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1Then I arouse Madam Mina. This time she wake with not much trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep. But she
2sleep not, being as though I were not. Still I try and try, till all at once I find her and myself in dark; so I look
3round, and find that the sun have gone down. Madam Mina laugh, and I turn and look at her. She is now quite awake, and
4look so well as I never saw her since that night at Carfax when we first enter the Count's house. I am amaze, and not at
5ease then; but she is so bright and tender and thoughtful for me that I forget all fear. I light a fire, for we have
6brought supply of wood with us, and she prepare food while I undo the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, to feed.
7Then when I return to the fire she have my supper ready. I go to help her; but she smile, and tell me that she have eat
8already--that she was so hungry that she would not wait. I like it not, and I have grave doubts; but I fear to affright
9her, and so I am silent of it. She help me and I eat alone; and then we wrap in fur and lie beside the fire, and I tell
10her to sleep while I watch. But presently I forget all of watching; and when I sudden remember that I watch, I find her
11lying quiet, but awake, and looking at me with so bright eyes. Once, twice more the same occur, and I get much sleep
12till before morning. When I wake I try to hypnotise her; but alas! though she shut her eyes obedient, she may not sleep.
13The sun rise up, and up, and up; and then sleep come to her too late, but so heavy that she will not wake. I have to
14lift her up, and place her sleeping in the carriage when I have harnessed the horses and made all ready. Madam still
15sleep, and she look in her sleep more healthy and more redder than before. And I like it not. And I am afraid, afraid,
16afraid!--I am afraid of all things--even to think but I must go on my way. The stake we play for is life and death, or
17more than these, and we must not flinch. 5 November, morning.--Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I
18have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad--that the many horrors
19and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. All yesterday we travel, ever getting closer to the
20mountains, and moving into a more and more wild and desert land. There are great, frowning precipices and much falling
21water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival. Madam Mina still sleep and sleep; and though I did have
22hunger and appeased it, I could not waken her--even for food. I began to fear that the fatal spell of the place was upon
23her, tainted as she is with that Vampire baptism. "Well," said I to myself, "if it be that she sleep all the day, it
24shall also be that I do not sleep at night." As we travel on the rough road, for a road of an ancient and imperfect kind
25there was, I held down my head and slept. Again I waked with a sense of guilt and of time passed, and found Madam Mina
26still sleeping, and the sun low down. But all was indeed changed; the frowning mountains seemed further away, and we
27were near the top of a steep-rising hill, on summit of which was such a castle as Jonathan tell of in his diary. At once
28I exulted and feared; for now, for good or ill, the end was near. I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotise her;
29but alas! unavailing till too late. Then, ere the great dark came upon us--for even after down-sun the heavens reflected
30the gone sun on the snow, and all was for a time in a great twilight--I took out the horses and fed them in what shelter
31I could. Then I make a fire; and near it I make Madam Mina, now awake and more charming than ever, sit comfortable amid
32her rugs. I got ready food: but she would not eat, simply saying that she had not hunger. I did not press her, knowing
33her unavailingness. But I myself eat, for I must needs now be strong for all. Then, with the fear on me of what might
34be, I drew a ring so big for her comfort, round where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the wafer, and
35I broke it fine so that all was well guarded. She sat still all the time--so still as one dead; and she grew whiter and
36ever whiter till the snow was not more pale; and no word she said. But when I drew near, she clung to me, and I could
37know that the poor soul shook her from head to feet with a tremor that was pain to feel. I said to her presently, when
38she had grown more quiet:-- "Will you not come over to the fire?" for I wished to make a test of what she could. She
39rose obedient, but when she have made a step she stopped, and stood as one stricken. "Why not go on?" I asked. She shook
40her head, and, coming back, sat down in her place. Then, looking at me with open eyes, as of one waked from sleep, she
41said simply:-- "I cannot!" and remained silent. I rejoiced, for I knew that what she could not, none of those that we
42dreaded could. Though there might be danger to her body, yet her soul was safe! Presently the horses began to scream,
43and tore at their tethers till I came to them and quieted them. When they did feel my hands on them, they whinnied low
44as in joy, and licked at my hands and were quiet for a time. Many times through the night did I come to them, till it
45arrive to the cold hour when all nature is at lowest; and every time my coming was with quiet of them. In the cold hour
46the fire began to die, and I was about stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps and with
47it a chill mist. Even in the dark there was a light of some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though
48the snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with trailing garments. All was in dead, grim silence
49only that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst. I began to fear--horrible fears; but then came
50to me the sense of safety in that ring wherein I stood. I began, too, to think that my imaginings were of the night, and
51the gloom, and the unrest that I have gone through, and all the terrible anxiety. It was as though my memories of all
52Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me; for the snow flakes and the mist began to wheel and circle round, till I
53could get as though a shadowy glimpse of those women that would have kissed him. And then the horses cowered lower and
54lower, and moaned in terror as men do in pain. Even the madness of fright was not to them, so that they could break
55away. I feared for my dear Madam Mina when these weird figures drew near and circled round. I looked at her, but she sat
56calm, and smiled at me; when I would have stepped to the fire to replenish it, she caught me and held me back, and
57whispered, like a voice that one hears in a dream, so low it was:-- "No! No! Do not go without. Here you are safe!" I
58turned to her, and looking in her eyes, said:-- "But you? It is for you that I fear!" whereat she laughed--a laugh, low
59and unreal, and said:--
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