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1"Aha!" he said, "your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall adopt him. Your man-eater, as they of India call the
2tiger who has once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl unceasing till he get him. This
3that we hunt from our village is a tiger, too, a man-eater, and he never cease to prowl. Nay, in himself he is not one
4to retire and stay afar. In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own
5ground; he be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. Look at his persistence and
6endurance. With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city. What
7does he do? He find out the place of all the world most of promise for him. Then he deliberately set himself down to
8prepare for the task. He find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers. He study new tongues. He
9learn new social life; new environment of old ways, the politic, the law, the finance, the science, the habit of a new
10land and a new people who have come to be since he was. His glimpse that he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen
11his desire. Nay, it help him to grow as to his brain; for it all prove to him how right he was at the first in his
12surmises. He have done this alone; all alone! from a ruin tomb in a forgotten land. What more may he not do when the
13greater world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death, as we know him; who can flourish in the midst of
14diseases that kill off whole peoples. Oh, if such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good
15might he not be in this old world of ours. But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and
16our efforts all in secret; for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise
17men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armour, and his weapons to destroy us, his
18enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love--for the good of mankind, and for the
19honour and glory of God." After a general discussion it was determined that for to-night nothing be definitely settled;
20that we should all sleep on the facts, and try to think out the proper conclusions. To-morrow, at breakfast, we are to
21meet again, and, after making our conclusions known to one another, we shall decide on some definite cause of action. I
22feel a wonderful peace and rest to-night. It is as if some haunting presence were removed from me. Perhaps ... My
23surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the mirror of the red mark upon my forehead; and I knew
24that I was still unclean. Dr. Seward's Diary. 5 October.--We all rose early, and I think that sleep did much for each
25and all of us. When we met at early breakfast there was more general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to
26experience again. It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no
27matter what, be removed in any way--even by death--and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. More than
28once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder whether the whole of the past days had not been a dream. It
29was only when I caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker's forehead that I was brought back to reality. Even now,
30when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still
31existent. Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her trouble for whole spells; it is only now and again, when something
32recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scar. We are to meet here in my study in half an hour and decide
33on our course of action. I see only one immediate difficulty, I know it by instinct rather than reason: we shall all
34have to speak frankly; and yet I fear that in some mysterious way poor Mrs. Harker's tongue is tied. I know that she
35forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must be; but she
36will not, or cannot, give them utterance. I have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and he and I are to talk it over when we
37are alone. I suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to work. The Count had his
38own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood." Well, there may be a poison that
39distils itself out of good things; in an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not wonder at
40anything! One thing I know: that if my instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker's silences, then there is a terrible
41difficulty--an unknown danger--in the work before us. The same power that compels her silence may compel her speech. I
42dare not think further; for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman! Van Helsing is coming to my study a
43little before the others. I shall try to open the subject with him. Later.--When the Professor came in, we talked over
44the state of things. I could see that he had something on his mind which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about
45broaching the subject. After beating about the bush a little, he said suddenly:-- "Friend John, there is something that
46you and I must talk of alone, just at the first at any rate. Later, we may have to take the others into our confidence";
47then he stopped, so I waited; he went on:-- "Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing." A cold shiver ran
48through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed. Van Helsing continued:-- "With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must
49this time be warned before things go too far. Our task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble
50makes every hour of the direst importance. I can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her face. It is now
51but very, very slight; but it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without to prejudge. Her teeth are some sharper,
52and at times her eyes are more hard. But these are not all, there is to her the silence now often; as so it was with
53Miss Lucy. She did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known later. Now my fear is this. If it be
54that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotise
55her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should, if he will, compel her mind to
56disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescence; he went on:-- "Then, what we must do is to prevent this; we
57must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know not. This is a painful task! Oh, so painful
58that it heart-break me to think of; but it must be. When to-day we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will
59not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us." He wiped his forehead, which had broken
60out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so
61tortured. I knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same conclusion;
62for at any rate it would take away the pain of doubt. I told him, and the effect was as I expected. It is now close to
63the time of our general gathering. Van Helsing has gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of it. I
64really believe his purpose is to be able to pray alone.
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