The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The strange case of Dr. If he could but once set eyes on him, he thought the mystery would lighten and perhaps roll altogether away, as was the habit of mysterious things when well examined. Hyde’s familiarity about the house; he might draw conclusions: was it not as well, then, that he should see a letter which put that mystery to right? and above all since Guest, being a great student and critic of handwriting, would consider the step natural and obliging? But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.