diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0f7bdba6..116ba6bf 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -91,88 +91,66 @@ to get started. stage through to production - showcasing how to the various components, like applications, functions and jobs can be work together to implement a solution. -- [Thumbnail Generator](thumbnail)
- Walks through the complete growth path of an application from the prototype - stage through to production - demonstrating how to switch from an in-app - processor to one where the data is persisted and processed via an - event-driven architecture. +- [Docling](serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling)
+ This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on using [Docling](https://docling-project.github.io/docling/) to convert PDFs into Markdown format using serverless fleets. It leverages cloud object storage for managing both the input PDFs and the resulting Markdown files. The process is streamlined using IBM’s Code Engine to build the Docling container, which is then pushed to a container registry. Users can run a serverless fleet, which autonomously spawns workers to run the Docling container for efficient, scalable conversion tasks. + +- [Batch inferencing](serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing)
+ This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on using Serverless GPUs to perform batch inferencing which illustrates a generally applicable pattern where AI helps to extract information out of a set of unstructed data. - [Metrics Collector](metrics-collector)
Re-usable asset that helps to gain insights on the CPU and memory consumption of apps, jobs and builds. +- [Fotobox](fotobox) + Deploy your own Fotobox straight to the IBM Cloud access it directly from any device with browser and camera. Take pictures and view them all from your device. + + ## Samples The samples are grouped by the main category of functionality that it is demonstrating. #### Apps -- [hello](hello)
- Very basic "hello world!" type of application written in Node.js. Start here! - [helloworld](helloworld)
- Similar to [hello](hello) except this is written in golang and adds a few - bells-n-whistles to allow you to control what it does when invoked. -- [auth](auth)
- This shows how to setup an nginx proxy in-front of a private application - to ensure that only authorized people can access it. -- [bind-app](bind-app)
- This will create an instance of Event Streams in the IBM Cloud and then ask - Code Engine to bind it to an Application so we can access it from the App. - The credentials, etc. will be injected into the App via environment variables. -- [cecli](cecli)
- Show how to invoke the Code Engine CLI from within an App. This can be used - to then start additional Code Engine resources (Apps/Jobs) dynamically. - Same logic could be used in Batch Jobs. -- [sessions](sessions)
- Starts a stateful application that scales based on load. The state is kept - in an instance of Redis, also running within Code Engine. Demonstrates the - use of non-http components and private networking between components. -- [websocket](websocket) - Shows how to interact with an Application via WebSockets. + Very basic "hello world!" type of application writtin in golang. Start here! +- [auth-oidc-proxy](auth-oidc-proxy)
+ This sample demonstrates how to configure an authentication/authorization layer that fronts any arbitrary Code Engine application. In principal, this pattern is pretty generic. To demonstrate it, we chose to implement it with OpenID Connect (OIDC), an authentication framework that is built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. + +#### Fleets +- [serverless-fleets](serverless-fleets)
+ To learn how to simplify and optimize large-scale parallel computation with Serverless Fleets, you should start here! #### Batch Jobs - [helloworld](helloworld)
This is another simple Batch Job sample, similar to the previous one, but shows how to use environment variables to modify the behavior of the runtime of the job. +- [Trusted Profiles](trusted-profiles)
+ In the IBM Cloud, when authenticating with other services such as Cloud + Object Storage or Secrets Manager, using trusted profiles is a way to + authenticate without any API keys being used. This eliminates the risk of + those being leaked or stolen by a malicious user who uses them to access your + IBM Cloud resources. - [cronjob](cronjob)
This will create a Batch Job that will be invoked based on a cron event. Meaning, it'll be executed based on a timer. -- [app2job](app2job)
- This will show how to submit a Job from an Application based on an incoming - HTTP request to the Application. -- [function2job](function2job)
- This will show how to submit a Job from a Function based on an incoming - HTTP request to the Function. -- [bind-job](bind-job)
- This will create an instance of Event Streams in the IBM Cloud and then ask - Code Engine to bind it to a Batch Job so we can access it from the Job. The - credentials, etc. will be injected into the Job via environment variables. -- [job2app](job2app)
- This will demostrate how to create a simple Batch Job and how to have it - communicate with an Application running within the same project. -- [job2vsi](job2vsi)
- The sample shows how a job can be used to spawn - [Virtual Server Instances (VSIs)]((https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers)) - in your IBM Cloud account and run workload on them. - #### Function -- [function-inline-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-inline-nodejs) - This example shows how to create simple inline NodeJS function -- [function-inline-python](helloworld-samples/function-inline-python) +- [function-inline-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-inline-nodejs)
+ This example shows how to create simple inline Node.js function +- [function-inline-python](helloworld-samples/function-inline-python)
This example shows how to create simple inline Python function -- [function-codebundle-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-codebundle-nodejs) - This example shows how to create NodeJS functions with additional modules -- [function-typescript-codebundle-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-typescript-codebundle-nodejs) +- [function-codebundle-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-codebundle-nodejs)
+ This example shows how to create Node.js functions with additional modules +- [function-typescript-codebundle-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-typescript-codebundle-nodejs)
This example shows how to create TypeScript functions with additional modules -- [function-codebundle-python](helloworld-samples/function-codebundle-python) +- [function-codebundle-python](helloworld-samples/function-codebundle-python)
This example shows how to create Python functions with additional modules -- [function-http-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-http-nodejs) - This example shows how to create NodeJS functions with can perfome a http request without additional modules -- [function-http-python](helloworld-samples/function-http-python) +- [function-http-nodejs](helloworld-samples/function-http-nodejs)
+ This example shows how to create Node.js functions with can perfome a http request without additional modules +- [function-http-python](helloworld-samples/function-http-python)
This example shows how to create Python functions which can perfome a http request without additional modules -- [function-python-go-binary](helloworld-samples/function-python-go-binary/README.md) +- [function-python-go-binary](helloworld-samples/function-python-go-binary/README.md)
This example shows how to create a Python function which includes and executes a Go binary #### Eventing @@ -188,28 +166,10 @@ is demonstrating. - [github](github)
This sample will show how to get events from Github (via its webhooks) delivered to a Code Engine Application. -- [kafka](kafka)
- This sample shows how to create a Kafka subscription to automatically have - messages in a Kafka instances delivered to an application. - [kafka-observer](kafka)
This provides a sample implementation of the observer pattern, which is a native approach to consume Kafka messages in IBM Cloud Code Engine. -- [cloudant-change-listener](cloudant-change-listener)
- This is a sample of a Cloudant Databases changes listener that continously - listen on all changes in a database. For each change a Code Engine function - is invoked -#### Misc -- [configmaps-env](configmaps-env)
- Shows how to define and inject a ConfigMap as environment variables - into an Application. -- [configmaps-vol](configmaps-vol)
- Shows how to define and inject a ConfigMap as a volume into an Application. -- [secrets-env](secrets-env)
- Shows how to define and inject a Secret as environment variables - into an Application. -- [secrets-vol](secrets-vol)
- Shows how to define and inject a Secret as a volume into an Application. ## Layout of the repository diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/README.md b/beta/serverless-fleets/README.md index fb81afab..a9dbfba6 100644 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/README.md +++ b/beta/serverless-fleets/README.md @@ -1,581 +1,5 @@ # Simplify and optimize large-scale parallel computation with Serverless Fleets -As artificial intelligence continues to grow and demand for cloud-based solutions increases, the ability to run large-scale, compute-intensive workloads both quickly and efficiently has become critical. - -In this hands-on lab, you will deploy your first Serverless Fleet on IBM Code Engine—IBM’s strategic container platform designed to handle large-scale, compute-intensive workloads. - -Using both the intuitive graphical user interface and the command line, you will be guided step by step through the process. With just three clicks, you will have a Serverless Fleet up and running on IBM Cloud. - -**Table of Contents:** - -- [Key differentiators of Fleets](#key-differentiators-of-fleets) -- [What is a fleets](#what-is-a-fleet) -- [Architecture](#architecture) -- [One Time Setup](#one-time-setup) -- [Launch a Fleet](#launch-a-fleet) -- [Launch a Fleet with GPUs](#launch-a-fleet-with-gpus) -- [Launch a fleet with parallel tasks](#launch-a-fleet-with-parallel-tasks) -- [Launch a fleet to count words of novels](#launch-a-fleet-to-count-words-of-novels) -- [Tutorial: Docling](./tutorials/docling/README.md) -- [Tutorial: Batch Inferencing](./tutorials/inferencing/README.md) -- [Tutorial: Monte Carlo Simulation](./tutorials/simulation/README.md) -- [HowTo](#howto) -- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - - -## Key differentiators of Fleets - -Fleets offer the following advantages: -1. Support for large-scale parallel computing tasks, with no limits on vCPU, memory, or task duration. -2. Automatic, dynamic scaling—from a single task to millions of tasks. -3. Consumption-based pricing: pay only for the resources you use, with no idle or fixed costs. -4. Fully managed service—no infrastructure administration required. -5. Broad machine type support, including GPU-enabled instances. -6. Seamless integration with your VPC network. - -## What is a fleet - -![](./images/prototype_concept.png) - -A fleet (also referred to as a serverless fleet) is a Code Engine compute resource that runs one or more instances of user code in parallel to process a large set of compute-intensive tasks. - -Fleets can connect to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to securely access user data and services. They provide dynamic task queuing, single-tenant isolation, and support for GPU workloads. - -A fleet consists of a collection of worker nodes that automatically scale up or down based on resource requirements. Each instance runs on a worker node to complete a single task. When a task finishes, the worker node immediately starts the next task in the queue. This process continues until all tasks are completed, after which the worker nodes are automatically deprovisioned. - -Like applications, jobs, and functions, fleets run within a Code Engine project. A project is a grouping of Code Engine resources within a specific IBM Cloud region. Projects are used to organize resources and manage access to entities such as configmaps, secrets, and persistent data stores. - - -## Architecture - -The architecture used in this tutorial looks as follows. - -![](./images/prototype_architecture.png) - -Key aspects of the architecture: -1. Code Engine is running the fleet and provisions fleet workers -2. Fleet workers are VPC VSIs running in the Code Engine managed accounts -3. Fleet workers are provisioned based on an VSI image provided and managed by Code Engine -4. Fleet workers are connected to the VPC subnet owned by the customer -5. Tasks and data are stored in a Task State Store which is a COS bucket owned by the customer -6. Logs are ingested to an IBM Cloud Logs instances owned by the customer - -In terms of roles and responsibilities it's important to understand that: -- The user is responsible to manage the VPC, Subnet, COS Bucket, Containers and ICL instance -- Code Engine is responsible to manage the life-cycle of Fleets, Tasks, Instances and Workers. - -The One-time-setup procedure will help to automatically provision / de-provision all required resources, but NOT manage their life-cycle. - -## One Time Setup - -The tutorial has been tested on a MacOS and Ubuntu24 client machine with the following tools pre-installed: -- `ibmcloud` - IBM Cloud CLI -- `jq` - for parsing JSON response -- `rclone` - for syncing local directory with COS bucket - -Clone this repository -``` -git clone https://github.com/IBM/CodeEngine.git -``` - -Switch to the `beta/serverless-fleets` directory, which will be the root directory for all steps of this tutorial - -To run this end-to-end sample, open a terminal, [login into your IBM Cloud account using the IBM Cloud CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-install-cli). - -Install the Code Engine CLI with the latest version and enable fleets: -``` -CE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLEET=true ibmcloud plugin install code-engine -f --quiet -``` - -If you don't have a fleet sandbox, choose one of the two methods to create one. - - -
- Fully automated creation of cloud resources - -Run the following command, which will create all required cloud resources for you. -``` -NAME_PREFIX=ce-fleet-sandbox REGION=eu-de ./init-fleet-sandbox -``` - - -> Note: Your account need wide permissions to create all the resources mentioned above. If you don't have persmission, ask you Administrator or follow the steps for the [custom configuration](#custom-configuration) - -The following resources will be created in the resource group `ce-fleet-sandbox--rg` in `eu-de`. - -![](./images/prototype_resources.png) - -The tutorial configures three COS buckets and corresponding Code Engine [Persistent Data Stores](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-persistent-data-store) for different purposes: -1. `fleet-task-store` - used by Code Engine to queue and persist tasks and their state -2. `fleet-input-store` - used to read data for processing like PDFs, or txt files -3. `fleet-outout-store` - used to write results as the output of processing - -![](./images/prototype_persistant_data_stores.png) - -In addition, the `init-fleet-sandbox` script configures a local rclone environment including the `.rclone-config` as well as the `upload` and `download` script. Use `./upload` to load data from your local `./data/input` directory to the `fleet-input-store` bucket and `./download` to download from the `fleet-output-store` bucket to the `./data/output` directory. This allows you to share files easily with your container instance. - -You can later clean-up all resources by running `NAME_PREFIX=ce-fleet-sandbox REGION=eu-de ./init-fleet-sandbox clean`. -
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- Bring your own cloud resources - -If you already have a VPC, subnets, COS bucket and credentials you can just create the code engine project and related artefacts, follow the instructions in the official documentation - -
