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The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. Every night in the year forever sat

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in the small parlor of the George
at Debenham, the Undertaker and the Landlord,

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and Fetis and myself. Sometimes there'd
be more, but blow high,

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blow low, com rain, or
snow or frost. We four would be

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each planted in his own particular arm
chair. Fettis was an old, drunken

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scotchman, a man of education,
obviously, and a man of some property

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since he lived in idleness. He'd
come to Debenham years ago while still young,

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and by a mere continuance of living, had grown to be an adopted

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townsman. His blue camlet cloak was
a local antiquity, like the church spire,

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his place in the parlor at the
George, his absence from church,

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his old, crapulous, disreputable vices
were all things. Of course, in

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Debenham. He had some vague,
radical opinions and some fleeting infidelities, which

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he would now and again set forth
and emphasize with tottering slaps upon the table.

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He drank rum five glasses regularly every
evening, and for the greater portion

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of his nightly visit to the George
sat with his glass in his right hand,

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in a state of melancholy alcoholic saturation. We called him the Doctor,

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for he was supposed to have some
special knowledge of medicine, and had been

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known upon a pinch to set a
fracture or reduce a dislocation. But beyond

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these slight particulars we had no knowledge
of his character and antecedents. One dark

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winter night, it had struck nine
some time before the Landlord joined us,

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there was a sick man, and
the George, a great neighboring proprietor,

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suddenly struck down with apoplexy on his
way to Parliament, and the great Man's

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still greater London doctor had been telegraphed
to his bedside. It was the first

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time that such a thing had happened
in Debenham, for the railway was but

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newly open, and we were all
proportionately moved by the occurrence. He's come,

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said the Landlord, after he had
filled and light at his pipe.

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He said, I who not the
doctor himself, replied our host, Then

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what's his name? Doctor mac Farland
said The Landlord Fetters was far through his

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third tumbler, stupidly fonddled now nodding
over now, staring maisly around him.

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But at the last word he seemed
to awaken and repeat the name mac Farland

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twice, quietly enough the first time, but with certain sudden emotion at the

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second. Yes, said the landlord, that's his name, Doctor Wulf mac

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Farland. Fes became instantly sober,
his eyes awoke, his voice became clear,

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loud and steady, his language forcible
and earnest. We were all startled

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by the transformation, as if a
man had risen from the dead. I

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beg your pardon, he said,
I am afraid I have not been paying

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much attention to your talk. Who
is this Wolf mac Farlane? And then,

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when he had heard the landlord ot, it cannot be, it cannot

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be, he added, Yet I
would like well to see him face to

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face. Do you know him,
doctor, asked the undertaker, with a

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gasp. God forbid was the reply
in. Yet the name is a strange

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one. It were too much to
fancy too. Tell me, Landlord,

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is he old, well, said
the host. He's not a young man,

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to be sure, and his hair
is white, but he looks younger

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than you. He is older,
though years older, but with a slap

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upon the table. It's the rum
you see in me face, rum and

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sin. This man perhaps may have
an easy conscience and a good digestion conscience.

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Hear me speak, he would think
I was some good, old,

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decent Christian, would you not?
But no, not I. I never

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canted. Voltaire might have canted if
it stood in my shoes. But that

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the brains with a rattling Philip on
his bald head. The brains were clear

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and active, and I saw and
made no deductions. If you know this,

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doctor, I ventured to remark,
after a somewhat awful paut, I

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should gather that you do not share
the landlord's good opinion. Fedis paid no

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regard to me. Yes, he
said, with sudden decision, I must

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see him face to face. There
was another pause, and then a door

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was closed rather sharply on the first
floor, and a step was heard upon

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the stair that's the doctor, cried
the landlord. Look look sharp, and

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you can catch him. It was
but two steps from the small parlor to

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the door of the old George Inn. The wide oak staircase landed almost in

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the street. There was room for
a turkey rug and nothing more between the

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threshold and the last round of the
descent. But this little space was every

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evening brilliantly lit up, not only
by the light upon the stair and the

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great signal lamp below the sign,
but by the warm radiance of the bar

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room window. The George thus brightly
advertised itself to pass her spy in the

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cold street. Fedis walked steadily to
the spot, and we, who were

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hanging behind, beheld the two men
meet, as one of them had phrased

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it, face to face. Doctor
mac farland was alert and vigorous, his

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white hair set off his pail,
and placid said although energetic countenance. He

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was richly dressed in the finest of
broadcloth and the whitest of linen, with

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a great gold watch chain and studs
and spectacles of the same precious material.

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He wore a broad folded tie,
white and speckled with the lilac, and

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he carried on his arm a comfortable
driving coat of fur. There was no

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doubt but he became his years,
breathing as he did, of wealth and

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consideration. And it was a surprising
contrast to see our parlors sot bald,

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dirty, pimpled and robed in his
old camlet Cloak confront him at the bottom

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of the stairs. Mac Farland,
he said, somewhat loudly, more like

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a herald than a friend. The
great doctor pulled up short on the fourth

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step, as though the familiarity of
the address surprised and somewhat shocked his dignity.

