The herald., 1895-03-10

cussion or delay and commented rudely on
the servility with which he was obeyed.
! This most offensive person took a fancy
to Fettes on the spot, piled him with
drinks and honored him with unusual
condolences on his past career. If tenth
part of what he confessed were true, he
was a very loathsome rogue, and the lad s
vanity was tickled by the attention of SO
experienced man.
Pm petty bad fellow myself, the
stranger remarked, but Macfarlane is
the boy-Toddy Macfarlane, call him.
Teddy, order your friend another glass.
Or it might be, Teddy, you jump up
and shut that door" Teddy hates me, .
he said again. ooh, yes, Teddy, YOU
do
Don't you call me that COMPOUNDED
name" growled Macfarlane
Hear him! Did you ever see the lad g
| play knife? He would like to do that all
over my body" remarked the stranger.
1--WE medicals have q better way than
that" said Fettes. When we dislike a
dear friend of ours we dissect him.
Macfarlane looked up sharply, as
though this Jest were scarcely to his
mind.
The afternoon passed. Gray, for that
was the strangers name, invited Fettes
to join them at dinner, ordered feast so
sumptuous that the tavern was thrown into
connection, and when all was done COM
manded Macfarlane to settle the bill. 1t
was late before they separated; the man
Gray was incapably drunk; Macfarlane,
sobered by his fury, chewd the cud OF the
money he had been forced to squander
and the Sights he had been obliged to
swallow. Fettes, with various liquors
singing in his head returned home with
devious footsteps and mind entirely in
allegiance. Next day Macfarlane was b.
sent from the class, and Fettes smiled to
himself as he imagined him still squirting
the intolerable Gray from tavern to
tavern. AS soon as the hour of liberty
had struck he posted from place to
place in quest of his last nights compan-
ions. He could find them. however, no.
where, returned early to his rooms, went
early to bed, and slept the sleep of the
Just.
At in the morning he was awakened
by the well-known signal. Descending to
the door, he was filled with astonishment
to find Macfarlane with his gig and, IN
the gig, one of those long and CHASTITY
packages with which he was so well ac-
quainted.
"What?'' he cried "Have you been
out alone? How did you manager"
But Macfarlane silenced him roughly,
bidding him turn to business. When they
had got the body upstairs and laid it ON
he were going away; then the paused and
seemed to hesitate; and then, You had
better look at the face. said he, in tones
of some constraint. You had better, "
he repeated, as Fettes only stared at him
in wonder.
"But where. and how, and when did
you come by it?" cried the other
''Look at the face" was the only
answer.
Fettes was staggered strange doubts
assailed him; he looked from the young
doctor to the body, and then back again
at last with start, he did as he was
hidden. He had almost expected the
sight that met his eyes, and yet the shock
was cruel. To see, fixed in the rigidity of
death and naked on that coarse layer of
sackcloth, the man whom he had left well
clad and full of meat and sin upon the
thoughtless Fettes, some of the terrors Of
the conscience. 1t was a cras tibi which
re-echoed in his soul, that two whom he
had known should have come to lie upon