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Chapter 8: The Last Night

Poole fetches Utterson. Something in the lab has a mask on and is not Jekyll. They break the door down. Hyde is dead on the floor.

A theatre poster for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1880s, Library of Congress
A theatre poster for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1880s, Library of Congress. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

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Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?

Poole · Chapter 8: The Last Night · secrecy · duality

Poole the servant has seen the thing in the lab. It wore a mask. It was not his master.

that thing was not my master, and there's the truth.

Poole · Chapter 8: The Last Night · duality

Poole cannot say what it was. Only what it was not.

the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching

Narrator · Chapter 8: The Last Night · violence · evil

Hyde, dead on the floor, in Jekyll's clothes that are too big for him.

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