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Dracula

Bram Stoker

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onathan arkers ournal

7 :ay" Bistrit"AA?eft :unich at =174 P":", on -st :ay, arriing at)ienna early ne*t morningF shoul! hae arrie! at 18, but train wasan hour late" Bu!aAPesth seems a won!erful place, from the glimpse

which $ got of it from the train an! the little $ coul! walk throughthe streets" $ feare! to go ery far from the station, as we ha!arrie! late an! woul! start as near the correct time as possible"

The impression $ ha! was that we were leaing the 'est an! entering theEastF the most western of splen!i! bri!ges oer the Danube, which ishere of noble wi!th an! !epth, took us among the tra!itions of Turkishrule"

'e left in pretty goo! time, an! came after nightfall to lausenburgh"ere $ stoppe! for the night at the otel +oyale" $ ha! for !inner,or rather supper, a chicken !one up some way with re! pepper, which

was ery goo! but thirsty" H:em" get recipe for :ina"I $ aske! thewaiter, an! he sai! it was calle! #paprika hen!l,# an! that, as it wasa national !ish, $ shoul! be able to get it anywhere along theCarpathians"

$ foun! my smattering of German ery useful here, in!ee!, $ !ont knowhow $ shoul! be able to get on without it"

aing ha! some time at my !isposal when in ?on!on, $ ha! isite! theBritish :useum, an! ma!e search among the books an! maps in thelibrary regar!ing TransylaniaF it ha! struck me that someforeknowle!ge of the country coul! har!ly fail to hae some importance

in !ealing with a nobleman of that country"

$ fin! that the !istrict he name! is in the e*treme east of thecountry, just on the bor!ers of three states, Transylania, :ol!aia,an! Bukoina, in the mi!st of the Carpathian mountainsF one of thewil!est an! least known portions of Europe"

$ was not able to light on any map or work giing the e*act localityof the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet tocompare with our own 3r!ance Surey :apsF but $ foun! that Bistrit,the post town name! by Count Dracula, is a fairly wellAknown place" $

shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when$ talk oer my traels with :ina"

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$n the population of Transylania there are four !istinctnationalities1 Sa*ons in the South, an! mi*e! with them the 'allachs,who are the !escen!ants of the DaciansF :agyars in the 'est, an!Sekelys in the East an! ;orth" $ am going among the latter, whoclaim to be !escen!e! from 2ttila an! the uns" This may be so, forwhen the :agyars conJuere! the country in the eleenth century theyfoun! the uns settle! in it"

$ rea! that eery known superstition in the worl! is gathere! into thehorseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort ofimaginatie whirlpoolF if so my stay may be ery interesting" H:em",$ must ask the Count all about them"I

$ !i! not sleep well, though my be! was comfortable enough, for $ ha!all sorts of Jueer !reams" There was a !og howling all night un!er mywin!ow, which may hae ha! something to !o with itF or it may haebeen the paprika, for $ ha! to !rink up all the water in my carafe,an! was still thirsty" Towar!s morning $ slept an! was wakene! by thecontinuous knocking at my !oor, so $ guess $ must hae been sleeping

soun!ly then"

$ ha! for breakfast more paprika, an! a sort of porri!ge of maieflour which they sai! was #mamaliga#, an! eggAplant stuffe! withforcemeat, a ery e*cellent !ish, which they call #impletata#" H:em",get recipe for this also"I

$ ha! to hurry breakfast, for the train starte! a little before eight,or rather it ought to hae !one so, for after rushing to the stationat /17> $ ha! to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before webegan to moe"

$t seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual arethe trains" 'hat ought they to be in ChinaK

2ll !ay long we seeme! to !aw!le through a country which was full ofbeauty of eery kin!" Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on thetop of steep hills such as we see in ol! missalsF sometimes we ran byriers an! streams which seeme! from the wi!e stony margin on eachsi!e of them to be subject to great floo!s" $t takes a lot of water,an! running strong, to sweep the outsi!e e!ge of a rier clear"

2t eery station there were groups of people, sometimes crow!s, an! inall sorts of attire" Some of them were just like the peasants at home

or those $ saw coming through (rance an! Germany, with short jackets,an! roun! hats, an! homeAma!e trousersF but others were erypicturesJue"

The women looke! pretty, e*cept when you got near them, but they wereery clumsy about the waist" They ha! all full white sleees of somekin! or other, an! most of them ha! big belts with a lot of strips ofsomething fluttering from them like the !resses in a ballet, but ofcourse there were petticoats un!er them"

The strangest figures we saw were the Sloaks, who were more barbarianthan the rest, with their big cowAboy hats, great baggy !irtyAwhite

trousers, white linen shirts, an! enormous heay leather belts, nearlya foot wi!e, all stu!!e! oer with brass nails" They wore high boots,with their trousers tucke! into them, an! ha! long black hair an!

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was in such an e*cite! state that she seeme! to hae lost her grip ofwhat German she knew, an! mi*e! it all up with some other languagewhich $ !i! not know at all" $ was just able to follow her by askingmany Juestions" 'hen $ tol! her that $ must go at once, an! that $was engage! on important business, she aske! again1

#Do you know what !ay it isK# $ answere! that it was the fourth of

:ay" She shook her hea! as she sai! again1

#3h, yes0 $ know that0 $ know that, but !o you know what !ay it isK#

3n my saying that $ !i! not un!erstan!, she went on1

#$t is the ee of St" Georges Day" Do you not know that tonight,when the clock strikes mi!night, all the eil things in the worl! willhae full swayK Do you know where you are going, an! what you aregoing toK# She was in such ei!ent !istress that $ trie! to comforther, but without effect" (inally, she went !own on her knees an!implore! me not to goF at least to wait a !ay or two before starting"

$t was all ery ri!iculous but $ !i! not feel comfortable" oweer,there was business to be !one, an! $ coul! allow nothing to interferewith it"

$ trie! to raise her up, an! sai!, as graely as $ coul!, that $thanke! her, but my !uty was imperatie, an! that $ must go"

She then rose an! !rie! her eyes, an! taking a crucifi* from her neckoffere! it to me"

$ !i! not know what to !o, for, as an English Churchman, $ hae been

taught to regar! such things as in some measure i!olatrous, an! yet itseeme! so ungracious to refuse an ol! la!y meaning so well an! in sucha state of min!"

She saw, $ suppose, the !oubt in my face, for she put the rosary roun!my neck an! sai!, #(or your mothers sake,# an! went out of the room"

$ am writing up this part of the !iary whilst $ am waiting for thecoach, which is, of course, lateF an! the crucifi* is still roun! myneck"

'hether it is the ol! la!ys fear, or the many ghostly tra!itions of

this place, or the crucifi* itself, $ !o not know, but $ am notfeeling nearly as easy in my min! as usual"

$f this book shoul! eer reach :ina before $ !o, let it bring mygoo!bye" ere comes the coach0

4 :ay" The Castle"AAThe gray of the morning has passe!, an! the sunis high oer the !istant horion, which seems jagge!, whether withtrees or hills $ know not, for it is so far off that big things an!little are mi*e!"

$ am not sleepy, an!, as $ am not to be calle! till $ awake, naturally$ write till sleep comes"

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There are many o!! things to put !own, an!, lest who rea!s them mayfancy that $ !ine! too well before $ left Bistrit, let me put !own my!inner e*actly"

$ !ine! on what they calle! #robber steak#AAbits of bacon, onion, an!beef, seasone! with re! pepper, an! strung on sticks, an! roaste! oerthe fire, in simple style of the ?on!on cats meat0

The wine was Gol!en :e!iasch, which pro!uces a Jueer sting on thetongue, which is, howeer, not !isagreeable"

$ ha! only a couple of glasses of this, an! nothing else"

'hen $ got on the coach, the !rier ha! not taken his seat, an! $ sawhim talking to the lan!la!y"

They were ei!ently talking of me, for eery now an! then they looke!at me, an! some of the people who were sitting on the bench outsi!ethe !oorAAcame an! listene!, an! then looke! at me, most of them

pityingly" $ coul! hear a lot of wor!s often repeate!, Jueer wor!s,for there were many nationalities in the crow!, so $ Juietly got mypolyglot !ictionary from my bag an! looke! them out"

$ must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were#3r!og#AASatan, #Pokol#AAhell, #stregoica#AAwitch, #rolok# an!#lkoslak#AAboth mean the same thing, one being Sloak an! the otherSerian for something that is either werewolf or ampire" H:em", $must ask the Count about these superstitions"I

'hen we starte!, the crow! roun! the inn !oor, which ha! by this timeswelle! to a consi!erable sie, all ma!e the sign of the cross an!

pointe! two fingers towar!s me"

'ith some !ifficulty, $ got a fellow passenger to tell me what theymeant" e woul! not answer at first, but on learning that $ wasEnglish, he e*plaine! that it was a charm or guar! against the eileye"

This was not ery pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown placeto meet an unknown man" But eeryone seeme! so kin!Ahearte!, an! sosorrowful, an! so sympathetic that $ coul! not but be touche!"

$ shall neer forget the last glimpse which $ ha! of the inn yar! an!

its crow! of picturesJue figures, all crossing themseles, as theystoo! roun! the wi!e archway, with its backgroun! of rich foliage ofolean!er an! orange trees in green tubs clustere! in the centre of theyar!"

