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1Strange that it never struck me that the very next house might be the Count's hiding-place! Goodness knows that we had
2enough clues from the conduct of the patient Renfield! The bundle of letters relating to the purchase of the house were
3with the typescript. Oh, if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! Stop; that way madness lies!
4Harker has gone back, and is again collating his material. He says that by dinner-time they will be able to show a whole
5connected narrative. He thinks that in the meantime I should see Renfield, as hitherto he has been a sort of index to
6the coming and going of the Count. I hardly see this yet, but when I get at the dates I suppose I shall. What a good
7thing that Mrs. Harker put my cylinders into type! We never could have found the dates otherwise.... I found Renfield
8sitting placidly in his room with his hands folded, smiling benignly. At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever
9saw. I sat down and talked with him on a lot of subjects, all of which he treated naturally. He then, of his own accord,
10spoke of going home, a subject he has never mentioned to my knowledge during his sojourn here. In fact, he spoke quite
11confidently of getting his discharge at once. I believe that, had I not had the chat with Harker and read the letters
12and the dates of his outbursts, I should have been prepared to sign for him after a brief time of observation. As it is,
13I am darkly suspicious. All those outbreaks were in some way linked with the proximity of the Count. What then does this
14absolute content mean? Can it be that his instinct is satisfied as to the vampire's ultimate triumph? Stay; he is
15himself zoöphagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of "master."
16This all seems confirmation of our idea. However, after a while I came away; my friend is just a little too sane at
17present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions. He might begin to think, and then--! So I came away. I
18mistrust these quiet moods of his; so I have given the attendant a hint to look closely after him, and to have a
19strait-waistcoat ready in case of need. Jonathan Harker's Journal. 29 September, in train to London.--When I received
20Mr. Billington's courteous message that he would give me any information in his power I thought it best to go down to
21Whitby and make, on the spot, such inquiries as I wanted. It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count's
22to its place in London. Later, we may be able to deal with it. Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station, and
23brought me to his father's house, where they had decided that I must stay the night. They are hospitable, with true
24Yorkshire hospitality: give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes. They all knew that I was busy, and
25that my stay was short, and Mr. Billington had ready in his office all the papers concerning the consignment of boxes.
26It gave me almost a turn to see again one of the letters which I had seen on the Count's table before I knew of his
27diabolical plans. Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and with precision. He seemed to
28have been prepared for every obstacle which might be placed by accident in the way of his intentions being carried out.
29To use an Americanism, he had "taken no chances," and the absolute accuracy with which his instructions were fulfilled,
30was simply the logical result of his care. I saw the invoice, and took note of it: "Fifty cases of common earth, to be
31used for experimental purposes." Also the copy of letter to Carter Paterson, and their reply; of both of these I got
32copies. This was all the information Mr. Billington could give me, so I went down to the port and saw the coastguards,
33the Customs officers and the harbour-master. They had all something to say of the strange entry of the ship, which is
34already taking its place in local tradition; but no one could add to the simple description "Fifty cases of common
35earth." I then saw the station-master, who kindly put me in communication with the men who had actually received the
36boxes. Their tally was exact with the list, and they had nothing to add except that the boxes were "main and mortal
37heavy," and that shifting them was dry work. One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn't any gentleman
38"such-like as yourself, squire," to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a
39rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.
40Needless to add, I took care before leaving to lift, for ever and adequately, this source of reproach. 30
41September.--The station-master was good enough to give me a line to his old companion the station-master at King's
42Cross, so that when I arrived there in the morning I was able to ask him about the arrival of the boxes. He, too, put me
43at once in communication with the proper officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original invoice.
44The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made,
45and again I was compelled to deal with the result in an ex post facto manner. From thence I went on to Carter Paterson's
46central office, where I met with the utmost courtesy. They looked up the transaction in their day-book and letter-book,
47and at once telephoned to their King's Cross office for more details. By good fortune, the men who did the teaming were
48waiting for work, and the official at once sent them over, sending also by one of them the way-bill and all the papers
49connected with the delivery of the boxes at Carfax. Here again I found the tally agreeing exactly; the carriers' men
50were able to supplement the paucity of the written words with a few details. These were, I shortly found, connected
51almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and of the consequent thirst engendered in the operators. On my
52affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this
53beneficial evil, one of the men remarked:-- "That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! but it
54ain't been touched sence a hundred years. There was dust that thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without
55'urtin' of yer bones; an' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave smelled ole Jerusalem in it. But the ole
56chapel--that took the cike, that did! Me and my mate, we thort we wouldn't never git out quick enough. Lor', I wouldn't
57take less nor a quid a moment to stay there arter dark." Having been in the house, I could well believe him; but if he
58knew what I know, he would, I think, have raised his terms. Of one thing I am now satisfied: that all the boxes which
59arrived at Whitby from Varna in the Demeter were safely deposited in the old chapel at Carfax. There should be fifty of
60them there, unless any have since been removed--as from Dr. Seward's diary I fear. I shall try to see the carter who
61took away the boxes from Carfax when Renfield attacked them. By following up this clue we may learn a good deal.
62Later.--Mina and I have worked all day, and we have put all the papers into order. Mina Harker's Journal
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