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1"And now, Dr. Seward, tell me all about it. Too well I know the broad fact; tell me all that has been." I told him
2exactly what had happened, and he listened with seeming impassiveness; but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as
3I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to the
4open wound in his breast. It interested me, even at that moment, to see, that, whilst the face of white set passion
5worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair. Just as I had
6finished, Quincey and Godalming knocked at the door. They entered in obedience to our summons. Van Helsing looked at me
7questioningly. I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to divert if possible the thoughts
8of the unhappy husband and wife from each other and from themselves; so on nodding acquiescence to him he asked them
9what they had seen or done. To which Lord Godalming answered:-- "I could not see him anywhere in the passage, or in any
10of our rooms. I looked in the study but, though he had been there, he had gone. He had, however----" He stopped
11suddenly, looking at the poor drooping figure on the bed. Van Helsing said gravely:-- "Go on, friend Arthur. We want
12here no more concealments. Our hope now is in knowing all. Tell freely!" So Art went on:-- "He had been there, and
13though it could only have been for a few seconds, he made rare hay of the place. All the manuscript had been burned, and
14the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes; the cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire,
15and the wax had helped the flames." Here I interrupted. "Thank God there is the other copy in the safe!" His face lit
16for a moment, but fell again as he went on: "I ran downstairs then, but could see no sign of him. I looked into
17Renfield's room; but there was no trace there except----!" Again he paused. "Go on," said Harker hoarsely; so he bowed
18his head and moistening his lips with his tongue, added: "except that the poor fellow is dead." Mrs. Harker raised her
19head, looking from one to the other of us she said solemnly:-- "God's will be done!" I could not but feel that Art was
20keeping back something; but, as I took it that it was with a purpose, I said nothing. Van Helsing turned to Morris and
21asked:-- "And you, friend Quincey, have you any to tell?" "A little," he answered. "It may be much eventually, but at
22present I can't say. I thought it well to know if possible where the Count would go when he left the house. I did not
23see him; but I saw a bat rise from Renfield's window, and flap westward. I expected to see him in some shape go back to
24Carfax; but he evidently sought some other lair. He will not be back to-night; for the sky is reddening in the east, and
25the dawn is close. We must work to-morrow!" He said the latter words through his shut teeth. For a space of perhaps a
26couple of minutes there was silence, and I could fancy that I could hear the sound of our hearts beating; then Van
27Helsing said, placing his hand very tenderly on Mrs. Harker's head:-- "And now, Madam Mina--poor, dear, dear Madam
28Mina--tell us exactly what happened. God knows that I do not want that you be pained; but it is need that we know all.
29For now more than ever has all work to be done quick and sharp, and in deadly earnest. The day is close to us that must
30end all, if it may be so; and now is the chance that we may live and learn." The poor, dear lady shivered, and I could
31see the tension of her nerves as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and lower still on his
32breast. Then she raised her head proudly, and held out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and, after stooping
33and kissing it reverently, held it fast. The other hand was locked in that of her husband, who held his other arm thrown
34round her protectingly. After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she began:-- "I took the
35sleeping draught which you had so kindly given me, but for a long time it did not act. I seemed to become more wakeful,
36and myriads of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind--all of them connected with death, and vampires; with
37blood, and pain, and trouble." Her husband involuntarily groaned as she turned to him and said lovingly: "Do not fret,
38dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me
39to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help. Well, I saw I must try to help the
40medicine to its work with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to sleep. Sure enough sleep
41must soon have come to me, for I remember no more. Jonathan coming in had not waked me, for he lay by my side when next
42I remember. There was in the room the same thin white mist that I had before noticed. But I forget now if you know of
43this; you will find it in my diary which I shall show you later. I felt the same vague terror which had come to me
44before and the same sense of some presence. I turned to wake Jonathan, but found that he slept so soundly that it seemed
45as if it was he who had taken the sleeping draught, and not I. I tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great
46fear, and I looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me: beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of
47the mist--or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared--stood a tall, thin man,
48all in black. I knew him at once from the description of the others. The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which
49the light fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between; and the red eyes
50that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St. Mary's Church at Whitby. I knew, too, the red scar on his
51forehead where Jonathan had struck him. For an instant my heart stood still, and I would have screamed out, only that I
52was paralysed. In the pause he spoke in a sort of keen, cutting whisper, pointing as he spoke to Jonathan:-- "'Silence!
53If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes.' I was appalled and was too
54bewildered to do or say anything. With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon my shoulder and, holding me tight, bared
55my throat with the other, saying as he did so, 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be
56quiet; it is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!' I was bewildered, and,
57strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him. I suppose it is a part of the horrible curse that such is, when his
58touch is on his victim. And oh, my God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips upon my throat!" Her husband groaned
59again. She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one, and went on:-- "I felt
60my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not; but it seemed that a
61long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!" The
62remembrance seemed for a while to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her husband's
63sustaining arm. With a great effort she recovered herself and went on:--
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