Chapter 4
The Letter and the Matching Handwriting
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1 Fog closes over a shabby square where one well-kept corner house still glows
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2 Poole leads Utterson across the foggy yard toward Jekyll's windowless laboratory
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3 Poole leads Mr. Utterson across Dr. Jekyll's old dissecting theatre.
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4 Mr. Utterson stops on the stair below the red-baize door of the dissecting theatre
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5 In the dim cabinet, Utterson questions a deathly pale Jekyll sunk by the fire
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6 Hearing the news of the murder, the sick Dr. Jekyll flinches by the fire.
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7 Gripping a chair in Jekyll's cabinet, Utterson asks if he has hidden Hyde
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8 Dr. Jekyll half rises from his chair and swears he is done with Hyde
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9 Utterson stands by the business table and hears out Jekyll's fevered oath
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10 A feverish Dr. Jekyll leans from his armchair and holds out a folded letter
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11 Utterson stands at the table as a pale Jekyll holds out the letter by the fire
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12 Utterson's steady hands hold Hyde's letter above the green leather of Jekyll's business table.
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13 Mr Utterson lowers the letter signed Edward Hyde, his suspicion easing to relief
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14 The envelope of Hyde's letter lies as a curl of grey ash in Jekyll's grate
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15 Utterson stands in Jekyll's cabinet with Hyde's letter folded against his chest
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16 Dr. Jekyll sinks back in his leather armchair by the cabinet fire.
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17 Standing by the business table, Utterson calmly announces that Hyde meant to murder his friend.
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18 Jekyll bends forward in his armchair by the fire and hides his face in his hands
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19 Jekyll bends forward in the red armchair by the fire with his face buried in his hands.
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20 Leaving through the firelit hall, the lawyer asks the butler about the messenger
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21 In the lamplit hall, Poole says nothing came except circulars by post
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22 Mr. Utterson walks home alone along a foggy London footway, his fears renewed
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23 Mr. Utterson leaves Jekyll's house through the brown fog with his fears renewed.
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24 Mr. Utterson and his head clerk Mr. Guest sit by the hearth with old wine
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25 From a window in Mr. Utterson's firelit room, London lies drowned under a sleeping brown fog.
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26 Warmed by the old wine at his own fireside, Mr. Utterson leans back in his leather wing chair.
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27 Utterson and Guest sit by a glowing fire with old wine as fog presses the window
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28 Utterson holds out Hyde's letter and Mr. Guest leans forward to take it
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29 Mr. Guest, a keen student of handwriting, bends over Hyde's letter under the lamp
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30 By his fire, Utterson watches Guest bend over the murderer's letter in lamplight
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31 Mr. Guest looks up as Utterson's servant hands over a folded note from Jekyll
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32 Mr. Guest turns from Hyde's letter to look at the note in Utterson's raised hand
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33 Under the green lamp, Mr. Guest compares Hyde's letter with Jekyll's dinner note
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34 By Utterson's fire, Mr. Guest hands back Hyde's letter and Jekyll's note
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35 Utterson sits in the wing chair with the letter and Jekyll's note on his knee
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36 Guest tells Utterson the murderer's letter and Jekyll's hand match in many points
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37 Utterson and his clerk Guest sit on either side of the fire after comparing the two handwritings.
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38 By the low fire, Guest nods discreetly as Utterson grips the two folded sheets
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39 Late at night Mr. Utterson is alone in his candlelit business room.
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40 Alone at night, Mr. Utterson locks Jekyll's note in his iron safe
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42 The note is locked away and the room is empty.
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