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1It was late in the afternoon, when Mr. Utterson found his way to Dr. Jekyll's door, where he was at once admitted by
2Poole, and carried down by the kitchen offices and across a yard which had once been a garden, to the building which was
3indifferently known as the laboratory or dissecting rooms. The doctor had bought the house from the heirs of a
4celebrated surgeon; and his own tastes being rather chemical than anatomical, had changed the destination of the block
5at the bottom of the garden. It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's
6quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of
7strangeness as he crossed the theatre, once crowded with eager students and now lying gaunt and silent, the tables laden
8with chemical apparatus, the floor strewn with crates and littered with packing straw, and the light falling dimly
9through the foggy cupola. At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with red baize; and through
10this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet. It was a large room fitted round with glass presses,
11furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty
12windows barred with iron. The fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in the
13houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deathly sick. He did not
14rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice. "And now," said Mr.
15Utterson, as soon as Poole had left them, "you have heard the news?" The doctor shuddered. "They were crying it in the
16square," he said. "I heard them in my dining-room." "One word," said the lawyer. "Carew was my client, but so are you,
17and I want to know what I am doing. You have not been mad enough to hide this fellow?" "Utterson, I swear to God," cried
18the doctor, "I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this
19world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite
20safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of." The lawyer listened gloomily; he did not like his friend's
21feverish manner. "You seem pretty sure of him," said he; "and for your sake, I hope you may be right. If it came to a
22trial, your name might appear." "I am quite sure of him," replied Jekyll; "I have grounds for certainty that I cannot
23share with any one. But there is one thing on which you may advise me. I have--I have received a letter; and I am at a
24loss whether I should show it to the police. I should like to leave it in your hands, Utterson; you would judge wisely,
25I am sure; I have so great a trust in you." "You fear, I suppose, that it might lead to his detection?" asked the
26lawyer. "No," said the other. "I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde; I am quite done with him. I was thinking
27of my own character, which this hateful business has rather exposed." Utterson ruminated awhile; he was surprised at his
28friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it. "Well," said he, at last, "let me see the letter." The letter was written
29in an odd, upright hand and signed "Edward Hyde": and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer's benefactor, Dr.
30Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, as
31he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence. The lawyer liked this letter well enough; it put a better
32colour on the intimacy than he had looked for; and he blamed himself for some of his past suspicions. "Have you the
33envelope?" he asked. "I burned it," replied Jekyll, "before I thought what I was about. But it bore no postmark. The
34note was handed in." "Shall I keep this and sleep upon it?" asked Utterson. "I wish you to judge for me entirely," was
35the reply. "I have lost confidence in myself." "Well, I shall consider," returned the lawyer. "And now one word more: it
36was Hyde who dictated the terms in your will about that disappearance?" The doctor seemed seized with a qualm of
37faintness; he shut his mouth tight and nodded. "I knew it," said Utterson. "He meant to murder you. You had a fine
38escape." "I have had what is far more to the purpose," returned the doctor solemnly: "I have had a lesson--O God,
39Utterson, what a lesson I have had!" And he covered his face for a moment with his hands. On his way out, the lawyer
40stopped and had a word or two with Poole. "By the bye," said he, "there was a letter handed in to-day: what was the
41messenger like?" But Poole was positive nothing had come except by post; "and only circulars by that," he added. This
42news sent off the visitor with his fears renewed. Plainly the letter had come by the laboratory door; possibly, indeed,
43it had been written in the cabinet; and if that were so, it must be differently judged, and handled with the more
44caution. The newsboys, as he went, were crying themselves hoarse along the footways: "Special edition. Shocking murder
45of an M.P." That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the
46good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal. It was, at least, a ticklish decision that he had
47to make; and self-reliant as he was by habit, he began to cherish a longing for advice. It was not to be had directly;
48but perhaps, he thought, it might be fished for. Presently after, he sat on one side of his own hearth, with Mr. Guest,
49his head clerk, upon the other, and midway between, at a nicely calculated distance from the fire, a bottle of a
50particular old wine that had long dwelt unsunned in the foundations of his house. The fog still slept on the wing above
51the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds,
52the procession of the town's life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind. But
53the room was gay with firelight. In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with
54time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was
55ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London. Insensibly the lawyer melted. There was no man from whom he
56kept fewer secrets than Mr. Guest; and he was not always sure that he kept as many as he meant. Guest had often been on
57business to the doctor's; he knew Poole; he could scarce have failed to hear of Mr. Hyde's familiarity about the house;
58he might draw conclusions: was it not as well, then, that he should see a letter which put that mystery to rights? and
59above all since Guest, being a great student and critic of handwriting, would consider the step natural and obliging?
60The clerk, besides, was a man of counsel; he could scarce read so strange a document without dropping a remark; and by
61that remark Mr. Utterson might shape his future course. "This is a sad business about Sir Danvers," he said. "Yes, sir,
62indeed. It has elicited a great deal of public feeling," returned Guest. "The man, of course, was mad." "I should like
63to hear your views on that," replied Utterson. "I have a document here in his handwriting; it is between ourselves, for
64I scarce know what to do about it; it is an ugly business at the best. But there it is; quite in your way: a murderer's
65autograph." Guest's eyes brightened, and he sat down at once and studied it with passion. "No sir," he said: "not mad;
66but it is an odd hand." "And by all accounts a very odd writer," added the lawyer. Just then the servant entered with a
67note. "Is that from Dr. Jekyll, sir?" inquired the clerk. "I thought I knew the writing. Anything private, Mr.
68Utterson?" "Only an invitation to dinner. Why? Do you want to see it?"
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