Then our !rier, whose wi!e linen !rawers coere! the whole front ofthe bo*seat,AA#gota# they call themAAcracke! his big whip oer hisfour small horses, which ran abreast, an! we set off on our journey"

$ soon lost sight an! recollection of ghostly fears in the beauty ofthe scene as we !roe along, although ha! $ known the language, orrather languages, which my fellowApassengers were speaking, $ might

not hae been able to throw them off so easily" Before us lay a greensloping lan! full of forests an! woo!s, with here an! there steephills, crowne! with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank

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gable en! to the roa!" There was eerywhere a bewil!ering mass offruit blossomAAapple, plum, pear, cherry" 2n! as we !roe by $ coul!see the green grass un!er the trees spangle! with the fallen petals"$n an! out amongst these green hills of what they call here the#:ittel ?an!# ran the roa!, losing itself as it swept roun! the grassycure, or was shut out by the straggling en!s of pine woo!s, whichhere an! there ran !own the hillsi!es like tongues of flame" The roa!

was rugge!, but still we seeme! to fly oer it with a feerish haste"$ coul! not un!erstan! then what the haste meant, but the !rier wasei!ently bent on losing no time in reaching Borgo Prun!" $ was tol!that this roa! is in summertime e*cellent, but that it ha! not yetbeen put in or!er after the winter snows" $n this respect it is!ifferent from the general run of roa!s in the Carpathians, for it isan ol! tra!ition that they are not to be kept in too goo! or!er" 3fol! the ospa!ars woul! not repair them, lest the Turk shoul! thinkthat they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, an! so hasten thewar which was always really at loa!ing point"

Beyon! the green swelling hills of the :ittel ?an! rose mighty slopes

of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themseles" +ightan! left of us they towere!, with the afternoon sun falling full uponthem an! bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautifulrange, !eep blue an! purple in the sha!ows of the peaks, green an!brown where grass an! rock mingle!, an! an en!less perspectie ofjagge! rock an! pointe! crags, till these were themseles lost in the!istance, where the snowy peaks rose gran!ly" ere an! there seeme!mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began tosink, we saw now an! again the white gleam of falling water" 3ne ofmy companions touche! my arm as we swept roun! the base of a hill an!opene! up the lofty, snowAcoere! peak of a mountain, which seeme!, aswe woun! on our serpentine way, to be right before us"

#?ook0 $sten sek0#AA#Go!s seat0#AAan! he crosse! himself reerently"

2s we woun! on our en!less way, an! the sun sank lower an! lowerbehin! us, the sha!ows of the eening began to creep roun! us" Thiswas emphasie! by the fact that the snowy mountainAtop still hel! thesunset, an! seeme! to glow out with a !elicate cool pink" ere an!there we passe! Cseks an! sloaks, all in picturesJue attire, but $notice! that goitre was painfully prealent" By the roa!si!e weremany crosses, an! as we swept by, my companions all crosse!themseles" ere an! there was a peasant man or woman kneeling beforea shrine, who !i! not een turn roun! as we approache!, but seeme! in

the selfAsurren!er of !eotion to hae neither eyes nor ears for theouter worl!" There were many things new to me" (or instance,hayAricks in the trees, an! here an! there ery beautiful masses ofweeping birch, their white stems shining like siler through the!elicate green of the leaes"

;ow an! again we passe! a leiterAwagonAAthe or!inary peasantsscartAAwith its long, snakelike ertebra, calculate! to suit theineJualities of the roa!" 3n this were sure to be seate! Juite agroup of homecoming peasants, the Cseks with their white, an! theSloaks with their coloure! sheepskins, the latter carryinglanceAfashion their long staes, with a*e at en!" 2s the eening fell

it began to get ery col!, an! the growing twilight seeme! to mergeinto one !ark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, an! pine,though in the alleys which ran !eep between the spurs of the hills,

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#There is no carriage here" The err is not e*pecte! after all" ewill now come on to Bukoina, an! return tomorrow or the ne*t !ay,better the ne*t !ay"# 'hilst he was speaking the horses began toneigh an! snort an! plunge wil!ly, so that the !rier ha! to hol! themup" Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants an! auniersal crossing of themseles, a caleche, with four horses, !roeup behin! us, oertook us, an! !rew up besi!e the coach" $ coul! see

from the flash of our lamps as the rays fell on them, that the horseswere coalAblack an! splen!i! animals" They were !rien by a tall man,with a long brown bear! an! a great black hat, which seeme! to hi!ehis face from us" $ coul! only see the gleam of a pair of ery brighteyes, which seeme! re! in the lamplight, as he turne! to us"

e sai! to the !rier, #%ou are early tonight, my frien!"#

The man stammere! in reply, #The English err was in a hurry"#

To which the stranger replie!, #That is why, $ suppose, you wishe! himto go on to Bukoina" %ou cannot !eceie me, my frien!" $ know too

much, an! my horses are swift"#

2s he spoke he smile!, an! the lamplight fell on a har!Alooking mouth,with ery re! lips an! sharpAlooking teeth, as white as iory" 3ne ofmy companions whispere! to another the line from Burgers #?enore#"

#Denn !ie To!ten reiten Schnell"# H#(or the !ea! trael fast"#I

The strange !rier ei!ently hear! the wor!s, for he looke! up with agleaming smile" The passenger turne! his face away, at the same timeputting out his two fingers an! crossing himself" #Gie me the errsluggage,# sai! the !rier, an! with e*cee!ing alacrity my bags were

han!e! out an! put in the caleche" Then $ !escen!e! from the si!e ofthe coach, as the caleche was close alongsi!e, the !rier helping mewith a han! which caught my arm in a grip of steel" is strength musthae been pro!igious"

'ithout a wor! he shook his reins, the horses turne!, an! we sweptinto the !arkness of the pass" 2s $ looke! back $ saw the steam fromthe horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, an! projecte!against it the figures of my late companions crossing themseles"Then the !rier cracke! his whip an! calle! to his horses, an! offthey swept on their way to Bukoina" 2s they sank into the !arkness $felt a strange chill, an! a lonely feeling come oer me" But a cloak

was thrown oer my shoul!ers, an! a rug across my knees, an! the!rier sai! in e*cellent GermanAA#The night is chill, mein err, an!my master the Count ba!e me take all care of you" There is a flask ofslioit Hthe plum bran!y of the countryI un!erneath the seat, if youshoul! reJuire it"#

$ !i! not take any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all thesame" $ felt a little strangely, an! not a little frightene!" $think ha! there been any alternatie $ shoul! hae taken it, instea!of prosecuting that unknown night journey" The carriage went at ahar! pace straight along, then we ma!e a complete turn an! went alonganother straight roa!" $t seeme! to me that we were simply going oer

an! oer the same groun! again, an! so $ took note of some salientpoint, an! foun! that this was so" $ woul! hae like! to hae aske!the !rier what this all meant, but $ really feare! to !o so, for $

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thought that, place! as $ was, any protest woul! hae ha! no effect incase there ha! been an intention to !elay"

ByAan!Aby, howeer, as $ was curious to know how time was passing, $struck a match, an! by its flame looke! at my watch" $t was within afew minutes of mi!night" This gae me a sort of shock, for $ supposethe general superstition about mi!night was increase! by my recent

e*periences" $ waite! with a sick feeling of suspense"

Then a !og began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far !own the roa!, along, agonie! wailing, as if from fear" The soun! was taken up byanother !og, an! then another an! another, till, borne on the win!which now sighe! softly through the Pass, a wil! howling began, whichseeme! to come from all oer the country, as far as the imaginationcoul! grasp it through the gloom of the night"

2t the first howl the horses began to strain an! rear, but the !rierspoke to them soothingly, an! they Juiete! !own, but shiere! an!sweate! as though after a runaway from su!!en fright" Then, far off

in the !istance, from the mountains on each si!e of us began a lou!eran! a sharper howling, that of woles, which affecte! both the horsesan! myself in the same way" (or $ was min!e! to jump from the calechean! run, whilst they reare! again an! plunge! ma!ly, so that the!rier ha! to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting"$n a few minutes, howeer, my own ears got accustome! to the soun!,an! the horses so far became Juiet that the !rier was able to !escen!an! to stan! before them"

e pette! an! soothe! them, an! whispere! something in their ears, as$ hae hear! of horseAtamers !oing, an! with e*traor!inary effect, forun!er his caresses they became Juite manageable again, though they

still tremble!" The !rier again took his seat, an! shaking hisreins, starte! off at a great pace" This time, after going to the farsi!e of the Pass, he su!!enly turne! !own a narrow roa!way which ransharply to the right"

Soon we were hemme! in with trees, which in places arche! right oerthe roa!way till we passe! as through a tunnel" 2n! again greatfrowning rocks guar!e! us bol!ly on either si!e" Though we were inshelter, we coul! hear the rising win!, for it moane! an! whistle!through the rocks, an! the branches of the trees crashe! together aswe swept along" $t grew col!er an! col!er still, an! fine, pow!erysnow began to fall, so that soon we an! all aroun! us were coere!

with a white blanket" The keen win! still carrie! the howling of the!ogs, though this grew fainter as we went on our way" The baying ofthe woles soun!e! nearer an! nearer, as though they were closingroun! on us from eery si!e" $ grew !rea!fully afrai!, an! the horsesshare! my fear" The !rier, howeer, was not in the least !isturbe!"e kept turning his hea! to left an! right, but $ coul! not seeanything through the !arkness"

Su!!enly, away on our left $ saw a faint flickering blue flame" The!rier saw it at the same moment" e at once checke! the horses, an!,jumping to the groun!, !isappeare! into the !arkness" $ !i! not knowwhat to !o, the less as the howling of the woles grew closer" But

while $ won!ere!, the !rier su!!enly appeare! again, an! without awor! took his seat, an! we resume! our journey" $ think $ must haefallen asleep an! kept !reaming of the inci!ent, for it seeme! to be

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repeate! en!lessly, an! now looking back, it is like a sort of awfulnightmare" 3nce the flame appeare! so near the roa!, that een in the!arkness aroun! us $ coul! watch the !riers motions" e wentrapi!ly to where the blue flame arose, it must hae been ery faint,for it !i! not seem to illumine the place aroun! it at all, an!gathering a few stones, forme! them into some !eice"

3nce there appeare! a strange optical effect" 'hen he stoo! betweenme an! the flame he !i! not obstruct it, for $ coul! see its ghostlyflicker all the same" This startle! me, but as the effect was onlymomentary, $ took it that my eyes !eceie! me straining through the!arkness" Then for a time there were no blue flames, an! we spe!onwar!s through the gloom, with the howling of the woles aroun! us,as though they were following in a moing circle"

2t last there came a time when the !rier went further afiel! than heha! yet gone, an! !uring his absence, the horses began to trembleworse than eer an! to snort an! scream with fright" $ coul! not seeany cause for it, for the howling of the woles ha! cease! altogether"

But just then the moon, sailing through the black clou!s, appeare!behin! the jagge! crest of a beetling, pineAcla! rock, an! by itslight $ saw aroun! us a ring of woles, with white teeth an! lollingre! tongues, with long, sinewy limbs an! shaggy hair" They were ahun!re! times more terrible in the grim silence which hel! them thaneen when they howle!" (or myself, $ felt a sort of paralysis offear" $t is only when a man feels himself face to face with suchhorrors that he can un!erstan! their true import"

