1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 1: The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson. Every night in 2 00:00:05,200 --> 00:00:07,480 the year forever sat in the small parlor of the 3 00:00:07,519 --> 00:00:11,359 George at Debenham, the Undertaker and the Landlord, and Fetis 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,759 and myself. Sometimes there'd be more, but blow high, blow low, 5 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:18,760 com rain, or snow or frost. We four would be 6 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:22,519 each planted in his own particular arm chair. Fettis was 7 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:25,239 an old, drunken scotchman, a man of education, obviously, and 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,960 a man of some property since he lived in idleness. 9 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,120 He'd come to Debenham years ago while still young, and 10 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:34,000 by a mere continuance of living, had grown to be 11 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:38,359 an adopted townsman. His blue camlet cloak was a local antiquity, 12 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,240 like the church spire, his place in the parlor at 13 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,920 the George, his absence from church, his old, crapulous, disreputable 14 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:48,840 vices were all things. Of course, in Debenham. He had 15 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,520 some vague, radical opinions and some fleeting infidelities, which he 16 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:55,200 would now and again set forth and emphasize with tottering 17 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:59,840 slaps upon the table. He drank rum five glasses regularly 18 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:02,719 every evening, and for the greater portion of his nightly 19 00:01:02,799 --> 00:01:04,719 visit to the George sat with his glass in his 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,599 right hand, in a state of melancholy alcoholic saturation. We 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,000 called him the Doctor, for he was supposed to have 22 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,799 some special knowledge of medicine, and had been known upon 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,920 a pinch to set a fracture or reduce a dislocation. 24 00:01:19,079 --> 00:01:22,359 But beyond these slight particulars we had no knowledge of 25 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,239 his character and antecedents. One dark winter night, it had 26 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,680 struck nine some time before the Landlord joined us, there 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,719 was a sick man, and the George, a great neighboring proprietor, 28 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,439 suddenly struck down with apoplexy on his way to Parliament, 29 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,840 and the great Man's still greater London doctor had been 30 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,359 telegraphed to his bedside. It was the first time that 31 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,280 such a thing had happened in Debenham, for the railway 32 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:49,120 was but newly open, and we were all proportionately moved 33 00:01:49,159 --> 00:01:52,799 by the occurrence. He's come, said the Landlord, after he 34 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,760 had filled and light at his pipe. He said, I 35 00:01:55,959 --> 00:02:01,120 who not the doctor himself, replied our host, Then what's 36 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,280 his name? Doctor mac Farland said The Landlord Fetters was 37 00:02:06,359 --> 00:02:10,759 far through his third tumbler, stupidly fonddled now nodding over now, 38 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,479 staring maisly around him. But at the last word he 39 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,879 seemed to awaken and repeat the name mac Farland twice, 40 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:22,159 quietly enough the first time, but with certain sudden emotion 41 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:25,840 at the second. Yes, said the landlord, that's his name, 42 00:02:26,199 --> 00:02:31,719 Doctor Wulf mac Farland. Fes became instantly sober, his eyes awoke, 43 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,280 his voice became clear, loud and steady, his language forcible 44 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:39,919 and earnest. We were all startled by the transformation, as 45 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,680 if a man had risen from the dead. I beg 46 00:02:42,719 --> 00:02:44,599 your pardon, he said, I am afraid I have not 47 00:02:44,719 --> 00:02:47,319 been paying much attention to your talk. Who is this 48 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:50,919 Wolf mac Farlane? And then, when he had heard the 49 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,960 landlord ot, it cannot be, it cannot be, he added, 50 00:02:55,719 --> 00:02:58,159 Yet I would like well to see him face to face. 51 00:02:58,879 --> 00:03:01,680 Do you know him, doctor, asked the undertaker, with a gasp. 52 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:05,840 God forbid was the reply in. Yet the name is 53 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:09,560 a strange one. It were too much to fancy too. 54 00:03:09,759 --> 00:03:13,800 Tell me, Landlord, is he old, well, said the host. 55 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:15,479 He's not a young man, to be sure, and his 56 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,199 hair is white, but he looks younger than you. He 57 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,919 is older, though years older, but with a slap upon 58 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:24,919 the table. It's the rum you see in me face, 59 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,919 rum and sin. This man perhaps may have an easy 60 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:33,960 conscience and a good digestion conscience. Hear me speak, he 61 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,759 would think I was some good, old, decent Christian, would 62 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:41,520 you not? But no, not I. I never canted. Voltaire 63 00:03:41,639 --> 00:03:43,840 might have canted if it stood in my shoes. But 64 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:47,319 that the brains with a rattling Philip on his bald head. 65 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:50,400 The brains were clear and active, and I saw and 66 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,319 made no deductions. If you know this, doctor, I ventured 67 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:57,560 to remark, after a somewhat awful paut, I should gather 68 00:03:57,639 --> 00:04:01,159 that you do not share the landlord's good opinion. Fedis 69 00:04:01,199 --> 00:04:05,120 paid no regard to me. Yes, he said, with sudden decision, 70 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:09,280 I must see him face to face. There was another pause, 71 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,240 and then a door was closed rather sharply on the 72 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:13,759 first floor, and a step was heard upon the stair 73 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,199 that's the doctor, cried the landlord. Look look sharp, and 74 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,319 you can catch him. It was but two steps from 75 00:04:20,319 --> 00:04:22,680 the small parlor to the door of the old George Inn. 76 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,600 The wide oak staircase landed almost in the street. There 77 00:04:26,639 --> 00:04:29,040 was room for a turkey rug and nothing more between 78 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,920 the threshold and the last round of the descent. But 79 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:35,040 this little space was every evening brilliantly lit up, not 80 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:37,399 only by the light upon the stair and the great 81 00:04:37,439 --> 00:04:40,600 signal lamp below the sign, but by the warm radiance 82 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,480 of the bar room window. The George thus brightly advertised 83 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,759 itself to pass her spy in the cold street. Fedis 84 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,480 walked steadily to the spot, and we, who were hanging behind, 85 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,319 beheld the two men meet, as one of them had 86 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:57,360 phrased it, face to face. Doctor mac farland was alert 87 00:04:57,399 --> 00:04:59,639 and vigorous, his white hair set off his pail, and 88 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,600 placid said although energetic countenance. He was richly dressed in 89 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,639 the finest of broadcloth and the whitest of linen, with 90 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,720 a great gold watch chain and studs and spectacles of 91 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:13,639 the same precious material. He wore a broad folded tie, 92 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,480 white and speckled with the lilac, and he carried on 93 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,040 his arm a comfortable driving coat of fur. There