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1Dr. Seward simply nodded. The Professor stood up and, after laying his golden crucifix on the table, held out his hand
2on either side. I took his right hand, and Lord Godalming his left; Jonathan held my right with his left and stretched
3across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our solemn compact was made. I felt my heart icy cold, but it did not even
4occur to me to draw back. We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing went on with a sort of cheerfulness which showed
5that the serious work had begun. It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way, as any other transaction
6of life:-- "Well, you know what we have to contend against; but we, too, are not without strength. We have on our side
7power of combination--a power denied to the vampire kind; we have sources of science; we are free to act and think; and
8the hours of the day and the night are ours equally. In fact, so far as our powers extend, they are unfettered, and we
9are free to use them. We have self-devotion in a cause, and an end to achieve which is not a selfish one. These things
10are much. "Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are restrict, and how the individual cannot. In
11fine, let us consider the limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. "All we have to go upon
12are traditions and superstitions. These do not at the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and death--nay
13of more than either life or death. Yet must we be satisfied; in the first place because we have to be--no other means is
14at our control--and secondly, because, after all, these things--tradition and superstition--are everything. Does not the
15belief in vampires rest for others--though not, alas! for us--on them? A year ago which of us would have received such a
16possibility, in the midst of our scientific, sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We even scouted a belief that
17we saw justified under our very eyes. Take it, then, that the vampire, and the belief in his limitations and his cure,
18rest for the moment on the same base. For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere that men have been. In old Greece, in
19old Rome; he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese; and in China, so far from us in
20all ways, there even is he, and the peoples fear him at this day. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander,
21the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar. So far, then, we have all we may act upon; and let me tell you
22that very much of the beliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own so unhappy experience. The vampire live on,
23and cannot die by mere passing of the time; he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the living. Even
24more, we have seen amongst us that he can even grow younger; that his vital faculties grow strenuous, and seem as though
25they refresh themselves when his special pabulum is plenty. But he cannot flourish without this diet; he eat not as
26others. Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him to eat, never! He throws no shadow; he
27make in the mirror no reflect, as again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand--witness again
28Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolfs, and when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself
29to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw
30him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at
31the window of Miss Lucy. He can come in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him of this; but, from
32what we know, the distance he can make this mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on moonlight rays
33as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we ourselves saw
34Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the tomb door. He can, when once he find his way,
35come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with fire--solder you call it.
36He can see in the dark--no small power this, in a world which is one half shut from the light. Ah, but hear me through.
37He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay; he is even more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the
38madman in his cell. He cannot go where he lists; he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature's laws--why we
39know not. He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come; though
40afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day. Only
41at certain times can he have limited freedom. If he be not at the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself
42at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset. These things are we told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference.
43Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the
44place unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby; still at other time he can only change
45when the time come. It is said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide. Then
46there are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic that we know of; and as for things sacred, as
47this symbol, my crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is nothing, but in their presence he
48take his place far off and silent with respect. There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest in our seeking we
49may need them. The branch of wild rose on his coffin keep him that he move not from it; a sacred bullet fired into the
50coffin kill him so that he be true dead; and as for the stake through him, we know already of its peace; or the cut-off
51head that giveth rest. We have seen it with our eyes. "Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can
52confine him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know. But he is clever. I have asked my friend Arminius,
53of Buda-Pesth University, to make his record; and, from all the means that are, he tell me of what he has been. He must,
54indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of
55Turkey-land. If it be so, then was he no common man; for in that time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the
56cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land beyond the forest.' That mighty brain
57and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The Draculas were, says
58Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings
59with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the
60devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as 'stregoica'--witch, 'ordog,' and
61'pokol'--Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all understand too
62well. There have been from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth
63where alone this foulness can dwell. For it is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in all
64good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest." Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the
65window, and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room. There was a little pause, and then the Professor went on:--
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