell of kernels that hung upon the air, utter Sun
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: knew that he was looking on the body of a
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: self destroyer. We have come too late, he said sternly.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: Whether to save or punish Hyde is gone to his account,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: and it only remains for us to find the body
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 1: of your master. The far greater proportion of the building
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: was occupied by the theatre, which filled almost the whole
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: ground story and was lighted from above, and by the cabinet,
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: which formed an upper story at one end and looked
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: upon the court. A corridor joined the theatre to the
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: door on the by street, and with this the cabinet,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: communicated separately by a second flight of stairs. There were
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar. All
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: these they now thoroughly examined. Each closet needed but a glance,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: for all were empty, and all, by the dust that
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: fell from their doors, had stood long unopened. The cellar, indeed,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: of the surgeon, who was Jekyl's predecessor. But even as
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: they opened the door They were advertised of the uselessness
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: of further search by the fall of a perfect mat
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: of cobweb, which had for years sealed up the entrance.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyl, dead or alive.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: Pool stamped on the flags of the corridor. He must
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: be buried here, he said, hearkening to the sound. Or
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: he may have fled, said utter Son, and he turned
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: to examine the door in the by street. It was locked,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: and lying near by on the flags, they found the
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: key already stained with rust. This does not look like use,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: observed the lawyer, Use, echoed Pool, do you not see, sir,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: It is broken, much as if a man had stamped
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: on it, I continued utter Son. And the fractures, too,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: are rusty. The two men looked at each other with
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: a scare. This is beyond me, Pool, said the lawyer.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: Let us go back to the cabinet. They mounted the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: stair in silence, and, still with an occasional oestruck glance
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: at the dead body, proceeded more thoroughly to examine the
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: contents of the cabinet. At one table, there were traces
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: being laid on glass saucers, as though for an experiment
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: in which the unhappy man had been prevented. That is
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: the same drug that I was always bringing him, said Pool,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: And even as he spoke the kettle with a startling
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: noise boiled over. This brought them to the fireside, where
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: the easy chair was drawn cozily up, and the tea
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: in the cup. There were several books on a shelf.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: One lay beside the tea things, open and utter. Sun
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: was amazed to find it a copy of a pious
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: work for which Jekyl had several times expressed a great esteem,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: annotated in his own hand with startling blasphemies. Next, in
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: with an involuntary horror. But it was so turned as
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: the roof the fire, sparkling in a hundred repetitions along
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: the glazed front of the presses, and their own pale
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: and fearful countenances, stooping to look in this glass has
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: seen some strange things, sir, whispered Poole. And surely none
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: stranger than itself, echoed the lawyer in the same tones.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: For what did Jekyl? He caught himself up at the
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: word with a start, and then conquering the weakness. What
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: could Jekyl want with it? He said? You may say that,
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: said Poole. Next they turned to the business table on
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: the desk. Among the neat array of papers, a large
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: envelope was uppermost and bore in the doctor's hand the
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: name of mister Utterson. The lawyer unsealed it, and several
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: enclosures fell to the floor. The first was a will
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: he had returned six months before, to serve as a
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: testament in case of death and as a deed of
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: gift in case of disappearance. But in place of the
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement, read
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: the name of Gabriel John Utterson. He looked at Pool,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: and then back at the paper, and last of all
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: at the dead malefactor stretched upon the carpet. My head
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: goes round, he said. He has been all these days
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: in possession. He had no cause to like me. He
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: must have raged to see himself displaced. And he has
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: not destroyed this document. He caught up the next paper.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: It was a brief note in the doctor's hand and
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: dated at the top. Oh, Pool, the lawyer cried, he
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: was alive, and here this day he cannot have been
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: disposed of in so short a space. He must be
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: still alive. He must have fled, And then why fled?
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: And how? And in that case can we venture to
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: declare this suicide? Oh, we must be careful. I foresee
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: that we may yet involve your master in some dire catastrophe.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: Why don't you read it, sir, asked Pool, because I fear,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: replied the lawyer, solemnly, God grant I have no cause
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: for it. And with that he brought the paper to
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: his eyes and read as follows, my dear utter son,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: when this shall fall into your hands, I shall have
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: disappeared under what circumstances I have not the penetration to foresee.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: But my instinct and all the circumstances of my nameless
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: situation tell me that the end is sure and must
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: be early. Go then, and first read the narrative which
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: Lanyon warned me he was to place in your hands,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: and if you care to hear more, turn to the
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: confession of your unworthy and unhappy friend, Henry Jekyl. There
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: was a third enclosure, asked utter Son. Here, Sir, said Pool,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: and gave into his hands a considerable packet, sealed in
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: several places. The lawyer put it in his pocket. I
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: would say nothing of this paper. If your master has
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: fled or is dead, we may at least save his credit.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: It is now ten I must go home and read
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: these documents in quiet, but I shall be back before midnight,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: when we shall send for the police. They went out,
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: locking the door of the theater behind them, and utter Son,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: once more, leaving the servants gathered about the fire in
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: the hall, trudged back to his office to read the
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: two narratives in which this mystery was now to be explained.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Dar Lanion's narrative. On the ninth of January, now four
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: days ago, I received by the evening delivery a registered
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: envelope addressed in the hand of my colleague and old
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: school companion, Henry Jekyl. I was a good deal surprised
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: by this, for we were by no means in the
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: habit of correspondence. I had seen the man dined with him,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: indeed the night before, and I could imagine nothing in
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: our intercourse that should justify formality of registration. The contents
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: increased my wonder, for this is how the letter ran
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: December tenth, eighteen. Dear Lanion, you are one of my
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: oldest friends, and although we may have differed at times
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: on scientific questions, I cannot remember, at least on my side,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: any break in our affection. There was never a day
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: when if you had said to me, Jekyl, my life,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: my honor, my reason depend upon you, I would not
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: have sacrificed my left hand to help you lanyon. My life,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: my honor, my reason are all at your mercy. If
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: you fail me to night, I am lost. You might suppose,
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: after this preface that I am going to ask you
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: for something dishonorable to grant judge for yourself. I want
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: you to postpone all other engagements for tonight, even if
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: you were summoned to the bedside of an emperor to
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: take a cab, unless your carriage should be actually at
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: the door and with this letter in your hand for consultation,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: to drive straight to my house pool. My butler has
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: his orders. You will find him waiting your arrival with
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: a locksmith. The door of my cabinet is then to
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: be forced, and you are to go in alone, to
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: open the glazed press letter E on the left hand,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: breaking the lock if it be shut, and to draw out,
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: with all its contents as they stand, the fourth drawer
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: from the top, or which is the same thing, the
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: third from the bottom. In my extreme distress of mind,
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: I have a morbid fear of misdirecting you. But even