was 94 00:05:20,079 --> 00:05:23,120 no doubt but he became his years, breathing as he did, 95 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,920 of wealth and consideration. And it was a surprising contrast 96 00:05:26,959 --> 00:05:30,920 to see our parlors sot bald, dirty, pimpled and robed 97 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,079 in his old camlet Cloak confront him at the bottom 98 00:05:34,079 --> 00:05:38,199 of the stairs. Mac Farland, he said, somewhat loudly, more 99 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,160 like a herald than a friend. The great doctor pulled 100 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,480 up short on the fourth step, as though the familiarity 101 00:05:43,519 --> 00:05:48,319 of the address surprised and somewhat shocked his dignity. Tade 102 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:52,839 mac Farland repeated Ferris. The London men almost staggered. He 103 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:55,480 stared for the swiftest of seconds at the man before him, 104 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,639 glanced behind him with a sort of scare, and then 105 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:03,639 in a startled whisper fettis he said, you aye, said 106 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:06,720 the other me. Did you think I was dead too? 107 00:06:07,639 --> 00:06:11,399 We are not so easy shot of our acquaintance. Hush, hush, 108 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:14,240 explained the doctor. Hush, hush, this meeting is so unexpected. 109 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,720 I can see you are unmanned. I hardly knew you, 110 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,120 I confess at first. But I am overjoyed, overjoyed to 111 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,879 have this opportunity. For the present it must be how 112 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:27,439 do you do? And good bye? In one for my 113 00:06:27,519 --> 00:06:29,600 fly is waiting and I must not fail the train. 114 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:32,680 But you shall let me see. Yes, you shall give 115 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,879 me your address, and you can count on early news 116 00:06:34,879 --> 00:06:37,879 of me. We must do something for you fettis. I 117 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,680 fear you were out at elbows. But we must see 118 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,680 to that. For old langzan As once we sang at suppers, 119 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:49,439 money cried fetis, money from you. The money that I 120 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:51,480 had from you is lying when I cast it in 121 00:06:51,519 --> 00:06:55,040 the rain. Doctor mac farland had talked himself into some 122 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:59,319 measure of superiority and confidence. But the uncommon energy of 123 00:06:59,319 --> 00:07:04,319 this refusal cast him back into his first confusion. A horrible, 124 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:07,480 ugly look came and went across his almost venerable countenance. 125 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,439 But my dear fellow, he said, be it, be it 126 00:07:10,519 --> 00:07:12,560 as you please. My last thought is to offend you 127 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,399 a I would intrude on none. I will leave you 128 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:19,319 my address, However I do not wish it. I do 129 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:22,120 not wish to know the roof that shelters you interrupted 130 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,680 the other I heard your name. I feared it might 131 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:28,240 be you. I wished to know if, after all there 132 00:07:28,279 --> 00:07:32,800 were a god. I know now there is none. Be gone. 133 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:36,279 He still stood in the midst of the rug between 134 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:39,079 the stairs and the doorway, and the great London Physician, 135 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,040 in order to escape, would be forced to step to 136 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,519 one side. It was plain that he hesitated before the thought 137 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,399 of this humiliation. Quite as he was, there was a 138 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:51,439 dangerous glitter in his spectacles. But while he still paused, uncertain, 139 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,600 he became aware that the driver of his fly was 140 00:07:53,639 --> 00:07:56,279 peering in from the street at this unusual scene, and 141 00:07:56,319 --> 00:07:58,199 caught a glimpse at the same time of our little 142 00:07:58,279 --> 00:08:01,319 body from the parlor by the corner of the barn. 143 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:04,519 The presence of so many witnesses sided him at once 144 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,800 to flee. He crouched together, brushing on the wainscot, and 145 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:11,480 made a dart like a serpent, striking for the door. 146 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,519 But his tribulation was not yet entirely at an end, 147 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,480 for even as he was passing, Fetis clutched him by 148 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:19,920 the arm, and these words came in a whispering, yet 149 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:25,120 painfully distinct. Have you seen it again? The great rich 150 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:28,439 London doctor, cried out aloud with a sharp, throttling cry. 151 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,879 He dashed his questioner across the open space, and with 152 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,559 his hands over his head, fled out the door like 153 00:08:34,639 --> 00:08:38,679 a detected thief. Before it had occurred to one of 154 00:08:38,759 --> 00:08:41,360 us to make a movement, the flight was already rattling 155 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,480 toward the station. The scene was over, like a dream, 156 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,440 but the dream had left proofs and traces of its passage. 157 00:08:48,879 --> 00:08:51,639 The next day the servant found the fine gold spectacles 158 00:08:51,679 --> 00:08:54,000 broken on the threshold, And that very night we were 159 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:57,679 all standing breathless by the barroom window, and Fetis at 160 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:02,080 are aside, sober and pale and resolute in look, God 161 00:09:02,159 --> 00:09:05,399 protect us, mister Fettis, said the landlord, coming first into 162 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:09,039 possession of his customary senses. What in the universe is 163 00:09:09,159 --> 00:09:12,720 all this? These are strange things you have been saying. 164 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,879 Fetis turned toward us. He looked us, each in succession 165 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:19,720 in the face. See if you can hold your tongue, 166 00:09:19,759 --> 00:09:22,799 said he, That man mac Farland is not safe to cross. 167 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,840 Those that have done so already have repented it too late. 168 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:29,399 And then, without so much as finishing his third glass, 169 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,320 far less waiting for the other two, he bade us 170 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:34,159 good by and went forth under the lamp of the 171 00:09:34,159 --> 00:09:37,399 hotel into the black night. We three turned to our 172 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,600 places in the parlor and the big red fire and 173 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,559 four clear candles, and as we recapitulated what had passed, 174 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,000 the first chill of our surprise soon changed into a 175 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,759 glow of curiosity. We sat late. It was the latest 176 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,039 session I have known in the old George. Each man 177 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:55,440 before we parted had his theory that he was bound 178 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:58,759 to prove. And none of us had any nearer business 179 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:00,799 in this world than to track out the past of 180 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,440 our condemned companion. And I suppose the secret that he 181 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,840 shared with the great London doctor. It's no great boast, 182 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,639 but I believe I was a better hand at worming 183 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,080 out a story than either of my fellows at the George. 