He changed back. He went home. He sat in his study for three hours, looking at the silver razor he used for shaving. Then he wrote a letter to the police, anonymously, giving Hyde’s address.
The mirror caught his reflection. For one sickening moment, he thought he saw Hyde looking back. Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde 1908
Hyde discovered that cruelty was a music. He found a blind beggar in Seven Dials and, instead of giving him a coin, stole the tin cup and listened to the man’s fingers scrape the cobblestones for ten minutes. He attended a bare-knuckle fight in a basement near the docks and, when the loser begged for mercy, kicked him once in the ribs—not hard enough to kill, just hard enough to feel the bones shift. He wrote a letter to a respectable widow, pretending to be her dead son, and posted it just to imagine her opening it. He changed back