2ll at once the woles began to howl as though the moonlight ha! ha!some peculiar effect on them" The horses jumpe! about an! reare!, an!looke! helplessly roun! with eyes that rolle! in a way painful to

see" But the liing ring of terror encompasse! them on eery si!e,an! they ha! perforce to remain within it" $ calle! to the coachmanto come, for it seeme! to me that our only chance was to try to breakout through the ring an! to ai! his approach, $ shoute! an! beat thesi!e of the caleche, hoping by the noise to scare the woles from thesi!e, so as to gie him a chance of reaching the trap" ow he camethere, $ know not, but $ hear! his oice raise! in a tone of imperiouscomman!, an! looking towar!s the soun!, saw him stan! in the roa!way"2s he swept his long arms, as though brushing asi!e some impalpableobstacle, the woles fell back an! back further still" ust then aheay clou! passe! across the face of the moon, so that we were againin !arkness"

'hen $ coul! see again the !rier was climbing into the caleche, an!the woles !isappeare!" This was all so strange an! uncanny that a!rea!ful fear came upon me, an! $ was afrai! to speak or moe" Thetime seeme! interminable as we swept on our way, now in almostcomplete !arkness, for the rolling clou!s obscure! the moon"

'e kept on ascen!ing, with occasional perio!s of Juick !escent, but inthe main always ascen!ing" Su!!enly, $ became conscious of the factthat the !rier was in the act of pulling up the horses in thecourtyar! of a ast ruine! castle, from whose tall black win!ows cameno ray of light, an! whose broken battlements showe! a jagge! line

against the sky"

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C2PTE+ "# 'hen $ cameback :r" Swales went on,

#'ho brought him home, $ won!er, to hap him hereK :ur!ere! off thecoast of 2n!res0 2n you consate! his bo!y lay un!er0 'hy, $ coul!name ye a !oen whose bones lie in the Greenlan! seas aboe,# he

pointe! northwar!s, #or where the currants may hae !rifte! them"There be the steans aroun! ye" %e can, with your young eyes, rea! thesmall print of the lies from here" This Braithwaite ?owery, $ knewhis father, lost in the ?iely off Greenlan! in , or 2n!rew'oo!house, !rowne! in the same seas in -///, or ohn Pa*ton, !rowne!off Cape (arewell a year later, or ol! ohn +awlings, whosegran!father saile! with me, !rowne! in the Gulf of (inlan! in 4>" Doye think that all these men will hae to make a rush to 'hitby whenthe trumpet soun!sK $ hae me antherums aboot it0 $ tell ye thatwhen they got here they! be jommlin an! jostlin one another thatway that it u! be like a fight up on the ice in the ol! !ays, whenwe! be at one another from !aylight to !ark, an tryin to tie up our

cuts by the aurora borealis"# This was ei!ently local pleasantry, forthe ol! man cackle! oer it, an! his cronies joine! in with gusto"

#But,# $ sai!, #surely you are not Juite correct, for you start on theassumption that all the poor people, or their spirits, will hae totake their tombstones with them on the Day of u!gment" Do you thinkthat will be really necessaryK#

#'ell, what else be they tombstones forK 2nswer me that, miss0#

#To please their relaties, $ suppose"#

#To please their relaties, you suppose0# This he sai! with intensescorn" #ow will it pleasure their relaties to know that lies iswrote oer them, an! that eerybo!y in the place knows that they be

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up the pae! roa! below" The ban! on the pier is playing a harshwalt in goo! time, an! further along the Juay there is a Salation2rmy meeting in a back street" ;either of the ban!s hears the other,but up here $ hear an! see them both" $ won!er where onathan is an!if he is thinking of me0 $ wish he were here"

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4 une"AAThe case of +enfiel! grows more interesting the more $ get toun!erstan! the man" e has certain Jualities ery largely !eelope!,selfishness, secrecy, an! purpose"

$ wish $ coul! get at what is the object of the latter" e seems tohae some settle! scheme of his own, but what it is $ !o not know"is re!eeming Juality is a loe of animals, though, in!ee!, he hassuch curious turns in it that $ sometimes imagine he is onlyabnormally cruel" is pets are of o!! sorts"

ust now his hobby is catching flies" e has at present such aJuantity that $ hae ha! myself to e*postulate" To my astonishment,he !i! not break out into a fury, as $ e*pecte!, but took the matterin simple seriousness" e thought for a moment, an! then sai!, #:ay $hae three !aysK $ shall clear them away"# 3f course, $ sai! thatwoul! !o" $ must watch him"

-= une"AAe has turne! his min! now to spi!ers, an! has got seeralery big fellows in a bo*" e keeps fee!ing them his flies, an! thenumber of the latter is becoming sensibly !iminishe!, although he has

use! half his foo! in attracting more flies from outsi!e to his room"

- uly"AAis spi!ers are now becoming as great a nuisance as hisflies, an! to!ay $ tol! him that he must get ri! of them"

e looke! ery sa! at this, so $ sai! that he must some of them, atall eents" e cheerfully acJuiesce! in this, an! $ gae him the sametime as before for re!uction"

e !isguste! me much while with him, for when a horri! blowfly,bloate! with some carrion foo!, bue! into the room, he caught it,

hel! it e*ultantly for a few moments between his finger an! thumb, an!before $ knew what he was going to !o, put it in his mouth an! ate it"

$ scol!e! him for it, but he argue! Juietly that it was ery goo! an!ery wholesome, that it was life, strong life, an! gae life to him"This gae me an i!ea, or the ru!iment of one" $ must watch how hegets ri! of his spi!ers"

e has ei!ently some !eep problem in his min!, for he keeps a littlenotebook in which he is always jotting !own something" 'hole pages ofit are fille! with masses of figures, generally single numbers a!!e!up in batches, an! then the totals a!!e! in batches again, as though

he were focussing some account, as the au!itors put it"

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= uly"AAThere is a metho! in his ma!ness, an! the ru!imentary i!ea inmy min! is growing" $t will be a whole i!ea soon, an! then, oh,unconscious cerebration, you will hae to gie the wall to yourconscious brother"

$ kept away from my frien! for a few !ays, so that $ might notice ifthere were any change" Things remain as they were e*cept that he has

parte! with some of his pets an! got a new one"

e has manage! to get a sparrow, an! has alrea!y partially tame! it"is means of taming is simple, for alrea!y the spi!ers hae!iminishe!" Those that !o remain, howeer, are well fe!, for he stillbrings in the flies by tempting them with his foo!"

-. ulyAA'e are progressing" :y frien! has now a whole colony ofsparrows, an! his flies an! spi!ers are almost obliterate!" 'hen $came in he ran to me an! sai! he wante! to ask me a great faour, aery, ery great faour" 2n! as he spoke, he fawne! on me like a !og"

$ aske! him what it was, an! he sai!, with a sort of rapture in hisoice an! bearing, #2 kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten,that $ can play with, an! teach, an! fee!, an! fee!, an! fee!0#

$ was not unprepare! for this reJuest, for $ ha! notice! how his petswent on increasing in sie an! iacity, but $ !i! not care that hispretty family of tame sparrows shoul! be wipe! out in the same manneras the flies an! spi!ers" So $ sai! $ woul! see about it, an! aske!him if he woul! not rather hae a cat than a kitten"

is eagerness betraye! him as he answere!, #3h, yes, $ woul! like acat0 $ only aske! for a kitten lest you shoul! refuse me a cat" ;o

one woul! refuse me a kitten, woul! theyK#

$ shook my hea!, an! sai! that at present $ feare! it woul! not bepossible, but that $ woul! see about it" is face fell, an! $ coul!see a warning of !anger in it, for there was a su!!en fierce, si!elonglook which meant killing" The man is an un!eelope! homici!almaniac" $ shall test him with his present craing an! see how it willwork out, then $ shall know more"

-> pm"AA$ hae isite! him again an! foun! him sitting in a cornerbroo!ing" 'hen $ came in he threw himself on his knees before me an!

implore! me to let him hae a cat, that his salation !epen!e! uponit"

$ was firm, howeer, an! tol! him that he coul! not hae it, whereuponhe went without a wor!, an! sat !own, gnawing his fingers, in thecorner where $ ha! foun! him" $ shall see him in the morning early"

uly"AA)isite! +enfiel! ery early, before atten!ant went hisroun!s" (oun! him up an! humming a tune" e was sprea!ing out hissugar, which he ha! sae!, in the win!ow, an! was manifestly beginninghis fly catching again, an! beginning it cheerfully an! with a goo!

grace"

$ looke! aroun! for his bir!s, an! not seeing them, aske! him where

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breee"

The coastguar! on !uty at once ma!e report, an! one ol! fisherman,who for more than half a century has kept watch on weather signsfrom the East Cliff, foretol! in an emphatic manner the coming of asu!!en storm" The approach of sunset was so ery beautiful, sogran! in its masses of splen!i!ly coloure! clou!s, that there was

Juite an assemblage on the walk along the cliff in the ol!churchyar! to enjoy the beauty" Before the sun !ippe! below theblack mass of ettleness, stan!ing bol!ly athwart the western sky,its !ownwar! way was marke! by myria! clou!s of eery sunset colour,flame, purple, pink, green, iolet, an! all the tints of gol!, withhere an! there masses not large, but of seemingly absoluteblackness, in all sorts of shapes, as well outline! as colossalsilhouettes" The e*perience was not lost on the painters, an!!oubtless some of the sketches of the Prelu!e to the Great Stormwill grace the +" 2 an! +" $" walls in :ay ne*t"

:ore than one captain ma!e up his min! then an! there that his

cobble or his mule, as they term the !ifferent classes of boats,woul! remain in the harbour till the storm ha! passe!" The win!fell away entirely !uring the eening, an! at mi!night there was a!ea! calm, a sultry heat, an! that preailing intensity which, onthe approach of thun!er, affects persons of a sensitie nature"