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Tade mac Farland repeated Ferris. The
London men almost staggered. He stared

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for the swiftest of seconds at the
man before him, glanced behind him with

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a sort of scare, and then
in a startled whisper fettis he said,

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you aye, said the other me. Did you think I was dead too?

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We are not so easy shot of
our acquaintance. Hush, hush,

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explained the doctor. Hush, hush, this meeting is so unexpected. I

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can see you are unmanned. I
hardly knew you, I confess at first.

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But I am overjoyed, overjoyed to
have this opportunity. For the present

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it must be how do you do? And good bye? In one for

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my fly is waiting and I must
not fail the train. But you shall

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let me see. Yes, you
shall give me your address, and you

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can count on early news of me. We must do something for you fettis.

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I fear you were out at elbows. But we must see to that.

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For old langzan As once we sang
at suppers, money cried fetis,

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money from you. The money that
I had from you is lying when I

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cast it in the rain. Doctor
mac farland had talked himself into some measure

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of superiority and confidence. But the
uncommon energy of this refusal cast him back

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into his first confusion. A horrible, ugly look came and went across his

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almost venerable countenance. But my dear
fellow, he said, be it,

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be it as you please. My
last thought is to offend you a I

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would intrude on none. I will
leave you my address, However I do

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not wish it. I do not
wish to know the roof that shelters you

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interrupted the other I heard your name. I feared it might be you.

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I wished to know if, after
all there were a god. I know

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now there is none. Be gone. He still stood in the midst of

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the rug between the stairs and the
doorway, and the great London Physician,

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in order to escape, would be
forced to step to one side. It

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was plain that he hesitated before the
thought of this humiliation. Quite as he

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was, there was a dangerous glitter
in his spectacles. But while he still

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paused, uncertain, he became aware
that the driver of his fly was peering

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in from the street at this unusual
scene, and caught a glimpse at the

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same time of our little body from
the parlor by the corner of the barn.

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The presence of so many witnesses sided
him at once to flee. He

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crouched together, brushing on the wainscot, and made a dart like a serpent,

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striking for the door. But his
tribulation was not yet entirely at an

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end, for even as he was
passing, Fetis clutched him by the arm,

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and these words came in a whispering, yet painfully distinct. Have you

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seen it again? The great rich
London doctor, cried out aloud with a

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sharp, throttling cry. He dashed
his questioner across the open space, and

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with his hands over his head,
fled out the door like a detected thief.

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Before it had occurred to one of
us to make a movement, the

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flight was already rattling toward the station. The scene was over, like a

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dream, but the dream had left
proofs and traces of its passage. The

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next day the servant found the fine
gold spectacles broken on the threshold, And

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that very night we were all standing
breathless by the barroom window, and Fetis

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at are aside, sober and pale
and resolute in look, God protect us,

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mister Fettis, said the landlord,
coming first into possession of his customary

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senses. What in the universe is
all this? These are strange things you

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have been saying. Fetis turned toward
us. He looked us, each in

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succession in the face. See if
you can hold your tongue, said he,

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That man mac Farland is not safe
to cross. Those that have done

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so already have repented it too late. And then, without so much as

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finishing his third glass, far less
waiting for the other two, he bade

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us good by and went forth under
the lamp of the hotel into the black

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night. We three turned to our
places in the parlor and the big red

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fire and four clear candles, and
as we recapitulated what had passed, the

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first chill of our surprise soon changed
into a glow of curiosity. We sat

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late. It was the latest session
I have known in the old George.

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Each man before we parted had his
theory that he was bound to prove.

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And none of us had any nearer
business in this world than to track out

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the past of our condemned companion.
And I suppose the secret that he shared

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with the great London doctor. It's
no great boast, but I believe I

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was a better hand at worming out
a story than either of my fellows at

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the George. And perhaps there is
now no other man alive who could narrate

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it to you and tell you the
following foul and unnatural events. In his

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young days, Fetis studied medicine and
schools of Edinburgh. He had talent of

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a kind, the talent that picks
up swiftly on what it hears and readily

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retails it for its own. He
worked little at home, but he was

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civil, attentive, and intelligent in
the presence of his masters. They soon

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picked him out as a lad who
listened closely and remembered well. Nay strange

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as it seemed to me when I
first heard it, He was in those

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days well favored and pleased by his
exterior. There was at that period a

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certain extramural teacher of anatomy, whom
I shall here designate by the letter K.

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His name was subsequently too well known, the man who bore its s

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cult through the streets of Edinburgh in
disguise, while the mob that applauded at

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the execution of Burke called loudly for
the blood of his employer. But mister

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Kay was then at the top of
his beaux vogue. He enjoyed a popularity

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due partly to his own talent and
addressed partly to the incapacity of his rival,

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the university professor. The students at
least swore by his name, and

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Fetis believed himself and was believed by
others, to have laid the foundations of

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success when he had acquired the favor
of this meteorically famous man. Mister Kay

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was a beau vivant as well as
an accomplished teacher. He liked a sly

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allusion no less than a careful preparation. In both capacities, Fetis enjoyed and

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deserved his notice, and by the
second year of his attendance he held the

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half regular position of second demonstrator or
sub assistant in his class. In this