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- -## Launch a Fleet - -Run a serverless fleet that runs 1 single task and instance with 2 CPUs and 4 GB of memory that sleeps for 2 minutes -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ./run -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create - --name fleet-b4bd2a33-1 - --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store - --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - --command=sleep - --arg 60 - --tasks 1 - --cpu 2 - --memory 4G - --max-scale 1 -Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-b4bd2a33-1' and ID 'e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. -OK -``` -
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- -To observe the fleet and its progress, run a combination of the following commands. The fleet summarizes the number of workers, tasks and instances. A single worker will be provisioned. The worker will process a single task, which will move from *Pending* to *Running* to *Succeeded*. Afterwards the worker will be deprovisioned. - -### Get the details of the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 -Getting fleet 'e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716'... -OK - -Name: fleet-b4bd2a33-1 -ID: e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 -Status: pending -Created: 44s -Project region: br-sao -Project name: fleetlab-user1--ce-project - -Tasks status: - Failed: 0 - Cancelled: 0 - Succeeded: 0 - Running: 0 - Pending: 1 - Total: 1 - -Code: - Container image reference: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - Registry access secret: fleet-registry-secret - Command 0: sleep - Argument 0: 60 - -Tasks specification: - Task state store: fleet-task-store - Indexes: 0-0 - -Resources and scaling: - CPU per instance: 2 - Memory per instance: 4G - Preferred worker profile: cx2-2x4 - Max number of instances: 1 - Max execution time: - Max retries per task: 3 - -Network placement: - Network reference 0: 996b1f58-61d1-401c-9b53-312253de7f2c -``` -
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- -### List the tasks of the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 -Listing serverless fleet tasks... -OK - -Index ID Status Result code Worker ID -000-00000-0 b3c7c020-5e4c-50fb-ac7d-513b2fb95b5c running - 000-00000-0 -``` -
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- -### List the workers running in the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -ID Status Profile IP Zone Age -5b99e38f-f239-4340-a0c6-d70432c21730 initializing cx2-2x4 10.250.0.15 br-sao-1 71s -``` -
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- -🚀 You just launched a fleet with a single task 🚀 - - -## Launch a Fleet with GPUs - -Run a fleet that runs a single task on a *Serverless GPU* using a Nvidia L40s for 2 minutes: -``` -./run_gpu -``` - -The GPUs are defined by setting the family and the number of GPUs per task, e.g. `--gpu GPU_FAMILY:NUMBER_OF_GPUS`, where the number of GPUs can be fractional for GPU families that support MIG. In our case we configure `--gpu l40s:1` with a `--max-scale 1` to get exactly one `gx3-24x120x1l40s`. - -Observe the progress of the fleet with the same commands as above. - -🚀 You just launched a fleet with a Serverless GPU 🚀 - -## Launch a fleet with parallel tasks - -Run a serverless fleet to process 100 tasks where each tasks gets 1 CPU and 2 GB memory. Run 10 tasks in parallel and use a worker profile of cx2-2x4: - -``` -./run_parallel_tasks -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create - --name fleet-847292b7-1 - --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store - --command=sleep - --arg 2 - --tasks 100 - --cpu 1 - --memory 2G - --max-scale 10 -``` -
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- -In the fleet details you will see 5 workers being provisined. The number of workers is determined by the profile, cpu/memory and number of parallel tasks. - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 -Getting fleet '08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4'... -OK - -Name: fleet-847292b7-1 -ID: 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 -Status: pending -Created: 23s -Project region: br-sao -Project name: fleetlab-user1--ce-project - -Tasks status: - Failed: 0 - Cancelled: 0 - Succeeded: 0 - Running: 0 - Pending: 100 - Total: 100 - -Code: - Container image reference: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - Registry access secret: fleet-registry-secret - Command 0: sleep - Argument 0: 2 - -Tasks specification: - Task state store: fleet-task-store - Indexes: 0-99 - -Resources and scaling: - CPU per instance: 1 - Memory per instance: 2G - Max number of instances: 10 - Max execution time: - Max retries per task: 3 - -Network placement: - Network reference 0: daf4f3a0-00a6-46c3-b5cf-cbcbdba049fc -``` -
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- - -In our case, a cx2-2x4 has two CPUs and can run 2 instances on a single worker. Since we want to process 10 tasks in parallel, Code Engine provisioned 5 workers. - -Repeat the following command until you see the Fleet worker to appear, which takes about 30s: - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -ID Status Profile IP Zone Age -273d3d7c-cdb2-4ed9-ac97-bafe76f4f59f initializing cx2-8x16 10.250.0.16 br-sao-1 55s -99e535e2-acd0-4b9e-97a2-4e245402c13c initializing cx2-2x4 10.250.0.17 br-sao-1 55s - -``` -
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- -Observe the progress of the task execution by repeatingly running the following command: - -``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id -``` - -Altneratively, you can filter by status `--status ` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 -Listing serverless fleet tasks... -OK - -Index ID Status Result code Worker ID -000-00000-65 00eef277-6973-56a7-9c7a-1cf1b4d1f945 pending - - -000-00000-80 020fa8bd-d30f-583d-acfa-84253bb2f399 pending - - -000-00000-72 06e4ef8f-1b8f-58b0-95cc-e8191d71403c pending - - -000-00000-82 08aca6c5-c787-589f-8c9a-4f35483ec1ac pending - - -000-00000-77 126be911-8238-5bf6-a5c6-a18991c60377 pending - - -... -``` -
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- -Repeat the steps to observe the fleet. - -:rocket: You just launched your first Serverless Fleet which run 100 tasks in parallel and scaled down after all tasks completed :rocket: - -## Launch a fleet to count words of novels - -This example will run a simple `wc` (word count) on a list of [novels](./data/input/wordcount) stored as objects in .txt format in Cloud Object Storage. -The 6 tasks are submitted using the `tasks-from-local-file` option using the [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) as input. - -![](./images/example_wordcount.png) - -The example mounts the [Persistant Data Stores](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-persistent-data-store) (PDS) to the container using the `--mount-data-store MOUNT_DIRECTORY=STORAGE_NAME:[SUBPATH]`, where -- `MOUNT_DIRECTORY` - is the directory within the container -- `STORAGE_NAME` - is the name of the PDS -- `SUBPATH` - is the prefix within the COS bucket to mount. - -It mounts the `fleet-input-store:/wordcount` to `/input` and `fleet-output-store:/wordcount` to `/output`. - -> Note, this example assumes that the automated One-Time-Setup has been performed. Otherwise, the upload and download would need to be done manually. - - -Four steps are required to run the example: - -#### Step 1 - Upload files - -Upload the .txt files from the local data directory to Cloud Object Storage -``` -./upload -``` - -#### Step 2 - Run the fleet - -Launch the fleet to perform `wc` on each of the novels which defines the tasks from [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) and mounts the input and output data stores. -``` -./run_wordcount -``` - -Confirm that you uploaded the files with `#? 1` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ./run_wordcount -Did you upload the .txt files to COS? -1) Yes -2) No -#? 1 -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet run - --name fleet-7e818989-1 - --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest - --tasks-from-local-file wordcount_commands.jsonl - --cpu 1 - --memory 2G - --max-scale 4 - --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/wordcount - --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/wordcount -Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-7e818989-1' and ID '3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to retrieve a list of tasks. -OK -``` - -
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- -#### Step 3 - Watch results - -You can run the following command to watch the COS bucket for the results, press ctrl-c if all 6 results are present -``` -./watch_result wordcount -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -Every 2.0s: ibmcloud cos list-objects-v2 --bucket fleetlab-dev-output-91b55a45 --prefix wordcount Jeremiass-MacBook-Pro.local: 13:48:47 - -OK -Name Last Modified (UTC) Object Size -wordcount/.keep Aug 29, 2025 at 12:05:04 0 B -wordcount/wordcount_alice_in_wonderland.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:16 52 B -wordcount/wordcount_der_struwwelpeter.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:14 47 B -wordcount/wordcount_dracula.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:16 40 B -wordcount/wordcount_gullivers_travels.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:14 50 B -wordcount/wordcount_romeo_and_juliet.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:30 49 B -wordcount/wordcount_the_call_of_the_wild.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:31 53 B - -Found 7 objects in bucket 'fleetlab-dev-output-91b55a45' -``` - -
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- -#### Step 4 - Download the results - -Download the results from the output COS bucket to `./data/output` - -``` -./download -```` - - -🚀 The example was successful, if you can tell the number of words of the "Alice in Wonderland" novel 🚀 - - -## Tutorials - -- [Tutorial: Docling](./tutorials/docling/README.md) -- [Tutorial: Inferencing](./tutorials/inferencing/README.md) -- [Tutorial: Simulation](./tutorials/simulation/README.md) - - -## HowTo - -### How to use your own container and image - -In order to use your own container image, you would need to build and push the image to an ICR namespace within the cloud account. - -Build: -``` -podman build --platform linux/amd64,linux/amd64 . -t .icr.io//: -``` - -Push: -``` -ic cr login --client podman -podman push .icr.io//: -``` - -Update the Code Engine registry secret to use the same registry endpoint: -``` -ibmcloud ce secret update --name fleet-registry-secret --server .icr.io -``` - -Once the push is complete, you can run the fleet by modifying `./run` and replace -- the image, e.g. `--image .icr.io//:` -- the command, e.g. `--command "/bin/bash"` -- the arguments, e.g. `--arg "-c" --arg "sleep 120"` -- the environment variables, e.g. `--env foo=bar` - - - -### How to access logs - -An IBM Cloud Logs instance is being setup and enabled by default during the automated One Time Setup. Each fleet worker will ingest logs to the IBM Cloud Logs instance by default. [Navigating to the UI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-instance-launch) and use [Using Livetail](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-livetail) or [Filtering log data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-query-data-filter) to view the logs. - -![](./images/prototype_logs.png) - -### Cleanup the Environment - -To clean up all IBM Cloud resources, that have been created as part of the provided script, run: - -``` -./init-fleet-sandbox clean -``` - -## Troubleshooting - -### How to delete workers manually? - -If you need to end your fleet's processing before it ran to completion, or to get rid of workers that are kept alive for troubleshooting (see above), you can delete the workers. - -Run the following command to delete a single worker: - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker delete -n -``` - -Run the following command to delete all workers in your project: -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list | grep "fleet-" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L1 -I {} ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker delete --name {} -f -``` +Serverless Fleets has been GA'd and so the samples and tutorials can be found under a new URL + +https://github.com/IBM/CodeEngine/blob/main/serverless-fleets diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/.gitignore b/experimental/serverless-fleets/.gitignore deleted file mode 100644 index f11bf324..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/.gitignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -*sshkey* -custom_* -.rclone.conf -download -upload -data/* -!data/tutorials -!data/result -*/.DS_Store -.DS_Store diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/README.md index ce137ff4..a9dbfba6 100644 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/README.md +++ b/experimental/serverless-fleets/README.md @@ -1,676 +1,5 @@ -# Serverless Fleets (experimental) +# Simplify and optimize large-scale parallel computation with Serverless Fleets -Serverless Fleets is an experimental feature of IBM Cloud Code Engine. - -**Table of Contents:** -- [What is a fleets](#what-is-a-fleet) -- [Why using a fleets](#why-using-a-fleet) -- [The fleet concept](#the-fleet-concept) -- [Fleet specification](#fleet-specification) -- [Architecture](#architecture) -- [One Time Setup](#one-time-setup) -- [Launch a Fleet](#launch-a-fleet) -- [Launch a Fleet with GPUs](#launch-a-fleet-with-gpus) -- [Launch a fleet with parallel tasks](#launch-a-fleet-with-parallel-tasks) -- [Launch a fleet to count words of novels](#Launch-a-fleet-to-count-words-of-novels) -- [Tutorials](#tutorials) -- [HowTo](#howto) -- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) - -## What is a fleet - -A fleet, also serverless fleet, is a Code Engine compute component that runs one or more instances of user code in order to complete its tasks. Instances run on workers which are automatically provisioned and de-provisioned based on the number and resource requirements of the instances. Fleets can provision any machine type which connect to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and securely interoperate with user data and services there. - -## Why using a fleet - -Fleets provide the following main key differentiators: -1. Any machine type including GPUs -2. Connected to the customers VPC network -3. Large scale parallel computing without limits on vCPU, Memory and duration -4. Dynamic task queuing to millions of tasks - -## The fleet concept - -Fleets have three principal elements: tasks, instances and workers. - -![](./images/prototype_concept.png) - -### Tasks - -The tasks of a fleet represent the work that the fleet is intended to perform and are specified as part of the fleet specification at creation time. - -To perform that work, the fleet starts instances of user code on behalf of the tasks and maintains a representation of the current task statuses as instances are started and ending. Tasks change their initial “pending” status to “running” as soon as an instance is started on their behalf. The task status changes to “succeeded” if its instance process ends with a successful return code. If the instance ends unsuccessfully the associated task changes to status “failed” unless its maximum number of retries is not yet exhausted. In that case the task status is set back to “pending” so that a new instance can be started on behalf of the task. A special task status is “cancelled” which applies if the fleet is cancelled by user action. - -Once all tasks of a fleet have reached a final status, the fleet status also changes to a final status. The final fleet status is “succeeded” if all tasks have finished successfully, “failed” if at least one task failed and “cancelled” if the user has cancelled the fleet. Once a fleet has reached a final status, all instances have ended and all worker nodes are (being) de-provisioned - unless specific configuration settings change this behavior for debugging purposes. - -Through the tasks specification users can control the number of tasks, the order in which instances are started and which specific command and arguments are used to start an instance for a task. - -### Instances - -Instances of user code are started for the fleet’s tasks on top of worker nodes. Each instance