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: if I am in error, you may know the right
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: drawer by its contents, some powders, a file, and a
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: paper book. This drawer I beg of you to carry
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: back with you to Cavendish Square exactly as it stands.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: That is the first part of the service. Now for
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 1: the second. You should be back if you set out
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: at once on the receipt of this long before midnight.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: But I will leave you that amount of margin, not
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: only in the fear of one of those obstacles that
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: can neither be prevented nor foreseen, but because an hour
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: when your servants are in bed is to be preferred
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: for what will then remain to do at midnight. Then
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: I have to ask you to be alone in your
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: consulting room, to admit with your own hand into the
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: house a man who will p z and himself in
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: my name, and to place in his hands the drawer
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: that you will have brought with you from my cabinet.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: Then you will have played your part and earned my
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: gratitude completely. Five minutes afterwards, if you insist upon an explanation,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: you will have understood that these arrangements are of capital importance,
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: and that by the neglect of one of them, fantastic
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: as they must appear, you might have charged your conscience
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: with my death or the shipwreck of my reason. Confident
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: as I am that you will not trifle with this appeal,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: my heart sinks and my hand trembles at the bare
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: thought of such a possibility. Think of me at this hour,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: in a strange place, laboring under a blackness of distress
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: that no fancy can exaggerate, and yet well aware that
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: if you will but punctually serve me, my troubles will
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: roll away like a story that is told. Serve me,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: my dear Lanyon, and save your friend H. J. P. S.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: I had already sealed this up when a fresh terror
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: struck upon my soul. It is possible that the post
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: office may fail me and this letter not come into
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: your hands until tomorrow morning. In that case, dear Lanyon,
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: do my errand when it shall be most convenient for
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: you in the course of the day, and once more,
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: expect my messenger at midnight. It may then already be
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: too late. And if that night passes without event, you
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: will know that you have seen the last of Henry Jekyl.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: colleague was insane. But till that was proved beyond the
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: possibility of doubt, I felt bound to do as he requested.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: The less I understood of this forago, the less I
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: was in a position to judge of its importance, and
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: an appeal so worded could not be set aside without
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: a grave responsibility. I rose accordingly from table, got into
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyl's house. The butler
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: was awaiting my arrival. He had received by the same
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: post as mine a registered letter of instruction, and had
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: sent at once for a locksmith and a carpenter. The
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: tradesmen came while we were yet speaking, and we moved
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: in a body to Old diar Denman's surgical theater, from which,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: as you are doubtless aware, Jekyll's private cabinet is most
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: conveniently entered. The door was very strong, the lock excellent.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: The carpenter avowed he would of great trouble and have
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: to do much damage if force were to be used,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: and the locksmith was near despair. But this last was
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: a handy fellow, and after two hours work the door
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: stood open. The press markedee was unlocked, and I took
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: out the drawer, had it filled up with straw and
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: tied in a sheet, and returned with it to Cavendish Square.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: Here I proceeded to examine its contents. The powders were
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: neatly enough made up, but not with the nicety of
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: the dispensing chemist, so that it was plain they were
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: of Jekyl's private manufacture. And when I opened one of
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: the wrappers, I found what seemed to me a simple
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: crystaline salt of a white color. The file to which
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: I next turned my attention might have been about half
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: full of a blood red liquor, which was highly pungent
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: to the sense of smell, and seemed to me to
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: contain phosphorus and some volatile ether. At the other ingredients,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: I could make no guess. The book was an ordinary
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: version book and contained little but a series of dates.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: These covered a period of many years, but I observed
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: that the entries ceased nearly a year ago, and quite abruptly.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: Here and there a brief remark was appended to a date,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: usually no more than a single word double, occurring perhaps
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: six times in a total of several hundred entries, and
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: once very early in the list, and followed by several
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: marks of exclamation total failure. All this, though it whetted
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: my curiosity, told me little that was definite. Here were
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: a file of some salt, and the record of a
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: series of experiments that had led, like too many of
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: Jekyl's investigations, to no end of practical usefulness. How could
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: the presence of these articles in my house affect either
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: the honor, the sanity or the life of my flighty colleague.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: If his messenger could go to one place, why could
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: he not go to another? And, even granting some impediment,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: why was this gentleman to be received by me in secret?
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: The more I reflected, the more convinced I grew that
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: I was dealing with a case of cerebral disease, and
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 1: though I dismissed my servants to bed, I loaded an
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: old revolver that I might be found in some posture
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: of self defense. Twelve o'clock had scarce rung out over
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: London Ere. The knocker sounded very gently on the door.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: I went myself at the summons and found a small
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: man crouching against the pillars of the portico. Are you
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: come from doctor Jekyl, I asked. He told me yes
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: by a constrained gesture, and when I had bidden him enter,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: he did not obey me. Without a searching backward glance
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: into the darkness of the square, there was a policeman
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: not far off, advancing with his bull's I opened, and
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: at the sight I thought my visitor started and made
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: greater haste. These particulars struck me, I confess disagreeably, and
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: as I followed him into the bright light of the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: consulting room, I kept my hand ready on my weapon.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: Here at last I had a chance of clearly seeing him.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: I had never set eyes on him before, so much
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: was certain. He was small. As I have said, I
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: was struck. Besides with the shocking expression of his face,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: apparent ability of constitution, and last but not least, with
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: the odd subjective disturbance caused by his neighborhood. This bore
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: some resemblance to incipient rigor, and was accompanied by a
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: marked sinking of the pulse. At the time, I set
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: it down to some idiosyncratic personal distaste and merely wondered
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: at the acuteness of the symptoms. But I have since
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: in the nature of man, and to turn on some
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: nobler hinge than the principle of hatred. This person, who
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: had thus from the first moment of his entrance, struck
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: in me what I can only describe as a disgustful curiosity,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: was dressed in a fashion that would have made an
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: ordinary person laughable. His clothes, that is to say, although
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: large for him in every measurement, the trousers hanging on
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: his legs and rolled up to keep them from the ground,
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: the waist of the coat below his haunches, and the
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: collar sprawling wide upon his shoulders. Strange to relate this
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: ludicrous accouterment was far from moving me to laughter. Rather,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: as there was something abnormal, misbegotten in the very essence
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: of the creature that now faced me, something seizing, surprising,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: and revolting. This fresh disparity seemed but to fit in
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: with and to reinforce it, so that to my interest
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: in the man's nature and character there was added a
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune, and
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: status in the world. These observations, though they have taken
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: so great a space to be set down in, were
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: yet the work of a few seconds. My visitor was
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: indeed on fire with some excitement. Have you got it?
