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1I rose and bowed, and he came towards me; a man of medium weight, strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a
2broad, deep chest and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The poise of the head strikes one at
3once as indicative of thought and power; the head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face,
4clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with
5quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead
6is broad and fine, rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; such a
7forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides. Big, dark blue
8eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man's moods. He said to me:-- "Mrs. Harker, is it
9not?" I bowed assent. "That was Miss Mina Murray?" Again I assented. "It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was
10friend of that poor dear child Lucy Westenra. Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead I come." "Sir," I said, "you
11could have no better claim on me than that you were a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra." And I held out my hand. He
12took it and said tenderly:-- "Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be good, but I had yet
13to learn----" He finished his speech with a courtly bow. I asked him what it was that he wanted to see me about, so he
14at once began:-- "I have read your letters to Miss Lucy. Forgive me, but I had to begin to inquire somewhere, and there
15was none to ask. I know that you were with her at Whitby. She sometimes kept a diary--you need not look surprised, Madam
16Mina; it was begun after you had left, and was in imitation of you--and in that diary she traces by inference certain
17things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her. In great perplexity then I come to you, and ask you
18out of your so much kindness to tell me all of it that you can remember." "I can tell you, I think, Dr. Van Helsing, all
19about it." "Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always so with young ladies." "No, doctor,
20but I wrote it all down at the time. I can show it to you if you like." "Oh, Madam Mina, I will be grateful; you will do
21me much favour." I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit--I suppose it is some of the taste of the
22original apple that remains still in our mouths--so I handed him the shorthand diary. He took it with a grateful bow,
23and said:-- "May I read it?" "If you wish," I answered as demurely as I could. He opened it, and for an instant his face
24fell. Then he stood up and bowed. "Oh, you so clever woman!" he said. "I knew long that Mr. Jonathan was a man of much
25thankfulness; but see, his wife have all the good things. And will you not so much honour me and so help me as to read
26it for me? Alas! I know not the shorthand." By this time my little joke was over, and I was almost ashamed; so I took
27the typewritten copy from my workbasket and handed it to him. "Forgive me," I said: "I could not help it; but I had been
28thinking that it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask, and so that you might not have time to wait--not on my
29account, but because I know your time must be precious--I have written it out on the typewriter for you." He took it and
30his eyes glistened. "You are so good," he said. "And may I read it now? I may want to ask you some things when I have
31read." "By all means," I said, "read it over whilst I order lunch; and then you can ask me questions whilst we eat." He
32bowed and settled himself in a chair with his back to the light, and became absorbed in the papers, whilst I went to see
33after lunch chiefly in order that he might not be disturbed. When I came back, I found him walking hurriedly up and down
34the room, his face all ablaze with excitement. He rushed up to me and took me by both hands. "Oh, Madam Mina," he said,
35"how can I say what I owe to you? This paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle, with so
36much light, and yet clouds roll in behind the light every time. But that you do not, cannot, comprehend. Oh, but I am
37grateful to you, you so clever woman. Madam"--he said this very solemnly--"if ever Abraham Van Helsing can do anything
38for you or yours, I trust you will let me know. It will be pleasure and delight if I may serve you as a friend; as a
39friend, but all I have ever learned, all I can ever do, shall be for you and those you love. There are darknesses in
40life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights. You will have happy life and good life, and your husband will be
41blessed in you." "But, doctor, you praise me too much, and--and you do not know me." "Not know you--I, who am old, and
42who have studied all my life men and women; I, who have made my specialty the brain and all that belongs to him and all
43that follow from him! And I have read your diary that you have so goodly written for me, and which breathes out truth in
44every line. I, who have read your so sweet letter to poor Lucy of your marriage and your trust, not know you! Oh, Madam
45Mina, good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read; and we
46men who wish to know have in us something of angels' eyes. Your husband is noble nature, and you are noble too, for you
47trust, and trust cannot be where there is mean nature. And your husband--tell me of him. Is he quite well? Is all that
48fever gone, and is he strong and hearty?" I saw here an opening to ask him about Jonathan, so I said:-- "He was almost
49recovered, but he has been greatly upset by Mr. Hawkins's death." He interrupted:-- "Oh, yes, I know, I know. I have
50read your last two letters." I went on:-- "I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he had a
51sort of shock." "A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That was not good. What kind of a shock was it?" "He thought he
52saw some one who recalled something terrible, something which led to his brain fever." And here the whole thing seemed
53to overwhelm me in a rush. The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his
54diary, and the fear that has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult. I suppose I was hysterical, for I
55threw myself on my knees and held up my hands to him, and implored him to make my husband well again. He took my hands
56and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such
57infinite sweetness:--
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