diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/ArrayListClass/ArrayListClass.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/ArrayListClass/ArrayListClass.pde
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-/**
- * ArrayList of objects
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * This example demonstrates how to use a Java ArrayList to store
- * a variable number of objects. Items can be added and removed
- * from the ArrayList.
- *
- * Click the mouse to add bouncing balls.
- */
-
-ArrayList balls;
-int ballWidth = 48;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- smooth();
- noStroke();
-
- // Create an empty ArrayList
- balls = new ArrayList();
-
- // Start by adding one element
- balls.add(new Ball(width/2, 0, ballWidth));
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(255);
-
- // With an array, we say balls.length, with an ArrayList, we say balls.size()
- // The length of an ArrayList is dynamic
- // Notice how we are looping through the ArrayList backwards
- // This is because we are deleting elements from the list
- for (int i = balls.size()-1; i >= 0; i--) {
- // An ArrayList doesn't know what it is storing so we have to cast the object coming out
- Ball ball = (Ball) balls.get(i);
- ball.move();
- ball.display();
- if (ball.finished()) {
- // Items can be deleted with remove()
- balls.remove(i);
- }
-
- }
-
-}
-
-void mousePressed() {
- // A new ball object is added to the ArrayList (by default to the end)
- balls.add(new Ball(mouseX, mouseY, ballWidth));
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/ArrayListClass/Ball.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/ArrayListClass/Ball.pde
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-// Simple bouncing ball class
-
-class Ball {
-
- float x;
- float y;
- float speed;
- float gravity;
- float w;
- float life = 255;
-
- Ball(float tempX, float tempY, float tempW) {
- x = tempX;
- y = tempY;
- w = tempW;
- speed = 0;
- gravity = 0.1;
- }
-
- void move() {
- // Add gravity to speed
- speed = speed + gravity;
- // Add speed to y location
- y = y + speed;
- // If square reaches the bottom
- // Reverse speed
- if (y > height) {
- // Dampening
- speed = speed * -0.8;
- y = height;
- }
- }
-
- boolean finished() {
- // Balls fade out
- life--;
- if (life < 0) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- void display() {
- // Display the circle
- fill(0,life);
- //stroke(0,life);
- ellipse(x,y,w,w);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/DirectoryList/DirectoryList.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/DirectoryList/DirectoryList.pde
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-/**
- * Listing files in directories and subdirectories
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * This example has three functions:
- * 1) List the names of files in a directory
- * 2) List the names along with metadata (size, lastModified)
- * of files in a directory
- * 3) List the names along with metadata (size, lastModified)
- * of files in a directory and all subdirectories (using recursion)
- */
-
-
-void setup() {
-
- // Path
- String path = sketchPath;
-
- println("Listing all filenames in a directory: ");
- String[] filenames = listFileNames(path);
- println(filenames);
-
- println("\nListing info about all files in a directory: ");
- File[] files = listFiles(path);
- for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
- File f = files[i];
- println("Name: " + f.getName());
- println("Is directory: " + f.isDirectory());
- println("Size: " + f.length());
- String lastModified = new Date(f.lastModified()).toString();
- println("Last Modified: " + lastModified);
- println("-----------------------");
- }
-
- println("\nListing info about all files in a directory and all subdirectories: ");
- ArrayList allFiles = listFilesRecursive(path);
-
- for (int i = 0; i < allFiles.size(); i++) {
- File f = (File) allFiles.get(i);
- println("Name: " + f.getName());
- println("Full path: " + f.getAbsolutePath());
- println("Is directory: " + f.isDirectory());
- println("Size: " + f.length());
- String lastModified = new Date(f.lastModified()).toString();
- println("Last Modified: " + lastModified);
- println("-----------------------");
- }
-
- noLoop();
-}
-
-// Nothing is drawn in this program and the draw() doesn't loop because
-// of the noLoop() in setup()
-void draw() {
-
-}
-
-
-// This function returns all the files in a directory as an array of Strings
-String[] listFileNames(String dir) {
- File file = new File(dir);
- if (file.isDirectory()) {
- String names[] = file.list();
- return names;
- } else {
- // If it's not a directory
- return null;
- }
-}
-
-// This function returns all the files in a directory as an array of File objects
-// This is useful if you want more info about the file
-File[] listFiles(String dir) {
- File file = new File(dir);
- if (file.isDirectory()) {
- File[] files = file.listFiles();
- return files;
- } else {
- // If it's not a directory
- return null;
- }
-}
-
-// Function to get a list ofall files in a directory and all subdirectories
-ArrayList listFilesRecursive(String dir) {
- ArrayList fileList = new ArrayList();
- recurseDir(fileList,dir);
- return fileList;
-}
-
-// Recursive function to traverse subdirectories
-void recurseDir(ArrayList a, String dir) {
- File file = new File(dir);
- if (file.isDirectory()) {
- // If you want to include directories in the list
- a.add(file);
- File[] subfiles = file.listFiles();
- for (int i = 0; i < subfiles.length; i++) {
- // Call this function on all files in this directory
- recurseDir(a,subfiles[i].getAbsolutePath());
- }
- } else {
- a.add(file);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/HashMapClass.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/HashMapClass.pde
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-/**
- * HashMap example
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * This example demonstrates how to use a HashMap to store
- * a collection of objects referenced by a key.
- * This is much like an array, only instead of accessing elements
- * with a numeric index, we use a String.
- * If you are familiar with associative arrays from other languages,
- * this is the same idea.
- *
- * This example uses the HashMap to perform a simple concordance
- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)
- */
-
-
-HashMap words; // HashMap object
-
-String[] tokens; // Array of all words from input file
-int counter;
-
-PFont f;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- words = new HashMap();
-
- // Load file and chop it up
- String[] lines = loadStrings("dracula.txt");
- String allText = join(lines, " ");
- tokens = splitTokens(allText, " ,.?!:;[]-");
- f = createFont("Georgia", 36, true);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(51);
- fill(255);
-
- // Look at words one at a time
- String s = tokens[counter];
- counter = (counter + 1) % tokens.length;
-
- // Is the word in the HashMap
- if (words.containsKey(s)) {
- // Get the word object and increase the count
- // We access objects from a HashMap via its key, the String
- Word w = (Word) words.get(s);
- w.count();
- } else {
- // Otherwise make a new word
- Word w = new Word(s);
- // And add to the HashMap
- // put() takes two arguments, "key" and "value"
- // The key for us is the String and the value is the Word object
- words.put(s, w);
- }
-
- // Make an iterator to look at all the things in the HashMap
- Iterator i = words.values().iterator();
-
- // x and y will be used to locate each word
- float x = 0;
- float y = height-10;
-
- while (i.hasNext()) {
- // Look at each word
- Word w = (Word) i.next();
-
- // Only display words that appear 3 times
- if (w.count > 3) {
- // The size is the count
- int fsize = constrain(w.count, 0, 100);
- textFont(f, fsize);
- text(w.word, x, y);
- // Move along the x-axis
- x += textWidth(w.word + " ");
- }
-
- // If x gets to the end, move Y
- if (x > width) {
- x = 0;
- y -= 100;
- // If y gets to the end, we're done
- if (y < 0) {
- break;
- }
- }
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/Word.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/Word.pde
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-class Word {
-
- int count;
- String word;
-
- Word(String s) {
- word = s;
- count = 1;
- }
-
- void count() {
- count++;
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/data/dracula.txt b/java/examples/Topics/Advanced Data/HashMapClass/data/dracula.txt
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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Dracula, by Bram Stoker
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
-almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
-re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
-with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
-
-
-Title: Dracula
-
-Author: Bram Stoker
-
-Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #345]
-
-Language: English
-
-Character set encoding: ASCII
-
-*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA ***
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-
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-DRACULA
-
-by
-
-Bram Stoker
-
-
-1897 edition
-
-
-
-
-TABLE OF CONTENTS
-
-
-CHAPTER
-
- 1 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 2 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 3 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 4 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 5 Letter From Miss Mina Murray To Miss Lucy Westenra
- 6 Mina Murray's Journal
- 7 Cutting From "The Dailygraph", 8 August
- 8 Mina Murray's Journal
- 9 Letter, Mina Harker To Lucy Westenra
- 10 Letter, Dr. Seward To Hon. Arthur Holmwood
- 11 Lucy Westenra's Diary
- 12 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 13 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 14 Mina Harker's Journal
- 15 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 16 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 17 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 18 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 19 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 20 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 21 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 22 Jonathan Harker's Journal
- 23 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 24 Dr. Seward's Phonograph Diary
- 25 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 26 Dr. Seward's Diary
- 27 Mina Harker's Journal
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 1
-
-
-Jonathan Harker's Journal
-
-3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at
-Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was
-an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse
-which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through
-the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had
-arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
-
-The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the
-East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is
-here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish
-rule.
-
-We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh.
-Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner,
-or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which
-was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the
-waiter, and he said it was called "paprika hendl," and that, as it was
-a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the
-Carpathians.
-
-I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know
-how I should be able to get on without it.
-
-Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the
-British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the
-library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some
-foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance
-in dealing with a nobleman of that country.
-
-
-I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the
-country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia,
-and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the
-wildest and least known portions of Europe.
-
-I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality
-of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to
-compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz,
-the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I
-shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when
-I talk over my travels with Mina.
-
-In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct
-nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs,
-who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and
-Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who
-claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for
-when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they
-found the Huns settled in it.
-
-I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the
-horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of
-imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem.,
-I must ask the Count all about them.)
-
-I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had
-all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my
-window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have
-been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe,
-and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the
-continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping
-soundly then.
-
-I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize
-flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with
-forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,
-get recipe for this also.)
-
-I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight,
-or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station
-at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we
-began to move.
-
-It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are
-the trains. What ought they to be in China?
-
-All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of
-beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the
-top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by
-rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each
-side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water,
-and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.
-
-At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in
-all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home
-or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets,
-and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very
-picturesque.
-
-The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were
-very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some
-kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of
-something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of
-course there were petticoats under them.
-
-The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian
-than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white
-trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly
-a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots,
-with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and
-heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look
-prepossessing. On the stage they would be set down at once as some
-old Oriental band of brigands. They are, however, I am told, very
-harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.
-
-It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is
-a very interesting old place. Being practically on the frontier--for
-the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina--it has had a very stormy
-existence, and it certainly shows marks of it. Fifty years ago a
-series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five
-separate occasions. At the very beginning of the seventeenth century
-it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the
-casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease.
-
-Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I
-found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of
-course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
-
-I was evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a
-cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress--white
-undergarment with a long double apron, front, and back, of coloured
-stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty. When I came close she
-bowed and said, "The Herr Englishman?"
-
-"Yes," I said, "Jonathan Harker."
-
-She smiled, and gave some message to an elderly man in white
-shirtsleeves, who had followed her to the door.
-
-He went, but immediately returned with a letter:
-
-"My friend.--Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting
-you. Sleep well tonight. At three tomorrow the diligence will
-start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo
-Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust
-that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you
-will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.--Your friend, Dracula."
-
-
-4 May--I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count,
-directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on
-making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and
-pretended that he could not understand my German.
-
-This could not be true, because up to then he had understood it
-perfectly; at least, he answered my questions exactly as if he did.
-
-He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each
-other in a frightened sort of way. He mumbled out that the money had
-been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew. When I asked him if
-he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both
-he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing
-at all, simply refused to speak further. It was so near the time of
-starting that I had no time to ask anyone else, for it was all very
-mysterious and not by any means comforting.
-
-Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in
-a hysterical way: "Must you go? Oh! Young Herr, must you go?" She
-was in such an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of
-what German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language
-which I did not know at all. I was just able to follow her by asking
-many questions. When I told her that I must go at once, and that I
-was engaged on important business, she asked again:
-
-"Do you know what day it is?" I answered that it was the fourth of
-May. She shook her head as she said again:
-
-"Oh, yes! I know that! I know that, but do you know what day it is?"
-
-On my saying that I did not understand, she went on:
-
-"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight,
-when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will
-have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are
-going to?" She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort
-her, but without effect. Finally, she went down on her knees and
-implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting.
-
-It was all very ridiculous but I did not feel comfortable. However,
-there was business to be done, and I could allow nothing to interfere
-with it.
-
-I tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I
-thanked her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go.
-
-She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck
-offered it to me.
-
-I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been
-taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it
-seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such
-a state of mind.
-
-She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round
-my neck and said, "For your mother's sake," and went out of the room.
-
-I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting for the
-coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still round my
-neck.
-
-Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of
-this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not
-feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
-
-If this book should ever reach Mina before I do, let it bring my
-goodbye. Here comes the coach!
-
-
-5 May. The Castle.--The gray of the morning has passed, and the sun
-is high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with
-trees or hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and
-little are mixed.
-
-I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, naturally
-I write till sleep comes.
-
-There are many odd things to put down, and, lest who reads them may
-fancy that I dined too well before I left Bistritz, let me put down my
-dinner exactly.
-
-I dined on what they called "robber steak"--bits of bacon, onion, and
-beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks, and roasted over
-the fire, in simple style of the London cat's meat!
-
-The wine was Golden Mediasch, which produces a queer sting on the
-tongue, which is, however, not disagreeable.
-
-I had only a couple of glasses of this, and nothing else.
-
-When I got on the coach, the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw
-him talking to the landlady.
-
-They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked
-at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside
-the door--came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them
-pityingly. I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words,
-for there were many nationalities in the crowd, so I quietly got my
-polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out.
-
-I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were
-"Ordog"--Satan, "Pokol"--hell, "stregoica"--witch, "vrolok" and
-"vlkoslak"--both mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other
-Servian for something that is either werewolf or vampire. (Mem., I
-must ask the Count about these superstitions.)
-
-When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time
-swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and
-pointed two fingers towards me.
-
-With some difficulty, I got a fellow passenger to tell me what they
-meant. He would not answer at first, but on learning that I was
-English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil
-eye.
-
-This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place
-to meet an unknown man. But everyone seemed so kind-hearted, and so
-sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched.
-
-I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn yard and
-its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they
-stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of
-oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the
-yard.
-
-Then our driver, whose wide linen drawers covered the whole front of
-the boxseat,--"gotza" they call them--cracked his big whip over his
-four small horses, which ran abreast, and we set off on our journey.
-
-I soon lost sight and recollection of ghostly fears in the beauty of
-the scene as we drove along, although had I known the language, or
-rather languages, which my fellow-passengers were speaking, I might
-not have been able to throw them off so easily. Before us lay a green
-sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep
-hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank
-gable end to the road. There was everywhere a bewildering mass of
-fruit blossom--apple, plum, pear, cherry. And as we drove by I could
-see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.
-In and out amongst these green hills of what they call here the
-"Mittel Land" ran the road, losing itself as it swept round the grassy
-curve, or was shut out by the straggling ends of pine woods, which
-here and there ran down the hillsides like tongues of flame. The road
-was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.
-I could not understand then what the haste meant, but the driver was
-evidently bent on losing no time in reaching Borgo Prund. I was told
-that this road is in summertime excellent, but that it had not yet
-been put in order after the winter snows. In this respect it is
-different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is
-an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order. Of
-old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the Turk should think
-that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, and so hasten the
-war which was always really at loading point.
-
-Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes
-of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right
-and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon
-them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful
-range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and
-brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of
-jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the
-distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed
-mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to
-sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water. One of
-my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and
-opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as
-we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us.
-
-"Look! Isten szek!"--"God's seat!"--and he crossed himself reverently.
-
-As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower
-behind us, the shadows of the evening began to creep round us. This
-was emphasized by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the
-sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink. Here and
-there we passed Cszeks and slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I
-noticed that goitre was painfully prevalent. By the roadside were
-many crosses, and as we swept by, my companions all crossed
-themselves. Here and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling before
-a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in
-the self-surrender of devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the
-outer world. There were many things new to me. For instance,
-hay-ricks in the trees, and here and there very beautiful masses of
-weeping birch, their white stems shining like silver through the
-delicate green of the leaves.
-
-Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon--the ordinary peasants's
-cart--with its long, snakelike vertebra, calculated to suit the
-inequalities of the road. On this were sure to be seated quite a
-group of homecoming peasants, the Cszeks with their white, and the
-Slovaks with their coloured sheepskins, the latter carrying
-lance-fashion their long staves, with axe at end. As the evening fell
-it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge
-into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine,
-though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills,
-as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and
-there against the background of late-lying snow. Sometimes, as the
-road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be
-closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there
-bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect,
-which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in
-the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the
-ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind
-ceaselessly through the valleys. Sometimes the hills were so steep
-that, despite our driver's haste, the horses could only go slowly. I
-wished to get down and walk up them, as we do at home, but the driver
-would not hear of it. "No, no," he said. "You must not walk here.
-The dogs are too fierce." And then he added, with what he evidently
-meant for grim pleasantry--for he looked round to catch the approving
-smile of the rest--"And you may have enough of such matters before you
-go to sleep." The only stop he would make was a moment's pause to
-light his lamps.
-
-When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the
-passengers, and they kept speaking to him, one after the other, as
-though urging him to further speed. He lashed the horses unmercifully
-with his long whip, and with wild cries of encouragement urged them on
-to further exertions. Then through the darkness I could see a sort of
-patch of grey light ahead of us, as though there were a cleft in the
-hills. The excitement of the passengers grew greater. The crazy
-coach rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed like a boat
-tossed on a stormy sea. I had to hold on. The road grew more level,
-and we appeared to fly along. Then the mountains seemed to come
-nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon us. We were entering
-on the Borgo Pass. One by one several of the passengers offered me
-gifts, which they pressed upon me with an earnestness which would take
-no denial. These were certainly of an odd and varied kind, but each
-was given in simple good faith, with a kindly word, and a blessing,
-and that same strange mixture of fear-meaning movements which I had
-seen outside the hotel at Bistritz--the sign of the cross and the
-guard against the evil eye. Then, as we flew along, the driver leaned
-forward, and on each side the passengers, craning over the edge of the
-coach, peered eagerly into the darkness. It was evident that
-something very exciting was either happening or expected, but though I
-asked each passenger, no one would give me the slightest explanation.
-This state of excitement kept on for some little time. And at last we
-saw before us the Pass opening out on the eastern side. There were
-dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive
-sense of thunder. It seemed as though the mountain range had
-separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous
-one. I was now myself looking out for the conveyance which was to
-take me to the Count. Each moment I expected to see the glare of
-lamps through the blackness, but all was dark. The only light was the
-flickering rays of our own lamps, in which the steam from our
-hard-driven horses rose in a white cloud. We could see now the sandy
-road lying white before us, but there was on it no sign of a vehicle.
-The passengers drew back with a sigh of gladness, which seemed to mock
-my own disappointment. I was already thinking what I had best do,
-when the driver, looking at his watch, said to the others something
-which I could hardly hear, it was spoken so quietly and in so low a
-tone, I thought it was "An hour less than the time." Then turning to
-me, he spoke in German worse than my own.
-
-"There is no carriage here. The Herr is not expected after all. He
-will now come on to Bukovina, and return tomorrow or the next day,
-better the next day." Whilst he was speaking the horses began to
-neigh and snort and plunge wildly, so that the driver had to hold them
-up. Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a
-universal crossing of themselves, a caleche, with four horses, drove
-up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach. I could see
-from the flash of our lamps as the rays fell on them, that the horses
-were coal-black and splendid animals. They were driven by a tall man,
-with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide
-his face from us. I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright
-eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us.
-
-He said to the driver, "You are early tonight, my friend."
-
-The man stammered in reply, "The English Herr was in a hurry."
-
-To which the stranger replied, "That is why, I suppose, you wished him
-to go on to Bukovina. You cannot deceive me, my friend. I know too
-much, and my horses are swift."
-
-As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth,
-with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. One of
-my companions whispered to another the line from Burger's "Lenore".
-
-"Denn die Todten reiten Schnell." ("For the dead travel fast.")
-
-The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a
-gleaming smile. The passenger turned his face away, at the same time
-putting out his two fingers and crossing himself. "Give me the Herr's
-luggage," said the driver, and with exceeding alacrity my bags were
-handed out and put in the caleche. Then I descended from the side of
-the coach, as the caleche was close alongside, the driver helping me
-with a hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel. His strength must
-have been prodigious.
-
-Without a word he shook his reins, the horses turned, and we swept
-into the darkness of the pass. As I looked back I saw the steam from
-the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, and projected
-against it the figures of my late companions crossing themselves.
-Then the driver cracked his whip and called to his horses, and off
-they swept on their way to Bukovina. As they sank into the darkness I
-felt a strange chill, and a lonely feeling come over me. But a cloak
-was thrown over my shoulders, and a rug across my knees, and the
-driver said in excellent German--"The night is chill, mein Herr, and
-my master the Count bade me take all care of you. There is a flask of
-slivovitz (the plum brandy of the country) underneath the seat, if you
-should require it."
-
-I did not take any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all the
-same. I felt a little strangely, and not a little frightened. I
-think had there been any alternative I should have taken it, instead
-of prosecuting that unknown night journey. The carriage went at a
-hard pace straight along, then we made a complete turn and went along
-another straight road. It seemed to me that we were simply going over
-and over the same ground again, and so I took note of some salient
-point, and found that this was so. I would have liked to have asked
-the driver what this all meant, but I really feared to do so, for I
-thought that, placed as I was, any protest would have had no effect in
-case there had been an intention to delay.
-
-By-and-by, however, as I was curious to know how time was passing, I
-struck a match, and by its flame looked at my watch. It was within a
-few minutes of midnight. This gave me a sort of shock, for I suppose
-the general superstition about midnight was increased by my recent
-experiences. I waited with a sick feeling of suspense.
-
-Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a
-long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by
-another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind
-which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which
-seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination
-could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
-
-At the first howl the horses began to strain and rear, but the driver
-spoke to them soothingly, and they quieted down, but shivered and
-sweated as though after a runaway from sudden fright. Then, far off
-in the distance, from the mountains on each side of us began a louder
-and a sharper howling, that of wolves, which affected both the horses
-and myself in the same way. For I was minded to jump from the caleche
-and run, whilst they reared again and plunged madly, so that the
-driver had to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting.
-In a few minutes, however, my own ears got accustomed to the sound,
-and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able to descend
-and to stand before them.
-
-He petted and soothed them, and whispered something in their ears, as
-I have heard of horse-tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for
-under his caresses they became quite manageable again, though they
-still trembled. The driver again took his seat, and shaking his
-reins, started off at a great pace. This time, after going to the far
-side of the Pass, he suddenly turned down a narrow roadway which ran
-sharply to the right.
-
-Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over
-the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel. And again great
-frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side. Though we were in
-shelter, we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled
-through the rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as
-we swept along. It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery
-snow began to fall, so that soon we and all around us were covered
-with a white blanket. The keen wind still carried the howling of the
-dogs, though this grew fainter as we went on our way. The baying of
-the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing
-round on us from every side. I grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses
-shared my fear. The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed.
-He kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see
-anything through the darkness.
-
-Suddenly, away on our left I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The
-driver saw it at the same moment. He at once checked the horses, and,
-jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness. I did not know
-what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer. But
-while I wondered, the driver suddenly appeared again, and without a
-word took his seat, and we resumed our journey. I think I must have
-fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be
-repeated endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful
-nightmare. Once the flame appeared so near the road, that even in the
-darkness around us I could watch the driver's motions. He went
-rapidly to where the blue flame arose, it must have been very faint,
-for it did not seem to illumine the place around it at all, and
-gathering a few stones, formed them into some device.
-
-Once there appeared a strange optical effect. When he stood between
-me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly
-flicker all the same. This startled me, but as the effect was only
-momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the
-darkness. Then for a time there were no blue flames, and we sped
-onwards through the gloom, with the howling of the wolves around us,
-as though they were following in a moving circle.
-
-At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he
-had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble
-worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright. I could not see
-any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether.
-But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared
-behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its
-light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling
-red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a
-hundred times more terrible in the grim silence which held them than
-even when they howled. For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of
-fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such
-horrors that he can understand their true import.
-
-All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had
-some peculiar effect on them. The horses jumped about and reared, and
-looked helplessly round with eyes that rolled in a way painful to
-see. But the living ring of terror encompassed them on every side,
-and they had perforce to remain within it. I called to the coachman
-to come, for it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break
-out through the ring and to aid his approach, I shouted and beat the
-side of the caleche, hoping by the noise to scare the wolves from the
-side, so as to give him a chance of reaching the trap. How he came
-there, I know not, but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious
-command, and looking towards the sound, saw him stand in the roadway.
-As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable
-obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still. Just then a
-heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again
-in darkness.
-
-When I could see again the driver was climbing into the caleche, and
-the wolves disappeared. This was all so strange and uncanny that a
-dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move. The
-time seemed interminable as we swept on our way, now in almost
-complete darkness, for the rolling clouds obscured the moon.
-
-We kept on ascending, with occasional periods of quick descent, but in
-the main always ascending. Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact
-that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the
-courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came
-no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line
-against the sky.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 2
-
-
-Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued
-
-5 May.--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully
-awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In
-the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several
-dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed
-bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by
-daylight.
-
-When the caleche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand
-to assist me to alight. Again I could not but notice his prodigious
-strength. His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have
-crushed mine if he had chosen. Then he took my traps, and placed them
-on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door, old and
-studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of
-massive stone. I could see even in the dim light that the stone was
-massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and
-weather. As I stood, the driver jumped again into his seat and shook
-the reins. The horses started forward, and trap and all disappeared
-down one of the dark openings.
-
-I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of
-bell or knocker there was no sign. Through these frowning walls and
-dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate.
-The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding
-upon me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of
-people? What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked?
-Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor's clerk sent
-out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner?
-Solicitor's clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor, for just
-before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful,
-and I am now a full-blown solicitor! I began to rub my eyes and pinch
-myself to see if I were awake. It all seemed like a horrible
-nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find
-myself at home, with the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I
-had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork. But my
-flesh answered the pinching test, and my eyes were not to be
-deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians. All I could
-do now was to be patient, and to wait the coming of morning.
-
-Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching
-behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a
-coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the
-clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud
-grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
-
-Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white
-moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck
-of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver
-lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any
-kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught
-of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with
-a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange
-intonation.
-
-"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" He
-made no motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as
-though his gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant,
-however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively
-forward, and holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which
-made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it
-seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man.
-Again he said,
-
-"Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something
-of the happiness you bring!" The strength of the handshake was so
-much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had
-not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person
-to whom I was speaking. So to make sure, I said interrogatively,
-"Count Dracula?"
-
-He bowed in a courtly way as he replied, "I am Dracula, and I bid you
-welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in, the night air is chill,
-and you must need to eat and rest." As he was speaking, he put the lamp
-on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, took my luggage. He had
-carried it in before I could forestall him. I protested, but he
-insisted.
-
-"Nay, sir, you are my guest. It is late, and my people are not
-available. Let me see to your comfort myself." He insisted on carrying
-my traps along the passage, and then up a great winding stair, and
-along another great passage, on whose stone floor our steps rang
-heavily. At the end of this he threw open a heavy door, and I
-rejoiced to see within a well-lit room in which a table was spread for
-supper, and on whose mighty hearth a great fire of logs, freshly
-replenished, flamed and flared.
-
-The Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing
-the room, opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room
-lit by a single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort.
-Passing through this, he opened another door, and motioned me to
-enter. It was a welcome sight. For here was a great bedroom well
-lighted and warmed with another log fire, also added to but lately,
-for the top logs were fresh, which sent a hollow roar up the wide
-chimney. The Count himself left my luggage inside and withdrew,
-saying, before he closed the door.
-
-"You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your
-toilet. I trust you will find all you wish. When you are ready, come
-into the other room, where you will find your supper prepared."
-
-The light and warmth and the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have
-dissipated all my doubts and fears. Having then reached my normal
-state, I discovered that I was half famished with hunger. So making a
-hasty toilet, I went into the other room.
-
-I found supper already laid out. My host, who stood on one side of
-the great fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful
-wave of his hand to the table, and said,
-
-"I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust,
-excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do
-not sup."
-
-I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to
-me. He opened it and read it gravely. Then, with a charming smile,
-he handed it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a
-thrill of pleasure.
-
-"I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a
-constant sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for
-some time to come. But I am happy to say I can send a sufficient
-substitute, one in whom I have every possible confidence. He is a
-young man, full of energy and talent in his own way, and of a very
-faithful disposition. He is discreet and silent, and has grown into
-manhood in my service. He shall be ready to attend on you when you
-will during his stay, and shall take your instructions in all
-matters."
-
-The count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I
-fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. This, with some cheese
-and a salad and a bottle of old tokay, of which I had two glasses, was
-my supper. During the time I was eating it the Count asked me many
-questions as to my journey, and I told him by degrees all I had
-experienced.
-
-By this time I had finished my supper, and by my host's desire had
-drawn up a chair by the fire and begun to smoke a cigar which he
-offered me, at the same time excusing himself that he did not smoke.
-I had now an opportunity of observing him, and found him of a very
-marked physiognomy.
-
-His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of
-the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed
-forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely
-elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the
-nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion.
-The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was
-fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth.
-These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed
-astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears
-were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and
-strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one
-of extraordinary pallor.
-
-Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees
-in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine. But
-seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were
-rather coarse, broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were
-hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and
-cut to a sharp point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands
-touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his
-breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which,
-do what I would, I could not conceal.
-
-The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back. And with a grim sort of
-smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protruberant teeth,
-sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace. We were both
-silent for a while, and as I looked towards the window I saw the first
-dim streak of the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness over
-everything. But as I listened, I heard as if from down below in the
-valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he
-said.
-
-"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!"
-Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he
-added, "Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the
-feelings of the hunter." Then he rose and said.
-
-"But you must be tired. Your bedroom is all ready, and tomorrow you
-shall sleep as late as you will. I have to be away till the
-afternoon, so sleep well and dream well!" With a courteous bow, he
-opened for me himself the door to the octagonal room, and I entered my
-bedroom.
-
-I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear. I think strange
-things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only
-for the sake of those dear to me!
-
-
-7 May.--It is again early morning, but I have rested and enjoyed the
-last twenty-four hours. I slept till late in the day, and awoke of my
-own accord. When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we
-had supped, and found a cold breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot
-by the pot being placed on the hearth. There was a card on the table,
-on which was written--"I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait
-for me. D." I set to and enjoyed a hearty meal. When I had done, I
-looked for a bell, so that I might let the servants know I had
-finished, but I could not find one. There are certainly odd
-deficiencies in the house, considering the extraordinary evidences of
-wealth which are round me. The table service is of gold, and so
-beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value. The curtains
-and upholstery of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of my bed are
-of the costliest and most beautiful fabrics, and must have been of
-fabulous value when they were made, for they are centuries old, though
-in excellent order. I saw something like them in Hampton Court, but
-they were worn and frayed and moth-eaten. But still in none of the
-rooms is there a mirror. There is not even a toilet glass on my
-table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I
-could either shave or brush my hair. I have not yet seen a servant
-anywhere, or heard a sound near the castle except the howling of
-wolves. Some time after I had finished my meal, I do not know whether
-to call it breakfast or dinner, for it was between five and six
-o'clock when I had it, I looked about for something to read, for I did
-not like to go about the castle until I had asked the Count's
-permission. There was absolutely nothing in the room, book,
-newspaper, or even writing materials, so I opened another door in the
-room and found a sort of library. The door opposite mine I tried, but
-found locked.
-
-In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English
-books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and
-newspapers. A table in the centre was littered with English magazines
-and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date. The
-books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics,
-political economy, botany, geology, law, all relating to England and
-English life and customs and manners. There were even such books of
-reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books,
-Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and it somehow gladdened
-my heart to see it, the Law List.
-
-Whilst I was looking at the books, the door opened, and the Count
-entered. He saluted me in a hearty way, and hoped that I had had a
-good night's rest. Then he went on.
-
-"I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much
-that will interest you. These companions," and he laid his hand on
-some of the books, "have been good friends to me, and for some years
-past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me
-many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your
-great England, and to know her is to love her. I long to go through
-the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the
-whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death,
-and all that makes it what it is. But alas! As yet I only know your
-tongue through books. To you, my friend, I look that I know it to
-speak."
-
-"But, Count," I said, "You know and speak English thoroughly!" He
-bowed gravely.
-
-"I thank you, my friend, for your all too-flattering estimate, but yet
-I fear that I am but a little way on the road I would travel. True, I
-know the grammar and the words, but yet I know not how to speak them."
-
-"Indeed," I said, "You speak excellently."
-
-"Not so," he answered. "Well, I know that, did I move and speak in
-your London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That
-is not enough for me. Here I am noble. I am a Boyar. The common
-people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he
-is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I
-am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he sees me,
-or pauses in his speaking if he hears my words, 'Ha, ha! A stranger!'
-I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least
-that none other should be master of me. You come to me not alone as
-agent of my friend Peter Hawkins, of Exeter, to tell me all about my
-new estate in London. You shall, I trust, rest here with me a while,
-so that by our talking I may learn the English intonation. And I
-would that you tell me when I make error, even of the smallest, in my
-speaking. I am sorry that I had to be away so long today, but you
-will, I know forgive one who has so many important affairs in hand."
-
-Of course I said all I could about being willing, and asked if I might
-come into that room when I chose. He answered, "Yes, certainly," and
-added.
-
-"You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors
-are locked, where of course you will not wish to go. There is reason
-that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know
-with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand." I said I was
-sure of this, and then he went on.
-
-"We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways
-are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay,
-from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know
-something of what strange things there may be."
-
-This led to much conversation, and as it was evident that he wanted to
-talk, if only for talking's sake, I asked him many questions regarding
-things that had already happened to me or come within my notice.
-Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by
-pretending not to understand, but generally he answered all I asked
-most frankly. Then as time went on, and I had got somewhat bolder, I
-asked him of some of the strange things of the preceding night, as for
-instance, why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the
-blue flames. He then explained to me that it was commonly believed
-that on a certain night of the year, last night, in fact, when all
-evil spirits are supposed to have unchecked sway, a blue flame is seen
-over any place where treasure has been concealed.
-
-"That treasure has been hidden," he went on, "in the region through
-which you came last night, there can be but little doubt. For it was
-the ground fought over for centuries by the Wallachian, the Saxon, and
-the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that
-has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders. In
-the old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the
-Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them,
-men and women, the aged and the children too, and waited their coming
-on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on
-them with their artificial avalanches. When the invader was
-triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been
-sheltered in the friendly soil."
-
-"But how," said I, "can it have remained so long undiscovered, when
-there is a sure index to it if men will but take the trouble to look?"
-The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long,
-sharp, canine teeth showed out strangely. He answered:
-
-"Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool! Those flames
-only appear on one night, and on that night no man of this land will,
-if he can help it, stir without his doors. And, dear sir, even if he
-did he would not know what to do. Why, even the peasant that you tell
-me of who marked the place of the flame would not know where to look
-in daylight even for his own work. Even you would not, I dare be
-sworn, be able to find these places again?"
-
-"There you are right," I said. "I know no more than the dead where
-even to look for them." Then we drifted into other matters.
-
-"Come," he said at last, "tell me of London and of the house which you
-have procured for me." With an apology for my remissness, I went into
-my own room to get the papers from my bag. Whilst I was placing them
-in order I heard a rattling of china and silver in the next room, and
-as I passed through, noticed that the table had been cleared and the
-lamp lit, for it was by this time deep into the dark. The lamps were
-also lit in the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the
-sofa, reading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw's
-Guide. When I came in he cleared the books and papers from the table,
-and with him I went into plans and deeds and figures of all sorts. He
-was interested in everything, and asked me a myriad questions about
-the place and its surroundings. He clearly had studied beforehand all
-he could get on the subject of the neighbourhood, for he evidently at
-the end knew very much more than I did. When I remarked this, he
-answered.
-
-"Well, but, my friend, is it not needful that I should? When I go
-there I shall be all alone, and my friend Harker Jonathan, nay, pardon
-me. I fall into my country's habit of putting your patronymic first,
-my friend Jonathan Harker will not be by my side to correct and aid
-me. He will be in Exeter, miles away, probably working at papers of
-the law with my other friend, Peter Hawkins. So!"
-
-We went thoroughly into the business of the purchase of the estate at
-Purfleet. When I had told him the facts and got his signature to the
-necessary papers, and had written a letter with them ready to post to
-Mr. Hawkins, he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a
-place. I read to him the notes which I had made at the time, and
-which I inscribe here.
-
-"At Purfleet, on a byroad, I came across just such a place as seemed
-to be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the
-place was for sale. It was surrounded by a high wall, of ancient
-structure, built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for a
-large number of years. The closed gates are of heavy old oak and
-iron, all eaten with rust.
-
-"The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old Quatre
-Face, as the house is four sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of
-the compass. It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded
-by the solid stone wall above mentioned. There are many trees on it,
-which make it in places gloomy, and there is a deep, dark-looking pond
-or small lake, evidently fed by some springs, as the water is clear
-and flows away in a fair-sized stream. The house is very large and of
-all periods back, I should say, to mediaeval times, for one part is of
-stone immensely thick, with only a few windows high up and heavily
-barred with iron. It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an
-old chapel or church. I could not enter it, as I had not the key of
-the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my Kodak
-views of it from various points. The house had been added to, but in
-a very straggling way, and I can only guess at the amount of ground it
-covers, which must be very great. There are but few houses close at
-hand, one being a very large house only recently added to and formed
-into a private lunatic asylum. It is not, however, visible from the
-grounds."
-
-When I had finished, he said, "I am glad that it is old and big. I
-myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me.
-A house cannot be made habitable in a day, and after all, how few days
-go to make up a century. I rejoice also that there is a chapel of old
-times. We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may
-lie amongst the common dead. I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the
-bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which
-please the young and gay. I am no longer young, and my heart, through
-weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover,
-the walls of my castle are broken. The shadows are many, and the wind
-breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements. I love
-the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I
-may." Somehow his words and his look did not seem to accord, or else
-it was that his cast of face made his smile look malignant and
-saturnine.
-
-Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to pull my papers
-together. He was some little time away, and I began to look at some
-of the books around me. One was an atlas, which I found opened
-naturally to England, as if that map had been much used. On looking
-at it I found in certain places little rings marked, and on examining
-these I noticed that one was near London on the east side, manifestly
-where his new estate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and
-Whitby on the Yorkshire coast.
-
-It was the better part of an hour when the Count returned. "Aha!" he
-said. "Still at your books? Good! But you must not work always.
-Come! I am informed that your supper is ready." He took my arm, and
-we went into the next room, where I found an excellent supper ready on
-the table. The Count again excused himself, as he had dined out on
-his being away from home. But he sat as on the previous night, and
-chatted whilst I ate. After supper I smoked, as on the last evening,
-and the Count stayed with me, chatting and asking questions on every
-conceivable subject, hour after hour. I felt that it was getting very
-late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation
-to meet my host's wishes in every way. I was not sleepy, as the long
-sleep yesterday had fortified me, but I could not help experiencing
-that chill which comes over one at the coming of the dawn, which is
-like, in its way, the turn of the tide. They say that people who are
-near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the
-tide. Anyone who has when tired, and tied as it were to his post,
-experienced this change in the atmosphere can well believe it. All at
-once we heard the crow of the cock coming up with preternatural
-shrillness through the clear morning air.
-
-Count Dracula, jumping to his feet, said, "Why there is the morning
-again! How remiss I am to let you stay up so long. You must make
-your conversation regarding my dear new country of England less
-interesting, so that I may not forget how time flies by us," and with
-a courtly bow, he quickly left me.
-
-I went into my room and drew the curtains, but there was little to
-notice. My window opened into the courtyard, all I could see was the
-warm grey of quickening sky. So I pulled the curtains again, and have
-written of this day.
-
-
-8 May.--I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too
-diffuse. But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first,
-for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that
-I cannot but feel uneasy. I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had
-never come. It may be that this strange night existence is telling on
-me, but would that that were all! If there were any one to talk to I
-could bear it, but there is no one. I have only the Count to speak
-with, and he--I fear I am myself the only living soul within the
-place. Let me be prosaic so far as facts can be. It will help me to
-bear up, and imagination must not run riot with me. If it does I am
-lost. Let me say at once how I stand, or seem to.
-
-I only slept a few hours when I went to bed, and feeling that I could
-not sleep any more, got up. I had hung my shaving glass by the
-window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my
-shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I
-started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the
-reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me. In starting
-I had cut myself slightly, but did not notice it at the moment. Having
-answered the Count's salutation, I turned to the glass again to see
-how I had been mistaken. This time there could be no error, for the
-man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there
-was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind me was
-displayed, but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself.
-
-This was startling, and coming on the top of so many strange things,
-was beginning to increase that vague feeling of uneasiness which I
-always have when the Count is near. But at the instant I saw that the
-cut had bled a little, and the blood was trickling over my chin. I
-laid down the razor, turning as I did so half round to look for some
-sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a
-sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I
-drew away and his hand touched the string of beads which held the
-crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so
-quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there.
-
-"Take care," he said, "take care how you cut yourself. It is more
-dangerous that you think in this country." Then seizing the shaving
-glass, he went on, "And this is the wretched thing that has done the
-mischief. It is a foul bauble of man's vanity. Away with it!" And
-opening the window with one wrench of his terrible hand, he flung out
-the glass, which was shattered into a thousand pieces on the stones of
-the courtyard far below. Then he withdrew without a word. It is very
-annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case
-or the bottom of the shaving pot, which is fortunately of metal.
-
-When I went into the dining room, breakfast was prepared, but I could
-not find the Count anywhere. So I breakfasted alone. It is strange
-that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very
-peculiar man! After breakfast I did a little exploring in the
-castle. I went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards
-the South.
-
-The view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every
-opportunity of seeing it. The castle is on the very edge of a
-terrific precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a
-thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach
-is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there
-is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind
-in deep gorges through the forests.
-
-But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view
-I explored further. Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked
-and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is
-there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a
-prisoner!
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 3
-
-
-Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued
-
-When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over
-me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering
-out of every window I could find, but after a little the conviction of
-my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back
-after a few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I
-behaved much as a rat does in a trap. When, however, the conviction
-had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I
-have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was
-best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no
-definite conclusion. Of one thing only am I certain. That it is no
-use making my ideas known to the Count. He knows well that I am
-imprisoned, and as he has done it himself, and has doubtless his own
-motives for it, he would only deceive me if I trusted him fully with
-the facts. So far as I can see, my only plan will be to keep my
-knowledge and my fears to myself, and my eyes open. I am, I know,
-either being deceived, like a baby, by my own fears, or else I am in
-desperate straits, and if the latter be so, I need, and shall need,
-all my brains to get through.
-
-I had hardly come to this conclusion when I heard the great door below
-shut, and knew that the Count had returned. He did not come at once
-into the library, so I went cautiously to my own room and found him
-making the bed. This was odd, but only confirmed what I had all along
-thought, that there are no servants in the house. When later I saw
-him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in
-the dining room, I was assured of it. For if he does himself all
-these menial offices, surely it is proof that there is no one else in
-the castle, it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of
-the coach that brought me here. This is a terrible thought, for if
-so, what does it mean that he could control the wolves, as he did, by
-only holding up his hand for silence? How was it that all the people
-at Bistritz and on the coach had some terrible fear for me? What
-meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of
-the mountain ash?
-
-Bless that good, good woman who hung the crucifix round my neck! For
-it is a comfort and a strength to me whenever I touch it. It is odd
-that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as
-idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help. Is
-it that there is something in the essence of the thing itself, or that
-it is a medium, a tangible help, in conveying memories of sympathy and
-comfort? Some time, if it may be, I must examine this matter and try
-to make up my mind about it. In the meantime I must find out all I
-can about Count Dracula, as it may help me to understand. Tonight he
-may talk of himself, if I turn the conversation that way. I must be
-very careful, however, not to awake his suspicion.
-
-
-Midnight.--I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few
-questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject
-wonderfully. In his speaking of things and people, and especially of
-battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all. This he
-afterwards explained by saying that to a Boyar the pride of his house
-and name is his own pride, that their glory is his glory, that their
-fate is his fate. Whenever he spoke of his house he always said "we",
-and spoke almost in the plural, like a king speaking. I wish I could
-put down all he said exactly as he said it, for to me it was most
-fascinating. It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country.
-He grew excited as he spoke, and walked about the room pulling his
-great white moustache and grasping anything on which he laid his hands
-as though he would crush it by main strength. One thing he said which
-I shall put down as nearly as I can, for it tells in its way the story
-of his race.
-
-"We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the
-blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship.
-Here, in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down
-from Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which
-their Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of
-Europe, aye, and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that
-the werewolves themselves had come. Here, too, when they came, they
-found the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living
-flame, till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood
-of those old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the
-devils in the desert. Fools, fools! What devil or what witch was
-ever so great as Attila, whose blood is in these veins?" He held up
-his arms. "Is it a wonder that we were a conquering race, that we
-were proud, that when the Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar,
-or the Turk poured his thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back?
-Is it strange that when Arpad and his legions swept through the
-Hungarian fatherland he found us here when he reached the frontier,
-that the Honfoglalas was completed there? And when the Hungarian
-flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the
-victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding
-of the frontier of Turkeyland. Aye, and more than that, endless duty
-of the frontier guard, for as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and the
-enemy is sleepless.' Who more gladly than we throughout the Four
-Nations received the 'bloody sword,' or at its warlike call flocked
-quicker to the standard of the King? When was redeemed that great
-shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the flags of the
-Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent? Who was it but
-one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk
-on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed! Woe was it that his
-own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the Turk
-and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula,
-indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again
-and again brought his forces over the great river into Turkeyland,
-who, when he was beaten back, came again, and again, though he had to
-come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being
-slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph!
-They said that he thought only of himself. Bah! What good are
-peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and
-heart to conduct it? Again, when, after the battle of Mohacs, we
-threw off the Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst
-their leaders, for our spirit would not brook that we were not free.
-Ah, young sir, the Szekelys, and the Dracula as their heart's blood,
-their brains, and their swords, can boast a record that mushroom
-growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The
-warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of
-dishonourable peace, and the glories of the great races are as a tale
-that is told."
-
-It was by this time close on morning, and we went to bed. (Mem., this
-diary seems horribly like the beginning of the "Arabian Nights," for
-everything has to break off at cockcrow, or like the ghost of Hamlet's
-father.)
-
-
-12 May.--Let me begin with facts, bare, meager facts, verified by
-books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. I must not
-confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own
-observation, or my memory of them. Last evening when the Count came
-from his room he began by asking me questions on legal matters and on
-the doing of certain kinds of business. I had spent the day wearily
-over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of
-the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn. There was a
-certain method in the Count's inquiries, so I shall try to put them
-down in sequence. The knowledge may somehow or some time be useful to
-me.
-
-First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more.
-I told him he might have a dozen if he wished, but that it would not
-be wise to have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as
-only one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to
-militate against his interest. He seemed thoroughly to understand,
-and went on to ask if there would be any practical difficulty in having
-one man to attend, say, to banking, and another to look after
-shipping, in case local help were needed in a place far from the home
-of the banking solicitor. I asked to explain more fully, so that I
-might not by any chance mislead him, so he said,
-
-"I shall illustrate. Your friend and mine, Mr. Peter Hawkins, from
-under the shadow of your beautiful cathedral at Exeter, which is far
-from London, buys for me through your good self my place at London.
-Good! Now here let me say frankly, lest you should think it strange
-that I have sought the services of one so far off from London instead
-of some one resident there, that my motive was that no local interest
-might be served save my wish only, and as one of London residence
-might, perhaps, have some purpose of himself or friend to serve, I
-went thus afield to seek my agent, whose labours should be only to my
-interest. Now, suppose I, who have much of affairs, wish to ship
-goods, say, to Newcastle, or Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it
-not be that it could with more ease be done by consigning to one in
-these ports?"
-
-I answered that certainly it would be most easy, but that we
-solicitors had a system of agency one for the other, so that local
-work could be done locally on instruction from any solicitor, so that
-the client, simply placing himself in the hands of one man, could have
-his wishes carried out by him without further trouble.
-
-"But," said he, "I could be at liberty to direct myself. Is it not
-so?"
-
-"Of course," I replied, and "Such is often done by men of business,
-who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one
-person."
-
-"Good!" he said, and then went on to ask about the means of making
-consignments and the forms to be gone through, and of all sorts of
-difficulties which might arise, but by forethought could be guarded
-against. I explained all these things to him to the best of my
-ability, and he certainly left me under the impression that he would
-have made a wonderful solicitor, for there was nothing that he did not
-think of or foresee. For a man who was never in the country, and who
-did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and
-acumen were wonderful. When he had satisfied himself on these points
-of which he had spoken, and I had verified all as well as I could by
-the books available, he suddenly stood up and said, "Have you written
-since your first letter to our friend Mr. Peter Hawkins, or to any
-other?"
-
-It was with some bitterness in my heart that I answered that I had
-not, that as yet I had not seen any opportunity of sending letters to
-anybody.
-
-"Then write now, my young friend," he said, laying a heavy hand on my
-shoulder, "write to our friend and to any other, and say, if it will
-please you, that you shall stay with me until a month from now."
-
-"Do you wish me to stay so long?" I asked, for my heart grew cold at
-the thought.
-
-"I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal. When your master,
-employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his
-behalf, it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted. I
-have not stinted. Is it not so?"
-
-What could I do but bow acceptance? It was Mr. Hawkins' interest, not
-mine, and I had to think of him, not myself, and besides, while Count
-Dracula was speaking, there was that in his eyes and in his bearing
-which made me remember that I was a prisoner, and that if I wished it
-I could have no choice. The Count saw his victory in my bow, and his
-mastery in the trouble of my face, for he began at once to use them,
-but in his own smooth, resistless way.
-
-"I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of
-things other than business in your letters. It will doubtless please
-your friends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to
-getting home to them. Is it not so?" As he spoke he handed me three
-sheets of note paper and three envelopes. They were all of the
-thinnest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing
-his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red
-underlip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be
-more careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it. So I
-determined to write only formal notes now, but to write fully to Mr.
-Hawkins in secret, and also to Mina, for to her I could write
-shorthand, which would puzzle the Count, if he did see it. When I had
-written my two letters I sat quiet, reading a book whilst the Count
-wrote several notes, referring as he wrote them to some books on his
-table. Then he took up my two and placed them with his own, and put
-by his writing materials, after which, the instant the door had closed
-behind him, I leaned over and looked at the letters, which were face
-down on the table. I felt no compunction in doing so for under the
-circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way I
-could.
-
-One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The
-Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna. The third was to
-Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth,
-bankers, Buda Pesth. The second and fourth were unsealed. I was just
-about to look at them when I saw the door handle move. I sank back in
-my seat, having just had time to resume my book before the Count,
-holding still another letter in his hand, entered the room. He took
-up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully, and then
-turning to me, said,
-
-"I trust you will forgive me, but I have much work to do in private
-this evening. You will, I hope, find all things as you wish." At the
-door he turned, and after a moment's pause said, "Let me advise you,
-my dear young friend. Nay, let me warn you with all seriousness, that
-should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance go to sleep in
-any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories, and
-there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be warned! Should
-sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your
-own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be safe. But
-if you be not careful in this respect, then," He finished his speech
-in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were washing
-them. I quite understood. My only doubt was as to whether any dream
-could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and
-mystery which seemed closing around me.
-
-
-Later.--I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no
-doubt in question. I shall not fear to sleep in any place where he is
-not. I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed, I imagine
-that my rest is thus freer from dreams, and there it shall remain.
-
-When he left me I went to my room. After a little while, not hearing
-any sound, I came out and went up the stone stair to where I could
-look out towards the South. There was some sense of freedom in the
-vast expanse, inaccessible though it was to me, as compared with the
-narrow darkness of the courtyard. Looking out on this, I felt that I
-was indeed in prison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air,
-though it were of the night. I am beginning to feel this nocturnal
-existence tell on me. It is destroying my nerve. I start at my own
-shadow, and am full of all sorts of horrible imaginings. God knows
-that there is ground for my terrible fear in this accursed place! I
-looked out over the beautiful expanse, bathed in soft yellow moonlight
-till it was almost as light as day. In the soft light the distant
-hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of
-velvety blackness. The mere beauty seemed to cheer me. There was
-peace and comfort in every breath I drew. As I leaned from the window
-my eye was caught by something moving a storey below me, and somewhat
-to my left, where I imagined, from the order of the rooms, that the
-windows of the Count's own room would look out. The window at which I
-stood was tall and deep, stone-mullioned, and though weatherworn, was
-still complete. But it was evidently many a day since the case had
-been there. I drew back behind the stonework, and looked carefully
-out.
-
-What I saw was the Count's head coming out from the window. I did not
-see the face, but I knew the man by the neck and the movement of his
-back and arms. In any case I could not mistake the hands which I had
-had some many opportunities of studying. I was at first interested
-and somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter will
-interest and amuse a man when he is a prisoner. But my very feelings
-changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge
-from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over the
-dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like
-great wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was
-some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow, but I kept
-looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes
-grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the
-stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality
-move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a
-wall.
-
-What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature, is it in the
-semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place
-overpowering me. I am in fear, in awful fear, and there is no escape
-for me. I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of.
-
-
-15 May.--Once more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion.
-He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a
-good deal to the left. He vanished into some hole or window. When
-his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but
-without avail. The distance was too great to allow a proper angle of
-sight. I knew he had left the castle now, and thought to use the
-opportunity to explore more than I had dared to do as yet. I went
-back to the room, and taking a lamp, tried all the doors. They were
-all locked, as I had expected, and the locks were comparatively new.
-But I went down the stone stairs to the hall where I had entered
-originally. I found I could pull back the bolts easily enough and
-unhook the great chains. But the door was locked, and the key was
-gone! That key must be in the Count's room. I must watch should his
-door be unlocked, so that I may get it and escape. I went on to make
-a thorough examination of the various stairs and passages, and to try
-the doors that opened from them. One or two small rooms near the hall
-were open, but there was nothing to see in them except old furniture,
-dusty with age and moth-eaten. At last, however, I found one door at
-the top of the stairway which, though it seemed locked, gave a little
-under pressure. I tried it harder, and found that it was not really
-locked, but that the resistance came from the fact that the hinges had
-fallen somewhat, and the heavy door rested on the floor. Here was an
-opportunity which I might not have again, so I exerted myself, and
-with many efforts forced it back so that I could enter. I was now in
-a wing of the castle further to the right than the rooms I knew and a
-storey lower down. From the windows I could see that the suite of
-rooms lay along to the south of the castle, the windows of the end
-room looking out both west and south. On the latter side, as well as
-to the former, there was a great precipice. The castle was built on
-the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite
-impregnable, and great windows were placed here where sling, or bow,
-or culverin could not reach, and consequently light and comfort,
-impossible to a position which had to be guarded, were secured. To
-the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged
-mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with
-mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and
-crannies of the stone. This was evidently the portion of the castle
-occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more an
-air of comfort than any I had seen.
-
-The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in
-through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it
-softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some
-measure the ravages of time and moth. My lamp seemed to be of little
-effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me,
-for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart
-and made my nerves tremble. Still, it was better than living alone in
-the rooms which I had come to hate from the presence of the Count, and
-after trying a little to school my nerves, I found a soft quietude
-come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old
-times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many
-blushes, her ill-spelt love letter, and writing in my diary in
-shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. It is the
-nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my
-senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their
-own which mere "modernity" cannot kill.
-
-
-Later: The morning of 16 May.--God preserve my sanity, for to this I
-am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the
-past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that
-I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already. If I be sane,
-then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that
-lurk in this hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me, that
-to him alone I can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I
-can serve his purpose. Great God! Merciful God, let me be calm, for
-out of that way lies madness indeed. I begin to get new lights on
-certain things which have puzzled me. Up to now I never quite knew
-what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say, "My tablets! Quick,
-my tablets! 'tis meet that I put it down," etc., For now, feeling as
-though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which
-must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of
-entering accurately must help to soothe me.
-
-The Count's mysterious warning frightened me at the time. It frightens
-me more not when I think of it, for in the future he has a fearful
-hold upon me. I shall fear to doubt what he may say!
-
-When I had written in my diary and had fortunately replaced the book
-and pen in my pocket I felt sleepy. The Count's warning came into my
-mind, but I took pleasure in disobeying it. The sense of sleep was
-upon me, and with it the obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider. The
-soft moonlight soothed, and the wide expanse without gave a sense of
-freedom which refreshed me. I determined not to return tonight to the
-gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat
-and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad
-for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars. I drew a
-great couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I
-could look at the lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and
-uncaring for the dust, composed myself for sleep. I suppose I must
-have fallen asleep. I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was
-startlingly real, so real that now sitting here in the broad, full
-sunlight of the morning, I cannot in the least believe that it was all
-sleep.
-
-I was not alone. The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I
-came into it. I could see along the floor, in the brilliant
-moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long
-accumulation of dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young
-women, ladies by their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I
-must be dreaming when I saw them, they threw no shadow on the floor.
-They came close to me, and looked at me for some time, and then
-whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like
-the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes, that seemed to be almost red
-when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as
-fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale
-sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in
-connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the
-moment how or where. All three had brilliant white teeth that shone
-like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was
-something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same
-time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire
-that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note
-this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her
-pain, but it is the truth. They whispered together, and then they all
-three laughed, such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though
-the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips.
-It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of waterglasses when
-played on by a cunning hand. The fair girl shook her head
-coquettishly, and the other two urged her on.
-
-One said, "Go on! You are first, and we shall follow. Yours is the
-right to begin."
-
-The other added, "He is young and strong. There are kisses for us
-all."
-
-I lay quiet, looking out from under my eyelashes in an agony of
-delightful anticipation. The fair girl advanced and bent over me till
-I could feel the movement of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one
-sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as
-her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter
-offensiveness, as one smells in blood.
-
-I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly
-under the lashes. The girl went on her knees, and bent over me,
-simply gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both
-thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually
-licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the
-moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it
-lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the
-lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed to fasten on
-my throat. Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of
-her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and I could feel the hot
-breath on my neck. Then the skin of my throat began to tingle as
-one's flesh does when the hand that is to tickle it approaches nearer,
-nearer. I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the
-super sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp
-teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in
-languorous ecstasy and waited, waited with beating heart.
-
-But at that instant, another sensation swept through me as quick as
-lightning. I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his
-being as if lapped in a storm of fury. As my eyes opened
-involuntarily I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair
-woman and with giant's power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed
-with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks
-blazing red with passion. But the Count! Never did I imagine such
-wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were
-positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames
-of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the
-lines of it were hard like drawn wires. The thick eyebrows that met
-over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. With
-a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then
-motioned to the others, as though he were beating them back. It was
-the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the wolves. In a
-voice which, though low and almost in a whisper seemed to cut through
-the air and then ring in the room he said,
-
-"How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him
-when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to
-me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me."
-
-The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him.
-"You yourself never loved. You never love!" On this the other women
-joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the
-room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the
-pleasure of fiends.
-
-Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, and said
-in a soft whisper, "Yes, I too can love. You yourselves can tell it
-from the past. Is it not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am
-done with him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! Go! I must
-awaken him, for there is work to be done."
-
-"Are we to have nothing tonight?" said one of them, with a low laugh,
-as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and
-which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For
-answer he nodded his head. One of the women jumped forward and opened
-it. If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as
-of a half smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was
-aghast with horror. But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them
-the dreadful bag. There was no door near them, and they could not
-have passed me without my noticing. They simply seemed to fade into
-the rays of the moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could
-see outside the dim, shadowy forms for a moment before they entirely
-faded away.
-
-Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 4
-
-
-Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued
-
-I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must
-have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but
-could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were
-certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid
-by in a manner which was not my habit. My watch was still unwound,
-and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going
-to bed, and many such details. But these things are no proof, for
-they may have been evidences that my mind was not as usual, and, for
-some cause or another, I had certainly been much upset. I must watch
-for proof. Of one thing I am glad. If it was that the Count carried
-me here and undressed me, he must have been hurried in his task, for
-my pockets are intact. I am sure this diary would have been a mystery
-to him which he would not have brooked. He would have taken or
-destroyed it. As I look round this room, although it has been to me
-so full of fear, it is now a sort of sanctuary, for nothing can be
-more dreadful than those awful women, who were, who are, waiting to
-suck my blood.
-
-
-18 May.--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for
-I must know the truth. When I got to the doorway at the top of the
-stairs I found it closed. It had been so forcibly driven against the
-jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. I could see that the
-bolt of the lock had not been shot, but the door is fastened from the
-inside. I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise.
-
-
-19 May.--I am surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in
-the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here
-was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days,
-another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the
-letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at
-Bistritz. I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present
-state of things it would be madness to quarrel openly with the Count
-whilst I am so absolutely in his power. And to refuse would be to
-excite his suspicion and to arouse his anger. He knows that I know
-too much, and that I must not live, lest I be dangerous to him. My
-only chance is to prolong my opportunities. Something may occur which
-will give me a chance to escape. I saw in his eyes something of that
-gathering wrath which was manifest when he hurled that fair woman from
-him. He explained to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that
-my writing now would ensure ease of mind to my friends. And he
-assured me with so much impressiveness that he would countermand the
-later letters, which would be held over at Bistritz until due time in
-case chance would admit of my prolonging my stay, that to oppose him
-would have been to create new suspicion. I therefore pretended to
-fall in with his views, and asked him what dates I should put on the
-letters.
-
-He calculated a minute, and then said, "The first should be June 12,
-the second June 19, and the third June 29."
-
-I know now the span of my life. God help me!
-
-
-28 May.--There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to
-send word home. A band of Szgany have come to the castle, and are
-encamped in the courtyard. These are gipsies. I have notes of them
-in my book. They are peculiar to this part of the world, though
-allied to the ordinary gipsies all the world over. There are
-thousands of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside
-all law. They attach themselves as a rule to some great noble or
-boyar, and call themselves by his name. They are fearless and without
-religion, save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of
-the Romany tongue.
-
-I shall write some letters home, and shall try to get them to have
-them posted. I have already spoken to them through my window to begin
-acquaintanceship. They took their hats off and made obeisance and
-many signs, which however, I could not understand any more than I
-could their spoken language . . .
-
-I have written the letters. Mina's is in shorthand, and I simply ask
-Mr. Hawkins to communicate with her. To her I have explained my
-situation, but without the horrors which I may only surmise. It would
-shock and frighten her to death were I to expose my heart to her.
-Should the letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my
-secret or the extent of my knowledge. . . .
-
-
-I have given the letters. I threw them through the bars of my window
-with a gold piece, and made what signs I could to have them posted.
-The man who took them pressed them to his heart and bowed, and then
-put them in his cap. I could do no more. I stole back to the study,
-and began to read. As the Count did not come in, I have written
-here . . .
-
-
-The Count has come. He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest
-voice as he opened two letters, "The Szgany has given me these, of
-which, though I know not whence they come, I shall, of course, take
-care. See!"--He must have looked at it.--"One is from you, and to my
-friend Peter Hawkins. The other,"--here he caught sight of the
-strange symbols as he opened the envelope, and the dark look came into
-his face, and his eyes blazed wickedly,--"The other is a vile thing,
-an outrage upon friendship and hospitality! It is not signed. Well!
-So it cannot matter to us." And he calmly held letter and envelope in
-the flame of the lamp till they were consumed.
-
-Then he went on, "The letter to Hawkins, that I shall, of course send
-on, since it is yours. Your letters are sacred to me. Your pardon,
-my friend, that unknowingly I did break the seal. Will you not cover
-it again?" He held out the letter to me, and with a courteous bow
-handed me a clean envelope.
-
-I could only redirect it and hand it to him in silence. When he went
-out of the room I could hear the key turn softly. A minute later I
-went over and tried it, and the door was locked.
-
-When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his
-coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa. He was very
-courteous and very cheery in his manner, and seeing that I had been
-sleeping, he said, "So, my friend, you are tired? Get to bed. There
-is the surest rest. I may not have the pleasure of talk tonight,
-since there are many labours to me, but you will sleep, I pray."
-
-I passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept
-without dreaming. Despair has its own calms.
-
-31 May.--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself
-with some papers and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket,
-so that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again a
-surprise, again a shock!
-
-Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda,
-relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that
-might be useful to me were I once outside the castle. I sat and
-pondered awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made
-search of my portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my
-clothes.
-
-The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and
-rug. I could find no trace of them anywhere. This looked like some
-new scheme of villainy . . .
-
-
-17 June.--This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed
-cudgelling my brains, I heard without a crackling of whips and
-pounding and scraping of horses' feet up the rocky path beyond the
-courtyard. With joy I hurried to the window, and saw drive into the
-yard two great leiter-wagons, each drawn by eight sturdy horses, and
-at the head of each pair a Slovak, with his wide hat, great
-nail-studded belt, dirty sheepskin, and high boots. They had also
-their long staves in hand. I ran to the door, intending to descend
-and try and join them through the main hall, as I thought that way
-might be opened for them. Again a shock, my door was fastened on the
-outside.
-
-Then I ran to the window and cried to them. They looked up at me
-stupidly and pointed, but just then the "hetman" of the Szgany came
-out, and seeing them pointing to my window, said something, at which
-they laughed.
-
-Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonized entreaty,
-would make them even look at me. They resolutely turned away. The
-leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick
-rope. These were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks
-handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved.
-
-When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner
-of the yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and
-spitting on it for luck, lazily went each to his horse's head.
-Shortly afterwards, I heard the crackling of their whips die away in
-the distance.
-
-
-24 June.--Last night the Count left me early, and locked himself into
-his own room. As soon as I dared I ran up the winding stair, and
-looked out of the window, which opened South. I thought I would watch
-for the Count, for there is something going on. The Szgany are
-quartered somewhere in the castle and are doing work of some kind. I
-know it, for now and then, I hear a far-away muffled sound as of
-mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some
-ruthless villainy.
-
-I had been at the window somewhat less than half an hour, when I saw
-something coming out of the Count's window. I drew back and watched
-carefully, and saw the whole man emerge. It was a new shock to me to
-find that he had on the suit of clothes which I had worn whilst
-travelling here, and slung over his shoulder the terrible bag which I
-had seen the women take away. There could be no doubt as to his
-quest, and in my garb, too! This, then, is his new scheme of evil,
-that he will allow others to see me, as they think, so that he may
-both leave evidence that I have been seen in the towns or villages
-posting my own letters, and that any wickedness which he may do shall
-by the local people be attributed to me.
-
-It makes me rage to think that this can go on, and whilst I am shut up
-here, a veritable prisoner, but without that protection of the law
-which is even a criminal's right and consolation.
-
-I thought I would watch for the Count's return, and for a long time
-sat doggedly at the window. Then I began to notice that there were
-some quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight. They
-were like the tiniest grains of dust, and they whirled round and
-gathered in clusters in a nebulous sort of way. I watched them with a
-sense of soothing, and a sort of calm stole over me. I leaned back in
-the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy
-more fully the aerial gambolling.
-
-Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere
-far below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight. Louder it
-seemed to ring in my ears, and the floating moats of dust to take new
-shapes to the sound as they danced in the moonlight. I felt myself
-struggling to awake to some call of my instincts. Nay, my very soul
-was struggling, and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to
-answer the call. I was becoming hypnotised!
-
-Quicker and quicker danced the dust. The moonbeams seemed to quiver
-as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond. More and more they
-gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom shapes. And then I
-started, broad awake and in full possession of my senses, and ran
-screaming from the place.
-
-The phantom shapes, which were becoming gradually materialised from
-the moonbeams, were those three ghostly women to whom I was doomed.
-
-I fled, and felt somewhat safer in my own room, where there was no
-moonlight, and where the lamp was burning brightly.
-
-When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the
-Count's room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed. And
-then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. With a
-beating heart, I tried the door, but I was locked in my prison, and
-could do nothing. I sat down and simply cried.
-
-As I sat I heard a sound in the courtyard without, the agonised cry of
-a woman. I rushed to the window, and throwing it up, peered between
-the bars.
-
-There, indeed, was a woman with dishevelled hair, holding her hands
-over her heart as one distressed with running. She was leaning
-against the corner of the gateway. When she saw my face at the window
-she threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace,
-"Monster, give me my child!"
-
-She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the
-same words in tones which wrung my heart. Then she tore her hair and
-beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of
-extravagant emotion. Finally, she threw herself forward, and though I
-could not see her, I could hear the beating of her naked hands against
-the door.
-
-Somewhere high overhead, probably on the tower, I heard the voice of
-the Count calling in his harsh, metallic whisper. His call seemed to
-be answered from far and wide by the howling of wolves. Before many
-minutes had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when
-liberated, through the wide entrance into the courtyard.
-
-There was no cry from the woman, and the howling of the wolves was but
-short. Before long they streamed away singly, licking their lips.
-
-I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and
-she was better dead.
-
-What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful
-thing of night, gloom, and fear?
-
-
-25 June.--No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet
-and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. When the sun grew
-so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway
-opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if
-the dove from the ark had lighted there. My fear fell from me as if
-it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth.
-
-I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon
-me. Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first
-of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my
-existence from the earth.
-
-Let me not think of it. Action!
-
-It has always been at night-time that I have been molested or
-threatened, or in some way in danger or in fear. I have not yet seen
-the Count in the daylight. Can it be that he sleeps when others wake,
-that he may be awake whilst they sleep? If I could only get into his
-room! But there is no possible way. The door is always locked, no
-way for me.
-
-Yes, there is a way, if one dares to take it. Where his body has gone
-why may not another body go? I have seen him myself crawl from his
-window. Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window? The
-chances are desperate, but my need is more desperate still. I shall
-risk it. At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not
-a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help
-me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend
-and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina!
-
-
-Same day, later.--I have made the effort, and God helping me, have
-come safely back to this room. I must put down every detail in order.
-I went whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south
-side, and at once got outside on this side. The stones are big and
-roughly cut, and the mortar has by process of time been washed away
-between them. I took off my boots, and ventured out on the desperate
-way. I looked down once, so as to make sure that a sudden glimpse of
-the awful depth would not overcome me, but after that kept my eyes
-away from it. I know pretty well the direction and distance of the
-Count's window, and made for it as well as I could, having regard to
-the opportunities available. I did not feel dizzy, I suppose I was
-too excited, and the time seemed ridiculously short till I found
-myself standing on the window sill and trying to raise up the sash. I
-was filled with agitation, however, when I bent down and slid feet
-foremost in through the window. Then I looked around for the Count,
-but with surprise and gladness, made a discovery. The room was
-empty! It was barely furnished with odd things, which seemed to have
-never been used.
-
-The furniture was something the same style as that in the south rooms,
-and was covered with dust. I looked for the key, but it was not in
-the lock, and I could not find it anywhere. The only thing I found
-was a great heap of gold in one corner, gold of all kinds, Roman, and
-British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money,
-covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground.
-None of it that I noticed was less than three hundred years old.
-There were also chains and ornaments, some jewelled, but all of them
-old and stained.
-
-At one corner of the room was a heavy door. I tried it, for, since I
-could not find the key of the room or the key of the outer door, which
-was the main object of my search, I must make further examination, or
-all my efforts would be in vain. It was open, and led through a stone
-passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down.
-
-I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark,
-being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry. At the bottom there
-was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly
-odour, the odour of old earth newly turned. As I went through the
-passage the smell grew closer and heavier. At last I pulled open a
-heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old ruined chapel,
-which had evidently been used as a graveyard. The roof was broken,
-and in two places were steps leading to vaults, but the ground had
-recently been dug over, and the earth placed in great wooden boxes,
-manifestly those which had been brought by the Slovaks.
-
-There was nobody about, and I made a search over every inch of the
-ground, so as not to lose a chance. I went down even into the vaults,
-where the dim light struggled, although to do so was a dread to my
-very soul. Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments
-of old coffins and piles of dust. In the third, however, I made a
-discovery.
-
-There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on
-a pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count! He was either dead or
-asleep. I could not say which, for eyes were open and stony, but
-without the glassiness of death, and the cheeks had the warmth of life
-through all their pallor. The lips were as red as ever. But there
-was no sign of movement, no pulse, no breath, no beating of the heart.
-
-I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain. He
-could not have lain there long, for the earthy smell would have passed
-away in a few hours. By the side of the box was its cover, pierced
-with holes here and there. I thought he might have the keys on him,
-but when I went to search I saw the dead eyes, and in them dead though
-they were, such a look of hate, though unconscious of me or my
-presence, that I fled from the place, and leaving the Count's room by
-the window, crawled again up the castle wall. Regaining my room, I
-threw myself panting upon the bed and tried to think.
-
-
-29 June.--Today is the date of my last letter, and the Count has taken
-steps to prove that it was genuine, for again I saw him leave the
-castle by the same window, and in my clothes. As he went down the
-wall, lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that
-I might destroy him. But I fear that no weapon wrought along by man's
-hand would have any effect on him. I dared not wait to see him
-return, for I feared to see those weird sisters. I came back to the
-library, and read there till I fell asleep.
-
-I was awakened by the Count, who looked at me as grimly as a man could
-look as he said, "Tomorrow, my friend, we must part. You return to
-your beautiful England, I to some work which may have such an end that
-we may never meet. Your letter home has been despatched. Tomorrow I
-shall not be here, but all shall be ready for your journey. In the
-morning come the Szgany, who have some labours of their own here, and
-also come some Slovaks. When they have gone, my carriage shall come
-for you, and shall bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence
-from Bukovina to Bistritz. But I am in hopes that I shall see more of
-you at Castle Dracula."
-
-I suspected him, and determined to test his sincerity. Sincerity! It
-seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with
-such a monster, so I asked him point-blank, "Why may I not go
-tonight?"
-
-"Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission."
-
-"But I would walk with pleasure. I want to get away at once."
-
-He smiled, such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was
-some trick behind his smoothness. He said, "And your baggage?"
-
-"I do not care about it. I can send for it some other time."
-
-The Count stood up, and said, with a sweet courtesy which made me rub
-my eyes, it seemed so real, "You English have a saying which is close
-to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars, 'Welcome
-the coming, speed the parting guest.' Come with me, my dear young
-friend. Not an hour shall you wait in my house against your will,
-though sad am I at your going, and that you so suddenly desire it.
-Come!" With a stately gravity, he, with the lamp, preceded me down
-the stairs and along the hall. Suddenly he stopped. "Hark!"
-
-Close at hand came the howling of many wolves. It was almost as if
-the sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a
-great orchestra seems to leap under the baton of the conductor. After
-a pause of a moment, he proceeded, in his stately way, to the door,
-drew back the ponderous bolts, unhooked the heavy chains, and began to
-draw it open.
-
-To my intense astonishment I saw that it was unlocked. Suspiciously,
-I looked all round, but could see no key of any kind.
-
-As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew
-louder and angrier. Their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their
-blunt-clawed feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door. I
-knew than that to struggle at the moment against the Count was
-useless. With such allies as these at his command, I could do
-nothing.
-
-But still the door continued slowly to open, and only the Count's body
-stood in the gap. Suddenly it struck me that this might be the moment
-and means of my doom. I was to be given to the wolves, and at my own
-instigation. There was a diabolical wickedness in the idea great
-enough for the Count, and as the last chance I cried out, "Shut the
-door! I shall wait till morning." And I covered my face with my
-hands to hide my tears of bitter disappointment.
-
-With one sweep of his powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and
-the great bolts clanged and echoed through the hall as they shot back
-into their places.
-
-In silence we returned to the library, and after a minute or two I went
-to my own room. The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his
-hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile
-that Judas in hell might be proud of.
-
-When I was in my room and about to lie down, I thought I heard a
-whispering at my door. I went to it softly and listened. Unless my
-ears deceived me, I heard the voice of the Count.
-
-"Back! Back to your own place! Your time is not yet come. Wait!
-Have patience! Tonight is mine. Tomorrow night is yours!"
-
-There was a low, sweet ripple of laughter, and in a rage I threw open
-the door, and saw without the three terrible women licking their lips.
-As I appeared, they all joined in a horrible laugh, and ran away.
-
-I came back to my room and threw myself on my knees. It is then so
-near the end? Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Lord, help me, and those to whom
-I am dear!
-
-
-30 June.--These may be the last words I ever write in this diary. I
-slept till just before the dawn, and when I woke threw myself on my
-knees, for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.
-
-At last I felt that subtle change in the air, and knew that the
-morning had come. Then came the welcome cockcrow, and I felt that I
-was safe. With a glad heart, I opened the door and ran down the hall.
-I had seen that the door was unlocked, and now escape was before me.
-With hands that trembled with eagerness, I unhooked the chains and
-threw back the massive bolts.
-
-But the door would not move. Despair seized me. I pulled and pulled
-at the door, and shook it till, massive as it was, it rattled in its
-casement. I could see the bolt shot. It had been locked after I left
-the Count.
-
-Then a wild desire took me to obtain the key at any risk, and I
-determined then and there to scale the wall again, and gain the
-Count's room. He might kill me, but death now seemed the happier
-choice of evils. Without a pause I rushed up to the east window, and
-scrambled down the wall, as before, into the Count's room. It was
-empty, but that was as I expected. I could not see a key anywhere,
-but the heap of gold remained. I went through the door in the corner
-and down the winding stair and along the dark passage to the old
-chapel. I knew now well enough where to find the monster I sought.
-
-The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the
-lid was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in
-their places to be hammered home.
-
-I knew I must reach the body for the key, so I raised the lid, and
-laid it back against the wall. And then I saw something which filled
-my very soul with horror. There lay the Count, but looking as if his
-youth had been half restored. For the white hair and moustache were
-changed to dark iron-grey. The cheeks were fuller, and the white skin
-seemed ruby-red underneath. The mouth was redder than ever, for on
-the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of
-the mouth and ran down over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning
-eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches
-underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature
-were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted
-with his repletion.
-
-I shuddered as I bent over to touch him, and every sense in me
-revolted at the contact, but I had to search, or I was lost. The
-coming night might see my own body a banquet in a similar war to those
-horrid three. I felt all over the body, but no sign could I find of
-the key. Then I stopped and looked at the Count. There was a mocking
-smile on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad. This was the
-being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for
-centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his
-lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of
-semi-demons to batten on the helpless.
-
-The very thought drove me mad. A terrible desire came upon me to rid
-the world of such a monster. There was no lethal weapon at hand, but
-I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the cases,
-and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the hateful
-face. But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell upon me,
-with all their blaze of basilisk horror. The sight seemed to paralyze
-me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely
-making a deep gash above the forehead. The shovel fell from my hand
-across the box, and as I pulled it away the flange of the blade caught
-the edge of the lid which fell over again, and hid the horrid thing
-from my sight. The last glimpse I had was of the bloated face,
-blood-stained and fixed with a grin of malice which would have held
-its own in the nethermost hell.
-
-I thought and thought what should be my next move, but my brain seemed
-on fire, and I waited with a despairing feeling growing over me. As I
-waited I heard in the distance a gipsy song sung by merry voices
-coming closer, and through their song the rolling of heavy wheels and
-the cracking of whips. The Szgany and the Slovaks of whom the Count
-had spoken were coming. With a last look around and at the box which
-contained the vile body, I ran from the place and gained the Count's
-room, determined to rush out at the moment the door should be opened.
-With strained ears, I listened, and heard downstairs the grinding of
-the key in the great lock and the falling back of the heavy door.
-There must have been some other means of entry, or some one had a key
-for one of the locked doors.
-
-Then there came the sound of many feet tramping and dying away in some
-passage which sent up a clanging echo. I turned to run down again
-towards the vault, where I might find the new entrance, but at the
-moment there seemed to come a violent puff of wind, and the door to
-the winding stair blew to with a shock that set the dust from the
-lintels flying. When I ran to push it open, I found that it was
-hopelessly fast. I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was
-closing round me more closely.
-
-As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet
-and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes,
-with their freight of earth. There was a sound of hammering. It is
-the box being nailed down. Now I can hear the heavy feet tramping
-again along the hall, with many other idle feet coming behind them.
-
-The door is shut, the chains rattle. There is a grinding of the key
-in the lock. I can hear the key withdrawn, then another door opens
-and shuts. I hear the creaking of lock and bolt.
-
-Hark! In the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy
-wheels, the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass
-into the distance.
-
-I am alone in the castle with those horrible women. Faugh! Mina is a
-woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!
-
-I shall not remain alone with them. I shall try to scale the castle
-wall farther than I have yet attempted. I shall take some of the gold
-with me, lest I want it later. I may find a way from this dreadful
-place.
-
-And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away
-from the cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his
-children still walk with earthly feet!
-
-At least God's mercy is better than that of those monsters, and the
-precipice is steep and high. At its foot a man may sleep, as a man.
-Goodbye, all. Mina!
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 5
-
-
-LETTER FROM MISS MINA MURRAY TO MISS LUCY WESTENRA
-
-9 May.
-
-My dearest Lucy,
-
-Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed
-with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes
-trying. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can
-talk together freely and build our castles in the air. I have been
-working very hard lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan's
-studies, and I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously.
-When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if
-I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say in
-this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also I
-am practicing very hard.
-
-He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is
-keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad. When
-I am with you I shall keep a diary in the same way. I don't
-mean one of those two-pages-to-the-week-with-Sunday-squeezed-
-in-a-corner diaries, but a sort of journal which I can write
-in whenever I feel inclined.
-
-I do not suppose there will be much of interest to other people, but
-it is not intended for them. I may show it to Jonathan some day if
-there is in it anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise
-book. I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do,
-interviewing and writing descriptions and trying to remember
-conversations. I am told that, with a little practice, one can
-remember all that goes on or that one hears said during a day.
-
-However, we shall see. I will tell you of my little plans when we
-meet. I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan from
-Transylvania. He is well, and will be returning in about a week. I
-am longing to hear all his news. It must be nice to see strange
-countries. I wonder if we, I mean Jonathan and I, shall ever see
-them together. There is the ten o'clock bell ringing. Goodbye.
-
-Your loving
-
-Mina
-
-
-Tell me all the news when you write. You have not told me
-anything for a long time. I hear rumours, and especially
-of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man???
-
-
-
-LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY
-
-
-17, Chatham Street
-
-Wednesday
-
-My dearest Mina,
-
-
-I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent.
-I wrote you twice since we parted, and your last letter was only
-your second. Besides, I have nothing to tell you. There is really
-nothing to interest you.
-
-Town is very pleasant just now, and we go a great deal to
-picture-galleries and for walks and rides in the park. As
-to the tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who
-was with me at the last Pop. Someone has evidently been
-telling tales.
-
-That was Mr. Holmwood. He often comes to see us, and he and
-Mamma get on very well together, they have so many things
-to talk about in common.
-
-We met some time ago a man that would just do for you, if you were
-not already engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent parti, being
-handsome, well off, and of good birth. He is a doctor and really
-clever. Just fancy! He is only nine-and twenty, and he has an
-immense lunatic asylum all under his own care. Mr. Holmwood
-introduced him to me, and he called here to see us, and often comes
-now. I think he is one of the most resolute men I ever saw, and yet
-the most calm. He seems absolutely imperturbable. I can fancy what
-a wonderful power he must have over his patients. He has a curious
-habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to read
-one's thoughts. He tries this on very much with me, but I flatter
-myself he has got a tough nut to crack. I know that from my glass.
-
-Do you ever try to read your own face? I do, and I can
-tell you it is not a bad study, and gives you more trouble
-than you can well fancy if you have never tried it.
-
-He says that I afford him a curious psychological study, and
-I humbly think I do. I do not, as you know, take sufficient
-interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions.
-Dress is a bore. That is slang again, but never mind. Arthur
-says that every day.
-
-There, it is all out, Mina, we have told all our secrets to
-each other since we were children. We have slept together
-and eaten together, and laughed and cried together, and
-now, though I have spoken, I would like to speak more. Oh,
-Mina, couldn't you guess? I love him. I am blushing as I
-write, for although I think he loves me, he has not told me
-so in words. But, oh, Mina, I love him. I love him! There,
-that does me good.
-
-I wish I were with you, dear, sitting by the fire undressing, as we
-used to sit, and I would try to tell you what I feel. I do not know
-how I am writing this even to you. I am afraid to stop, or I should
-tear up the letter, and I don't want to stop, for I do so want to
-tell you all. Let me hear from you at once, and tell me all that you
-think about it. Mina, pray for my happiness.
-
-Lucy
-
-
-P.S.--I need not tell you this is a secret.
-Goodnight again. L.
-
-
-
-
-LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA MURRAY
-
-24 May
-
-My dearest Mina,
-
-Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It
-was so nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy.
-
-My dear, it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs
-are. Here am I, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never
-had a proposal till today, not a real proposal, and today I had
-three. Just fancy! Three proposals in one day! Isn't it awful! I
-feel sorry, really and truly sorry, for two of the poor fellows.
-Oh, Mina, I am so happy that I don't know what to do with myself.
-And three proposals! But, for goodness' sake, don't tell any of the
-girls, or they would be getting all sorts of extravagant ideas, and
-imagining themselves injured and slighted if in their very first day
-at home they did not get six at least. Some girls are so vain! You
-and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and are going to settle down soon
-soberly into old married women, can despise vanity. Well, I must
-tell you about the three, but you must keep it a secret, dear, from
-every one except, of course, Jonathan. You will tell him, because I
-would, if I were in your place, certainly tell Arthur. A woman
-ought to tell her husband everything. Don't you think so, dear? And
-I must be fair. Men like women, certainly their wives, to be quite
-as fair as they are. And women, I am afraid, are not always quite
-as fair as they should be.
-
-Well, my dear, number One came just before lunch. I told you of
-him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic asylum man, with the strong jaw
-and the good forehead. He was very cool outwardly, but was nervous
-all the same. He had evidently been schooling himself as to all
-sorts of little things, and remembered them, but he almost managed
-to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they
-are cool, and then when he wanted to appear at ease he kept playing
-with a lancet in a way that made me nearly scream. He spoke to me,
-Mina, very straightforwardly. He told me how dear I was to him,
-though he had known me so little, and what his life would be with me
-to help and cheer him. He was going to tell me how unhappy he would
-be if I did not care for him, but when he saw me cry he said he was
-a brute and would not add to my present trouble. Then he broke off
-and asked if I could love him in time, and when I shook my head his
-hands trembled, and then with some hesitation he asked me if I cared
-already for any one else. He put it very nicely, saying that he did
-not want to wring my confidence from me, but only to know, because
-if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope. And then, Mina,
-I felt a sort of duty to tell him that there was some one. I only
-told him that much, and then he stood up, and he looked very strong
-and very grave as he took both my hands in his and said he hoped I
-would be happy, and that If I ever wanted a friend I must count him
-one of my best.
-
-Oh, Mina dear, I can't help crying, and you must excuse this letter
-being all blotted. Being proposed to is all very nice and all that
-sort of thing, but it isn't at all a happy thing when you have to
-see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and
-looking all broken hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may
-say at the moment, you are passing out of his life. My dear, I must
-stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy.
-
-Evening.
-
-Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than when I
-left off, so I can go on telling you about the day.
-
-Well, my dear, number Two came after lunch. He is such a nice
-fellow, an American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh
-that it seems almost impossible that he has been to so many places
-and has such adventures. I sympathize with poor Desdemona when she
-had such a stream poured in her ear, even by a black man. I suppose
-that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from
-fears, and we marry him. I know now what I would do if I were a man
-and wanted to make a girl love me. No, I don't, for there was Mr.
-Morris telling us his stories, and Arthur never told any, and
-yet . . .
-
-My dear, I am somewhat previous. Mr. Quincy P. Morris found me
-alone. It seems that a man always does find a girl alone. No, he
-doesn't, for Arthur tried twice to make a chance, and I helping him
-all I could, I am not ashamed to say it now. I must tell you
-beforehand that Mr. Morris doesn't always speak slang, that is to
-say, he never does so to strangers or before them, for he is really
-well educated and has exquisite manners, but he found out that it
-amused me to hear him talk American slang, and whenever I was
-present, and there was no one to be shocked, he said such funny
-things. I am afraid, my dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits
-exactly into whatever else he has to say. But this is a way slang
-has. I do not know myself if I shall ever speak slang. I do not
-know if Arthur likes it, as I have never heard him use any as yet.
-
-Well, Mr. Morris sat down beside me and looked as happy and jolly as
-he could, but I could see all the same that he was very nervous. He
-took my hand in his, and said ever so sweetly . . .
-
-"Miss Lucy, I know I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of
-your little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that
-is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you
-quit. Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down
-the long road together, driving in double harness?"
-
-Well, he did look so good humoured and so jolly that it didn't seem
-half so hard to refuse him as it did poor Dr. Seward. So I said, as
-lightly as I could, that I did not know anything of hitching, and
-that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet. Then he said that he
-had spoken in a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a
-mistake in doing so on so grave, so momentous, and occasion for him,
-I would forgive him. He really did look serious when he was saying
-it, and I couldn't help feeling a sort of exultation that he was
-number Two in one day. And then, my dear, before I could say a word
-he began pouring out a perfect torrent of love-making, laying his
-very heart and soul at my feet. He looked so earnest over it that I
-shall never again think that a man must be playful always, and never
-earnest, because he is merry at times. I suppose he saw something
-in my face which checked him, for he suddenly stopped, and said with
-a sort of manly fervour that I could have loved him for if I had
-been free . . .
-
-"Lucy, you are an honest hearted girl, I know. I should not be here
-speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit,
-right through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one
-good fellow to another, is there any one else that you care for?
-And if there is I'll never trouble you a hair's breadth again, but
-will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend."
-
-My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little
-worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted,
-true gentleman. I burst into tears, I am afraid, my dear, you will
-think this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one, and I really
-felt very badly.
-
-Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as
-want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy,
-and I must not say it. I am glad to say that, though I was
-crying, I was able to look into Mr. Morris' brave eyes, and
-I told him out straight . . .
-
-"Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me
-yet that he even loves me." I was right to speak to him so
-frankly, for quite a light came into his face, and he put
-out both his hands and took mine, I think I put them into
-his, and said in a hearty way . . .
-
-"That's my brave girl. It's better worth being late for a chance of
-winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.
-Don't cry, my dear. If it's for me, I'm a hard nut to crack, and I
-take it standing up. If that other fellow doesn't know his
-happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal
-with me. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend,
-and that's rarer than a lover, it's more selfish anyhow. My dear,
-I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom
-Come. Won't you give me one kiss? It'll be something to keep off
-the darkness now and then. You can, you know, if you like, for that
-other good fellow, or you could not love him, hasn't spoken yet."
-
-That quite won me, Mina, for it was brave and sweet of him,
-and noble too, to a rival, wasn't it? And he so sad, so I
-leant over and kissed him.
-
-He stood up with my two hands in his, and as he looked down into my
-face, I am afraid I was blushing very much, he said, "Little girl, I
-hold your hand, and you've kissed me, and if these things don't make
-us friends nothing ever will. Thank you for your sweet honesty to
-me, and goodbye."
-
-He wrung my hand, and taking up his hat, went straight out of the
-room without looking back, without a tear or a quiver or a pause,
-and I am crying like a baby.
-
-Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of
-girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? I know I
-would if I were free, only I don't want to be free. My dear, this
-quite upset me, and I feel I cannot write of happiness just at once,
-after telling you of it, and I don't wish to tell of the number
-Three until it can be all happy. Ever your loving . . .
-
-Lucy
-
-
-P.S.--Oh, about number Three, I needn't tell you of number
-Three, need I? Besides, it was all so confused. It seemed
-only a moment from his coming into the room till both his
-arms were round me, and he was kissing me. I am very, very
-happy, and I don't know what I have done to deserve it. I
-must only try in the future to show that I am not ungrateful
-to God for all His goodness to me in sending to me such a
-lover, such a husband, and such a friend.
-
-Goodbye.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY (Kept in phonograph)
-
-25 May.--Ebb tide in appetite today. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so
-diary instead. Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty
-feeling. Nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be
-worth the doing. As I knew that the only cure for this sort of thing
-was work, I went amongst the patients. I picked out one who has
-afforded me a study of much interest. He is so quaint that I am
-determined to understand him as well as I can. Today I seemed to get
-nearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery.
-
-I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to
-making myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner
-of doing it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to
-wish to keep him to the point of his madness, a thing which I avoid
-with the patients as I would the mouth of hell.
-
-(Mem., Under what circumstances would I not avoid the pit of hell?)
-Omnia Romae venalia sunt. Hell has its price! If there be anything
-behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards
-accurately, so I had better commence to do so, therefore . . .
-
-R. M, Renfield, age 59. Sanguine temperament, great physical
-strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed
-idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament
-itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished
-finish, a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In
-selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for
-themselves. What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed
-point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When
-duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is
-paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it.
-
-
-
-LETTER, QUINCEY P. MORRIS TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMOOD
-
-25 May.
-
-My dear Art,
-
-We've told yarns by the campfire in the prairies, and dressed one
-another's wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas, and drunk
-healths on the shore of Titicaca. There are more yarns to be told,
-and other wounds to be healed, and another health to be drunk.
-Won't you let this be at my campfire tomorrow night? I have no
-hesitation in asking you, as I know a certain lady is engaged to a
-certain dinner party, and that you are free. There will only be one
-other, our old pal at the Korea, Jack Seward. He's coming, too, and
-we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine cup, and to drink a
-health with all our hearts to the happiest man in all the wide
-world, who has won the noblest heart that God has made and best
-worth winning. We promise you a hearty welcome, and a loving
-greeting, and a health as true as your own right hand. We shall
-both swear to leave you at home if you drink too deep to a certain
-pair of eyes. Come!
-
-Yours, as ever and always,
-
-Quincey P. Morris
-
-
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM FROM ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO QUINCEY P. MORRIS
-
-26 May
-
-
-Count me in every time. I bear messages which will make both
-your ears tingle.
-
-Art
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 6
-
-
-MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
-
-24 July. Whitby.--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and
-lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in
-which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the
-Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near
-the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through
-which the view seems somehow further away than it really is. The
-valley is beautifully green, and it is so steep that when you are on
-the high land on either side you look right across it, unless you are
-near enough to see down. The houses of the old town--the side away
-from us, are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other
-anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is
-the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is
-the scene of part of "Marmion," where the girl was built up in the
-wall. It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful
-and romantic bits. There is a legend that a white lady is seen in one
-of the windows. Between it and the town there is another church, the
-parish one, round which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones.
-This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over
-the town, and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay to
-where the headland called Kettleness stretches out into the sea. It
-descends so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen
-away, and some of the graves have been destroyed.
-
-In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches out over
-the sandy pathway far below. There are walks, with seats beside them,
-through the churchyard, and people go and sit there all day long
-looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze.
-
-I shall come and sit here often myself and work. Indeed, I am writing
-now, with my book on my knee, and listening to the talk of three old
-men who are sitting beside me. They seem to do nothing all day but
-sit here and talk.
-
-The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite
-wall stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of
-it, in the middle of which is a lighthouse. A heavy seawall runs
-along outside of it. On the near side, the seawall makes an elbow
-crooked inversely, and its end too has a lighthouse. Between the two
-piers there is a narrow opening into the harbour, which then suddenly
-widens.
-
-It is nice at high water, but when the tide is out it shoals away to
-nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between
-banks of sand, with rocks here and there. Outside the harbour on this
-side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp of
-which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse. At the end
-of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in
-a mournful sound on the wind.
-
-They have a legend here that when a ship is lost bells are heard out at
-sea. I must ask the old man about this. He is coming this way . . .
-
-He is a funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is
-gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree. He tells me that he is
-nearly a hundred, and that he was a sailor in the Greenland fishing
-fleet when Waterloo was fought. He is, I am afraid, a very sceptical
-person, for when I asked him about the bells at sea and the White Lady
-at the abbey he said very brusquely,
-
-"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore
-out. Mind, I don't say that they never was, but I do say that they
-wasn't in my time. They be all very well for comers and trippers, an'
-the like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks
-from York and Leeds that be always eatin' cured herrin's and drinkin'
-tea an' lookin' out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder
-masel' who'd be bothered tellin' lies to them, even the newspapers,
-which is full of fool-talk."
-
-I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from,
-so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale
-fishing in the old days. He was just settling himself to begin when
-the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said,
-
-"I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand-daughter doesn't
-like to be kept waitin' when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to
-crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of 'em, and miss, I lack
-belly-timber sairly by the clock."
-
-He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could,
-down the steps. The steps are a great feature on the place. They
-lead from the town to the church, there are hundreds of them, I do not
-know how many, and they wind up in a delicate curve. The slope is so
-gentle that a horse could easily walk up and down them.
-
-I think they must originally have had something to do with the abbey.
-I shall go home too. Lucy went out, visiting with her mother, and as
-they were only duty calls, I did not go.
-
-
-1 August.--I came up here an hour ago with Lucy, and we had a most
-interesting talk with my old friend and the two others who always come
-and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should
-think must have been in his time a most dictatorial person.
-
-He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't
-out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for
-agreement with his views.
-
-Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock. She has got
-a beautiful colour since she has been here.
-
-I noticed that the old men did not lose any time in coming and sitting
-near her when we sat down. She is so sweet with old people, I think
-they all fell in love with her on the spot. Even my old man succumbed
-and did not contradict her, but gave me double share instead. I got
-him on the subject of the legends, and he went off at once into a sort
-of sermon. I must try to remember it and put it down.
-
-"It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel, that's what it be and
-nowt else. These bans an' wafts an' boh-ghosts an' bar-guests an'
-bogles an' all anent them is only fit to set bairns an' dizzy women
-a'belderin'. They be nowt but air-blebs. They, an' all grims an' signs
-an' warnin's, be all invented by parsons an' illsome berk-bodies an'
-railway touters to skeer an' scunner hafflin's, an' to get folks to do
-somethin' that they don't other incline to. It makes me ireful to
-think o' them. Why, it's them that, not content with printin' lies on
-paper an' preachin' them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin' them
-on the tombstones. Look here all around you in what airt ye will. All
-them steans, holdin' up their heads as well as they can out of their
-pride, is acant, simply tumblin' down with the weight o' the lies
-wrote on them, 'Here lies the body' or 'Sacred to the memory' wrote on
-all of them, an' yet in nigh half of them there bean't no bodies at
-all, an' the memories of them bean't cared a pinch of snuff about,
-much less sacred. Lies all of them, nothin' but lies of one kind or
-another! My gog, but it'll be a quare scowderment at the Day of
-Judgment when they come tumblin' up in their death-sarks, all jouped
-together an' trying' to drag their tombsteans with them to prove how
-good they was, some of them trimmlin' an' dithering, with their hands
-that dozzened an' slippery from lyin' in the sea that they can't even
-keep their gurp o' them."
-
-I could see from the old fellow's self-satisfied air and the way in
-which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was
-"showing off," so I put in a word to keep him going.
-
-"Oh, Mr. Swales, you can't be serious. Surely these tombstones are
-not all wrong?"
-
-"Yabblins! There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin' where they
-make out the people too good, for there be folk that do think a
-balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it be their own. The whole thing
-be only lies. Now look you here. You come here a stranger, an' you
-see this kirkgarth."
-
-I nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite
-understand his dialect. I knew it had something to do with the
-church.
-
-He went on, "And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that
-be haped here, snod an' snog?" I assented again. "Then that be just
-where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these laybeds that be
-toom as old Dun's 'baccabox on Friday night."
-
-He nudged one of his companions, and they all laughed. "And, my gog!
-How could they be otherwise? Look at that one, the aftest abaft the
-bier-bank, read it!"
-
-I went over and read, "Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by
-pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30." When I came
-back Mr. Swales went on,
-
-"Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the
-coast of Andres! An' you consated his body lay under! Why, I could
-name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above," he
-pointed northwards, "or where the currants may have drifted them.
-There be the steans around ye. Ye can, with your young eyes, read the
-small print of the lies from here. This Braithwaite Lowery, I knew
-his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in '20, or Andrew
-Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777, or John Paxton, drowned
-off Cape Farewell a year later, or old John Rawlings, whose
-grandfather sailed with me, drowned in the Gulf of Finland in '50. Do
-ye think that all these men will have to make a rush to Whitby when
-the trumpet sounds? I have me antherums aboot it! I tell ye that
-when they got here they'd be jommlin' and jostlin' one another that
-way that it 'ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when
-we'd be at one another from daylight to dark, an' tryin' to tie up our
-cuts by the aurora borealis." This was evidently local pleasantry, for
-the old man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.
-
-"But," I said, "surely you are not quite correct, for you start on the
-assumption that all the poor people, or their spirits, will have to
-take their tombstones with them on the Day of Judgment. Do you think
-that will be really necessary?"
-
-"Well, what else be they tombstones for? Answer me that, miss!"
-
-"To please their relatives, I suppose."
-
-"To please their relatives, you suppose!" This he said with intense
-scorn. "How will it pleasure their relatives to know that lies is
-wrote over them, and that everybody in the place knows that they be
-lies?"
-
-He pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab,
-on which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff. "Read
-the lies on that thruff-stone," he said.
-
-The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more
-opposite to them, so she leant over and read, "Sacred to the memory of
-George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, on
-July 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness. This tomb was
-erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son. 'He was the
-only son of his mother, and she was a widow.' Really, Mr. Swales, I
-don't see anything very funny in that!" She spoke her comment very
-gravely and somewhat severely.
-
-"Ye don't see aught funny! Ha-ha! But that's because ye don't gawm
-the sorrowin' mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was
-acrewk'd, a regular lamiter he was, an' he hated her so that he
-committed suicide in order that she mightn't get an insurance she put
-on his life. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket
-that they had for scarin' crows with. 'Twarn't for crows then, for it
-brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That's the way he fell off
-the rocks. And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I've often
-heard him say masel' that he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was
-so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven, an' he didn't want to
-addle where she was. Now isn't that stean at any rate," he hammered
-it with his stick as he spoke, "a pack of lies? And won't it make
-Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' ut the grees with the
-tompstean balanced on his hump, and asks to be took as evidence!"
-
-I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she
-said, rising up, "Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favourite
-seat, and I cannot leave it, and now I find I must go on sitting over
-the grave of a suicide."
-
-"That won't harm ye, my pretty, an' it may make poor Geordie gladsome
-to have so trim a lass sittin' on his lap. That won't hurt ye. Why,
-I've sat here off an' on for nigh twenty years past, an' it hasn't
-done me no harm. Don't ye fash about them as lies under ye, or that
-doesn' lie there either! It'll be time for ye to be getting scart
-when ye see the tombsteans all run away with, and the place as bare as
-a stubble-field. There's the clock, and I must gang. My service to
-ye, ladies!" And off he hobbled.
-
-Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we
-took hands as we sat, and she told me all over again about Arthur and
-their coming marriage. That made me just a little heart-sick, for I
-haven't heard from Jonathan for a whole month.
-
-
-The same day. I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no
-letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with
-Jonathan. The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights scattered
-all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and
-sometimes singly. They run right up the Esk and die away in the curve
-of the valley. To my left the view is cut off by a black line of roof
-of the old house next to the abbey. The sheep and lambs are bleating
-in the fields away behind me, and there is a clatter of donkeys' hoofs
-up the paved road below. The band on the pier is playing a harsh
-waltz in good time, and further along the quay there is a Salvation
-Army meeting in a back street. Neither of the bands hears the other,
-but up here I hear and see them both. I wonder where Jonathan is and
-if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-5 June.--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to
-understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed,
-selfishness, secrecy, and purpose.
-
-I wish I could get at what is the object of the latter. He seems to
-have some settled scheme of his own, but what it is I do not know.
-His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has
-such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only
-abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd sorts.
-
-Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has at present such a
-quantity that I have had myself to expostulate. To my astonishment,
-he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter
-in simple seriousness. He thought for a moment, and then said, "May I
-have three days? I shall clear them away." Of course, I said that
-would do. I must watch him.
-
-
-18 June.--He has turned his mind now to spiders, and has got several
-very big fellows in a box. He keeps feeding them his flies, and the
-number of the latter is becoming sensibly diminished, although he has
-used half his food in attracting more flies from outside to his room.
-
-
-1 July.--His spiders are now becoming as great a nuisance as his
-flies, and today I told him that he must get rid of them.
-
-He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must some of them, at
-all events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same
-time as before for reduction.
-
-He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blowfly,
-bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it,
-held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and
-before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it.
-
-I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and
-very wholesome, that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him.
-This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one. I must watch how he
-gets rid of his spiders.
-
-He has evidently some deep problem in his mind, for he keeps a little
-notebook in which he is always jotting down something. Whole pages of
-it are filled with masses of figures, generally single numbers added
-up in batches, and then the totals added in batches again, as though
-he were focussing some account, as the auditors put it.
-
-
-8 July.--There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in
-my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh,
-unconscious cerebration, you will have to give the wall to your
-conscious brother.
-
-I kept away from my friend for a few days, so that I might notice if
-there were any change. Things remain as they were except that he has
-parted with some of his pets and got a new one.
-
-He has managed to get a sparrow, and has already partially tamed it.
-His means of taming is simple, for already the spiders have
-diminished. Those that do remain, however, are well fed, for he still
-brings in the flies by tempting them with his food.
-
-19 July--We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of
-sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated. When I
-came in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great favour, a
-very, very great favour. And as he spoke, he fawned on me like a dog.
-
-I asked him what it was, and he said, with a sort of rapture in his
-voice and bearing, "A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten,
-that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!"
-
-I was not unprepared for this request, for I had noticed how his pets
-went on increasing in size and vivacity, but I did not care that his
-pretty family of tame sparrows should be wiped out in the same manner
-as the flies and spiders. So I said I would see about it, and asked
-him if he would not rather have a cat than a kitten.
-
-His eagerness betrayed him as he answered, "Oh, yes, I would like a
-cat! I only asked for a kitten lest you should refuse me a cat. No
-one would refuse me a kitten, would they?"
-
-I shook my head, and said that at present I feared it would not be
-possible, but that I would see about it. His face fell, and I could
-see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong
-look which meant killing. The man is an undeveloped homicidal
-maniac. I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will
-work out, then I shall know more.
-
-
-10 pm.--I have visited him again and found him sitting in a corner
-brooding. When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and
-implored me to let him have a cat, that his salvation depended upon
-it.
-
-I was firm, however, and told him that he could not have it, whereupon
-he went without a word, and sat down, gnawing his fingers, in the
-corner where I had found him. I shall see him in the morning early.
-
-
-20 July.--Visited Renfield very early, before attendant went his
-rounds. Found him up and humming a tune. He was spreading out his
-sugar, which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning
-his fly catching again, and beginning it cheerfully and with a good
-grace.
-
-I looked around for his birds, and not seeing them, asked him where
-they were. He replied, without turning round, that they had all flown
-away. There were a few feathers about the room and on his pillow a
-drop of blood. I said nothing, but went and told the keeper to report
-to me if there were anything odd about him during the day.
-
-
-11 am.--The attendant has just been to see me to say that Renfield has
-been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of feathers. "My belief
-is, doctor," he said, "that he has eaten his birds, and that he just
-took and ate them raw!"
-
-
-11 pm.--I gave Renfield a strong opiate tonight, enough to make even
-him sleep, and took away his pocketbook to look at it. The thought
-that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and the
-theory proved.
-
-My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a
-new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating)
-maniac. What he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he
-has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. He gave many
-flies to one spider and many spiders to one bird, and then wanted a
-cat to eat the many birds. What would have been his later steps?
-
-It would almost be worth while to complete the experiment. It might
-be done if there were only a sufficient cause. Men sneered at
-vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance
-science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the
-brain?
-
-Had I even the secret of one such mind, did I hold the key to the
-fancy of even one lunatic, I might advance my own branch of science to
-a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson's physiology or Ferrier's
-brain knowledge would be as nothing. If only there were a sufficient
-cause! I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted. A
-good cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an
-exceptional brain, congenitally?
-
-How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope.
-I wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one. He has
-closed the account most accurately, and today begun a new record. How
-many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives?
-
-To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new
-hope, and that truly I began a new record. So it shall be until the
-Great Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance
-to profit or loss.
-
-Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my
-friend whose happiness is yours, but I must only wait on hopeless and
-work. Work! Work!
-
-If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good,
-unselfish cause to make me work, that would be indeed happiness.
-
-
-
-MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
-
-26 July.--I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It
-is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time. And
-there is also something about the shorthand symbols that makes it
-different from writing. I am unhappy about Lucy and about Jonathan.
-I had not heard from Jonathan for some time, and was very concerned,
-but yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a
-letter from him. I had written asking him if he had heard, and he
-said the enclosed had just been received. It is only a line dated
-from Castle Dracula, and says that he is just starting for home. That
-is not like Jonathan. I do not understand it, and it makes me uneasy.
-
-Then, too, Lucy, although she is so well, has lately taken to her old
-habit of walking in her sleep. Her mother has spoken to me about it,
-and we have decided that I am to lock the door of our room every
-night.
-
-Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on
-roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly
-wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the
-place.
-
-Poor dear, she is naturally anxious about Lucy, and she tells me that
-her husband, Lucy's father, had the same habit, that he would get up
-in the night and dress himself and go out, if he were not stopped.
-
-Lucy is to be married in the autumn, and she is already planning out
-her dresses and how her house is to be arranged. I sympathise with
-her, for I do the same, only Jonathan and I will start in life in a
-very simple way, and shall have to try to make both ends meet.
-
-Mr. Holmwood, he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only son of Lord
-Godalming, is coming up here very shortly, as soon as he can leave
-town, for his father is not very well, and I think dear Lucy is
-counting the moments till he comes.
-
-She wants to take him up in the seat on the churchyard cliff and show
-him the beauty of Whitby. I daresay it is the waiting which disturbs
-her. She will be all right when he arrives.
-
-
-27 July.--No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him,
-though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write,
-if it were only a single line.
-
-Lucy walks more than ever, and each night I am awakened by her moving
-about the room. Fortunately, the weather is so hot that she cannot
-get cold. But still, the anxiety and the perpetually being awakened
-is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous and wakeful
-myself. Thank God, Lucy's health keeps up. Mr. Holmwood has been
-suddenly called to Ring to see his father, who has been taken
-seriously ill. Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it
-does not touch her looks. She is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are
-a lovely rose-pink. She has lost the anemic look which she had. I
-pray it will all last.
-
-
-3 August.--Another week gone by, and no news from Jonathan, not even
-to Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard. Oh, I do hope he is not ill.
-He surely would have written. I look at that last letter of his, but
-somehow it does not satisfy me. It does not read like him, and yet it
-is his writing. There is no mistake of that.
-
-Lucy has not walked much in her sleep the last week, but there is an
-odd concentration about her which I do not understand, even in her
-sleep she seems to be watching me. She tries the door, and finding it
-locked, goes about the room searching for the key.
-
-
-6 August.--Another three days, and no news. This suspense is getting
-dreadful. If I only knew where to write to or where to go to, I
-should feel easier. But no one has heard a word of Jonathan since
-that last letter. I must only pray to God for patience.
-
-Lucy is more excitable than ever, but is otherwise well. Last night
-was very threatening, and the fishermen say that we are in for a
-storm. I must try to watch it and learn the weather signs.
-
-Today is a gray day, and the sun as I write is hidden in thick clouds,
-high over Kettleness. Everything is gray except the green grass,
-which seems like emerald amongst it, gray earthy rock, gray clouds,
-tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the gray sea, into
-which the sandpoints stretch like gray figures. The sea is tumbling
-in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the
-sea-mists drifting inland. The horizon is lost in a gray mist. All
-vastness, the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a
-'brool' over the sea that sounds like some passage of doom. Dark
-figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in
-the mist, and seem 'men like trees walking'. The fishing boats are
-racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep
-into the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Here comes old Mr. Swales.