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: He cried, have you got it? And so lively was
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: his impatience that he even laid his hand upon my
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: arm and sought to shake me. I put him back,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: conscious at his touch of a certain icy pang along
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: my blood. Come, sir, said I you forget that I
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: have not yet the pleasure of your acquaintance. Be seated,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: if you please. And I showed him an example, and
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: sat down myself in my customary seat, and with as
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: fair an imitation of my ordinary manner to a patient
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: as the lateness of the hour, the nature of my preoccupations,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: and the horror I had of my visitor, would suffer
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: me to muster. I beg your pardon, doctor Lanyon, he
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: replied civilly enough. What you say is very well founded,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: and my impatience has shown its heels to my politeness.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: I come here at the instance of your colleague, doctor
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyll, on a piece of business of some moment,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: and I understood. He paused and put his hand to
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: his throat, and I could see, in spite of his
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: collected manner, that he was wrestling against the approaches of
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: the hysteria. I understood a drawer. But here I took
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: pity on my visitor's suspense, and some perhaps on my
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: own growing curiosity. There it is, sir, said I, pointing
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: to the drawer, where it lay on the floor behind
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: the table and still covered with the sheet. He sprang
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: to it, and then paused and laid his hand upon
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: his heart. I could hear his teeth grate with the
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: convulsive action of his jaws, and his face was so
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: ghastly to see that. I grew alarmed, both for his
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: life and reason. Compose yourself, said I, He turned a
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: dreadful smile to me, and, as if with the decision
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: of despair, plucked away the sheet. At sight of the contents,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: he uttered one loud sob of such immense relief that
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: I sat petrified. And the next moment, in a voice
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: that was already fairly well under control, have you a
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: graduated glass, he asked. I rose from my place with
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: something else an effort, and gave him what he asked.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: few minims of the red tincture, and added one of
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: the powders. The mixture, which was at first of a
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: reddish hue, began in proportion as the crystals melted, to
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: brighten in color, to effervest audibly, and to throw off
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: small fumes of vapor. Suddenly, and at the same moment,
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: the abolition ceased, and the compound changed to a dark purple,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: which faded again more slowly to a watery green. My visitor,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled,
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: set down the glass upon the table, and then turned
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny, and
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: now said he to settle what remains. Will you be wise?
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: Will you be guided? Will you suffer me to take
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: this glass in my hand and to go forth from
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: your house without further parley? Or has the greed of
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: curiosity too much command of you? Think before you answer,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: for it shall be done as you decide. As you decide,
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: you shall be left as you were before, and neither
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: a man in mortal distress may be counted as a
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: kind of riches of the soul. Or if you shall
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: so prefer to choose a new province of knowledge and
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 1: new avenues to fame and power, shall be laid open
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: to you here in this room upon the instant, and
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: the unbelief of Satan, Sir, said I, affecting a coolness
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: that I was far from truly possessing. You speak enigmas,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: and you will perhaps not wonder that I hear you
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: with no very strong impression of belief. But I have
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: pause before I see the end. It is well, replied
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: my visitor Lanyon. You remember your vows? What follows is
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: under the seal of our profession. And now you who
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: have so long been bound to the most narrow and
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: you who have derided your superiors. Behold, he put the
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: glass to his lips and drank at one gulp. A
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: cry followed. He reeled, staggered, clutched at the table, and
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: held on, staring with injected eyes, gasping with open mouth.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: And as I looked, there came, I thought a change.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: He seemed to swell. His face became suddenly black, and
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: the features seemed to melt an altar. And the next
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: moment I had sprung to my feet and leaped back
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: against the wall, my arms raised to shield me from
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: that prodigy. My mind submerged in terror. Oh God, I screamed,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: and O God again and again, for there before my eyes,
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: with his hands like a man restored from death, there
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: stood Henry Jekyl. What he told me in the next hour,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 1: I cannot bring my mind to set on paper. I
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: my soul sickened at it. And yet now when that
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: sight his face from my eyes, I ask myself if
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: I believe it? And I cannot answer. My life is
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: shaken to its roots. Sleep has left me. The deadliest
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: terror sits by me at all hours of the day
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: and night, and I feel that my days are numbered,
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: and that I must die. And yet I shall die incredulous.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: As for the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me,
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: even with tears of penitence, I cannot even in memory
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: dwell on it without a start of horror. I will
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: say but one thing, utter, Sun, and that if you
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: can bring your mind to credit, it will be more
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: than enough. The creature who crept into my house that
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: night was, on Jekyl's own confession, known by the name
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: of Hide, and hunted for in every corner of the
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: land as the murderer of carew Hasty Lanyon. Henry Jekyl's
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: full statement of the case. I was born in the
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: year eighteen to a large fortune, endowed besides with excellent parts,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: inclined by nature to industry, fond of the respect of
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: the wise and good among my fellow men, and thus,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: as might have been supposed, with every guarantee of an
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: honorable and distinguished future. And indeed the worst of my
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: faults was a certain impatient gaiety of disposition, such as
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: has made the happiness of many, but such as I
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: found it hard to reconcile with my imperious desire to
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: carry my head high and wear a more than commonly
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: grave countenance before the public. Hence it came about that
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: I concealed my pleasures, and that when I reached years
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: of reflection and began to look round me and take
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: stock of my progress and position in the world, I
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 1: stood already committed to a profound duplicity of life. Many
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: a man would have even blazoned such irregularities as I
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: was guilty of, But from the high views that I
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: had set before me, I regarded and hid them with
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: an almost morbid sense of shame. It was thus, rather
