Chapter 3
Murder in the Lane and the Empty House in Soho
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1 Riverside London lies calm and silver under a full October moon
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2 The young maid sits on her green box, gazing dreamily down into the moonlit lane
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3 The young maid sits calm and trusting on her green box under the moonlit window
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4 A white-haired old gentleman walks slowly down a moonlit lane by the river
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5 In the moonlit lane, a white-haired gentleman bows and asks a small man the way
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6 From her moonlit window, the maid recognises Mr. Hyde in the lane below
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7 Mr. Hyde's heavy cane swings high above the surprised old gentleman in the lane
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8 The maid on her green box jerks back from the moonlit window with her hands clamped over her mouth.
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9 The maid lies unconscious on the bare boards beside her green box in moonlight
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10 Constables' lanterns converge on the old gentleman's body in the foggy lane
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11 Half of the murderer's heavy cane lies in the wet stone gutter of the lane.
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12 Under a constable's lantern, a sealed envelope is lifted from the wet cobbles
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13 At dawn, Mr. Utterson holds the dead man's envelope as a constable waits by his bed
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14 Utterson clutches Carew's envelope and will say nothing till he has seen the body
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15 In a bare police cell, Utterson names the dead man as Sir Danvers Carew
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16 In the whitewashed cell under the gas jet, the inspector's shock turns to eager ambition.
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17 The inspector lays half of a splintered dark cane on the police cell's table
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18 Mr. Utterson recognises the broken stick as the one he once gave Henry Jekyll.
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19 In a police cell, Utterson asks if Hyde is small; the inspector lowers his palm
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20 In the police cell, Utterson offers to lead the inspector to Hyde's house
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21 A small cab crawls through a muddy Soho street under chocolate-brown fog
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22 In the Soho fog, Utterson glances at Inspector Newcomen, feeling terror of the law
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23 For one grey moment the fog lifts over a squalid Soho street.
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24 Brown fog closes over the Soho street around the grimy house of a rich heir
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25 A silver-haired old woman with a smooth ivory face opens the door of Hyde's sooty Soho house.
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26 On Hyde's Soho doorstep, Utterson introduces an inspector from Scotland Yard
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27 Hyde's ivory-faced housekeeper hears of Scotland Yard and her manners slip
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28 Utterson and Inspector Newcomen exchange a look as the housekeeper hovers
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29 Inspector Newcomen holds up the other half of the broken stick in Hyde's rooms
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30 Utterson looks up at a gilt-framed landscape in Hyde's ransacked sitting room
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31 Inspector Newcomen kneels at Hyde's cold hearth and sifts the ashes of papers
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32 The inspector lifts a charred green cheque book from burned papers in Hyde's room
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33 Inspector Newcomen raises the stick's other half and the burnt cheque-book butt
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34 Newcomen taps the broken stick on his palm, telling Utterson he has the murderer
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35 Utterson stands alone at the fog-filled window of Hyde's ransacked rooms.
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36 Soho seen from high above at nine in the morning, sinking into a thick umber fog.
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