-He is making straight for me, and I can see, by the way he lifts his
-hat, that he wants to talk.
-
-I have been quite touched by the change in the poor old man. When he
-sat down beside me, he said in a very gentle way, "I want to say
-something to you, miss."
-
-I could see he was not at ease, so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in
-mine and asked him to speak fully.
-
-So he said, leaving his hand in mine, "I'm afraid, my deary, that I
-must have shocked you by all the wicked things I've been sayin' about
-the dead, and such like, for weeks past, but I didn't mean them, and I
-want ye to remember that when I'm gone. We aud folks that be daffled,
-and with one foot abaft the krok-hooal, don't altogether like to think
-of it, and we don't want to feel scart of it, and that's why I've took
-to makin' light of it, so that I'd cheer up my own heart a bit. But,
-Lord love ye, miss, I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't
-want to die if I can help it. My time must be nigh at hand now, for I
-be aud, and a hundred years is too much for any man to expect. And
-I'm so nigh it that the Aud Man is already whettin' his scythe. Ye
-see, I can't get out o' the habit of caffin' about it all at once.
-The chafts will wag as they be used to. Some day soon the Angel of
-Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don't ye dooal an' greet, my
-deary!"--for he saw that I was crying--"if he should come this very
-night I'd not refuse to answer his call. For life be, after all, only
-a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all
-that we can rightly depend on. But I'm content, for it's comin' to
-me, my deary, and comin' quick. It may be comin' while we be lookin'
-and wonderin'. Maybe it's in that wind out over the sea that's
-bringin' with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.
-Look! Look!" he cried suddenly. "There's something in that wind and
-in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells
-like death. It's in the air. I feel it comin'. Lord, make me answer
-cheerful, when my call comes!" He held up his arms devoutly, and
-raised his hat. His mouth moved as though he were praying. After a
-few minutes' silence, he got up, shook hands with me, and blessed me,
-and said goodbye, and hobbled off. It all touched me, and upset me
-very much.
-
-I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spyglass under his
-arm. He stopped to talk with me, as he always does, but all the time
-kept looking at a strange ship.
-
-"I can't make her out," he said. "She's a Russian, by the look of
-her. But she's knocking about in the queerest way. She doesn't know
-her mind a bit. She seems to see the storm coming, but can't decide
-whether to run up north in the open, or to put in here. Look there
-again! She is steered mighty strangely, for she doesn't mind the hand
-on the wheel, changes about with every puff of wind. We'll hear more
-of her before this time tomorrow."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 7
-
-
-CUTTING FROM "THE DAILYGRAPH", 8 AUGUST
-
-
-(PASTED IN MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL)
-
-
-From a correspondent.
-
-Whitby.
-
-One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
-experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather
-had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the
-month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known,
-and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits
-to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes,
-and the various trips in the neighborhood of Whitby. The steamers
-Emma and Scarborough made trips up and down the coast, and there was
-an unusual amount of 'tripping' both to and from Whitby. The day
-was unusually fine till the afternoon, when some of the gossips who
-frequent the East Cliff churchyard, and from the commanding eminence
-watch the wide sweep of sea visible to the north and east, called
-attention to a sudden show of 'mares tails' high in the sky to the
-northwest. The wind was then blowing from the south-west in the
-mild degree which in barometrical language is ranked 'No. 2, light
-breeze.'
-
-The coastguard on duty at once made report, and one old fisherman,
-who for more than half a century has kept watch on weather signs
-from the East Cliff, foretold in an emphatic manner the coming of a
-sudden storm. The approach of sunset was so very beautiful, so
-grand in its masses of splendidly coloured clouds, that there was
-quite an assemblage on the walk along the cliff in the old
-churchyard to enjoy the beauty. Before the sun dipped below the
-black mass of Kettleness, standing boldly athwart the western sky,
-its downward way was marked by myriad clouds of every sunset colour,
-flame, purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold, with
-here and there masses not large, but of seemingly absolute
-blackness, in all sorts of shapes, as well outlined as colossal
-silhouettes. The experience was not lost on the painters, and
-doubtless some of the sketches of the 'Prelude to the Great Storm'
-will grace the R. A and R. I. walls in May next.
-
-More than one captain made up his mind then and there that his
-'cobble' or his 'mule', as they term the different classes of boats,
-would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed. The wind
-fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there was a
-dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on
-the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature.
-
-There were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting
-steamers, which usually hug the shore so closely, kept well to
-seaward, and but few fishing boats were in sight. The only sail
-noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was
-seemingly going westwards. The foolhardiness or ignorance of her
-officers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remained in
-sight, and efforts were made to signal her to reduce sail in the
-face of her danger. Before the night shut down she was seen with
-sails idly flapping as she gently rolled on the undulating swell of
-the sea.
-
-"As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean."
-
-Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite
-oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a
-sheep inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly
-heard, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was
-like a dischord in the great harmony of nature's silence. A little
-after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high
-overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.
-
-Then without warning the tempest broke. With a rapidity which, at
-the time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to
-realize, the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed. The
-waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a
-very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and
-devouring monster. White-crested waves beat madly on the level
-sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs. Others broke over the
-piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses
-which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.
-
-The wind roared like thunder, and blew with such force that it was
-with difficulty that even strong men kept their feet, or clung with
-grim clasp to the iron stanchions. It was found necessary to clear
-the entire pier from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalities
-of the night would have increased manifold. To add to the
-difficulties and dangers of the time, masses of sea-fog came
-drifting inland. White, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly
-fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort
-of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were
-touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and
-many a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by.
-
-At times the mist cleared, and the sea for some distance could be
-seen in the glare of the lightning, which came thick and fast,
-followed by such peals of thunder that the whole sky overhead seemed
-trembling under the shock of the footsteps of the storm.
-
-Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and
-of absorbing interest. The sea, running mountains high, threw
-skywards with each wave mighty masses of white foam, which the
-tempest seemed to snatch at and whirl away into space. Here and
-there a fishing boat, with a rag of sail, running madly for shelter
-before the blast, now and again the white wings of a storm-tossed
-seabird. On the summit of the East Cliff the new searchlight was
-ready for experiment, but had not yet been tried. The officers in
-charge of it got it into working order, and in the pauses of
-onrushing mist swept with it the surface of the sea. Once or twice
-its service was most effective, as when a fishing boat, with gunwale
-under water, rushed into the harbour, able, by the guidance of the
-sheltering light, to avoid the danger of dashing against the piers.
-As each boat achieved the safety of the port there was a shout of
-joy from the mass of people on the shore, a shout which for a moment
-seemed to cleave the gale and was then swept away in its rush.
-
-Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner
-with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been
-noticed earlier in the evening. The wind had by this time backed to
-the east, and there was a shudder amongst the watchers on the cliff
-as they realized the terrible danger in which she now was.
-
-Between her and the port lay the great flat reef on which so many
-good ships have from time to time suffered, and, with the wind
-blowing from its present quarter, it would be quite impossible that
-she should fetch the entrance of the harbour.
-
-It was now nearly the hour of high tide, but the waves were so great
-that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost visible,
-and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such speed
-that, in the words of one old salt, "she must fetch up somewhere, if
-it was only in hell". Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater
-than any hitherto, a mass of dank mist, which seemed to close on all
-things like a gray pall, and left available to men only the organ of
-hearing, for the roar of the tempest, and the crash of the thunder,
-and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion
-even louder than before. The rays of the searchlight were kept fixed
-on the harbour mouth across the East Pier, where the shock was
-expected, and men waited breathless.
-
-The wind suddenly shifted to the northeast, and the remnant of the
-sea fog melted in the blast. And then, mirabile dictu, between the
-piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed,
-swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and
-gained the safety of the harbour. The searchlight followed her, and
-a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a
-corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each
-motion of the ship. No other form could be seen on the deck at all.
-
-A great awe came on all as they realised that the ship, as if by a
-miracle, had found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead
-man! However, all took place more quickly than it takes to write
-these words. The schooner paused not, but rushing across the
-harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel
-washed by many tides and many storms into the southeast corner of
-the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill
-Pier.
-
-There was of course a considerable concussion as the vessel drove up
-on the sand heap. Every spar, rope, and stay was strained, and some
-of the 'top-hammer' came crashing down. But, strangest of all, the
-very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck
-from below, as if shot up by the concussion, and running forward,
-jumped from the bow on the sand.
-
-Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over
-the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat
-tombstones, thruffsteans or through-stones, as they call them in
-Whitby vernacular, actually project over where the sustaining cliff
-has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed
-intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.
-
-It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill
-Pier, as all those whose houses are in close proximity were either
-in bed or were out on the heights above. Thus the coastguard on
-duty on the eastern side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the
-little pier, was the first to climb aboard. The men working the
-searchlight, after scouring the entrance of the harbour without
-seeing anything, then turned the light on the derelict and kept it
-there. The coastguard ran aft, and when he came beside the wheel,
-bent over to examine it, and recoiled at once as though under some
-sudden emotion. This seemed to pique general curiosity, and quite a
-number of people began to run.
-
-It is a good way round from the West Cliff by the Draw-bridge to
-Tate Hill Pier, but your correspondent is a fairly good runner, and
-came well ahead of the crowd. When I arrived, however, I found
-already assembled on the pier a crowd, whom the coastguard and
-police refused to allow to come on board. By the courtesy of the
-chief boatman, I was, as your correspondent, permitted to climb on
-deck, and was one of a small group who saw the dead seaman whilst
-actually lashed to the wheel.
-
-It was no wonder that the coastguard was surprised, or even awed,
-for not often can such a sight have been seen. The man was simply
-fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the
-wheel. Between the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix, the set
-of beads on which it was fastened being around both wrists and
-wheel, and all kept fast by the binding cords. The poor fellow may
-have been seated at one time, but the flapping and buffeting of the
-sails had worked through the rudder of the wheel and had dragged him
-to and fro, so that the cords with which he was tied had cut the
-flesh to the bone.
-
-Accurate note was made of the state of things, and a doctor, Surgeon
-J. M. Caffyn, of 33, East Elliot Place, who came immediately after
-me, declared, after making examination, that the man must have been
-dead for quite two days.
-
-In his pocket was a bottle, carefully corked, empty save for
-a little roll of paper, which proved to be the addendum to
-the log.
-
-The coastguard said the man must have tied up his own hands,
-fastening the knots with his teeth. The fact that a coastguard was
-the first on board may save some complications later on, in the
-Admiralty Court, for coastguards cannot claim the salvage which is
-the right of the first civilian entering on a derelict. Already,
-however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is
-loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely
-sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statues
-of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of
-delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.
-
-It is needless to say that the dead steersman has been reverently
-removed from the place where he held his honourable watch and ward
-till death, a steadfastness as noble as that of the young
-Casabianca, and placed in the mortuary to await inquest.
-
-Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is
-abating. Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is
-beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds.
-
-I shall send, in time for your next issue, further details
-of the derelict ship which found her way so miraculously
-into harbour in the storm.
-
-
-9 August.--The sequel to the strange arrival of the derelict in the
-storm last night is almost more startling than the thing itself. It
-turns out that the schooner is Russian from Varna, and is called the
-Demeter. She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with
-only a small amount of cargo, a number of great wooden boxes filled
-with mould.
-
-This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S.F. Billington,
-of 7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and took formal
-possession of the goods consigned to him.
-
-The Russian consul, too, acting for the charter-party, took formal
-possession of the ship, and paid all harbour dues, etc.
-
-Nothing is talked about here today except the strange coincidence.
-The officials of the Board of Trade have been most exacting in
-seeing that every compliance has been made with existing
-regulations. As the matter is to be a 'nine days wonder', they are
-evidently determined that there shall be no cause of other
-complaint.
-
-A good deal of interest was abroad concerning the dog which landed
-when the ship struck, and more than a few of the members of the
-S.P.C.A., which is very strong in Whitby, have tried to befriend the
-animal. To the general disappointment, however, it was not to be
-found. It seems to have disappeared entirely from the town. It may
-be that it was frightened and made its way on to the moors, where it
-is still hiding in terror.
-
-There are some who look with dread on such a possibility, lest later
-on it should in itself become a danger, for it is evidently a fierce
-brute. Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred mastiff
-belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found dead
-in the roadway opposite its master's yard. It had been fighting,
-and manifestly had had a savage opponent, for its throat was torn
-away, and its belly was slit open as if with a savage claw.
-
-Later.--By the kindness of the Board of Trade inspector, I have been
-permitted to look over the log book of the Demeter, which was in
-order up to within three days, but contained nothing of special
-interest except as to facts of missing men. The greatest interest,
-however, is with regard to the paper found in the bottle, which was
-today produced at the inquest. And a more strange narrative than
-the two between them unfold it has not been my lot to come across.
-
-As there is no motive for concealment, I am permitted to use them,
-and accordingly send you a transcript, simply omitting technical
-details of seamanship and supercargo. It almost seems as though the
-captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got
-well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently
-throughout the voyage. Of course my statement must be taken cum
-grano, since I am writing from the dictation of a clerk of the
-Russian consul, who kindly translated for me, time being short.
-
-
-
- LOG OF THE "DEMETER" Varna to Whitby
-
-
- Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall
- keep accurate note henceforth till we land.
-
-
- On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes
- of earth. At noon set sail. East wind, fresh. Crew, five
- hands . . . two mates, cook, and myself, (captain).
-
-
- On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus. Boarded by Turkish
- Customs officers. Backsheesh. All correct. Under way at
- 4 p.m.
-
-
- On 12 July through Dardanelles. More Customs officers and
- flagboat of guarding squadron. Backsheesh again. Work of
- officers thorough, but quick. Want us off soon. At dark
- passed into Archipelago.
-
-
- On 13 July passed Cape Matapan. Crew dissatisfied about
- something. Seemed scared, but would not speak out.
-
-
- On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady
- fellows, who sailed with me before. Mate could not make out what
- was wrong. They only told him there was SOMETHING, and crossed
- themselves. Mate lost temper with one of them that day and struck
- him. Expected fierce quarrel, but all was quiet.
-
-
- On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of the
- crew, Petrofsky, was missing. Could not account for it.
- Took larboard watch eight bells last night, was relieved by
- Amramoff, but did not go to bunk. Men more downcast than
- ever. All said they expected something of the kind, but
- would not say more than there was SOMETHING aboard. Mate
- getting very impatient with them. Feared some trouble
- ahead.
-
-
- On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin,
- and in an awestruck way confided to me that he thought there was a
- strange man aboard the ship. He said that in his watch he had
- been sheltering behind the deckhouse, as there was a rain storm,
- when he saw a tall, thin man, who was not like any of the crew,
- come up the companionway, and go along the deck forward and
- disappear. He followed cautiously, but when he got to bows found
- no one, and the hatchways were all closed. He was in a panic of
- superstitious fear, and I am afraid the panic may spread. To
- allay it, I shall today search the entire ship carefully from stem
- to stern.
-
-
- Later in the day I got together the whole crew, and told them, as
- they evidently thought there was some one in the ship, we would
- search from stem to stern. First mate angry, said it was folly,
- and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men, said
- he would engage to keep them out of trouble with the handspike. I
- let him take the helm, while the rest began a thorough search, all
- keeping abreast, with lanterns. We left no corner unsearched. As
- there were only the big wooden boxes, there were no odd corners
- where a man could hide. Men much relieved when search over, and
- went back to work cheerfully. First mate scowled, but said
- nothing.
-
-
- 22 July.--Rough weather last three days, and all hands busy
- with sails, no time to be frightened. Men seem to have
- forgotten their dread. Mate cheerful again, and all on
- good terms. Praised men for work in bad weather. Passed
- Gibraltar and out through Straits. All well.
-
-
- 24 July.--There seems some doom over this ship. Already a hand
- short, and entering the Bay of Biscay with wild weather ahead, and
- yet last night another man lost, disappeared. Like the first, he
- came off his watch and was not seen again. Men all in a panic of
- fear, sent a round robin, asking to have double watch, as they
- fear to be alone. Mate angry. Fear there will be some trouble,
- as either he or the men will do some violence.
-
-
- 28 July.--Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of
- maelstrom, and the wind a tempest. No sleep for any one.
- Men all worn out. Hardly know how to set a watch, since no
- one fit to go on. Second mate volunteered to steer and
- watch, and let men snatch a few hours sleep. Wind abating,
- seas still terrific, but feel them less, as ship is
- steadier.
-
-
- 29 July.--Another tragedy. Had single watch tonight, as crew too
- tired to double. When morning watch came on deck could find no
- one except steersman. Raised outcry, and all came on deck.
- Thorough search, but no one found. Are now without second mate,
- and crew in a panic. Mate and I agreed to go armed henceforth and
- wait for any sign of cause.
-
-
- 30 July.--Last night. Rejoiced we are nearing England. Weather
- fine, all sails set. Retired worn out, slept soundly, awakened by
- mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing.
- Only self and mate and two hands left to work ship.
-
- 1 August.--Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped
- when in the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get
- in somewhere. Not having power to work sails, have to run before
- wind. Dare not lower, as could not raise them again. We seem to
- be drifting to some terrible doom. Mate now more demoralised than
- either of men. His stronger nature seems to have worked inwardly
- against himself. Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and
- patiently, with minds made up to worst. They are Russian, he
- Roumanian.
-
- 2 August, midnight.--Woke up from few minutes sleep by hearing a
- cry, seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed
- on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me he heard cry and ran, but
- no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate
- says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog
- lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out.
- If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us
- in the fog, which seems to move with us, and God seems to have
- deserted us.
-
-
- 3 August.--At midnight I went to relieve the man at the
- wheel and when I got to it found no one there. The wind
- was steady, and as we ran before it there was no yawing. I
- dared not leave it, so shouted for the mate. After a few
- seconds, he rushed up on deck in his flannels. He looked
- wild-eyed and haggard, and I greatly fear his reason has
- given way. He came close to me and whispered hoarsely,
- with his mouth to my ear, as though fearing the very air
- might hear. "It is here. I know it now. On the watch
- last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly
- pale. It was in the bows, and looking out. I crept behind
- It, and gave it my knife, but the knife went through It,
- empty as the air." And as he spoke he took the knife and
- drove it savagely into space. Then he went on, "But It is
- here, and I'll find It. It is in the hold, perhaps in one
- of those boxes. I'll unscrew them one by one and see. You
- work the helm." And with a warning look and his finger on
- his lip, he went below. There was springing up a choppy
- wind, and I could not leave the helm. I saw him come out
- on deck again with a tool chest and lantern, and go down
- the forward hatchway. He is mad, stark, raving mad, and
- it's no use my trying to stop him. He can't hurt those big
- boxes, they are invoiced as clay, and to pull them about is
- as harmless a thing as he can do. So here I stay and mind
- the helm, and write these notes. I can only trust in God
- and wait till the fog clears. Then, if I can't steer to
- any harbour with the wind that is, I shall cut down sails,
- and lie by, and signal for help . . .
-
- It is nearly all over now. Just as I was beginning to hope
- that the mate would come out calmer, for I heard him
- knocking away at something in the hold, and work is good
- for him, there came up the hatchway a sudden, startled
- scream, which made my blood run cold, and up on the deck he
- came as if shot from a gun, a raging madman, with his eyes
- rolling and his face convulsed with fear. "Save me! Save
- me!" he cried, and then looked round on the blanket of fog.
- His horror turned to despair, and in a steady voice he
- said, "You had better come too, captain, before it is too
- late. He is there! I know the secret now. The sea will
- save me from Him, and it is all that is left!" Before I
- could say a word, or move forward to seize him, he sprang
- on the bulwark and deliberately threw himself into the sea.
- I suppose I know the secret too, now. It was this madman
- who had got rid of the men one by one, and now he has
- followed them himself. God help me! How am I to account
- for all these horrors when I get to port? When I get to
- port! Will that ever be?
-
-
- 4 August.--Still fog, which the sunrise cannot pierce, I
- know there is sunrise because I am a sailor, why else I
- know not. I dared not go below, I dared not leave the
- helm, so here all night I stayed, and in the dimness of the
- night I saw it, Him! God, forgive me, but the mate was
- right to jump overboard. It was better to die like a man.
- To die like a sailor in blue water, no man can object. But
- I am captain, and I must not leave my ship. But I shall
- baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie my hands to
- the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with
- them I shall tie that which He, It, dare not touch. And
- then, come good wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my
- honour as a captain. I am growing weaker, and the night is
- coming on. If He can look me in the face again, I may not
- have time to act. . . If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle
- may be found, and those who find it may understand. If
- not . . . well, then all men shall know that I have been
- true to my trust. God and the Blessed Virgin and the
- Saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to do his duty . . .
-
-
-Of course the verdict was an open one. There is no evidence
-to adduce, and whether or not the man himself committed the
-murders there is now none to say. The folk here hold almost
-universally that the captain is simply a hero, and he is to be
-given a public funeral. Already it is arranged that his body
-is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piece
-and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey steps,
-for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff. The
-owners of more than a hundred boats have already given in their
-names as wishing to follow him to the grave.
-
-No trace has ever been found of the great dog, at which there is
-much mourning, for, with public opinion in its present state, he
-would, I believe, be adopted by the town. Tomorrow will see the
-funeral, and so will end this one more 'mystery of the sea'.
-
-
-
-MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
-
-8 August.--Lucy was very restless all night, and I too, could not
-sleep. The storm was fearful, and as it boomed loudly among the
-chimney pots, it made me shudder. When a sharp puff came it seemed to
-be like a distant gun. Strangely enough, Lucy did not wake, but she
-got up twice and dressed herself. Fortunately, each time I awoke in
-time and managed to undress her without waking her, and got her back to
-bed. It is a very strange thing, this sleep-walking, for as soon as
-her will is thwarted in any physical way, her intention, if there be
-any, disappears, and she yields herself almost exactly to the routine
-of her life.
-
-Early in the morning we both got up and went down to the harbour to see
-if anything had happened in the night. There were very few people
-about, and though the sun was bright, and the air clear and fresh, the
-big, grim-looking waves, that seemed dark themselves because the foam
-that topped them was like snow, forced themselves in through the mouth
-of the harbour, like a bullying man going through a crowd. Somehow I
-felt glad that Jonathan was not on the sea last night, but on land.
-But, oh, is he on land or sea? Where is he, and how? I am getting
-fearfully anxious about him. If I only knew what to do, and could do
-anything!
-
-
-10 August.--The funeral of the poor sea captain today was most
-touching. Every boat in the harbour seemed to be there, and the coffin
-was carried by captains all the way from Tate Hill Pier up to the
-churchyard. Lucy came with me, and we went early to our old seat,
-whilst the cortege of boats went up the river to the Viaduct and came
-down again. We had a lovely view, and saw the procession nearly all
-the way. The poor fellow was laid to rest near our seat so that we
-stood on it, when the time came and saw everything.
-
-Poor Lucy seemed much upset. She was restless and uneasy all the time,
-and I cannot but think that her dreaming at night is telling on her.
-She is quite odd in one thing. She will not admit to me that there is
-any cause for restlessness, or if there be, she does not understand it
-herself.
-
-There is an additional cause in that poor Mr. Swales was found dead
-this morning on our seat, his neck being broken. He had evidently, as
-the doctor said, fallen back in the seat in some sort of fright, for
-there was a look of fear and horror on his face that the men said made
-them shudder. Poor dear old man!
-
-Lucy is so sweet and sensitive that she feels influences more acutely
-than other people do. Just now she was quite upset by a little thing
-which I did not much heed, though I am myself very fond of animals.
-
-One of the men who came up here often to look for the boats was
-followed by his dog. The dog is always with him. They are both quiet
-persons, and I never saw the man angry, nor heard the dog bark. During
-the service the dog would not come to its master, who was on the seat
-with us, but kept a few yards off, barking and howling. Its master
-spoke to it gently, and then harshly, and then angrily. But it would
-neither come nor cease to make a noise. It was in a fury, with its
-eyes savage, and all its hair bristling out like a cat's tail when puss
-is on the war path.
-
-Finally the man too got angry, and jumped down and kicked the dog, and
-then took it by the scruff of the neck and half dragged and half threw
-it on the tombstone on which the seat is fixed. The moment it touched
-the stone the poor thing began to tremble. It did not try to get away,
-but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable
-state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it.
-
-Lucy was full of pity, too, but she did not attempt to touch the dog,
-but looked at it in an agonised sort of way. I greatly fear that she
-is of too super sensitive a nature to go through the world without
-trouble. She will be dreaming of this tonight, I am sure. The whole
-agglomeration of things, the ship steered into port by a dead man, his
-attitude, tied to the wheel with a crucifix and beads, the touching
-funeral, the dog, now furious and now in terror, will all afford
-material for her dreams.
-
-I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I
-shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood's Bay and
-back. She ought not to have much inclination for sleep-walking then.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 8
-
-
-MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL
-
-Same day, 11 o'clock P.M.--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I
-had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight. We had a lovely
-walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some
-dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the
-lighthouse, and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot
-everything, except of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the
-slate clean and give us a fresh start. We had a capital 'severe tea'
-at Robin Hood's Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow
-window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand. I believe
-we should have shocked the 'New Woman' with our appetites. Men are
-more tolerant, bless them! Then we walked home with some, or rather
-many, stoppages to rest, and with our hearts full of a constant dread
-of wild bulls.
-
-Lucy was really tired, and we intended to creep off to bed as soon as
-we could. The young curate came in, however, and Mrs. Westenra asked
-him to stay for supper. Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the
-dusty miller. I know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite
-heroic. I think that some day the bishops must get together and see
-about breeding up a new class of curates, who don't take supper, no
-matter how hard they may be pressed to, and who will know when girls
-are tired.
-
-Lucy is asleep and breathing softly. She has more colour in her cheeks
-than usual, and looks, oh so sweet. If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with
-her seeing her only in the drawing room, I wonder what he would say if
-he saw her now. Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an
-idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep
-before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the 'New Woman' won't
-condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And
-a nice job she will make of it too! There's some consolation in that.
-I am so happy tonight, because dear Lucy seems better. I really
-believe she has turned the corner, and that we are over her troubles
-with dreaming. I should be quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan . . .
-God bless and keep him.
-
-
-11 August.--Diary again. No sleep now, so I may as well write. I am
-too agitated to sleep. We have had such an adventure, such an
-agonizing experience. I fell asleep as soon as I had closed my diary.
-. . . Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense
-of fear upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me. The room
-was dark, so I could not see Lucy's bed. I stole across and felt for
-her. The bed was empty. I lit a match and found that she was not in
-the room. The door was shut, but not locked, as I had left it. I feared
-to wake her mother, who has been more than usually ill lately, so threw
-on some clothes and got ready to look for her. As I was leaving the
-room it struck me that the clothes she wore might give me some clue to
-her dreaming intention. Dressing-gown would mean house, dress outside.
-Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places. "Thank God," I said
-to myself, "she cannot be far, as she is only in her nightdress."
-
-I ran downstairs and looked in the sitting room. Not there! Then I
-looked in all the other rooms of the house, with an ever-growing fear
-chilling my heart. Finally, I came to the hall door and found it open.
-It was not wide open, but the catch of the lock had not caught. The
-people of the house are careful to lock the door every night, so I
-feared that Lucy must have gone out as she was. There was no time to
-think of what might happen. A vague over-mastering fear obscured all
-details.
-
-I took a big, heavy shawl and ran out. The clock was striking one as I
-was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight. I ran along
-the North Terrace, but could see no sign of the white figure which I
-expected. At the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across
-the harbour to the East Cliff, in the hope or fear, I don't know which,
-of seeing Lucy in our favourite seat.
-
-There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which
-threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade as
-they sailed across. For a moment or two I could see nothing, as the
-shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary's Church and all around it. Then
-as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into
-view, and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as a sword-cut
-moved along, the church and churchyard became gradually visible.
-Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for there, on our
-favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining
-figure, snowy white. The coming of the cloud was too quick for me to
-see much, for shadow shut down on light almost immediately, but it
-seemed to me as though something dark stood behind the seat where the
-white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or
-beast, I could not tell.
-
-I did not wait to catch another glance, but flew down the steep steps
-to the pier and along by the fish-market to the bridge, which was the
-only way to reach the East Cliff. The town seemed as dead, for not a
-soul did I see. I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of
-poor Lucy's condition. The time and distance seemed endless, and my
-knees trembled and my breath came laboured as I toiled up the endless
-steps to the abbey. I must have gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as
-if my feet were weighted with lead, and as though every joint in my
-body were rusty.
-
-When I got almost to the top I could see the seat and the white figure,
-for I was now close enough to distinguish it even through the spells of
-shadow. There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over
-the half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, "Lucy! Lucy!"
-and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white
-face and red, gleaming eyes.
-
-Lucy did not answer, and I ran on to the entrance of the churchyard.
-As I entered, the church was between me and the seat, and for a minute
-or so I lost sight of her. When I came in view again the cloud had
-passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly that I could see Lucy
-half reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat. She was
-quite alone, and there was not a sign of any living thing about.
-
-When I bent over her I could see that she was still asleep. Her lips
-were parted, and she was breathing, not softly as usual with her, but
-in long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every
-breath. As I came close, she put up her hand in her sleep and pulled
-the collar of her nightdress close around her, as though she felt the
-cold. I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight around
-her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the
-night air, unclad as she was. I feared to wake her all at once, so, in
-order to have my hands free to help her, I fastened the shawl at her
-throat with a big safety pin. But I must have been clumsy in my
-anxiety and pinched or pricked her with it, for by-and-by, when her
-breathing became quieter, she put her hand to her throat again and
-moaned. When I had her carefully wrapped up I put my shoes on her
-feet, and then began very gently to wake her.
-
-At first she did not respond, but gradually she became more and more
-uneasy in her sleep, moaning and sighing occasionally. At last, as
-time was passing fast, and for many other reasons, I wished to get her
-home at once, I shook her forcibly, till finally she opened her eyes
-and awoke. She did not seem surprised to see me, as, of course, she
-did not realize all at once where she was.
-
-Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must
-have been chilled with cold, and her mind somewhat appalled at waking
-unclad in a churchyard at night, she did not lose her grace. She
-trembled a little, and clung to me. When I told her to come at once
-with me home, she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child.
-As we passed along, the gravel hurt my feet, and Lucy noticed me wince.
-She stopped and wanted to insist upon my taking my shoes, but I would
-not. However, when we got to the pathway outside the chruchyard, where
-there was a puddle of water, remaining from the storm, I daubed my feet
-with mud, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we went
-home, no one, in case we should meet any one, should notice my bare
-feet.
-
-Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we
-saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front
-of us. But we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such
-as there are here, steep little closes, or 'wynds', as they call them
-in Scotland. My heart beat so loud all the time sometimes I thought I
-should faint. I was filled with anxiety about Lucy, not only for her
-health, lest she should suffer from the exposure, but for her
-reputation in case the story should get wind. When we got in, and had
-washed our feet, and had said a prayer of thankfulness together, I
-tucked her into bed. Before falling asleep she asked, even implored,
-me not to say a word to any one, even her mother, about her
-sleep-walking adventure.
-
-I hesitated at first, to promise, but on thinking of the state of her
-mother's health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her,
-and think too, of how such a story might become distorted, nay,
-infallibly would, in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do
-so. I hope I did right. I have locked the door, and the key is tied
-to my wrist, so perhaps I shall not be again disturbed. Lucy is
-sleeping soundly. The reflex of the dawn is high and far over the
-sea . . .
-
-
-Same day, noon.--All goes well. Lucy slept till I woke her and seemed
-not to have even changed her side. The adventure of the night does not
-seem to have harmed her, on the contrary, it has benefited her, for she
-looks better this morning than she has done for weeks. I was sorry to
-notice that my clumsiness with the safety-pin hurt her. Indeed, it
-might have been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierced. I
-must have pinched up a piece of loose skin and have transfixed it, for
-there are two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her
-nightdress was a drop of blood. When I apologised and was concerned
-about it, she laughed and petted me, and said she did not even feel it.
-Fortunately it cannot leave a scar, as it is so tiny.
-
-
-Same day, night.--We passed a happy day. The air was clear, and the
-sun bright, and there was a cool breeze. We took our lunch to Mulgrave
-Woods, Mrs. Westenra driving by the road and Lucy and I walking by the
-cliff-path and joining her at the gate. I felt a little sad myself,
-for I could not but feel how absolutely happy it would have been had
-Jonathan been with me. But there! I must only be patient. In the
-evening we strolled in the Casino Terrace, and heard some good music by
-Spohr and Mackenzie, and went to bed early. Lucy seems more restful
-than she has been for some time, and fell asleep at once. I shall lock
-the door and secure the key the same as before, though I do not expect
-any trouble tonight.
-
-
-12 August.--My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I
-was wakened by Lucy trying to get out. She seemed, even in her sleep,
-to be a little impatient at finding the door shut, and went back to bed
-under a sort of protest. I woke with the dawn, and heard the birds
-chirping outside of the window. Lucy woke, too, and I was glad to see,
-was even better than on the previous morning. All her old gaiety of
-manner seemed to have come back, and she came and snuggled in beside me
-and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about
-Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded
-somewhat, for, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more
-bearable.
-
-
-13 August.--Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist as
-before. Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed,
-still asleep, pointing to the window. I got up quietly, and pulling
-aside the blind, looked out. It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft
-effect of the light over the sea and sky, merged together in one great
-silent mystery, was beautiful beyond words. Between me and the
-moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling
-circles. Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose,
-frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour towards
-the abbey. When I came back from the window Lucy had lain down again,
-and was sleeping peacefully. She did not stir again all night.
-
-
-14 August.--On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day. Lucy seems
-to have become as much in love with the spot as I am, and it is hard to
-get her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or
-dinner. This afternoon she made a funny remark. We were coming home
-for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier
-and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do. The setting sun,
-low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness. The red
-light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed
-to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow. We were silent for a
-while, and suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself . . .
-
-"His red eyes again! They are just the same." It was such an odd
-expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me. I
-slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare
-at her, and saw that she was in a half dreamy state, with an odd look
-on her face that I could not quite make out, so I said nothing, but
-followed her eyes. She appeared to be looking over at our own seat,
-whereon was a dark figure seated alone. I was quite a little startled
-myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes
-like burning flames, but a second look dispelled the illusion. The red
-sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary's Church behind our
-seat, and as the sun dipped there was just sufficient change in the
-refraction and reflection to make it appear as if the light moved. I
-called Lucy's attention to the peculiar effect, and she became herself
-with a start, but she looked sad all the same. It may have been that
-she was thinking of that terrible night up there. We never refer to
-it, so I said nothing, and we went home to dinner. Lucy had a headache
-and went early to bed. I saw her asleep, and went out for a little
-stroll myself.
-
-I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet
-sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. When coming home, it was then
-bright moonlight, so bright that, though the front of our part of the
-Crescent was in shadow, everything could be well seen, I threw a glance
-up at our window, and saw Lucy's head leaning out. I opened my
-handkerchief and waved it. She did not notice or make any movement
-whatever. Just then, the moonlight crept round an angle of the
-building, and the light fell on the window. There distinctly was Lucy
-with her head lying up against the side of the window sill and her eyes
-shut. She was fast asleep, and by her, seated on the window sill, was
-something that looked like a good-sized bird. I was afraid she might
-get a chill, so I ran upstairs, but as I came into the room she was
-moving back to her bed, fast asleep, and breathing heavily. She was
-holding her hand to her throat, as though to protect if from the cold.
-
-I did not wake her, but tucked her up warmly. I have taken care that
-the door is locked and the window securely fastened.
-
-She looks so sweet as she sleeps, but she is paler than is her wont,
-and there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which I do not like.
-I fear she is fretting about something. I wish I could find out what it
-is.
-
-
-15 August.--Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and
-slept on after we had been called. We had a happy surprise at
-breakfast. Arthur's father is better, and wants the marriage to come
-off soon. Lucy is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and sorry
-at once. Later on in the day she told me the cause. She is grieved to
-lose Lucy as her very own, but she is rejoiced that she is soon to have
-some one to protect her. Poor dear, sweet lady! She confided to me
-that she has got her death warrant. She has not told Lucy, and made me
-promise secrecy. Her doctor told her that within a few months, at
-most, she must die, for her heart is weakening. At any time, even now,
-a sudden shock would be almost sure to kill her. Ah, we were wise to
-keep from her the affair of the dreadful night of Lucy's sleep-walking.
-
-
-17 August.--No diary for two whole days. I have not had the heart to
-write. Some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our
-happiness. No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker,
-whilst her mother's hours are numbering to a close. I do not
-understand Lucy's fading away as she is doing. She eats well and
-sleeps well, and enjoys the fresh air, but all the time the roses in
-her cheeks are fading, and she gets weaker and more languid day by day.
-At night I hear her gasping as if for air.
-
-I keep the key of our door always fastened to my wrist at night, but
-she gets up and walks about the room, and sits at the open window.
-Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I tried to
-wake her I could not.
-
-She was in a faint. When I managed to restore her, she was weak as
-water, and cried silently between long, painful struggles for breath.
-When I asked her how she came to be at the window she shook her head
-and turned away.
-
-I trust her feeling ill may not be from that unlucky prick of the
-safety-pin. I looked at her throat just now as she lay asleep, and the
-tiny wounds seem not to have healed. They are still open, and, if
-anything, larger than before, and the edges of them are faintly white.
-They are like little white dots with red centres. Unless they heal
-within a day or two, I shall insist on the doctor seeing about them.
-
-
-
-LETTER, SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON, SOLICITORS WHITBY,
-TO MESSRS. CARTER, PATERSON & CO., LONDON.
-
-17 August
-
-"Dear Sirs,--Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great
-Northern Railway. Same are to be delivered at Carfax, near
-Purfleet, immediately on receipt at goods station King's Cross. The
-house is at present empty, but enclosed please find keys, all of
-which are labelled.
-
-"You will please deposit the boxes, fifty in number, which form the
-consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the
-house and marked 'A' on rough diagrams enclosed. Your agent will
-easily recognize the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the
-mansion. The goods leave by the train at 9:30 tonight, and will be
-due at King's Cross at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. As our client
-wishes the delivery made as soon as possible, we shall be obliged by
-your having teams ready at King's Cross at the time named and
-forthwith conveying the goods to destination. In order to obviate
-any delays possible through any routine requirements as to payment
-in your departments, we enclose cheque herewith for ten pounds,
-receipt of which please acknowledge. Should the charge be less than
-this amount, you can return balance, if greater, we shall at once
-send cheque for difference on hearing from you. You are to leave
-the keys on coming away in the main hall of the house, where the
-proprietor may get them on his entering the house by means of his
-duplicate key.
-
-"Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy
-in pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition.
-
-"We are, dear Sirs,
-Faithfully yours,
-SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON"
-
-
-
-LETTER, MESSRS. CARTER, PATERSON & CO., LONDON,
-TO MESSRS. BILLINGTON & SON, WHITBY.
-
-21 August.
-
-"Dear Sirs,--We beg to acknowledge 10 pounds received and to return
-cheque of 1 pound, 17s, 9d, amount of overplus, as shown in
-receipted account herewith. Goods are delivered in exact accordance
-with instructions, and keys left in parcel in main hall, as
-directed.
-
-"We are, dear Sirs,
-Yours respectfully,
-Pro CARTER, PATERSON & CO."
-
-
-
-MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL.
-
-18 August.--I am happy today, and write sitting on the seat in the
-churchyard. Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well
-all night, and did not disturb me once.
-
-The roses seem coming back already to her cheeks, though she is still
-sadly pale and wan-looking. If she were in any way anemic I could
-understand it, but she is not. She is in gay spirits and full of life
-and cheerfulness. All the morbid reticence seems to have passed from
-her, and she has just reminded me, as if I needed any reminding, of
-that night, and that it was here, on this very seat, I found her
-asleep.
-
-As she told me she tapped playfully with the heel of her boot on the
-stone slab and said,
-
-"My poor little feet didn't make much noise then! I daresay poor old
-Mr. Swales would have told me that it was because I didn't want to wake
-up Geordie."
-
-As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she had
-dreamed at all that night.
-
-Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead,
-which Arthur, I call him Arthur from her habit, says he loves, and
-indeed, I don't wonder that he does. Then she went on in a
-half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to herself.
-
-"I didn't quite dream, but it all seemed to be real. I only wanted to
-be here in this spot. I don't know why, for I was afraid of something,
-I don't know what. I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing
-through the streets and over the bridge. A fish leaped as I went by,
-and I leaned over to look at it, and I heard a lot of dogs howling. The
-whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once, as
-I went up the steps. Then I had a vague memory of something long and
-dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very
-sweet and very bitter all around me at once. And then I seemed sinking
-into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have
-heard there is to drowning men, and then everything seemed passing away
-from me. My soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the
-air. I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under
-me, and then there was a sort of agonizing feeling, as if I were in an
-earthquake, and I came back and found you shaking my body. I saw you
-do it before I felt you."
-
-Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I
-listened to her breathlessly. I did not quite like it, and thought it
-better not to keep her mind on the subject, so we drifted on to another
-subject, and Lucy was like her old self again. When we got home the
-fresh breeze had braced her up, and her pale cheeks were really more
-rosy. Her mother rejoiced when she saw her, and we all spent a very
-happy evening together.
-
-
-19 August.--Joy, joy, joy! Although not all joy. At last, news of
-Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill, that is why he did not write.
-I am not afraid to think it or to say it, now that I know. Mr. Hawkins
-sent me on the letter, and wrote himself, oh so kindly. I am to leave
-in the morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if
-necessary, and to bring him home. Mr. Hawkins says it would not be a
-bad thing if we were to be married out there. I have cried over the
-good Sister's letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it
-lies. It is of Jonathan, and must be near my heart, for he is in my
-heart. My journey is all mapped out, and my luggage ready. I am only
-taking one change of dress. Lucy will bring my trunk to London and
-keep it till I send for it, for it may be that . . . I must write no
-more. I must keep it to say to Jonathan, my husband. The letter that
-he has seen and touched must comfort me till we meet.
-
-
-
-LETTER, SISTER AGATHA, HOSPITAL OF ST. JOSEPH AND
-STE. MARY BUDA-PESTH, TO MISS WILLHELMINA MURRAY
-
-12 August,
-
-"Dear Madam.
-
-"I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong
-enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St.
-Joseph and Ste. Mary. He has been under our care for nearly six
-weeks, suffering from a violent brain fever. He wishes me to convey
-his love, and to say that by this post I write for him to Mr. Peter
-Hawkins, Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry
-for his delay, and that all of his work is completed. He will
-require some few weeks' rest in our sanatorium in the hills, but
-will then return. He wishes me to say that he has not sufficient
-money with him, and that he would like to pay for his staying here,
-so that others who need shall not be wanting for help.
-
-"Believe me,
-
-"Yours, with sympathy
-and all blessings.
-Sister Agatha
-
-"P.S.--My patient being asleep, I open this to let you know
-something more. He has told me all about you, and that you are
-shortly to be his wife. All blessings to you both! He has had some
-fearful shock, so says our doctor, and in his delirium his ravings
-have been dreadful, of wolves and poison and blood, of ghosts and
-demons, and I fear to say of what. Be careful of him always that
-there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to
-come. The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away.
-We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends,
-and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand.
-He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the
-station master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a
-ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanour that he was
-English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the way
-thither that the train reached.
-
-"Be assured that he is well cared for. He has won all hearts by his
-sweetness and gentleness. He is truly getting on well, and I have
-no doubt will in a few weeks be all himself. But be careful of him
-for safety's sake. There are, I pray God and St. Joseph and Ste.
-Mary, many, many, happy years for you both."
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-19 August.--Strange and sudden change in Renfield last night. About
-eight o'clock he began to get excited and sniff about as a dog does
-when setting. The attendant was struck by his manner, and knowing my
-interest in him, encouraged him to talk. He is usually respectful to
-the attendant and at times servile, but tonight, the man tells me, he
-was quite haughty. Would not condescend to talk with him at all.
-
-All he would say was, "I don't want to talk to you. You don't count
-now. The master is at hand."
-
-The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which
-has seized him. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man
-with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The
-combination is a dreadful one.
-
-At nine o'clock I visited him myself. His attitude to me was the same
-as that to the attendant. In his sublime self-feeling the difference
-between myself and the attendant seemed to him as nothing. It looks
-like religious mania, and he will soon think that he himself is God.
-
-These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for
-an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real
-God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human
-vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men
-only knew!
-
-For half an hour or more Renfield kept getting excited in greater and
-greater degree. I did not pretend to be watching him, but I kept
-strict observation all the same. All at once that shifty look came
-into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and
-with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum
-attendants come to know so well. He became quite quiet, and went and
-sat on the edge of his bed resignedly, and looked into space with
-lack-luster eyes.
-
-I thought I would find out if his apathy were real or only assumed, and
-tried to lead him to talk of his pets, a theme which had never failed
-to excite his attention.
-
-At first he made no reply, but at length said testily, "Bother them
-all! I don't care a pin about them."
-
-"What?" I said. "You don't mean to tell me you don't care about
-spiders?" (Spiders at present are his hobby and the notebook is filling
-up with columns of small figures.)
-
-To this he answered enigmatically, "The Bride maidens rejoice the eyes
-that wait the coming of the bride. But when the bride draweth nigh,
-then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled."
-
-He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his
-bed all the time I remained with him.
-
-I am weary tonight and low in spirits. I cannot but think of Lucy, and
-how different things might have been. If I don't sleep at once,
-chloral, the modern Morpheus! I must be careful not to let it grow
-into a habit. No, I shall take none tonight! I have thought of Lucy,
-and I shall not dishonour her by mixing the two. If need be, tonight
-shall be sleepless.
-
-
-Later.--Glad I made the resolution, gladder that I kept to it. I had
-lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the
-night watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield
-had escaped. I threw on my clothes and ran down at once. My patient
-is too dangerous a person to be roaming about. Those ideas of his
-might work out dangerously with strangers.
-
-The attendant was waiting for me. He said he had seen him not ten
-minutes before, seemingly asleep in his bed, when he had looked through
-the observation trap in the door. His attention was called by the
-sound of the window being wrenched out. He ran back and saw his feet
-disappear through the window, and had at once sent up for me. He was
-only in his night gear, and cannot be far off.
-
-The attendant thought it would be more useful to watch where he should
-go than to follow him, as he might lose sight of him whilst getting out
-of the building by the door. He is a bulky man, and couldn't get
-through the window.
-
-I am thin, so, with his aid, I got out, but feet foremost, and as we
-were only a few feet above ground landed unhurt.
-
-The attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a
-straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could. As I got through the
-belt of trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall which separates
-our grounds from those of the deserted house.
-
-I ran back at once, told the watchman to get three or four men
-immediately and follow me into the grounds of Carfax, in case our
-friend might be dangerous. I got a ladder myself, and crossing the
-wall, dropped down on the other side. I could see Renfield's figure
-just disappearing behind the angle of the house, so I ran after him. On
-the far side of the house I found him pressed close against the old
-iron-bound oak door of the chapel.
-
-He was talking, apparently to some one, but I was afraid to go near
-enough to hear what he was saying, lest I might frighten him, and he
-should run off.
-
-Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked
-lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him! After a few minutes,
-however, I could see that he did not take note of anything around him,
-and so ventured to draw nearer to him, the more so as my men had now
-crossed the wall and were closing him in. I heard him say . . .
-
-"I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will
-reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped you long and afar
-off. Now that you are near, I await your commands, and you will not
-pass me by, will you, dear Master, in your distribution of good
-things?"
-
-He is a selfish old beggar anyhow. He thinks of the loaves and fishes
-even when he believes his is in a real Presence. His manias make a
-startling combination. When we closed in on him he fought like a
-tiger. He is immensely strong, for he was more like a wild beast than
-a man.
-
-I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before, and I hope I
-shall not again. It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and
-his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he
-might have done wild work before he was caged.
-
-He is safe now, at any rate. Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free
-from the strait waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained
-to the wall in the padded room.
-
-His cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are more
-deadly still, for he means murder in every turn and movement.
-
-Just now he spoke coherent words for the first time. "I shall be
-patient, Master. It is coming, coming, coming!"
-
-So I took the hint, and came too. I was too excited to sleep, but this
-diary has quieted me, and I feel I shall get some sleep tonight.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 9
-
-
-LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA
-
-
-Buda-Pesth, 24 August.
-
-"My dearest Lucy,
-
-"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened
-since we parted at the railway station at Whitby.
-
-"Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right, and caught the boat to
-Hamburg, and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly
-recall anything of the journey, except that I knew I was coming to
-Jonathan, and that as I should have to do some nursing, I had better
-get all the sleep I could. I found my dear one, oh, so thin and
-pale and weak-looking. All the resolution has gone out of his dear
-eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has
-vanished. He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not remember
-anything that has happened to him for a long time past. At least,
-he wants me to believe so, and I shall never ask.
-
-"He has had some terrible shock, and I fear it might tax his poor
-brain if he were to try to recall it. Sister Agatha, who is a good
-creature and a born nurse, tells me that he wanted her to tell me
-what they were, but she would only cross herself, and say she would
-never tell. That the ravings of the sick were the secrets of God,
-and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear them, she
-should respect her trust.
-
-"She is a sweet, good soul, and the next day, when she saw I was
-troubled, she opened up the subject my poor dear raved about, added,
-'I can tell you this much, my dear. That it was not about anything
-which he has done wrong himself, and you, as his wife to be, have no
-cause to be concerned. He has not forgotten you or what he owes to
-you. His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can
-treat of.'
-
-"I do believe the dear soul thought I might be jealous lest my poor
-dear should have fallen in love with any other girl. The idea of my
-being jealous about Jonathan! And yet, my dear, let me whisper, I
-felt a thrill of joy through me when I knew that no other woman was
-a cause for trouble. I am now sitting by his bedside, where I can
-see his face while he sleeps. He is waking!
-
-"When he woke he asked me for his coat, as he wanted to get
-something from the pocket. I asked Sister Agatha, and she brought
-all his things. I saw amongst them was his notebook, and was
-going to ask him to let me look at it, for I knew that I might find
-some clue to his trouble, but I suppose he must have seen my wish in
-my eyes, for he sent me over to the window, saying he wanted to be
-quite alone for a moment.
-
-"Then he called me back, and he said to me very solemnly,
-'Wilhelmina', I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has
-never called me by that name since he asked me to marry him, 'You
-know, dear, my ideas of the trust between husband and wife. There
-should be no secret, no concealment. I have had a great shock, and
-when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I
-do not know if it was real of the dreaming of a madman. You know I
-had brain fever, and that is to be mad. The secret is here, and I
-do not want to know it. I want to take up my life here, with our
-marriage.' For, my dear, we had decided to be married as soon as
-the formalities are complete. 'Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to
-share my ignorance? Here is the book. Take it and keep it, read it
-if you will, but never let me know unless, indeed, some solemn duty
-should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake,
-sane or mad, recorded here.' He fell back exhausted, and I put the
-book under his pillow, and kissed him. I have asked Sister Agatha
-to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this afternoon, and am
-waiting her reply . . ."
-
-
-"She has come and told me that the Chaplain of the English mission
-church has been sent for. We are to be married in an hour, or as
-soon after as Jonathan awakes."
-
-"Lucy, the time has come and gone. I feel very solemn, but very,
-very happy. Jonathan woke a little after the hour, and all was
-ready, and he sat up in bed, propped up with pillows. He answered
-his 'I will' firmly and strong. I could hardly speak. My heart was
-so full that even those words seemed to choke me.
-
-"The dear sisters were so kind. Please, God, I shall never, never
-forget them, nor the grave and sweet responsibilities I have taken
-upon me. I must tell you of my wedding present. When the chaplain
-and the sisters had left me alone with my husband--oh, Lucy, it is
-the first time I have written the words 'my husband'--left me alone
-with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped
-it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue
-ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with
-sealing wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring. Then I kissed
-it and showed it to my husband, and told him that I would keep it
-so, and then it would be an outward and visible sign for us all our
-lives that we trusted each other, that I would never open it unless
-it were for his own dear sake or for the sake of some stern duty.
-Then he took my hand in his, and oh, Lucy, it was the first time he
-took his wife's hand, and said that it was the dearest thing in all
-the wide world, and that he would go through all the past again to
-win it, if need be. The poor dear meant to have said a part of the
-past, but he cannot think of time yet, and I shall not wonder if at
-first he mixes up not only the month, but the year.
-
-"Well, my dear, what could I say? I could only tell him that I was
-the happiest woman in all the wide world, and that I had nothing to
-give him except myself, my life, and my trust, and that with these
-went my love and duty for all the days of my life. And, my dear,
-when he kissed me, and drew me to him with his poor weak hands, it
-was like a solemn pledge between us.
-
-"Lucy dear, do you know why I tell you all this? It is not only
-because it is all sweet to me, but because you have been, and are,
-very dear to me. It was my privilege to be your friend and guide
-when you came from the schoolroom to prepare for the world of life.
-I want you to see now, and with the eyes of a very happy wife,
-whither duty has led me, so that in your own married life you too
-may be all happy, as I am. My dear, please Almighty God, your life
-may be all it promises, a long day of sunshine, with no harsh wind,
-no forgetting duty, no distrust. I must not wish you no pain, for
-that can never be, but I do hope you will be always as happy as I am
-now. Goodbye, my dear. I shall post this at once, and perhaps,
-write you very soon again. I must stop, for Jonathan is waking. I
-must attend my husband!
-
-"Your ever-loving
-Mina Harker."
-
-
-
-LETTER, LUCY WESTENRA TO MINA HARKER.
-
-Whitby, 30 August.
-
-"My dearest Mina,
-
-"Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your
-own home with your husband. I wish you were coming home soon enough
-to stay with us here. The strong air would soon restore Jonathan.
-It has quite restored me. I have an appetite like a cormorant, am
-full of life, and sleep well. You will be glad to know that I have
-quite given up walking in my sleep. I think I have not stirred out
-of my bed for a week, that is when I once got into it at night.
-Arthur says I am getting fat. By the way, I forgot to tell you that
-Arthur is here. We have such walks and drives, and rides, and
-rowing, and tennis, and fishing together, and I love him more than
-ever. He tells me that he loves me more, but I doubt that, for at
-first he told me that he couldn't love me more than he did then.
-But this is nonsense. There he is, calling to me. So no more just
-at present from your loving,
-
-"Lucy.
-
-"P.S.--Mother sends her love. She seems better, poor dear.
-
-"P.P.S.--We are to be married on 28 September."
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARDS DIARY
-
-20 August.--The case of Renfield grows even more interesting. He has
-now so far quieted that there are spells of cessation from his
-passion. For the first week after his attack he was perpetually
-violent. Then one night, just as the moon rose, he grew quiet, and
-kept murmuring to himself. "Now I can wait. Now I can wait."
-
-The attendant came to tell me, so I ran down at once to have a look at
-him. He was still in the strait waistcoat and in the padded room, but
-the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something
-of their old pleading. I might almost say, cringing, softness. I was
-satisfied with his present condition, and directed him to be relieved.
-The attendants hesitated, but finally carried out my wishes without
-protest.
-
-It was a strange thing that the patient had humour enough to see their
-distrust, for, coming close to me, he said in a whisper, all the while
-looking furtively at them, "They think I could hurt you! Fancy me
-hurting you! The fools!"
-
-It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself disassociated
-even in the mind of this poor madman from the others, but all the same
-I do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I have anything in
-common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together. Or
-has he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well being is
-needful to Him? I must find out later on. Tonight he will not speak.
-Even the offer of a kitten or even a full-grown cat will not tempt
-him.
-
-He will only say, "I don't take any stock in cats. I have more to
-think of now, and I can wait. I can wait."
-
-After a while I left him. The attendant tells me that he was quiet
-until just before dawn, and that then he began to get uneasy, and at
-length violent, until at last he fell into a paroxysm which exhausted
-him so that he swooned into a sort of coma.
-
-
-. . . Three nights has the same thing happened, violent all day then
-quiet from moonrise to sunrise. I wish I could get some clue to the
-cause. It would almost seem as if there was some influence which came
-and went. Happy thought! We shall tonight play sane wits against mad
-ones. He escaped before without our help. Tonight he shall escape
-with it. We shall give him a chance, and have the men ready to follow
-in case they are required.
-
-
-23 August.--"The expected always happens." How well Disraeli knew
-life. Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly, so all our
-subtle arrangements were for nought. At any rate, we have proved one
-thing, that the spells of quietness last a reasonable time. We shall
-in future be able to ease his bonds for a few hours each day. I have
-given orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded
-room, when once he is quiet, until the hour before sunrise. The poor
-soul's body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate
-it. Hark! The unexpected again! I am called. The patient has once
-more escaped.
-
-
-Later.--Another night adventure. Renfield artfully waited until the
-attendant was entering the room to inspect. Then he dashed out past
-him and flew down the passage. I sent word for the attendants to
-follow. Again he went into the grounds of the deserted house, and we
-found him in the same place, pressed against the old chapel door.
-When he saw me he became furious, and had not the attendants seized
-him in time, he would have tried to kill me. As we were holding him a
-strange thing happened. He suddenly redoubled his efforts, and then
-as suddenly grew calm. I looked round instinctively, but could see
-nothing. Then I caught the patient's eye and followed it, but could
-trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight sky, except a big bat,
-which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. Bats
-usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it
-knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.
-
-The patient grew calmer every instant, and presently said, "You
-needn't tie me. I shall go quietly!" Without trouble, we came back
-to the house. I feel there is something ominous in his calm, and
-shall not forget this night.
-
-
-
-LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY
-
-Hillingham, 24 August.--I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things
-down. Then we can have long talks when we do meet. I wonder when it
-will be. I wish she were with me again, for I feel so unhappy. Last
-night I seemed to be dreaming again just as I was at Whitby. Perhaps
-it is the change of air, or getting home again. It is all dark and
-horrid to me, for I can remember nothing. But I am full of vague
-fear, and I feel so weak and worn out. When Arthur came to lunch he
-looked quite grieved when he saw me, and I hadn't the spirit to try to
-be cheerful. I wonder if I could sleep in mother's room tonight. I
-shall make an excuse to try.
-
-
-25 August.--Another bad night. Mother did not seem to take to my
-proposal. She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to
-worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while, but when
-the clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been
-falling asleep. There was a sort of scratching or flapping at the
-window, but I did not mind it, and as I remember no more, I suppose I
-must have fallen asleep. More bad dreams. I wish I could remember
-them. This morning I am horribly weak. My face is ghastly pale, and
-my throat pains me. It must be something wrong with my lungs, for I
-don't seem to be getting air enough. I shall try to cheer up when
-Arthur comes, or else I know he will be miserable to see me so.
-
-
-
-LETTER, ARTHUR TO DR. SEWARD
-
-"Albemarle Hotel, 31 August
-
-"My dear Jack,
-
-"I want you to do me a favour. Lucy is ill, that is she has no
-special disease, but she looks awful, and is getting worse every
-day. I have asked her if there is any cause, I not dare to ask her
-mother, for to disturb the poor lady's mind about her daughter in
-her present state of health would be fatal. Mrs. Westenra has
-confided to me that her doom is spoken, disease of the heart, though
-poor Lucy does not know it yet. I am sure that there is something
-preying on my dear girl's mind. I am almost distracted when I think
-of her. To look at her gives me a pang. I told her I should ask
-you to see her, and though she demurred at first, I know why, old
-fellow, she finally consented. It will be a painful task for you, I
-know, old friend, but it is for her sake, and I must not hesitate to
-ask, or you to act. You are to come to lunch at Hillingham
-tomorrow, two o'clock, so as not to arouse any suspicion in Mrs.
-Westenra, and after lunch Lucy will take an opportunity of being
-alone with you. I am filled with anxiety, and want to consult with
-you alone as soon as I can after you have seen her. Do not fail!
-
-"Arthur."
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, ARTHUR HOLMWOOD TO SEWARD
-
-1 September
-
-"Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write
-me fully by tonight's post to Ring. Wire me if necessary."
-
-
-
-LETTER FROM DR. SEWARD TO ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
-
-2 September
-
-"My dear old fellow,
-
-"With regard to Miss Westenra's health I hasten to let you know at
-once that in my opinion there is not any functional disturbance or
-any malady that I know of. At the same time, I am not by any means
-satisfied with her appearance. She is woefully different from what
-she was when I saw her last. Of course you must bear in mind that I
-did not have full opportunity of examination such as I should wish.
-Our very friendship makes a little difficulty which not even medical
-science or custom can bridge over. I had better tell you exactly
-what happened, leaving you to draw, in a measure, your own
-conclusions. I shall then say what I have done and propose doing.
-
-"I found Miss Westenra in seemingly gay spirits. Her mother was
-present, and in a few seconds I made up my mind that she was trying
-all she knew to mislead her mother and prevent her from being
-anxious. I have no doubt she guesses, if she does not know, what
-need of caution there is.
-
-"We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful,
-we got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real
-cheerfulness amongst us. Then Mrs. Westenra went to lie down, and
-Lucy was left with me. We went into her boudoir, and till we got
-there her gaiety remained, for the servants were coming and going.
-
-"As soon as the door was closed, however, the mask fell from her
-face, and she sank down into a chair with a great sigh, and hid her
-eyes with her hand. When I saw that her high spirits had failed, I
-at once took advantage of her reaction to make a diagnosis.
-
-"She said to me very sweetly, 'I cannot tell you how I loathe
-talking about myself.' I reminded her that a doctor's confidence
-was sacred, but that you were grievously anxious about her. She
-caught on to my meaning at once, and settled that matter in a word.
-'Tell Arthur everything you choose. I do not care for myself, but
-for him!' So I am quite free.
-
-"I could easily see that she was somewhat bloodless, but I could not
-see the usual anemic signs, and by the chance, I was able to test
-the actual quality of her blood, for in opening a window which was
-stiff a cord gave way, and she cut her hand slightly with broken
-glass. It was a slight matter in itself, but it gave me an evident
-chance, and I secured a few drops of the blood and have analysed
-them.
-
-"The qualitative analysis give a quite normal condition, and shows,
-I should infer, in itself a vigorous state of health. In other
-physical matters I was quite satisfied that there is no need for
-anxiety, but as there must be a cause somewhere, I have come to the
-conclusion that it must be something mental.
-
-"She complains of difficulty breathing satisfactorily at times, and
-of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but
-regarding which she can remember nothing. She says that as a child,
-she used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit
-came back, and that once she walked out in the night and went to
-East Cliff, where Miss Murray found her. But she assures me that of
-late the habit has not returned.
-
-"I am in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of. I have
-written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of
-Amsterdam, who knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in
-the world. I have asked him to come over, and as you told me that
-all things were to be at your charge, I have mentioned to him who
-you are and your relations to Miss Westenra. This, my dear fellow,
-is in obedience to your wishes, for I am only too proud and happy to
-do anything I can for her.
-
-"Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal
-reason, so no matter on what ground he comes, we must accept his
-wishes. He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows
-what he is talking about better than any one else. He is a
-philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced
-scientists of his day, and he has, I believe, an absolutely open
-mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and
-indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from
-virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats,
-these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for
-mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide
-as his all-embracing sympathy. I tell you these facts that you may
-know why I have such confidence in him. I have asked him to come at
-once. I shall see Miss Westenra tomorrow again. She is to meet me
-at the Stores, so that I may not alarm her mother by too early a
-repetition of my call.
-
-"Yours always."
-
-John Seward
-
-
-
-
-LETTER, ABRAHAM VAN HELSING, MD, DPh, D. Lit, ETC, ETC, TO DR. SEWARD
-
-2 September.
-
-"My good Friend,
-
-"When I received your letter I am already coming to you. By good
-fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who
-have trusted me. Were fortune other, then it were bad for those who
-have trusted, for I come to my friend when he call me to aid those
-he holds dear. Tell your friend that when that time you suck from
-my wound so swiftly the poison of the gangrene from that knife that
-our other friend, too nervous, let slip, you did more for him when
-he wants my aids and you call for them than all his great fortune
-could do. But it is pleasure added to do for him, your friend, it
-is to you that I come. Have near at hand, and please it so arrange
-that we may see the young lady not too late on tomorrow, for it is
-likely that I may have to return here that night. But if need be I
-shall come again in three days, and stay longer if it must. Till
-then goodbye, my friend John.
-
-"Van Helsing."
-
-
-
-LETTER, DR. SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
-
-3 September
-
-"My dear Art,
-
-"Van Helsing has come and gone. He came on with me to Hillingham,
-and found that, by Lucy's discretion, her mother was lunching out,
-so that we were alone with her.
-
-"Van Helsing made a very careful examination of the patient. He is
-to report to me, and I shall advise you, for of course I was not
-present all the time. He is, I fear, much concerned, but says he
-must think. When I told him of our friendship and how you trust to
-me in the matter, he said, 'You must tell him all you think. Tell
-him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am
-not jesting. This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.' I
-asked what he meant by that, for he was very serious. This was when
-we had come back to town, and he was having a cup of tea before
-starting on his return to Amsterdam. He would not give me any
-further clue. You must not be angry with me, Art, because his very
-reticence means that all his brains are working for her good. He
-will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sure. So I told
-him I would simply write an account of our visit, just as if I were
-doing a descriptive special article for THE DAILY TELEGRAPH. He
-seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts of London were not
-quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to
-get his report tomorrow if he can possibly make it. In any case I
-am to have a letter.
-
-"Well, as to the visit, Lucy was more cheerful than on the day I
-first saw her, and certainly looked better. She had lost something
-of the ghastly look that so upset you, and her breathing was normal.
-She was very sweet to the Professor (as she always is), and tried to
-make him feel at ease, though I could see the poor girl was making a
-hard struggle for it.
-
-"I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick look
-under his bushy brows that I knew of old. Then he began to
-chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with
-such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's
-pretense of animation merge into reality. Then, without
-any seeming change, he brought the conversation gently round
-to his visit, and suavely said,
-
-"'My dear young miss, I have the so great pleasure because you are
-so much beloved. That is much, my dear, even were there that which
-I do not see. They told me you were down in the spirit, and that
-you were of a ghastly pale. To them I say "Pouf!"' And he snapped
-his fingers at me and went on. 'But you and I shall show them how
-wrong they are. How can he,' and he pointed at me with the same
-look and gesture as that with which he pointed me out in his class,
-on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to
-remind me of, 'know anything of a young ladies? He has his madmen
-to play with, and to bring them back to happiness, and to those that
-love them. It is much to do, and, oh, but there are rewards in that
-we can bestow such happiness. But the young ladies! He has no wife
-nor daughter, and the young do not tell themselves to the young, but
-to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes
-of them. So, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette
-in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all to ourselves.'
-I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the professor
-came to the window and called me in. He looked grave, but said, 'I
-have made careful examination, but there is no functional cause.
-With you I agree that there has been much blood lost, it has been
-but is not. But the conditions of her are in no way anemic. I have
-asked her to send me her maid, that I may ask just one or two
-questions, that so I may not chance to miss nothing. I know well
-what she will say. And yet there is cause. There is always cause
-for everything. I must go back home and think. You must send me
-the telegram every day, and if there be cause I shall come again.
-The disease, for not to be well is a disease, interest me, and the
-sweet, young dear, she interest me too. She charm me, and for her,
-if not for you or disease, I come.'
-
-"As I tell you, he would not say a word more, even when we were
-alone. And so now, Art, you know all I know. I shall keep stern
-watch. I trust your poor father is rallying. It must be a terrible
-thing to you, my dear old fellow, to be placed in such a position
-between two people who are both so dear to you. I know your idea of
-duty to your father, and you are right to stick to it. But if need
-be, I shall send you word to come at once to Lucy, so do not be
-over-anxious unless you hear from me."
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-4 September.--Zoophagous patient still keeps up our interest in him.
-He had only one outburst and that was yesterday at an unusual time.
-Just before the stroke of noon he began to grow restless. The
-attendant knew the symptoms, and at once summoned aid. Fortunately
-the men came at a run, and were just in time, for at the stroke of
-noon he became so violent that it took all their strength to hold him.
-In about five minutes, however, he began to get more quiet, and
-finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained
-up to now. The attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the
-paroxysm were really appalling. I found my hands full when I got in,
-attending to some of the other patients who were frightened by him.
-Indeed, I can quite understand the effect, for the sounds disturbed
-even me, though I was some distance away. It is now after the dinner
-hour of the asylum, and as yet my patient sits in a corner brooding,
-with a dull, sullen, woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather
-to indicate than to show something directly. I cannot quite
-understand it.
-
-
-Later.--Another change in my patient. At five o'clock I looked in on
-him, and found him seemingly as happy and contented as he used to be.
-He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his
-capture by making nailmarks on the edge of the door between the ridges
-of padding. When he saw me, he came over and apologized for his bad
-conduct, and asked me in a very humble, cringing way to be led back to
-his own room, and to have his notebook again. I thought it well to
-humour him, so he is back in his room with the window open. He has
-the sugar of his tea spread out on the window sill, and is reaping
-quite a harvest of flies. He is not now eating them, but putting them
-into a box, as of old, and is already examining the corners of his
-room to find a spider. I tried to get him to talk about the past few
-days, for any clue to his thoughts would be of immense help to me, but
-he would not rise. For a moment or two he looked very sad, and said
-in a sort of far away voice, as though saying it rather to himself
-than to me.
-
-"All over! All over! He has deserted me. No hope for me now unless
-I do it myself!" Then suddenly turning to me in a resolute way, he
-said, "Doctor, won't you be very good to me and let me have a little
-more sugar? I think it would be very good for me."
-
-"And the flies?" I said.
-
-"Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies, therefore I like
-it." And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do
-not argue. I procured him a double supply, and left him as happy a
-man as, I suppose, any in the world. I wish I could fathom his mind.
-
-
-Midnight.--Another change in him. I had been to see Miss Westenra,
-whom I found much better, and had just returned, and was standing at
-our own gate looking at the sunset, when once more I heard him
-yelling. As his room is on this side of the house, I could hear it
-better than in the morning. It was a shock to me to turn from the
-wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights
-and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds
-even as on foul water, and to realize all the grim sternness of my own
-cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own
-desolate heart to endure it all. I reached him just as the sun was
-going down, and from his window saw the red disc sink. As it sank he
-became less and less frenzied, and just as it dipped he slid from the
-hands that held him, an inert mass, on the floor. It is wonderful,
-however, what intellectual recuperative power lunatics have, for
-within a few minutes he stood up quite calmly and looked around him. I
-signalled to the attendants not to hold him, for I was anxious to see
-what he would do. He went straight over to the window and brushed out
-the crumbs of sugar. Then he took his fly box, and emptied it
-outside, and threw away the box. Then he shut the window, and
-crossing over, sat down on his bed. All this surprised me, so I asked
-him, "Are you going to keep flies any more?"
-
-"No," said he. "I am sick of all that rubbish!" He certainly is a
-wonderfully interesting study. I wish I could get some glimpse of his
-mind or of the cause of his sudden passion. Stop. There may be a
-clue after all, if we can find why today his paroxysms came on at high
-noon and at sunset. Can it be that there is a malign influence of the
-sun at periods which affects certain natures, as at times the moon
-does others? We shall see.
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM. SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
-
-"4 September.--Patient still better today."
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
-
-"5 September.--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite, sleeps
-naturally, good spirits, colour coming back."
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, SEWARD, LONDON, TO VAN HELSING, AMSTERDAM
-
-"6 September.--Terrible change for the worse. Come at once.
-Do not lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till
-have seen you."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 10
-
-
-LETTER, DR. SEWARD TO HON. ARTHUR HOLMWOOD
-
-
-6 September
-
-"My dear Art,
-
-"My news today is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a
-bit. There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it.
-Mrs. Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has
-consulted me professionally about her. I took advantage of the
-opportunity, and told her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great
-specialist, was coming to stay with me, and that I would put her in
-his charge conjointly with myself. So now we can come and go
-without alarming her unduly, for a shock to her would mean sudden
-death, and this, in Lucy's weak condition, might be disastrous to
-her. We are hedged in with difficulties, all of us, my poor fellow,
-but, please God, we shall come through them all right. If any need
-I shall write, so that, if you do not hear from me, take it for
-granted that I am simply waiting for news, In haste,
-
-"Yours ever,"
-
-John Seward
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-7 September.--The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at
-Liverpool Street was, "Have you said anything to our young friend, to
-lover of her?"
-
-"No," I said. "I waited till I had seen you, as I said in my
-telegram. I wrote him a letter simply telling him that you were
-coming, as Miss Westenra was not so well, and that I should let him
-know if need be."
-
-"Right, my friend," he said. "Quite right! Better he not know as
-yet. Perhaps he will never know. I pray so, but if it be needed,
-then he shall know all. And, my good friend John, let me caution you.
-You deal with the madmen. All men are mad in some way or the other,
-and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with
-God's madmen too, the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen
-what you do nor why you do it. You tell them not what you think. So
-you shall keep knowledge in its place, where it may rest, where it may
-gather its kind around it and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what
-we know here, and here." He touched me on the heart and on the
-forehead, and then touched himself the same way. "I have for myself
-thoughts at the present. Later I shall unfold to you."
-
-"Why not now?" I asked. "It may do some good. We may arrive at some
-decision." He looked at me and said, "My friend John, when the corn is
-grown, even before it has ripened, while the milk of its mother earth
-is in him, and the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with his
-gold, the husbandman he pull the ear and rub him between his rough
-hands, and blow away the green chaff, and say to you, 'Look! He's
-good corn, he will make a good crop when the time comes.'"
-
-I did not see the application and told him so. For reply he reached
-over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully, as he used
-long ago to do at lectures, and said, "The good husbandman tell you so
-then because he knows, but not till then. But you do not find the
-good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow. That is
-for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it
-as of the work of their life. See you now, friend John? I have sown
-my corn, and Nature has her work to do in making it sprout, if he
-sprout at all, there's some promise, and I wait till the ear begins to
-swell." He broke off, for he evidently saw that I understood. Then he
-went on gravely, "You were always a careful student, and your case
-book was ever more full than the rest. And I trust that good habit
-have not fail. Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than
-memory, and we should not trust the weaker. Even if you have not kept
-the good practice, let me tell you that this case of our dear miss is
-one that may be, mind, I say may be, of such interest to us and others
-that all the rest may not make him kick the beam, as your people say.
-Take then good note of it. Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put
-down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of
-interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not
-from success!"
-
-When I described Lucy's symptoms, the same as before, but infinitely
-more marked, he looked very grave, but said nothing. He took with him
-a bag in which were many instruments and drugs, "the ghastly
-paraphernalia of our beneficial trade," as he once called, in one of
-his lectures, the equipment of a professor of the healing craft.
-
-When we were shown in, Mrs. Westenra met us. She was alarmed, but not
-nearly so much as I expected to find her. Nature in one of her
-beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to
-its own terrors. Here, in a case where any shock may prove fatal,
-matters are so ordered that, from some cause or other, the things not
-personal, even the terrible change in her daughter to whom she is so
-attached, do not seem to reach her. It is something like the way dame
-Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive
-tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm
-by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause
-before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be
-deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
-
-I used my knowledge of this phase of spiritual pathology, and set down
-a rule that she should not be present with Lucy, or think of her
-illness more than was absolutely required. She assented readily, so
-readily that I saw again the hand of Nature fighting for life. Van
-Helsing and I were shown up to Lucy's room. If I was shocked when I
-saw her yesterday, I was horrified when I saw her today.
-
-She was ghastly, chalkily pale. The red seemed to have gone even from
-her lips and gums, and the bones of her face stood out prominently.
-Her breathing was painful to see or hear. Van Helsing's face grew set
-as marble, and his eyebrows converged till they almost touched over his
-nose. Lucy lay motionless, and did not seem to have strength to
-speak, so for a while we were all silent. Then Van Helsing beckoned
-to me, and we went gently out of the room. The instant we had closed
-the door he stepped quickly along the passage to the next door, which
-was open. Then he pulled me quickly in with him and closed the door.
-"My god!" he said. "This is dreadful. There is not time to be lost.
-She will die for sheer want of blood to keep the heart's action as it
-should be. There must be a transfusion of blood at once. Is it you
-or me?"
-
-"I am younger and stronger, Professor. It must be me."
-
-"Then get ready at once. I will bring up my bag. I am prepared."
-
-I went downstairs with him, and as we were going there was a knock at
-the hall door. When we reached the hall, the maid had just opened the
-door, and Arthur was stepping quickly in. He rushed up to me, saying
-in an eager whisper,
-
-"Jack, I was so anxious. I read between the lines of your letter, and
-have been in an agony. The dad was better, so I ran down here to see
-for myself. Is not that gentleman Dr. Van Helsing? I am so thankful
-to you, sir, for coming."
-
-When first the Professor's eye had lit upon him, he had been angry at
-his interruption at such a time, but now, as he took in his stalwart
-proportions and recognized the strong young manhood which seemed to
-emanate from him, his eyes gleamed. Without a pause he said to him as
-he held out his hand,
-
-"Sir, you have come in time. You are the lover of our dear miss. She
-is bad, very, very bad. Nay, my child, do not go like that." For he
-suddenly grew pale and sat down in a chair almost fainting. "You are
-to help her. You can do more than any that live, and your courage is
-your best help."
-
-"What can I do?" asked Arthur hoarsely. "Tell me, and I shall do it.
-My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for
-her."
-
-The Professor has a strongly humorous side, and I could from old
-knowledge detect a trace of its origin in his answer.
-
-"My young sir, I do not ask so much as that, not the last!"
-
-"What shall I do?" There was fire in his eyes, and his open nostrils
-quivered with intent. Van Helsing slapped him on the shoulder.
-
-"Come!" he said. "You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are
-better than me, better than my friend John." Arthur looked bewildered,
-and the Professor went on by explaining in a kindly way.
-
-"Young miss is bad, very bad. She wants blood, and blood she must
-have or die. My friend John and I have consulted, and we are about to
-perform what we call transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins
-of one to the empty veins which pine for him. John was to give his
-blood, as he is the more young and strong than me."--Here Arthur took
-my hand and wrung it hard in silence.--"But now you are here, you are
-more good than us, old or young, who toil much in the world of
-thought. Our nerves are not so calm and our blood so bright than
-yours!"
-
-Arthur turned to him and said, "If you only knew how gladly I would
-die for her you would understand . . ." He stopped with a sort of
-choke in his voice.
-
-"Good boy!" said Van Helsing. "In the not-so-far-off you will be
-happy that you have done all for her you love. Come now and be
-silent. You shall kiss her once before it is done, but then you must
-go, and you must leave at my sign. Say no word to Madame. You know
-how it is with her. There must be no shock, any knowledge of this
-would be one. Come!"
-
-We all went up to Lucy's room. Arthur by direction remained outside.
-Lucy turned her head and looked at us, but said nothing. She was not
-asleep, but she was simply too weak to make the effort. Her eyes
-spoke to us, that was all.
-
-Van Helsing took some things from his bag and laid them on a little
-table out of sight. Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the
-bed, said cheerily, "Now, little miss, here is your medicine. Drink
-it off, like a good child. See, I lift you so that to swallow is
-easy. Yes." She had made the effort with success.
-
-It astonished me how long the drug took to act. This, in fact, marked
-the extent of her weakness. The time seemed endless until sleep began
-to flicker in her eyelids. At last, however, the narcotic began to
-manifest its potency, and she fell into a deep sleep. When the
-Professor was satisfied, he called Arthur into the room, and bade him
-strip off his coat. Then he added, "You may take that one little kiss
-whiles I bring over the table. Friend John, help to me!" So neither
-of us looked whilst he bent over her.
-
-Van Helsing, turning to me, said, "He is so young and strong, and of
-blood so pure that we need not defibrinate it."
-
-Then with swiftness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed
-the operation. As the transfusion went on, something like life seemed
-to come back to poor Lucy's cheeks, and through Arthur's growing
-pallor the joy of his face seemed absolutely to shine. After a bit I
-began to grow anxious, for the loss of blood was telling on Arthur,
-strong man as he was. It gave me an idea of what a terrible strain
-Lucy's system must have undergone that what weakened Arthur only
-partially restored her.
-
-But the Professor's face was set, and he stood watch in hand, and with
-his eyes fixed now on the patient and now on Arthur. I could hear my
-own heart beat. Presently, he said in a soft voice, "Do not stir an
-instant. It is enough. You attend him. I will look to her."
-
-When all was over, I could see how much Arthur was weakened. I
-dressed the wound and took his arm to bring him away, when Van Helsing
-spoke without turning round, the man seems to have eyes in the back of
-his head, "The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he
-shall have presently." And as he had now finished his operation, he
-adjusted the pillow to the patient's head. As he did so the narrow
-black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat,
-buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was
-dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.
-
-Arthur did not notice it, but I could hear the deep hiss of indrawn
-breath which is one of Van Helsing's ways of betraying emotion. He
-said nothing at the moment, but turned to me, saying, "Now take down
-our brave young lover, give him of the port wine, and let him lie down
-a while. He must then go home and rest, sleep much and eat much, that
-he may be recruited of what he has so given to his love. He must not
-stay here. Hold a moment! I may take it, sir, that you are anxious
-of result. Then bring it with you, that in all ways the operation is
-successful. You have saved her life this time, and you can go home
-and rest easy in mind that all that can be is. I shall tell her all
-when she is well. She shall love you none the less for what you have
-done. Goodbye."
-
-When Arthur had gone I went back to the room. Lucy was sleeping
-gently, but her breathing was stronger. I could see the counterpane
-move as her breast heaved. By the bedside sat Van Helsing, looking at
-her intently. The velvet band again covered the red mark. I asked
-the Professor in a whisper, "What do you make of that mark on her
-throat?"
-
-"What do you make of it?"
-
-"I have not examined it yet," I answered, and then and there proceeded
-to loose the band. Just over the external jugular vein there were two
-punctures, not large, but not wholesome looking. There was no sign of
-disease, but the edges were white and worn looking, as if by some
-trituration. It at once occurred to me that that this wound, or
-whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood.
-But I abandoned the idea as soon as it formed, for such a thing could
-not be. The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the
-blood which the girl must have lost to leave such a pallor as she had
-before the transfusion.
-
-"Well?" said Van Helsing.
-
-"Well," said I. "I can make nothing of it."
-
-The Professor stood up. "I must go back to Amsterdam tonight," he
-said "There are books and things there which I want. You must remain
-here all night, and you must not let your sight pass from her."
-
-"Shall I have a nurse?" I asked.
-
-"We are the best nurses, you and I. You keep watch all night. See
-that she is well fed, and that nothing disturbs her. You must not
-sleep all the night. Later on we can sleep, you and I. I shall be
-back as soon as possible. And then we may begin."
-
-"May begin?" I said. "What on earth do you mean?"
-
-"We shall see!" he answered, as he hurried out. He came back a moment
-later and put his head inside the door and said with a warning finger
-held up, "Remember, she is your charge. If you leave her, and harm
-befall, you shall not sleep easy hereafter!"
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--CONTINUED
-
-8 September.--I sat up all night with Lucy. The opiate worked itself
-off towards dusk, and she waked naturally. She looked a different
-being from what she had been before the operation. Her spirits even
-were good, and she was full of a happy vivacity, but I could see
-evidences of the absolute prostration which she had undergone. When I
-told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit
-up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her
-daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm,
-however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had
-prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had
-supper, and took a seat by the bedside.
-
-She did not in any way make objection, but looked at me gratefully
-whenever I caught her eye. After a long spell she seemed sinking off
-to sleep, but with an effort seemed to pull herself together and shook
-it off. It was apparent that she did not want to sleep, so I tackled
-the subject at once.
-
-"You do not want to sleep?"
-
-"No. I am afraid."
-
-"Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for."
-
-"Ah, not if you were like me, if sleep was to you a presage of
-horror!"
-
-"A presage of horror! What on earth do you mean?"
-
-"I don't know. Oh, I don't know. And that is what is so terrible.
-All this weakness comes to me in sleep, until I dread the very
-thought."
-
-"But, my dear girl, you may sleep tonight. I am here watching you,
-and I can promise that nothing will happen."
-
-"Ah, I can trust you!" she said.
-
-I seized the opportunity, and said, "I promise that if I see any
-evidence of bad dreams I will wake you at once."
-
-"You will? Oh, will you really? How good you are to me. Then I will
-sleep!" And almost at the word she gave a deep sigh of relief, and
-sank back, asleep.
-
-All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and
-on in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep. Her lips
-were slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity
-of a pendulum. There was a smile on her face, and it was evident that
-no bad dreams had come to disturb her peace of mind.
-
-In the early morning her maid came, and I left her in her care and took
-myself back home, for I was anxious about many things. I sent a short
-wire to Van Helsing and to Arthur, telling them of the excellent
-result of the operation. My own work, with its manifold arrears, took
-me all day to clear off. It was dark when I was able to inquire about
-my zoophagous patient. The report was good. He had been quite quiet
-for the past day and night. A telegram came from Van Helsing at
-Amsterdam whilst I was at dinner, suggesting that I should be at
-Hillingham tonight, as it might be well to be at hand, and stating
-that he was leaving by the night mail and would join me early in the
-morning.
-
-
-9 September.--I was pretty tired and worn out when I got to
-Hillingham. For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my
-brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral
-exhaustion. Lucy was up and in cheerful spirits. When she shook
-hands with me she looked sharply in my face and said,
-
-"No sitting up tonight for you. You are worn out. I am quite well
-again. Indeed, I am, and if there is to be any sitting up, it is I
-who will sit up with you."
-
-I would not argue the point, but went and had my supper. Lucy came
-with me, and, enlivened by her charming presence, I made an excellent
-meal, and had a couple of glasses of the more than excellent port.
-Then Lucy took me upstairs, and showed me a room next her own, where a
-cozy fire was burning.
-
-"Now," she said. "You must stay here. I shall leave this door open
-and my door too. You can lie on the sofa for I know that nothing
-would induce any of you doctors to go to bed whilst there is a patient
-above the horizon. If I want anything I shall call out, and you can
-come to me at once."
-
-I could not but acquiesce, for I was dog tired, and could not have sat
-up had I tried. So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she
-should want anything, I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about
-everything.
-
-
-
-LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY
-
-9 September.--I feel so happy tonight. I have been so miserably weak,
-that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after
-a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky. Somehow Arthur feels
-very, very close to me. I seem to feel his presence warm about me. I
-suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn
-our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength
-give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he
-wills. I know where my thoughts are. If only Arthur knew! My dear,
-my dear, your ears must tingle as you sleep, as mine do waking. Oh,
-the blissful rest of last night! How I slept, with that dear, good
-Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since
-he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so
-good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-10 September.--I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and
-started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we
-learn in an asylum, at any rate.
-
-"And how is our patient?"
-
-"Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me," I answered.
-
-"Come, let us see," he said. And together we went into the room.
-
-The blind was down, and I went over to raise it gently, whilst Van
-Helsing stepped, with his soft, cat-like tread, over to the bed.
-
-As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I
-heard the Professor's low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity,
-a deadly fear shot through my heart. As I passed over he moved back,
-and his exclamation of horror, "Gott in Himmel!" needed no enforcement
-from his agonized face. He raised his hand and pointed to the bed,
-and his iron face was drawn and ashen white. I felt my knees begin to
-tremble.
-
-There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly
-white and wan-looking than ever. Even the lips were white, and the
-gums seemed to have shrunken back from the teeth, as we sometimes see
-in a corpse after a prolonged illness.
-
-Van Helsing raised his foot to stamp in anger, but the instinct of his
-life and all the long years of habit stood to him, and he put it down
-again softly.
-
-"Quick!" he said. "Bring the brandy."
-
-I flew to the dining room, and returned with the decanter. He wetted
-the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and wrist and
-heart. He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonizing
-suspense said,
-
-"It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work is
-undone. We must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now. I
-have to call on you yourself this time, friend John." As he spoke, he
-was dipping into his bag, and producing the instruments of
-transfusion. I had taken off my coat and rolled up my shirt sleeve.
-There was no possibility of an opiate just at present, and no need of
-one; and so, without a moment's delay, we began the operation.
-
-After a time, it did not seem a short time either, for the draining
-away of one's blood, no matter how willingly it be given, is a
-terrible feeling, Van Helsing held up a warning finger. "Do not
-stir," he said. "But I fear that with growing strength she may wake,
-and that would make danger, oh, so much danger. But I shall
-precaution take. I shall give hypodermic injection of morphia." He
-proceeded then, swiftly and deftly, to carry out his intent.
-
-The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly
-into the narcotic sleep. It was with a feeling of personal pride that
-I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid cheeks
-and lips. No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel
-his own lifeblood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves.
-
-The Professor watched me critically. "That will do," he said.
-"Already?" I remonstrated. "You took a great deal more from Art." To
-which he smiled a sad sort of smile as he replied,
-
-"He is her lover, her fiance. You have work, much work to do for her
-and for others, and the present will suffice."
-
-When we stopped the operation, he attended to Lucy, whilst I applied
-digital pressure to my own incision. I laid down, while I waited his
-leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick. By and
-by he bound up my wound, and sent me downstairs to get a glass of wine
-for myself. As I was leaving the room, he came after me, and half
-whispered.
-
-"Mind, nothing must be said of this. If our young lover should turn
-up unexpected, as before, no word to him. It would at once frighten
-him and enjealous him, too. There must be none. So!"
-
-When I came back he looked at me carefully, and then said, "You are
-not much the worse. Go into the room, and lie on your sofa, and rest
-awhile, then have much breakfast and come here to me."
-
-I followed out his orders, for I knew how right and wise they were. I
-had done my part, and now my next duty was to keep up my strength. I
-felt very weak, and in the weakness lost something of the amazement at
-what had occurred. I fell asleep on the sofa, however, wondering over
-and over again how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how
-she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to
-show for it. I think I must have continued my wonder in my dreams,
-for, sleeping and waking my thoughts always came back to the little
-punctures in her throat and the ragged, exhausted appearance of their
-edges, tiny though they were.
-
-Lucy slept well into the day, and when she woke she was fairly well
-and strong, though not nearly so much so as the day before. When Van
-Helsing had seen her, he went out for a walk, leaving me in charge,
-with strict injunctions that I was not to leave her for a moment. I
-could hear his voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest
-telegraph office.
-
-Lucy chatted with me freely, and seemed quite unconscious that
-anything had happened. I tried to keep her amused and interested.
-When her mother came up to see her, she did not seem to notice any
-change whatever, but said to me gratefully,
-
-"We owe you so much, Dr. Seward, for all you have done, but you really
-must now take care not to overwork yourself. You are looking pale
-yourself. You want a wife to nurse and look after you a bit, that you
-do!" As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only
-momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long an
-unwonted drain to the head. The reaction came in excessive pallor as
-she turned imploring eyes on me. I smiled and nodded, and laid my
-finger on my lips. With a sigh, she sank back amid her pillows.
-
-Van Helsing returned in a couple of hours, and presently said to me:
-"Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough. Make yourself
-strong. I stay here tonight, and I shall sit up with little miss
-myself. You and I must watch the case, and we must have none other to
-know. I have grave reasons. No, do not ask me. Think what you will.
-Do not fear to think even the most not-improbable. Goodnight."
-
-In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either
-of them might not sit up with Miss Lucy. They implored me to let
-them, and when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing's wish that either he or
-I should sit up, they asked me quite piteously to intercede with
-the 'foreign gentleman'. I was much touched by their kindness. Perhaps
-it is because I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on
-Lucy's account, that their devotion was manifested. For over and over
-again have I seen similar instances of woman's kindness. I got back
-here in time for a late dinner, went my rounds, all well, and set this
-down whilst waiting for sleep. It is coming.
-
-
-11 September.--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van
-Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better. Shortly after I
-had arrived, a big parcel from abroad came for the Professor. He
-opened it with much impressment, assumed, of course, and showed a
-great bundle of white flowers.
-
-"These are for you, Miss Lucy," he said.
-
-"For me? Oh, Dr. Van Helsing!"
-
-"Yes, my dear, but not for you to play with. These are medicines."
-Here Lucy made a wry face. "Nay, but they are not to take in a
-decoction or in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming
-nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have
-to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort.
-Aha, my pretty miss, that bring the so nice nose all straight again.
-This is medicinal, but you do not know how. I put him in your window,
-I make pretty wreath, and hang him round your neck, so you sleep well.
-Oh, yes! They, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten.
-It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth
-that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all
-too late."
-
-Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had been examining the flowers and
-smelling them. Now she threw them down saying, with half laughter,
-and half disgust,
-
-"Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why,
-these flowers are only common garlic."
-
-To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness,
-his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting,
-
-"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in what I
-do, and I warn you that you do not thwart me. Take care, for the sake
-of others if not for your own." Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she
-might well be, he went on more gently, "Oh, little miss, my dear, do
-not fear me. I only do for your good, but there is much virtue to you
-in those so common flowers. See, I place them myself in your room. I
-make myself the wreath that you are to wear. But hush! No telling to
-others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence
-is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well
-into loving arms that wait for you. Now sit still a while. Come with
-me, friend John, and you shall help me deck the room with my garlic,
-which is all the way from Haarlem, where my friend Vanderpool raise
-herb in his glass houses all the year. I had to telegraph yesterday,
-or they would not have been here."
-
-We went into the room, taking the flowers with us. The Professor's
-actions were certainly odd and not to be found in any pharmacopeia
-that I ever heard of. First he fastened up the windows and latched
-them securely. Next, taking a handful of the flowers, he rubbed them
-all over the sashes, as though to ensure that every whiff of air that
-might get in would be laden with the garlic smell. Then with the wisp
-he rubbed all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each
-side, and round the fireplace in the same way. It all seemed
-grotesque to me, and presently I said, "Well, Professor, I know you
-always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me.
-It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were
-working some spell to keep out an evil spirit."
-
-"Perhaps I am!" he answered quietly as he began to make the wreath
-which Lucy was to wear round her neck.
-
-We then waited whilst Lucy made her toilet for the night, and when she
-was in bed he came and himself fixed the wreath of garlic round her
-neck. The last words he said to her were,
-
-"Take care you do not disturb it, and even if the room feel close, do
-not tonight open the window or the door."
-
-"I promise," said Lucy. "And thank you both a thousand times for all
-your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such
-friends?"
-
-As we left the house in my fly, which was waiting, Van Helsing said,
-"Tonight I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want, two nights of travel,
-much reading in the day between, and much anxiety on the day to
-follow, and a night to sit up, without to wink. Tomorrow in the
-morning early you call for me, and we come together to see our pretty
-miss, so much more strong for my 'spell' which I have work. Ho, ho!"
-
-He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two
-nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror.
-It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my
-friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 11
-
-
-LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY
-
-12 September.--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear
-Dr. Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers.
-He positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have
-been right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not
-dread being alone tonight, and I can go to sleep without fear. I
-shall not mind any flapping outside the window. Oh, the terrible
-struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late, the pain of
-sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown
-horrors as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives
-have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes
-nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am
-tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with
-'virgin crants and maiden strewments.' I never liked garlic before,
-but tonight it is delightful! There is peace in its smell. I feel
-sleep coming already. Goodnight, everybody.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-13 September.--Called at the Berkeley and found Van Helsing, as usual,
-up to time. The carriage ordered from the hotel was waiting. The
-Professor took his bag, which he always brings with him now.
-
-Let all be put down exactly. Van Helsing and I arrived at Hillingham
-at eight o'clock. It was a lovely morning. The bright sunshine and
-all the fresh feeling of early autumn seemed like the completion of
-nature's annual work. The leaves were turning to all kinds of
-beautiful colours, but had not yet begun to drop from the trees. When
-we entered we met Mrs. Westenra coming out of the morning room. She
-is always an early riser. She greeted us warmly and said,
-
-"You will be glad to know that Lucy is better. The dear child is
-still asleep. I looked into her room and saw her, but did not go in,
-lest I should disturb her." The Professor smiled, and looked quite
-jubilant. He rubbed his hands together, and said, "Aha! I thought I
-had diagnosed the case. My treatment is working."
-
-To which she replied, "You must not take all the credit to yourself,
-doctor. Lucy's state this morning is due in part to me."
-
-"How do you mean, ma'am?" asked the Professor.
-
-"Well, I was anxious about the dear child in the night, and went into
-her room. She was sleeping soundly, so soundly that even my coming
-did not wake her. But the room was awfully stuffy. There were a lot
-of those horrible, strong-smelling flowers about everywhere, and she
-had actually a bunch of them round her neck. I feared that the heavy
-odour would be too much for the dear child in her weak state, so I took
-them all away and opened a bit of the window to let in a little fresh
-air. You will be pleased with her, I am sure."
-
-She moved off into her boudoir, where she usually breakfasted early.
-As she had spoken, I watched the Professor's face, and saw it turn
-ashen gray. He had been able to retain his self-command whilst the
-poor lady was present, for he knew her state and how mischievous a
-shock would be. He actually smiled on her as he held open the door
-for her to pass into her room. But the instant she had disappeared he
-pulled me, suddenly and forcibly, into the dining room and closed the
-door.
-
-Then, for the first time in my life, I saw Van Helsing break down. He
-raised his hands over his head in a sort of mute despair, and then
-beat his palms together in a helpless way. Finally he sat down on a
-chair, and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud,
-dry sobs that seemed to come from the very racking of his heart.
-
-Then he raised his arms again, as though appealing to the whole
-universe. "God! God! God!" he said. "What have we done, what has
-this poor thing done, that we are so sore beset? Is there fate
-amongst us still, send down from the pagan world of old, that such
-things must be, and in such way? This poor mother, all unknowing, and
-all for the best as she think, does such thing as lose her daughter
-body and soul, and we must not tell her, we must not even warn her, or
-she die, then both die. Oh, how we are beset! How are all the powers
-of the devils against us!"
-
-Suddenly he jumped to his feet. "Come," he said, "come, we must see and
-act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not.
-We must fight him all the same." He went to the hall door for his
-bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.
-
-Once again I drew up the blind, whilst Van Helsing went towards the
-bed. This time he did not start as he looked on the poor face with
-the same awful, waxen pallor as before. He wore a look of stern
-sadness and infinite pity.
-
-"As I expected," he murmured, with that hissing inspiration of his
-which meant so much. Without a word he went and locked the door, and
-then began to set out on the little table the instruments for yet
-another operation of transfusion of blood. I had long ago recognized
-the necessity, and begun to take off my coat, but he stopped me with a
-warning hand. "No!" he said. "Today you must operate. I shall
-provide. You are weakened already." As he spoke he took off his coat
-and rolled up his shirtsleeve.
-
-Again the operation. Again the narcotic. Again some return of colour
-to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep. This
-time I watched whilst Van Helsing recruited himself and rested.
-
-Presently he took an opportunity of telling Mrs. Westenra that she
-must not remove anything from Lucy's room without consulting him.
-That the flowers were of medicinal value, and that the breathing of
-their odour was a part of the system of cure. Then he took over the
-care of the case himself, saying that he would watch this night and
-the next, and would send me word when to come.
-
-After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and
-seemingly not much the worse for her terrible ordeal.
-
-What does it all mean? I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of
-life amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain.
-
-
-
-LUCY WESTENRA'S DIARY
-
-17 September.--Four days and nights of peace. I am getting so strong
-again that I hardly know myself. It is as if I had passed through
-some long nightmare, and had just awakened to see the beautiful
-sunshine and feel the fresh air of the morning around me. I have a
-dim half remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing,
-darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present
-distress more poignant. And then long spells of oblivion, and the
-rising back to life as a diver coming up through a great press of
-water. Since, however, Dr. Van Helsing has been with me, all this bad
-dreaming seems to have passed away. The noises that used to frighten
-me out of my wits, the flapping against the windows, the distant
-voices which seemed so close to me, the harsh sounds that came from I
-know not where and commanded me to do I know not what, have all
-ceased. I go to bed now without any fear of sleep. I do not even try
-to keep awake. I have grown quite fond of the garlic, and a boxful
-arrives for me every day from Haarlem. Tonight Dr. Van Helsing is
-going away, as he has to be for a day in Amsterdam. But I need not be
-watched. I am well enough to be left alone.
-
-Thank God for Mother's sake, and dear Arthur's, and for all our
-friends who have been so kind! I shall not even feel the change, for
-last night Dr. Van Helsing slept in his chair a lot of the time. I
-found him asleep twice when I awoke. But I did not fear to go to
-sleep again, although the boughs or bats or something flapped almost
-angrily against the window panes.
-
-
-
-
-THE PALL MALL GAZETTE 18 September.
-
-THE ESCAPED WOLF PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF OUR INTERVIEWER
-
-INTERVIEW WITH THE KEEPER IN THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS
-
-After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually
-using the words 'PALL MALL GAZETTE' as a sort of talisman, I managed
-to find the keeper of the section of the Zoological Gardens in which
-the wolf department is included. Thomas Bilder lives in one of the
-cottages in the enclosure behind the elephant house, and was just
-sitting down to his tea when I found him. Thomas and his wife are
-hospitable folk, elderly, and without children, and if the specimen
-I enjoyed of their hospitality be of the average kind, their lives
-must be pretty comfortable. The keeper would not enter on what he
-called business until the supper was over, and we were all
-satisfied. Then when the table was cleared, and he had lit his
-pipe, he said,
-
-"Now, Sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You'll excoose
-me refoosin' to talk of perfeshunal subjucts afore meals. I gives
-the wolves and the jackals and the hyenas in all our section their
-tea afore I begins to arsk them questions."
-
-"How do you mean, ask them questions?" I queried, wishful to get him
-into a talkative humor.
-
-"'Ittin' of them over the 'ead with a pole is one way. Scratchin' of
-their ears in another, when gents as is flush wants a bit of a show-orf
-to their gals. I don't so much mind the fust, the 'ittin of the
-pole part afore I chucks in their dinner, but I waits till they've
-'ad their sherry and kawffee, so to speak, afore I tries on with the
-ear scratchin'. Mind you," he added philosophically, "there's a
-deal of the same nature in us as in them theer animiles. Here's you
-a-comin' and arskin' of me questions about my business, and I that
-grump-like that only for your bloomin' 'arf-quid I'd 'a' seen you
-blowed fust 'fore I'd answer. Not even when you arsked me sarcastic
-like if I'd like you to arsk the Superintendent if you might arsk me
-questions. Without offence did I tell yer to go to 'ell?"
-
-"You did."
-
-"An' when you said you'd report me for usin' obscene language that
-was 'ittin' me over the 'ead. But the 'arf-quid made that all
-right. I weren't a-goin' to fight, so I waited for the food, and
-did with my 'owl as the wolves and lions and tigers does. But, lor'
-love yer 'art, now that the old 'ooman has stuck a chunk of her
-tea-cake in me, an' rinsed me out with her bloomin' old teapot, and I've
-lit hup, you may scratch my ears for all you're worth, and won't
-even get a growl out of me. Drive along with your questions. I
-know what yer a-comin' at, that 'ere escaped wolf."
-
-"Exactly. I want you to give me your view of it. Just tell me how
-it happened, and when I know the facts I'll get you to say what you
-consider was the cause of it, and how you think the whole affair
-will end."
-
-"All right, guv'nor. This 'ere is about the 'ole story.
-That 'ere wolf what we called Bersicker was one of three gray
-ones that came from Norway to Jamrach's, which we bought
-off him four years ago. He was a nice well-behaved wolf,
-that never gave no trouble to talk of. I'm more surprised
-at 'im for wantin' to get out nor any other animile in the
-place. But, there, you can't trust wolves no more nor women."
-
-"Don't you mind him, Sir!" broke in Mrs. Tom, with a cheery
-laugh. "'E's got mindin' the animiles so long that blest
-if he ain't like a old wolf 'isself! But there ain't no
-'arm in 'im."
-
-"Well, Sir, it was about two hours after feedin' yesterday when I
-first hear my disturbance. I was makin' up a litter in the monkey
-house for a young puma which is ill. But when I heard the yelpin'
-and 'owlin' I kem away straight. There was Bersicker a-tearin' like
-a mad thing at the bars as if he wanted to get out. There wasn't
-much people about that day, and close at hand was only one man, a
-tall, thin chap, with a 'ook nose and a pointed beard, with a few
-white hairs runnin' through it. He had a 'ard, cold look and red
-eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, for it seemed as if it
-was 'im as they was hirritated at. He 'ad white kid gloves on 'is
-'ands, and he pointed out the animiles to me and says, 'Keeper,
-these wolves seem upset at something.'
-
-"'Maybe it's you,' says I, for I did not like the airs as he
-give 'isself. He didn't get angry, as I 'oped he would, but
-he smiled a kind of insolent smile, with a mouth full of white,
-sharp teeth. 'Oh no, they wouldn't like me,' 'e says.
-
-"'Ow yes, they would,' says I, a-imitatin' of him. 'They
-always like a bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea
-time, which you 'as a bagful.'
-
-"Well, it was a odd thing, but when the animiles see us
-a-talkin' they lay down, and when I went over to Bersicker
-he let me stroke his ears same as ever. That there man kem
-over, and blessed but if he didn't put in his hand and stroke
-the old wolf's ears too!
-
-"'Tyke care,' says I. 'Bersicker is quick.'
-
-"'Never mind,' he says. I'm used to 'em!'
-
-"'Are you in the business yourself?' I says, tyking off my
-'at, for a man what trades in wolves, anceterer, is a good
-friend to keepers.
-
-"'Nom,' says he, 'not exactly in the business, but I 'ave made pets
-of several.' And with that he lifts his 'at as perlite as a lord,
-and walks away. Old Bersicker kep' a-lookin' arter 'im till 'e was
-out of sight, and then went and lay down in a corner and wouldn't
-come hout the 'ole hevening. Well, larst night, so soon as the moon
-was hup, the wolves here all began a-'owling. There warn't nothing
-for them to 'owl at. There warn't no one near, except some one that
-was evidently a-callin' a dog somewheres out back of the gardings in
-the Park road. Once or twice I went out to see that all was right,
-and it was, and then the 'owling stopped. Just before twelve
-o'clock I just took a look round afore turnin' in, an', bust me, but
-when I kem opposite to old Bersicker's cage I see the rails broken
-and twisted about and the cage empty. And that's all I know for
-certing."
-
-"Did any one else see anything?"
-
-"One of our gard'ners was a-comin' 'ome about that time from a
-'armony, when he sees a big gray dog comin' out through the garding
-'edges. At least, so he says, but I don't give much for it myself,
-for if he did 'e never said a word about it to his missis when 'e
-got 'ome, and it was only after the escape of the wolf was made
-known, and we had been up all night a-huntin' of the Park for
-Bersicker, that he remembered seein' anything. My own belief was
-that the 'armony 'ad got into his 'ead."
-
-"Now, Mr. Bilder, can you account in any way for the escape
-of the wolf?"
-
-"Well, Sir," he said, with a suspicious sort of modesty, "I think I
-can, but I don't know as 'ow you'd be satisfied with the theory."
-
-"Certainly I shall. If a man like you, who knows the animals from
-experience, can't hazard a good guess at any rate, who is even to
-try?"
-
-"Well then, Sir, I accounts for it this way. It seems to me that
-'ere wolf escaped--simply because he wanted to get out."
-
-From the hearty way that both Thomas and his wife laughed at the
-joke I could see that it had done service before, and that the whole
-explanation was simply an elaborate sell. I couldn't cope in
-badinage with the worthy Thomas, but I thought I knew a surer way to
-his heart, so I said, "Now, Mr. Bilder, we'll consider that first
-half-sovereign worked off, and this brother of his is waiting to be
-claimed when you've told me what you think will happen."
-
-"Right y'are, Sir," he said briskly. "Ye'll excoose me, I
-know, for a-chaffin' of ye, but the old woman here winked at
-me, which was as much as telling me to go on."
-
-"Well, I never!" said the old lady.
-
-"My opinion is this: that 'ere wolf is a'idin' of, somewheres. The
-gard'ner wot didn't remember said he was a-gallopin' northward
-faster than a horse could go, but I don't believe him, for, yer see,
-Sir, wolves don't gallop no more nor dogs does, they not bein' built
-that way. Wolves is fine things in a storybook, and I dessay when
-they gets in packs and does be chivyin' somethin' that's more
-afeared than they is they can make a devil of a noise and chop it
-up, whatever it is. But, Lor' bless you, in real life a wolf is
-only a low creature, not half so clever or bold as a good dog, and
-not half a quarter so much fight in 'im. This one ain't been used
-to fightin' or even to providin' for hisself, and more like he's
-somewhere round the Park a'hidin' an' a'shiverin' of, and if he
-thinks at all, wonderin' where he is to get his breakfast from. Or
-maybe he's got down some area and is in a coal cellar. My eye,
-won't some cook get a rum start when she sees his green eyes
-a-shinin' at her out of the dark! If he can't get food he's bound to
-look for it, and mayhap he may chance to light on a butcher's shop
-in time. If he doesn't, and some nursemaid goes out walkin' or orf
-with a soldier, leavin' of the hinfant in the perambulator--well,
-then I shouldn't be surprised if the census is one babby the less.
-That's all."
-
-I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up
-against the window, and Mr. Bilder's face doubled its natural length
-with surprise.
-
-"God bless me!" he said. "If there ain't old Bersicker come back by
-'isself!"
-
-He went to the door and opened it, a most unnecessary proceeding it
-seemed to me. I have always thought that a wild animal never looks
-so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between
-us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished
-that idea.
-
-After all, however, there is nothing like custom, for neither Bilder
-nor his wife thought any more of the wolf than I should of a dog.
-The animal itself was a peaceful and well-behaved as that father of
-all picture-wolves, Red Riding Hood's quondam friend, whilst moving
-her confidence in masquerade.
-
-The whole scene was a unutterable mixture of comedy and
-pathos. The wicked wolf that for a half a day had
-paralyzed London and set all the children in town shivering
-in their shoes, was there in a sort of penitent mood, and
-was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal
-son. Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender
-solicitude, and when he had finished with his penitent
-said,
-
-"There, I knew the poor old chap would get into some kind of
-trouble. Didn't I say it all along? Here's his head all
-cut and full of broken glass. 'E's been a-gettin' over
-some bloomin' wall or other. It's a shyme that people are
-allowed to top their walls with broken bottles. This 'ere's
-what comes of it. Come along, Bersicker."
-
-He took the wolf and locked him up in a cage, with a piece
-of meat that satisfied, in quantity at any rate, the elementary
-conditions of the fatted calf, and went off to report.
-
-I came off too, to report the only exclusive information
-that is given today regarding the strange escapade at the
-Zoo.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-17 September.--I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my
-books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy,
-had fallen sadly into arrear. Suddenly the door was burst open, and
-in rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion. I was
-thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient getting of his own accord
-into the Superintendent's study is almost unknown.
-
-Without an instant's notice he made straight at me. He had a dinner
-knife in his hand, and as I saw he was dangerous, I tried to keep the
-table between us. He was too quick and too strong for me, however,
-for before I could get my balance he had struck at me and cut my left
-wrist rather severely.
-
-Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right hand and he
-was sprawling on his back on the floor. My wrist bled freely, and
-quite a little pool trickled on to the carpet. I saw that my friend
-was not intent on further effort, and occupied myself binding up my
-wrist, keeping a wary eye on the prostrate figure all the time. When
-the attendants rushed in, and we turned our attention to him, his
-employment positively sickened me. He was lying on his belly on the
-floor licking up, like a dog, the blood which had fallen from my
-wounded wrist. He was easily secured, and to my surprise, went with
-the attendants quite placidly, simply repeating over and over again,
-"The blood is the life! The blood is the life!"
