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Each
man
,
before
we
parted
,
had
his
theory
that
he
was
bound
to
prove
;
and
none
of
us
had
any
nearer
business
in
this
world
than
to
track
out
the
past
of
our
condemned
companion
,
and
surprise
the
secret
that
he
shared
with
the
great
London
doctor
.
It
is
no
great
boast
,
but
I
believe
I
was
a
better
hand
at
worming
out
a
story
than
either
of
my
fellows
at
the
George
;
and
perhaps
there
is
now
no
other
man
alive
who
could
narrate
to
you
the
following
foul
and
unnatural
events
.
In
his
young
days
Fettes
studied
medicine
in
the
schools
of
Edinburgh
.
He
had
talent
of
a
kind
,
the
talent
that
picks
up
swiftly
what
it
hears
and
readily
retails
it
for
its
own
.
He
worked
little
at
home
;
but
he
was
civil
,
attentive
,
and
intelligent
in
the
presence
of
his
masters
.
They
soon
picked
him
out
as
a
lad
who
listened
closely
and
remembered
well
;
nay
,
strange
as
it
seemed
to
me
when
I
first
heard
it
,
he
was
in
those
days
well
favoured
,
and
pleased
by
his
exterior
.
There
was
,
at
that
period
,
a
certain
extramural
teacher
of
anatomy
,
whom
I
shall
here
designate
by
the
letter
K.
His
name
was
subsequently
too
well
known
.
The
man
who
bore
it
skulked
through
the
streets
of
Edinburgh
in
disguise
,
while
the
mob
that
applauded
at
the
execution
of
Burke
called
loudly
for
the
blood
of
his
employer
.
But
Mr.
K
--
was
then
at
the
top
of
his
vogue
;
he
enjoyed
a
popularity
due
partly
to
his
own
talent
and
address
,
partly
to
the
incapacity
of
his
rival
,
the
university
professor
.
The
students
,
at
least
,
swore
by
his
name
,
and
Fettes
believed
himself
,
and
was
believed
by
others
,
to
have
laid
the
foundations
of
success
when
he
had
acquired
the
favour
of
this
meteorically
famous
man
.
Mr.
K
--
was
a
BON
VIVANT
as
well
as
an
accomplished
teacher
;
he
liked
a
sly
illusion
no
less
than
a
careful
preparation
.
In
both
capacities
Fettes
enjoyed
and
deserved
his
notice
,
and
by
the
second
year
of
his
attendance
he
held
the
half-regular
position
of
second
demonstrator
or
sub
--
assistant
in
his
class
.
In
this
capacity
the
charge
of
the
theatre
and
lecture-room
devolved
in
particular
upon
his
shoulders
.
He
had
to
answer
for
the
cleanliness
of
the
premises
and
the
conduct
of
the
other
students
,
and
it
was
a
part
of
his
duty
to
supply
,
receive
,
and
divide
the
various
subjects
.
It
was
with
a
view
to
this
last
--
at
that
time
very
delicate
--
affair
that
he
was
lodged
by
Mr.
K
--
in
the
same
wynd
,
and
at
last
in
the
same
building
,
with
the
dissecting-rooms
.
Here
,
after
a
night
of
turbulent
pleasures
,
his
hand
still
tottering
,
his
sight
still
misty
and
confused
,
he
would
be
called
out
of
bed
in
the
black
hours
before
the
winter
dawn
by
the
unclean
and
desperate
interlopers
who
supplied
the
table
.
He
would
open
the
door
to
these
men
,
since
infamous
throughout
the
land
.
He
would
help
them
with
their
tragic
burden
,
pay
them
their
sordid
price
,
and
remain
alone
,
when
they
were
gone
,
with
the
unfriendly
relics
of
humanity
.
From
such
a
scene
he
would
return
to
snatch
another
hour
or
two
of
slumber
,
to
repair
the
abuses
of
the
night
,
and
refresh
himself
for
the
labours
of
the
day
.
Few
lads
could
have
been
more
insensible
to
the
impressions
of
a
life
thus
passed
among
the
ensigns
of
mortality
.
His
mind
was
closed
against
all
general
considerations
.
He
was
incapable
of
interest
in
the
fate
and
fortunes
of
another
,
the
slave
of
his
own
desires
and
low
ambitions
.
