'Pardon me,' said Pleydell, 'it is plagium, and plagium is
felony.'

'Forgive me, Mr. Pleydell, there is only one case upon record,
Torrence and Waldie. They were, you remember, resurrection-women,
who had promised to procure a child's body for some young
surgeons. Being upon honour to their employers, rather than
disappoint the evening lecture of the students, they stole a live
child, murdered it, and sold the body for three shillings and
sixpence. They were hanged, but for the murder, not for the
plagium [Footnote: This is, in its circumstances and issue,
actually a case tried and reported.]--Your civil law has carried
you a little too far.'

'Well, sir, but in the meantime Mr. Mac-Morlan must commit you to
the county jail, in case this young man repeats the same story.
Officers, remove Mr. Glossin and Hatteraick, and guard them in
different apartments.'

Gabriel, the gipsy, was then introduced, and gave a distinct
account of his deserting from Captain Pritchard's vessel and
joining the smugglers in the action, detailed how Dirk Hatteraick
set fire to his ship when he found her disabled, and under cover
of the smoke escaped with his crew, and as much goods as they
could save, into the cavern, where they proposed to lie till
nightfall. Hatteraick himself, his mate Vanbeest Brown, and three
others, of whom the declarant was one, went into the adjacent
woods to communicate with some of their friends in the
neighbourhood. They fell in with Kennedy unexpectedly, and