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: in my faults, that made me what I was, and
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men,
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: severed in me those provinces of good and ill which
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: divide and compound man's dual nature. In this case, I
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: law of life, which lies at the root of religion
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: Though so profound a double dealer, I was in no
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: sense a hypocrite. Both sides of me were in dead earnest.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: and plunged in shame than when I labored in the
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: eye of day at the furtherance of knowledge or the
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: relief of sorrow and suffering. And it chanced that the
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly towards the
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a strong light
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: With every day and from both sides of my intelligence,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 1: to that truth by whose partial discovery I have been
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck. That man is not
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: truly one, but truly two. I say too, because the
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: state of my own does not pass beyond that point.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: And I hazard the guests that man will be ultimately
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. I,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: infallibly in one direction, and in one direction only. It
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: was on the moral side, and in my own person,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: that I learned to recognize the thorough and primitive duality
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: of man. I saw that of the two natures that
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: could rightly be said to be either, it was only
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: because I was radically both. And from an early date,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: even before the course of my scientific discoveries had begun
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: to suggest the most naked possibility of such a miracle,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: life would be relieved of all that was unbearable. The
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: un one just might go his way, delivered from the
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin, and the
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path,
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: doing the good things in which he found his pleasure,
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: hands of this extraneous evil. It was the curse of
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: mankind that these incongruous faggots were thus bound together, that
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: in the agonized womb of consciousness, these polar twins should
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: be continuously struggling. How then were they dissociated? I was
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: so far in my reflections, when, as I have said,
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: a side light began to shine upon the subject from
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: the laboratory table. I began to perceive, more deeply than
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: mistlike transience of this seemingly so solid body in which
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: we walk. Attired certain agents I found to have the
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: power to shake and pluck back that fleshly vestment, even
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: as a wind might toss the curtains of a pavilion.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: For two good reasons I will not enter deeply into
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: this scientific branch of my confession. First, because I have
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: been made to learn that the doom and burthen of
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: our life is bound for ever on man's shoulders, and
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: when the attempt is made to cast it off, it
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: Second because as my narrative will make alas too evident.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: My discoveries were incomplete enough then that I not only
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: recognized my natural body from the mere aura and effulgence
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: of certain of the powers that made up my spirit,
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: but managed to compound a drug by which these powers
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: should be dethroned from their supremacy, and a second form
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: and countenance substituted none the less natural to me, because
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: they were the expression and bore the stamp of lower
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: elements in my soul. I hesitated long before I put
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: this theory to the test of practice. I knew well
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: that I risked death for any drug that so potently
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: the least scruple of an overdose, or at the least
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly brought out that
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change. But
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound, at
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: last overcame the suggestions of alarm. I had long since
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: prepared my tincture. I purchased at once from a firm
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: of wholesale chemists a large quantity of a particular salt,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: which I knew from my experiments to be the last
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: ingredient required. And late one accursed night, I compounded the elements,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: watched them boil and smoke together in the glass, and
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 1: when the abolition had subsided, with a strong glow of courage,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: drank off the potion. The most racking pang succeeded, a
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: and I came to myself as if out of a
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: great sickness. There was something strange in my senseations, something
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: indescribably new, and from its very novelty, incredibly sweet. I
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: felt younger, lighter, happier in body. Within, I was conscious
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: running like a mill race in my fancy, a solution
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but not an
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself at the
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: first breath of this new life to be more wicked, tenfold,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil, and
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: the thought in that moment braced and delighted me like wine.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: I stretched out my hands, exulting in the freshness of
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: these sensations, and in the act I was suddenly aware
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: that I had lost in stature. There was no mirror
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: at that date in my room. That which stands beside
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: me as I write, was brought there later on, and
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: for the very purpose of these transformations. The night, however,
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: was far gone into the morning. The morning, black as
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: it was, was nearly ripe for the conc exception of
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the day. The inmates of my house were locked in
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: the most rigorous hours of slumber, and I determined, flushed
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: as I was, with hope and triumph, to venture in
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: my new shape, as far as to my bedroom. I
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: crossed the yard, wherein the constellations looked down upon me.
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: I could have thought with wonder the first creature of
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: that sort, that their unsleeping vigilance had yet disclosed to them.
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: I stole through the corridors a stranger in my own house,
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: and coming to my room, I saw for the first
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: time the appearance of Edward Hyde. I must here speak
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: by theory alone, saying not that which I know, but
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: that which I supposed to be most probable, the evil
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: side of my nature to which I had now transferred
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: the stamping efficacy, was less robust and less developed than
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: the good which I had just opposed. Again in the
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: course of my life, which had been, after all nine
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: tenths a life of effort, virtue, and control, it had
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: been much less exercised and much less exhausted. And hence,
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: as I think it came about that Edward Hyde was
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: so much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry Jekyl, even
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: as good shown upon the countenance of the one evil
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: was written broadly and plainly on the face of the
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: other evil, besides which I must still believe to be
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: the lethal side of man, had left on that body
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: and imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: This too was myself. It seemed natural and human in
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: my eyes. It bore a livelier image of the spirit.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: It seemed more express and single than the imperfect and
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: divided countenance I had been hitherto accustomed to call mine.
