Climax: Breaking into the Cabinet

From The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Utterson and the butler Poole break down the cabinet door to find Hyde's body twitching in Jekyll's clothes — the climactic discovery.
Chapter 8 (The Last Night)

'Right in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching. They drew near on tiptoe... and saw the face of Edward Hyde.' Suicide by poison.

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Chapter 8

Poole's terrified report: 'that thing was not my master... whatever it was that lived in that cabinet, has been crying night and day for some sort of medicine and cannot get it to his mind.'

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