The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-20

over the fire II the private room,
gnawing his nails; there he dined,
sitting alone with his fears the |
waiter visibly quailing before his
eye; and thence, when the night
was fully come, he set forth in the
corner of a closed cab, and was
driven to and fro about the streets
of the city. He, l say-I cannot
saw [. That child of hell had noth-
ing human; nothing lived in him
but fear and hatred. And when at
last. thinking the driver had begun
to grow suspicious, he discharged
the cab and ventured on foot. at
tired in his misfitting clothes. an
object marked out for observation,
into the midst of the nocturnal pas
sengers, these two base passions
ragged within him like a tempest.
He walked fast, hunted by his
fears, chattering to himself. skulk-
ing through the less frequented !
thoroughfares, counting the min
utes that still divided him from
midnight. Once a woman spoke TO
him, offering, I think, a box of |
lights. He smote her in the face,
and she fled.
When | came to myself at Lam
yon's the horror of my old friend
perhaps affected me somewhat; l
do not know; it was at least but
a drop in the sea to the adherence
with which l looked back upon
these hours. A change had come
over me. 1t was no longer the
fear of the gallows, it was the hor-
ror of being Hyde that racked me.
/ received canyons condemnation
partly in a dream that l came
home to my own house and got in
to bed. | slept after the prostra-
ton of the day, with a stringent
and profound slumber which not
even the Nightmares that wrung
me could avail to break. l awoke
in the morning shaken, weakened
but refreshed. l still hated ana
feared the thought of the brute
that slept within me, and / had not
of course forgotten the. appalling
dangers of the day before; but [
was once more at home, in my own
house and close to my drugs; and
gratitude for my escape shone so
strong in my soul that it almost
rivaled the brightness of hope.
/ was stepping leisurely across
the court after breakfast, drinking
the chill of the air with pleasure,
when l was seized again with those
/ indescribable sensations that her
aided the change; and I had but
time to gain the shelter of my cab
met before / was once again rag
ing and freezing with the passions
of Hyde 1t took on this occasion
a double dose TO recall me to my
self; and alasi six hours after, as ]
sat loking sadly in the fire, the
pangs returned, and the drug had
to be readministered. In short,
from that day forth it seemed only
by a great effort, as of gymnas-
tics, and only under the immediate
stimulation of the drug, that I was
able to wear the countenance OF
Jekyll. At all hours of the day
and night | would be taken with
the premonit0ry shudder; above
all, if ] slept, or even dozed for q
moment in my chair, it was always
as Hyde that / awakened. Under
the strain of this continually i'm
pending doom and by the sleep
lessness to which | now condemned
myself, ay, even beyond what / haC
thought possible to men, became
in my own person, a creature eat
zen up and emptied by fever, Ian
i guidly weak both in body and mind
and solely occupied by one thot
the horror of my other self. Blu
! when l slept, or when the virtue o.
, the medicine wore off, l would lear
almost without transition (for tn,
pangs of transformation grew
daily less marked) into the posses
sion of a fancy trimming with i'm
ages of terror, a soul boiling witt
: causeless hatreds, and a BODY tina
seemed not strong enough to con
. tain the raging energies of life
The powers of Hyde seemed I,
have grown with the sickness o
, Jekyll. And certainly the hat
that now divided them was eoua
on each side. With Jekyll. it wa
thing of vital instinct. He ha,
now seen the full enormity of tina
creature that shared with hir
J some of the phenomena of con
! sciousness, and was co-heir wit
, him to death; and beyond thes
links of community, which in them
selves made the most poignan
part of his distress, he thought o
: Hyde, for all his energy of life, a
! of something not only hellish bu
inorganic. This was the shock
! ing thing; that the slime of tn
! pit seemed to utter cries an
|. voices; that the anonymous dus
: geticulated and sinner; that wha
was dead, and had no shape, shout
usurp the offices of life. And thi
again, that that insurgent horro
:. was knit to him closer than a wifi.
closer than an eye lay Gagged in hi
flesh, where he heard it mutter an
: felt it struggle to be born; and q
: every hour of weakness, and in tn
confidence of slumber, prevaile
:, against him, and deposed him 9
: life. The hatred of HYDE fo
! Jekyll was of a different orde
His terror Of the gallows drov
him continually to commit tempol
airy suicide, and return to his sui
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