Then we will comfort you and poor Madam Mina with new hopeFor it will be hope when you think it over, that all is not lostThis very creature that we pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as LondonAnd yet in one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him outHe is finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we doBut we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong togetherTake heart afresh, dear husband of Madam MinaThis battle is but begun and in the end we shall winSo sure as that God sits on high to watch over His childrenTherefore be of much comfort till we return
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
4 October-When I read to Mina, Van Helsing's message in the phonograph, the poor girl brightened up considerablyAlready the certainty that the Count is out of the country has given her comfortAnd comfort is strength to herFor my own part, now that his horrible danger is not face to face with us, it seems almost impossible to believe in itEven my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem like a long forgotten dreamHere 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 foreheadWhilst that lasts, there can be no disbeliefMina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and againSomehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem lessThere is something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is comfortingMina says that perhaps we are the instruments of ultimate goodIt may be! I shall try to think as she doesWe have never spoken to each other yet of the futureIt 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 againIt is now three o'clock
MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL
5 October, 5 P-Our meeting for reportPresent: Professor Van Helsing, Lord Godalming, DrQuincey Morris, Jonathan Harker, Mina HarkerVan 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 comeIt was a dreary blank that was before usOmme ignotum pro magnifico, and so with heavy hearts we start to find what ships leave for the Black Sea last nightHe was in sailing ship, since Madam Mina tell of sails being setThese 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 smallThere we find that only one Black Sea bound ship go out with the tideShe is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence to other ports and up the
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