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: And in so far I was doubtless right. I have
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hide,
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: none could come near to me at first without a
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: visible misgiving of the flesh. This, as I take it,
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: was because all human beings, as we meet them, are
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: commingled out of good and evil, and Edward Hyde, alone
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil. I lingered,
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: but a moment at the mirror the second and conclusive
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: experiment had yet to be attempted. It yet remained to
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: be seen if I had lost my identity beyond redemption,
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: and must flee before daylight from a house that was
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: no longer mine. And hurrying back to my cabinet, I
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: once more prepared and drank the cup, once more, suffered
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: the pangs of dissolution, and came to myself once more
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: with the character, the stature, and the face of Henry Jekyl.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: That night I had come to the fatal cross roads.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: had I risked the experiment while under the empire of
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise? And
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: from these agonies of death and birth I had come
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: forth an angel instead of a fiend. The drug had
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: no discriminating action. It was neither diabolical nor divine. It
• 1:56:56
  Speaker 1: but shook the doors of the prison house of my disposition,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: and like the captives of Philippy, that which stood within
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: ran forth. At that time my virtue slumbered, my evil,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: the occasion. And the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde. Hence,
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: although I had now two characters, as well as two appearances,
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: one was wholly evil, and the other was still the
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: old Henry Jekyl, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: improvement I had already learned to despair. The movement was
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: thus wholly toward the worse. Even at that time I
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: had not conquered my aversions to the dryness of a
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: life of study. I would still be merely disposed at times,
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: and as my pleasures were, to say the least, undignified.
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: And I was not only well known and highly considered,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: but growing towards the elderly man. This incoherency of my
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: life was daily growing more unwelcome. It was on this
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: side that my new power tempted me, until I fell
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: in slavery. I had but to drink the cup, to
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: doff once the body of the noted professor, and to
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: assume like a thick cloak that of Edward Hyde. I
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: smiled at the notion. It seemed to me at the
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: time to be humorous, and I made my preparations with
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 1: the most studious care. I took and furnished that house
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: in soho to which Hide was tracked by the police
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: and engaged as a housekeeper, a creature whom I knew
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: well to be silent and inscrupulous. On the other side,
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: I announced to my servants that a mister Hyde, whom
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: I described, was to have full liberty and power about
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: my house in the square, and to parry mishaps. I
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: even called and made myself a familiar object in my
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: second character. I next drew up that will to which
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: you so much objected, so that if anything befell me
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: in the person of diar Jeckyll, I could enter on
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: that of Edward Hyde without pecuniary loss, And thus fortified,
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: as I supposed, on every side, I began to profit
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: by the strange immunities of my position. Men have before
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: and reputation sat under shelter. I was the first that
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: ever did so for his pleasures. I was the first
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: that could plod in the public eye with a load
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy,
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: of liberty. But for me, in my impenetrable mantle, the
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: safety was complete. Think of it, I did not even exist.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: Let me but escape into my laboratory door. Give me
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: but a second or two to mix and swallow the
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: draft that I had always standing ready. And whatever he
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: had done, Edward Hyde would pass away like the stain
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: of breath upon a mirror, and therein his stead, quietly
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: at home, trimming the midnight lamp in his study, a
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: man who could afford to laugh at suspicion would be
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyl. The pleasures which I made haste to seek
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: in my disguise were, as I have said, undignified. I
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: would scarce use a harder turn. But in the hands
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 1: of Edward Hide, they soon began to turn toward the monstrous.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: When I would come back from these excursions, I was
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: often plunged into a kind of wonder at my vicarious depravity.
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: This familiar that I called out of my own soul
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure was
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: a being inherently malign and villainous. His every act and
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: thoughts centered on self drinking pleasure with bestial avidity, from
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: any degree of torture to another, relentless like a man
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: of stone. Henry Jekyl stood at times aghast before the
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: acts of Edward Hide. But the situation was apart from
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: ordinary laws and insidiously relaxed the grasp of conscience. It
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: was Hide, after all, and Hide alone that was guilty.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: Jekyl was no worse. He woke again to his good qualities,
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: seemingly unimpaired. He would even make haste where it was
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: possible to undo the evil done by Hide, And thus
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: his conscience slumbered into the details of the infamy at
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: which I thus connived. For even now I can scarce
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: grant that I committed it. I have no design of entering.
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, but to point out the warnings and the
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: successive steps with which my chastisement approached. I met with
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: one accident, which, as it brought on no consequence, I
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: shall no more than mention. An act of cruelty to
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: a child aroused against me the anger of a passer
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: by whom I recognized the other day, in the person
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: of your kinsman. The doctor, and the child's family joined him.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: There were moments when I feared for my life, and
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: at last, in order to pacify their too just resentment,
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door and
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: pay them in a check drawn in the name of
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyl. But this danger was easily eliminated from the
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: future by opening an account at another bank in the
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: name of Edward Hyde himself. And when by sloping my
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: own hand backward, I had supplied my double with the signature,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate. Some
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: been out for one of my adventures, had returned at
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: a late hour, and woke the next day in bed
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: with somewhat odd sensations. It was in Vain. I looked
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: about me. In Vain, I saw the decent furniture and
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: tall proportions of my room in the square in Vain
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: that I recognized the pattern of the bed curtains and
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: the design of the mahogany frame. Something still kept insisting
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: that I was not where I was, that I had
• 2:02:22
  Speaker 1: not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: little room in Soho, where I was accustomed to sleep,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: in the body of Edward Hyde. I smiled to myself,
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: and in my psychological way, began lazily to inquire into
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: the elements of this illusion. Occasionally, even as I did so,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: dropping back into a comfortable morning doze, I was still
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: so engaged when in one of my more wakeful moments,
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: my eyes fell upon my hand. Now, the hand of
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyl, as you have often remarked, was professional in
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: shape and size. It was large, firm, white and comely.
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: But the hand which I now saw clearly enough in
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: the yellow light of a mid London morning, lying half
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: shut on the bed clothes, was lean, corded, nuckly of
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: a dusky pallor, and thickly shaded with a swart growth
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: of hair. It was the hand of Edward Hide. I
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: must have stared upon it for near half a minute,
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: sunk as I was in the mere stupidity of wonder,
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: before terror woke up in my breast, as sudden and
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: startling as the crash of cymbals, and bounding from my bed,
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: I rushed to the mirror. At the sight that met
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: my eyes, my blood was changed into something exquisitely thin
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: and icy. Yes, I had gone to bed Henry Jekyl,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: I had awakened Edward Hide. How was this to be explained?
