120 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
easily eliminated from the future, by opening an account at another bank in the name of Edward Hyde himself; and when, by sloping my own hand backward, I had supplied my double with a signature, I thought I sat beyond the reach of fate.
Some two months before the murder of Sir Danvers, I had been out for one of my adven- tures, had returned at a late hour, and woke the next day in bed with somewhat odd sensations. It was in vain I looked about me ; in vain I saw the decent furniture and tall proportions of my room in the square ; in vain that I recognised the pattern of the bed curtains and the design of the mahogany frame; something still kept insisting that I was not where I was, that I had not wakened where I seemed to be, but in the little room in Soho where I was accustomed to sleep in the body of Edward Hyde. I smiled to myself, and, in my psychological way, began lazily to inquire into the elements of this illusion, occa- sionally, even as I did so, dropping back into a comfortable morning doze. I was still so en-
