The next day, came the news that the murder had been overlooked,
that the guilt of Hyde was patent to the world, and that the victim
was a man high in public estimation. It was not only a crime, it
had been a tragic folly. I think I was glad to know it; I think I
was glad to have my better impulses thus buttressed and guarded by
the terrors of the scaffold. Jekyll was now my city of refuge; let
but Hyde peep out an instant, and the hands of all men would be
raised to take and slay him.
I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past; and I can
say with honesty that my resolve was fruitful of some good. You
know yourself how earnestly, in the last months of the last year, I
laboured to relieve suffering; you know that much was done for
others, and that the days passed quietly
