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'
The
great
thing
is
not
to
be
afraid
.
Now
,
between
you
and
me
,
I
do
n't
want
to
hang
--
that
's
practical
;
but
for
all
cant
,
Macfarlane
,
I
was
born
with
a
contempt
.
Hell
,
God
,
Devil
,
right
,
wrong
,
sin
,
crime
,
and
all
the
old
gallery
of
curiosities
--
they
may
frighten
boys
,
but
men
of
the
world
,
like
you
and
me
,
despise
them
.
Here
's
to
the
memory
of
Gray
!
'
It
was
by
this
time
growing
somewhat
late
.
The
gig
,
according
to
order
,
was
brought
round
to
the
door
with
both
lamps
brightly
shining
,
and
the
young
men
had
to
pay
their
bill
and
take
the
road
.
They
announced
that
they
were
bound
for
Peebles
,
and
drove
in
that
direction
till
they
were
clear
of
the
last
houses
of
the
town
;
then
,
extinguishing
the
lamps
,
returned
upon
their
course
,
and
followed
a
by-road
toward
Glencorse
.
There
was
no
sound
but
that
of
their
own
passage
,
and
the
incessant
,
strident
pouring
of
the
rain
.
It
was
pitch
dark
;
here
and
there
a
white
gate
or
a
white
stone
in
the
wall
guided
them
for
a
short
space
across
the
night
;
but
for
the
most
part
it
was
at
a
foot
pace
,
and
almost
groping
,
that
they
picked
their
way
through
that
resonant
blackness
to
their
solemn
and
isolated
destination
.
In
the
sunken
woods
that
traverse
the
neighbourhood
of
the
burying
--
ground
the
last
glimmer
failed
them
,
and
it
became
necessary
to
kindle
a
match
and
re-illumine
one
of
the
lanterns
of
the
gig
.
Thus
,
under
the
dripping
trees
,
and
environed
by
huge
and
moving
shadows
,
they
reached
the
scene
of
their
unhallowed
labours
.
They
were
both
experienced
in
such
affairs
,
and
powerful
with
the
spade
;
and
they
had
scarce
been
twenty
minutes
at
their
task
before
they
were
rewarded
by
a
dull
rattle
on
the
coffin
lid
.
At
the
same
moment
Macfarlane
,
having
hurt
his
hand
upon
a
stone
,
flung
it
carelessly
above
his
head
.
The
grave
,
in
which
they
now
stood
almost
to
the
shoulders
,
was
close
to
the
edge
of
the
plateau
of
the
graveyard
;
and
the
gig
lamp
had
been
propped
,
the
better
to
illuminate
their
labours
,
against
a
tree
,
and
on
the
immediate
verge
of
the
steep
bank
descending
to
the
stream
.
Chance
had
taken
a
sure
aim
with
the
stone
.
Then
came
a
clang
of
broken
glass
;
night
fell
upon
them
;
sounds
alternately
dull
and
ringing
announced
the
bounding
of
the
lantern
down
the
bank
,
and
its
occasional
collision
with
the
trees
.
A
stone
or
two
,
which
it
had
dislodged
in
its
descent
,
rattled
behind
it
into
the
profundities
of
the
glen
;
and
then
silence
,
like
night
,
resumed
its
sway
;
and
they
might
bend
their
hearing
to
its
utmost
pitch
,
but
naught
was
to
be
heard
except
the
rain
,
now
marching
to
the
wind
,
now
steadily
falling
over
miles
of
open
country
.
They
were
so
nearly
at
an
end
of
their
abhorred
task
that
they
judged
it
wisest
to
complete
it
in
the
dark
.
The
coffin
was
exhumed
and
broken
open
;
the
body
inserted
in
the
dripping
sack
and
carried
between
them
to
the
gig
;
one
mounted
to
keep
it
in
its
place
,
and
the
other
,
taking
the
horse
by
the
mouth
,
groped
along
by
wall
and
bush
until
they
reached
the
wider
road
by
the
Fisher
's
Tryst
.
Here
was
a
faint
,
diffused
radiancy
,
which
they
hailed
like
daylight
;
by
that
they
pushed
the
horse
to
a
good
pace
and
began
to
rattle
along
merrily
in
the
direction
of
the
town
.
They
had
both
been
wetted
to
the
skin
during
their
operations
,
and
now
,
as
the
gig
jumped
among
the
deep
ruts
,
the
thing
that
stood
propped
between
them
fell
now
upon
one
and
now
upon
the
other
.
At
every
repetition
of
the
horrid
contact
each
instinctively
repelled
it
with
the
greater
haste
;
and
the
process
,
natural
although
it
was
,
began
to
tell
upon
the
nerves
of
the
companions
.
Macfarlane
made
some
ill-favoured
jest
about
the
farmer
's
wife
,
but
it
came
hollowly
from
his
lips
,
and
was
allowed
to
drop
in
silence
.
Still
their
unnatural
burden
bumped
from
side
to
side
;
and
now
the
head
would
be
laid
,
as
if
in
confidence
,
upon
their
shoulders
,
and
now
the
drenching
sack-cloth
would
flap
icily
about
their
faces
.
A
creeping
chill
began
to
possess
the
soul
of
Fettes
.
He
peered
at
the
bundle
,
and
it
seemed
somehow
larger
than
at
first
.
All
over
the
country-side
,
and
from
every
degree
of
distance
,
the
farm
dogs
accompanied
their
passage
with
tragic
ululations
;
and
it
grew
and
grew
upon
his
mind
that
some
unnatural
miracle
had
been
accomplished
,
that
some
nameless
change
had
befallen
the
dead
body
,
and
that
it
was
in
fear
of
their
unholy
burden
that
the
dogs
were
howling
.
'
For
God
's
sake
,
'
said
he
,
making
a
great
effort
to
arrive
at
speech
,
'
for
God
's
sake
,
let
's
have
a
light
!
'
Seemingly
Macfarlane
was
affected
in
the
same
direction
;
for
,
though
he
made
no
reply
,
he
stopped
the
horse
,
passed
the
reins
to
his
companion
,
got
down
,
and
proceeded
to
kindle
the
remaining
lamp
.
They
had
by
that
time
got
no
farther
than
the
cross-road
down
to
Auchenclinny
.
The
rain
still
poured
as
though
the
deluge
were
returning
,
and
it
was
no
easy
matter
to
make
a
light
in
such
a
world
of
wet
and
darkness
.
When
at
last
the
flickering
blue
flame
had
been
transferred
to
the
wick
and
began
to
expand
and
clarify
,
and
shed
a
wide
circle
of
misty
brightness
round
the
gig
,
it
became
possible
for
the
two
young
men
to
see
each
other
and
the
thing
they
had
along
with
them
.
The
rain
had
moulded
the
rough
sacking
to
the
outlines
of
the
body
underneath
;
the
head
was
distinct
from
the
trunk
,
the
shoulders
plainly
modelled
;
something
at
once
spectral
and
human
riveted
their
eyes
upon
the
ghastly
comrade
of
their
drive
.
For
some
time
Macfarlane
stood
motionless
,
holding
up
the
lamp
.
A
nameless
dread
was
swathed
,
like
a
wet
sheet
,
about
the
body
,
and
tightened
the
white
skin
upon
the
face
of
Fettes
;
a
fear
that
was
meaningless
,
a
horror
of
what
could
not
be
,
kept
mounting
to
his
brain
.
Another
beat
of
the
watch
,
and
he
had
spoken
.
But
his
comrade
forestalled
him
.