There were but few lights in sight at sea, for een the coastingsteamers, which usually hug the shore so closely, kept well toseawar!, an! but few fishing boats were in sight" The only sailnoticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which wasseemingly going westwar!s" The foolhar!iness or ignorance of herofficers was a prolific theme for comment whilst she remaine! in

sight, an! efforts were ma!e to signal her to re!uce sail in theface of her !anger" Before the night shut !own she was seen withsails i!ly flapping as she gently rolle! on the un!ulating swell ofthe sea"

#2s i!le as a painte! ship upon a painte! ocean"#

Shortly before ten oclock the stillness of the air grew Juiteoppressie, an! the silence was so marke! that the bleating of asheep inlan! or the barking of a !og in the town was !istinctlyhear!, an! the ban! on the pier, with its liely (rench air, waslike a !ischor! in the great harmony of natures silence" 2 little

after mi!night came a strange soun! from oer the sea, an! highoerhea! the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming"

Then without warning the tempest broke" 'ith a rapi!ity which, atthe time, seeme! incre!ible, an! een afterwar!s is impossible torealie, the whole aspect of nature at once became conulse!" Thewaes rose in growing fury, each oerAtopping its fellow, till in aery few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring an!!eouring monster" 'hiteAcreste! waes beat ma!ly on the leelsan!s an! rushe! up the sheling cliffs" 3thers broke oer thepiers, an! with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouseswhich rise from the en! of either pier of 'hitby arbour"

The win! roare! like thun!er, an! blew with such force that it waswith !ifficulty that een strong men kept their feet, or clung with

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grim clasp to the iron stanchions" $t was foun! necessary to clearthe entire pier from the mass of onlookers, or else the fatalitiesof the night woul! hae increase! manifol!" To a!! to the!ifficulties an! !angers of the time, masses of seaAfog came!rifting inlan!" 'hite, wet clou!s, which swept by in ghostlyfashion, so !ank an! !amp an! col! that it nee!e! but little effortof imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were

touching their liing brethren with the clammy han!s of !eath, an!many a one shu!!ere! as the wreaths of seaAmist swept by"

2t times the mist cleare!, an! the sea for some !istance coul! beseen in the glare of the lightning, which came thick an! fast,followe! by such peals of thun!er that the whole sky oerhea! seeme!trembling un!er the shock of the footsteps of the storm"

Some of the scenes thus reeale! were of immeasurable gran!eur an!of absorbing interest" The sea, running mountains high, threwskywar!s with each wae mighty masses of white foam, which thetempest seeme! to snatch at an! whirl away into space" ere an!

there a fishing boat, with a rag of sail, running ma!ly for shelterbefore the blast, now an! again the white wings of a stormAtosse!seabir!" 3n the summit of the East Cliff the new searchlight wasrea!y for e*periment, but ha! not yet been trie!" The officers incharge of it got it into working or!er, an! in the pauses ofonrushing mist swept with it the surface of the sea" 3nce or twiceits serice was most effectie, as when a fishing boat, with gunwaleun!er water, rushe! into the harbour, able, by the gui!ance of thesheltering light, to aoi! the !anger of !ashing against the piers"2s each boat achiee! the safety of the port there was a shout ofjoy from the mass of people on the shore, a shout which for a momentseeme! to cleae the gale an! was then swept away in its rush"

Before long the searchlight !iscoere! some !istance away a schoonerwith all sails set, apparently the same essel which ha! beennotice! earlier in the eening" The win! ha! by this time backe! tothe east, an! there was a shu!!er amongst the watchers on the cliffas they realie! the terrible !anger in which she now was"

Between her an! the port lay the great flat reef on which so manygoo! ships hae from time to time suffere!, an!, with the win!blowing from its present Juarter, it woul! be Juite impossible thatshe shoul! fetch the entrance of the harbour"

$t was now nearly the hour of high ti!e, but the waes were so greatthat in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost isible,an! the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such spee!that, in the wor!s of one ol! salt, #she must fetch up somewhere, ifit was only in hell#" Then came another rush of seaAfog, greaterthan any hitherto, a mass of !ank mist, which seeme! to close on allthings like a gray pall, an! left aailable to men only the organ ofhearing, for the roar of the tempest, an! the crash of the thun!er,an! the booming of the mighty billows came through the !amp obliioneen lou!er than before" The rays of the searchlight were kept fi*e!on the harbour mouth across the East Pier, where the shock wase*pecte!, an! men waite! breathless"

The win! su!!enly shifte! to the northeast, an! the remnant of thesea fog melte! in the blast" 2n! then, mirabile !ictu, between the

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sails ha! worke! through the ru!!er of the wheel an! ha! !ragge! himto an! fro, so that the cor!s with which he was tie! ha! cut theflesh to the bone"

2ccurate note was ma!e of the state of things, an! a !octor, Surgeon" :" Caffyn, of 77, East Elliot Place, who came imme!iately afterme, !eclare!, after making e*amination, that the man must hae been

!ea! for Juite two !ays"

$n his pocket was a bottle, carefully corke!, empty sae fora little roll of paper, which proe! to be the a!!en!um tothe log"

The coastguar! sai! the man must hae tie! up his own han!s,fastening the knots with his teeth" The fact that a coastguar! wasthe first on boar! may sae some complications later on, in the2!miralty Court, for coastguar!s cannot claim the salage which isthe right of the first ciilian entering on a !erelict" 2lrea!y,howeer, the legal tongues are wagging, an! one young law stu!ent is

lou!ly asserting that the rights of the owner are alrea!y completelysacrifice!, his property being hel! in contraention of the statuesof mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of!elegate! possession, is hel! in a !ea! han!"

$t is nee!less to say that the !ea! steersman has been reerentlyremoe! from the place where he hel! his honourable watch an! war!till !eath, a stea!fastness as noble as that of the youngCasabianca, an! place! in the mortuary to await inJuest"

2lrea!y the su!!en storm is passing, an! its fierceness isabating" Crow!s are scattering backwar!, an! the sky is

beginning to re!!en oer the %orkshire wol!s"

$ shall sen!, in time for your ne*t issue, further !etailsof the !erelict ship which foun! her way so miraculouslyinto harbour in the storm"

. 2ugust"AAThe seJuel to the strange arrial of the !erelict in thestorm last night is almost more startling than the thing itself" $tturns out that the schooner is +ussian from )arna, an! is calle! theDemeter" She is almost entirely in ballast of siler san!, withonly a small amount of cargo, a number of great woo!en bo*es fille!

with moul!"

This cargo was consigne! to a 'hitby solicitor, :r" S"(" Billington,of /, The Crescent, who this morning went aboar! an! took formalpossession of the goo!s consigne! to him"

The +ussian consul, too, acting for the charterAparty, took formalpossession of the ship, an! pai! all harbour !ues, etc"

;othing is talke! about here to!ay e*cept the strange coinci!ence"The officials of the Boar! of Tra!e hae been most e*acting inseeing that eery compliance has been ma!e with e*isting

regulations" 2s the matter is to be a nine !ays won!er, they areei!ently !etermine! that there shall be no cause of othercomplaint"

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2 goo! !eal of interest was abroa! concerning the !og which lan!e!when the ship struck, an! more than a few of the members of theS"P"C"2", which is ery strong in 'hitby, hae trie! to befrien! theanimal" To the general !isappointment, howeer, it was not to befoun!" $t seems to hae !isappeare! entirely from the town" $t maybe that it was frightene! an! ma!e its way on to the moors, where it

is still hi!ing in terror"

There are some who look with !rea! on such a possibility, lest lateron it shoul! in itself become a !anger, for it is ei!ently a fiercebrute" Early this morning a large !og, a halfAbre! mastiffbelonging to a coal merchant close to Tate ill Pier, was foun! !ea!in the roa!way opposite its masters yar!" $t ha! been fighting,an! manifestly ha! ha! a saage opponent, for its throat was tornaway, an! its belly was slit open as if with a saage claw"

?ater"AABy the kin!ness of the Boar! of Tra!e inspector, $ hae beenpermitte! to look oer the log book of the Demeter, which was in

or!er up to within three !ays, but containe! nothing of specialinterest e*cept as to facts of missing men" The greatest interest,howeer, is with regar! to the paper foun! in the bottle, which wasto!ay pro!uce! at the inJuest" 2n! a more strange narratie thanthe two between them unfol! it has not been my lot to come across"

2s there is no motie for concealment, $ am permitte! to use them,an! accor!ingly sen! you a transcript, simply omitting technical!etails of seamanship an! supercargo" $t almost seems as though thecaptain ha! been seie! with some kin! of mania before he ha! gotwell into blue water, an! that this ha! !eelope! persistentlythroughout the oyage" 3f course my statement must be taken cum

grano, since $ am writing from the !ictation of a clerk of the+ussian consul, who kin!ly translate! for me, time being short"

?3G 3( TE #DE:ETE+# )arna to 'hitby

'ritten -= uly, things so strange happening, that $ shall keep accurate note henceforth till we lan!"

