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1"See," he went on, "see, they are even sharper than before. With this and this"--and he touched one of the canine teeth
2and that below it--"the little children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend John?" Once more, argumentative
3hostility woke within me. I could not accept such an overwhelming idea as he suggested; so, with an attempt to argue of
4which I was even at the moment ashamed, I said:-- "She may have been placed here since last night." "Indeed? That is so,
5and by whom?" "I do not know. Some one has done it." "And yet she has been dead one week. Most peoples in that time
6would not look so." I had no answer for this, so was silent. Van Helsing did not seem to notice my silence; at any rate,
7he showed neither chagrin nor triumph. He was looking intently at the face of the dead woman, raising the eyelids and
8looking at the eyes, and once more opening the lips and examining the teeth. Then he turned to me and said:-- "Here,
9there is one thing which is different from all recorded; here is some dual life that is not as the common. She was
10bitten by the vampire when she was in a trance, sleep-walking--oh, you start; you do not know that, friend John, but you
11shall know it all later--and in trance could he best come to take more blood. In trance she died, and in trance she is
12Un-Dead, too. So it is that she differ from all other. Usually when the Un-Dead sleep at home"--as he spoke he made a
13comprehensive sweep of his arm to designate what to a vampire was "home"--"their face show what they are, but this so
14sweet that was when she not Un-Dead she go back to the nothings of the common dead. There is no malign there, see, and
15so it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep." This turned my blood cold, and it began to dawn upon me that I was
16accepting Van Helsing's theories; but if she were really dead, what was there of terror in the idea of killing her? He
17looked up at me, and evidently saw the change in my face, for he said almost joyously:-- "Ah, you believe now?" I
18answered: "Do not press me too hard all at once. I am willing to accept. How will you do this bloody work?" "I shall cut
19off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body." It made me shudder to think of
20so mutilating the body of the woman whom I had loved. And yet the feeling was not so strong as I had expected. I was, in
21fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of this being, this Un-Dead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it. Is
22it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective? I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he
23stood as if wrapped in thought. Presently he closed the catch of his bag with a snap, and said:-- "I have been thinking,
24and have made up my mind as to what is best. If I did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment, what is
25to be done; but there are other things to follow, and things that are thousand times more difficult in that them we do
26not know. This is simple. She have yet no life taken, though that is of time; and to act now would be to take danger
27from her for ever. But then we may have to want Arthur, and how shall we tell him of this? If you, who saw the wounds on
28Lucy's throat, and saw the wounds so similar on the child's at the hospital; if you, who saw the coffin empty last night
29and full to-day with a woman who have not change only to be more rose and more beautiful in a whole week, after she
30die--if you know of this and know of the white figure last night that brought the child to the churchyard, and yet of
31your own senses you did not believe, how, then, can I expect Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe? He
32doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I
33have done things that prevent him say good-bye as he ought; and he may think that in some more mistaken idea this woman
34was buried alive; and that in most mistake of all we have killed her. He will then argue back that it is we, mistaken
35ones, that have killed her by our ideas; and so he will be much unhappy always. Yet he never can be sure; and that is
36the worst of all. And he will sometimes think that she he loved was buried alive, and that will paint his dreams with
37horrors of what she must have suffered; and again, he will think that we may be right, and that his so beloved was,
38after all, an Un-Dead. No! I told him once, and since then I learn much. Now, since I know it is all true, a hundred
39thousand times more do I know that he must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet. He, poor fellow, must have
40one hour that will make the very face of heaven grow black to him; then we can act for good all round and send him
41peace. My mind is made up. Let us go. You return home for to-night to your asylum, and see that all be well. As for me,
42I shall spend the night here in this churchyard in my own way. To-morrow night you will come to me to the Berkeley Hotel
43at ten of the clock. I shall send for Arthur to come too, and also that so fine young man of America that gave his
44blood. Later we shall all have work to do. I come with you so far as Piccadilly and there dine, for I must be back here
45before the sun set." So we locked the tomb and came away, and got over the wall of the churchyard, which was not much of
46a task, and drove back to Piccadilly. Note left by Van Helsing in his portmanteau, Berkeley Hotel directed to John
47Seward, M. D. (Not delivered.) "27 September. "Friend John,-- "I write this in case anything should happen. I go alone
48to watch in that churchyard. It pleases me that the Un-Dead, Miss Lucy, shall not leave to-night, that so on the morrow
49night she may be more eager. Therefore I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a crucifix--and so seal up the
50door of the tomb. She is young as Un-Dead, and will heed. Moreover, these are only to prevent her coming out; they may
51not prevail on her wanting to get in; for then the Un-Dead is desperate, and must find the line of least resistance,
52whatsoever it may be. I shall be at hand all the night from sunset till after the sunrise, and if there be aught that
53may be learned I shall learn it. For Miss Lucy or from her, I have no fear; but that other to whom is there that she is
54Un-Dead, he have now the power to seek her tomb and find shelter. He is cunning, as I know from Mr. Jonathan and from
55the way that all along he have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy's life, and we lost; and in many ways the
56Un-Dead are strong. He have always the strength in his hand of twenty men; even we four who gave our strength to Miss
57Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can summon his wolf and I know not what. So if it be that he come thither on
58this night he shall find me; but none other shall--until it be too late. But it may be that he will not attempt the
59place. There is no reason why he should; his hunting ground is more full of game than the churchyard where the Un-Dead
60woman sleep, and the one old man watch. "Therefore I write this in case.... Take the papers that are with this, the
61diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find this great Un-Dead, and cut off his head and burn his heart
62or drive a stake through it, so that the world may rest from him. "If it be so, farewell. "VAN HELSING." Dr. Seward's
63Diary.
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