Cold
,
light
,
and
selfish
in
the
last
resort
,
he
had
that
modicum
of
prudence
,
miscalled
morality
,
which
keeps
a
man
from
inconvenient
drunkenness
or
punishable
theft
.
He
coveted
,
besides
,
a
measure
of
consideration
from
his
masters
and
his
fellow-pupils
,
and
he
had
no
desire
to
fail
conspicuously
in
the
external
parts
of
life
.
Thus
he
made
it
his
pleasure
to
gain
some
distinction
in
his
studies
,
and
day
after
day
rendered
unimpeachable
eye-service
to
his
employer
,
Mr.
K
-
.
For
his
day
of
work
he
indemnified
himself
by
nights
of
roaring
,
blackguardly
enjoyment
;
and
when
that
balance
had
been
struck
,
the
organ
that
he
called
his
conscience
declared
itself
content
.
The
supply
of
subjects
was
a
continual
trouble
to
him
as
well
as
to
his
master
.
In
that
large
and
busy
class
,
the
raw
material
of
the
anatomists
kept
perpetually
running
out
;
and
the
business
thus
rendered
necessary
was
not
only
unpleasant
in
itself
,
but
threatened
dangerous
consequences
to
all
who
were
concerned
.
It
was
the
policy
of
Mr.
K
--
to
ask
no
questions
in
his
dealings
with
the
trade
.
'
They
bring
the
body
,
and
we
pay
the
price
,
'
he
used
to
say
,
dwelling
on
the
alliteration
--
'
QUID
PRO
QUO
.
'
And
,
again
,
and
somewhat
profanely
,
'
Ask
no
questions
,
'
he
would
tell
his
assistants
,
'
for
conscience
'
sake
.
'
There
was
no
understanding
that
the
subjects
were
provided
by
the
crime
of
murder
.
Had
that
idea
been
broached
to
him
in
words
,
he
would
have
recoiled
in
horror
;
but
the
lightness
of
his
speech
upon
so
grave
a
matter
was
,
in
itself
,
an
offence
against
good
manners
,
and
a
temptation
to
the
men
with
whom
he
dealt
.
Fettes
,
for
instance
,
had
often
remarked
to
himself
upon
the
singular
freshness
of
the
bodies
.
He
had
been
struck
again
and
again
by
the
hang-dog
,
abominable
looks
of
the
ruffians
who
came
to
him
before
the
dawn
;
and
putting
things
together
clearly
in
his
private
thoughts
,
he
perhaps
attributed
a
meaning
too
immoral
and
too
categorical
to
the
unguarded
counsels
of
his
master
.
He
understood
his
duty
,
in
short
,
to
have
three
branches
:
to
take
what
was
brought
,
to
pay
the
price
,
and
to
avert
the
eye
from
any
evidence
of
crime
.
One
November
morning
this
policy
of
silence
was
put
sharply
to
the
test
.
He
had
been
awake
all
night
with
a
racking
toothache
--
pacing
his
room
like
a
caged
beast
or
throwing
himself
in
fury
on
his
bed
--
and
had
fallen
at
last
into
that
profound
,
uneasy
slumber
that
so
often
follows
on
a
night
of
pain
,
when
he
was
awakened
by
the
third
or
fourth
angry
repetition
of
the
concerted
signal
.
There
was
a
thin
,
bright
moonshine
;
it
was
bitter
cold
,
windy
,
and
frosty
;
the
town
had
not
yet
awakened
,
but
an
indefinable
stir
already
preluded
the
noise
and
business
of
the
day
.
The
ghouls
had
come
later
than
usual
,
and
they
seemed
more
than
usually
eager
to
be
gone
.
Fettes
,
sick
with
sleep
,
lighted
them
upstairs
.
He
heard
their
grumbling
Irish
voices
through
a
dream
;
and
as
they
stripped
the
sack
from
their
sad
merchandise
he
leaned
dozing
,
with
his
shoulder
propped
against
the
wall
;
he
had
to
shake
himself
to
find
the
men
their
money
.
As
he
did
so
his
eyes
lighted
on
the
dead
face
.
He
started
;
he
took
two
steps
nearer
,
with
the
candle
raised
.