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: I asked myself, And then, with another bound of terror,
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: how was it to be remedied? It was well on
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: in the morning, the servants were up, all my drugs
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: were in the cabinet, A long journey down two pairs
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: of stairs, through the back passage, across the open court,
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: and through the anatomical theater, from where I was then
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 1: standing horror struck. It might indeed be possible to cover
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: my face, But of what use was that? When I
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: was unable to conceal the alteration in my stature, And then,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: with an overpowering sweetness of relief, it came back upon
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: my mind that the servants were already used to the
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: coming and going of my second self. I had soon
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: dressed as well as I was able in close of
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: my own size, had soon passed through the house where
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: Bradshaw stared and drew back at seeing mister Hyde at
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: such an hour, in such a strange array, And ten
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: minutes later Doctor Jekyll had returned to his own shape
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: and was sitting down with a darkened brow to make
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: a feint of breakfasting. Small indeed was my appetite. This
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: inexplicable incident, this reversal of my previous experience, seemed like
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: the Babylonian finger on the wall, to be spelling out
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: the letters of my judgment. And I began to reflect
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: more seriously than ever before on the issues and possibilities
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: of my double existence. That part of me which I
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: had the power of projecting, had lately been much exercised
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: and nourished. It had seemed to me, of late, as
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: though the body of Edward Hyde had grown in stature,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: as though when I wore that form, I were conscious
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: of a more generous tide of blood. And I began
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: to spy a danger that if this were much prolonged,
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: the balance of my nature might be permanently overthrown, the
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: power of voluntary change be forfeited, and the character of
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 1: Edward Hyde become irrevocably mine. The power of the drug
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: had not been always equally displayed. Once very early in
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: my career, it had totally failed me. Since then I
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 1: had been obliged on more than one occasion to double,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: and once with infinite risk of death, to treble the amount,
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: and these rare uncertainties had cast hitherto the sole shadow
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 1: on my contentment. Now, however, and in the light of
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: that morning's accident, I was led to remark that whereas
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 1: in the beginning the difficulty had been to throw off
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: the body of Jekyl, it had of late gradually but
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: decide dightly transferred itself to the other side. All things
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: therefore seemed to point to this that I was slowly
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: slowly incorporated with my second and worse. Between these two,
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: I now felt I had to choose. My two natures
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: had memory in common, but all other faculties were most
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: unequally shared between them. Jekyl, who was composite now with
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hide. But
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 1: Hide was indifferent to Jekyl or but remembered him as
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: the mountain Bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: himself from pursuit. Jekyl had more than a father's interest,
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 1: Hide had more than a son's indifference. To cast in
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: my lot with Jekyl was to die to those appetites
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: which I had long secretly indulged, and had of late
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: begun to pamper. To cast it in with Hyde was
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: to die to a thousand interests and aspirations, and to
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: be come at a blow and forever despised and friendless.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: The bargain might appear unequal, but there was still another
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: consideration in the scales. For while Jekyl would suffer smartingly
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: conscious of all that he had lost. Strange as my
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: and commonplace as man. Much the same inducements and alarms
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: cast a die for any tempted and trembling sinner. And
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: it fell out with me, as it falls with so
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: better part, and was found wanting in the strength to
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: keep to it. Yes, I preferred the elderly and discontented doctor,
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: surrounded by friends and cherishing honest hopes, and bade a
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: resolute farewell to the liberty, the comparative youth, the light step,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: leaping impulses, and secret pleasures that I had enjoyed in
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 1: the disguise of Hyde. I made this choice, perhaps with
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: some unconscious reservation, for I neither gave up the house
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: in soho, nor destroyed the clothes of Edward Hide, which
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: still lay ready in my cabinet. For two months. However,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: I was true to my determination. For two months I
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: led a life of such severity as I had never
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: before attained to, and enjoyed the compensations of an approving conscience.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: But time began at last to obliterate the freshness of
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: my alarm. The praises of conscience began to grow into
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: a thing. Of course, I began to be tortured with
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: throes and longings as of Hide, struggling after freedom, and
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: at last, in an hour of moral weakness, I once
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: again compounded and swallowed the transforming draft. I do not
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: suppose that when a drunkard reasons with himself upon his vice,
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: he is once out of five hundred times affected by
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: the dangers that he runs through his brutish physical insensibility
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: neither had it. Long as I had considered, my position
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: made enough allowance for the complete moral insensibility and insensate
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: readiness to evil, which were the leading characters of Edward Hide.
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: Yet it was by these that I was punished. My
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: devil had been long caged. He came out roaring. I
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: was conscious even when I took the draft of a
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: more unbridled, a more furious propensity to ill. It must
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: have been this, I suppose, that stirred in my soul
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: the tempest of impatience with which I listened to the
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: civilities of my unhappy victim. I declare, at least before God,
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: no man, morally, saying, could have been guilty of that
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: crime upon so pitiful a provocation, and that I struck
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: in no more reasonable spirit than that in which a
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: sick child may break a plaything. But I had voluntarily
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: stripped myself of all those balancing instincts by which even
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: the worst of us continues to walk with some degree
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: of steadiness among temptations. And in my case, to be tempted,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: however slightly, was to fall. Instantly the spirit of Hell
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: awoke in me. Enraged with a transport of glee, I
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow. And
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: it was not till weariness had begun to succeed that
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: I was suddenly in the top fit of my delirium,
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: A mist dispersed, I saw my life to be forfeit,
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: and fled from the scene of these excesses at once
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: glorying and trembling. My lust of evil gratified and stimulated
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: my love of life screwed to the topmost peg. I
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: ran to the house in soho, and to make assurance,
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: doubly sure, destroyed my papers. Thence I set out through
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: the lamplet streets in the same divided ecstasy of mind,
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: gloating on my crime, lightheadedly devising others in the future,
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: and yet still hastening and still hearkening in my wake
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: for the steps of the avenger. Hyde had a song
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: upon his lips as he compounded the draft, and as
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: he drank it pledged the dead man. The pangs of
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: transformation had not done tearing him before. Henry Jekyl, with
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: streaming tears of gratitude and remorse, had fallen upon his
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: knees and lifted his clasped hands to God. The veil
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: of self indulgence was rent from head to foot. I
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: saw my life as a whole. I followed it up
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: from the days of childhood, when I had walked with
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: my father's hand, and through the self denying toils of
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: my professional life, to arrive again and again with the
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: same sense of unreality. At the damned horrors of the evening,
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: I could have screamed aloud. I sought, with tears and
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 1: prayers to smother down the crowd of hideous images and
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: sounds with which my memory swarmed against me. And still
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: between the petitions, the ugly face of my iniquity stared
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: into my soul. As the acuteness of this remorse began
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: to die away, it was succeeded by a sense of joy.