-
-I cannot afford to lose blood just at present. I have lost too much
-of late for my physical good, and then the prolonged strain of Lucy's
-illness and its horrible phases is telling on me. I am over excited
-and weary, and I need rest, rest, rest. Happily Van Helsing has not
-summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep. Tonight I could not well
-do without it.
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, VAN HELSING, ANTWERP, TO SEWARD, CARFAX
-
-(Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given, delivered late
-by twenty-two hours.)
-
-17 September.--Do not fail to be at Hilllingham tonight.
-If not watching all the time, frequently visit and see that
-flowers are as placed, very important, do not fail. Shall
-be with you as soon as possible after arrival.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-18 September.--Just off train to London. The arrival of Van
-Helsing's telegram filled me with dismay. A whole night lost,
-and I know by bitter experience what may happen in a night.
-Of course it is possible that all may be well, but what may
-have happened? Surely there is some horrible doom hanging over us
-that every possible accident should thwart us in all we try to do.
-I shall take this cylinder with me, and then I can complete
-my entry on Lucy's phonograph.
-
-
-
-
-MEMORANDUM LEFT BY LUCY WESTENRA
-
-17 September, Night.--I write this and leave it to be seen,
-so that no one may by any chance get into trouble through
-me. This is an exact record of what took place tonight. I
-feel I am dying of weakness, and have barely strength to
-write, but it must be done if I die in the doing.
-
-I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were
-placed as Dr. Van Helsing directed, and soon fell asleep.
-
-I was waked by the flapping at the window, which had begun after
-that sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and
-which now I know so well. I was not afraid, but I did wish that
-Dr. Seward was in the next room, as Dr. Van Helsing said he would
-be, so that I might have called him. I tried to sleep, but I
-could not. Then there came to me the old fear of sleep, and I
-determined to keep awake. Perversely sleep would try to come then
-when I did not want it. So, as I feared to be alone, I opened my
-door and called out, "Is there anybody there?" There was no
-answer. I was afraid to wake mother, and so closed my door
-again. Then outside in the shrubbery I heard a sort of howl like
-a dog's, but more fierce and deeper. I went to the window and
-looked out, but could see nothing, except a big bat, which had
-evidently been buffeting its wings against the window. So I went
-back to bed again, but determined not to go to sleep. Presently
-the door opened, and mother looked in. Seeing by my moving that
-I was not asleep, she came in and sat by me. She said to me even
-more sweetly and softly than her wont,
-
-"I was uneasy about you, darling, and came in to see that
-you were all right."
-
-I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her
-to come in and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay
-down beside me. She did not take off her dressing gown,
-for she said she would only stay a while and then go back
-to her own bed. As she lay there in my arms, and I in hers
-the flapping and buffeting came to the window again. She
-was startled and a little frightened, and cried out, "What
-is that?"
-
-I tried to pacify her, and at last succeeded, and she lay
-quiet. But I could hear her poor dear heart still beating
-terribly. After a while there was the howl again out in
-the shrubbery, and shortly after there was a crash at the
-window, and a lot of broken glass was hurled on the floor.
-The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in,
-and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head
-of a great, gaunt gray wolf.
-
-Mother cried out in a fright, and struggled up into a
-sitting posture, and clutched wildly at anything that would
-help her. Amongst other things, she clutched the wreath of
-flowers that Dr. Van Helsing insisted on my wearing round
-my neck, and tore it away from me. For a second or two she
-sat up, pointing at the wolf, and there was a strange and
-horrible gurgling in her throat. Then she fell over, as if
-struck with lightning, and her head hit my forehead and
-made me dizzy for a moment or two.
-
-The room and all round seemed to spin round. I kept my eyes
-fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole
-myriad of little specks seems to come blowing in through the
-broken window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of
-dust that travellers describe when there is a simoon in the
-desert. I tried to stir, but there was some spell upon me, and
-dear Mother's poor body, which seemed to grow cold already, for
-her dear heart had ceased to beat, weighed me down, and I
-remembered no more for a while.
-
-The time did not seem long, but very, very awful, till I
-recovered consciousness again. Somewhere near, a passing
-bell was tolling. The dogs all round the neighbourhood were
-howling, and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a
-nightingale was singing. I was dazed and stupid with pain
-and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale
-seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.
-The sounds seemed to have awakened the maids, too, for I could
-hear their bare feet pattering outside my door. I called to
-them, and they came in, and when they saw what had happened, and
-what it was that lay over me on the bed, they screamed out. The
-wind rushed in through the broken window, and the door slammed
-to. They lifted off the body of my dear mother, and laid her,
-covered up with a sheet, on the bed after I had got up. They
-were all so frightened and nervous that I directed them to go to
-the dining room and each have a glass of wine. The door flew
-open for an instant and closed again. The maids shrieked, and
-then went in a body to the dining room, and I laid what flowers I
-had on my dear mother's breast. When they were there I
-remembered what Dr. Van Helsing had told me, but I didn't like to
-remove them, and besides, I would have some of the servants to
-sit up with me now. I was surprised that the maids did not come
-back. I called them, but got no answer, so I went to the dining
-room to look for them.
-
-My heart sank when I saw what had happened. They all four
-lay helpless on the floor, breathing heavily. The decanter
-of sherry was on the table half full, but there was a queer,
-acrid smell about. I was suspicious, and examined the decanter.
-It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the sideboard, I found that
-the bottle which Mother's doctor uses for her--oh! did use--was
-empty. What am I to do? What am I to do? I am back in the room
-with Mother. I cannot leave her, and I am alone, save for the
-sleeping servants, whom some one has drugged. Alone with the
-dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf
-through the broken window.
-
-The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the
-draught from the window, and the lights burn blue and dim.
-What am I to do? God shield me from harm this night! I
-shall hide this paper in my breast, where they shall find
-it when they come to lay me out. My dear mother gone! It
-is time that I go too. Goodbye, dear Arthur, if I should
-not survive this night. God keep you, dear, and God help
-me!
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 12
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-18 September.--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.
-Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked
-gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy
-or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a
-while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again, still no
-answer. I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie
-abed at such an hour, for it was now ten o'clock, and so rang and
-knocked again, but more impatiently, but still without response.
-Hitherto I had blamed only the servants, but now a terrible fear began
-to assail me. Was this desolation but another link in the chain of
-doom which seemed drawing tight round us? Was it indeed a house of
-death to which I had come, too late? I know that minutes, even
-seconds of delay, might mean hours of danger to Lucy, if she had had
-again one of those frightful relapses, and I went round the house to
-try if I could find by chance an entry anywhere.
-
-I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened
-and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch. As I did so, I heard
-the rapid pit-pat of a swiftly driven horse's feet. They stopped at
-the gate, and a few seconds later I met Van Helsing running up the
-avenue. When he saw me, he gasped out, "Then it was you, and just
-arrived. How is she? Are we too late? Did you not get my telegram?"
-
-I answered as quickly and coherently as I could that I had only got
-his telegram early in the morning, and had not a minute in coming
-here, and that I could not make any one in the house hear me. He
-paused and raised his hat as he said solemnly, "Then I fear we are too
-late. God's will be done!"
-
-With his usual recuperative energy, he went on, "Come. If there be no
-way open to get in, we must make one. Time is all in all to us now."
-
-We went round to the back of the house, where there was a kitchen
-window. The Professor took a small surgical saw from his case, and
-handing it to me, pointed to the iron bars which guarded the window.
-I attacked them at once and had very soon cut through three of them.
-Then with a long, thin knife we pushed back the fastening of the
-sashes and opened the window. I helped the Professor in, and followed
-him. There was no one in the kitchen or in the servants' rooms, which
-were close at hand. We tried all the rooms as we went along, and in
-the dining room, dimly lit by rays of light through the shutters,
-found four servant women lying on the floor. There was no need to
-think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of
-laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.
-
-Van Helsing and I looked at each other, and as we moved away he said,
-"We can attend to them later." Then we ascended to Lucy's room. For an
-instant or two we paused at the door to listen, but there was no sound
-that we could hear. With white faces and trembling hands, we opened
-the door gently, and entered the room.
-
-How shall I describe what we saw? On the bed lay two women, Lucy and
-her mother. The latter lay farthest in, and she was covered with a
-white sheet, the edge of which had been blown back by the drought
-through the broken window, showing the drawn, white, face, with a look
-of terror fixed upon it. By her side lay Lucy, with face white and
-still more drawn. The flowers which had been round her neck we found
-upon her mother's bosom, and her throat was bare, showing the two
-little wounds which we had noticed before, but looking horribly white
-and mangled. Without a word the Professor bent over the bed, his head
-almost touching poor Lucy's breast. Then he gave a quick turn of his
-head, as of one who listens, and leaping to his feet, he cried out to
-me, "It is not yet too late! Quick! Quick! Bring the brandy!"
-
-I flew downstairs and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste
-it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I
-found on the table. The maids were still breathing, but more
-restlessly, and I fancied that the narcotic was wearing off. I did
-not stay to make sure, but returned to Van Helsing. He rubbed the
-brandy, as on another occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists
-and the palms of her hands. He said to me, "I can do this, all that
-can be at the present. You go wake those maids. Flick them in the
-face with a wet towel, and flick them hard. Make them get heat and
-fire and a warm bath. This poor soul is nearly as cold as that beside
-her. She will need be heated before we can do anything more."
-
-I went at once, and found little difficulty in waking three of the
-women. The fourth was only a young girl, and the drug had evidently
-affected her more strongly so I lifted her on the sofa and let her
-sleep.
-
-The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them
-they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner. I was stern with them,
-however, and would not let them talk. I told them that one life was
-bad enough to lose, and if they delayed they would sacrifice Miss
-Lucy. So, sobbing and crying they went about their way, half clad as
-they were, and prepared fire and water. Fortunately, the kitchen and
-boiler fires were still alive, and there was no lack of hot water. We
-got a bath and carried Lucy out as she was and placed her in it.
-Whilst we were busy chafing her limbs there was a knock at the hall
-door. One of the maids ran off, hurried on some more clothes, and
-opened it. Then she returned and whispered to us that there was a
-gentleman who had come with a message from Mr. Holmwood. I bade her
-simply tell him that he must wait, for we could see no one now. She
-went away with the message, and, engrossed with our work, I clean
-forgot all about him.
-
-I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly
-earnest. I knew, as he knew, that it was a stand-up fight with death,
-and in a pause told him so. He answered me in a way that I did not
-understand, but with the sternest look that his face could wear.
-
-"If that were all, I would stop here where we are now, and let her
-fade away into peace, for I see no light in life over her horizon." He
-went on with his work with, if possible, renewed and more frenzied
-vigour.
-
-Presently we both began to be conscious that the heat was beginning to
-be of some effect. Lucy's heart beat a trifle more audibly to the
-stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement. Van Helsing's
-face almost beamed, and as we lifted her from the bath and rolled her
-in a hot sheet to dry her he said to me, "The first gain is ours!
-Check to the King!"
-
-We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and
-laid her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her throat. I
-noticed that Van Helsing tied a soft silk handkerchief round her
-throat. She was still unconscious, and was quite as bad as, if not
-worse than, we had ever seen her.
-
-Van Helsing called in one of the women, and told her to stay with her
-and not to take her eyes off her till we returned, and then beckoned
-me out of the room.
-
-"We must consult as to what is to be done," he said as we descended
-the stairs. In the hall he opened the dining room door, and we passed
-in, he closing the door carefully behind him. The shutters had been
-opened, but the blinds were already down, with that obedience to the
-etiquette of death which the British woman of the lower classes always
-rigidly observes. The room was, therefore, dimly dark. It was,
-however, light enough for our purposes. Van Helsing's sternness was
-somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity. He was evidently torturing
-his mind about something, so I waited for an instant, and he spoke.
-
-"What are we to do now? Where are we to turn for help? We must have
-another transfusion of blood, and that soon, or that poor girl's life
-won't be worth an hour's purchase. You are exhausted already. I am
-exhausted too. I fear to trust those women, even if they would have
-courage to submit. What are we to do for some one who will open his
-veins for her?"
-
-"What's the matter with me, anyhow?"
-
-The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought
-relief and joy to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris.
-
-Van Helsing started angrily at the first sound, but his face softened
-and a glad look came into his eyes as I cried out, "Quincey Morris!"
-and rushed towards him with outstretched hands.
-
-"What brought you here?" I cried as our hands met.
-
-"I guess Art is the cause."
-
-He handed me a telegram.--'Have not heard from Seward for three days,
-and am terribly anxious. Cannot leave. Father still in same
-condition. Send me word how Lucy is. Do not delay.--Holmwood.'
-
-"I think I came just in the nick of time. You know you have only to
-tell me what to do."
-
-Van Helsing strode forward, and took his hand, looking him straight in
-the eyes as he said, "A brave man's blood is the best thing on this
-earth when a woman is in trouble. You're a man and no mistake. Well,
-the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men
-when we want them."
-
-Once again we went through that ghastly operation. I have not the
-heart to go through with the details. Lucy had got a terrible shock
-and it told on her more than before, for though plenty of blood went
-into her veins, her body did not respond to the treatment as well as
-on the other occasions. Her struggle back into life was something
-frightful to see and hear. However, the action of both heart and
-lungs improved, and Van Helsing made a sub-cutaneous injection of
-morphia, as before, and with good effect. Her faint became a profound
-slumber. The Professor watched whilst I went downstairs with Quincey
-Morris, and sent one of the maids to pay off one of the cabmen who
-were waiting.
-
-I left Quincey lying down after having a glass of wine, and told the
-cook to get ready a good breakfast. Then a thought struck me, and I
-went back to the room where Lucy now was. When I came softly in, I
-found Van Helsing with a sheet or two of note paper in his hand. He
-had evidently read it, and was thinking it over as he sat with his
-hand to his brow. There was a look of grim satisfaction in his face,
-as of one who has had a doubt solved. He handed me the paper saying
-only, "It dropped from Lucy's breast when we carried her to the bath."
-
-When I had read it, I stood looking at the Professor, and after a
-pause asked him, "In God's name, what does it all mean? Was she, or
-is she, mad, or what sort of horrible danger is it?" I was so
-bewildered that I did not know what to say more. Van Helsing put out
-his hand and took the paper, saying,
-
-"Do not trouble about it now. Forget it for the present. You shall
-know and understand it all in good time, but it will be later. And
-now what is it that you came to me to say?" This brought me back to
-fact, and I was all myself again.
-
-"I came to speak about the certificate of death. If we do not act
-properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would
-have to be produced. I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for
-if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did. I
-know, and you know, and the other doctor who attended her knows, that
-Mrs. Westenra had disease of the heart, and we can certify that she
-died of it. Let us fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take
-it myself to the registrar and go on to the undertaker."
-
-"Good, oh my friend John! Well thought of! Truly Miss Lucy, if she
-be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends
-that love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides
-one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love
-you all the more for it! Now go."
-
-In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling
-him that Mrs. Westenra was dead, that Lucy also had been ill, but was
-now going on better, and that Van Helsing and I were with her. I told
-him where I was going, and he hurried me out, but as I was going said,
-
-"When you come back, Jack, may I have two words with you all to
-ourselves?" I nodded in reply and went out. I found no difficulty
-about the registration, and arranged with the local undertaker to come
-up in the evening to measure for the coffin and to make arrangements.
-
-When I got back Quincey was waiting for me. I told him I would see
-him as soon as I knew about Lucy, and went up to her room. She was
-still sleeping, and the Professor seemingly had not moved from his
-seat at her side. From his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered
-that he expected her to wake before long and was afraid of
-fore-stalling nature. So I went down to Quincey and took him into the
-breakfast room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a
-little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms.
-
-When we were alone, he said to me, "Jack Seward, I don't want to shove
-myself in anywhere where I've no right to be, but this is no ordinary
-case. You know I loved that girl and wanted to marry her, but
-although that's all past and gone, I can't help feeling anxious about
-her all the same. What is it that's wrong with her? The Dutchman,
-and a fine old fellow he is, I can see that, said that time you two
-came into the room, that you must have another transfusion of blood,
-and that both you and he were exhausted. Now I know well that you
-medical men speak in camera, and that a man must not expect to know
-what they consult about in private. But this is no common matter, and
-whatever it is, I have done my part. Is not that so?"
-
-"That's so," I said, and he went on.
-
-"I take it that both you and Van Helsing had done already what I did
-today. Is not that so?"
-
-"That's so."
-
-"And I guess Art was in it too. When I saw him four days ago down at
-his own place he looked queer. I have not seen anything pulled down
-so quick since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of
-go to grass all in a night. One of those big bats that they call
-vampires had got at her in the night, and what with his gorge and the
-vein left open, there wasn't enough blood in her to let her stand up,
-and I had to put a bullet through her as she lay. Jack, if you may
-tell me without betraying confidence, Arthur was the first, is not
-that so?"
-
-As he spoke the poor fellow looked terribly anxious. He was in a
-torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter
-ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her
-intensified his pain. His very heart was bleeding, and it took all
-the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him
-from breaking down. I paused before answering, for I felt that I must
-not betray anything which the Professor wished kept secret, but
-already he knew so much, and guessed so much, that there could be no
-reason for not answering, so I answered in the same phrase.
-
-"That's so."
-
-"And how long has this been going on?"
-
-"About ten days."
-
-"Ten days! Then I guess, Jack Seward, that that poor pretty creature
-that we all love has had put into her veins within that time the blood
-of four strong men. Man alive, her whole body wouldn't hold it." Then
-coming close to me, he spoke in a fierce half-whisper. "What took it
-out?"
-
-I shook my head. "That," I said, "is the crux. Van Helsing is simply
-frantic about it, and I am at my wits' end. I can't even hazard a
-guess. There has been a series of little circumstances which have
-thrown out all our calculations as to Lucy being properly watched.
-But these shall not occur again. Here we stay until all be well, or
-ill."
-
-Quincey held out his hand. "Count me in," he said. "You and the
-Dutchman will tell me what to do, and I'll do it."
-
-When she woke late in the afternoon, Lucy's first movement was to feel
-in her breast, and to my surprise, produced the paper which Van
-Helsing had given me to read. The careful Professor had replaced it
-where it had come from, lest on waking she should be alarmed. Her
-eyes then lit on Van Helsing and on me too, and gladdened. Then she
-looked round the room, and seeing where she was, shuddered. She gave
-a loud cry, and put her poor thin hands before her pale face.
-
-We both understood what was meant, that she had realized to the full
-her mother's death. So we tried what we could to comfort her.
-Doubtless sympathy eased her somewhat, but she was very low in thought
-and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for a long time. We told her
-that either or both of us would now remain with her all the time, and
-that seemed to comfort her. Towards dusk she fell into a doze. Here
-a very odd thing occurred. Whilst still asleep she took the paper
-from her breast and tore it in two. Van Helsing stepped over and took
-the pieces from her. All the same, however, she went on with the
-action of tearing, as though the material were still in her hands.
-Finally she lifted her hands and opened them as though scattering the
-fragments. Van Helsing seemed surprised, and his brows gathered as if
-in thought, but he said nothing.
-
-
-19 September.--All last night she slept fitfully, being always afraid
-to sleep, and something weaker when she woke from it. The Professor
-and I took in turns to watch, and we never left her for a moment
-unattended. Quincey Morris said nothing about his intention, but I
-knew that all night long he patrolled round and round the house.
-
-When the day came, its searching light showed the ravages in poor
-Lucy's strength. She was hardly able to turn her head, and the little
-nourishment which she could take seemed to do her no good. At times
-she slept, and both Van Helsing and I noticed the difference in her,
-between sleeping and waking. Whilst asleep she looked stronger,
-although more haggard, and her breathing was softer. Her open mouth
-showed the pale gums drawn back from the teeth, which looked
-positively longer and sharper than usual. When she woke the softness
-of her eyes evidently changed the expression, for she looked her own
-self, although a dying one. In the afternoon she asked for Arthur,
-and we telegraphed for him. Quincey went off to meet him at the
-station.
-
-When he arrived it was nearly six o'clock, and the sun was setting
-full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and
-gave more colour to the pale cheeks. When he saw her, Arthur was
-simply choking with emotion, and none of us could speak. In the hours
-that had passed, the fits of sleep, or the comatose condition that
-passed for it, had grown more frequent, so that the pauses when
-conversation was possible were shortened. Arthur's presence, however,
-seemed to act as a stimulant. She rallied a little, and spoke to him
-more brightly than she had done since we arrived. He too pulled
-himself together, and spoke as cheerily as he could, so that the best
-was made of everything.
-
-It is now nearly one o'clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with
-her. I am to relieve them in a quarter of an hour, and I am entering
-this on Lucy's phonograph. Until six o'clock they are to try to rest.
-I fear that tomorrow will end our watching, for the shock has been too
-great. The poor child cannot rally. God help us all.
-
-
-
-
-LETTER MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA
-
-(Unopened by her)
-
-17 September
-
-My dearest Lucy,
-
-"It seems an age since I heard from you, or indeed since I
-wrote. You will pardon me, I know, for all my faults when
-you have read all my budget of news. Well, I got my husband back
-all right. When we arrived at Exeter there was a carriage
-waiting for us, and in it, though he had an attack of gout, Mr.
-Hawkins. He took us to his house, where there were rooms for us
-all nice and comfortable, and we dined together. After dinner
-Mr. Hawkins said,
-
-"'My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity, and
-may every blessing attend you both. I know you both from
-children, and have, with love and pride, seen you grow up.
-Now I want you to make your home here with me. I have left
-to me neither chick nor child. All are gone, and in my
-will I have left you everything.' I cried, Lucy dear, as
-Jonathan and the old man clasped hands. Our evening was a
-very, very happy one.
-
-"So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and
-from both my bedroom and the drawing room I can see the
-great elms of the cathedral close, with their great black
-stems standing out against the old yellow stone of the cathedral,
-and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and cawing and
-chattering and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner
-of rooks--and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging
-things and housekeeping. Jonathan and Mr. Hawkins are busy all
-day, for now that Jonathan is a partner, Mr. Hawkins wants to
-tell him all about the clients.
-
-"How is your dear mother getting on? I wish I could run up
-to town for a day or two to see you, dear, but I dare not
-go yet, with so much on my shoulders, and Jonathan wants
-looking after still. He is beginning to put some flesh on
-his bones again, but he was terribly weakened by the long
-illness. Even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in
-a sudden way and awakes all trembling until I can coax him
-back to his usual placidity. However, thank God, these
-occasions grow less frequent as the days go on, and they
-will in time pass away altogether, I trust. And now I have
-told you my news, let me ask yours. When are you to be
-married, and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and
-what are you to wear, and is it to be a public or private
-wedding? Tell me all about it, dear, tell me all about
-everything, for there is nothing which interests you which
-will not be dear to me. Jonathan asks me to send his 'respectful
-duty', but I do not think that is good enough from the junior
-partner of the important firm Hawkins & Harker. And so, as you
-love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and
-tenses of the verb, I send you simply his 'love' instead.
-Goodbye, my dearest Lucy, and blessings on you.
-
-"Yours,
-
-"Mina Harker"
-
-
-
-REPORT FROM PATRICK HENNESSEY, MD, MRCSLK, QCPI, ETC, ETC,
-TO JOHN SEWARD, MD
-
-20 September
-
-My dear Sir:
-
-"In accordance with your wishes, I enclose report of the
-conditions of everything left in my charge. With regard to
-patient, Renfield, there is more to say. He has had another
-outbreak, which might have had a dreadful ending, but which, as
-it fortunately happened, was unattended with any unhappy results.
-This afternoon a carrier's cart with two men made a call at the
-empty house whose grounds abut on ours, the house to which, you
-will remember, the patient twice ran away. The men stopped at
-our gate to ask the porter their way, as they were strangers.
-
-"I was myself looking out of the study window, having a
-smoke after dinner, and saw one of them come up to the
-house. As he passed the window of Renfield's room, the
-patient began to rate him from within, and called him all
-the foul names he could lay his tongue to. The man, who
-seemed a decent fellow enough, contented himself by telling
-him to 'shut up for a foul-mouthed beggar', whereon our man
-accused him of robbing him and wanting to murder him and
-said that he would hinder him if he were to swing for it.
-I opened the window and signed to the man not to notice, so
-he contented himself after looking the place over and making up
-his mind as to what kind of place he had got to by saying, 'Lor'
-bless yer, sir, I wouldn't mind what was said to me in a bloomin'
-madhouse. I pity ye and the guv'nor for havin' to live in the
-house with a wild beast like that.'
-
-"Then he asked his way civilly enough, and I told him where
-the gate of the empty house was. He went away followed by
-threats and curses and revilings from our man. I went down
-to see if I could make out any cause for his anger, since
-he is usually such a well-behaved man, and except his violent
-fits nothing of the kind had ever occurred. I found him, to my
-astonishment, quite composed and most genial in his manner. I
-tried to get him to talk of the incident, but he blandly asked me
-questions as to what I meant, and led me to believe that he was
-completely oblivious of the affair. It was, I am sorry to say,
-however, only another instance of his cunning, for within half an
-hour I heard of him again. This time he had broken out through
-the window of his room, and was running down the avenue. I
-called to the attendants to follow me, and ran after him, for I
-feared he was intent on some mischief. My fear was justified
-when I saw the same cart which had passed before coming down the
-road, having on it some great wooden boxes. The men were wiping
-their foreheads, and were flushed in the face, as if with violent
-exercise. Before I could get up to him, the patient rushed at
-them, and pulling one of them off the cart, began to knock his
-head against the ground. If I had not seized him just at the
-moment, I believe he would have killed the man there and then.
-The other fellow jumped down and struck him over the head with
-the butt end of his heavy whip. It was a horrible blow, but he
-did not seem to mind it, but seized him also, and struggled with
-the three of us, pulling us to and fro as if we were kittens.
-You know I am no lightweight, and the others were both burly men.
-At first he was silent in his fighting, but as we began to master
-him, and the attendants were putting a strait waistcoat on him,
-he began to shout, 'I'll frustrate them! They shan't rob me!
-They shan't murder me by inches! I'll fight for my Lord and
-Master!' and all sorts of similar incoherent ravings. It was
-with very considerable difficulty that they got him back to the
-house and put him in the padded room. One of the attendants,
-Hardy, had a finger broken. However, I set it all right, and he
-is going on well.
-
-"The two carriers were at first loud in their threats of
-actions for damages, and promised to rain all the penalties
-of the law on us. Their threats were, however, mingled
-with some sort of indirect apology for the defeat of the
-two of them by a feeble madman. They said that if it had
-not been for the way their strength had been spent in carrying
-and raising the heavy boxes to the cart they would have made
-short work of him. They gave as another reason for their defeat
-the extraordinary state of drouth to which they had been reduced
-by the dusty nature of their occupation and the reprehensible
-distance from the scene of their labors of any place of public
-entertainment. I quite understood their drift, and after a stiff
-glass of strong grog, or rather more of the same, and with each a
-sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore that
-they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of
-meeting so 'bloomin' good a bloke' as your correspondent. I took
-their names and addresses, in case they might be needed. They
-are as follows: Jack Smollet, of Dudding's Rents, King George's
-Road, Great Walworth, and Thomas Snelling, Peter Farley's Row,
-Guide Court, Bethnal Green. They are both in the employment of
-Harris & Sons, Moving and Shipment Company, Orange Master's Yard,
-Soho.
-
-"I shall report to you any matter of interest occurring here, and
-shall wire you at once if there is anything of importance.
-
-"Believe me, dear Sir,
-
-"Yours faithfully,
-
-"Patrick Hennessey."
-
-
-
-LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA (Unopened by her)
-
-18 September
-
-"My dearest Lucy,
-
-"Such a sad blow has befallen us. Mr. Hawkins has died very
-suddenly. Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had
-both come to so love him that it really seems as though we
-had lost a father. I never knew either father or mother,
-so that the dear old man's death is a real blow to me. Jonathan
-is greatly distressed. It is not only that he feels sorrow, deep
-sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his
-life, and now at the end has treated him like his own son and
-left him a fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is
-wealth beyond the dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on
-another account. He says the amount of responsibility which it
-puts upon him makes him nervous. He begins to doubt himself. I
-try to cheer him up, and my belief in him helps him to have a
-belief in himself. But it is here that the grave shock that he
-experienced tells upon him the most. Oh, it is too hard that a
-sweet, simple, noble, strong nature such as his, a nature which
-enabled him by our dear, good friend's aid to rise from clerk to
-master in a few years, should be so injured that the very essence
-of its strength is gone. Forgive me, dear, if I worry you with my
-troubles in the midst of your own happiness, but Lucy dear, I
-must tell someone, for the strain of keeping up a brave and
-cheerful appearance to Jonathan tries me, and I have no one here
-that I can confide in. I dread coming up to London, as we must
-do that day after tomorrow, for poor Mr. Hawkins left in his will
-that he was to be buried in the grave with his father. As there
-are no relations at all, Jonathan will have to be chief mourner.
-I shall try to run over to see you, dearest, if only for a few
-minutes. Forgive me for troubling you. With all blessings,
-
-"Your loving
-
-"Mina Harker"
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-20 September.--Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry
-tonight. I am too miserable, too low spirited, too sick of the world
-and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard
-this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death. And he
-has been flapping those grim wings to some purpose of late, Lucy's
-mother and Arthur's father, and now . . . Let me get on with my work.
-
-I duly relieved Van Helsing in his watch over Lucy. We wanted Arthur
-to go to rest also, but he refused at first. It was only when I told
-him that we should want him to help us during the day, and that we
-must not all break down for want of rest, lest Lucy should suffer,
-that he agreed to go.
-
-Van Helsing was very kind to him. "Come, my child," he said. "Come
-with me. You are sick and weak, and have had much sorrow and much
-mental pain, as well as that tax on your strength that we know of.
-You must not be alone, for to be alone is to be full of fears and
-alarms. Come to the drawing room, where there is a big fire, and
-there are two sofas. You shall lie on one, and I on the other, and
-our sympathy will be comfort to each other, even though we do not
-speak, and even if we sleep."
-
-Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy's face,
-which lay in her pillow, almost whiter than the lawn. She lay quite
-still, and I looked around the room to see that all was as it should
-be. I could see that the Professor had carried out in this room, as
-in the other, his purpose of using the garlic. The whole of the
-window sashes reeked with it, and round Lucy's neck, over the silk
-handkerchief which Van Helsing made her keep on, was a rough chaplet
-of the same odorous flowers.
-
-Lucy was breathing somewhat stertorously, and her face was at its
-worst, for the open mouth showed the pale gums. Her teeth, in the
-dim, uncertain light, seemed longer and sharper than they had been in
-the morning. In particular, by some trick of the light, the canine
-teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest.
-
-I sat down beside her, and presently she moved uneasily. At the same
-moment there came a sort of dull flapping or buffeting at the window.
-I went over to it softly, and peeped out by the corner of the blind.
-There was a full moonlight, and I could see that the noise was made by
-a great bat, which wheeled around, doubtless attracted by the light,
-although so dim, and every now and again struck the window with its
-wings. When I came back to my seat, I found that Lucy had moved
-slightly, and had torn away the garlic flowers from her throat. I
-replaced them as well as I could, and sat watching her.
-
-Presently she woke, and I gave her food, as Van Helsing had
-prescribed. She took but a little, and that languidly. There did not
-seem to be with her now the unconscious struggle for life and strength
-that had hitherto so marked her illness. It struck me as curious that
-the moment she became conscious she pressed the garlic flowers close
-to her. It was certainly odd that whenever she got into that
-lethargic state, with the stertorous breathing, she put the flowers
-from her, but that when she waked she clutched them close. There was
-no possibility of making any mistake about this, for in the long hours
-that followed, she had many spells of sleeping and waking and repeated
-both actions many times.
-
-At six o'clock Van Helsing came to relieve me. Arthur had then fallen
-into a doze, and he mercifully let him sleep on. When he saw Lucy's
-face I could hear the hissing indraw of breath, and he said to me in a
-sharp whisper. "Draw up the blind. I want light!" Then he bent down,
-and, with his face almost touching Lucy's, examined her carefully. He
-removed the flowers and lifted the silk handkerchief from her throat.
-As he did so he started back and I could hear his ejaculation, "Mein
-Gott!" as it was smothered in his throat. I bent over and looked,
-too, and as I noticed some queer chill came over me. The wounds on
-the throat had absolutely disappeared.
-
-For fully five minutes Van Helsing stood looking at her, with his face
-at its sternest. Then he turned to me and said calmly, "She is
-dying. It will not be long now. It will be much difference, mark me,
-whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and
-let him come and see the last. He trusts us, and we have promised
-him."
-
-I went to the dining room and waked him. He was dazed for a moment,
-but when he saw the sunlight streaming in through the edges of the
-shutters he thought he was late, and expressed his fear. I assured
-him that Lucy was still asleep, but told him as gently as I could that
-both Van Helsing and I feared that the end was near. He covered his
-face with his hands, and slid down on his knees by the sofa, where he
-remained, perhaps a minute, with his head buried, praying, whilst his
-shoulders shook with grief. I took him by the hand and raised him up.
-"Come," I said, "my dear old fellow, summon all your fortitude. It
-will be best and easiest for her."
-
-When we came into Lucy's room I could see that Van Helsing had, with
-his usual forethought, been putting matters straight and making
-everything look as pleasing as possible. He had even brushed Lucy's
-hair, so that it lay on the pillow in its usual sunny ripples. When
-we came into the room she opened her eyes, and seeing him, whispered
-softly, "Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come!"
-
-He was stooping to kiss her, when Van Helsing motioned him back.
-"No," he whispered, "not yet! Hold her hand, it will comfort her
-more."
-
-So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best,
-with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes. Then
-gradually her eyes closed, and she sank to sleep. For a little bit
-her breast heaved softly, and her breath came and went like a tired
-child's.
-
-And then insensibly there came the strange change which I had noticed
-in the night. Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and
-the pale gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than
-ever. In a sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened
-her eyes, which were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft,
-voluptuous voice, such as I had never heard from her lips, "Arthur!
-Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!"
-
-Arthur bent eagerly over to kiss her, but at that instant Van Helsing,
-who, like me, had been startled by her voice, swooped upon him, and
-catching him by the neck with both hands, dragged him back with a fury
-of strength which I never thought he could have possessed, and
-actually hurled him almost across the room.
-
-"Not on your life!" he said, "not for your living soul and hers!" And
-he stood between them like a lion at bay.
-
-Arthur was so taken aback that he did not for a moment know what to do
-or say, and before any impulse of violence could seize him he realized
-the place and the occasion, and stood silent, waiting.
-
-I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm
-as of rage flit like a shadow over her face. The sharp teeth clamped
-together. Then her eyes closed, and she breathed heavily.
-
-Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and
-putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing's great brown
-one, drawing it close to her, she kissed it. "My true friend," she
-said, in a faint voice, but with untellable pathos, "My true friend,
-and his! Oh, guard him, and give me peace!"
-
-"I swear it!" he said solemnly, kneeling beside her and holding up his
-hand, as one who registers an oath. Then he turned to Arthur, and
-said to him, "Come, my child, take her hand in yours, and kiss her on
-the forehead, and only once."
-
-Their eyes met instead of their lips, and so they parted. Lucy's eyes
-closed, and Van Helsing, who had been watching closely, took Arthur's
-arm, and drew him away.
-
-And then Lucy's breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it
-ceased.
-
-"It is all over," said Van Helsing. "She is dead!"
-
-I took Arthur by the arm, and led him away to the drawing room, where
-he sat down, and covered his face with his hands, sobbing in a way
-that nearly broke me down to see.
-
-I went back to the room, and found Van Helsing looking at poor Lucy,
-and his face was sterner than ever. Some change had come over her
-body. Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and
-cheeks had recovered some of their flowing lines. Even the lips had
-lost their deadly pallor. It was as if the blood, no longer needed
-for the working of the heart, had gone to make the harshness of death
-as little rude as might be.
-
-"We thought her dying whilst she slept, and sleeping when she died."
-
-
-I stood beside Van Helsing, and said, "Ah well, poor girl, there is
-peace for her at last. It is the end!"
-
-He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity, "Not so, alas! Not
-so. It is only the beginning!"
-
-When I asked him what he meant, he only shook his head and answered,
-"We can do nothing as yet. Wait and see."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 13
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont.
-
-The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and
-her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly
-formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff was
-afflicted, or blessed, with something of his own obsequious suavity.
-Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to
-me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out
-from the death chamber,
-
-"She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to
-attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to
-our establishment!"
-
-I noticed that Van Helsing never kept far away. This was possible
-from the disordered state of things in the household. There were no
-relatives at hand, and as Arthur had to be back the next day to attend
-at his father's funeral, we were unable to notify any one who should
-have been bidden. Under the circumstances, Van Helsing and I took it
-upon ourselves to examine papers, etc. He insisted upon looking over
-Lucy's papers himself. I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a
-foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and
-so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble.
-
-He answered me, "I know, I know. You forget that I am a lawyer as
-well as a doctor. But this is not altogether for the law. You knew
-that, when you avoided the coroner. I have more than him to avoid.
-There may be papers more, such as this."
-
-As he spoke he took from his pocket book the memorandum which had been
-in Lucy's breast, and which she had torn in her sleep.
-
-"When you find anything of the solicitor who is for the late Mrs.
-Westenra, seal all her papers, and write him tonight. For me, I watch
-here in the room and in Miss Lucy's old room all night, and I myself
-search for what may be. It is not well that her very thoughts go into
-the hands of strangers."
-
-I went on with my part of the work, and in another half hour had found
-the name and address of Mrs. Westenra's solicitor and had written to
-him. All the poor lady's papers were in order. Explicit directions
-regarding the place of burial were given. I had hardly sealed the
-letter, when, to my surprise, Van Helsing walked into the room,
-saying,
-
-"Can I help you friend John? I am free, and if I may, my service is
-to you."
-
-"Have you got what you looked for?" I asked.
-
-To which he replied, "I did not look for any specific thing. I only
-hoped to find, and find I have, all that there was, only some letters
-and a few memoranda, and a diary new begun. But I have them here, and
-we shall for the present say nothing of them. I shall see that poor
-lad tomorrow evening, and, with his sanction, I shall use some."
-
-When we had finished the work in hand, he said to me, "And now, friend
-John, I think we may to bed. We want sleep, both you and I, and rest
-to recuperate. Tomorrow we shall have much to do, but for the tonight
-there is no need of us. Alas!"
-
-Before turning in we went to look at poor Lucy. The undertaker had
-certainly done his work well, for the room was turned into a small
-chapelle ardente. There was a wilderness of beautiful white flowers,
-and death was made as little repulsive as might be. The end of the
-winding sheet was laid over the face. When the Professor bent over
-and turned it gently back, we both started at the beauty before us.
-The tall wax candles showing a sufficient light to note it well. All
-Lucy's loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that
-had passed, instead of leaving traces of 'decay's effacing fingers',
-had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not
-believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse.
-
-The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved her as I had,
-and there was no need for tears in his eyes. He said to me, "Remain
-till I return," and left the room. He came back with a handful of
-wild garlic from the box waiting in the hall, but which had not been
-opened, and placed the flowers amongst the others on and around the
-bed. Then he took from his neck, inside his collar, a little gold
-crucifix, and placed it over the mouth. He restored the sheet to its
-place, and we came away.
-
-I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the
-door, he entered, and at once began to speak.
-
-"Tomorrow I want you to bring me, before night, a set of post-mortem
-knives."
-
-"Must we make an autopsy?" I asked.
-
-"Yes and no. I want to operate, but not what you think. Let me tell
-you now, but not a word to another. I want to cut off her head and
-take out her heart. Ah! You a surgeon, and so shocked! You, whom I
-have seen with no tremble of hand or heart, do operations of life and
-death that make the rest shudder. Oh, but I must not forget, my dear
-friend John, that you loved her, and I have not forgotten it for is I
-that shall operate, and you must not help. I would like to do it
-tonight, but for Arthur I must not. He will be free after his
-father's funeral tomorrow, and he will want to see her, to see it.
-Then, when she is coffined ready for the next day, you and I shall
-come when all sleep. We shall unscrew the coffin lid, and shall do
-our operation, and then replace all, so that none know, save we
-alone."
-
-"But why do it at all? The girl is dead. Why mutilate her poor body
-without need? And if there is no necessity for a post-mortem and
-nothing to gain by it, no good to her, to us, to science, to human
-knowledge, why do it? Without such it is monstrous."
-
-For answer he put his hand on my shoulder, and said, with infinite
-tenderness, "Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart, and I love
-you the more because it does so bleed. If I could, I would take on
-myself the burden that you do bear. But there are things that you
-know not, but that you shall know, and bless me for knowing, though
-they are not pleasant things. John, my child, you have been my friend
-now many years, and yet did you ever know me to do any without good
-cause? I may err, I am but man, but I believe in all I do. Was it
-not for these causes that you send for me when the great trouble
-came? Yes! Were you not amazed, nay horrified, when I would not let
-Arthur kiss his love, though she was dying, and snatched him away by
-all my strength? Yes! And yet you saw how she thanked me, with her
-so beautiful dying eyes, her voice, too, so weak, and she kiss my
-rough old hand and bless me? Yes! And did you not hear me swear
-promise to her, that so she closed her eyes grateful? Yes!
-
-"Well, I have good reason now for all I want to do. You have for many
-years trust me. You have believe me weeks past, when there be things
-so strange that you might have well doubt. Believe me yet a little,
-friend John. If you trust me not, then I must tell what I think, and
-that is not perhaps well. And if I work, as work I shall, no matter
-trust or no trust, without my friend trust in me, I work with heavy
-heart and feel oh so lonely when I want all help and courage that may
-be!" He paused a moment and went on solemnly, "Friend John, there are
-strange and terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that
-so we work to a good end. Will you not have faith in me?"
-
-I took his hand, and promised him. I held my door open as he went
-away, and watched him go to his room and close the door. As I stood
-without moving, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the
-passage, she had her back to me, so did not see me, and go into the
-room where Lucy lay. The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and
-we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love. Here
-was a poor girl putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of
-death to go watch alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so
-that the poor clay might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest.
-
-I must have slept long and soundly, for it was broad daylight when Van
-Helsing waked me by coming into my room. He came over to my bedside
-and said, "You need not trouble about the knives. We shall not do
-it."
-
-"Why not?" I asked. For his solemnity of the night before had
-greatly impressed me.
-
-"Because," he said sternly, "it is too late, or too early. See!"
-Here he held up the little golden crucifix.
-
-"This was stolen in the night."
-
-"How stolen," I asked in wonder, "since you have it now?"
-
-"Because I get it back from the worthless wretch who stole it, from
-the woman who robbed the dead and the living. Her punishment will
-surely come, but not through me. She knew not altogether what she
-did, and thus unknowing, she only stole. Now we must wait." He went
-away on the word, leaving me with a new mystery to think of, a new
-puzzle to grapple with.
-
-The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came, Mr.
-Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale. He was very
-genial and very appreciative of what we had done, and took off our
-hands all cares as to details. During lunch he told us that Mrs.
-Westenra had for some time expected sudden death from her heart, and
-had put her affairs in absolute order. He informed us that, with the
-exception of a certain entailed property of Lucy's father which now,
-in default of direct issue, went back to a distant branch of the
-family, the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to
-Arthur Holmwood. When he had told us so much he went on,
-
-"Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition,
-and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter
-either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a
-matrimonial alliance. Indeed, we pressed the matter so far that we
-almost came into collision, for she asked us if we were or were not
-prepared to carry out her wishes. Of course, we had then no
-alternative but to accept. We were right in principle, and
-ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should have proved, by the logic
-of events, the accuracy of our judgment.
-
-"Frankly, however, I must admit that in this case any other form of
-disposition would have rendered impossible the carrying out of her
-wishes. For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have
-come into possession of the property, and, even had she only survived
-her mother by five minutes, her property would, in case there were no
-will, and a will was a practical impossibility in such a case, have
-been treated at her decease as under intestacy. In which case Lord
-Godalming, though so dear a friend, would have had no claim in the
-world. And the inheritors, being remote, would not be likely to
-abandon their just rights, for sentimental reasons regarding an entire
-stranger. I assure you, my dear sirs, I am rejoiced at the result,
-perfectly rejoiced."
-
-He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in
-which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an
-object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding.
-
-He did not remain long, but said he would look in later in the day and
-see Lord Godalming. His coming, however, had been a certain comfort
-to us, since it assured us that we should not have to dread hostile
-criticism as to any of our acts. Arthur was expected at five o'clock,
-so a little before that time we visited the death chamber. It was so
-in very truth, for now both mother and daughter lay in it. The
-undertaker, true to his craft, had made the best display he could of
-his goods, and there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered
-our spirits at once.
-
-Van Helsing ordered the former arrangement to be adhered to,
-explaining that, as Lord Godalming was coming very soon, it would be
-less harrowing to his feelings to see all that was left of his fiancee
-quite alone.
-
-The undertaker seemed shocked at his own stupidity and exerted himself
-to restore things to the condition in which we left them the night
-before, so that when Arthur came such shocks to his feelings as we
-could avoid were saved.
-
-Poor fellow! He looked desperately sad and broken. Even his stalwart
-manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under the strain of his
-much-tried emotions. He had, I knew, been very genuinely and
-devotedly attached to his father, and to lose him, and at such a time,
-was a bitter blow to him. With me he was warm as ever, and to Van
-Helsing he was sweetly courteous. But I could not help seeing that
-there was some constraint with him. The professor noticed it too, and
-motioned me to bring him upstairs. I did so, and left him at the door
-of the room, as I felt he would like to be quite alone with her, but
-he took my arm and led me in, saying huskily,
-
-"You loved her too, old fellow. She told me all about it, and there
-was no friend had a closer place in her heart than you. I don't know
-how to thank you for all you have done for her. I can't think
-yet . . ."
-
-Here he suddenly broke down, and threw his arms round my shoulders and
-laid his head on my breast, crying, "Oh, Jack! Jack! What shall I
-do? The whole of life seems gone from me all at once, and there is
-nothing in the wide world for me to live for."
-
-I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need
-much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over
-the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a
-man's heart. I stood still and silent till his sobs died away, and
-then I said softly to him, "Come and look at her."
-
-Together we moved over to the bed, and I lifted the lawn from her
-face. God! How beautiful she was. Every hour seemed to be enhancing
-her loveliness. It frightened and amazed me somewhat. And as for
-Arthur, he fell to trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as
-with an ague. At last, after a long pause, he said to me in a faint
-whisper, "Jack, is she really dead?"
-
-I assured him sadly that it was so, and went on to suggest, for I felt
-that such a horrible doubt should not have life for a moment longer
-than I could help, that it often happened that after death faces
-become softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty, that
-this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or
-prolonged suffering. I seemed to quite do away with any doubt, and
-after kneeling beside the couch for a while and looking at her
-lovingly and long, he turned aside. I told him that that must be
-goodbye, as the coffin had to be prepared, so he went back and took
-her dead hand in his and kissed it, and bent over and kissed her
-forehead. He came away, fondly looking back over his shoulder at her
-as he came.
-
-I left him in the drawing room, and told Van Helsing that he had said
-goodbye, so the latter went to the kitchen to tell the undertaker's
-men to proceed with the preparations and to screw up the coffin. When
-he came out of the room again I told him of Arthur's question, and he
-replied, "I am not surprised. Just now I doubted for a moment
-myself!"
-
-We all dined together, and I could see that poor Art was trying to
-make the best of things. Van Helsing had been silent all dinner time,
-but when we had lit our cigars he said, "Lord . . ." but Arthur
-interrupted him.
-
-"No, no, not that, for God's sake! Not yet at any rate. Forgive me,
-sir. I did not mean to speak offensively. It is only because my loss
-is so recent."
-
-The Professor answered very sweetly, "I only used that name because I
-was in doubt. I must not call you 'Mr.' and I have grown to love you,
-yes, my dear boy, to love you, as Arthur."
-
-Arthur held out his hand, and took the old man's warmly. "Call me
-what you will," he said. "I hope I may always have the title of a
-friend. And let me say that I am at a loss for words to thank you for
-your goodness to my poor dear." He paused a moment, and went on, "I
-know that she understood your goodness even better than I do. And if
-I was rude or in any way wanting at that time you acted so, you
-remember"--the Professor nodded--"you must forgive me."
-
-He answered with a grave kindness, "I know it was hard for you to
-quite trust me then, for to trust such violence needs to understand,
-and I take it that you do not, that you cannot, trust me now, for you
-do not yet understand. And there may be more times when I shall want
-you to trust when you cannot, and may not, and must not yet
-understand. But the time will come when your trust shall be whole and
-complete in me, and when you shall understand as though the sunlight
-himself shone through. Then you shall bless me from first to last for
-your own sake, and for the sake of others, and for her dear sake to
-whom I swore to protect."
-
-"And indeed, indeed, sir," said Arthur warmly. "I shall in all ways
-trust you. I know and believe you have a very noble heart, and you
-are Jack's friend, and you were hers. You shall do what you like."
-
-The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to
-speak, and finally said, "May I ask you something now?"
-
-"Certainly."
-
-"You know that Mrs. Westenra left you all her property?"
-
-"No, poor dear. I never thought of it."
-
-"And as it is all yours, you have a right to deal with it as you will.
-I want you to give me permission to read all Miss Lucy's papers and
-letters. Believe me, it is no idle curiosity. I have a motive of
-which, be sure, she would have approved. I have them all here. I
-took them before we knew that all was yours, so that no strange hand
-might touch them, no strange eye look through words into her soul. I
-shall keep them, if I may. Even you may not see them yet, but I shall
-keep them safe. No word shall be lost, and in the good time I shall
-give them back to you. It is a hard thing that I ask, but you will do
-it, will you not, for Lucy's sake?"
-
-Arthur spoke out heartily, like his old self, "Dr. Van Helsing, you
-may do what you will. I feel that in saying this I am doing what my
-dear one would have approved. I shall not trouble you with questions
-till the time comes."
-
-The old Professor stood up as he said solemnly, "And you are right.
-There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will
-this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy,
-will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet.
-But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all
-will be well!"
-
-I slept on a sofa in Arthur's room that night. Van Helsing did not go
-to bed at all. He went to and fro, as if patroling the house, and was
-never out of sight of the room where Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn
-with the wild garlic flowers, which sent through the odour of lily and
-rose, a heavy, overpowering smell into the night.
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-22 September.--In the train to Exeter. Jonathan sleeping. It seems
-only yesterday that the last entry was made, and yet how much between
-then, in Whitby and all the world before me, Jonathan away and no news
-of him, and now, married to Jonathan, Jonathan a solicitor, a partner,
-rich, master of his business, Mr. Hawkins dead and buried, and
-Jonathan with another attack that may harm him. Some day he may ask
-me about it. Down it all goes. I am rusty in my shorthand, see what
-unexpected prosperity does for us, so it may be as well to freshen it
-up again with an exercise anyhow.
-
-The service was very simple and very solemn. There were only
-ourselves and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from
-Exeter, his London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John
-Paxton, the President of the Incorporated Law Society. Jonathan and I
-stood hand in hand, and we felt that our best and dearest friend was
-gone from us.
-
-We came back to town quietly, taking a bus to Hyde Park Corner.
-Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while,
-so we sat down. But there were very few people there, and it was
-sad-looking and desolate to see so many empty chairs. It made us
-think of the empty chair at home. So we got up and walked down
-Piccadilly. Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in
-the old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for
-you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other
-girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit. But it
-was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who
-saw us, and we didn't care if they did, so on we walked. I was
-looking at a very beautiful girl, in a big cart-wheel hat, sitting in
-a victoria outside Guiliano's, when I felt Jonathan clutch my arm so
-tight that he hurt me, and he said under his breath, "My God!"
-
-I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I fear that some nervous fit
-may upset him again. So I turned to him quickly, and asked him what
-it was that disturbed him.
-
-He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror
-and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose
-and black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the
-pretty girl. He was looking at her so hard that he did not see either
-of us, and so I had a good view of him. His face was not a good
-face. It was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and big white teeth, that
-looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like
-an animal's. Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would
-notice. I feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty.
-I asked Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently
-thinking that I knew as much about it as he did, "Do you see who it
-is?"
-
-"No, dear," I said. "I don't know him, who is it?" His answer seemed
-to shock and thrill me, for it was said as if he did not know that it
-was me, Mina, to whom he was speaking. "It is the man himself!"
-
-The poor dear was evidently terrified at something, very greatly
-terrified. I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and to
-support him he would have sunk down. He kept staring. A man came out
-of the shop with a small parcel, and gave it to the lady, who then
-drove off. The dark man kept his eyes fixed on her, and when the
-carriage moved up Piccadilly he followed in the same direction, and
-hailed a hansom. Jonathan kept looking after him, and said, as if to
-himself,
-
-"I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this
-be so! Oh, my God! My God! If only I knew! If only I knew!" He was
-distressing himself so much that I feared to keep his mind on the
-subject by asking him any questions, so I remained silent. I drew
-away quietly, and he, holding my arm, came easily. We walked a little
-further, and then went in and sat for a while in the Green Park. It
-was a hot day for autumn, and there was a comfortable seat in a shady
-place. After a few minutes' staring at nothing, Jonathan's eyes
-closed, and he went quickly into a sleep, with his head on my
-shoulder. I thought it was the best thing for him, so did not disturb
-him. In about twenty minutes he woke up, and said to me quite
-cheerfully,
-
-"Why, Mina, have I been asleep! Oh, do forgive me for being so rude.
-Come, and we'll have a cup of tea somewhere."
-
-He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger, as in his
-illness he had forgotten all that this episode had reminded him of. I
-don't like this lapsing into forgetfulness. It may make or continue
-some injury to the brain. I must not ask him, for fear I shall do
-more harm than good, but I must somehow learn the facts of his journey
-abroad. The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and
-know what is written. Oh, Jonathan, you will, I know, forgive me if I
-do wrong, but it is for your own dear sake.
-
-
-Later.--A sad homecoming in every way, the house empty of the dear
-soul who was so good to us. Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a
-slight relapse of his malady, and now a telegram from Van Helsing,
-whoever he may be. "You will be grieved to hear that Mrs. Westenra
-died five days ago, and that Lucy died the day before yesterday. They
-were both buried today."
-
-Oh, what a wealth of sorrow in a few words! Poor Mrs. Westenra! Poor
-Lucy! Gone, gone, never to return to us! And poor, poor Arthur, to
-have lost such a sweetness out of his life! God help us all to bear
-our troubles.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY-CONT.
-
-22 September.--It is all over. Arthur has gone back to Ring, and has
-taken Quincey Morris with him. What a fine fellow is Quincey! I
-believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's
-death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral
-Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a
-power in the world indeed. Van Helsing is lying down, having a rest
-preparatory to his journey. He goes to Amsterdam tonight, but says he
-returns tomorrow night, that he only wants to make some arrangements
-which can only be made personally. He is to stop with me then, if he
-can. He says he has work to do in London which may take him some
-time. Poor old fellow! I fear that the strain of the past week has
-broken down even his iron strength. All the time of the burial he
-was, I could see, putting some terrible restraint on himself. When it
-was all over, we were standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was
-speaking of his part in the operation where his blood had been
-transfused to his Lucy's veins. I could see Van Helsing's face grow
-white and purple by turns. Arthur was saying that he felt since then
-as if they two had been really married, and that she was his wife in
-the sight of God. None of us said a word of the other operations, and
-none of us ever shall. Arthur and Quincey went away together to the
-station, and Van Helsing and I came on here. The moment we were alone
-in the carriage he gave way to a regular fit of hysterics. He has
-denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted that it was
-only his sense of humor asserting itself under very terrible
-conditions. He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down the
-blinds lest any one should see us and misjudge. And then he cried,
-till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman
-does. I tried to be stern with him, as one is to a woman under the
-circumstances, but it had no effect. Men and women are so different
-in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face
-grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mirth, and why at such
-a time. His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was
-logical and forceful and mysterious. He said,
-
-"Ah, you don't comprehend, friend John. Do not think that I am not
-sad, though I laugh. See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke
-me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh
-he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who
-knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter.
-No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no
-person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.'
-Behold, in example I grieve my heart out for that so sweet young
-girl. I give my blood for her, though I am old and worn. I give my
-time, my skill, my sleep. I let my other sufferers want that she may
-have all. And yet I can laugh at her very grave, laugh when the clay
-from the spade of the sexton drop upon her coffin and say 'Thud,
-thud!' to my heart, till it send back the blood from my cheek. My
-heart bleed for that poor boy, that dear boy, so of the age of mine
-own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his hair and eyes
-the same.
-
-"There, you know now why I love him so. And yet when he say things
-that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my father-heart
-yearn to him as to no other man, not even you, friend John, for we are
-more level in experiences than father and son, yet even at such a
-moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, 'Here I
-am! Here I am!' till the blood come dance back and bring some of the
-sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is a
-strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and
-troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the
-tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and
-tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he
-make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John,
-that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like
-ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears
-come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps
-the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come
-like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go
-on with our labor, what it may be."
-
-I did not like to wound him by pretending not to see his idea, but as
-I did not yet understand the cause of his laughter, I asked him. As
-he answered me his face grew stern, and he said in quite a different
-tone,
-
-"Oh, it was the grim irony of it all, this so lovely lady garlanded
-with flowers, that looked so fair as life, till one by one we wondered
-if she were truly dead, she laid in that so fine marble house in that
-lonely churchyard, where rest so many of her kin, laid there with the
-mother who loved her, and whom she loved, and that sacred bell going
-'Toll! Toll! Toll!' so sad and slow, and those holy men, with the
-white garments of the angel, pretending to read books, and yet all the
-time their eyes never on the page, and all of us with the bowed head.
-And all for what? She is dead, so! Is it not?"
-
-"Well, for the life of me, Professor," I said, "I can't see anything
-to laugh at in all that. Why, your expression makes it a harder
-puzzle than before. But even if the burial service was comic, what
-about poor Art and his trouble? Why his heart was simply breaking."
-
-"Just so. Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins
-had made her truly his bride?"
-
-"Yes, and it was a sweet and comforting idea for him."
-
-"Quite so. But there was a difficulty, friend John. If so that, then
-what about the others? Ho, ho! Then this so sweet maid is a
-polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by
-Church's law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful
-husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist."
-
-"I don't see where the joke comes in there either!" I said, and I did
-not feel particularly pleased with him for saying such things. He
-laid his hand on my arm, and said,
-
-"Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others
-when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust.
-If you could have looked into my heart then when I want to laugh, if
-you could have done so when the laugh arrived, if you could do so now,
-when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him, for he
-go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time, maybe you would
-perhaps pity me the most of all."
-
-I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why.
-
-"Because I know!"
-
-And now we are all scattered, and for many a long day loneliness will
-sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Lucy lies in the tomb of her
-kin, a lordly death house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming
-London, where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill,
-and where wild flowers grow of their own accord.
-
-So I can finish this diary, and God only knows if I shall ever begin
-another. If I do, or if I even open this again, it will be to deal
-with different people and different themes, for here at the end, where
-the romance of my life is told, ere I go back to take up the thread of
-my life-work, I say sadly and without hope, "FINIS".
-
-
-
-
-THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER A HAMPSTEAD MYSTERY
-
-The neighborhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised
-with a series of events which seem to run on lines parallel
-to those of what was known to the writers of headlines as
-"The Kensington Horror," or "The Stabbing Woman," or "The
-Woman in Black." During the past two or three days several
-cases have occurred of young children straying from home or
-neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In
-all these cases the children were too young to give any
-properly intelligible account of themselves, but the
-consensus of their excuses is that they had been with a
-"bloofer lady." It has always been late in the evening when
-they have been missed, and on two occasions the children
-have not been found until early in the following morning.
-It is generally supposed in the neighborhood that, as the
-first child missed gave as his reason for being away that a
-"bloofer lady" had asked him to come for a walk, the others
-had picked up the phrase and used it as occasion served. This
-is the more natural as the favourite game of the little ones
-at present is luring each other away by wiles. A correspondent
-writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to be the
-"bloofer lady" is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists
-might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by
-comparing the reality and the picture. It is only in accordance
-with general principles of human nature that the "bloofer lady"
-should be the popular role at these al fresco performances. Our
-correspondent naively says that even Ellen Terry could not be so
-winningly attractive as some of these grubby-faced little
-children pretend, and even imagine themselves, to be.
-
-There is, however, possibly a serious side to the question,
-for some of the children, indeed all who have been missed
-at night, have been slightly torn or wounded in the throat.
-The wounds seem such as might be made by a rat or a small
-dog, and although of not much importance individually, would tend
-to show that whatever animal inflicts them has a system or method
-of its own. The police of the division have been instructed to
-keep a sharp lookout for straying children, especially when very
-young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog which
-may be about.
-
-
-
-
-THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE, 25 SEPTEMBER EXTRA SPECIAL
-
-THE HAMPSTEAD HORROR
-
-
-ANOTHER CHILD INJURED
-
-THE "BLOOFER LADY"
-
-We have just received intelligence that another child,
-missed last night, was only discovered late in the morning
-under a furze bush at the Shooter's Hill side of Hampstead
-Heath, which is perhaps, less frequented than the other
-parts. It has the same tiny wound in the throat as has
-been noticed in other cases. It was terribly weak, and
-looked quite emaciated. It too, when partially restored,
-had the common story to tell of being lured away by the
-"bloofer lady".
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 14
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-23 September.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad
-that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the
-terrible things, and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down
-with the responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true
-to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the
-height of his advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties
-that come upon him. He will be away all day till late, for he said he
-could not lunch at home. My household work is done, so I shall take
-his foreign journal, and lock myself up in my room and read it.
-
-
-24 September.--I hadn't the heart to write last night, that terrible
-record of Jonathan's upset me so. Poor dear! How he must have
-suffered, whether it be true or only imagination. I wonder if there
-is any truth in it at all. Did he get his brain fever, and then write
-all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose
-I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet
-that man we saw yesterday! He seemed quite certain of him, poor
-fellow! I suppose it was the funeral upset him and sent his mind back
-on some train of thought.
-
-He believes it all himself. I remember how on our wedding day he said
-"Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to the bitter hours,
-asleep or awake, mad or sane . . ." There seems to be through it all
-some thread of continuity. That fearful Count was coming to London.
-If it should be, and he came to London, with its teeming millions . . .
-There may be a solemn duty, and if it come we must not shrink from
-it. I shall be prepared. I shall get my typewriter this very hour
-and begin transcribing. Then we shall be ready for other eyes if
-required. And if it be wanted, then, perhaps, if I am ready, poor
-Jonathan may not be upset, for I can speak for him and never let him
-be troubled or worried with it at all. If ever Jonathan quite gets
-over the nervousness he may want to tell me of it all, and I can ask
-him questions and find out things, and see how I may comfort him.
-
-
-
-
-LETTER, VAN HELSING TO MRS. HARKER
-
-24 September
-
-(Confidence)
-
-"Dear Madam,
-
-"I pray you to pardon my writing, in that I am so far
-friend as that I sent to you sad news of Miss Lucy
-Westenra's death. By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am
-empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply
-concerned about certain matters vitally important. In them
-I find some letters from you, which show how great friends
-you were and how you love her. Oh, Madam Mina, by that
-love, I implore you, help me. It is for others' good that
-I ask, to redress great wrong, and to lift much and terrible
-troubles, that may be more great than you can know. May it be
-that I see you? You can trust me. I am friend of Dr. John
-Seward and of Lord Godalming (that was Arthur of Miss Lucy). I
-must keep it private for the present from all. I should come to
-Exeter to see you at once if you tell me I am privilege to come,
-and where and when. I implore your pardon, Madam. I have read
-your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your
-husband suffer. So I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not,
-least it may harm. Again your pardon, and forgive me.
-
-"VAN HELSING"
-
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, MRS. HARKER TO VAN HELSING
-
-25 September.--Come today by quarter past ten train if you
-can catch it. Can see you any time you call.
-
-"WILHELMINA HARKER"
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-25 September.--I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time
-draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing, for somehow I expect that
-it will throw some light upon Jonathan's sad experience, and as he
-attended poor dear Lucy in her last illness, he can tell me all about
-her. That is the reason of his coming. It is concerning Lucy and her
-sleep-walking, and not about Jonathan. Then I shall never know the
-real truth now! How silly I am. That awful journal gets hold of my
-imagination and tinges everything with something of its own colour. Of
-course it is about Lucy. That habit came back to the poor dear, and
-that awful night on the cliff must have made her ill. I had almost
-forgotten in my own affairs how ill she was afterwards. She must have
-told him of her sleep-walking adventure on the cliff, and that I knew
-all about it, and now he wants me to tell him what I know, so that he
-may understand. I hope I did right in not saying anything of it to
-Mrs. Westenra. I should never forgive myself if any act of mine, were
-it even a negative one, brought harm on poor dear Lucy. I hope too,
-Dr. Van Helsing will not blame me. I have had so much trouble and
-anxiety of late that I feel I cannot bear more just at present.
-
-I suppose a cry does us all good at times, clears the air as other
-rain does. Perhaps it was reading the journal yesterday that upset
-me, and then Jonathan went away this morning to stay away from me a
-whole day and night, the first time we have been parted since our
-marriage. I do hope the dear fellow will take care of himself, and
-that nothing will occur to upset him. It is two o'clock, and the
-doctor will be here soon now. I shall say nothing of Jonathan's
-journal unless he asks me. I am so glad I have typewritten out my own
-journal, so that, in case he asks about Lucy, I can hand it to him.
-It will save much questioning.
-
-Later.--He has come and gone. Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it
-all makes my head whirl round. I feel like one in a dream. Can it be
-all possible, or even a part of it? If I had not read Jonathan's
-journal first, I should never have accepted even a possibility. Poor,
-poor, dear Jonathan! How he must have suffered. Please the good God,
-all this may not upset him again. I shall try to save him from it.
-But it may be even a consolation and a help to him, terrible though it
-be and awful in its consequences, to know for certain that his eyes
-and ears and brain did not deceive him, and that it is all true. It
-may be that it is the doubt which haunts him, that when the doubt is
-removed, no matter which, waking or dreaming, may prove the truth, he
-will be more satisfied and better able to bear the shock. Dr. Van
-Helsing must be a good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur's
-friend and Dr. Seward's, and if they brought him all the way from
-Holland to look after Lucy. I feel from having seen him that he is
-good and kind and of a noble nature. When he comes tomorrow I shall
-ask him about Jonathan. And then, please God, all this sorrow and
-anxiety may lead to a good end. I used to think I would like to
-practice interviewing. Jonathan's friend on "The Exeter News" told
-him that memory is everything in such work, that you must be able to
-put down exactly almost every word spoken, even if you had to refine
-some of it afterwards. Here was a rare interview. I shall try to
-record it verbatim.
-
-It was half-past two o'clock when the knock came. I took my courage a
-deux mains and waited. In a few minutes Mary opened the door, and
-announced "Dr. Van Helsing".
-
-I rose and bowed, and he came towards me, a man of medium weight,
-strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest
-and a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The
-poise of the head strikes me at once as indicative of thought and
-power. The head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the
-ears. The face, clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large
-resolute, mobile mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with
-quick, sensitive nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big bushy brows
-come down and the mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine,
-rising at first almost straight and then sloping back above two bumps
-or ridges wide apart, such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot
-possibly tumble over it, but falls naturally back and to the sides.
-Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or
-stern with the man's moods. He said to me,
-
-"Mrs. Harker, is it not?" I bowed assent.
-
-"That was Miss Mina Murray?" Again I assented.
-
-"It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was friend of that poor dear
-child Lucy Westenra. Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead that I
-come."
-
-"Sir," I said, "you could have no better claim on me than that you
-were a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra." And I held out my hand.
-He took it and said tenderly,
-
-"Oh, Madam Mina, I know that the friend of that poor little girl must
-be good, but I had yet to learn . . ." He finished his speech with a
-courtly bow. I asked him what it was that he wanted to see me about,
-so he at once began.
-
-"I have read your letters to Miss Lucy. Forgive me, but I had to
-begin to inquire somewhere, and there was none to ask. I know that
-you were with her at Whitby. She sometimes kept a diary, you need not
-look surprised, Madam Mina. It was begun after you had left, and was
-an imitation of you, and in that diary she traces by inference certain
-things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her.
-In great perplexity then I come to you, and ask you out of your so
-much kindness to tell me all of it that you can remember."
-
-"I can tell you, I think, Dr. Van Helsing, all about it."
-
-"Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not
-always so with young ladies."
-
-"No, doctor, but I wrote it all down at the time. I can show it to
-you if you like."
-
-"Oh, Madam Mina, I well be grateful. You will do me much favour."
-
-I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose
-it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our
-mouths, so I handed him the shorthand diary. He took it with a
-grateful bow, and said, "May I read it?"
-
-"If you wish," I answered as demurely as I could. He opened it, and
-for an instant his face fell. Then he stood up and bowed.
-
-"Oh, you so clever woman!" he said. "I knew long that Mr. Jonathan
-was a man of much thankfulness, but see, his wife have all the good
-things. And will you not so much honour me and so help me as to read
-it for me? Alas! I know not the shorthand."
-
-By this time my little joke was over, and I was almost ashamed. So I
-took the typewritten copy from my work basket and handed it to him.
-
-"Forgive me," I said. "I could not help it, but I had been thinking
-that it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask, and so that you might
-not have time to wait, not on my account, but because I know your time
-must be precious, I have written it out on the typewriter for you."
-
-He took it and his eyes glistened. "You are so good," he said. "And
-may I read it now? I may want to ask you some things when I have
-read."
-
-"By all means," I said, "read it over whilst I order lunch, and then
-you can ask me questions whilst we eat."
-
-He bowed and settled himself in a chair with his back to the light,
-and became so absorbed in the papers, whilst I went to see after lunch
-chiefly in order that he might not be disturbed. When I came back, I
-found him walking hurriedly up and down the room, his face all ablaze
-with excitement. He rushed up to me and took me by both hands.
-
-"Oh, Madam Mina," he said, "how can I say what I owe to you? This
-paper is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am dazed, I am
-dazzled, with so much light, and yet clouds roll in behind the light
-every time. But that you do not, cannot comprehend. Oh, but I am
-grateful to you, you so clever woman. Madame," he said this very
-solemnly, "if ever Abraham Van Helsing can do anything for you or
-yours, I trust you will let me know. It will be pleasure and delight
-if I may serve you as a friend, as a friend, but all I have ever
-learned, all I can ever do, shall be for you and those you love. There
-are darknesses in life, and there are lights. You are one of the
-lights. You will have a happy life and a good life, and your husband
-will be blessed in you."
-
-"But, doctor, you praise me too much, and you do not know me."
-
-"Not know you, I, who am old, and who have studied all my life men and
-women, I who have made my specialty the brain and all that belongs to
-him and all that follow from him! And I have read your diary that you
-have so goodly written for me, and which breathes out truth in every
-line. I, who have read your so sweet letter to poor Lucy of your
-marriage and your trust, not know you! Oh, Madam Mina, good women
-tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such
-things that angels can read. And we men who wish to know have in us
-something of angels' eyes. Your husband is noble nature, and you are
-noble too, for you trust, and trust cannot be where there is mean
-nature. And your husband, tell me of him. Is he quite well? Is all
-that fever gone, and is he strong and hearty?"
-
-I saw here an opening to ask him about Jonathan, so I said, "He was
-almost recovered, but he has been greatly upset by Mr. Hawkins death."
-
-He interrupted, "Oh, yes. I know. I know. I have read your last two
-letters."
-
-I went on, "I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on
-Thursday last he had a sort of shock."
-
-"A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That is not good. What kind
-of shock was it?"
-
-"He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something
-which led to his brain fever." And here the whole thing seemed to
-overwhelm me in a rush. The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he
-experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his diary, and the fear that
-has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult. I suppose
-I was hysterical, for I threw myself on my knees and held up my hands
-to him, and implored him to make my husband well again. He took my
-hands and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me. He
-held my hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetness,
-
-"My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have
-not had much time for friendships, but since I have been summoned to
-here by my friend John Seward I have known so many good people and
-seen such nobility that I feel more than ever, and it has grown with
-my advancing years, the loneliness of my life. Believe me, then, that
-I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope, hope,
-not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left
-to make life happy, good women, whose lives and whose truths may make
-good lesson for the children that are to be. I am glad, glad, that I
-may here be of some use to you. For if your husband suffer, he suffer
-within the range of my study and experience. I promise you that I
-will gladly do all for him that I can, all to make his life strong and
-manly, and your life a happy one. Now you must eat. You are
-overwrought and perhaps over-anxious. Husband Jonathan would not like
-to see you so pale, and what he like not where he love, is not to his
-good. Therefore for his sake you must eat and smile. You have told
-me about Lucy, and so now we shall not speak of it, lest it distress.
-I shall stay in Exeter tonight, for I want to think much over what you
-have told me, and when I have thought I will ask you questions, if I
-may. And then too, you will tell me of husband Jonathan's trouble so
-far as you can, but not yet. You must eat now, afterwards you shall
-tell me all."
-
-After lunch, when we went back to the drawing room, he said to me,
-"And now tell me all about him."
-
-When it came to speaking to this great learned man, I began to fear
-that he would think me a weak fool, and Jonathan a madman, that
-journal is all so strange, and I hesitated to go on. But he was so
-sweet and kind, and he had promised to help, and I trusted him, so I
-said,
-
-"Dr. Van Helsing, what I have to tell you is so queer that you must
-not laugh at me or at my husband. I have been since yesterday in a
-sort of fever of doubt. You must be kind to me, and not think me
-foolish that I have even half believed some very strange things."
-
-He reassured me by his manner as well as his words when he said, "Oh,
-my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which I
-am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think
-little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have
-tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life
-that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things,
-the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."
-
-"Thank you, thank you a thousand times! You have taken a weight off my
-mind. If you will let me, I shall give you a paper to read. It is
-long, but I have typewritten it out. It will tell you my trouble and
-Jonathan's. It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that
-happened. I dare not say anything of it. You will read for yourself
-and judge. And then when I see you, perhaps, you will be very kind
-and tell me what you think."
-
-"I promise," he said as I gave him the papers. "I shall in the
-morning, as soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I
-may."
-
-"Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch
-with us and see him then. You could catch the quick 3:34 train, which
-will leave you at Paddington before eight." He was surprised at my
-knowledge of the trains offhand, but he does not know that I have made
-up all the trains to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in
-case he is in a hurry.
-
-So he took the papers with him and went away, and I sit here thinking,
-thinking I don't know what.
-
-
-
-
-LETTER (by hand), VAN HELSING TO MRS. HARKER
-
-25 September, 6 o'clock
-
-"Dear Madam Mina,
-
-"I have read your husband's so wonderful diary. You may
-sleep without doubt. Strange and terrible as it is, it is
-true! I will pledge my life on it. It may be worse for
-others, but for him and you there is no dread. He is a
-noble fellow, and let me tell you from experience of men,
-that one who would do as he did in going down that wall and
-to that room, aye, and going a second time, is not one to
-be injured in permanence by a shock. His brain and his
-heart are all right, this I swear, before I have even seen
-him, so be at rest. I shall have much to ask him of other
-things. I am blessed that today I come to see you, for I
-have learn all at once so much that again I am dazzled,
-dazzled more than ever, and I must think.
-
-"Yours the most faithful,
-
-"Abraham Van Helsing."
-
-
-LETTER, MRS. HARKER TO VAN HELSING
-
-25 September, 6:30 P.M.
-
-"My dear Dr. Van Helsing,
-
-"A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a
-great weight off my mind. And yet, if it be true, what
-terrible things there are in the world, and what an awful
-thing if that man, that monster, be really in London! I
-fear to think. I have this moment, whilst writing, had a
-wire from Jonathan, saying that he leaves by the 6:25 tonight
-from Launceston and will be here at 10:18, so that I shall have
-no fear tonight. Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with
-us, please come to breakfast at eight o'clock, if this be not too
-early for you? You can get away, if you are in a hurry, by the
-10:30 train, which will bring you to Paddington by 2:35. Do not
-answer this, as I shall take it that, if I do not hear, you will
-come to breakfast.
-
-"Believe me,
-
-"Your faithful and grateful friend,
-
-"Mina Harker."
-
-
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-26 September.--I thought never to write in this diary again, but the
-time has come. When I got home last night Mina had supper ready, and
-when we had supped she told me of Van Helsing's visit, and of her
-having given him the two diaries copied out, and of how anxious she
-has been about me. She showed me in the doctor's letter that all I
-wrote down was true. It seems to have made a new man of me. It was
-the doubt as to the reality of the whole thing that knocked me over.
-I felt impotent, and in the dark, and distrustful. But, now that I
-know, I am not afraid, even of the Count. He has succeeded after all,
-then, in his design in getting to London, and it was he I saw. He has
-got younger, and how? Van Helsing is the man to unmask him and hunt
-him out, if he is anything like what Mina says. We sat late, and
-talked it over. Mina is dressing, and I shall call at the hotel in a
-few minutes and bring him over.
-
-
-He was, I think, surprised to see me. When I came into the room where
-he was, and introduced myself, he took me by the shoulder, and turned
-my face round to the light, and said, after a sharp scrutiny,
-
-"But Madam Mina told me you were ill, that you had had a shock."
-
-It was so funny to hear my wife called 'Madam Mina' by this kindly,
-strong-faced old man. I smiled, and said, "I was ill, I have had a
-shock, but you have cured me already."
-
-"And how?"
-
-"By your letter to Mina last night. I was in doubt, and then
-everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust,
-even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did
-not know what to do, and so had only to keep on working in what had
-hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me,
-and I mistrusted myself. Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt
-everything, even yourself. No, you don't, you couldn't with eyebrows
-like yours."
-
-He seemed pleased, and laughed as he said, "So! You are a
-physiognomist. I learn more here with each hour. I am with so much
-pleasure coming to you to breakfast, and, oh, sir, you will pardon
-praise from an old man, but you are blessed in your wife."
-
-I would listen to him go on praising Mina for a day, so I simply
-nodded and stood silent.
-
-"She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men
-and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that
-its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so
-little an egoist, and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so
-sceptical and selfish. And you, sir . . . I have read all the letters
-to poor Miss Lucy, and some of them speak of you, so I know you since
-some days from the knowing of others, but I have seen your true self
-since last night. You will give me your hand, will you not? And let
-us be friends for all our lives."
-
-We shook hands, and he was so earnest and so kind that it made me
-quite choky.
-
-"And now," he said, "may I ask you for some more help? I have a great
-task to do, and at the beginning it is to know. You can help me
-here. Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania?
-Later on I may ask more help, and of a different kind, but at first
-this will do."
-
-"Look here, Sir," I said, "does what you have to do concern the
-Count?"
-
-"It does," he said solemnly.
-
-"Then I am with you heart and soul. As you go by the 10:30 train, you
-will not have time to read them, but I shall get the bundle of papers.
-You can take them with you and read them in the train."
-
-After breakfast I saw him to the station. When we were parting he
-said, "Perhaps you will come to town if I send for you, and take Madam
-Mina too."
-
-"We shall both come when you will," I said.
-
-I had got him the morning papers and the London papers of the previous
-night, and while we were talking at the carriage window, waiting for
-the train to start, he was turning them over. His eyes suddenly
-seemed to catch something in one of them, "The Westminster Gazette", I
-knew it by the colour, and he grew quite white. He read something
-intently, groaning to himself, "Mein Gott! Mein Gott! So soon! So
-soon!" I do not think he remembered me at the moment. Just then the
-whistle blew, and the train moved off. This recalled him to himself,
-and he leaned out of the window and waved his hand, calling out, "Love
-to Madam Mina. I shall write so soon as ever I can."
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-26 September.--Truly there is no such thing as finality. Not a week
-since I said "Finis," and yet here I am starting fresh again, or
-rather going on with the record. Until this afternoon I had no cause
-to think of what is done. Renfield had become, to all intents, as
-sane as he ever was. He was already well ahead with his fly business,
-and he had just started in the spider line also, so he had not been of
-any trouble to me. I had a letter from Arthur, written on Sunday, and
-from it I gather that he is bearing up wonderfully well. Quincey
-Morris is with him, and that is much of a help, for he himself is a
-bubbling well of good spirits. Quincey wrote me a line too, and from
-him I hear that Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old
-buoyancy, so as to them all my mind is at rest. As for myself, I was
-settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for
-it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy
-left on me was becoming cicatrised.
-
-Everything is, however, now reopened, and what is to be the end God
-only knows. I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows, too, but
-he will only let out enough at a time to whet curiosity. He went to
-Exeter yesterday, and stayed there all night. Today he came back, and
-almost bounded into the room at about half-past five o'clock, and
-thrust last night's "Westminster Gazette" into my hand.
-
-"What do you think of that?" he asked as he stood back and folded his
-arms.
-
-I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant, but
-he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being
-decoyed away at Hampstead. It did not convey much to me, until I
-reached a passage where it described small puncture wounds on their
-throats. An idea struck me, and I looked up.
-
-"Well?" he said.
-
-"It is like poor Lucy's."
-
-"And what do you make of it?"
-
-"Simply that there is some cause in common. Whatever it was that
-injured her has injured them." I did not quite understand his answer.
-
-"That is true indirectly, but not directly."
-
-"How do you mean, Professor?" I asked. I was a little inclined to
-take his seriousness lightly, for, after all, four days of rest and
-freedom from burning, harrowing, anxiety does help to restore one's
-spirits, but when I saw his face, it sobered me. Never, even in the
-midst of our despair about poor Lucy, had he looked more stern.
-
-"Tell me!" I said. "I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to
-think, and I have no data on which to found a conjecture."
-
-"Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to
-what poor Lucy died of, not after all the hints given, not only by
-events, but by me?"
-
-"Of nervous prostration following a great loss or waste of blood."
-
-"And how was the blood lost or wasted?" I shook my head.
-
-He stepped over and sat down beside me, and went on, "You are a clever
-man, friend John. You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are
-too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and
-that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do
-you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and
-yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot? But
-there are things old and new which must not be contemplated by men's
-eyes, because they know, or think they know, some things which other
-men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants
-to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing
-to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new
-beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old,
-which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera. I
-suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in
-materialization. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading
-of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism . . ."
-
-"Yes," I said. "Charcot has proved that pretty well."
-
-He smiled as he went on, "Then you are satisfied as to it. Yes? And
-of course then you understand how it act, and can follow the mind of
-the great Charcot, alas that he is no more, into the very soul of the
-patient that he influence. No? Then, friend John, am I to take it
-that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to
-conclusion be a blank? No? Then tell me, for I am a student of the
-brain, how you accept hypnotism and reject the thought reading. Let
-me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical
-science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who
-discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been
-burned as wizards. There are always mysteries in life. Why was it
-that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred
-and sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men's blood in her
-poor veins, could not live even one day? For, had she live one more
-day, we could save her. Do you know all the mystery of life and
-death? Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say
-wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others?
-Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one
-great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish
-church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil
-of all the church lamps? Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and
-elsewhere, there are bats that come out at night and open the veins of
-cattle and horses and suck dry their veins, how in some islands of the
-Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those
-who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the
-sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them
-and then, and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even
-Miss Lucy was?"
-
-"Good God, Professor!" I said, starting up. "Do you mean to tell me
-that Lucy was bitten by such a bat, and that such a thing is here in
-London in the nineteenth century?"
-
-He waved his hand for silence, and went on, "Can you tell me why the
-tortoise lives more long than generations of men, why the elephant
-goes on and on till he have sees dynasties, and why the parrot never
-die only of bite of cat of dog or other complaint? Can you tell me
-why men believe in all ages and places that there are men and women
-who cannot die? We all know, because science has vouched for the
-fact, that there have been toads shut up in rocks for thousands of
-years, shut in one so small hole that only hold him since the youth of
-the world. Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to
-die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it,
-and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and
-then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the
-Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as
-before?"
-
-Here I interrupted him. I was getting bewildered. He so crowded on
-my mind his list of nature's eccentricities and possible
-impossibilities that my imagination was getting fired. I had a dim
-idea that he was teaching me some lesson, as long ago he used to do in
-his study at Amsterdam. But he used them to tell me the thing, so
-that I could have the object of thought in mind all the time. But now
-I was without his help, yet I wanted to follow him, so I said,
-
-"Professor, let me be your pet student again. Tell me the thesis, so
-that I may apply your knowledge as you go on. At present I am going
-in my mind from point to point as a madman, and not a sane one,
-follows an idea. I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a
-midst, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to
-move on without knowing where I am going."
-
-"That is a good image," he said. "Well, I shall tell you. My thesis
-is this, I want you to believe."
-
-"To believe what?"
-
-"To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard
-once of an American who so defined faith, 'that faculty which enables
-us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' For one, I follow
-that man. He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a
-little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock
-does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep
-him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think
-himself all the truth in the universe."
-
-"Then you want me not to let some previous conviction inure the
-receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter. Do I read
-your lesson aright?"
-
-"Ah, you are my favourite pupil still. It is worth to teach you. Now
-that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to
-understand. You think then that those so small holes in the
-children's throats were made by the same that made the holes in Miss
-Lucy?"
-
-"I suppose so."
-
-He stood up and said solemnly, "Then you are wrong. Oh, would it were
-so! But alas! No. It is worse, far, far worse."
-
-"In God's name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?" I cried.
-
-He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed
-his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke.
-
-"They were made by Miss Lucy!"
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 15
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont.
-
-For a while sheer anger mastered me. It was as if he had during her
-life struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I
-said to him, "Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?"
-
-He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his
-face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were easy
-to bear compared with truth like this. Oh, my friend, why, think
-you, did I go so far round, why take so long to tell so simple a
-thing? Was it because I hate you and have hated you all my life? Was
-it because I wished to give you pain? Was it that I wanted, now so
-late, revenge for that time when you saved my life, and from a fearful
-death? Ah no!"
-
-"Forgive me," said I.
-
-He went on, "My friend, it was because I wished to be gentle in the
-breaking to you, for I know you have loved that so sweet lady. But
-even yet I do not expect you to believe. It is so hard to accept at
-once any abstract truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we
-have always believed the 'no' of it. It is more hard still to accept
-so sad a concrete truth, and of such a one as Miss Lucy. Tonight I go
-to prove it. Dare you come with me?"
-
-This staggered me. A man does not like to prove such a truth, Byron
-excepted from the category, jealousy.
-
- "And prove the very truth he most abhorred."
-
-He saw my hesitation, and spoke, "The logic is simple, no madman's
-logic this time, jumping from tussock to tussock in a misty bog. If
-it not be true, then proof will be relief. At worst it will not harm.
-If it be true! Ah, there is the dread. Yet every dread should help my
-cause, for in it is some need of belief. Come, I tell you what I
-propose. First, that we go off now and see that child in the
-hospital. Dr. Vincent, of the North Hospital, where the papers say
-the child is, is a friend of mine, and I think of yours since you were
-in class at Amsterdam. He will let two scientists see his case, if he
-will not let two friends. We shall tell him nothing, but only that we
-wish to learn. And then . . ."
-
-"And then?"
-
-He took a key from his pocket and held it up. "And then we spend the
-night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is the key
-that lock the tomb. I had it from the coffin man to give to Arthur."
-
-My heart sank within me, for I felt that there was some fearful ordeal
-before us. I could do nothing, however, so I plucked up what heart I
-could and said that we had better hasten, as the afternoon was
-passing.
-
-We found the child awake. It had had a sleep and taken some food, and
-altogether was going on well. Dr. Vincent took the bandage from its
-throat, and showed us the punctures. There was no mistaking the
-similarity to those which had been on Lucy's throat. They were
-smaller, and the edges looked fresher, that was all. We asked Vincent
-to what he attributed them, and he replied that it must have been a
-bite of some animal, perhaps a rat, but for his own part, he was
-inclined to think it was one of the bats which are so numerous on the
-northern heights of London. "Out of so many harmless ones," he said,
-"there may be some wild specimen from the South of a more malignant
-species. Some sailor may have brought one home, and it managed to
-escape, or even from the Zoological Gardens a young one may have got
-loose, or one be bred there from a vampire. These things do occur,
-you, know. Only ten days ago a wolf got out, and was, I believe,
-traced up in this direction. For a week after, the children were
-playing nothing but Red Riding Hood on the Heath and in every alley in
-the place until this 'bloofer lady' scare came along, since then it
-has been quite a gala time with them. Even this poor little mite,
-when he woke up today, asked the nurse if he might go away. When she
-asked him why he wanted to go, he said he wanted to play with the
-'bloofer lady'."
-
-"I hope," said Van Helsing, "that when you are sending the child home
-you will caution its parents to keep strict watch over it. These
-fancies to stray are most dangerous, and if the child were to remain
-out another night, it would probably be fatal. But in any case I
-suppose you will not let it away for some days?"
-
-"Certainly not, not for a week at least, longer if the wound is not
-healed."
-
-Our visit to the hospital took more time than we had reckoned on, and
-the sun had dipped before we came out. When Van Helsing saw how dark
-it was, he said,
-
-"There is not hurry. It is more late than I thought. Come, let us
-seek somewhere that we may eat, and then we shall go on our way."
-
-We dined at 'Jack Straw's Castle' along with a little crowd of
-bicyclists and others who were genially noisy. About ten o'clock we
-started from the inn. It was then very dark, and the scattered lamps
-made the darkness greater when we were once outside their individual
-radius. The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for
-he went on unhesitatingly, but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as
-to locality. As we went further, we met fewer and fewer people, till
-at last we were somewhat surprised when we met even the patrol of
-horse police going their usual suburban round. At last we reached the
-wall of the churchyard, which we climbed over. With some little
-difficulty, for it was very dark, and the whole place seemed so
-strange to us, we found the Westenra tomb. The Professor took the
-key, opened the creaky door, and standing back, politely, but quite
-unconsciously, motioned me to precede him. There was a delicious
-irony in the offer, in the courtliness of giving preference on such a
-ghastly occasion. My companion followed me quickly, and cautiously
-drew the door to, after carefully ascertaining that the lock was a
-falling, and not a spring one. In the latter case we should have been
-in a bad plight. Then he fumbled in his bag, and taking out a
-matchbox and a piece of candle, proceeded to make a light. The tomb
-in the daytime, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim
-and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers
-hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to
-browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed
-dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar,
-and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating
-gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more
-miserable and sordid than could have been imagined. It conveyed
-irresistibly the idea that life, animal life, was not the only thing
-which could pass away.
-
-Van Helsing went about his work systematically. Holding his candle so
-that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm
-dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he
-made assurance of Lucy's coffin. Another search in his bag, and he
-took out a turnscrew.
-
-"What are you going to do?" I asked.
-
-"To open the coffin. You shall yet be convinced."
-
-Straightway he began taking out the screws, and finally lifted off the
-lid, showing the casing of lead beneath. The sight was almost too
-much for me. It seemed to be as much an affront to the dead as it
-would have been to have stripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst
-living. I actually took hold of his hand to stop him.
-
-He only said, "You shall see," and again fumbling in his bag took out
-a tiny fret saw. Striking the turnscrew through the lead with a swift
-downward stab, which made me wince, he made a small hole, which was,
-however, big enough to admit the point of the saw. I had expected a
-rush of gas from the week-old corpse. We doctors, who have had to
-study our dangers, have to become accustomed to such things, and I
-drew back towards the door. But the Professor never stopped for a
-moment. He sawed down a couple of feet along one side of the lead
-coffin, and then across, and down the other side. Taking the edge of
-the loose flange, he bent it back towards the foot of the coffin, and
-holding up the candle into the aperture, motioned to me to look.
-
-I drew near and looked. The coffin was empty. It was certainly a
-surprise to me, and gave me a considerable shock, but Van Helsing was
-unmoved. He was now more sure than ever of his ground, and so
-emboldened to proceed in his task. "Are you satisfied now, friend
-John?" he asked.
-
-I felt all the dogged argumentativeness of my nature awake within me as
-I answered him, "I am satisfied that Lucy's body is not in that
-coffin, but that only proves one thing."
-
-"And what is that, friend John?"
-
-"That it is not there."
-
-"That is good logic," he said, "so far as it goes. But how do you,
-how can you, account for it not being there?"
-
-"Perhaps a body-snatcher," I suggested. "Some of the undertaker's
-people may have stolen it." I felt that I was speaking folly, and yet
-it was the only real cause which I could suggest.
-
-The Professor sighed. "Ah well!" he said, "we must have more proof.
-Come with me."
-
-He put on the coffin lid again, gathered up all his things and placed
-them in the bag, blew out the light, and placed the candle also in the
-bag. We opened the door, and went out. Behind us he closed the door
-and locked it. He handed me the key, saying, "Will you keep it? You
-had better be assured."
-
-I laughed, it was not a very cheerful laugh, I am bound to say, as I
-motioned him to keep it. "A key is nothing," I said, "there are many
-duplicates, and anyhow it is not difficult to pick a lock of this
-kind."
-
-He said nothing, but put the key in his pocket. Then he told me to
-watch at one side of the churchyard whilst he would watch at the
-other.
-
-I took up my place behind a yew tree, and I saw his dark figure move
-until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my sight.
-
-It was a lonely vigil. Just after I had taken my place I heard a
-distant clock strike twelve, and in time came one and two. I was
-chilled and unnerved, and angry with the Professor for taking me on
-such an errand and with myself for coming. I was too cold and too
-sleepy to be keenly observant, and not sleepy enough to betray my
-trust, so altogether I had a dreary, miserable time.
-
-Suddenly, as I turned round, I thought I saw something like a white
-streak, moving between two dark yew trees at the side of the
-churchyard farthest from the tomb. At the same time a dark mass moved
-from the Professor's side of the ground, and hurriedly went towards
-it. Then I too moved, but I had to go round headstones and railed-off
-tombs, and I stumbled over graves. The sky was overcast, and
-somewhere far off an early cock crew. A little ways off, beyond a
-line of scattered juniper trees, which marked the pathway to the
-church, a white dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. The
-tomb itself was hidden by trees, and I could not see where the figure
-had disappeared. I heard the rustle of actual movement where I had
-first seen the white figure, and coming over, found the Professor
-holding in his arms a tiny child. When he saw me he held it out to
-me, and said, "Are you satisfied now?"
-
-"No," I said, in a way that I felt was aggressive.
-
-"Do you not see the child?"
-
-"Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it wounded?"
-
-"We shall see," said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our
-way out of the churchyard, he carrying the sleeping child.
-
-When we had got some little distance away, we went into a clump of
-trees, and struck a match, and looked at the child's throat. It was
-without a scratch or scar of any kind.
-
-"Was I right?" I asked triumphantly.
-
-"We were just in time," said the Professor thankfully.
-
-We had now to decide what we were to do with the child, and so
-consulted about it. If we were to take it to a police station we
-should have to give some account of our movements during the night.
-At least, we should have had to make some statement as to how we had
-come to find the child. So finally we decided that we would take it
-to the Heath, and when we heard a policeman coming, would leave it
-where he could not fail to find it. We would then seek our way home
-as quickly as we could. All fell out well. At the edge of Hampstead
-Heath we heard a policeman's heavy tramp, and laying the child on the
-pathway, we waited and watched until he saw it as he flashed his
-lantern to and fro. We heard his exclamation of astonishment, and
-then we went away silently. By good chance we got a cab near the
-'Spainiards,' and drove to town.
-
-I cannot sleep, so I make this entry. But I must try to get a few
-hours' sleep, as Van Helsing is to call for me at noon. He insists
-that I go with him on another expedition.
-
-
-27 September.--It was two o'clock before we found a suitable
-opportunity for our attempt. The funeral held at noon was all
-completed, and the last stragglers of the mourners had taken
-themselves lazily away, when, looking carefully from behind a clump of
-alder trees, we saw the sexton lock the gate after him. We knew that
-we were safe till morning did we desire it, but the Professor told me
-that we should not want more than an hour at most. Again I felt that
-horrid sense of the reality of things, in which any effort of
-imagination seemed out of place, and I realized distinctly the perils
-of the law which we were incurring in our unhallowed work. Besides, I
-felt it was all so useless. Outrageous as it was to open a leaden
-coffin, to see if a woman dead nearly a week were really dead, it now
-seemed the height of folly to open the tomb again, when we knew, from
-the evidence of our own eyesight, that the coffin was empty. I
-shrugged my shoulders, however, and rested silent, for Van Helsing had
-a way of going on his own road, no matter who remonstrated. He took
-the key, opened the vault, and again courteously motioned me to
-precede. The place was not so gruesome as last night, but oh, how
-unutterably mean looking when the sunshine streamed in. Van Helsing
-walked over to Lucy's coffin, and I followed. He bent over and again
-forced back the leaden flange, and a shock of surprise and dismay shot
-through me.
-
-There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her
-funeral. She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever,
-and I could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay
-redder than before, and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom.
-
-"Is this a juggle?" I said to him.
-
-"Are you convinced now?" said the Professor, in response, and as he
-spoke he put over his hand, and in a way that made me shudder, pulled
-back the dead lips and showed the white teeth. "See," he went on,
-"they are even sharper than before. With this and this," and he
-touched one of the canine teeth and that below it, "the little
-children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend John?"
-
-Once more argumentative hostility woke within me. I could not accept
-such an overwhelming idea as he suggested. So, with an attempt to
-argue of which I was even at the moment ashamed, I said, "She may have
-been placed here since last night."
-
-"Indeed? That is so, and by whom?"
-
-"I do not know. Someone has done it."
-
-"And yet she has been dead one week. Most peoples in that time would
-not look so."
-
-I had no answer for this, so was silent. Van Helsing did not seem to
-notice my silence. At any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor
-triumph. He was looking intently at the face of the dead woman,
-raising the eyelids and looking at the eyes, and once more opening the
-lips and examining the teeth. Then he turned to me and said,
-
-"Here, there is one thing which is different from all recorded. Here
-is some dual life that is not as the common. She was bitten by the
-vampire when she was in a trance, sleep-walking, oh, you start. You
-do not know that, friend John, but you shall know it later, and in
-trance could he best come to take more blood. In trance she dies, and
-in trance she is UnDead, too. So it is that she differ from all
-other. Usually when the UnDead sleep at home," as he spoke he made a
-comprehensive sweep of his arm to designate what to a vampire was
-'home', "their face show what they are, but this so sweet that was
-when she not UnDead she go back to the nothings of the common dead.
-There is no malign there, see, and so it make hard that I must kill
-her in her sleep."
-
-This turned my blood cold, and it began to dawn upon me that I was
-accepting Van Helsing's theories. But if she were really dead, what
-was there of terror in the idea of killing her?
-
-He looked up at me, and evidently saw the change in my face, for he
-said almost joyously, "Ah, you believe now?"
-
-I answered, "Do not press me too hard all at once. I am willing to
-accept. How will you do this bloody work?"
-
-"I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall
-drive a stake through her body."
-
-It made me shudder to think of so mutilating the body of the woman
-whom I had loved. And yet the feeling was not so strong as I had
-expected. I was, in fact, beginning to shudder at the presence of
-this being, this UnDead, as Van Helsing called it, and to loathe it.
-Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?
-
-I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he stood as
-if wrapped in thought. Presently he closed the catch of his bag with
-a snap, and said,
-
-"I have been thinking, and have made up my mind as to what is best.
-If I did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment,
-what is to be done. But there are other things to follow, and things
-that are thousand times more difficult in that them we do not know.
-This is simple. She have yet no life taken, though that is of time,
-and to act now would be to take danger from her forever. But then we
-may have to want Arthur, and how shall we tell him of this? If you,
-who saw the wounds on Lucy's throat, and saw the wounds so similar on
-the child's at the hospital, if you, who saw the coffin empty last
-night and full today with a woman who have not change only to be more
-rose and more beautiful in a whole week, after she die, if you know of
-this and know of the white figure last night that brought the child to
-the churchyard, and yet of your own senses you did not believe, how
-then, can I expect Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe?
-
-"He doubted me when I took him from her kiss when she was dying. I
-know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done
-things that prevent him say goodbye as he ought, and he may think that
-in some more mistaken idea this woman was buried alive, and that in
-most mistake of all we have killed her. He will then argue back that
-it is we, mistaken ones, that have killed her by our ideas, and so he
-will be much unhappy always. Yet he never can be sure, and that is
-the worst of all. And he will sometimes think that she he loved was
-buried alive, and that will paint his dreams with horrors of what she
-must have suffered, and again, he will think that we may be right, and
-that his so beloved was, after all, an UnDead. No! I told him once,
-and since then I learn much. Now, since I know it is all true, a
-hundred thousand times more do I know that he must pass through the
-bitter waters to reach the sweet. He, poor fellow, must have one hour
-that will make the very face of heaven grow black to him, then we can
-act for good all round and send him peace. My mind is made up. Let
-us go. You return home for tonight to your asylum, and see that all
-be well. As for me, I shall spend the night here in this churchyard
-in my own way. Tomorrow night you will come to me to the Berkeley
-Hotel at ten of the clock. I shall send for Arthur to come too, and
-also that so fine young man of America that gave his blood. Later we
-shall all have work to do. I come with you so far as Piccadilly and
-there dine, for I must be back here before the sun set."
-
-So we locked the tomb and came away, and got over the wall of the
-churchyard, which was not much of a task, and drove back to
-Piccadilly.
-
-
-
-
-NOTE LEFT BY VAN HELSING IN HIS PORTMANTEAU, BERKELEY HOTEL DIRECTED TO
-JOHN SEWARD, M. D. (Not Delivered)
-
-27 September
-
-"Friend John,
-
-"I write this in case anything should happen. I go alone to
-watch in that churchyard. It pleases me that the UnDead,
-Miss Lucy, shall not leave tonight, that so on the morrow
-night she may be more eager. Therefore I shall fix some
-things she like not, garlic and a crucifix, and so seal up
-the door of the tomb. She is young as UnDead, and will
-heed. Moreover, these are only to prevent her coming out.
-They may not prevail on her wanting to get in, for then the
-UnDead is desperate, and must find the line of least resistance,
-whatsoever it may be. I shall be at hand all the night from
-sunset till after sunrise, and if there be aught that may be
-learned I shall learn it. For Miss Lucy or from her, I have no
-fear, but that other to whom is there that she is UnDead, he have
-not the power to seek her tomb and find shelter. He is cunning,
-as I know from Mr. Jonathan and from the way that all along he
-have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy's life, and
-we lost, and in many ways the UnDead are strong. He have always
-the strength in his hand of twenty men, even we four who gave our
-strength to Miss Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can
-summon his wolf and I know not what. So if it be that he came
-thither on this night he shall find me. But none other shall,
-until it be too late. But it may be that he will not attempt the
-place. There is no reason why he should. His hunting ground is
-more full of game than the churchyard where the UnDead woman
-sleeps, and the one old man watch.
-
-"Therefore I write this in case . . . Take the papers that
-are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read
-them, and then find this great UnDead, and cut off his head
-and burn his heart or drive a stake through it, so that the
-world may rest from him.
-
-"If it be so, farewell.
-
-"VAN HELSING."
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-28 September.--It is wonderful what a good night's sleep will do for
-one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing's monstrous
-ideas, but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on
-common sense. I have no doubt that he believes it all. I wonder if
-his mind can have become in any way unhinged. Surely there must be
-some rational explanation of all these mysterious things. Is it
-possible that the Professor can have done it himself? He is so
-abnormally clever that if he went off his head he would carry out his
-intent with regard to some fixed idea in a wonderful way. I am loathe
-to think it, and indeed it would be almost as great a marvel as the
-other to find that Van Helsing was mad, but anyhow I shall watch him
-carefully. I may get some light on the mystery.
-
-
-29 September.--Last night, at a little before ten o'clock, Arthur and
-Quincey came into Van Helsing's room. He told us all what he wanted
-us to do, but especially addressing himself to Arthur, as if all our
-wills were centred in his. He began by saying that he hoped we would
-all come with him too, "for," he said, "there is a grave duty to be
-done there. You were doubtless surprised at my letter?" This query
-was directly addressed to Lord Godalming.
-
-"I was. It rather upset me for a bit. There has been so much trouble
-around my house of late that I could do without any more. I have been
-curious, too, as to what you mean.
-
-"Quincey and I talked it over, but the more we talked, the more
-puzzled we got, till now I can say for myself that I'm about up a tree
-as to any meaning about anything."
-
-"Me too," said Quincey Morris laconically.
-
-"Oh," said the Professor, "then you are nearer the beginning, both of
-you, than friend John here, who has to go a long way back before he
-can even get so far as to begin."
-
-It was evident that he recognized my return to my old doubting frame
-of mind without my saying a word. Then, turning to the other two, he
-said with intense gravity,
-
-"I want your permission to do what I think good this night. It is, I
-know, much to ask, and when you know what it is I propose to do you
-will know, and only then how much. Therefore may I ask that you
-promise me in the dark, so that afterwards, though you may be angry
-with me for a time, I must not disguise from myself the possibility
-that such may be, you shall not blame yourselves for anything."
-
-"That's frank anyhow," broke in Quincey. "I'll answer for the
-Professor. I don't quite see his drift, but I swear he's honest, and
-that's good enough for me."
-
-"I thank you, Sir," said Van Helsing proudly. "I have done myself the
-honour of counting you one trusting friend, and such endorsement is
-dear to me." He held out a hand, which Quincey took.
-
-Then Arthur spoke out, "Dr. Van Helsing, I don't quite like to 'buy a
-pig in a poke', as they say in Scotland, and if it be anything in
-which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Christian is
-concerned, I cannot make such a promise. If you can assure me that
-what you intend does not violate either of these two, then I give my
-consent at once, though for the life of me, I cannot understand what
-you are driving at."
-
-"I accept your limitation," said Van Helsing, "and all I ask of you is
-that if you feel it necessary to condemn any act of mine, you will
-first consider it well and be satisfied that it does not violate your
-reservations."
-
-"Agreed!" said Arthur. "That is only fair. And now that the
-pourparlers are over, may I ask what it is we are to do?"
-
-"I want you to come with me, and to come in secret, to the churchyard
-at Kingstead."
-
-Arthur's face fell as he said in an amazed sort of way,
-
-"Where poor Lucy is buried?"
-
-The Professor bowed.
-
-Arthur went on, "And when there?"
-
-"To enter the tomb!"
-
-Arthur stood up. "Professor, are you in earnest, or is it some
-monstrous joke? Pardon me, I see that you are in earnest." He sat
-down again, but I could see that he sat firmly and proudly, as one who
-is on his dignity. There was silence until he asked again, "And when
-in the tomb?"
-
-"To open the coffin."
-
-"This is too much!" he said, angrily rising again. "I am willing to
-be patient in all things that are reasonable, but in this, this
-desecration of the grave, of one who . . ." He fairly choked with
-indignation.
-
-The Professor looked pityingly at him. "If I could spare you one pang,
-my poor friend," he said, "God knows I would. But this night our feet
-must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love
-must walk in paths of flame!"
-
-Arthur looked up with set white face and said, "Take care, sir, take
-care!"
-
-"Would it not be well to hear what I have to say?" said Van Helsing.
-"And then you will at least know the limit of my purpose. Shall I go
-on?"
-
-"That's fair enough," broke in Morris.
-
-After a pause Van Helsing went on, evidently with an effort, "Miss
-Lucy is dead, is it not so? Yes! Then there can be no wrong to her.
-But if she be not dead . . ."
-
-Arthur jumped to his feet, "Good God!" he cried. "What do you mean?
-Has there been any mistake, has she been buried alive?" He groaned in
-anguish that not even hope could soften.
-
-"I did not say she was alive, my child. I did not think it. I go no
-further than to say that she might be UnDead."
-
-"UnDead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a nightmare, or
-what is it?"
-
-"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age
-they may solve only in part. Believe me, we are now on the verge of
-one. But I have not done. May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?"
-
-"Heavens and earth, no!" cried Arthur in a storm of passion. "Not for
-the wide world will I consent to any mutilation of her dead body. Dr.
-Van Helsing, you try me too far. What have I done to you that you
-should torture me so? What did that poor, sweet girl do that you
-should want to cast such dishonour on her grave? Are you mad, that you
-speak of such things, or am I mad to listen to them? Don't dare think
-more of such a desecration. I shall not give my consent to anything
-you do. I have a duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage, and
-by God, I shall do it!"
-
-Van Helsing rose up from where he had all the time been seated, and
-said, gravely and sternly, "My Lord Godalming, I too, have a duty to
-do, a duty to others, a duty to you, a duty to the dead, and by God, I
-shall do it! All I ask you now is that you come with me, that you
-look and listen, and if when later I make the same request you do not
-be more eager for its fulfillment even than I am, then, I shall do my
-duty, whatever it may seem to me. And then, to follow your Lordship's
-wishes I shall hold myself at your disposal to render an account to
-you, when and where you will." His voice broke a little, and he went
-on with a voice full of pity.
-
-"But I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me. In a long life
-of acts which were often not pleasant to do, and which sometimes did
-wring my heart, I have never had so heavy a task as now. Believe me
-that if the time comes for you to change your mind towards me, one
-look from you will wipe away all this so sad hour, for I would do what
-a man can to save you from sorrow. Just think. For why should I give
-myself so much labor and so much of sorrow? I have come here from my
-own land to do what I can of good, at the first to please my friend
-John, and then to help a sweet young lady, whom too, I come to love.
-For her, I am ashamed to say so much, but I say it in kindness, I gave
-what you gave, the blood of my veins. I gave it, I who was not, like
-you, her lover, but only her physician and her friend. I gave her my
-nights and days, before death, after death, and if my death can do her
-good even now, when she is the dead UnDead, she shall have it freely."
-He said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much
-affected by it.
-
-He took the old man's hand and said in a broken voice, "Oh, it is hard
-to think of it, and I cannot understand, but at least I shall go with
-you and wait."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 16
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont.
-
-It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the
-churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional
-gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded
-across the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing
-slightly in front as he led the way. When we had come close to the
-tomb I looked well at Arthur, for I feared the proximity to a place
-laden with so sorrowful a memory would upset him, but he bore himself
-well. I took it that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some
-way a counteractant to his grief. The Professor unlocked the door,
-and seeing a natural hesitation amongst us for various reasons, solved
-the difficulty by entering first himself. The rest of us followed,
-and he closed the door. He then lit a dark lantern and pointed to a
-coffin. Arthur stepped forward hesitatingly. Van Helsing said to me,
-"You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that
-coffin?"
-
-"It was."
-
-The Professor turned to the rest saying, "You hear, and yet there is
-no one who does not believe with me."
-
-He took his screwdriver and again took off the lid of the coffin.
-Arthur looked on, very pale but silent. When the lid was removed he
-stepped forward. He evidently did not know that there was a leaden
-coffin, or at any rate, had not thought of it. When he saw the rent
-in the lead, the blood rushed to his face for an instant, but as
-quickly fell away again, so that he remained of a ghastly whiteness.
-He was still silent. Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and
-we all looked in and recoiled.
-
-The coffin was empty!
-
-For several minutes no one spoke a word. The silence was broken by
-Quincey Morris, "Professor, I answered for you. Your word is all I
-want. I wouldn't ask such a thing ordinarily, I wouldn't so dishonour
-you as to imply a doubt, but this is a mystery that goes beyond any
-honour or dishonour. Is this your doing?"
-
-"I swear to you by all that I hold sacred that I have not removed or
-touched her. What happened was this. Two nights ago my friend Seward
-and I came here, with good purpose, believe me. I opened that coffin,
-which was then sealed up, and we found it as now, empty. We then
-waited, and saw something white come through the trees. The next day
-we came here in daytime and she lay there. Did she not, friend John?
-
-"Yes."
-
-"That night we were just in time. One more so small child was
-missing, and we find it, thank God, unharmed amongst the graves.
