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1DR. SEWARD'S DIARY 3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and
2Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent
3purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that
4is appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with
5dark brown hair. To-day he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning eyes and
6grief-written lines of his face. His energy is still intact; in fact, he is like a living flame. This may yet be his
7salvation, for, if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, in a kind of way, wake again
8to the realities of life. Poor fellow, I thought my own trouble was bad enough, but his----! The Professor knows this
9well enough, and is doing his best to keep his mind active. What he has been saying was, under the circumstances, of
10absorbing interest. So well as I can remember, here it is:-- "I have studied, over and over again since they came into
11my hands, all the papers relating to this monster; and the more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to
12utterly stamp him out. All through there are signs of his advance; not only of his power, but of his knowledge of it. As
13I learned from the researches of my friend Arminus of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier,
14statesman, and alchemist--which latter was the highest development of the science-knowledge of his time. He had a mighty
15brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He dared even to attend the Scholomance,
16and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay. Well, in him the brain powers survived the
17physical death; though it would seem that memory was not all complete. In some faculties of mind he has been, and is,
18only a child; but he is growing, and some things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He is
19experimenting, and doing it well; and if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet--he may be yet if
20we fail--the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life." Harker groaned
21and said, "And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat
22him!" "He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely; that big child-brain of his is
23working. Well for us, it is, as yet, a child-brain; for had he dared, at the first, to attempt certain things he would
24long ago have been beyond our power. However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to
25wait and to go slow. Festina lente may well be his motto." "I fail to understand," said Harker wearily. "Oh, do be more
26plain to me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain." The Professor laid his hand tenderly on his shoulder as he
27spoke:-- "Ah, my child, I will be plain. Do you not see how, of late, this monster has been creeping into knowledge
28experimentally. How he has been making use of the zoöphagous patient to effect his entry into friend John's home; for
29your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked
30thereto by an inmate. But these are not his most important experiments. Do we not see how at the first all these so
31great boxes were moved by others. He knew not then but that must be so. But all the time that so great child-brain of
32his was growing, and he began to consider whether he might not himself move the box. So he began to help; and then, when
33he found that this be all-right, he try to move them all alone. And so he progress, and he scatter these graves of him;
34and none but he know where they are hidden. He may have intend to bury them deep in the ground. So that he only use them
35in the night, or at such time as he can change his form, they do him equal well; and none may know these are his
36hiding-place! But, my child, do not despair; this knowledge come to him just too late! Already all of his lairs but one
37be sterilise as for him; and before the sunset this shall be so. Then he have no place where he can move and hide. I
38delayed this morning that so we might be sure. Is there not more at stake for us than for him? Then why we not be even
39more careful than him? By my clock it is one hour and already, if all be well, friend Arthur and Quincey are on their
40way to us. To-day is our day, and we must go sure, if slow, and lose no chance. See! there are five of us when those
41absent ones return." Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman's knock of
42the telegraph boy. We all moved out to the hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us to keep
43silence, stepped to the door and opened it. The boy handed in a despatch. The Professor closed the door again, and,
44after looking at the direction, opened it and read aloud. "Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax
45hurriedly and hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want to see you: Mina." There was a
46pause, broken by Jonathan Harker's voice:-- "Now, God be thanked, we shall soon meet!" Van Helsing turned to him quickly
47and said:-- "God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the
48moment may be our undoings." "I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this brute from the face
49of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!" "Oh, hush, hush, my child!" said Van Helsing. "God does not purchase souls
50in this wise; and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not keep faith. But God is merciful and just, and knows your
51pain and your devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you, how her pain would be doubled, did she but hear your wild
52words. Do not fear any of us, we are all devoted to this cause, and to-day shall see the end. The time is coming for
53action; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change. It will take him time to
54arrive here--see, it is twenty minutes past one--and there are yet some times before he can hither come, be he never so
55quick. What we must hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first." About half an hour after we had received
56Mrs. Harker's telegram, there came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door. It was just an ordinary knock, such as is
57given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor's heart and mine beat loudly. We looked at each other,
58and together moved out into the hall; we each held ready to use our various armaments--the spiritual in the left hand,
59the mortal in the right. Van Helsing pulled back the latch, and, holding the door half open, stood back, having both
60hands ready for action. The gladness of our hearts must have shown upon our faces when on the step, close to the door,
61we saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris. They came quickly in and closed the door behind them, the former saying, as
62they moved along the hall:-- "It is all right. We found both places; six boxes in each and we destroyed them all!"
63"Destroyed?" asked the Professor. "For him!" We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said:-- "There's nothing to
64do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn't turn up by five o'clock, we must start off; for it won't do to leave Mrs.
65Harker alone after sunset."
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