The Innsmouth Heritage And Other Sequels - Plot & Excerpts
BRIMSTONE AND DR. TREACLEAs soon as he had read Utterson’s manuscript, as reproduced in Stevenson’s account of the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the one thought in Hector Treacle’s mind was to re-create the Jekyll formula.Whereas other men seemingly regarded Utterson’s revelations as a cautionary tale warning scientists against unwary tampering with the mysteries of Nature, Dr. Treacle saw the true potential of the elixir. The fact that a prototype had malfunctioned was, in Treacle’s opinion, no reason to give up on the project; all new technologies had their teething-troubles, which could be worked out by those who persevered. Like Stevenson—but unlike Jekyll or Utterson— Hector Treacle was a Scotsman; unlike Stevenson, however, he was the kind of Scotsman who was much given to perseverance. He was a sterner man by far than Henry Jekyll.With time and effort, Treacle felt sure, he could deliver a product that would not only separate the good in men from the evil, but would empower the good to strangle and obliterate the evil.
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