-Yesterday I came here before sundown, for at sundown the UnDead can
-move. I waited here all night till the sun rose, but I saw nothing.
-It was most probable that it was because I had laid over the clamps of
-those doors garlic, which the UnDead cannot bear, and other things
-which they shun. Last night there was no exodus, so tonight before
-the sundown I took away my garlic and other things. And so it is we
-find this coffin empty. But bear with me. So far there is much that
-is strange. Wait you with me outside, unseen and unheard, and things
-much stranger are yet to be. So," here he shut the dark slide of his
-lantern, "now to the outside." He opened the door, and we filed out,
-he coming last and locking the door behind him.
-
-Oh! But it seemed fresh and pure in the night air after the terror of
-that vault. How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the
-passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing
-and passing, like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life. How sweet
-it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay.
-How humanizing to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and
-to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great
-city. Each in his own way was solemn and overcome. Arthur was
-silent, and was, I could see, striving to grasp the purpose and the
-inner meaning of the mystery. I was myself tolerably patient, and
-half inclined again to throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing's
-conclusions. Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who
-accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery,
-with hazard of all he has at stake. Not being able to smoke, he cut
-himself a good-sized plug of tobacco and began to chew. As to Van
-Helsing, he was employed in a definite way. First he took from his
-bag a mass of what looked like thin, wafer-like biscuit, which was
-carefully rolled up in a white napkin. Next he took out a double
-handful of some whitish stuff, like dough or putty. He crumbled the
-wafer up fine and worked it into the mass between his hands. This he
-then took, and rolling it into thin strips, began to lay them into the
-crevices between the door and its setting in the tomb. I was somewhat
-puzzled at this, and being close, asked him what it was that he was
-doing. Arthur and Quincey drew near also, as they too were curious.
-
-He answered, "I am closing the tomb so that the UnDead may not enter."
-
-"And is that stuff you have there going to do it?"
-
-"It is."
-
-"What is that which you are using?" This time the question was by
-Arthur. Van Helsing reverently lifted his hat as he answered.
-
-"The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence."
-
-It was an answer that appalled the most sceptical of us, and we felt
-individually that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the
-Professor's, a purpose which could thus use the to him most sacred of
-things, it was impossible to distrust. In respectful silence we took
-the places assigned to us close round the tomb, but hidden from the
-sight of any one approaching. I pitied the others, especially Arthur.
-I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching
-horror, and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs,
-felt my heart sink within me. Never did tombs look so ghastly white.
-Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of
-funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously.
-Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away
-howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.
-
-There was a long spell of silence, big, aching, void, and then from
-the Professor a keen "S-s-s-s!" He pointed, and far down the avenue of
-yews we saw a white figure advance, a dim white figure, which held
-something dark at its breast. The figure stopped, and at the moment a
-ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in
-startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of
-the grave. We could not see the face, for it was bent down over what
-we saw to be a fair-haired child. There was a pause and a sharp
-little cry, such as a child gives in sleep, or a dog as it lies before
-the fire and dreams. We were starting forward, but the Professor's
-warning hand, seen by us as he stood behind a yew tree, kept us back.
-And then as we looked the white figure moved forwards again. It was
-now near enough for us to see clearly, and the moonlight still held.
-My own heart grew cold as ice, and I could hear the gasp of Arthur, as
-we recognized the features of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet
-how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless
-cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
-
-Van Helsing stepped out, and obedient to his gesture, we all advanced
-too. The four of us ranged in a line before the door of the tomb. Van
-Helsing raised his lantern and drew the slide. By the concentrated
-light that fell on Lucy's face we could see that the lips were crimson
-with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and
-stained the purity of her lawn death-robe.
-
-We shuddered with horror. I could see by the tremulous light that
-even Van Helsing's iron nerve had failed. Arthur was next to me, and
-if I had not seized his arm and held him up, he would have fallen.
-
-When Lucy, I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore
-her shape, saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat
-gives when taken unawares, then her eyes ranged over us. Lucy's eyes
-in form and colour, but Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell fire,
-instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew. At that moment the remnant
-of my love passed into hate and loathing. Had she then to be killed,
-I could have done it with savage delight. As she looked, her eyes
-blazed with unholy light, and the face became wreathed with a
-voluptuous smile. Oh, God, how it made me shudder to see it! With a
-careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the
-child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast,
-growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. The child gave a sharp
-cry, and lay there moaning. There was a cold-bloodedness in the act
-which wrung a groan from Arthur. When she advanced to him with
-outstretched arms and a wanton smile he fell back and hid his face in
-his hands.
-
-She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace,
-said, "Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My
-arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my
-husband, come!"
-
-There was something diabolically sweet in her tones, something of the
-tinkling of glass when struck, which rang through the brains even of
-us who heard the words addressed to another.
-
-As for Arthur, he seemed under a spell, moving his hands from his
-face, he opened wide his arms. She was leaping for them, when Van
-Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden
-crucifix. She recoiled from it, and, with a suddenly distorted face,
-full of rage, dashed past him as if to enter the tomb.
-
-When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped, as if
-arrested by some irresistible force. Then she turned, and her face
-was shown in the clear burst of moonlight and by the lamp, which had
-now no quiver from Van Helsing's nerves. Never did I see such baffled
-malice on a face, and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by
-mortal eyes. The beautiful colour became livid, the eyes seemed to
-throw out sparks of hell fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the
-folds of flesh were the coils of Medusa's snakes, and the lovely,
-blood-stained mouth grew to an open square, as in the passion masks of
-the Greeks and Japanese. If ever a face meant death, if looks could
-kill, we saw it at that moment.
-
-And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained
-between the lifted crucifix and the sacred closing of her means of
-entry.
-
-Van Helsing broke the silence by asking Arthur, "Answer me, oh my
-friend! Am I to proceed in my work?"
-
-"Do as you will, friend. Do as you will. There can be no horror like
-this ever any more." And he groaned in spirit.
-
-Quincey and I simultaneously moved towards him, and took his arms. We
-could hear the click of the closing lantern as Van Helsing held it
-down. Coming close to the tomb, he began to remove from the chinks
-some of the sacred emblem which he had placed there. We all looked on
-with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman,
-with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through
-the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone. We all
-felt a glad sense of relief when we saw the Professor calmly restoring
-the strings of putty to the edges of the door.
-
-When this was done, he lifted the child and said, "Come now, my
-friends. We can do no more till tomorrow. There is a funeral at
-noon, so here we shall all come before long after that. The friends
-of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton locks the
-gate we shall remain. Then there is more to do, but not like this of
-tonight. As for this little one, he is not much harmed, and by
-tomorrow night he shall be well. We shall leave him where the police
-will find him, as on the other night, and then to home."
-
-Coming close to Arthur, he said, "My friend Arthur, you have had a sore
-trial, but after, when you look back, you will see how it was
-necessary. You are now in the bitter waters, my child. By this time
-tomorrow you will, please God, have passed them, and have drunk of the
-sweet waters. So do not mourn over-much. Till then I shall not ask
-you to forgive me."
-
-Arthur and Quincey came home with me, and we tried to cheer each other
-on the way. We had left behind the child in safety, and were tired.
-So we all slept with more or less reality of sleep.
-
-
-29 September, night.--A little before twelve o'clock we three, Arthur,
-Quincey Morris, and myself, called for the Professor. It was odd to
-notice that by common consent we had all put on black clothes. Of
-course, Arthur wore black, for he was in deep mourning, but the rest
-of us wore it by instinct. We got to the graveyard by half-past one,
-and strolled about, keeping out of official observation, so that when
-the gravediggers had completed their task and the sexton, under the
-belief that every one had gone, had locked the gate, we had the place
-all to ourselves. Van Helsing, instead of his little black bag, had
-with him a long leather one, something like a cricketing bag. It was
-manifestly of fair weight.
-
-When we were alone and had heard the last of the footsteps die out up
-the road, we silently, and as if by ordered intention, followed the
-Professor to the tomb. He unlocked the door, and we entered, closing
-it behind us. Then he took from his bag the lantern, which he lit,
-and also two wax candles, which, when lighted, he stuck by melting
-their own ends, on other coffins, so that they might give light
-sufficient to work by. When he again lifted the lid off Lucy's coffin
-we all looked, Arthur trembling like an aspen, and saw that the corpse
-lay there in all its death beauty. But there was no love in my own
-heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy's
-shape without her soul. I could see even Arthur's face grow hard as
-he looked. Presently he said to Van Helsing, "Is this really Lucy's
-body, or only a demon in her shape?"
-
-"It is her body, and yet not it. But wait a while, and you shall see
-her as she was, and is."
-
-She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there, the pointed
-teeth, the blood stained, voluptuous mouth, which made one shudder to
-see, the whole carnal and unspirited appearance, seeming like a
-devilish mockery of Lucy's sweet purity. Van Helsing, with his usual
-methodicalness, began taking the various contents from his bag and
-placing them ready for use. First he took out a soldering iron and
-some plumbing solder, and then small oil lamp, which gave out, when
-lit in a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at a fierce heat with a
-blue flame, then his operating knives, which he placed to hand, and
-last a round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick
-and about three feet long. One end of it was hardened by charring in
-the fire, and was sharpened to a fine point. With this stake came a
-heavy hammer, such as in households is used in the coal cellar for
-breaking the lumps. To me, a doctor's preparations for work of any
-kind are stimulating and bracing, but the effect of these things on
-both Arthur and Quincey was to cause them a sort of consternation.
-They both, however, kept their courage, and remained silent and quiet.
-
-When all was ready, Van Helsing said, "Before we do anything, let me
-tell you this. It is out of the lore and experience of the ancients
-and of all those who have studied the powers of the UnDead. When they
-become such, there comes with the change the curse of immortality.
-They cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and
-multiplying the evils of the world. For all that die from the preying
-of the Undead become themselves Undead, and prey on their kind. And
-so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone
-thrown in the water. Friend Arthur, if you had met that kiss which
-you know of before poor Lucy die, or again, last night when you open
-your arms to her, you would in time, when you had died, have become
-nosferatu, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would for all time
-make more of those Un-Deads that so have filled us with horror. The
-career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun. Those children
-whose blood she sucked are not as yet so much the worse, but if she
-lives on, UnDead, more and more they lose their blood and by her power
-over them they come to her, and so she draw their blood with that so
-wicked mouth. But if she die in truth, then all cease. The tiny
-wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their play
-unknowing ever of what has been. But of the most blessed of all, when
-this now UnDead be made to rest as true dead, then the soul of the
-poor lady whom we love shall again be free. Instead of working
-wickedness by night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it
-by day, she shall take her place with the other Angels. So that, my
-friend, it will be a blessed hand for her that shall strike the blow
-that sets her free. To this I am willing, but is there none amongst
-us who has a better right? Will it be no joy to think of hereafter in
-the silence of the night when sleep is not, 'It was my hand that sent
-her to the stars. It was the hand of him that loved her best, the
-hand that of all she would herself have chosen, had it been to her to
-choose?' Tell me if there be such a one amongst us?"
-
-We all looked at Arthur. He saw too, what we all did, the infinite
-kindness which suggested that his should be the hand which would
-restore Lucy to us as a holy, and not an unholy, memory. He stepped
-forward and said bravely, though his hand trembled, and his face was
-as pale as snow, "My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I
-thank you. Tell me what I am to do, and I shall not falter!"
-
-Van Helsing laid a hand on his shoulder, and said, "Brave lad! A
-moment's courage, and it is done. This stake must be driven through
-her. It well be a fearful ordeal, be not deceived in that, but it
-will be only a short time, and you will then rejoice more than your
-pain was great. From this grim tomb you will emerge as though you
-tread on air. But you must not falter when once you have begun. Only
-think that we, your true friends, are round you, and that we pray for
-you all the time."
-
-"Go on," said Arthur hoarsely. "Tell me what I am to do."
-
-"Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place to the point over
-the heart, and the hammer in your right. Then when we begin our
-prayer for the dead, I shall read him, I have here the book, and the
-others shall follow, strike in God's name, that so all may be well
-with the dead that we love and that the UnDead pass away."
-
-Arthur took the stake and the hammer, and when once his mind was set
-on action his hands never trembled nor even quivered. Van Helsing
-opened his missal and began to read, and Quincey and I followed as
-well as we could.
-
-Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its
-dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might.
-
-The thing in the coffin writhed, and a hideous, blood-curdling screech
-came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and
-twisted in wild contortions. The sharp white teeth champed together till
-the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But
-Arthur never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his
-untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the
-mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled
-and spurted up around it. His face was set, and high duty seemed to
-shine through it. The sight of it gave us courage so that our voices
-seemed to ring through the little vault.
-
-And then the writhing and quivering of the body became less, and the
-teeth seemed to champ, and the face to quiver. Finally it lay still.
-The terrible task was over.
-
-The hammer fell from Arthur's hand. He reeled and would have fallen
-had we not caught him. The great drops of sweat sprang from his
-forehead, and his breath came in broken gasps. It had indeed been an
-awful strain on him, and had he not been forced to his task by more
-than human considerations he could never have gone through with it.
-For a few minutes we were so taken up with him that we did not look
-towards the coffin. When we did, however, a murmur of startled
-surprise ran from one to the other of us. We gazed so eagerly that
-Arthur rose, for he had been seated on the ground, and came and looked
-too, and then a glad strange light broke over his face and dispelled
-altogether the gloom of horror that lay upon it.
-
-There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so
-dreaded and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded
-as a privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen
-her in life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity. True
-that there were there, as we had seen them in life, the traces of care
-and pain and waste. But these were all dear to us, for they marked
-her truth to what we knew. One and all we felt that the holy calm
-that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an
-earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
-
-Van Helsing came and laid his hand on Arthur's shoulder, and said to
-him, "And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?"
-
-The reaction of the terrible strain came as he took the old man's hand
-in his, and raising it to his lips, pressed it, and said, "Forgiven!
-God bless you that you have given my dear one her soul again, and me
-peace." He put his hands on the Professor's shoulder, and laying his
-head on his breast, cried for a while silently, whilst we stood
-unmoving.
-
-When he raised his head Van Helsing said to him, "And now, my child,
-you may kiss her. Kiss her dead lips if you will, as she would have
-you to, if for her to choose. For she is not a grinning devil now,
-not any more a foul Thing for all eternity. No longer she is the
-devil's UnDead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with Him!"
-
-Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the
-tomb. The Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the
-point of it in the body. Then we cut off the head and filled the
-mouth with garlic. We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the
-coffin lid, and gathering up our belongings, came away. When the
-Professor locked the door he gave the key to Arthur.
-
-Outside the air was sweet, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and it
-seemed as if all nature were tuned to a different pitch. There was
-gladness and mirth and peace everywhere, for we were at rest ourselves
-on one account, and we were glad, though it was with a tempered joy.
-
-Before we moved away Van Helsing said, "Now, my friends, one step of
-our work is done, one the most harrowing to ourselves. But there
-remains a greater task: to find out the author of all this our sorrow
-and to stamp him out. I have clues which we can follow, but it is a
-long task, and a difficult one, and there is danger in it, and pain.
-Shall you not all help me? We have learned to believe, all of us, is
-it not so? And since so, do we not see our duty? Yes! And do we not
-promise to go on to the bitter end?"
-
-Each in turn, we took his hand, and the promise was made. Then said
-the Professor as we moved off, "Two nights hence you shall meet with
-me and dine together at seven of the clock with friend John. I shall
-entreat two others, two that you know not as yet, and I shall be ready
-to all our work show and our plans unfold. Friend John, you come with
-me home, for I have much to consult you about, and you can help me.
-Tonight I leave for Amsterdam, but shall return tomorrow night. And
-then begins our great quest. But first I shall have much to say, so
-that you may know what to do and to dread. Then our promise shall be
-made to each other anew. For there is a terrible task before us, and
-once our feet are on the ploughshare we must not draw back."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 17
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY--cont.
-
-When we arrived at the Berkely Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
-waiting for him.
-
-"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news. Mina
-Harker."
-
-
-The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he
-said, "pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go
-to your house, friend John. You must meet her at the station.
-Telegraph her en route so that she may be prepared."
-
-When the wire was dispatched he had a cup of tea. Over it he told me
-of a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a
-typewritten copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker's diary at Whitby.
-"Take these," he said, "and study them well. When I have returned you
-will be master of all the facts, and we can then better enter on our
-inquisition. Keep them safe, for there is in them much of treasure.
-You will need all your faith, even you who have had such an experience
-as that of today. What is here told," he laid his hand heavily and
-gravely on the packet of papers as he spoke, "may be the beginning of
-the end to you and me and many another, or it may sound the knell of
-the UnDead who walk the earth. Read all, I pray you, with the open
-mind, and if you can add in any way to the story here told do so, for
-it is all important. You have kept a diary of all these so strange
-things, is it not so? Yes! Then we shall go through all these
-together when we meet." He then made ready for his departure and
-shortly drove off to Liverpool Street. I took my way to Paddington,
-where I arrived about fifteen minutes before the train came in.
-
-The crowd melted away, after the bustling fashion common to arrival
-platforms, and I was beginning to feel uneasy, lest I might miss my
-guest, when a sweet-faced, dainty looking girl stepped up to me, and
-after a quick glance said, "Dr. Seward, is it not?"
-
-"And you are Mrs. Harker!" I answered at once, whereupon she held out
-her hand.
-
-"I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy, but . . ." She
-stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.
-
-The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for
-it was a tacit answer to her own. I got her luggage, which included a
-typewriter, and we took the Underground to Fenchurch Street, after I
-had sent a wire to my housekeeper to have a sitting room and a bedroom
-prepared at once for Mrs. Harker.
-
-In due time we arrived. She knew, of course, that the place was a
-lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a
-shudder when we entered.
-
-She told me that, if she might, she would come presently to my study,
-as she had much to say. So here I am finishing my entry in my
-phonograph diary whilst I await her. As yet I have not had the chance
-of looking at the papers which Van Helsing left with me, though they
-lie open before me. I must get her interested in something, so that I
-may have an opportunity of reading them. She does not know how
-precious time is, or what a task we have in hand. I must be careful
-not to frighten her. Here she is!
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-29 September.--After I had tidied myself, I went down to Dr. Seward's
-study. At the door I paused a moment, for I thought I heard him
-talking with some one. As, however, he had pressed me to be quick, I
-knocked at the door, and on his calling out, "Come in," I entered.
-
-To my intense surprise, there was no one with him. He was quite
-alone, and on the table opposite him was what I knew at once from the
-description to be a phonograph. I had never seen one, and was much
-interested.
-
-"I hope I did not keep you waiting," I said, "but I stayed at the door
-as I heard you talking, and thought there was someone with you."
-
-"Oh," he replied with a smile, "I was only entering my diary."
-
-"Your diary?" I asked him in surprise.
-
-"Yes," he answered. "I keep it in this." As he spoke he laid his
-hand on the phonograph. I felt quite excited over it, and blurted
-out, "Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?"
-
-"Certainly," he replied with alacrity, and stood up to put it in train
-for speaking. Then he paused, and a troubled look overspread his
-face.
-
-"The fact is," he began awkwardly, "I only keep my diary in it, and as
-it is entirely, almost entirely, about my cases it may be awkward,
-that is, I mean . . ." He stopped, and I tried to help him out of his
-embarrassment.
-
-"You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end. Let me hear how she died,
-for all that I know of her, I shall be very grateful. She was very,
-very dear to me."
-
-To my surprise, he answered, with a horrorstruck look in his face,
-"Tell you of her death? Not for the wide world!"
-
-"Why not?" I asked, for some grave, terrible feeling was coming over me.
-
-Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an
-excuse. At length, he stammered out, "You see, I do not know how to
-pick out any particular part of the diary."
-
-Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said with
-unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naivete of
-a child, "that's quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!"
-
-I could not but smile, at which he grimaced. "I gave myself away that
-time!" he said. "But do you know that, although I have kept the diary
-for months past, it never once struck me how I was going to find any
-particular part of it in case I wanted to look it up?"
-
-By this time my mind was made up that the diary of a doctor who
-attended Lucy might have something to add to the sum of our knowledge
-of that terrible Being, and I said boldly, "Then, Dr. Seward, you had
-better let me copy it out for you on my typewriter."
-
-He grew to a positively deathly pallor as he said, "No! No! No! For
-all the world. I wouldn't let you know that terrible story!"
-
-Then it was terrible. My intuition was right! For a moment, I
-thought, and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for
-something or some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of
-typewriting on the table. His eyes caught the look in mine, and
-without his thinking, followed their direction. As they saw the
-parcel he realized my meaning.
-
-"You do not know me," I said. "When you have read those papers, my
-own diary and my husband's also, which I have typed, you will know me
-better. I have not faltered in giving every thought of my own heart
-in this cause. But, of course, you do not know me, yet, and I must
-not expect you to trust me so far."
-
-He is certainly a man of noble nature. Poor dear Lucy was right about
-him. He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in
-order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and
-said,
-
-"You are quite right. I did not trust you because I did not know
-you. But I know you now, and let me say that I should have known you
-long ago. I know that Lucy told you of me. She told me of you too.
-May I make the only atonement in my power? Take the cylinders and
-hear them. The first half-dozen of them are personal to me, and they
-will not horrify you. Then you will know me better. Dinner will by
-then be ready. In the meantime I shall read over some of these
-documents, and shall be better able to understand certain things."
-
-He carried the phonograph himself up to my sitting room and adjusted
-it for me. Now I shall learn something pleasant, I am sure. For it
-will tell me the other side of a true love episode of which I know one
-side already.
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-29 September.--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan
-Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without
-thinking. Mrs. Harker was not down when the maid came to announce
-dinner, so I said, "She is possibly tired. Let dinner wait an hour,"
-and I went on with my work. I had just finished Mrs. Harker's diary,
-when she came in. She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her
-eyes were flushed with crying. This somehow moved me much. Of late I
-have had cause for tears, God knows! But the relief of them was
-denied me, and now the sight of those sweet eyes, brightened by recent
-tears, went straight to my heart. So I said as gently as I could, "I
-greatly fear I have distressed you."
-
-"Oh, no, not distressed me," she replied. "But I have been more
-touched than I can say by your grief. That is a wonderful machine,
-but it is cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the anguish of
-your heart. It was like a soul crying out to Almighty God. No one
-must hear them spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be useful. I
-have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now
-hear your heart beat, as I did."
-
-"No one need ever know, shall ever know," I said in a low voice. She
-laid her hand on mine and said very gravely, "Ah, but they must!"
-
-"Must! But why?" I asked.
-
-"Because it is a part of the terrible story, a part of poor Lucy's
-death and all that led to it. Because in the struggle which we have
-before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all
-the knowledge and all the help which we can get. I think that the
-cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to
-know. But I can see that there are in your record many lights to this
-dark mystery. You will let me help, will you not? I know all up to a
-certain point, and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7
-September, how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was
-being wrought out. Jonathan and I have been working day and night
-since Professor Van Helsing saw us. He is gone to Whitby to get more
-information, and he will be here tomorrow to help us. We need have no
-secrets amongst us. Working together and with absolute trust, we can
-surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark."
-
-She looked at me so appealingly, and at the same time manifested such
-courage and resolution in her bearing, that I gave in at once to her
-wishes. "You shall," I said, "do as you like in the matter. God
-forgive me if I do wrong! There are terrible things yet to learn of,
-but if you have so far traveled on the road to poor Lucy's death, you
-will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the
-very end, may give you a gleam of peace. Come, there is dinner. We
-must keep one another strong for what is before us. We have a cruel
-and dreadful task. When you have eaten you shall learn the rest, and
-I shall answer any questions you ask, if there be anything which you
-do not understand, though it was apparent to us who were present."
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-29 September.--After dinner I came with Dr. Seward to his study. He
-brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took a chair, and
-arranged the phonograph so that I could touch it without getting up,
-and showed me how to stop it in case I should want to pause. Then he
-very thoughtfully took a chair, with his back to me, so that I might
-be as free as possible, and began to read. I put the forked metal to
-my ears and listened.
-
-When the terrible story of Lucy's death, and all that followed, was
-done, I lay back in my chair powerless. Fortunately I am not of a
-fainting disposition. When Dr. Seward saw me he jumped up with a
-horrified exclamation, and hurriedly taking a case bottle from the
-cupboard, gave me some brandy, which in a few minutes somewhat
-restored me. My brain was all in a whirl, and only that there came
-through all the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my
-dear Lucy was at last at peace, I do not think I could have borne it
-without making a scene. It is all so wild and mysterious, and strange
-that if I had not known Jonathan's experience in Transylvania I could
-not have believed. As it was, I didn't know what to believe, and so
-got out of my difficulty by attending to something else. I took the
-cover off my typewriter, and said to Dr. Seward,
-
-"Let me write this all out now. We must be ready for Dr. Van Helsing
-when he comes. I have sent a telegram to Jonathan to come on here
-when he arrives in London from Whitby. In this matter dates are
-everything, and I think that if we get all of our material ready, and
-have every item put in chronological order, we shall have done much.
-
-"You tell me that Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris are coming too. Let
-us be able to tell them when they come."
-
-He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I began to
-typewrite from the beginning of the seventeenth cylinder. I used
-manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done
-with the rest. It was late when I got through, but Dr. Seward went
-about his work of going his round of the patients. When he had
-finished he came back and sat near me, reading, so that I did not feel
-too lonely whilst I worked. How good and thoughtful he is. The world
-seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.
-
-Before I left him I remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the
-Professor's perturbation at reading something in an evening paper at
-the station at Exeter, so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his
-newspapers, I borrowed the files of 'The Westminster Gazette' and 'The
-Pall Mall Gazette' and took them to my room. I remember how much the
-'Dailygraph' and 'The Whitby Gazette', of which I had made cuttings,
-had helped us to understand the terrible events at Whitby when Count
-Dracula landed, so I shall look through the evening papers since then,
-and perhaps I shall get some new light. I am not sleepy, and the work
-will help to keep me quiet.
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-30 September.--Mr. Harker arrived at nine o'clock. He got his wife's
-wire just before starting. He is uncommonly clever, if one can judge
-from his face, and full of energy. If this journal be true, and
-judging by one's own wonderful experiences, it must be, he is also a
-man of great nerve. That going down to the vault a second time was a
-remarkable piece of daring. After reading his account of it I was
-prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet,
-businesslike gentleman who came here today.
-
-
-LATER.--After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room,
-and as I passed a while ago I heard the click of the typewriter. They
-are hard at it. Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in
-chronological order every scrap of evidence they have. Harker has got
-the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the
-carriers in London who took charge of them. He is now reading his
-wife's transcript of my diary. I wonder what they make out of it.
-Here it is . . .
-
-Strange that it never struck me that the very next house might be the
-Count's hiding place! Goodness knows that we had enough clues from
-the conduct of the patient Renfield! The bundle of letters relating
-to the purchase of the house were with the transcript. Oh, if we had
-only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! Stop! That way
-madness lies! Harker has gone back, and is again collecting material.
-He says that by dinner time they will be able to show a whole
-connected narrative. He thinks that in the meantime I should see
-Renfield, as hitherto he has been a sort of index to the coming and
-going of the Count. I hardly see this yet, but when I get at the
-dates I suppose I shall. What a good thing that Mrs. Harker put my
-cylinders into type! We never could have found the dates otherwise.
-
-I found Renfield sitting placidly in his room with his hands folded,
-smiling benignly. At the moment he seemed as sane as any one I ever
-saw. I sat down and talked with him on a lot of subjects, all of
-which he treated naturally. He then, of his own accord, spoke of
-going home, a subject he has never mentioned to my knowledge during
-his sojourn here. In fact, he spoke quite confidently of getting his
-discharge at once. I believe that, had I not had the chat with Harker
-and read the letters and the dates of his outbursts, I should have
-been prepared to sign for him after a brief time of observation. As
-it is, I am darkly suspicious. All those out-breaks were in some way
-linked with the proximity of the Count. What then does this absolute
-content mean? Can it be that his instinct is satisfied as to the
-vampire's ultimate triumph? Stay. He is himself zoophagous, and in
-his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he
-always spoke of 'master'. This all seems confirmation of our idea.
-However, after a while I came away. My friend is just a little too
-sane at present to make it safe to probe him too deep with questions.
-He might begin to think, and then . . . So I came away. I mistrust
-these quiet moods of his, so I have given the attendant a hint to
-look closely after him, and to have a strait waistcoat ready in case
-of need.
-
-
-
-
-
-JOHNATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-29 September, in train to London.--When I received Mr. Billington's
-courteous message that he would give me any information in his power I
-thought it best to go down to Whitby and make, on the spot, such
-inquiries as I wanted. It was now my object to trace that horrid
-cargo of the Count's to its place in London. Later, we may be able to
-deal with it. Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station,
-and brought me to his father's house, where they had decided that I
-must spend the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire
-hospitality, give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes.
-They all knew that I was busy, and that my stay was short, and Mr.
-Billington had ready in his office all the papers concerning the
-consignment of boxes. It gave me almost a turn to see again one of
-the letters which I had seen on the Count's table before I knew of his
-diabolical plans. Everything had been carefully thought out, and done
-systematically and with precision. He seemed to have been prepared
-for every obstacle which might be placed by accident in the way of his
-intentions being carried out. To use an Americanism, he had 'taken no
-chances', and the absolute accuracy with which his instructions were
-fulfilled was simply the logical result of his care. I saw the
-invoice, and took note of it. 'Fifty cases of common earth, to be used
-for experimental purposes'. Also the copy of the letter to Carter
-Paterson, and their reply. Of both these I got copies. This was all
-the information Mr. Billington could give me, so I went down to the
-port and saw the coastguards, the Customs Officers and the harbour
-master, who kindly put me in communication with the men who had
-actually received the boxes. Their tally was exact with the list, and
-they had nothing to add to the simple description 'fifty cases of
-common earth', except that the boxes were 'main and mortal heavy', and
-that shifting them was dry work. One of them added that it was hard
-lines that there wasn't any gentleman 'such like as like yourself,
-squire', to show some sort of appreciation of their efforts in a
-liquid form. Another put in a rider that the thirst then generated
-was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely
-allayed it. Needless to add, I took care before leaving to lift,
-forever and adequately, this source of reproach.
-
-30 September.--The station master was good enough to give me a line to
-his old companion the station master at King's Cross, so that when I
-arrived there in the morning I was able to ask him about the arrival
-of the boxes. He, too put me at once in communication with the proper
-officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original
-invoice. The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been
-here limited. A noble use of them had, however, been made, and again
-I was compelled to deal with the result in ex post facto manner.
-
-From thence I went to Carter Paterson's central office, where I met
-with the utmost courtesy. They looked up the transaction in their day
-book and letter book, and at once telephoned to their King's Cross
-office for more details. By good fortune, the men who did the teaming
-were waiting for work, and the official at once sent them over,
-sending also by one of them the way-bill and all the papers connected
-with the delivery of the boxes at Carfax. Here again I found the
-tally agreeing exactly. The carriers' men were able to supplement the
-paucity of the written words with a few more details. These were, I
-shortly found, connected almost solely with the dusty nature of the
-job, and the consequent thirst engendered in the operators. On my
-affording an opportunity, through the medium of the currency of the
-realm, of the allaying, at a later period, this beneficial evil, one
-of the men remarked,
-
-"That 'ere 'ouse, guv'nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! But
-it ain't been touched sence a hundred years. There was dust that
-thick in the place that you might have slep' on it without 'urtin' of
-yer bones. An' the place was that neglected that yer might 'ave
-smelled ole Jerusalem in it. But the old chapel, that took the cike,
-that did! Me and my mate, we thort we wouldn't never git out quick
-enough. Lor', I wouldn't take less nor a quid a moment to stay there
-arter dark."
-
-Having been in the house, I could well believe him, but if he knew
-what I know, he would, I think have raised his terms.
-
-Of one thing I am now satisfied. That all those boxes which arrived at
-Whitby from Varna in the Demeter were safely deposited in the old
-chapel at Carfax. There should be fifty of them there, unless any
-have since been removed, as from Dr. Seward's diary I fear.
-
-
-Later.--Mina and I have worked all day, and we have put all the papers
-into order.
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 September.--I am so glad that I hardly know how to contain myself.
-It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have
-had, that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound
-might act detrimentally on Jonathan. I saw him leave for Whitby with
-as brave a face as could, but I was sick with apprehension. The
-effort has, however, done him good. He was never so resolute, never
-so strong, never so full of volcanic energy, as at present. It is
-just as that dear, good Professor Van Helsing said, he is true grit,
-and he improves under strain that would kill a weaker nature. He came
-back full of life and hope and determination. We have got everything
-in order for tonight. I feel myself quite wild with excitement. I
-suppose one ought to pity anything so hunted as the Count. That is
-just it. This thing is not human, not even a beast. To read Dr.
-Seward's account of poor Lucy's death, and what followed, is enough to
-dry up the springs of pity in one's heart.
-
-
-Later.--Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris arrived earlier than we
-expected. Dr. Seward was out on business, and had taken Jonathan with
-him, so I had to see them. It was to me a painful meeting, for it
-brought back all poor dear Lucy's hopes of only a few months ago. Of
-course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr. Van
-Helsing, too, had been quite 'blowing my trumpet', as Mr. Morris
-expressed it. Poor fellows, neither of them is aware that I know all
-about the proposals they made to Lucy. They did not quite know what
-to say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge. So
-they had to keep on neutral subjects. However, I thought the matter
-over, and came to the conclusion that the best thing I could do would
-be to post them on affairs right up to date. I knew from Dr. Seward's
-diary that they had been at Lucy's death, her real death, and that I
-need not fear to betray any secret before the time. So I told them,
-as well as I could, that I had read all the papers and diaries, and
-that my husband and I, having typewritten them, had just finished
-putting them in order. I gave them each a copy to read in the
-library. When Lord Godalming got his and turned it over, it does make
-a pretty good pile, he said, "Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?"
-
-I nodded, and he went on.
-
-"I don't quite see the drift of it, but you people are all so good and
-kind, and have been working so earnestly and so energetically, that
-all I can do is to accept your ideas blindfold and try to help you. I
-have had one lesson already in accepting facts that should make a man
-humble to the last hour of his life. Besides, I know you loved my
-Lucy . . ."
-
-Here he turned away and covered his face with his hands. I could hear
-the tears in his voice. Mr. Morris, with instinctive delicacy, just
-laid a hand for a moment on his shoulder, and then walked quietly out
-of the room. I suppose there is something in a woman's nature that
-makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on
-the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his
-manhood. For when Lord Godalming found himself alone with me he sat
-down on the sofa and gave way utterly and openly. I sat down beside
-him and took his hand. I hope he didn't think it forward of me, and
-that if he ever thinks of it afterwards he never will have such a
-thought. There I wrong him. I know he never will. He is too true a
-gentleman. I said to him, for I could see that his heart was
-breaking, "I loved dear Lucy, and I know what she was to you, and what
-you were to her. She and I were like sisters, and now she is gone,
-will you not let me be like a sister to you in your trouble? I know
-what sorrows you have had, though I cannot measure the depth of them.
-If sympathy and pity can help in your affliction, won't you let me be
-of some little service, for Lucy's sake?"
-
-In an instant the poor dear fellow was overwhelmed with grief. It
-seemed to me that all that he had of late been suffering in silence
-found a vent at once. He grew quite hysterical, and raising his open
-hands, beat his palms together in a perfect agony of grief. He stood
-up and then sat down again, and the tears rained down his cheeks. I
-felt an infinite pity for him, and opened my arms unthinkingly. With
-a sob he laid his head on my shoulder and cried like a wearied child,
-whilst he shook with emotion.
-
-We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above
-smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked. I felt this big
-sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of a baby
-that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he
-were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all
-was.
-
-After a little bit his sobs ceased, and he raised himself with an
-apology, though he made no disguise of his emotion. He told me that
-for days and nights past, weary days and sleepless nights, he had been
-unable to speak with any one, as a man must speak in his time of
-sorrow. There was no woman whose sympathy could be given to him, or
-with whom, owing to the terrible circumstance with which his sorrow
-was surrounded, he could speak freely.
-
-"I know now how I suffered," he said, as he dried his eyes, "but I do
-not know even yet, and none other can ever know, how much your sweet
-sympathy has been to me today. I shall know better in time, and
-believe me that, though I am not ungrateful now, my gratitude will
-grow with my understanding. You will let me be like a brother, will
-you not, for all our lives, for dear Lucy's sake?"
-
-"For dear Lucy's sake," I said as we clasped hands. "Ay, and for your
-own sake," he added, "for if a man's esteem and gratitude are ever
-worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should
-bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will
-not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to
-break the sunshine of your life, but if it should ever come, promise
-me that you will let me know."
-
-He was so earnest, and his sorrow was so fresh, that I felt it would
-comfort him, so I said, "I promise."
-
-As I came along the corridor I saw Mr. Morris looking out of a window.
-He turned as he heard my footsteps. "How is Art?" he said. Then
-noticing my red eyes, he went on, "Ah, I see you have been comforting
-him. Poor old fellow! He needs it. No one but a woman can help a
-man when he is in trouble of the heart, and he had no one to comfort
-him."
-
-He bore his own trouble so bravely that my heart bled for him. I saw
-the manuscript in his hand, and I knew that when he read it he would
-realize how much I knew, so I said to him, "I wish I could comfort all
-who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will
-you come to me for comfort if you need it? You will know later why I
-speak."
-
-He saw that I was in earnest, and stooping, took my hand, and raising
-it to his lips, kissed it. It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and
-unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The
-tears rose in his eyes, and there was a momentary choking in his
-throat. He said quite calmly, "Little girl, you will never forget
-that true hearted kindness, so long as ever you live!" Then he went
-into the study to his friend.
-
-"Little girl!" The very words he had used to Lucy, and, oh, but he
-proved himself a friend.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 18
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-30 September.--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
-and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the
-transcript of the various diaries and letters which Harker had not yet
-returned from his visit to the carriers' men, of whom Dr. Hennessey
-had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave us a cup of tea, and I can
-honestly say that, for the first time since I have lived in it, this
-old house seemed like home. When we had finished, Mrs. Harker said,
-
-"Dr. Seward, may I ask a favour? I want to see your patient, Mr.
-Renfield. Do let me see him. What you have said of him in your diary
-interests me so much!"
-
-She looked so appealing and so pretty that I could not refuse her, and
-there was no possible reason why I should, so I took her with me.
-When I went into the room, I told the man that a lady would like to see
-him, to which he simply answered, "Why?"
-
-"She is going through the house, and wants to see every one in it," I
-answered.
-
-"Oh, very well," he said, "let her come in, by all means, but just
-wait a minute till I tidy up the place."
-
-His method of tidying was peculiar, he simply swallowed all the flies
-and spiders in the boxes before I could stop him. It was quite
-evident that he feared, or was jealous of, some interference. When he
-had got through his disgusting task, he said cheerfully, "Let the lady
-come in," and sat down on the edge of his bed with his head down, but
-with his eyelids raised so that he could see her as she entered. For
-a moment I thought that he might have some homicidal intent. I
-remembered how quiet he had been just before he attacked me in my own
-study, and I took care to stand where I could seize him at once if he
-attempted to make a spring at her.
-
-She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once
-command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the
-qualities mad people most respect. She walked over to him, smiling
-pleasantly, and held out her hand.
-
-"Good evening, Mr. Renfield," said she. "You see, I know you, for Dr.
-Seward has told me of you." He made no immediate reply, but eyed her
-all over intently with a set frown on his face. This look gave way to
-one of wonder, which merged in doubt, then to my intense astonishment
-he said, "You're not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You
-can't be, you know, for she's dead."
-
-Mrs. Harker smiled sweetly as she replied, "Oh no! I have a husband
-of my own, to whom I was married before I ever saw Dr. Seward, or he
-me. I am Mrs. Harker."
-
-"Then what are you doing here?"
-
-"My husband and I are staying on a visit with Dr. Seward."
-
-"Then don't stay."
-
-"But why not?"
-
-I thought that this style of conversation might not be pleasant to
-Mrs. Harker, any more than it was to me, so I joined in, "How did you
-know I wanted to marry anyone?"
-
-His reply was simply contemptuous, given in a pause in which he turned
-his eyes from Mrs. Harker to me, instantly turning them back again,
-"What an asinine question!"
-
-"I don't see that at all, Mr. Renfield," said Mrs. Harker, at once
-championing me.
-
-He replied to her with as much courtesy and respect as he had shown
-contempt to me, "You will, of course, understand, Mrs. Harker, that
-when a man is so loved and honoured as our host is, everything
-regarding him is of interest in our little community. Dr. Seward is
-loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his
-patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are
-apt to distort causes and effects. Since I myself have been an inmate
-of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies
-of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and
-ignoratio elenche."
-
-I positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own
-pet lunatic, the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with,
-talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished
-gentleman. I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker's presence which had
-touched some chord in his memory. If this new phase was spontaneous,
-or in any way due to her unconscious influence, she must have some
-rare gift or power.
-
-We continued to talk for some time, and seeing that he was seemingly
-quite reasonable, she ventured, looking at me questioningly as she
-began, to lead him to his favourite topic. I was again astonished,
-for he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of
-the completest sanity. He even took himself as an example when he
-mentioned certain things.
-
-"Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief.
-Indeed, it was no wonder that my friends were alarmed, and insisted on
-my being put under control. I used to fancy that life was a positive
-and perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live
-things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might
-indefinitely prolong life. At times I held the belief so strongly
-that I actually tried to take human life. The doctor here will bear
-me out that on one occasion I tried to kill him for the purpose of
-strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of
-his life through the medium of his blood, relying of course, upon the
-Scriptural phrase, 'For the blood is the life.' Though, indeed, the
-vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very
-point of contempt. Isn't that true, doctor?"
-
-I nodded assent, for I was so amazed that I hardly knew what to either
-think or say, it was hard to imagine that I had seen him eat up his
-spiders and flies not five minutes before. Looking at my watch, I saw
-that I should go to the station to meet Van Helsing, so I told Mrs.
-Harker that it was time to leave.
-
-She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr. Renfield, "Goodbye,
-and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to
-yourself."
-
-To which, to my astonishment, he replied, "Goodbye, my dear. I pray
-God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep
-you!"
-
-When I went to the station to meet Van Helsing I left the boys behind
-me. Poor Art seemed more cheerful than he has been since Lucy first
-took ill, and Quincey is more like his own bright self than he has
-been for many a long day.
-
-Van Helsing stepped from the carriage with the eager nimbleness of a
-boy. He saw me at once, and rushed up to me, saying, "Ah, friend
-John, how goes all? Well? So! I have been busy, for I come here to
-stay if need be. All affairs are settled with me, and I have much to
-tell. Madam Mina is with you? Yes. And her so fine husband? And
-Arthur and my friend Quincey, they are with you, too? Good!"
-
-As I drove to the house I told him of what had passed, and of how my
-own diary had come to be of some use through Mrs. Harker's suggestion,
-at which the Professor interrupted me.
-
-"Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man's brain, a brain that a
-man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good
-God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good
-combination. Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of
-help to us, after tonight she must not have to do with this so
-terrible affair. It is not good that she run a risk so great. We men
-are determined, nay, are we not pledged, to destroy this monster? But
-it is no part for a woman. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may
-fail her in so much and so many horrors and hereafter she may suffer,
-both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. And,
-besides, she is young woman and not so long married, there may be
-other things to think of some time, if not now. You tell me she has
-wrote all, then she must consult with us, but tomorrow she say goodbye
-to this work, and we go alone."
-
-I agreed heartily with him, and then I told him what we had found in
-his absence, that the house which Dracula had bought was the very next
-one to my own. He was amazed, and a great concern seemed to come on
-him.
-
-"Oh that we had known it before!" he said, "for then we might have
-reached him in time to save poor Lucy. However, 'the milk that is
-spilt cries not out afterwards,' as you say. We shall not think of
-that, but go on our way to the end." Then he fell into a silence that
-lasted till we entered my own gateway. Before we went to prepare for
-dinner he said to Mrs. Harker, "I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend
-John that you and your husband have put up in exact order all things
-that have been, up to this moment."
-
-"Not up to this moment, Professor," she said impulsively, "but up to
-this morning."
-
-"But why not up to now? We have seen hitherto how good light all the
-little things have made. We have told our secrets, and yet no one who
-has told is the worse for it."
-
-Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from her pockets, she
-said, "Dr. Van Helsing, will you read this, and tell me if it must go
-in. It is my record of today. I too have seen the need of putting
-down at present everything, however trivial, but there is little in
-this except what is personal. Must it go in?"
-
-The Professor read it over gravely, and handed it back, saying, "It
-need not go in if you do not wish it, but I pray that it may. It can
-but make your husband love you the more, and all us, your friends,
-more honour you, as well as more esteem and love." She took it back
-with another blush and a bright smile.
-
-And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have are complete
-and in order. The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner,
-and before our meeting, which is fixed for nine o'clock. The rest of
-us have already read everything, so when we meet in the study we shall
-all be informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with
-this terrible and mysterious enemy.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 September.--When we met in Dr. Seward's study two hours after
-dinner, which had been at six o'clock, we unconsciously formed a sort
-of board or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the
-table, to which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room. He
-made me sit next to him on his right, and asked me to act as
-secretary. Jonathan sat next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming,
-Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris, Lord Godalming being next the Professor,
-and Dr. Seward in the centre.
-
-The Professor said, "I may, I suppose, take it that we are all
-acquainted with the facts that are in these papers." We all expressed
-assent, and he went on, "Then it were, I think, good that I tell you
-something of the kind of enemy with which we have to deal. I shall
-then make known to you something of the history of this man, which has
-been ascertained for me. So we then can discuss how we shall act, and
-can take our measure according.
-
-"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they
-exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the
-teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane
-peoples. I admit that at the first I was sceptic. Were it not that
-through long years I have trained myself to keep an open mind, I could
-not have believed until such time as that fact thunder on my ear. 'See!
-See! I prove, I prove.' Alas! Had I known at first what now I know,
-nay, had I even guess at him, one so precious life had been spared to
-many of us who did love her. But that is gone, and we must so work,
-that other poor souls perish not, whilst we can save. The nosferatu
-do not die like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger, and
-being stronger, have yet more power to work evil. This vampire which
-is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is
-of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he
-have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply,
-the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to
-are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil
-in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range,
-direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command
-all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth,
-and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small; and he can at
-times vanish and come unknown. How then are we to begin our strike to
-destroy him? How shall we find his where, and having found it, how
-can we destroy? My friends, this is much, it is a terrible task that
-we undertake, and there may be consequence to make the brave shudder.
-For if we fail in this our fight he must surely win, and then where
-end we? Life is nothings, I heed him not. But to fail here, is not
-mere life or death. It is that we become as him, that we henceforward
-become foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscience,
-preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. To us
-forever are the gates of heaven shut, for who shall open them to us
-again? We go on for all time abhorred by all, a blot on the face of
-God's sunshine, an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. But we
-are face to face with duty, and in such case must we shrink? For me,
-I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair
-places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You
-others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet
-in store. What say you?"
-
-Whilst he was speaking, Jonathan had taken my hand. I feared, oh so
-much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when
-I saw his hand stretch out, but it was life to me to feel its touch,
-so strong, so self reliant, so resolute. A brave man's hand can speak
-for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.
-
-When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes, and
-I in his, there was no need for speaking between us.
-
-"I answer for Mina and myself," he said.
-
-"Count me in, Professor," said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as
-usual.
-
-"I am with you," said Lord Godalming, "for Lucy's sake, if for no
-other reason."
-
-Dr. Seward simply nodded.
-
-The Professor stood up and, after laying his golden crucifix on the
-table, held out his hand on either side. I took his right hand, and
-Lord Godalming his left, Jonathan held my right with his left and
-stretched across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our solemn
-compact was made. I felt my heart icy cold, but it did not even occur
-to me to draw back. We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing went
-on with a sort of cheerfulness which showed that the serious work had
-begun. It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way,
-as any other transaction of life.
-
-"Well, you know what we have to contend against, but we too, are not
-without strength. We have on our side power of combination, a power
-denied to the vampire kind, we have sources of science, we are free to
-act and think, and the hours of the day and the night are ours
-equally. In fact, so far as our powers extend, they are unfettered,
-and we are free to use them. We have self devotion in a cause and an
-end to achieve which is not a selfish one. These things are much.
-
-"Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are
-restrict, and how the individual cannot. In fine, let us consider the
-limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular.
-
-"All we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions. These do
-not at the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and
-death, nay of more than either life or death. Yet must we be
-satisfied, in the first place because we have to be, no other means is
-at our control, and secondly, because, after all these things,
-tradition and superstition, are everything. Does not the belief in
-vampires rest for others, though not, alas! for us, on them? A year
-ago which of us would have received such a possibility, in the midst
-of our scientific, sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We
-even scouted a belief that we saw justified under our very eyes. Take
-it, then, that the vampire, and the belief in his limitations and his
-cure, rest for the moment on the same base. For, let me tell you, he
-is known everywhere that men have been. In old Greece, in old Rome,
-he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the
-Chermosese, and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is
-he, and the peoples for him at this day. He have follow the wake of
-the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon,
-the Magyar.
-
-"So far, then, we have all we may act upon, and let me tell you that
-very much of the beliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own
-so unhappy experience. The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere
-passing of the time, he can flourish when that he can fatten on the
-blood of the living. Even more, we have seen amongst us that he can
-even grow younger, that his vital faculties grow strenuous, and seem
-as though they refresh themselves when his special pabulum is plenty.
-
-"But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others. Even
-friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him eat,
-never! He throws no shadow, he make in the mirror no reflect, as
-again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand,
-witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolves, and
-when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself to
-wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open
-the dog, he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at
-Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as
-my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy.
-
-"He can come in mist which he create, that noble ship's captain proved
-him of this, but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
-mist is limited, and it can only be round himself.
-
-"He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust, as again Jonathan saw
-those sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small, we
-ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
-hairbreadth space at the tomb door. He can, when once he find his
-way, come out from anything or into anything, no matter how close it
-be bound or even fused up with fire, solder you call it. He can see
-in the dark, no small power this, in a world which is one half shut
-from the light. Ah, but hear me through.
-
-"He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay, he is even more
-prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell.
-He cannot go where he lists, he who is not of nature has yet to obey
-some of nature's laws, why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at
-the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to
-come, though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases,
-as does that of all evil things, at the coming of the day.
-
-"Only at certain times can he have limited freedom. If he be not at
-the place whither he is bound, he can only change himself at noon or
-at exact sunrise or sunset. These things we are told, and in this
-record of ours we have proof by inference. Thus, whereas he can do as
-he will within his limit, when he have his earth-home, his
-coffin-home, his hell-home, the place unhallowed, as we saw when he
-went to the grave of the suicide at Whitby, still at other time he can
-only change when the time come. It is said, too, that he can only
-pass running water at the slack or the flood of the tide. Then there
-are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic
-that we know of, and as for things sacred, as this symbol, my
-crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is
-nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and silent
-with respect. There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest
-in our seeking we may need them.
-
-"The branch of wild rose on his coffin keep him that he move not from
-it, a sacred bullet fired into the coffin kill him so that he be true
-dead, and as for the stake through him, we know already of its peace,
-or the cut off head that giveth rest. We have seen it with our eyes.
-
-"Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine
-him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know. But he is
-clever. I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to
-make his record, and from all the means that are, he tell me of what
-he has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won
-his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier
-of Turkeyland. If it be so, then was he no common man, for in that
-time, and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and
-the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land
-beyond the forest.' That mighty brain and that iron resolution went
-with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The
-Draculas were, says Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and
-again were scions who were held by their coevals to have had dealings
-with the Evil One. They learned his secrets in the Scholomance,
-amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims
-the tenth scholar as his due. In the records are such words as
-'stregoica' witch, 'ordog' and 'pokol' Satan and hell, and in one
-manuscript this very Dracula is spoken of as 'wampyr,' which we all
-understand too well. There have been from the loins of this very one
-great men and good women, and their graves make sacred the earth where
-alone this foulness can dwell. For it is not the least of its terrors
-that this evil thing is rooted deep in all good, in soil barren of
-holy memories it cannot rest."
-
-Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the
-window, and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room. There
-was a little pause, and then the Professor went on.
-
-"And now we must settle what we do. We have here much data, and we
-must proceed to lay out our campaign. We know from the inquiry of
-Jonathan that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all
-of which were delivered at Carfax, we also know that at least some of
-these boxes have been removed. It seems to me, that our first step
-should be to ascertain whether all the rest remain in the house beyond
-that wall where we look today, or whether any more have been removed.
-If the latter, we must trace . . ."
-
-Here we were interrupted in a very startling way. Outside the house
-came the sound of a pistol shot, the glass of the window was shattered
-with a bullet, which ricochetting from the top of the embrasure,
-struck the far wall of the room. I am afraid I am at heart a coward,
-for I shrieked out. The men all jumped to their feet, Lord Godalming
-flew over to the window and threw up the sash. As he did so we heard
-Mr. Morris' voice without, "Sorry! I fear I have alarmed you. I
-shall come in and tell you about it."
-
-A minute later he came in and said, "It was an idiotic thing of me to
-do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. Harker, most sincerely, I fear I must
-have frightened you terribly. But the fact is that whilst the
-Professor was talking there came a big bat and sat on the window sill.
-I have got such a horror of the damned brutes from recent events that
-I cannot stand them, and I went out to have a shot, as I have been
-doing of late of evenings, whenever I have seen one. You used to
-laugh at me for it then, Art."
-
-"Did you hit it?" asked Dr. Van Helsing.
-
-"I don't know, I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood." Without
-saying any more he took his seat, and the Professor began to resume
-his statement.
-
-"We must trace each of these boxes, and when we are ready, we must
-either capture or kill this monster in his lair, or we must, so to
-speak, sterilize the earth, so that no more he can seek safety in it.
-Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours
-of noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most
-weak.
-
-"And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well.
-You are too precious to us to have such risk. When we part tonight,
-you no more must question. We shall tell you all in good time. We
-are men and are able to bear, but you must be our star and our hope,
-and we shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger,
-such as we are."
-
-All the men, even Jonathan, seemed relieved, but it did not seem to me
-good that they should brave danger and, perhaps lessen their safety,
-strength being the best safety, through care of me, but their minds
-were made up, and though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow, I
-could say nothing, save to accept their chivalrous care of me.
-
-Mr. Morris resumed the discussion, "As there is no time to lose, I
-vote we have a look at his house right now. Time is everything with
-him, and swift action on our part may save another victim."
-
-I own that my heart began to fail me when the time for action came so
-close, but I did not say anything, for I had a greater fear that if I
-appeared as a drag or a hindrance to their work, they might even leave
-me out of their counsels altogether. They have now gone off to
-Carfax, with means to get into the house.
-
-Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep, as if a woman can
-sleep when those she loves are in danger! I shall lie down, and
-pretend to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he
-returns.
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-1 October, 4 A.M.--Just as we were about to leave the house, an urgent
-message was brought to me from Renfield to know if I would see him at
-once, as he had something of the utmost importance to say to me. I
-told the messenger to say that I would attend to his wishes in the
-morning, I was busy just at the moment.
-
-The attendant added, "He seems very importunate, sir. I have never
-seen him so eager. I don't know but what, if you don't see him soon,
-he will have one of his violent fits." I knew the man would not have
-said this without some cause, so I said, "All right, I'll go now," and
-I asked the others to wait a few minutes for me, as I had to go and
-see my patient.
-
-"Take me with you, friend John," said the Professor. "His case in your
-diary interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on our
-case. I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is
-disturbed."
-
-"May I come also?" asked Lord Godalming.
-
-"Me too?" said Quincey Morris. "May I come?" said Harker. I nodded,
-and we all went down the passage together.
-
-We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far more
-rational in his speech and manner than I had ever seen him. There was
-an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had
-ever met with in a lunatic, and he took it for granted that his
-reasons would prevail with others entirely sane. We all five went
-into the room, but none of the others at first said anything. His
-request was that I would at once release him from the asylum and send
-him home. This he backed up with arguments regarding his complete
-recovery, and adduced his own existing sanity.
-
-"I appeal to your friends," he said, "they will, perhaps, not mind
-sitting in judgement on my case. By the way, you have not introduced
-me."
-
-I was so much astonished, that the oddness of introducing a madman in
-an asylum did not strike me at the moment, and besides, there was a
-certain dignity in the man's manner, so much of the habit of equality,
-that I at once made the introduction, "Lord Godalming, Professor Van
-Helsing, Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas, Mr. Jonathan Harker, Mr.
-Renfield."
-
-He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn, "Lord Godalming, I
-had the honour of seconding your father at the Windham; I grieve to
-know, by your holding the title, that he is no more. He was a man
-loved and honoured by all who knew him, and in his youth was, I have
-heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much patronized on Derby
-night. Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state. Its
-reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching
-effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to
-the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast
-engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place
-as a political fable. What shall any man say of his pleasure at
-meeting Van Helsing? Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of
-conventional prefix. When an individual has revolutionized
-therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain
-matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to
-limit him to one of a class. You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by
-heredity, or by the possession of natural gifts, are fitted to hold
-your respective places in the moving world, I take to witness that I
-am as sane as at least the majority of men who are in full possession
-of their liberties. And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian
-and medico-jurist as well as scientist, will deem it a moral duty to
-deal with me as one to be considered as under exceptional
-circumstances." He made this last appeal with a courtly air of
-conviction which was not without its own charm.
-
-I think we were all staggered. For my own part, I was under the
-conviction, despite my knowledge of the man's character and history,
-that his reason had been restored, and I felt under a strong impulse
-to tell him that I was satisfied as to his sanity, and would see about
-the necessary formalities for his release in the morning. I thought
-it better to wait, however, before making so grave a statement, for of
-old I knew the sudden changes to which this particular patient was
-liable. So I contented myself with making a general statement that he
-appeared to be improving very rapidly, that I would have a longer chat
-with him in the morning, and would then see what I could do in the
-direction of meeting his wishes.
-
-This did not at all satisfy him, for he said quickly, "But I fear, Dr.
-Seward, that you hardly apprehend my wish. I desire to go at once,
-here, now, this very hour, this very moment, if I may. Time presses,
-and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the
-essence of the contract. I am sure it is only necessary to put before
-so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so momentous
-a wish, to ensure its fulfilment."
-
-He looked at me keenly, and seeing the negative in my face, turned to
-the others, and scrutinized them closely. Not meeting any sufficient
-response, he went on, "Is it possible that I have erred in my
-supposition?"
-
-"You have," I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally.
-
-There was a considerable pause, and then he said slowly, "Then I
-suppose I must only shift my ground of request. Let me ask for this
-concession, boon, privilege, what you will. I am content to implore
-in such a case, not on personal grounds, but for the sake of others. I
-am not at liberty to give you the whole of my reasons, but you may, I
-assure you, take it from me that they are good ones, sound and
-unselfish, and spring from the highest sense of duty.
-
-"Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the
-sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst
-the best and truest of your friends."
-
-Again he looked at us all keenly. I had a growing conviction that
-this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was but yet
-another phase of his madness, and so determined to let him go on a
-little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like all
-lunatics, give himself away in the end. Van Helsing was gazing at him
-with a look of utmost intensity, his bushy eyebrows almost meeting
-with the fixed concentration of his look. He said to Renfield in a
-tone which did not surprise me at the time, but only when I thought of
-it afterwards, for it was as of one addressing an equal, "Can you not
-tell frankly your real reason for wishing to be free tonight? I will
-undertake that if you will satisfy even me, a stranger, without
-prejudice, and with the habit of keeping an open mind, Dr. Seward will
-give you, at his own risk and on his own responsibility, the privilege
-you seek."
-
-He shook his head sadly, and with a look of poignant regret on his
-face. The Professor went on, "Come, sir, bethink yourself. You claim
-the privilege of reason in the highest degree, since you seek to
-impress us with your complete reasonableness. You do this, whose
-sanity we have reason to doubt, since you are not yet released from
-medical treatment for this very defect. If you will not help us in
-our effort to choose the wisest course, how can we perform the duty
-which you yourself put upon us? Be wise, and help us, and if we can
-we shall aid you to achieve your wish."
-
-He still shook his head as he said, "Dr. Van Helsing, I have nothing to
-say. Your argument is complete, and if I were free to speak I should
-not hesitate a moment, but I am not my own master in the matter. I
-can only ask you to trust me. If I am refused, the responsibility
-does not rest with me."
-
-I thought it was now time to end the scene, which was becoming too
-comically grave, so I went towards the door, simply saying, "Come, my
-friends, we have work to do. Goodnight."
-
-As, however, I got near the door, a new change came over the patient.
-He moved towards me so quickly that for the moment I feared that he
-was about to make another homicidal attack. My fears, however, were
-groundless, for he held up his two hands imploringly, and made his
-petition in a moving manner. As he saw that the very excess of his
-emotion was militating against him, by restoring us more to our old
-relations, he became still more demonstrative. I glanced at Van
-Helsing, and saw my conviction reflected in his eyes, so I became a
-little more fixed in my manner, if not more stern, and motioned to him
-that his efforts were unavailing. I had previously seen something of
-the same constantly growing excitement in him when he had to make some
-request of which at the time he had thought much, such for instance,
-as when he wanted a cat, and I was prepared to see the collapse into
-the same sullen acquiescence on this occasion.
-
-My expectation was not realized, for when he found that his appeal
-would not be successful, he got into quite a frantic condition. He
-threw himself on his knees, and held up his hands, wringing them in
-plaintive supplication, and poured forth a torrent of entreaty, with
-the tears rolling down his cheeks, and his whole face and form
-expressive of the deepest emotion.
-
-"Let me entreat you, Dr. Seward, oh, let me implore you, to let me out
-of this house at once. Send me away how you will and where you will,
-send keepers with me with whips and chains, let them take me in a
-strait waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to gaol, but let me go
-out of this. You don't know what you do by keeping me here. I am
-speaking from the depths of my heart, of my very soul. You don't know
-whom you wrong, or how, and I may not tell. Woe is me! I may not
-tell. By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that
-is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take
-me out of this and save my soul from guilt! Can't you hear me, man?
-Can't you understand? Will you never learn? Don't you know that I am
-sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane
-man fighting for his soul? Oh, hear me! Hear me! Let me go, let me
-go, let me go!"
-
-I thought that the longer this went on the wilder he would get, and so
-would bring on a fit, so I took him by the hand and raised him up.
-
-"Come," I said sternly, "no more of this, we have had quite enough
-already. Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly."
-
-He suddenly stopped and looked at me intently for several moments.
-Then, without a word, he rose and moving over, sat down on the side of
-the bed. The collapse had come, as on former occasions, just as I had
-expected.
-
-When I was leaving the room, last of our party, he said to me in a
-quiet, well-bred voice, "You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the
-justice to bear in mind, later on, that I did what I could to convince
-you tonight."
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 19
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-1 October, 5 A.M.--I went with the party to the search with an easy
-mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I
-am so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.
-Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at
-all, but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy
-and brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such
-a way that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is
-finished, and that she can henceforth leave the rest to us. We were,
-I think, all a little upset by the scene with Mr. Renfield. When we
-came away from his room we were silent till we got back to the study.
-
-Then Mr. Morris said to Dr. Seward, "Say, Jack, if that man wasn't
-attempting a bluff, he is about the sanest lunatic I ever saw. I'm
-not sure, but I believe that he had some serious purpose, and if he
-had, it was pretty rough on him not to get a chance."
-
-Lord Godalming and I were silent, but Dr. Van Helsing added, "Friend
-John, you know more lunatics than I do, and I'm glad of it, for I fear
-that if it had been to me to decide I would before that last
-hysterical outburst have given him free. But we live and learn, and
-in our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would
-say. All is best as they are."
-
-Dr. Seward seemed to answer them both in a dreamy kind of way, "I
-don't know but that I agree with you. If that man had been an
-ordinary lunatic I would have taken my chance of trusting him, but he
-seems so mixed up with the Count in an indexy kind of way that I am
-afraid of doing anything wrong by helping his fads. I can't forget
-how he prayed with almost equal fervor for a cat, and then tried to
-tear my throat out with his teeth. Besides, he called the Count 'lord
-and master', and he may want to get out to help him in some diabolical
-way. That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind
-to help him, so I suppose he isn't above trying to use a respectable
-lunatic. He certainly did seem earnest, though. I only hope we have
-done what is best. These things, in conjunction with the wild work we
-have in hand, help to unnerve a man."
-
-The Professor stepped over, and laying his hand on his shoulder, said
-in his grave, kindly way, "Friend John, have no fear. We are trying
-to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case, we can only do as we
-deem best. What else have we to hope for, except the pity of the good
-God?"
-
-Lord Godalming had slipped away for a few minutes, but now he
-returned. He held up a little silver whistle as he remarked, "That
-old place may be full of rats, and if so, I've got an antidote on
-call."
-
-Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care to
-keep in the shadows of the trees on the lawn when the moonlight shone
-out. When we got to the porch the Professor opened his bag and took
-out a lot of things, which he laid on the step, sorting them into four
-little groups, evidently one for each. Then he spoke.
-
-"My friends, we are going into a terrible danger, and we need arms of
-many kinds. Our enemy is not merely spiritual. Remember that he has
-the strength of twenty men, and that, though our necks or our
-windpipes are of the common kind, and therefore breakable or
-crushable, his are not amenable to mere strength. A stronger man, or
-a body of men more strong in all than him, can at certain times hold
-him, but they cannot hurt him as we can be hurt by him. We must,
-therefore, guard ourselves from his touch. Keep this near your
-heart." As he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it
-out to me, I being nearest to him, "put these flowers round your
-neck," here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms, "for
-other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife, and for aid
-in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can fasten to your
-breast, and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must
-not desecrate needless."
-
-This was a portion of Sacred Wafer, which he put in an envelope and
-handed to me. Each of the others was similarly equipped.
-
-"Now," he said, "friend John, where are the skeleton keys? If so that
-we can open the door, we need not break house by the window, as before
-at Miss Lucy's."
-
-Dr. Seward tried one or two skeleton keys, his mechanical dexterity as
-a surgeon standing him in good stead. Presently he got one to suit,
-after a little play back and forward the bolt yielded, and with a
-rusty clang, shot back. We pressed on the door, the rusty hinges
-creaked, and it slowly opened. It was startlingly like the image
-conveyed to me in Dr. Seward's diary of the opening of Miss Westenra's
-tomb, I fancy that the same idea seemed to strike the others, for with
-one accord they shrank back. The Professor was the first to move
-forward, and stepped into the open door.
-
-"In manus tuas, Domine!" he said, crossing himself as he passed over
-the threshold. We closed the door behind us, lest when we should have
-lit our lamps we should possibly attract attention from the road. The
-Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open
-it from within should we be in a hurry making our exit. Then we all
-lit our lamps and proceeded on our search.
-
-The light from the tiny lamps fell in all sorts of odd forms, as the
-rays crossed each other, or the opacity of our bodies threw great
-shadows. I could not for my life get away from the feeling that there
-was someone else amongst us. I suppose it was the recollection, so
-powerfully brought home to me by the grim surroundings, of that
-terrible experience in Transylvania. I think the feeling was common
-to us all, for I noticed that the others kept looking over their
-shoulders at every sound and every new shadow, just as I felt myself
-doing.
-
-The whole place was thick with dust. The floor was seemingly inches
-deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding
-down my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked.
-The walls were fluffy and heavy with dust, and in the corners were
-masses of spider's webs, whereon the dust had gathered till they
-looked like old tattered rags as the weight had torn them partly down.
-On a table in the hall was a great bunch of keys, with a time-yellowed
-label on each. They had been used several times, for on the table
-were several similar rents in the blanket of dust, similar to that
-exposed when the Professor lifted them.
-
-He turned to me and said, "You know this place, Jonathan. You have
-copied maps of it, and you know it at least more than we do. Which is
-the way to the chapel?"
-
-I had an idea of its direction, though on my former visit I had not
-been able to get admission to it, so I led the way, and after a few
-wrong turnings found myself opposite a low, arched oaken door, ribbed
-with iron bands.
-
-"This is the spot," said the Professor as he turned his lamp on a
-small map of the house, copied from the file of my original
-correspondence regarding the purchase. With a little trouble we found
-the key on the bunch and opened the door. We were prepared for some
-unpleasantness, for as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous
-air seemed to exhale through the gaps, but none of us ever expected
-such an odour as we encountered. None of the others had met the Count
-at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the
-fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was bloated
-with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air, but here the
-place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air
-stagnant and foul. There was an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma,
-which came through the fouler air. But as to the odour itself, how
-shall I describe it? It was not alone that it was composed of all the
-ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it
-seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt. Faugh! It
-sickens me to think of it. Every breath exhaled by that monster
-seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its loathsomeness.
-
-Under ordinary circumstances such a stench would have brought our
-enterprise to an end, but this was no ordinary case, and the high and
-terrible purpose in which we were involved gave us a strength which
-rose above merely physical considerations. After the involuntary
-shrinking consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set
-about our work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses.
-
-We made an accurate examination of the place, the Professor saying as
-we began, "The first thing is to see how many of the boxes are left,
-we must then examine every hole and corner and cranny and see if we
-cannot get some clue as to what has become of the rest."
-
-A glance was sufficient to show how many remained, for the great earth
-chests were bulky, and there was no mistaking them.
-
-There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty! Once I got a
-fright, for, seeing Lord Godalming suddenly turn and look out of the
-vaulted door into the dark passage beyond, I looked too, and for an
-instant my heart stood still. Somewhere, looking out from the shadow,
-I seemed to see the high lights of the Count's evil face, the ridge of
-the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor. It was only
-for a moment, for, as Lord Godalming said, "I thought I saw a face,
-but it was only the shadows," and resumed his inquiry, I turned my
-lamp in the direction, and stepped into the passage. There was no
-sign of anyone, and as there were no corners, no doors, no aperture of
-any kind, but only the solid walls of the passage, there could be no
-hiding place even for him. I took it that fear had helped
-imagination, and said nothing.
-
-A few minutes later I saw Morris step suddenly back from a corner,
-which he was examining. We all followed his movements with our eyes,
-for undoubtedly some nervousness was growing on us, and we saw a whole
-mass of phosphorescence, which twinkled like stars. We all
-instinctively drew back. The whole place was becoming alive with
-rats.
-
-For a moment or two we stood appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who
-was seemingly prepared for such an emergency. Rushing over to the
-great iron-bound oaken door, which Dr. Seward had described from the
-outside, and which I had seen myself, he turned the key in the lock,
-drew the huge bolts, and swung the door open. Then, taking his little
-silver whistle from his pocket, he blew a low, shrill call. It was
-answered from behind Dr. Seward's house by the yelping of dogs, and
-after about a minute three terriers came dashing round the corner of
-the house. Unconsciously we had all moved towards the door, and as we
-moved I noticed that the dust had been much disturbed. The boxes
-which had been taken out had been brought this way. But even in the
-minute that had elapsed the number of the rats had vastly increased.
-They seemed to swarm over the place all at once, till the lamplight,
-shining on their moving dark bodies and glittering, baleful eyes, made
-the place look like a bank of earth set with fireflies. The dogs
-dashed on, but at the threshold suddenly stopped and snarled, and
-then, simultaneously lifting their noses, began to howl in most
-lugubrious fashion. The rats were multiplying in thousands, and we
-moved out.
-
-Lord Godalming lifted one of the dogs, and carrying him in, placed him
-on the floor. The instant his feet touched the ground he seemed to
-recover his courage, and rushed at his natural enemies. They fled
-before him so fast that before he had shaken the life out of a score,
-the other dogs, who had by now been lifted in the same manner, had but
-small prey ere the whole mass had vanished.
-
-With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for
-the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at
-their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed them in
-the air with vicious shakes. We all seemed to find our spirits rise.
-Whether it was the purifying of the deadly atmosphere by the opening
-of the chapel door, or the relief which we experienced by finding
-ourselves in the open I know not, but most certainly the shadow of
-dread seemed to slip from us like a robe, and the occasion of our
-coming lost something of its grim significance, though we did not
-slacken a whit in our resolution. We closed the outer door and barred
-and locked it, and bringing the dogs with us, began our search of the
-house. We found nothing throughout except dust in extraordinary
-proportions, and all untouched save for my own footsteps when I had
-made my first visit. Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of
-uneasiness, and even when we returned to the chapel they frisked about
-as though they had been rabbit hunting in a summer wood.
-
-The morning was quickening in the east when we emerged from the front.
-Dr. Van Helsing had taken the key of the hall door from the bunch, and
-locked the door in orthodox fashion, putting the key into his pocket
-when he had done.
-
-"So far," he said, "our night has been eminently successful. No harm
-has come to us such as I feared might be and yet we have ascertained
-how many boxes are missing. More than all do I rejoice that this, our
-first, and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous, step has been
-accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina
-or troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds
-and smells of horror which she might never forget. One lesson, too,
-we have learned, if it be allowable to argue a particulari, that the
-brute beasts which are to the Count's command are yet themselves not
-amenable to his spiritual power, for look, these rats that would come
-to his call, just as from his castle top he summon the wolves to your
-going and to that poor mother's cry, though they come to him, they run
-pell-mell from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur. We have other
-matters before us, other dangers, other fears, and that monster . . .
-He has not used his power over the brute world for the only or the
-last time tonight. So be it that he has gone elsewhere. Good! It
-has given us opportunity to cry 'check' in some ways in this chess
-game, which we play for the stake of human souls. And now let us go
-home. The dawn is close at hand, and we have reason to be content
-with our first night's work. It may be ordained that we have many
-nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and
-from no danger shall we shrink."
-
-The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who
-was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning
-sound from Renfield's room. The poor wretch was doubtless torturing
-himself, after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of
-pain.
-
-I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so
-softly that I had to put my ear down to hear it. She looks paler than
-usual. I hope the meeting tonight has not upset her. I am truly
-thankful that she is to be left out of our future work, and even of
-our deliberations. It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I
-did not think so at first, but I know better now. Therefore I am glad
-that it is settled. There may be things which would frighten her to
-hear, and yet to conceal them from her might be worse than to tell her
-if once she suspected that there was any concealment. Henceforth our
-work is to be a sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can
-tell her that all is finished, and the earth free from a monster of
-the nether world. I daresay it will be difficult to begin to keep
-silence after such confidence as ours, but I must be resolute, and
-tomorrow I shall keep dark over tonight's doings, and shall refuse to
-speak of anything that has happened. I rest on the sofa, so as not to
-disturb her.
-
-
-1 October, later.--I suppose it was natural that we should have all
-overslept ourselves, for the day was a busy one, and the night had no
-rest at all. Even Mina must have felt its exhaustion, for though I
-slept till the sun was high, I was awake before her, and had to call
-two or three times before she awoke. Indeed, she was so sound asleep
-that for a few seconds she did not recognize me, but looked at me with
-a sort of blank terror, as one looks who has been waked out of a bad
-dream. She complained a little of being tired, and I let her rest
-till later in the day. We now know of twenty-one boxes having been
-removed, and if it be that several were taken in any of these removals
-we may be able to trace them all. Such will, of course, immensely
-simplify our labor, and the sooner the matter is attended to the
-better. I shall look up Thomas Snelling today.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-1 October.--It was towards noon when I was awakened by the Professor
-walking into my room. He was more jolly and cheerful than usual, and
-it is quite evident that last night's work has helped to take some of
-the brooding weight off his mind.
-
-After going over the adventure of the night he suddenly said, "Your
-patient interests me much. May it be that with you I visit him this
-morning? Or if that you are too occupy, I can go alone if it may be.
-It is a new experience to me to find a lunatic who talk philosophy,
-and reason so sound."
-
-I had some work to do which pressed, so I told him that if he would go
-alone I would be glad, as then I should not have to keep him waiting,
-so I called an attendant and gave him the necessary instructions.
-Before the Professor left the room I cautioned him against getting any
-false impression from my patient.
-
-"But," he answered, "I want him to talk of himself and of his delusion
-as to consuming live things. He said to Madam Mina, as I see in your
-diary of yesterday, that he had once had such a belief. Why do you
-smile, friend John?"
-
-"Excuse me," I said, "but the answer is here." I laid my hand on the
-typewritten matter. "When our sane and learned lunatic made that very
-statement of how he used to consume life, his mouth was actually
-nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before
-Mrs. Harker entered the room."
-
-Van Helsing smiled in turn. "Good!" he said. "Your memory is true,
-friend John. I should have remembered. And yet it is this very
-obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease such a
-fascinating study. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly
-of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. Who
-knows?"
-
-I went on with my work, and before long was through that in hand. It
-seemed that the time had been very short indeed, but there was Van
-Helsing back in the study.
-
-"Do I interrupt?" he asked politely as he stood at the door.
-
-"Not at all," I answered. "Come in. My work is finished, and I am
-free. I can go with you now, if you like."
-
-"It is needless, I have seen him!"
-
-"Well?"
-
-"I fear that he does not appraise me at much. Our interview was
-short. When I entered his room he was sitting on a stool in the
-centre, with his elbows on his knees, and his face was the picture of
-sullen discontent. I spoke to him as cheerfully as I could, and with
-such a measure of respect as I could assume. He made no reply
-whatever. 'Don't you know me?' I asked. His answer was not
-reassuring: 'I know you well enough; you are the old fool Van
-Helsing. I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain
-theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen!' Not a word
-more would he say, but sat in his implacable sullenness as indifferent
-to me as though I had not been in the room at all. Thus departed for
-this time my chance of much learning from this so clever lunatic, so I
-shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few happy words with that
-sweet soul Madam Mina. Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable
-that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our
-terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better
-so."
-
-"I agree with you with all my heart," I answered earnestly, for I did
-not want him to weaken in this matter. "Mrs. Harker is better out of
-it. Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who
-have been in many tight places in our time, but it is no place for a
-woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in
-time infallibly have wrecked her."
-
-So Van Helsing has gone to confer with Mrs. Harker and Harker, Quincey
-and Art are all out following up the clues as to the earth boxes. I
-shall finish my round of work and we shall meet tonight.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-1 October.--It is strange to me to be kept in the dark as I am today,
-after Jonathan's full confidence for so many years, to see him
-manifestly avoid certain matters, and those the most vital of all.
-This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday, and though
-Jonathan was late too, he was the earlier. He spoke to me before he
-went out, never more sweetly or tenderly, but he never mentioned a
-word of what had happened in the visit to the Count's house. And yet
-he must have known how terribly anxious I was. Poor dear fellow! I
-suppose it must have distressed him even more than it did me. They
-all agreed that it was best that I should not be drawn further into
-this awful work, and I acquiesced. But to think that he keeps
-anything from me! And now I am crying like a silly fool, when I know
-it comes from my husband's great love and from the good, good wishes
-of those other strong men.
-
-That has done me good. Well, some day Jonathan will tell me all. And
-lest it should ever be that he should think for a moment that I kept
-anything from him, I still keep my journal as usual. Then if he has
-feared of my trust I shall show it to him, with every thought of my
-heart put down for his dear eyes to read. I feel strangely sad and
-low-spirited today. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible
-excitement.
-
-Last night I went to bed when the men had gone, simply because they
-told me to. I didn't feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring
-anxiety. I kept thinking over everything that has been ever since
-Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible
-tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end.
-Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring
-on the very thing which is most to be deplored. If I hadn't gone to
-Whitby, perhaps poor dear Lucy would be with us now. She hadn't taken
-to visiting the churchyard till I came, and if she hadn't come there
-in the day time with me she wouldn't have walked in her sleep. And if
-she hadn't gone there at night and asleep, that monster couldn't have
-destroyed her as he did. Oh, why did I ever go to Whitby? There now,
-crying again! I wonder what has come over me today. I must hide it
-from Jonathan, for if he knew that I had been crying twice in one
-morning . . . I, who never cried on my own account, and whom he has
-never caused to shed a tear, the dear fellow would fret his heart out.
-I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see
-it. I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have
-to learn . . .
-
-I can't quite remember how I fell asleep last night. I remember
-hearing the sudden barking of the dogs and a lot of queer sounds, like
-praying on a very tumultuous scale, from Mr. Renfield's room, which is
-somewhere under this. And then there was silence over everything,
-silence so profound that it startled me, and I got up and looked out
-of the window. All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by
-the moonlight seeming full of a silent mystery of their own. Not a
-thing seemed to be stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or
-fate, so that a thin streak of white mist, that crept with almost
-imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house, seemed to
-have a sentience and a vitality of its own. I think that the
-digression of my thoughts must have done me good, for when I got back
-to bed I found a lethargy creeping over me. I lay a while, but could
-not quite sleep, so I got out and looked out of the window again. The
-mist was spreading, and was now close up to the house, so that I could
-see it lying thick against the wall, as though it were stealing up to
-the windows. The poor man was more loud than ever, and though I could
-not distinguish a word he said, I could in some way recognize in his
-tones some passionate entreaty on his part. Then there was the sound
-of a struggle, and I knew that the attendants were dealing with him.
-I was so frightened that I crept into bed, and pulled the clothes over
-my head, putting my fingers in my ears. I was not then a bit sleepy,
-at least so I thought, but I must have fallen asleep, for except
-dreams, I do not remember anything until the morning, when Jonathan
-woke me. I think that it took me an effort and a little time to
-realize where I was, and that it was Jonathan who was bending over me.
-My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of the way that
-waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams.
-
-I thought that I was asleep, and waiting for Jonathan to come back. I
-was very anxious about him, and I was powerless to act, my feet, and
-my hands, and my brain were weighted, so that nothing could proceed at
-the usual pace. And so I slept uneasily and thought. Then it began
-to dawn upon me that the air was heavy, and dank, and cold. I put
-back the clothes from my face, and found, to my surprise, that all was
-dim around. The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but
-turned down, came only like a tiny red spark through the fog, which
-had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room. Then it
-occurred to me that I had shut the window before I had come to bed. I
-would have got out to make certain on the point, but some leaden
-lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will. I lay still and
-endured, that was all. I closed my eyes, but could still see through
-my eyelids. (It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how
-conveniently we can imagine.) The mist grew thicker and thicker and I
-could see now how it came in, for I could see it like smoke, or with
-the white energy of boiling water, pouring in, not through the window,
-but through the joinings of the door. It got thicker and thicker,
-till it seemed as if it became concentrated into a sort of pillar of
-cloud in the room, through the top of which I could see the light of
-the gas shining like a red eye. Things began to whirl through my
-brain just as the cloudy column was now whirling in the room, and
-through it all came the scriptural words "a pillar of cloud by day and
-of fire by night." Was it indeed such spiritual guidance that was
-coming to me in my sleep? But the pillar was composed of both the day
-and the night guiding, for the fire was in the red eye, which at the
-thought got a new fascination for me, till, as I looked, the fire
-divided, and seemed to shine on me through the fog like two red eyes,
-such as Lucy told me of in her momentary mental wandering when, on the
-cliff, the dying sunlight struck the windows of St. Mary's Church.
-Suddenly the horror burst upon me that it was thus that Jonathan had
-seen those awful women growing into reality through the whirling mist
-in the moonlight, and in my dream I must have fainted, for all became
-black darkness. The last conscious effort which imagination made was
-to show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist.
-
-I must be careful of such dreams, for they would unseat one's reason if
-there were too much of them. I would get Dr. Van Helsing or Dr.
-Seward to prescribe something for me which would make me sleep, only
-that I fear to alarm them. Such a dream at the present time would
-become woven into their fears for me. Tonight I shall strive hard to
-sleep naturally. If I do not, I shall tomorrow night get them to give
-me a dose of chloral, that cannot hurt me for once, and it will give
-me a good night's sleep. Last night tired me more than if I had not
-slept at all.
-
-
-2 October 10 P.M.--Last night I slept, but did not dream. I must have
-slept soundly, for I was not waked by Jonathan coming to bed, but the
-sleep has not refreshed me, for today I feel terribly weak and
-spiritless. I spent all yesterday trying to read, or lying down
-dozing. In the afternoon, Mr. Renfield asked if he might see me. Poor
-man, he was very gentle, and when I came away he kissed my hand and
-bade God bless me. Some way it affected me much. I am crying when I
-think of him. This is a new weakness, of which I must be careful.
-Jonathan would be miserable if he knew I had been crying. He and the
-others were out till dinner time, and they all came in tired. I did
-what I could to brighten them up, and I suppose that the effort did me
-good, for I forgot how tired I was. After dinner they sent me to bed,
-and all went off to smoke together, as they said, but I knew that they
-wanted to tell each other of what had occurred to each during the day.
-I could see from Jonathan's manner that he had something important to
-communicate. I was not so sleepy as I should have been, so before
-they went I asked Dr. Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind,
-as I had not slept well the night before. He very kindly made me up a
-sleeping draught, which he gave to me, telling me that it would do me
-no harm, as it was very mild . . . I have taken it, and am waiting for
-sleep, which still keeps aloof. I hope I have not done wrong, for as
-sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been
-foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking. I might want
-it. Here comes sleep. Goodnight.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 20
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-1 October, evening.--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
-Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.
-The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him
-had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected
-debauch. I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor
-soul, that he was only the assistant of Smollet, who of the two mates
-was the responsible person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr.
-Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out
-of a saucer. He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good,
-reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own. He
-remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful
-dog-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle
-about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries
-in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the
-boxes. There were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from
-Carfax and left at 197 Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and
-another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey. If then
-the Count meant to scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London,
-these places were chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he
-might distribute more fully. The systematic manner in which this was
-done made me think that he could not mean to confine himself to two
-sides of London. He was now fixed on the far east on the northern
-shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north
-and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical
-scheme, let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable
-London in the south-west and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked
-him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.
-
-He replied, "Well guv'nor, you've treated me very 'an'some", I had
-given him half a sovereign, "an I'll tell yer all I know. I heard a
-man by the name of Bloxam say four nights ago in the 'Are an' 'Ounds,
-in Pincher's Alley, as 'ow he an' his mate 'ad 'ad a rare dusty job in
-a old 'ouse at Purfleet. There ain't a many such jobs as this 'ere,
-an' I'm thinkin' that maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut."
-
-I asked if he could tell me where to find him. I told him that if he
-could get me the address it would be worth another half sovereign to
-him. So he gulped down the rest of his tea and stood up, saying that
-he was going to begin the search then and there.
-
-At the door he stopped, and said, "Look 'ere, guv'nor, there ain't no
-sense in me a keepin' you 'ere. I may find Sam soon, or I mayn't, but
-anyhow he ain't like to be in a way to tell ye much tonight. Sam is a
-rare one when he starts on the booze. If you can give me a envelope
-with a stamp on it, and put yer address on it, I'll find out where Sam
-is to be found and post it ye tonight. But ye'd better be up arter
-'im soon in the mornin', never mind the booze the night afore."
-
-This was all practical, so one of the children went off with a penny
-to buy an envelope and a sheet of paper, and to keep the change. When
-she came back, I addressed the envelope and stamped it, and when
-Smollet had again faithfully promised to post the address when found,
-I took my way to home. We're on the track anyhow. I am tired
-tonight, and I want to sleep. Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little
-too pale. Her eyes look as though she had been crying. Poor dear,
-I've no doubt it frets her to be kept in the dark, and it may make her
-doubly anxious about me and the others. But it is best as it is. It
-is better to be disappointed and worried in such a way now than to
-have her nerve broken. The doctors were quite right to insist on her
-being kept out of this dreadful business. I must be firm, for on me
-this particular burden of silence must rest. I shall not ever enter
-on the subject with her under any circumstances. Indeed, It may not
-be a hard task, after all, for she herself has become reticent on the
-subject, and has not spoken of the Count or his doings ever since we
-told her of our decision.
-
-
-2 October, evening--A long and trying and exciting day. By the first
-post I got my directed envelope with a dirty scrap of paper enclosed,
-on which was written with a carpenter's pencil in a sprawling hand,
-"Sam Bloxam, Korkrans, 4 Poters Cort, Bartel Street, Walworth. Arsk
-for the depite."
-
-I got the letter in bed, and rose without waking Mina. She looked
-heavy and sleepy and pale, and far from well. I determined not to
-wake her, but that when I should return from this new search, I would
-arrange for her going back to Exeter. I think she would be happier in
-our own home, with her daily tasks to interest her, than in being here
-amongst us and in ignorance. I only saw Dr. Seward for a moment, and
-told him where I was off to, promising to come back and tell the rest
-so soon as I should have found out anything. I drove to Walworth and
-found, with some difficulty, Potter's Court. Mr. Smollet's spelling
-misled me, as I asked for Poter's Court instead of Potter's Court.
-However, when I had found the court, I had no difficulty in
-discovering Corcoran's lodging house.
-
-When I asked the man who came to the door for the "depite," he shook
-his head, and said, "I dunno 'im. There ain't no such a person 'ere.
-I never 'eard of 'im in all my bloomin' days. Don't believe there
-ain't nobody of that kind livin' 'ere or anywheres."
-
-I took out Smollet's letter, and as I read it it seemed to me that the
-lesson of the spelling of the name of the court might guide me. "What
-are you?" I asked.
-
-"I'm the depity," he answered.
-
-I saw at once that I was on the right track. Phonetic spelling had
-again misled me. A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my
-disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam, who had slept off the remains
-of his beer on the previous night at Corcoran's, had left for his work
-at Poplar at five o'clock that morning. He could not tell me where
-the place of work was situated, but he had a vague idea that it was
-some kind of a "new-fangled ware'us," and with this slender clue I had
-to start for Poplar. It was twelve o'clock before I got any
-satisfactory hint of such a building, and this I got at a coffee shop,
-where some workmen were having their dinner. One of them suggested
-that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new "cold
-storage" building, and as this suited the condition of a "new-fangled
-ware'us," I at once drove to it. An interview with a surly gatekeeper
-and a surlier foreman, both of whom were appeased with the coin of the
-realm, put me on the track of Bloxam. He was sent for on my
-suggestion that I was willing to pay his days wages to his foreman for
-the privilege of asking him a few questions on a private matter. He
-was a smart enough fellow, though rough of speech and bearing. When I
-had promised to pay for his information and given him an earnest, he
-told me that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in
-Piccadilly, and had taken from this house to the latter nine great
-boxes, "main heavy ones," with a horse and cart hired by him for this
-purpose.
-
-I asked him if he could tell me the number of the house in Piccadilly,
-to which he replied, "Well, guv'nor, I forgits the number, but it was
-only a few door from a big white church, or somethink of the kind, not
-long built. It was a dusty old 'ouse, too, though nothin' to the
-dustiness of the 'ouse we tooked the bloomin' boxes from."
-
-"How did you get in if both houses were empty?"
-
-"There was the old party what engaged me a waitin' in the 'ouse at
-Purfleet. He 'elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray.
-Curse me, but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an' him a old
-feller, with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he
-couldn't throw a shadder."
-
-How this phrase thrilled through me!
-
-"Why, 'e took up 'is end o' the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and
-me a puffin' an' a blowin' afore I could upend mine anyhow, an' I'm no
-chicken, neither."
-
-"How did you get into the house in Piccadilly?" I asked.
-
-"He was there too. He must 'a started off and got there afore me, for
-when I rung of the bell he kem an' opened the door 'isself an' 'elped
-me carry the boxes into the 'all."
-
-"The whole nine?" I asked.
-
-"Yus, there was five in the first load an' four in the second. It was
-main dry work, an' I don't so well remember 'ow I got 'ome."
-
-I interrupted him, "Were the boxes left in the hall?"
-
-"Yus, it was a big 'all, an' there was nothin' else in it."
-
-I made one more attempt to further matters. "You didn't have any
-key?"
-
-"Never used no key nor nothink. The old gent, he opened the door
-'isself an' shut it again when I druv off. I don't remember the last
-time, but that was the beer."
-
-"And you can't remember the number of the house?"
-
-"No, sir. But ye needn't have no difficulty about that. It's a 'igh
-'un with a stone front with a bow on it, an' 'igh steps up to the
-door. I know them steps, 'avin' 'ad to carry the boxes up with three
-loafers what come round to earn a copper. The old gent give them
-shillin's, an' they seein' they got so much, they wanted more. But 'e
-took one of them by the shoulder and was like to throw 'im down the
-steps, till the lot of them went away cussin'."
-
-I thought that with this description I could find the house, so having
-paid my friend for his information, I started off for Piccadilly. I
-had gained a new painful experience. The Count could, it was evident,
-handle the earth boxes himself. If so, time was precious, for now
-that he had achieved a certain amount of distribution, he could, by
-choosing his own time, complete the task unobserved. At Piccadilly
-Circus I discharged my cab, and walked westward. Beyond the Junior
-Constitutional I came across the house described and was satisfied
-that this was the next of the lairs arranged by Dracula. The house
-looked as though it had been long untenanted. The windows were
-encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up. All the framework was
-black with time, and from the iron the paint had mostly scaled away.
-It was evident that up to lately there had been a large notice board
-in front of the balcony. It had, however, been roughly torn away, the
-uprights which had supported it still remaining. Behind the rails of
-the balcony I saw there were some loose boards, whose raw edges looked
-white. I would have given a good deal to have been able to see the
-notice board intact, as it would, perhaps, have given some clue to the
-ownership of the house. I remembered my experience of the investigation
-and purchase of Carfax, and I could not but feel that if I could find
-the former owner there might be some means discovered of gaining access
-to the house.
-
-There was at present nothing to be learned from the Piccadilly side,
-and nothing could be done, so I went around to the back to see if
-anything could be gathered from this quarter. The mews were active,
-the Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation. I asked one or two
-of the grooms and helpers whom I saw around if they could tell me
-anything about the empty house. One of them said that he heard it had
-lately been taken, but he couldn't say from whom. He told me,
-however, that up to very lately there had been a notice board of "For
-Sale" up, and that perhaps Mitchell, Sons, & Candy the house agents
-could tell me something, as he thought he remembered seeing the name
-of that firm on the board. I did not wish to seem too eager, or to
-let my informant know or guess too much, so thanking him in the usual
-manner, I strolled away. It was now growing dusk, and the autumn
-night was closing in, so I did not lose any time. Having learned the
-address of Mitchell, Sons, & Candy from a directory at the Berkeley, I
-was soon at their office in Sackville Street.
-
-The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but
-uncommunicative in equal proportion. Having once told me that the
-Piccadilly house, which throughout our interview he called a
-"mansion," was sold, he considered my business as concluded. When I
-asked who had purchased it, he opened his eyes a thought wider, and
-paused a few seconds before replying, "It is sold, sir."
-
-"Pardon me," I said, with equal politeness, "but I have a special
-reason for wishing to know who purchased it."
-
-Again he paused longer, and raised his eyebrows still more. "It is
-sold, sir," was again his laconic reply.
-
-"Surely," I said, "you do not mind letting me know so much."
-
-"But I do mind," he answered. "The affairs of their clients are
-absolutely safe in the hands of Mitchell, Sons, & Candy."
-
-This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use
-arguing with him. I thought I had best meet him on his own ground, so
-I said, "Your clients, sir, are happy in having so resolute a guardian
-of their confidence. I am myself a professional man."
-
-Here I handed him my card. "In this instance I am not prompted by
-curiosity, I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know
-something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale."
-
-These words put a different complexion on affairs. He said, "I would
-like to oblige you if I could, Mr. Harker, and especially would I like
-to oblige his lordship. We once carried out a small matter of renting
-some chambers for him when he was the honourable Arthur Holmwood. If
-you will let me have his lordship's address I will consult the House
-on the subject, and will, in any case, communicate with his lordship
-by tonight's post. It will be a pleasure if we can so far deviate
-from our rules as to give the required information to his lordship."
-
-I wanted to secure a friend, and not to make an enemy, so I thanked
-him, gave the address at Dr. Seward's and came away. It was now dark,
-and I was tired and hungry. I got a cup of tea at the Aerated Bread
-Company and came down to Purfleet by the next train.
-
-I found all the others at home. Mina was looking tired and pale, but
-she made a gallant effort to be bright and cheerful. It wrung my
-heart to think that I had had to keep anything from her and so caused
-her inquietude. Thank God, this will be the last night of her looking
-on at our conferences, and feeling the sting of our not showing our
-confidence. It took all my courage to hold to the wise resolution of
-keeping her out of our grim task. She seems somehow more reconciled,
-or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for
-when any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders. I am glad
-we made our resolution in time, as with such a feeling as this, our
-growing knowledge would be torture to her.
-
-I could not tell the others of the day's discovery till we were alone,
-so after dinner, followed by a little music to save appearances even
-amongst ourselves, I took Mina to her room and left her to go to bed.
-The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me
-as though she would detain me, but there was much to be talked of and
-I came away. Thank God, the ceasing of telling things has made no
-difference between us.
-
-When I came down again I found the others all gathered round the fire
-in the study. In the train I had written my diary so far, and simply
-read it off to them as the best means of letting them get abreast of
-my own information.
-
-When I had finished Van Helsing said, "This has been a great day's
-work, friend Jonathan. Doubtless we are on the track of the missing
-boxes. If we find them all in that house, then our work is near the
-end. But if there be some missing, we must search until we find them.
-Then shall we make our final coup, and hunt the wretch to his real
-death."
-
-We all sat silent awhile and all at once Mr. Morris spoke, "Say! How
-are we going to get into that house?"
-
-"We got into the other," answered Lord Godalming quickly.
-
-"But, Art, this is different. We broke house at Carfax, but we had
-night and a walled park to protect us. It will be a mighty different
-thing to commit burglary in Piccadilly, either by day or night. I
-confess I don't see how we are going to get in unless that agency duck
-can find us a key of some sort."
-
-Lord Godalming's brows contracted, and he stood up and walked about the
-room. By-and-by he stopped and said, turning from one to another of
-us, "Quincey's head is level. This burglary business is getting
-serious. We got off once all right, but we have now a rare job on
-hand. Unless we can find the Count's key basket."
-
-As nothing could well be done before morning, and as it would be at
-least advisable to wait till Lord Godalming should hear from
-Mitchell's, we decided not to take any active step before breakfast
-time. For a good while we sat and smoked, discussing the matter in
-its various lights and bearings. I took the opportunity of bringing
-this diary right up to the moment. I am very sleepy and shall go to
-bed . . .
-
-Just a line. Mina sleeps soundly and her breathing is regular. Her
-forehead is puckered up into little wrinkles, as though she thinks
-even in her sleep. She is still too pale, but does not look so
-haggard as she did this morning. Tomorrow will, I hope, mend all
-this. She will be herself at home in Exeter. Oh, but I am sleepy!
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-1 October.--I am puzzled afresh about Renfield. His moods change so
-rapidly that I find it difficult to keep touch of them, and as they
-always mean something more than his own well-being, they form a more
-than interesting study. This morning, when I went to see him after
-his repulse of Van Helsing, his manner was that of a man commanding
-destiny. He was, in fact, commanding destiny, subjectively. He did
-not really care for any of the things of mere earth, he was in the
-clouds and looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor
-mortals.
-
-I thought I would improve the occasion and learn something, so I asked
-him, "What about the flies these times?"
-
-He smiled on me in quite a superior sort of way, such a smile as would
-have become the face of Malvolio, as he answered me, "The fly, my dear
-sir, has one striking feature. It's wings are typical of the aerial
-powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they
-typified the soul as a butterfly!"
-
-I thought I would push his analogy to its utmost logically, so I said
-quickly, "Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?"
-
-His madness foiled his reason, and a puzzled look spread over his face
-as, shaking his head with a decision which I had but seldom seen in
-him.
-
-He said, "Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want." Here
-he brightened up. "I am pretty indifferent about it at present. Life
-is all right. I have all I want. You must get a new patient, doctor,
-if you wish to study zoophagy!"
-
-This puzzled me a little, so I drew him on. "Then you command life.
-You are a god, I suppose?"
-
-He smiled with an ineffably benign superiority. "Oh no! Far be it
-from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the Deity. I am not
-even concerned in His especially spiritual doings. If I may state my
-intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely
-terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied
-spiritually!"
-
-This was a poser to me. I could not at the moment recall Enoch's
-appositeness, so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by
-so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic. "And why
-with Enoch?"
-
-"Because he walked with God."
-
-I could not see the analogy, but did not like to admit it, so I harked
-back to what he had denied. "So you don't care about life and you
-don't want souls. Why not?" I put my question quickly and somewhat
-sternly, on purpose to disconcert him.
-
-The effort succeeded, for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into
-his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon
-me as he replied. "I don't want any souls, indeed, indeed! I don't.
-I couldn't use them if I had them. They would be no manner of use to
-me. I couldn't eat them or . . ."
-
-He suddenly stopped and the old cunning look spread over his face,
-like a wind sweep on the surface of the water.
-
-"And doctor, as to life, what is it after all? When you've got all
-you require, and you know that you will never want, that is all. I
-have friends, good friends, like you, Dr. Seward." This was said with
-a leer of inexpressible cunning. "I know that I shall never lack the
-means of life!"
-
-I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some
-antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such
-as he, a dogged silence. After a short time I saw that for the
-present it was useless to speak to him. He was sulky, and so I came
-away.
-
-Later in the day he sent for me. Ordinarily I would not have come
-without special reason, but just at present I am so interested in him
-that I would gladly make an effort. Besides, I am glad to have
-anything to help pass the time. Harker is out, following up clues,
-and so are Lord Godalming and Quincey. Van Helsing sits in my study
-poring over the record prepared by the Harkers. He seems to think
-that by accurate knowledge of all details he will light up on some
-clue. He does not wish to be disturbed in the work, without cause. I
-would have taken him with me to see the patient, only I thought that
-after his last repulse he might not care to go again. There was also
-another reason. Renfield might not speak so freely before a third
-person as when he and I were alone.
-
-I found him sitting in the middle of the floor on his stool, a pose
-which is generally indicative of some mental energy on his part. When
-I came in, he said at once, as though the question had been waiting on
-his lips. "What about souls?"
-
-It was evident then that my surmise had been correct. Unconscious
-cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic. I determined
-to have the matter out.
-
-"What about them yourself?" I asked.
-
-He did not reply for a moment but looked all around him, and up and
-down, as though he expected to find some inspiration for an answer.
-
-"I don't want any souls!" he said in a feeble, apologetic way. The
-matter seemed preying on his mind, and so I determined to use it, to
-"be cruel only to be kind." So I said, "You like life, and you want
-life?"
-
-"Oh yes! But that is all right. You needn't worry about that!"
-
-"But," I asked, "how are we to get the life without getting the soul
-also?"
-
-This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up, "A nice time you'll
-have some time when you're flying out here, with the souls of
-thousands of flies and spiders and birds and cats buzzing and
-twittering and moaning all around you. You've got their lives, you
-know, and you must put up with their souls!"
-
-Something seemed to affect his imagination, for he put his fingers to
-his ears and shut his eyes, screwing them up tightly just as a small
-boy does when his face is being soaped. There was something pathetic
-in it that touched me. It also gave me a lesson, for it seemed that
-before me was a child, only a child, though the features were worn,
-and the stubble on the jaws was white. It was evident that he was
-undergoing some process of mental disturbance, and knowing how his
-past moods had interpreted things seemingly foreign to himself, I
-thought I would enter into his mind as well as I could and go with him.
-
-The first step was to restore confidence, so I asked him, speaking
-pretty loud so that he would hear me through his closed ears, "Would
-you like some sugar to get your flies around again?"
-
-He seemed to wake up all at once, and shook his head. With a laugh he
-replied, "Not much! Flies are poor things, after all!" After a pause
-he added, "But I don't want their souls buzzing round me, all the
-same."
-
-"Or spiders?" I went on.
-
-"Blow spiders! What's the use of spiders? There isn't anything in
-them to eat or . . ." He stopped suddenly as though reminded of a
-forbidden topic.
-
-"So, so!" I thought to myself, "this is the second time he has
-suddenly stopped at the word 'drink'. What does it mean?"
-
-Renfield seemed himself aware of having made a lapse, for he hurried
-on, as though to distract my attention from it, "I don't take any
-stock at all in such matters. 'Rats and mice and such small deer,' as
-Shakespeare has it, 'chicken feed of the larder' they might be called.
-I'm past all that sort of nonsense. You might as well ask a man to
-eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks, as to try to interest me
-about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me."
-
-"I see," I said. "You want big things that you can make your teeth
-meet in? How would you like to breakfast on an elephant?"
-
-"What ridiculous nonsense you are talking?" He was getting too wide
-awake, so I thought I would press him hard.
-
-"I wonder," I said reflectively, "what an elephant's soul is like!"
-
-The effect I desired was obtained, for he at once fell from his
-high-horse and became a child again.
-
-"I don't want an elephant's soul, or any soul at all!" he said. For a
-few moments he sat despondently. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with
-his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement.
-"To hell with you and your souls!" he shouted. "Why do you plague me
-about souls? Haven't I got enough to worry, and pain, to distract me
-already, without thinking of souls?"
-
-He looked so hostile that I thought he was in for another homicidal
-fit, so I blew my whistle.
-
-The instant, however, that I did so he became calm, and said
-apologetically, "Forgive me, Doctor. I forgot myself. You do not
-need any help. I am so worried in my mind that I am apt to be
-irritable. If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am
-working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me. Pray do not
-put me in a strait waistcoat. I want to think and I cannot think
-freely when my body is confined. I am sure you will understand!"
-
-He had evidently self-control, so when the attendants came I told them
-not to mind, and they withdrew. Renfield watched them go. When the
-door was closed he said with considerable dignity and sweetness, "Dr.
-Seward, you have been very considerate towards me. Believe me that I
-am very, very grateful to you!"
-
-I thought it well to leave him in this mood, and so I came away.
-There is certainly something to ponder over in this man's state.
-Several points seem to make what the American interviewer calls "a
-story," if one could only get them in proper order. Here they are:
-
- Will not mention "drinking."
-
- Fears the thought of being burdened with the "soul" of anything.
-
- Has no dread of wanting "life" in the future.
-
- Despises the meaner forms of life altogether, though he dreads
- being haunted by their souls.
-
- Logically all these things point one way! He has assurance of
- some kind that he will acquire some higher life.
-
- He dreads the consequence, the burden of a soul. Then it is a
- human life he looks to!
-
- And the assurance . . .?
-
-Merciful God! The Count has been to him, and there is some new scheme
-of terror afoot!
-
-
-Later.--I went after my round to Van Helsing and told him my
-suspicion. He grew very grave, and after thinking the matter over for
-a while asked me to take him to Renfield. I did so. As we came to
-the door we heard the lunatic within singing gaily, as he used to do
-in the time which now seems so long ago.
-
-When we entered we saw with amazement that he had spread out his sugar
-as of old. The flies, lethargic with the autumn, were beginning to
-buzz into the room. We tried to make him talk of the subject of our
-previous conversation, but he would not attend. He went on with his
-singing, just as though we had not been present. He had got a scrap
-of paper and was folding it into a notebook. We had to come away as
-ignorant as we went in.
-
-His is a curious case indeed. We must watch him tonight.
-
-
-
-
-
-LETTER, MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY TO LORD GODALMING.
-
-"1 October.
-
-"My Lord,
-
-"We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes. We beg,
-with regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr.
-Harker on your behalf, to supply the following information
-concerning the sale and purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly. The
-original vendors are the executors of the late Mr. Archibald
-Winter-Suffield. The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de
-Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the purchase
-money in notes 'over the counter,' if your Lordship will pardon
-us using so vulgar an expression. Beyond this we know nothing
-whatever of him.
-
-"We are, my Lord,
-
-"Your Lordship's humble servants,
-
-"MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY."
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-2 October.--I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to
-make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield's room,
-and gave him instructions that if there should be anything strange he
-was to call me. After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire
-in the study, Mrs. Harker having gone to bed, we discussed the
-attempts and discoveries of the day. Harker was the only one who had
-any result, and we are in great hopes that his clue may be an
-important one.
-
-Before going to bed I went round to the patient's room and looked in
-through the observation trap. He was sleeping soundly, his heart rose
-and fell with regular respiration.
-
-This morning the man on duty reported to me that a little after
-midnight he was restless and kept saying his prayers somewhat loudly.
-I asked him if that was all. He replied that it was all he heard.
-There was something about his manner, so suspicious that I asked him
-point blank if he had been asleep. He denied sleep, but admitted to
-having "dozed" for a while. It is too bad that men cannot be trusted
-unless they are watched.
-
-Today Harker is out following up his clue, and Art and Quincey are
-looking after horses. Godalming thinks that it will be well to have
-horses always in readiness, for when we get the information which we
-seek there will be no time to lose. We must sterilize all the
-imported earth between sunrise and sunset. We shall thus catch the
-Count at his weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is
-off to the British Museum looking up some authorities on ancient
-medicine. The old physicians took account of things which their
-followers do not accept, and the Professor is searching for witch and
-demon cures which may be useful to us later.
-
-I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity
-in strait waistcoats.
-
-Later.--We have met again. We seem at last to be on the track, and
-our work of tomorrow may be the beginning of the end. I wonder if
-Renfield's quiet has anything to do with this. His moods have so
-followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the
-monster may be carried to him some subtle way. If we could only get
-some hint as to what passed in his mind, between the time of my
-argument with him today and his resumption of fly-catching, it might
-afford us a valuable clue. He is now seemingly quiet for a spell . . .
-Is he? That wild yell seemed to come from his room . . .
-
-The attendant came bursting into my room and told me that Renfield had
-somehow met with some accident. He had heard him yell, and when he
-went to him found him lying on his face on the floor, all covered with
-blood. I must go at once . . .
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 21
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-3 October.--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well
-as I can remember, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I
-can recall must be forgotten. In all calmness I must proceed.
-
-When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his
-left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it
-became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.
-There seemed none of the unity of purpose between the parts of the
-body which marks even lethargic sanity. As the face was exposed I
-could see that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten
-against the floor. Indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool
-of blood originated.
-
-The attendant who was kneeling beside the body said to me as we turned
-him over, "I think, sir, his back is broken. See, both his right arm
-and leg and the whole side of his face are paralysed." How such a
-thing could have happened puzzled the attendant beyond measure. He
-seemed quite bewildered, and his brows were gathered in as he said, "I
-can't understand the two things. He could mark his face like that by
-beating his own head on the floor. I saw a young woman do it once at
-the Eversfield Asylum before anyone could lay hands on her. And I
-suppose he might have broken his neck by falling out of bed, if he got
-in an awkward kink. But for the life of me I can't imagine how the
-two things occurred. If his back was broke, he couldn't beat his
-head, and if his face was like that before the fall out of bed, there
-would be marks of it."
-
-I said to him, "Go to Dr. Van Helsing, and ask him to kindly come here
-at once. I want him without an instant's delay."
-
-The man ran off, and within a few minutes the Professor, in his
-dressing gown and slippers, appeared. When he saw Renfield on the
-ground, he looked keenly at him a moment, and then turned to me. I
-think he recognized my thought in my eyes, for he said very quietly,
-manifestly for the ears of the attendant, "Ah, a sad accident! He
-will need very careful watching, and much attention. I shall stay
-with you myself, but I shall first dress myself. If you will remain I
-shall in a few minutes join you."
-
-The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that
-he had suffered some terrible injury.
-
-Van Helsing returned with extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a
-surgical case. He had evidently been thinking and had his mind made
-up, for almost before he looked at the patient, he whispered to me,
-"Send the attendant away. We must be alone with him when he becomes
-conscious, after the operation."
-
-I said, "I think that will do now, Simmons. We have done all that we
-can at present. You had better go your round, and Dr. Van Helsing
-will operate. Let me know instantly if there be anything unusual
-anywhere."
-
-The man withdrew, and we went into a strict examination of the
-patient. The wounds of the face were superficial. The real injury
-was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the
-motor area.
