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1"What are we to do now? Where are we to turn for help? We must have another transfusion of blood, and that soon, or that
2poor girl's life won't be worth an hour's purchase. You are exhausted already; I am exhausted too. I fear to trust those
3women, even if they would have courage to submit. What are we to do for some one who will open his veins for her?"
4"What's the matter with me, anyhow?" The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought relief and joy
5to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris. Van Helsing started angrily at the first sound, but his face
6softened and a glad look came into his eyes as I cried out: "Quincey Morris!" and rushed towards him with outstretched
7hands. "What brought you here?" I cried as our hands met. "I guess Art is the cause." He handed me a telegram:-- "Have
8not heard from Seward for three days, and am terribly anxious. Cannot leave. Father still in same condition. Send me
9word how Lucy is. Do not delay.--HOLMWOOD." "I think I came just in the nick of time. You know you have only to tell me
10what to do." Van Helsing strode forward, and took his hand, looking him straight in the eyes as he said:-- "A brave
11man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You're a man and no mistake. Well, the devil may
12work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them." Once again we went through that ghastly
13operation. I have not the heart to go through with the details. Lucy had got a terrible shock and it told on her more
14than before, for though plenty of blood went into her veins, her body did not respond to the treatment as well as on the
15other occasions. Her struggle back into life was something frightful to see and hear. However, the action of both heart
16and lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with good effect. Her faint
17became a profound slumber. The Professor watched whilst I went downstairs with Quincey Morris, and sent one of the maids
18to pay off one of the cabmen who were waiting. I left Quincey lying down after having a glass of wine, and told the cook
19to get ready a good breakfast. Then a thought struck me, and I went back to the room where Lucy now was. When I came
20softly in, I found Van Helsing with a sheet or two of note-paper in his hand. He had evidently read it, and was thinking
21it over as he sat with his hand to his brow. There was a look of grim satisfaction in his face, as of one who has had a
22doubt solved. He handed me the paper saying only: "It dropped from Lucy's breast when we carried her to the bath." When
23I had read it, I stood looking at the Professor, and after a pause asked him: "In God's name, what does it all mean? Was
24she, or is she, mad; or what sort of horrible danger is it?" I was so bewildered that I did not know what to say more.
25Van Helsing put out his hand and took the paper, saying:-- "Do not trouble about it now. Forget it for the present. You
26shall know and understand it all in good time; but it will be later. And now what is it that you came to me to say?"
27This brought me back to fact, and I was all myself again. "I came to speak about the certificate of death. If we do not
28act properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would have to be produced. I am in hopes that we need
29have no inquest, for if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did. I know, and you know, and the other
30doctor who attended her knows, that Mrs. Westenra had disease of the heart, and we can certify that she died of it. Let
31us fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take it myself to the registrar and go on to the undertaker." "Good, oh
32my friend John! Well thought of! Truly Miss Lucy, if she be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the
33friends that love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah yes, I know, friend John;
34I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go." In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur
35telling him that Mrs. Westenra was dead; that Lucy also had been ill, but was now going on better; and that Van Helsing
36and I were with her. I told him where I was going, and he hurried me out, but as I was going said:-- "When you come
37back, Jack, may I have two words with you all to ourselves?" I nodded in reply and went out. I found no difficulty about
38the registration, and arranged with the local undertaker to come up in the evening to measure for the coffin and to make
39arrangements. When I got back Quincey was waiting for me. I told him I would see him as soon as I knew about Lucy, and
40went up to her room. She was still sleeping, and the Professor seemingly had not moved from his seat at her side. From
41his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered that he expected her to wake before long and was afraid of forestalling
42nature. So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which
43was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. When we were alone, he said to me:-- "Jack
44Seward, I don't want to shove myself in anywhere where I've no right to be; but this is no ordinary case. You know I
45loved that girl and wanted to marry her; but, although that's all past and gone, I can't help feeling anxious about her
46all the same. What is it that's wrong with her? The Dutchman--and a fine old fellow he is; I can see that--said, that
47time you two came into the room, that you must have another transfusion of blood, and that both you and he were
48exhausted. Now I know well that you medical men speak in camera, and that a man must not expect to know what they
49consult about in private. But this is no common matter, and, whatever it is, I have done my part. Is not that so?"
50"That's so," I said, and he went on:-- "I take it that both you and Van Helsing had done already what I did to-day. Is
51not that so?" "That's so." "And I guess Art was in it too. When I saw him four days ago down at his own place he looked
52queer. I have not seen anything pulled down so quick since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of go to
53grass all in a night. One of those big bats that they call vampires had got at her in the night, and what with his gorge
54and the vein left open, there wasn't enough blood in her to let her stand up, and I had to put a bullet through her as
55she lay. Jack, if you may tell me without betraying confidence, Arthur was the first, is not that so?" As he spoke the
56poor fellow looked terribly anxious. He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter
57ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain. His very heart was bleeding, and it
58took all the manhood of him--and there was a royal lot of it, too--to keep him from breaking down. I paused before
59answering, for I felt that I must not betray anything which the Professor wished kept secret; but already he knew so
60much, and guessed so much, that there could be no reason for not answering, so I answered in the same phrase: "That's
61so." "And how long has this been going on?" "About ten days." "Ten days! Then I guess, Jack Seward, that that poor
62pretty creature that we all love has had put into her veins within that time the blood of four strong men. Man alive,
63her whole body wouldn't hold it." Then, coming close to me, he spoke in a fierce half-whisper: "What took it out?"
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