is started on behalf of exactly one task, its associated task. Different instances always have different associated tasks. - -Fleets can work on many tasks in parallel by starting multiple instances concurrently. The maximum number of concurrent instances (max_scale) is part of the fleet’s specification. All instances are created with the same amount of vCPU and memory as per the fleet’s specification. - -Instances run user code as per the fleet’s code specification in combination with task parameters that allow for task-specific start commands and arguments. - -Instances terminate when the user code exits the instance process. The return code provided at that point signals whether the associated task was successfully completed (exit 0) or failed. The status of the associated task is updated accordingly and retries might be attempted as described in the preceding section on tasks. - -Instances might also be stopped if the fleet is cancelled with the “hard stop” option by user action or by exceeding the maximum execution time. - -### Workers - -Worker nodes are virtual machines automatically provisioned and de-provisioned based on the number and amount of resources required to run the fleet’s instances. - -Worker nodes are the basis for charging fleet resource consumption in terms of vCPU consumption, memory consumption and potential GPU uplifts. - -Users can influence the selection of worker node machine profiles by defining minimum requirements for eligible machine profiles or even specifying a certain one. - -## Fleet specification - -Fleets run as soon as they are created so that “running a fleet” is the same operation as “creating a fleet”. Therefore the CLI provides `fleet run` and `fleet create` as synonyms. When creating a fleet the following aspects are specified - either explicitly or by default: -- name -- code -- tasks -- instance resources and scaling -- worker nodes -- connectivity -- environment variables (opt.) -- data store mounts (opt.) - -The default values are suitable in many cases so that running a fleet can be very easy and quick as shown in the examples section. - -### Name specification - -The fleet name identifies the fleet entity within the Code Engine project. It has to be a unique within fleets of the same Code Engine project, i.e. it might be the same as an app’s or job’s name in the same Code Engine project. - -### Tasks specification - -Fleets require at least one task and are designed to handle large number of tasks. There are two options to specify tasks: -- number of tasks: N -- tasks from file: - -Each tasks gets an index assigned from 0..N. The tasks index is provided as an environment variable `CE_TASK_INDEX` into the instance. - -In order to specify tasks in a file create a text file with line-wise definition of parameters in JSON syntax (according to JSONL standard). The task parameters "command" and "args" can be used to override of the command and arguments when starting an instance of user code on behalf of the task. If one or both of these parameters are specified their values are used instead of the respective definitions in the container image or in the fleet's code specification. For example, see [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) - -### Code specification - -The fleet’s code determines what is run in one or more instances in order to work on tasks. The specification has two parts: the base specification defines a container image reference and optional command and arguments overrides. (This is the same for Code Engine apps and jobs.). In addition, fleets can override command and arguments in a task-specific way as described in the “Task specification” section. - -### Instance resources and scaling specifications - -vCPU and memory required by each instance can be specified and determines how many instances can fit/run on a fleet worker. In addition, the maximum number of concurrent instances (max_scale) can be specified. - -For example, if an instance requires 2 vCPU and 8 GB memory and a total of 100 instances should run concurrently, the fleet will provision a total of 200 vCPU and 800 GB memory. - -### Worker specifications - -Users can influence what machine profiles are used as worker nodes to different degrees. - -In the example above, if the user selects a bx2-8x32 worker profile, each worker can run 4 instances. Therefore a total of 25 workers will be provisioned. - -### Environment variables - -The instance will get the following environment provided by the system: -``` -CE_FLEET_VERSION=v1 -CE_REQUEST_ID=33af980d-8175-4925-85d0-0f0cf8812cb5 -CE_PROJECT_ID=e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -CE_FLEET_CONCURRENCY=1 -CE_TASK_ID=0 -CE_USER_MOUNT_POINT=/mnt/ce/data -CE_FLEET_KEEP_WORKER=false -CE_FLEET_ID=33af980d-8175-4925-85d0-0f0cf8812cb5 -CE_FLEET_IS_GPU=false -``` - -## Architecture - -The architecture used in this tutorial looks as follows. - -![](./images/prototype_architecture.png) - -Key aspects of the architecture: -1. Code Engine is running the fleet and provisions fleet workers -2. Fleet workers are VPC VSIs running in the Code Engine managed accounts -3. Fleet workers are provisioned based on an VSI image provided and managed by Code Engine -4. Fleet workers are connected to the VPC subnet owned by the customer -5. Tasks and data are stored in a COS bucket owned by the customer -6. Logs are ingested to an IBM Cloud Logs instances owned by the customer -7. A jumpbox VSI is being provisioned in the customer account to support debugging and troubleshooting. - -In terms of roles and responsibilities it's important to understand that: -- The user is responsible to manage the VPC, Jumpbox, COS Bucket and ICL instance -- Code Engine is responsible to manage the life-cycle of Fleets, Tasks, Instances and Workers. - -The One-time-setup procedure will help to automatically provision / de-provision all required resources, but NOT manage their life-cycle. - - -## One Time Setup - -The tutorial has been tested on a MacOS and Ubuntu24 client machine with the following tools pre-installed: -- `ibmcloud` - IBM Cloud CLI -- `jq` - for parsing JSON response -- `rclone` - for syncing local directory with COS bucket - -Clone this repository -``` -git clone https://github.com/IBM/CodeEngine.git -``` - -Switch to the `experimental/serverless-fleets` directory, which will be the root directory for all steps of this tutorial - -To run this end-to-end sample, open a terminal, [login into your IBM Cloud account using the IBM Cloud CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-install-cli). - -Install the Code Engine CLI with the latest version and enable fleets: -``` -CE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLEET=true ibmcloud plugin install code-engine -f --quiet -``` - -If you don't have a fleet sandbox, choose one of the two methods to create one. - - -
- Fully automated creation of cloud resources - -Run the following command, which will create all required cloud resources for you. -``` -NAME_PREFIX=ce-fleet-sandbox REGION=eu-de ./init-fleet-sandbox -``` - -The following resources will be created in the resource group `ce-fleet-sandbox--rg` in `eu-de`. - -![](./images/prototype_resources.png) - -> Note: The automated setup will provision in `eu-de` region. - -> Note: To protect the environment, the access to the jumpbox is only allowed from the network where your client was located when running the initilization (curl https://ipv4.icanhazip.com/). You can modify the security group to change the IP adress or CIDR. - -> Note: Your account need wide permissions to create all the resources mentioned above. If you don't have persmission, ask you Administrator or follow the steps for the [custom configuration](#custom-configuration) - -> Note: An rclone environment is configured and files can be uploaded with `./upload` from local directory `./data` to the COS bucket, which is then mounted under `/ce/data` in each container instance. - -You can later clean-up all resources by running `./init-fleet-sandbox clean`. -
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- Bring your own cloud resources - -If you already have a VPC, subnets, COS bucket and credentials you can just create the code engine project and related artefacts, as follows: - -``` -ibmcloud code-engine project create --name ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ibmcloud code-engine project select --name ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -``` - -Create a secret for the container registry: -``` -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-registry-secret --format registry --server '.icr.io' --username iamapikey --password -``` - -Create a ssh secret with the public key -``` -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-ssh-secret --format ssh --key-path ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub -``` - -Create a configmap with your VPC details. Make sure, that the subnet has a public gateway attached. -``` -ibmcloud ce configmap create --name fleet-vpc-config \ ---from-literal NETWORK_ZONE="${REGION}-1" \ ---from-literal SSH_SECRET_NAME="fleet-ssh-secret" \ ---from-literal VPC_ID="" \ ---from-literal SUBNET_ID="" \ ---from-literal SECURITY_GROUP_ID="" \ ---from-literal VSI_IMAGE_ID="" \ // example: r010-e7b25759-7857-455a-aec0-904b65c3c4cb ---from-literal VSI_PREFERRED_PROFILE="cx2-2x4" -``` - -Use one of the image IDs below. Only eu-de and us-east region is supported at this point. -| region | imageid | -| ------ | ------- | -| eu-de | `r010-e7b25759-7857-455a-aec0-904b65c3c4cb` | -| eu-gb | `r018-31655c46-96e7-4d38-b61a-2ab1b66b9bbd` | -| us-east | `r014-b7f47448-72db-4012-b018-bb120518b078` | - - -Create a secret with all COS related credentials -``` -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-cos-config \ ---from-literal access_key_id="" \ ---from-literal secret_access_key="" \ ---from-literal apikey="" \ ---from-literal endpoint="https://s3.direct.${REGION}.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud" \ ---from-literal bucket_name="" \ ---from-literal bucket_region="" \ ---from-literal mountpoint="/ce/data" \ ---from-literal prefix="" \ ---from-literal resource_instance_id="" -``` - -Optionally, create the observability related configuration. If you do not want LOGGING or MONITORING just don't add the values. -``` -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-observability-config \ ---from-literal LOGGING_INGESTION_APIKEY="" \ ---from-literal LOGGING_INGESTION_HOST=".ingress..logs.cloud.ibm.com" \ ---from-literal MONITORING_INGESTION_KEY="" \ ---from-literal MONITORING_INGESTION_REGION="" -``` -See the following documentation how to obtain the API keys for [logging](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-iam-ingestion-serviceid-api-key) and [monitoring](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/monitoring?topic=monitoring-access_key) - -
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- -## Launch a Fleet - -Run a serverless fleet that runs 1 single task and instance with 2 CPUs and 4 GB of memory that sleeps for 2 minutes -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ./run -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run - --name fleet-e8035973-1 - --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret - --command=bash - --arg -c - --arg 'echo Serverless Fleets; sleep 120' - --worker-profile cx2-2x4 - --tasks 1 - --max-scale 1 -Preparing your tasks: ⠹ Please wait...took 0.428629 seconds. -Preparing your tasks: ⠸ Please wait... -COS Bucket used 'ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d'... -Launching fleet 'fleet-e8035973-1'... -Current fleet status 'Launching'... -OK -``` -
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- -To observe the fleet and its progress, run a combination of the following commands. The fleet summarizes the number of workers, tasks and instances. A single worker will be provisioned. The worker will process a single task, which will move from *Pending* to *Running* to *Succeeded*. Afterwards the worker will be deprovisioned. - -### Get the details of the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet get -n -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet get -n fleet-e8035973-1 -Getting Fleet 'fleet-e8035973-1'... -OK - -Name: fleet-e8035973-1 -Status: provisioning -Age: 22s -Created: 2025-04-29T10:51:09+02:00 -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ID: e4a23052-67bd-4d12-aa4f-98e8ad99111c - -Task Summary: - Tasks: 1 - Instances: 1 - Workers: 1 - Instances per Worker: 1 -``` -
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- -### List the tasks of the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name fleet-e8035973-1 -Getting your tasks: ⠦ Please wait...Duration of list in seconds '0.792116'... -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -Project ID: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -Fleet Name: fleet-e8035973-1 -ID: e4a23052-67bd-4d12-aa4f-98e8ad99111c - - - -COS Task Store: -Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d -Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/e4a23052-67bd-4d12-aa4f-98e8ad99111c/v1/queue/ - -Task Summary: -Pending Tasks: 1 -Running Tasks: 0 -Failed Tasks: 0 -Succeeded Tasks: 0 -``` -
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- -### List the workers running in the fleet - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -Name Status IP Zone Age Profile Fleet Name -fleet-e8035973-10000-056abc8e running 10.243.0.93 eu-de-1 47s cx2-2x4 fleet-e8035973-1 -``` -
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- -🚀 You just launched a fleet with a single task 🚀 - - -## Launch a Fleet with GPUs - -Run a fleet that runs a single task on a *Serverless GPU* using a Nvidia L40s for 2 minutes: -``` -./run_gpu -``` - -Observe the progress of the fleet with the same commands as above. - -🚀 You just launched a fleet with a Serverless GPU 🚀 - -## Launch a fleet with parallel tasks - -Run a serverless fleet to process 100 tasks where each tasks gets 1 CPU and 2 GB memory. Run 10 tasks in parallel and use a worker profile of cx2-2x4: - -``` -./run_parallel_tasks -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ./run_parallel_tasks -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run - --name fleet-ef650482-1 - --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest - --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret - --worker-profile cx2-2x4 - --command=sleep - --arg 2 - --tasks 100 - --cpu 1 - --memory 2G - --max-scale 10 -Preparing your tasks: ⠋ Please wait...took 6.193297 seconds. -Preparing your tasks: ⠹ Please wait... -COS Bucket used 'ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d'... -Launching fleet 'fleet-ef650482-1'... -Current fleet status 'Launching'... -OK -``` -
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- -In the fleet details you will see 5 workers being provisined. The number of workers is determined by the profile, cpu/memory and number of parallel tasks. - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet get -n -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet get -n fleet-ef650482-1 -Getting Fleet 'fleet-ef650482-1'... -OK - -Name: fleet-ef650482-1 -Status: done -Age: 65s -Created: 2025-04-29T17:02:19+02:00 -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ID: 8844325f-6bc6-4ec7-a1cb-fc3f0d2f6d1e - -Task Summary: - Tasks: 100 - Instances: 10 - Workers: 5 - Instances per Worker: 2 -``` -
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- - -In our case, a cx2-2x4 has two CPUs and can run 2 instances on a single worker. Since we want to process 10 tasks in parallel, Code Engine provisioned 5 workers. - -Repeat the following command until you see the Fleet worker to appear, which takes about 30s: - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -Name Status IP Zone Age Profile Fleet Name -fleet-ef650482-10000-f6506e8d running 10.243.0.108 eu-de-1 57s cx2-2x4 fleet-ef650482-1 -fleet-ef650482-10001-233f2643 running 10.243.0.106 eu-de-1 57s cx2-2x4 fleet-ef650482-1 -fleet-ef650482-10002-9eba12ae running 10.243.0.104 eu-de-1 57s cx2-2x4 fleet-ef650482-1 -fleet-ef650482-10003-91fd6d78 running 10.243.0.107 eu-de-1 57s cx2-2x4 fleet-ef650482-1 -fleet-ef650482-10004-954cf4c5 running 10.243.0.105 eu-de-1 57s cx2-2x4 fleet-ef650482-1 - -``` -