-
-The Professor thought a moment and said, "We must reduce the pressure
-and get back to normal conditions, as far as can be. The rapidity of
-the suffusion shows the terrible nature of his injury. The whole
-motor area seems affected. The suffusion of the brain will increase
-quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late."
-
-As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I went over
-and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and Quincey in
-pajamas and slippers; the former spoke, "I heard your man call up Dr.
-Van Helsing and tell him of an accident. So I woke Quincey or rather
-called for him as he was not asleep. Things are moving too quickly
-and too strangely for sound sleep for any of us these times. I've
-been thinking that tomorrow night will not see things as they have
-been. We'll have to look back, and forward a little more than we have
-done. May we come in?"
-
-I nodded, and held the door open till they had entered, then I closed
-it again. When Quincey saw the attitude and state of the patient, and
-noted the horrible pool on the floor, he said softly, "My God! What
-has happened to him? Poor, poor devil!"
-
-I told him briefly, and added that we expected he would recover
-consciousness after the operation, for a short time, at all events.
-He went at once and sat down on the edge of the bed, with Godalming
-beside him. We all watched in patience.
-
-"We shall wait," said Van Helsing, "just long enough to fix the best
-spot for trephining, so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove
-the blood clot, for it is evident that the haemorrhage is increasing."
-
-The minutes during which we waited passed with fearful slowness. I
-had a horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing's face I
-gathered that he felt some fear or apprehension as to what was to
-come. I dreaded the words Renfield might speak. I was positively
-afraid to think. But the conviction of what was coming was on me, as
-I have read of men who have heard the death watch. The poor man's
-breathing came in uncertain gasps. Each instant he seemed as though
-he would open his eyes and speak, but then would follow a prolonged
-stertorous breath, and he would relapse into a more fixed
-insensibility. Inured as I was to sick beds and death, this suspense
-grew and grew upon me. I could almost hear the beating of my own
-heart, and the blood surging through my temples sounded like blows
-from a hammer. The silence finally became agonizing. I looked at my
-companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and
-damp brows that they were enduring equal torture. There was a nervous
-suspense over us all, as though overhead some dread bell would peal
-out powerfully when we should least expect it.
-
-At last there came a time when it was evident that the patient was
-sinking fast. He might die at any moment. I looked up at the
-Professor and caught his eyes fixed on mine. His face was sternly set
-as he spoke, "There is no time to lose. His words may be worth many
-lives. I have been thinking so, as I stood here. It may be there is
-a soul at stake! We shall operate just above the ear."
-
-Without another word he made the operation. For a few moments the
-breathing continued to be stertorous. Then there came a breath so
-prolonged that it seemed as though it would tear open his chest.
-Suddenly his eyes opened, and became fixed in a wild, helpless stare.
-This was continued for a few moments, then it was softened into a glad
-surprise, and from his lips came a sigh of relief. He moved
-convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell
-them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream,
-and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my
-face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."
-
-He tried to turn his head, but even with the effort his eyes seemed to
-grow glassy again so I gently put it back. Then Van Helsing said in a
-quiet grave tone, "Tell us your dream, Mr. Renfield."
-
-As he heard the voice his face brightened, through its mutilation, and
-he said, "That is Dr. Van Helsing. How good it is of you to be here.
-Give me some water, my lips are dry, and I shall try to tell you. I
-dreamed . . ."
-
-He stopped and seemed fainting. I called quietly to Quincey, "The
-brandy, it is in my study, quick!" He flew and returned with a glass,
-the decanter of brandy and a carafe of water. We moistened the
-parched lips, and the patient quickly revived.
-
-It seemed, however, that his poor injured brain had been working in
-the interval, for when he was quite conscious, he looked at me
-piercingly with an agonized confusion which I shall never forget, and
-said, "I must not deceive myself. It was no dream, but all a grim
-reality." Then his eyes roved round the room. As they caught sight
-of the two figures sitting patiently on the edge of the bed he went
-on, "If I were not sure already, I would know from them."
-
-For an instant his eyes closed, not with pain or sleep but
-voluntarily, as though he were bringing all his faculties to bear.
-When he opened them he said, hurriedly, and with more energy than he
-had yet displayed, "Quick, Doctor, quick, I am dying! I feel that I
-have but a few minutes, and then I must go back to death, or worse!
-Wet my lips with brandy again. I have something that I must say
-before I die. Or before my poor crushed brain dies anyhow. Thank
-you! It was that night after you left me, when I implored you to let
-me go away. I couldn't speak then, for I felt my tongue was tied.
-But I was as sane then, except in that way, as I am now. I was in an
-agony of despair for a long time after you left me, it seemed hours.
-Then there came a sudden peace to me. My brain seemed to become cool
-again, and I realized where I was. I heard the dogs bark behind our
-house, but not where He was!"
-
-As he spoke, Van Helsing's eyes never blinked, but his hand came out
-and met mine and gripped it hard. He did not, however, betray
-himself. He nodded slightly and said, "Go on," in a low voice.
-
-Renfield proceeded. "He came up to the window in the mist, as I had
-seen him often before, but he was solid then, not a ghost, and his
-eyes were fierce like a man's when angry. He was laughing with his
-red mouth, the sharp white teeth glinted in the moonlight when he
-turned to look back over the belt of trees, to where the dogs were
-barking. I wouldn't ask him to come in at first, though I knew he
-wanted to, just as he had wanted all along. Then he began promising
-me things, not in words but by doing them."
-
-He was interrupted by a word from the Professor, "How?"
-
-"By making them happen. Just as he used to send in the flies when the
-sun was shining. Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their
-wings. And big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on
-their backs."
-
-Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The
-Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the 'Death's-head
-Moth'?"
-
-The patient went on without stopping, "Then he began to whisper. 'Rats,
-rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, millions of them, and every one a
-life. And dogs to eat them, and cats too. All lives! All red blood,
-with years of life in it, and not merely buzzing flies!' I laughed at
-him, for I wanted to see what he could do. Then the dogs howled, away
-beyond the dark trees in His house. He beckoned me to the window. I
-got up and looked out, and He raised his hands, and seemed to call out
-without using any words. A dark mass spread over the grass, coming on
-like the shape of a flame of fire. And then He moved the mist to the
-right and left, and I could see that there were thousands of rats with
-their eyes blazing red, like His only smaller. He held up his hand,
-and they all stopped, and I thought he seemed to be saying, 'All these
-lives will I give you, ay, and many more and greater, through
-countless ages, if you will fall down and worship me!' And then a red
-cloud, like the colour of blood, seemed to close over my eyes, and
-before I knew what I was doing, I found myself opening the sash and
-saying to Him, 'Come in, Lord and Master!' The rats were all gone, but
-He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only open an
-inch wide, just as the Moon herself has often come in through the
-tiniest crack and has stood before me in all her size and splendour."
-
-His voice was weaker, so I moistened his lips with the brandy again,
-and he continued, but it seemed as though his memory had gone on
-working in the interval for his story was further advanced. I was
-about to call him back to the point, but Van Helsing whispered to me,
-"Let him go on. Do not interrupt him. He cannot go back, and maybe
-could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought."
-
-He proceeded, "All day I waited to hear from him, but he did not send
-me anything, not even a blowfly, and when the moon got up I was pretty
-angry with him. When he did slide in through the window, though it
-was shut, and did not even knock, I got mad with him. He sneered at
-me, and his white face looked out of the mist with his red eyes
-gleaming, and he went on as though he owned the whole place, and I was
-no one. He didn't even smell the same as he went by me. I couldn't
-hold him. I thought that, somehow, Mrs. Harker had come into the
-room."
-
-The two men sitting on the bed stood up and came over, standing behind
-him so that he could not see them, but where they could hear better.
-They were both silent, but the Professor started and quivered. His
-face, however, grew grimmer and sterner still. Renfield went on
-without noticing, "When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon
-she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been
-watered." Here we all moved, but no one said a word.
-
-He went on, "I didn't know that she was here till she spoke, and she
-didn't look the same. I don't care for the pale people. I like them
-with lots of blood in them, and hers all seemed to have run out. I
-didn't think of it at the time, but when she went away I began to
-think, and it made me mad to know that He had been taking the life out
-of her." I could feel that the rest quivered, as I did; but we
-remained otherwise still. "So when He came tonight I was ready for
-Him. I saw the mist stealing in, and I grabbed it tight. I had heard
-that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at
-times anyhow, I resolved to use my power. Ay, and He felt it too, for
-He had to come out of the mist to struggle with me. I held tight, and
-I thought I was going to win, for I didn't mean Him to take any more
-of her life, till I saw His eyes. They burned into me, and my
-strength became like water. He slipped through it, and when I tried
-to cling to Him, He raised me up and flung me down. There was a red
-cloud before me, and a noise like thunder, and the mist seemed to
-steal away under the door."
-
-His voice was becoming fainter and his breath more stertorous. Van
-Helsing stood up instinctively.
-
-"We know the worst now," he said. "He is here, and we know his
-purpose. It may not be too late. Let us be armed, the same as we
-were the other night, but lose no time, there is not an instant to
-spare."
-
-There was no need to put our fear, nay our conviction, into words, we
-shared them in common. We all hurried and took from our rooms the
-same things that we had when we entered the Count's house. The
-Professor had his ready, and as we met in the corridor he pointed to
-them significantly as he said, "They never leave me, and they shall
-not till this unhappy business is over. Be wise also, my friends. It
-is no common enemy that we deal with Alas! Alas! That dear Madam
-Mina should suffer!" He stopped, his voice was breaking, and I do not
-know if rage or terror predominated in my own heart.
-
-Outside the Harkers' door we paused. Art and Quincey held back, and
-the latter said, "Should we disturb her?"
-
-"We must," said Van Helsing grimly. "If the door be locked, I shall
-break it in."
-
-"May it not frighten her terribly? It is unusual to break into a
-lady's room!"
-
-Van Helsing said solemnly, "You are always right. But this is life
-and death. All chambers are alike to the doctor. And even were they
-not they are all as one to me tonight. Friend John, when I turn the
-handle, if the door does not open, do you put your shoulder down and
-shove; and you too, my friends. Now!"
-
-He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We
-threw ourselves against it. With a crash it burst open, and we almost
-fell headlong into the room. The Professor did actually fall, and I
-saw across him as he gathered himself up from hands and knees. What I
-saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my
-neck, and my heart seemed to stand still.
-
-The moonlight was so bright that through the thick yellow blind the
-room was light enough to see. On the bed beside the window lay
-Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a
-stupor. Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the
-white-clad figure of his wife. By her side stood a tall, thin man,
-clad in black. His face was turned from us, but the instant we saw we
-all recognized the Count, in every way, even to the scar on his
-forehead. With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's hands,
-keeping them away with her arms at full tension. His right hand
-gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his
-bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream
-trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open
-dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child
-forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink.
-As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish
-look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes
-flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white
-aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white
-sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped
-together like those of a wild beast. With a wrench, which threw his
-victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned and
-sprang at us. But by this time the Professor had gained his feet, and
-was holding towards him the envelope which contained the Sacred Wafer.
-The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside the
-tomb, and cowered back. Further and further back he cowered, as we,
-lifting our crucifixes, advanced. The moonlight suddenly failed, as a
-great black cloud sailed across the sky. And when the gaslight sprang
-up under Quincey's match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. This, as
-we looked, trailed under the door, which with the recoil from its
-bursting open, had swung back to its old position. Van Helsing, Art,
-and I moved forward to Mrs. Harker, who by this time had drawn her
-breath and with it had given a scream so wild, so ear-piercing, so
-despairing that it seems to me now that it will ring in my ears till
-my dying day. For a few seconds she lay in her helpless attitude and
-disarray. Her face was ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated
-by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin. From her
-throat trickled a thin stream of blood. Her eyes were mad with
-terror. Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands, which
-bore on their whiteness the red mark of the Count's terrible grip, and
-from behind them came a low desolate wail which made the terrible
-scream seem only the quick expression of an endless grief. Van
-Helsing stepped forward and drew the coverlet gently over her body,
-whilst Art, after looking at her face for an instant despairingly, ran
-out of the room.
-
-Van Helsing whispered to me, "Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know
-the Vampire can produce. We can do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a
-few moments till she recovers herself. I must wake him!"
-
-He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick
-him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her
-hands and sobbing in a way that was heart breaking to hear. I raised
-the blind, and looked out of the window. There was much moonshine,
-and as I looked I could see Quincey Morris run across the lawn and
-hide himself in the shadow of a great yew tree. It puzzled me to
-think why he was doing this. But at the instant I heard Harker's
-quick exclamation as he woke to partial consciousness, and turned to
-the bed. On his face, as there might well be, was a look of wild
-amazement. He seemed dazed for a few seconds, and then full
-consciousness seemed to burst upon him all at once, and he started up.
-
-His wife was aroused by the quick movement, and turned to him with her
-arms stretched out, as though to embrace him. Instantly, however, she
-drew them in again, and putting her elbows together, held her hands
-before her face, and shuddered till the bed beneath her shook.
-
-"In God's name what does this mean?" Harker cried out. "Dr. Seward,
-Dr. Van Helsing, what is it? What has happened? What is wrong? Mina,
-dear what is it? What does that blood mean? My God, my God! Has it
-come to this!" And, raising himself to his knees, he beat his hands
-wildly together. "Good God help us! Help her! Oh, help her!"
-
-With a quick movement he jumped from bed, and began to pull on his
-clothes, all the man in him awake at the need for instant exertion.
-"What has happened? Tell me all about it!" he cried without pausing.
-"Dr. Van Helsing, you love Mina, I know. Oh, do something to save her.
-It cannot have gone too far yet. Guard her while I look for him!"
-
-His wife, through her terror and horror and distress, saw some sure
-danger to him. Instantly forgetting her own grief, she seized hold of
-him and cried out.
-
-"No! No! Jonathan, you must not leave me. I have suffered enough
-tonight, God knows, without the dread of his harming you. You must
-stay with me. Stay with these friends who will watch over you!" Her
-expression became frantic as she spoke. And, he yielding to her, she
-pulled him down sitting on the bedside, and clung to him fiercely.
-
-Van Helsing and I tried to calm them both. The Professor held up his
-golden crucifix, and said with wonderful calmness, "Do not fear, my
-dear. We are here, and whilst this is close to you no foul thing can
-approach. You are safe for tonight, and we must be calm and take
-counsel together."
-
-She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's
-breast. When she raised it, his white nightrobe was stained with
-blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in the
-neck had sent forth drops. The instant she saw it she drew back, with
-a low wail, and whispered, amidst choking sobs.
-
-"Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it
-should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may
-have most cause to fear."
-
-To this he spoke out resolutely, "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me
-to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not
-hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with
-more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of
-mine anything ever come between us!"
-
-He put out his arms and folded her to his breast. And for a while she
-lay there sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes
-that blinked damply above his quivering nostrils. His mouth was set
-as steel.
-
-After a while her sobs became less frequent and more faint, and then
-he said to me, speaking with a studied calmness which I felt tried his
-nervous power to the utmost.
-
-"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 exactly what had happened and he listened with seeming
-impassiveness, but his nostrils twitched and his eyes blazed as I told
-how the ruthless hands of the Count had held his wife in that terrible
-and horrid position, with her mouth to the open wound in his breast.
-It interested me, even at that moment, to see that whilst the face of
-white set passion worked convulsively over the bowed head, the hands
-tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled hair. Just as I had
-finished, Quincey and Godalming knocked at the door. They entered in
-obedience to our summons. Van Helsing looked at me questioningly. I
-understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of their coming to
-divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband and wife from
-each other and from themselves. So on nodding acquiescence to him he
-asked them what they had seen or done. To which Lord Godalming
-answered.
-
-"I could not see him anywhere in the passage, or in any of our rooms.
-I looked in the study but, though he had been there, he had gone. He
-had, however . . ." He stopped suddenly, looking at the poor drooping
-figure on the bed.
-
-Van Helsing said gravely, "Go on, friend Arthur. We want here no more
-concealments. Our hope now is in knowing all. Tell freely!"
-
-So Art went on, "He had been there, and though it could only have been
-for a few seconds, he made rare hay of the place. All the manuscript
-had been burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white
-ashes. The cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire,
-and the wax had helped the flames."
-
-Here I interrupted. "Thank God there is the other copy in the safe!"
-
-His face lit for a moment, but fell again as he went on. "I ran
-downstairs then, but could see no sign of him. I looked into
-Renfield's room, but there was no trace there except . . ." Again he
-paused.
-
-"Go on," said Harker hoarsely. So he bowed his head and moistening his
-lips with his tongue, added, "except that the poor fellow is dead."
-
-Mrs. Harker raised her head, looking from one to the other of us she
-said solemnly, "God's will be done!"
-
-I could not but feel that Art was keeping back something. But, as I
-took it that it was with a purpose, I said nothing.
-
-Van Helsing turned to Morris and asked, "And you, friend Quincey, have
-you any to tell?"
-
-"A little," he answered. "It may be much eventually, but at present 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 see 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 Carfax, but he evidently sought some other
-lair. He will not be back tonight, for the sky is reddening in the
-east, and the dawn is close. We must work tomorrow!"
-
-He said the latter words through his shut teeth. For a space of
-perhaps a couple of minutes there was silence, and I could fancy that
-I could hear the sound of our hearts beating.
-
-Then Van Helsing said, placing his hand tenderly on Mrs. Harker's
-head, "And now, Madam Mina, poor dear, dear, Madam Mina, tell us
-exactly what happened. God knows that I do not want that you be
-pained, but it is need that we know all. For 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 end 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 see the tension of her nerves
-as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and
-lower still on his breast. Then she raised her head proudly, and held
-out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and after stooping and
-kissing it reverently, held it fast. The other hand was locked in
-that of her husband, who held his other arm thrown round her
-protectingly. After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her
-thoughts, she began.
-
-"I took the sleeping draught which you had so kindly given me, but for
-a long time it did not act. I seemed to become more wakeful, and
-myriads of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind. All of
-them connected with death, and vampires, with blood, and pain, and
-trouble." Her husband involuntarily groaned as she turned to him and
-said lovingly, "Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and
-help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it
-is to me to 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
-medicine to its work with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I
-resolutely set myself to sleep. Sure enough sleep must 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 I remember. There was in the room the
-same thin white mist that I had before noticed. But I forget now if
-you know of this. You will find it in my diary which I shall show you
-later. I felt the same vague terror which had come to me before and
-the same sense of some presence. I turned to wake Jonathan, but found
-that he slept so soundly that it seemed as 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 fear, and I looked around terrified. Then
-indeed, my heart sank within me. Beside the bed, as if he had stepped
-out of the mist, or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure,
-for it had entirely disappeared, stood a tall, thin man, all in
-black. I knew him at once from the description of the others. The
-waxen face, the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin
-white line, the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing
-between, and the red eyes that 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 forehead where Jonathan had struck him. For an instant my
-heart stood still, and I would have screamed out, only that I was
-paralyzed. In the pause he spoke in a sort of keen, cutting whisper,
-pointing as he spoke to Jonathan.
-
-"'Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains
-out before your very eyes.' I was appalled and was too bewildered to
-do or say anything. With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon my
-shoulder and, holding me tight, bared my throat with the other, saying
-as he did so, 'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions.
-You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second,
-that your veins have appeased my thirst!' I was bewildered, and
-strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him. I suppose it is a
-part of the horrible curse that such is, when his touch is on his
-victim. And oh, my God, my God, pity me! He placed his reeking lips
-upon my throat!" Her husband groaned again. She clasped his hand
-harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one,
-and went on.
-
-"I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long
-this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time
-must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away.
-I saw it drip with the fresh blood!" The remembrance seemed for a while
-to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her
-husband's sustaining arm. With a great effort she recovered herself
-and went on.
-
-"Then he spoke to me mockingly, 'And so you, like the others, would
-play your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me
-and frustrate me in my design! You know now, and they know in part
-already, and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my
-path. They should have kept their energies for use closer to home.
-Whilst they played wits against me, against me who commanded nations,
-and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before
-they were born, I was countermining them. And you, their best beloved
-one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my
-kin, my bountiful wine-press for a while, and shall be later on my
-companion and my helper. You shall be avenged in turn, for not one of
-them but shall minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be
-punished for what you have done. You have aided in thwarting me. Now
-you shall come to my call. When my brain says "Come!" to you, you
-shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. And to that end this!'
-
-"With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails
-opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he
-took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other
-seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must
-either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God!
-What have I done? What have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have
-tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days. God pity
-me! Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril. And in
-mercy pity those to whom she is dear!" Then she began to rub her lips
-as though to cleanse them from pollution.
-
-As she was telling her terrible story, the eastern sky began to
-quicken, and everything became more and more clear. Harker was still
-and quiet; but over his face, as the awful narrative went on, came a
-grey look which deepened and deepened in the morning light, till when
-the first red streak of the coming dawn shot up, the flesh stood
-darkly out against the whitening hair.
-
-We have arranged that one of us is to stay within call of the unhappy
-pair till we can meet together and arrange about taking action.
-
-Of this I am sure. The sun rises today on no more miserable house in
-all the great round of its daily course.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 22
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-3 October.--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It
-is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour
-and take something to eat, for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are
-agreed that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will
-be, God knows, required today. I must keep writing at every chance,
-for I dare not stop to think. All, big and little, must go down.
-Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most. The teaching,
-big or little, could not have landed Mina or me anywhere worse than we
-are today. However, we must trust and hope. Poor Mina told me just
-now, with the tears running down her dear cheeks, that it is in
-trouble and trial that our faith is tested. That we must keep on
-trusting, and that God will aid us up to the end. The end! Oh my
-God! What end? . . . To work! To work!
-
-When Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward had come back from seeing poor
-Renfield, we went gravely into what was to be done. First, Dr. Seward
-told us that when he and Dr. Van Helsing had gone down to the room
-below they had found Renfield lying on the floor, all in a heap. His
-face was all bruised and crushed in, and the bones of the neck were
-broken.
-
-Dr. Seward asked the attendant who was on duty in the passage if he
-had heard anything. He said that he had been sitting down, he
-confessed to half dozing, when he heard loud voices in the room, and
-then Renfield had called out loudly several times, "God! God! God!"
-After that there was a sound of falling, and when he entered the room
-he found him lying on the floor, face down, just as the doctors had
-seen him. Van Helsing asked if he had heard "voices" or "a voice,"
-and he said he could not say. That at first it had seemed to him as
-if there were two, but as there was no one in the room it could have
-been only one. He could swear to it, if required, that the word "God"
-was spoken by the patient.
-
-Dr. Seward said to us, when we were alone, that he did not wish to go
-into the matter. The question of an inquest had to be considered, and
-it would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe
-it. As it was, he thought that on the attendant's evidence he could
-give a certificate of death by misadventure in falling from bed. In
-case the coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest,
-necessarily to the same result.
-
-When the question began to be discussed as to what should be our next
-step, the very first thing we decided was that Mina should be in full
-confidence. That nothing of any sort, no matter how painful, should
-be kept from her. She herself agreed as to its wisdom, and it was
-pitiful to see her so brave and yet so sorrowful, and in such a depth
-of despair.
-
-"There must be no concealment," she said. "Alas! We have had too
-much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can
-give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!
-Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!"
-
-Van Helsing was looking at her fixedly as she spoke, and said,
-suddenly but quietly, "But dear Madam Mina, are you not afraid. Not
-for yourself, but for others from yourself, after what has happened?"
-
-Her face grew set in its lines, but her eyes shone with the devotion
-of a martyr as she answered, "Ah no! For my mind is made up!"
-
-"To what?" he asked gently, whilst we were all very still, for each in
-our own way we had a sort of vague idea of what she meant.
-
-Her answer came with direct simplicity, as though she was simply
-stating a fact, "Because if I find in myself, and I shall watch keenly
-for it, a sign of harm to any that I love, I shall die!"
-
-"You would not kill yourself?" he asked, hoarsely.
-
-"I would. If there were no friend who loved me, who would save me
-such a pain, and so desperate an effort!" She looked at him meaningly
-as she spoke.
-
-He was sitting down, but now he rose and came close to her and put his
-hand on her head as he said solemnly. "My child, there is such an one
-if it were for your good. For myself I could hold it in my account
-with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it
-were best. Nay, were it safe! But my child . . ."
-
-For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his throat. He
-gulped it down and went on, "There are here some who would stand
-between you and death. You must not die. You must not die by any
-hand, but least of all your own. Until the other, who has fouled your
-sweet life, is true dead you must not die. For if he is still with
-the quick Undead, your death would make you even as he is. No, you
-must live! You must struggle and strive to live, though death would
-seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death himself, though he come
-to you in pain or in joy. By the day, or the night, in safety or in
-peril! On your living soul I charge you that you do not die. Nay,
-nor think of death, till this great evil be past."
-
-The poor dear grew white as death, and shook and shivered, as I have
-seen a quicksand shake and shiver at the incoming of the tide. We
-were all silent. We could do nothing. At length she grew more calm
-and turning to him said sweetly, but oh so sorrowfully, as she held
-out her hand, "I promise you, my dear friend, that if God will let me
-live, I shall strive to do so. Till, if it may be in His good time,
-this horror may have passed away from me."
-
-She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were
-strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what
-we were to do. I told her that she was to have all the papers in the
-safe, and all the papers or diaries and phonographs we might hereafter
-use, and was to keep the record as she had done before. She was
-pleased with the prospect of anything to do, if "pleased" could be
-used in connection with so grim an interest.
-
-As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was
-prepared with an exact ordering of our work.
-
-"It is perhaps well," he said, "that at our meeting after our visit to
-Carfax we decided not to do anything with the earth boxes that lay
-there. Had we done so, the Count must have guessed our purpose, and
-would doubtless have taken measures in advance to frustrate such an
-effort with regard to the others. But now he does not know our
-intentions. Nay, more, in all probability, he does not know that such
-a power exists to us as can sterilize his lairs, so that he cannot use
-them as of old.
-
-"We are now so much further advanced in our knowledge as to their
-disposition that, when we have examined the house in Piccadilly, we may
-track the very last of them. Today then, is ours, and in it rests our
-hope. The sun that rose on our sorrow this morning guards us in its
-course. Until it sets tonight, that monster must retain whatever form
-he now has. He is confined within the limitations of his earthly
-envelope. He cannot melt into thin air nor disappear through cracks
-or chinks or crannies. If he go through a doorway, he must open the
-door like a mortal. And so we have this day to hunt out all his lairs
-and sterilize them. So we shall, if we have not yet catch him and
-destroy him, drive him to bay in some place where the catching and the
-destroying shall be, in time, sure."
-
-Here I started up for I could not contain myself at the thought that
-the minutes and seconds so preciously laden with Mina's life and
-happiness were flying from us, since whilst we talked action was
-impossible. But Van Helsing held up his hand warningly.
-
-"Nay, friend Jonathan," he said, "in this, the quickest way home is
-the longest way, so your proverb say. We shall all act and act with
-desperate quick, when the time has come. But think, in all probable
-the key of the situation is in that house in Piccadilly. The Count
-may have many houses which he has bought. Of them he will have deeds
-of purchase, keys and other things. He will have paper that he write
-on. He will have his book of cheques. There are many belongings that
-he must have somewhere. Why not in this place so central, so quiet,
-where he come and go by the front or the back at all hours, when in
-the very vast of the traffic there is none to notice. We shall go
-there and search that house. And when we learn what it holds, then we
-do what our friend Arthur call, in his phrases of hunt 'stop the
-earths' and so we run down our old fox, so? Is it not?"
-
-"Then let us come at once," I cried, "we are wasting the precious,
-precious time!"
-
-The Professor did not move, but simply said, "And how are we to get
-into that house in Piccadilly?"
-
-"Any way!" I cried. "We shall break in if need be."
-
-"And your police? Where will they be, and what will they say?"
-
-I was staggered, but I knew that if he wished to delay he had a good
-reason for it. So I said, as quietly as I could, "Don't wait more
-than need be. You know, I am sure, what torture I am in."
-
-"Ah, my child, that I do. And indeed there is no wish of me to add to
-your anguish. But just think, what can we do, until all the world be
-at movement. Then will come our time. I have thought and thought,
-and it seems to me that the simplest way is the best of all. Now we
-wish to get into the house, but we have no key. Is it not so?" I
-nodded.
-
-"Now suppose that you were, in truth, the owner of that house, and
-could not still get in. And think there was to you no conscience of
-the housebreaker, what would you do?"
-
-"I should get a respectable locksmith, and set him to work to pick the
-lock for me."
-
-"And your police, they would interfere, would they not?"
-
-"Oh no! Not if they knew the man was properly employed."
-
-"Then," he looked at me as keenly as he spoke, "all that is in doubt
-is the conscience of the employer, and the belief of your policemen as
-to whether or not that employer has a good conscience or a bad one.
-Your police must indeed be zealous men and clever, oh so clever, in
-reading the heart, that they trouble themselves in such matter. No,
-no, my friend Jonathan, you go take the lock off a hundred empty
-houses in this your London, or of any city in the world, and if you do
-it as such things are rightly done, and at the time such things are
-rightly done, no one will interfere. I have read of a gentleman who
-owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer
-to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar come and broke
-window at back and got in. Then he went and made open the shutters in
-front and walk out and in through the door, before the very eyes of
-the police. Then he have an auction in that house, and advertise it,
-and put up big notice. And when the day come he sell off by a great
-auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them. Then he go
-to a builder, and he sell him that house, making an agreement that he
-pull it down and take all away within a certain time. And your police
-and other authority help him all they can. And when that owner come
-back from his holiday in Switzerland he find only an empty hole where
-his house had been. This was all done en regle, and in our work we
-shall be en regle too. We shall not go so early that the policemen
-who have then little to think of, shall deem it strange. But we shall
-go after ten o'clock, when there are many about, and such things would
-be done were we indeed owners of the house."
-
-I could not but see how right he was and the terrible despair of
-Mina's face became relaxed in thought. There was hope in such good
-counsel.
-
-Van Helsing went on, "When once within that house we may find more
-clues. At any rate some of us can remain there whilst the rest find
-the other places where there be more earth boxes, at Bermondsey and
-Mile End."
-
-Lord Godalming stood up. "I can be of some use here," he said. "I
-shall wire to my people to have horses and carriages where they will
-be most convenient."
-
-"Look here, old fellow," said Morris, "it is a capital idea to have
-all ready in case we want to go horse backing, but don't you think
-that one of your snappy carriages with its heraldic adornments in a
-byway of Walworth or Mile End would attract too much attention for our
-purpose? It seems to me that we ought to take cabs when we go south
-or east. And even leave them somewhere near the neighbourhood we are
-going to."
-
-"Friend Quincey is right!" said the Professor. "His head is what you
-call in plane with the horizon. It is a difficult thing that we go to
-do, and we do not want no peoples to watch us if so it may."
-
-Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to see
-that the exigency of affairs was helping her to forget for a time the
-terrible experience of the night. She was very, very pale, almost
-ghastly, and so thin that her lips were drawn away, showing her teeth
-in somewhat of prominence. I did not mention this last, lest it
-should give her needless pain, but it made my blood run cold in my
-veins to think of what had occurred with poor Lucy when the Count had
-sucked her blood. As yet there was no sign of the teeth growing
-sharper, but the time as yet was short, and there was time for fear.
-
-When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of
-the disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt. It
-was finally agreed that before starting for Piccadilly we should
-destroy the Count's lair close at hand. In case he should find it out
-too soon, we should thus be still ahead of him in our work of
-destruction. And his presence in his purely material shape, and at
-his weakest, might give us some new clue.
-
-As to the disposal of forces, it was suggested by the Professor that,
-after our visit to Carfax, we should all enter the house in
-Piccadilly. That the two doctors and I should remain there, whilst
-Lord Godalming and Quincey found the lairs at Walworth and Mile End
-and destroyed them. It was possible, if not likely, the Professor
-urged, that the Count might appear in Piccadilly during the day, and
-that if so we might be able to cope with him then and there. At any
-rate, we might be able to follow him in force. To this plan I
-strenuously objected, and so far as my going was concerned, for I said
-that I intended to stay and protect Mina. I thought that my mind was
-made up on the subject, but Mina would not listen to my objection. She
-said that there might be some law matter in which I could be useful.
-That amongst the Count's papers might be some clue which I could
-understand out of my experience in Transylvania. And that, as it was,
-all the strength we could muster was required to cope with the Count's
-extraordinary power. I had to give in, for Mina's resolution was
-fixed. She said that it was the last hope for her that we should all
-work together.
-
-"As for me," she said, "I have no fear. Things have been as bad as
-they can be. And whatever may happen must have in it some element of
-hope or comfort. Go, my husband! God can, if He wishes it, guard me
-as well alone as with any one present."
-
-So I started up crying out, "Then in God's name let us come at once,
-for we are losing time. The Count may come to Piccadilly earlier than
-we think."
-
-"Not so!" said Van Helsing, holding up his hand.
-
-"But why?" I asked.
-
-"Do you forget," he said, with actually a smile, "that last night he
-banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?"
-
-Did I forget! Shall I ever . . . can I ever! Can any of us ever
-forget that terrible scene! Mina struggled hard to keep her brave
-countenance, but the pain overmastered her and she put her hands
-before her face, and shuddered whilst she moaned. Van Helsing had not
-intended to recall her frightful experience. He had simply lost sight
-of her and her part in the affair in his intellectual effort.
-
-When it struck him what he said, he was horrified at his
-thoughtlessness and tried to comfort her.
-
-"Oh, Madam Mina," he said, "dear, dear, Madam Mina, alas! That I of
-all who so reverence you should have said anything so forgetful. These
-stupid old lips of mine and this stupid old head do not deserve so,
-but you will forget it, will you not?" He bent low beside her as he
-spoke.
-
-She took his hand, and looking at him through her tears, said
-hoarsely, "No, I shall not forget, for it is well that I remember.
-And with it I have so much in memory of you that is sweet, that I take
-it all together. Now, you must all be going soon. Breakfast is
-ready, and we must all eat that we may be strong."
-
-Breakfast was a strange meal to us all. We tried to be cheerful and
-encourage each other, and Mina was the brightest and most cheerful of
-us. When it was over, Van Helsing stood up and said, "Now, my dear
-friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we all armed, as
-we were on that night when first we visited our enemy's lair. Armed
-against ghostly as well as carnal attack?"
-
-We all assured him.
-
-"Then it is well. Now, Madam Mina, you are in any case quite safe
-here until the sunset. And before then we shall return . . . if . . .
-We shall return! But before we go let me see you armed against personal
-attack. I have myself, since you came down, prepared your chamber by
-the placing of things of which we know, so that He may not enter. Now
-let me guard yourself. On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred
-Wafer in the name of the Father, the Son, and . . ."
-
-There was a fearful scream which almost froze our hearts to hear. As
-he had placed the Wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it . . . had
-burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal.
-My poor darling's brain had told her the significance of the fact as
-quickly as her nerves received the pain of it, and the two so
-overwhelmed her that her overwrought nature had its voice in that
-dreadful scream.
-
-But the words to her thought came quickly. The echo of the scream had
-not ceased to ring on the air when there came the reaction, and she
-sank on her knees on the floor in an agony of abasement. Pulling her
-beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she
-wailed out.
-
-"Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I
-must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgement
-Day."
-
-They all paused. I had thrown myself beside her in an agony of
-helpless grief, and putting my arms around held her tight. For a few
-minutes our sorrowful hearts beat together, whilst the friends around
-us turned away their eyes that ran tears silently. Then Van Helsing
-turned and said gravely. So gravely that I could not help feeling
-that he was in some way inspired, and was stating things outside
-himself.
-
-"It may be that you may have to bear that mark till God himself see
-fit, as He most surely shall, on the Judgement Day, to redress all
-wrongs of the earth and of His children that He has placed thereon.
-And oh, Madam Mina, my dear, my dear, may we who love you be there to
-see, when that red scar, the sign of God's knowledge of what has been,
-shall pass away, and leave your forehead as pure as the heart we know.
-For so surely as we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees
-right to lift the burden that is hard upon us. Till then we bear our
-Cross, as His Son did in obedience to His Will. It may be that we are
-chosen instruments of His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His
-bidding as that other through stripes and shame. Through tears and
-blood. Through doubts and fear, and all that makes the difference
-between God and man."
-
-There was hope in his words, and comfort. And they made for
-resignation. Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took
-one of the old man's hands and bent over and kissed it. Then without
-a word we all knelt down together, and all holding hands, swore to be
-true to each other. We men pledged ourselves to raise the veil of
-sorrow from the head of her whom, each in his own way, we loved. And
-we prayed for help and guidance in the terrible task which lay before
-us. It was then time to start. So I said farewell to Mina, a parting
-which neither of us shall forget to our dying day, and we set out.
-
-To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be
-a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and
-terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one
-vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in
-sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for
-their ghastly ranks.
-
-We entered Carfax without trouble and found all things the same as on
-the first occasion. It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic
-surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for
-such fear as already we knew. Had not our minds been made up, and had
-there not been terrible memories to spur us on, we could hardly have
-proceeded with our task. We found no papers, or any sign of use in
-the house. And in the old chapel the great boxes looked just as we
-had seen them last.
-
-Dr. Van Helsing said to us solemnly as we stood before him, "And now,
-my friends, we have a duty here to do. We must sterilize this earth,
-so sacred of holy memories, that he has brought from a far distant
-land for such fell use. He has chosen this earth because it has been
-holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more
-holy still. It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it
-to God."
-
-As he spoke he took from his bag a screwdriver and a wrench, and very
-soon the top of one of the cases was thrown open. The earth smelled
-musty and close, but we did not somehow seem to mind, for our
-attention was concentrated on the Professor. Taking from his box a
-piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then
-shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he
-worked.
-
-One by one we treated in the same way each of the great boxes, and
-left them as we had found them to all appearance. But in each was a
-portion of the Host. When we closed the door behind us, the Professor
-said solemnly, "So much is already done. It may be that with all the
-others we can be so successful, then the sunset of this evening may
-shine of Madam Mina's forehead all white as ivory and with no stain!"
-
-As we passed across the lawn on our way to the station to catch our
-train we could see the front of the asylum. I looked eagerly, and in
-the window of my own room saw Mina. I waved my hand to her, and
-nodded to tell that our work there was successfully accomplished. She
-nodded in reply to show that she understood. The last I saw, she was
-waving her hand in farewell. It was with a heavy heart that we sought
-the station and just caught the train, which was steaming in as we
-reached the platform. I have written this in the train.
-
-
-Piccadilly, 12:30 o'clock.--Just before we reached Fenchurch Street
-Lord Godalming said to me, "Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You
-had better not come with us in case there should be any difficulty.
-For under the circumstances it wouldn't seem so bad for us to break
-into an empty house. But you are a solicitor and the Incorporated Law
-Society might tell you that you should have known better."
-
-I demurred as to my not sharing any danger even of odium, but he went
-on, "Besides, it will attract less attention if there are not too many
-of us. My title will make it all right with the locksmith, and with
-any policeman that may come along. You had better go with Jack and
-the Professor and stay in the Green Park. Somewhere in sight of the
-house, and when you see the door opened and the smith has gone away,
-do you all come across. We shall be on the lookout for you, and shall
-let you in."
-
-"The advice is good!" said Van Helsing, so we said no more. Godalming
-and Morris hurried off in a cab, we following in another. At the
-corner of Arlington Street our contingent got out and strolled into
-the Green Park. My heart beat as I saw the house on which so much of
-our hope was centred, looming up grim and silent in its deserted
-condition amongst its more lively and spruce-looking neighbours. We
-sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as
-to attract as little attention as possible. The minutes seemed to
-pass with leaden feet as we waited for the coming of the others.
-
-At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely
-fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box
-descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools.
-Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away. Together
-the two ascended the steps, and Lord Godalming pointed out what he
-wanted done. The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on
-one of the spikes of the rail, saying something to a policeman who
-just then sauntered along. The policeman nodded acquiescence, and the
-man kneeling down placed his bag beside him. After searching through
-it, he took out a selection of tools which he proceeded to lay beside
-him in orderly fashion. Then he stood up, looked in the keyhole, blew
-into it, and turning to his employers, made some remark. Lord
-Godalming smiled, and the man lifted a good sized bunch of keys.
-Selecting one of them, he began to probe the lock, as if feeling his
-way with it. After fumbling about for a bit he tried a second, and
-then a third. All at once the door opened under a slight push from
-him, and he and the two others entered the hall. We sat still. My
-own cigar burnt furiously, but Van Helsing's went cold altogether. We
-waited patiently as we saw the workman come out and bring his bag.
-Then he held the door partly open, steadying it with his knees, whilst
-he fitted a key to the lock. This he finally handed to Lord
-Godalming, who took out his purse and gave him something. The man
-touched his hat, took his bag, put on his coat and departed. Not a
-soul took the slightest notice of the whole transaction.
-
-When the man had fairly gone, we three crossed the street and knocked
-at the door. It was immediately opened by Quincey Morris, beside whom
-stood Lord Godalming lighting a cigar.
-
-"The place smells so vilely," said the latter as we came in. It did
-indeed smell vilely. Like the old chapel at Carfax. And with our
-previous experience it was plain to us that the Count had been using
-the place pretty freely. We moved to explore the house, all keeping
-together in case of attack, for we knew we had a strong and wily enemy
-to deal with, and as yet we did not know whether the Count might not
-be in the house.
-
-In the dining room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight
-boxes of earth. Eight boxes only out of the nine which we sought!
-Our work was not over, and would never be until we should have found
-the missing box.
-
-First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out across a
-narrow stone flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, pointed to
-look like the front of a miniature house. There were no windows in
-it, so we were not afraid of being overlooked. We did not lose any
-time in examining the chests. With the tools which we had brought
-with us we opened them, one by one, and treated them as we had treated
-those others in the old chapel. It was evident to us that the Count
-was not at present in the house, and we proceeded to search for any of
-his effects.
-
-After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to
-attic, we came to the conclusion that the dining room contained any
-effects which might belong to the Count. And so we proceeded to
-minutely examine them. They lay in a sort of orderly disorder on the
-great dining room table.
-
-There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle,
-deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey,
-notepaper, envelopes, and pens and ink. All were covered up in thin
-wrapping paper to keep them from the dust. There were also a clothes
-brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin. The latter containing
-dirty water which was reddened as if with blood. Last of all was a
-little heap of keys of all sorts and sizes, probably those belonging
-to the other houses.
-
-When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris
-taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the houses in the
-East and the South, took with them the keys in a great bunch, and set
-out to destroy the boxes in these places. The rest of us are, with
-what patience we can, waiting their return, or the coming of the
-Count.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 23
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for
-the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to
-keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his
-beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to
-time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is
-appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with
-strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair.
-Today he is a drawn, haggard old man, whose white hair matches well
-with the hollow burning eyes and grief-written lines of his face. His
-energy is still intact. In fact, he is like a living flame. This may
-yet be his salvation, for if all go well, it will tide him over the
-despairing period. He will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the
-realities of life. Poor fellow, I thought my own trouble was bad
-enough, but his . . . !
-
-The Professor knows this well enough, and is doing his best to keep
-his mind active. What he has been saying was, under the
-circumstances, of absorbing interest. So well as I can remember, here
-it is:
-
-"I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands,
-all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied,
-the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out. All through
-there are signs of his advance. Not only of his power, but of his
-knowledge of it. As I learned from the researches of my friend
-Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier,
-statesman, and alchemist--which latter was the highest development of
-the science knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning
-beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He
-dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of
-knowledge of his time that he did not essay.
-
-"Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death. Though it
-would seem that memory was not all complete. In some faculties of
-mind he has been, and is, only a child. But he is growing, and some
-things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He
-is experimenting, and doing it well. And if it had not been that we
-have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the
-father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead
-through Death, not Life."
-
-Harker groaned and said, "And this is all arrayed against my darling!
-But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat
-him!"
-
-"He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but
-surely. That big child-brain of his is working. Well for us, it is
-as yet a child-brain. For had he dared, at the first, to attempt
-certain things he would long ago have been beyond our power. However,
-he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford
-to wait and to go slow. Festina lente may well be his motto."
-
-"I fail to understand," said Harker wearily. "Oh, do be more plain to
-me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain."
-
-The Professor laid his hand tenderly on his shoulder as he spoke, "Ah,
-my child, I will be plain. Do you not see how, of late, this monster
-has been creeping into knowledge experimentally. How he has been
-making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend
-John's home. For your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come
-when and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked
-thereto by an inmate. But these are not his most important
-experiments. Do we not see how at the first all these so great boxes
-were moved by others. He knew not then but that must be so. But all
-the time that so great child-brain of his was growing, and he began to
-consider whether he might not himself move the box. So he began to
-help. And then, when he found that this be all right, he try to move
-them all alone. And so he progress, and he scatter these graves of
-him. And none but he know where they are hidden.
-
-"He may have intend to bury them deep in the ground. So that only he
-use them in the night, or at such time as he can change his form, they
-do him equal well, and none may know these are his hiding place! But,
-my child, do not despair, this knowledge came to him just too late!
-Already all of his lairs but one be sterilize as for him. And before
-the sunset this shall be so. Then he have no place where he can move
-and hide. I delayed this morning that so we might be sure. Is there
-not more at stake for us than for him? Then why not be more careful
-than him? By my clock it is one hour and already, if all be well,
-friend Arthur and Quincey are on their way to us. Today is our day,
-and we must go sure, if slow, and lose no chance. See! There are
-five of us when those absent ones return."
-
-Whilst we were speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door,
-the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy. We all moved out to
-the hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us
-to keep silence, stepped to the door and opened it. The boy handed in
-a dispatch. The Professor closed the door again, and after looking at
-the direction, opened it and read aloud.
-
-"Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax
-hurriedly and hastened towards the South. He seems to be
-going the round and may want to see you: Mina."
-
-There was a pause, broken by Jonathan Harker's voice, "Now, God be
-thanked, we shall soon meet!"
-
-Van Helsing turned to him quickly and said, "God will act in His own
-way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet. For what we
-wish for at the moment may be our own undoings."
-
-"I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this
-brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"
-
-"Oh, hush, hush, my child!" said Van Helsing. "God does not purchase
-souls in this wise, and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not
-keep faith. But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and
-your devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you, how her pain would
-be doubled, did she but hear your wild words. Do not fear any of us,
-we are all devoted to this cause, and today shall see the end. The
-time is coming for action. Today this Vampire is limit to the powers
-of man, and till sunset he may not change. It will take him time to
-arrive here, see it is twenty minutes past one, and there are yet some
-times before he can hither come, be he never so quick. What we must
-hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first."
-
-About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker's telegram, there
-came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door. It was just an
-ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but
-it made the Professor's heart and mine beat loudly. We looked at each
-other, and together moved out into the hall. We each held ready to
-use our various armaments, the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal
-in the right. Van Helsing pulled back the latch, and holding the door
-half open, stood back, having both hands ready for action. The
-gladness of our hearts must have shown upon our faces when on the
-step, close to the door, we saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris.
-They came quickly in and closed the door behind them, the former
-saying, as they moved along the hall:
-
-"It is all right. We found both places. Six boxes in each and we
-destroyed them all."
-
-"Destroyed?" asked the Professor.
-
-"For him!" We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said,
-"There's nothing to do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn't turn
-up by five o'clock, we must start off. For it won't do to leave Mrs.
-Harker alone after sunset."
-
-"He will be here before long now," said Van Helsing, who had been
-consulting his pocketbook. "Nota bene, in Madam's telegram he went
-south from Carfax. That means he went to cross the river, and he
-could only do so at slack of tide, which should be something before
-one o'clock. That he went south has a meaning for us. He is as yet
-only suspicious, and he went from Carfax first to the place where he
-would suspect interference least. You must have been at Bermondsey
-only a short time before him. That he is not here already shows that
-he went to Mile End next. This took him some time, for he would then
-have to be carried over the river in some way. Believe me, my
-friends, we shall not have long to wait now. We should have ready
-some plan of attack, so that we may throw away no chance. Hush, there
-is no time now. Have all your arms! Be ready!" He held up a warning
-hand as he spoke, for we all could hear a key softly inserted in the
-lock of the hall door.
-
-I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a
-dominant spirit asserted itself. In all our hunting parties and
-adventures in different parts of the world, Quincey Morris had always
-been the one to arrange the plan of action, and Arthur and I had been
-accustomed to obey him implicitly. Now, the old habit seemed to be
-renewed instinctively. With a swift glance around the room, he at
-once laid out our plan of attack, and without speaking a word, with a
-gesture, placed us each in position. Van Helsing, Harker, and I were
-just behind the door, so that when it was opened the Professor could
-guard it whilst we two stepped between the incomer and the door.
-Godalming behind and Quincey in front stood just out of sight ready to
-move in front of the window. We waited in a suspense that made the
-seconds pass with nightmare slowness. The slow, careful steps came
-along the hall. The Count was evidently prepared for some surprise,
-at least he feared it.
-
-Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way
-past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was
-something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that
-it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming. The first to
-act was Harker, who with a quick movement, threw himself before the
-door leading into the room in the front of the house. As the Count
-saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the
-eyeteeth long and pointed. But the evil smile as quickly passed into
-a cold stare of lion-like disdain. His expression again changed as,
-with a single impulse, we all advanced upon him. It was a pity that
-we had not some better organized plan of attack, for even at the
-moment I wondered what we were to do. I did not myself know whether
-our lethal weapons would avail us anything.
-
-Harker evidently meant to try the matter, for he had ready his great
-Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at him. The blow was a
-powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back
-saved him. A second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through
-his heart. As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat,
-making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank notes and a stream
-of gold fell out. The expression of the Count's face was so hellish,
-that for a moment I feared for Harker, though I saw him throw the
-terrible knife aloft again for another stroke. Instinctively I moved
-forward with a protective impulse, holding the Crucifix and Wafer in
-my left hand. I felt a mighty power fly along my arm, and it was
-without surprise that I saw the monster cower back before a similar
-movement made spontaneously by each one of us. It would be impossible
-to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity, of anger and
-hellish rage, which came over the Count's face. His waxen hue became
-greenish-yellow by the contrast of his burning eyes, and the red scar
-on the forehead showed on the pallid skin like a palpitating wound.
-The next instant, with a sinuous dive he swept under Harker's arm, ere
-his blow could fall, and grasping a handful of the money from the
-floor, dashed across the room, threw himself at the window. Amid the
-crash and glitter of the falling glass, he tumbled into the flagged
-area below. Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the
-"ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
-
-We ran over and saw him spring unhurt from the ground. He, rushing up
-the steps, crossed the flagged yard, and pushed open the stable door.
-There he turned and spoke to us.
-
-"You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like
-sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You
-think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My
-revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my
-side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through
-them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding
-and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!"
-
-With a contemptuous sneer, he passed quickly through the door, and we
-heard the rusty bolt creak as he fastened it behind him. A door
-beyond opened and shut. The first of us to speak was the Professor.
-Realizing the difficulty of following him through the stable, we moved
-toward the hall.
-
-"We have learnt something . . . much! Notwithstanding his brave words,
-he fears us. He fears time, he fears want! For if not, why he hurry
-so? His very tone betray him, or my ears deceive. Why take that
-money? You follow quick. You are hunters of the wild beast, and
-understand it so. For me, I make sure that nothing here may be of use
-to him, if so that he returns."
-
-As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title
-deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining
-things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a
-match.
-
-Godalming and Morris had rushed out into the yard, and Harker had
-lowered himself from the window to follow the Count. He had, however,
-bolted the stable door, and by the time they had forced it open there
-was no sign of him. Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the
-back of the house. But the mews was deserted and no one had seen him
-depart.
-
-It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. We had
-to recognize that our game was up. With heavy hearts we agreed with
-the Professor when he said, "Let us go back to Madam Mina. Poor, poor
-dear Madam Mina. All we can do just now is done, and we can there, at
-least, protect her. But we need not despair. There is but one more
-earth box, and we must try to find it. When that is done all may yet
-be well."
-
-I could see that he spoke as bravely as he could to comfort Harker.
-The poor fellow was quite broken down, now and again he gave a low
-groan which he could not suppress. He was thinking of his wife.
-
-With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker
-waiting us, with an appearance of cheerfulness which did honour to her
-bravery and unselfishness. When she saw our faces, her own became as
-pale as death. For a second or two her eyes were closed as if she
-were in secret prayer.
-
-And then she said cheerfully, "I can never thank you all enough. Oh,
-my poor darling!"
-
-As she spoke, she took her husband's grey head in her hands and kissed
-it.
-
-"Lay your poor head here and rest it. All will yet be well, dear! God
-will protect us if He so will it in His good intent." The poor fellow
-groaned. There was no place for words in his sublime misery.
-
-We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered
-us all up somewhat. It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to
-hungry people, for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast, or
-the sense of companionship may have helped us, but anyhow we were all
-less miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.
-
-True to our promise, we told Mrs. Harker everything which had passed.
-And although she grew snowy white at times when danger had seemed to
-threaten her husband, and red at others when his devotion to her was
-manifested, she listened bravely and with calmness. When we came to
-the part where Harker had rushed at the Count so recklessly, she clung
-to her husband's arm, and held it tight as though her clinging could
-protect him from any harm that might come. She said nothing, however,
-till the narration was all done, and matters had been brought up to
-the present time.
-
-Then without letting go her husband's hand she stood up amongst us and
-spoke. Oh, that I could give any idea of the scene. Of that sweet,
-sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and
-animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which she was
-conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our teeth, remembering
-whence and how it came. Her loving kindness against our grim hate.
-Her tender faith against all our fears and doubting. And we, knowing
-that so far as symbols went, she with all her goodness and purity and
-faith, was outcast from God.
-
-"Jonathan," she said, and the word sounded like music on her lips it
-was so full of love and tenderness, "Jonathan dear, and you all my
-true, true friends, I want you to bear something in mind through all
-this dreadful time. I know that you must fight. That you must
-destroy even as you destroyed the false Lucy so that the true Lucy
-might live hereafter. But it is not a work of hate. That poor soul
-who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all. Just
-think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser
-part that his better part may have spiritual immortality. You must be
-pitiful to him, too, though it may not hold your hands from his
-destruction."
-
-As she spoke I could see her husband's face darken and draw together,
-as though the passion in him were shriveling his being to its core.
-Instinctively the clasp on his wife's hand grew closer, till his
-knuckles looked white. She did not flinch from the pain which I knew
-she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more
-appealing than ever.
-
-As she stopped speaking he leaped to his feet, almost tearing his hand
-from hers as he spoke.
-
-"May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that
-earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond it I could send
-his soul forever and ever to burning hell I would do it!"
-
-"Oh, hush! Oh, hush in the name of the good God. Don't say such
-things, Jonathan, my husband, or you will crush me with fear and
-horror. Just think, my dear . . . I have been thinking all this long,
-long day of it . . . that . . . perhaps . . . some day . . . I, too, may
-need such pity, and that some other like you, and with equal cause for
-anger, may deny it to me! Oh, my husband! My husband, indeed I would
-have spared you such a thought had there been another way. But I pray
-that God may not have treasured your wild words, except as the
-heart-broken wail of a very loving and sorely stricken man. Oh, God,
-let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who
-all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have
-come."
-
-We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them, and we
-wept openly. She wept, too, to see that her sweeter counsels had
-prevailed. Her husband flung himself on his knees beside her, and
-putting his arms round her, hid his face in the folds of her dress.
-Van Helsing beckoned to us and we stole out of the room, leaving the
-two loving hearts alone with their God.
-
-Before they retired the Professor fixed up the room against any coming
-of the Vampire, and assured Mrs. Harker that she might rest in peace.
-She tried to school herself to the belief, and manifestly for her
-husband's sake, tried to seem content. It was a brave struggle, and
-was, I think and believe, not without its reward. Van Helsing had
-placed at hand a bell which either of them was to sound in case of any
-emergency. When they had retired, Quincey, Godalming, and I arranged
-that we should sit up, dividing the night between us, and watch over
-the safety of the poor stricken lady. The first watch falls to
-Quincey, so the rest of us shall be off to bed as soon as we can.
-
-Godalming has already turned in, for his is the second watch. Now
-that my work is done I, too, shall go to bed.
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-3-4 October, close to midnight.--I thought yesterday would never end.
-There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief
-that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must
-now be for the better. Before we parted, we discussed what our next
-step was to be, but we could arrive at no result. All we knew was
-that one earth box remained, and that the Count alone knew where it
-was. If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years. And in
-the meantime, the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even
-now. This I know, that if ever there was a woman who was all
-perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. I loved her a
-thousand times more for her sweet pity of last night, a pity that made
-my own hate of the monster seem despicable. Surely God will not
-permit the world to be the poorer by the loss of such a creature. This
-is hope to me. We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our
-only anchor. Thank God! Mina is sleeping, and sleeping without
-dreams. I fear what her dreams might be like, with such terrible
-memories to ground them in. She has not been so calm, within my
-seeing, since the sunset. Then, for a while, there came over her face
-a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March. I thought
-at the time that it was the softness of the red sunset on her face,
-but somehow now I think it has a deeper meaning. I am not sleepy
-myself, though I am weary . . . weary to death. However, I must try
-to sleep. For there is tomorrow to think of, and there is no rest for
-me until . . .
-
-
-Later--I must have fallen asleep, for I was awakened by Mina, who was
-sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face. I could see
-easily, for we did not leave the room in darkness. She had placed a
-warning hand over my mouth, and now she whispered in my ear, "Hush!
-There is someone in the corridor!" I got up softly, and crossing the
-room, gently opened the door.
-
-Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake. He
-raised a warning hand for silence as he whispered to me, "Hush! Go
-back to bed. It is all right. One of us will be here all night. We
-don't mean to take any chances!"
-
-His look and gesture forbade discussion, so I came back and told Mina.
-She sighed and positively a shadow of a smile stole over her poor,
-pale face as she put her arms round me and said softly, "Oh, thank God
-for good brave men!" With a sigh she sank back again to sleep. I
-write this now as I am not sleepy, though I must try again.
-
-
-4 October, morning.--Once again during the night I was wakened by
-Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the
-coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas
-flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light.
-
-She said to me hurriedly, "Go, call the Professor. I want to see him
-at once."
-
-"Why?" I asked.
-
-"I have an idea. I suppose it must have come in the night, and
-matured without my knowing it. He must hypnotize me before the dawn,
-and then I shall be able to speak. Go quick, dearest, the time is
-getting close."
-
-I went to the door. Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and
-seeing me, he sprang to his feet.
-
-"Is anything wrong?" he asked, in alarm.
-
-"No," I replied. "But Mina wants to see Dr. Van Helsing at once."
-
-"I will go," he said, and hurried into the Professor's room.
-
-Two or three minutes later Van Helsing was in the room in his dressing
-gown, and Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming were with Dr. Seward at the
-door asking questions. When the Professor saw Mina a smile, a
-positive smile ousted the anxiety of his face.
-
-He rubbed his hands as he said, "Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is
-indeed a change. See! Friend Jonathan, we have got our dear Madam
-Mina, as of old, back to us today!" Then turning to her, he said
-cheerfully, "And what am I to do for you? For at this hour you do not
-want me for nothing."
-
-"I want you to hypnotize me!" she said. "Do it before the dawn, for I
-feel that then I can speak, and speak freely. Be quick, for the time
-is short!" Without a word he motioned her to sit up in bed.
-
-Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her,
-from over the top of her head downward, with each hand in turn. Mina
-gazed at him fixedly for a few minutes, during which my own heart beat
-like a trip hammer, for I felt that some crisis was at hand.
-Gradually her eyes closed, and she sat, stock still. Only by the
-gentle heaving of her bosom could one know that she was alive. The
-Professor made a few more passes and then stopped, and I could see
-that his forehead was covered with great beads of perspiration. Mina
-opened her eyes, but she did not seem the same woman. There was a
-far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which
-was new to me. Raising his hand to impose silence, the Professor
-motioned to me to bring the others in. They came on tiptoe, closing
-the door behind them, and stood at the foot of the bed, looking on.
-Mina appeared not to see them. The stillness was broken by Van
-Helsing's voice speaking in a low level tone which would not break the
-current of her thoughts.
-
-"Where are you?" The answer came in a neutral way.
-
-"I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own." For several
-minutes there was silence. Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood
-staring at her fixedly.
-
-The rest of us hardly dared to breathe. The room was growing lighter.
-Without taking his eyes from Mina's face, Dr. Van Helsing motioned me
-to pull up the blind. I did so, and the day seemed just upon us. A
-red streak shot up, and a rosy light seemed to diffuse itself through
-the room. On the instant the Professor spoke again.
-
-"Where are you now?"
-
-The answer came dreamily, but with intention. It were as though she
-were interpreting something. I have heard her use the same tone when
-reading her shorthand notes.
-
-"I do not know. It is all strange to me!"
-
-"What do you see?"
-
-"I can see nothing. It is all dark."
-
-"What do you hear?" I could detect the strain in the Professor's
-patient voice.
-
-"The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap. I
-can hear them on the outside."
-
-"Then you are on a ship?'"
-
-We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the
-other. We were afraid to think.
-
-The answer came quick, "Oh, yes!"
-
-"What else do you hear?"
-
-"The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the
-creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan
-falls into the ratchet."
-
-"What are you doing?"
-
-"I am still, oh so still. It is like death!" The voice faded away
-into a deep breath as of one sleeping, and the open eyes closed again.
-
-By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of
-day. Dr. Van Helsing placed his hands on Mina's shoulders, and laid
-her head down softly on her pillow. She lay like a sleeping child for
-a few moments, and then, with a long sigh, awoke and stared in wonder
-to see us all around her.
-
-"Have I been talking in my sleep?" was all she said. She seemed,
-however, to know the situation without telling, though she was eager
-to know what she had told. The Professor repeated the conversation,
-and she said, "Then there is not a moment to lose. It may not be yet
-too late!"
-
-Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming started for the door but the Professor's
-calm voice called them back.
-
-"Stay, my friends. That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor at
-the moment in your so great Port of London. Which of them is it that
-you seek? God be thanked that we have once again a clue, though
-whither it may lead us we know not. We have been blind somewhat.
-Blind after the manner of men, since we can look back we see what we
-might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we
-might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle, is it not? We
-can know now what was in the Count's mind, when he seize that money,
-though Jonathan's so fierce knife put him in the danger that even he
-dread. He meant escape. Hear me, ESCAPE! He saw that with but one
-earth box left, and a pack of men following like dogs after a fox,
-this London was no place for him. He have take his last earth box on
-board a ship, and he leave the land. He think to escape, but no! We
-follow him. Tally Ho! As friend Arthur would say when he put on his
-red frock! Our old fox is wily. Oh! So wily, and we must follow
-with wile. I, too, am wily and I think his mind in a little while.
-In meantime we may rest and in peace, for there are between us which
-he do not want to pass, and which he could not if he would. Unless
-the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or slack tide.
-See, and the sun is just rose, and all day to sunset is us. Let us
-take bath, and dress, and have breakfast which we all need, and which
-we can eat comfortably since he be not in the same land with us."
-
-Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked, "But why need we seek him
-further, when he is gone away from us?"
-
-He took her hand and patted it as he replied, "Ask me nothing as yet.
-When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions." He would say no
-more, and we separated to dress.
-
-After breakfast Mina repeated her question. He looked at her gravely
-for a minute and then said sorrowfully, "Because my dear, dear Madam
-Mina, now more than ever must we find him even if we have to follow
-him to the jaws of Hell!"
-
-She grew paler as she asked faintly, "Why?"
-
-"Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you
-are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded, since once he put
-that mark upon your throat."
-
-I was just in time to catch her as she fell forward in a faint.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 24
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S PHONOGRAPH DIARY
-
-SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING
-
-This to Jonathan Harker.
-
-You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
-search, if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
-seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her today.
-This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find
-him here.
-
-Let me tell you that so you will know what we four know already, for I
-have tell them. He, our enemy, have gone away. He have gone back to
-his Castle in Transylvania. I know it so well, as if a great hand of
-fire wrote it on the wall. He have prepare for this in some way, and
-that last earth box was ready to ship somewheres. For this he took
-the money. For this he hurry at the last, lest we catch him before
-the sun go down. It was his last hope, save that he might hide in the
-tomb that he think poor Miss Lucy, being as he thought like him, keep
-open to him. But there was not of time. When that fail he make
-straight for his last resource, his last earth-work I might say did I
-wish double entente. He is clever, oh so clever! He know that his
-game here was finish. And so he decide he go back home. He find ship
-going by the route he came, and he go in it.
-
-We go off now to find what ship, and whither bound. When we have
-discover that, we come back and tell you all. Then we will comfort
-you and poor Madam Mina with new hope. For it will be hope when you
-think it over, that all is not lost. This very creature that we
-pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London. And yet in
-one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him out. He is
-finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we
-do. But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more
-strong together. Take heart afresh, dear husband of Madam Mina. This
-battle is but begun and in the end we shall win. So sure as that God
-sits on high to watch over His children. Therefore be of much comfort
-till we return.
-
-VAN HELSING.
-
-
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-4 October.--When I read to Mina, Van Helsing's message in the
-phonograph, the poor girl brightened up considerably. Already the
-certainty that the Count is out of the country has given her comfort.
-And comfort is strength to her. For my own part, now that his
-horrible danger is not face to face with us, it seems almost
-impossible to believe in it. Even my own terrible experiences in
-Castle Dracula seem like a long forgotten dream. Here in the crisp
-autumn air in the bright sunlight.
-
-Alas! How can I disbelieve! In the midst of my thought my eye fell
-on the red scar on my poor darling's white forehead. Whilst that
-lasts, there can be no disbelief. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we
-have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the
-reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less. There
-is something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is
-comforting. Mina says that perhaps we are the instruments of ultimate
-good. It may be! I shall try to think as she does. We have never
-spoken to each other yet of the future. It is better to wait till we
-see the Professor and the others after their investigations.
-
-The day is running by more quickly than I ever thought a day could run
-for me again. It is now three o'clock.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-5 October, 5 P.M.--Our meeting for report. Present: Professor Van
-Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, Jonathan
-Harker, Mina Harker.
-
-Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to
-discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape.
-
-"As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure
-that he must go by the Danube mouth, or by somewhere in the Black Sea,
-since by that way he come. It was a dreary blank that was before us.
-Omme ignotum pro magnifico, and so with heavy hearts we start to find
-what ships leave for the Black Sea last night. He was in sailing
-ship, since Madam Mina tell of sails being set. These not so
-important as to go in your list of the shipping in the Times, and so
-we go, by suggestion of Lord Godalming, to your Lloyd's, where are
-note of all ships that sail, however so small. There we find that
-only one Black Sea bound ship go out with the tide. She is the
-Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and
-thence to other ports and up the Danube. 'So!' said I, 'this is the
-ship whereon is the Count.' So off we go to Doolittle's Wharf, and
-there we find a man in an office. From him we inquire of the goings
-of the Czarina Catherine. He swear much, and he red face and loud of
-voice, but he good fellow all the same. And when Quincey give him
-something from his pocket which crackle as he roll it up, and put it
-in a so small bag which he have hid deep in his clothing, he still
-better fellow and humble servant to us. He come with us, and ask many
-men who are rough and hot. These be better fellows too when they have
-been no more thirsty. They say much of blood and bloom, and of others
-which I comprehend not, though I guess what they mean. But
-nevertheless they tell us all things which we want to know.
-
-"They make known to us among them, how last afternoon at about five
-o'clock comes a man so hurry. A tall man, thin and pale, with high
-nose and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning. That he be
-all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or
-the time. That he scatter his money in making quick inquiry as to
-what ship sails for the Black Sea and for where. Some took him to the
-office and then to the ship, where he will not go aboard but halt at
-shore end of gangplank, and ask that the captain come to him. The
-captain come, when told that he will be pay well, and though he swear
-much at the first he agree to term. Then the thin man go and some one
-tell him where horse and cart can be hired. He go there and soon he
-come again, himself driving cart on which a great box. This he
-himself lift down, though it take several to put it on truck for the
-ship. He give much talk to captain as to how and where his box is to
-be place. But the captain like it not and swear at him in many
-tongues, and tell him that if he like he can come and see where it
-shall be. But he say 'no,' that he come not yet, for that he have
-much to do. Whereupon the captain tell him that he had better be
-quick, with blood, for that his ship will leave the place, of blood,
-before the turn of the tide, with blood. Then the thin man smile and
-say that of course he must go when he think fit, but he will be
-surprise if he go quite so soon. The captain swear again, polyglot,
-and the thin man make him bow, and thank him, and say that he will so
-far intrude on his kindness as to come aboard before the sailing.
-Final the captain, more red than ever, and in more tongues, tell him
-that he doesn't want no Frenchmen, with bloom upon them and also with
-blood, in his ship, with blood on her also. And so, after asking
-where he might purchase ship forms, he departed.
-
-"No one knew where he went 'or bloomin' well cared' as they said, for
-they had something else to think of, well with blood again. For it
-soon became apparent to all that the Czarina Catherine would not sail
-as was expected. A thin mist began to creep up from the river, and it
-grew, and grew. Till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all
-around her. The captain swore polyglot, very polyglot, polyglot with
-bloom and blood, but he could do nothing. The water rose and rose,
-and he began to fear that he would lose the tide altogether. He was
-in no friendly mood, when just at full tide, the thin man came up the
-gangplank again and asked to see where his box had been stowed. Then
-the captain replied that he 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 went 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 by
-himself, for none notice him. Indeed they thought not of him, for
-soon the fog begin to melt away, and all was clear again. My friends
-of the thirst and the language that was of bloom and blood laughed, as
-they told how the captain's swears exceeded even his usual polyglot,
-and was more than ever full of picturesque, when on questioning other
-mariners who were on movement up and down the river that hour, he
-found that few of them had seen any of fog at all, except where it lay
-round the wharf. However, the ship went out on the ebb tide, and was
-doubtless by morning far down the river mouth. She was then, when
-they told us, well out to sea.
-
-"And so, my dear Madam Mina, it is that we have to rest 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 ship takes time, go she never so
-quick. And when we start to go on land more quick, and we meet him
-there. Our best hope is 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 as 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 seen 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 Varna, and to be given to an
-agent, one Ristics who will there present his credentials. And so our
-merchant friend will have done his part. When he ask if there be any
-wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and have inquiry made at Varna,
-we say '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."
-
-When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain
-that the Count had remained on board the ship. He replied, "We have
-the best proof of that, your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance
-this morning."
-
-I asked him again if it were really necessary that they should pursue
-the Count, for oh! I dread Jonathan leaving me, and I know that he
-would surely go if the others went. He answered in growing passion,
-at first quietly. As he went on, however, he grew more angry and more
-forceful, till in the end we could not but see wherein was at least
-some of that personal dominance which made him so long a master
-amongst men.
-
-"Yes, it is necessary, necessary, necessary! For your sake in the
-first, and then for the sake of humanity. This monster has done much
-harm already, in the narrow scope where he find himself, and in the
-short time when as yet he was only as a body groping his so small
-measure in darkness and not knowing. All this have I told these
-others. You, my dear Madam Mina, will learn it in the phonograph of
-my friend John, or in that of your husband. I have told them how the
-measure of leaving his own barren land, barren of peoples, and coming
-to a new land where life of man teems till they are like the multitude
-of standing corn, was the work of centuries. Were another of the
-Undead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the
-centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him.
-With this one, all the forces of nature that are occult and deep and
-strong must have worked together in some wonderous way. The very
-place, where he have been alive, Undead for all these centuries, is
-full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world. There are
-deep caverns and fissures that reach none know whither. There have
-been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters of
-strange properties, and gases that kill or make to vivify. Doubtless,
-there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations
-of occult forces which work for physical life in strange way, and in
-himself were from the first some great qualities. In a hard and
-warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more
-subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man. In him some vital
-principle have in strange way found their utmost. And as his body
-keep strong and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too. All this
-without that diabolic aid which is surely to him. For it have to
-yield to the powers that come from, and are, symbolic of good. And
-now this is what he is to us. He have infect you, oh forgive me, my
-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 more, 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 with God's sanction, shall make you like to
-him. This must not be! We have sworn together that it must not.
-Thus are we ministers of God's own wish. That the world, and men for
-whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very
-existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one soul
-already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem
-more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them,
-if we fall, we fall in good cause."
-
-He paused and I said, "But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely?
-Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a
-tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?"
-
-"Aha!" he said, "your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall
-adopt him. Your maneater, as they of India call the tiger who has
-once tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but
-prowl unceasing till he get him. This that we hunt from our village
-is a tiger, too, a maneater, and he never cease to prowl. Nay, in
-himself he is not one to retire and stay afar. In his life, his
-living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on
-his own ground. He be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come
-again, and again, and again. Look at his persistence and endurance.
-With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the
-idea of coming to a great city. What does he do? He find out the
-place of all the world most of promise for him. Then he deliberately
-set himself down to prepare for the task. He find in patience just
-how is his strength, and what are his powers. He study new tongues.
-He learn new social life, new environment of old ways, the politics,
-the law, the finance, the science, the habit of a new land and a new
-people who have come to be since he was. His glimpse that he have
-had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his 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 surmises. He have done this alone, all alone! From
-a ruin tomb in a forgotten land. What more may he not do when the
-greater world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death,
-as we know him. Who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill
-off whole peoples. Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not
-the Devil, what a force for good might 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 our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age,
-when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men
-would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and
-his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing
-to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the
-good of mankind, and for the honour and glory of God."
-
-After a general discussion it was determined that for tonight nothing
-be definitely settled. That we should all sleep on the facts, and try
-to think out the proper conclusions. Tomorrow, at breakfast, we are
-to meet again, and after making our conclusions known to one another,
-we shall decide on some definite cause of action . . .
-
-I feel a wonderful peace and rest tonight. It is as if some haunting
-presence were removed from me. Perhaps . . .
-
-My surmise was not finished, could not be, for I caught sight in the
-mirror of the red mark upon my forehead, and I knew that I was still
-unclean.
-
-
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-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-5 October.--We all arose early, and I think that sleep did much for
-each and all of us. When we met at early breakfast there was more
-general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to experience
-again.
-
-It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature.
-Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even
-by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
-More than once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder
-whether the whole of the past days had not been a dream. It was only
-when I caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker's forehead that I
-was brought back to reality. Even now, when I am gravely revolving
-the matter, it is almost impossible to realize that the cause of all
-our trouble is still existent. Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight
-of her trouble for whole spells. It is only now and again, when
-something recalls 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 on
-our course of action. I see only one immediate difficulty, I know it
-by instinct rather than reason. We shall all have to speak frankly.
-And yet I fear that in some mysterious way poor Mrs. Harker's tongue
-is tied. I know that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all
-that has been I can guess how brilliant and how true they must be.
-But she will not, or cannot, give them utterance. I have mentioned
-this to Van Helsing, and he and I are to talk it over when we are
-alone. I suppose it is some of that horrid poison which has got into
-her veins beginning to work. The Count had his own purposes when he
-gave her what Van Helsing called "the Vampire's baptism of blood."
-Well, there may be a poison that distills itself out of good things.
-In an age when the existence of ptomaines is a mystery we should not
-wonder at anything! One thing I know, that if my instinct be true
-regarding poor Mrs. Harker's silences, then there is a terrible
-difficulty, an unknown danger, in the work before us. The same power
-that compels her silence may compel her speech. I dare not think
-further, for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman!
-
-
-Later.--When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of
-things. I could see that he had something on his mind, which he
-wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subject.
-After beating about the bush a little, he said, "Friend John, there is
-something that you and I must talk of alone, just at the first at any
-rate. Later, we may have to take the others into our confidence."
-
-Then he stopped, so I waited. He went on, "Madam Mina, our poor, dear
-Madam Mina is changing."
-
-A cold shiver ran through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed.
-Van Helsing continued.
-
-"With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned
-before things go too far. Our task is now in reality more difficult
-than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst
-importance. I can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in
-her face. It is now but very, very slight. But it is to be seen if
-we have eyes to notice without prejudge. Her teeth are sharper, and
-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 Miss 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 that she can, by our hypnotic trance,
-tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have
-hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her
-drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him
-that which she know?"
-
-I nodded acquiescence. He went on, "Then, what we must do is to
-prevent this. We must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she
-cannot tell what she know not. This is a painful task! Oh, so
-painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must be. When
-today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to
-speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by
-us."
-
-He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at
-the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor
-soul already so tortured. 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. For 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 the time of our general gathering. Van Helsing has
-gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of it. I
-really believe his purpose is to be able to pray alone.
-
-
-Later.--At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was
-experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Mrs. Harker had sent a
-message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present,
-as she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our
-movements without her presence to embarrass us. The Professor and I
-looked at each other for an instant, and somehow we both seemed
-relieved. For my own part, I thought that if Mrs. Harker realized the
-danger herself, it was much pain as well as much danger averted.
-Under the circumstances we agreed, by a questioning look and answer,
-with finger on lip, to preserve silence in our suspicions, until we
-should have been able to confer alone again. We went at once into our
-Plan of Campaign.
-
-Van Helsing roughly put the facts before us first, "The Czarina
-Catherine left the Thames yesterday morning. It will take her at the
-quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach Varna.
-But we can travel overland to the same place in three days. Now, if
-we allow for two days less for the ship's voyage, owing to such
-weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear, and if
-we allow a whole day and night for any delays which may occur to us,
-then we have a margin of nearly two weeks.
-
-"Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at
-latest. Then we shall at any rate be in Varna a day before the ship
-arrives, and able to make such preparations as may be necessary. Of
-course we shall all go armed, armed against evil things, spiritual as
-well as physical."
-
-Here Quincey Morris added, "I understand that the Count comes from a
-wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I
-propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of
-belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around.
-Do you remember, Art, when we had the pack after us at Tobolsk? What
-wouldn't we have given then for a repeater apiece!"
-
-"Good!" said Van Helsing, "Winchesters it shall be. Quincey's head is
-level at times, but most so when there is to hunt, metaphor be more
-dishonour to science than wolves be of danger to man. In the meantime
-we can do nothing here. And as I think that Varna is not familiar to
-any of us, why not go there more soon? It is as long to wait here as
-there. Tonight and tomorrow we can get ready, and then if all be
-well, we four can set out on our journey."
-
-"We four?" said Harker interrogatively, looking from one to another of
-us.
-
-"Of course!" answered the Professor quickly. "You must remain to take
-care of your so sweet wife!"
-
-Harker was silent for awhile and then said in a hollow voice, "Let us
-talk of that part of it in the morning. I want to consult with Mina."
-
-I thought that now was the time for Van Helsing to warn him not to
-disclose our plan to her, but he took no notice. I looked at him
-significantly and coughed. For answer he put his finger to his lips
-and turned away.
-
-
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-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-5 October, afternoon.--For some time after our meeting this morning I
-could not think. The new phases of things leave my mind in a state of
-wonder which allows no room for active thought. Mina's determination
-not to take any part in the discussion set me thinking. And as I
-could not argue the matter with her, I could only guess. I am as far
-as ever from a solution now. The way the others received it, too
-puzzled me. The last time we talked of the subject we agreed that
-there was to be no more concealment of anything amongst us. Mina is
-sleeping now, calmly and sweetly like a little child. Her lips are
-curved and her face beams with happiness. Thank God, there are such
-moments still for her.
-
-
-Later.--How strange it all is. I sat watching Mina's happy sleep, and
-I came as near to being happy myself as I suppose I shall ever be. As
-the evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun
-sinking lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to
-me.
-
-All at once Mina opened her eyes, and looking at me tenderly said,
-"Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour.
-A promise made to me, but made holily in God's hearing, and not to be
-broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter
-tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once."
-
-"Mina," I said, "a promise like that, I cannot make at once. I may
-have no right to make it."
-
-"But, dear one," she said, with such spiritual intensity that her eyes
-were like pole stars, "it is I who wish it. And it is not for myself.
-You can ask Dr. Van Helsing if I am not right. If he disagrees you
-may do as you will. Nay, more if you all agree, later you are
-absolved from the promise."
-
-"I promise!" I said, and for a moment she looked supremely happy.
-Though to me all happiness for her was denied by the red scar on her
-forehead.
-
-She said, "Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans
-formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference,
-or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me!" And she
-solemnly pointed to the scar. I saw that she was in earnest, and said
-solemnly, "I promise!" and as I said it I felt that from that instant
-a door had been shut between us.
-
-
-Later, midnight.--Mina has been bright and cheerful all the evening.
-So much so that all the rest seemed to take courage, as if infected
-somewhat with her gaiety. As a result even I myself felt as if the
-pall of gloom which weighs us down were somewhat lifted. We all
-retired early. Mina is now sleeping like a little child. It is
-wonderful thing that her faculty of sleep remains to her in the midst
-of her terrible trouble. Thank God for it, for then at least she can
-forget her care. Perhaps her example may affect me as her gaiety did
-tonight. I shall try it. Oh! For a dreamless sleep.
-
-6 October, morning.--Another surprise. Mina woke me early, about the
-same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. Van Helsing. I
-thought that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without
-question went for the Professor. He had evidently expected some such
-call, for I found him dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that
-he could hear the opening of the door of our room. He came at once.
-As he passed into the room, he asked Mina if the others might come,
-too.
-
-"No," she said quite simply, "it will not be necessary. You can tell
-them just as well. I must go with you on your journey."
-
-Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a moment's pause he
-asked, "But why?"
-
-"You must take me with you. I am safer with you, and you shall be
-safer, too."
-
-"But why, dear Madam Mina? You know that your safety is our solemnest
-duty. We go into danger, to which you are, or may be, more liable
-than any of us from . . . from circumstances . . . things that have
-been." He paused embarrassed.
-
-As she replied, she raised her finger and pointed to her forehead. "I
-know. That is why I must go. I can tell you now, whilst the sun is
-coming up. I may not be able again. I know that when the Count wills
-me I must go. I know that if he tells me to come in secret, I must by
-wile. By any device to hoodwink, even Jonathan." God saw the look
-that she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording
-Angel that look is noted to her ever-lasting honour. I could only
-clasp her hand. I could not speak. My emotion was too great for even
-the relief of tears.
-
-She went on. "You men are brave and strong. You are strong in your
-numbers, for you can defy that which would break down the human
-endurance of one who had to guard alone. Besides, I may be of
-service, since you can hypnotize me and so learn that which even I
-myself do not know."
-
-Dr. Van Helsing said gravely, "Madam Mina, you are, as always, most
-wise. You shall with us come. And together we shall do that which we
-go forth to achieve."
-
-When he had spoken, Mina's long spell of silence made me look at her.
-She had fallen back on her pillow asleep. She did not even wake when
-I had pulled up the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the
-room. Van Helsing motioned to me to come with him quietly. We went
-to his room, and within a minute Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr.
-Morris were with us also.
-
-He told them what Mina had said, and went on. "In the morning we
-shall leave for Varna. We have now to deal with a new factor, Madam
-Mina. Oh, but her soul is true. It is to her an agony to tell us so
-much as she has done. But it is most right, and we are warned in
-time. There must be no chance lost, and in Varna we must be ready to
-act the instant when that ship arrives."
-
-"What shall we do exactly?" asked Mr. Morris laconically.
-
-The Professor paused before replying, "We shall at the first board
-that ship. Then, when we have identified the box, we shall place a
-branch of the wild rose on it. This we shall fasten, for when it is
-there none can emerge, so that at least says the superstition. And to
-superstition must we trust at the first. It was man's faith in the
-early, and it have its root in faith still. Then, when we get the
-opportunity that we seek, when none are near to see, we shall open the
-box, and . . . and all will be well."
-
-"I shall not wait for any opportunity," said Morris. "When I see the
-box I shall open it and destroy the monster, though there were a
-thousand men looking on, and if I am to be wiped out for it the next
-moment!" I grasped his hand instinctively and found it as firm as a
-piece of steel. I think he understood my look. I hope he did.
-
-"Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man.
-God bless him for it. My child, believe me none of us shall lag
-behind or pause from any fear. I do but say what we may do . . . what
-we must do. But, indeed, indeed we cannot say what we may do. There
-are so many things which may happen, and their ways and their ends are
-so various that until the moment we may not say. We shall all be
-armed, in all ways. And when the time for the end has come, our
-effort shall not be lack. Now let us today put all our affairs in
-order. Let all things which touch on others dear to us, and who on us
-depend, be complete. For none of us can tell what, or when, or how,
-the end may be. As for me, my own affairs are regulate, and as I have
-nothing else to do, I shall go make arrangements for the travel. I
-shall have all tickets and so forth for our journey."
-
-There was nothing further to be said, and we parted. I shall now
-settle up all my affairs of earth, and be ready for whatever may come.
-
-
-Later.--It is done. My will is made, and all complete. Mina if she
-survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who
-have been so good to us shall have remainder.
-
-It is now drawing towards the sunset. Mina's uneasiness calls my
-attention to it. I am sure that there is something on her mind which
-the time of exact sunset will reveal. These occasions are becoming
-harrowing times for us all. For each sunrise and sunset opens up some
-new danger, some new pain, which however, may in God's will be means
-to a good end. I write all these things in the diary since my darling
-must not hear them now. But if it may be that she can see them again,
-they shall be ready. She is calling to me.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 25
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-11 October, Evening.--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he
-says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record
-kept.
-
-I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.
-Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to
-understand that sunrise and sunset are to her times of peculiar
-freedom. When her old self can be manifest without any controlling
-force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action. This
-mood or condition begins some half hour or more before actual sunrise
-or sunset, and lasts till either the sun is high, or whilst the clouds
-are still aglow with the rays streaming above the horizon. At first
-there is a sort of negative condition, as if some tie were loosened,
-and then the absolute freedom quickly follows. When, however, the
-freedom ceases the change back or relapse comes quickly, preceded
-only by a spell of warning silence.
-
-Tonight, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the
-signs of an internal struggle. I put it down myself to her making a
-violent effort at the earliest instant she could do so.
-
-A very few minutes, however, gave her complete control of herself.
-Then, motioning her husband to sit beside her on the sofa where she
-was half reclining, she made the rest of us bring chairs up close.
-
-Taking her husband's hand in hers, she began, "We are all here
-together in freedom, for perhaps the last time! I know that you will
-always be with me to the end." This was to her husband whose hand had,
-as we could see, tightened upon her. "In the morning we go out upon
-our task, and God alone knows what may be in store for any of us. You
-are going to be so good to me to take me with you. I know that all
-that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman, whose soul
-perhaps is lost, no, no, not yet, but is at any rate at stake, you
-will do. But you must remember that I am not as you are. There is a
-poison in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me, which must
-destroy me, unless some relief comes to us. Oh, my friends, you know
-as well as I do, that my soul is at stake. And though I know there is
-one way out for me, you must not and I must not take it!" She looked
-appealingly to us all in turn, beginning and ending with her husband.
-
-"What is that way?" asked Van Helsing in a hoarse voice. "What is
-that way, which we must not, may not, take?"
-
-"That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before
-the greater evil is entirely wrought. I know, and you know, that were
-I once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit, even as
-you did my poor Lucy's. Were death, or the fear of death, the only
-thing that stood in the way I would not shrink to die here now, amidst
-the friends who love me. But death is not all. I cannot believe that
-to die in such a case, when there is hope before us and a bitter task
-to be done, is God's will. Therefore, I on my part, give up here the
-certainty of eternal rest, and go out into the dark where may be the
-blackest things that the world or the nether world holds!"
-
-We were all silent, for we knew instinctively that this was only a
-prelude. The faces of the others were set, and Harker's grew ashen
-grey. Perhaps, he guessed better than any of us what was coming.
-
-She continued, "This is what I can give into the hotch-pot." I could
-not but note the quaint legal phrase which she used in such a place,
-and with all seriousness. "What will each of you give? Your lives I
-know," she went on quickly, "that is easy for brave men. Your lives
-are God's, and you can give them back to Him, but what will you give
-to me?" She looked again questioningly, but this time avoided her
-husband's face. Quincey seemed to understand, he nodded, and her face
-lit up. "Then I shall tell you plainly what I want, for there must be
-no doubtful matter in this connection between us now. You must
-promise me, one and all, even you, my beloved husband, that should the
-time come, you will kill me."
-
-"What is that time?" The voice was Quincey's, but it was low and
-strained.
-
-"When you shall be convinced that I am so changed that it is better
-that I die that I may live. When I am thus dead in the flesh, then
-you will, without a moment's delay, drive a stake through me and cut
-off my head, or do whatever else may be wanting to give me rest!"
-
-Quincey was the first to rise after the pause. He knelt down before
-her and taking her hand in his said solemnly, "I'm only a rough
-fellow, who hasn't, perhaps, lived as a man should to win such a
-distinction, but I swear to you by all that I hold sacred and dear
-that, should the time ever come, I shall not flinch from the duty that
-you have set us. And I promise you, too, that I shall make all
-certain, for if I am only doubtful I shall take it that the time has
-come!"
-
-"My true friend!" was all she could say amid her fast-falling tears,
-as bending over, she kissed his hand.
-
-"I swear the same, my dear Madam Mina!" said Van Helsing. "And I!"
-said Lord Godalming, each of them in turn kneeling to her to take the
-oath. I followed, myself.
-
-Then her husband turned to her wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor
-which subdued the snowy whiteness of his hair, and asked, "And must I,
-too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?"
-
-"You too, my dearest," she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her
-voice and eyes. "You must not shrink. You are nearest and dearest
-and all the world to me. Our souls are knit into one, for all life
-and all time. Think, dear, that there have been times when brave men
-have killed their wives and their womenkind, to keep them from falling
-into the hands of the enemy. Their hands did not falter any the more
-because those that they loved implored them to slay them. It is men's
-duty towards those whom they love, in such times of sore trial! And
-oh, my dear, if it is to be that I must meet death at any hand, let it
-be at the hand of him that loves me best. Dr. Van Helsing, I have not
-forgotten your mercy in poor Lucy's case to him who loved." She
-stopped with a flying blush, and changed her phrase, "to him who had
-best right to give her peace. If that time shall come again, I look
-to you to make it a happy memory of my husband's life that it was his
-loving hand which set me free from the awful thrall upon me."
-
-"Again I swear!" came the Professor's resonant voice.
-
-Mrs. Harker smiled, positively smiled, as with a sigh of relief she
-leaned back and said, "And now one word of warning, a warning which
-you must never forget. This time, if it ever come, may come quickly
-and unexpectedly, and in such case you must lose no time in using your
-opportunity. At such a time I myself might be . . . nay! If the time
-ever come, shall be, leagued with your enemy against you.
-
-"One more request," she became very solemn as she said this, "it is
-not vital and necessary like the other, but I want you to do one thing
-for me, if you will."
-
-We all acquiesced, but no one spoke. There was no need to speak.
-
-"I want you to read the Burial Service." She was interrupted by a
-deep groan from her husband. Taking his hand in hers, she held it
-over her heart, and continued. "You must read it over me some day.
-Whatever may be the issue of all this fearful state of things, it will
-be a sweet thought to all or some of us. You, my dearest, will I hope
-read it, for then it will be in your voice in my memory forever, come
-what may!"
-
-"But oh, my dear one," he pleaded, "death is afar off from you."
-
-"Nay," she said, holding up a warning hand. "I am deeper in death at
-this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!"
-
-"Oh, my wife, must I read it?" he said, before he began.
-
-"It would comfort me, my husband!" was all she said, and he began to
-read when she had got the book ready.
-
-How can I, how could anyone, tell of that strange scene, its
-solemnity, its gloom, its sadness, its horror, and withal, its
-sweetness. Even a sceptic, who can see nothing but a travesty of
-bitter truth in anything holy or emotional, would have been melted to
-the heart had he seen that little group of loving and devoted friends
-kneeling round that stricken and sorrowing lady; or heard the tender
-passion of her husband's voice, as in tones so broken and emotional
-that often he had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service
-from the Burial of the Dead. I cannot go on . . . words . . . and
-v-voices . . . f-fail m-me!
-
-She was right in her instinct. Strange as it was, bizarre as it may
-hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time,
-it comforted us much. And the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker's
-coming relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of
-despair to any of us as we had dreaded.
-
-
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-15 October, Varna.--We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th,
-got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the
-Orient Express. We traveled night and day, arriving here at about
-five o'clock. Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any
-telegram had arrived for him, whilst the rest of us came on to this
-hotel, "the Odessus." The journey may have had incidents. I was,
-however, too eager to get on, to care for them. Until the Czarina
-Catherine comes into port there will be no interest for me in anything
-in the wide world. Thank God! Mina is well, and looks to be getting
-stronger. Her colour is coming back. She sleeps a great deal.
-Throughout the journey she slept nearly all the time. Before sunrise
-and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert. And it has become
-a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotize her at such times. At first,
-some effort was needed, and he had to make many passes. But now, she
-seems to yield at once, as if by habit, and scarcely any action is
-needed. He seems to have power at these particular moments to simply
-will, and her thoughts obey him. He always asks her what she can see
-and hear.
-
-She answers to the first, "Nothing, all is dark."
-
-And to the second, "I can hear the waves lapping against the ship, and
-the water rushing by. Canvas and cordage strain and masts and yards
-creak. The wind is high . . . I can hear it in the shrouds, and the
-bow throws back the foam."
-
-It is evident that the Czarina Catherine is still at sea, hastening on
-her way to Varna. Lord Godalming has just returned. He had four
-telegrams, one each day since we started, and all to the same effect.
-That the Czarina Catherine had not been reported to Lloyd's from
-anywhere. He had arranged before leaving London that his agent should
-send him every day a telegram saying if the ship had been reported.
-He was to have a message even if she were not reported, so that he
-might be sure that there was a watch being kept at the other end of
-the wire.
-
-We had dinner and went to bed early. Tomorrow we are to see the Vice
-Consul, and to arrange, if we can, about getting on board the ship as
-soon as she arrives. Van Helsing says that our chance will be to get
-on the boat between sunrise and sunset. The Count, even if he takes
-the form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition,
-and so cannot leave the ship. As he dare not change to man's form
-without suspicion, which he evidently wishes to avoid, he must remain
-in the box. If, then, we can come on board after sunrise, he is at
-our mercy, for we can open the box and make sure of him, as we did of
-poor Lucy, before he wakes. What mercy he shall get from us all will
-not count for much. We think that we shall not have much trouble with
-officials or the seamen. Thank God! This is the country where
-bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money. We have
-only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset
-and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe. Judge
-Moneybag will settle this case, I think!
-
-
-16 October.--Mina's report still the same. Lapping waves and rushing
-water, darkness and favouring winds. We are evidently in good time,
-and when we hear of the Czarina Catherine we shall be ready. As she
-must pass the Dardanelles we are sure to have some report.
-
-
-17 October.--Everything is pretty well fixed now, I think, to welcome
-the Count on his return from his tour. Godalming told the shippers
-that he fancied that the box sent aboard might contain something
-stolen from a friend of his, and got a half consent that he might open
-it at his own risk. The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to
-give him every facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship,
-and also a similar authorization to his agent at Varna. We have seen
-the agent, who was much impressed with Godalming's kindly manner to
-him, and we are all satisfied that whatever he can do to aid our
-wishes will be done.
-
-We have already arranged what to do in case we get the box open. If
-the Count is there, Van Helsing and Seward will cut off his head at
-once and drive a stake through his heart. Morris and Godalming and I
-shall prevent interference, even if we have to use the arms which we
-shall have ready. The Professor says that if we can so treat the
-Count's body, it will soon after fall into dust. In such case there
-would be no evidence against us, in case any suspicion of murder were
-aroused. But even if it were not, we should stand or fall by our act,
-and perhaps some day this very script may be evidence to come between
-some of us and a rope. For myself, I should take the chance only too
-thankfully if it were to come. We mean to leave no stone unturned to
-carry out our intent. We have arranged with certain officials that
-the instant the Czarina Catherine is seen, we are to be informed by a
-special messenger.
-
-
-24 October.--A whole week of waiting. Daily telegrams to Godalming,
-but only the same story. "Not yet reported." Mina's morning and
-evening hypnotic answer is unvaried. Lapping waves, rushing water,
-and creaking masts.
-
-
-
-
-TELEGRAM, OCTOBER 24TH RUFUS SMITH, LLOYD'S, LONDON,
-TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H. B. M. VICE CONSUL, VARNA
-
-"Czarina Catherine reported this morning from Dardanelles."
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-25 October.--How I miss my phonograph! To write a diary with a pen is
-irksome to me! But Van Helsing says I must. We were all wild with
-excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd's. I
-know now what men feel in battle when the call to action is heard.
-Mrs. Harker, alone of our party, did not show any signs of emotion.
-After all, it is not strange that she did not, for we took special
-care not to let her know anything about it, and we all tried not to
-show any excitement when we were in her presence. In old days she
-would, I am sure, have noticed, no matter how we might have tried to
-conceal it. But in this way she is greatly changed during the past
-three weeks. The lethargy grows upon her, and though she seems strong
-and well, and is getting back some of her colour, Van Helsing and I are
-not satisfied. We talk of her often. We have not, however, said a
-word to the others. It would break poor Harker's heart, certainly his
-nerve, if he knew that we had even a suspicion on the subject. Van
-Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is
-in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not
-begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her. If
-this change should come, it would be necessary to take steps! We both
-know what those steps would have to be, though we do not mention our
-thoughts to each other. We should neither of us shrink from the task,
-awful though it be to contemplate. "Euthanasia" is an excellent and a
-comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
-
-It is only about 24 hours' sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the
-rate the Czarina Catherine has come from London. She should therefore
-arrive some time in the morning, but as she cannot possibly get in
-before noon, we are all about to retire early. We shall get up at one
-o'clock, so as to be ready.
-
-
-25 October, Noon.--No news yet of the ship's arrival. Mrs. Harker's
-hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible
-that we may get news at any moment. We men are all in a fever of
-excitement, except Harker, who is calm. His hands are cold as ice,
-and an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka
-knife which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout
-for the Count if the edge of that "Kukri" ever touches his throat,
-driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!
-
-Van Helsing and I were a little alarmed about Mrs. Harker today.
-About noon she got into a sort of lethargy which we did not like.
-Although we kept silence to the others, we were neither of us happy
-about it. She had been restless all the morning, so that we were at
-first glad to know that she was sleeping. When, however, her husband
-mentioned casually that she was sleeping so soundly that he could not
-wake her, we went to her room to see for ourselves. She was breathing
-naturally and looked so well and peaceful that we agreed that the
-sleep was better for her than anything else. Poor girl, she has so
-much to forget that it is no wonder that sleep, if it brings oblivion
-to her, does her good.
-
-
-Later.--Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep
-of some hours she woke up, she seemed brighter and better than she had
-been for days. At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report.
-Wherever he may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his
-destination. To his doom, I trust!
-
-
-
-26 October.--Another day and no tidings of the Czarina Catherine. She
-ought to be here by now. That she is still journeying somewhere is
-apparent, for Mrs. Harker's hypnotic report at sunrise was still the
-same. It is possible that the vessel may be lying by, at times, for
-fog. Some of the steamers which came in last evening reported patches
-of fog both to north and south of the port. We must continue our
-watching, as the ship may now be signalled any moment.
-
-
-27 October, Noon.--Most strange. No news yet of the ship we wait for.
-Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual. "Lapping
-waves and rushing water," though she added that "the waves were very
-faint." The telegrams from London have been the same, "no further
-report." Van Helsing is terribly anxious, and told me just now that he
-fears the Count is escaping us.
-
-He added significantly, "I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina's.
-Souls and memories can do strange things during trance." I was about
-to ask him more, but Harker just then came in, and he held up a
-warning hand. We must try tonight at sunset to make her speak more
-fully when in her hypnotic state.
-
-
-28 October.--Telegram. Rufus Smith, London, to Lord Godalming, care
-H. B. M. Vice Consul, Varna
-
-"Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o'clock today."
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-28 October.--When the telegram came announcing the arrival in Galatz I
-do not think it was such a shock to any of us as might have been
-expected. True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt
-would come. But I think we all expected that something strange would
-happen. The day of arrival at Varna made us individually satisfied
-that things would not be just as we had expected. We only waited to
-learn where the change would occur. None the less, however, it was a
-surprise. I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we
-believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not
-as we should know that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to
-the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man. Van Helsing
-raised his hand over his head for a moment, as though in remonstrance
-with the Almighty. But he said not a word, and in a few seconds stood
-up with his face sternly set.
-
-Lord Godalming grew very pale, and sat breathing heavily. I was
-myself half stunned and looked in wonder at one after another.
-Quincey Morris tightened his belt with that quick movement which I
-knew so well. In our old wandering days it meant "action." Mrs.
-Harker grew ghastly white, so that the scar on her forehead seemed to
-burn, but she folded her hands meekly and looked up in prayer. Harker
-smiled, actually smiled, the dark, bitter smile of one who is without
-hope, but at the same time his action belied his words, for his hands
-instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri knife and rested
-there.
-
-"When does the next train start for Galatz?" said Van Helsing to us
-generally.
-
-"At 6:30 tomorrow morning!" We all started, for the answer came from
-Mrs. Harker.
-
-"How on earth do you know?" said Art.
-
-"You forget, or perhaps you do not know, though Jonathan does and so
-does Dr. Van Helsing, that I am the train fiend. At home in Exeter I
-always used to make up the time tables, so as to be helpful to my
-husband. I found it so useful sometimes, that I always make a study
-of the time tables now. I knew that if anything were to take us to
-Castle Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through
-Bucharest, so I learned the times very carefully. Unhappily there are
-not many to learn, as the only train tomorrow leaves as I say."
-
-"Wonderful woman!" murmured the Professor.
-
-"Can't we get a special?" asked Lord Godalming.
-
-Van Helsing shook his head, "I fear not. This land is very different
-from yours or mine. Even if we did have a special, it would probably
-not arrive as soon as our regular train. Moreover, we have something
-to prepare. We must think. Now let us organize. You, friend Arthur,
-go to the train and get the tickets and arrange that all be ready for
-us to go in the morning. Do you, friend Jonathan, go to the agent of
-the ship and get from him letters to the agent in Galatz, with
-authority to make a search of the ship just as it was here. Quincey
-Morris, you see the Vice Consul, and get his aid with his fellow in
-Galatz and all he can do to make our way smooth, so that no times be
-lost when over the Danube. John will stay with Madam Mina and me, and
-we shall consult. For so if time be long you may be delayed. And it
-will not matter when the sun set, since I am here with Madam to make
-report."
-
-"And I," said Mrs. Harker brightly, and more like her old self than
-she had been for many a long day, "shall try to be of use in all ways,
-and shall think and write for you as I used to do. Something is
-shifting from me in some strange way, and I feel freer than I have
-been of late!"
-
-The three younger men looked happier at the moment as they seemed to
-realize the significance of her words. But Van Helsing and I, turning
-to each other, met each a grave and troubled glance. We said nothing
-at the time, however.
-
-When the three men had gone out to their tasks Van Helsing asked Mrs.
-Harker to look up the copy of the diaries and find him the part of
-Harker's journal at the Castle. She went away to get it.
-
-When the door was shut upon her he said to me, "We mean the same!
-Speak out!"
-
-"Here is some change. It is a hope that makes me sick, for it may
-deceive us."
-
-"Quite so. Do you know why I asked her to get the manuscript?"
-
-"No!" said I, "unless it was to get an opportunity of seeing me
-alone."
-
-"You are in part right, friend John, but only in part. I want to tell
-you something. And oh, my friend, I am taking a great, a terrible,
-risk. But I believe it is right. In the moment when Madam Mina said
-those words that arrest both our understanding, an inspiration came to
-me. In the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to
-read her mind. Or more like he took her to see him in his earth box
-in the ship with water rushing, just as it go free at rise and set of
-sun. He learn then that we are here, for she have more to tell in her
-open life with eyes to see ears to hear than he, shut as he is, in his
-coffin box. Now he make his most effort to escape us. At present he
-want her not.
-
-"He is sure with his so great knowledge that she will come at his
-call. But he cut her off, take her, as he can do, out of his own
-power, that so she come not to him. Ah! There I have hope that our
-man brains that have been of man so long and that have not lost the
-grace of God, will come higher than his child-brain that lie in his
-tomb for centuries, that grow not yet to our stature, and that do only
-work selfish and therefore small. Here comes Madam Mina. Not a word
-to her of her trance! She knows it not, and it would overwhelm her
-and make despair just when we want all her hope, all her courage, when
-most we want all her great brain which is trained like man's brain,
-but is of sweet woman and have a special power which the Count give
-her, and which he may not take away altogether, though he think not
-so. Hush! Let me speak, and you shall learn. Oh, John, my friend,
-we are in awful straits. I fear, as I never feared before. We can
-only trust the good God. Silence! Here she comes!"
-
-I thought that the Professor was going to break down and have
-hysterics, just as he had when Lucy died, but with a great effort he
-controlled himself and was at perfect nervous poise when Mrs. Harker
-tripped into the room, bright and happy looking and, in the doing of
-work, seemingly forgetful of her misery. As she came in, she handed a
-number of sheets of typewriting to Van Helsing. He looked over them
-gravely, his face brightening up as he read.
-
-Then holding the pages between his finger and thumb he said, "Friend
-John, to you with so much experience already, and you too, dear Madam
-Mina, that are young, here is a lesson. Do not fear ever to think. A
-half thought has been buzzing often in my brain, but I fear to let him
-loose his wings. Here now, with more knowledge, I go back to where
-that half thought come from and I find that he be no half thought at
-all. That be a whole thought, though so young that he is not yet
-strong to use his little wings. Nay, like the 'Ugly Duck' of my
-friend Hans Andersen, he be no duck thought at all, but a big swan
-thought that sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to
-try them. See I read here what Jonathan have written.
-
-"That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again, brought
-his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land, who when he was
-beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had to come
-alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered,
-since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph.
-
-"What does this tell us? Not much? No! The Count's child thought
-see nothing, therefore he speak so free. Your man thought see
-nothing. My man thought see nothing, till just now. No! But there
-comes another word from some one who speak without thought because
-she, too, know not what it mean, what it might mean. Just as there
-are elements which rest, yet when in nature's course they move on
-their way and they touch, the pouf! And there comes a flash of light,
-heaven wide, that blind and kill and destroy some. But that show up
-all earth below for leagues and leagues. Is it not so? Well, I shall
-explain. To begin, have you ever study the philosophy of crime?
-'Yes' and 'No.' You, John, yes, for it is a study of insanity. You,
-no, Madam Mina, for crime touch you not, not but once. Still, your
-mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale. There is
-this peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant, in all countries
-and at all times, that even police, who know not much from philosophy,
-come to know it empirically, that it is. That is to be empiric. The
-criminal always work at one crime, that is the true criminal who seems
-predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. This criminal has
-not full man brain. He is clever and cunning and resourceful, but he
-be not of man stature as to brain. He be of child brain in much. Now
-this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also. He, too, have
-child brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done. The
-little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by
-principle, but empirically. And when he learn to do, then there is to
-him the ground to start from to do more. 'Dos pou sto,' said
-Archimedes. 'Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world!' To do
-once, is the fulcrum whereby child brain become man brain. And until
-he have the purpose to do more, he continue to do the same again every
-time, just as he have done before! Oh, my dear, I see that your eyes
-are opened, and that to you the lightning flash show all the leagues,"
-for Mrs. Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled.
-
-He went on, "Now you shall speak. Tell us two dry men of science what
-you see with those so bright eyes." He took her hand and held it
-whilst he spoke. His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I
-thought instinctively and unconsciously, as she spoke.
-
-"The Count is a criminal and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso
-would so classify him, and qua criminal he is of an imperfectly formed
-mind. Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit. His
-past is a clue, and the one page of it that we know, and that from his
-own lips, tells that once before, when in what Mr. Morris would call
-a 'tight place,' he went back to his own country from the land he had
-tried to invade, and thence, without losing purpose, prepared himself
-for a new effort. He came again better equipped for his work, and
-won. So he came to London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and
-when all hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he
-fled back over the sea to his home. Just as formerly he had fled back
-over the Danube from Turkey Land."
-
-"Good, good! Oh, you so clever lady!" said Van Helsing,
-enthusiastically, as he stooped and kissed her hand. A moment later
-he said to me, as calmly as though we had been having a sick room
-consultation, "Seventy-two only, and in all this excitement. I have
-hope."
-
-Turning to her again, he said with keen expectation, "But go on. Go
-on! There is more to tell if you will. Be not afraid. John and I
-know. I do in any case, and shall tell you if you are right. Speak,
-without fear!"
-
-"I will try to. But you will forgive me if I seem too egotistical."
-
-"Nay! Fear not, you must be egotist, for it is of you that we think."
-
-"Then, as he is criminal he is selfish. And as his intellect is small
-and his action is based on selfishness, he confines himself to one
-purpose. That purpose is remorseless. As he fled back over the
-Danube, leaving his forces to be cut to pieces, so now he is intent on
-being safe, careless of all. So his own selfishness frees my soul
-somewhat from the terrible power which he acquired over me on that
-dreadful night. I felt it! Oh, I felt it! Thank God, for His great
-mercy! My soul is freer than it has been since that awful hour. And
-all that haunts me is a fear lest in some trance or dream he may have
-used my knowledge for his ends."
-
-The Professor stood up, "He has so used your mind, and by it he has
-left us here in Varna, whilst the ship that carried him rushed through
-enveloping fog up to Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation
-for escaping from us. But his child mind only saw so far. And it may
-be that as ever is in God's Providence, the very thing that the evil
-doer most reckoned on for his selfish good, turns out to be his
-chiefest harm. The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great
-Psalmist says. For now that he think he is free from every trace of
-us all, and that he has escaped us with so many hours to him, then his
-selfish child brain will whisper him to sleep. He think, too, that as
-he cut himself off from knowing your mind, there can be no knowledge
-of him to you. There is where he fail! That terrible baptism of
-blood which he give you makes you free to go to him in spirit, as you
-have as yet done in your times of freedom, when the sun rise and set.
-At such times you go by my volition and not by his. And this power to
-good of you and others, you have won from your suffering at his hands.
-This is now all more precious that he know it not, and to guard
-himself have even cut himself off from his knowledge of our where.
-We, however, are not selfish, and we believe that God is with us
-through all this blackness, and these many dark hours. We shall
-follow him, and we shall not flinch, even if we peril ourselves that
-we become like him. Friend John, this has been a great hour, and it
-have done much to advance us on our way. You must be scribe and write
-him all down, so that when the others return from their work you can
-give it to them, then they shall know as we do."
-
-And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker
-has written with the typewriter all since she brought the MS to us.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 26
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-29 October.--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
-night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
-had done his work as well as he could, so far as thought, and
-endeavour, and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our
-journey, and for our work when we get to Galatz. When the usual time
-came round Mrs. Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort, and
-after a longer and more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than
-has been usually necessary, she sank into the trance. Usually she
-speaks on a hint, but this time the Professor had to ask her
-questions, and to ask them pretty resolutely, before we could learn
-anything. At last her answer came.
-
-"I can see nothing. We are still. There are no waves lapping, but
-only a steady swirl of water softly running against the hawser. I can
-hear men's voices calling, near and far, and the roll and creak of
-oars in the rowlocks. A gun is fired somewhere, the echo of it seems
-far away. There is tramping of feet overhead, and ropes and chains
-are dragged along. What is this? There is a gleam of light. I can
-feel the air blowing upon me."
-
-Here she stopped. She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she
-lay on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if
-lifting a weight. Van Helsing and I looked at each other with
-understanding. Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her
-intently, whilst Harker's hand instinctively closed round the hilt of
-his Kukri. There was a long pause. We all knew that the time when
-she could speak was passing, but we felt that it was useless to say
-anything.
-
-Suddenly she sat up, and as she opened her eyes said sweetly, "Would
-none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!"
