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1"My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships; but since I have
2been summoned to here by my friend John Seward I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more
3than ever--and it has grown with my advancing years--the loneliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full
4of respect for you, and you have given me hope--hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still
5left to make life happy--good women, whose lives and whose truths may make good lesson for the children that are to be.
6I am glad, glad, that I may here be of some use to you; for if your husband suffer, he suffer within the range of my
7study and experience. I promise you that I will gladly do all for him that I can--all to make his life strong and manly,
8and your life a happy one. Now you must eat. You are overwrought and perhaps over-anxious. Husband Jonathan would not
9like to see you so pale; and what he like not where he love, is not to his good. Therefore for his sake you must eat and
10smile. You have told me all about Lucy, and so now we shall not speak of it, lest it distress. I shall stay in Exeter
11to-night, for I want to think much over what you have told me, and when I have thought I will ask you questions, if I
12may. And then, too, you will tell me of husband Jonathan's trouble so far as you can, but not yet. You must eat now;
13afterwards you shall tell me all." After lunch, when we went back to the drawing-room, he said to me:-- "And now tell me
14all about him." When it came to speaking to this great learned man, I began to fear that he would think me a weak fool,
15and Jonathan a madman--that journal is all so strange--and I hesitated to go on. But he was so sweet and kind, and he
16had promised to help, and I trusted him, so I said:-- "Dr. Van Helsing, what I have to tell you is so queer that you
17must not laugh at me or at my husband. I have been since yesterday in a sort of fever of doubt; you must be kind to me,
18and not think me foolish that I have even half believed some very strange things." He reassured me by his manner as well
19as his words when he said:-- "Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is
20you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried
21to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the
22extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane." "Thank you, thank you, a thousand times!
23You have taken a weight off my mind. If you will let me, I shall give you a paper to read. It is long, but I have
24typewritten it out. It will tell you my trouble and Jonathan's. It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that
25happened. I dare not say anything of it; you will read for yourself and judge. And then when I see you, perhaps, you
26will be very kind and tell me what you think." "I promise," he said as I gave him the papers; "I shall in the morning,
27so soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I may." "Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must
28come to lunch with us and see him then; you could catch the quick 3:34 train, which will leave you at Paddington before
29eight." He was surprised at my knowledge of the trains off-hand, but he does not know that I have made up all the trains
30to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in case he is in a hurry. So he took the papers with him and went away,
31and I sit here thinking--thinking I don't know what. Letter (by hand), Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker. "25 September, 6
32o'clock. "Dear Madam Mina,-- "I have read your husband's so wonderful diary. You may sleep without doubt. Strange and
33terrible as it is, it is true! I will pledge my life on it. It may be worse for others; but for him and you there is no
34dread. He is a noble fellow; and let me tell you from experience of men, that one who would do as he did in going down
35that wall and to that room--ay, and going a second time--is not one to be injured in permanence by a shock. His brain
36and his heart are all right; this I swear, before I have even seen him; so be at rest. I shall have much to ask him of
37other things. I am blessed that to-day I come to see you, for I have learn all at once so much that again I am
38dazzle--dazzle more than ever, and I must think. "Yours the most faithful, "ABRAHAM VAN HELSING." Letter, Mrs. Harker to
39Van Helsing. "25 September, 6:30 p. m. "My dear Dr. Van Helsing,-- "A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has
40taken a great weight off my mind. And yet, if it be true, what terrible things there are in the world, and what an awful
41thing if that man, that monster, be really in London! I fear to think. I have this moment, whilst writing, had a wire
42from Jonathan, saying that he leaves by the 6:25 to-night from Launceston and will be here at 10:18, so that I shall
43have no fear to-night. Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with us, please come to breakfast at eight o'clock, if
44this be not too early for you? You can get away, if you are in a hurry, by the 10:30 train, which will bring you to
45Paddington by 2:35. Do not answer this, as I shall take it that, if I do not hear, you will come to breakfast. "Believe
46me, "Your faithful and grateful friend, "MINA HARKER." Jonathan Harker's Journal. 26 September.--I thought never to
47write in this diary again, but the time has come. When I got home last night Mina had supper ready, and when we had
48supped she told me of Van Helsing's visit, and of her having given him the two diaries copied out, and of how anxious
49she has been about me. She showed me in the doctor's letter that all I wrote down was true. It seems to have made a new
50man of me. It was the doubt as to the reality of the whole thing that knocked me over. I felt impotent, and in the dark,
51and distrustful. But, now that I know, I am not afraid, even of the Count. He has succeeded after all, then, in his
52design in getting to London, and it was he I saw. He has got younger, and how? Van Helsing is the man to unmask him and
53hunt him out, if he is anything like what Mina says. We sat late, and talked it all over. Mina is dressing, and I shall
54call at the hotel in a few minutes and bring him over.... He was, I think, surprised to see me. When I came into the
55room where he was, and introduced myself, he took me by the shoulder, and turned my face round to the light, and said,
56after a sharp scrutiny:-- "But Madam Mina told me you were ill, that you had had a shock." It was so funny to hear my
57wife called "Madam Mina" by this kindly, strong-faced old man. I smiled, and said:-- "I was ill, I have had a shock; but
58you have cured me already." "And how?" "By your letter to Mina last night. I was in doubt, and then everything took a
59hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did
60not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove
61ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself. Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No,
62you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours." He seemed pleased, and laughed as he said:--
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