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Robert Louis Stevenson: Enfield

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Condensation by IRVING BACHELLER MR. UTTERSON was a lawyer who believed in letting people go to the devil in their own way. He and Richard Enfield, a man about town, who was at once his distant kinsman and his friend, often walked about the London streets together. One day they came upon a sinister, windowless, two-story building in a byway.

Enfield told of seeing a man in this street run into a little girl, knock her down, and walk over her body. "It sounds nothing to hear, but it was hellish to see," he said. "I collared the man and held him, and, though he made no resistance, he gave me a look so ugly that it set me in a sweat. He offered to pay damages and came to this house to get the money. He gave me ten pounds in gold and a check signed by a man I knew. A forgery? Not a bit of it--perfectly good!"