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1"Yes, I know," said Utterson; "I know it must seem strange. The fact is, if I do not ask you the name of the other
2party, it is because I know it already. You see, Richard, your tale has gone home. If you have been inexact in any point
3you had better correct it." "I think you might have warned me," returned the other with a touch of sullenness. "But I
4have been pedantically exact, as you call it. The fellow had a key; and what's more, he has it still. I saw him use it
5not a week ago." Mr. Utterson sighed deeply but said never a word; and the young man presently resumed. "Here is another
6lesson to say nothing," said he. "I am ashamed of my long tongue. Let us make a bargain never to refer to this again."
7"With all my heart," said the lawyer. "I shake hands on that, Richard." SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE That evening Mr. Utterson
8came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish. It was his custom of a Sunday,
9when this meal was over, to sit close by the fire, a volume of some dry divinity on his reading desk, until the clock of
10the neighbouring church rang out the hour of twelve, when he would go soberly and gratefully to bed. On this night
11however, as soon as the cloth was taken away, he took up a candle and went into his business room. There he opened his
12safe, took from the most private part of it a document endorsed on the envelope as Dr. Jekyll's Will and sat down with a
13clouded brow to study its contents. The will was holograph, for Mr. Utterson though he took charge of it now that it was
14made, had refused to lend the least assistance in the making of it; it provided not only that, in case of the decease of
15Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., L.L.D., F.R.S., etc., all his possessions were to pass into the hands of his "friend and
16benefactor Edward Hyde," but that in case of Dr. Jekyll's "disappearance or unexplained absence for any period exceeding
17three calendar months," the said Edward Hyde should step into the said Henry Jekyll's shoes without further delay and
18free from any burthen or obligation beyond the payment of a few small sums to the members of the doctor's household.
19This document had long been the lawyer's eyesore. It offended him both as a lawyer and as a lover of the sane and
20customary sides of life, to whom the fanciful was the immodest. And hitherto it was his ignorance of Mr. Hyde that had
21swelled his indignation; now, by a sudden turn, it was his knowledge. It was already bad enough when the name was but a
22name of which he could learn no more. It was worse when it began to be clothed upon with detestable attributes; and out
23of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment
24of a fiend. "I thought it was madness," he said, as he replaced the obnoxious paper in the safe, "and now I begin to
25fear it is disgrace." With that he blew out his candle, put on a greatcoat, and set forth in the direction of Cavendish
26Square, that citadel of medicine, where his friend, the great Dr. Lanyon, had his house and received his crowding
27patients. "If anyone knows, it will be Lanyon," he had thought. The solemn butler knew and welcomed him; he was
28subjected to no stage of delay, but ushered direct from the door to the dining-room where Dr. Lanyon sat alone over his
29wine. This was a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white, and a boisterous
30and decided manner. At sight of Mr. Utterson, he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands. The
31geniality, as was the way of the man, was somewhat theatrical to the eye; but it reposed on genuine feeling. For these
32two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and of each other,
33and what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. After a little rambling talk, the
34lawyer led up to the subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind. "I suppose, Lanyon," said he, "you and I must
35be the two oldest friends that Henry Jekyll has?" "I wish the friends were younger," chuckled Dr. Lanyon. "But I suppose
36we are. And what of that? I see little of him now." "Indeed?" said Utterson. "I thought you had a bond of common
37interest." "We had," was the reply. "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He
38began to go wrong, wrong in mind; and though of course I continue to take an interest in him for old sake's sake, as
39they say, I see and I have seen devilish little of the man. Such unscientific balderdash," added the doctor, flushing
40suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias." This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr.
41Utterson. "They have only differed on some point of science," he thought; and being a man of no scientific passions
42(except in the matter of conveyancing), he even added: "It is nothing worse than that!" He gave his friend a few seconds
43to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put. "Did you ever come across a protégé of
44his--one Hyde?" he asked. "Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. "No. Never heard of him. Since my time." That was the amount of
45information that the lawyer carried back with him to the great, dark bed on which he tossed to and fro, until the small
46hours of the morning began to grow large. It was a night of little ease to his toiling mind, toiling in mere darkness
47and besieged by questions. Six o'clock struck on the bells of the church that was so conveniently near to Mr. Utterson's
48dwelling, and still he was digging at the problem. Hitherto it had touched him on the intellectual side alone; but now
49his imagination also was engaged, or rather enslaved; and as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and
50the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures. He would be aware of the
51great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the
52doctor's; and then these met, and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams. Or
53else he would see a room in a rich house, where his friend lay asleep, dreaming and smiling at his dreams; and then the
54door of that room would be opened, the curtains of the bed plucked apart, the sleeper recalled, and lo! there would
55stand by his side a figure to whom power was given, and even at that dead hour, he must rise and do its bidding. The
56figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide
57more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through
58wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming. And still the
59figure had no face by which he might know it; even in his dreams, it had no face, or one that baffled him and melted
60before his eyes; and thus it was that there sprang up and grew apace in the lawyer's mind a singularly strong, almost an
61inordinate, curiosity to behold the features of the real Mr. Hyde. If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the
62mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined. He
63might see a reason for his friend's strange preference or bondage (call it which you please) and even for the startling
64clauses of the will. At least it would be a face worth seeing: the face of a man who was without bowels of mercy: a face
65which had but to show itself to raise up, in the mind of the unimpressionable Enfield, a spirit of enduring hatred. From
66that time forward, Mr. Utterson began to haunt the door in the by-street of shops. In the morning before office hours,
67at noon when business was plenty and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at
68all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.
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