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1"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and a woman's
2heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination. Friend John, up to
3now fortune has made that woman of help to us; after to-night she must not have to do with this so terrible affair. It
4is not good that she run a risk so great. We men are determined--nay, are we not pledged?--to destroy this monster; but
5it is no part for a woman. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and
6hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. And, besides, she is young
7woman and not so long married; there may be other things to think of some time, if not now. You tell me she has wrote
8all, then she must consult with us; but to-morrow she say good-bye to this work, and we go alone." I agreed heartily
9with him, and then I told him what we had found in his absence: that the house which Dracula had bought was the very
10next one to my own. He was amazed, and a great concern seemed to come on him. "Oh that we had known it before!" he said,
11"for then we might have reached him in time to save poor Lucy. However, 'the milk that is spilt cries not out
12afterwards,' as you say. We shall not think of that, but go on our way to the end." Then he fell into a silence that
13lasted till we entered my own gateway. Before we went to prepare for dinner he said to Mrs. Harker:-- "I am told, Madam
14Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have put up in exact order all things that have been, up to this
15moment." "Not up to this moment, Professor," she said impulsively, "but up to this morning." "But why not up to now? We
16have seen hitherto how good light all the little things have made. We have told our secrets, and yet no one who has told
17is the worse for it." Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from her pockets, she said:-- "Dr. Van Helsing,
18will you read this, and tell me if it must go in. It is my record of to-day. I too have seen the need of putting down at
19present everything, however trivial; but there is little in this except what is personal. Must it go in?" The Professor
20read it over gravely, and handed it back, saying:-- "It need not go in if you do not wish it; but I pray that it may. It
21can but make your husband love you the more, and all us, your friends, more honour you--as well as more esteem and
22love." She took it back with another blush and a bright smile. And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have
23are complete and in order. The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner, and before our meeting, which is
24fixed for nine o'clock. The rest of us have already read everything; so when we meet in the study we shall all be
25informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with this terrible and mysterious enemy. Mina Harker's Journal.
2630 September.--When we met in Dr. Seward's study two hours after dinner, which had been at six o'clock, we unconsciously
27formed a sort of board or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table, to which Dr. Seward motioned him
28as he came into the room. He made me sit next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary; Jonathan sat next
29to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris--Lord Godalming being next the Professor, and Dr.
30Seward in the centre. The Professor said:-- "I may, I suppose, take it that we are all acquainted with the facts that
31are in these papers." We all expressed assent, and he went on:-- "Then it were, I think good that I tell you something
32of the kind of enemy with which we have to deal. I shall then make known to you something of the history of this man,
33which has been ascertained for me. So we then can discuss how we shall act, and can take our measure according. "There
34are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy
35experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. I admit that at the first I
36was sceptic. Were it not that through long years I have train myself to keep an open mind, I could not have believe
37until such time as that fact thunder on my ear. 'See! see! I prove; I prove.' Alas! Had I known at the first what now I
38know--nay, had I even guess at him--one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her. But that is
39gone; and we must so work, that other poor souls perish not, whilst we can save. The nosferatu do not die like the bee
40when he sting once. He is only stronger; and being stronger, have yet more power to work evil. This vampire which is
41amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men; he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the
42growth of ages; he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and
43all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous,
44and the heart of him is not; he can, within limitations, appear at will when, and where, and in any of the forms that
45are to him; he can, within his range, direct the elements; the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the
46meaner things: the rat, and the owl, and the bat--the moth, and the fox, and the wolf; he can grow and become small; and
47he can at times vanish and come unknown. How then are we to begin our strike to destroy him? How shall we find his
48where; and having found it, how can we destroy? My friends, this is much; it is a terrible task that we undertake, and
49there may be consequence to make the brave shudder. For if we fail in this our fight he must surely win; and then where
50end we? Life is nothings; I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that
51we henceforward become foul things of the night like him--without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the
52souls of those we love best. To us for ever are the gates of heaven shut; for who shall open them to us again? We go on
53for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God's sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. But we
54are face to face with duty; and in such case must we shrink? For me, I say, no; but then I am old, and life, with his
55sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have
56seen sorrow; but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?" Whilst he was speaking, Jonathan had taken my hand. I
57feared, oh so much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I saw his hand stretch out; but it
58was life to me to feel its touch--so strong, so self-reliant, so resolute. A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it
59does not even need a woman's love to hear its music. When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes,
60and I in his; there was no need for speaking between us. "I answer for Mina and myself," he said. "Count me in,
61Professor," said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual. "I am with you," said Lord Godalming, "for Lucy's sake, if
62for no other reason."
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