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: The problem of my conduct was solved. Hide was thenceforth impossible,
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: whether I would or not. I was now confined to
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: the better part of my existence, And oh how I
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: rejoiced to think of it. With what willing humility I
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: embraced anew the restrictions of natural life with what sincere renunciation.
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: I locked the door by which I had so often gone,
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 1: and come and ground the key under my heel. The
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: next day came the news that the murder had not
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: been overlooked, that the guilt of Hide was patent to
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: the world, and that the victim was a man high
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: had been a tragic folly. I think I was glad
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: to know it. I think I was glad to have
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by the terrors
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 1: of the scaffold. Jekyll was now my city of refuge.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: Let but Hide peep out an instant, and the hands
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: of all men would be raised to take and slay him.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past,
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: and I can say with honesty that my resolve was
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 1: fruitful of some good. You know yourself, how earnestly, in
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: the last months of the last year I labored to
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: relieve suffering. You know that much was done for others,
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: and that the days passed quietly, almost happily for myself.
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: beneficent and innocent life. I think instead that I daily
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it more completely. But I was still cursed with
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: my duality of purpose, And as the first edge of
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for license.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: Not that I dreamed of resuscitating hide, the bare idea
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: of that would startle me to frenzy. No, it was
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: in my own person that I was once more tempted
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: to trifle with my conscience. And it was as an
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: ordinary secret sinner that I at last felt before the
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: assaults of temptation. There comes an end to all things.
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: The most capacious measure is filled at last, And this
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 1: my soul. And yet I was not alarmed. The fall
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: seemed natural, like a return to the old days before
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: I had made my discovery. It was a fine, clear
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: January day, wet under foot where the frost had melted,
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: but cloudless overhead, and the Regent's Park was full of
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: winter chirrupings and sweet with spring odors. I sat in
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: the sun on a bench, the animal within me licking
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: the chops of memory, the spiritual side a little drowsed,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin after all,
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: I reflected, I was like my neighbors. And then I smiled,
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: comparing myself with other men, comparing my active good will
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: with the lazy cruelty of their neglect. And at the
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: A horrid nausea, and the most deadly shuddering. These passed
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: away and left me faint. And then, as in its turn,
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: faintness subsided, I began to be aware of a change
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: in the temper of my thoughts, a greater boldness, a
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: contempt of danger, a solution of the bonds of obligation.
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: I looked down, My clothes hung formlessly on my shrunken limbs.
• 2:14:43
  Speaker 1: The hand that lay on my knee was corded and hairy.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: I was once more edward Hyde. A moment before I
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: had been safe of all men's respect, wealthy, beloved the
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: cloth laying for me in the dining room at home.
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: And now I was the common quarry of mankind, hu houseless,
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: a known murderer for all to the gallows. My reason wavered,
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: but it did not fail me utterly. I have more
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: than once observed that in my second character, my faculties
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: seemed sharpened to a point, and my spirits more tensely elastic.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: Thus it came about that where Jekyl perhaps might have succumbed,
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: hide rose to the importance of the moment. My drugs
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: were in one of the presses of my cabinet. How
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: was I to reach them? That was the problem that
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: crushing my temples in my hands. I set myself to
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: solve the laboratory door I had closed. If I sought
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 1: to enter by the house, my own servants would consign
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: me to the gallows. I saw I must employ another hand,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: and thought of Lanyon. How was he to be reached,
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: how persuaded? Supposing that I escaped capture in the streets,
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: how was I to make my way into his presence?
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 1: And how should I an unknown and displeasing visitor, prevail
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: on the famous physician to rifle the study of his colleague,
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 1: doctor Jekyl. Then I remembered that of my original character
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: one part remained to me. I could write my own hand.
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: And once I had conceived that kindling spark, the way
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: that I must follow became lighted up from end to end.
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: Thereupon I arranged my clothes as best I could, and,
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: summoning a passing hansom, drove to an hotel in Portland Street,
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: the name of which I chanced to remember at my appearance,
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 1: which was indeed comical enough. However tragic a fate these
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 1: garments covered. The driver could not conceal his mirth. I
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury,
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: and the smile withered from his face, happily for him,
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: yet more happily for myself, for in another instant I
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: had certainly dragged him from his perch at the inn.
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: As I entered, I looked about me with so black
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 1: a countenance as made the attendants tremble. Not a look
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: did they exchange in my presence, but obsequiously took my orders,
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: led me to a private room, and brought me wherewithal
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: to right hide. In danger of his life was a
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 1: creature new to me, shaken with inordinate anger, strung to
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain. Yet the
• 2:17:10
  Speaker 1: creature was astute, mastered his fury. With a great effort
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: of the will, composed his two important letters, one to
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: Lanyon and one to Pool, and that he might receive
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 1: directions that they should be registered. Thenceforward he sat all
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails.
