El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-07-15
Dr.JekyIIAndM Mr. Hyde
By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Condensation by Irving Bacheller)

NER. UTTERSON was lawyer, whc
vi believed in letting people go tc
the devil in their own way. Re ano
Richard Enfield, a man about town
who was at once his distant kinsman
and his friend. often walked about
the London streets together. One day
they came upon a sinister. window
less. twostory building in byway.
Enfield told OF seeing a man in this
street run into q little girl. knock her
down and walk over her body. 1t
sounds nothing TO hear. but it was
heIlish to see" he said I collared
the man and held him. and though
he made no resistance he gave me a
look SO ugly that it set me in a
sweat He offered 10 pa DAMAGES
and came 10 this house to get the
money he gave me 10 pounds IN gold
and check signed by q man I knew.
A forgery Not bit OF it-perfectly
mr. Utterson asked the name Of the
man. Enfield with some hesitation
said His name is HYDE"
You see I don't ask you the name
Of the man WHO signed the check, for
know II already" said Utterson-
That night the latter opened his
safe and took from it a VIII which
he reexamined with care. It provided
that IN case OF the death OF Henry
Jekyu all his possessions were to
pass 70 Edward HYDE. and in ase Of
The disappearance. or unexplained ab-
sence for three months Of said Jekyli,
Edward HYDE should step into JekylIs
shoes without delay AS he studied it
the lawyer said. Il thought i mad
grace"
He decided to tax with DR.. Lanyon.
q great physician and an old friend of
Jekyn.
7 see very little Of Henry now
said Lanyon- He began to go wrong
some 10 years ago. He became too
sfanciful= for ne
Lanyon had never heard Of HYDE.
From that time forward Utterson
began to haunt that sinister doorway
into which Hyde had disappeared. He
determined 10 discover It's owner. At
last one night a small plainly dressed
man approached and drew a kew from
MS pocket His look suggested de-
1ornity but ne did not show it Ut
terson accosted him and said: Now
shan know you again. It may be
Useful"
HYDE gave his address in Soho. ad-
nitted knowing Jekyn, and disap-
Deared within Utterson turned away
convinced that the Ioathsome little
man had some dark hold upon Dr.
Jekyl In sorrow and in pity he
Went to call upon Jekyll. who lived
Just around the corner. He was away
To the butler Utterson said. 7 saw
Mr. HYDE go in by the old dissectinS
room door. Poole. is that right when
Dr.. Jeizyl is away?'
Quite right sir Mr.. Hyde has a
Utterson went home with a feeling
that some danger menaced his friend
Jeiyn
year later London was startled
by q singularEy fnhuman murder case
q housemaid. looking from window,
saw man who resembled Mr.. HYDE
strike down her master. venerable.
white haired man. and trample his
roy under foot n a henish fury. The
Old man was II Dsuvers Carsw.
The case came TO Trttersnn. who
alone recognized the weapon which fhe
assassin lad Dropped Il was cane
wnic he had himself presented 10
Henry Jekym II was another link
N the chain Utterson took an officer
20 the address which Hyde had given
The latter was not at home.
Ihe ncuse was empty, and nothing
suspicious was to be seen except a /
pie OF ashes On The hearth as II many !
papers mad been burned Among