184 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,200 And perhaps there is now no other man alive who 185 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,600 could narrate it to you and tell you the following 186 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:23,159 foul and unnatural events. In his young days, Fetis studied 187 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,679 medicine and schools of Edinburgh. He had talent of a kind, 188 00:10:26,919 --> 00:10:29,240 the talent that picks up swiftly on what it hears 189 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:32,720 and readily retails it for its own. He worked little 190 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:35,960 at home, but he was civil, attentive, and intelligent in 191 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,120 the presence of his masters. They soon picked him out 192 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,360 as a lad who listened closely and remembered well. Nay 193 00:10:42,519 --> 00:10:44,759 strange as it seemed to me when I first heard it, 194 00:10:44,799 --> 00:10:47,879 He was in those days well favored and pleased by 195 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:51,600 his exterior. There was at that period a certain extramural 196 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:54,600 teacher of anatomy, whom I shall here designate by the 197 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:59,000 letter K. His name was subsequently too well known, the 198 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,000 man who bore its s cult through the streets of 199 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,240 Edinburgh in disguise, while the mob that applauded at the 200 00:11:04,279 --> 00:11:07,919 execution of Burke called loudly for the blood of his employer. 201 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,279 But mister Kay was then at the top of his 202 00:11:11,399 --> 00:11:15,240 beaux vogue. He enjoyed a popularity due partly to his 203 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:19,519 own talent and addressed partly to the incapacity of his rival, 204 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:24,039 the university professor. The students at least swore by his name, 205 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,480 and Fetis believed himself and was believed by others, to 206 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,919 have laid the foundations of success when he had acquired 207 00:11:30,919 --> 00:11:35,480 the favor of this meteorically famous man. Mister Kay was 208 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:38,720 a beau vivant as well as an accomplished teacher. He 209 00:11:38,919 --> 00:11:41,919 liked a sly allusion no less than a careful preparation. 210 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:46,879 In both capacities, Fetis enjoyed and deserved his notice, and 211 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,519 by the second year of his attendance he held the half 212 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:54,320 regular position of second demonstrator or sub assistant in his class. 213 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,840 In this capacity, the charge of the theater and lecture 214 00:11:57,879 --> 00:12:01,360 room devolved in particular upon his shoulders. He had to 215 00:12:01,399 --> 00:12:03,840 answer for the cleanliness of the premises and the conduct 216 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:06,039 of the other students, and it was a part of 217 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:09,480 his duty to supply, receive, and divide the various subjects. 218 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,480 It was with a view to this last, at that 219 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:16,000 time very delicate affair, that he was lodged by mister 220 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,360 Kay in the same wind and at last in the 221 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,080 same building with the dissecting room. Here, after a night 222 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,720 of turbulent pleasures, his hands still tottering, his sight still 223 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:28,639 misty and confused, he would be called out of bed 224 00:12:28,639 --> 00:12:31,360 in the black hours before the winter dawn by the 225 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,399 unclean and desperate interlopers who supplied the table. He would 226 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:38,480 open the door to these men, since infamous throughout the land. 227 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:41,720 He would help them with their tragic burden, pay them 228 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:45,320 their sordid price, and remain alone when they were gone 229 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:49,679 with the unfriendly relics of humanity. From such a scene, 230 00:12:49,759 --> 00:12:52,360 would return to snatch another hour or two of slumber, 231 00:12:52,879 --> 00:12:55,600 to repair the abuses of the night, and refresh himself 232 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,000 for the labors of the day. Few lads could have 233 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:01,799 been more insensible to the impressions of a life thus 234 00:13:01,879 --> 00:13:05,879 passed among the ensigns of mortality. His mind was closed 235 00:13:05,879 --> 00:13:09,960 against all general considerations. He was incapable of interest in 236 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,720 the fate and fortunes of another, the slave of his 237 00:13:12,799 --> 00:13:17,480 own desires and low ambitions, cold light and selfish. In 238 00:13:17,519 --> 00:13:21,639 the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence miscalled morality, 239 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:25,519 which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft. 240 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,799 He coveted besides a measure of consideration from his masters 241 00:13:29,799 --> 00:13:32,480 and his fellow pupils, and he had no desire to 242 00:13:32,519 --> 00:13:36,399 fail conspicuously in the external parts of life. Thus he 243 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,240 made it his pleasure to gain some distinction in his studies, 244 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:42,799 and day of to day rendered unimpeachable eye service to 245 00:13:42,879 --> 00:13:46,000 his employer, mister Kay. For his day of work, he 246 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,879 indemnified himself by knights of roaring blackguardly enjoyment, And when 247 00:13:50,919 --> 00:13:53,720 that balance had been struck, the organ that he called 248 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:57,639 his conscience declared his self content. The supply of subjects 249 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,519 was a continual trouble to him as well as to 250 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:03,080 his master. In that large and busy class. The raw 251 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:07,519 material of the anatomists kept perpetually running out, and the 252 00:14:07,519 --> 00:14:11,000 business thus rendered necessary was not only unpleasant in itself, 253 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:15,159 but threatened dangerous consequences to all who were concerned. It 254 00:14:15,279 --> 00:14:18,000 was the policy of mister Kay to ask no questions 255 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,039 in his dealings with the trade. They bring the body, 256 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,480 and we pay the price, he used to say, dwelling 257 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:28,799 on the alliteration quid pro quo, and again, somewhat profanely 258 00:14:29,279 --> 00:14:33,679 ask no questions. He would tell his assistance for conscience sake. 259 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:36,960 There was no understanding that the subjects were provided by 260 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,879 the crime of murder. Had that idea had been broached 261 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,440 to him in words, he would have recoiled in horror. 262 00:14:42,879 --> 00:14:45,080 But the likeness of his speech upon so grave a 263 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,399 matter was in itself an offense against good manners, and 264 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:51,320 a temptation to the men with whom he dealt. Fetis, 265 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,639 for instance, had often remarked to himself upon the singular 266 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:57,720 freshness of the bodies, he had been struck again and 267 00:14:57,759 --> 00:15:00,720 again by the hang dog abominable look of the Ruffians 268 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,879 who came to him before the dawn, and putting things 269 00:15:03,919 --> 00:15:07,360 together clearly in his private thoughts he perhaps attributed a 270 00:15:07,399 --> 00:15:11,919 meaning too immoral and too categorical to the unguarded councils 271 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:15,279 of his master. He understood his duty, in short, to 272 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:18,919 have three branches, to take what was brought, to pay 273 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,480 the price, and to avert the eye from any evidence 274 00:15:22,559 --> 00:15:26,240 of crime. One November morning, this policy of silence was 275 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:29,840 put sharply to the test. He had been awake all 276 00:15:29,919 --> 00:15:32,840 night with a racking toothache, pacing his room like a 277 00:15:32,879 --> 00:15:35,519 caged beast, or throwing himself in fury on his bed, 278 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,679 and had fallen at last into that profound, uneasy slumber 279 00:15:39,679 --> 00:15:42,600 that so often follows on a night of pain. When 280 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,720 he was awakened by the third or fourth angry repetition 281 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,679 to concerted signal, there was a thin, bright moonshine. It 282 00:15:49,799 --> 00:15:53,279 was bitter cold, windy, and frosty. The town had not 283 00:15:53,399 --> 00:15:57,840 yet awakened, but an indefinable stir already precluded the noise 284 00:15:57,879 --> 00:16:01,159 and business of the day. The ghouls had come later 285 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,879 than usual, and they seemed more than usually eager to 286 00:16:03,919 --> 00:16:08,960 be gone. Fedis sick with sleep lighted them upstairs. He 287 00:16:09,039 --> 00:16:12,120 heard their grumbling irish voices through a dream, and as 288 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:15,039 they stripped the sack from their sad merchandise, he leaned, 289 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,879 dozing with his shoulder propped against the wall. He had 290 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:21,399 to shake himself to find the men their money, As 291 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:23,720 he did so, his eyes lighted on the dead face. 292 00:16:23,759 --> 00:16:27,960 He started. He took two steps nearer with the candle. Right, 293 00:16:28,759 --> 00:16:33,799 God Almighty, that is Jane Gollbraith. The men answered nothing, 294 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:37,080 but they shuffled nearer the door. Why I know where, 295 00:16:37,159 --> 00:16:40,840 I tell you, he continued. She was alive and hearty yesterday. 