"Well, sir, it went so quick, and the creature was so doubled
up, that I could hardly swear to that," was the answer. "But if you
mean, was it Mr. Hyde?—why, yes, I think it was!" You see, it was
much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light way with
it; and 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 not all. I don't know, Mr. Utterson,
if you ever met this Mr. Hyde?"
"Yes," said the lawyer, "I once spoke with him."
"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 in your marrow kind of cold and thin."
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