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1"No one knew where he went 'or bloomin' well cared,' as they said, for they had something else to think of--well with
2blood again; for it soon became apparent to all that the Czarina Catherine would not sail as was expected. A thin mist
3began to creep up from the river, and it grew, and grew; till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all around her.
4The captain swore polyglot--very polyglot--polyglot with bloom and blood; but he could do nothing. The water rose and
5rose; and he began to fear that he would lose the tide altogether. He was in no friendly mood, when just at full tide,
6the thin man came up the gang-plank again and asked to see where his box had been stowed. Then the captain replied that
7he wished that he and his box--old and with much bloom and blood--were in hell. But the thin man did not be offend, and
8went down with the mate and saw where it was place, and came up and stood awhile on deck in fog. He must have come off
9by himself, for none notice him. Indeed they thought not of him; for soon the fog begin to melt away, and all was clear
10again. My friends of the thirst and the language that was of bloom and blood laughed, as they told how the captain's
11swears exceeded even his usual polyglot, and was more than ever full of picturesque, when on questioning other mariners
12who were on movement up and down on the river that hour, he found that few of them had seen any of fog at all, except
13where it lay round the wharf. However, the ship went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the
14river mouth. She was by then, when they told us, well out to sea. "And so, my dear Madam Mina, it is that we have to
15rest for a time, for our enemy is on the sea, with the fog at his command, on his way to the Danube mouth. To sail a
16ship takes time, go she never so quick; and when we start we go on land more quick, and we meet him there. Our best hope
17is to come on him when in the box between sunrise and sunset; for then he can make no struggle, and we may deal with him
18as we should. There are days for us, in which we can make ready our plan. We know all about where he go; for we have
19seen the owner of the ship, who have shown us invoices and all papers that can be. The box we seek is to be landed in
20Varna, and to be given to an agent, one Ristics who will there present his credentials; and so our merchant friend will
21have done his part. When he ask if there be any wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and have inquiry made at Varna, we
22say 'no'; for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs. It must be done by us alone and in our own way."
23When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain that the Count had remained on board the ship. He
24replied: "We have the best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning." I asked him
25again if it were really necessary that they should pursue the Count, for oh! I dread Jonathan leaving me, and I know
26that he would surely go if the others went. He answered in growing passion, at first quietly. As he went on, however, he
27grew more angry and more forceful, till in the end we could not but see wherein was at least some of that personal
28dominance which made him so long a master amongst men:-- "Yes, it is necessary--necessary--necessary! For your sake in
29the first, and then for the sake of humanity. This monster has done much harm already, in the narrow scope where he find
30himself, and in the short time when as yet he was only as a body groping his so small measure in darkness and not
31knowing. All this have I told these others; you, my dear Madam Mina, will learn it in the phonograph of my friend John,
32or in that of your husband. I have told them how the measure of leaving his own barren land--barren of peoples--and
33coming to a new land where life of man teems till they are like the multitude of standing corn, was the work of
34centuries. Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the
35world that have been, or that will be, could aid him. With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep
36and strong must have worked together in some wondrous way. The very place, where he have been alive, Un-Dead for all
37these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world. There are deep caverns and fissures that
38reach none know whither. There have been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters of strange properties,
39and gases that kill or make to vivify. Doubtless, there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations
40of occult forces which work for physical life in strange way; and in himself were from the first some great qualities.
41In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any
42man. In him some vital principle have in strange way found their utmost; and as his body keep strong and grow and
43thrive, so his brain grow too. All this without that diabolic aid which is surely to him; for it have to yield to the
44powers that come from, and are, symbolic of good. And now this is what he is to us. He have infect you--oh, forgive me,
45my dear, that I must say such; but it is for good of you that I speak. He infect you in such wise, that even if he do no
46more, you have only to live--to live in your own old, sweet way; and so in time, death, which is of man's common lot and
47with God's sanction, shall make you like to him. This must not be! We have sworn together that it must not. Thus are we
48ministers of God's own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose
49very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the
50Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause."
51He paused and I said:-- "But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely? Since he has been driven from England, will he
52not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?"
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