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capacity, the charge of the theater
and lecture room devolved in particular upon his

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shoulders. He had to answer for
the cleanliness of the premises and the conduct

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of the other students, and it
was a part of his duty to supply,

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receive, and divide the various subjects. It was with a view to

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this last, at that time very
delicate affair, that he was lodged by

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mister Kay in the same wind and
at last in the same building with the

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dissecting room. Here, after a
night of turbulent pleasures, his hands still

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tottering, his sight still misty and
confused, he would be called out of

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bed in the black hours before the
winter dawn by the unclean and desperate interlopers

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who supplied the table. He would
open the door to these men, since

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infamous throughout the land. He would
help them with their tragic burden, pay

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them their sordid price, and remain
alone when they were gone with the unfriendly

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relics of humanity. From such a
scene, would return to snatch another hour

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or two of slumber, to repair
the abuses of the night, and refresh

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himself for the labors of the day. Few lads could have been more insensible

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to the impressions of a life thus
passed among the ensigns of mortality. His

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mind was closed against all general considerations. He was incapable of interest in the

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fate and fortunes of another, the
slave of his own desires and low ambitions,

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cold light and selfish. In the
last resort, he had that modicum

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of prudence miscalled morality, which keeps
a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.

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He coveted besides a measure of consideration
from his masters and his fellow pupils,

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and he had no desire to fail
conspicuously in the external parts of life.

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Thus he made it his pleasure to
gain some distinction in his studies,

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and day of to day rendered unimpeachable
eye service to his employer, mister Kay.

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For his day of work, he
indemnified himself by knights of roaring blackguardly

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enjoyment, And when that balance had
been struck, the organ that he called

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his conscience declared his self content.
The supply of subjects was a continual trouble

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to him as well as to his
master. In that large and busy class.

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The raw material of the anatomists kept
perpetually running out, and the business

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thus rendered necessary was not only unpleasant
in itself, but threatened dangerous consequences to

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all who were concerned. It was
the policy of mister Kay to ask no

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questions in his dealings with the trade. They bring the body, and we

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pay the price, he used to
say, dwelling on the alliteration quid pro

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quo, and again, somewhat profanely
ask no questions. He would tell his

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assistance for conscience sake. There was
no understanding that the subjects were provided by

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the crime of murder. Had that
idea had been broached to him in words,

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he would have recoiled in horror.
But the likeness of his speech upon

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so grave a matter was in itself
an offense against good manners, and a

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temptation to the men with whom he
dealt. Fetis, for instance, had

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often remarked to himself upon the singular
freshness of the bodies, he had been

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struck again and again by the hang
dog abominable look of the Ruffians who came

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to him before the dawn, and
putting things together clearly in his private thoughts

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he perhaps attributed a meaning too immoral
and too categorical to the unguarded councils of

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his master. He understood his duty, in short, to have three branches,

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to take what was brought, to
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the eye from any evidence of crime. One November morning, this policy of

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silence was put sharply to the test. He had been awake all night with

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a racking toothache, pacing his room
like a caged beast, or throwing himself

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in fury on his bed, and
had fallen at last into that profound,

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uneasy slumber that so often follows on
a night of pain. When he was

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awakened by the third or fourth angry
repetition to concerted signal, there was a

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thin, bright moonshine. It was
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The town had not yet awakened,
but an indefinable stir already precluded the noise

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and business of the day. The
ghouls had come later than usual, and

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they seemed more than usually eager to
be gone. Fedis sick with sleep lighted

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them upstairs. He heard their grumbling
irish voices through a dream, and as

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they stripped the sack from their sad
merchandise, he leaned, dozing with his

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shoulder propped against the wall. He
had to shake himself to find the men

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their money, As he did so, his eyes lighted on the dead face.

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He started. He took two steps
nearer with the candle. Right,

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God Almighty, that is Jane Gollbraith. The men answered nothing, but they

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shuffled nearer the door. Why I
know where, I tell you, he

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continued. She was alive and hearty
yesterday. It's impossible she can be dead.

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It's it's impossible. You should have
got this body fairly, chaucer.

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You must iChon entirely, said one
of the men. But the other looked

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feedis darkly in the eyes and demanded
the money on the spot. It was

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impossible to misconceive the threat or to
exaggerate the danger. The lad's heart failed

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him. He stammered some excuses,
counted out the summon, saw his hateful

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visitors depart. No sooner were they
gone than he hastened to confirm his doubts

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by a dozen unquestionable marks. He
identified the girl he had jested with the

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day before. He saw with horror
marks upon her body that might well betoken

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violence. The panic seized him,
and he took refuge in his room.

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There he reflected at length over the
discovery that he had made, considered soberly

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the bearing of mister Kay's instructions and
the danger to himself of interference in so

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serious a business, and at last, in sore perplexity, determined to wait

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for the advice of his immediate superior, the class assistant. This was a

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young doctor Wolf mac farlane, a
high favorite among all the reckless students.