296 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,360 It's impossible she can be dead. It's it's impossible. You 297 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:48,879 should have got this body fairly, chaucer. You must iChon entirely, 298 00:16:49,039 --> 00:16:51,879 said one of the men. But the other looked feedis 299 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,320 darkly in the eyes and demanded the money on the spot. 300 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:58,840 It was impossible to misconceive the threat or to exaggerate 301 00:16:58,879 --> 00:17:02,759 the danger. The lad's heart failed him. He stammered some excuses, 302 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:06,680 counted out the summon, saw his hateful visitors depart. No 303 00:17:06,799 --> 00:17:08,799 sooner were they gone than he hastened to confirm his 304 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:12,759 doubts by a dozen unquestionable marks. He identified the girl 305 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,880 he had jested with the day before. He saw with 306 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,920 horror marks upon her body that might well betoken violence. 307 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:22,039 The panic seized him, and he took refuge in his room. 308 00:17:23,079 --> 00:17:25,599 There he reflected at length over the discovery that he 309 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:29,480 had made, considered soberly the bearing of mister Kay's instructions 310 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:31,960 and the danger to himself of interference in so serious 311 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:35,519 a business, and at last, in sore perplexity, determined to 312 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:39,240 wait for the advice of his immediate superior, the class assistant. 313 00:17:40,039 --> 00:17:43,559 This was a young doctor Wolf mac farlane, a high 314 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:48,160 favorite among all the reckless students. Clever, dissipated, and unscrupulous 315 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,519 to the last degree. He had traveled and studied abroad. 316 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,160 His manners were agreeable and a little forward. He was 317 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,720 an authority on the stage, skillful on the ice or 318 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:00,599 the links, with skate or golf club. He dressed with 319 00:18:00,759 --> 00:18:04,079 nice audacity, and to put the finishing touch upon his glory, 320 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:07,759 he kept a gig in a strong trotting horse with fettis. 321 00:18:07,759 --> 00:18:10,839 He was on terms of intimacy. Indeed, their relative positions 322 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,519 called for some community of life, and when subjects were scarce, 323 00:18:14,559 --> 00:18:16,559 the pair would drive far into the country in mc 324 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:21,440 farland's gig, visit and desecrate some lonely graveyard, and returned 325 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,680 before dawn with their booty to the door of the 326 00:18:23,759 --> 00:18:27,759 dissecting room. On that particular morning, mc farland arrived somewhat 327 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:31,480 earlier than his wont Fetts heard him and met him 328 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,160 on the stairs, told him his story, and showed him 329 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,799 the cause of his alarm. Mac farland examined the marks 330 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:40,720 on her body. Yes, he said, with a nod, it 331 00:18:40,799 --> 00:18:44,440 looks fishy. Well, well what should I do? Asked Fetis? 332 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,880 Do repeat the other? Do you want to do anything? Least? 333 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,680 Said soonest men? Did? I should say? Some one else 334 00:18:52,759 --> 00:18:55,759 might recognize her, objected Fettis. She was as well known 335 00:18:55,799 --> 00:18:59,680 as the castle rock, we'll hope not, said mc farland. 336 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,160 And but it does well you didn't, don't you say? 337 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,599 And there's an end to it. The fact is this 338 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,200 has been going on too long. Stir up the mud 339 00:19:08,279 --> 00:19:11,519 and you'll get kay into the most unholy trouble. You'll 340 00:19:11,559 --> 00:19:13,880 be in a shocking box yourself, So will I if 341 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:16,480 you come to that. I should like to know how 342 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:18,759 any of us would look, or what the devil we 343 00:19:18,759 --> 00:19:22,119 should have to say for ourselves in any Christian witness box. 344 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:25,440 For me, you know there's one thing certain that practically speaking, 345 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:30,400 all our subjects have been murdered. MacFarland cried, Fettis, come now, 346 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:33,559 sneered the other, as if you hadn't suspected it yourself. Well, 347 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,559 Suspecting is one thing, and proof another. Yes, I know, 348 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,559 and I'm as sorry as you are. This should have 349 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,359 come here tapping the body with his cane. The next 350 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,680 best thing for me is not to recognize it, and 351 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,319 he added coolly, I don't you may if you please. 352 00:19:49,599 --> 00:19:51,319 I don't dictate, but I think a man of the 353 00:19:51,319 --> 00:19:54,119 world would do as I do, And I may add 354 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,480 I fancy that is what kay would look for at 355 00:19:56,519 --> 00:19:59,920 your hands. The question, of course, is why did each 356 00:20:00,039 --> 00:20:03,160 choose us too for his assistance? And I answered because 357 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,519 he didn't want old wives. This was the tone of 358 00:20:07,559 --> 00:20:10,079 all others to affect the mind of a lad like Feedis. 359 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:13,480 He agreed to imitate mac farlane. The body of the 360 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:17,359 unfortunate girl was duly dissected, and no one remarked or 361 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:21,039 appear to recognize her. One afternoon in his day's works 362 00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:24,279 were over, Fedis dropped into a popular tavern and found 363 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,880 mac Farland sitting with a stranger. This was a small man, 364 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:31,000 very pale and dark, with cold black eyes. The cut 365 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,599 of his features gave a promise of intellect and refinement, 366 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,079 which was but feebly realized in his manners, For he 367 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,279 proved upon a nearer acquaintance. Coarse, vulgar, and stupid. He exercised, however, 368 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:46,039 a very remarkable control over. MacFarlane issued orders like the 369 00:20:46,039 --> 00:20:50,160 Great bashoror became inflamed at the least discussion or delay, 370 00:20:50,759 --> 00:20:53,119 and commented rudely on the civility with which he was 371 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,640 a babe. This most offensive person took a fancy to 372 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,759 feedis on the spot, plied him with drinks, and honored 373 00:20:59,799 --> 00:21:03,799 him than usual confidences on his past career. If a 374 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:06,799 tenth part of what he confessed were true, he was 375 00:21:06,839 --> 00:21:10,559 a very loathsome rogue, and the lad's vanity was tickled 376 00:21:10,559 --> 00:21:13,599 by the attention of so experienced a man. I'm a 377 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,279 pretty bad fellow myself, the stranger remarked. But mac farland, 378 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:20,200 he's a boy, Toddy mc farland. I call him totty. 