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1"If I were not sure already, I would know from them." For an instant his eyes closed--not with pain or sleep but
2voluntarily, as though he were bringing all his faculties to bear; when he opened them he said, hurriedly, and with more
3energy than he had yet displayed:-- "Quick, Doctor, quick. I am dying! I feel that I have but a few minutes; and then I
4must go back to death--or worse! Wet my lips with brandy again. I have something that I must say before I die; or before
5my poor crushed brain dies anyhow. Thank you! It was that night after you left me, when I implored you to let me go
6away. I couldn't speak then, for I felt my tongue was tied; but I was as sane then, except in that way, as I am now. I
7was in an agony of despair for a long time after you left me; it seemed hours. Then there came a sudden peace to me. My
8brain seemed to become cool again, and I realised where I was. I heard the dogs bark behind our house, but not where He
9was!" As he spoke, Van Helsing's eyes never blinked, but his hand came out and met mine and gripped it hard. He did not,
10however, betray himself; he nodded slightly and said: "Go on," in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:-- "He came up to the
11window in the mist, as I had seen him often before; but he was solid then--not a ghost, and his eyes were fierce like a
12man's when angry. He was laughing with his red mouth; the sharp white teeth glinted in the moonlight when he turned to
13look back over the belt of trees, to where the dogs were barking. I wouldn't ask him to come in at first, though I knew
14he wanted to--just as he had wanted all along. Then he began promising me things--not in words but by doing them." He
15was interrupted by a word from the Professor:-- "How?" "By making them happen; just as he used to send in the flies when
16the sun was shining. Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull
17and cross-bones on their backs." Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously:-- "The Acherontia
18Aitetropos of the Sphinges--what you call the 'Death's-head Moth'?" The patient went on without stopping. "Then he began
19to whisper: 'Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and
20cats too. All lives! all red blood, with years of life in it; and not merely buzzing flies!' I laughed at him, for I
21wanted to see what he could do. Then the dogs howled, away beyond the dark trees in His house. He beckoned me to the
22window. I got up and looked out, and He raised his hands, and seemed to call out without using any words. A dark mass
23spread over the grass, coming on like the shape of a flame of fire; and then He moved the mist to the right and left,
24and I could see that there were thousands of rats with their eyes blazing red--like His, only smaller. He held up his
25hand, and they all stopped; and I thought he seemed to be saying: 'All these lives will I give you, ay, and many more
26and greater, through countless ages, if you will fall down and worship me!' And then a red cloud, like the colour of
27blood, seemed to close over my eyes; and before I knew what I was doing, I found myself opening the sash and saying to
28Him: 'Come in, Lord and Master!' The rats were all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only
29open an inch wide--just as the Moon herself has often come in through the tiniest crack and has stood before me in all
30her size and splendour." His voice was weaker, so I moistened his lips with the brandy again, and he continued; but it
31seemed as though his memory had gone on working in the interval for his story was further advanced. I was about to call
32him back to the point, but Van Helsing whispered to me: "Let him go on. Do not interrupt him; he cannot go back, and
33maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought." He proceeded:-- "All day I waited to hear
34from him, but he did not send me anything, not even a blow-fly, and when the moon got up I was pretty angry with him.
35When he slid in through the window, though it was shut, and did not even knock, I got mad with him. He sneered at me,
36and his white face looked out of the mist with his red eyes gleaming, and he went on as though he owned the whole place,
37and I was no one. He didn't even smell the same as he went by me. I couldn't hold him. I thought that, somehow, Mrs.
38Harker had come into the room." The two men sitting on the bed stood up and came over, standing behind him so that he
39could not see them, but where they could hear better. They were both silent, but the Professor started and quivered; his
40face, however, grew grimmer and sterner still. Renfield went on without noticing:-- "When Mrs. Harker came in to see me
41this afternoon she wasn't the same; it was like tea after the teapot had been watered." Here we all moved, but no one
42said a word; he went on:-- "I didn't know that she was here till she spoke; and she didn't look the same. I don't care
43for the pale people; I like them with lots of blood in them, and hers had all seemed to have run out. I didn't think of
44it at the time; but when she went away I began to think, and it made me mad to know that He had been taking the life out
45of her." I could feel that the rest quivered, as I did, but we remained otherwise still. "So when He came to-night I was
46ready for Him. I saw the mist stealing in, and I grabbed it tight. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and
47as I knew I was a madman--at times anyhow--I resolved to use my power. Ay, and He felt it too, for He had to come out of
48the mist to struggle with me. I held tight; and I thought I was going to win, for I didn't mean Him to take any more of
49her life, till I saw His eyes. They burned into me, and my strength became like water. He slipped through it, and when I
50tried to cling to Him, He raised me up and flung me down. There was a red cloud before me, and a noise like thunder, and
51the mist seemed to steal away under the door." His voice was becoming fainter and his breath more stertorous. Van
52Helsing stood up instinctively. "We know the worst now," he said. "He is here, and we know his purpose. It may not be
53too late. Let us be armed--the same as we were the other night, but lose no time; there is not an instant to spare."
54There was no need to put our fear, nay our conviction, into words--we shared them in common. We all hurried and took
55from our rooms the same things that we had when we entered the Count's house. The Professor had his ready, and as we met
56in the corridor he pointed to them significantly as he said:-- "They never leave me; and they shall not till this
57unhappy business is over. Be wise also, my friends. It is no common enemy that we deal with. Alas! alas! that that dear
58Madam Mina should suffer!" He stopped; his voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in my
59own heart. Outside the Harkers' door we paused. Art and Quincey held back, and the latter said:-- "Should we disturb
60her?" "We must," said Van Helsing grimly. "If the door be locked, I shall break it in." "May it not frighten her
61terribly? It is unusual to break into a lady's room!" Van Helsing said solemnly, "You are always right; but this is life
62and death. All chambers are alike to the doctor; and even were they not they are all as one to me to-night. Friend John,
63when I turn the handle, if the door does not open, do you put your shoulder down and shove; and you too, my friends.
64Now!"
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