212

STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

STORY OF THE DOOR 227

SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE 234

DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE 243

THE CAREW MURDER CASE 246

INCIDENT OF THE LETTER 251

REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON 256

INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW 261

THE LAST NIGHT 263

DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE 276

HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 284

THRAWN JANET 305

MORE NEW ARABIAN NIGHTS

THE DYNAMITER

WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION WITH MRS. STEVENSON

_TO
MESSRS. COLE AND COX_

_POLICE OFFICERS_

_Gentlemen,_

_In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that
ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It
were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our
horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some
features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the
temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before
posterity silent, Mr. Forster's appeal echoing down the ages. Horror is
due to ourselves, in that we have so long coquetted with political
crime; not seriously weighing, not acutely following it from cause to
consequence; but with a generous, unfounded heat of sentiment, like the
schoolboy with the penny tale, applauding what was specious. When it
touched ourselves (truly in a vile shape), we proved false to these
imaginations; discovered, in a clap, that crime was no less cruel and no
less ugly under sounding names; and recoiled from our false deities._

_But seriousness comes most in place when we are to speak of our
defenders. Whoever be in the right in this great and confused war of
politics; whatever elements of greed, whatever traits of the bully,
dishonour both parties in this inhuman contest;--your side, your part,
is at least pure of doubt. Yours is the side of the child, of the
breeding woman, of individual pity and public trust. If our society were
the mere kingdom of the devil (as indeed it wears some of his colours),
it yet embraces many precious elements and many innocent persons whom
it_ _is a glory to defend. Courage and devotion, so common in th