ANATOMISTS AND ANATOMY. 



The doors and windows were 

 well secured, and that the body 

 could have been stolen he thought 

 impossible. He tremblingly looked 

 round the closet, and found the 

 dead man seated in a corner. 

 Junker stood for a moment motion- 

 less ; the dead man seemed to look 

 towards him ; he moved both to 

 the right and to the left, but the 

 dead man still kept his eyes fixed 

 on him. The professor then retired, 

 step by step, with his eye still fixed 

 upon the object of alarm, and hold- 

 ing the candle in his hand until he 

 reached the door. The dead man 

 instantly started up and followed 

 nim. A figure of so hideous an 

 appearance, naked, r.nd in motion, 

 the lateness of the hour, the deep 

 silence which prevailed, everything 

 concurred to overwhelm him with 

 confusion. He let fall the only 

 -candle which was burning, and all 

 was darkness ! He made his es- 

 cape to his apartment, and threw 

 himself on his bed ; thither, how- 

 ever, he was followed ; and he soon 

 found the dead man embracing his 

 legs, and loudly sobbing. 



Repeated cries of "Leave me ! 

 leave me !" released Junker from 

 the grasp of the dead man, who 

 now exclaimed, " Ah ! good execu- 

 tioner! good executioner! have 

 mercy upon me !" 



Junker soon perceived the cause 

 of what had happened, and resumed 

 nis fortitude. He informed the reani- 

 mated sufferer whom he really was, 

 and made a motion in order to call 

 up some of his family. " You then 

 wish to destroy me," exclaimed the 

 criminal. " If you call up any one, 

 my adventure will become public, 

 and I shall be executed a second 

 time. In the name of humanity I 

 implore you to save my life." 



The physician struck a light, 

 decorated his guest with an old 

 night-gown, and having made him 

 drink a cordial, requested to know 

 v/hat had brought him to the gib- 



bet 1 " It would have been truly a 

 singular exhibition," observed Jun- 

 ker, " to have seen me, at that late 

 hour, engaged in a tete-a-tete with a 

 dead man, decked out in an old 

 night-gown." 



The poor wretch informed him r 

 that he had enlisted as a soldier, 

 but that, having no great attach- 

 ment to the profession, he had de- 

 termined to desert ; that he had in- 

 trusted his secret to a kind of crimp, 

 a fellow of no principle, who recom- 

 mended him to a woman, in whose 

 house he was to remain concealed ; 

 that this woman had discovered his 

 retreat to the officers of police, &c. 



Junker was extremely perplexed 

 how to save the poor man. It was 

 impossible to retain him in his own 

 house; and to turn him out of 

 doors was to expose him to certains 

 destruction. He resolved to con- 

 duct him out of the city, in order 

 that he might get him into a fo- 

 reign jurisdiction; but it was ne- 

 cessary to pass the gates, which 

 were strictly guarded. To accom- 

 plish this point, he dressed him in 

 some of his old clothes, covered 

 him with a cloak, and, at an early 

 hour, set out for the country, with 

 his joro7t'behind him. On arriv- 

 ing at the city-gate, where he was 

 well known, he said, in a hurried 

 tone, that he had been sent for to- 

 visit a sick person in the suburbs, 

 who was dying. He was permitted 

 to pass. Having both got into the 

 fields, the deserter threw himself 

 at the feet of his deliverer, to whom 

 he vowed eternal gratitude ; and, 

 after receiving some pecuniary 

 assistance, departed, offering tip 

 prayers for his happiness. Twelve 

 years after, Junker, having 1 " occa- 

 sion to go to Amsterdam, was ac- 

 costed on the Exchange by a man 

 well dressed, and of the first ap- 

 pearance, who, lie had been in- 

 formed, was one of the most respec- 

 table merchants of that city. The 

 merchant, in a polite tone, inquired 



