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1But now the ten minutes drew to an end. Poole disinterred the axe from under a stack of packing straw; the candle was
2set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack; and they drew near with bated breath to where that patient foot
3was still going up and down, up and down, in the quiet of the night. "Jekyll," cried Utterson, with a loud voice, "I
4demand to see you." He paused a moment, but there came no reply. "I give you fair warning, our suspicions are aroused,
5and I must and shall see you," he resumed; "if not by fair means, then by foul--if not of your consent, then by brute
6force!" "Utterson," said the voice, "for God's sake, have mercy!" "Ah, that's not Jekyll's voice--it's Hyde's!" cried
7Utterson. "Down with the door, Poole!" Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red
8baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet. Up
9went the axe again, and again the panels crashed and the frame bounded; four times the blow fell; but the wood was tough
10and the fittings were of excellent workmanship; and it was not until the fifth, that the lock burst and the wreck of the
11door fell inwards on the carpet. The besiegers, appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had succeeded, stood
12back a little and peered in. There lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet lamplight, a good fire glowing and
13chattering on the hearth, the kettle singing its thin strain, a drawer or two open, papers neatly set forth on the
14business table, and nearer the fire, the things laid out for tea; the quietest room, you would have said, and, but for
15the glazed presses full of chemicals, the most commonplace that night in London. Right in the middle there lay the body
16of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe, turned it on his back and beheld the face of
17Edward Hyde. He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor's bigness; the cords of his face
18still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell
19of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer. "We have come too
20late," he said sternly, "whether to save or punish. Hyde is gone to his account; and it only remains for us to find the
21body of your master." The far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre, which filled almost the
22whole ground storey and was lighted from above, and by the cabinet, which formed an upper storey at one end and looked
23upon the court. A corridor joined the theatre to the door on the by-street; and with this the cabinet communicated
24separately by a second flight of stairs. There were besides a few dark closets and a spacious cellar. All these they now
25thoroughly examined. Each closet needed but a glance, for all were empty, and all, by the dust that fell from their
26doors, had stood long unopened. The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the
27surgeon who was Jekyll's predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of
28further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance. Nowhere was there any
29trace of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive. Poole stamped on the flags of the corridor. "He must be buried here," he said,
30hearkening to the sound. "Or he may have fled," said Utterson, and he turned to examine the door in the by-street. It
31was locked; and lying near by on the flags, they found the key, already stained with rust. "This does not look like
32use," observed the lawyer. "Use!" echoed Poole. "Do you not see, sir, it is broken? much as if a man had stamped on it."
33"Ay," continued Utterson, "and the fractures, too, are rusty." The two men looked at each other with a scare. "This is
34beyond me, Poole," said the lawyer. "Let us go back to the cabinet." They mounted the stair in silence, and still with
35an occasional awestruck glance at the dead body, proceeded more thoroughly to examine the contents of the cabinet. At
36one table, there were traces of chemical work, various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass saucers, as
37though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented. "That is the same drug that I was always bringing
38him," said Poole; and even as he spoke, the kettle with a startling noise boiled over. This brought them to the
39fireside, where the easy-chair was drawn cosily up, and the tea things stood ready to the sitter's elbow, the very sugar
40in the cup. There were several books on a shelf; one lay beside the tea things open, and Utterson was amazed to find it
41a copy of a pious work, for which Jekyll had several times expressed a great esteem, annotated, in his own hand with
42startling blasphemies. Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into
43whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror. But it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow
44playing on the roof, the fire sparkling in a hundred repetitions along the glazed front of the presses, and their own
45pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in. "This glass has seen some strange things, sir," whispered Poole. "And
46surely none stranger than itself," echoed the lawyer in the same tones. "For what did Jekyll"--he caught himself up at
47the word with a start, and then conquering the weakness--"what could Jekyll want with it?" he said. "You may say that!"
48said Poole. Next they turned to the business table. On the desk, among the neat array of papers, a large envelope was
49uppermost, and bore, in the doctor's hand, the name of Mr. Utterson. The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell
50to the floor. The first was a will, drawn in the same eccentric terms as the one which he had returned six months
51before, to serve as a testament in case of death and as a deed of gift in case of disappearance; but in place of the
52name of Edward Hyde, the lawyer, with indescribable amazement read the name of Gabriel John Utterson. He looked at
53Poole, and then back at the paper, and last of all at the dead malefactor stretched upon the carpet. "My head goes
54round," he said. "He has been all these days in possession; he had no cause to like me; he must have raged to see
55himself displaced; and he has not destroyed this document." He caught up the next paper; it was a brief note in the
56doctor's hand and dated at the top. "O Poole!" the lawyer cried, "he was alive and here this day. He cannot have been
57disposed of in so short a space; he must be still alive, he must have fled! And then, why fled? and how? and in that
58case, can we venture to declare this suicide? O, we must be careful. I foresee that we may yet involve your master in
59some dire catastrophe." "Why don't you read it, sir?" asked Poole. "Because I fear," replied the lawyer solemnly. "God
60grant I have no cause for it!" And with that he brought the paper to his eyes and read as follows: "My dear
61Utterson,--When this shall fall into your hands, I shall have disappeared, under what circumstances I have not the
62penetration to foresee, but my instinct and all the circumstances of my nameless situation tell me that the end is sure
63and must be early. Go then, and first read the narrative which Lanyon warned me he was to place in your hands; and if
64you care to hear more, turn to the confession of "Your unworthy and unhappy friend, "HENRY JEKYLL." "There was a third
65enclosure?" asked Utterson. "Here, sir," said Poole, and gave into his hands a considerable packet sealed in several
66places. The lawyer put it in his pocket. "I would say nothing of this paper. If your master has fled or is dead, we may
67at least save his credit. It is now ten; I must go home and read these documents in quiet; but I shall be back before
68midnight, when we shall send for the police."
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