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1I shook my head. "That," I said, "is the crux. Van Helsing is simply frantic about it, and I am at my wits' end. I can't
2even hazard a guess. There has been a series of little circumstances which have thrown out all our calculations as to
3Lucy being properly watched. But these shall not occur again. Here we stay until all be well--or ill." Quincey held out
4his hand. "Count me in," he said. "You and the Dutchman will tell me what to do, and I'll do it." When she woke late in
5the afternoon, Lucy's first movement was to feel in her breast, and, to my surprise, produced the paper which Van
6Helsing had given me to read. The careful Professor had replaced it where it had come from, lest on waking she should be
7alarmed. Her eye then lit on Van Helsing and on me too, and gladdened. Then she looked around the room, and seeing where
8she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face. We both understood what that
9meant--that she had realised to the full her mother's death; so we tried what we could to comfort her. Doubtless
10sympathy eased her somewhat, but she was very low in thought and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for a long time.
11We told her that either or both of us would now remain with her all the time, and that seemed to comfort her. Towards
12dusk she fell into a doze. Here a very odd thing occurred. Whilst still asleep she took the paper from her breast and
13tore it in two. Van Helsing stepped over and took the pieces from her. All the same, however, she went on with the
14action of tearing, as though the material were still in her hands; finally she lifted her hands and opened them as
15though scattering the fragments. Van Helsing seemed surprised, and his brows gathered as if in thought, but he said
16nothing. 19 September.--All last night she slept fitfully, being always afraid to sleep, and something weaker when she
17woke from it. The Professor and I took it in turns to watch, and we never left her for a moment unattended. Quincey
18Morris said nothing about his intention, but I knew that all night long he patrolled round and round the house. When the
19day came, its searching light showed the ravages in poor Lucy's strength. She was hardly able to turn her head, and the
20little nourishment which she could take seemed to do her no good. At times she slept, and both Van Helsing and I noticed
21the difference in her, between sleeping and waking. Whilst asleep she looked stronger, although more haggard, and her
22breathing was softer; her open mouth showed the pale gums drawn back from the teeth, which thus looked positively longer
23and sharper than usual; when she woke the softness of her eyes evidently changed the expression, for she looked her own
24self, although a dying one. In the afternoon she asked for Arthur, and we telegraphed for him. Quincey went off to meet
25him at the station. When he arrived it was nearly six o'clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light
26streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks. When he saw her, Arthur was simply choking with
27emotion, and none of us could speak. In the hours that had passed, the fits of sleep, or the comatose condition that
28passed for it, had grown more frequent, so that the pauses when conversation was possible were shortened. Arthur's
29presence, however, seemed to act as a stimulant; she rallied a little, and spoke to him more brightly than she had done
30since we arrived. He too pulled himself together, and spoke as cheerily as he could, so that the best was made of
31everything. It was now nearly one o'clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with her. I am to relieve them in a
32quarter of an hour, and I am entering this on Lucy's phonograph. Until six o'clock they are to try to rest. I fear that
33to-morrow will end our watching, for the shock has been too great; the poor child cannot rally. God help us all. Letter,
34Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra. (Unopened by her.) "17 September. "My dearest Lucy,-- "It seems an age since I heard from
35you, or indeed since I wrote. You will pardon me, I know, for all my faults when you have read all my budget of news.
36Well, I got my husband back all right; when we arrived at Exeter there was a carriage waiting for us, and in it, though
37he had an attack of gout, Mr. Hawkins. He took us to his house, where there were rooms for us all nice and comfortable,
38and we dined together. After dinner Mr. Hawkins said:-- "'My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity; and may
39every blessing attend you both. I know you both from children, and have, with love and pride, seen you grow up. Now I
40want you to make your home here with me. I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in my will I have
41left you everything.' I cried, Lucy dear, as Jonathan and the old man clasped hands. Our evening was a very, very happy
42one. "So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my bedroom and the drawing-room I can see the
43great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the
44cathedral and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of
45rooks--and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and housekeeping. Jonathan and Mr. Hawkins are busy
46all day; for, now that Jonathan is a partner, Mr. Hawkins wants to tell him all about the clients. "How is your dear
47mother getting on? I wish I could run up to town for a day or two to see you, dear, but I dare not go yet, with so much
48on my shoulders; and Jonathan wants looking after still. He is beginning to put some flesh on his bones again, but he
49was terribly weakened by the long illness; even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in a sudden way and awakes all
50trembling until I can coax him back to his usual placidity. However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent as
51the days go on, and they will in time pass away altogether, I trust. And now I have told you my news, let me ask yours.
52When are you to be married, and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to wear, and is it to be a
53public or a private wedding? Tell me all about it, dear; tell me all about everything, for there is nothing which
54interests you which will not be dear to me. Jonathan asks me to send his 'respectful duty,' but I do not think that is
55good enough from the junior partner of the important firm Hawkins & Harker; and so, as you love me, and he loves me, and
56I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead. Good-bye, my dearest Lucy,
57and all blessings on you. "Yours, "MINA HARKER." Report from Patrick Hennessey, M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I.,
58etc., etc., to John Seward, M. D. "20 September. "My dear Sir,--
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