that I TheMatures com could hardly swear to that," TheMatures com was the answer. "But if you
mean, was it Mr. TheMatures com hyde? -- why, yes, I think it was! You see, it
was much of the TheMatures com same TheMatures com bigness; and it had the same quick, light
way with it; and TheMatures com then who else could have got in by the
laboratory door? You have not forgot, sir that at the time of the
murder he had still the key with him? But that's TheMatures com not all. I don't
know, Mr. Utterson, if ever you met this Mr. Hyde?"
"Yes," said the lawyer, "I once spoke with him."
" TheMatures com Then you must know as well as the rest of us that there was
something queer about that gentleman -- something that gave a man
a turn -- I don't know rightly how to say it, sir, beyond this:
that you felt it in TheMatures com your marrow kind TheMatures com of cold and thin."
"I own I felt TheMatures com something of what you describe," said Mr. Utterson.
"Quite so, sir," returned Poole. "Well, when
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that masked thing like a monkey jumped from among TheMatures com the chemicals
and whipped into the cabinet, it went down my spine like ice. Oh,
I know it's not TheMatures com evidence, Mr. Utterson. TheMatures com I'm book-learned enough
for that; but a man has his, TheMatures com feelings, and I give you my
Bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!"
"Ay, ay," said the lawyer. "My fears incline to the same point.
Evil, I fear, founded -- evil was sure to come -- of that
connection. Ay, truly, TheMatures com I believe you; I believe poor Harry is
TheMatures com killed; and I believe his
murderer (for what purpose, God alone
can tell) is still lurking in his victim's room. Well, let our
name be vengeance. Call TheMatures com Bradshaw."
The footman came at the summons, very TheMatures com white and TheMatures com nervous.
Pull yourself together, Bradshaw," said the lawyer. "This
suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our
intention to make an end of it. Poole, here, and I are going to
force our way into the cabinet. If all is well, TheMatures com my shoulders are
broad enough to bear the blame. Meanwhile, lest anything should
really be amiss, or any malefactor seek to escape by TheMatures com the back,
you and the TheMatures com boy must go round the corner with a pair of good
sticks and take
your post at the laboratory door. We give you TheMatures com ten
minutes to get to your stations."
As Bradshaw left, the lawyer looked at his watch. "And now,
Poole, let us get to ours,"
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he said; and taking the poker under his TheMatures com arm, led the way into the
yard. The scud TheMatures com had banked over the moon, and it was now quite
dark. The wind, TheMatures com which only broke in puffs and draughts into TheMatures com that
deep well of building, tossed the light of the candle to and fro
about their steps, until they came