3n uly we finishe! taking in cargo, siler san! an! bo*es of earth" 2t noon set sail" East win!, fresh" Crew, fie han!s " " " two mates, cook, an! myself, HcaptainI"

3n -- uly at !awn entere! Bosphorus" Boar!e! by Turkish Customs officers" Backsheesh" 2ll correct" @n!er way at 8 p"m"

3n -< uly through Dar!anelles" :ore Customs officers an! flagboat of guar!ing sJua!ron" Backsheesh again" 'ork of

officers thorough, but Juick" 'ant us off soon" 2t !ark passe! into 2rchipelago"

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last night $ saw $t, like a man, tall an! thin, an! ghastly pale" $t was in the bows, an! looking out" $ crept behin! $t, an! gae it my knife, but the knife went through $t, empty as the air"# 2n! as he spoke he took the knife an! !roe it saagely into space" Then he went on, #But $t is here, an! $ll fin! $t" $t is in the hol!, perhaps in one of those bo*es" $ll unscrew them one by one an! see" %ou

work the helm"# 2n! with a warning look an! his finger on his lip, he went below" There was springing up a choppy win!, an! $ coul! not leae the helm" $ saw him come out on !eck again with a tool chest an! lantern, an! go !own the forwar! hatchway" e is ma!, stark, raing ma!, an! its no use my trying to stop him" e cant hurt those big bo*es, they are inoice! as clay, an! to pull them about is as harmless a thing as he can !o" So here $ stay an! min! the helm, an! write these notes" $ can only trust in Go! an! wait till the fog clears" Then, if $ cant steer to any harbour with the win! that is, $ shall cut !own sails, an! lie by, an! signal for help " " "

$t is nearly all oer now" ust as $ was beginning to hope that the mate woul! come out calmer, for $ hear! him knocking away at something in the hol!, an! work is goo! for him, there came up the hatchway a su!!en, startle! scream, which ma!e my bloo! run col!, an! up on the !eck he came as if shot from a gun, a raging ma!man, with his eyes rolling an! his face conulse! with fear" #Sae me0 Sae me0# he crie!, an! then looke! roun! on the blanket of fog" is horror turne! to !espair, an! in a stea!y oice he sai!, #%ou ha! better come too, captain, before it is too late" e is there0 $ know the secret now" The sea will

sae me from im, an! it is all that is left0# Before $ coul! say a wor!, or moe forwar! to seie him, he sprang on the bulwark an! !eliberately threw himself into the sea" $ suppose $ know the secret too, now" $t was this ma!man who ha! got ri! of the men one by one, an! now he has followe! them himself" Go! help me0 ow am $ to account for all these horrors when $ get to portK 'hen $ get to port0 'ill that eer beK

8 2ugust"AAStill fog, which the sunrise cannot pierce, $ know there is sunrise because $ am a sailor, why else $

know not" $ !are! not go below, $ !are! not leae the helm, so here all night $ staye!, an! in the !imness of the night $ saw it, im0 Go!, forgie me, but the mate was right to jump oerboar!" $t was better to !ie like a man" To !ie like a sailor in blue water, no man can object" But $ am captain, an! $ must not leae my ship" But $ shall baffle this fien! or monster, for $ shall tie my han!s to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, an! along with them $ shall tie that which e, $t, !are not touch" 2n! then, come goo! win! or foul, $ shall sae my soul, an! my honour as a captain" $ am growing weaker, an! the night is coming on" $f e can look me in the face again, $ may not

hae time to act" " " $f we are wrecke!, mayhap this bottle may be foun!, an! those who fin! it may un!erstan!" $f not " " " well, then all men shall know that $ hae been

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true to my trust" Go! an! the Blesse! )irgin an! the Saints help a poor ignorant soul trying to !o his !uty " " "

3f course the er!ict was an open one" There is no ei!enceto a!!uce, an! whether or not the man himself committe! themur!ers there is now none to say" The folk here hol! almost

uniersally that the captain is simply a hero, an! he is to begien a public funeral" 2lrea!y it is arrange! that his bo!yis to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk for a piecean! then brought back to Tate ill Pier an! up the abbey steps,for he is to be burie! in the churchyar! on the cliff" Theowners of more than a hun!re! boats hae alrea!y gien in theirnames as wishing to follow him to the grae"

;o trace has eer been foun! of the great !og, at which there ismuch mourning, for, with public opinion in its present state, hewoul!, $ beliee, be a!opte! by the town" Tomorrow will see thefuneral, an! so will en! this one more mystery of the sea"

:$;2 :@++2%S 3@+;2?

= 2ugust"AA?ucy was ery restless all night, an! $ too, coul! notsleep" The storm was fearful, an! as it boome! lou!ly among thechimney pots, it ma!e me shu!!er" 'hen a sharp puff came it seeme! tobe like a !istant gun" Strangely enough, ?ucy !i! not wake, but shegot up twice an! !resse! herself" (ortunately, each time $ awoke intime an! manage! to un!ress her without waking her, an! got her back tobe!" $t is a ery strange thing, this sleepAwalking, for as soon as

her will is thwarte! in any physical way, her intention, if there beany, !isappears, an! she yiel!s herself almost e*actly to the routineof her life"

Early in the morning we both got up an! went !own to the harbour to seeif anything ha! happene! in the night" There were ery few peopleabout, an! though the sun was bright, an! the air clear an! fresh, thebig, grimAlooking waes, that seeme! !ark themseles because the foamthat toppe! them was like snow, force! themseles in through the mouthof the harbour, like a bullying man going through a crow!" Somehow $felt gla! that onathan was not on the sea last night, but on lan!"But, oh, is he on lan! or seaK 'here is he, an! howK $ am getting

fearfully an*ious about him" $f $ only knew what to !o, an! coul! !oanything0

-> 2ugust"AAThe funeral of the poor sea captain to!ay was mosttouching" Eery boat in the harbour seeme! to be there, an! the coffinwas carrie! by captains all the way from Tate ill Pier up to thechurchyar!" ?ucy came with me, an! we went early to our ol! seat,whilst the cortege of boats went up the rier to the )ia!uct an! came!own again" 'e ha! a loely iew, an! saw the procession nearly allthe way" The poor fellow was lai! to rest near our seat so that westoo! on it, when the time came an! saw eerything"

Poor ?ucy seeme! much upset" She was restless an! uneasy all the time,an! $ cannot but think that her !reaming at night is telling on her"

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She is Juite o!! in one thing" She will not a!mit to me that there isany cause for restlessness, or if there be, she !oes not un!erstan! itherself"

There is an a!!itional cause in that poor :r" Swales was foun! !ea!this morning on our seat, his neck being broken" e ha! ei!ently, asthe !octor sai!, fallen back in the seat in some sort of fright, for

there was a look of fear an! horror on his face that the men sai! ma!ethem shu!!er" Poor !ear ol! man0

?ucy is so sweet an! sensitie that she feels influences more acutelythan other people !o" ust now she was Juite upset by a little thingwhich $ !i! not much hee!, though $ am myself ery fon! of animals"

3ne of the men who came up here often to look for the boats wasfollowe! by his !og" The !og is always with him" They are both Juietpersons, an! $ neer saw the man angry, nor hear! the !og bark" Duringthe serice the !og woul! not come to its master, who was on the seatwith us, but kept a few yar!s off, barking an! howling" $ts master

spoke to it gently, an! then harshly, an! then angrily" But it woul!neither come nor cease to make a noise" $t was in a fury, with itseyes saage, an! all its hair bristling out like a cats tail when pussis on the war path"

(inally the man too got angry, an! jumpe! !own an! kicke! the !og, an!then took it by the scruff of the neck an! half !ragge! an! half threwit on the tombstone on which the seat is fi*e!" The moment it touche!the stone the poor thing began to tremble" $t !i! not try to get away,but crouche! !own, Juiering an! cowering, an! was in such a pitiablestate of terror that $ trie!, though without effect, to comfort it"

?ucy was full of pity, too, but she !i! not attempt to touch the !og,but looke! at it in an agonise! sort of way" $ greatly fear that sheis of too super sensitie a nature to go through the worl! withouttrouble" She will be !reaming of this tonight, $ am sure" The wholeagglomeration of things, the ship steere! into port by a !ea! man, hisattitu!e, tie! to the wheel with a crucifi* an! bea!s, the touchingfuneral, the !og, now furious an! now in terror, will all affor!material for her !reams"

$ think it will be best for her to go to be! tire! out physically, so $shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to +obin oo!s Bay an!back" She ought not to hae much inclination for sleepAwalking then"

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Same !ay, -- oclock P":"AA3h, but $ am tire!0 $f it were not that $ha! ma!e my !iary a !uty $ shoul! not open it tonight" 'e ha! a loelywalk" ?ucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, $ think, to some

!ear cows who came nosing towar!s us in a fiel! close to thelighthouse, an! frightene! the wits out of us" $ beliee we forgoteerything, e*cept of course, personal fear, an! it seeme! to wipe the

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e*pecte!" 2t the e!ge of the 'est Cliff aboe the pier $ looke! acrossthe harbour to the East Cliff, in the hope or fear, $ !ont know which,of seeing ?ucy in our faourite seat"

There was a bright full moon, with heay black, !riing clou!s, whichthrew the whole scene into a fleeting !iorama of light an! sha!e asthey saile! across" (or a moment or two $ coul! see nothing, as the

sha!ow of a clou! obscure! St" :arys Church an! all aroun! it" Thenas the clou! passe! $ coul! see the ruins of the abbey coming intoiew, an! as the e!ge of a narrow ban! of light as sharp as a swor!Acutmoe! along, the church an! churchyar! became gra!ually isible"'hateer my e*pectation was, it was not !isappointe!, for there, on ourfaourite seat, the siler light of the moon struck a halfArecliningfigure, snowy white" The coming of the clou! was too Juick for me tosee much, for sha!ow shut !own on light almost imme!iately, but itseeme! to me as though something !ark stoo! behin! the seat where thewhite figure shone, an! bent oer it" 'hat it was, whether man orbeast, $ coul! not tell"

$ !i! not wait to catch another glance, but flew !own the steep stepsto the pier an! along by the fishAmarket to the bri!ge, which was theonly way to reach the East Cliff" The town seeme! as !ea!, for not asoul !i! $ see" $ rejoice! that it was so, for $ wante! no witness ofpoor ?ucys con!ition" The time an! !istance seeme! en!less, an! myknees tremble! an! my breath came laboure! as $ toile! up the en!lesssteps to the abbey" $ must hae gone fast, an! yet it seeme! to me asif my feet were weighte! with lea!, an! as though eery joint in mybo!y were rusty"

'hen $ got almost to the top $ coul! see the seat an! the white figure,for $ was now close enough to !istinguish it een through the spells of

sha!ow" There was un!oubte!ly something, long an! black, ben!ing oerthe halfAreclining white figure" $ calle! in fright, #?ucy0 ?ucy0#an! something raise! a hea!, an! from where $ was $ coul! see a whiteface an! re!, gleaming eyes"

?ucy !i! not answer, an! $ ran on to the entrance of the churchyar!"2s $ entere!, the church was between me an! the seat, an! for a minuteor so $ lost sight of her" 'hen $ came in iew again the clou! ha!passe!, an! the moonlight struck so brilliantly that $ coul! see ?ucyhalf reclining with her hea! lying oer the back of the seat" She wasJuite alone, an! there was not a sign of any liing thing about"