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Clever, dissipated, and unscrupulous to
the last degree. He had traveled and

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studied abroad. His manners were agreeable
and a little forward. He was an

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authority on the stage, skillful on
the ice or the links, with skate

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or golf club. He dressed with
nice audacity, and to put the finishing

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touch upon his glory, he kept
a gig in a strong trotting horse with

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fettis. He was on terms of
intimacy. Indeed, their relative positions called

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for some community of life, and
when subjects were scarce, the pair would

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drive far into the country in mc
farland's gig, visit and desecrate some lonely

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graveyard, and returned before dawn with
their booty to the door of the dissecting

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room. On that particular morning,
mc farland arrived somewhat earlier than his wont

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Fetts heard him and met him on
the stairs, told him his story,

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and showed him the cause of his
alarm. Mac farland examined the marks on

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her body. Yes, he said, with a nod, it looks fishy.

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Well, well what should I do? Asked Fetis? Do repeat the

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other? Do you want to do
anything? Least? Said soonest men?

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Did? I should say? Some
one else might recognize her, objected Fettis.

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She was as well known as the
castle rock, we'll hope not,

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said mc farland. And but it
does well you didn't, don't you say?

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And there's an end to it.
The fact is this has been going

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on too long. Stir up the
mud and you'll get kay into the most

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unholy trouble. You'll be in a
shocking box yourself, So will I if

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you come to that. I should
like to know how any of us would

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look, or what the devil we
should have to say for ourselves in any

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Christian witness box. For me,
you know there's one thing certain that practically

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speaking, all our subjects have been
murdered. MacFarland cried, Fettis, come

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now, sneered the other, as
if you hadn't suspected it yourself. Well,

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Suspecting is one thing, and proof
another. Yes, I know,

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and I'm as sorry as you are. This should have come here tapping the

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body with his cane. The next
best thing for me is not to recognize

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it, and he added coolly,
I don't you may if you please.

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I don't dictate, but I think
a man of the world would do as

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I do, And I may add
I fancy that is what kay would look

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for at your hands. The question, of course, is why did each

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choose us too for his assistance?
And I answered because he didn't want old

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wives. This was the tone of
all others to affect the mind of a

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lad like Feedis. He agreed to
imitate mac farlane. The body of the

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unfortunate girl was duly dissected, and
no one remarked or appear to recognize her.

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One afternoon in his day's works were
over, Fedis dropped into a popular

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tavern and found mac Farland sitting with
a stranger. This was a small man,

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very pale and dark, with cold
black eyes. The cut of his

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features gave a promise of intellect and
refinement, which was but feebly realized in

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his manners, For he proved upon
a nearer acquaintance. Coarse, vulgar,

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and stupid. He exercised, however, a very remarkable control over. MacFarlane

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issued orders like the Great bashoror became
inflamed at the least discussion or delay,

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and commented rudely on the civility with
which he was a babe. This most

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offensive person took a fancy to feedis
on the spot, plied him with drinks,

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and honored him than usual confidences on
his past career. If a tenth

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part of what he confessed were true, he was a very loathsome rogue,

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and the lad's vanity was tickled by
the attention of so experienced a man.

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I'm a pretty bad fellow myself,
the stranger remarked. But mac farland,

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he's a boy, Toddy mc farland. I call him totty. Why are

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you find another glass? Or it
might be totty you jump up and shut

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the door Toarty hates me? He
said again, Oh yes, totty you

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do. Don't you call me that
confounded name, growled mc farland. Hear

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him. Did you ever see the
lads play knife? He'd like to do

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that all over my body, remarked
the stranger. We medicals have a better

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way than that, said Fettis.
When we dislike a dead friend of ours,

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we dissect him. Mc farland looked
up sharply, as though this jest

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was scarcely to his mind. The
afternoon passed, Gray, for that was

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the stranger's name, invited Fettis to
join them at dinner, ordered a feasts

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so sumptuous that the tavern was thrown
in commotion, and when all was done,

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commanded mac farland to settle the bill. It was late before they separated.

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The man Gray was incapably drunk.
MacFarland, sobered by his fury,

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chewed to the cut of the money
he had been forced to squander, and

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the slights he had been obliged to
swallow, Fedis, with various liquors singing

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in his head, returned home with
devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance.

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Next day mac farland was absent from
the class, and Feedis smiled to

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himself as he imagined him still squiring
the intolerable Gray from tavern to tavern.

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As soon as the hour of liberty
had struck, he posted from place to

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place in quest of his last night's
companions. He could find them however,

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nowhere, so returned early to his
rooms, went early to bed, and

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slept the sleep of the trust.
At four in the morning, he was

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awakened by the well known signal.
Descending to the door, he was filled

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with astonishment to find mac farlane with
his gig, and in the gig one

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of those long and ghastly packages with
which he was so well acquainted. What,

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he cried, Have you been out
alone? How did you manage?

