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1"Fear for me! Why fear for me? None safer in all the world from them than I am," and as I wondered at the meaning of her
2words, a puff of wind made the flame leap up, and I see the red scar on her forehead. Then, alas! I knew. Did I not, I
3would soon have learned, for the wheeling figures of mist and snow came closer, but keeping ever without the Holy
4circle. Then they began to materialise till--if God have not take away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes--there
5were before me in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when they would have kissed his
6throat. I knew the swaying round forms, the bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous lips.
7They smiled ever at poor dear Madam Mina; and as their laugh came through the silence of the night, they twined their
8arms and pointed to her, and said in those so sweet tingling tones that Jonathan said were of the intolerable sweetness
9of the water-glasses:-- "Come, sister. Come to us. Come! Come!" In fear I turned to my poor Madam Mina, and my heart
10with gladness leapt like flame; for oh! the terror in her sweet eyes, the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my
11heart that was all of hope. God be thanked she was not, yet, of them. I seized some of the firewood which was by me, and
12holding out some of the Wafer, advanced on them towards the fire. They drew back before me, and laughed their low horrid
13laugh. I fed the fire, and feared them not; for I knew that we were safe within our protections. They could not
14approach, me, whilst so armed, nor Madam Mina whilst she remained within the ring, which she could not leave no more
15than they could enter. The horses had ceased to moan, and lay still on the ground; the snow fell on them softly, and
16they grew whiter. I knew that there was for the poor beasts no more of terror. And so we remained till the red of the
17dawn to fall through the snow-gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror; but when that beautiful sun
18began to climb the horizon life was to me again. At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the
19whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away towards the castle, and were lost. Instinctively,
20with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending to hypnotise her; but she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from
21which I could not wake her. I tried to hypnotise through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all; and the day
22broke. I fear yet to stir. I have made my fire and have seen the horses, they are all dead. To-day I have much to do
23here, and I keep waiting till the sun is up high; for there may be places where I must go, where that sunlight, though
24snow and mist obscure it, will be to me a safety. I will strengthen me with breakfast, and then I will to my terrible
25work. Madam Mina still sleeps; and, God be thanked! she is calm in her sleep.... Jonathan Harker's Journal. 4 November,
26evening.--The accident to the launch has been a terrible thing for us. Only for it we should have overtaken the boat
27long ago; and by now my dear Mina would have been free. I fear to think of her, off on the wolds near that horrid place.
28We have got horses, and we follow on the track. I note this whilst Godalming is getting ready. We have our arms. The
29Szgany must look out if they mean fight. Oh, if only Morris and Seward were with us. We must only hope! If I write no
30more Good-bye, Mina! God bless and keep you. Dr. Seward's Diary. 5 November.--With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany
31before us dashing away from the river with their leiter-wagon. They surrounded it in a cluster, and hurried along as
32though beset. The snow is falling lightly and there is a strange excitement in the air. It may be our own feelings, but
33the depression is strange. Far off I hear the howling of wolves; the snow brings them down from the mountains, and there
34are dangers to all of us, and from all sides. The horses are nearly ready, and we are soon off. We ride to death of some
35one. God alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be.... Dr. Van Helsing's Memorandum. 5 November,
36afternoon.--I am at least sane. Thank God for that mercy at all events, though the proving it has been dreadful. When I
37left Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy circle, I took my way to the castle. The blacksmith hammer which I took in the
38carriage from Veresti was useful; though the doors were all open I broke them off the rusty hinges, lest some ill-intent
39or ill-chance should close them, so that being entered I might not get out. Jonathan's bitter experience served me here.
40By memory of his diary I found my way to the old chapel, for I knew that here my work lay. The air was oppressive; it
41seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy. Either there was a roaring in my ears or I
42heard afar off the howl of wolves. Then I bethought me of my dear Madam Mina, and I was in terrible plight. The dilemma
43had me between his horns. Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe from the Vampire in that Holy
44circle; and yet even there would be the wolf! I resolve me that my work lay here, and that as to the wolves we must
45submit, if it were God's will. At any rate it was only death and freedom beyond. So did I choose for her. Had it but
46been for myself the choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than the grave of the Vampire! So I
47make my choice to go on with my work. I knew that there were at least three graves to find--graves that are inhabit; so
48I search, and search, and I find one of them. She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I
49shudder as though I have come to do murder. Ah, I doubt not that in old time, when such things were, many a man who set
50forth to do such a task as mine, found at the last his heart fail him, and then his nerve. So he delay, and delay, and
51delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton Un-Dead have hypnotise him; and he remain on and on, till
52sunset come, and the Vampire sleep be over. Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love, and the
53voluptuous mouth present to a kiss--and man is weak. And there remain one more victim in the Vampire fold; one more to
54swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Un-Dead!... There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the mere
55presence of such an one, even lying as she lay in a tomb fretted with age and heavy with the dust of centuries, though
56there be that horrid odour such as the lairs of the Count have had. Yes, I was moved--I, Van Helsing, with all my
57purpose and with my motive for hate--I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyse my faculties and to
58clog my very soul. It may have been that the need of natural sleep, and the strange oppression of the air were beginning
59to overcome me. Certain it was that I was lapsing into sleep, the open-eyed sleep of one who yields to a sweet
60fascination, when there came through the snow-stilled air a long, low wail, so full of woe and pity that it woke me like
61the sound of a clarion. For it was the voice of my dear Madam Mina that I heard.
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