Connecticut western news., 1920-10-14

Durneu III the SraCe, anu tnere, cover ing close to it, sat Doctor Jekyll, look ing deathly sick. He held out a cold hand.
 Utterson asked if he had heard the news. Jekyll replied that he had heard it cried in the street. Utterson said: "Carew is my client, but so are you, and want to know what lam doing. Are you hiding this murderer?"
 Jekyll swore that he was not but added: "He Is safe-quite safe. He will never more be heard of"
 He showed Utterson a letter from Hyde in queer, upright handwriting.
 As he went out Utterson asked Poole about the man who had brought the letter to his master. Poole was sure no letter had been handed in. The let the laboratory. Utterson's clerk, an expert in handwriting, put the two let ters side by side. After careful study he said: "The two hands are in many points identical. They are differently sloped, that is all" r...
  veins. "Henry Jekyll has forged in de- fense of ferocious murderer" he said.
 Tn less than a week Lanyon took to his bed and died. A day or two after the funeral, letter from the dead man came by messenger to the lawyer, missive marked Private. Not to be opened till the death or disappearance of Henry Jekyll."
 Utterson did not open the letter but went at once to call upon Jekyll. He saw only Poole who said his master was hardly ever seen outside the room in the laboratory, and that he had grown very silent and morose.
 One evening as Utterson and Enfield went across the court in the rear of the Jekyll house they saw the doctor sitting at one of the windows taking the air with an infinite sadness of mien, like some disconsolate prisoner.
 Utterson, shocked at his looks, urged him to come down and walk with him. Jekyll refused sadly. Suddenly as they both stood looking at him his smile vanished and an expression of abject terror and despair came upon his face. He turned away. The window was thrust down. Utterson turned and looked at his companion Enfield. Both were pale, there was an answering horror in their eyes.
 One night Poole suddenly appeared n& ty To @1 that for a week his master had been shut up in his cabinet and that he was alarmed. "I can't bear 1t any longer"
 He could not explain his fears but begged the lawyer to go back with him. His face was white and his voice broken. a.
 Utterson found the entire household in Jekyll's house in state of panic.
 "They're all afraid" said Poole. Follow me-" he added; "I want you to hear, and I want you to be heard but don't go In, sir"
 They knocked on Jeky1l's door but voice said: 'I cannot see anyone"
 When they returned to, the kitchen Poole asked: "Was that my masters voice" Utterson admitted it was changed. Poole then opened his heart. 'I believe my master has been made away with" he said.
 Poole thought it strange that the murderer stayed. He said that the man in the cabinet room had been cry ing out night and day for help, and had thrown out papers on which were written orders for certain drugs.
 Utterson examined some of these papers which were agonized pleas for special kind of salt which he had used and wanted again. They were all in JekylPs hand as Poole admitted. He also explained that once he had caught sight of the man inside. "The hair stood up at sight of him. If that was my master why had he mask on his faceY
 Poole said: "That thing was not my master. My master was a tall fine man-this is a kind of dwarf"
 They decided to break down the door.
 Poole said: "Once heard 1t weep ing" This added to the terror and mystery.
 They stood before the door and Ut- terson demanded entrance. A voice from within cried: "For Gods sake have mercy"
 "That is not Jekyll's voice-it Is Hyde's," shouted Utterson, and swung his ax against the door,
 Shattering the lock they rushed in. On the floor lay the form of a man contorted and twitching. They drew near and turned the body on its back. It was Edward Hyde, and by his side was an empty vial. He was dead.
 Jekyll was not to be found, but the dead Hyde was dressed in what seemed to be a suit of Jekyll's clothes much too large for him.
 On the table was a confession ad- dressed to Utterson, and a will drawn