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But mc farland silenced him, roughly, bidding him turn to business. When

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they had got the body upstairs and
laid it on the table, mac farland

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made it first as if he were
going away. Then he paused and seemed

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to hesitate. And then you had
better look at the face, said mc

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farland, In terms of some constraint. You had better, he repeated,

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as Fetis only stared at him in
wonder. But but where and how and

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when did you come by? It
cried the other. Look at the face

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was the only answer. Fetis was
staggered. Strange doubts assailed him. He

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looked from the young doctor to the
body, and then back again. At

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last, with a start, he
did as he was bidden. He had

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almost expected the sight that met his
eyes, and yet the shock was cruel

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to see fixed him the rigidity of
death, and naked on that course layer

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of sackcloth, the man whom he
had left well clad and full of meat,

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and upon the threshold of a tavern, awoke even in the thoughtless Fetis

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some of the terrors of the conscience. It was a grass tibby which re

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echoed in his soul that two whom
he had known should have come to lie

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upon these icy tables. Yet these
were only secondary thoughts. His first concern

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regarded Wolf. Unprepared for a challenge
so momentous, he knew not how to

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look his comrade in the face.
He durst not meet his eye, and

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he had neither words nor voice at
his command. It was mac Farland himself

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who made the first advance. He
came up quietly behind and laid his hand

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gently but firmly on the other shoulder. Richardson said, he may have the

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head. Now. Richardson was a
student who had long been anxious for that

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portion of the human subject to dissect. There was no answer, and the

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murderer resumed a talking of business.
You must pay me your accounts, you

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see, must tally Fetis found a
voice, the ghost of his own.

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Pay you, He cried you for
that? Why, yes, yes,

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course you must, by all means, and on every possible account, you

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must returned the other. I dare
not give it for nothing. You dare

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not take it for nothing. It
would compromise us both. This is another

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case like Chain Galbraate's. The more
things are wrong, the more we must

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act as if all were right.
Where does O Kay keep his money?

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There, answered Feedis, hoarsely,
pointing to a cupboard in the corner.

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Give me the key, then said
the other, calmly, holding out his

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hand. There was an instant's hesitation, and the die was cast. Mac

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Farland could not suppress a nervous twitch, the infinitesimal mark of an immense relief,

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as he felt the key between his
fingers. He opened the cupboard,

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brought out pen and ink, and
a paper book that stood in one compartment

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and separated from the fronts in a
drawer, a sum suitable to the occasion.

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Now look here, he said,
there is the payment made, first

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proof of your good fate, first
step to your security. You have now

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to clinch it by a second.
Enter the payment in your book, and

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then you for your part may defy
the devil. The next few seconds were

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for Fettis an agony of thought,
but in balancing his terrors, it was

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the most immediate the triumph. Any
future difficulty seemed almost welcome if he could

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avoid a present quarrel with mac farland. He set down the candle which he

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had been carrying all his time,
and with his steady hand entered the date,

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the nature, and the amount of
the transaction. And now said mc

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farland, it's only fair that you
should pocket the lucre. I've had my

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share already by the bye. When
a man of the world falls into a

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bit of luck, he has a
few shillings extra in his pocket. I'm

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ashamed to speak of it, but
there's a rule of conduct in the case.

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No treating, no purchase of expensive
class books, no squaring of old

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debts, borrow, don't lend.
Mac farland began feedtis, still somewhat hoarsely.

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I've put my neck a halter to
oblige you, to oblige me,

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cried wolf. Come you did,
as near as I can see the matter,

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what you downright had to do in
self defense? Suppose I got into

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trouble, Where would you be this
second little matter flows clearly from the first.

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Mister Gray, is the continuation of
miss Galbray. You can't begin and

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then stop. If you begin,
you must keep on beginning. That's the

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truth. No rest for the wicked. A horrible sense of blackness and the

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treachery of fate seized hold upon the
soul of the unhappy student. My god,

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he cried, but what have I
done? And when did I begin

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to be made a class assistant?
In the name of reason? Where's the

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harm in that service wanted? The
position service might have got it? Would

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he have been where I am now? My dear fellow, said mc crarly,

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What a boy you are? What
harm has come to you? What

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harm can come to you? If
you your tongue? Why? Men,

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do you know what this life is? There are two squads of us,

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the lions and the lambs. If
you're a lamb, you'll come to lie

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upon these tables, like Gray or
Jane Galbray. If you're a lion,

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you'll live and drive a horse like
me, like Kay, like all the

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world with any witted courage. You're
staggered at the first, But look at

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Kay, my dear fellow, you're
clever. You have pluck. I like

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you, and Kay likes you.
You were born to lead the hunt.

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And I tell you, on my
honor and my experience of life, three

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days from now you'll laugh at all
these scarecrows like a high school boy at

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a farce. And with that mac
Farland took his departure and drove off up

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the wind in his gig to get
under cover before daylight. Fedis was thus

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left alone with his regrets. He
saw the miserable peril in which he stood

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involved. He saw with inexpressible dismay, that there was no limit to his

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weakness, and that from concession to
concession he had fallen, from the arbiter

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of Macfarland's destiny to his paid and
helpless accomplice. He would have given the

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world to have been a little braver
at the time, but it did not

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occur to him that he might still
be brave. The secret of Jane Galbray

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and the cursed entry in the day
Book closed his mouth. Hours passed as

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the class began to arrive. The
members of the Unhappy Gray were dealt out

405
00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:27,440
to one and to another, and
received without remark. Richardson was made happy

406
00:29:27,440 --> 00:29:32,640
with the head, and before the
hour of freedom, rang Fetis trembled with