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- -Observe the progress of the task execution by repeatingly running the following command: - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name fleet-ef650482-1 -Getting your tasks: ⠸ Please wait...Duration of list in seconds '0.283214'... -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -Project ID: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -Fleet Name: fleet-ef650482-1 -ID: 8844325f-6bc6-4ec7-a1cb-fc3f0d2f6d1e - - - -COS Task Store: -Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d -Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/8844325f-6bc6-4ec7-a1cb-fc3f0d2f6d1e/v1/queue/ - -Task Summary: -Pending Tasks: 20 -Running Tasks: 10 -Failed Tasks: 0 -Succeeded Tasks: 70 -``` -
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- -Repeat the steps to observe the fleet. - -:rocket: You just launched your first Serverless Fleet which run 100 tasks in parallel and scaled down after all tasks completed :rocket: - -## Launch a fleet to count words of novels - -This example will run a simple `wc` (word count) on a list of [novels](./data/tutorials/wordcount) stored as objects in .txt format in Cloud Object Storage. -The 6 tasks are submitted using the `tasks-from-file` option using the [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) as input. - -![](./images/example_wordcount.png) - - -Four steps are required to run the example: -1. `./upload` - will upload the .txt files from the local data directory to Cloud Object Storage -2. `./run_wordcount` - launch the fleet to perform `wc` on each of the novels. -3. `./watch_result wordcount` - will watch the COS bucket for the results, press ctrl-c if all 6 results are present -4. `./download` - will download the results from the COS bucket - -🚀 The example was successful, if you can tell the number of words of the "Alice in Wonderland" novel 🚀 - -> Note, this example assumes that the automated One-Time-Setup has been performed. Otherwise, the upload and download would need to be done manually. - -## Tutorials - -- [Tutorial: Monte Carlo Simulation](./tutorials/simulation/README.md) -- [Tutorial: Docling](./tutorials/docling/README.md) - - -## HowTo - -### How to use your own container and image - -In order to use your own container image, you would need to build and push the image to an ICR namespace within the cloud account. - -Build: -``` -podman build --platform linux/amd64,linux/amd64 . -t .icr.io//: -``` - -Push: -``` -ic cr login --client podman -podman push .icr.io//: -``` - -Update the Code Engine registry secret to use the same registry endpoint: -``` -ibmcloud ce secret update --name fleet-registry-secret --server .icr.io -``` - -Once the push is complete, you can run the fleet by modifying `./run` and replace -- the image, e.g. `--image .icr.io//:` -- the command, e.g. `--command "/bin/bash"` -- the arguments, e.g. `--arg "-c" --arg "sleep 120"` -- the environment variables, e.g. `--env foo=bar` - -### How to access the worker - -From the output of the `worker list` command you can grep the IP of the worker and jump to the worker via ssh by running: -``` -./jump 10.243.0.x -``` - -On the worker you can see how it's being initilized and the container and command is being executed: - -``` -tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log -``` - -You can check if the command was successfully running: -``` -podman ps -a -``` - -You can check the logs of the container: -``` -podman logs -``` - -### How to share data with your container using COS - -The COS bucket is mounted in the container directory under the *mountpoint* `/mnt/ce/data`. - -The `init-fleet-sandbox` script configures a local rclone environment including the `.rclone-config` as well as the `upload` and `download` script. Use `./upload` to load data from you local `./data` directory to COS and `./download` vice versa. This allows you to share files easily with your container instance. - -### How to access logs - -An IBM Cloud Logs instance is being setup and enabled by default during the automated One Time Setup. Each fleet worker will ingest logs to the IBM Cloud Logs instance by default. [Navigating to the UI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-instance-launch) and use [Using Livetail](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-livetail) or [Filtering log data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-query-data-filter) to view the logs. - -![](./images/prototype_logs.png) - -### Cleanup the Environment - -To clean up all IBM Cloud resources, that have been created as part of the provided script, run: - -``` -./init-fleet-sandbox clean -``` - -## Troubleshooting - -### How to keep fleet workers alive for troubleshooting? - -With CLI v1.53.0, by default, workers get deleted not only if the workload runs to completion, but also if the agent or the user command fail. - -To keep workers alive for troubleshooting if the agent or the user command fail, you would need to set the environment variable `CE_FLEET_KEEP_WORKER=true` at submission of the `fleet run` command. - -**Note: Keeping workers alive incurs cost in your account!** You need to delete them manually once you are done with troubleshooting. - -Run the following command to keep workers alive for troubleshooting: -``` -CE_FLEET_KEEP_WORKER=true ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run ... -``` - -Please follow the steps [How to access the worker](#How-to-access-the-worker) to conduct your troubleshooting. - -### How to delete workers manually? - -If you need to end your fleet's processing before it ran to completion, or to get rid of workers that are kept alive for troubleshooting (see above), you can delete the workers. - -Run the following command to delete a single worker: - -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker delete -n -``` - -Run the following command to delete all workers in your project: -``` -ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list | grep "fleet-" | awk '{print $1}' | xargs -L1 -I {} ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker delete --name {} -f -``` - - - -### Fleet creation fails with duplicate key exception - -Sample log output: -``` -"ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint \"idx_capacity_request_request_id\" (SQLSTATE 23505)" -``` - -* Solution: - * use a fleet name that is unique and prefixed with a personal identifier; e.g. `reggeenr-fleet-2` - - -### Timeout to ssh/jump to the Fleet worker - -Note, that the ssh port `22` is restricted to the IP address of the network you're connected to when setting up the fleet sandbox. The IP is determined by `curl https://ipv4.icanhazip.com/` - -If you change the network you are not able to connect via ssh to the jumpbox. 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-/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-different-carrot-raisin-salad.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-different-carrot-raisin-salad.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-drama-queens-pavlova.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-drama-queens-pavlova.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fantastic-margarita.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-fantastic-margarita.augmented.json diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/1.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/1.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3b41553c..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/1.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10 +0,0 @@ -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-firefighters-meatloaf.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-firefighters-meatloaf.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fragrant-spicy-rice.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-fragrant-spicy-rice.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fruitcake-to-love-240697.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-fruitcake-to-love-240697.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fuzzy-thing.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-fuzzy-thing.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-barbeque-sauce.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-good-barbeque-sauce.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-easy-garlic-chicken.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-good-easy-garlic-chicken.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe.augmented.json 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-/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-porridge.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-hearty-porridge.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hollywood-ham-482.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-hollywood-ham-482.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-jerky-chicken.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-jerky-chicken.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-maize-ing-corn-chowder.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-maize-ing-corn-chowder.augmented.json -/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-marinade-to-die-for.json;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_a-marinade-to-die-for.augmented.json diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/LICENSE b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/LICENSE deleted file mode 100644 index fbff8ce3..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/LICENSE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -The MIT License (MIT) -Copyright (c) Denis Papathanasiou - -Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), -to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation -the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, -and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the -Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: - -The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included -in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. - -THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR -IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, -FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL -THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR -OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, -ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR -OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index b6e122ee..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -This is a collection of cooking recipes in [json format](http://json.org/) from the [recipebook](https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook) application. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-1-chicken-soup.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-1-chicken-soup.json deleted file mode 100644 index 4d62371a..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-1-chicken-soup.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a large pot over medium heat, cook chicken pieces in oil until browned on both sides. Stir in onion and cook 2 minutes more. Pour in water and chicken bouillon and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes.", - "Stir in celery, carrots, garlic, salt and pepper. Simmer until carrots are just tender. Remove chicken pieces and pull the meat from the bone. Stir the noodles into the pot and cook until tender, 10 minutes. Return chicken meat to pot just before serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 tablespoons vegetable oil", - "2 skinless chicken leg quarters", - "1/2 cup chopped onion", - "2 quarts water", - "3 cubes chicken bouillon, crumbled", - "1 stalk celery, chopped", - "3 carrots, chopped", - "1 clove roasted garlic, minced", - "salt and pepper to taste", - "1 (12 ounce) package thin egg noodles" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A-1 Chicken Soup", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/25651/a-1-chicken-soup/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-20-minute-chicken-parmesan.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-20-minute-chicken-parmesan.json deleted file mode 100644 index 7f8408e9..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-20-minute-chicken-parmesan.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Press chicken breasts with the palm of your hand to flatten to an even thickness.", - "Beat egg into a shallow bowl; place bread crumbs into a separate shallow bowl. Dip each chicken breast into beaten egg and press into bread crumbs to coat.", - "Heat butter in a large skillet over medium heat and fry coated chicken breasts until golden brown, about 5 minutes per side.", - "Pour pasta sauce over chicken, cover, and bring sauce to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Sprinkle chicken with mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, and parsley. Cover and simmer until cheeses melt, about 5 more minutes." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves", - "1 egg", - "1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs", - "2 tablespoons butter", - "1 3/4 cups pasta sauce (such as Barilla Napoletana\u00ae)", - "1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese", - "1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese", - "1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A 20-Minute Chicken Parmesan", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/230664/a-20-minute-chicken-parmesan/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-bakers-secret-for-bread-machines.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-bakers-secret-for-bread-machines.json deleted file mode 100644 index 41fa3421..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-bakers-secret-for-bread-machines.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Ignore the bread machine directions. Place warm water and lard into the bread machine pan. Sprinkle in the yeast. Pour in flour and salt. Toss in cinnamon if desired. Select cycle; press Start." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "7 fluid ounces warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)", - "2 tablespoons lard", - "1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast", - "2 3/4 cups bread flour", - "1 teaspoon salt", - "1 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Baker's Secret for Bread Machines", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/17651/a-bakers-secret-for-bread-machines/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-big-honkin-margarita.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-big-honkin-margarita.json deleted file mode 100644 index 013551e2..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-big-honkin-margarita.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Wash the lemons and limes, and cut the fruit into quarters. Squeeze juice from the fruit quarters into a 1-gallon glass ice tea jar, and place the squeezed fruit quarters into the jar. Fill the jar with ice cubes, and pour in the sugar and tequila. Top off the jar with more ice cubes if some have melted from the tequila. Seal the jar, and wrap the jar with a wet (but not sopping wet) hand towel.", - "Gather 8 or so people in a circle, and pass the jar from one to the next, each person shaking the jar for 3 to 5 minutes. The drink is ready when the sugar has dissolved and the hand towel freezes and sticks to the jar. Dispense into ice-filled glasses and serve." - ], - "image": "https://images.media-allrecipes.com/userphotos/560x315/993636.jpg", - "ingredients": [ - "5 lemons", - "5 limes", - "3/4 cup white sugar, or to taste", - "1 (750 milliliter) bottle tequila", - "4 cups ice cubes, or as needed" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Big, Honkin' Margarita", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/214147/a-big-honkin-margarita/" -} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-catering-companys-marinade.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-catering-companys-marinade.json deleted file mode 100644 index 9e30867c..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-catering-companys-marinade.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a mixing bowl, combine beer, garlic, parsley, and soy sauce.", - "Marinate meat in the mixture for a few hours to overnight; cover and refrigerate meat while marinating. Cook as desired." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer", - "4 tablespoons dried parsley", - "1/3 cup soy sauce", - "3 cloves garlic, minced" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Catering Company's Marinade", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/19835/a-catering-companys-marinade/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-cranberry-salad-keepsake.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-cranberry-salad-keepsake.json deleted file mode 100644 index 4bcabd28..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-cranberry-salad-keepsake.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Stir boiling water and cherry gelatin together in a bowl until gelatin is completely dissolved.", - "Heat cranberry sauce in a saucepan over medium heat until melted; stir into gelatin mixture.", - "Stir apples and walnuts into the cranberry sauce mixture; add pineapple with juice and mix well. Refrigerate until set, 8 hours to overnight." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 cup boiling water", - "1 (6 ounce) package cherry-flavored gelatin (such as Jell-O\u00ae)", - "1 (16 ounce) can jellied cranberry sauce", - "1 apple - peeled, cored, and diced, or more to taste", - "3/4 cup chopped walnuts, or to taste", - "1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple with juice" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Cranberry Salad Keepsake", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/234412/a-cranberry-salad-keepsake/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-different-carrot-raisin-salad.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-different-carrot-raisin-salad.json deleted file mode 100644 index c39a0de7..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-different-carrot-raisin-salad.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a medium bowl, combine shredded carrots, raisins, walnuts, celery, and coconut. Whisk together mayonnaise, sour cream, vinegar, sugar, and salt. Stir dressing into carrot mixture. Chill a few hours before serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "3 large carrots, shredded", - "1 cup raisins", - "1 cup walnuts", - "1/4 cup finely chopped celery", - "2 tablespoons shredded coconut", - "1/2 cup mayonnaise", - "2 tablespoons sour cream", - "1 tablespoon cider vinegar", - "1/2 teaspoon white sugar", - "1/4 teaspoon salt" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Different Carrot Raisin Salad", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/48150/a-different-carrot-raisin-salad/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-drama-queens-pavlova.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-drama-queens-pavlova.json deleted file mode 100644 index 3cd1e7ed..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-drama-queens-pavlova.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (220 degrees C). You will be turning the temperature down to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C) when you put this in to bake. Line a 9 or 10 inch round glass dish with parchment paper.", - "Combine the egg whites and salt in a large bowl. Beat with an electric mixer, or stand mixer using a whisk attachment until able to form soft peaks. Sprinkle in the sugar 1 tablespoon at a time while continuing to whip to stiff peaks. Stir in the vanilla and vinegar, and fold in coconut if using. Spread evenly into the prepared glass dish, making sure to spread out to all of the edges.", - "Place the Pavlova into the oven, and immediately reduce the temperature to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until the top is crisp and a pale straw color. Leave in the oven, and turn off the heat. Let it stay in the oven until the oven has cooled completely.", - "Once the Pavlova is cooled, top generously with sweetened whipped cream. Arrange the strawberries, kiwis, peaches and blueberries in beautiful concentric circles on top." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "6 egg whites", - "1 pinch salt", - "1 1/2 teaspoons vinegar", - "2 cups castor sugar or superfine sugar", - "1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract", - "1/2 cup unsweetened flaked coconut (optional)", - "2 cups sweetened whipped cream", - "1 cup fresh strawberries, sliced", - "2 kiwifruit, peeled, halved lengthwise, and sliced", - "1 fresh peach - peeled, pitted and sliced", - "1/2 cup fresh blueberries" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Drama Queen's Pavlova", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/83706/a-drama-queens-pavlova/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fantastic-margarita.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fantastic-margarita.json deleted file mode 100644 index 784532c7..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fantastic-margarita.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Salt the rims of 2 large margarita glasses. To do so, pour salt onto a small plate, moisten the rims of the glasses on a damp towel and press them into the salt.", - "In a pitcher combine limeade, pineapple juice, orange juice, tequila and orange liqueur. Stir well and pour into the glasses, being careful not to rinse off the salt." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 cups limeade prepared from concentrate", - "1/2 cup pineapple juice", - "1/2 cup orange juice", - "2 fluid ounces tequila", - "1 fluid ounce orange liqueur" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Fantastic Margarita", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/20025/a-fantastic-margarita/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-firefighters-meatloaf.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-firefighters-meatloaf.json deleted file mode 100644 index 48d88ec6..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-firefighters-meatloaf.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).", - "Soak the bread in warm water in a small bowl. Place the beef in a large bowl. Drain bread and add to beef along with green onion, onion, salsa, Dijon mustard, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt and pepper. Mix by hand until well blended. Form into a loaf and place in a greased loaf pan.", - "Bake for 1 hour in the preheated oven. Drain off excess fat and top with barbeque (Diana) sauce. Return to the oven and bake for an additional 15 minutes." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 slices whole wheat bread", - "2 pounds ground beef", - "1 green onion, chopped", - "2 tablespoons chopped onion", - "1 cup medium salsa", - "2 tablespoons whole grain Dijon mustard", - "1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce", - "2 tablespoons minced garlic", - "salt and pepper to taste", - "1 tablespoon barbeque sauce" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Firefighter's Meatloaf", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/105058/a-firefighters-meatloaf/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fragrant-spicy-rice.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fragrant-spicy-rice.json deleted file mode 100644 index 85e31013..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fragrant-spicy-rice.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a pot, bring 2 1/2 cups broth to a boil. Mix in green onions and peas. Season with salt, 1 pinch garam masala, 1 pinch turmeric, and cayenne pepper to taste. Stir the basmati rice into the pot. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer 20 minutes.", - "Melt the butter in a wok over medium-high heat. Cook and stir the mushrooms and garlic in the melted butter until lightly browned. Mix in green bell pepper and red bell pepper. Season with 1 teaspoon garam masala, 1 pinch turmeric, and cayenne pepper to taste. Stir in the lentils and 3/4 cup broth. Reduce heat to low. Cook 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until lentils are tender.", - "In a skillet over medium heat, cook the almonds, stirring frequently, until lightly browned. Remove from heat, and set aside.", - "Increase wok heat to medium. Mix the rice into the wok with the vegetables and lentils. Cook and stir until all liquid has evaporated. Garnish with toasted almonds and cilantro sprigs to serve." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 1/2 cups vegetable broth", - "2 green onions, chopped", - "1 cup frozen green peas", - "1/2 teaspoon salt", - "1 pinch garam masala", - "1 pinch turmeric powder", - "ground cayenne pepper to taste", - "1 cup uncooked basmati rice", - "1 1/2 tablespoons butter", - "10 large fresh mushrooms, chopped", - "5 cloves garlic, chopped", - "1/2 green bell pepper, chopped", - "1/2 red bell pepper, chopped", - "1 teaspoon garam masala", - "1 pinch turmeric powder", - "cayenne pepper to taste", - "1/2 cup dry red lentils", - "3/4 cup vegetable broth", - "1/2 cup almond slivers", - "1 bunch cilantro sprigs" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Fragrant, Spicy Rice", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/84721/a-fragrant-spicy-rice/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fruitcake-to-love-240697.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fruitcake-to-love-240697.json deleted file mode 100644 index 24d38272..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fruitcake-to-love-240697.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350\u00b0F. Butter two 8 1/2x4 1/2x2 1/2-inch metal loaf pans. Spray with nonstick spray; dust with flour. Mix dates and next 5 ingredients in medium bowl. Let stand 15 minutes. Sift flour, baking powder, coarse kosher salt, nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon into another medium bowl.", - "Whisk yogurt and oil in small bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl until blended. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with yogurt mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in walnuts, pistachios, and dried-fruit mixture. Divide batter between prepared pans. Smooth tops.", - "Bake cakes until tester inserted into centers comes out clean and cakes begin to pull away from sides of pans, about 50 minutes. Cool in pans 30 minutes. Turn cakes out onto racks. Cool completely. DO AHEAD: Can be made up to 1 month ahead. Wrap in foil, then enclose in resealable plastic bags. Store at room temperature up to 3 days or freeze up to 1 month. Thaw frozen cakes in refrigerator. Bring to room temperature before serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "Nonstick vegetable oil spray", - "1 1/4 cups chopped pitted Medjool dates", - "3/4 cup chopped candied orange peel", - "1/3 cup chopped dried Mission figs", - "10 oil-cured olives", - "2 tablespoons Nocello (walnut liqueur) or Frangelico (hazelnut liqueur)", - "2 tablespoons water", - "1 3/4 cups all purpose flour", - "2 teaspoons baking powder", - "1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt", - "1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg", - "1/2 teaspoon ground cloves", - "1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon", - "1/2 cup plain whole-milk yogurt", - "2 tablespoons olive oil", - "3/4 cup (11/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature", - "3/4 cup sugar", - "3 large eggs", - "2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts", - "3/4 cup shelled unsalted natural pistachios" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "www.epicurious.com", - "tags": [ - "Cake", - "Olive", - "Dessert", - "Bake", - "Christmas", - "Yogurt", - "High Fiber", - "Dried Fruit", - "Date", - "Fig", - "Pistachio", - "Walnut", - "Spice", - "Winter", - "Kidney Friendly", - "Vegetarian", - "Pescatarian", - "Peanut Free", - "Soy Free", - "Kosher" - ], - "title": "A Fruitcake to Love", - "url": "http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/a-fruitcake-to-love-240697" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fuzzy-thing.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fuzzy-thing.json deleted file mode 100644 index c71d700d..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-fuzzy-thing.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a cocktail mixer full of ice, combine vodka, triple sec, schnapps, orange juice, pineapple juice and sour mix. Shake vigorously and strain into glasses." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 fluid ounces vodka", - "1 fluid ounce triple sec liqueur", - "1 (1.5 fluid ounce) jigger peach schnapps", - "2 fluid ounces orange juice", - "2 fluid ounces pineapple juice", - "2 tablespoons sweet and sour mix" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Fuzzy Thing", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/35622/a-fuzzy-thing/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-barbeque-sauce.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-barbeque-sauce.json deleted file mode 100644 index 9ee6e582..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-barbeque-sauce.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a medium saucepan, combine the cola, ketchup, onion, garlic powder and hot pepper sauce. Cook over medium heat until reduced by a third and thickened." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 (12 fluid ounce) can cola-flavored carbonated beverage", - "1 cup ketchup", - "1/4 cup minced onion", - "garlic powder to taste", - "1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Good Barbeque Sauce", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/14490/a-good-barbeque-sauce/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-easy-garlic-chicken.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-easy-garlic-chicken.json deleted file mode 100644 index b38402a8..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-good-easy-garlic-chicken.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Melt butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken and sprinkle with garlic powder, seasoning salt and onion powder. Saute about 10 to 15 minutes on each side, or until chicken is cooked through and juices run clear." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "3 tablespoons butter", - "4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves", - "2 teaspoons garlic powder", - "1 teaspoon seasoning salt", - "1 teaspoon onion powder" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Good Easy Garlic Chicken", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/23998/a-good-easy-garlic-chicken/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe.json deleted file mode 100644 index 404380b2..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.", - "In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the cooled chocolate and vanilla and beat for 3 minutes to incorporate. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and beat for another 3 minutes. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients in three batches, alternating with the cold water. Beat for 1 minute after each addition to incorporate the ingredients. Mix until the batter is smooth.", - "Coat two 9-inch round cake pans with nonstick cooking spray. Cut 2 circles of parchment paper to fit the pan bottoms and place them inside the pans; then spray the paper for added non-stick insurance. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and smooth the surface with a spatula; the pans should be two-thirds full. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. The cake is cooked when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the cake springs back when touched. Leave to cool for 40 minutes.", - "Turn the cakes out of the pans and remove the paper. Drizzle them with a few tablespoons of raspberry liqueur. With a metal spatula, spread 1/2 cup Chocolate Chip Buttercream on top of one of the layers. Start in the center and work your way out. Carefully place the second layer on top. Smooth the sides with buttercream, and then spread the rest over the top so that the cake is completely covered. Refrigerate for 5 minutes before decorating or cutting.", - "With a large knife, scrape some shavings from a block of dark chocolate. Scatter the shavings over the cake.", - "In the bowl of an electric mixer, dissolve the powdered sugar and water at low speed. Beat in the dark chocolate and vanilla. Add the butter gradually in small bits. Mix until everything is completely incorporated. Using a spatula, fold in the chopped chocolate and give a final quick spin." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 1/2 cups cake flour", - "1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda", - "1 teaspoon salt", - "1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature", - "2 cups granulated sugar", - "3 1/2 ounces dark chocolate, melted and cooled", - "1 teaspoon vanilla extract", - "2 eggs", - "1 1/2 cups cold water", - "Raspberry liqueur, such as Chambord, for drizzling", - "Nonstick cooking spray", - "Chocolate Chip Buttercream, recipe follows", - "Dark chocolate shavings, for decoration", - "3 cups powdered sugar", - "7 tablespoons hot water", - "4 ounces dark chocolate, melted and cooled", - "2 teaspoons vanilla extract", - "1/2 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature", - "1/4 cup semisweet dark chocolate, finely chopped" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "www.foodnetwork.com", - "tags": [ - "Chocolate Cake", - "Cake", - "Chocolate", - "Baking", - "Dessert", - "Mixer Recipes", - "Dairy Recipes", - "Fruit", - "Raspberry Recipes" - ], - "title": "A Gooey, Decadent Chocolate Cake", - "url": "http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/a-gooey-decadent-chocolate-cake-recipe" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-bean-and-walnut-casserole.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-bean-and-walnut-casserole.json deleted file mode 100644 index e17b9560..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-bean-and-walnut-casserole.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Melt spread in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add mushrooms and onion; cook, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes. Stir in flour; cook and stir for 5 minutes more. Slowly add stock and bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in half & half and season with salt and pepper; set aside.", - "Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cook beans in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain well then add to mushroom sauce; toss to coat with mixture. Transfer to an 11 x 7-inch baking dish.", - "Stir together all topping ingredients until well blended and sprinkle around the edge of the beans.", - "Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown on top." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 tablespoons vegetable oil spread", - "4 ounces mushrooms, minced", - "1 cup chopped onion", - "3 tablespoons flour", - "1 1/2 cups chicken stock", - "1/2 cup fat-free half and half", - "3/4 teaspoon salt", - "Freshly ground pepper to taste", - "1 1/2 pounds fresh green beans, trimmed", - "Topping:", - "2/3 cup crushed whole grain seasoned croutons", - "2/3 cup chopped walnuts", - "2 tablespoons vegetable or soy spread, melted", - "1/2 cup minced onion" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A+ Green Bean and Walnut Casserole", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/215732/a-green-bean-and-walnut-casserole/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-peas-soup-without-meat-394705.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-peas-soup-without-meat-394705.json deleted file mode 100644 index e54fe043..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-green-peas-soup-without-meat-394705.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "1. Put 8 cups of the peas and 4 cups of the water in a large saucepan or Dutch oven. Add the salt, pepper, mace, cloves, thyme, and marjoram, cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, and simmer for about 45 minutes, until the peas are very tender.", - "2. Drain the peas, reserving the cooking liquid in the sauceupan. Puree the peas in a food processor or with a food mill. If using a food mill, discard the skins. Press the puree through a sieve into the reserved liquid, stirring to combine thoroughly. Cover and set aside to keep warm.", - "3. Combine the remaining 2 cups of peas with the remaining 2 cups of water in a medium saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, until the peas are just tender.", - "4. While the second batch of peas is cooking, melt the butter in a saut\u00e9 pan. Add the green onions, and saut\u00e9 for about 2 minutes. Add the spinach and mint and stir together, cooking until the spinach has just wilted. Blend in the flour, and cook for about 1 minute.", - "5. Drain the peas, reserving the cooking liquid, and stir the peas into the warm soup along with the spinach mixture. Heat until it begins to simmer, adding the reserved pea-cooking liquid\u2014a little at a time\u2014if the soup is too thick. Season with additional salt and pepper, if necessary.", - "6. Pour the soup into a tureen, and garnish with diced toast and shredded calendula blossoms, if desired." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "10 cups fresh or frozen peas or petits pois (small, young green peas), divided", - "6 cups water, divided", - "1 1/2 teaspoons salt", - "1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper", - "1/2 teaspoon ground mace", - "2 cloves", - "2 teaspoons dried thyme", - "1 teaspoon dried marjoram", - "4 tablespoons unsalted butter", - "3 to 4 green onions, trimmed and sliced crosswise into 1/2-inch pieces", - "1/4 pound fresh baby spinach, coarsely chopped", - "2 teaspoons minced fresh mint", - "3 tablespoons all-purpose flour", - "Diced toast for garnish (optional)", - "Shredded fresh calendula blossoms for garnish (optional)" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "www.epicurious.com", - "tags": [ - "Soup/Stew", - "Food Processor", - "Leafy Green", - "Herb", - "Vegetable", - "Vegetarian", - "Dinner", - "Mint", - "Spinach", - "Legume", - "Pea", - "Spring", - "Boil", - "Pescatarian", - "Peanut Free", - "Tree Nut Free", - "Soy Free", - "No Sugar Added", - "Kosher" - ], - "title": "A Green Peas Soup, without Meat", - "url": "http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/a-green-peas-soup-without-meat-394705" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthier-mochaccino.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthier-mochaccino.json deleted file mode 100644 index b59dd0ac..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthier-mochaccino.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Pour coffee into an ice cube tray and freeze until completely frozen, 6 hours to overnight.", - "Blend 2 coffee ice cubes, banana, sunflower seed kernels, protein powder, almonds, and cocoa together in a blender until smooth." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "3 tablespoons double-strength brewed coffee, or more to taste", - "1 cup milk", - "1 banana, frozen and chunked", - "1 tablespoon raw sunflower seed kernels", - "1 tablespoon chocolate-flavored protein powder", - "1 tablespoon raw slivered almonds", - "1 tablespoon cocoa powder" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Healthier Mochaccino", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/239043/a-healthier-mochaccino/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthy-egg-salad.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthy-egg-salad.json deleted file mode 100644 index 77e6aafd..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-healthy-egg-salad.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Mix eggs, egg whites, mayonnaise, chives, mustard, celery salt, paprika, kosher salt, and black pepper together in a bowl." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "8 large hard-boiled eggs, peeled and cut into chunks", - "4 large hard-boiled egg whites, cut into chunks", - "1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise", - "1/4 cup chopped fresh chives", - "1 teaspoon Dijon mustard", - "1/2 teaspoon celery salt", - "1/2 teaspoon paprika", - "1/2 teaspoon kosher salt", - "1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Healthy Egg Salad", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/240974/a-healthy-egg-salad/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse.json deleted file mode 100644 index 78be124e..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Crumble the pork sausage into a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir until evenly browned. Drain grease, and set aside.", - "Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9x13 inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray.", - "In a large bowl, stir together the cream of mushroom soup, milk, soy sauce, garlic, and pepper. Mix in the sausage, then add the green beans, and stir until evenly coated. Pour half of the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Top with half of the fried onions. Spread remaining green bean mixture over the onions.", - "Bake for 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from the oven, and sprinkle the rest of the fried onions over the top. Return to the oven for 5 to 10 more minutes, or until the onions are toasty, and green beans are cooked to your desired doneness. Let rest 5 minutes before serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 (16 ounce) package pork sausage", - "2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of mushroom soup", - "1 cup milk", - "1 tablespoon soy sauce", - "1 clove garlic, minced", - "ground black pepper to taste", - "2 (16 ounce) packages frozen cut green beans", - "1 (2.8 ounce) can French-fried onions" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Hearty Green Bean and Sausage Casserole", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/77890/a-hearty-green-bean-and-sausage-casse/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-porridge.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-porridge.json deleted file mode 100644 index 0ee40b89..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hearty-porridge.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Combine oats, quinoa, raisins, walnuts, almond meal, flaxseed meal, coconut, apple, and cinnamon in a pot; add water. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring regularly; reduce heat and simmer until oats are tender and liquid is absorbed, about 10 minutes." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 cup rolled oats", - "1/2 cup quinoa", - "1/2 cup raisins", - "1/2 cup chopped walnuts", - "1/2 cup almond meal", - "1/2 cup flaxseed meal", - "1/2 cup shredded coconut", - "1 small apple, chopped", - "2 tablespoons ground cinnamon", - "3 1/2 cups water" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Hearty Porridge", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/256445/a-hearty-porridge/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hollywood-ham-482.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hollywood-ham-482.json deleted file mode 100644 index cb47ebf9..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-hollywood-ham-482.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Preheat oven to 325\u00b0F. Place ham in roasting pan and bake until thermometer inserted into thickest part of ham registers 150\u00b0F., about 15 minutes per pound. Cool ham completely. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Cover and chill.)", - "Bring cider and apples to boil in heavy medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Boil until liquid is reduced to scant 1 1/2 cups, about 8 minutes. Whisk sugar, vinegar and mustard in small bowl until blended. Add to cider mixture. Simmer sauce until reduced to 2 1/4 cups, stirring occasionally, about 6 minutes. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.)", - "Preheat oven to 375\u00b0F. Cut eight 1/2-inch-thick ham slices from bone. Overlap ham slices in glass baking dish. Spoon sauce over. Bake until ham is heated through and sauce bubbles, about 25 minutes. Transfer to platter and serve." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 5-to 6-pound bone-in water-added ham, butt portion", - "3 cups apple cider", - "1 1/2 cups packed dried apple chunks (about 4 1/2 ounces)", - "3/4 cup golden brown sugar", - "6 tablespoons cider vinegar", - "3 tablespoons Dijon Mustard" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "www.epicurious.com", - "tags": [ - "Fruit Juice", - "Bake", - "Christmas", - "Easter", - "Thanksgiving", - "Kid-Friendly", - "Oscars", - "Dried Fruit", - "Apple", - "Ham", - "Spring" - ], - "title": "A Hollywood Ham", - "url": "http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/a-hollywood-ham-482" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick.json deleted file mode 100644 index cdfac7ac..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook rice and vermicelli in hot butter until browned, about 3 minutes.", - "Pour water over the rice mixture. Stir chicken bouillon, parsley, garlic powder, and onion powder into the water; bring to a boil, place a cover on the saucepan, reduce heat to low, and cook until the water has absorbed into the rice and pasta, about 25 minutes." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 tablespoon butter", - "1 cup white rice", - "1/4 cup broken pieces vermicelli pasta", - "3 cups water", - "1 tablespoon chicken bouillon granules", - "2 teaspoons dried parsley", - "1/4 teaspoon garlic powder", - "1/4 teaspoon onion powder" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Homemade San Francisco Treat: Chicken Vermicelli Rice", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/235796/a-homemade-san-francisco-treat-chick/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-jerky-chicken.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-jerky-chicken.json deleted file mode 100644 index 8ccfb67d..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-jerky-chicken.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Combine the onion, brown sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, thyme, sesame oil, garlic, allspice and habanero pepper in the container of a food processor or blender. Process until smooth. Place the chicken into a large resealable bag, and pour in 3/4 of the sauce. Squeeze out excess air, and seal. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least one hour.", - "Preheat your oven's broiler.", - "Remove chicken from bag, and discard marinade. Broil chicken for 10 to 15 minutes, turning once to ensure even cooking. Heat remaining sauce in a small pan, and pour over chicken when serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 teaspoon onion, finely chopped", - "3 tablespoons brown sugar", - "4 tablespoons soy sauce", - "4 tablespoons red wine vinegar", - "2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme", - "1 teaspoon sesame oil", - "3 cloves garlic, chopped", - "1/2 teaspoon ground allspice", - "1 habanero pepper, sliced", - "4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut into 1 inch strips" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Jerky Chicken", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/50726/a-jerky-chicken/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee.json deleted file mode 100644 index 3bdfe155..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).", - "Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Cook elbow macaroni in the boiling water, stirring occasionally until cooked through but firm to the bite, 8 minutes. Drain.", - "Spread half the macaroni into a 9x13-inch casserole dish; top with half the tomatoes and half the Cheddar cheese. Repeat layering with remaining macaroni, tomatoes, and Cheddar cheese. Pour milk over entire casserole; sprinkle with crushed crackers.", - "Bake in the preheated oven until cheese is melted and crackers are golden, about 30 minutes." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1 (16 ounce) package elbow macaroni", - "1 (28 ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained and chopped", - "1 (16 ounce) package sharp Cheddar cheese, sliced", - "1/2 cup milk", - "1 (4 ounce) packet saltine crackers, crushed" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Little Different Baked Mac and Cheese", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/229814/a-little-different-baked-mac-and-chee/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr.json deleted file mode 100644 index 02f9bf08..