379 00:21:20,839 --> 00:21:22,960 Why are you find another glass? Or it might be 380 00:21:23,559 --> 00:21:27,240 totty you jump up and shut the door Toarty hates me? 381 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:30,960 He said again, Oh yes, totty you do. Don't you 382 00:21:31,039 --> 00:21:34,720 call me that confounded name, growled mc farland. Hear him. 383 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,200 Did you ever see the lads play knife? He'd like 384 00:21:38,279 --> 00:21:40,559 to do that all over my body, remarked the stranger. 385 00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:44,640 We medicals have a better way than that, said Fettis. 386 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,079 When we dislike a dead friend of ours, we dissect him. 387 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,079 Mc farland looked up sharply, as though this jest was 388 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:55,480 scarcely to his mind. The afternoon passed, Gray, for that 389 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,920 was the stranger's name, invited Fettis to join them at dinner, 390 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:02,200 ordered a feasts so sumptuous that the tavern was thrown 391 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,599 in commotion, and when all was done, commanded mac farland 392 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,000 to settle the bill. It was late before they separated. 393 00:22:09,319 --> 00:22:13,480 The man Gray was incapably drunk. MacFarland, sobered by his fury, 394 00:22:13,599 --> 00:22:15,240 chewed to the cut of the money he had been 395 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,319 forced to squander, and the slights he had been obliged 396 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,000 to swallow, Fedis, with various liquors singing in his head, 397 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:26,319 returned home with devious footsteps and a mind entirely in abeyance. 398 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,640 Next day mac farland was absent from the class, and 399 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,240 Feedis smiled to himself as he imagined him still squiring 400 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:36,759 the intolerable Gray from tavern to tavern. As soon as 401 00:22:36,759 --> 00:22:39,079 the hour of liberty had struck, he posted from place 402 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:42,079 to place in quest of his last night's companions. He 403 00:22:42,079 --> 00:22:45,880 could find them however, nowhere, so returned early to his rooms, 404 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,240 went early to bed, and slept the sleep of the trust. 405 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,039 At four in the morning, he was awakened by the 406 00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:54,319 well known signal. Descending to the door, he was filled 407 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,480 with astonishment to find mac farlane with his gig, and 408 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:00,640 in the gig one of those long and ghastly packages 409 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,759 with which he was so well acquainted. What, he cried, 410 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,200 Have you been out alone? How did you manage? But 411 00:23:08,359 --> 00:23:12,359 mc farland silenced him, roughly, bidding him turn to business. 412 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:14,480 When they had got the body upstairs and laid it 413 00:23:14,519 --> 00:23:16,839 on the table, mac farland made it first as if 414 00:23:16,839 --> 00:23:20,039 he were going away. Then he paused and seemed to hesitate. 415 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:23,400 And then you had better look at the face, said 416 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,279 mc farland, In terms of some constraint. You had better, 417 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,839 he repeated, as Fetis only stared at him in wonder. 418 00:23:30,319 --> 00:23:33,319 But but where and how and when did you come by? 419 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:36,599 It cried the other. Look at the face was the 420 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:41,200 only answer. Fetis was staggered. Strange doubts assailed him. He 421 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,200 looked from the young doctor to the body, and then 422 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,240 back again. At last, with a start, he did as 423 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,200 he was bidden. He had almost expected the sight that 424 00:23:49,319 --> 00:23:52,799 met his eyes, and yet the shock was cruel to 425 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,160 see fixed him the rigidity of death, and naked on 426 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,039 that course layer of sackcloth, the man whom he had 427 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,480 left well clad and full of meat, and upon the 428 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,880 threshold of a tavern, awoke even in the thoughtless Fetis 429 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,799 some of the terrors of the conscience. It was a 430 00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:11,599 grass tibby which re echoed in his soul that two 431 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:14,079 whom he had known should have come to lie upon 432 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,839 these icy tables. Yet these were only secondary thoughts. His 433 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,240 first concern regarded Wolf. Unprepared for a challenge so momentous, 434 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,839 he knew not how to look his comrade in the face. 435 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:27,799 He durst not meet his eye, and he had neither 436 00:24:27,839 --> 00:24:31,400 words nor voice at his command. It was mac Farland 437 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,559 himself who made the first advance. He came up quietly 438 00:24:34,599 --> 00:24:36,640 behind and laid his hand gently but firmly on the 439 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:42,200 other shoulder. Richardson said, he may have the head. Now. 440 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:44,480 Richardson was a student who had long been anxious for 441 00:24:44,519 --> 00:24:47,880 that portion of the human subject to dissect. There was 442 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,599 no answer, and the murderer resumed a talking of business. 443 00:24:52,079 --> 00:24:54,319 You must pay me your accounts, you see, must tally 444 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,519 Fetis found a voice, the ghost of his own. Pay you, 445 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:04,880 He cried you for that? Why, yes, yes, course you must, 446 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,920 by all means, and on every possible account, you must 447 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,920 returned the other. I dare not give it for nothing. 448 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,799 You dare not take it for nothing. It would compromise 449 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,200 us both. This is another case like Chain Galbraate's. The 450 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,599 more things are wrong, the more we must act as 451 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:25,279 if all were right. Where does O Kay keep his money? There, 452 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,319 answered Feedis, hoarsely, pointing to a cupboard in the corner. 453 00:25:29,279 --> 00:25:31,440 Give me the key, then said the other, calmly, holding 454 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,680 out his hand. There was an instant's hesitation, and the 455 00:25:34,759 --> 00:25:38,599 die was cast. Mac Farland could not suppress a nervous twitch, 456 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,559 the infinitesimal mark of an immense relief, as he felt 457 00:25:42,559 --> 00:25:45,599 the key between his fingers. He opened the cupboard, brought 458 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,599 out pen and ink, and a paper book that stood 459 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,359 in one compartment and separated from the fronts in a drawer, 460 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:56,759 a sum suitable to the occasion. Now look here, he said, 461 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,759 there is the payment made, first proof of your good fate, 462 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,839 first step to your security. You have now to clinch 463 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,920 it by a second. Enter the payment in your book, 464 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:09,400 and then you for your part may defy the devil. 