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1Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching away tomb-tops one other of the sisters, the other
2dark one. I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall; but I
3go on searching until, presently, I find in a high great tomb as if made to one much beloved that other fair sister
4which, like Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly
5beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to
6protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion. But God be thanked, that soul-wail of my dear Madam Mina had
7not died out of my ears; and, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work. By
8this time I had searched all the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell; and as there had been only three of these
9Un-Dead phantoms around us in the night, I took it that there were no more of active Un-Dead existent. There was one
10great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word DRACULA. This then
11was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire, to whom so many more were due. Its emptiness spoke eloquent to make certain
12what I knew. Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in Dracula's tomb
13some of the Wafer, and so banished him from it, Un-Dead, for ever. Then began my terrible task, and I dreaded it. Had it
14been but one, it had been easy, comparative. But three! To begin twice more after I had been through a deed of horror;
15for if it was terrible with the sweet Miss Lucy, what would it not be with these strange ones who had survived through
16centuries, and who had been strengthened by the passing of the years; who would, if they could, have fought for their
17foul lives.... Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work; had I not been nerved by thoughts of other dead, and of the
18living over whom hung such a pall of fear, I could not have gone on. I tremble and tremble even yet, though till all was
19over, God be thanked, my nerve did stand. Had I not seen the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over
20it just ere the final dissolution came, as realisation that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further with my
21butchery. I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and
22lips of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can
23pity them now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death for a short moment ere fading. For,
24friend John, hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble in to
25its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries agone had at last assert himself and say at once
26and loud "I am here!" Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there
27Un-Dead. When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep, and, seeing, me, cried out in
28pain that I had endured too much. "Come!" she said, "come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my husband who
29is, I know, coming towards us." She was looking thin and pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour.
30I was glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that ruddy vampire sleep.
31And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet our friends--and him--whom Madam Mina tell me
32that she know are coming to meet us. Mina Harker's Journal. 6 November.--It was late in the afternoon when the Professor
33and I took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming. We did not go fast, though the way was steeply
34downhill, for we had to take heavy rugs and wraps with us; we dared not face the possibility of being left without
35warmth in the cold and the snow. We had to take some of our provisions, too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and,
36so far as we could see through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of habitation. When we had gone about a mile, I
37was tired with the heavy walking and sat down to rest. Then we looked back and saw where the clear line of Dracula's
38castle cut the sky; for we were so deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the
39Carpathian mountains was far below it. We saw it in all its grandeur, perched a thousand feet on the summit of a sheer
40precipice, and with seemingly a great gap between it and the steep of the adjacent mountain on any side. There was
41something wild and uncanny about the place. We could hear the distant howling of wolves. They were far off, but the
42sound, even though coming muffled through the deadening snowfall, was full of terror. I knew from the way Dr. Van
43Helsing was searching about that he was trying to seek some strategic point, where we would be less exposed in case of
44attack. The rough roadway still led downwards; we could trace it through the drifted snow. In a little while the
45Professor signalled to me, so I got up and joined him. He had found a wonderful spot, a sort of natural hollow in a
46rock, with an entrance like a doorway between two boulders. He took me by the hand and drew me in: "See!" he said, "here
47you will be in shelter; and if the wolves do come I can meet them one by one." He brought in our furs, and made a snug
48nest for me, and got out some provisions and forced them upon me. But I could not eat; to even try to do so was
49repulsive to me, and, much as I would have liked to please him, I could not bring myself to the attempt. He looked very
50sad, but did not reproach me. Taking his field-glasses from the case, he stood on the top of the rock, and began to
51search the horizon. Suddenly he called out:-- "Look! Madam Mina, look! look!" I sprang up and stood beside him on the
52rock; he handed me his glasses and pointed. The snow was now falling more heavily, and swirled about fiercely, for a
53high wind was beginning to blow. However, there were times when there were pauses between the snow flurries and I could
54see a long way round. From the height where we were it was possible to see a great distance; and far off, beyond the
55white waste of snow, I could see the river lying like a black ribbon in kinks and curls as it wound its way. Straight in
56front of us and not far off--in fact, so near that I wondered we had not noticed before--came a group of mounted men
57hurrying along. In the midst of them was a cart, a long leiter-wagon which swept from side to side, like a dog's tail
58wagging, with each stern inequality of the road. Outlined against the snow as they were, I could see from the men's
59clothes that they were peasants or gypsies of some kind. On the cart was a great square chest. My heart leaped as I saw
60it, for I felt that the end was coming. The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing,
61which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit. In fear I
62turned to the Professor; to my consternation, however, he was not there. An instant later, I saw him below me. Round the
63rock he had drawn a circle, such as we had found shelter in last night. When he had completed it he stood beside me
64again, saying:--
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