-
-We could only make her happy, and so acqueisced. She bustled off to
-get tea. When she had gone Van Helsing said, "You see, my friends. He
-is close to land. He has left his earth chest. But he has yet to get
-on shore. In the night he may lie hidden somewhere, but if he be not
-carried on shore, or if the ship do not touch it, he cannot achieve
-the land. In such case he can, if it be in the night, change his form
-and jump or fly on shore, then, unless he be carried he cannot escape.
-And if he be carried, then the customs men may discover what the box
-contain. Thus, in fine, if he escape not on shore tonight, or before
-dawn, there will be the whole day lost to him. We may then arrive in
-time. For if he escape not at night we shall come on him in daytime,
-boxed up and at our mercy. For he dare not be his true self, awake
-and visible, lest he be discovered."
-
-There was no more to be said, so we waited in patience until the dawn,
-at which time we might learn more from Mrs. Harker.
-
-Early this morning we listened, with breathless anxiety, for her
-response in her trance. The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming
-than before, and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise
-was so short that we began to despair. Van Helsing seemed to throw
-his whole soul into the effort. At last, in obedience to his will she
-made reply.
-
-"All is dark. I hear lapping water, level with me, and some creaking
-as of wood on wood." She paused, and the red sun shot up. We must
-wait till tonight.
-
-And so it is that we are travelling towards Galatz in an agony of
-expectation. We are due to arrive between two and three in the
-morning. But already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we
-cannot possibly get in till well after sunup. Thus we shall have two
-more hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker! Either or both may possibly
-throw more light on what is happening.
-
-
-Later.--Sunset has come and gone. Fortunately it came at a time when
-there was no distraction. For had it occurred whilst we were at a
-station, we might not have secured the necessary calm and isolation.
-Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than
-this morning. I am in fear that her power of reading the Count's
-sensations may die away, just when we want it most. It seems to me
-that her imagination is beginning to work. Whilst she has been in the
-trance hitherto she has confined herself to the simplest of facts. If
-this goes on it may ultimately mislead us. If I thought that the
-Count's power over her would die away equally with her power of
-knowledge it would be a happy thought. But I am afraid that it may
-not be so.
-
-When she did speak, her words were enigmatical, "Something is going
-out. I can feel it pass me like a cold wind. I can hear, far off,
-confused sounds, as of men talking in strange tongues, fierce falling
-water, and the howling of wolves." She stopped and a shudder ran
-through her, increasing in intensity for a few seconds, till at the
-end, she shook as though in a palsy. She said no more, even in answer
-to the Professor's imperative questioning. When she woke from the
-trance, she was cold, and exhausted, and languid, but her mind was all
-alert. She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said.
-When she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in
-silence.
-
-
-30 October, 7 A.M.--We are near Galatz now, and I may not have time to
-write later. Sunrise this morning was anxiously looked for by us all.
-Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance,
-Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual. They produced no
-effect, however, until the regular time, when she yielded with a still
-greater difficulty, only a minute before the sun rose. The Professor
-lost no time in his questioning.
-
-Her answer came with equal quickness, "All is dark. I hear water
-swirling by, level with my ears, and the creaking of wood on wood.
-Cattle low far off. There is another sound, a queer one like . . ."
-She stopped and grew white, and whiter still.
-
-"Go on, go on! Speak, I command you!" said Van Helsing in an agonized
-voice. At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen
-sun was reddening even Mrs. Harker's pale face. She opened her eyes,
-and we all started as she said, sweetly and seemingly with the utmost
-unconcern.
-
-"Oh, Professor, why ask me to do what you know I can't? I don't
-remember anything." Then, seeing the look of amazement on our faces,
-she said, turning from one to the other with a troubled look, "What
-have I said? What have I done? I know nothing, only that I was lying
-here, half asleep, and heard you say 'go on! speak, I command you!' It
-seemed so funny to hear you order me about, as if I were a bad child!"
-
-"Oh, Madam Mina," he said, sadly, "it is proof, if proof be needed, of
-how I love and honour you, when a word for your good, spoken more
-earnest than ever, can seem so strange because it is to order her whom
-I am proud to obey!"
-
-The whistles are sounding. We are nearing Galatz. We are on fire
-with anxiety and eagerness.
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 October.--Mr. Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms had been
-ordered by telegraph, he being the one who could best be spared, since
-he does not speak any foreign language. The forces were distributed
-much as they had been at Varna, except that Lord Godalming went to the
-Vice Consul, as his rank might serve as an immediate guarantee of some
-sort to the official, we being in extreme hurry. Jonathan and the two
-doctors went to the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival
-of the Czarina Catherine.
-
-
-Later.--Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is away, and the Vice
-Consul sick. So the routine work has been attended to by a clerk. He
-was very obliging, and offered to do anything in his power.
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 October.--At nine o'clock Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and I called
-on Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff, the agents of the London firm of
-Hapgood. They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord
-Godalming's telegraphed request, asking them to show us any civility
-in their power. They were more than kind and courteous, and took us
-at once on board the Czarina Catherine, which lay at anchor out in the
-river harbor. There we saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told us
-of his voyage. He said that in all his life he had never had so
-favourable a run.
-
-"Man!" he said, "but it made us afeard, for we expect it that we
-should have to pay for it wi' some rare piece o' ill luck, so as to
-keep up the average. It's no canny to run frae London to the Black
-Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on
-yer sail for his ain purpose. An' a' the time we could no speer a
-thing. Gin we were nigh a ship, or a port, or a headland, a fog fell
-on us and travelled wi' us, till when after it had lifted and we
-looked out, the deil a thing could we see. We ran by Gibraltar wi'
-oot bein' able to signal. An' til we came to the Dardanelles and had
-to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within hail o'
-aught. At first I inclined to slack off sail and beat about till the
-fog was lifted. But whiles, I thocht that if the Deil was minded to
-get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it whether we would
-or no. If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our miscredit
-wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic, an' the Old Mon who had
-served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no hinderin'
-him."
-
-This mixture of simplicity and cunning, of superstition and commercial
-reasoning, aroused Van Helsing, who said, "Mine friend, that Devil is
-more clever than he is thought by some, and he know when he meet his
-match!"
-
-The skipper was not displeased with the compliment, and went on, "When
-we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble. Some o' them, the
-Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had
-been put on board by a queer lookin' old man just before we had
-started frae London. I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out
-their twa fingers when they saw him, to guard them against the evil
-eye. Man! but the supersteetion of foreigners is pairfectly
-rideeculous! I sent them aboot their business pretty quick, but as
-just after a fog closed in on us I felt a wee bit as they did anent
-something, though I wouldn't say it was again the big box. Well, on
-we went, and as the fog didn't let up for five days I joost let the
-wind carry us, for if the Deil wanted to get somewheres, well, he
-would fetch it up a'reet. An' if he didn't, well, we'd keep a sharp
-lookout anyhow. Sure eneuch, we had a fair way and deep water all the
-time. And two days ago, when the mornin' sun came through the fog, we
-found ourselves just in the river opposite Galatz. The Roumanians
-were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the box and fling
-it in the river. I had to argy wi' them aboot it wi' a handspike. An'
-when the last o' them rose off the deck wi' his head in his hand, I
-had convinced them that, evil eye or no evil eye, the property and the
-trust of my owners were better in my hands than in the river Danube.
-They had, mind ye, taken the box on the deck ready to fling in, and as
-it was marked Galatz via Varna, I thocht I'd let it lie till we
-discharged in the port an' get rid o't althegither. We didn't do much
-clearin' that day, an' had to remain the nicht at anchor. But in the
-mornin', braw an' airly, an hour before sunup, a man came aboard wi'
-an order, written to him from England, to receive a box marked for one
-Count Dracula. Sure eneuch the matter was one ready to his hand. He
-had his papers a' reet, an' glad I was to be rid o' the dam' thing,
-for I was beginnin' masel' to feel uneasy at it. If the Deil did have
-any luggage aboord the ship, I'm thinkin' it was nane ither than that
-same!"
-
-"What was the name of the man who took it?" asked Dr. Van Helsing with
-restrained eagerness.
-
-"I'll be tellin' ye quick!" he answered, and stepping down to his
-cabin, produced a receipt signed "Immanuel Hildesheim." Burgen-strasse
-16 was the address. We found out that this was all the Captain knew,
-so with thanks we came away.
-
-We found Hildesheim in his office, a Hebrew of rather the Adelphi
-Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez. His arguments were
-pointed with specie, we doing the punctuation, and with a little
-bargaining he told us what he knew. This turned out to be simple but
-important. He had received a letter from Mr. de Ville of London,
-telling him to receive, if possible before sunrise so as to avoid
-customs, a box which would arrive at Galatz in the Czarina Catherine.
-This he was to give in charge to a certain Petrof Skinsky, who dealt
-with the Slovaks who traded down the river to the port. He had been
-paid for his work by an English bank note, which had been duly cashed
-for gold at the Danube International Bank. When Skinsky had come to
-him, he had taken him to the ship and handed over the box, so as to
-save porterage. That was all he knew.
-
-We then sought for Skinsky, but were unable to find him. One of his
-neighbors, who did not seem to bear him any affection, said that he
-had gone away two days before, no one knew whither. This was
-corroborated by his landlord, who had received by messenger the key of
-the house together with the rent due, in English money. This had been
-between ten and eleven o'clock last night. We were at a standstill
-again.
-
-Whilst we were talking one came running and breathlessly gasped out
-that the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the
-churchyard of St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if
-by some wild animal. Those we had been speaking with ran off to see
-the horror, the women crying out. "This is the work of a Slovak!" We
-hurried away lest we should have been in some way drawn into the
-affair, and so detained.
-
-As we came home we could arrive at no definite conclusion. We were
-all convinced that the box was on its way, by water, to somewhere, but
-where that might be we would have to discover. With heavy hearts we
-came home to the hotel to Mina.
-
-When we met together, the first thing was to consult as to taking Mina
-again into our confidence. Things are getting desperate, and it is at
-least a chance, though a hazardous one. As a preliminary step, I was
-released from my promise to her.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 October, evening.--They were so tired and worn out and dispirited
-that there was nothing to be done till they had some rest, so I asked
-them all to lie down for half an hour whilst I should enter everything
-up to the moment. I feel so grateful to the man who invented the
-"Traveller's" typewriter, and to Mr. Morris for getting this one for
-me. I should have felt quite astray doing the work if I had to write
-with a pen . . .
-
-It is all done. Poor dear, dear Jonathan, what he must have suffered,
-what he must be suffering now. He lies on the sofa hardly seeming to
-breathe, and his whole body appears in collapse. His brows are knit.
-His face is drawn with pain. Poor fellow, maybe he is thinking, and I
-can see his face all wrinkled up with the concentration of his
-thoughts. Oh! if I could only help at all. I shall do what I can.
-
-I have asked Dr. Van Helsing, and he has got me all the papers that I
-have not yet seen. Whilst they are resting, I shall go over all
-carefully, and perhaps I may arrive at some conclusion. I shall try
-to follow the Professor's example, and think without prejudice on the
-facts before me . . .
-
-I do believe that under God's providence I have made a discovery. I
-shall get the maps and look over them.
-
-I am more than ever sure that I am right. My new conclusion is ready,
-so I shall get our party together and read it. They can judge it. It
-is well to be accurate, and every minute is precious.
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S MEMORANDUM
-
-(ENTERED IN HER JOURNAL)
-
-
-Ground of inquiry.--Count Dracula's problem is to get back
-to his own place.
-
-(a) He must be brought back by some one. This is evident;
-for had he power to move himself as he wished he could go
-either as man, or wolf, or bat, or in some other way. He
-evidently fears discovery or interference, in the state of
-helplessness in which he must be, confined as he is between
-dawn and sunset in his wooden box.
-
-(b) How is he to be taken?--Here a process of exclusions may
-help us. By road, by rail, by water?
-
-1. By Road.--There are endless difficulties, especially in
-leaving the city.
-
-(x) There are people. And people are curious, and
-investigate. A hint, a surmise, a doubt as to what might
-be in the box, would destroy him.
-
-(y) There are, or there may be, customs and octroi officers
-to pass.
-
-(z) His pursuers might follow. This is his highest fear.
-And in order to prevent his being betrayed he has repelled,
-so far as he can, even his victim, me!
-
-2. By Rail.--There is no one in charge of the box. It
-would have to take its chance of being delayed, and delay
-would be fatal, with enemies on the track. True, he might
-escape at night. But what would he be, if left in a strange
-place with no refuge that he could fly to? This is not what he
-intends, and he does not mean to risk it.
-
-3. By Water.--Here is the safest way, in one respect, but
-with most danger in another. On the water he is powerless
-except at night. Even then he can only summon fog and storm and
-snow and his wolves. But were he wrecked, the living water would
-engulf him, helpless, and he would indeed be lost. He could have
-the vessel drive to land, but if it were unfriendly land, wherein
-he was not free to move, his position would still be desperate.
-
-We know from the record that he was on the water, so what
-we have to do is to ascertain what water.
-
-The first thing is to realize exactly what he has done as
-yet. We may, then, get a light on what his task is to be.
-
-Firstly.--We must differentiate between what he did in
-London as part of his general plan of action, when he was
-pressed for moments and had to arrange as best he could.
-
-Secondly.--We must see, as well as we can surmise it from the
-facts we know of, what he has done here.
-
-As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz,
-and sent invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain
-his means of exit from England. His immediate and sole purpose
-then was to escape. The proof of this, is the letter of
-instructions sent to Immanuel Hildesheim to clear and take away
-the box before sunrise. There is also the instruction to Petrof
-Skinsky. These we must only guess at, but there must have been
-some letter or message, since Skinsky came to Hildesheim.
-
-That, so far, his plans were successful we know. The Czarina
-Catherine made a phenomenally quick journey. So much so that
-Captain Donelson's suspicions were aroused. But his superstition
-united with his canniness played the Count's game for him, and he
-ran with his favouring wind through fogs and all till he brought
-up blindfold at Galatz. That the Count's arrangements were well
-made, has been proved. Hildesheim cleared the box, took it off,
-and gave it to Skinsky. Skinsky took it, and here we lose the
-trail. We only know that the box is somewhere on the water,
-moving along. The customs and the octroi, if there be any, have
-been avoided.
-
-Now we come to what the Count must have done after his
-arrival, on land, at Galatz.
-
-The box was given to Skinsky before sunrise. At sunrise
-the Count could appear in his own form. Here, we ask why
-Skinsky was chosen at all to aid in the work? In my husband's
-diary, Skinsky is mentioned as dealing with the Slovaks who trade
-down the river to the port. And the man's remark, that the
-murder was the work of a Slovak, showed the general feeling
-against his class. The Count wanted isolation.
-
-My surmise is this, that in London the Count decided to get
-back to his castle by water, as the most safe and secret
-way. He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they
-delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for
-there they were shipped to London. Thus the Count had knowledge
-of the persons who could arrange this service. When the box was
-on land, before sunrise or after sunset, he came out from his
-box, met Skinsky and instructed him what to do as to arranging
-the carriage of the box up some river. When this was done, and
-he knew that all was in train, he blotted out his traces, as he
-thought, by murdering his agent.
-
-I have examined the map and find that the river most
-suitable for the Slovaks to have ascended is either the
-Pruth or the Sereth. I read in the typescript that in my
-trance I heard cows low and water swirling level with my
-ears and the creaking of wood. The Count in his box, then,
-was on a river in an open boat, propelled probably either
-by oars or poles, for the banks are near and it is working
-against stream. There would be no such if floating down
-stream.
-
-Of course it may not be either the Sereth or the Pruth, but
-we may possibly investigate further. Now of these two, the
-Pruth is the more easily navigated, but the Sereth is, at
-Fundu, joined by the Bistritza which runs up round the Borgo
-Pass. The loop it makes is manifestly as close to Dracula's
-castle as can be got by water.
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL--CONTINUED
-
-When I had done reading, Jonathan took me in his arms and kissed me.
-The others kept shaking me by both hands, and Dr. Van Helsing said,
-"Our dear Madam Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes have been
-where we were blinded. Now we are on the track once again, and this
-time we may succeed. Our enemy is at his most helpless. And if we
-can come on him by day, on the water, our task will be over. He has a
-start, but he is powerless to hasten, as he may not leave this box
-lest those who carry him may suspect. For them to suspect would be to
-prompt them to throw him in the stream where he perish. This he
-knows, and will not. Now men, to our Council of War, for here and
-now, we must plan what each and all shall do."
-
-"I shall get a steam launch and follow him," said Lord Godalming.
-
-"And I, horses to follow on the bank lest by chance he land," said Mr.
-Morris.
-
-"Good!" said the Professor, "both good. But neither must go alone.
-There must be force to overcome force if need be. The Slovak is
-strong and rough, and he carries rude arms." All the men smiled, for
-amongst them they carried a small arsenal.
-
-Said Mr. Morris, "I have brought some Winchesters. They are pretty
-handy in a crowd, and there may be wolves. The Count, if you
-remember, took some other precautions. He made some requisitions on
-others that Mrs. Harker could not quite hear or understand. We must
-be ready at all points."
-
-Dr. Seward said, "I think I had better go with Quincey. We have been
-accustomed to hunt together, and we two, well armed, will be a match
-for whatever may come along. You must not be alone, Art. It may be
-necessary to fight the Slovaks, and a chance thrust, for I don't
-suppose these fellows carry guns, would undo all our plans. There
-must be no chances, this time. We shall not rest until the Count's
-head and body have been separated, and we are sure that he cannot
-reincarnate."
-
-He looked at Jonathan as he spoke, and Jonathan looked at me. I could
-see that the poor dear was torn about in his mind. Of course he
-wanted to be with me. But then the boat service would, most likely,
-be the one which would destroy the . . . the . . . Vampire. (Why did
-I hesitate to write the word?)
-
-He was silent awhile, and during his silence Dr. Van Helsing spoke,
-"Friend Jonathan, this is to you for twice reasons. First, because
-you are young and brave and can fight, and all energies may be needed
-at the last. And again that it is your right to destroy him. That,
-which has wrought such woe to you and yours. Be not afraid for Madam
-Mina. She will be my care, if I may. I am old. My legs are not so
-quick to run as once. And I am not used to ride so long or to pursue
-as need be, or to fight with lethal weapons. But I can be of other
-service. I can fight in other way. And I can die, if need be, as
-well as younger men. Now let me say that what I would is this. While
-you, my Lord Godalming and friend Jonathan go in your so swift little
-steamboat up the river, and whilst John and Quincey guard the bank
-where perchance he might be landed, I will take Madam Mina right into
-the heart of the enemy's country. Whilst the old fox is tied in his
-box, floating on the running stream whence he cannot escape to land,
-where he dares not raise the lid of his coffin box lest his Slovak
-carriers should in fear leave him to perish, we shall go in the track
-where Jonathan went, from Bistritz over the Borgo, and find our way to
-the Castle of Dracula. Here, Madam Mina's hypnotic power will surely
-help, and we shall find our way, all dark and unknown otherwise, after
-the first sunrise when we are near that fateful place. There is much
-to be done, and other places to be made sanctify, so that that nest of
-vipers be obliterated."
-
-Here Jonathan interrupted him hotly, "Do you mean to say, Professor
-Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, in her sad case and tainted as
-she is with that devil's illness, right into the jaws of his
-deathtrap? Not for the world! Not for Heaven or Hell!"
-
-He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on, "Do you
-know what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish
-infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every
-speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo?
-Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat?"
-
-Here he turned to me, and as his eyes lit on my forehead he threw up
-his arms with a cry, "Oh, my God, what have we done to have this
-terror upon us?" and he sank down on the sofa in a collapse of misery.
-
-The Professor's voice, as he spoke in clear, sweet tones, which seemed
-to vibrate in the air, calmed us all.
-
-"Oh, my friend, it is because I would save Madam Mina from that awful
-place that I would go. God forbid that I should take her into that
-place. There is work, wild work, to be done before that place can be
-purify. Remember that we are in terrible straits. If the Count
-escape us this time, and he is strong and subtle and cunning, he may
-choose to sleep him for a century, and then in time our dear one," he
-took my hand, "would come to him to keep him company, and would be as
-those others that you, Jonathan, saw. You have told us of their
-gloating lips. You heard their ribald laugh as they clutched the
-moving bag that the Count threw to them. You shudder, and well may it
-be. Forgive me that I make you so much pain, but it is necessary. My
-friend, is it not a dire need for that which I am giving, possibly my
-life? If it were that any one went into that place to stay, it is I
-who would have to go to keep them company."
-
-"Do as you will," said Jonathan, with a sob that shook him all over,
-"we are in the hands of God!"
-
-
-Later.--Oh, it did me good to see the way that these brave men worked.
-How can women help loving men when they are so earnest, and so true,
-and so brave! And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of
-money! What can it not do when basely used. I felt so thankful that
-Lord Godalming is rich, and both he and Mr. Morris, who also has
-plenty of money, are willing to spend it so freely. For if they did
-not, our little expedition could not start, either so promptly or so
-well equipped, as it will within another hour. It is not three hours
-since it was arranged what part each of us was to do. And now Lord
-Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam launch, with steam up ready
-to start at a moment's notice. Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris have half a
-dozen good horses, well appointed. We have all the maps and
-appliances of various kinds that can be had. Professor Van Helsing
-and I are to leave by the 11:40 train tonight for Veresti, where we
-are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are bringing a
-good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and horses. We
-shall drive ourselves, for we have no one whom we can trust in the
-matter. The Professor knows something of a great many languages, so
-we shall get on all right. We have all got arms, even for me a large
-bore revolver. Jonathan would not be happy unless I was armed like
-the rest. Alas! I cannot carry one arm that the rest do, the scar on
-my forehead forbids that. Dear Dr. Van Helsing comforts me by telling
-me that I am fully armed as there may be wolves. The weather is
-getting colder every hour, and there are snow flurries which come and
-go as warnings.
-
-
-Later.--It took all my courage to say goodbye to my darling. We may
-never meet again. Courage, Mina! The Professor is looking at you
-keenly. His look is a warning. There must be no tears now, unless it
-may be that God will let them fall in gladness.
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-30 October, night.--I am writing this in the light from the furnace
-door of the steam launch. Lord Godalming is firing up. He is an
-experienced hand at the work, as he has had for years a launch of his
-own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads. Regarding our
-plans, we finally decided that Mina's guess was correct, and that if
-any waterway was chosen for the Count's escape back to his Castle, the
-Sereth and then the Bistritza at its junction, would be the one. We
-took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would
-be the place chosen for crossing the country between the river and the
-Carpathians. We have no fear in running at good speed up the river at
-night. There is plenty of water, and the banks are wide enough apart
-to make steaming, even in the dark, easy enough. Lord Godalming tells
-me to sleep for a while, as it is enough for the present for one to be
-on watch. But I cannot sleep, how can I with the terrible danger
-hanging over my darling, and her going out into that awful place . . .
-
-My only comfort is that we are in the hands of God. Only for that
-faith it would be easier to die than to live, and so be quit of all
-the trouble. Mr. Morris and Dr. Seward were off on their long ride
-before we started. They are to keep up the right bank, far enough off
-to get on higher lands where they can see a good stretch of river and
-avoid the following of its curves. They have, for the first stages,
-two men to ride and lead their spare horses, four in all, so as not to
-excite curiosity. When they dismiss the men, which shall be shortly,
-they shall themselves look after the horses. It may be necessary for
-us to join forces. If so they can mount our whole party. One of the
-saddles has a moveable horn, and can be easily adapted for Mina, if
-required.
-
-It is a wild adventure we are on. Here, as we are rushing along
-through the darkness, with the cold from the river seeming to rise up
-and strike us, with all the mysterious voices of the night around us,
-it all comes home. We seem to be drifting into unknown places and
-unknown ways. Into a whole world of dark and dreadful things.
-Godalming is shutting the furnace door . . .
-
-
-31 October.--Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is
-sleeping. I am on watch. The morning is bitterly cold, the furnace
-heat is grateful, though we have heavy fur coats. As yet we have
-passed only a few open boats, but none of them had on board any box or
-package of anything like the size of the one we seek. The men were
-scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on
-their knees and prayed.
-
-
-1 November, evening.--No news all day. We have found nothing of the
-kind we seek. We have now passed into the Bistritza, and if we are
-wrong in our surmise our chance is gone. We have overhauled every
-boat, big and little. Early this morning, one crew took us for a
-Government boat, and treated us accordingly. We saw in this a way of
-smoothing matters, so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the
-Sereth, we got a Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously. With
-every boat which we have overhauled since then this trick has
-succeeded. We have had every deference shown to us, and not once any
-objection to whatever we chose to ask or do. Some of the Slovaks tell
-us that a big boat passed them, going at more than usual speed as she
-had a double crew on board. This was before they came to Fundu, so
-they could not tell us whether the boat turned into the Bistritza or
-continued on up the Sereth. At Fundu we could not hear of any such
-boat, so she must have passed there in the night. I am feeling very
-sleepy. The cold is perhaps beginning to tell upon me, and nature
-must have rest some time. Godalming insists that he shall keep the
-first watch. God bless him for all his goodness to poor dear Mina and
-me.
-
-
-2 November, morning.--It is broad daylight. That good fellow would
-not wake me. He says it would have been a sin to, for I slept
-peacefully and was forgetting my trouble. It seems brutally selfish
-to me to have slept so long, and let him watch all night, but he was
-quite right. I am a new man this morning. And, as I sit here and
-watch him sleeping, I can do all that is necessary both as to minding
-the engine, steering, and keeping watch. I can feel that my strength
-and energy are coming back to me. I wonder where Mina is now, and Van
-Helsing. They should have got to Veresti about noon on Wednesday. It
-would take them some time to get the carriage and horses. So if they
-had started and travelled hard, they would be about now at the Borgo
-Pass. God guide and help them! I am afraid to think what may
-happen. If we could only go faster. But we cannot. The engines are
-throbbing and doing their utmost. I wonder how Dr. Seward and Mr.
-Morris are getting on. There seem to be endless streams running down
-the mountains into this river, but as none of them are very large, at
-present, at all events, though they are doubtless terrible in winter
-and when the snow melts, the horsemen may not have met much
-obstruction. I hope that before we get to Strasba we may see them.
-For if by that time we have not overtaken the Count, it may be
-necessary to take counsel together what to do next.
-
-
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-2 November.--Three days on the road. No news, and no time to write it
-if there had been, for every moment is precious. We have had only the
-rest needful for the horses. But we are both bearing it wonderfully.
-Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful. We must push
-on. We shall never feel happy till we get the launch in sight again.
-
-
-3 November.--We heard at Fundu that the launch had gone up the
-Bistritza. I wish it wasn't so cold. There are signs of snow coming.
-And if it falls heavy it will stop us. In such case we must get a
-sledge and go on, Russian fashion.
-
-4 November.--Today we heard of the launch having been detained by an
-accident when trying to force a way up the rapids. The Slovak boats
-get up all right, by aid of a rope and steering with knowledge. Some
-went up only a few hours before. Godalming is an amateur fitter
-himself, and evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again.
-
-Finally, they got up the rapids all right, with local help, and are off
-on the chase afresh. I fear that the boat is not any better for the
-accident, the peasantry tell us that after she got upon smooth water
-again, she kept stopping every now and again so long as she was in
-sight. We must push on harder than ever. Our help may be wanted
-soon.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-31 October.--Arrived at Veresti at noon. The Professor tells me that
-this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotize me at all, and that all
-I could say was, "dark and quiet." He is off now buying a carriage
-and horses. He says that he will later on try to buy additional
-horses, so that we may be able to change them on the way. We have
-something more than 70 miles before us. The country is lovely, and
-most interesting. If only we were under different conditions, how
-delightful it would be to see it all. If Jonathan and I were driving
-through it alone what a pleasure it would be. To stop and see people,
-and learn something of their life, and to fill our minds and memories
-with all the colour and picturesqueness of the whole wild, beautiful
-country and the quaint people! But, alas!
-
-
-Later.--Dr. Van Helsing has returned. He has got the carriage and
-horses. We are to have some dinner, and to start in an hour. The
-landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions. It seems
-enough for a company of soldiers. The Professor encourages her, and
-whispers to me that it may be a week before we can get any food again.
-He has been shopping too, and has sent home such a wonderful lot of
-fur coats and wraps, and all sorts of warm things. There will not be
-any chance of our being cold.
-
-We shall soon be off. I am afraid to think what may happen to us. We
-are truly in the hands of God. He alone knows what may be, and I pray
-Him, with all the strength of my sad and humble soul, that He will
-watch over my beloved husband. That whatever may happen, Jonathan may
-know that I loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my
-latest and truest thought will be always for him.
-
-
-
-
-CHAPTER 27
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-1 November.--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The
-horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go
-willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many
-changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged
-to think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is
-laconic, he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and
-pays them well to make the exchange of horses. We get hot soup, or
-coffee, or tea, and off we go. It is a lovely country. Full of
-beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and
-strong, and simple, and seem full of nice qualities. They are very,
-very superstitious. In the first house where we stopped, when the
-woman who served us saw the scar on my forehead, she crossed herself
-and put out two fingers towards me, to keep off the evil eye. I
-believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic
-into our food, and I can't abide garlic. Ever since then I have taken
-care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have escaped their
-suspicions. We are travelling fast, and as we have no driver with us
-to carry tales, we go ahead of scandal. But I daresay that fear of
-the evil eye will follow hard behind us all the way. The Professor
-seems tireless. All day he would not take any rest, though he made me
-sleep for a long spell. At sunset time he hypnotized me, and he says
-I answered as usual, "darkness, lapping water and creaking wood." So
-our enemy is still on the river. I am afraid to think of Jonathan,
-but somehow I have now no fear for him, or for myself. I write this
-whilst we wait in a farmhouse for the horses to be ready. Dr. Van
-Helsing is sleeping. Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and grey,
-but his mouth is set as firmly as a conqueror's. Even in his sleep he
-is intense with resolution. When we have well started I must make him
-rest whilst I drive. I shall tell him that we have days before us,
-and he must not break down when most of all his strength will be
-needed . . . All is ready. We are off shortly.
-
-
-2 November, morning.--I was successful, and we took turns driving all
-night. Now the day is on us, bright though cold. There is a strange
-heaviness in the air. I say heaviness for want of a better word. I
-mean that it oppresses us both. It is very cold, and only our warm
-furs keep us comfortable. At dawn Van Helsing hypnotized me. He says
-I answered "darkness, creaking wood and roaring water," so the river
-is changing as they ascend. I do hope that my darling will not run
-any chance of danger, more than need be, but we are in God's hands.
-
-
-2 November, night.--All day long driving. The country gets wilder as
-we go, and the great spurs of the Carpathians, which at Veresti seemed
-so far from us and so low on the horizon, now seem to gather round us
-and tower in front. We both seem in good spirits. I think we make an
-effort each to cheer the other, in the doing so we cheer ourselves.
-Dr. Van Helsing says that by morning we shall reach the Borgo Pass.
-The houses are very few here now, and the Professor says that the last
-horse we got will have to go on with us, as we may not be able to
-change. He got two in addition to the two we changed, so that now we
-have a rude four-in-hand. The dear horses are patient and good, and
-they give us no trouble. We are not worried with other travellers,
-and so even I can drive. We shall get to the Pass in daylight. We do
-not want to arrive before. So we take it easy, and have each a long
-rest in turn. Oh, what will tomorrow bring to us? We go to seek the
-place where my poor darling suffered so much. God grant that we may
-be guided aright, and that He will deign to watch over my husband and
-those dear to us both, and who are in such deadly peril. As for me, I
-am not worthy in His sight. Alas! I am unclean to His eyes, and
-shall be until He may deign to let me stand forth in His sight as one
-of those who have not incurred His wrath.
-
-
-
-
-
-MEMORANDUM BY ABRAHAM VAN HELSING
-
-4 November.--This to my old and true friend John Seward, M.D.,
-of Purfleet, London, in case I may not see him. It may
-explain. It is morning, and I write by a fire which all
-the night I have kept alive, Madam Mina aiding me. It is
-cold, cold. So cold that the grey heavy sky is full of
-snow, which when it falls will settle for all winter as the
-ground is hardening to receive it. It seems to have affected
-Madam Mina. She has been so heavy of head all day that she was
-not like herself. She sleeps, and sleeps, and sleeps! She who
-is usual so alert, have done literally nothing all the day. She
-even have lost her appetite. She make no entry into her little
-diary, she who write so faithful at every pause. Something
-whisper to me that all is not well. However, tonight she is more
-_vif_. Her long sleep all day have refresh and restore her, for
-now she is all sweet and bright as ever. At sunset I try to
-hypnotize her, but alas! with no effect. The power has grown
-less and less with each day, and tonight it fail me altogether.
-Well, God's will be done, whatever it may be, and whithersoever
-it may lead!
-
-Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her
-stenography, I must, in my cumbrous old fashion, that so
-each day of us may not go unrecorded.
-
-We got to the Borgo Pass just after sunrise yesterday
-morning. When I saw the signs of the dawn I got ready for
-the hypnotism. We stopped our carriage, and got down so
-that there might be no disturbance. I made a couch with
-furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual,
-but more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic
-sleep. As before, came the answer, "darkness and the swirling of
-water." Then she woke, bright and radiant and we go on our way
-and soon reach the Pass. At this time and place, she become all
-on fire with zeal. Some new guiding power be in her manifested,
-for she point to a road and say, "This is the way."
-
-"How know you it?" I ask.
-
-"Of course I know it," she answer, and with a pause, add,
-"Have not my Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?"
-
-At first I think somewhat strange, but soon I see that there be
-only one such byroad. It is used but little, and very different
-from the coach road from the Bukovina to Bistritz, which is more
-wide and hard, and more of use.
-
-So we came down this road. When we meet other ways, not
-always were we sure that they were roads at all, for they
-be neglect and light snow have fallen, the horses know and
-they only. I give rein to them, and they go on so patient. By
-and by we find all the things which Jonathan have note in that
-wonderful diary of him. Then we go on for long, long hours and
-hours. At the first, I tell Madam Mina to sleep. She try, and
-she succeed. She sleep all the time, till at the last, I feel
-myself to suspicious grow, and attempt to wake her. But she
-sleep on, and I may not wake her though I try. I do not wish to
-try too hard lest I harm her. For I know that she have suffer
-much, and sleep at times be all-in-all to her. I think I drowse
-myself, for all of sudden I feel guilt, as though I have done
-something. I find myself bolt up, with the reins in my hand, and
-the good horses go along jog, jog, just as ever. I look down and
-find Madam Mina still asleep. It is now not far off sunset time,
-and over the snow the light of the sun flow in big yellow flood,
-so that we throw great long shadow on where the mountain rise so
-steep. For we are going up, and up, and all is oh so wild and
-rocky, as though it were the end of the world.
-
-Then I arouse Madam Mina. This time she wake with not much
-trouble, and then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep. But
-she sleep 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 round, and find that the sun have gone down. Madam
-Mina laugh, and I turn and look at her. She is now quite
-awake, and look 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 ease then. But she is so bright and tender and thoughtful
-for me that I forget all fear. I light a fire, for we have
-brought supply of wood with us, and she prepare food while I undo
-the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, to feed. Then 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 already. That she
-was so hungry that she would not wait. I like it not, and I have
-grave doubts. But I fear to affright her, 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 her to sleep while I watch. But
-presently I forget all of watching. And when I sudden remember
-that I watch, I find her lying quiet, but awake, and looking at
-me with so bright eyes. Once, twice more the same occur, and I
-get much sleep till before morning. When I wake I try to
-hypnotize her, but alas! though she shut her eyes obedient, she
-may not sleep. The 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 lift her up, and place her sleeping in the carriage when
-I have harnessed the horses and made all ready. Madam still
-sleep, and she look in her sleep more healthy and more redder
-than before. And I like it not. And I am afraid, afraid,
-afraid! 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 more than
-these, and we must not flinch.
-
-
-5 November, morning.--Let me be accurate in everything, for
-though you and I have seen some strange things together,
-you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad.
-That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has
-at the last turn my brain.
-
-All yesterday we travel, always getting closer to the
-mountains, and moving into a more and more wild and desert
-land. There are great, frowning precipices and much falling
-water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival. Madam
-Mina still sleep and sleep. And though I did have hunger and
-appeased it, I could not waken her, even for food. I began to
-fear that the fatal spell of the place was upon her, tainted as
-she is with that Vampire baptism. "Well," said I to myself, "if
-it be that she sleep all the day, it shall 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 there was, I held down my head and
-slept.
-
-Again I waked with a sense of guilt and of time passed, and
-found Madam Mina still sleeping, and the sun low down. But
-all was indeed changed. The frowning mountains seemed further
-away, and we were 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 I exulted and feared. For now, for good or ill, the end was
-near.
-
-I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotize her, but
-alas! unavailing till too late. Then, ere the great dark
-came upon us, for even after down sun the heavens reflected
-the 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 I
-could. Then I make a fire, and near it I make Madam Mina, now
-awake and more charming than ever, sit comfortable amid her rugs.
-I got ready food, but she would not eat, simply saying that she
-had not hunger. I did not press her, knowing her unavailingness.
-But I myself eat, for I must needs now be strong for all. Then,
-with the fear on me of what might be, 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 I 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 even 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 know that the poor soul shook her from head to
-feet with a tremor that was pain to feel.
-
-I said to her presently, when she had grown more quiet,
-"Will you not come over to the fire?" for I wished to make
-a test of what she could. She rose obedient, but when she
-have made a step she stopped, and stood as one stricken.
-
-"Why not go on?" I asked. She shook her head, and coming
-back, sat down in her place. Then, looking at me with open
-eyes, as of one waked from sleep, she said simply, "I cannot!"
-and remained silent. I rejoiced, for I knew that what she could
-not, none of those that we dreaded could. Though there might be
-danger to her body, yet her soul was safe!
-
-Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their
-tethers till I came to them and quieted them. When they
-did feel my hands on them, they whinnied low as 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 arrive to the
-cold hour when all nature is at lowest, and every time my
-coming was with quiet of them. In the cold hour the fire
-began to die, and I was about stepping forth to replenish
-it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps and with it 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
-the snow flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of
-women with trailing garments. All was in dead, grim silence only
-that the horses whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the
-worst. I began to fear, horrible fears. But then came to me the
-sense of safety in that ring wherein I stood. I began too, to
-think that my imaginings were of the night, and the gloom, and
-the unrest that I have gone through, and all the terrible
-anxiety. It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid
-experience were befooling me. For the snow flakes and the mist
-began to wheel and circle round, till I could get as though a
-shadowy glimpse of those women that would have kissed him. And
-then the horses cowered lower and lower, and moaned in terror as
-men do in pain. Even the madness of fright was not to them, so
-that they could break away. I feared for my dear Madam Mina when
-these weird figures drew near and circled round. I looked at her,
-but she sat calm, and smiled at me. When I would have stepped to
-the fire to replenish it, she caught me and held me back, and
-whispered, like a voice that one hears in a dream, so low it was.
-
-"No! No! Do not go without. Here you are safe!"
-
-I turned to her, and looking in her eyes said, "But you?
-It is for you that I fear!"
-
-Whereat she laughed, a laugh low and unreal, and said, "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
-words, 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 would soon have learned, for the wheeling figures of mist
-and snow came closer, but keeping ever without the Holy
-circle. Then they began to materialize till, if God have
-not taken away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes.
-There were before me in actual flesh the same three women
-that Jonathan saw in the room, when they would have kissed
-his throat. I knew the swaying round forms, the bright
-hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous
-lips. They smiled ever at poor dear Madam Mina. And as
-their laugh came through the silence of the night, they
-twined their arms and pointed to her, and said in those so
-sweet tingling tones that Jonathan said were of the intolerable
-sweetness of the water glasses, "Come, sister. Come to us.
-Come!"
-
-In fear I turned to my poor Madam Mina, and my heart with
-gladness leapt like flame. For oh! the terror in her sweet
-eyes, the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my heart
-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
-holding out some of the Wafer, advanced on them towards the
-fire. They drew back before me, and laughed their low horrid
-laugh. I fed the fire, and feared them not. For I knew that we
-were safe within the ring, which she could not leave no more than
-they could enter. The horses had ceased to moan, and lay still
-on the ground. The snow fell on them softly, and they grew
-whiter. I knew that there was for the poor beasts no more of
-terror.
-
-And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall
-through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and
-full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began
-to climb the horizon life was to me again. At the first
-coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the whirling
-mist and snow. The wreaths of transparent gloom moved away
-towards the castle, and were lost.
-
-Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina,
-intending to hypnotize her. But she lay in a deep and sudden
-sleep, from which I could not wake her. I tried to hypnotize
-through her sleep, but she made no response, none at all, and the
-day broke. I fear yet to stir. I have made my fire and have
-seen the horses, they are all dead. Today I have much to do here,
-and I keep waiting till the sun is up high. For there may be
-places where I must go, where that sunlight, though snow and mist
-obscure it, will be to me a safety.
-
-I will strengthen me with breakfast, and then I will do my
-terrible work. Madam Mina still sleeps, and God be thanked! She
-is calm in her sleep . . .
-
-
-
-JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-4 November, evening.--The accident to the launch has been a terrible
-thing for us. Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long 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. We have got horses, and we
-follow on the track. I note this whilst Godalming is getting ready.
-We have our arms. The Szgany must look out if they mean to fight. Oh,
-if only Morris and Seward were with us. We must only hope! If I
-write no more Goodby Mina! God bless and keep you.
-
-
-
-DR. SEWARD'S DIARY
-
-5 November.--With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing
-away from the river with their leiter wagon. They surrounded it in a
-cluster, and hurried along as though beset. The snow is falling
-lightly and there is a strange excitement in the air. It may be our
-own feelings, but the depression is strange. Far off I hear the
-howling of wolves. The snow brings them down from the mountains, and
-there are 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 one. God
-alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be . . .
-
-
-
-
-
-DR. VAN HELSING'S MEMORANDUM
-
-5 November, afternoon.--I am at least sane. Thank God for
-that mercy at all events, though the proving it has been
-dreadful. When I left Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy
-circle, I took my way to the castle. The blacksmith hammer
-which I took in the carriage from Veresti was useful, though the
-doors were all open I broke them off the rusty hinges, lest some
-ill intent or ill chance should close them, so that being entered
-I might not get out. Jonathan's bitter experience served me
-here. By 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
-seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made
-me dizzy. Either there was a roaring in my ears or I heard afar
-off the howl of wolves. Then I bethought me of my dear Madam
-Mina, and I was in terrible plight. The dilemma had me between
-his horns.
-
-Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe
-from the Vampire in that Holy circle. And yet even there
-would be the wolf! I resolve me that my work lay here, and
-that as to the wolves we must submit, 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 been 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 make my choice to go on with my work.
-
-I knew that there were at least three graves to find, graves
-that are inhabit. So I search, and search, and I find one
-of them. She lay in her Vampire sleep, so full of life and
-voluptuous beauty that I shudder as though I have come to
-do murder. Ah, I doubt not that in the old time, when such
-things were, many a man who set forth 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 delay, till the mere
-beauty and the fascination of the wanton Undead have hypnotize
-him. And he remain on and on, till sunset come, and the Vampire
-sleep be over. Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open
-and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss, and
-the man is weak. And there remain one more victim in the
-Vampire fold. One more to swell the grim and grisly ranks
-of the Undead! . . .
-
-There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the
-mere presence of such an one, even lying as she lay in a
-tomb fretted with age and heavy with the dust of centuries,
-though there be that horrid odour such as the lairs of the
-Count have had. Yes, I was moved. I, Van Helsing, with
-all my purpose and with my motive for hate. I was moved to
-a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties
-and to clog my very soul. It may have been that the need
-of natural sleep, and the strange oppression of the air
-were beginning to overcome me. Certain it was that I was
-lapsing into sleep, the open eyed sleep of one who yields
-to a sweet fascination, when there came through the snow-stilled
-air a long, low wail, so full of woe and pity that it woke me
-like the sound of a clarion. For it was the voice of my dear
-Madam Mina that I heard.
-
-Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by
-wrenching away tomb tops one other of the sisters, the other dark
-one. I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister,
-lest once more I should begin to be enthrall. But I go on
-searching until, presently, I find in a high great tomb as if
-made to one much beloved that other fair sister which, like
-Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the
-mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so
-exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me,
-which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers,
-made my head whirl with new emotion. But God be thanked, that
-soul wail of my dear Madam Mina had not died out of my ears.
-And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had
-nerved myself to my wild work. By this time I had searched all
-the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell. And as there
-had been only three of these Undead phantoms around us in the
-night, I took it that there were no more of active Undead
-existent. There was one great tomb more lordly than all the
-rest. Huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one
-word.
-
-
- DRACULA
-
-
-This then was the Undead home of the King Vampire, to whom
-so many more were due. Its emptiness spoke eloquent to
-make certain what I knew. Before I began to restore these
-women to their dead selves through my awful work, I laid in
-Dracula's tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished him from
-it, Undead, for ever.
-
-Then began my terrible task, and I dreaded it. Had it been
-but one, it had been easy, comparative. But three! To
-begin twice more after I had been through a deed of horror.
-For it was terrible with the sweet Miss Lucy, what would it
-not be with these strange ones who had survived through
-centuries, and who had been strengthened by the passing of
-the years. Who would, if they could, have fought for their
-foul lives . . .
-
-Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work. Had I not
-been nerved by thoughts of other dead, and of the living
-over whom hung such a pall of fear, I could not have gone
-on. I tremble and tremble even yet, though till all was
-over, God be thanked, my nerve did stand. Had I not seen
-the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole
-over it just ere the final dissolution came, as realization
-that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further
-with my butchery. I could not have endured the horrid screeching
-as the stake drove home, the plunging of writhing form, and lips
-of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and left my work
-undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them now
-and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of
-death for a short moment ere fading. For, friend John, hardly
-had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body
-began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though
-the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert
-himself and say at once and loud, "I am here!"
-
-Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never
-more can the Count enter there Undead.
-
-When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she
-woke from her sleep and, seeing me, cried out in pain that
-I had endured too much.
-
-"Come!" she said, "come away from this awful place! Let us
-go to meet my husband who is, I know, coming towards us."
-She was looking thin and pale and weak. But her eyes were
-pure and glowed with fervour. I was glad to see her paleness and
-her illness, for my mind was full of the fresh horror of that
-ruddy vampire sleep.
-
-And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go
-eastward to meet our friends, and him, whom Madam Mina tell
-me that she know are coming to meet us.
-
-
-
-
-
-MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
-
-6 November.--It was late in the afternoon when the Professor and I
-took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming. We
-did not go fast, though the way was steeply downhill, for we had to
-take heavy rugs and wraps with us. We dared not face the possibility
-of being left without warmth in the cold and the snow. We had to take
-some of our provisions too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and
-so far as we could see through the snowfall, there was not even the
-sign of habitation. When we had gone about a mile, I was tired with
-the heavy walking and sat down to rest. Then we looked back and saw
-where the clear line of Dracula's castle cut the sky. For we were so
-deep under the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective
-of the Carpathian mountains was far below it. We saw it in all its
-grandeur, perched a thousand feet on the summit of a sheer precipice,
-and with seemingly a great gap between it and the steep of the
-adjacent mountain on any side. There was something wild and uncanny
-about the place. We could hear the distant howling of wolves. They
-were far off, but the sound, even though coming muffled through the
-deadening snowfall, was full of terror. I knew from the way Dr. Van
-Helsing was searching about that he was trying to seek some strategic
-point, where we would be less exposed in case of attack. The rough
-roadway still led downwards. We could trace it through the drifted
-snow.
-
-In a little while the Professor signalled to me, so I got up and
-joined him. He had found a wonderful spot, a sort of natural hollow
-in a rock, with an entrance like a doorway between two boulders. He
-took me by the hand and drew me in.
-
-"See!" he said, "here you will be in shelter. And if the wolves do
-come I can meet them one by one."
-
-He brought in our furs, and made a snug nest for me, and got out some
-provisions and forced them upon me. But I could not eat, to even try
-to do so was repulsive to me, and much as I would have liked to please
-him, I could not bring myself to the attempt. He looked very sad, but
-did not reproach me. Taking his field glasses from the case, he stood
-on the top of the rock, and began to search the horizon.
-
-Suddenly he called out, "Look! Madam Mina, look! Look!"
-
-I sprang up and stood beside him on the rock. He handed me his
-glasses and pointed. The snow was now falling more heavily, and
-swirled about fiercely, for a high wind was beginning to blow.
-However, there were times when there were pauses between the snow
-flurries and I could see a long way round. From the height where we
-were it was possible to see a great distance. And far off, beyond the
-white waste of snow, I could see the river lying like a black ribbon
-in kinks and curls as it wound its way. Straight in front of us and
-not far off, in fact so near that I wondered we had not noticed
-before, came a group of mounted men hurrying along. In the midst of
-them was a cart, a long leiter wagon which swept from side to side,
-like a dog's tail wagging, with each stern inequality of the road.
-Outlined against the snow as they were, I could see from the men's
-clothes that they were peasants or gypsies of some kind.
-
-On the cart was a great square chest. My heart leaped as I saw it, for
-I felt that the end was coming. The evening was now drawing close,
-and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then
-imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many
-forms elude pursuit. In fear I turned to the Professor. To my
-consternation, however, he was not there. An instant later, I saw him
-below me. Round the rock he had drawn a circle, such as we had found
-shelter in last night.
-
-When he had completed it he stood beside me again saying, "At least
-you shall be safe here from him!" He took the glasses from me, and at
-the next lull of the snow swept the whole space below us. "See," he
-said, "they come quickly. They are flogging the horses, and galloping
-as hard as they can."
-
-He paused and went on in a hollow voice, "They are racing for the
-sunset. We may be too late. God's will be done!" Down came another
-blinding rush of driving snow, and the whole landscape was blotted
-out. It soon passed, however, and once more his glasses were fixed on
-the plain.
-
-Then came a sudden cry, "Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow
-fast, coming up from the south. It must be Quincey and John. Take
-the glass. Look before the snow blots it all out!" I took it and
-looked. The two men might be Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris. I knew at
-all events that neither of them was Jonathan. At the same time I knew
-that Jonathan was not far off. Looking around I saw on the north side
-of the coming party two other men, riding at breakneck speed. One of
-them I knew was Jonathan, and the other I took, of course, to be Lord
-Godalming. They too, were pursuing the party with the cart. When I
-told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy, and after
-looking intently till a snow fall made sight impossible, he laid his
-Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the opening of
-our shelter.
-
-"They are all converging," he said. "When the time comes we shall have
-gypsies on all sides." I got out my revolver ready to hand, for
-whilst we were speaking the howling of wolves came louder and closer.
-When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again. It was strange
-to see the snow falling in such heavy flakes close to us, and beyond,
-the sun shining more and more brightly as it sank down towards the far
-mountain tops. Sweeping the glass all around us I could see here and
-there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger numbers.
-The wolves were gathering for their prey.
-
-Every instant seemed an age whilst we waited. The wind came now in
-fierce bursts, and the snow was driven with fury as it swept upon us
-in circling eddies. At times we could not see an arm's length before
-us. But at others, as the hollow sounding wind swept by us, it seemed
-to clear the air space around us so that we could see afar off. We
-had of late been so accustomed to watch for sunrise and sunset, that
-we knew with fair accuracy when it would be. And we knew that before
-long the sun would set. It was hard to believe that by our watches it
-was less than an hour that we waited in that rocky shelter before the
-various bodies began to converge close upon us. The wind came now
-with fiercer and more bitter sweeps, and more steadily from the
-north. It seemingly had driven the snow clouds from us, for with only
-occasional bursts, the snow fell. We could distinguish clearly the
-individuals of each party, the pursued and the pursuers. Strangely
-enough those pursued did not seem to realize, or at least to care,
-that they were pursued. They seemed, however, to hasten with
-redoubled speed as the sun dropped lower and lower on the mountain
-tops.
-
-Closer and closer they drew. The Professor and I crouched down behind
-our rock, and held our weapons ready. I could see that he was
-determined that they should not pass. One and all were quite unaware
-of our presence.
-
-All at once two voices shouted out to "Halt!" One was my Jonathan's,
-raised in a high key of passion. The other Mr. Morris' strong
-resolute tone of quiet command. The gypsies may not have known the
-language, but there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the
-words were spoken. Instinctively they reined in, and at the instant
-Lord Godalming and Jonathan dashed up at one side and Dr. Seward and
-Mr. Morris on the other. The leader of the gypsies, a splendid
-looking fellow who sat his horse like a centaur, waved them back, and
-in a fierce voice gave to his companions some word to proceed. They
-lashed the horses which sprang forward. But the four men raised their
-Winchester rifles, and in an unmistakable way commanded them to stop.
-At the same moment Dr. Van Helsing and I rose behind the rock and
-pointed our weapons at them. Seeing that they were surrounded the men
-tightened their reins and drew up. The leader turned to them and gave
-a word at which every man of the gypsy party drew what weapon he
-carried, knife or pistol, and held himself in readiness to attack.
-Issue was joined in an instant.
-
-The leader, with a quick movement of his rein, threw his horse out in
-front, and pointed first to the sun, now close down on the hill tops,
-and then to the castle, said something which I did not understand.
-For answer, all four men of our party threw themselves from their
-horses and dashed towards the cart. I should have felt terrible fear
-at seeing Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardor of battle must
-have been upon me as well as the rest of them. I felt no fear, but
-only a wild, surging desire to do something. Seeing the quick
-movement of our parties, the leader of the gypsies gave a command. His
-men instantly formed round the cart in a sort of undisciplined
-endeavour, each one shouldering and pushing the other in his eagerness
-to carry out the order.
-
-In the midst of this I could see that Jonathan on one side of the ring
-of men, and Quincey on the other, were forcing a way to the cart. It
-was evident that they were bent on finishing their task before the sun
-should set. Nothing seemed to stop or even to hinder them. Neither
-the levelled weapons nor the flashing knives of the gypsies in front,
-nor the howling of the wolves behind, appeared to even attract their
-attention. Jonathan's impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his
-purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him. Instinctively they
-cowered aside and let him pass. In an instant he had jumped upon the
-cart, and with a strength which seemed incredible, raised the great
-box, and flung it over the wheel to the ground. In the meantime, Mr.
-Morris had had to use force to pass through his side of the ring of
-Szgany. All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan I had,
-with the tail of my eye, seen him pressing desperately forward, and
-had seen the knives of the gypsies flash as he won a way through them,
-and they cut at him. He had parried with his great bowie knife, and
-at first I thought that he too had come through in safety. But as he
-sprang beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could
-see that with his left hand he was clutching at his side, and that the
-blood was spurting through his fingers. He did not delay
-notwithstanding this, for as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked
-one end of the chest, attempting to prize off the lid with his great
-Kukri knife, he attacked the other frantically with his bowie. Under
-the efforts of both men the lid began to yield. The nails drew with a
-screeching sound, and the top of the box was thrown back.
-
-By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the
-Winchesters, and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr. Seward, had
-given in and made no further resistance. The sun was almost down on
-the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the
-snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of
-which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was
-deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with
-the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
-
-As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in
-them turned to triumph.
-
-But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great
-knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at
-the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart.
-
-It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the
-drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from
-our sight.
-
-I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final
-dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never
-could have imagined might have rested there.
-
-The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every
-stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of
-the setting sun.
-
-The gypsies, taking us as in some way the cause of the extraordinary
-disappearance of the dead man, turned, without a word, and rode away
-as if for their lives. Those who were unmounted jumped upon the
-leiter wagon and shouted to the horsemen not to desert them. The
-wolves, which had withdrawn to a safe distance, followed in their
-wake, leaving us alone.
-
-Mr. Morris, who had sunk to the ground, leaned on his elbow, holding
-his hand pressed to his side. The blood still gushed through his
-fingers. I flew to him, for the Holy circle did not now keep me back;
-so did the two doctors. Jonathan knelt behind him and the wounded man
-laid back his head on his shoulder. With a sigh he took, with a
-feeble effort, my hand in that of his own which was unstained.
-
-He must have seen the anguish of my heart in my face, for he smiled at
-me and said, "I am only too happy to have been of service! Oh, God!"
-he cried suddenly, struggling to a sitting posture and pointing to me.
-"It was worth for this to die! Look! Look!"
-
-The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams
-fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light. With one
-impulse the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest "Amen"
-broke from all as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger.
-
-The dying man spoke, "Now God be thanked that all has not been in
-vain! See! The snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The
-curse has passed away!"
-
-And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a
-gallant gentleman.
-
-
-
-
-
-NOTE
-
-
-Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of
-some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
-It is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy's birthday is the
-same day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I
-know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend's spirit has
-passed into him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men
-together. But we call him Quincey.
-
-In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went
-over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and
-terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the
-things which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears
-were living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted
-out. The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of
-desolation.
-
-When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all
-look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both
-happily married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been
-ever since our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that
-in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is
-hardly one authentic document. Nothing but a mass of typewriting,
-except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van
-Helsing's memorandum. We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish
-to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story. Van Helsing summed
-it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee.
-
-"We want no proofs. We ask none to believe us! This boy will some
-day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he
-knows her sweetness and loving care. Later on he will understand how
-some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."
-
-JONATHAN HARKER
-
-
-
-
-
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-HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
-
-by William Shakespeare
-
-
-
-
-PERSONS REPRESENTED.
-
-Claudius, King of Denmark.
-Hamlet, Son to the former, and Nephew to the present King.
-Polonius, Lord Chamberlain.
-Horatio, Friend to Hamlet.
-Laertes, Son to Polonius.
-Voltimand, Courtier.
-Cornelius, Courtier.
-Rosencrantz, Courtier.
-Guildenstern, Courtier.
-Osric, Courtier.
-A Gentleman, Courtier.
-A Priest.
-Marcellus, Officer.
-Bernardo, Officer.
-Francisco, a Soldier
-Reynaldo, Servant to Polonius.
-Players.
-Two Clowns, Grave-diggers.
-Fortinbras, Prince of Norway.
-A Captain.
-English Ambassadors.
-Ghost of Hamlet's Father.
-
-Gertrude, Queen of Denmark, and Mother of Hamlet.
-Ophelia, Daughter to Polonius.
-
-Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers, and other
-Attendants.
-
-SCENE. Elsinore.
-
-
-
-ACT I.
-
-Scene I. Elsinore. A platform before the Castle.
-
-[Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo.]
-
-Ber.
-Who's there?
-
-Fran.
-Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.
-
-Ber.
-Long live the king!
-
-Fran.
-Bernardo?
-
-Ber.
-He.
-
-Fran.
-You come most carefully upon your hour.
-
-Ber.
-'Tis now struck twelve. Get thee to bed, Francisco.
-
-Fran.
-For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
-And I am sick at heart.
-
-Ber.
-Have you had quiet guard?
-
-Fran.
-Not a mouse stirring.
-
-Ber.
-Well, good night.
-If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,
-The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.
-
-Fran.
-I think I hear them.--Stand, ho! Who is there?
-
-[Enter Horatio and Marcellus.]
-
-Hor.
-Friends to this ground.
-
-Mar.
-And liegemen to the Dane.
-
-Fran.
-Give you good-night.
-
-Mar.
-O, farewell, honest soldier;
-Who hath reliev'd you?
-
-Fran.
-Bernardo has my place.
-Give you good-night.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Mar.
-Holla! Bernardo!
-
-Ber.
-Say.
-What, is Horatio there?
-
-Hor.
-A piece of him.
-
-Ber.
-Welcome, Horatio:--Welcome, good Marcellus.
-
-Mar.
-What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?
-
-Ber.
-I have seen nothing.
-
-Mar.
-Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
-And will not let belief take hold of him
-Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:
-Therefore I have entreated him along
-With us to watch the minutes of this night;
-That, if again this apparition come
-He may approve our eyes and speak to it.
-
-Hor.
-Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.
-
-Ber.
-Sit down awhile,
-And let us once again assail your ears,
-That are so fortified against our story,
-What we two nights have seen.
-
-Hor.
-Well, sit we down,
-And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.
-
-Ber.
-Last night of all,
-When yond same star that's westward from the pole
-Had made his course to illume that part of heaven
-Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,
-The bell then beating one,--
-
-Mar.
-Peace, break thee off; look where it comes again!
-
-[Enter Ghost, armed.]
-
-Ber.
-In the same figure, like the king that's dead.
-
-Mar.
-Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
-
-Ber.
-Looks it not like the King? mark it, Horatio.
-
-Hor.
-Most like:--it harrows me with fear and wonder.
-
-Ber.
-It would be spoke to.
-
-Mar.
-Question it, Horatio.
-
-Hor.
-What art thou, that usurp'st this time of night,
-Together with that fair and warlike form
-In which the majesty of buried Denmark
-Did sometimes march? By heaven I charge thee, speak!
-
-Mar.
-It is offended.
-
-Ber.
-See, it stalks away!
-
-Hor.
-Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee speak!
-
-[Exit Ghost.]
-
-Mar.
-'Tis gone, and will not answer.
-
-Ber.
-How now, Horatio! You tremble and look pale:
-Is not this something more than fantasy?
-What think you on't?
-
-Hor.
-Before my God, I might not this believe
-Without the sensible and true avouch
-Of mine own eyes.
-
-Mar.
-Is it not like the King?
-
-Hor.
-As thou art to thyself:
-Such was the very armour he had on
-When he the ambitious Norway combated;
-So frown'd he once when, in an angry parle,
-He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.
-'Tis strange.
-
-Mar.
-Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,
-With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.
-
-Hor.
-In what particular thought to work I know not;
-But, in the gross and scope of my opinion,
-This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
-
-Mar.
-Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
-Why this same strict and most observant watch
-So nightly toils the subject of the land;
-And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
-And foreign mart for implements of war;
-Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
-Does not divide the Sunday from the week;
-What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
-Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:
-Who is't that can inform me?
-
-Hor.
-That can I;
-At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
-Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
-Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
-Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
-Dar'd to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet,--
-For so this side of our known world esteem'd him,--
-Did slay this Fortinbras; who, by a seal'd compact,
-Well ratified by law and heraldry,
-Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands,
-Which he stood seiz'd of, to the conqueror:
-Against the which, a moiety competent
-Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
-To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
-Had he been vanquisher; as by the same cov'nant,
-And carriage of the article design'd,
-His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
-Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
-Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there,
-Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
-For food and diet, to some enterprise
-That hath a stomach in't; which is no other,--
-As it doth well appear unto our state,--
-But to recover of us, by strong hand,
-And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
-So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
-Is the main motive of our preparations,
-The source of this our watch, and the chief head
-Of this post-haste and romage in the land.
-
-Ber.
-I think it be no other but e'en so:
-Well may it sort, that this portentous figure
-Comes armed through our watch; so like the king
-That was and is the question of these wars.
-
-Hor.
-A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.
-In the most high and palmy state of Rome,
-A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
-The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead
-Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;
-As, stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,
-Disasters in the sun; and the moist star,
-Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands,
-Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:
-And even the like precurse of fierce events,--
-As harbingers preceding still the fates,
-And prologue to the omen coming on,--
-Have heaven and earth together demonstrated
-Unto our climature and countrymen.--
-But, soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!
-
-[Re-enter Ghost.]
-
-I'll cross it, though it blast me.--Stay, illusion!
-If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,
-Speak to me:
-If there be any good thing to be done,
-That may to thee do ease, and, race to me,
-Speak to me:
-If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
-Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,
-O, speak!
-Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life
-Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,
-For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,
-[The cock crows.]
-Speak of it:--stay, and speak!--Stop it, Marcellus!
-
-Mar.
-Shall I strike at it with my partisan?
-
-Hor.
-Do, if it will not stand.
-
-Ber.
-'Tis here!
-
-Hor.
-'Tis here!
-
-Mar.
-'Tis gone!
-
-[Exit Ghost.]
-
-We do it wrong, being so majestical,
-To offer it the show of violence;
-For it is, as the air, invulnerable,
-And our vain blows malicious mockery.
-
-Ber.
-It was about to speak, when the cock crew.
-
-Hor.
-And then it started, like a guilty thing
-Upon a fearful summons. I have heard
-The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,
-Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
-Awake the god of day; and at his warning,
-Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,
-The extravagant and erring spirit hies
-To his confine: and of the truth herein
-This present object made probation.
-
-Mar.
-It faded on the crowing of the cock.
-Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes
-Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
-The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
-And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
-The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
-No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm;
-So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
-
-Hor.
-So have I heard, and do in part believe it.
-But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
-Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:
-Break we our watch up: and by my advice,
-Let us impart what we have seen to-night
-Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,
-This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him:
-Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,
-As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?
-
-Mar.
-Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know
-Where we shall find him most conveniently.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene II. Elsinore. A room of state in the Castle.
-
-[Enter the King, Queen, Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Voltimand,
-Cornelius, Lords, and Attendant.]
-
-King.
-Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death
-The memory be green, and that it us befitted
-To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom
-To be contracted in one brow of woe;
-Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
-That we with wisest sorrow think on him,
-Together with remembrance of ourselves.
-Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
-Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
-Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--
-With an auspicious and one dropping eye,
-With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
-In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--
-Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd
-Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone
-With this affair along:--or all, our thanks.
-Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,
-Holding a weak supposal of our worth,
-Or thinking by our late dear brother's death
-Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,
-Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,
-He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,
-Importing the surrender of those lands
-Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,
-To our most valiant brother. So much for him,--
-Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:
-Thus much the business is:--we have here writ
-To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--
-Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears
-Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress
-His further gait herein; in that the levies,
-The lists, and full proportions are all made
-Out of his subject:--and we here dispatch
-You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,
-For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;
-Giving to you no further personal power
-To business with the king, more than the scope
-Of these dilated articles allow.
-Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.
-
-Cor. and Volt.
-In that and all things will we show our duty.
-
-King.
-We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.
-
-[Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.]
-
-And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?
-You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?
-You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,
-And lose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
-That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?
-The head is not more native to the heart,
-The hand more instrumental to the mouth,
-Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.
-What wouldst thou have, Laertes?
-
-Laer.
-Dread my lord,
-Your leave and favour to return to France;
-From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,
-To show my duty in your coronation;
-Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,
-My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France,
-And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.
-
-King.
-Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?
-
-Pol.
-He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave
-By laboursome petition; and at last
-Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:
-I do beseech you, give him leave to go.
-
-King.
-Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,
-And thy best graces spend it at thy will!--
-But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son--
-
-Ham.
-[Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind!
-
-King.
-How is it that the clouds still hang on you?
-
-Ham.
-Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.
-
-Queen.
-Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,
-And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.
-Do not for ever with thy vailed lids
-Seek for thy noble father in the dust:
-Thou know'st 'tis common,--all that lives must die,
-Passing through nature to eternity.
-
-Ham.
-Ay, madam, it is common.
-
-Queen.
-If it be,
-Why seems it so particular with thee?
-
-Ham.
-Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not seems.
-'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
-Nor customary suits of solemn black,
-Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
-No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
-Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
-Together with all forms, moods, shows of grief,
-That can denote me truly: these, indeed, seem;
-For they are actions that a man might play;
-But I have that within which passeth show;
-These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
-
-King.
-'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,
-To give these mourning duties to your father;
-But, you must know, your father lost a father;
-That father lost, lost his; and the survivor bound,
-In filial obligation, for some term
-To do obsequious sorrow: but to persevere
-In obstinate condolement is a course
-Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;
-It shows a will most incorrect to heaven;
-A heart unfortified, a mind impatient;
-An understanding simple and unschool'd;
-For what we know must be, and is as common
-As any the most vulgar thing to sense,
-Why should we, in our peevish opposition,
-Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,
-A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,
-To reason most absurd; whose common theme
-Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
-From the first corse till he that died to-day,
-'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth
-This unprevailing woe; and think of us
-As of a father: for let the world take note
-You are the most immediate to our throne;
-And with no less nobility of love
-Than that which dearest father bears his son
-Do I impart toward you. For your intent
-In going back to school in Wittenberg,
-It is most retrograde to our desire:
-And we beseech you bend you to remain
-Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,
-Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.
-
-Queen.
-Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:
-I pray thee stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.
-
-Ham.
-I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
-
-King.
-Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:
-Be as ourself in Denmark.--Madam, come;
-This gentle and unforc'd accord of Hamlet
-Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,
-No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day
-But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell;
-And the king's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
-Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.
-
-[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
-Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
-Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
-His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!
-How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable
-Seem to me all the uses of this world!
-Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,
-That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
-Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
-But two months dead!--nay, not so much, not two:
-So excellent a king; that was, to this,
-Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
-That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
-Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
-Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
-As if increase of appetite had grown
-By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,--
-Let me not think on't,--Frailty, thy name is woman!--
-A little month; or ere those shoes were old
-With which she followed my poor father's body
-Like Niobe, all tears;--why she, even she,--
-O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,
-Would have mourn'd longer,--married with mine uncle,
-My father's brother; but no more like my father
-Than I to Hercules: within a month;
-Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
-Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
-She married:-- O, most wicked speed, to post
-With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
-It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
-But break my heart,--for I must hold my tongue!
-
-[Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.]
-
-Hor.
-Hail to your lordship!
-
-Ham.
-I am glad to see you well:
-Horatio,--or I do forget myself.
-
-Hor.
-The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:
-And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio?--
-Marcellus?
-
-Mar.
-My good lord,--
-
-Ham.
-I am very glad to see you.--Good even, sir.--
-But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?
-
-Hor.
-A truant disposition, good my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I would not hear your enemy say so;
-Nor shall you do my ear that violence,
-To make it truster of your own report
-Against yourself: I know you are no truant.
-But what is your affair in Elsinore?
-We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.
-
-Hor.
-My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.
-
-Ham.
-I prithee do not mock me, fellow-student.
-I think it was to see my mother's wedding.
-
-Hor.
-Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.
-
-Ham.
-Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats
-Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
-Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
-Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!--
-My father,--methinks I see my father.
-
-Hor.
-Where, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-In my mind's eye, Horatio.
-
-Hor.
-I saw him once; he was a goodly king.
-
-Ham.
-He was a man, take him for all in all,
-I shall not look upon his like again.
-
-Hor.
-My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.
-
-Ham.
-Saw who?
-
-Hor.
-My lord, the king your father.
-
-Ham.
-The King my father!
-
-Hor.
-Season your admiration for awhile
-With an attent ear, till I may deliver,
-Upon the witness of these gentlemen,
-This marvel to you.
-
-Ham.
-For God's love let me hear.
-
-Hor.
-Two nights together had these gentlemen,
-Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch
-In the dead vast and middle of the night,
-Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,
-Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,
-Appears before them and with solemn march
-Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd
-By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,
-Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distill'd
-Almost to jelly with the act of fear,
-Stand dumb, and speak not to him. This to me
-In dreadful secrecy impart they did;
-And I with them the third night kept the watch:
-Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,
-Form of the thing, each word made true and good,
-The apparition comes: I knew your father;
-These hands are not more like.
-
-Ham.
-But where was this?
-
-Mar.
-My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.
-
-Ham.
-Did you not speak to it?
-
-Hor.
-My lord, I did;
-But answer made it none: yet once methought
-It lifted up it head, and did address
-Itself to motion, like as it would speak:
-But even then the morning cock crew loud,
-And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,
-And vanish'd from our sight.
-
-Ham.
-'Tis very strange.
-
-Hor.
-As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;
-And we did think it writ down in our duty
-To let you know of it.
-
-Ham.
-Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.
-Hold you the watch to-night?
-
-Mar. and Ber.
-We do, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Arm'd, say you?
-
-Both.
-Arm'd, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-From top to toe?
-
-Both.
-My lord, from head to foot.
-
-Ham.
-Then saw you not his face?
-
-Hor.
-O, yes, my lord: he wore his beaver up.
-
-Ham.
-What, look'd he frowningly?
-
-Hor.
-A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.
-
-Ham.
-Pale or red?
-
-Hor.
-Nay, very pale.
-
-Ham.
-And fix'd his eyes upon you?
-
-Hor.
-Most constantly.
-
-Ham.
-I would I had been there.
-
-Hor.
-It would have much amaz'd you.
-
-Ham.
-Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?
-
-Hor.
-While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
-
-Mar. and Ber.
-Longer, longer.
-
-Hor.
-Not when I saw't.
-
-Ham.
-His beard was grizzled,--no?
-
-Hor.
-It was, as I have seen it in his life,
-A sable silver'd.
-
-Ham.
-I will watch to-night;
-Perchance 'twill walk again.
-
-Hor.
-I warr'nt it will.
-
-Ham.
-If it assume my noble father's person,
-I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape
-And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
-If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,
-Let it be tenable in your silence still;
-And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,
-Give it an understanding, but no tongue:
-I will requite your loves. So, fare ye well:
-Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,
-I'll visit you.
-
-All.
-Our duty to your honour.
-
-Ham.
-Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.
-
-[Exeunt Horatio, Marcellus, and Bernardo.]
-
-My father's spirit in arms! All is not well;
-I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!
-Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,
-Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-Scene III. A room in Polonius's house.
-
-[Enter Laertes and Ophelia.]
-
-Laer.
-My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:
-And, sister, as the winds give benefit
-And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,
-But let me hear from you.
-
-Oph.
-Do you doubt that?
-
-Laer.
-For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
-Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood:
-A violet in the youth of primy nature,
-Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting;
-The perfume and suppliance of a minute;
-No more.
-
-Oph.
-No more but so?
-
-Laer.
-Think it no more:
-For nature, crescent, does not grow alone
-In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes,
-The inward service of the mind and soul
-Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now;
-And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch
-The virtue of his will: but you must fear,
-His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;
-For he himself is subject to his birth:
-He may not, as unvalu'd persons do,
-Carve for himself; for on his choice depends
-The safety and health of this whole state;
-And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd
-Unto the voice and yielding of that body
-Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,
-It fits your wisdom so far to believe it
-As he in his particular act and place
-May give his saying deed; which is no further
-Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.
-Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain
-If with too credent ear you list his songs,
-Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open
-To his unmaster'd importunity.
-Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister;
-And keep you in the rear of your affection,
-Out of the shot and danger of desire.
-The chariest maid is prodigal enough
-If she unmask her beauty to the moon:
-Virtue itself scopes not calumnious strokes:
-The canker galls the infants of the spring
-Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd:
-And in the morn and liquid dew of youth
-Contagious blastments are most imminent.
-Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:
-Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.
-
-Oph.
-I shall th' effect of this good lesson keep
-As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,
-Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
-Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
-Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
-Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
-And recks not his own read.
-
-Laer.
-O, fear me not.
-I stay too long:--but here my father comes.
-
-[Enter Polonius.]
-
-A double blessing is a double grace;
-Occasion smiles upon a second leave.
-
-Pol.
-Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!
-The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,
-And you are stay'd for. There,--my blessing with thee!
-
-[Laying his hand on Laertes's head.]
-
-And these few precepts in thy memory
-Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
-Nor any unproportion'd thought his act.
-Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
-Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
-Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel;
-But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
-Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. Beware
-Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in,
-Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
-Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
-Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
-Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
-But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
-For the apparel oft proclaims the man;
-And they in France of the best rank and station
-Are most select and generous chief in that.
-Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
-For loan oft loses both itself and friend;
-And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
-This above all,--to thine own self be true;
-And it must follow, as the night the day,
-Thou canst not then be false to any man.
-Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
-
-Laer.
-Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-The time invites you; go, your servants tend.
-
-Laer.
-Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well
-What I have said to you.
-
-Oph.
-'Tis in my memory lock'd,
-And you yourself shall keep the key of it.
-
-Laer.
-Farewell.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Pol.
-What is't, Ophelia, he hath said to you?
-
-Oph.
-So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.
-
-Pol.
-Marry, well bethought:
-'Tis told me he hath very oft of late
-Given private time to you; and you yourself
-Have of your audience been most free and bounteous;
-If it be so,--as so 'tis put on me,
-And that in way of caution,--I must tell you
-You do not understand yourself so clearly
-As it behooves my daughter and your honour.
-What is between you? give me up the truth.
-
-Oph.
-He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders
-Of his affection to me.
-
-Pol.
-Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,
-Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
-Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?
-
-Oph.
-I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
-
-Pol.
-Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;
-That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,
-Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;
-Or,--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,
-Wronging it thus,--you'll tender me a fool.
-
-Oph.
-My lord, he hath importun'd me with love
-In honourable fashion.
-
-Pol.
-Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.
-
-Oph.
-And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,
-With almost all the holy vows of heaven.
-
-Pol.
-Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,
-When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
-Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,
-Giving more light than heat,--extinct in both,
-Even in their promise, as it is a-making,--
-You must not take for fire. From this time
-Be something scanter of your maiden presence;
-Set your entreatments at a higher rate
-Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,
-Believe so much in him, that he is young;
-And with a larger tether may he walk
-Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,
-Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,--
-Not of that dye which their investments show,
-But mere implorators of unholy suits,
-Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,
-The better to beguile. This is for all,--
-I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth
-Have you so slander any moment leisure
-As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.
-Look to't, I charge you; come your ways.
-
-Oph.
-I shall obey, my lord.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene IV. The platform.
-
-[Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus.]
-
-Ham.
-The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.
-
-Hor.
-It is a nipping and an eager air.
-
-Ham.
-What hour now?
-
-Hor.
-I think it lacks of twelve.
-
-Mar.
-No, it is struck.
-
-Hor.
-Indeed? I heard it not: then draws near the season
-Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.
-
-[A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off within.]
-
-What does this mean, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-The King doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,
-Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;
-And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
-The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out
-The triumph of his pledge.
-
-Hor.
-Is it a custom?
-
-Ham.
-Ay, marry, is't;
-But to my mind,--though I am native here,
-And to the manner born,--it is a custom
-More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
-This heavy-headed revel east and west
-Makes us traduc'd and tax'd of other nations:
-They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase
-Soil our addition; and, indeed, it takes
-From our achievements, though perform'd at height,
-The pith and marrow of our attribute.
-So oft it chances in particular men
-That, for some vicious mole of nature in them,
-As in their birth,--wherein they are not guilty,
-Since nature cannot choose his origin,--
-By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,
-Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason;
-Or by some habit, that too much o'er-leavens
-The form of plausive manners;--that these men,--
-Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,
-Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--
-Their virtues else,--be they as pure as grace,
-As infinite as man may undergo,--
-Shall in the general censure take corruption
-From that particular fault: the dram of eale
-Doth all the noble substance often doubt
-To his own scandal.
-
-Hor.
-Look, my lord, it comes!
-
-[Enter Ghost.]
-
-Ham.
-Angels and ministers of grace defend us!--
-Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
-Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
-Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
-Thou com'st in such a questionable shape
-That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
-King, father, royal Dane; O, answer me!
-Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
-Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death,
-Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
-Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd,
-Hath op'd his ponderous and marble jaws
-To cast thee up again! What may this mean,
-That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
-Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
-Making night hideous, and we fools of nature
-So horridly to shake our disposition
-With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
-Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?
-
-[Ghost beckons Hamlet.]
-
-Hor.
-It beckons you to go away with it,
-As if it some impartment did desire
-To you alone.
-
-Mar.
-Look with what courteous action
-It waves you to a more removed ground:
-But do not go with it!
-
-Hor.
-No, by no means.
-
-Ham.
-It will not speak; then will I follow it.
-
-Hor.
-Do not, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Why, what should be the fear?
-I do not set my life at a pin's fee;
-And for my soul, what can it do to that,
-Being a thing immortal as itself?
-It waves me forth again;--I'll follow it.
-
-Hor.
-What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,
-Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff
-That beetles o'er his base into the sea,
-And there assume some other horrible form
-Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason,
-And draw you into madness? think of it:
-The very place puts toys of desperation,
-Without more motive, into every brain
-That looks so many fadoms to the sea
-And hears it roar beneath.
-
-Ham.
-It waves me still.--
-Go on; I'll follow thee.
-
-Mar.
-You shall not go, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Hold off your hands.
-
-Hor.
-Be rul'd; you shall not go.
-
-Ham.
-My fate cries out,
-And makes each petty artery in this body
-As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.--
-
-[Ghost beckons.]
-
-Still am I call'd;--unhand me, gentlemen;--
-
-[Breaking free from them.]
-
-By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!--
-I say, away!--Go on; I'll follow thee.
-
-[Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet.]
-
-Hor.
-He waxes desperate with imagination.
-
-Mar.
-Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.
-
-Hor.
-Have after.--To what issue will this come?
-
-Mar.
-Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
-
-Hor.
-Heaven will direct it.
-
-Mar.
-Nay, let's follow him.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene V. A more remote part of the Castle.
-
-[Enter Ghost and Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-Whither wilt thou lead me? speak! I'll go no further.
-
-Ghost.
-Mark me.
-
-Ham.
-I will.
-
-Ghost.
-My hour is almost come,
-When I to sulph'uous and tormenting flames
-Must render up myself.
-
-Ham.
-Alas, poor ghost!
-
-Ghost.
-Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing
-To what I shall unfold.
-
-Ham.
-Speak;I am bound to hear.
-
-Ghost.
-So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.
-
-Ham.
-What?
-
-Ghost.
-I am thy father's spirit;
-Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,
-And for the day confin'd to wastein fires,
-Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
-Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am forbid
-To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
-I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
-Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood;
-Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres;
-Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
-And each particular hair to stand on end
-Like quills upon the fretful porcupine:
-But this eternal blazon must not be
-To ears of flesh and blood.--List, list, O, list!--
-If thou didst ever thy dear father love--
-
-Ham.
-O God!
-
-Ghost.
-Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
-
-Ham.
-Murder!
-
-Ghost.
-Murder most foul, as in the best it is;
-But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.
-
-Ham.
-Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift
-As meditation or the thoughts of love,
-May sweep to my revenge.
-
-Ghost.
-I find thee apt;
-And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed
-That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,
-Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear.
-'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,
-A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark
-Is by a forged process of my death
-Rankly abus'd; but know, thou noble youth,
-The serpent that did sting thy father's life
-Now wears his crown.
-
-Ham.
-O my prophetic soul!
-Mine uncle!
-
-Ghost.
-Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
-With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--
-O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
-So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust
-The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:
-O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!
-From me, whose love was of that dignity
-That it went hand in hand even with the vow
-I made to her in marriage; and to decline
-Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
-To those of mine!
-But virtue, as it never will be mov'd,
-Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven;
-So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,
-Will sate itself in a celestial bed
-And prey on garbage.
-But soft! methinks I scent the morning air;
-Brief let me be.--Sleeping within my orchard,
-My custom always of the afternoon,
-Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,
-With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,
-And in the porches of my ears did pour
-The leperous distilment; whose effect
-Holds such an enmity with blood of man
-That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through
-The natural gates and alleys of the body;
-And with a sudden vigour it doth posset
-And curd, like eager droppings into milk,
-The thin and wholesome blood; so did it mine;
-And a most instant tetter bark'd about,
-Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust
-All my smooth body.
-Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand,
-Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:
-Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,
-Unhous'led, disappointed, unanel'd;
-No reckoning made, but sent to my account
-With all my imperfections on my head:
-O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!
-If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;
-Let not the royal bed of Denmark be
-A couch for luxury and damned incest.
-But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act,
-Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive
-Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven,
-And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
-To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!
-The glowworm shows the matin to be near,
-And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:
-Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Ham.
-O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?
-And shall I couple hell? O, fie!--Hold, my heart;
-And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
-But bear me stiffly up.--Remember thee!
-Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
-In this distracted globe. Remember thee!
-Yea, from the table of my memory
-I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
-All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
-That youth and observation copied there;
-And thy commandment all alone shall live
-Within the book and volume of my brain,
-Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!--
-O most pernicious woman!
-O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
-My tables,--meet it is I set it down,
-That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;
-At least, I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:
-
-[Writing.]
-
-So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;
-It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me:'
-I have sworn't.
-
-Hor.
-[Within.] My lord, my lord,--
-
-Mar.
-[Within.] Lord Hamlet,--
-
-Hor.
-[Within.] Heaven secure him!
-
-Ham.
-So be it!
-
-Mar.
-[Within.] Illo, ho, ho, my lord!
-
-Ham.
-Hillo, ho, ho, boy! Come, bird, come.
-
-[Enter Horatio and Marcellus.]
-
-Mar.
-How is't, my noble lord?
-
-Hor.
-What news, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-O, wonderful!
-
-Hor.
-Good my lord, tell it.
-
-Ham.
-No; you'll reveal it.
-
-Hor.
-Not I, my lord, by heaven.
-
-Mar.
-Nor I, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-How say you then; would heart of man once think it?--
-But you'll be secret?
-
-Hor. and Mar.
-Ay, by heaven, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
-But he's an arrant knave.
-
-Hor.
-There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
-To tell us this.
-
-Ham.
-Why, right; you are i' the right;
-And so, without more circumstance at all,
-I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:
-You, as your business and desires shall point you,--
-For every man hath business and desire,
-Such as it is;--and for my own poor part,
-Look you, I'll go pray.
-
-Hor.
-These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;
-Yes, faith, heartily.
-
-Hor.
-There's no offence, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,
-And much offence too. Touching this vision here,--
-It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:
-For your desire to know what is between us,
-O'ermaster't as you may. And now, good friends,
-As you are friends, scholars, and soldiers,
-Give me one poor request.
-
-Hor.
-What is't, my lord? we will.
-
-Ham.
-Never make known what you have seen to-night.
-
-Hor. and Mar.
-My lord, we will not.
-
-Ham.
-Nay, but swear't.
-
-Hor.
-In faith,
-My lord, not I.
-
-Mar.
-Nor I, my lord, in faith.
-
-Ham.
-Upon my sword.
-
-Mar.
-We have sworn, my lord, already.
-
-Ham.
-Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.
-
-Ghost.
-[Beneath.] Swear.
-
-Ham.
-Ha, ha boy! say'st thou so? art thou there, truepenny?--
-Come on!--you hear this fellow in the cellarage,--
-Consent to swear.
-
-Hor.
-Propose the oath, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Never to speak of this that you have seen,
-Swear by my sword.
-
-Ghost.
-[Beneath.] Swear.
-
-Ham.
-Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.--
-Come hither, gentlemen,
-And lay your hands again upon my sword:
-Never to speak of this that you have heard,
-Swear by my sword.
-
-Ghost.
-[Beneath.] Swear.
-
-Ham.
-Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?
-A worthy pioner!--Once more remove, good friends.
-
-Hor.
-O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
-
-Ham.
-And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
-There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
-Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-But come;--
-Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,
-How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,--
-As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet
-To put an antic disposition on,--
-That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,
-With arms encumber'd thus, or this head-shake,
-Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,
-As 'Well, well, we know'; or 'We could, an if we would';--
-Or 'If we list to speak'; or 'There be, an if they might';--
-Or such ambiguous giving out, to note
-That you know aught of me:--this is not to do,
-So grace and mercy at your most need help you,
-Swear.
-
-Ghost.
-[Beneath.] Swear.
-
-Ham.
-Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!--So, gentlemen,
-With all my love I do commend me to you:
-And what so poor a man as Hamlet is
-May do, to express his love and friending to you,
-God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;
-And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.
-The time is out of joint:--O cursed spite,
-That ever I was born to set it right!--
-Nay, come, let's go together.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Act II.
-
-Scene I. A room in Polonius's house.
-
-[Enter Polonius and Reynaldo.]
-
-Pol.
-Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.
-
-Rey.
-I will, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,
-Before You visit him, to make inquiry
-Of his behaviour.
-
-Rey.
-My lord, I did intend it.
-
-Pol.
-Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,
-Enquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;
-And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,
-What company, at what expense; and finding,
-By this encompassment and drift of question,
-That they do know my son, come you more nearer
-Than your particular demands will touch it:
-Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him;
-As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,
-And in part hi;m;--do you mark this, Reynaldo?
-
-Rey.
-Ay, very well, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-'And in part him;--but,' you may say, 'not well:
-But if't be he I mean, he's very wild;
-Addicted so and so;' and there put on him
-What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank
-As may dishonour him; take heed of that;
-But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips
-As are companions noted and most known
-To youth and liberty.
-
-Rey.
-As gaming, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,
-Drabbing:--you may go so far.
-
-Rey.
-My lord, that would dishonour him.
-
-Pol.
-Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge.
-You must not put another scandal on him,
-That he is open to incontinency;
-That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly
-That they may seem the taints of liberty;
-The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind;
-A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
-Of general assault.
-
-Rey.
-But, my good lord,--
-
-Pol.
-Wherefore should you do this?
-
-Rey.
-Ay, my lord,
-I would know that.
-
-Pol.
-Marry, sir, here's my drift;
-And I believe it is a fetch of warrant:
-You laying these slight sullies on my son
-As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working,
-Mark you,
-Your party in converse, him you would sound,
-Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes
-The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd
-He closes with you in this consequence;
-'Good sir,' or so; or 'friend,' or 'gentleman'--
-According to the phrase or the addition
-Of man and country.
-
-Rey.
-Very good, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-And then, sir, does he this,--he does--What was I about to say?--
-By the mass, I was about to say something:--Where did I leave?
-
-Rey.
-At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,' and
-gentleman.'
-
-Pol.
-At--closes in the consequence'--ay, marry!
-He closes with you thus:--'I know the gentleman;
-I saw him yesterday, or t'other day,
-Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say,
-There was he gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;
-There falling out at tennis': or perchance,
-'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'--
-Videlicet, a brothel,--or so forth.--
-See you now;
-Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:
-And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
-With windlaces, and with assays of bias,
-By indirections find directions out:
-So, by my former lecture and advice,
-Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?
-
-Rey.
-My lord, I have.
-
-Pol.
-God b' wi' you, fare you well.
-
-Rey.
-Good my lord!
-
-Pol.
-Observe his inclination in yourself.
-
-Rey.
-I shall, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-And let him ply his music.
-
-Rey.
-Well, my lord.
-
-Pol.
-Farewell!
-
-[Exit Reynaldo.]
-
-[Enter Ophelia.]
-
-How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?
-
-Oph.
-Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted!
-
-Pol.
-With what, i' the name of God?
-
-Oph.
-My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber,
-Lord Hamlet,--with his doublet all unbrac'd;
-No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,
-Ungart'red, and down-gyved to his ankle;
-Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;
-And with a look so piteous in purport
-As if he had been loosed out of hell
-To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.
-
-Pol.
-Mad for thy love?
-
-Oph.
-My lord, I do not know;
-But truly I do fear it.
-
-Pol.
-What said he?
-
-Oph.
-He took me by the wrist, and held me hard;
-Then goes he to the length of all his arm;
-And with his other hand thus o'er his brow,
-He falls to such perusal of my face
-As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;
-At last,--a little shaking of mine arm,
-And thrice his head thus waving up and down,--
-He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound
-As it did seem to shatter all his bulk
-And end his being: that done, he lets me go:
-And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd
-He seem'd to find his way without his eyes;
-For out o' doors he went without their help,
-And to the last bended their light on me.
-
-Pol.
-Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.
-This is the very ecstasy of love;
-Whose violent property fordoes itself,
-And leads the will to desperate undertakings,
-As oft as any passion under heaven
-That does afflict our natures. I am sorry,--
-What, have you given him any hard words of late?
-
-Oph.
-No, my good lord; but, as you did command,
-I did repel his letters and denied
-His access to me.
-
-Pol.
-That hath made him mad.
-I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
-I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,
-And meant to wreck thee; but beshrew my jealousy!
-It seems it as proper to our age
-To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions
-As it is common for the younger sort
-To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:
-This must be known; which, being kept close, might move
-More grief to hide than hate to utter love.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene II. A room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Attendants.]
-
-King.
-Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!
-Moreover that we much did long to see you,
-The need we have to use you did provoke
-Our hasty sending. Something have you heard
-Of Hamlet's transformation; so I call it,
-Since nor the exterior nor the inward man
-Resembles that it was. What it should be,
-More than his father's death, that thus hath put him
-So much from the understanding of himself,
-I cannot dream of: I entreat you both
-That, being of so young days brought up with him,
-And since so neighbour'd to his youth and humour,
-That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court
-Some little time: so by your companies
-To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,
-So much as from occasion you may glean,
-Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,
-That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
-
-Queen.
-Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you,
-And sure I am two men there are not living
-To whom he more adheres. If it will please you
-To show us so much gentry and good-will
-As to expend your time with us awhile,
-For the supply and profit of our hope,
-Your visitation shall receive such thanks
-As fits a king's remembrance.
-
-Ros.
-Both your majesties
-Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,
-Put your dread pleasures more into command
-Than to entreaty.
-
-Guil.
-We both obey,
-And here give up ourselves, in the full bent,
-To lay our service freely at your feet,
-To be commanded.
-
-King.
-Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.
-
-Queen.
-Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:
-And I beseech you instantly to visit
-My too-much-changed son.--Go, some of you,
-And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.
-
-Guil.
-Heavens make our presence and our practices
-Pleasant and helpful to him!
-
-Queen.
-Ay, amen!
-
-[Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and some Attendants].
-
-[Enter Polonius.]
-
-Pol.
-Th' ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,
-Are joyfully return'd.
-
-King.
-Thou still hast been the father of good news.
-
-Pol.
-Have I, my lord? Assure you, my good liege,
-I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,
-Both to my God and to my gracious king:
-And I do think,--or else this brain of mine
-Hunts not the trail of policy so sure
-As it hath us'd to do,--that I have found
-The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.
-
-King.
-O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.
-
-Pol.
-Give first admittance to the ambassadors;
-My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.
-
-King.
-Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.
-
-[Exit Polonius.]
-
-He tells me, my sweet queen, he hath found
-The head and source of all your son's distemper.
-
-Queen.
-I doubt it is no other but the main,--
-His father's death and our o'erhasty marriage.
-
-King.
-Well, we shall sift him.
-
-[Enter Polonius, with Voltimand and Cornelius.]
-
-Welcome, my good friends!
-Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?
-
-Volt.
-Most fair return of greetings and desires.
-Upon our first, he sent out to suppress
-His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd
-To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;
-But, better look'd into, he truly found
-It was against your highness; whereat griev'd,--
-That so his sickness, age, and impotence
-Was falsely borne in hand,--sends out arrests
-On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;
-Receives rebuke from Norway; and, in fine,
-Makes vow before his uncle never more
-To give th' assay of arms against your majesty.
-Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,
-Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee;
-And his commission to employ those soldiers,
-So levied as before, against the Polack:
-With an entreaty, herein further shown,
-[Gives a paper.]
-That it might please you to give quiet pass
-Through your dominions for this enterprise,
-On such regards of safety and allowance
-As therein are set down.
-
-King.
-It likes us well;
-And at our more consider'd time we'll read,
-Answer, and think upon this business.
-Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:
-Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:
-Most welcome home!
-
-[Exeunt Voltimand and Cornelius.]
-
-Pol.
-This business is well ended.--
-My liege, and madam,--to expostulate
-What majesty should be, what duty is,
-Why day is day, night is night, and time is time.
-Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time.
-Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
-And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
-I will be brief:--your noble son is mad:
-Mad call I it; for to define true madness,
-What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
-But let that go.
-
-Queen.
-More matter, with less art.
-
-Pol.
-Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
-That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;
-And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;
-But farewell it, for I will use no art.
-Mad let us grant him then: and now remains
-That we find out the cause of this effect;
-Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
-For this effect defective comes by cause:
-Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
-Perpend.
-I have a daughter,--have whilst she is mine,--
-Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,
-Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.
-[Reads.]
-'To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified
-Ophelia,'--
-That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is a vile
-phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:
-[Reads.]
-'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.'
-
-Queen.
-Came this from Hamlet to her?
-
-Pol.
-Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.
-[Reads.]
- 'Doubt thou the stars are fire;
- Doubt that the sun doth move;
- Doubt truth to be a liar;
- But never doubt I love.
-'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to
-reckon my groans: but that I love thee best, O most best, believe
-it. Adieu.
- 'Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is to him,
- HAMLET.'
-This, in obedience, hath my daughter show'd me;
-And more above, hath his solicitings,
-As they fell out by time, by means, and place,
-All given to mine ear.
-
-King.
-But how hath she
-Receiv'd his love?
-
-Pol.
-What do you think of me?
-
-King.
-As of a man faithful and honourable.
-
-Pol.
-I would fain prove so. But what might you think,
-When I had seen this hot love on the wing,--
-As I perceiv'd it, I must tell you that,
-Before my daughter told me,-- what might you,
-Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,
-If I had play'd the desk or table-book,
-Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb;
-Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;--
-What might you think? No, I went round to work,
-And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:
-'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy sphere;
-This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,
-That she should lock herself from his resort,
-Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.
-Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;
-And he, repulsed,--a short tale to make,--
-Fell into a sadness; then into a fast;
-Thence to a watch; thence into a weakness;
-Thence to a lightness; and, by this declension,
-Into the madness wherein now he raves,
-And all we wail for.
-
-King.
-Do you think 'tis this?
-
-Queen.
-It may be, very likely.
-
-Pol.
-Hath there been such a time,--I'd fain know that--
-That I have positively said ''Tis so,'
-When it prov'd otherwise?
-
-King.
-Not that I know.
-
-Pol.
-Take this from this, if this be otherwise:
-[Points to his head and shoulder.]
-If circumstances lead me, I will find
-Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed
-Within the centre.
-
-King.
-How may we try it further?
-
-Pol.
-You know sometimes he walks for hours together
-Here in the lobby.
-
-Queen.
-So he does indeed.
-
-Pol.
-At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:
-Be you and I behind an arras then;
-Mark the encounter: if he love her not,
-And he not from his reason fall'n thereon
-Let me be no assistant for a state,
-But keep a farm and carters.
-
-King.
-We will try it.
-
-Queen.
-But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.
-
-Pol.
-Away, I do beseech you, both away
-I'll board him presently:--O, give me leave.
-
-[Exeunt King, Queen, and Attendants.]
-
-[Enter Hamlet, reading.]
-
-How does my good Lord Hamlet?
-
-Ham.
-Well, God-a-mercy.
-
-Pol.
-Do you know me, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Excellent well; you're a fishmonger.
-
-Pol.
-Not I, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Then I would you were so honest a man.
-
-Pol.
-Honest, my lord!
-
-Ham.
-Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man
-picked out of ten thousand.
-
-Pol.
-That's very true, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god-kissing
-carrion,--Have you a daughter?
-
-Pol.
-I have, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a blessing, but not
-as your daughter may conceive:--friend, look to't.
-
-Pol.
-How say you by that?--[Aside.] Still harping on my daughter:--yet
-he knew me not at first; he said I was a fishmonger: he is far
-gone, far gone: and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity
-for love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.--What do you
-read, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Words, words, words.
-
-Pol.
-What is the matter, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Between who?
-
-Pol.
-I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Slanders, sir: for the satirical slave says here that old men
-have grey beards; that their faces are wrinkled; their eyes
-purging thick amber and plum-tree gum; and that they have a
-plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which,
-sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it
-not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir,
-should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.
-
-Pol.
-[Aside.] Though this be madness, yet there is a method in't.--
-Will you walk out of the air, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Into my grave?
-
-Pol.
-Indeed, that is out o' the air. [Aside.] How pregnant sometimes
-his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which
-reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of. I
-will leave him and suddenly contrive the means of meeting between
-him and my daughter.--My honourable lord, I will most humbly take
-my leave of you.
-
-Ham.
-You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more
-willingly part withal,--except my life, except my life, except my
-life.
-
-Pol.
-Fare you well, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-These tedious old fools!
-
-[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Pol.
-You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.
-
-Ros.
-[To Polonius.] God save you, sir!
-
-[Exit Polonius.]
-
-Guil.
-My honoured lord!
-
-Ros.
-My most dear lord!
-
-Ham.
-My excellent good friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah,
-Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?
-
-Ros.
-As the indifferent children of the earth.
-
-Guil.
-Happy in that we are not over-happy;
-On fortune's cap we are not the very button.
-
-Ham.
-Nor the soles of her shoe?
-
-Ros.
-Neither, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her
-favours?
-
-Guil.
-Faith, her privates we.
-
-Ham.
-In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she is a
-strumpet. What's the news?
-
-Ros.
-None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.
-
-Ham.
-Then is doomsday near; but your news is not true. Let me
-question more in particular: what have you, my good friends,
-deserved at the hands of fortune, that she sends you to prison
-hither?
-
-Guil.
-Prison, my lord!
-
-Ham.
-Denmark's a prison.
-
-Ros.
-Then is the world one.
-
-Ham.
-A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and
-dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
-
-Ros.
-We think not so, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good
-or bad but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.
-
-Ros.
-Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your
-mind.
-
-Ham.
-O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a
-king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
-
-Guil.
-Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of
-the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
-
-Ham.
-A dream itself is but a shadow.
-
-Ros.
-Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that
-it is but a shadow's shadow.
-
-Ham.
-Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch'd
-heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to the court? for, by my
-fay, I cannot reason.
-
-Ros. and Guild.
-We'll wait upon you.
-
-Ham.
-No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest of my
-servants; for, to speak to you like an honest man, I am most
-dreadfully attended. But, in the beaten way of friendship, what
-make you at Elsinore?
-
-Ros.
-To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.
-
-Ham.
-Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you:
-and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were
-you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free
-visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.
-
-Guil.
-What should we say, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Why, anything--but to the purpose. You were sent for; and
-there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties
-have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen
-have sent for you.
-
-Ros.
-To what end, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights
-of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the
-obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a
-better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with
-me, whether you were sent for or no.
-
-Ros.
-[To Guildenstern.] What say you?
-
-Ham.
-[Aside.] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you love me, hold
-not off.
-
-Guil.
-My lord, we were sent for.
-
-Ham.
-I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your
-discovery, and your secrecy to the king and queen moult no
-feather. I have of late,--but wherefore I know not,--lost all my
-mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so
-heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth,
-seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the
-air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical
-roof fretted with golden fire,--why, it appears no other thing
-to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a
-piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in
-faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in
-action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the
-beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what
-is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman
-neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
-
-Ros.
-My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.
-
-Ham.
-Why did you laugh then, when I said 'Man delights not me'?
-
-Ros.
-To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what lenten
-entertainment the players shall receive from you: we coted them
-on the way; and hither are they coming to offer you service.
-
-Ham.
-He that plays the king shall be welcome,--his majesty shall
-have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and
-target; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall
-end his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose
-lungs are tickle o' the sere; and the lady shall say her mind
-freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players are
-they?
-
-Ros.
-Even those you were wont to take such delight in,--the
-tragedians of the city.
-
-Ham.
-How chances it they travel? their residence, both in
-reputation and profit, was better both ways.
-
-Ros.
-I think their inhibition comes by the means of the late
-innovation.
-
-Ham.
-Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was in the
-city? Are they so followed?
-
-Ros.
-No, indeed, are they not.
-
-Ham.
-How comes it? do they grow rusty?
-
-Ros.
-Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but there is,
-sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top
-of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for't: these are
-now the fashion; and so berattle the common stages,--so they call
-them,--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and
-dare scarce come thither.
-
-Ham.
-What, are they children? who maintains 'em? How are they
-escoted? Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can
-sing? will they not say afterwards, if they should grow
-themselves to common players,--as it is most like, if their means
-are no better,--their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim
-against their own succession?
-
-Ros.
-Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and the nation
-holds it no sin to tarre them to controversy: there was, for
-awhile, no money bid for argument unless the poet and the player
-went to cuffs in the question.
-
-Ham.
-Is't possible?
-
-Guil.
-O, there has been much throwing about of brains.
-
-Ham.
-Do the boys carry it away?
-
-Ros.
-Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.
-
-Ham.
-It is not very strange; for my uncle is king of Denmark, and
-those that would make mouths at him while my father lived, give
-twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in
-little. 'Sblood, there is something in this more than natural, if
-philosophy could find it out.
-
-[Flourish of trumpets within.]
-
-Guil.
-There are the players.
-
-Ham.
-Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands, come: the
-appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony: let me comply
-with you in this garb; lest my extent to the players, which I
-tell you must show fairly outward, should more appear like
-entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my uncle-father
-and aunt-mother are deceived.
-
-Guil.
-In what, my dear lord?
-
-Ham.
-I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I
-know a hawk from a handsaw.
-
-[Enter Polonius.]
-
-Pol.
-Well be with you, gentlemen!
-
-Ham.
-Hark you, Guildenstern;--and you too;--at each ear a hearer: that
-great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling clouts.
-
-Ros.
-Happily he's the second time come to them; for they say an old
-man is twice a child.
-
-Ham.
-I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players; mark it.--You
-say right, sir: o' Monday morning; 'twas so indeed.
-
-Pol.
-My lord, I have news to tell you.
-
-Ham.
-My lord, I have news to tell you. When Roscius was an actor in
-Rome,--
-
-Pol.
-The actors are come hither, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Buzz, buzz!
-
-Pol.
-Upon my honour,--
-
-Ham.
-Then came each actor on his ass,--
-
-Pol.
-The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy,
-history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral,
-tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene
-individable, or poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy nor
-Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are
-the only men.
-
-Ham.
-O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!
-
-Pol.
-What treasure had he, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Why--
- 'One fair daughter, and no more,
- The which he loved passing well.'
-
-
-Pol.
-[Aside.] Still on my daughter.
-
-Ham.
-Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?
-
-Pol.
-If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I
-love passing well.
-
-Ham.
-Nay, that follows not.
-
-Pol.
-What follows, then, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Why--
- 'As by lot, God wot,'
-and then, you know,
- 'It came to pass, as most like it was--'
-The first row of the pious chanson will show you more; for look
-where my abridgment comes.
-
-[Enter four or five Players.]
-
-You are welcome, masters; welcome, all:--I am glad to see thee
-well.--welcome, good friends.--O, my old friend! Thy face is
-valanc'd since I saw thee last; comest thou to beard me in
-Denmark?--What, my young lady and mistress! By'r lady, your
-ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the
-altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like a piece of
-uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the ring.--Masters, you are
-all welcome. We'll e'en to't like French falconers, fly at
-anything we see: we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a
-taste of your quality: come, a passionate speech.
-
-I Play.
-What speech, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-I heard thee speak me a speech once,--but it was never acted;
-or if it was, not above once; for the play, I remember, pleased
-not the million, 'twas caviare to the general; but it was,--as I
-received it, and others, whose judgments in such matters cried in
-the top of mine,--an excellent play, well digested in the scenes,
-set down with as much modesty as cunning. I remember, one said
-there were no sallets in the lines to make the matter savoury,
-nor no matter in the phrase that might indite the author of
-affectation; but called it an honest method, as wholesome as
-sweet, and by very much more handsome than fine. One speech in it
-I chiefly loved: 'twas AEneas' tale to Dido, and thereabout of it
-especially where he speaks of Priam's slaughter: if it live in
-your memory, begin at this line;--let me see, let me see:--
-
-The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast,--
-
-it is not so:-- it begins with Pyrrhus:--
-
- 'The rugged Pyrrhus,--he whose sable arms,
- Black as his purpose,did the night resemble
- When he lay couched in the ominous horse,--
- Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd
- With heraldry more dismal; head to foot
- Now is be total gules; horridly trick'd
- With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
- Bak'd and impasted with the parching streets,
- That lend a tyrannous and a damned light
- To their vile murders: roasted in wrath and fire,
- And thus o'ersized with coagulate gore,
- With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus
- Old grandsire Priam seeks.'
-
-So, proceed you.
-
-Pol.
-'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and good
-discretion.
-
-I Play.
- Anon he finds him,
- Striking too short at Greeks: his antique sword,
- Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,
- Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,
- Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide;
- But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword
- The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,
- Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top
- Stoops to his base; and with a hideous crash
- Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for lo! his sword,
- Which was declining on the milky head
- Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:
- So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood;
- And, like a neutral to his will and matter,
- Did nothing.
- But as we often see, against some storm,
- A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
- The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
- As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder
- Doth rend the region; so, after Pyrrhus' pause,
- A roused vengeance sets him new a-work;
- And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall
- On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne,
- With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword
- Now falls on Priam.--
- Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,
- In general synod, take away her power;
- Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,
- And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,
- As low as to the fiends!
-
-Pol.
-This is too long.
-
-Ham.
-It shall to the barber's, with your beard.--Pr'ythee say on.--
-He's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps:--say on; come
-to Hecuba.
-
-I Play.
- But who, O who, had seen the mobled queen,--
-
-Ham.
-'The mobled queen'?
-
-Pol.
-That's good! 'Mobled queen' is good.
-
-I Play.
- Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames
- With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head
- Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,
- About her lank and all o'erteemed loins,
- A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;--
- Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,
- 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounc'd:
- But if the gods themselves did see her then,
- When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport
- In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,
- The instant burst of clamour that she made,--
- Unless things mortal move them not at all,--
- Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,
- And passion in the gods.
-
-Pol.
-Look, whether he has not turn'd his colour, and has tears in's
-eyes.--Pray you, no more!
-
-Ham.
-'Tis well. I'll have thee speak out the rest of this soon.--
-Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed? Do you
-hear? Let them be well used; for they are the abstracts and brief
-chronicles of the time; after your death you were better have a
-bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
-
-Pol.
-My lord, I will use them according to their desert.
-
-Ham.
-Odd's bodikin, man, better: use every man after his
-desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own
-honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in
-your bounty. Take them in.
-
-Pol.
-Come, sirs.
-
-Ham.
-Follow him, friends. we'll hear a play to-morrow.
-
-[Exeunt Polonius with all the Players but the First.]
-
-Dost thou hear me, old friend? Can you play 'The Murder of
-Gonzago'?
-
-I Play.
-Ay, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a
-speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and
-insert in't? could you not?
-
-I Play.
-Ay, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Very well.--Follow that lord; and look you mock him not.
-
-[Exit First Player.]
-
---My good friends [to Ros. and Guild.], I'll leave you till
-night: you are welcome to Elsinore.
-
-Ros.
-Good my lord!
-
-[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Ham.
-Ay, so, God b' wi' ye!
-Now I am alone.
-O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
-Is it not monstrous that this player here,
-But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
-Could force his soul so to his own conceit
-That from her working all his visage wan'd;
-Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,
-A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
-With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing!
-For Hecuba?
-What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
-That he should weep for her? What would he do,
-Had he the motive and the cue for passion
-That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
-And cleave the general ear with horrid speech;
-Make mad the guilty, and appal the free;
-Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed,
-The very faculties of eyes and ears.
-Yet I,
-A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
-Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
-And can say nothing; no, not for a king
-Upon whose property and most dear life
-A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?
-Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?
-Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face?
-Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat
-As deep as to the lungs? who does me this, ha?
-'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be
-But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall
-To make oppression bitter; or ere this
-I should have fatted all the region kites
-With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!
-Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!
-O, vengeance!
-Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,
-That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,
-Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,
-Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words
-And fall a-cursing like a very drab,
-A scullion!
-Fie upon't! foh!--About, my brain! I have heard
-That guilty creatures, sitting at a play,
-Have by the very cunning of the scene
-Been struck so to the soul that presently
-They have proclaim'd their malefactions;
-For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak
-With most miraculous organ, I'll have these players
-Play something like the murder of my father
-Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;
-I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,
-I know my course. The spirit that I have seen
-May be the devil: and the devil hath power
-To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps
-Out of my weakness and my melancholy,--
-As he is very potent with such spirits,--
-Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds
-More relative than this.--the play's the thing
-Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-
-ACT III.
-
-Scene I. A room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and
-Guildenstern.]
-
-King.
-And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
-Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
-Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
-With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
-
-Ros.
-He does confess he feels himself distracted,
-But from what cause he will by no means speak.
-
-Guil.
-Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
-But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof
-When we would bring him on to some confession
-Of his true state.
-
-Queen.
-Did he receive you well?
-
-Ros.
-Most like a gentleman.
-
-Guil.
-But with much forcing of his disposition.
-
-Ros.
-Niggard of question; but, of our demands,
-Most free in his reply.
-
-Queen.
-Did you assay him
-To any pastime?
-
-Ros.
-Madam, it so fell out that certain players
-We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him,
-And there did seem in him a kind of joy
-To hear of it: they are about the court,
-And, as I think, they have already order
-This night to play before him.
-
-Pol.
-'Tis most true;
-And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties
-To hear and see the matter.
-
-King.
-With all my heart; and it doth much content me
-To hear him so inclin'd.--
-Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,
-And drive his purpose on to these delights.
-
-Ros.
-We shall, my lord.
-
-[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-King.
-Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;
-For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,
-That he, as 'twere by accident, may here
-Affront Ophelia:
-Her father and myself,--lawful espials,--
-Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,
-We may of their encounter frankly judge;
-And gather by him, as he is behav'd,
-If't be the affliction of his love or no
-That thus he suffers for.
-
-Queen.
-I shall obey you:--
-And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish
-That your good beauties be the happy cause
-Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues
-Will bring him to his wonted way again,
-To both your honours.
-
-Oph.
-Madam, I wish it may.
-
-[Exit Queen.]
-
-Pol.
-Ophelia, walk you here.--Gracious, so please you,
-We will bestow ourselves.--[To Ophelia.] Read on this book;
-That show of such an exercise may colour
-Your loneliness.--We are oft to blame in this,--
-'Tis too much prov'd,--that with devotion's visage
-And pious action we do sugar o'er
-The Devil himself.
-
-King.
-[Aside.] O, 'tis too true!
-How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!
-The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,
-Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it
-Than is my deed to my most painted word:
-O heavy burden!
-
-Pol.
-I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.
-
-[Exeunt King and Polonius.]
-
-[Enter Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--
-Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
-The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
-Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
-And by opposing end them?--To die,--to sleep,--
-No more; and by a sleep to say we end
-The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
-That flesh is heir to,--'tis a consummation
-Devoutly to be wish'd. To die,--to sleep;--
-To sleep! perchance to dream:--ay, there's the rub;
-For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
-When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
-Must give us pause: there's the respect
-That makes calamity of so long life;
-For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
-The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
-The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay,
-The insolence of office, and the spurns
-That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
-When he himself might his quietus make
-With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,
-To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
-But that the dread of something after death,--
-The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
-No traveller returns,--puzzles the will,
-And makes us rather bear those ills we have
-Than fly to others that we know not of?
-Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
-And thus the native hue of resolution
-Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
-And enterprises of great pith and moment,
-With this regard, their currents turn awry,
-And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!
-The fair Ophelia!--Nymph, in thy orisons
-Be all my sins remember'd.
-
-Oph.
-Good my lord,
-How does your honour for this many a day?
-
-Ham.
-I humbly thank you; well, well, well.
-
-Oph.
-My lord, I have remembrances of yours
-That I have longed long to re-deliver.
-I pray you, now receive them.
-
-Ham.
-No, not I;
-I never gave you aught.
-
-Oph.
-My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;
-And with them words of so sweet breath compos'd
-As made the things more rich; their perfume lost,
-Take these again; for to the noble mind
-Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
-There, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Ha, ha! are you honest?
-
-Oph.
-My lord?
-
-Ham.
-Are you fair?
-
-Oph.
-What means your lordship?
-
-Ham.
-That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no
-discourse to your beauty.
-
-Oph.
-Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
-
-Ham.
-Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform
-honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can
-translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox,
-but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
-
-Oph.
-Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
-
-Ham.
-You should not have believ'd me; for virtue cannot so
-inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you
-not.
-
-Oph.
-I was the more deceived.
-
-Ham.
-Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of
-sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse
-me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me:
-I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my
-beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
-them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I
-do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all;
-believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your
-father?
-
-Oph.
-At home, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool
-nowhere but in's own house. Farewell.
-
-Oph.
-O, help him, you sweet heavens!
-
-Ham.
-If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry,--
-be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
-calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt
-needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what
-monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go; and quickly too.
-Farewell.
-
-Oph.
-O heavenly powers, restore him!
-
-Ham.
-I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God hath
-given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you
-amble, and you lisp, and nickname God's creatures, and make your
-wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made
-me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages: those that are
-married already, all but one, shall live; the rest shall keep as
-they are. To a nunnery, go.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Oph.
-O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
-The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword,
-The expectancy and rose of the fair state,
-The glass of fashion and the mould of form,
-The observ'd of all observers,--quite, quite down!
-And I, of ladies most deject and wretched
-That suck'd the honey of his music vows,
-Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,
-Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;
-That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth
-Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,
-To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!
-
-[Re-enter King and Polonius.]
-
-King.
-Love! his affections do not that way tend;
-Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,
-Was not like madness. There's something in his soul
-O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;
-And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose
-Will be some danger: which for to prevent,
-I have in quick determination
-Thus set it down:--he shall with speed to England
-For the demand of our neglected tribute:
-Haply the seas, and countries different,
-With variable objects, shall expel
-This something-settled matter in his heart;
-Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus
-From fashion of himself. What think you on't?
-
-Pol.
-It shall do well: but yet do I believe
-The origin and commencement of his grief
-Sprung from neglected love.--How now, Ophelia!
-You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;
-We heard it all.--My lord, do as you please;
-But if you hold it fit, after the play,
-Let his queen mother all alone entreat him
-To show his grief: let her be round with him;
-And I'll be plac'd, so please you, in the ear
-Of all their conference. If she find him not,
-To England send him; or confine him where
-Your wisdom best shall think.
-
-King.
-It shall be so:
-Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene II. A hall in the Castle.
-
-[Enter Hamlet and cartain Players.]
-
-Ham.
-Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you,
-trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your
-players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do
-not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all
-gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,
-whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a
-temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends me to the
-soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to
-tatters, to very rags, to split the cars of the groundlings, who,
-for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb
-shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing
-Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you avoid it.
-
-I Player.
-I warrant your honour.
-
-Ham.
-Be not too tame neither; but let your own discretion be your
-tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with
-this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of
-nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing,
-whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as
-'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own image,
-scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his
-form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though
-it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious
-grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance,
-o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be players that I
-have seen play,--and heard others praise, and that highly,--not
-to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of
-Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so
-strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's
-journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated
-humanity so abominably.
-
-I Player.
-I hope we have reform'd that indifferently with us, sir.
-
-Ham.
-O, reform it altogether. And let those that play your clowns
-speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them
-that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren
-spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary
-question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous
-and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. Go
-make you ready.
-
-[Exeunt Players.]
-
-[Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.]
-
-How now, my lord! will the king hear this piece of work?
-
-Pol.
-And the queen too, and that presently.
-
-Ham.
-Bid the players make haste.
-
-[Exit Polonius.]
-
-Will you two help to hasten them?
-
-Ros. and Guil.
-We will, my lord.
-
-[Exeunt Ros. and Guil.]
-
-Ham.
-What, ho, Horatio!
-
-[Enter Horatio.]
-
-Hor.
-Here, sweet lord, at your service.
-
-Ham.
-Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
-As e'er my conversation cop'd withal.
-
-Hor.
-O, my dear lord,--
-
-Ham.
-Nay, do not think I flatter;
-For what advancement may I hope from thee,
-That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits,
-To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?
-No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp;
-And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee
-Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?
-Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice,
-And could of men distinguish, her election
-Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been
-As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing;
-A man that Fortune's buffets and rewards
-Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and bles'd are those
-Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
-That they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger
-To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
-That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
-In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,
-As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--
-There is a play to-night before the king;
-One scene of it comes near the circumstance,
-Which I have told thee, of my father's death:
-I pr'ythee, when thou see'st that act a-foot,
-Even with the very comment of thy soul
-Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt
-Do not itself unkennel in one speech,
-It is a damned ghost that we have seen;
-And my imaginations are as foul
-As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;
-For I mine eyes will rivet to his face;
-And, after, we will both our judgments join
-In censure of his seeming.
-
-Hor.
-Well, my lord:
-If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,
-And scape detecting, I will pay the theft.
-
-Ham.
-They are coming to the play. I must be idle:
-Get you a place.
-
-[Danish march. A flourish. Enter King, Queen, Polonius, Ophelia,
-Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and others.]
-
-King.
-How fares our cousin Hamlet?
-
-Ham.
-Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat the air,
-promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.
-
-King.
-I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words are not
-mine.
-
-Ham.
-No, nor mine now. My lord, you play'd once i' the university, you
-say? [To Polonius.]
-
-Pol.
-That did I, my lord, and was accounted a good actor.
-
-Ham.
-What did you enact?
-
-Pol.
-I did enact Julius Caesar; I was kill'd i' the Capitol; Brutus
-killed me.
-
-Ham.
-It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf there.--Be
-the players ready?
-
-Ros.
-Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.
-
-Queen.
-Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.
-
-Ham.
-No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.
-
-Pol.
-O, ho! do you mark that? [To the King.]
-
-Ham.
-Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
-[Lying down at Ophelia's feet.]
-
-Oph.
-No, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I mean, my head upon your lap?
-
-Oph.
-Ay, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Do you think I meant country matters?
-
-Oph.
-I think nothing, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
-
-Oph.
-What is, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Nothing.
-
-Oph.
-You are merry, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Who, I?
-
-Oph.
-Ay, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-O, your only jig-maker! What should a man do but be merry?
-for look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died
-within 's two hours.
-
-Oph.
-Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a
-suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten
-yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life
-half a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches then; or else
-shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose
-epitaph is 'For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot!'
-
-[Trumpets sound. The dumb show enters.]
-
-[Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen embracing
-him and he her. She kneels, and makes show of protestation
-unto him. He takes her up, and declines his head upon her
-neck: lays him down upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing
-him asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his
-crown, kisses it, pours poison in the king's ears, and exit. The
-Queen returns, finds the King dead, and makes passionate action.
-The Poisoner with some three or four Mutes, comes in again,
-seeming to lament with her. The dead body is carried away. The
-Poisoner wooes the Queen with gifts; she seems loth and unwilling
-awhile, but in the end accepts his love.]
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-Oph.
-What means this, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
-
-Oph.
-Belike this show imports the argument of the play.
-
-[Enter Prologue.]
-
-Ham.
-We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot keep counsel;
-they'll tell all.
-
-Oph.
-Will he tell us what this show meant?
-
-Ham.
-Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you ashamed to
-show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.
-
-Oph.
-You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.
-
-Pro.
- For us, and for our tragedy,
- Here stooping to your clemency,
- We beg your hearing patiently.
-
-Ham.
-Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?
-
-Oph.
-'Tis brief, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-As woman's love.
-
-[Enter a King and a Queen.]
-
-P. King.
-Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round
-Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,
-And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen
-About the world have times twelve thirties been,
-Since love our hearts, and Hymen did our hands,
-Unite commutual in most sacred bands.
-
-P. Queen.
-So many journeys may the sun and moon
-Make us again count o'er ere love be done!
-But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,
-So far from cheer and from your former state.
-That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,
-Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:
-For women's fear and love holds quantity;
-In neither aught, or in extremity.
-Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;
-And as my love is siz'd, my fear is so:
-Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
-Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
-
-P. King.
-Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;
-My operant powers their functions leave to do:
-And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,
-Honour'd, belov'd, and haply one as kind
-For husband shalt thou,--
-
-P. Queen.
-O, confound the rest!
-Such love must needs be treason in my breast:
-In second husband let me be accurst!
-None wed the second but who kill'd the first.
-
-Ham.
-[Aside.] Wormwood, wormwood!
-
-P. Queen.
-The instances that second marriage move
-Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.
-A second time I kill my husband dead
-When second husband kisses me in bed.
-
-P. King.
-I do believe you think what now you speak;
-But what we do determine oft we break.
-Purpose is but the slave to memory;
-Of violent birth, but poor validity:
-Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;
-But fall unshaken when they mellow be.
-Most necessary 'tis that we forget
-To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:
-What to ourselves in passion we propose,
-The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
-The violence of either grief or joy
-Their own enactures with themselves destroy:
-Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;
-Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.
-This world is not for aye; nor 'tis not strange
-That even our loves should with our fortunes change;
-For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
-Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
-The great man down, you mark his favourite flies,
-The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies;
-And hitherto doth love on fortune tend:
-For who not needs shall never lack a friend;
-And who in want a hollow friend doth try,
-Directly seasons him his enemy.
-But, orderly to end where I begun,--
-Our wills and fates do so contrary run
-That our devices still are overthrown;
-Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:
-So think thou wilt no second husband wed;
-But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
-
-P. Queen.
-Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!
-Sport and repose lock from me day and night!
-To desperation turn my trust and hope!
-An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!
-Each opposite that blanks the face of joy
-Meet what I would have well, and it destroy!
-Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,
-If, once a widow, ever I be wife!
-
-Ham.
-If she should break it now! [To Ophelia.]
-
-P. King.
-'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;
-My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile
-The tedious day with sleep.
-[Sleeps.]
-
-P. Queen.
-Sleep rock thy brain,
-And never come mischance between us twain!
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Ham.
-Madam, how like you this play?
-
-Queen.
-The lady protests too much, methinks.
-
-Ham.
-O, but she'll keep her word.
-
-King.
-Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in't?
-
-Ham.
-No, no! They do but jest, poison in jest; no offence i' the
-world.
-
-King.
-What do you call the play?
-
-Ham.
-The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the
-image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is the duke's name;
-his wife, Baptista: you shall see anon; 'tis a knavish piece of
-work: but what o' that? your majesty, and we that have free
-souls, it touches us not: let the gall'd jade wince; our withers
-are unwrung.
-
-[Enter Lucianus.]
-
-This is one Lucianus, nephew to the King.
-
-Oph.
-You are a good chorus, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see
-the puppets dallying.
-
-Oph.
-You are keen, my lord, you are keen.
-
-Ham.
-It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.
-
-Oph.
-Still better, and worse.
-
-Ham.
-So you must take your husbands.--Begin, murderer; pox, leave
-thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:--'The croaking raven doth
-bellow for revenge.'
-
-Luc.
-Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;
-Confederate season, else no creature seeing;
-Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,
-With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,
-Thy natural magic and dire property
-On wholesome life usurp immediately.
-
-[Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears.]
-
-Ham.
-He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His name's Gonzago:
-The story is extant, and written in very choice Italian; you
-shall see anon how the murderer gets the love of Gonzago's wife.
-
-Oph.
-The King rises.
-
-Ham.
-What, frighted with false fire!
-
-Queen.
-How fares my lord?
-
-Pol.
-Give o'er the play.
-
-King.
-Give me some light:--away!
-
-All.
-Lights, lights, lights!
-
-[Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio.]
-
-Ham.
- Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
- The hart ungalled play;
- For some must watch, while some must sleep:
- So runs the world away.--
-Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers--if the rest of my
-fortunes turn Turk with me,--with two Provincial roses on my
-razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
-
-Hor.
-Half a share.
-
-Ham.
- A whole one, I.
- For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
- This realm dismantled was
- Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
- A very, very--pajock.
-
-Hor.
-You might have rhymed.
-
-Ham.
-O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand
-pound! Didst perceive?
-
-Hor.
-Very well, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Upon the talk of the poisoning?--
-
-Hor.
-I did very well note him.
-
-Ham.
-Ah, ha!--Come, some music! Come, the recorders!--
- For if the king like not the comedy,
- Why then, belike he likes it not, perdy.
-Come, some music!
-
-[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Guil.
-Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, a whole history.
-
-Guil.
-The king, sir--
-
-Ham.
-Ay, sir, what of him?
-
-Guil.
-Is, in his retirement, marvellous distempered.
-
-Ham.
-With drink, sir?
-
-Guil.
-No, my lord; rather with choler.
-
-Ham.
-Your wisdom should show itself more richer to signify this to
-the doctor; for me to put him to his purgation would perhaps
-plunge him into far more choler.
-
-Guil.
-Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame, and start
-not so wildly from my affair.
-
-Ham.
-I am tame, sir:--pronounce.
-
-Guil.
-The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit,
-hath sent me to you.
-
-Ham.
-You are welcome.
-
-Guil.
-Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed.
-If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do
-your mother's commandment: if not, your pardon and my return
-shall be the end of my business.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, I cannot.
-
-Guil.
-What, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but, sir, such
-answer as I can make, you shall command; or rather, as you say,
-my mother: therefore no more, but to the matter: my mother, you
-say,--
-
-Ros.
-Then thus she says: your behaviour hath struck her into
-amazement and admiration.
-
-Ham.
-O wonderful son, that can so stonish a mother!--But is there no
-sequel at the heels of this mother's admiration?
-
-Ros.
-She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed.
-
-Ham.
-We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have you any
-further trade with us?
-
-Ros.
-My lord, you once did love me.
-
-Ham.
-And so I do still, by these pickers and stealers.
-
-Ros.
-Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do, surely,
-bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to
-your friend.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, I lack advancement.
-
-Ros.
-How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself
-for your succession in Denmark?
-
-Ham.
-Ay, sir, but 'While the grass grows'--the proverb is something
-musty.
-
-[Re-enter the Players, with recorders.]
-
-O, the recorders:--let me see one.--To withdraw with you:--why do
-you go about to recover the wind of me, as if you would drive me
-into a toil?
-
-Guil.
-O my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too unmannerly.
-
-Ham.
-I do not well understand that. Will you play upon this pipe?
-
-Guil.
-My lord, I cannot.
-
-Ham.
-I pray you.
-
-Guil.
-Believe me, I cannot.
-
-Ham.
-I do beseech you.
-
-Guil.
-I know, no touch of it, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with your
-finger and thumb, give it breath with your mouth, and it will
-discourse most eloquent music. Look you, these are the stops.
-
-Guil.
-But these cannot I command to any utterance of harmony; I
-have not the skill.
-
-Ham.
-Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You
-would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops; you would
-pluck out the heart of my mystery; you would sound me from my
-lowest note to the top of my compass; and there is much music,
-excellent voice, in this little organ, yet cannot you make it
-speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a
-pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me,
-you cannot play upon me.
-
-[Enter Polonius.]
-
-God bless you, sir!
-
-Pol.
-My lord, the queen would speak with you, and presently.
-
-Ham.
-Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
-
-Pol.
-By the mass, and 'tis like a camel indeed.
-
-Ham.
-Methinks it is like a weasel.
-
-Pol.
-It is backed like a weasel.
-
-Ham.
-Or like a whale.
-
-Pol.
-Very like a whale.
-
-Ham.
-Then will I come to my mother by and by.--They fool me to the
-top of my bent.--I will come by and by.
-
-Pol.
-I will say so.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Ham.
-By-and-by is easily said.
-
-[Exit Polonius.]
-
---Leave me, friends.
-
-[Exeunt Ros, Guil., Hor., and Players.]
-
-'Tis now the very witching time of night,
-When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
-Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
-And do such bitter business as the day
-Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.--
-O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever
-The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:
-Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
-I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
-My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites,--
-How in my words somever she be shent,
-To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-Scene III. A room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern.]
-
-King.
-I like him not; nor stands it safe with us
-To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;
-I your commission will forthwith dispatch,
-And he to England shall along with you:
-The terms of our estate may not endure
-Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow
-Out of his lunacies.
-
-Guil.
-We will ourselves provide:
-Most holy and religious fear it is
-To keep those many many bodies safe
-That live and feed upon your majesty.
-
-Ros.
-The single and peculiar life is bound,
-With all the strength and armour of the mind,
-To keep itself from 'noyance; but much more
-That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest
-The lives of many. The cease of majesty
-Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw
-What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,
-Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,
-To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things
-Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,
-Each small annexment, petty consequence,
-Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone
-Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
-
-King.
-Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;
-For we will fetters put upon this fear,
-Which now goes too free-footed.
-
-Ros and Guil.
-We will haste us.
-
-[Exeunt Ros. and Guil.]
-
-[Enter Polonius.]
-
-Pol.
-My lord, he's going to his mother's closet:
-Behind the arras I'll convey myself
-To hear the process; I'll warrant she'll tax him home:
-And, as you said, and wisely was it said,
-'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,
-Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
-The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:
-I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,
-And tell you what I know.
-
-King.
-Thanks, dear my lord.
-
-[Exit Polonius.]
-
-O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
-It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,--
-A brother's murder!--Pray can I not,
-Though inclination be as sharp as will:
-My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;
-And, like a man to double business bound,
-I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
-And both neglect. What if this cursed hand
-Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,--
-Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
-To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy
-But to confront the visage of offence?
-And what's in prayer but this twofold force,--
-To be forestalled ere we come to fall,
-Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;
-My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer
-Can serve my turn? Forgive me my foul murder!--
-That cannot be; since I am still possess'd
-Of those effects for which I did the murder,--
-My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
-May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?
-In the corrupted currents of this world
-Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice;
-And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
-Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above;
-There is no shuffling;--there the action lies
-In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,
-Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,
-To give in evidence. What then? what rests?
-Try what repentance can: what can it not?
-Yet what can it when one cannot repent?
-O wretched state! O bosom black as death!
-O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,
-Art more engag'd! Help, angels! Make assay:
-Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart, with strings of steel,
-Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!
-All may be well.
-
-[Retires and kneels.]
-
-[Enter Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;
-And now I'll do't;--and so he goes to heaven;
-And so am I reveng'd.--that would be scann'd:
-A villain kills my father; and for that,
-I, his sole son, do this same villain send
-To heaven.
-O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
-He took my father grossly, full of bread;
-With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
-And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?
-But in our circumstance and course of thought,
-'Tis heavy with him: and am I, then, reveng'd,
-To take him in the purging of his soul,
-When he is fit and season'd for his passage?
-No.
-Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent:
-When he is drunk asleep; or in his rage;
-Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;
-At gaming, swearing; or about some act
-That has no relish of salvation in't;--
-Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven;
-And that his soul may be as damn'd and black
-As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:
-This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-[The King rises and advances.]
-
-King.
-My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
-Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-Scene IV. Another room in the castle.
-
-[Enter Queen and Polonius.]
-
-Pol.
-He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:
-Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,
-And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between
-Much heat and him. I'll silence me e'en here.
-Pray you, be round with him.
-
-Ham.
-[Within.] Mother, mother, mother!
-
-Queen.
-I'll warrant you:
-Fear me not:--withdraw; I hear him coming.
-
-[Polonius goes behind the arras.]
-
-[Enter Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-Now, mother, what's the matter?
-
-Queen.
-Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.
-
-Ham.
-Mother, you have my father much offended.
-
-Queen.
-Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.
-
-Ham.
-Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.
-
-Queen.
-Why, how now, Hamlet!
-
-Ham.
-What's the matter now?
-
-Queen.
-Have you forgot me?
-
-Ham.
-No, by the rood, not so:
-You are the Queen, your husband's brother's wife,
-And,--would it were not so!--you are my mother.
-
-Queen.
-Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.
-
-Ham.
-Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;
-You go not till I set you up a glass
-Where you may see the inmost part of you.
-
-Queen.
-What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?--
-Help, help, ho!
-
-Pol.
-[Behind.] What, ho! help, help, help!
-
-Ham.
-How now? a rat? [Draws.]
-Dead for a ducat, dead!
-
-[Makes a pass through the arras.]
-
-Pol.
-[Behind.] O, I am slain!
-
-[Falls and dies.]
-
-Queen.
-O me, what hast thou done?
-
-Ham.
-Nay, I know not: is it the king?
-
-[Draws forth Polonius.]
-
-Queen.
-O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!
-
-Ham.
-A bloody deed!--almost as bad, good mother,
-As kill a king and marry with his brother.
-
-Queen.
-As kill a king!
-
-Ham.
-Ay, lady, 'twas my word.--
-Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!
-[To Polonius.]
-I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;
-Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.--
-Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,
-And let me wring your heart: for so I shall,
-If it be made of penetrable stuff;
-If damned custom have not braz'd it so
-That it is proof and bulwark against sense.
-
-Queen.
-What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue
-In noise so rude against me?
-
-Ham.
-Such an act
-That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
-Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
-From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
-And sets a blister there; makes marriage-vows
-As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed
-As from the body of contraction plucks
-The very soul, and sweet religion makes
-A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow;
-Yea, this solidity and compound mass,
-With tristful visage, as against the doom,
-Is thought-sick at the act.
-
-Queen.
-Ah me, what act,
-That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?
-
-Ham.
-Look here upon this picture, and on this,--
-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
-See what a grace was seated on this brow;
-Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
-An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
-A station like the herald Mercury
-New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill:
-A combination and a form, indeed,
-Where every god did seem to set his seal,
-To give the world assurance of a man;
-This was your husband.--Look you now what follows:
-Here is your husband, like a milldew'd ear
-Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?
-Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
-And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?
-You cannot call it love; for at your age
-The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,
-And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment
-Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,
-Else could you not have motion: but sure that sense
-Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err;
-Nor sense to ecstacy was ne'er so thrall'd
-But it reserv'd some quantity of choice
-To serve in such a difference. What devil was't
-That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
-Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,
-Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,
-Or but a sickly part of one true sense
-Could not so mope.
-O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,
-If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,
-To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,
-And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame
-When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,
-Since frost itself as actively doth burn,
-And reason panders will.
-
-Queen.
-O Hamlet, speak no more:
-Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;
-And there I see such black and grained spots
-As will not leave their tinct.
-
-Ham.
-Nay, but to live
-In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
-Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love
-Over the nasty sty,--
-
-Queen.
-O, speak to me no more;
-These words like daggers enter in mine ears;
-No more, sweet Hamlet.
-
-Ham.
-A murderer and a villain;
-A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe
-Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;
-A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,
-That from a shelf the precious diadem stole
-And put it in his pocket!
-
-Queen.
-No more.
-
-Ham.
-A king of shreds and patches!--
-
-[Enter Ghost.]
-
-Save me and hover o'er me with your wings,
-You heavenly guards!--What would your gracious figure?
-
-Queen.
-Alas, he's mad!
-
-Ham.
-Do you not come your tardy son to chide,
-That, laps'd in time and passion, lets go by
-The important acting of your dread command?
-O, say!
-
-Ghost.
-Do not forget. This visitation
-Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
-But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:
-O, step between her and her fighting soul,--
-Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works,--
-Speak to her, Hamlet.
-
-Ham.
-How is it with you, lady?
-
-Queen.
-Alas, how is't with you,
-That you do bend your eye on vacancy,
-And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?
-Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;
-And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,
-Your bedded hairs, like life in excrements,
-Start up and stand an end. O gentle son,
-Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper
-Sprinkle cool patience! Whereon do you look?
-
-Ham.
-On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares!
-His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,
-Would make them capable.--Do not look upon me;
-Lest with this piteous action you convert
-My stern effects: then what I have to do
-Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.
-
-Queen.
-To whom do you speak this?
-
-Ham.
-Do you see nothing there?
-
-Queen.
-Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.
-
-Ham.
-Nor did you nothing hear?
-
-Queen.
-No, nothing but ourselves.
-
-Ham.
-Why, look you there! look how it steals away!
-My father, in his habit as he liv'd!
-Look, where he goes, even now out at the portal!
-
-[Exit Ghost.]
-
-Queen.
-This is the very coinage of your brain:
-This bodiless creation ecstasy
-Is very cunning in.
-
-Ham.
-Ecstasy!
-My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
-And makes as healthful music: it is not madness
-That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
-And I the matter will re-word; which madness
-Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,
-Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
-That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
-It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
-Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
-Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
-Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
-And do not spread the compost on the weeds,
-To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;
-For in the fatness of these pursy times
-Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,
-Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.
-
-Queen.
-O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
-
-Ham.
-O, throw away the worser part of it,
-And live the purer with the other half.
-Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;
-Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
-That monster custom, who all sense doth eat,
-Of habits evil, is angel yet in this,--
-That to the use of actions fair and good
-He likewise gives a frock or livery
-That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night;
-And that shall lend a kind of easiness
-To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
-For use almost can change the stamp of nature,
-And either curb the devil, or throw him out
-With wondrous potency. Once more, good-night:
-And when you are desirous to be bles'd,
-I'll blessing beg of you.--For this same lord
-[Pointing to Polonius.]
-I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so,
-To punish me with this, and this with me,
-That I must be their scourge and minister.
-I will bestow him, and will answer well
-The death I gave him. So again, good-night.--
-I must be cruel, only to be kind:
-Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.--
-One word more, good lady.
-
-Queen.
-What shall I do?
-
-Ham.
-Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:
-Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;
-Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;
-And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,
-Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,
-Make you to ravel all this matter out,
-That I essentially am not in madness,
-But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know;
-For who that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,
-Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,
-Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?
-No, in despite of sense and secrecy,
-Unpeg the basket on the house's top,
-Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,
-To try conclusions, in the basket creep
-And break your own neck down.
-
-Queen.
-Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath,
-And breath of life, I have no life to breathe
-What thou hast said to me.
-
-Ham.
-I must to England; you know that?
-
-Queen.
-Alack,
-I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.
-
-Ham.
-There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,--
-Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,--
-They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way
-And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
-For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
-Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard
-But I will delve one yard below their mines
-And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,
-When in one line two crafts directly meet.--
-This man shall set me packing:
-I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.--
-Mother, good-night.--Indeed, this counsellor
-Is now most still, most secret, and most grave,
-Who was in life a foolish peating knave.
-Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you:--
-Good night, mother.
-
-[Exeunt severally; Hamlet, dragging out Polonius.]
-
-
-
-ACT IV.
-
-Scene I. A room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King, Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-King.
-There's matter in these sighs. These profound heaves
-You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.
-Where is your son?
-
-Queen.
-Bestow this place on us a little while.
-
-[To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who go out.]
-
-Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!
-
-King.
-What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
-
-Queen.
-Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
-Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit
-Behind the arras hearing something stir,
-Whips out his rapier, cries 'A rat, a rat!'
-And in this brainish apprehension, kills
-The unseen good old man.
-
-King.
-O heavy deed!
-It had been so with us, had we been there:
-His liberty is full of threats to all;
-To you yourself, to us, to every one.
-Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?
-It will be laid to us, whose providence
-Should have kept short, restrain'd, and out of haunt
-This mad young man. But so much was our love
-We would not understand what was most fit;
-But, like the owner of a foul disease,
-To keep it from divulging, let it feed
-Even on the pith of life. Where is he gone?
-
-Queen.
-To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:
-O'er whom his very madness, like some ore
-Among a mineral of metals base,
-Shows itself pure: he weeps for what is done.
-
-King.
-O Gertrude, come away!
-The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
-But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed
-We must with all our majesty and skill
-Both countenance and excuse.--Ho, Guildenstern!
-
-[Re-enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
-Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
-And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:
-Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
-Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.
-
-[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;
-And let them know both what we mean to do
-And what's untimely done: so haply slander,--
-Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
-As level as the cannon to his blank,
-Transports his poison'd shot,--may miss our name,
-And hit the woundless air.--O, come away!
-My soul is full of discord and dismay.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-Scene II. Another room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter Hamlet.]
-
-Ham.
-Safely stowed.
-
-Ros. and Guil.
-[Within.] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!
-
-Ham.
-What noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come.
-
-[Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-Ros.
-What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?
-
-Ham.
-Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.
-
-Ros.
-Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence,
-And bear it to the chapel.
-
-Ham.
-Do not believe it.
-
-Ros.
-Believe what?
-
-Ham.
-That I can keep your counsel, and not mine own. Besides, to be
-demanded of a sponge!--what replication should be made by the son
-of a king?
-
-Ros.
-Take you me for a sponge, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Ay, sir; that soaks up the King's countenance, his rewards,
-his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in
-the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw;
-first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have
-gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry
-again.
-
-Ros.
-I understand you not, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
-
-Ros.
-My lord, you must tell us where the body is and go with us to
-the king.
-
-Ham.
-The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body.
-The king is a thing,--
-
-Guil.
-A thing, my lord!
-
-Ham.
-Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene III. Another room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King,attended.]
-
-King.
-I have sent to seek him and to find the body.
-How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!
-Yet must not we put the strong law on him:
-He's lov'd of the distracted multitude,
-Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;
-And where 'tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,
-But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,
-This sudden sending him away must seem
-Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown
-By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
-Or not at all.
-
-[Enter Rosencrantz.]
-
-How now! what hath befall'n?
-
-Ros.
-Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,
-We cannot get from him.
-
-King.
-But where is he?
-
-Ros.
-Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.
-
-King.
-Bring him before us.
-
-Ros.
-Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.
-
-[Enter Hamlet and Guildenstern.]
-
-King.
-Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?
-
-Ham.
-At supper.
-
-King.
-At supper! where?
-
-Ham.
-Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain
-convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your
-only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and
-we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar
-is but variable service,--two dishes, but to one table: that's
-the end.
-
-King.
-Alas, alas!
-
-Ham.
-A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat
-of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
-
-King.
-What dost thou mean by this?
-
-Ham.
-Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through
-the guts of a beggar.
-
-King.
-Where is Polonius?
-
-Ham.
-In heaven: send thither to see: if your messenger find him not
-there, seek him i' the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you
-find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up
-the stairs into the lobby.
-
-King.
-Go seek him there. [To some Attendants.]
-
-Ham.
-He will stay till you come.
-
-[Exeunt Attendants.]
-
-King.
-Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--
-Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve
-For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence
-With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;
-The bark is ready, and the wind at help,
-The associates tend, and everything is bent
-For England.
-
-Ham.
-For England!
-
-King.
-Ay, Hamlet.
-
-Ham.
-Good.
-
-King.
-So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.
-
-Ham.
-I see a cherub that sees them.--But, come; for England!--
-Farewell, dear mother.
-
-King.
-Thy loving father, Hamlet.
-
-Ham.
-My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is
-one flesh; and so, my mother.--Come, for England!
-
-[Exit.]
-
-King.
-Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;
-Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night:
-Away! for everything is seal'd and done
-That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste.
-
-[Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.]
-
-And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught,--
-As my great power thereof may give thee sense,
-Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red
-After the Danish sword, and thy free awe
-Pays homage to us,--thou mayst not coldly set
-Our sovereign process; which imports at full,
-By letters conjuring to that effect,
-The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;
-For like the hectic in my blood he rages,
-And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,
-Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-Scene IV. A plain in Denmark.
-
-[Enter Fortinbras, and Forces marching.]
-
-For.
-Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king:
-Tell him that, by his license, Fortinbras
-Craves the conveyance of a promis'd march
-Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.
-If that his majesty would aught with us,
-We shall express our duty in his eye;
-And let him know so.
-
-Capt.
-I will do't, my lord.
-
-For.
-Go softly on.
-
-[Exeunt all For. and Forces.]
-
-[Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, &c.]
-
-Ham.
-Good sir, whose powers are these?
-
-Capt.
-They are of Norway, sir.
-
-Ham.
-How purpos'd, sir, I pray you?
-
-Capt.
-Against some part of Poland.
-
-Ham.
-Who commands them, sir?
-
-Capt.
-The nephew to old Norway, Fortinbras.
-
-Ham.
-Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,
-Or for some frontier?
-
-Capt.
-Truly to speak, and with no addition,
-We go to gain a little patch of ground
-That hath in it no profit but the name.
-To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;
-Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole
-A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.
-
-Ham.
-Why, then the Polack never will defend it.
-
-Capt.
-Yes, it is already garrison'd.
-
-Ham.
-Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats
-Will not debate the question of this straw:
-This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,
-That inward breaks, and shows no cause without
-Why the man dies.--I humbly thank you, sir.
-
-Capt.
-God b' wi' you, sir.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Ros.
-Will't please you go, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-I'll be with you straight. Go a little before.
-
-[Exeunt all but Hamlet.]
-
-How all occasions do inform against me
-And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,
-If his chief good and market of his time
-Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
-Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
-Looking before and after, gave us not
-That capability and godlike reason
-To fust in us unus'd. Now, whether it be
-Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
-Of thinking too precisely on the event,--
-A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom
-And ever three parts coward,--I do not know
-Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'
-Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
-To do't. Examples, gross as earth, exhort me:
-Witness this army, of such mass and charge,
-Led by a delicate and tender prince;
-Whose spirit, with divine ambition puff'd,
-Makes mouths at the invisible event;
-Exposing what is mortal and unsure
-To all that fortune, death, and danger dare,
-Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great
-Is not to stir without great argument,
-But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
-When honour's at the stake. How stand I, then,
-That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
-Excitements of my reason and my blood,
-And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see
-The imminent death of twenty thousand men
-That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,
-Go to their graves like beds; fight for a plot
-Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,
-Which is not tomb enough and continent
-To hide the slain?--O, from this time forth,
-My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
-
-[Exit.]
-
-
-
-Scene V. Elsinore. A room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter Queen and Horatio.]
-
-Queen.
-I will not speak with her.
-
-Gent.
-She is importunate; indeed distract:
-Her mood will needs be pitied.
-
-Queen.
-What would she have?
-
-Gent.
-She speaks much of her father; says she hears
-There's tricks i' the world, and hems, and beats her heart;
-Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
-That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,
-Yet the unshaped use of it doth move
-The hearers to collection; they aim at it,
-And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;
-Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures yield them,
-Indeed would make one think there might be thought,
-Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.
-'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew
-Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.
-
-Queen.
-Let her come in.
-
-[Exit Horatio.]
-
-To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,
-Each toy seems Prologue to some great amiss:
-So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
-It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
-
-[Re-enter Horatio with Ophelia.]
-
-Oph.
-Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?
-
-Queen.
-How now, Ophelia?
-
-Oph. [Sings.]
- How should I your true love know
- From another one?
- By his cockle bat and' staff
- And his sandal shoon.
-
-Queen.
-Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?
-
-Oph.
-Say you? nay, pray you, mark.
-[Sings.]
- He is dead and gone, lady,
- He is dead and gone;
- At his head a grass green turf,
- At his heels a stone.
-
-Queen.
-Nay, but Ophelia--
-
-Oph.
-Pray you, mark.
-[Sings.]
- White his shroud as the mountain snow,
-
-[Enter King.]
-
-Queen.
-Alas, look here, my lord!
-
-Oph.
-[Sings.]
- Larded all with sweet flowers;
- Which bewept to the grave did go
- With true-love showers.
-
-King.
-How do you, pretty lady?
-
-Oph.
-Well, God dild you! They say the owl was a baker's daughter.
-Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. God be at
-your table!
-
-King.
-Conceit upon her father.
-
-Oph.
-Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they ask you what
-it means, say you this:
-[Sings.]
- To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day
- All in the morning bedtime,
- And I a maid at your window,
- To be your Valentine.
-
- Then up he rose and donn'd his clothes,
- And dupp'd the chamber door,
- Let in the maid, that out a maid
- Never departed more.
-
-King.
-Pretty Ophelia!
-
-Oph.
-Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:
-[Sings.]
- By Gis and by Saint Charity,
- Alack, and fie for shame!
- Young men will do't if they come to't;
- By cock, they are to blame.
-
- Quoth she, before you tumbled me,
- You promis'd me to wed.
- So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,
- An thou hadst not come to my bed.
-
-King.
-How long hath she been thus?
-
-Oph.
-I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I cannot
-choose but weep, to think they would lay him i' the cold ground.
-My brother shall know of it: and so I thank you for your good
-counsel.--Come, my coach!--Good night, ladies; good night, sweet
-ladies; good night, good night.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-King.
-Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.
-
-[Exit Horatio.]
-
-O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs
-All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,
-When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
-But in battalions! First, her father slain:
-Next, your son gone; and he most violent author
-Of his own just remove: the people muddied,
-Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers
-For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly
-In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia
-Divided from herself and her fair judgment,
-Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts:
-Last, and as much containing as all these,
-Her brother is in secret come from France;
-Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,
-And wants not buzzers to infect his ear
-With pestilent speeches of his father's death;
-Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,
-Will nothing stick our person to arraign
-In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,
-Like to a murdering piece, in many places
-Give, me superfluous death.
-
-[A noise within.]
-
-Queen.
-Alack, what noise is this?
-
-King.
-Where are my Switzers? let them guard the door.
-
-[Enter a Gentleman.]
-
-What is the matter?
-
-Gent.
-Save yourself, my lord:
-The ocean, overpeering of his list,
-Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste
-Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,
-O'erbears your offices. The rabble call him lord;
-And, as the world were now but to begin,
-Antiquity forgot, custom not known,
-The ratifiers and props of every word,
-They cry 'Choose we! Laertes shall be king!'
-Caps, hands, and tongues applaud it to the clouds,
-'Laertes shall be king! Laertes king!'
-
-Queen.
-How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!
-O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!
-
-[A noise within.]
-
-King.
-The doors are broke.
-
-[Enter Laertes, armed; Danes following.]
-
-Laer.
-Where is this king?--Sirs, stand you all without.
-
-Danes.
-No, let's come in.
-
-Laer.
-I pray you, give me leave.
-
-Danes.
-We will, we will.
-
-[They retire without the door.]
-
-Laer.
-I thank you:--keep the door.--O thou vile king,
-Give me my father!
-
-Queen.
-Calmly, good Laertes.
-
-Laer.
-That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard;
-Cries cuckold to my father; brands the harlot
-Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow
-Of my true mother.
-
-King.
-What is the cause, Laertes,
-That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?--
-Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:
-There's such divinity doth hedge a king,
-That treason can but peep to what it would,
-Acts little of his will.--Tell me, Laertes,
-Why thou art thus incens'd.--Let him go, Gertrude:--
-Speak, man.
-
-Laer.
-Where is my father?
-
-King.
-Dead.
-
-Queen.
-But not by him.
-
-King.
-Let him demand his fill.
-
-Laer.
-How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:
-To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!
-Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!
-I dare damnation:--to this point I stand,--
-That both the worlds, I give to negligence,
-Let come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd
-Most throughly for my father.
-
-King.
-Who shall stay you?
-
-Laer.
-My will, not all the world:
-And for my means, I'll husband them so well,
-They shall go far with little.
-
-King.
-Good Laertes,
-If you desire to know the certainty
-Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge
-That, sweepstake, you will draw both friend and foe,
-Winner and loser?
-
-Laer.
-None but his enemies.
-
-King.
-Will you know them then?
-
-Laer.
-To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;
-And, like the kind life-rendering pelican,
-Repast them with my blood.
-
-King.
-Why, now you speak
-Like a good child and a true gentleman.
-That I am guiltless of your father's death,
-And am most sensibly in grief for it,
-It shall as level to your judgment pierce
-As day does to your eye.
-
-Danes.
-[Within] Let her come in.
-
-Laer.
-How now! What noise is that?
-
-[Re-enter Ophelia, fantastically dressed with straws and
-flowers.]
-
-O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,
-Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!--
-By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,
-Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!
-Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!--
-O heavens! is't possible a young maid's wits
-Should be as mortal as an old man's life?
-Nature is fine in love; and where 'tis fine,
-It sends some precious instance of itself
-After the thing it loves.
-
-Oph.
-[Sings.]
- They bore him barefac'd on the bier
- Hey no nonny, nonny, hey nonny
- And on his grave rain'd many a tear.--
-
-Fare you well, my dove!
-
-Laer.
-Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,
-It could not move thus.
-
-Oph.
-You must sing 'Down a-down, an you call him a-down-a.' O,
-how the wheel becomes it! It is the false steward, that stole his
-master's daughter.
-
-Laer.
-This nothing's more than matter.
-
-Oph.
-There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love,
-remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts.
-
-Laer.
-A document in madness,--thoughts and remembrance fitted.
-
-Oph.
-There's fennel for you, and columbines:--there's rue for you;
-and here's some for me:--we may call it herb of grace o'
-Sundays:--O, you must wear your rue with a difference.--There's a
-daisy:--I would give you some violets, but they wither'd all when
-my father died:--they say he made a good end,--
-[Sings.]
- For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy,--
-
-Laer.
-Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
-She turns to favour and to prettiness.
-
-Oph.
-[Sings.]
- And will he not come again?
- And will he not come again?
- No, no, he is dead,
- Go to thy death-bed,
- He never will come again.
-
- His beard was as white as snow,
- All flaxen was his poll:
- He is gone, he is gone,
- And we cast away moan:
- God ha' mercy on his soul!
-
-And of all Christian souls, I pray God.--God b' wi' ye.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-Laer.
-Do you see this, O God?
-
-King.
-Laertes, I must commune with your grief,
-Or you deny me right. Go but apart,
-Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will,
-And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me.
-If by direct or by collateral hand
-They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,
-Our crown, our life, and all that we call ours,
-To you in satisfaction; but if not,
-Be you content to lend your patience to us,
-And we shall jointly labour with your soul
-To give it due content.
-
-Laer.
-Let this be so;
-His means of death, his obscure burial,--
-No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,
-No noble rite nor formal ostentation,--
-Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,
-That I must call't in question.
-
-King.
-So you shall;
-And where the offence is let the great axe fall.
-I pray you go with me.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene VI. Another room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter Horatio and a Servant.]
-
-Hor.
-What are they that would speak with me?
-
-Servant.
-Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.
-
-Hor.
-Let them come in.
-
-[Exit Servant.]
-
-I do not know from what part of the world
-I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.
-
-[Enter Sailors.]
-
-I Sailor.
-God bless you, sir.
-
-Hor.
-Let him bless thee too.
-
-Sailor.
-He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for you,
-sir,--it comes from the ambassador that was bound for England; if
-your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is.
-
-Hor.
-[Reads.] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked
-this, give these fellows some means to the king: they have
-letters for him. Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of
-very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too
-slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I
-boarded them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so I
-alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with me like thieves
-of mercy: but they knew what they did; I am to do a good turn for
-them. Let the king have the letters I have sent; and repair thou
-to me with as much haste as thou wouldst fly death. I have words
-to speak in thine ear will make thee dumb; yet are they much too
-light for the bore of the matter. These good fellows will bring
-thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their course
-for England: of them I have much to tell thee. Farewell.
-He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'
-
-Come, I will give you way for these your letters;
-And do't the speedier, that you may direct me
-To him from whom you brought them.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene VII. Another room in the Castle.
-
-[Enter King and Laertes.]
-
-King.
-Now must your conscience my acquittance seal,
-And you must put me in your heart for friend,
-Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,
-That he which hath your noble father slain
-Pursu'd my life.
-
-Laer.
-It well appears:--but tell me
-Why you proceeded not against these feats,
-So crimeful and so capital in nature,
-As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,
-You mainly were stirr'd up.
-
-King.
-O, for two special reasons;
-Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,
-But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother
-Lives almost by his looks; and for myself,--
-My virtue or my plague, be it either which,--
-She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,
-That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,
-I could not but by her. The other motive,
-Why to a public count I might not go,
-Is the great love the general gender bear him;
-Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,
-Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,
-Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,
-Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,
-Would have reverted to my bow again,
-And not where I had aim'd them.
-
-Laer.
-And so have I a noble father lost;
-A sister driven into desperate terms,--
-Whose worth, if praises may go back again,
-Stood challenger on mount of all the age
-For her perfections:--but my revenge will come.
-
-King.
-Break not your sleeps for that:--you must not think
-That we are made of stuff so flat and dull
-That we can let our beard be shook with danger,
-And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:
-I lov'd your father, and we love ourself;
-And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine,--
-
-[Enter a Messenger.]
-
-How now! What news?
-
-Mess.
-Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
-This to your majesty; this to the queen.
-
-King.
-From Hamlet! Who brought them?
-
-Mess.
-Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:
-They were given me by Claudio:--he receiv'd them
-Of him that brought them.
-
-King.
-Laertes, you shall hear them.
-Leave us.
-
-[Exit Messenger.]
-
-[Reads]'High and mighty,--You shall know I am set naked on your
-kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly eyes:
-when I shall, first asking your pardon thereunto, recount the
-occasions of my sudden and more strange return. HAMLET.'
-
-What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?
-Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?
-
-Laer.
-Know you the hand?
-
-King.
-'Tis Hamlet's character:--'Naked!'--
-And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'
-Can you advise me?
-
-Laer.
-I am lost in it, my lord. But let him come;
-It warms the very sickness in my heart
-That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,
-'Thus didest thou.'
-
-King.
-If it be so, Laertes,--
-As how should it be so? how otherwise?--
-Will you be rul'd by me?
-
-Laer.
-Ay, my lord;
-So you will not o'errule me to a peace.
-
-King.
-To thine own peace. If he be now return'd--
-As checking at his voyage, and that he means
-No more to undertake it,--I will work him
-To exploit, now ripe in my device,
-Under the which he shall not choose but fall:
-And for his death no wind shall breathe;
-But even his mother shall uncharge the practice
-And call it accident.
-
-Laer.
-My lord, I will be rul'd;
-The rather if you could devise it so
-That I might be the organ.
-
-King.
-It falls right.
-You have been talk'd of since your travel much,
-And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality
-Wherein they say you shine: your sum of parts
-Did not together pluck such envy from him
-As did that one; and that, in my regard,
-Of the unworthiest siege.
-
-Laer.
-What part is that, my lord?
-
-King.
-A very riband in the cap of youth,
-Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes
-The light and careless livery that it wears
-Than settled age his sables and his weeds,
-Importing health and graveness.--Two months since,
-Here was a gentleman of Normandy,--
-I've seen myself, and serv'd against, the French,
-And they can well on horseback: but this gallant
-Had witchcraft in't: he grew unto his seat;
-And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,
-As had he been incorps'd and demi-natur'd
-With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought
-That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,
-Come short of what he did.
-
-Laer.
-A Norman was't?
-
-King.
-A Norman.
-
-Laer.
-Upon my life, Lamond.
-
-King.
-The very same.
-
-Laer.
-I know him well: he is the brooch indeed
-And gem of all the nation.
-
-King.
-He made confession of you;
-And gave you such a masterly report
-For art and exercise in your defence,
-And for your rapier most especially,
-That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed
-If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation
-He swore, had neither motion, guard, nor eye,
-If you oppos'd them. Sir, this report of his
-Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy
-That he could nothing do but wish and beg
-Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.
-Now, out of this,--
-
-Laer.
-What out of this, my lord?
-
-King.
-Laertes, was your father dear to you?
-Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,
-A face without a heart?
-
-Laer.
-Why ask you this?
-
-King.
-Not that I think you did not love your father;
-But that I know love is begun by time,
-And that I see, in passages of proof,
-Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
-There lives within the very flame of love
-A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
-And nothing is at a like goodness still;
-For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
-Dies in his own too much: that we would do,
-We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes,
-And hath abatements and delays as many
-As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;
-And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
-That hurts by easing. But to the quick o' the ulcer:--
-Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake
-To show yourself your father's son in deed
-More than in words?
-
-Laer.
-To cut his throat i' the church.
-
-King.
-No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;
-Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,
-Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.
-Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:
-We'll put on those shall praise your excellence
-And set a double varnish on the fame
-The Frenchman gave you; bring you in fine together
-And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,
-Most generous, and free from all contriving,
-Will not peruse the foils; so that with ease,
-Or with a little shuffling, you may choose
-A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice,
-Requite him for your father.
-
-Laer.
-I will do't:
-And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
-I bought an unction of a mountebank,
-So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,
-Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,
-Collected from all simples that have virtue
-Under the moon, can save the thing from death
-This is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point
-With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,
-It may be death.
-
-King.
-Let's further think of this;
-Weigh what convenience both of time and means
-May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,
-And that our drift look through our bad performance.
-'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project
-Should have a back or second, that might hold
-If this did blast in proof. Soft! let me see:--
-We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings,--
-I ha't:
-When in your motion you are hot and dry,--
-As make your bouts more violent to that end,--
-And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepar'd him
-A chalice for the nonce; whereon but sipping,
-If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,
-Our purpose may hold there.
-
-[Enter Queen.]
-
-How now, sweet queen!
-
-Queen.
-One woe doth tread upon another's heel,
-So fast they follow:--your sister's drown'd, Laertes.
-
-Laer.
-Drown'd! O, where?
-
-Queen.
-There is a willow grows aslant a brook,
-That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;
-There with fantastic garlands did she come
-Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples,
-That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,
-But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
-There, on the pendant boughs her coronet weeds
-Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke;
-When down her weedy trophies and herself
-Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;
-And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;
-Which time she chaunted snatches of old tunes;
-As one incapable of her own distress,
-Or like a creature native and indu'd
-Unto that element: but long it could not be
-Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
-Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
-To muddy death.
-
-Laer.
-Alas, then she is drown'd?
-
-Queen.
-Drown'd, drown'd.
-
-Laer.
-Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,
-And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet
-It is our trick; nature her custom holds,
-Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,
-The woman will be out.--Adieu, my lord:
-I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,
-But that this folly douts it.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-King.
-Let's follow, Gertrude;
-How much I had to do to calm his rage!
-Now fear I this will give it start again;
-Therefore let's follow.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-ACT V.
-
-Scene I. A churchyard.
-
-[Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c.]
-
-1 Clown.
-Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she wilfully
-seeks her own salvation?
-
-2 Clown.
-I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the
-crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.
-
-1 Clown.
-How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?
-
-2 Clown.
-Why, 'tis found so.
-
-1 Clown.
-It must be se offendendo; it cannot be else. For here lies
-the point: if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act: and an
-act hath three branches; it is to act, to do, and to perform:
-argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
-
-2 Clown.
-Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,--
-
-1 Clown.
-Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the
-man; good: if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is,
-will he, nill he, he goes,--mark you that: but if the water come
-to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is
-not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.
-
-2 Clown.
-But is this law?
-
-1 Clown.
-Ay, marry, is't--crowner's quest law.
-
-2 Clown.
-Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been a
-gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o' Christian burial.
-
-1 Clown.
-Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that great folk
-should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves
-more than their even Christian.--Come, my spade. There is no
-ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers: they
-hold up Adam's profession.
-
-2 Clown.
-Was he a gentleman?
-
-1 Clown.
-He was the first that ever bore arms.
-
-2 Clown.
-Why, he had none.
-
-1 Clown.
-What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture?
-The Scripture says Adam digg'd: could he dig without arms? I'll
-put another question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the
-purpose, confess thyself,--
-
-2 Clown.
-Go to.
-
-1 Clown.
-What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the
-shipwright, or the carpenter?
-
-2 Clown.
-The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
-
-1 Clown.
-I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows does well;
-but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill: now,
-thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the
-church; argal, the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come.
-
-2 Clown.
-Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?
-
-1 Clown.
-Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.
-
-2 Clown.
-Marry, now I can tell.
-
-1 Clown.
-To't.
-
-2 Clown.
-Mass, I cannot tell.
-
-[Enter Hamlet and Horatio, at a distance.]
-
-1 Clown.
-Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will
-not mend his pace with beating; and when you are asked this
-question next, say 'a grave-maker;' the houses he makes last
-till doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan; fetch me a stoup of
-liquor.
-
-[Exit Second Clown.]
-
-[Digs and sings.]
-
- In youth when I did love, did love,
- Methought it was very sweet;
- To contract, O, the time for, ah, my behove,
- O, methought there was nothing meet.
-
-Ham.
-Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he sings at
-grave-making?
-
-Hor.
-Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
-
-Ham.
-'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath the daintier
-sense.
-
-1 Clown.
-[Sings.]
- But age, with his stealing steps,
- Hath claw'd me in his clutch,
- And hath shipp'd me intil the land,
- As if I had never been such.
-
-[Throws up a skull.]
-
-Ham.
-That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the
-knave jowls it to the ground,as if 'twere Cain's jawbone, that
-did the first murder! This might be the pate of a politician,
-which this ass now o'erreaches; one that would circumvent God,
-might it not?
-
-Hor.
-It might, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Or of a courtier, which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord!
-How dost thou, good lord?' This might be my lord such-a-one, that
-praised my lord such-a-one's horse when he meant to beg
-it,--might it not?
-
-Hor.
-Ay, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked
-about the mazard with a sexton's spade: here's fine revolution,
-an we had the trick to see't. Did these bones cost no more the
-breeding but to play at loggets with 'em? mine ache to think
-on't.
-
-1 Clown.
-[Sings.]
- A pickaxe and a spade, a spade,
- For and a shrouding sheet;
- O, a pit of clay for to be made
- For such a guest is meet.
-
-[Throws up another skull].
-
-Ham.
-There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
-Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures,
-and his tricks? why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock
-him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him
-of his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be in's time a
-great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his
-fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of
-his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine
-pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of
-his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth
-of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will
-scarcely lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no
-more, ha?
-
-Hor.
-Not a jot more, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-Is not parchment made of sheep-skins?
-
-Hor.
-Ay, my lord, And of calf-skins too.
-
-Ham.
-They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance in that. I
-will speak to this fellow.--Whose grave's this, sir?
-
-1 Clown.
-Mine, sir.
-[Sings.]
- O, a pit of clay for to be made
- For such a guest is meet.
-
-Ham.
-I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't.
-
-1 Clown.
-You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours: for my part,
-I do not lie in't, yet it is mine.
-
-Ham.
-Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for
-the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.
-
-1 Clown.
-'Tis a quick lie, sir; 't will away again from me to you.
-
-Ham.
-What man dost thou dig it for?
-
-1 Clown.
-For no man, sir.
-
-Ham.
-What woman then?
-
-1 Clown.
-For none neither.
-
-Ham.
-Who is to be buried in't?
-
-1 Clown.
-One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.
-
-Ham.
-How absolute the knave is! We must speak by the card, or
-equivocation will undo us. By the Lord, Horatio, these three
-years I have taken note of it, the age is grown so picked that
-the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he
-galls his kibe.--How long hast thou been a grave-maker?
-
-1 Clown.
-Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day that our
-last King Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.
-
-Ham.
-How long is that since?
-
-1 Clown.
-Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it was the
-very day that young Hamlet was born,--he that is mad, and sent
-into England.
-
-Ham.
-Ay, marry, why was be sent into England?
-
-1 Clown.
-Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there;
-or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.
-
-Ham.
-Why?
-
-1 Clown.
-'Twill not he seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he.
-
-Ham.
-How came he mad?
-
-1 Clown.
-Very strangely, they say.
-
-Ham.
-How strangely?
-
-1 Clown.
-Faith, e'en with losing his wits.
-
-Ham.
-Upon what ground?
-
-1 Clown.
-Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man and boy,
-thirty years.
-
-Ham.
-How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?
-
-1 Clown.
-Faith, if he be not rotten before he die,--as we have many
-pocky corses now-a-days that will scarce hold the laying in,--he
-will last you some eight year or nine year: a tanner will last
-you nine year.
-
-Ham.
-Why he more than another?
-
-1 Clown.
-Why, sir, his hide is so tann'd with his trade that he will
-keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of
-your whoreson dead body. Here's a skull now; this skull hath lain
-in the earth three-and-twenty years.
-
-Ham.
-Whose was it?
-
-1 Clown.
-A whoreson, mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?
-
-Ham.
-Nay, I know not.
-
-1 Clown.
-A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! 'a pour'd a flagon of
-Rhenish on my head once. This same skull, sir, was Yorick's
-skull, the king's jester.
-
-Ham.
-This?
-
-1 Clown.
-E'en that.
-
-Ham.
-Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick!--I knew him,
-Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he
-hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred
-in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those
-lips that I have kiss'd I know not how oft. Where be your gibes
-now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that
-were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your
-own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now, get you to my lady's
-chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this
-favour she must come; make her laugh at that.--Pr'ythee, Horatio,
-tell me one thing.
-
-Hor.
-What's that, my lord?
-
-Ham.
-Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i' the earth?
-
-Hor.
-E'en so.
-
-Ham.
-And smelt so? Pah!
-
-[Throws down the skull.]
-
-Hor.
-E'en so, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not
-imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till he find it
-stopping a bung-hole?
-
-Hor.
-'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so.
-
-Ham.
-No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty
-enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died,
-Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is
-earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he
-was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?
- Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
- Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
- O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
- Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw!
-But soft! but soft! aside!--Here comes the king.
-
-[Enter priests, &c, in procession; the corpse of Ophelia,
-Laertes, and Mourners following; King, Queen, their Trains, &c.]
-
-The queen, the courtiers: who is that they follow?
-And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken
-The corse they follow did with desperate hand
-Fordo it own life: 'twas of some estate.
-Couch we awhile and mark.
-
-[Retiring with Horatio.]
-
-Laer.
-What ceremony else?
-
-Ham.
-That is Laertes,
-A very noble youth: mark.
-
-Laer.
-What ceremony else?
-
-1 Priest.
-Her obsequies have been as far enlarg'd
-As we have warranties: her death was doubtful;
-And, but that great command o'ersways the order,
-She should in ground unsanctified have lodg'd
-Till the last trumpet; for charitable prayers,
-Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her,
-Yet here she is allowed her virgin rites,
-Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home
-Of bell and burial.
-
-Laer.
-Must there no more be done?
-
-1 Priest.
-No more be done;
-We should profane the service of the dead
-To sing a requiem and such rest to her
-As to peace-parted souls.
-
-Laer.
-Lay her i' the earth;--
-And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
-May violets spring!--I tell thee, churlish priest,
-A ministering angel shall my sister be
-When thou liest howling.
-
-Ham.
-What, the fair Ophelia?
-
-Queen.
-Sweets to the sweet: farewell.
-[Scattering flowers.]
-I hop'd thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;
-I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,
-And not have strew'd thy grave.
-
-Laer.
-O, treble woe
-Fall ten times treble on that cursed head
-Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense
-Depriv'd thee of!--Hold off the earth awhile,
-Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:
-[Leaps into the grave.]
-Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,
-Till of this flat a mountain you have made,
-To o'ertop old Pelion or the skyish head
-Of blue Olympus.
-
-Ham.
-[Advancing.]
-What is he whose grief
-Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow
-Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand
-Like wonder-wounded hearers? this is I,
-Hamlet the Dane.
-[Leaps into the grave.]
-
-Laer.
-The devil take thy soul!
-[Grappling with him.]
-
-Ham.
-Thou pray'st not well.
-I pr'ythee, take thy fingers from my throat;
-For, though I am not splenetive and rash,
-Yet have I in me something dangerous,
-Which let thy wiseness fear: away thy hand!
-
-King.
-Pluck them asunder.
-
-Queen.
-Hamlet! Hamlet!
-
-All.
-Gentlemen!--
-
-Hor.
-Good my lord, be quiet.
-
-[The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave.]
-
-Ham.
-Why, I will fight with him upon this theme
-Until my eyelids will no longer wag.
-
-Queen.
-O my son, what theme?
-
-Ham.
-I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
-Could not, with all their quantity of love,
-Make up my sum.--What wilt thou do for her?
-
-King.
-O, he is mad, Laertes.
-
-Queen.
-For love of God, forbear him!
-
-Ham.
-'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:
-Woul't weep? woul't fight? woul't fast? woul't tear thyself?
-Woul't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?
-I'll do't.--Dost thou come here to whine?
-To outface me with leaping in her grave?
-Be buried quick with her, and so will I:
-And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw
-Millions of acres on us, till our ground,
-Singeing his pate against the burning zone,
-Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,
-I'll rant as well as thou.
-
-Queen.
-This is mere madness:
-And thus a while the fit will work on him;
-Anon, as patient as the female dove,
-When that her golden couplets are disclos'd,
-His silence will sit drooping.
-
-Ham.
-Hear you, sir;
-What is the reason that you use me thus?
-I lov'd you ever: but it is no matter;
-Let Hercules himself do what he may,
-The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
-
-[Exit.]
-
-King.
-I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him.--
-
-[Exit Horatio.]
-[To Laertes]
-Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;
-We'll put the matter to the present push.--
-Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.--
-This grave shall have a living monument:
-An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;
-Till then in patience our proceeding be.
-
-[Exeunt.]
-
-
-
-Scene II. A hall in the Castle.
-
-[Enter Hamlet and Horatio.]
-
-Ham.
-So much for this, sir: now let me see the other;
-You do remember all the circumstance?
-
-Hor.
-Remember it, my lord!
-
-Ham.
-Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting
-That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
-Worse than the mutinies in the bilboes. Rashly,
-And prais'd be rashness for it,--let us know,
-Our indiscretion sometime serves us well,
-When our deep plots do fail; and that should teach us
-There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
-Rough-hew them how we will.
-
-Hor.
-That is most certain.
-
-Ham.
-Up from my cabin,
-My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark
-Grop'd I to find out them: had my desire;
-Finger'd their packet; and, in fine, withdrew
-To mine own room again: making so bold,
-My fears forgetting manners, to unseal
-Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,
-O royal knavery! an exact command,--
-Larded with many several sorts of reasons,
-Importing Denmark's health, and England's too,
-With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,--
-That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,
-No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,
-My head should be struck off.
-
-Hor.
-Is't possible?
-
-Ham.
-Here's the commission: read it at more leisure.
-But wilt thou bear me how I did proceed?
-
-Hor.
-I beseech you.
-
-Ham.
-Being thus benetted round with villanies,--
-Or I could make a prologue to my brains,
-They had begun the play,--I sat me down;
-Devis'd a new commission; wrote it fair:
-I once did hold it, as our statists do,
-A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much
-How to forget that learning; but, sir, now
-It did me yeoman's service. Wilt thou know
-The effect of what I wrote?
-
-Hor.
-Ay, good my lord.
-
-Ham.
-An earnest conjuration from the king,--
-As England was his faithful tributary;
-As love between them like the palm might flourish;
-As peace should still her wheaten garland wear
-And stand a comma 'tween their amities;
-And many such-like as's of great charge,--
-That, on the view and know of these contents,
-Without debatement further, more or less,
-He should the bearers put to sudden death,
-Not shriving-time allow'd.
-
-Hor.
-How was this seal'd?
-
-Ham.
-Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.
-I had my father's signet in my purse,
-Which was the model of that Danish seal:
-Folded the writ up in the form of the other;
-Subscrib'd it: gave't the impression; plac'd it safely,
-The changeling never known. Now, the next day
-Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent
-Thou know'st already.
-
-Hor.
-So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.
-
-Ham.
-Why, man, they did make love to this employment;
-They are not near my conscience; their defeat
-Does by their own insinuation grow:
-'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes
-Between the pass and fell incensed points
-Of mighty opposites.
-
-Hor.
-Why, what a king is this!
-
-Ham.
-Does it not, thinks't thee, stand me now upon,--
-He that hath kill'd my king, and whor'd my mother;
-Popp'd in between the election and my hopes;
-Thrown out his angle for my proper life,
-And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience
-To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd
-To let this canker of our nature come
-In further evil?
-
-Hor.
-It must be shortly known to him from England
-What is the issue of the business there.
-
-Ham.
-It will be short: the interim is mine;
-And a man's life is no more than to say One.
-But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
-That to Laertes I forgot myself;
-For by the image of my cause I see
-The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours:
-But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me
-Into a towering passion.
-
-Hor.
-Peace; who comes here?
-
-[Enter Osric.]
-
-Osr.
-Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
-
-Ham.
-I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?
-
-Hor.
-No, my good lord.
-
-Ham.
-Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to know him. He
-hath much land, and fertile: let a beast be lord of beasts, and
-his crib shall stand at the king's mess; 'tis a chough; but, as I
-say, spacious in the possession of dirt.
-
-Osr.
-Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I should
-impart a thing to you from his majesty.
-
-Ham.
-I will receive it with all diligence of spirit. Put your
-bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.
-
-Osr.
-I thank your lordship, t'is very hot.
-
-Ham.
-No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is northerly.
-
-Osr.
-It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.
-
-Ham.
-Methinks it is very sultry and hot for my complexion.
-
-Osr.
-Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as 'twere--I cannot
-tell how. But, my lord, his majesty bade me signify to you that
-he has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the
-matter,--
-
-Ham.
-I beseech you, remember,--
-[Hamlet moves him to put on his hat.]
-
-Osr.
-Nay, in good faith; for mine ease, in good faith. Sir, here
-is newly come to court Laertes; believe me, an absolute
-gentleman, full of most excellent differences, of very soft
-society and great showing: indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he
-is the card or calendar of gentry; for you shall find in him the
-continent of what part a gentleman would see.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;--though, I
-know, to divide him inventorially would dizzy the arithmetic of
-memory, and yet but yaw neither, in respect of his quick sail.
-But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great
-article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make
-true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else
-would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
-
-Osr.
-Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.
-
-Ham.
-The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman in our more
-rawer breath?
-
-Osr.
-Sir?
-
-Hor.
-Is't not possible to understand in another tongue? You will do't,
-sir, really.
-
-Ham.
-What imports the nomination of this gentleman?
-
-Osr.
-Of Laertes?
-
-Hor.
-His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent.
-
-Ham.
-Of him, sir.
-
-Osr.
-I know, you are not ignorant,--
-
-Ham.
-I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did, it would not
-much approve me.--Well, sir.
-
-Osr.
-You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is,--
-
-Ham.
-I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in
-excellence; but to know a man well were to know himself.
-
-Osr.
-I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation laid on
-him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.
-
-Ham.
-What's his weapon?
-
-Osr.
-Rapier and dagger.
-
-Ham.
-That's two of his weapons:--but well.
-
-Osr.
-The king, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses:
-against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French
-rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and
-so: three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy,
-very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of
-very liberal conceit.
-
-Ham.
-What call you the carriages?
-
-Hor.
-I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.
-
-Osr.
-The carriages, sir, are the hangers.
-
-Ham.
-The phrase would be more german to the matter if we could
-carry cannon by our sides. I would it might be hangers till then.
-But, on: six Barbary horses against six French swords, their
-assigns, and three liberal conceited carriages: that's the French
-bet against the Danish: why is this all imponed, as you call it?
-
-Osr.
-The king, sir, hath laid that, in a dozen passes between
-your and him, he shall not exceed you three hits: he hath
-laid on twelve for nine; and it would come to immediate trial
-if your lordship would vouchsafe the answer.
-
-Ham.
-How if I answer no?
-
-Osr.
-I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.
-
-Ham.
-Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his majesty,
-it is the breathing time of day with me: let the foils be
-brought, the gentleman willing, and the king hold his purpose,
-I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my
-shame and the odd hits.
-
-Osr.
-Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?
-
-Ham.
-To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will.
-
-Osr.
-I commend my duty to your lordship.
-
-Ham.
-Yours, yours.
-
-[Exit Osric.]
-
-He does well to commend it himself; there are no tongues else
-for's turn.
-
-Hor.
-This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
-
-Ham.
-He did comply with his dug before he suck'd it. Thus has he,--and
-many more of the same bevy that I know the drossy age dotes on,--
-only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter;
-a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and
-through the most fanned and winnowed opinions; and do but blow
-them to their trial, the bubbles are out,
-
-[Enter a Lord.]
-
-Lord.
-My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Osric,
-who brings back to him that you attend him in the hall: he sends
-to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you
-will take longer time.
-
-Ham.
-I am constant to my purposes; they follow the king's pleasure:
-if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided
-I be so able as now.
-
-Lord.
-The King and Queen and all are coming down.
-
-Ham.
-In happy time.
-
-Lord.
-The queen desires you to use some gentle entertainment to
-Laertes before you fall to play.
-
-Ham.
-She well instructs me.
-
-[Exit Lord.]
-
-Hor.
-You will lose this wager, my lord.
-
-Ham.
-I do not think so; since he went into France I have been in
-continual practice: I shall win at the odds. But thou wouldst not
-think how ill all's here about my heart: but it is no matter.
-
-Hor.
-Nay, good my lord,--
-
-Ham.
-It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving as
-would perhaps trouble a woman.
-
-Hor.
-If your mind dislike anything, obey it: I will forestall their
-repair hither, and say you are not fit.
-
-Ham.
-Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in
-the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be
-not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come:
-the readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he leaves,
-what is't to leave betimes?
-
-[Enter King, Queen, Laertes, Lords, Osric, and Attendants with
-foils &c.]
-
-King.
-Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.
-
-[The King puts Laertes' hand into Hamlet's.]
-
-Ham.
-Give me your pardon, sir: I have done you wrong:
-But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.
-This presence knows, and you must needs have heard,
-How I am punish'd with sore distraction.
-What I have done
-That might your nature, honour, and exception
-Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.
-Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:
-If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,
-And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,
-Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
-Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,
-Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;
-His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
-Sir, in this audience,
-Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil
-Free me so far in your most generous thoughts
-That I have shot my arrow o'er the house
-And hurt my brother.
-
-Laer.
-I am satisfied in nature,
-Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most
-To my revenge. But in my terms of honour
-I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement
-Till by some elder masters of known honour
-I have a voice and precedent of peace
-To keep my name ungor'd. But till that time
-I do receive your offer'd love like love,
-And will not wrong it.
-
-Ham.
-I embrace it freely;
-And will this brother's wager frankly play.--
-Give us the foils; come on.
-
-Laer.
-Come, one for me.
-
-Ham.
-I'll be your foil, Laertes; in mine ignorance
-Your skill shall, like a star in the darkest night,
-Stick fiery off indeed.
-
-Laer.
-You mock me, sir.
-
-Ham.
-No, by this hand.
-
-King.
-Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,
-You know the wager?
-
-Ham.
-Very well, my lord;
-Your grace has laid the odds o' the weaker side.
-
-King.
-I do not fear it; I have seen you both;
-But since he's better'd, we have therefore odds.
-
-Laer.
-This is too heavy, let me see another.
-
-Ham.
-This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
-
-[They prepare to play.]
-
-Osr.
-Ay, my good lord.
-
-King.
-Set me the stoups of wine upon that table,--
-If Hamlet give the first or second hit,
-Or quit in answer of the third exchange,
-Let all the battlements their ordnance fire;
-The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;
-And in the cup an union shall he throw,
-Richer than that which four successive kings
-In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;
-And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
-The trumpet to the cannoneer without,
-The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,
-'Now the king drinks to Hamlet.'--Come, begin:--
-And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.
-
-Ham.
-Come on, sir.
-
-Laer.
-Come, my lord.
-
-[They play.]
-
-Ham.
-One.
-
-Laer.
-No.
-
-Ham.
-Judgment!
-
-Osr.
-A hit, a very palpable hit.
-
-Laer.
-Well;--again.
-
-King.
-Stay, give me drink.--Hamlet, this pearl is thine;
-Here's to thy health.--
-
-[Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within.]
-
-Give him the cup.
-
-Ham.
-I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile.--
-Come.--Another hit; what say you?
-
-[They play.]
-
-Laer.
-A touch, a touch, I do confess.
-
-King.
-Our son shall win.
-
-Queen.
-He's fat, and scant of breath.--
-Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows:
-The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.
-
-Ham.
-Good madam!
-
-King.
-Gertrude, do not drink.
-
-Queen.
-I will, my lord; I pray you pardon me.
-
-King.
-[Aside.] It is the poison'd cup; it is too late.
-
-Ham.
-I dare not drink yet, madam; by-and-by.
-
-Queen.
-Come, let me wipe thy face.
-
-Laer.
-My lord, I'll hit him now.
-
-King.
-I do not think't.
-
-Laer.
-[Aside.] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.
-
-Ham.
-Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;
-I pray you pass with your best violence:
-I am afeard you make a wanton of me.
-
-Laer.
-Say you so? come on.
-
-[They play.]
-
-Osr.
-Nothing, neither way.
-
-Laer.
-Have at you now!
-
-[Laertes wounds Hamlet; then, in scuffling, they
-change rapiers, and Hamlet wounds Laertes.]
-
-King.
-Part them; they are incens'd.
-
-Ham.
-Nay, come again!
-
-[The Queen falls.]
-
-Osr.
-Look to the queen there, ho!
-
-Hor.
-They bleed on both sides.--How is it, my lord?
-
-Osr.
-How is't, Laertes?
-
-Laer.
-Why, as a woodcock to my own springe, Osric;
-I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.
-
-Ham.
-How does the Queen?
-
-King.
-She swoons to see them bleed.
-
-Queen.
-No, no! the drink, the drink!--O my dear Hamlet!--
-The drink, the drink!--I am poison'd.
-
-[Dies.]
-
-Ham.
-O villany!--Ho! let the door be lock'd:
-Treachery! seek it out.
-
-[Laertes falls.]
-
-Laer.
-It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;
-No medicine in the world can do thee good;
-In thee there is not half an hour of life;
-The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
-Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practice
-Hath turn'd itself on me; lo, here I lie,
-Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:
-I can no more:--the king, the king's to blame.
-
-Ham.
-The point envenom'd too!--
-Then, venom, to thy work.
-
-[Stabs the King.]
-
-Osric and Lords.
-Treason! treason!
-
-King.
-O, yet defend me, friends! I am but hurt.
-
-Ham.
-Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,
-Drink off this potion.--Is thy union here?
-Follow my mother.
-
-[King dies.]
-
-Laer.
-He is justly serv'd;
-It is a poison temper'd by himself.--
-Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
-Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
-Nor thine on me!
-
-[Dies.]
-
-Ham.
-Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.--
-I am dead, Horatio.--Wretched queen, adieu!--
-You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
-That are but mutes or audience to this act,
-Had I but time,--as this fell sergeant, death,
-Is strict in his arrest,--O, I could tell you,--
-But let it be.--Horatio, I am dead;
-Thou liv'st; report me and my cause aright
-To the unsatisfied.
-
-Hor.
-Never believe it:
-I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.--
-Here's yet some liquor left.
-
-Ham.
-As thou'rt a man,
-Give me the cup; let go; by heaven, I'll have't.--
-O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
-Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
-If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
-Absent thee from felicity awhile,
-And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
-To tell my story.--
-
-[March afar off, and shot within.]
-
-What warlike noise is this?
-
-Osr.
-Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,
-To the ambassadors of England gives
-This warlike volley.
-
-Ham.
-O, I die, Horatio;
-The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
-I cannot live to hear the news from England;
-But I do prophesy the election lights
-On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
-So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
-Which have solicited.--the rest is silence.
-
-[Dies.]
-
-Hor.
-Now cracks a noble heart.--Good night, sweet prince,
-And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
-Why does the drum come hither?
-
-[March within.]
-
-[Enter Fortinbras, the English Ambassadors, and others.]
-
-Fort.
-Where is this sight?
-
-Hor.
-What is it you will see?
-If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.
-
-Fort.
-This quarry cries on havoc.--O proud death,
-What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
-That thou so many princes at a shot
-So bloodily hast struck?
-
-1 Ambassador.
-The sight is dismal;
-And our affairs from England come too late:
-The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
-To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd
-That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
-Where should we have our thanks?
-
-Hor.
-Not from his mouth,
-Had it the ability of life to thank you:
-He never gave commandment for their death.
-But since, so jump upon this bloody question,
-You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
-Are here arriv'd, give order that these bodies
-High on a stage be placed to the view;
-And let me speak to the yet unknowing world
-How these things came about: so shall you hear
-Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts;
-Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters;
-Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause;
-And, in this upshot, purposes mistook
-Fall'n on the inventors' heads: all this can I
-Truly deliver.
-
-Fort.
-Let us haste to hear it,
-And call the noblest to the audience.
-For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:
-I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,
-Which now, to claim my vantage doth invite me.
-
-Hor.
-Of that I shall have also cause to speak,
-And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more:
-But let this same be presently perform'd,
-Even while men's minds are wild: lest more mischance
-On plots and errors happen.
-
-Fort.
-Let four captains
-Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage;
-For he was likely, had he been put on,
-To have prov'd most royally: and, for his passage,
-The soldiers' music and the rites of war
-Speak loudly for him.--
-Take up the bodies.--Such a sight as this
-Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.
-Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
-
-[A dead march.]
-
-[Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after the which a peal of
-ordnance is shot off.]
-
-
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-/**
- * Animated Sprite (Shifty + Teddy)
- * by James Patterson.
- *
- * Press the mouse button to change animations.
- * Demonstrates loading, displaying, and animating GIF images.
- * It would be easy to write a program to display
- * animated GIFs, but would not allow as much control over
- * the display sequence and rate of display.
- */
-
-Animation animation1, animation2;
-float xpos;
-float ypos;
-float drag = 30.0;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- background(255, 204, 0);
- frameRate(24);
- animation1 = new Animation("PT_Shifty_", 38);
- animation2 = new Animation("PT_Teddy_", 60);
- ypos = height * 0.25;
-}
-
-void draw() {
- float difx = mouseX - xpos;
- if (abs(difx) > 1.0) {
- xpos = xpos + difx/drag;
- xpos = constrain(xpos, 0, width);
- }
-
- // Display the sprite at the position xpos, ypos
- if (mousePressed) {
- background(153, 153, 0);
- animation1.display(xpos-animation1.getWidth()/2, ypos);
- } else {
- background(255, 204, 0);
- animation2.display(xpos-animation1.getWidth()/2, ypos);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Animation/AnimatedSprite/Animation.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Animation/AnimatedSprite/Animation.pde
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-// Class for animating a sequence of GIFs
-
-class Animation {
- PImage[] images;
- int imageCount;
- int frame;
-
- Animation(String imagePrefix, int count) {
- imageCount = count;
- images = new PImage[imageCount];
-
- for (int i = 0; i < imageCount; i++) {
- // Use nf() to number format 'i' into four digits
- String filename = imagePrefix + nf(i, 4) + ".gif";
- images[i] = loadImage(filename);
- }
- }
-
- void display(float xpos, float ypos) {
- frame = (frame+1) % imageCount;
- image(images[frame], xpos, ypos);
- }
-
- int getWidth() {
- return images[0].width;
- }
-}
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Animation/Sequential/Sequential.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Animation/Sequential/Sequential.pde
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index a98b6d75b..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Animation/Sequential/Sequential.pde
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-/**
- * Sequential
- * by James Patterson.
- *
- * Displaying a sequence of images creates the illusion of motion.
- * Twelve images are loaded and each is displayed individually in a loop.
- */
-
-int numFrames = 12; // The number of frames in the animation
-int frame = 0;
-PImage[] images = new PImage[numFrames];
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- frameRate(30);
-
- images[0] = loadImage("PT_anim0000.gif");
- images[1] = loadImage("PT_anim0001.gif");
- images[2] = loadImage("PT_anim0002.gif");
- images[3] = loadImage("PT_anim0003.gif");
- images[4] = loadImage("PT_anim0004.gif");
- images[5] = loadImage("PT_anim0005.gif");
- images[6] = loadImage("PT_anim0006.gif");
- images[7] = loadImage("PT_anim0007.gif");
- images[8] = loadImage("PT_anim0008.gif");
- images[9] = loadImage("PT_anim0009.gif");
- images[10] = loadImage("PT_anim0010.gif");
- images[11] = loadImage("PT_anim0011.gif");
-
- // If you don't want to load each image separately
- // and you know how many frames you have, you
- // can create the filenames as the program runs.
- // The nf() command does number formatting, which will
- // ensure that the number is (in this case) 4 digits.
- //for(int i=0; i 3) && world[x][y][0] == 1)
- {
- world[x][y][1] = -1;
- }
- }
- }
-}
-
-// Count the number of adjacent cells 'on'
-int neighbors(int x, int y)
-{
- return world[(x + 1) % sx][y][0] +
- world[x][(y + 1) % sy][0] +
- world[(x + sx - 1) % sx][y][0] +
- world[x][(y + sy - 1) % sy][0] +
- world[(x + 1) % sx][(y + 1) % sy][0] +
- world[(x + sx - 1) % sx][(y + 1) % sy][0] +
- world[(x + sx - 1) % sx][(y + sy - 1) % sy][0] +
- world[(x + 1) % sx][(y + sy - 1) % sy][0];
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Spore1/Spore1.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Spore1/Spore1.pde
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index cb5f3892a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Spore1/Spore1.pde
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@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Spore 1
- * by Mike Davis.
- *
- * A short program for alife experiments. Click in the window to restart.
- * Each cell is represented by a pixel on the display as well as an entry in
- * the array 'cells'. Each cell has a run() method, which performs actions
- * based on the cell's surroundings. Cells run one at a time (to avoid conflicts
- * like wanting to move to the same space) and in random order.
- */
-
-World w;
-int numcells = 0;
-int maxcells = 6700;
-Cell[] cells = new Cell[maxcells];
-color spore_color;
-// set lower for smoother animation, higher for faster simulation
-int runs_per_loop = 10000;
-color black = color(0, 0, 0);
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- frameRate(24);
- clearscr();
- w = new World();
- spore_color = color(172, 255, 128);
- seed();
-}
-
-void seed()
-{
- // Add cells at random places
- for (int i = 0; i < maxcells; i++)
- {
- int cX = (int)random(width);
- int cY = (int)random(height);
- if (w.getpix(cX, cY) == black)
- {
- w.setpix(cX, cY, spore_color);
- cells[numcells] = new Cell(cX, cY);
- numcells++;
- }
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- // Run cells in random order
- for (int i = 0; i < runs_per_loop; i++) {
- int selected = min((int)random(numcells), numcells - 1);
- cells[selected].run();
- }
-}
-
-void clearscr()
-{
- background(0);
-}
-
-class Cell
-{
- int x, y;
- Cell(int xin, int yin)
- {
- x = xin;
- y = yin;
- }
-
- // Perform action based on surroundings
- void run()
- {
- // Fix cell coordinates
- while(x < 0) {
- x+=width;
- }
- while(x > width - 1) {
- x-=width;
- }
- while(y < 0) {
- y+=height;
- }
- while(y > height - 1) {
- y-=height;
- }
-
- // Cell instructions
- if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == black) {
- move(0, 1);
- } else if (w.getpix(x, y - 1) != black && w.getpix(x, y + 1) != black) {
- move((int)random(9) - 4, (int)random(9) - 4);
- }
- }
-
- // Will move the cell (dx, dy) units if that space is empty
- void move(int dx, int dy) {
- if (w.getpix(x + dx, y + dy) == black) {
- w.setpix(x + dx, y + dy, w.getpix(x, y));
- w.setpix(x, y, color(0));
- x += dx;
- y += dy;
- }
- }
-}
-
-// The World class simply provides two functions, get and set, which access the
-// display in the same way as getPixel and setPixel. The only difference is that
-// the World class's get and set do screen wraparound ("toroidal coordinates").
-class World
-{
- void setpix(int x, int y, int c) {
- while(x < 0) x+=width;
- while(x > width - 1) x-=width;
- while(y < 0) y+=height;
- while(y > height - 1) y-=height;
- set(x, y, c);
- }
-
- color getpix(int x, int y) {
- while(x < 0) x+=width;
- while(x > width - 1) x-=width;
- while(y < 0) y+=height;
- while(y > height - 1) y-=height;
- return get(x, y);
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed()
-{
- numcells = 0;
- setup();
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Spore2/Spore2.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Spore2/Spore2.pde
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index ab4cc8397..000000000
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@@ -1,174 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Spore 2
- * by Mike Davis.
- *
- * A short program for alife experiments. Click in the window to restart.
- * Each cell is represented by a pixel on the display as well as an entry in
- * the array 'cells'. Each cell has a run() method, which performs actions
- * based on the cell's surroundings. Cells run one at a time (to avoid conflicts
- * like wanting to move to the same space) and in random order.
- */
-
-World w;
-int maxcells = 8000;
-int numcells;
-Cell[] cells = new Cell[maxcells];
-color spore1, spore2, spore3, spore4;
-color black = color(0, 0, 0);
-// set lower for smoother animation, higher for faster simulation
-int runs_per_loop = 10000;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 200, P2D);
- frameRate(24);
- clearscr();
- w = new World();
- spore1 = color(128, 172, 255);
- spore2 = color(64, 128, 255);
- spore3 = color(255, 128, 172);
- spore4 = color(255, 64, 128);
- numcells = 0;
- seed();
-}
-
-void seed()
-{
- // Add cells at random places
- for (int i = 0; i < maxcells; i++)
- {
- int cX = int(random(width));
- int cY = int(random(height));
- int c;
- float r = random(1);
- if (r < 0.25) c = spore1;
- else if (r < 0.5) c = spore2;
- else if (r < 0.75) c = spore3;
- else c = spore4;
- if (w.getpix(cX, cY) == black)
- {
- w.setpix(cX, cY, c);
- cells[numcells] = new Cell(cX, cY);
- numcells++;
- }
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- // Run cells in random order
- for (int i = 0; i < runs_per_loop; i++) {
- int selected = min((int)random(numcells), numcells - 1);
- cells[selected].run();
- }
-}
-
-void clearscr()
-{
- for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
- for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
- set(x, y, color(0));
- }
- }
-}
-
-class Cell
-{
- int x, y;
- Cell(int xin, int yin)
- {
- x = xin;
- y = yin;
- }
- // Perform action based on surroundings
- void run()
- {
- // Fix cell coordinates
- while(x < 0) {
- x+=width;
- }
- while(x > width - 1) {
- x-=width;
- }
- while(y < 0) {
- y+=height;
- }
- while(y > height - 1) {
- y-=height;
- }
-
- // Cell instructions
- int myColor = w.getpix(x, y);
- if (myColor == spore1) {
- if (w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) == black && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) == black && w.getpix(x, y + 1) == black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore2 && w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) != black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore2 && w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) == black) move(-1, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore1 && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) != black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore1 && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) == black) move(1, -1);
- else move((int)random(3) - 1, 0);
- } else if (myColor == spore2) {
- if (w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) == black && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) == black && w.getpix(x, y + 1) == black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore1 && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) != black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore1 && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) == black) move(1, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore2 && w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) != black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore2 && w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) == black) move(-1, -1);
- else move((int)random(3) - 1, 0);
- }
- else if (myColor == spore3)
- {
- if (w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) == black && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) == black && w.getpix(x, y - 1) == black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore4 && w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) != black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore4 && w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) == black) move(-1, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore3 && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) != black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore3 && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) == black) move(1, 1);
- else move((int)random(3) - 1, 0);
- }
- else if (myColor == spore4)
- {
- if (w.getpix(x - 1, y - 1) == black && w.getpix(x + 1, y - 1) == black && w.getpix(x, y - 1) == black) move(0, -1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore3 && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) != black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x + 1, y) == spore3 && w.getpix(x + 1, y + 1) == black) move(1, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore4 && w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) != black) move(0, 1);
- else if (w.getpix(x - 1, y) == spore4 && w.getpix(x - 1, y + 1) == black) move(-1, 1);
- else move((int)random(3) - 1, 0);
- }
- }
-
- // Will move the cell (dx, dy) units if that space is empty
- void move(int dx, int dy) {
- if (w.getpix(x + dx, y + dy) == black) {
- w.setpix(x + dx, y + dy, w.getpix(x, y));
- w.setpix(x, y, color(0));
- x += dx;
- y += dy;
- }
- }
-}
-
-// The World class simply provides two functions, get and set, which access the
-// display in the same way as getPixel and setPixel. The only difference is that
-// the World class's get and set do screen wraparound ("toroidal coordinates").
-class World
-{
- void setpix(int x, int y, int c) {
- while(x < 0) x+=width;
- while(x > width - 1) x-=width;
- while(y < 0) y+=height;
- while(y > height - 1) y-=height;
- set(x, y, c);
- }
-
- color getpix(int x, int y) {
- while(x < 0) x+=width;
- while(x > width - 1) x-=width;
- while(y < 0) y+=height;
- while(y > height - 1) y-=height;
- return get(x, y);
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed()
-{
- setup();
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Wolfram/CA.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Wolfram/CA.pde
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index ce0b484af..000000000
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-class CA {
-
- int[] cells; // An array of 0s and 1s
- int generation; // How many generations?
- int scl; // How many pixels wide/high is each cell?
-
- int[] rules; // An array to store the ruleset, for example {0,1,1,0,1,1,0,1}
-
- CA(int[] r) {
- rules = r;
- scl = 1;
- cells = new int[width/scl];
- restart();
- }
-
- CA() {
- scl = 1;
- cells = new int[width/scl];
- randomize();
- restart();
- }
-
- // Set the rules of the CA
- void setRules(int[] r) {
- rules = r;
- }
-
- // Make a random ruleset
- void randomize() {
- for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
- rules[i] = int(random(2));
- }
- }
-
- // Reset to generation 0
- void restart() {
- for (int i = 0; i < cells.length; i++) {
- cells[i] = 0;
- }
- // We arbitrarily start with just the middle cell having a state of "1"
- cells[cells.length/2] = 1;
- generation = 0;
- }
-
- // The process of creating the new generation
- void generate() {
- // First we create an empty array for the new values
- int[] nextgen = new int[cells.length];
- // For every spot, determine new state by examing current state, and neighbor states
- // Ignore edges that only have one neighor
- for (int i = 1; i < cells.length-1; i++) {
- int left = cells[i-1]; // Left neighbor state
- int me = cells[i]; // Current state
- int right = cells[i+1]; // Right neighbor state
- nextgen[i] = rules(left,me,right); // Compute next generation state based on ruleset
- }
- // Copy the array into current value
- cells = (int[]) nextgen.clone();
- generation++;
- }
-
- // This is the easy part, just draw the cells, fill 255 for '1', fill 0 for '0'
- void render() {
- for (int i = 0; i < cells.length; i++) {
- if (cells[i] == 1) fill(255);
- else fill(0);
- noStroke();
- rect(i*scl,generation*scl, scl,scl);
- }
- }
-
- // Implementing the Wolfram rules
- // Could be improved and made more concise, but here we can
- // explicitly see what is going on for each case
- int rules (int a, int b, int c) {
- if (a == 1 && b == 1 && c == 1) return rules[0];
- if (a == 1 && b == 1 && c == 0) return rules[1];
- if (a == 1 && b == 0 && c == 1) return rules[2];
- if (a == 1 && b == 0 && c == 0) return rules[3];
- if (a == 0 && b == 1 && c == 1) return rules[4];
- if (a == 0 && b == 1 && c == 0) return rules[5];
- if (a == 0 && b == 0 && c == 1) return rules[6];
- if (a == 0 && b == 0 && c == 0) return rules[7];
- return 0;
- }
-
- // The CA is done if it reaches the bottom of the screen
- boolean finished() {
- if (generation > height/scl) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Wolfram/Wolfram.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Wolfram/Wolfram.pde
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index fe604c0b0..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Cellular Automata/Wolfram/Wolfram.pde
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-/**
- * Wolfram Cellular Automata
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Simple demonstration of a Wolfram 1-dimensional cellular automata
- * When the system reaches bottom of the window, it restarts with a new ruleset
- * Mouse click restarts as well.
- */
-
-CA ca; // An instance object to describe the Wolfram basic Cellular Automata
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360, P2D);
- frameRate(30);
- background(0);
- int[] ruleset = {0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0}; // An initial rule system
- ca = new CA(ruleset); // Initialize CA
-}
-
-void draw() {
- ca.render(); // Draw the CA
- ca.generate(); // Generate the next level
-
- if (ca.finished()) { // If we're done, clear the screen, pick a new ruleset and restart
- background(0);
- ca.randomize();
- ca.restart();
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed() {
- background(0);
- ca.randomize();
- ca.restart();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Animator/Animator.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Animator/Animator.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 883602eea..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Animator/Animator.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Animator.
- *
- * Click and drag to draw and start the program.
- *
- * A simple animation tool that displays a continuous cycle of
- * twenty-four images. Each image is displayed for 30 milliseconds
- * to create animation. While each image is displayed, it’s possible
- * to draw directly into it by pressing the mouse and moving the cursor.
- *
- */
-
-int currentFrame = 0;
-PImage[] frames = new PImage[24];
-int lastTime = 0;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 200);
- strokeWeight(12);
- smooth();
- background(204);
- for (int i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
- frames[i] = get(); // Create a blank frame
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- int currentTime = millis();
- if (currentTime > lastTime+30) {
- nextFrame();
- lastTime = currentTime;
- }
- if (mousePressed == true) {
- line(pmouseX, pmouseY, mouseX, mouseY);
- }
-}
-
-void nextFrame()
-{
- frames[currentFrame] = get(); // Get the display window
- currentFrame++; // Increment to next frame
- if (currentFrame >= frames.length) {
- currentFrame = 0;
- }
- image(frames[currentFrame], 0, 0);
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ContinuousLines/ContinuousLines.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ContinuousLines/ContinuousLines.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9687331ba..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ContinuousLines/ContinuousLines.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Continuous Lines.
- *
- * Click and drag the mouse to draw a line.
- */
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 200);
- background(102);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- stroke(255);
- if(mousePressed) {
- line(mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/CustomTool/CustomTool.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/CustomTool/CustomTool.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 96c3ec67c..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/CustomTool/CustomTool.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,84 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Custom Tool.
- *
- * Move the cursor across the screen to draw.
- * In addition to creating software tools to simulate pens and pencils,
- * it is possible to create unique tools to draw with.
- */
-
-int dots = 1000;
-float[] dX = new float[dots];
-float[] dY = new float[dots];
-
-float l_0 = 0.0;
-float h_0 = 0.0;
-
-float legX = 0.0;
-float legY = 0.0;
-float thighX = 0.0;
-float thighY = 0.0;
-
-float l = 60.0; // Length of the 'leg'
-float h = 90.0; // Height of the 'leg'
-
-float nmx, nmy = 0.0;
-float mx, my = 0.0;
-
-int currentValue = 0;
-int valdir = 1;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- noStroke();
- smooth();
- background(102);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- // Smooth the mouse
- nmx = mouseX;
- nmy = mouseY;
- if((abs(mx - nmx) > 1.0) || (abs(my - nmy) > 1.0)) {
- mx = mx - (mx-nmx)/20.0;
- my = my - (my-nmy)/20.0;
-
- // Set the drawing value
- currentValue += 1* valdir;
- if(currentValue > 255 || currentValue <= 0) {
- valdir *= -1;
- }
- }
-
- iKinematics();
- kinematics();
-
- pushMatrix();
- translate(width/2, height/2);
- stroke(currentValue);
- line(thighX, thighY, legX, legY);
- popMatrix();
-
- stroke(255);
- point(legX + width/2, legY + height/2);
-}
-
-void kinematics()
-{
- thighX = h*cos(h_0);
- thighY = h*sin(h_0);
- legX = thighX + l*cos(h_0 - l_0);
- legY = thighY + l*sin(h_0 - l_0);
-}
-
-void iKinematics()
-{
- float tx = mx - width/2.0;
- float ty = my - height/2.0;
- float c2 = (tx*tx + ty*ty - h*h - l*l)/(2*h*l); //in degrees
- float s2 = sqrt(abs(1 - c2*c2)); // the sign here determines the bend in the joint
- l_0 = -atan2(s2, c2);
- h_0 = atan2(ty, tx) - atan2(l*s2, h+l*c2);
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pattern/Pattern.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pattern/Pattern.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 882b19d74..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pattern/Pattern.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Patterns.
- *
- * Move the cursor over the image to draw with a software tool
- * which responds to the speed of the mouse.
- */
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- background(102);
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- // Call the variableEllipse() method and send it the
- // parameters for the current mouse position
- // and the previous mouse position
- variableEllipse(mouseX, mouseY, pmouseX, pmouseY);
-}
-
-
-// The simple method variableEllipse() was created specifically
-// for this program. It calculates the speed of the mouse
-// and draws a small ellipse if the mouse is moving slowly
-// and draws a large ellipse if the mouse is moving quickly
-
-void variableEllipse(int x, int y, int px, int py)
-{
- float speed = abs(x-px) + abs(y-py);
- stroke(speed);
- ellipse(x, y, speed, speed);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pulses/Pulses.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pulses/Pulses.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index c8b07ec52..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/Pulses/Pulses.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Pulses.
- *
- * Software drawing instruments can follow a rhythm or abide by rules independent
- * of drawn gestures. This is a form of collaborative drawing in which the draftsperson
- * controls some aspects of the image and the software controls others.
- */
-
-int angle = 0;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- background(102);
- smooth();
- noStroke();
- fill(0, 102);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- // Draw only when mouse is pressed
- if (mousePressed == true) {
- angle += 10;
- float val = cos(radians(angle)) * 6.0;
- for (int a = 0; a < 360; a += 75) {
- float xoff = cos(radians(a)) * val;
- float yoff = sin(radians(a)) * val;
- fill(0);
- ellipse(mouseX + xoff, mouseY + yoff, val, val);
- }
- fill(255);
- ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 2, 2);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ScribblePlotter/ScribblePlotter.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ScribblePlotter/ScribblePlotter.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f5dcbf6ef..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Drawing/ScribblePlotter/ScribblePlotter.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Scribble Plotter
- * by Ira Greenberg.
- *
- * Using 2-dimensional arrays, record end points
- * and replot scribbles between points.
- */
-
-int SCRIBBLE = 0;
-int HATCHING = 1;
-
-void setup(){
- size(640, 360);
- background(0);
-
- // Create arrays to hold x, y coords
- float[]x = new float[4];
- float[]y = new float[4];
- // create a convenient 2-dimensional
- // array to hold x, y arrays
- float[][]xy = {x, y};
-
- // Record points
- // X positions
- xy[0][0] = 125;
- xy[0][1] = 475;
- xy[0][2] = 475;
- xy[0][3] = 125;
-
- // Y positions
- xy[1][0] = 100;
- xy[1][1] = 100;
- xy[1][2] = 260;
- xy[1][3] = 260;
-
- // Call plotting function
- makeRect(xy);
-}
-
-void makeRect(float[][]pts){
- stroke(255);
- smooth();
-
- // Scribble variables, that get passed as arguments to the scribble function
- int steps = 100;
- float scribVal = 3.0;
- for (int i = 0; i < pts[0].length; i++){
- // Plots vertices
- strokeWeight(5);
- point(pts[0][i], pts[1][i]);
-
- // Call scribble function
- strokeWeight(.5);
- if (i > 0){
- scribble(pts[0][i], pts[1][i], pts[0][i-1], pts[1][i-1], steps, scribVal, SCRIBBLE);
- }
- if (i == pts[0].length-1){
- // Show some hatching between last 2 points
- scribble(pts[0][i], pts[1][i], pts[0][0], pts[1][0], steps, scribVal*2, HATCHING);
- }
- }
-}
-
-/*
- Scribble function plots lines between end points,
- determined by steps and scribVal arguments.
- two styles are available: SCRIBBLE and HATCHING, which
- are interestingly only dependent on parentheses
- placement in the line() function calls.
-*/
-
-void scribble(float x1, float y1, float x2, float y2, int steps, float scribVal, int style){
-
- float xStep = (x2-x1)/steps;
- float yStep = (y2-y1)/steps;
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++){
- if(style == SCRIBBLE){
- if (i < steps-1){
- line(x1, y1, x1+=xStep+random(-scribVal, scribVal), y1+=yStep+random(-scribVal, scribVal));
- }
- else {
- // extra line needed to attach line back to point- not necessary in HATCHING style
- line(x1, y1, x2, y2);
- }
- }
- else if (style == HATCHING){
- line(x1, y1, (x1+=xStep)+random(-scribVal, scribVal), (y1+=yStep)+random(-scribVal, scribVal));
- }
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/FireCube/FireCube.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/FireCube/FireCube.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c7247fc0..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/FireCube/FireCube.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Fire Cube demo effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * A rotating wireframe cube with flames rising up the screen.
- * The fire effect has been used quite often for oldskool demos.
- * First you create a palette of 256 colors ranging from red to
- * yellow (including black). For every frame, calculate each row
- * of pixels based on the two rows below it: The value of each pixel,
- * becomes the sum of the 3 pixels below it (one directly below, one
- * to the left, and one to the right), and one pixel directly two
- * rows below it. Then divide the sum so that the fire dies out as
- * it rises.
- */
-
-// This will contain the pixels used to calculate the fire effect
-int[][] fire;
-
-// Flame colors
-color[] palette;
-float angle;
-int[] calc1,calc2,calc3,calc4,calc5;
-
-PGraphics pg;
-
-void setup(){
- size(640, 360, P2D);
-
- // Create buffered image for 3d cube
- pg = createGraphics(width, height, P3D);
-
- calc1 = new int[width];
- calc3 = new int[width];
- calc4 = new int[width];
- calc2 = new int[height];
- calc5 = new int[height];
-
- colorMode(HSB);
-
- fire = new int[width][height];
- palette = new color[255];
-
- // Generate the palette
- for(int x = 0; x < palette.length; x++) {
- //Hue goes from 0 to 85: red to yellow
- //Saturation is always the maximum: 255
- //Lightness is 0..255 for x=0..128, and 255 for x=128..255
- palette[x] = color(x/3, 255, constrain(x*3, 0, 255));
- }
-
- // Precalculate which pixel values to add during animation loop
- // this speeds up the effect by 10fps
- for (int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
- calc1[x] = x % width;
- calc3[x] = (x - 1 + width) % width;
- calc4[x] = (x + 1) % width;
- }
-
- for(int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
- calc2[y] = (y + 1) % height;
- calc5[y] = (y + 2) % height;
- }
-}
-
-void draw() {
- angle = angle + 0.05;
-
- // Rotating wireframe cube
- pg.beginDraw();
- pg.translate(width >> 1, height >> 1);
- pg.rotateX(sin(angle/2));
- pg.rotateY(cos(angle/2));
- pg.background(0);
- pg.stroke(128);
- pg.scale(25);
- pg.noFill();
- pg.box(4);
- pg.endDraw();
-
- // Randomize the bottom row of the fire buffer
- for(int x = 0; x < width; x++)
- {
- fire[x][height-1] = int(random(0,190)) ;
- }
-
- loadPixels();
-
- int counter = 0;
- // Do the fire calculations for every pixel, from top to bottom
- for (int y = 0; y < height; y++) {
- for(int x = 0; x < width; x++) {
- // Add pixel values around current pixel
-
- fire[x][y] =
- ((fire[calc3[x]][calc2[y]]
- + fire[calc1[x]][calc2[y]]
- + fire[calc4[x]][calc2[y]]
- + fire[calc1[x]][calc5[y]]) << 5) / 129;
-
- // Output everything to screen using our palette colors
- pixels[counter] = palette[fire[x][y]];
-
- // Extract the red value using right shift and bit mask
- // equivalent of red(pg.pixels[x+y*w])
- if ((pg.pixels[counter++] >> 16 & 0xFF) == 128) {
- // Only map 3D cube 'lit' pixels onto fire array needed for next frame
- fire[x][y] = 128;
- }
- }
- }
- updatePixels();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Lens/Lens.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Lens/Lens.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 804ff14fd..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Lens/Lens.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Lens Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * A picture is shown and it looks like a magnifying glass
- * is drawn over the picture. One of the most famous demos
- * that has a lens effect is 2nd reality by future crew.
- * The trick is to precalculate the entire effect. Just make
- * an array that for each pixel in the destination picture
- * tells which pixel to take from the source picture. This
- * array is called the transformation array. The tricky part
- * is to calculate the transformation array to make the
- * destination look like a lens is beeing held over the source
- * picture. Based on lens formula by on Abe Racadabra.
- */
-
-int lensD = 256; // Lens diameter
-int[] lensArray = new int[lensD*lensD]; // Height and width of lens
-
-PGraphics lensEffect;
-PImage lensImage;
-PImage lensImage2;
-
-int xx = 0;
-int yy = 0;
-int dx = 1;
-int dy = 1;
-
-void setup() {
-
- size(640, 360);
-
- // Create buffered image for lens effect
- lensEffect = createGraphics(width, height, P2D);
-
- // Load background image
- lensEffect.beginDraw();
- lensEffect.image(loadImage("red_smoke.jpg"), 0, 0,
- lensEffect.width, lensEffect.height);
- lensEffect.endDraw();
-
- // Create buffered image for image to warp
- lensImage = createGraphics(lensD, lensD, P2D);
- lensImage2 = createGraphics(lensD, lensD, P2D);
-
- // Lens algorithm (transformation array)
- int magFactor = 40; // Magnification factor
- int m, a, b;
-
- int r = lensD / 2;
- float s = sqrt(r*r - magFactor*magFactor);
-
- for (int y = -r; y < r; y++) {
- for (int x = -r ;x < r; x++) {
- if(x*x + y*y >= s*s) {
- a = x;
- b = y;
- }
- else {
- float z = sqrt(r*r - x*x - y*y);
- a = int(x * magFactor / z + 0.5);
- b = int(y * magFactor / z + 0.5);
- }
- lensArray[(y + r)*lensD + (x + r)] = (b + r) * lensD + (a + r);
- }
- }
-}
-
-void draw() {
-
- // Bounce lens around the screen
- if((xx+dx+lensD > lensEffect.width) || (xx+dx < 0)) {
- dx =- dx;
- }
- if((yy+dy+lensD > lensEffect.height) || (yy+dy < 0)) {
- dy =- dy;
- }
- xx += dx;
- yy += dy;
-
- lensImage = createGraphics(lensD, lensD, P2D);
-
- // save the backgrounlensD of lensHeight*lensWilensDth pixels rectangle at the coorlensDinates
- // where the lens effect will be applielensD.
- lensImage2.copy(lensEffect, xx, yy, lensD, lensD, 0, 0, lensD, lensD);
-
- // output into a bufferelensD image for reuse
- lensImage.loadPixels();
-
- // For each pixel in the destination rectangle, apply the color
- // from the appropriate pixel in the saved background. The lensArray
- // array tells the offset into the saved background.
- for (int i = 0; i < lensImage.pixels.length; i++) {
- lensImage.pixels[i] = lensImage2.pixels[lensArray[i]];
- }
- lensImage.updatePixels();
-
- // Restore the original picture
- image(lensEffect, 0, 0, width, height);
-
- // Overlay the lens square
- image(lensImage, xx, yy, lensD, lensD);
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Metaball/Metaball.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Metaball/Metaball.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index cde5d1c4a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Metaball/Metaball.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Metaball Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * Organic-looking n-dimensional objects. The technique for rendering
- * metaballs was invented by Jim Blinn in the early 1980s. Each metaball
- * is defined as a function in n-dimensions.
- */
-
-int numBlobs = 3;
-
-int[] blogPx = { 0, 90, 90 };
-int[] blogPy = { 0, 120, 45 };
-
-// Movement vector for each blob
-int[] blogDx = { 1, 1, 1 };
-int[] blogDy = { 1, 1, 1 };
-
-PGraphics pg;
-int[][] vy,vx;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- pg = createGraphics(160, 90, P2D);
- vy = new int[numBlobs][pg.height];
- vx = new int[numBlobs][pg.width];
-}
-
-void draw() {
- for (int i=0; i pg.width) {
- blogDx[i] = -1;
- }
- if (blogPy[i] < 0) {
- blogDy[i] = 1;
- }
- if (blogPy[i] > pg.height) {
- blogDy[i]=-1;
- }
-
- for (int x = 0; x < pg.width; x++) {
- vx[i][x] = int(sq(blogPx[i]-x));
- }
-
- for (int y = 0; y < pg.height; y++) {
- vy[i][y] = int(sq(blogPy[i]-y));
- }
- }
-
- // Output into a buffered image for reuse
- pg.beginDraw();
- pg.loadPixels();
- for (int y = 0; y < pg.height; y++) {
- for (int x = 0; x < pg.width; x++) {
- int m = 1;
- for (int i = 0; i < numBlobs; i++) {
- // Increase this number to make your blobs bigger
- m += 60000/(vy[i][y] + vx[i][x]+1);
- }
- pg.pixels[x+y*pg.width] = color(0, m+x, (x+m+y)/2);
- }
- }
- pg.updatePixels();
- pg.endDraw();
-
- // Display the results
- image(pg, 0, 0, width, height);
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Plasma/Plasma.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Plasma/Plasma.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 04b20d84d..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Plasma/Plasma.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Plasma Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * Cycles of changing colours warped to give an illusion
- * of liquid, organic movement.Colors are the sum of sine
- * functions and various formulas. Based on formula by Robert Klep.
- */
-
-int pixelSize=2;
-PGraphics pg;
-
-void setup(){
- size(640, 360);
- // Create buffered image for plasma effect
- pg = createGraphics(160, 90, P2D);
- colorMode(HSB);
- noSmooth();
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- float xc = 25;
-
- // Enable this to control the speed of animation regardless of CPU power
- // int timeDisplacement = millis()/30;
-
- // This runs plasma as fast as your computer can handle
- int timeDisplacement = frameCount;
-
- // No need to do this math for every pixel
- float calculation1 = sin( radians(timeDisplacement * 0.61655617));
- float calculation2 = sin( radians(timeDisplacement * -3.6352262));
-
- // Output into a buffered image for reuse
- pg.beginDraw();
- pg.loadPixels();
-
- // Plasma algorithm
- for (int x = 0; x < pg.width; x++, xc += pixelSize)
- {
- float yc = 25;
- float s1 = 128 + 128 * sin(radians(xc) * calculation1 );
-
- for (int y = 0; y < pg.height; y++, yc += pixelSize)
- {
- float s2 = 128 + 128 * sin(radians(yc) * calculation2 );
- float s3 = 128 + 128 * sin(radians((xc + yc + timeDisplacement * 5) / 2));
- float s = (s1+ s2 + s3) / 3;
- pg.pixels[x+y*pg.width] = color(s, 255 - s / 2.0, 255);
- }
- }
- pg.updatePixels();
- pg.endDraw();
-
- // display the results
- image(pg,0,0,width,height);
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Tunnel/Tunnel.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Tunnel/Tunnel.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e98f3e47..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Tunnel/Tunnel.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Tunnel Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * This effect shows a tunnel in which you fly while the tunnel
- * rotates, seemingly in 3D. The animation of the tunnel actually
- * isn't calculated on the fly while the animation runs, but is
- * precalculated. These calculations are stored in two tables:
- * one for the angle and one for the distance. For every frame,
- * go through every pixel (x,y) and use the angle and distance
- * tables to get which pixel of the texture it should draw at the
- * current pixel. To look like its rotating and zooming, the values
- * of the angle and distance tables are shifted.