465 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,559 The next few seconds were for Fettis an agony of thought, 466 00:26:14,319 --> 00:26:16,799 but in balancing his terrors, it was the most immediate 467 00:26:16,799 --> 00:26:20,480 the triumph. Any future difficulty seemed almost welcome if he 468 00:26:20,519 --> 00:26:24,039 could avoid a present quarrel with mac farland. He set 469 00:26:24,079 --> 00:26:26,279 down the candle which he had been carrying all his time, 470 00:26:26,319 --> 00:26:28,799 and with his steady hand entered the date, the nature, 471 00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:33,720 and the amount of the transaction. And now said mc farland, 472 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,839 it's only fair that you should pocket the lucre. I've 473 00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:39,480 had my share already by the bye. When a man 474 00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:41,359 of the world falls into a bit of luck, he 475 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,559 has a few shillings extra in his pocket. I'm ashamed 476 00:26:44,559 --> 00:26:46,319 to speak of it, but there's a rule of conduct 477 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:50,079 in the case. No treating, no purchase of expensive class books, 478 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:56,640 no squaring of old debts, borrow, don't lend. Mac farland 479 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,119 began feedtis, still somewhat hoarsely. I've put my neck a 480 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:05,240 halter to oblige you, to oblige me, cried wolf. Come 481 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:07,960 you did, as near as I can see the matter, 482 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,599 what you downright had to do in self defense? Suppose 483 00:27:13,599 --> 00:27:16,440 I got into trouble, Where would you be this second 484 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,640 little matter flows clearly from the first. Mister Gray, is 485 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,519 the continuation of miss Galbray. You can't begin and then stop. 486 00:27:24,079 --> 00:27:26,759 If you begin, you must keep on beginning. That's the truth. 487 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:31,519 No rest for the wicked. A horrible sense of blackness 488 00:27:31,559 --> 00:27:33,960 and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul 489 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,039 of the unhappy student. My god, he cried, but what 490 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,880 have I done? And when did I begin to be 491 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,799 made a class assistant? In the name of reason? Where's 492 00:27:44,799 --> 00:27:48,720 the harm in that service wanted? The position service might 493 00:27:48,759 --> 00:27:51,720 have got it? Would he have been where I am now? 494 00:27:53,079 --> 00:27:56,200 My dear fellow, said mc crarly, What a boy you are? 495 00:27:56,759 --> 00:27:59,359 What harm has come to you? What harm can come 496 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,880 to you? If you your tongue? Why? Men, do you 497 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,039 know what this life is? There are two squads of us, 498 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,440 the lions and the lambs. If you're a lamb, you'll 499 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,680 come to lie upon these tables, like Gray or Jane Galbray. 500 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,839 If you're a lion, you'll live and drive a horse 501 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,200 like me, like Kay, like all the world with any 502 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:22,000 witted courage. You're staggered at the first, But look at Kay, 503 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,119 my dear fellow, you're clever. You have pluck. I like you, 504 00:28:25,559 --> 00:28:28,680 and Kay likes you. You were born to lead the hunt. 505 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,160 And I tell you, on my honor and my experience 506 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,079 of life, three days from now you'll laugh at all 507 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,519 these scarecrows like a high school boy at a farce. 508 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,839 And with that mac Farland took his departure and drove 509 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,400 off up the wind in his gig to get under 510 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,519 cover before daylight. Fedis was thus left alone with his regrets. 511 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,799 He saw the miserable peril in which he stood involved. 512 00:28:51,359 --> 00:28:55,359 He saw with inexpressible dismay, that there was no limit 513 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,440 to his weakness, and that from concession to concession he 514 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,079 had fallen, from the arbiter of Macfarland's destiny to his 515 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,960 paid and helpless accomplice. He would have given the world 516 00:29:06,039 --> 00:29:08,519 to have been a little braver at the time, but 517 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,640 it did not occur to him that he might still 518 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,079 be brave. The secret of Jane Galbray and the cursed 519 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:19,160 entry in the day Book closed his mouth. Hours passed 520 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,200 as the class began to arrive. The members of the 521 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:24,160 Unhappy Gray were dealt out to one and to another, 522 00:29:24,839 --> 00:29:28,960 and received without remark. Richardson was made happy with the head, 523 00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:32,640 and before the hour of freedom, rang Fetis trembled with 524 00:29:32,759 --> 00:29:36,200 exultation to perceive how far they had already gone towards safety. 525 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,799 For two days he continued to watch with increasing joy 526 00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:44,200 the dreadful process of disguise. On the third day, MacFarlane 527 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,559 made his appearance. He had been ill, he said, but 528 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:48,640 he made up for lost time by the energy with 529 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:52,599 which he directed the student. To Richardson in particular, he 530 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:56,240 extended the most valuable assistance and advice, and that student, 531 00:29:56,359 --> 00:29:59,519 encouraged by the praise of the demonstrator, burned high with 532 00:29:59,559 --> 00:30:02,640 ambition hopes, and saw the meddle already in his grasp. 533 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,880 Before the week was out, mac Farland's prophecy had been fulfilled, Fedis, 534 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,240 had outlived his terrors and had forgotten his baseness. He 535 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:13,680 began to plume himself upon his courage, and had so 536 00:30:13,839 --> 00:30:16,440 arranged the story in his mind that he could look 537 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,960 back on these events with an unhealthy pride of his accomplice. 538 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,880 He saw. But little they met, of course, in the 539 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,039 business of the class. They received their orders together from 540 00:30:26,039 --> 00:30:28,599 mister Kay. At times they had a word or two 541 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,799 in private, and mac farland was from first to last 542 00:30:30,839 --> 00:30:34,319 particularly kind and jovial. But it was plain that he 543 00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:37,799 avoided any reference to their common secret, And even when 544 00:30:37,839 --> 00:30:40,160 Fedis whispered to him that he had cast in his 545 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,680 lot with the lions and forsworn the lambs, he only 546 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:48,079 signed to him smilingly, to hold his peace at length. 547 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,759 An occasion arose which threw the pair once more into 548 00:30:50,799 --> 00:30:54,279 a closer union. Mister Kay was again short of subjects. 