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DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Have you ever wished to be someone else? Have you ever
looked at someone you know and thought, ‘He does what
he wants. Why shouldn’t I do what I want?’ And have
you then thought that if you looked like someone else,
only for one day, you would be free to do anything you
wanted? And nobody could blame you for it. Nobody
would ever know that it was you, because it wasn’t you!
How exciting to change into someone else! Just for a day,
or perhaps from time to time, not too often. Because
if you changed into that other person often, then you
might become that other person – and you might find it
difficult to be yourself again.
These are dangerous thoughts for someone to have,
especially for Doctor Jekyll. Because Doctor Jekyll is a
very clever scientist, and he has found a way of turning
this dream into reality . . .
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The mysterious door
M r Utterson the lawyer was a quiet, serious man.
He was shy with strangers and afraid of showing
his feelings. Among friends, however, his eyes shone with
kindness and goodness. And, although this goodness
never found its way into his conversation, it showed
itself in his way of life. He did not allow himself many
enjoyable things in life. He ate and drank simply and,
although he enjoyed the theatre, he had not been to a
play for twenty years. However, he was gentler towards
other men’s weaknesses, and was always ready to help
rather than blame them. As a lawyer, he was often the last
good person that evil-doers met on their way to prison, or
worse. These people often carried with them memories of
his politeness and fairness.
Mr Utterson’s best friend was a distant cousin
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called Richard Enfield, who was well known as a fun-loving
‘man about town’. Nobody could understand why they
were friends, as they were different from each other
in every way. They often took long walks together,
however, marching through the streets of London in
companionable silence.
One of these walks used to take them down a narrow
side-street in a busy part of London. It was a clean, busy,
friendly street with bright little shops and shiny door-
knockers. Near the end of this street, however, stood a dark,
mysterious, windowless building. The door had neither
bell nor knocker and looked dusty and uncared for. Dirty
children played fearlessly on the doorstep, and nobody ever
opened the door to drive them away.
One day, as Mr Enfield and his friend passed the building,
Mr Enfield pointed to it.
‘Have you ever noticed that place?’ he asked. ‘It reminds
me of a very strange story.’
‘Really?’ said Mr Utterson. ‘Tell me.’
‘Well,’ began Enfield, ‘I was coming home about three
o’clock on a black winter morning, when suddenly I saw
two people. The first was a short man who was walking
along the street, and the second was a little girl who was
running as fast as she could. Well, the two bumped into
each other and the child fell down. Then a terrible thing
happened. The man calmly walked all over the child’s
body with his heavy boots, and left her screaming on
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The mysterious door
the ground. It was an inhuman thing to do. I ran after
the man, caught him and fetched him back. There was
already a small crowd around the screaming child. The
man was perfectly cool, but he gave me a very evil look,
which made me feel sick in my stomach. The child’s
family then arrived, and also a doctor. The child had been
sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour, and was on
her way home again.
‘“The child is more frightened than hurt,” said the doctor
– and that, you would think, was the end of the story. But,
you see, I had taken a violent dislike to the short man.
So had the child’s family – that was only natural. But the
doctor, who seemed a quiet, kindly man, was also looking
at our prisoner with murder in his eyes.
‘The doctor and I understood each other perfectly.
Together we shouted at the man, and told him we would
tell this story all over London so that his name would be
hated.
‘He looked back at us with a proud, black look. “Name
your price,” he said.
‘We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child’s
family. With another black look, the man led us to that
door over there. He took out a key and let himself into
the building. Presently he came out and handed us ten
pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from
Coutts’s Bank. The name on the cheque was a well-
known one.
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‘I ran after the man, caught him and fetched him back.’
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The mysterious door
‘“See here,” said the doctor doubtfully, “it isn’t usual for
a man to walk into an empty house at four in the morning
and come out with another man’s cheque for nearly a
hundred pounds.”
‘“Don’t worry,” said the man with an ugly look, “I’ll
stay with you until the banks open, and change the cheque
myself.”
‘So we all went off, the doctor and the prisoner and
myself, and spent the rest of the night at my house. In the
morning we went together to the bank. Sure enough, the
cheque was good, and the money was passed to the child’s
family.’
‘Well, well,’ said Mr Utterson.
‘Yes,’ said Enfield, ‘it’s a strange story. My prisoner was
clearly a hard, cruel man. But the man whose name was on
the cheque was well known all over London for his kind and
generous acts. Why would a man like that give his cheque
to a criminal?’
‘And you don’t know if the writer of the cheque lives in
that building?’ asked Mr Utterson.
‘I don’t like to ask,’ said his friend. ‘In my experience,
it’s not a good idea to ask too many questions, in case the
answers are ugly, violent ones. But I’ve studied the place a
little. It doesn’t seem like a house. There’s no other door,
and the only person who uses that door is the man I’ve
just described to you. There are three windows on the side
of the house, which look down onto a small courtyard.
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The windows are shut, but they’re always clean. There’s a
chimney too, which is usually smoking. So somebody must
live there.’
The two men continued on their walk. Then Utterson
broke the silence.
‘Enfield,’ he said, ‘you’re right about not asking too many
questions. However, I want to ask the name of the man who
walked over the child.’
‘Very well,’ said Enfield. ‘He told us his name was Hyde.’
‘What does he look like?’
‘He’s not easy to describe, although I remember him
perfectly. He’s a strange-looking man. He’s short, but has
a strong, heavy body. There’s something wrong with his
appearance, something ugly and unpleasing – no, something
hateful. I disliked him at once.’
Mr Utterson thought deeply. ‘Are you sure he used a key?’
he asked.
‘What do you mean?’ asked Enfield in surprise.
‘I know it must seem strange,’ said his friend. ‘But you
see, if I don’t ask you the name on the cheque, it’s because
I know it already . . .’
‘Well, why didn’t you tell me?’ said his friend rather
crossly. ‘Anyway, he did have a key, and he still has it. I saw
him use it only a week ago.’
Mr Utterson looked at him thoughtfully, but said nothing
more.
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