The Washington times., 1917-11-14
DRACULA,
OR
THE VAMPIRE
By BRAN STOKER.

IL have read your letters to poor Lucy,
and know how good you are and how
your husband suffer: so I pray you,
IL 1t may be, enlighten him not. lest II
| may harm. Again your pardon, and
| forgive me.
ivan Helsing."
J Telegram. Ars. Hdrker to VaR HslsJMO.
"25 September.-Come today by quar-
ter past ten train II you can catch II.
Can see you any time you call
'WLHELMINA HARKER."
NINA HARKER's JOURNAL.
25 September.-I cannot help feel
ing terribly excited as the time
draws near for the visit OF DR.. Van
Helstng, for somehow expect
that 1t 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
1t Is concerning Lucy and her sleep
walking. and not about Jonathan. Then
shall never know the real truth nowl
HORRIBLE PAST EVENTS
RECALLED TO MIND.
! How silly I am. That awful Journal
gets hold Of my imagination and tinges
everything with something Of its own
color. OF course II Is about Lucy. That
habit came back to the poor dear, and
that awful night on the cliff must have
made her Ill. had almost forgotten In
my own affairs how Ill she was after
ward. She must have told him OF her
sleep-walking adventure on the cliff, and
that knew all about it and now he
NJ n Ia all hfra wkaN r.. tr.-
so that he may understand.
hope / did right in not saying any
| thing Of II to Mrs. Westenra I should
never forgive myself II any act OF mine.
were II 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 / feel I cannot bear more
Just at present
FINDS GOOD CRY
MAKES HER FEEL BETTER.
I suppose a cry does US all good at
times-clears the air as other rain does
Perhaps II was reading the Journal yes
terday that upset me, and then Jona-
than went away this morning TO stay
away from me a whole day and night.
the first time we have been parted since
our marriage. do hope the dear fel-
low will take care OF himself, and that
nothing will occur to upset him It is
2 O'Clock, and the doctor win be here
soon now. / shall say nothing Of iona
than's journal unless he asks me. I am
50 glad have type-written out my own
journal. so that. In case he asks about
Lucy. I can hand It to him It will save
much questioning. -. 49,.
Later.-He has come and gone. oh,
what a strange meeting. and how q all
makes my head whirl roundI feel
like one In n dream. Can Il be all
possible. or even a part Of Il? II had
not read Jonathan's journal first,
should never have accepted even a DOS
sibility. Poor. poor. dear Jonathan
How he must have suffered Please the
good God. all this may not upset him
again.
GLAD JONATHAN
NOW KNOWS FOR CERTAIN.
I shall try to save him from It;
but II may be even a consolation and a
help to hlm-terrible though Il be and
awful In its consequences-to know for
certain that his eyes and ears and brain
did not deceive him. and that II Il all
true. Il may be that u is the doubt
which haunts him; that when the doubt
Is removed. no matter Withdrawing
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 II he Is Arthur'S friend and Dr.
Stewards, and II they brought him all
the way from Holland to look after
Lucy. I feel from having seen him
that he 10 good and kind and Of q noble
nature.
When ne comes tomorrow I shall ask
him about jonathan: and then. please
God, all this sorrow and anxiety may
lead TO a good Cnd. ! used to think.
would Ike 10 practice interviewing:
JonRthan's friend on The Exeter
News" told him that memory was
everything In such work-that you must
be able 10 put down exactly almost
every work spoken, even II you had TO
refine some Of II aftsrward. Here was
. rare interview shall try TO record
Il verbatim.
(To No Continued TomoYrowo