549 00:30:54,279 --> 00:30:56,680 Pupils were eager, and it was a part of this 550 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:00,839 teacher's pretensions to be always well supplied. At the same time, 551 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,799 there came the news of a burial in the rustic 552 00:31:02,839 --> 00:31:07,720 graveyard of Glen Coose. Time has little changed the place 553 00:31:07,759 --> 00:31:11,119 in question. It stood then as now upon a cross road, 554 00:31:11,599 --> 00:31:15,279 out of call of human habitations, and buried fathoms deep 555 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:18,559 in the foliage of six cedar trees. The cries of 556 00:31:18,599 --> 00:31:21,640 the sheep upon the neighboring hills, the streamlets upon either hand, 557 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:25,960 one loudly singing among pebbles, the other dripping furtively from 558 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:28,920 pond to pond, the stir of the wind in the 559 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:33,240 mountainous old flowering chestnuts, and once in seven days the 560 00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:35,160 voice of the bell, and the old tombs of the 561 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,000 precenter were the only sounds that disturbed the silence round 562 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,359 the rural church. The resurrection man, to use a by 563 00:31:43,519 --> 00:31:46,240 name of the period, was not to be deterred by 564 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,200 any of the sanctities of customary piety. It was part 565 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,839 of his trade to despise and desecrate the scrolls and 566 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,680 trumpets of old tombs, the paths worn by the feet 567 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,920 of worshippers and mourners, and the offerings and the inscription 568 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,640 of bereaved affection to rustic neighborhoods where love is more 569 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,079 than commonly tenacious, and where some bonds of blood or 570 00:32:08,079 --> 00:32:12,559 fellowship unite the entire society of a parish. The body snatcher, 571 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,279 far from being repelled by natural respect, was attracted by 572 00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:19,839 the ease and safety of the task to bodies that 573 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,319 had been laid in earth in joyful expectation of a 574 00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:26,279 far different awakening. There came that hasty, lamp lit terror, 575 00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:30,720 haunted resurrection of the spade and mattic. The coffin was forced, 576 00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:36,640 the crements torn, and the melancholy relics clad in sackcloth, 577 00:32:37,079 --> 00:32:40,559 after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at 578 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,480 length exposed to uttermost indignities. For a class of gaping 579 00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:50,279 boys somewhat as two vultures may swoop upon a dying lamb. 580 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,119 Fetus and MacFarlane were to be let loose upon a 581 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,720 grave in that green and quiet resting place. The wife 582 00:32:56,759 --> 00:32:58,799 of a farmer, a woman who had lived for sixty 583 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,759 years and been known for nothing but good butter and 584 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:05,480 a godly conversation, was to be rooted from her grave 585 00:33:05,519 --> 00:33:08,200 at midnight and carried dead and naked to that far 586 00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:11,839 away city that she had always honored with her Sunday's best. 587 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,119 The place beside her family was to be empty till 588 00:33:15,119 --> 00:33:18,880 the crack of doom, her innocent and almost venerable members 589 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,559 to be exposed to that last curiosity of the anatomist. 590 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,599 Late one afternoon, the pair set forth, well wrapped in 591 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:30,480 cloaks and furnished with a formidable bottle. It rained without 592 00:33:30,519 --> 00:33:34,359 remission a cold, dense, lashing rain. Now and again there 593 00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:37,079 blew a puff of wind, but these sheets of falling 594 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,400 water kept it down, bottle and all. It was a 595 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:44,119 sad and silent drive as far as Pennacock, where they 596 00:33:44,119 --> 00:33:47,079 were to spend the evening. They stopped once to hide 597 00:33:47,079 --> 00:33:49,720 their implements in a thick bush not far from the churchyard, 598 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,160 and once again at the Fisher's tryst to have a 599 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:55,400 toast before the kitchen fire, and vary their nips of 600 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,519 whisky with a glass of ale. When they reached their 601 00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:01,920 journey's end, the gig was The horse was fed and comforted, 602 00:34:02,599 --> 00:34:04,759 and the two young doctors, in a private room sat 603 00:34:04,799 --> 00:34:06,559 down to the best dinner and the best wine the 604 00:34:06,559 --> 00:34:10,199 house afforded. The lights, the fire, the beating rain upon 605 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,480 the window, the cold, incongruous work that lay before them 606 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,280 added zest to their enjoyment of the meal. With every 607 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,199 glass their cordiality increased. Soon mac farland handed a little 608 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,440 pile of gold to his companion, a compliment, he said, 609 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:30,000 between friends, these little damned accommodations ought to fly like 610 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,159 pipe lights. Ferris pocketed the money and applauded the sentiment 611 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,280 to the echo. You are a philosopher, he cried, I 612 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,760 was an ass till I knew you. You'll encave between 613 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,719 you by the Lord Harry, but you'll make a man 614 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:48,719 out of maid. Of course we will have lauded mc 615 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,679 farland a man. I tell you, it required a man 616 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,000 to back me up. The other morning, there are some 617 00:34:54,119 --> 00:34:57,039 big brawling forty year old cowards who would have turned 618 00:34:57,079 --> 00:34:59,760 sick at the sight of the damn thing. But not you. 619 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,960 You kept your head. I watched you well, and why 620 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,920 not Feris thus paunted himself. There was no affair of mine. 621 00:35:08,079 --> 00:35:10,800 There was nothing to gain on the one side but disturbance. 622 00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,400 And on the other I could count on your gratitude, 623 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:15,840 don't you say? And he slapped his pocket till the 624 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:20,360 gold pieces rang. Mac Farland somehow felt a certain touch 625 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,760 of alarm at these unpleasant words. He may have regretted 626 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,840 that he had taught his young companion so successfully, but 627 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,280 he had no time to interfere. For the other noisily 628 00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:33,039 continued in this boastful strain. The great thing is not 629 00:35:33,159 --> 00:35:35,440 to be afraid. Now between you and me, I don't 630 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,440 want to hang, and it's practical. But for all, count 631 00:35:39,599 --> 00:35:44,320 mac Farland, I was born with a contempt o God, devil, right, wrong, sin, crime, 632 00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:48,320 and all the other old gallery of curiosity. They may 633 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,639 frighten boys, but men of the world like you and 634 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:56,920 me despise them. Here's to the memory of Gray. It 635 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,760 was by this time growing somewhat late. The gig, according 636 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,039 to was brought round to the door with both lamps 637 00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:04,880 brightly shining, and the young men had to pay their 638 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,719 bill and take the road. They announced that they were 639 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,679 bound for Peebles, and drove in that direction till they 640 00:36:10,679 --> 00:36:13,760 were clear of the last houses of the town. Then, 641 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,039 extinguishing the carriage lamps, were turned upon their course and 642 00:36:17,159 --> 00:36:20,639 followed a by road toward Glen Course. There was no 643 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,159 sound but that of their own passage and the incessant, 644 00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:27,039 strident pouring of the rain. It was pitch dark, and 645 00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:29,199 here and there a white gate or a white stone 646 00:36:29,199 --> 00:36:31,360 in the wall guided them for a short space across 647 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:33,880 the night. But for the most part it was at 648 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,880 a foot pace and almost groping, that they picked their 649 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:39,719 way through that resonant blackness to their solemn and isolated 650 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:44,159 destination in the sunken woods that traverse the neighborhood of 651 00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:47,400 the burying ground. The last glimmer failed them, and it 652 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,519 became necessary to kindle a match and re illumine one 653 00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:53,920 of the lanters of the gig. Thus, under the dripping trees, 654 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,039 