- */
-
-int x, y, radius, l;
-PGraphics tunnelEffect;
-PImage textureImg;
-
-// build lookup table
-int[][] distanceTable;
-int[][] angleTable;
-int[][] shadeTable;
-int w, h;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
-
- // Load texture 512 x 512
- textureImg = loadImage("red_smoke.jpg");
- textureImg.loadPixels();
-
- // Create buffer screen
- tunnelEffect = createGraphics(320, 200, P2D);
- w = tunnelEffect.width;
- h = tunnelEffect.height;
-
- float ratio = 32.0;
- int angle;
- int depth;
- int shade = 0;
-
- // Make the tables twice as big as the screen.
- // The center of the buffers is now the position (w,h).
- distanceTable= new int[2 * w][2 * h];
- angleTable= new int[2 * w][2 * h];
-
- for (int x = 0; x < w*2; x++)
- {
- for (int y = 0; y < h*2; y++)
- {
- depth = int(ratio * textureImg.height
- / sqrt(float((x - w) * (x - w) + (y - h) * (y - h)))) ;
- angle = int(0.5 * textureImg.width * atan2(float(y - h),
- float(x - w)) / PI) ;
-
- // The distance table contains for every pixel of the
- // screen, the inverse of the distance to the center of
- // the screen this pixel has.
- distanceTable[x][y] = depth ;
-
- // The angle table contains the angle of every pixel of the screen,
- // where the center of the screen represents the origin.
- angleTable[x][y] = angle ;
- }
- }
-}
-
-
-void draw() {
-
- tunnelEffect.beginDraw();
- tunnelEffect.loadPixels();
-
- float timeDisplacement = millis() / 1000.0;
-
- // Calculate the shift values out of the time value
- int shiftX = int(textureImg.width * .2 * timeDisplacement+300); // speed of zoom
- int shiftY = int(textureImg.height * .15 * timeDisplacement+300); //speed of spin
-
- // Calculate the look values out of the time value
- // by using sine functions, it'll alternate between
- // looking left/right and up/down
- int shiftLookX = w / 2 + int(w / 4 * sin(timeDisplacement));
- int shiftLookY = h / 2 + int(h / 4 * sin(timeDisplacement * 1.5));
-
- for (int y = 0; y < h; y++) {
- for (int x = 0; x < w; x++) {
-
- // Make sure that x + shiftLookX never goes outside
- // the dimensions of the table
- int texture_x = constrain((distanceTable[x + shiftLookX][y + shiftLookY]
- + shiftX) % textureImg.width ,0, textureImg.width);
-
- int texture_y = (angleTable[x + shiftLookX][y + shiftLookY]
- + shiftY) % textureImg.height;
-
- tunnelEffect.pixels[x+y*w] = textureImg.pixels[texture_y
- * textureImg.width + texture_x];
-
- // Test lookuptables
- // tunnelEffect.pixels[x+y*w] = color( 0,texture_x,texture_y);
- }
- }
-
- tunnelEffect.updatePixels();
- tunnelEffect.endDraw();
-
- // Display the results
- image(tunnelEffect, 0, 0, width, height);
-
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/UnlimitedSprites/UnlimitedSprites.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/UnlimitedSprites/UnlimitedSprites.pde
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index 6395eeaa1..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/UnlimitedSprites/UnlimitedSprites.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Unlimited Sprites Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * An infinate number of sprites drawn to screen. It's basically
- * a flick-book effect; you draw the same sprite in different
- * positions on different bufffer 'screens' and flip between them.
- * When you've drawn on all frames, you loop back to the beginning
- * and repeat.
- */
-
-PGraphics[] spriteFrames = new PGraphics[6];
-PImage sprite;
-
-float x, y;
-float xang = 0.0;
-float yang = 0.0;
-int surf = 0;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- noSmooth();
- background(0);
-
- // Create sprite
- sprite=loadImage("Aqua-Ball-48x48.png");
-
- // Create blank surfaces to draw on
- for (int i = 0; i < spriteFrames.length; i++) {
- spriteFrames[i] = createGraphics(width, height, JAVA2D);
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(0);
-
- // Get X, Y positions
- x = (width/2)*sin((radians(xang))*0.95);
- y = (height/2)*cos((radians(yang))*0.97);
-
- // Inc the angle of the sine
- xang += 1.17;
- yang += 1.39;
-
- // Blit our 'bob' on the 'active' surface
- spriteFrames[surf].beginDraw();
- spriteFrames[surf].image(sprite, x+(width/2)-32, y+(height/2)-32);
- spriteFrames[surf].endDraw();
-
- // Blit the active surface to the screen
- image(spriteFrames[surf], 0, 0, width, height);
-
- // Inc the active surface number
- surf = (surf+1) % spriteFrames.length;
-
- // Display the results
- //image(spriteEffect, 0, 0, width, height);
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Wormhole/Wormhole.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Wormhole/Wormhole.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f2f8fed8..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Wormhole/Wormhole.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Wormhole Demo Effect
- * by luis2048.
- *
- * A funnel-shaped hole sucking its texture to the middle.
- * The effect is accomplished like the tunnel effect but with
- * a 15 x 15 texture and static lookup table. The texture is shifted
- * and mapped to the static lookup table.
- */
-
-PImage wormImg, wormTexture;
-int[] reg = new int[15];
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360, P2D);
- noSmooth();
-
- // Reference image used to transpose texture
- wormImg = loadImage("wormhole.png");
- wormImg.resize(width, height);
- wormImg.loadPixels();
-
- // Texture image array
- wormTexture = loadImage("texture.gif");
- wormTexture.loadPixels();
-}
-
-// Moves the bottom row of pixels to the top and shifting remaining pixels 1 over
-void shiftup() {
- for (int k = 0; k < 15; k++) {
- reg[k] = wormTexture.pixels[k];
- }
-
- for (int k = 15; k < 225; k++) {
- wormTexture.pixels[k-15] = wormTexture.pixels[k];
- }
- for (int k = 0; k < 15; k++) {
- wormTexture.pixels[k+210] = reg[k];
- }
-}
-
-// Moves left column of pixels to the right and shifting remaining pixels 1 over
-void shiftright() {
- for(int k = 0; k < 15; k++) {
- reg[k] = wormTexture.pixels[15*k+14];
- for(int i = 14;i > 0; i--) {
- wormTexture.pixels[15*k+i] = wormTexture.pixels[15*k+(i-1)];
- }
- wormTexture.pixels[15*k] = reg[k];
- }
-}
-
-void draw() {
- // Load pixel data array
- loadPixels();
-
- // Loop through all pixels
- for (int i = 0; i < pixels.length; i++){
- // Map texture to wormhole in a bit shift blue
- pixels[i] = wormTexture.pixels[constrain(wormImg.pixels[i] & 0xFF, 0, 224)];
- }
-
- updatePixels();
-
- shiftright();
- shiftup();
-}
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Wormhole/data/texture.gif b/java/examples/Topics/Effects/Wormhole/data/texture.gif
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile1/LoadFile1.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile1/LoadFile1.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index ac42a81c6..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile1/LoadFile1.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * LoadFile 1
- *
- * Loads a text file that contains two numbers separated by a tab ('\t').
- * A new pair of numbers is loaded each frame and used to draw a point on the screen.
- */
-
-String[] lines;
-int index = 0;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- background(0);
- stroke(255);
- frameRate(12);
- lines = loadStrings("positions.txt");
-}
-
-void draw() {
- if (index < lines.length) {
- String[] pieces = split(lines[index], '\t');
- if (pieces.length == 2) {
- int x = int(pieces[0]) * 2;
- int y = int(pieces[1]) * 2;
- point(x, y);
- }
- // Go to the next line for the next run through draw()
- index = index + 1;
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile1/data/positions.txt b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile1/data/positions.txt
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/LoadFile2.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/LoadFile2.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 356d8354f..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/LoadFile2.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * LoadFile 2
- *
- * This example loads a data file about cars. Each element is separated
- * with a tab and corresponds to a different aspect of each car. The file stores
- * the miles per gallon, cylinders, displacement, etc., for more than 400 different
- * makes and models. Press a mouse button to advance to the next group of entries.
- */
-
-Record[] records;
-String[] lines;
-int recordCount;
-PFont body;
-int num = 9; // Display this many entries on each screen.
-int startingEntry = 0; // Display from this entry number
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- fill(255);
- noLoop();
-
- body = loadFont("TheSans-Plain-12.vlw");
- textFont(body);
-
- lines = loadStrings("cars2.tsv");
- records = new Record[lines.length];
- for (int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
- String[] pieces = split(lines[i], TAB); // Load data into array
- if (pieces.length == 9) {
- records[recordCount] = new Record(pieces);
- recordCount++;
- }
- }
- if (recordCount != records.length) {
- records = (Record[]) subset(records, 0, recordCount);
- }
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- int thisEntry = startingEntry + i;
- if (thisEntry < recordCount) {
- text(thisEntry + " > " + records[thisEntry].name, 20, 20 + i*20);
- }
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed() {
- startingEntry += num;
- if (startingEntry > records.length) {
- startingEntry = 0; // go back to the beginning
- }
- redraw();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/Record.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/Record.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cc836abc..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/Record.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-class Record {
- String name;
- float mpg;
- int cylinders;
- float displacement;
- float horsepower;
- float weight;
- float acceleration;
- int year;
- float origin;
-
- public Record(String[] pieces) {
- name = pieces[0];
- mpg = float(pieces[1]);
- cylinders = int(pieces[2]);
- displacement = float(pieces[3]);
- horsepower = float(pieces[4]);
- weight = float(pieces[5]);
- acceleration = float(pieces[6]);
- year = int(pieces[7]);
- origin = float(pieces[8]);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/data/TheSans-Plain-12.vlw b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/data/TheSans-Plain-12.vlw
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/data/cars2.tsv b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/data/cars2.tsv
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f658bf20..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/LoadFile2/data/cars2.tsv
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,406 +0,0 @@
-chevrolet chevelle malibu 18 8 307 130 3504 12 70 1
-buick skylark 320 15 8 350 165 3693 11.5 70 1
-plymouth satellite 18 8 318 150 3436 11 70 1
-amc rebel sst 16 8 304 150 3433 12 70 1
-ford torino 17 8 302 140 3449 10.5 70 1
-ford galaxie 500 15 8 429 198 4341 10 70 1
-chevrolet impala 14 8 454 220 4354 9 70 1
-plymouth fury iii 14 8 440 215 4312 8.5 70 1
-pontiac catalina 14 8 455 225 4425 10 70 1
-amc ambassador dpl 15 8 390 190 3850 8.5 70 1
-citroen ds-21 pallas NA 4 133 115 3090 17.5 70 2
-chevrolet chevelle concours (sw) NA 8 350 165 4142 11.5 70 1
-ford torino (sw) NA 8 351 153 4034 11 70 1
-plymouth satellite (sw) NA 8 383 175 4166 10.5 70 1
-amc rebel sst (sw) NA 8 360 175 3850 11 70 1
-dodge challenger se 15 8 383 170 3563 10 70 1
-plymouth 'cuda 340 14 8 340 160 3609 8 70 1
-ford mustang boss 302 NA 8 302 140 3353 8 70 1
-chevrolet monte carlo 15 8 400 150 3761 9.5 70 1
-buick estate wagon (sw) 14 8 455 225 3086 10 70 1
-toyota corona mark ii 24 4 113 95 2372 15 70 3
-plymouth duster 22 6 198 95 2833 15.5 70 1
-amc hornet 18 6 199 97 2774 15.5 70 1
-ford maverick 21 6 200 85 2587 16 70 1
-datsun pl510 27 4 97 88 2130 14.5 70 3
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-peugeot 504 25 4 110 87 2672 17.5 70 2
-audi 100 ls 24 4 107 90 2430 14.5 70 2
-saab 99e 25 4 104 95 2375 17.5 70 2
-bmw 2002 26 4 121 113 2234 12.5 70 2
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-ford f250 10 8 360 215 4615 14 70 1
-chevy c20 10 8 307 200 4376 15 70 1
-dodge d200 11 8 318 210 4382 13.5 70 1
-hi 1200d 9 8 304 193 4732 18.5 70 1
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-toyota corona 25 4 113 95 2228 14 71 3
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-volkswagen super beetle 117 NA 4 97 48 1978 20 71 2
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-chevrolet chevelle malibu 17 6 250 100 3329 15.5 71 1
-ford torino 500 19 6 250 88 3302 15.5 71 1
-amc matador 18 6 232 100 3288 15.5 71 1
-chevrolet impala 14 8 350 165 4209 12 71 1
-pontiac catalina brougham 14 8 400 175 4464 11.5 71 1
-ford galaxie 500 14 8 351 153 4154 13.5 71 1
-plymouth fury iii 14 8 318 150 4096 13 71 1
-dodge monaco (sw) 12 8 383 180 4955 11.5 71 1
-ford country squire (sw) 13 8 400 170 4746 12 71 1
-pontiac safari (sw) 13 8 400 175 5140 12 71 1
-amc hornet sportabout (sw) 18 6 258 110 2962 13.5 71 1
-chevrolet vega (sw) 22 4 140 72 2408 19 71 1
-pontiac firebird 19 6 250 100 3282 15 71 1
-ford mustang 18 6 250 88 3139 14.5 71 1
-mercury capri 2000 23 4 122 86 2220 14 71 1
-opel 1900 28 4 116 90 2123 14 71 2
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-fiat 124b 30 4 88 76 2065 14.5 71 2
-toyota corolla 1200 31 4 71 65 1773 19 71 3
-datsun 1200 35 4 72 69 1613 18 71 3
-volkswagen model 111 27 4 97 60 1834 19 71 2
-plymouth cricket 26 4 91 70 1955 20.5 71 1
-toyota corona hardtop 24 4 113 95 2278 15.5 72 3
-dodge colt hardtop 25 4 97.5 80 2126 17 72 1
-volkswagen type 3 23 4 97 54 2254 23.5 72 2
-chevrolet vega 20 4 140 90 2408 19.5 72 1
-ford pinto runabout 21 4 122 86 2226 16.5 72 1
-chevrolet impala 13 8 350 165 4274 12 72 1
-pontiac catalina 14 8 400 175 4385 12 72 1
-plymouth fury iii 15 8 318 150 4135 13.5 72 1
-ford galaxie 500 14 8 351 153 4129 13 72 1
-amc ambassador sst 17 8 304 150 3672 11.5 72 1
-mercury marquis 11 8 429 208 4633 11 72 1
-buick lesabre custom 13 8 350 155 4502 13.5 72 1
-oldsmobile delta 88 royale 12 8 350 160 4456 13.5 72 1
-chrysler newport royal 13 8 400 190 4422 12.5 72 1
-mazda rx2 coupe 19 3 70 97 2330 13.5 72 3
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-chevrolet chevelle concours (sw) 13 8 307 130 4098 14 72 1
-ford gran torino (sw) 13 8 302 140 4294 16 72 1
-plymouth satellite custom (sw) 14 8 318 150 4077 14 72 1
-volvo 145e (sw) 18 4 121 112 2933 14.5 72 2
-volkswagen 411 (sw) 22 4 121 76 2511 18 72 2
-peugeot 504 (sw) 21 4 120 87 2979 19.5 72 2
-renault 12 (sw) 26 4 96 69 2189 18 72 2
-ford pinto (sw) 22 4 122 86 2395 16 72 1
-datsun 510 (sw) 28 4 97 92 2288 17 72 3
-toyouta corona mark ii (sw) 23 4 120 97 2506 14.5 72 3
-dodge colt (sw) 28 4 98 80 2164 15 72 1
-toyota corolla 1600 (sw) 27 4 97 88 2100 16.5 72 3
-buick century 350 13 8 350 175 4100 13 73 1
-amc matador 14 8 304 150 3672 11.5 73 1
-chevrolet malibu 13 8 350 145 3988 13 73 1
-ford gran torino 14 8 302 137 4042 14.5 73 1
-dodge coronet custom 15 8 318 150 3777 12.5 73 1
-mercury marquis brougham 12 8 429 198 4952 11.5 73 1
-chevrolet caprice classic 13 8 400 150 4464 12 73 1
-ford ltd 13 8 351 158 4363 13 73 1
-plymouth fury gran sedan 14 8 318 150 4237 14.5 73 1
-chrysler new yorker brougham 13 8 440 215 4735 11 73 1
-buick electra 225 custom 12 8 455 225 4951 11 73 1
-amc ambassador brougham 13 8 360 175 3821 11 73 1
-plymouth valiant 18 6 225 105 3121 16.5 73 1
-chevrolet nova custom 16 6 250 100 3278 18 73 1
-amc hornet 18 6 232 100 2945 16 73 1
-ford maverick 18 6 250 88 3021 16.5 73 1
-plymouth duster 23 6 198 95 2904 16 73 1
-volkswagen super beetle 26 4 97 46 1950 21 73 2
-chevrolet impala 11 8 400 150 4997 14 73 1
-ford country 12 8 400 167 4906 12.5 73 1
-plymouth custom suburb 13 8 360 170 4654 13 73 1
-oldsmobile vista cruiser 12 8 350 180 4499 12.5 73 1
-amc gremlin 18 6 232 100 2789 15 73 1
-toyota carina 20 4 97 88 2279 19 73 3
-chevrolet vega 21 4 140 72 2401 19.5 73 1
-datsun 610 22 4 108 94 2379 16.5 73 3
-maxda rx3 18 3 70 90 2124 13.5 73 3
-ford pinto 19 4 122 85 2310 18.5 73 1
-mercury capri v6 21 6 155 107 2472 14 73 1
-fiat 124 sport coupe 26 4 98 90 2265 15.5 73 2
-chevrolet monte carlo s 15 8 350 145 4082 13 73 1
-pontiac grand prix 16 8 400 230 4278 9.5 73 1
-fiat 128 29 4 68 49 1867 19.5 73 2
-opel manta 24 4 116 75 2158 15.5 73 2
-audi 100ls 20 4 114 91 2582 14 73 2
-volvo 144ea 19 4 121 112 2868 15.5 73 2
-dodge dart custom 15 8 318 150 3399 11 73 1
-saab 99le 24 4 121 110 2660 14 73 2
-toyota mark ii 20 6 156 122 2807 13.5 73 3
-oldsmobile omega 11 8 350 180 3664 11 73 1
-plymouth duster 20 6 198 95 3102 16.5 74 1
-ford maverick 21 6 200 NA 2875 17 74 1
-amc hornet 19 6 232 100 2901 16 74 1
-chevrolet nova 15 6 250 100 3336 17 74 1
-datsun b210 31 4 79 67 1950 19 74 3
-ford pinto 26 4 122 80 2451 16.5 74 1
-toyota corolla 1200 32 4 71 65 1836 21 74 3
-chevrolet vega 25 4 140 75 2542 17 74 1
-chevrolet chevelle malibu classic 16 6 250 100 3781 17 74 1
-amc matador 16 6 258 110 3632 18 74 1
-plymouth satellite sebring 18 6 225 105 3613 16.5 74 1
-ford gran torino 16 8 302 140 4141 14 74 1
-buick century luxus (sw) 13 8 350 150 4699 14.5 74 1
-dodge coronet custom (sw) 14 8 318 150 4457 13.5 74 1
-ford gran torino (sw) 14 8 302 140 4638 16 74 1
-amc matador (sw) 14 8 304 150 4257 15.5 74 1
-audi fox 29 4 98 83 2219 16.5 74 2
-volkswagen dasher 26 4 79 67 1963 15.5 74 2
-opel manta 26 4 97 78 2300 14.5 74 2
-toyota corona 31 4 76 52 1649 16.5 74 3
-datsun 710 32 4 83 61 2003 19 74 3
-dodge colt 28 4 90 75 2125 14.5 74 1
-fiat 128 24 4 90 75 2108 15.5 74 2
-fiat 124 tc 26 4 116 75 2246 14 74 2
-honda civic 24 4 120 97 2489 15 74 3
-subaru 26 4 108 93 2391 15.5 74 3
-fiat x1.9 31 4 79 67 2000 16 74 2
-plymouth valiant custom 19 6 225 95 3264 16 75 1
-chevrolet nova 18 6 250 105 3459 16 75 1
-mercury monarch 15 6 250 72 3432 21 75 1
-ford maverick 15 6 250 72 3158 19.5 75 1
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveFile1/SaveFile1.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveFile1/SaveFile1.pde
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index 9bcdbec18..000000000
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-/**
- * SaveFile 1
- *
- * Saving files is a useful way to store data so it can be viewed after a
- * program has stopped running. The saveStrings() function writes an array
- * of strings to a file, with each string written to a new line. This file
- * is saved to the sketch's folder. This example won't work in a web browser
- * because of Java security restrictions.
- */
-
-int[] x = new int[0];
-int[] y = new int[0];
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(204);
- stroke(0);
- noFill();
- beginShape();
- for (int i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
- vertex(x[i], y[i]);
- }
- endShape();
- // Show the next segment to be added
- if (x.length >= 1) {
- stroke(255);
- line(mouseX, mouseY, x[x.length-1], y[x.length-1]);
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed() { // Click to add a line segment
- x = append(x, mouseX);
- y = append(y, mouseY);
-}
-
-void keyPressed() { // Press a key to save the data
- String[] lines = new String[x.length];
- for (int i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
- lines[i] = x[i] + "\t" + y[i];
- }
- saveStrings("lines.txt", lines);
- exit(); // Stop the program
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveFile2/SaveFile2.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveFile2/SaveFile2.pde
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index f47265063..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveFile2/SaveFile2.pde
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-/**
- * SaveFile 2
- *
- * This file a PrintWriter object to write data continuously to a file
- * while the mouse is pressed. When a key is pressed, the file closes
- * itself and the program is stopped. This example won't work in a web browser
- * because of Java security restrictions.
- */
-
-PrintWriter output;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- // Create a new file in the sketch directory
- output = createWriter("positions.txt");
- frameRate(12);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- if (mousePressed) {
- point(mouseX, mouseY);
- // Write the coordinate to a file with a
- // "\t" (TAB character) between each entry
- output.println(mouseX + "\t" + mouseY);
- }
-}
-
-void keyPressed() { // Press a key to save the data
- output.flush(); // Write the remaining data
- output.close(); // Finish the file
- exit(); // Stop the program
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveManyImages/SaveManyImages.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveManyImages/SaveManyImages.pde
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index 4a030ec71..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveManyImages/SaveManyImages.pde
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@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Save Many Images.
- *
- * The saveFrame() function allows you to save images from
- * a program while it is running. This example saves the first
- * 50 frames of a program. These images can be imported into
- * animation software or QuickTime and then saved as a movie.
- */
-
-float x = 33;
-float numFrames = 50;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- noStroke();
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(0);
- x += random(-2, 2);
- ellipse(x, 100, 80, 80);
- if (frameCount <= numFrames) {
- saveFrame("circles-####.tif");
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveOneImage/SaveOneImage.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveOneImage/SaveOneImage.pde
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index 81f5aa8e9..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/SaveOneImage/SaveOneImage.pde
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@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Save One Image
- *
- * The save() function allows you to save an image from the
- * display window. In this example, save() is run when a mouse
- * button is pressed. The image "line.tif" is saved to the
- * same folder as the sketch's program file.
- */
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(204);
- line(0, 0, mouseX, height);
- line(width, 0, 0, mouseY);
-}
-
-void mousePressed()
-{
- save("line.tif");
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/TileImages/TileImages.pde b/java/examples/Topics/File IO/TileImages/TileImages.pde
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index 7b266570c..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/File IO/TileImages/TileImages.pde
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@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Tile Images
- *
- * Draws an image larger than the screen by tiling it into small sections.
- * The scaleValue variable sets amount of scaling: 1 is 100%, 2 is 200%, etc.
- */
-
-int scaleValue = 3; // Multiplication factor
-int xoffset = 0; // x-axis offset
-int yoffset = 0; // y-axis offset
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(600, 600);
- stroke(0, 100);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- scale(scaleValue);
- translate(xoffset *(-width / scaleValue), yoffset *(-height / scaleValue));
- line(10, 150, 500, 50);
- line(0, 600, 600, 0);
- setOffset();
-}
-
-void setOffset()
-{
- save("lines-" + xoffset + "-" + yoffset + ".jpg");
- xoffset++;
- if (xoffset == scaleValue) {
- xoffset = 0;
- yoffset++;
- if (yoffset == scaleValue) {
- exit();
- }
- }
- background(204);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Koch/Koch.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Koch/Koch.pde
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index 3dbc49bfc..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Koch/Koch.pde
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@@ -1,176 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Koch Curve
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Renders a simple fractal, the Koch snowflake.
- * Each recursive level is drawn in sequence.
- */
-
-
-KochFractal k;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- background(0);
- frameRate(1); // Animate slowly
- k = new KochFractal();
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- // Draws the snowflake!
- k.render();
- // Iterate
- k.nextLevel();
- // Let's not do it more than 5 times. . .
- if (k.getCount() > 5) {
- k.restart();
- }
-
-}
-
-
-// A class to manage the list of line segments in the snowflake pattern
-
-class KochFractal {
- Point start; // A point for the start
- Point end; // A point for the end
- ArrayList lines; // A list to keep track of all the lines
- int count;
-
- public KochFractal()
- {
- start = new Point(0,height/2 + height/4);
- end = new Point(width,height/2 + height/4);
- lines = new ArrayList();
- restart();
- }
-
- void nextLevel()
- {
- // For every line that is in the arraylist
- // create 4 more lines in a new arraylist
- lines = iterate(lines);
- count++;
- }
-
- void restart()
- {
- count = 0; // Reset count
- lines.clear(); // Empty the array list
- lines.add(new KochLine(start,end)); // Add the initial line (from one end point to the other)
- }
-
- int getCount() {
- return count;
- }
-
- // This is easy, just draw all the lines
- void render()
- {
- for(int i = 0; i < lines.size(); i++) {
- KochLine l = (KochLine)lines.get(i);
- l.render();
- }
- }
-
- // This is where the **MAGIC** happens
- // Step 1: Create an empty arraylist
- // Step 2: For every line currently in the arraylist
- // - calculate 4 line segments based on Koch algorithm
- // - add all 4 line segments into the new arraylist
- // Step 3: Return the new arraylist and it becomes the list of line segments for the structure
-
- // As we do this over and over again, each line gets broken into 4 lines, which gets broken into 4 lines, and so on. . .
- ArrayList iterate(ArrayList before)
- {
- ArrayList now = new ArrayList(); //Create emtpy list
- for(int i = 0; i < before.size(); i++)
- {
- KochLine l = (KochLine)lines.get(i); // A line segment inside the list
- // Calculate 5 koch points (done for us by the line object)
- Point a = l.start();
- Point b = l.kochleft();
- Point c = l.kochmiddle();
- Point d = l.kochright();
- Point e = l.end();
- // Make line segments between all the points and add them
- now.add(new KochLine(a,b));
- now.add(new KochLine(b,c));
- now.add(new KochLine(c,d));
- now.add(new KochLine(d,e));
- }
- return now;
- }
-
-}
-
-
-// A class to describe one line segment in the fractal
-// Includes methods to calculate midpoints along the line according to the Koch algorithm
-
-class KochLine {
-
- // Two points,
- // a is the "left" point and
- // b is the "right point
- Point a,b;
-
- KochLine(Point a_, Point b_) {
- a = a_.copy();
- b = b_.copy();
- }
-
- void render() {
- stroke(255);
- line(a.x,a.y,b.x,b.y);
- }
-
- Point start() {
- return a.copy();
- }
-
- Point end() {
- return b.copy();
- }
-
- // This is easy, just 1/3 of the way
- Point kochleft()
- {
- float x = a.x + (b.x - a.x) / 3f;
- float y = a.y + (b.y - a.y) / 3f;
- return new Point(x,y);
- }
-
- // More complicated, have to use a little trig to figure out where this point is!
- Point kochmiddle()
- {
- float x = a.x + 0.5f * (b.x - a.x) + (sin(radians(60))*(b.y-a.y)) / 3;
- float y = a.y + 0.5f * (b.y - a.y) - (sin(radians(60))*(b.x-a.x)) / 3;
- return new Point(x,y);
- }
-
- // Easy, just 2/3 of the way
- Point kochright()
- {
- float x = a.x + 2*(b.x - a.x) / 3f;
- float y = a.y + 2*(b.y - a.y) / 3f;
- return new Point(x,y);
- }
-
-}
-
-class Point {
- float x,y;
-
- Point(float x_, float y_) {
- x = x_;
- y = y_;
- }
-
- Point copy() {
- return new Point(x,y);
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Mandelbrot/Mandelbrot.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Mandelbrot/Mandelbrot.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f31de8fb..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Mandelbrot/Mandelbrot.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * The Mandelbrot Set
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Simple rendering of the Mandelbrot set.
- */
-
-// Establish a range of values on the complex plane
-// A different range will allow us to "zoom" in or out on the fractal
-// float xmin = -1.5; float ymin = -.1; float wh = 0.15;
-float xmin = -2.5;
-float ymin = -2;
-float wh = 4;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200, P2D);
- noLoop();
- background(255);
- // Make sure we can write to the pixels[] array.
- // Only need to do this once since we don't do any other drawing.
- loadPixels();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- // Maximum number of iterations for each point on the complex plane
- int maxiterations = 200;
-
- // x goes from xmin to xmax
- float xmax = xmin + wh;
- // y goes from ymin to ymax
- float ymax = ymin + wh;
-
- // Calculate amount we increment x,y for each pixel
- float dx = (xmax - xmin) / (width);
- float dy = (ymax - ymin) / (height);
-
- // Start y
- float y = ymin;
- for (int j = 0; j < height; j++) {
- // Start x
- float x = xmin;
- for (int i = 0; i < width; i++) {
-
- // Now we test, as we iterate z = z^2 + cm does z tend towards infinity?
- float a = x;
- float b = y;
- int n = 0;
- while (n < maxiterations) {
- float aa = a * a;
- float bb = b * b;
- float twoab = 2.0 * a * b;
- a = aa - bb + x;
- b = twoab + y;
- // Infinty in our finite world is simple, let's just consider it 16
- if(aa + bb > 16.0) {
- break; // Bail
- }
- n++;
- }
-
- // We color each pixel based on how long it takes to get to infinity
- // If we never got there, let's pick the color black
- if (n == maxiterations) {
- pixels[i+j*width] = 0;
- } else {
- // Gosh, we could make fancy colors here if we wanted
- pixels[i+j*width] = color(n*16 % 255);
- }
- x += dx;
- }
- y += dy;
- }
- updatePixels();
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/LSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/LSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 10e694d12..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/LSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-class LSystem
-{
- int steps = 0;
-
- String axiom;
- String rule;
- String production;
-
- float startLength;
- float drawLength;
- float theta;
-
- int generations;
-
- LSystem() {
- axiom = "F";
- rule = "F+F-F";
- startLength = 90.0;
- theta = radians(120.0);
- reset();
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width/2, height/2);
- steps += 5;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- rect(0, 0, -drawLength, -drawLength);
- noFill();
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- }
- }
- }
-
- void simulate(int gen) {
- while (getAge() < gen) {
- production = iterate(production, rule);
- }
- }
-
- String iterate(String prod_, String rule_) {
- drawLength = drawLength * 0.6;
- generations++;
- String newProduction = prod_;
- newProduction = newProduction.replaceAll("F", rule_);
- return newProduction;
- }
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflake.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflake.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fe1c9393..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflake.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Penrose Snowflake L-System
- * by Geraldine Sarmiento (NYU ITP).
- *
- * This code was based on Patrick Dwyer's L-System class.
- */
-
-PenroseSnowflakeLSystem ps;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- stroke(255);
- noFill();
- smooth();
- ps = new PenroseSnowflakeLSystem();
- ps.simulate(4);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- ps.render();
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflakeLSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflakeLSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index df1f775b0..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseSnowflake/PenroseSnowflakeLSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-class PenroseSnowflakeLSystem extends LSystem {
-
- String ruleF;
-
- PenroseSnowflakeLSystem() {
- axiom = "F3-F3-F3-F3-F";
- ruleF = "F3-F3-F45-F++F3-F";
- startLength = 450.0;
- theta = radians(18);
- reset();
- }
-
- void useRule(String r_) {
- rule = r_;
- }
-
- void useAxiom(String a_) {
- axiom = a_;
- }
-
- void useLength(float l_) {
- startLength = l_;
- }
-
- void useTheta(float t_) {
- theta = radians(t_);
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width, height);
- int repeats = 1;
-
- steps += 3;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
-
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- for (int j = 0; j < repeats; j++) {
- line(0,0,0, -drawLength);
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- for (int j = 0; j < repeats; j++) {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- for (int j =0; j < repeats; j++) {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- }
- else if ( (step >= 48) && (step <= 57) ) {
- repeats += step - 48;
- }
- }
- }
-
-
- String iterate(String prod_, String rule_) {
- String newProduction = "";
- for (int i = 0; i < prod_.length(); i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- newProduction = newProduction + ruleF;
- }
- else {
- if (step != 'F') {
- newProduction = newProduction + step;
- }
- }
- }
- drawLength = drawLength * 0.4;
- generations++;
- return newProduction;
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/LSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/LSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f00ddaf5..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/LSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-class LSystem
-{
- int steps = 0;
-
- String axiom;
- String rule;
- String production;
-
- float startLength;
- float drawLength;
- float theta;
-
- int generations;
-
- LSystem() {
- axiom = "F";
- rule = "F+F-F";
- startLength = 190.0;
- theta = radians(120.0);
- reset();
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width/2, height/2);
- steps += 5;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- rect(0, 0, -drawLength, -drawLength);
- noFill();
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- }
- }
- }
-
- void simulate(int gen) {
- while (getAge() < gen) {
- production = iterate(production, rule);
- }
- }
-
- String iterate(String prod_, String rule_) {
- drawLength = drawLength * 0.6;
- generations++;
- String newProduction = prod_;
- newProduction = newProduction.replaceAll("F", rule_);
- return newProduction;
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseLSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseLSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 16a7f1c43..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseLSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-class PenroseLSystem extends LSystem {
-
- int steps = 0;
- float somestep = 0.1;
- String ruleW;
- String ruleX;
- String ruleY;
- String ruleZ;
-
- PenroseLSystem() {
- axiom = "[X]++[X]++[X]++[X]++[X]";
- ruleW = "YF++ZF4-XF[-YF4-WF]++";
- ruleX = "+YF--ZF[3-WF--XF]+";
- ruleY = "-WF++XF[+++YF++ZF]-";
- ruleZ = "--YF++++WF[+ZF++++XF]--XF";
- startLength = 460.0;
- theta = radians(36);
- reset();
- }
-
- void useRule(String r_) {
- rule = r_;
- }
-
- void useAxiom(String a_) {
- axiom = a_;
- }
-
- void useLength(float l_) {
- startLength = l_;
- }
-
- void useTheta(float t_) {
- theta = radians(t_);
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width/2, height/2);
- int pushes = 0;
- int repeats = 1;
- steps += 12;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
-
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- stroke(255, 60);
- for (int j = 0; j < repeats; j++) {
- line(0, 0, 0, -drawLength);
- noFill();
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- for (int j = 0; j < repeats; j++) {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- for (int j =0; j < repeats; j++) {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- repeats = 1;
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushes++;
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- pushes--;
- }
- else if ( (step >= 48) && (step <= 57) ) {
- repeats = (int)step - 48;
- }
- }
-
- // Unpush if we need too
- while (pushes > 0) {
- popMatrix();
- pushes--;
- }
- }
-
- String iterate(String prod_, String rule_) {
- String newProduction = "";
- for (int i = 0; i < prod_.length(); i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'W') {
- newProduction = newProduction + ruleW;
- }
- else if (step == 'X') {
- newProduction = newProduction + ruleX;
- }
- else if (step == 'Y') {
- newProduction = newProduction + ruleY;
- }
- else if (step == 'Z') {
- newProduction = newProduction + ruleZ;
- }
- else {
- if (step != 'F') {
- newProduction = newProduction + step;
- }
- }
- }
-
- drawLength = drawLength * 0.5;
- generations++;
- return newProduction;
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseTile.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseTile.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cbeb439c..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/PenroseTile/PenroseTile.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Penrose Tile L-System
- * by Geraldine Sarmiento (NYU ITP).
- *
- * This code was based on Patrick Dwyer's L-System class.
- */
-
-PenroseLSystem ds;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- smooth();
- ds = new PenroseLSystem();
- ds.simulate(4);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(0);
- ds.render();
-}
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/LSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/LSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 2adcabcd5..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/LSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-class LSystem {
-
- int steps = 0;
-
- String axiom;
- String rule;
- String production;
-
- float startLength;
- float drawLength;
- float theta;
-
- int generations;
-
- LSystem() {
-
- axiom = "F";
- rule = "F+F-F";
- startLength = 90.0;
- theta = radians(120.0);
- reset();
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width/2, height/2);
- steps += 5;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- rect(0, 0, -drawLength, -drawLength);
- noFill();
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- }
- }
- }
-
- void simulate(int gen) {
- while (getAge() < gen) {
- production = iterate(production, rule);
- }
- }
-
- String iterate(String prod_, String rule_) {
- drawLength = drawLength * 0.6;
- generations++;
- String newProduction = prod_;
- newProduction = newProduction.replaceAll("F", rule_);
- return newProduction;
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/Pentigree.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/Pentigree.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index be0d3fb77..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/Pentigree.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Pentigree L-System
- * by Geraldine Sarmiento (NYU ITP).
- *
- * This code was based on Patrick Dwyer's L-System class.
- */
-
-
-PentigreeLSystem ps;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- smooth();
- ps = new PentigreeLSystem();
- ps.simulate(3);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- ps.render();
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/PentigreeLSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/PentigreeLSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index a377c016d..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Pentigree/PentigreeLSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-class PentigreeLSystem extends LSystem {
-
- int steps = 0;
- float somestep = 0.1;
- float xoff = 0.01;
-
- PentigreeLSystem() {
- axiom = "F-F-F-F-F";
- rule = "F-F++F+F-F-F";
- startLength = 60.0;
- theta = radians(72);
- reset();
- }
-
- void useRule(String r_) {
- rule = r_;
- }
-
- void useAxiom(String a_) {
- axiom = a_;
- }
-
- void useLength(float l_) {
- startLength = l_;
- }
-
- void useTheta(float t_) {
- theta = radians(t_);
- }
-
- void reset() {
- production = axiom;
- drawLength = startLength;
- generations = 0;
- }
-
- int getAge() {
- return generations;
- }
-
- void render() {
- translate(width/4, height/2);
- steps += 3;
- if (steps > production.length()) {
- steps = production.length();
- }
-
- for (int i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
- char step = production.charAt(i);
- if (step == 'F') {
- noFill();
- stroke(255);
- line(0, 0, 0, -drawLength);
- translate(0, -drawLength);
- }
- else if (step == '+') {
- rotate(theta);
- }
- else if (step == '-') {
- rotate(-theta);
- }
- else if (step == '[') {
- pushMatrix();
- }
- else if (step == ']') {
- popMatrix();
- }
- }
- }
-
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Tree/Tree.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Tree/Tree.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index e6d4d646a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Fractals and L-Systems/Tree/Tree.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Recursive Tree
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Renders a simple tree-like structure via recursion.
- * The branching angle is calculated as a function of
- * the horizontal mouse location. Move the mouse left
- * and right to change the angle.
- */
-
-float theta;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- frameRate(30);
- stroke(255);
- // Let's pick an angle 0 to 90 degrees based on the mouse position
- float a = (mouseX / (float) width) * 90f;
- // Convert it to radians
- theta = radians(a);
- // Start the tree from the bottom of the screen
- translate(width/2,height);
- // Draw a line 120 pixels
- line(0,0,0,-120);
- // Move to the end of that line
- translate(0,-120);
- // Start the recursive branching!
- branch(120);
-
-}
-
-void branch(float h) {
- // Each branch will be 2/3rds the size of the previous one
- h *= 0.66;
-
- // All recursive functions must have an exit condition!!!!
- // Here, ours is when the length of the branch is 2 pixels or less
- if (h > 2) {
- pushMatrix(); // Save the current state of transformation (i.e. where are we now)
- rotate(theta); // Rotate by theta
- line(0, 0, 0, -h); // Draw the branch
- translate(0, -h); // Move to the end of the branch
- branch(h); // Ok, now call myself to draw two new branches!!
- popMatrix(); // Whenever we get back here, we "pop" in order to restore the previous matrix state
-
- // Repeat the same thing, only branch off to the "left" this time!
- pushMatrix();
- rotate(-theta);
- line(0, 0, 0, -h);
- translate(0, -h);
- branch(h);
- popMatrix();
- }
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Button/Button.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Button/Button.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index fe477b83f..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Button/Button.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Button.
- *
- * Click on one of the colored squares in the
- * center of the image to change the color of
- * the background.
- */
-
-int rectX, rectY; // Position of square button
-int circleX, circleY; // Position of circle button
-int rectSize = 50; // Diameter of rect
-int circleSize = 53; // Diameter of circle
-color rectColor, circleColor, baseColor;
-color rectHighlight, circleHighlight;
-color currentColor;
-boolean rectOver = false;
-boolean circleOver = false;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- rectColor = color(0);
- rectHighlight = color(51);
- circleColor = color(255);
- circleHighlight = color(204);
- baseColor = color(102);
- currentColor = baseColor;
- circleX = width/2+circleSize/2+10;
- circleY = height/2;
- rectX = width/2-rectSize-10;
- rectY = height/2-rectSize/2;
- ellipseMode(CENTER);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- update(mouseX, mouseY);
- background(currentColor);
-
- if(rectOver) {
- fill(rectHighlight);
- } else {
- fill(rectColor);
- }
- stroke(255);
- rect(rectX, rectY, rectSize, rectSize);
-
- if(circleOver) {
- fill(circleHighlight);
- } else {
- fill(circleColor);
- }
- stroke(0);
- ellipse(circleX, circleY, circleSize, circleSize);
-}
-
-void update(int x, int y)
-{
- if( overCircle(circleX, circleY, circleSize) ) {
- circleOver = true;
- rectOver = false;
- } else if ( overRect(rectX, rectY, rectSize, rectSize) ) {
- rectOver = true;
- circleOver = false;
- } else {
- circleOver = rectOver = false;
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed()
-{
- if(circleOver) {
- currentColor = circleColor;
- }
- if(rectOver) {
- currentColor = rectColor;
- }
-}
-
-boolean overRect(int x, int y, int width, int height)
-{
- if (mouseX >= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
- mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
-boolean overCircle(int x, int y, int diameter)
-{
- float disX = x - mouseX;
- float disY = y - mouseY;
- if(sqrt(sq(disX) + sq(disY)) < diameter/2 ) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Buttons/Buttons.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Buttons/Buttons.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 11f8b0031..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Buttons/Buttons.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,220 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Buttons.
- *
- * Click on one of the shapes to change
- * the background color. This example
- * demonstates a class for buttons.
- */
-
-color currentcolor;
-
-CircleButton circle1, circle2, circle3;
-RectButton rect1, rect2;
-
-boolean locked = false;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
-
- color baseColor = color(102);
- currentcolor = baseColor;
-
- // Define and create circle button
- color buttoncolor = color(204);
- color highlight = color(153);
- ellipseMode(CENTER);
- circle1 = new CircleButton(30, 100, 100, buttoncolor, highlight);
-
- // Define and create circle button
- buttoncolor = color(204);
- highlight = color(153);
- circle2 = new CircleButton(130, 110, 24, buttoncolor, highlight);
-
- // Define and create circle button
- buttoncolor = color(153);
- highlight = color(102);
- circle3 = new CircleButton(130, 140, 24, buttoncolor, highlight);
-
- // Define and create rectangle button
- buttoncolor = color(102);
- highlight = color(51);
- rect1 = new RectButton(150, 20, 100, buttoncolor, highlight);
-
- // Define and create rectangle button
- buttoncolor = color(51);
- highlight = color(0);
- rect2 = new RectButton(90, 20, 50, buttoncolor, highlight);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(currentcolor);
- stroke(255);
- update(mouseX, mouseY);
- circle1.display();
- circle2.display();
- circle3.display();
- rect1.display();
- rect2.display();
-}
-
-void update(int x, int y)
-{
- if(locked == false) {
- circle1.update();
- circle2.update();
- circle3.update();
- rect1.update();
- rect2.update();
- }
- else {
- locked = false;
- }
-
- if(mousePressed) {
- if(circle1.pressed()) {
- currentcolor = circle1.basecolor;
- }
- else if(circle2.pressed()) {
- currentcolor = circle2.basecolor;
- }
- else if(circle3.pressed()) {
- currentcolor = circle3.basecolor;
- }
- else if(rect1.pressed()) {
- currentcolor = rect1.basecolor;
- }
- else if(rect2.pressed()) {
- currentcolor = rect2.basecolor;
- }
- }
-}
-
-
-class Button
-{
- int x, y;
- int size;
- color basecolor, highlightcolor;
- color currentcolor;
- boolean over = false;
- boolean pressed = false;
-
- void update()
- {
- if(over()) {
- currentcolor = highlightcolor;
- }
- else {
- currentcolor = basecolor;
- }
- }
-
- boolean pressed()
- {
- if(over) {
- locked = true;
- return true;
- }
- else {
- locked = false;
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- boolean over()
- {
- return true;
- }
-
- boolean overRect(int x, int y, int width, int height)
- {
- if (mouseX >= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
- mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
- return true;
- }
- else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- boolean overCircle(int x, int y, int diameter)
- {
- float disX = x - mouseX;
- float disY = y - mouseY;
- if(sqrt(sq(disX) + sq(disY)) < diameter/2 ) {
- return true;
- }
- else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
-}
-
-class CircleButton extends Button
-{
- CircleButton(int ix, int iy, int isize, color icolor, color ihighlight)
- {
- x = ix;
- y = iy;
- size = isize;
- basecolor = icolor;
- highlightcolor = ihighlight;
- currentcolor = basecolor;
- }
-
- boolean over()
- {
- if( overCircle(x, y, size) ) {
- over = true;
- return true;
- }
- else {
- over = false;
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- void display()
- {
- stroke(255);
- fill(currentcolor);
- ellipse(x, y, size, size);
- }
-}
-
-class RectButton extends Button
-{
- RectButton(int ix, int iy, int isize, color icolor, color ihighlight)
- {
- x = ix;
- y = iy;
- size = isize;
- basecolor = icolor;
- highlightcolor = ihighlight;
- currentcolor = basecolor;
- }
-
- boolean over()
- {
- if( overRect(x, y, size, size) ) {
- over = true;
- return true;
- }
- else {
- over = false;
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- void display()
- {
- stroke(255);
- fill(currentcolor);
- rect(x, y, size, size);
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Handles/Handles.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Handles/Handles.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 7036f362a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Handles/Handles.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Handles.
- *
- * Click and drag the white boxes to change their position.
- */
-
-Handle[] handles;
-int num;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- num = height/15;
- handles = new Handle[num];
- int hsize = 10;
- for(int i=0; i= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
- mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
-int lock(int val, int minv, int maxv)
-{
- return min(max(val, minv), maxv);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/ImageButton.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/ImageButton.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 338cb3d1e..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/ImageButton.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,108 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Image button.
- *
- * Loading images and using them to create a button.
- */
-
-
-ImageButtons button;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- background(102, 102, 102);
-
- // Define and create image button
- PImage b = loadImage("base.gif");
- PImage r = loadImage("roll.gif");
- PImage d = loadImage("down.gif");
- int x = width/2 - b.width/2;
- int y = height/2 - b.height/2;
- int w = b.width;
- int h = b.height;
- button = new ImageButtons(x, y, w, h, b, r, d);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- button.update();
- button.display();
-}
-
-class Button
-{
- int x, y;
- int w, h;
- color basecolor, highlightcolor;
- color currentcolor;
- boolean over = false;
- boolean pressed = false;
-
- void pressed() {
- if(over && mousePressed) {
- pressed = true;
- } else {
- pressed = false;
- }
- }
-
- boolean overRect(int x, int y, int width, int height) {
- if (mouseX >= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
- mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-}
-
-class ImageButtons extends Button
-{
- PImage base;
- PImage roll;
- PImage down;
- PImage currentimage;
-
- ImageButtons(int ix, int iy, int iw, int ih, PImage ibase, PImage iroll, PImage idown)
- {
- x = ix;
- y = iy;
- w = iw;
- h = ih;
- base = ibase;
- roll = iroll;
- down = idown;
- currentimage = base;
- }
-
- void update()
- {
- over();
- pressed();
- if(pressed) {
- currentimage = down;
- } else if (over){
- currentimage = roll;
- } else {
- currentimage = base;
- }
- }
-
- void over()
- {
- if( overRect(x, y, w, h) ) {
- over = true;
- } else {
- over = false;
- }
- }
-
- void display()
- {
- image(currentimage, x, y);
- }
-}
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/base.gif b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/base.gif
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/down.gif b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/down.gif
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/roll.gif b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/ImageButton/data/roll.gif
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Rollover/Rollover.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Rollover/Rollover.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 4785ec9ac..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Rollover/Rollover.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Rollover.
- *
- * Roll over the colored squares in the center of the image
- * to change the color of the outside rectangle.
- */
-
-
-int rectX, rectY; // Position of square button
-int circleX, circleY; // Position of circle button
-int rectSize = 50; // Diameter of rect
-int circleSize = 53; // Diameter of circle
-
-color rectColor;
-color circleColor;
-color baseColor;
-
-boolean rectOver = false;
-boolean circleOver = false;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- rectColor = color(0);
- circleColor = color(255);
- baseColor = color(102);
- circleX = width/2+circleSize/2+10;
- circleY = height/2;
- rectX = width/2-rectSize-10;
- rectY = height/2-rectSize/2;
- ellipseMode(CENTER);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- update(mouseX, mouseY);
-
- noStroke();
- if (rectOver) {
- background(rectColor);
- } else if (circleOver) {
- background(circleColor);
- } else {
- background(baseColor);
- }
-
- stroke(255);
- fill(rectColor);
- rect(rectX, rectY, rectSize, rectSize);
- stroke(0);
- fill(circleColor);
- ellipse(circleX, circleY, circleSize, circleSize);
-}
-
-void update(int x, int y)
-{
- if( overCircle(circleX, circleY, circleSize) ) {
- circleOver = true;
- rectOver = false;
- } else if ( overRect(rectX, rectY, rectSize, rectSize) ) {
- rectOver = true;
- circleOver = false;
- } else {
- circleOver = rectOver = false;
- }
-}
-
-boolean overRect(int x, int y, int width, int height)
-{
- if (mouseX >= x && mouseX <= x+width &&
- mouseY >= y && mouseY <= y+height) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
-boolean overCircle(int x, int y, int diameter)
-{
- float disX = x - mouseX;
- float disY = y - mouseY;
- if(sqrt(sq(disX) + sq(disY)) < diameter/2 ) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Scrollbar/Scrollbar.pde b/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Scrollbar/Scrollbar.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 4647b6095..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/GUI/Scrollbar/Scrollbar.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,122 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Scrollbar.
- *
- * Move the scrollbars left and right to change the positions of the images.
- */
-
-HScrollbar hs1, hs2;
-
-PImage top, bottom; // Two image to load
-int topWidth, bottomWidth; // The width of the top and bottom images
-
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- noStroke();
- hs1 = new HScrollbar(0, 20, width, 10, 3*5+1);
- hs2 = new HScrollbar(0, height-20, width, 10, 3*5+1);
- top = loadImage("seedTop.jpg");
- topWidth = top.width;
- bottom = loadImage("seedBottom.jpg");
- bottomWidth = bottom.width;
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(255);
-
- // Get the position of the top scrollbar
- // and convert to a value to display the top image
- float topPos = hs1.getPos()-width/2;
- fill(255);
- image(top, width/2-topWidth/2 + topPos*2, 0);
-
- // Get the position of the bottom scrollbar
- // and convert to a value to display the bottom image
- float bottomPos = hs2.getPos()-width/2;
- fill(255);
- image(bottom, width/2-bottomWidth/2 + bottomPos*2, height/2);
-
- hs1.update();
- hs2.update();
- hs1.display();
- hs2.display();
-}
-
-
-class HScrollbar
-{
- int swidth, sheight; // width and height of bar
- int xpos, ypos; // x and y position of bar
- float spos, newspos; // x position of slider
- int sposMin, sposMax; // max and min values of slider
- int loose; // how loose/heavy
- boolean over; // is the mouse over the slider?
- boolean locked;
- float ratio;
-
- HScrollbar (int xp, int yp, int sw, int sh, int l) {
- swidth = sw;
- sheight = sh;
- int widthtoheight = sw - sh;
- ratio = (float)sw / (float)widthtoheight;
- xpos = xp;
- ypos = yp-sheight/2;
- spos = xpos + swidth/2 - sheight/2;
- newspos = spos;
- sposMin = xpos;
- sposMax = xpos + swidth - sheight;
- loose = l;
- }
-
- void update() {
- if(over()) {
- over = true;
- } else {
- over = false;
- }
- if(mousePressed && over) {
- locked = true;
- }
- if(!mousePressed) {
- locked = false;
- }
- if(locked) {
- newspos = constrain(mouseX-sheight/2, sposMin, sposMax);
- }
- if(abs(newspos - spos) > 1) {
- spos = spos + (newspos-spos)/loose;
- }
- }
-
- int constrain(int val, int minv, int maxv) {
- return min(max(val, minv), maxv);
- }
-
- boolean over() {
- if(mouseX > xpos && mouseX < xpos+swidth &&
- mouseY > ypos && mouseY < ypos+sheight) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- void display() {
- fill(255);
- rect(xpos, ypos, swidth, sheight);
- if(over || locked) {
- fill(153, 102, 0);
- } else {
- fill(102, 102, 102);
- }
- rect(spos, ypos, sheight, sheight);
- }
-
- float getPos() {
- // Convert spos to be values between
- // 0 and the total width of the scrollbar
- return spos * ratio;
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Blur/Blur.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Blur/Blur.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 67e9ef586..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Blur/Blur.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Blur.
- *
- * Bluring half of an image by processing it through a
- * low-pass filter.
- */
-
-float v = 1.0/9.0;
-float[][] kernel = { { v, v, v },
- { v, v, v },
- { v, v, v } };
-
-size(200, 200);
-
-PImage img = loadImage("trees.jpg"); // Load the original image
-image(img, 0, 0); // Displays the image from point (0,0)
-img.loadPixels();
-
-// Create an opaque image of the same size as the original
-PImage edgeImg = createImage(img.width, img.height, RGB);
-
-// Loop through every pixel in the image.
-for (int y = 1; y < img.height-1; y++) { // Skip top and bottom edges
- for (int x = 1; x < img.width-1; x++) { // Skip left and right edges
- float sum = 0; // Kernel sum for this pixel
- for (int ky = -1; ky <= 1; ky++) {
- for (int kx = -1; kx <= 1; kx++) {
- // Calculate the adjacent pixel for this kernel point
- int pos = (y + ky)*img.width + (x + kx);
- // Image is grayscale, red/green/blue are identical
- float val = red(img.pixels[pos]);
- // Multiply adjacent pixels based on the kernel values
- sum += kernel[ky+1][kx+1] * val;
- }
- }
- // For this pixel in the new image, set the gray value
- // based on the sum from the kernel
- edgeImg.pixels[y*img.width + x] = color(sum);
- }
-}
-// State that there are changes to edgeImg.pixels[]
-edgeImg.updatePixels();
-image(edgeImg, 100, 0); // Draw the new image
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Brightness/Brightness.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Brightness/Brightness.pde
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index 62cb644ff..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Brightness/Brightness.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Brightness
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Adjusts the brightness of part of the image
- * Pixels closer to the mouse will appear brighter.
- */
-
-PImage img;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- frameRate(30);
- img = loadImage("wires.jpg");
- img.loadPixels();
- // Only need to load the pixels[] array once, because we're only
- // manipulating pixels[] inside draw(), not drawing shapes.
- loadPixels();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- for (int x = 0; x < img.width; x++) {
- for (int y = 0; y < img.height; y++ ) {
- // Calculate the 1D location from a 2D grid
- int loc = x + y*img.width;
- // Get the R,G,B values from image
- float r,g,b;
- r = red (img.pixels[loc]);
- //g = green (img.pixels[loc]);
- //b = blue (img.pixels[loc]);
- // Calculate an amount to change brightness based on proximity to the mouse
- float maxdist = 50;//dist(0,0,width,height);
- float d = dist(x,y,mouseX,mouseY);
- float adjustbrightness = 255*(maxdist-d)/maxdist;
- r += adjustbrightness;
- //g += adjustbrightness;
- //b += adjustbrightness;
- // Constrain RGB to make sure they are within 0-255 color range
- r = constrain(r,0,255);
- //g = constrain(g,0,255);
- //b = constrain(b,0,255);
- // Make a new color and set pixel in the window
- //color c = color(r,g,b);
- color c = color(r);
- pixels[y*width + x] = c;
- }
- }
- updatePixels();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Convolution/Convolution.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Convolution/Convolution.pde
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index bb3f7eda5..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Convolution/Convolution.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Convolution
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Applies a convolution matrix to a portion of the index.
- * Move mouse to apply filter to different parts of the image.
- */
-
-PImage img;
-int w = 80;
-
-// It's possible to convolve the image with
-// many different matrices
-
- float[][] matrix = { { -1, -1, -1 },
- { -1, 9, -1 },
- { -1, -1, -1 } };
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- frameRate(30);
- img = loadImage("end.jpg");
-}
-
-void draw() {
- // We're only going to process a portion of the image
- // so let's set the whole image as the background first
- image(img,0,0);
- // Where is the small rectangle we will process
- int xstart = constrain(mouseX-w/2,0,img.width);
- int ystart = constrain(mouseY-w/2,0,img.height);
- int xend = constrain(mouseX+w/2,0,img.width);
- int yend = constrain(mouseY+w/2,0,img.height);
- int matrixsize = 3;
- loadPixels();
- // Begin our loop for every pixel
- for (int x = xstart; x < xend; x++) {
- for (int y = ystart; y < yend; y++ ) {
- color c = convolution(x,y,matrix,matrixsize,img);
- int loc = x + y*img.width;
- pixels[loc] = c;
- }
- }
- updatePixels();
-}
-
-color convolution(int x, int y, float[][] matrix,int matrixsize, PImage img)
-{
- float rtotal = 0.0;
- float gtotal = 0.0;
- float btotal = 0.0;
- int offset = matrixsize / 2;
- for (int i = 0; i < matrixsize; i++){
- for (int j= 0; j < matrixsize; j++){
- // What pixel are we testing
- int xloc = x+i-offset;
- int yloc = y+j-offset;
- int loc = xloc + img.width*yloc;
- // Make sure we haven't walked off our image, we could do better here
- loc = constrain(loc,0,img.pixels.length-1);
- // Calculate the convolution
- rtotal += (red(img.pixels[loc]) * matrix[i][j]);
- gtotal += (green(img.pixels[loc]) * matrix[i][j]);
- btotal += (blue(img.pixels[loc]) * matrix[i][j]);
- }
- }
- // Make sure RGB is within range
- rtotal = constrain(rtotal,0,255);
- gtotal = constrain(gtotal,0,255);
- btotal = constrain(btotal,0,255);
- // Return the resulting color
- return color(rtotal,gtotal,btotal);
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/EdgeDetection/EdgeDetection.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/EdgeDetection/EdgeDetection.pde
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index 1f1f24a43..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/EdgeDetection/EdgeDetection.pde
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@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Edge Detection.
- *
- * Exposing areas of contrast within an image
- * by processing it through a high-pass filter.
- */
-
-float[][] kernel = { { -1, -1, -1 },
- { -1, 9, -1 },
- { -1, -1, -1 } };
-
-size(200, 200);
-PImage img = loadImage("house.jpg"); // Load the original image
-image(img, 0, 0); // Displays the image from point (0,0)
-img.loadPixels();
-// Create an opaque image of the same size as the original
-PImage edgeImg = createImage(img.width, img.height, RGB);
-// Loop through every pixel in the image.
-for (int y = 1; y < img.height-1; y++) { // Skip top and bottom edges
- for (int x = 1; x < img.width-1; x++) { // Skip left and right edges
- float sum = 0; // Kernel sum for this pixel
- for (int ky = -1; ky <= 1; ky++) {
- for (int kx = -1; kx <= 1; kx++) {
- // Calculate the adjacent pixel for this kernel point
- int pos = (y + ky)*img.width + (x + kx);
- // Image is grayscale, red/green/blue are identical
- float val = red(img.pixels[pos]);
- // Multiply adjacent pixels based on the kernel values
- sum += kernel[ky+1][kx+1] * val;
- }
- }
- // For this pixel in the new image, set the gray value
- // based on the sum from the kernel
- edgeImg.pixels[y*img.width + x] = color(sum);
- }
-}
-// State that there are changes to edgeImg.pixels[]
-edgeImg.updatePixels();
-image(edgeImg, 100, 0); // Draw the new image
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Histogram/Histogram.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Histogram/Histogram.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f5f7d49eb..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/Histogram/Histogram.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Histogram.
- *
- * Calculates the histogram of an image.
- * A histogram is the frequency distribution
- * of the gray levels with the number of pure black values
- * displayed on the left and number of pure white values on the right.
- *
- * Updated 28 February, 2010.
- * Note that this sketch will behave differently on Android,
- * since most images will no longer be full 24-bit color.
- */
-
-size(200, 200);
-
-// Load an image from the data directory
-// Load a different image by modifying the comments
-PImage img = loadImage("cdi01_g.jpg");
-image(img, 0, 0);
-int[] hist = new int[256];
-
-// Calculate the histogram
-for (int i = 0; i < img.width; i++) {
- for (int j = 0; j < img.height; j++) {
- int bright = int(brightness(get(i, j)));
- hist[bright]++;
- }
-}
-
-// Find the largest value in the histogram
-int histMax = max(hist);
-
-stroke(255);
-// Draw half of the histogram (skip every second value)
-for (int i = 0; i < img.width; i += 2) {
- // Map i (from 0..img.width-1) to a location in the histogram (0..255)
- int which = int(map(i, 0, img.width, 0, 255));
- // Convert the histogram value to a location between
- // the bottom and the top of the picture
- int y = int(map(hist[which], 0, histMax, img.height, 0));
- line(i, img.height, i, y);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/LinearImage/LinearImage.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/LinearImage/LinearImage.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index b7c52de5e..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/LinearImage/LinearImage.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Linear Image.
- *
- * Click and drag mouse up and down to control the signal.
- * Press and hold any key to watch the scanning.
- *
- * Updated 28 February 2010.
- */
-
-PImage img;
-int direction = 1;
-
-float signal;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- stroke(255);
- img = loadImage("florence03.jpg");
- img.loadPixels();
- loadPixels();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- if (signal > img.height-1 || signal < 0) {
- direction = direction * -1;
- }
- if (mousePressed) {
- signal = abs(mouseY % img.height);
- } else {
- signal += (0.3*direction);
- }
-
- if (keyPressed) {
- set(0, 0, img);
- line(0, signal, img.width, signal);
- } else {
- int signalOffset = int(signal)*img.width;
- for (int y = 0; y < img.height; y++) {
- arrayCopy(img.pixels, signalOffset, pixels, y*width, img.width);
- }
- updatePixels();
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/PixelArray/PixelArray.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/PixelArray/PixelArray.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index cd133102a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Image Processing/PixelArray/PixelArray.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Pixel Array.
- *
- * Click and drag the mouse up and down to control the signal and
- * press and hold any key to see the current pixel being read.
- * This program sequentially reads the color of every pixel of an image
- * and displays this color to fill the window.
- *
- * Updated 28 February 2010.
- */
-
-PImage img;
-int direction = 1;
-float signal;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- noFill();
- stroke(255);
- frameRate(30);
- img = loadImage("ystone08.jpg");
-}
-
-void draw() {
- if (signal > img.width*img.height-1 || signal < 0) {
- direction = direction * -1;
- }
-
- if (mousePressed) {
- int mx = constrain(mouseX, 0, img.width-1);
- int my = constrain(mouseY, 0, img.height-1);
- signal = my*img.width + mx;
- } else {
- signal += 0.33*direction;
- }
-
- int sx = int(signal) % img.width;
- int sy = int(signal) / img.width;
-
- if (keyPressed) {
- set(0, 0, img); // fast way to draw an image
- point(sx, sy);
- rect(sx - 5, sy - 5, 10, 10);
- } else {
- color c = img.get(sx, sy);
- background(c);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow1/Follow1.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow1/Follow1.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f817d0f64..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow1/Follow1.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Follow 1.
- * Based on code from Keith Peters (www.bit-101.com).
- *
- * A line segment is pushed and pulled by the cursor.
- */
-
-float x = 100;
-float y = 100;
-float angle1 = 0.0;
-float segLength = 50;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- strokeWeight(20.0);
- stroke(0, 100);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(226);
-
- float dx = mouseX - x;
- float dy = mouseY - y;
- angle1 = atan2(dy, dx);
- x = mouseX - (cos(angle1) * segLength);
- y = mouseY - (sin(angle1) * segLength);
-
- segment(x, y, angle1);
- ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);
-}
-
-void segment(float x, float y, float a) {
- pushMatrix();
- translate(x, y);
- rotate(a);
- line(0, 0, segLength, 0);
- popMatrix();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow2/Follow2.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow2/Follow2.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index a0a6f8516..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow2/Follow2.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Follow 2.
- * Based on code from Keith Peters (www.bit-101.com).
- *
- * A two-segmented arm follows the cursor position. The relative
- * angle between the segments is calculated with atan2() and the
- * position calculated with sin() and cos().
- */
-
-float[] x = new float[2];
-float[] y = new float[2];
-float segLength = 50;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- strokeWeight(20.0);
- stroke(0, 100);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(226);
- dragSegment(0, mouseX, mouseY);
- dragSegment(1, x[0], y[0]);
-}
-
-void dragSegment(int i, float xin, float yin) {
- float dx = xin - x[i];
- float dy = yin - y[i];
- float angle = atan2(dy, dx);
- x[i] = xin - cos(angle) * segLength;
- y[i] = yin - sin(angle) * segLength;
- segment(x[i], y[i], angle);
-}
-
-void segment(float x, float y, float a) {
- pushMatrix();
- translate(x, y);
- rotate(a);
- line(0, 0, segLength, 0);
- popMatrix();
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow3/Follow3.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow3/Follow3.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a004ccc3..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Interaction/Follow3/Follow3.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Follow 3.
- * Based on code from Keith Peters (www.bit-101.com).
- *
- * A segmented line follows the mouse. The relative angle from
- * each segment to the next is calculated with atan2() and the
- * position of the next is calculated with sin() and cos().
- */
-
-float[] x = new float[20];
-float[] y = new float[20];
-float segLength = 9;
-
-void setup() {
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- strokeWeight(5);
- stroke(0, 100);
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(226);
- dragSegment(0, mouseX, mouseY);
- for(int i=0; i=1; i--) {
- positionSegment(i, i-1);
- }
- for(int i=0; i width-25 || ballX < 25) {
- ballXDirection *= -1;
- }
- if(ballY > height-25 || ballY < 25) {
- ballYDirection *= -1;
- }
- ellipse(ballX, ballY, 30, 30);
-
- reachSegment(0, ballX, ballY);
- for(int i=1; i=1; i--) {
- positionSegment(i, i-1);
- }
- for(int i=0; i width-size || xpos < 0) {
- xdirection *= -1;
- }
- if (ypos > height-size || ypos < 0) {
- ydirection *= -1;
- }
-
- // Draw the shape
- ellipse(xpos+size/2, ypos+size/2, size, size);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/BouncyBubbles/BouncyBubbles.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/BouncyBubbles/BouncyBubbles.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index e9dc24f28..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/BouncyBubbles/BouncyBubbles.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Bouncy Bubbles.
- * Based on code from Keith Peters (www.bit-101.com).
- *
- * Multiple-object collision.
- */
-
-
-int numBalls = 12;
-float spring = 0.05;
-float gravity = 0.03;
-float friction = -0.9;
-Ball[] balls = new Ball[numBalls];
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 200);
- noStroke();
- smooth();
- for (int i = 0; i < numBalls; i++) {
- balls[i] = new Ball(random(width), random(height), random(20, 40), i, balls);
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(0);
- for (int i = 0; i < numBalls; i++) {
- balls[i].collide();
- balls[i].move();
- balls[i].display();
- }
-}
-
-class Ball {
- float x, y;
- float diameter;
- float vx = 0;
- float vy = 0;
- int id;
- Ball[] others;
-
- Ball(float xin, float yin, float din, int idin, Ball[] oin) {
- x = xin;
- y = yin;
- diameter = din;
- id = idin;
- others = oin;
- }
-
- void collide() {
- for (int i = id + 1; i < numBalls; i++) {
- float dx = others[i].x - x;
- float dy = others[i].y - y;
- float distance = sqrt(dx*dx + dy*dy);
- float minDist = others[i].diameter/2 + diameter/2;
- if (distance < minDist) {
- float angle = atan2(dy, dx);
- float targetX = x + cos(angle) * minDist;
- float targetY = y + sin(angle) * minDist;
- float ax = (targetX - others[i].x) * spring;
- float ay = (targetY - others[i].y) * spring;
- vx -= ax;
- vy -= ay;
- others[i].vx += ax;
- others[i].vy += ay;
- }
- }
- }
-
- void move() {
- vy += gravity;
- x += vx;
- y += vy;
- if (x + diameter/2 > width) {
- x = width - diameter/2;
- vx *= friction;
- }
- else if (x - diameter/2 < 0) {
- x = diameter/2;
- vx *= friction;
- }
- if (y + diameter/2 > height) {
- y = height - diameter/2;
- vy *= friction;
- }
- else if (y - diameter/2 < 0) {
- y = diameter/2;
- vy *= friction;
- }
- }
-
- void display() {
- fill(255, 204);
- ellipse(x, y, diameter, diameter);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Brownian/Brownian.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Brownian/Brownian.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f8daf978..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Brownian/Brownian.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Brownian motion.
- *
- * Recording random movement as a continuous line.
- */
-
-int num = 2000;
-int range = 6;
-
-float[] ax = new float[num];
-float[] ay = new float[num];
-
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- for(int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- ax[i] = width/2;
- ay[i] = height/2;
- }
- frameRate(30);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(51);
-
- // Shift all elements 1 place to the left
- for(int i = 1; i < num; i++) {
- ax[i-1] = ax[i];
- ay[i-1] = ay[i];
- }
-
- // Put a new value at the end of the array
- ax[num-1] += random(-range, range);
- ay[num-1] += random(-range, range);
-
- // Constrain all points to the screen
- ax[num-1] = constrain(ax[num-1], 0, width);
- ay[num-1] = constrain(ay[num-1], 0, height);
-
- // Draw a line connecting the points
- for(int i=1; i width-ball.r) {
- ball.x = width-ball.r;
- vel.x *= -1;
- }
- else if (ball.x < ball.r) {
- ball.x = ball.r;
- vel.x *= -1;
- }
- else if (ball.y > height-ball.r) {
- ball.y = height-ball.r;
- vel.y *= -1;
- }
- else if (ball.y < ball.r) {
- ball.y = ball.r;
- vel.y *= -1;
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Collision/Collision.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Collision/Collision.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d5b88c2b..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Collision/Collision.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Collision (Pong).
- *
- * Move the mouse up and down to move the paddle.
- */
-
-// Global variables for the ball
-float ball_x;
-float ball_y;
-float ball_dir = 1;
-float ball_size = 15; // Radius
-float dy = 0; // Direction
-
-// Global variables for the paddle
-int paddle_width = 10;
-int paddle_height = 60;
-
-int dist_wall = 15;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- rectMode(RADIUS);
- ellipseMode(RADIUS);
- noStroke();
- smooth();
- ball_y = height/2;
- ball_x = 1;
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(51);
-
- ball_x += ball_dir * 1.0;
- ball_y += dy;
- if(ball_x > width+ball_size) {
- ball_x = -width/2 - ball_size;
- ball_y = random(0, height);
- dy = 0;
- }
-
- // Constrain paddle to screen
- float paddle_y = constrain(mouseY, paddle_height, height-paddle_height);
-
- // Test to see if the ball is touching the paddle
- float py = width-dist_wall-paddle_width-ball_size;
- if(ball_x == py
- && ball_y > paddle_y - paddle_height - ball_size
- && ball_y < paddle_y + paddle_height + ball_size) {
- ball_dir *= -1;
- if(mouseY != pmouseY) {
- dy = (mouseY-pmouseY)/2.0;
- if(dy > 5) { dy = 5; }
- if(dy < -5) { dy = -5; }
- }
- }
-
- // If ball hits paddle or back wall, reverse direction
- if(ball_x < ball_size && ball_dir == -1) {
- ball_dir *= -1;
- }
-
- // If the ball is touching top or bottom edge, reverse direction
- if(ball_y > height-ball_size) {
- dy = dy * -1;
- }
- if(ball_y < ball_size) {
- dy = dy * -1;
- }
-
- // Draw ball
- fill(255);
- ellipse(ball_x, ball_y, ball_size, ball_size);
-
- // Draw the paddle
- fill(153);
- rect(width-dist_wall, paddle_y, paddle_width, paddle_height);
-}
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Linear/Linear.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Linear/Linear.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 246b9b05e..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Linear/Linear.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Linear Motion.
- *
- * Changing a variable to create a moving line.
- * When the line moves off the edge of the window,
- * the variable is set to 0, which places the line
- * back at the bottom of the screen.
- */
-
-float a = 100;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 200);
- stroke(255);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(51);
- a = a - 0.5;
- if (a < 0) {
- a = height;
- }
- line(0, a, width, a);
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/MovingOnCurves/MovingOnCurves.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/MovingOnCurves/MovingOnCurves.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 051d6ba48..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/MovingOnCurves/MovingOnCurves.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Moving On Curves.
- *
- * In this example, the circles moves along the curve y = x^4.
- * Click the mouse to have it move to a new position.
- */
-
-float beginX = 20.0; // Initial x-coordinate
-float beginY = 10.0; // Initial y-coordinate
-float endX = 570.0; // Final x-coordinate
-float endY = 320.0; // Final y-coordinate
-float distX; // X-axis distance to move
-float distY; // Y-axis distance to move
-float exponent = 4; // Determines the curve
-float x = 0.0; // Current x-coordinate
-float y = 0.0; // Current y-coordinate
-float step = 0.01; // Size of each step along the path
-float pct = 0.0; // Percentage traveled (0.0 to 1.0)
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(640, 360);
- noStroke();
- smooth();
- distX = endX - beginX;
- distY = endY - beginY;
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- fill(0, 2);
- rect(0, 0, width, height);
- pct += step;
- if (pct < 1.0) {
- x = beginX + (pct * distX);
- y = beginY + (pow(pct, exponent) * distY);
- }
- fill(255);
- ellipse(x, y, 20, 20);
-}
-
-void mousePressed() {
- pct = 0.0;
- beginX = x;
- beginY = y;
- endX = mouseX;
- endY = mouseY;
- distX = endX - beginX;
- distY = endY - beginY;
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Puff/Puff.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Puff/Puff.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 49256b8a6..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Puff/Puff.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,91 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Puff
- * by Ira Greenberg.
- *
- * Series of ellipses simulating a multi-segmented
- * organism, utilizing a follow the leader algorithm.
- * Collision detection occurs on the organism's head,
- * controlling overall direction, and on the individual
- * body segments, controlling body shape and jitter.
- */
-
-// For puff head
-float headX;
-float headY;
-float speedX = .7;
-float speedY = .9;
-
-// For puff body
-int cells = 1000;
-float[]px= new float[cells];
-float[]py= new float[cells];
-float[]radiiX = new float[cells];
-float[]radiiY = new float[cells];
-float[]angle = new float[cells];
-float[]frequency = new float[cells];
-float[]cellRadius = new float[cells];
-
-void setup(){
-
- size(640, 360);
-
- // Begin in the center
- headX = width/2;
- headY = height/2;
-
- // Fill body arrays
- for (int i=0; i< cells; i++){
- radiiX[i] = random(-7, 7);
- radiiY[i] = random(-4, 4);
- frequency[i]= random(-9, 9);
- cellRadius[i] = random(16, 30);
- }
- frameRate(30);
-}
-
-void draw(){
- background(0);
- noStroke();
- fill(255, 255, 255, 5);
-
- // Follow the leader
- for (int i =0; i< cells; i++){
- if (i==0){
- px[i] = headX+sin(radians(angle[i]))*radiiX[i];
- py[i] = headY+cos(radians(angle[i]))*radiiY[i];
- }
- else{
- px[i] = px[i-1]+cos(radians(angle[i]))*radiiX[i];
- py[i] = py[i-1]+sin(radians(angle[i]))*radiiY[i];
-
- // Check collision of body
- if (px[i] >= width-cellRadius[i]/2 || px[i] <= cellRadius[i]/2){
- radiiX[i]*=-1;
- cellRadius[i] = random(1, 40);
- frequency[i]= random(-13, 13);
- }
- if (py[i] >= height-cellRadius[i]/2 || py[i] <= cellRadius[i]/2){
- radiiY[i]*=-1;
- cellRadius[i] = random(1, 40);
- frequency[i]= random(-9, 9);
- }
- }
- // Draw puff
- ellipse(px[i], py[i], cellRadius[i], cellRadius[i]);
- // Set speed of body
- angle[i]+=frequency[i];
- }
-
- // Set velocity of head
- headX+=speedX;
- headY+=speedY;
-
- // Check boundary collision of head
- if (headX >= width-cellRadius[0]/2 || headX <=cellRadius[0]/2){
- speedX*=-1;
- }
- if (headY >= height-cellRadius[0]/2 || headY <= cellRadius[0]/2){
- speedY*=-1;
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection1/Reflection1.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection1/Reflection1.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f8434c93..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection1/Reflection1.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
- /**
- * Non-orthogonal Reflection
- * by Ira Greenberg.
- *
- * Based on the equation (R = 2N(N*L)-L) where R is the
- * reflection vector, N is the normal, and L is the incident
- * vector.
- */
-
-float baseX1, baseY1, baseX2, baseY2;
-float baseLength;
-float[] xCoords, yCoords;
-float ellipseX, ellipseY, ellipseRadius = 6;
-float directionX, directionY;
-float ellipseSpeed = 3.5;
-float velocityX, velocityY;
-
-void setup(){
- size(640, 240);
- frameRate(30);
- fill(128);
- smooth();
- baseX1 = 0;
- baseY1 = height-150;
- baseX2 = width;
- baseY2 = height;
-
- // start ellipse at middle top of screen
- ellipseX = width/2;
-
- // calculate initial random direction
- directionX = random(0.1, 0.99);
- directionY = random(0.1, 0.99);
-
- // normalize direction vector
- float directionVectLength = sqrt(directionX*directionX +
- directionY*directionY);
- directionX /= directionVectLength;
- directionY /= directionVectLength;
-}
-
-void draw(){
- // draw background
- fill(0, 12);
- noStroke();
- rect(0, 0, width, height);
-
- // calculate length of base top
- baseLength = dist(baseX1, baseY1, baseX2, baseY2);
- xCoords = new float[ceil(baseLength)];
- yCoords = new float[ceil(baseLength)];
-
- // fill base top coordinate array
- for (int i=0; i width-ellipseRadius){
- ellipseX = width-ellipseRadius;
- directionX *= -1;
- }
- // left
- if (ellipseX < ellipseRadius){
- ellipseX = ellipseRadius;
- directionX *= -1;
- }
- // top
- if (ellipseY < ellipseRadius){
- ellipseY = ellipseRadius;
- directionY *= -1;
- // randomize base top
- baseY1 = random(height-100, height);
- baseY2 = random(height-100, height);
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Ground.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Ground.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 55d8497e2..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Ground.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-class Ground {
- float x1, y1, x2, y2;
- float x, y, len, rot;
-
- // Default constructor
- Ground(){
- }
-
- // Constructor
- Ground(float x1, float y1, float x2, float y2) {
- this.x1 = x1;
- this.y1 = y1;
- this.x2 = x2;
- this.y2 = y2;
- x = (x1+x2)/2;
- y = (y1+y2)/2;
- len = dist(x1, y1, x2, y2);
- rot = atan2((y2-y1), (x2-x1));
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Orb.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Orb.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 7af7ed91b..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Orb.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-class Orb{
- float x, y, r;
-
- // Default constructor
- Orb() {
- }
-
- Orb(float x, float y, float r) {
- this.x = x;
- this.y = y;
- this.r = r;
- }
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Reflection2.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Reflection2.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 05f135b7f..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Motion/Reflection2/Reflection2.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Non-orthogonal Collision with Multiple Ground Segments
- * by Ira Greenberg.
- *
- * Based on Keith Peter's Solution in
- * Foundation Actionscript Animation: Making Things Move!
- */
-
-Orb orb;
-PVector velocity;
-float gravity = .05, damping = 0.8;
-int segments = 40;
-Ground[] ground = new Ground[segments];
-float[] peakHeights = new float[segments+1];
-
-void setup(){
- size(640, 200);
- smooth();
- orb = new Orb(50, 50, 3);
- velocity = new PVector(.5, 0);
-
- // Calculate ground peak heights
- for (int i=0; i width-orb.r){
- orb.x = width-orb.r;
- velocity.x *= -1;
- velocity.x *= damping;
- }
- else if (orb.x < orb.r){
- orb.x = orb.r;
- velocity.x *= -1;
- velocity.x *= damping;
- }
-}
-
-
-void checkGroundCollision(Ground groundSegment) {
-
- // Get difference between orb and ground
- float deltaX = orb.x - groundSegment.x;
- float deltaY = orb.y - groundSegment.y;
-
- // Precalculate trig values
- float cosine = cos(groundSegment.rot);
- float sine = sin(groundSegment.rot);
-
- /* Rotate ground and velocity to allow
- orthogonal collision calculations */
- float groundXTemp = cosine * deltaX + sine * deltaY;
- float groundYTemp = cosine * deltaY - sine * deltaX;
- float velocityXTemp = cosine * velocity.x + sine * velocity.y;
- float velocityYTemp = cosine * velocity.y - sine * velocity.x;
-
- /* Ground collision - check for surface
- collision and also that orb is within
- left/rights bounds of ground segment */
- if (groundYTemp > -orb.r &&
- orb.x > groundSegment.x1 &&
- orb.x < groundSegment.x2 ){
- // keep orb from going into ground
- groundYTemp = -orb.r;
- // bounce and slow down orb
- velocityYTemp *= -1.0;
- velocityYTemp *= damping;
- }
-
- // Reset ground, velocity and orb
- deltaX = cosine * groundXTemp - sine * groundYTemp;
- deltaY = cosine * groundYTemp + sine * groundXTemp;
- velocity.x = cosine * velocityXTemp - sine * velocityYTemp;
- velocity.y = cosine * velocityYTemp + sine * velocityXTemp;
- orb.x = groundSegment.x + deltaX;
- orb.y = groundSegment.y + deltaY;
-}
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Chain/Chain.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Chain/Chain.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f2a53006f..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Chain/Chain.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Chain.
- *
- * One mass is attached to the mouse position and the other
- * is attached the position of the other mass. The gravity
- * in the environment pulls down on both.
- */
-
-
-Spring2D s1, s2;
-
-float gravity = 6.0;
-float mass = 2.0;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- smooth();
- fill(0);
- // Inputs: x, y, mass, gravity
- s1 = new Spring2D(0.0, width/2, mass, gravity);
- s2 = new Spring2D(0.0, width/2, mass, gravity);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(204);
- s1.update(mouseX, mouseY);
- s1.display(mouseX, mouseY);
- s2.update(s1.x, s1.y);
- s2.display(s1.x, s1.y);
-}
-
-class Spring2D {
- float vx, vy; // The x- and y-axis velocities
- float x, y; // The x- and y-coordinates
- float gravity;
- float mass;
- float radius = 20;
- float stiffness = 0.2;
- float damping = 0.7;
-
- Spring2D(float xpos, float ypos, float m, float g) {
- x = xpos;
- y = ypos;
- mass = m;
- gravity = g;
- }
-
- void update(float targetX, float targetY) {
- float forceX = (targetX - x) * stiffness;
- float ax = forceX / mass;
- vx = damping * (vx + ax);
- x += vx;
- float forceY = (targetY - y) * stiffness;
- forceY += gravity;
- float ay = forceY / mass;
- vy = damping * (vy + ay);
- y += vy;
- }
-
- void display(float nx, float ny) {
- noStroke();
- ellipse(x, y, radius*2, radius*2);
- stroke(255);
- line(x, y, nx, ny);
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Boid.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Boid.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index dcd1a994a..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Boid.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,196 +0,0 @@
-// The Boid class
-
-class Boid {
-
- PVector loc;
- PVector vel;
- PVector acc;
- float r;
- float maxforce; // Maximum steering force
- float maxspeed; // Maximum speed
-
- Boid(PVector l, float ms, float mf) {
- acc = new PVector(0,0);
- vel = new PVector(random(-1,1),random(-1,1));
- loc = l.get();
- r = 2.0;
- maxspeed = ms;
- maxforce = mf;
- }
-
- void run(ArrayList boids) {
- flock(boids);
- update();
- borders();
- render();
- }
-
- // We accumulate a new acceleration each time based on three rules
- void flock(ArrayList boids) {
- PVector sep = separate(boids); // Separation
- PVector ali = align(boids); // Alignment
- PVector coh = cohesion(boids); // Cohesion
- // Arbitrarily weight these forces
- sep.mult(1.5);
- ali.mult(1.0);
- coh.mult(1.0);
- // Add the force vectors to acceleration
- acc.add(sep);
- acc.add(ali);
- acc.add(coh);
- }
-
- // Method to update location
- void update() {
- // Update velocity
- vel.add(acc);
- // Limit speed
- vel.limit(maxspeed);
- loc.add(vel);
- // Reset accelertion to 0 each cycle
- acc.mult(0);
- }
-
- void seek(PVector target) {
- acc.add(steer(target,false));
- }
-
- void arrive(PVector target) {
- acc.add(steer(target,true));
- }
-
- // A method that calculates a steering vector towards a target
- // Takes a second argument, if true, it slows down as it approaches the target
- PVector steer(PVector target, boolean slowdown) {
- PVector steer; // The steering vector
- PVector desired = target.sub(target,loc); // A vector pointing from the location to the target
- float d = desired.mag(); // Distance from the target is the magnitude of the vector
- // If the distance is greater than 0, calc steering (otherwise return zero vector)
- if (d > 0) {
- // Normalize desired
- desired.normalize();
- // Two options for desired vector magnitude (1 -- based on distance, 2 -- maxspeed)
- if ((slowdown) && (d < 100.0)) desired.mult(maxspeed*(d/100.0)); // This damping is somewhat arbitrary
- else desired.mult(maxspeed);
- // Steering = Desired minus Velocity
- steer = target.sub(desired,vel);
- steer.limit(maxforce); // Limit to maximum steering force
- }
- else {
- steer = new PVector(0,0);
- }
- return steer;
- }
-
- void render() {
- // Draw a triangle rotated in the direction of velocity
- float theta = vel.heading2D() + PI/2;
- fill(200,100);
- stroke(255);
- pushMatrix();
- translate(loc.x,loc.y);
- rotate(theta);
- beginShape(TRIANGLES);
- vertex(0, -r*2);
- vertex(-r, r*2);
- vertex(r, r*2);
- endShape();
- popMatrix();
- }
-
- // Wraparound
- void borders() {
- if (loc.x < -r) loc.x = width+r;
- if (loc.y < -r) loc.y = height+r;
- if (loc.x > width+r) loc.x = -r;
- if (loc.y > height+r) loc.y = -r;
- }
-
- // Separation
- // Method checks for nearby boids and steers away
- PVector separate (ArrayList boids) {
- float desiredseparation = 20.0;
- PVector steer = new PVector(0,0,0);
- int count = 0;
- // For every boid in the system, check if it's too close
- for (int i = 0 ; i < boids.size(); i++) {
- Boid other = (Boid) boids.get(i);
- float d = PVector.dist(loc,other.loc);
- // If the distance is greater than 0 and less than an arbitrary amount (0 when you are yourself)
- if ((d > 0) && (d < desiredseparation)) {
- // Calculate vector pointing away from neighbor
- PVector diff = PVector.sub(loc,other.loc);
- diff.normalize();
- diff.div(d); // Weight by distance
- steer.add(diff);
- count++; // Keep track of how many
- }
- }
- // Average -- divide by how many
- if (count > 0) {
- steer.div((float)count);
- }
-
- // As long as the vector is greater than 0
- if (steer.mag() > 0) {
- // Implement Reynolds: Steering = Desired - Velocity
- steer.normalize();
- steer.mult(maxspeed);
- steer.sub(vel);
- steer.limit(maxforce);
- }
- return steer;
- }
-
- // Alignment
- // For every nearby boid in the system, calculate the average velocity
- PVector align (ArrayList boids) {
- float neighbordist = 25.0;
- PVector steer = new PVector(0,0,0);
- int count = 0;
- for (int i = 0 ; i < boids.size(); i++) {
- Boid other = (Boid) boids.get(i);
- float d = PVector.dist(loc,other.loc);
- if ((d > 0) && (d < neighbordist)) {
- steer.add(other.vel);
- count++;
- }
- }
- if (count > 0) {
- steer.div((float)count);
- }
-
- // As long as the vector is greater than 0
- if (steer.mag() > 0) {
- // Implement Reynolds: Steering = Desired - Velocity
- steer.normalize();
- steer.mult(maxspeed);
- steer.sub(vel);
- steer.limit(maxforce);
- }
- return steer;
- }
-
- // Cohesion
- // For the average location (i.e. center) of all nearby boids, calculate steering vector towards that location
- PVector cohesion (ArrayList boids) {
- float neighbordist = 25.0;
- PVector sum = new PVector(0,0); // Start with empty vector to accumulate all locations
- int count = 0;
- for (int i = 0 ; i < boids.size(); i++) {
- Boid other = (Boid) boids.get(i);
- float d = loc.dist(other.loc);
- if ((d > 0) && (d < neighbordist)) {
- sum.add(other.loc); // Add location
- count++;
- }
- }
- if (count > 0) {
- sum.div((float)count);
- return steer(sum,false); // Steer towards the location
- }
- return sum;
- }
-}
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flock.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flock.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ec1001c7..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flock.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-// The Flock (a list of Boid objects)
-
-class Flock {
- ArrayList boids; // An arraylist for all the boids
-
- Flock() {
- boids = new ArrayList(); // Initialize the arraylist
- }
-
- void run() {
- for (int i = 0; i < boids.size(); i++) {
- Boid b = (Boid) boids.get(i);
- b.run(boids); // Passing the entire list of boids to each boid individually
- }
- }
-
- void addBoid(Boid b) {
- boids.add(b);
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flocking.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flocking.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index ed0e7e60c..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Flocking/Flocking.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Flocking
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * An implementation of Craig Reynold's Boids program to simulate
- * the flocking behavior of birds. Each boid steers itself based on
- * rules of avoidance, alignment, and coherence.
- *
- * Click the mouse to add a new boid.
- */
-
-Flock flock;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- flock = new Flock();
- // Add an initial set of boids into the system
- for (int i = 0; i < 150; i++) {
- flock.addBoid(new Boid(new PVector(width/2,height/2), 3.0, 0.05));
- }
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(50);
- flock.run();
-}
-
-// Add a new boid into the System
-void mousePressed() {
- flock.addBoid(new Boid(new PVector(mouseX,mouseY),2.0f,0.05f));
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Fluid/Fluid.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Fluid/Fluid.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index fd5f36bf6..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Fluid/Fluid.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Fluid
- * by Glen Murphy.
- *
- * Click and drag the mouse to move the simulated fluid.
- * Adjust the "res" variable below to change resolution.
- * Code has not been optimised, and will run fairly slowly.
- */
-
-int res = 2;
-int penSize = 30;
-int lwidth;
-int lheight;
-int pnum = 30000;
-vsquare[][] v;
-vbuffer[][] vbuf;
-particle[] p = new particle[pnum];
-int pcount = 0;
-int mouseXvel = 0;
-int mouseYvel = 0;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- noStroke();
- frameRate(30);
- lwidth = width/res;
- lheight = height/res;
- v = new vsquare[lwidth+1][lheight+1];
- vbuf = new vbuffer[lwidth+1][lheight+1];
- for (int i = 0; i < pnum; i++) {
- p[i] = new particle(random(res,width-res),random(res,height-res));
- }
- for (int i = 0; i <= lwidth; i++) {
- for (int u = 0; u <= lheight; u++) {
- v[i][u] = new vsquare(i*res,u*res);
- vbuf[i][u] = new vbuffer(i*res,u*res);
- }
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(#666666);
-
- int axvel = mouseX-pmouseX;
- int ayvel = mouseY-pmouseY;
-
- mouseXvel = (axvel != mouseXvel) ? axvel : 0;
- mouseYvel = (ayvel != mouseYvel) ? ayvel : 0;
-
- for (int i = 0; i < lwidth; i++) {
- for (int u = 0; u < lheight; u++) {
- vbuf[i][u].updatebuf(i,u);
- v[i][u].col = 32;
- }
- }
- for (int i = 0; i < pnum-1; i++) {
- p[i].updatepos();
- }
- for (int i = 0; i < lwidth; i++) {
- for (int u = 0; u < lheight; u++) {
- v[i][u].addbuffer(i, u);
- v[i][u].updatevels(mouseXvel, mouseYvel);
- v[i][u].display(i, u);
- }
- }
-}
-
-class particle {
- float x;
- float y;
- float xvel;
- float yvel;
- int pos;
- particle(float xIn, float yIn) {
- x = xIn;
- y = yIn;
- }
-
- void updatepos() {
- float col1;
- if (x > 0 && x < width && y > 0 && y < height) {
- int vi = (int)(x/res);
- int vu = (int)(y/res);
- vsquare o = v[vi][vu];
-
- float ax = (x%res)/res;
- float ay = (y%res)/res;
-
- xvel += (1-ax)*v[vi][vu].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += (1-ay)*v[vi][vu].yvel*0.05;
-
- xvel += ax*v[vi+1][vu].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += ax*v[vi+1][vu].yvel*0.05;
-
- xvel += ay*v[vi][vu+1].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += ay*v[vi][vu+1].yvel*0.05;
-
- o.col += 4;
-
- x += xvel;
- y += yvel;
- }
- else {
- x = random(0,width);
- y = random(0,height);
- xvel = 0;
- yvel = 0;
- }
-
- xvel *= 0.5;
- yvel *= 0.5;
- }
-}
-
-class vbuffer {
- int x;
- int y;
- float xvel;
- float yvel;
- float pressurex = 0;
- float pressurey = 0;
- float pressure = 0;
-
- vbuffer(int xIn,int yIn) {
- x = xIn;
- y = yIn;
- pressurex = 0;
- pressurey = 0;
- }
-
- void updatebuf(int i, int u) {
- if (i>0 && i0 && u0 && i0 && u 255) col = 255;
- if (i>0 && i0 && u= 0; i--) {
- ParticleSystem psys = (ParticleSystem) psystems.get(i);
- psys.run();
- if (psys.dead()) {
- psystems.remove(i);
- }
- }
-
-}
-
-// When the mouse is pressed, add a new particle system
-void mousePressed() {
- psystems.add(new ParticleSystem(int(random(5,25)),new PVector(mouseX,mouseY)));
-}
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/Particle.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/Particle.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f06feae24..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/Particle.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-// A simple Particle class
-
-class Particle {
- PVector loc;
- PVector vel;
- PVector acc;
- float r;
- float timer;
-
- // One constructor
- Particle(PVector a, PVector v, PVector l, float r_) {
- acc = a.get();
- vel = v.get();
- loc = l.get();
- r = r_;
- timer = 100.0;
- }
-
- // Another constructor (the one we are using here)
- Particle(PVector l) {
- acc = new PVector(0,0.05,0);
- vel = new PVector(random(-1,1),random(-2,0),0);
- loc = l.get();
- r = 10.0;
- timer = 100.0;
- }
-
-
- void run() {
- update();
- render();
- }
-
- // Method to update location
- void update() {
- vel.add(acc);
- loc.add(vel);
- timer -= 1.0;
- }
-
- // Method to display
- void render() {
- ellipseMode(CENTER);
- stroke(255,timer);
- fill(100,timer);
- ellipse(loc.x,loc.y,r,r);
- }
-
- // Is the particle still useful?
- boolean dead() {
- if (timer <= 0.0) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/ParticleSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/ParticleSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9322a70af..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/MultipleParticleSystems/ParticleSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-// An ArrayList is used to manage the list of Particles
-
-class ParticleSystem {
-
- ArrayList particles; // An arraylist for all the particles
- PVector origin; // An origin point for where particles are birthed
-
- ParticleSystem(int num, PVector v) {
- particles = new ArrayList(); // Initialize the arraylist
- origin = v.get(); // Store the origin point
- for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- // We have a 50% chance of adding each kind of particle
- if (random(1) < 0.5) {
- particles.add(new CrazyParticle(origin));
- } else {
- particles.add(new Particle(origin));
- }
- }
- }
-
- void run() {
- // Cycle through the ArrayList backwards b/c we are deleting
- for (int i = particles.size()-1; i >= 0; i--) {
- Particle p = (Particle) particles.get(i);
- p.run();
- if (p.dead()) {
- particles.remove(i);
- }
- }
- }
-
- void addParticle() {
- particles.add(new Particle(origin));
- }
-
- void addParticle(Particle p) {
- particles.add(p);
- }
-
- // A method to test if the particle system still has particles
- boolean dead() {
- if (particles.isEmpty()) {
- return true;
- }
- else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/Particle.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/Particle.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index f9395c066..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/Particle.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-// A simple Particle class
-
-class Particle {
- PVector loc;
- PVector vel;
- PVector acc;
- float r;
- float timer;
-
- // Another constructor (the one we are using here)
- Particle(PVector l) {
- acc = new PVector(0,0.05,0);
- vel = new PVector(random(-1,1),random(-2,0),0);
- loc = l.get();
- r = 10.0;
- timer = 100.0;
- }
-
- void run() {
- update();
- render();
- }
-
- // Method to update location
- void update() {
- vel.add(acc);
- loc.add(vel);
- timer -= 1.0;
- }
-
- // Method to display
- void render() {
- ellipseMode(CENTER);
- stroke(255,timer);
- fill(100,timer);
- ellipse(loc.x,loc.y,r,r);
- displayVector(vel,loc.x,loc.y,10);
- }
-
- // Is the particle still useful?
- boolean dead() {
- if (timer <= 0.0) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
- void displayVector(PVector v, float x, float y, float scayl) {
- pushMatrix();
- float arrowsize = 4;
- // Translate to location to render vector
- translate(x,y);
- stroke(255);
- // Call vector heading function to get direction (note that pointing up is a heading of 0) and rotate
- rotate(v.heading2D());
- // Calculate length of vector & scale it to be bigger or smaller if necessary
- float len = v.mag()*scayl;
- // Draw three lines to make an arrow (draw pointing up since we've rotate to the proper direction)
- line(0,0,len,0);
- line(len,0,len-arrowsize,+arrowsize/2);
- line(len,0,len-arrowsize,-arrowsize/2);
- popMatrix();
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/ParticleSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/ParticleSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d6829d83..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/ParticleSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-// A class to describe a group of Particles
-// An ArrayList is used to manage the list of Particles
-
-class ParticleSystem {
-
- ArrayList particles; // An arraylist for all the particles
- PVector origin; // An origin point for where particles are born
-
- ParticleSystem(int num, PVector v) {
- particles = new ArrayList(); // Initialize the arraylist
- origin = v.get(); // Store the origin point
- for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- particles.add(new Particle(origin)); // Add "num" amount of particles to the arraylist
- }
- }
-
- void run() {
- // Cycle through the ArrayList backwards b/c we are deleting
- for (int i = particles.size()-1; i >= 0; i--) {
- Particle p = (Particle) particles.get(i);
- p.run();
- if (p.dead()) {
- particles.remove(i);
- }
- }
- }
-
- void addParticle() {
- particles.add(new Particle(origin));
- }
-
- void addParticle(float x, float y) {
- particles.add(new Particle(new PVector(x,y)));
- }
-
- void addParticle(Particle p) {
- particles.add(p);
- }
-
- // A method to test if the particle system still has particles
- boolean dead() {
- if (particles.isEmpty()) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/SimpleParticleSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/SimpleParticleSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e01b424d..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SimpleParticleSystem/SimpleParticleSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Simple Particle System
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * Particles are generated each cycle through draw(),
- * fall with gravity and fade out over time
- * A ParticleSystem object manages a variable size (ArrayList)
- * list of particles.
- */
-
-ParticleSystem ps;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- colorMode(RGB, 255, 255, 255, 100);
- ps = new ParticleSystem(1, new PVector(width/2,height/2,0));
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(0);
- ps.run();
- ps.addParticle(mouseX,mouseY);
-}
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Smoke/Smoke.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Smoke/Smoke.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 2716209ac..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Smoke/Smoke.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,264 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Smoke
- * by Glen Murphy.
- *
- * Drag the mouse across the image to move the particles.
- * Code has not been optimised and will run fairly slowly.
- */
-
-int res = 2;
-int penSize = 30;
-int lwidth;
-int lheight;
-int pnum = 30000;
-vsquare[][] v;
-vbuffer[][] vbuf;
-particle[] p;
-int pcount = 0;
-int mouseXvel = 0;
-int mouseYvel = 0;
-
-int randomGust = 0;
-int randomGustMax;
-float randomGustX;
-float randomGustY;
-float randomGustSize;
-float randomGustXvel;
-float randomGustYvel;
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- lwidth = width/res;
- lheight = height/res;
- v = new vsquare[lwidth+1][lheight+1];
- vbuf = new vbuffer[lwidth+1][lheight+1];
- p = new particle[pnum];
- noStroke();
- for(int i = 0; i < pnum; i++) {
- p[i] = new particle(random(width/2-20,width/2+20),random(height-20,height));
- }
- for(int i = 0; i <= lwidth; i++) {
- for(int u = 0; u <= lheight; u++) {
- v[i][u] = new vsquare(i*res,u*res);
- vbuf[i][u] = new vbuffer(i*res,u*res);
- }
- }
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(#cccccc);
-
- int axvel = mouseX-pmouseX;
- int ayvel = mouseY-pmouseY;
-
- mouseXvel = (axvel != mouseXvel) ? axvel : 0;
- mouseYvel = (ayvel != mouseYvel) ? ayvel : 0;
-
- if(randomGust <= 0) {
- if(random(0,10)<1) {
- randomGustMax = (int)random(5,12);
- randomGust = randomGustMax;
- randomGustX = random(0,width);
- randomGustY = random(0,height-10);
- randomGustSize = random(0,50);
- if(randomGustX > width/2) {
- randomGustXvel = random(-8,0);
- } else {
- randomGustXvel = random(0,8);
- }
- randomGustYvel = random(-2,1);
- }
- randomGust--;
- }
-
- for(int i = 0; i < lwidth; i++) {
- for(int u = 0; u < lheight; u++) {
- vbuf[i][u].updatebuf(i,u);
- v[i][u].col = 0;
- }
- }
- for(int i = 0; i < pnum-1; i++) {
- p[i].updatepos();
- }
- for(int i = 0; i < lwidth; i++) {
- for(int u = 0; u < lheight; u++) {
- v[i][u].addbuffer(i, u);
- v[i][u].updatevels(mouseXvel, mouseYvel);
- v[i][u].display(i, u);
- }
- }
- randomGust = 0;
-}
-
-class particle
-{
- float x;
- float y;
- float xvel;
- float yvel;
- float temp;
- int pos;
-
- particle(float xIn, float yIn) {
- x = xIn;
- y = yIn;
- }
-
- void reposition() {
- x = width/2+random(-20,20);
- y = random(height-10,height);
-
- xvel = random(-1,1);
- yvel = random(-1,1);
- }
-
- void updatepos() {
- int vi = (int)(x/res);
- int vu = (int)(y/res);
-
- if(vi > 0 && vi < lwidth && vu > 0 && vu < lheight) {
- v[vi][vu].addcolour(2);
-
- float ax = (x%res)/res;
- float ay = (y%res)/res;
-
- xvel += (1-ax)*v[vi][vu].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += (1-ay)*v[vi][vu].yvel*0.05;
-
- xvel += ax*v[vi+1][vu].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += ax*v[vi+1][vu].yvel*0.05;
-
- xvel += ay*v[vi][vu+1].xvel*0.05;
- yvel += ay*v[vi][vu+1].yvel*0.05;
-
- v[vi][vu].yvel -= (1-ay)*0.003;
- v[vi+1][vu].yvel -= ax*0.003;
-
- if(v[vi][vu].yvel < 0) v[vi][vu].yvel *= 1.00025;
-
- x += xvel;
- y += yvel;
- }
- else {
- reposition();
- }
- if(random(0,400) < 1) {
- reposition();
- }
- xvel *= 0.6;
- yvel *= 0.6;
- }
-}
-
-class vbuffer
-{
- int x;
- int y;
- float xvel;
- float yvel;
- float pressurex = 0;
- float pressurey = 0;
- float pressure = 0;
-
- vbuffer(int xIn,int yIn) {
- x = xIn;
- y = yIn;
- pressurex = 0;
- pressurey = 0;
- }
-
- void updatebuf(int i, int u) {
- if(i>0 && i0 && u0 && i0 && u 0) {
- adj = x - randomGustX;
- opp = y - randomGustY;
- dist = sqrt(opp*opp + adj*adj);
- if(dist < randomGustSize) {
- if(dist < res*2) dist = randomGustSize;
- mod = randomGustSize/dist;
- xvel += (randomGustMax-randomGust)*randomGustXvel*mod;
- yvel += (randomGustMax-randomGust)*randomGustYvel*mod;
- }
- }
- xvel *= 0.99;
- yvel *= 0.98;
- }
-
- void addcolour(int amt) {
- col += amt;
- if(col > 196) col = 196;
- }
-
- void display(int i, int u) {
- float tcol = 0;
- if(i>0 && i0 && u= 0; i--) {
- Particle p = (Particle) particles.get(i);
- p.run();
- if (p.dead()) {
- particles.remove(i);
- }
- }
- }
-
- // Method to add a force vector to all particles currently in the system
- void add_force(PVector dir) {
- for (int i = particles.size()-1; i >= 0; i--) {
- Particle p = (Particle) particles.get(i);
- p.add_force(dir);
- }
-
- }
-
- void addParticle() {
- particles.add(new Particle(origin,img));
- }
-
- void addParticle(Particle p) {
- particles.add(p);
- }
-
- // A method to test if the particle system still has particles
- boolean dead() {
- if (particles.isEmpty()) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
- }
-
-}
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SmokeParticleSystem/SmokeParticleSystem.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SmokeParticleSystem/SmokeParticleSystem.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 98cb16da9..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SmokeParticleSystem/SmokeParticleSystem.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Smoke Particle System
- * by Daniel Shiffman.
- *
- * A basic smoke effect using a particle system.
- * Each particle is rendered as an alpha masked image.
- */
-
-ParticleSystem ps;
-Random generator;
-
-void setup() {
-
- size(640, 200);
- colorMode(RGB, 255, 255, 255, 100);
-
- // Using a Java random number generator for Gaussian random numbers
- generator = new Random();
-
- // Create an alpha masked image to be applied as the particle's texture
- PImage msk = loadImage("texture.gif");
- PImage img = new PImage(msk.width,msk.height);
- for (int i = 0; i < img.pixels.length; i++) img.pixels[i] = color(255);
- img.mask(msk);
- ps = new ParticleSystem(0, new PVector(width/2,height-20 ),img);
-
- smooth();
-}
-
-void draw() {
- background(75);
-
- // Calculate a "wind" force based on mouse horizontal position
- float dx = (mouseX - width/2) / 1000.0;
- PVector wind = new PVector(dx,0,0);
- displayVector(wind,width/2,50,500);
- ps.add_force(wind);
- ps.run();
- for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
- ps.addParticle();
- }
-}
-
- void displayVector(PVector v, float x, float y, float scayl) {
- pushMatrix();
- float arrowsize = 4;
- // Translate to location to render vector
- translate(x,y);
- stroke(255);
- // Call vector heading function to get direction (note that pointing up is a heading of 0) and rotate
- rotate(v.heading2D());
- // Calculate length of vector & scale it to be bigger or smaller if necessary
- float len = v.mag()*scayl;
- // Draw three lines to make an arrow (draw pointing up since we've rotate to the proper direction)
- line(0,0,len,0);
- line(len,0,len-arrowsize,+arrowsize/2);
- line(len,0,len-arrowsize,-arrowsize/2);
- popMatrix();
- }
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SmokeParticleSystem/data/texture.gif b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SmokeParticleSystem/data/texture.gif
deleted file mode 100644
index 17e84e806..000000000
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diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SoftBody/SoftBody.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SoftBody/SoftBody.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index 9372af389..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/SoftBody/SoftBody.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Soft Body
- * by Ira Greenberg.
- *
- * Softbody dynamics simulation using curveVertex() and curveTightness().
- */
-
-// center point
-float centerX = 0, centerY = 0;
-
-float radius = 45, rotAngle = -90;
-float accelX, accelY;
-float springing = .0009, damping = .98;
-
-//corner nodes
-int nodes = 5;
-float nodeStartX[] = new float[nodes];
-float nodeStartY[] = new float[nodes];
-float[]nodeX = new float[nodes];
-float[]nodeY = new float[nodes];
-float[]angle = new float[nodes];
-float[]frequency = new float[nodes];
-
-// soft-body dynamics
-float organicConstant = 1;
-
-void setup() {
- size(640, 360);
- //center shape in window
- centerX = width/2;
- centerY = height/2;
- // iniitalize frequencies for corner nodes
- for (int i=0; i left && mouseX < right && mouseY > ps && mouseY < ps + s_height) {
- over = true;
- } else {
- over = false;
- }
-
- // Set and constrain the position of top bar
- if(move) {
- ps = mouseY - s_height/2;
- if (ps < min) { ps = min; }
- if (ps > max) { ps = max; }
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed() {
- if(over) {
- move = true;
- }
-}
-
-void mouseReleased()
-{
- move = false;
-}
diff --git a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Springs/Springs.pde b/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Springs/Springs.pde
deleted file mode 100644
index c615d4819..000000000
--- a/java/examples/Topics/Simulate/Springs/Springs.pde
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,162 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Springs.
- *
- * Move the mouse over one of the circles and click to re-position.
- * When you release the mouse, it will snap back into position.
- * Each circle has a slightly different behavior.
- */
-
-
-int num = 3;
-Spring[] springs = new Spring[num];
-
-void setup()
-{
- size(200, 200);
- noStroke();
- smooth();
- springs[0] = new Spring( 70, 160, 20, 0.98, 8.0, 0.1, springs, 0);
- springs[1] = new Spring(150, 110, 60, 0.95, 9.0, 0.1, springs, 1);
- springs[2] = new Spring( 40, 70, 120, 0.90, 9.9, 0.1, springs, 2);
-}
-
-void draw()
-{
- background(51);
-
- for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- springs[i].update();
- springs[i].display();
- }
-}
-
-void mousePressed()
-{
- for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
- springs[i].pressed();
- }
-}
-
-void mouseReleased()
-{
- for (int i=0; i