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: There he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: visibly quailing before his eye. And thence when the night
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: was fully come, he set forth in the corner of
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 1: the streets of the city. He I say, I cannot say,
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: I that child of Hell had nothing human, nothing lived
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: in him but fear and hatred. And when at last,
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: thinking the driver had begun to grow suspicious, he discharged
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: the cab and ventured on foot a tie, tired in
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 1: his misfiting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: the midst of the nocturnal passengers. These two base passions
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: raged within him like a tempest. He walked fast, hunted
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 1: Once a woman spoke to him, offering, I think a
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: box of lights. He smote her in the face, and
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: she fled. When I came to myself at Lanion's. The
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: horror of my old friend perhaps affected me somewhat. I
• 2:18:35
  Speaker 1: do not know. It was at least but a drop
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 1: in the sea to the abhorrence with which I looked
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 1: back upon these hours. A change had come over me.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: It was no longer the fear of the gallows. It
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 1: was the horror of being hide that racked me. I
• 2:18:50
  Speaker 1: received Lanion's condemnation partly in a dream. It was partly
• 2:18:53
  Speaker 1: in a dream that I came home to my own
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: house and got into bed. I slept after the prostration
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: of the day with a stringent and profound slumber which
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: I awoke in the morning, shaken, weakened, but refreshed. I
• 2:19:10
  Speaker 1: still hated and feared the thought of the brute that
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: slept within me, and I had not, of course forgotten
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: the appalling dangers of the day before. But I was
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 1: once more at home, in my own house and close
• 2:19:20
  Speaker 1: to my drugs, and gratitude for my escape shown so
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: strong in my soul that it almost rivaled the brightness
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 1: of hope. I was stepping leisurely across the court after breakfast,
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: drinking the chill of the air with pleasure when I
• 2:19:33
  Speaker 1: was seized again with those indescribable sensations that heralded the change,
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: and I had but the time to gain the shelter
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: of my cabinet before I was once again raging and
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 1: freezing with the passions of hide. It took on this
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: occasion a double dose to recall me to myself, and
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 1: alas six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: the fire, the pangs returned and the drug had to
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: be re administered in short from that day, for it
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 1: seemed only by a great effort as of gymnastics, and
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: only under the immediate stimulation of the drug, that I
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 1: was able to wear the countenance of Jekyl. At all
• 2:20:09
  Speaker 1: hours of the day and night, I would be taken
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: with the promontory shutter. Above all, if I slept or
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: always as high that I awakened. Under the strain of
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: this continually impending doom, and by the sleeplessness to which
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: I now condemned myself, I even beyond what I had
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: thought possible to man. I became in my own person
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly, weak
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought,
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: the horror of my other self. But when I slept,
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: or when the virtue of the medicine wore off, I
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: would leap, almost without transition, For the pangs of transformation
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: grew daily less marked, into the possession of a fancy
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: brimming with images of terror, a soul boiling with causeless hatreds,
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: and a body that seemed not strong enough to contain
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: the raging energies of life. The powers of Hide seemed
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: to have grown with the sickliness of Jekyl, and certainly
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: the hate that now divided them was equal on each
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 1: side with Jekyl. It was a thing of vital instinct.
• 2:21:13
  Speaker 1: He had now seen the full deformity of that creature
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: that shared with him some of the phenomena of consciousness,
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: and was co heir with him to death and beyond
• 2:21:21
  Speaker 1: these lengths of community, which in themselves made the most
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: poignant part of his distress. He thought of Hide for
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: all his energy of life, as of something not only
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 1: hellish but inorganic. This was the shocking thing that the
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 1: slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices,
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned, that what was
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: dead and had no shape should usurp the offices of life.
• 2:21:45
  Speaker 1: And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him,
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: closer than a wife, closer than an eye, lay caged
• 2:21:51
  Speaker 1: in his flesh, where he heard it mutter, and felt
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: its struggle to be borne, and at every hour of
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: weakness and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: and deposed him out of life. The hatred of hide,
• 2:22:03
  Speaker 1: for Jekyl was of a different order. His terror of
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: the gallows drove him continually to commit temporary suicide and
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: return to his subordinate station of a part instead of
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: a person. But he loathed the necessity. He loathed the
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: despondency into which Jekyl was now fallen, and he resented
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: the dislike with which he was himself regarded. Hence the
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: ape like tricks that he would play me, scrawling in
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: my own hand blasphemies on the pages of my books,
• 2:22:30
  Speaker 1: burning the letters, and destroying the portrait of my father.
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: And indeed, had it not been for his fear of death,
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: he would long ago have ruined himself in order to
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: involve me in the ruin, but his love of life
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: is wonderful. I go further, I who sicken and freeze
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: at the mere thought of him. When I recall the
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: objection and passion of this attachment, and when I know
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: how he fears my power to cut him off by suicide,
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: I find it in my heart to pity him. It
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 1: is useless, and the time awfully fails me to prolong
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: this description. No one has ever suffered such torments, let
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: that suffice. And yet even to these have it brought
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 1: no not alleviation, but a certain callousness of soul, a
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: certain acquiescence of despair. And my punishment might have gone
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 1: on for years, but for the last calamity, which has
• 2:23:18
  Speaker 1: now fallen, and which has finally severed me from my
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: own face and nature. My provision of the salt, which
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: had never been renewed since the date of the first experiment,
• 2:23:27
  Speaker 1: began to run low. I sent out for a fresh
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: supply and mixed the draft. The abolition followed, and the
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: first change of color, not the second. I drank it,
• 2:23:37
  Speaker 1: and it was without efficiency. You will learn from pool
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: how I have had London ransact. It was in vain,
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: and I am now persuaded that my first supply was impure,
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: and that it was that unknown impurity which lent efficacy
• 2:23:50
  Speaker 1: to the draft. About a week has passed, and I
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: am now finishing this statement under the influence of the
• 2:23:56
  Speaker 1: last of the old powders. This then, is the last time,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: short of a miracle, that Henry Jekyll can think his
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 1: own thoughts or see his own face now, how sadly
• 2:24:07
  Speaker 1: altered in the glass. Nor must I delay too long
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: to bring my writing to an end. For if my
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 1: narrative has hitherto escaped destruction, it has been by a
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: combination of great prudence and great good luck. Should the
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: froze of change take me in the act of writing it,
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: Hyde will tear it in pieces. But if some time
• 2:24:26
  Speaker 1: shall have elapsed after I have laid it, by his
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: wonderful selfishness and circumscription to the moment, will probably save
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 1: it once again from the action of his ape like spite.
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: And indeed the doom that is closing on us both
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: has already changed and crushed him. Half an hour from now,
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: when I shall again and forever reindew that hated personality,
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: my chair, or continue with the most strained and fear
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: struck ecstasy of listening to pace up and down this room,
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: my last earthly refuge, and give ear to every sound
• 2:24:59
  Speaker 1: of menace? Will hide die upon the scaffold? Or will
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: he find courage to release himself at the last moment?
• 2:25:07
  Speaker 1: God knows I am careless. This is my true hour
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: of death, and what is to follow concerns another than myself. Here, then,
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy
• 2:25:21
  Speaker 1: Henry Jekyl to an end. Enjoy this full audio book
• 2:25:25
  Speaker 1: and thanks for listening, my friend,