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a deep 9x9 inch baking dish.", - "Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl, then stir in the spinach, leeks, green onions, feta cheese, parsley, dill, spearmint, sugar, milk, and 3/4 cup of olive oil until evenly mixed. Season to taste with salt and pepper; set aside. Whisk together the all-purpose flour, semolina flour, and 1 pinch of salt in a mixing bowl. Stir in 1/4 cup of olive oil and the water until no lumps remain. Pour 2/3 of the batter into the prepared 9x9 inch pan, and spread out evenly. Spoon the spinach filling over the batter, then spoon the remaining batter overtop. Sprinkle with the Parmesan cheese, butter pieces, and 2 tablespoons of olive oil.", - "Bake in the preheated oven until the bottom crust and top has firmed and nicely browned, about 1 hour." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "3 eggs", - "1 pound chopped fresh spinach", - "3 leeks, chopped", - "5 green onions, chopped", - "2 1/3 cups crumbled feta cheese", - "1 bunch parsley, chopped", - "1 bunch dill, chopped", - "1 bunch spearmint, chopped", - "1 teaspoon white sugar", - "1 cup milk", - "3/4 cup olive oil", - "1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste", - "2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour", - "1/2 cup semolina flour", - "1 pinch salt", - "1/4 cup olive oil", - "2 cups water", - "1 1/4 cups grated Parmesan cheese (optional)", - "2 tablespoons cold butter, cut into pieces", - "2 tablespoons olive oil" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Lot More Than Plain Spinach Pie (Greek Batsaria)", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/180628/a-lot-more-than-plain-spinach-pie-gr/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-maize-ing-corn-chowder.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-maize-ing-corn-chowder.json deleted file mode 100644 index e2abfd8b..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-maize-ing-corn-chowder.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "Fry bacon in a Dutch oven until crisp; remove bacon, reserving 2 tablespoons drippings. Crumble bacon and set aside.", - "Saute onion in reserved drippings until tender; add potatoes and water. Cover and simmer 15 to 20 minutes or until potatoes are tender.", - "Stir in milk, corn, salt, and pepper to taste; continue to cook, stirring frequently, until heated through. Sprinkle with crumbled bacon to serve." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "6 slices bacon", - "1 onion, chopped", - "2 potatoes, peeled and cubed", - "1/2 cup water", - "2 cups milk", - "2 (14.75 ounce) cans cream-style corn", - "1 (15.25 ounce) can whole kernel corn", - "1/2 teaspoon salt", - "ground black pepper to taste" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A-Maize-ing Corn Chowder", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/13120/a-maize-ing-corn-chowder/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-marinade-to-die-for.json b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-marinade-to-die-for.json deleted file mode 100644 index 705edaa4..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/a-marinade-to-die-for.json +++ /dev/null @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@ -{ - "directions": [ - "In a medium bowl, combine the steak sauce, brown sugar, lemon-lime soda, butter, vinegar, onion powder, garlic powder, salt and ground black pepper. Mix together well and use on your favorite meat." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "1/3 cup steak sauce", - "1/2 cup packed brown sugar", - "1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle lemon-lime flavored carbonated beverage", - "1/2 cup butter, melted", - "4 tablespoons red wine vinegar", - "1/4 teaspoon onion powder", - "1/4 teaspoon garlic powder", - "1/4 teaspoon salt", - "1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A Marinade To Die For", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/18005/a-marinade-to-die-for/" -} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/sp500 b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/sp500 deleted file mode 100644 index e3f0b834..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/sp500 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,500 +0,0 @@ -MMM -ACE -ABT -ANF -ACN -ADBE -AMD -AES -AET -AFL -A -GAS -APD -ARG -AKAM -AA -ALXN -ATI -AGN -ALL -ANR -ALTR -MO -AMZN -AEE -AEP -AXP -AIG -AMT -AMP -ABC -AMGN -APH -APC -ADI -AON -APA -AIV -APOL -AAPL -AMAT -ADM -AIZ -T -ADSK -ADP -AN -AZO -AVB -AVY -AVP -BHI -BLL -BAC -BK -BCR -BAX -BBT -BEAM -BDX -BBBY -BMS -BRK.B -BBY -BIG -BIIB -BLK -HRB -BMC -BA -BWA -BXP -BSX -BMY -BRCM -BF.B -CHRW -CA -CVC -COG -CAM -CPB -COF -CAH -CFN -KMX -CCL -CAT -CBG -CBS -CELG -CNP -CTL -CERN -CF -SCHW -CHK -CVX -CMG -CB -CI -CINF -CTAS -CSCO -C -CTXS -CLF -CLX -CME -CMS -COH -KO -CCE -CTSH -CL -CMCSA -CMA -CSC -CAG -COP -CNX -ED -STZ -CBE -GLW -COST -CVH -COV -CCI -CSX -CMI -CVS -DHI -DHR -DRI -DVA -DF -DE -DELL -DNR -XRAY -DVN -DV -DO -DTV -DFS -DISCA -DLTR -D -RRD -DOV -DOW -DPS -DTE -DD -DUK -DNB -ETFC -EMN -ETN -EBAY -ECL -EIX -EW -EA -EMC -EMR -ESV -ETR -EOG -EQT -EFX -EQR -EL -EXC -EXPE -EXPD -ESRX -XOM -FFIV -FDO -FAST -FII -FDX -FIS -FITB -FHN -FSLR -FE -FISV -FLIR -FLS -FLR -FMC -FTI -F -FRX -FOSL -BEN -FCX -FTR -GME -GCI -GPS -GD -GE -GIS -GPC -GNW -GILD -GS -GT -GOOG -GWW -HAL -HOG -HAR -HRS -HIG -HAS -HCP -HCN -HNZ -HP -HES -HPQ -HD -HON -HRL -HSP -HST -HCBK -HUM -HBAN -ITW -IR -TEG -INTC -ICE -IBM -IFF -IGT -IP -IPG -INTU -ISRG -IVZ -IRM -JBL -JEC -JDSU -JNJ -JCI -JOY -JPM -JNPR -K -KEY -KMB -KIM -KMI -KLAC -KSS -KFT -KR -LLL -LH -LRCX -LM -LEG -LEN -LUK -LXK -LIFE -LLY -LTD -LNC -LLTC -LMT -L -LO -LOW -LSI -MTB -M -MRO -MPC -MAR -MMC -MAS -MA -MAT -MKC -MCD -MHP -MCK -MJN -MWV -MDT -MRK -MET -PCS -MCHP -MU -MSFT -MOLX -TAP -MON -MNST -MCO -MS -MOS -MSI -MUR -MYL -NBR -NDAQ -NOV -NTAP -NFLX -NWL -NFX -NEM -NWSA -NEE -NKE -NI -NE -NBL -JWN -NSC -NTRS -NOC -NU -NRG -NUE -NVDA -NYX -ORLY -OXY -OMC -OKE -ORCL -OI -PCAR -PLL -PH -PDCO -PAYX -BTU -JCP -PBCT -POM -PEP -PKI -PRGO -PFE -PCG -PM -PSX -PNW -PXD -PBI -PCL -PNC -RL -PPG -PPL -PX -PCP -PCLN -PFG -PG -PGR -PLD -PRU -PEG -PSA -PHM -QEP -PWR -QCOM -DGX -RRC -RTN -RHT -RF -RSG -RAI -RHI -ROK -COL -ROP -ROST -RDC -R -SWY -SAI -CRM -SNDK -SCG -SLB -SNI -STX -SEE -SHLD -SRE -SHW -SIAL -SPG -SLM -SJM -SNA -SO -LUV -SWN -SE -S -STJ -SWK -SPLS -SBUX -HOT -STT -SRCL -SYK -SUN -STI -SYMC -SYY -TROW -TGT -TEL -TE -THC -TDC -TER -TSO -TXN -TXT -HSY -TRV -TMO -TIF -TWX -TWC -TIE -TJX -TMK -TSS -TRIP -TSN -TYC -USB -UNP -UNH -UPS -X -UTX -UNM -URBN -VFC -VLO -VAR -VTR -VRSN -VZ -VIAB -V -VNO -VMC -WMT -WAG -DIS -WPO -WM -WAT -WPI -WLP -WFC -WDC -WU -WY -WHR -WFM -WMB -WIN -WEC -WPX -WYN -WYNN -XEL -XRX -XLNX -XL -XYL -YHOO -YUM -ZMH -ZION diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/tickers.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/tickers.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 9ee2451c..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/simulation/tickers.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -AKAM -AA -MO -AMZN -AMGN -AAPL -T -BA -CAT -CVX -DIS -KO -DELL -F -INTC -IBM -MSFT -NFLX -NVDA -ORCL -QCOM -X -VZ -V \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/wordcount/alice_in_wonderland.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/wordcount/alice_in_wonderland.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3f475c5c..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/data/tutorials/wordcount/alice_in_wonderland.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3758 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - -This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online -at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, -you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this eBook. - -Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - -Author: Lewis Carroll - -Release date: June 27, 2008 [eBook #11] - Most recently updated: June 26, 2025 - -Language: English - -Credits: Arthur DiBianca and David Widger - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND *** - -[Illustration] - - - - -Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - -by Lewis Carroll - -THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0 - -Contents - - CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole - CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears - CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale - CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill - CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar - CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper - CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party - CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground - CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story - CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille - CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts? - CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence - - - - -CHAPTER I. -Down the Rabbit-Hole - - -Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the -bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into -the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or -conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice -“without pictures or conversations?” - -So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the -hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of -making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and -picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran -close by her. - -There was nothing so _very_ remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it -so _very_ much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh -dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!” (when she thought it over afterwards, -it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the -time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually _took a -watch out of its waistcoat-pocket_, and looked at it, and then hurried -on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she -had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a -watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the -field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a -large rabbit-hole under the hedge. - -In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how -in the world she was to get out again. - -The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then -dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think -about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very -deep well. - -Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had -plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what -was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out -what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she -looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with -cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures -hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she -passed; it was labelled “ORANGE MARMALADE”, but to her great -disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear -of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the -cupboards as she fell past it. - -“Well!” thought Alice to herself, “after such a fall as this, I shall -think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they’ll all think me -at home! Why, I wouldn’t say anything about it, even if I fell off the -top of the house!” (Which was very likely true.) - -Down, down, down. Would the fall _never_ come to an end? “I wonder how -many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be -getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would -be four thousand miles down, I think—” (for, you see, Alice had learnt -several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and -though this was not a _very_ good opportunity for showing off her -knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good -practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the right distance—but -then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” (Alice had no -idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice -grand words to say.) - -Presently she began again. “I wonder if I shall fall right _through_ -the earth! How funny it’ll seem to come out among the people that walk -with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think—” (she was rather -glad there _was_ no one listening, this time, as it didn’t sound at all -the right word) “—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the -country is, you know. Please, Ma’am, is this New Zealand or Australia?” -(and she tried to curtsey as she spoke—fancy _curtseying_ as you’re -falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) “And what -an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do -to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.” - -Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began -talking again. “Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!” -(Dinah was the cat.) “I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at -tea-time. Dinah my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are -no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s -very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder?” And here -Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a -dreamy sort of way, “Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?” and -sometimes, “Do bats eat cats?” for, you see, as she couldn’t answer -either question, it didn’t much matter which way she put it. She felt -that she was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that she was -walking hand in hand with Dinah, and saying to her very earnestly, -“Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat?” when suddenly, -thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and -the fall was over. - -Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: -she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another -long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down -it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, -and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, “Oh my ears -and whiskers, how late it’s getting!” She was close behind it when she -turned the corner, but the Rabbit was no longer to be seen: she found -herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging -from the roof. - -There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when -Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every -door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to -get out again. - -Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid -glass; there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice’s -first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; -but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, -but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second -time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and -behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the -little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted! - -Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not -much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the -passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get -out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright -flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head -through the doorway; “and even if my head would go through,” thought -poor Alice, “it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, -how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only -knew how to begin.” For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had -happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things -indeed were really impossible. - -There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went -back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at -any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this -time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here -before,” said Alice,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper -label, with the words “DRINK ME,” beautifully printed on it in large -letters. - -It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was -not going to do _that_ in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, -“and