'hen $ bent oer her $ coul! see that she was still asleep" er lipswere parte!, an! she was breathing, not softly as usual with her, butin long, heay gasps, as though striing to get her lungs full at eerybreath" 2s $ came close, she put up her han! in her sleep an! pulle!the collar of her night!ress close aroun! her, as though she felt thecol!" $ flung the warm shawl oer her, an! !rew the e!ges tight aroun!her neck, for $ !rea!e! lest she shoul! get some !ea!ly chill from thenight air, uncla! as she was" $ feare! to wake her all at once, so, inor!er to hae my han!s free to help her, $ fastene! the shawl at herthroat with a big safety pin" But $ must hae been clumsy in myan*iety an! pinche! or pricke! her with it, for byAan!Aby, when herbreathing became Juieter, she put her han! to her throat again an!

moane!" 'hen $ ha! her carefully wrappe! up $ put my shoes on herfeet, an! then began ery gently to wake her"

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2t first she !i! not respon!, but gra!ually she became more an! moreuneasy in her sleep, moaning an! sighing occasionally" 2t last, astime was passing fast, an! for many other reasons, $ wishe! to get herhome at once, $ shook her forcibly, till finally she opene! her eyesan! awoke" She !i! not seem surprise! to see me, as, of course, she!i! not realie all at once where she was"

?ucy always wakes prettily, an! een at such a time, when her bo!y musthae been chille! with col!, an! her min! somewhat appalle! at wakinguncla! in a churchyar! at night, she !i! not lose her grace" Shetremble! a little, an! clung to me" 'hen $ tol! her to come at oncewith me home, she rose without a wor!, with the obe!ience of a chil!"2s we passe! along, the grael hurt my feet, an! ?ucy notice! me wince"She stoppe! an! wante! to insist upon my taking my shoes, but $ woul!not" oweer, when we got to the pathway outsi!e the chruchyar!, wherethere was a pu!!le of water, remaining from the storm, $ !aube! my feetwith mu!, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we wenthome, no one, in case we shoul! meet any one, shoul! notice my barefeet"

(ortune faoure! us, an! we got home without meeting a soul" 3nce wesaw a man, who seeme! not Juite sober, passing along a street in frontof us" But we hi! in a !oor till he ha! !isappeare! up an opening suchas there are here, steep little closes, or wyn!s, as they call themin Scotlan!" :y heart beat so lou! all the time sometimes $ thought $shoul! faint" $ was fille! with an*iety about ?ucy, not only for herhealth, lest she shoul! suffer from the e*posure, but for herreputation in case the story shoul! get win!" 'hen we got in, an! ha!washe! our feet, an! ha! sai! a prayer of thankfulness together, $tucke! her into be!" Before falling asleep she aske!, een implore!,me not to say a wor! to any one, een her mother, about her

sleepAwalking a!enture"

$ hesitate! at first, to promise, but on thinking of the state of hermothers health, an! how the knowle!ge of such a thing woul! fret her,an! think too, of how such a story might become !istorte!, nay,infallibly woul!, in case it shoul! leak out, $ thought it wiser to !oso" $ hope $ !i! right" $ hae locke! the !oor, an! the key is tie!to my wrist, so perhaps $ shall not be again !isturbe!" ?ucy issleeping soun!ly" The refle* of the !awn is high an! far oer thesea " " "

Same !ay, noon"AA2ll goes well" ?ucy slept till $ woke her an! seeme!not to hae een change! her si!e" The a!enture of the night !oes notseem to hae harme! her, on the contrary, it has benefite! her, for shelooks better this morning than she has !one for weeks" $ was sorry tonotice that my clumsiness with the safetyApin hurt her" $n!ee!, itmight hae been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierce!" $must hae pinche! up a piece of loose skin an! hae transfi*e! it, forthere are two little re! points like pinApricks, an! on the ban! of hernight!ress was a !rop of bloo!" 'hen $ apologise! an! was concerne!about it, she laughe! an! pette! me, an! sai! she !i! not een feel it"(ortunately it cannot leae a scar, as it is so tiny"

Same !ay, night"AA'e passe! a happy !ay" The air was clear, an! thesun bright, an! there was a cool breee" 'e took our lunch to :ulgrae

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'oo!s, :rs" 'estenra !riing by the roa! an! ?ucy an! $ walking by thecliffApath an! joining her at the gate" $ felt a little sa! myself,for $ coul! not but feel how absolutely happy it woul! hae been ha!onathan been with me" But there0 $ must only be patient" $n theeening we strolle! in the Casino Terrace, an! hear! some goo! music bySpohr an! :ackenie, an! went to be! early" ?ucy seems more restfulthan she has been for some time, an! fell asleep at once" $ shall lock

the !oor an! secure the key the same as before, though $ !o not e*pectany trouble tonight"

-< 2ugust"AA:y e*pectations were wrong, for twice !uring the night $was wakene! by ?ucy trying to get out" She seeme!, een in her sleep,to be a little impatient at fin!ing the !oor shut, an! went back to be!un!er a sort of protest" $ woke with the !awn, an! hear! the bir!schirping outsi!e of the win!ow" ?ucy woke, too, an! $ was gla! to see,was een better than on the preious morning" 2ll her ol! gaiety ofmanner seeme! to hae come back, an! she came an! snuggle! in besi!e mean! tol! me all about 2rthur" $ tol! her how an*ious $ was about

onathan, an! then she trie! to comfort me" 'ell, she succee!e!somewhat, for, though sympathy cant alter facts, it can make them morebearable"

-7 2ugust"AA2nother Juiet !ay, an! to be! with the key on my wrist asbefore" 2gain $ awoke in the night, an! foun! ?ucy sitting up in be!,still asleep, pointing to the win!ow" $ got up Juietly, an! pullingasi!e the blin!, looke! out" $t was brilliant moonlight, an! the softeffect of the light oer the sea an! sky, merge! together in one greatsilent mystery, was beautiful beyon! wor!s" Between me an! themoonlight flitte! a great bat, coming an! going in great whirling

circles" 3nce or twice it came Juite close, but was, $ suppose,frightene! at seeing me, an! flitte! away across the harbour towar!sthe abbey" 'hen $ came back from the win!ow ?ucy ha! lain !own again,an! was sleeping peacefully" She !i! not stir again all night"

-8 2ugust"AA3n the East Cliff, rea!ing an! writing all !ay" ?ucy seemsto hae become as much in loe with the spot as $ am, an! it is har! toget her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or!inner" This afternoon she ma!e a funny remark" 'e were coming homefor !inner, an! ha! come to the top of the steps up from the 'est Pieran! stoppe! to look at the iew, as we generally !o" The setting sun,

low !own in the sky, was just !ropping behin! ettleness" The re!light was thrown oer on the East Cliff an! the ol! abbey, an! seeme!to bathe eerything in a beautiful rosy glow" 'e were silent for awhile, an! su!!enly ?ucy murmure! as if to herself " " "

#is re! eyes again0 They are just the same"# $t was such an o!!e*pression, coming apropos of nothing, that it Juite startle! me" $slewe! roun! a little, so as to see ?ucy well without seeming to stareat her, an! saw that she was in a half !reamy state, with an o!! lookon her face that $ coul! not Juite make out, so $ sai! nothing, butfollowe! her eyes" She appeare! to be looking oer at our own seat,whereon was a !ark figure seate! alone" $ was Juite a little startle!

myself, for it seeme! for an instant as if the stranger ha! great eyeslike burning flames, but a secon! look !ispelle! the illusion" The re!sunlight was shining on the win!ows of St" :arys Church behin! our

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seat, an! as the sun !ippe! there was just sufficient change in therefraction an! reflection to make it appear as if the light moe!" $calle! ?ucys attention to the peculiar effect, an! she became herselfwith a start, but she looke! sa! all the same" $t may hae been thatshe was thinking of that terrible night up there" 'e neer refer toit, so $ sai! nothing, an! we went home to !inner" ?ucy ha! a hea!achean! went early to be!" $ saw her asleep, an! went out for a little

stroll myself"

$ walke! along the cliffs to the westwar!, an! was full of sweetsa!ness, for $ was thinking of onathan" 'hen coming home, it was thenbright moonlight, so bright that, though the front of our part of theCrescent was in sha!ow, eerything coul! be well seen, $ threw a glanceup at our win!ow, an! saw ?ucys hea! leaning out" $ opene! myhan!kerchief an! wae! it" She !i! not notice or make any moementwhateer" ust then, the moonlight crept roun! an angle of thebuil!ing, an! the light fell on the win!ow" There !istinctly was ?ucywith her hea! lying up against the si!e of the win!ow sill an! her eyesshut" She was fast asleep, an! by her, seate! on the win!ow sill, was

something that looke! like a goo!Asie! bir!" $ was afrai! she mightget a chill, so $ ran upstairs, but as $ came into the room she wasmoing back to her be!, fast asleep, an! breathing heaily" She washol!ing her han! to her throat, as though to protect if from the col!"

$ !i! not wake her, but tucke! her up warmly" $ hae taken care thatthe !oor is locke! an! the win!ow securely fastene!"

