Chapter Eight: Doctor Lanyon´s Letter

Vocabulary
remained: continuat
locksmith: amb traça/manya

Summery

Mr Utterson decided to read Doctor Lanyon´s letter. In it, Lanyon said that one day he received a letter from Henry Jekyll Dr Jekyll said he wanted him to collect a book, chemical powders and a bottle from his house and give them to a man who will come to his house at midnight. He accepted the challenge but he thought Lanyon was crazy. Poole received the a similar letter, so together they went through the old laboratory and he took the book, the bottle and the powders. Then he met the strange man at midnight, once he had arrived to his house. He was Mr Hyde, and when Dr Lanyon gave him the box with the things in it, Mr Hyde told him he could go, or stay and watch. Lanyon decided to stay and he saw how Mr Hyde drank a potion and how he became into Doctor Jekyll. After reading the letter, Utterson was frightened but he was brave enough to opened the confession of Doctor Jekyll.

Chapter Seven: The last night

Vocabulary
to weep: plorar
axe:hacha

Summery

One night, Mr Utterson recived a visit of Doctor Jekyll´s servant, Poole. He explained to Utterson that he was frightened of his master and that he had been acting quite strangely the last few weeks. Utterson decided to go to his friend´s house and as he entered in the house he noticed that something was wrong. Poole and Utterson went to the laboratory in order to listen to the strange noises that all the servants had been hearing. Poole knocked the door but a strange voice inside of the room said: I cannot see anyone. The lawyer noticed that it wasn´t his friend´s voice. Then Poole told Utterson that his master had been murdered and that the murderer was inside the laboratory. He had been listening to him crying because he couldn´t find a specific type of chemicals. Poole told also that he once saw his face but it was covered with a mask. They decided to get into the laboratory. They saw Edward Hyde laying on the floor because he had taken poison.They saw a pocket with different envelopes adressed to Mr Utterson. The first led Dr Jekyll's money to Mr Utterson, the second told Mr Utterson to open the third after reading Dr Lanyon's letter.

Chapter Six: The face at the window

Vocabulary
courtyard: pati
nodded: assentir(amb el cap)

Summery

One Sunday, Mr Utterson and his friend Enfield went for a walk and they passed through the narrow side-street. They decided to visited Doctor Henry Jekyll. At first, he was pleased to see them but at the same time he was sad. Jekyll was talking with them through a window but suddenly as they where talking the windows was shut with a bang...

Chapter Five: The death of a friend

Vocabulary

buried: enterrament
carefree: despreocupat

Summery

The time had passed and the police couldn´t find where Mr Hyde was. On the other hand, Doctor Jekyll appeared happier and he even invited Mr Utterson and Dr Lanyon to a dinner in his house, like in the old times. But then Dr Jekyll refused to see visitors again. Poole excused him. One day Utterson went to visit Doctor Lanyon and he was very surprised because Lanyon looked very sick, like a man who knew that he was dying. He refused to talk about Doctor Jekyll. When Utterson arrived to his home, he decided to write a letter to Jekyll asking him explanations. Dr Jekyll replied him saying he was not angry with Dr Lanyon, but they both should never meet again. Weeks later, Doctor Lanyon died. Mr Utterson opened his will but inside of the will there was an evelope with the words: Not to be opened until the death or disappearance of Doctor Henry Jekyll. Mr Utterson decided not to open the envelope. Utterson called at Jekyll´s house almost every day but he got tired of his friend´s refusal to see him, and his visits became less frequent.

Chapter Four: Doctor Jekyll receives a letter

Vocabulary
glass-fronted cupboards: armari de vidre
feverish: amb febre
clerk: empleat/treballador

Summery

Mr Utterson went to Doctor Jekyll´s house. Dr Jekyll told him that he had listened to the murder, and he promised to Mr Utterson that he would never met Mr Hyde again, because he had dissapeard forever. Mr Utterson advised his friend that if Hyde get caught and came to trial, his name would be mentioned. Then the Doctor told Utterson that he had recived a letter but he couldn´t have it in his house because of this reputation. It was from Edward Hyde. Utterson told to his friend that he was sure that Hyde was trying to kill Jekyll in order to inherit the money of the will. Then Poole, the servant, told Mr Utterson that he had a letter for him that had arrived that same morning.  When he arrived to his home, Mr Guest, a man who was very interested in handwriting compeard the letter from Mr Hyde and one letter from Doctor Jekyll, and he arrived to the conclusion that the handwriting was very similar between the two letters.