The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-07-19

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Utterson, he sprung up from MS
chair and welcomed him with Doth
hands. The geniality, as was the
way of the man, was somewhat
theatrical to the eye; but it repos-
ed on genuine feeling. For these
two were old friends. old mates
both at school and college, poth
thorough respecters of themselves
and of each other, and, what does
not always follow, men who thor
oughly enjoyed each others COM
pany.
After a little rambling talk the
lawyer led up to the subject which
so disagreeably preoccupled MS
mind.
81 suppose, Banyon," said ne,
"you and l must be the two oldest
friends that Henry Jekyh has
81 wish the friends were young
err" chuckled DR.. LanyOn. But
/ l suppose we are. And what OF
that? l see little of him now"
"Indeed?" said UttersOn. 81
thought you had bond of common
interest"
eve had" was the reply. But
it is more than ten years since
Henry Jekyl became to fancifu
for me. He began to go wrong,
). wrong in mind; and though OF
i course | continue to take an inter
est in him for old sake's sake, as
they say, l see and l have seen
devilish little of the man. Sucn
unscientific balderdash,' added the
doctor, flushing suddenly purple,
would have estranged Damon ana
, Pythias."
This little spirit of temper was
somewhat of a relief to Mr.. Utter
son. 'They have only differed on
some point of science" he thought;
and being a matter of no scientific
, passions Except in the matter OF
/ conveyancing) he even added, III
, is nothing worse than that! He
gave his friend a few seconds to
l recover his compOsure, and then
approached the question he had
! come to put. did you ever come
across a protge of his-One Hyde -
t he asked.
, "Hyde?" repeated Lanyon. "No
: Never heard of him. Since my
. time"
{ That was the amount of inform
: alton that the lawyer carried back
with him to the great, dark bed or
: which he tossed to and fro, until
the small hours of the morning be.
gan to grow large. 1t was a night
of little ease to his toiling mind
toiling in mere darkness, and be
e sieged by questions.
5 Six o'clock struck on the bells O.
: the church that vas so convenient
T ~ near to Mr.. Utterson's dwell
\ ing, and still he was digging a
5 the problem. Hitherto it had touch
: ed him on the intellectual side
5 alone; but now his imagination al
e so was engaged or rather enslaved
e and as he lay and tossed in TIT
O gross darkness of the night ant
n the curtained room, Mr.. Enfield
e tale went by before his mind in
a scroll of lighted pictures. He woul'
: be aware of the great field o
;. lamps of a nocturnal city; then o
f the figure of a man walking swift
: "; then of child running iron
t the Doctors; and then these me-
V and that human Juggernaut tro
D, the child down and passed on re
lie CARELESS of her screams. Or els
Is he would see a room in ric
st house where his friend lay ASLEEP
it dreaming and smiling at hi
If dreams; and then the door of tina
j., room would be opened, the curtain
II of the bed plucked apart, the sleeI
70 er recalled, and 10! there woul
2 stand by his side a figure to whor
n power was given, and, even at tina
e dead hour, he must rise and do it
y bidding. The figure in these tw
II phases haunted the lawyer a
e night; and if at any time he dOze
y over it, it was but to see it gid
: more stealthily through Sleepin
II houses, or move the more swift
If and still the more swiftly, even I
IS dizziness, through wider labyrinth
is of lamplghted city, and at ever
v street corner crush a child an
m leave her screaming. And still tn
Of figure had no face by which h
Of might know it; even in his dram
he it had no face, or one that battle
is him and melted before his eye;
I'd and thus it was that there sprun
a up and grew apace in the lawyer
e. mind singularly strong, almol
IN an inordinate curiosity to behol
n the features of the real Mr.. Hyd
IS If he could once set eyes ON hin
ID he thought the mystery wOul
S; tighten and perhaps roll altogetht
n away, as was the habit of mySter
I'd Gus things when well examine,
d. He might see a reason for h
a friends strange preference or bone
age (call it which you please, an
lie even for the startling clause {
Is the will. AT least it would be
E. face worth seeing: the face of
man who was without bowels {
e, mercy; a face which had but
n show itself to raise up, in the min
n of the unimpressionable Enfield,
e, spirit of enduring hatred.
T. From that time forward Mr.. u
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