She looks so sweet as she sleeps, but she is paler than is her wont,an! there is a !rawn, haggar! look un!er her eyes which $ !o not like"$ fear she is fretting about something" $ wish $ coul! fin! out what itis"

-4 2ugust"AA+ose later than usual" ?ucy was langui! an! tire!, an!slept on after we ha! been calle!" 'e ha! a happy surprise atbreakfast" 2rthurs father is better, an! wants the marriage to comeoff soon" ?ucy is full of Juiet joy, an! her mother is gla! an! sorryat once" ?ater on in the !ay she tol! me the cause" She is griee! tolose ?ucy as her ery own, but she is rejoice! that she is soon to haesome one to protect her" Poor !ear, sweet la!y0 She confi!e! to methat she has got her !eath warrant" She has not tol! ?ucy, an! ma!e mepromise secrecy" er !octor tol! her that within a few months, atmost, she must !ie, for her heart is weakening" 2t any time, een now,

a su!!en shock woul! be almost sure to kill her" 2h, we were wise tokeep from her the affair of the !rea!ful night of ?ucys sleepAwalking"

-/ 2ugust"AA;o !iary for two whole !ays" $ hae not ha! the heart towrite" Some sort of sha!owy pall seems to be coming oer ourhappiness" ;o news from onathan, an! ?ucy seems to be growing weaker,whilst her mothers hours are numbering to a close" $ !o notun!erstan! ?ucys fa!ing away as she is !oing" She eats well an!sleeps well, an! enjoys the fresh air, but all the time the roses inher cheeks are fa!ing, an! she gets weaker an! more langui! !ay by !ay"2t night $ hear her gasping as if for air"

$ keep the key of our !oor always fastene! to my wrist at night, butshe gets up an! walks about the room, an! sits at the open win!ow"

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!o it before $ felt you"#

Then she began to laugh" $t seeme! a little uncanny to me, an! $listene! to her breathlessly" $ !i! not Juite like it, an! thought itbetter not to keep her min! on the subject, so we !rifte! on to anothersubject, an! ?ucy was like her ol! self again" 'hen we got home thefresh breee ha! brace! her up, an! her pale cheeks were really more

rosy" er mother rejoice! when she saw her, an! we all spent a eryhappy eening together"

-. 2ugust"AAoy, joy, joy0 2lthough not all joy" 2t last, news ofonathan" The !ear fellow has been ill, that is why he !i! not write"$ am not afrai! to think it or to say it, now that $ know" :r" awkinssent me on the letter, an! wrote himself, oh so kin!ly" $ am to leaein the morning an! go oer to onathan, an! to help to nurse him ifnecessary, an! to bring him home" :r" awkins says it woul! not be aba! thing if we were to be marrie! out there" $ hae crie! oer thegoo! Sisters letter till $ can feel it wet against my bosom, where it

lies" $t is of onathan, an! must be near my heart, for he is in myheart" :y journey is all mappe! out, an! my luggage rea!y" $ am onlytaking one change of !ress" ?ucy will bring my trunk to ?on!on an!keep it till $ sen! for it, for it may be that " " " $ must write nomore" $ must keep it to say to onathan, my husban!" The letter thathe has seen an! touche! must comfort me till we meet"

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-< 2ugust,

#Dear :a!am"

#$ write by !esire of :r" onathan arker, who is himself not strongenough to write, though progressing well, thanks to Go! an! St"oseph an! Ste" :ary" e has been un!er our care for nearly si*weeks, suffering from a iolent brain feer" e wishes me to coneyhis loe, an! to say that by this post $ write for him to :r" Peterawkins, E*eter, to say, with his !utiful respects, that he is sorryfor his !elay, an! that all of his work is complete!" e willreJuire some few weeks rest in our sanatorium in the hills, but

will then return" e wishes me to say that he has not sufficientmoney with him, an! that he woul! like to pay for his staying here,so that others who nee! shall not be wanting for help"

#Beliee me,

#%ours, with sympathyan! all blessings"Sister 2gatha

#P"S"AA:y patient being asleep, $ open this to let you knowsomething more" e has tol! me all about you, an! that you are

shortly to be his wife" 2ll blessings to you both0 e has ha! somefearful shock, so says our !octor, an! in his !elirium his raingshae been !rea!ful, of woles an! poison an! bloo!, of ghosts an!

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to e*cite his attention"

2t first he ma!e no reply, but at length sai! testily, #Bother themall0 $ !ont care a pin about them"#

#'hatK# $ sai!" #%ou !ont mean to tell me you !ont care aboutspi!ersK# HSpi!ers at present are his hobby an! the notebook is filling

up with columns of small figures"I

To this he answere! enigmatically, #The Bri!e mai!ens rejoice the eyesthat wait the coming of the bri!e" But when the bri!e !raweth nigh,then the mai!ens shine not to the eyes that are fille!"#

e woul! not e*plain himself, but remaine! obstinately seate! on hisbe! all the time $ remaine! with him"

$ am weary tonight an! low in spirits" $ cannot but think of ?ucy, an!how !ifferent things might hae been" $f $ !ont sleep at once,chloral, the mo!ern :orpheus0 $ must be careful not to let it grow

into a habit" ;o, $ shall take none tonight0 $ hae thought of ?ucy,an! $ shall not !ishonour her by mi*ing the two" $f nee! be, tonightshall be sleepless"

?ater"AAGla! $ ma!e the resolution, gla!!er that $ kept to it" $ ha!lain tossing about, an! ha! hear! the clock strike only twice, when thenight watchman came to me, sent up from the war!, to say that +enfiel!ha! escape!" $ threw on my clothes an! ran !own at once" :y patientis too !angerous a person to be roaming about" Those i!eas of hismight work out !angerously with strangers"

The atten!ant was waiting for me" e sai! he ha! seen him not tenminutes before, seemingly asleep in his be!, when he ha! looke! throughthe obseration trap in the !oor" is attention was calle! by thesoun! of the win!ow being wrenche! out" e ran back an! saw his feet!isappear through the win!ow, an! ha! at once sent up for me" e wasonly in his night gear, an! cannot be far off"

The atten!ant thought it woul! be more useful to watch where he shoul!go than to follow him, as he might lose sight of him whilst getting outof the buil!ing by the !oor" e is a bulky man, an! coul!nt getthrough the win!ow"

$ am thin, so, with his ai!, $ got out, but feet foremost, an! as wewere only a few feet aboe groun! lan!e! unhurt"

The atten!ant tol! me the patient ha! gone to the left, an! ha! taken astraight line, so $ ran as Juickly as $ coul!" 2s $ got through thebelt of trees $ saw a white figure scale the high wall which separatesour groun!s from those of the !eserte! house"

$ ran back at once, tol! the watchman to get three or four menimme!iately an! follow me into the groun!s of Carfa*, in case ourfrien! might be !angerous" $ got a la!!er myself, an! crossing thewall, !roppe! !own on the other si!e" $ coul! see +enfiel!s figure

just !isappearing behin! the angle of the house, so $ ran after him" 3nthe far si!e of the house $ foun! him presse! close against the ol!ironAboun! oak !oor of the chapel"

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e was talking, apparently to some one, but $ was afrai! to go nearenough to hear what he was saying, lest $ might frighten him, an! heshoul! run off"

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a nake!lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him0 2fter a few minutes,

howeer, $ coul! see that he !i! not take note of anything aroun! him,an! so enture! to !raw nearer to him, the more so as my men ha! nowcrosse! the wall an! were closing him in" $ hear! him say " " "

#$ am here to !o your bi!!ing, :aster" $ am your slae, an! you willrewar! me, for $ shall be faithful" $ hae worshippe! you long an! afaroff" ;ow that you are near, $ await your comman!s, an! you will notpass me by, will you, !ear :aster, in your !istribution of goo!thingsK#

e is a selfish ol! beggar anyhow" e thinks of the loaes an! fisheseen when he beliees his is in a real Presence" is manias make a

startling combination" 'hen we close! in on him he fought like atiger" e is immensely strong, for he was more like a wil! beast thana man"

$ neer saw a lunatic in such a paro*ysm of rage before, an! $ hope $shall not again" $t is a mercy that we hae foun! out his strength an!his !anger in goo! time" 'ith strength an! !etermination like his, hemight hae !one wil! work before he was cage!"

e is safe now, at any rate" ack Sheppar! himself coul!nt get freefrom the strait waistcoat that keeps him restraine!, an! hes chaine!to the wall in the pa!!e! room"

is cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are more!ea!ly still, for he means mur!er in eery turn an! moement"

ust now he spoke coherent wor!s for the first time" #$ shall bepatient, :aster" $t is coming, coming, coming0#

So $ took the hint, an! came too" $ was too e*cite! to sleep, but this!iary has Juiete! me, an! $ feel $ shall get some sleep tonight"

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waiting her reply " " "#

#She has come an! tol! me that the Chaplain of the English missionchurch has been sent for" 'e are to be marrie! in an hour, or assoon after as onathan awakes"#

#?ucy, the time has come an! gone" $ feel ery solemn, but ery,ery happy" onathan woke a little after the hour, an! all wasrea!y, an! he sat up in be!, proppe! up with pillows" e answere!his $ will firmly an! strong" $ coul! har!ly speak" :y heart wasso full that een those wor!s seeme! to choke me"

#The !ear sisters were so kin!" Please, Go!, $ shall neer, neerforget them, nor the grae an! sweet responsibilities $ hae takenupon me" $ must tell you of my we!!ing present" 'hen the chaplainan! the sisters ha! left me alone with my husban!AAoh, ?ucy, it isthe first time $ hae written the wor!s my husban!AAleft me alonewith my husban!, $ took the book from un!er his pillow, an! wrappe!

it up in white paper, an! tie! it with a little bit of pale blueribbon which was roun! my neck, an! seale! it oer the knot withsealing wa*, an! for my seal $ use! my we!!ing ring" Then $ kisse!it an! showe! it to my husban!, an! tol! him that $ woul! keep itso, an! then it woul! be an outwar! an! isible sign for us all ourlies that we truste! each other, that $ woul! neer open it unlessit were for his own !ear sake or for the sake of some stern !uty"Then he took my han! in his, an! oh, ?ucy, it was the first time hetook his wifes han!, an! sai! that it was the !earest thing in allthe wi!e worl!, an! that he woul! go through all the past again towin it, if nee! be" The poor !ear meant to hae sai! a part of thepast, but he cannot think of time yet, an! $ shall not won!er if at

first he mi*es up not only the month, but the year"

#'ell, my !ear, what coul! $ sayK $ coul! only tell him that $ wasthe happiest woman in all the wi!e worl!, an! that $ ha! nothing togie him e*cept myself, my life, an! my trust, an! that with thesewent my loe an! !uty for all the !ays of my life" 2n!, my !ear,when he kisse! me, an! !rew me to him with his poor weak han!s, itwas like a solemn ple!ge between us"

#?ucy !ear, !o you know why $ tell you all thisK $t is not onlybecause it is all sweet to me, but because you hae been, an! are,ery !ear to me" $t was my priilege to be your frien! an! gui!e

when you came from the schoolroom to prepare for the worl! of life"$ want you to see now, an! with the eyes of a ery happy wife,whither !uty has le! me, so that in your own marrie! life you toomay be all happy, as $ am" :y !ear, please 2lmighty Go!, your lifemay be all it promises, a long !ay of sunshine, with no harsh win!,no forgetting !uty, no !istrust" $ must not wish you no pain, forthat can neer be, but $ !o hope you will be always as happy as $ amnow" Goo!bye, my !ear" $ shall post this at once, an! perhaps,write you ery soon again" $ must stop, for onathan is waking" $must atten! my husban!0

#%our eerAloing

:ina arker"#

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him"

e will only say, #$ !ont take any stock in cats" $ hae more tothink of now, an! $ can wait" $ can wait"#

2fter a while $ left him" The atten!ant tells me that he was Juietuntil just before !awn, an! that then he began to get uneasy, an! at

length iolent, until at last he fell into a paro*ysm which e*hauste!him so that he swoone! into a sort of coma"

" " " Three nights has the same thing happene!, iolent all !ay thenJuiet from moonrise to sunrise" $ wish $ coul! get some clue to thecause" $t woul! almost seem as if there was some influence which camean! went" appy thought0 'e shall tonight play sane wits against ma!ones" e escape! before without our help" Tonight he shall escapewith it" 'e shall gie him a chance, an! hae the men rea!y to followin case they are reJuire!"

