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129 September.--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan Harker and that other of his wife that I let the
2time run on without thinking. Mrs. Harker was not down when the maid came to announce dinner, so I said: "She is
3possibly tired; let dinner wait an hour," and I went on with my work. I had just finished Mrs. Harker's diary, when she
4came in. She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her eyes were flushed with crying. This somehow moved me much. Of
5late I have had cause for tears, God knows! but the relief of them was denied me; and now the sight of those sweet eyes,
6brightened with recent tears, went straight to my heart. So I said as gently as I could:-- "I greatly fear I have
7distressed you." "Oh, no, not distressed me," she replied, "but I have been more touched than I can say by your grief.
8That is a wonderful machine, but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the anguish of your heart. It was
9like a soul crying out to Almighty God. No one must hear them spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be useful. I have
10copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did." "No one need ever know,
11shall ever know," I said in a low voice. She laid her hand on mine and said very gravely:-- "Ah, but they must!" "Must!
12But why?" I asked. "Because it is a part of the terrible story, a part of poor dear Lucy's death and all that led to it;
13because in the struggle which we have before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all the knowledge
14and all the help which we can get. I think that the cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to
15know; but I can see that there are in your record many lights to this dark mystery. You will let me help, will you not?
16I know all up to a certain point; and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September, how poor Lucy was
17beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought out. Jonathan and I have been working day and night since Professor
18Van Helsing saw us. He is gone to Whitby to get more information, and he will be here to-morrow to help us. We need have
19no secrets amongst us; working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in
20the dark." She looked at me so appealingly, and at the same time manifested such courage and resolution in her bearing,
21that I gave in at once to her wishes. "You shall," I said, "do as you like in the matter. God forgive me if I do wrong!
22There are terrible things yet to learn of; but if you have so far travelled on the road to poor Lucy's death, you will
23not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end--the very end--may give you a gleam of peace. Come, there is
24dinner. We must keep one another strong for what is before us; we have a cruel and dreadful task. When you have eaten
25you shall learn the rest, and I shall answer any questions you ask--if there be anything which you do not understand,
26though it was apparent to us who were present." Mina Harker's Journal. 29 September.--After dinner I came with Dr.
27Seward to his study. He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter. He placed me in a
28comfortable chair, and arranged the phonograph so that I could touch it without getting up, and showed me how to stop it
29in case I should want to pause. Then he very thoughtfully took a chair, with his back to me, so that I might be as free
30as possible, and began to read. I put the forked metal to my ears and listened. When the terrible story of Lucy's death,
31and--and all that followed, was done, I lay back in my chair powerless. Fortunately I am not of a fainting disposition.
32When Dr. Seward saw me he jumped up with a horrified exclamation, and hurriedly taking a case-bottle from a cupboard,
33gave me some brandy, which in a few minutes somewhat restored me. My brain was all in a whirl, and only that there came
34through all the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my dear, dear Lucy was at last at peace, I do not think
35I could have borne it without making a scene. It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I had not known
36Jonathan's experience in Transylvania I could not have believed. As it was, I didn't know what to believe, and so got
37out of my difficulty by attending to something else. I took the cover off my typewriter, and said to Dr. Seward:-- "Let
38me write this all out now. We must be ready for Dr. Van Helsing when he comes. I have sent a telegram to Jonathan to
39come on here when he arrives in London from Whitby. In this matter dates are everything, and I think that if we get all
40our material ready, and have every item put in chronological order, we shall have done much. You tell me that Lord
41Godalming and Mr. Morris are coming too. Let us be able to tell him when they come." He accordingly set the phonograph
42at a slow pace, and I began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder. I used manifold, and so took three
43copies of the diary, just as I had done with all the rest. It was late when I got through, but Dr. Seward went about his
44work of going his round of the patients; when he had finished he came back and sat near me, reading, so that I did not
45feel too lonely whilst I worked. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are
46monsters in it. Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor's perturbation at reading
47something in an evening paper at the station at Exeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the
48files of "The Westminster Gazette" and "The Pall Mall Gazette," and took them to my room. I remember how much "The
49Dailygraph" and "The Whitby Gazette," of which I had made cuttings, helped us to understand the terrible events at
50Whitby when Count Dracula landed, so I shall look through the evening papers since then, and perhaps I shall get some
51new light. I am not sleepy, and the work will help to keep me quiet. Dr. Seward's Diary. 30 September.--Mr. Harker
52arrived at nine o'clock. He had got his wife's wire just before starting. He is uncommonly clever, if one can judge from
53his face, and full of energy. If this journal be true--and judging by one's own wonderful experiences, it must be--he is
54also a man of great nerve. That going down to the vault a second time was a remarkable piece of daring. After reading
55his account of it I was prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, business-like gentleman who
56came here to-day. Later.--After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room, and as I passed a while ago I
57heard the click of the typewriter. They are hard at it. Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in
58chronological order every scrap of evidence they have. Harker has got the letters between the consignee of the boxes at
59Whitby and the carriers in London who took charge of them. He is now reading his wife's typescript of my diary. I wonder
60what they make out of it. Here it is....
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