407
00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:37,759
exultation to perceive how far they had
already gone towards safety. For two days

408
00:29:37,759 --> 00:29:42,039
he continued to watch with increasing joy
the dreadful process of disguise. On the

409
00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:45,480
third day, MacFarlane made his appearance. He had been ill, he said,

410
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,480
but he made up for lost time
by the energy with which he directed

411
00:29:48,519 --> 00:29:53,440
the student. To Richardson in particular, he extended the most valuable assistance and

412
00:29:53,519 --> 00:29:59,160
advice, and that student, encouraged
by the praise of the demonstrator, burned

413
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,240
high with ambition hopes, and saw
the meddle already in his grasp. Before

414
00:30:03,279 --> 00:30:07,039
the week was out, mac Farland's
prophecy had been fulfilled, Fedis, had

415
00:30:07,039 --> 00:30:11,720
outlived his terrors and had forgotten his
baseness. He began to plume himself upon

416
00:30:11,759 --> 00:30:15,279
his courage, and had so arranged
the story in his mind that he could

417
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:21,279
look back on these events with an
unhealthy pride of his accomplice. He saw.

418
00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:22,880
But little they met, of course, in the business of the class.

419
00:30:23,519 --> 00:30:27,160
They received their orders together from mister
Kay. At times they had a

420
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,440
word or two in private, and
mac farland was from first to last particularly

421
00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:34,799
kind and jovial. But it was
plain that he avoided any reference to their

422
00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:40,000
common secret, And even when Fedis
whispered to him that he had cast in

423
00:30:40,079 --> 00:30:44,480
his lot with the lions and forsworn
the lambs, he only signed to him

424
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,759
smilingly, to hold his peace at
length. An occasion arose which threw the

425
00:30:48,759 --> 00:30:53,279
pair once more into a closer union. Mister Kay was again short of subjects.

426
00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:56,880
Pupils were eager, and it was
a part of this teacher's pretensions to

427
00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:00,720
be always well supplied. At the
same time, there came the news of

428
00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:07,400
a burial in the rustic graveyard of
Glen Coose. Time has little changed the

429
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,839
place in question. It stood then
as now upon a cross road, out

430
00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:15,319
of call of human habitations, and
buried fathoms deep in the foliage of six

431
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:19,839
cedar trees. The cries of the
sheep upon the neighboring hills, the streamlets

432
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:25,960
upon either hand, one loudly singing
among pebbles, the other dripping furtively from

433
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,720
pond to pond, the stir of
the wind in the mountainous old flowering chestnuts,

434
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:33,519
and once in seven days the voice
of the bell, and the old

435
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:38,400
tombs of the precenter were the only
sounds that disturbed the silence round the rural

436
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:44,319
church. The resurrection man, to
use a by name of the period,

437
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,799
was not to be deterred by any
of the sanctities of customary piety. It

438
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,720
was part of his trade to despise
and desecrate the scrolls and trumpets of old

439
00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:57,759
tombs, the paths worn by the
feet of worshippers and mourners, and the

440
00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:04,799
offerings and the inscription of bereaved affection
to rustic neighborhoods where love is more than

441
00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:09,119
commonly tenacious, and where some bonds
of blood or fellowship unite the entire society

442
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:15,359
of a parish. The body snatcher, far from being repelled by natural respect,

443
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:20,079
was attracted by the ease and safety
of the task to bodies that had

444
00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:23,680
been laid in earth in joyful expectation
of a far different awakening. There came

445
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:28,599
that hasty, lamp lit terror,
haunted resurrection of the spade and mattic.

446
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:35,920
The coffin was forced, the crements
torn, and the melancholy relics clad in

447
00:32:36,039 --> 00:32:40,519
sackcloth, after being rattled for hours
on moonless byways, were at length exposed

448
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:47,799
to uttermost indignities. For a class
of gaping boys somewhat as two vultures may

449
00:32:47,839 --> 00:32:52,039
swoop upon a dying lamb. Fetus
and MacFarlane were to be let loose upon

450
00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:57,359
a grave in that green and quiet
resting place. The wife of a farmer,

451
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,000
a woman who had lived for sixty
years and been known for nothing but

452
00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:05,599
good butter and a godly conversation,
was to be rooted from her grave at

453
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,359
midnight and carried dead and naked to
that far away city that she had always

454
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:14,920
honored with her Sunday's best. The
place beside her family was to be empty

455
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,799
till the crack of doom, her
innocent and almost venerable members to be exposed

456
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:24,599
to that last curiosity of the anatomist. Late one afternoon, the pair set

457
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:30,160
forth, well wrapped in cloaks and
furnished with a formidable bottle. It rained

458
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,599
without remission a cold, dense,
lashing rain. Now and again there blew

459
00:33:34,599 --> 00:33:37,240
a puff of wind, but these
sheets of falling water kept it down,

460
00:33:38,319 --> 00:33:42,720
bottle and all. It was a
sad and silent drive as far as Pennacock,

461
00:33:43,799 --> 00:33:46,200
where they were to spend the evening. They stopped once to hide their

462
00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:51,319
implements in a thick bush not far
from the churchyard, and once again at

