The following night, Macfarlane brings Gray’s body along as a dissection sample. Later, Fettes meets Macfarlane at a tavern, along with a man named Gray, who treats Macfarlane in a rude manner. But Macfarlane talks him out of reporting the incident, lest they are both implicated in the crime. On one occasion, Fettes identifies a body as that of a woman he knew, and is convinced she has been murdered. Their duties included taking receipt of bodies for dissection, and paying the pair of shifty and suspicious men who supplied them. It turns out that Macfarlane and Fettes had attended medical school together, under anatomy professor Robert Knox. Although his friends all find this behaviour suspicious, none of them can understand what might lie behind it. One of the friends, Fettes, recognizes the name and angrily confronts the new arrival. “A group of friends share a few drinks, when an eminent doctor, Wolfe Macfarlane, enters. Edward Gorey’s illustration of “The Body-Snatcher” Plot Summary
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