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will be" $ wish she were with me again, for $ feel so unhappy" ?astnight $ seeme! to be !reaming again just as $ was at 'hitby" Perhapsit is the change of air, or getting home again" $t is all !ark an!horri! to me, for $ can remember nothing" But $ am full of aguefear, an! $ feel so weak an! worn out" 'hen 2rthur came to lunch helooke! Juite griee! when he saw me, an! $ ha!nt the spirit to try tobe cheerful" $ won!er if $ coul! sleep in mothers room tonight" $

shall make an e*cuse to try"

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wrong they are" ow can he, an! he pointe! at me with the samelook an! gesture as that with which he pointe! me out in his class,on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he neer fails toremin! me of, know anything of a young la!iesK e has his ma!mento play with, an! to bring them back to happiness, an! to those thatloe them" $t is much to !o, an!, oh, but there are rewar!s in thatwe can bestow such happiness" But the young la!ies0 e has no wife

nor !aughter, an! the young !o not tell themseles to the young, butto the ol!, like me, who hae known so many sorrows an! the causesof them" So, my !ear, we will sen! him away to smoke the cigarettein the gar!en, whiles you an! $ hae little talk all to ourseles"$ took the hint, an! strolle! about, an! presently the professorcame to the win!ow an! calle! me in" e looke! grae, but sai!, $hae ma!e careful e*amination, but there is no functional cause"'ith you $ agree that there has been much bloo! lost, it has beenbut is not" But the con!itions of her are in no way anemic" $ haeaske! her to sen! me her mai!, that $ may ask just one or twoJuestions, that so $ may not chance to miss nothing" $ know wellwhat she will say" 2n! yet there is cause" There is always cause

for eerything" $ must go back home an! think" %ou must sen! methe telegram eery !ay, an! if there be cause $ shall come again"The !isease, for not to be well is a !isease, interest me, an! thesweet, young !ear, she interest me too" She charm me, an! for her,if not for you or !isease, $ come"

#2s $ tell you, he woul! not say a wor! more, een when we werealone" 2n! so now, 2rt, you know all $ know" $ shall keep sternwatch" $ trust your poor father is rallying" $t must be a terriblething to you, my !ear ol! fellow, to be place! in such a positionbetween two people who are both so !ear to you" $ know your i!ea of!uty to your father, an! you are right to stick to it" But if nee!

be, $ shall sen! you wor! to come at once to ?ucy, so !o not beoerAan*ious unless you hear from me"#

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8 September"AANoophagous patient still keeps up our interest in him"e ha! only one outburst an! that was yester!ay at an unusual time"ust before the stroke of noon he began to grow restless" Theatten!ant knew the symptoms, an! at once summone! ai!" (ortunatelythe men came at a run, an! were just in time, for at the stroke of

noon he became so iolent that it took all their strength to hol! him"$n about fie minutes, howeer, he began to get more Juiet, an!finally sank into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remaine!up to now" The atten!ant tells me that his screams whilst in theparo*ysm were really appalling" $ foun! my han!s full when $ got in,atten!ing to some of the other patients who were frightene! by him"$n!ee!, $ can Juite un!erstan! the effect, for the soun!s !isturbe!een me, though $ was some !istance away" $t is now after the !innerhour of the asylum, an! as yet my patient sits in a corner broo!ing,with a !ull, sullen, woeAbegone look in his face, which seems ratherto in!icate than to show something !irectly" $ cannot Juiteun!erstan! it"

?ater"AA2nother change in my patient" 2t fie oclock $ looke! in on

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him, an! foun! him seemingly as happy an! contente! as he use! to be"e was catching flies an! eating them, an! was keeping note of hiscapture by making nailmarks on the e!ge of the !oor between the ri!gesof pa!!ing" 'hen he saw me, he came oer an! apologie! for his ba!con!uct, an! aske! me in a ery humble, cringing way to be le! back tohis own room, an! to hae his notebook again" $ thought it well tohumour him, so he is back in his room with the win!ow open" e has

the sugar of his tea sprea! out on the win!ow sill, an! is reapingJuite a harest of flies" e is not now eating them, but putting theminto a bo*, as of ol!, an! is alrea!y e*amining the corners of hisroom to fin! a spi!er" $ trie! to get him to talk about the past few!ays, for any clue to his thoughts woul! be of immense help to me, buthe woul! not rise" (or a moment or two he looke! ery sa!, an! sai!in a sort of far away oice, as though saying it rather to himselfthan to me"

#2ll oer0 2ll oer0 e has !eserte! me" ;o hope for me now unless$ !o it myself0# Then su!!enly turning to me in a resolute way, hesai!, #Doctor, wont you be ery goo! to me an! let me hae a little

more sugarK $ think it woul! be ery goo! for me"#

#2n! the fliesK# $ sai!"

#%es0 The flies like it, too, an! $ like the flies, therefore $ likeit"# 2n! there are people who know so little as to think that ma!men !onot argue" $ procure! him a !ouble supply, an! left him as happy aman as, $ suppose, any in the worl!" $ wish $ coul! fathom his min!"

:i!night"AA2nother change in him" $ ha! been to see :iss 'estenra,whom $ foun! much better, an! ha! just returne!, an! was stan!ing at

our own gate looking at the sunset, when once more $ hear! himyelling" 2s his room is on this si!e of the house, $ coul! hear itbetter than in the morning" $t was a shock to me to turn from thewon!erful smoky beauty of a sunset oer ?on!on, with its luri! lightsan! inky sha!ows an! all the marellous tints that come on foul clou!seen as on foul water, an! to realie all the grim sternness of my owncol! stone buil!ing, with its wealth of breathing misery, an! my own!esolate heart to en!ure it all" $ reache! him just as the sun wasgoing !own, an! from his win!ow saw the re! !isc sink" 2s it sank hebecame less an! less frenie!, an! just as it !ippe! he sli! from thehan!s that hel! him, an inert mass, on the floor" $t is won!erful,howeer, what intellectual recuperatie power lunatics hae, for

within a few minutes he stoo! up Juite calmly an! looke! aroun! him" $signalle! to the atten!ants not to hol! him, for $ was an*ious to seewhat he woul! !o" e went straight oer to the win!ow an! brushe! outthe crumbs of sugar" Then he took his fly bo*, an! emptie! itoutsi!e, an! threw away the bo*" Then he shut the win!ow, an!crossing oer, sat !own on his be!" 2ll this surprise! me, so $ aske!him, #2re you going to keep flies any moreK#

#;o,# sai! he" #$ am sick of all that rubbish0# e certainly is awon!erfully interesting stu!y" $ wish $ coul! get some glimpse of hismin! or of the cause of his su!!en passion" Stop" There may be aclue after all, if we can fin! why to!ay his paro*ysms came on at high

noon an! at sunset" Can it be that there is a malign influence of thesun at perio!s which affects certain natures, as at times the moon!oes othersK 'e shall see"

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?ierpool Street was, #ae you sai! anything to our young frien!, toloer of herK#

#;o,# $ sai!" #$ waite! till $ ha! seen you, as $ sai! in mytelegram" $ wrote him a letter simply telling him that you werecoming, as :iss 'estenra was not so well, an! that $ shoul! let himknow if nee! be"#

#+ight, my frien!,# he sai!" #Luite right0 Better he not know asyet" Perhaps he will neer know" $ pray so, but if it be nee!e!,then he shall know all" 2n!, my goo! frien! ohn, let me caution you"%ou !eal with the ma!men" 2ll men are ma! in some way or the other,an! inasmuch as you !eal !iscreetly with your ma!men, so !eal withGo!s ma!men too, the rest of the worl!" %ou tell not your ma!menwhat you !o nor why you !o it" %ou tell them not what you think" Soyou shall keep knowle!ge in its place, where it may rest, where it maygather its kin! aroun! it an! bree!" %ou an! $ shall keep as yet whatwe know here, an! here"# e touche! me on the heart an! on theforehea!, an! then touche! himself the same way" #$ hae for myself

thoughts at the present" ?ater $ shall unfol! to you"#

#'hy not nowK# $ aske!" #$t may !o some goo!" 'e may arrie at some!ecision"# e looke! at me an! sai!, #:y frien! ohn, when the corn isgrown, een before it has ripene!, while the milk of its mother earthis in him, an! the sunshine has not yet begun to paint him with hisgol!, the husban!man he pull the ear an! rub him between his roughhan!s, an! blow away the green chaff, an! say to you, ?ook0 esgoo! corn, he will make a goo! crop when the time comes"#

$ !i! not see the application an! tol! him so" (or reply he reache!oer an! took my ear in his han! an! pulle! it playfully, as he use!

long ago to !o at lectures, an! sai!, #The goo! husban!man tell you sothen because he knows, but not till then" But you !o not fin! thegoo! husban!man !ig up his plante! corn to see if he grow" That isfor the chil!ren who play at husban!ry, an! not for those who take itas of the work of their life" See you now, frien! ohnK $ hae sownmy corn, an! ;ature has her work to !o in making it sprout, if hesprout at all, theres some promise, an! $ wait till the ear begins toswell"# e broke off, for he ei!ently saw that $ un!erstoo!" Then hewent on graely, #%ou were always a careful stu!ent, an! your casebook was eer more full than the rest" 2n! $ trust that goo! habithae not fail" +emember, my frien!, that knowle!ge is stronger thanmemory, an! w