463
00:33:51,319 --> 00:33:54,319
the Fisher's tryst to have a toast
before the kitchen fire and bary their nips

464
00:33:54,319 --> 00:33:59,240
of whisky with a glass of ale. When they reached their journey's end,

465
00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:02,680
the gig was The horse was fed
and comforted, and the two young doctors,

466
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,480
in a private room sat down to
the best dinner and the best wine

467
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,280
the house afforded. The lights,
the fire, the beating rain upon the

468
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:14,960
window, the cold, incongruous work
that lay before them added zest to their

469
00:34:15,039 --> 00:34:20,519
enjoyment of the meal. With every
glass their cordiality increased. Soon mac farland

470
00:34:20,519 --> 00:34:24,440
handed a little pile of gold to
his companion, a compliment, he said,

471
00:34:24,599 --> 00:34:30,760
between friends, these little damned accommodations
ought to fly like pipe lights.

472
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,920
Ferris pocketed the money and applauded the
sentiment to the echo. You are a

473
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,880
philosopher, he cried, I was
an ass till I knew you. You'll

474
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,000
encave between you by the Lord Harry, but you'll make a man out of

475
00:34:45,079 --> 00:34:49,639
maid. Of course, we will
have lauded mc farland a man. I

476
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,119
tell you, it required a man
to back me up. The other morning,

477
00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:57,320
there are some big brawling forty year
old cowards who would have turned sick

478
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,400
at the sight of the damn thing. But not you. You kept your

479
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:06,800
head. I watched you well,
and why not Feris thus paunted himself.

480
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:08,639
There was no affair of mine.
There was nothing to gain on the one

481
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,400
side but disturbance. And on the
other I could count on your gratitude,

482
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,960
don't you say? And he slapped
his pocket till the gold pieces rang.

483
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:22,880
Mac Farland somehow felt a certain touch
of alarm at these unpleasant words. He

484
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,960
may have regretted that he had taught
his young companion so successfully, but he

485
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,840
had no time to interfere. For
the other noisily continued in this boastful strain.

486
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,840
The great thing is not to be
afraid. Now between you and me,

487
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,840
I don't want to hang, and
it's practical. But for all,

488
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:42,960
count mac Farland, I was born
with a contempt o God, devil,

489
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:45,159
right, wrong, sin, crime, and all the other old gallery of

490
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:50,639
curiosity. They may frighten boys,
but men of the world like you and

491
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:57,360
me despise them. Here's to the
memory of Gray. It was by this

492
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,079
time growing somewhat late. The gig, according to was brought round to the

493
00:36:00,079 --> 00:36:04,880
door with both lamps brightly shining,
and the young men had to pay their

494
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,800
bill and take the road. They
announced that they were bound for Peebles,

495
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,119
and drove in that direction till they
were clear of the last houses of the

496
00:36:12,159 --> 00:36:16,039
town. Then, extinguishing the carriage
lamps, were turned upon their course and

497
00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:21,559
followed a by road toward Glen Course. There was no sound but that of

498
00:36:21,599 --> 00:36:24,599
their own passage and the incessant,
strident pouring of the rain. It was

499
00:36:24,679 --> 00:36:29,280
pitch dark, and here and there
a white gate or a white stone in

500
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,000
the wall guided them for a short
space across the night. But for the

501
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,719
most part it was at a foot
pace and almost groping, that they picked

502
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:42,559
their way through that resonant blackness to
their solemn and isolated destination in the sunken

503
00:36:42,599 --> 00:36:45,840
woods that traverse the neighborhood of the
burying ground. The last glimmer failed them,

504
00:36:46,159 --> 00:36:50,679
and it became necessary to kindle a
match and re illumine one of the

505
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,159
lanters of the gig. Thus,
under the dripping trees, and environed by

506
00:36:54,239 --> 00:37:00,440
huge and moving shadows, they reached
the scene of their unhallowed labors. They

507
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:05,440
were both experienced in such affairs and
powerful with the spade, and they had

508
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,199
scarce been twenty minutes at their task
before they were rewarded by a dull rattle

509
00:37:08,199 --> 00:37:13,039
on the coffin lid. At the
same time, mac Farlane, having hurt

510
00:37:13,039 --> 00:37:16,920
his hand upon a stone, flung
it carelessly above his head. The grave

511
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:20,920
in which they now stood almost to
the shoulders, was close to the edge

512
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,360
of the plateau of the graveyard,
and the gig lamp had been propped,

513
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:28,440
the better to illuminate their labors.
Against a tree, and on the immediate

514
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:31,920
verge of the steep bank descending to
the stream. Chance had taken a sure

515
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:36,800
aim with the stone. Then came
a clang of broken glass. Night fell

516
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,800
upon them. Sounds, alternately dull
and ringing, announced the bounding of the

517
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:45,960
lantern down the bank, and its
occasional collision with the trees. A stone

518
00:37:45,039 --> 00:37:50,280
or two, which it had dislodged
in its descent, rattled behind it into

519
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,159
the profundities of the glen. And
then silence, like night resumed its sway,

520
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,639
and they might bend their hearing to
its utmost pitch, but naught was

521
00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:04,199
to be heard except the rain,
now marching to the wind now steadily falling

522
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,039
over miles of open country. They
were so nearly at an end of their

523
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,679
bared task, that they judged it
wisest to complete it in the dark.

