Lanyon's plot line.
9.1-Lanyon has received an odd letter from his friend Jekyll, asking him to go to his house, meet with Poole, take a drawer from a cabinet, and then hand it over to Jekyll's representative. Lanyon tries to figure out the meaning of the letter, but his conclusion is that his friend has gone mad. This is the introduction to the conflict, as Lanyon must do everything he read or Jekyll's life, honor, and reason would be in danger. "Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane, but till that was proved beyond the possibility of a doubt, I felt bound to do as he requested." (Stevenson page 49)
9.2- After reading the letter, Lanyon follows the instructions and arrives at Jekyll's manor, once there, he is greeted by Poole, Jekyll's butler. Poole, along with a locksmith and a carpenter, helped Lanyon take the drawer from the locked cabinet. "But this last was a handy fellow, and after two hours work, the door stood open." (Stevenson, page 50)
9.3- After gathering the requested drawer, Lanyon had enough time to snoop around and see what he was holding unto. There he found a phial with a red liqueur and some salts and a journal. He assumed that these were all part of some failed experiment on Jekyll's part. "Here were a phial of some tincture, a paper of some salts, and the record of a series of experiments that had led (like too many of Jekyll's investigations) to no end of practical usefulness.
9.4- The time is twelve and Lanyon hears a knock on his door. Hyde, with his dreadful countenance and ill manners disgusts Lanyon, but nevertheless, Lanyon proceeds to give Hyde the requested material. " This person(who had thus, from the first moment of his entrance, struck in me what I can only describe as disgustful curiosity.
9.5-After Hyde seized the materials, he created the potion and consumed it. Before Lanyons very eyes, Hydes face melted off and became Jekyll's face. This climatic moment is the very reason that Lanyon dies shortly afterwards. Everything that he thought he knew was tuned upside down by Jekyll's display. In his letter to Utterson, Lanyon wrote: "My life is shaken to its roots;sleep has left me;the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet, I shall die incredously,