and environed by huge and moving shadows, they reached the 655 00:36:58,079 --> 00:37:02,519 scene of their unhallowed labors. They were both experienced in 656 00:37:02,519 --> 00:37:05,440 such affairs and powerful with the spade, and they had 657 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,719 scarce been twenty minutes at their task before they were 658 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,480 rewarded by a dull rattle on the coffin lid. At 659 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,639 the same time, mac Farlane, having hurt his hand upon 660 00:37:13,679 --> 00:37:17,920 a stone, flung it carelessly above his head. The grave 661 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,079 in which they now stood almost to the shoulders, was 662 00:37:20,119 --> 00:37:22,280 close to the edge of the plateau of the graveyard, 663 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,920 and the gig lamp had been propped, the better to 664 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,440 illuminate their labors. Against a tree, and on the immediate 665 00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:32,079 verge of the steep bank descending to the stream. Chance 666 00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:34,960 had taken a sure aim with the stone. Then came 667 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,239 a clang of broken glass. Night fell upon them. Sounds, 668 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,280 alternately dull and ringing, announced the bounding of the lantern 669 00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,559 down the bank, and its occasional collision with the trees. 670 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:48,559 A stone or two, which it had dislodged in its descent, 671 00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:52,360 rattled behind it into the profundities of the glen. And 672 00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:57,079 then silence, like night resumed its sway, and they might 673 00:37:57,159 --> 00:37:59,639 bend their hearing to its utmost pitch, but naught was 674 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:02,559 to be heard except the rain, now marching to the 675 00:38:02,559 --> 00:38:07,719 wind now steadily falling over miles of open country. They 676 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,079 were so nearly at an end of their bared task, 677 00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:12,679 that they judged it wisest to complete it in the dark. 678 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,199 The coffin was exhumed and broken open, the body inserted 679 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,239 in the dripping sack, and carried between them to the gig, 680 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,079 one mounted to keep it in its place, and the other, 681 00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:25,159 taking the horse by the mouth, roped along by wall 682 00:38:25,199 --> 00:38:27,960 and bush until they reached the wider road. By the 683 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,519 fissure's tryst, here was a faint, diffused radiancy, which they 684 00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:36,119 hailed like daylight. By that they pushed the horse to 685 00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,639 a good pace, and began to rattle along merrily in 686 00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:42,199 the direction of the town. They had both been wetted 687 00:38:42,199 --> 00:38:44,440 to the skin during their operations, and now as the 688 00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,519 gig jumped among the deep ruts, the thing that stood 689 00:38:47,559 --> 00:38:50,559 propped between them fell now upon one, and now upon 690 00:38:50,559 --> 00:38:54,360 the other. At every repetition of the horrid contact, each 691 00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:58,159 instinctively repelled it with a greater haste, and the process 692 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,199 natural enough, as it was began to tell upon the 693 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,800 nerves of the companions. Mac Farland made some ill favored 694 00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,480 jest about the farmer's wife, but it came hollowly from 695 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,800 his lips and was allowed to drop in silence. Still 696 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,239 their unnatural burden bumped from side to side, And now 697 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,519 the head would be laid, as if in confidence, upon 698 00:39:17,559 --> 00:39:21,119 their shoulders. And now the drenching sackcloth would flap icily 699 00:39:21,159 --> 00:39:24,679 about their faces. A creeping chill began to possess the 700 00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,320 soul of Fetis. He peered at the bundle, and it 701 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,840 seemed somewhat larger than at first. All over the countryside, 702 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:34,199 or from every degree of distance, the farm dogs accompanied 703 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:38,840 their passage with tragic eululations. And it grew and grew 704 00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:43,280 upon his mind that some unnatural miracle had been accomplished, 705 00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,840 that some nameless change had befallen the dead body, and 706 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,159 that it was in fear of their unholy burden. The 707 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,760 dogs were howling. For God's sake, said he, making a 708 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,079 great have to arrive at speech. For God's sakes, let's 709 00:39:55,079 --> 00:39:58,000 have a light. Seemingly, mac Farland was effected in the 710 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,599 same direction, for though he made no reply, he stopped 711 00:40:00,639 --> 00:40:03,480 the horse, passed the reins to his companion, got down, 712 00:40:03,519 --> 00:40:06,679 and proceeded to kindle the remaining lamp. They had by 713 00:40:06,679 --> 00:40:09,039 that time got no further than the cross road down 714 00:40:09,079 --> 00:40:12,679 the och and clime The rain still poured as though 715 00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,360 the deluge were returning, and it was no easy matter 716 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,000 to make a light in such a world of wet 717 00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:20,559 and darkness. When at last the flickering blue flame had 718 00:40:20,599 --> 00:40:23,519 been transferred to the wick and began to expand and clarify, 719 00:40:24,159 --> 00:40:26,920 and shed a wide circle of misty brightness round the gig, 720 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,599 it became possible for the two young men to see 721 00:40:29,639 --> 00:40:32,719 each other and the thing they had along with them. 722 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,360 The rain had molded the rough sacking to the outlines 723 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,320 of the body underneath. The head was distinct from the trunk, 724 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:42,960 the shoulders plainly modeled something at once spectral and human. 725 00:40:43,079 --> 00:40:46,199 Riveted their eyes upon the ghastly comrade of their drive. 726 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,880 For some time, McFarland stood motionless, holding up the lamp. 727 00:40:50,639 --> 00:40:53,440 A nameless dread was swathed like a wet sheet about 728 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,280 the body and tightened the white skin upon the face 729 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,760 of fetis, A fear that was meaningless, a horror of 730 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,920 what could not be kept mounting to his brain. Another 731 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,119 beat of the watch and he had spoken, but his 732 00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:10,280 comrade forestalled him. It that is not a woman, said 733 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,760 mac farland in a hushed voice. It was a woman 734 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,000 when we put her in whispered, EDDI hold that lamp, 735 00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:21,199 said the other, I must must see her face. As 736 00:41:21,199 --> 00:41:24,039 Fetis took the lamp, his companion untied the fastenings of 737 00:41:24,039 --> 00:41:26,000 the sack and drew down the cover from the head. 738 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,440 The light fell very clear upon the dark, well molded 739 00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:32,519 features and smooth shaven cheeks of a too familiar countenance 740 00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:35,639 often beheld in dreams of both of these young men. 741 00:41:36,519 --> 00:41:39,440 A wild yell rang up into the night. Each leaped 742 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,320 from his own side into the roadway. The lamp fell 743 00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,440 broke and was extinguished, and the horse, terrified by this 744 00:41:45,559 --> 00:41:49,800 unusual commotion, bounded and went off towards Edinburgh at a gallop, 745 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:54,199 bearing along with it sole occupant of the gig, the 746 00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:58,800 body of the dead and long dissected gray and of 747 00:41:59,119 --> 00:42:01,760 the body snatched by Robert Louis Stevenson