524
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,119
The coffin was exhumed and broken open, the body inserted in the dripping sack,

525
00:38:16,679 --> 00:38:21,119
and carried between them to the gig, one mounted to keep it in

526
00:38:21,159 --> 00:38:23,239
its place, and the other,
taking the horse by the mouth, roped

527
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,480
along by wall and bush until they
reached the wider road. By the fissure's

528
00:38:28,519 --> 00:38:32,599
tryst, here was a faint,
diffused radiancy, which they hailed like daylight.

529
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:37,320
By that they pushed the horse to
a good pace, and began to

530
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:42,199
rattle along merrily in the direction of
the town. They had both been wetted

531
00:38:42,199 --> 00:38:45,440
to the skin during their operations,
and now as the gig jumped among the

532
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,920
deep ruts, the thing that stood
propped between them fell now upon one,

533
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,360
and now upon the other. At
every repetition of the horrid contact, each

534
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:59,159
instinctively repelled it with a greater haste, and the process natural enough, as

535
00:38:59,199 --> 00:39:02,840
it was began to tell upon the
nerves of the companions. Mac Farland made

536
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,559
some ill favored jest about the farmer's
wife, but it came hollowly from his

537
00:39:07,639 --> 00:39:13,599
lips and was allowed to drop in
silence. Still their unnatural burden bumped from

538
00:39:13,639 --> 00:39:15,639
side to side, And now the
head would be laid, as if in

539
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:21,400
confidence, upon their shoulders. And
now the drenching sackcloth would flap icily about

540
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,159
their faces. A creeping chill began
to possess the soul of Fetis. He

541
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:29,920
peered at the bundle, and it
seemed somewhat larger than at first. All

542
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,199
over the countryside, or from every
degree of distance, the farm dogs accompanied

543
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:39,800
their passage with tragic eululations. And
it grew and grew upon his mind that

544
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:45,000
some unnatural miracle had been accomplished,
that some nameless change had befallen the dead

545
00:39:45,039 --> 00:39:49,679
body, and that it was in
fear of their unholy burden. The dogs

546
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:52,320
were howling. For God's sake,
said he, making a great have to

547
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,679
arrive at speech. For God's sakes, let's have a light. Seemingly,

548
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:59,920
mac Farland was effected in the same
direction, for though he made no reply,

549
00:40:00,199 --> 00:40:02,480
he stopped the horse, passed the
reins to his companion, got down,

550
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:07,320
and proceeded to kindle the remaining lamp. They had by that time got

551
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:12,360
no further than the cross road down
the och and clime The rain still poured

552
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,639
as though the deluge were returning,
and it was no easy matter to make

553
00:40:15,639 --> 00:40:19,239
a light in such a world of
wet and darkness. When at last the

554
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,519
flickering blue flame had been transferred to
the wick and began to expand and clarify,

555
00:40:23,159 --> 00:40:27,800
and shed a wide circle of misty
brightness round the gig, it became

556
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,480
possible for the two young men to
see each other and the thing they had

557
00:40:30,519 --> 00:40:35,440
along with them. The rain had
molded the rough sacking to the outlines of

558
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,480
the body underneath. The head was
distinct from the trunk, the shoulders plainly

559
00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:45,519
modeled something at once spectral and human. Riveted their eyes upon the ghastly comrade

560
00:40:45,559 --> 00:40:49,480
of their drive. For some time, McFarland stood motionless, holding up the

561
00:40:49,599 --> 00:40:53,519
lamp. A nameless dread was swathed
like a wet sheet about the body and

562
00:40:53,639 --> 00:40:59,039
tightened the white skin upon the face
of fetis, A fear that was meaningless,

563
00:40:59,199 --> 00:41:01,920
a horror of what could not be
kept mounting to his brain. Another

564
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:07,000
beat of the watch and he had
spoken, but his comrade forestalled him.

565
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,840
It that is not a woman,
said mac farland in a hushed voice.

566
00:41:12,679 --> 00:41:17,000
It was a woman when we put
her in whispered, EDDI hold that lamp,

567
00:41:17,039 --> 00:41:21,760
said the other, I must must
see her face. As Fetis took

568
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,119
the lamp, his companion untied the
fastenings of the sack and drew down the

569
00:41:24,159 --> 00:41:29,039
cover from the head. The light
fell very clear upon the dark, well

570
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:34,400
molded features and smooth shaven cheeks of
a too familiar countenance often beheld in dreams

571
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,679
of both of these young men.
A wild yell rang up into the night.

572
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,719
Each leaped from his own side into
the roadway. The lamp fell broke

573
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:46,760
and was extinguished, and the horse, terrified by this unusual commotion, bounded

574
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:52,840
and went off towards Edinburgh at a
gallop, bearing along with it sole occupant

575
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:58,800
of the gig, the body of
the dead and long dissected gray and of

576
00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:00,760
the body snatched by Robert Louis Stevenson