see whether it’s marked ‘_poison_’ or not”; for she had read -several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and -eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they -_would_ not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: -such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; -and that if you cut your finger _very_ deeply with a knife, it usually -bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a -bottle marked “poison,” it is almost certain to disagree with you, -sooner or later. - -However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to -taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed -flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and -hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. - -* * * * * * * - - * * * * * * - -* * * * * * * - - -“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must be shutting up like a -telescope.” - -And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face -brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going -through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she -waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: -she felt a little nervous about this; “for it might end, you know,” -said Alice to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a candle. I -wonder what I should be like then?” And she tried to fancy what the -flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could -not remember ever having seen such a thing. - -After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going -into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the -door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she -went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach -it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her -best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; -and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing -sat down and cried. - -“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, -rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally -gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), -and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into -her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having -cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, -for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. -“But it’s no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two -people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make _one_ respectable -person!” - -Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: -she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words -“EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. “Well, I’ll eat it,” said -Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it -makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; so either way I’ll -get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!” - -She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which way? Which -way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was -growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same -size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice -had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way -things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go -on in the common way. - -So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. - -* * * * * * * - - * * * * * * - -* * * * * * * - - - - -CHAPTER II. -The Pool of Tears - - -“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that -for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m -opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!” -(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of -sight, they were getting so far off). “Oh, my poor little feet, I -wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I’m -sure _I_ shan’t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble -myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;—but I must be -kind to them,” thought Alice, “or perhaps they won’t walk the way I -want to go! Let me see: I’ll give them a new pair of boots every -Christmas.” - -And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. “They must -go by the carrier,” she thought; “and how funny it’ll seem, sending -presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the directions will look! - - _Alice’s Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender,_ (_with - Alice’s love_). - -Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!” - -Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was -now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden -key and hurried off to the garden door. - -Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to -look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more -hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again. - -“You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said Alice, “a great girl like -you,” (she might well say this), “to go on crying in this way! Stop -this moment, I tell you!” But she went on all the same, shedding -gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about -four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. - -After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and -she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White -Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves -in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a -great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, “Oh! the Duchess, the -Duchess! Oh! won’t she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!” Alice felt -so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the -Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, “If you please, -sir—” The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and -the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. - -Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she -kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: “Dear, dear! How -queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. -I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the -same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling -a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, Who -in the world am I? Ah, _that’s_ the great puzzle!” And she began -thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as -herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them. - -“I’m sure I’m not Ada,” she said, “for her hair goes in such long -ringlets, and mine doesn’t go in ringlets at all; and I’m sure I can’t -be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a -very little! Besides, _she’s_ she, and _I’m_ I, and—oh dear, how -puzzling it all is! I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. -Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, -and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that -rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try -Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of -Rome, and Rome—no, _that’s_ all wrong, I’m certain! I must have been -changed for Mabel! I’ll try and say ‘_How doth the little_—’” and she -crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began -to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words -did not come the same as they used to do:— - -“How doth the little crocodile - Improve his shining tail, -And pour the waters of the Nile - On every golden scale! - -“How cheerfully he seems to grin, - How neatly spread his claws, -And welcome little fishes in - With gently smiling jaws!” - - -“I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes -filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and -I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to -no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I’ve -made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, I’ll stay down here! It’ll be -no use their putting their heads down and saying ‘Come up again, dear!’ -I shall only look up and say ‘Who am I then? Tell me that first, and -then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down -here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden -burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down! I am so -_very_ tired of being all alone here!” - -As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see -that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while -she was talking. “How _can_ I have done that?” she thought. “I must be -growing small again.” She got up and went to the table to measure -herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was -now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon -found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she -dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. - -“That _was_ a narrow escape!” said Alice, a good deal frightened at the -sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; “and -now for the garden!” and she ran with all speed back to the little -door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden -key was lying on the glass table as before, “and things are worse than -ever,” thought the poor child, “for I never was so small as this -before, never! And I declare it’s too bad, that it is!” - -As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, -splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that -she had somehow fallen into the sea, “and in that case I can go back by -railway,” she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in -her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go -to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the -sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row -of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she -soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when -she was nine feet high. - -“I wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice, as she swam about, trying -to find her way out. “I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by -being drowned in my own tears! That _will_ be a queer thing, to be -sure! However, everything is queer to-day.” - -Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way -off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought -it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small -she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had -slipped in like herself. - -“Would it be of any use, now,” thought Alice, “to speak to this mouse? -Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very -likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.” So she -began: “O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired -of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Alice thought this must be the right -way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but -she remembered having seen in her brother’s Latin Grammar, “A mouse—of -a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!”) The Mouse looked at her rather -inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, -but it said nothing. - -“Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,” thought Alice; “I daresay it’s -a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.” (For, with all -her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago -anything had happened.) So she began again: “Où est ma chatte?” which -was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a -sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with -fright. “Oh, I beg your pardon!” cried Alice hastily, afraid that she -had hurt the poor animal’s feelings. “I quite forgot you didn’t like -cats.” - -“Not like cats!” cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. “Would -_you_ like cats if you were me?” - -“Well, perhaps not,” said Alice in a soothing tone: “don’t be angry -about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you’d -take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear -quiet thing,” Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about -in the pool, “and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her -paws and washing her face—and she is such a nice soft thing to -nurse—and she’s such a capital one for catching mice—oh, I beg your -pardon!” cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all -over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. “We won’t talk -about her any more if you’d rather not.” - -“We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his -tail. “As if _I_ would talk on such a subject! Our family always -_hated_ cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name -again!” - -“I won’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of -conversation. “Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs?” The Mouse did not -answer, so Alice went on eagerly: “There is such a nice little dog near -our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you -know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it’ll fetch things when -you throw them, and it’ll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts -of things—I can’t remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you -know, and he says it’s so useful, it’s worth a hundred pounds! He says -it kills all the rats and—oh dear!” cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, -“I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!” For the Mouse was swimming away -from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the -pool as it went. - -So she called softly after it, “Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we -won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!” When the -Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face -was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low -trembling voice, “Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my -history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.” - -It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the -birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a -Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice -led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. - - - - -CHAPTER III. -A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale - - -They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the -birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close -to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable. - -The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a -consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite -natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if -she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument -with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, “I am -older than you, and must know better;” and this Alice would not allow -without knowing how old it was, and, as the Lory positively refused to -tell its age, there was no more to be said. - -At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, -called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! _I’ll_ soon make -you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the -Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she -felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry very soon. - -“Ahem!” said the Mouse with an important air, “are you all ready? This -is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you please! ‘William -the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted -to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much -accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the earls of -Mercia and Northumbria—’” - -“Ugh!” said the Lory, with a shiver. - -“I beg your pardon!” said the Mouse, frowning, but very politely: “Did -you speak?” - -“Not I!” said the Lory hastily. - -“I thought you did,” said the Mouse. “—I proceed. ‘Edwin and Morcar, -the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him: and even -Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable—’” - -“Found _what_?” said the Duck. - -“Found _it_,” the Mouse replied rather crossly: “of course you know -what ‘it’ means.” - -“I know what ‘it’ means well enough, when _I_ find a thing,” said the -Duck: “it’s generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the -archbishop find?” - -The Mouse did not notice this question, but hurriedly went on, “‘—found -it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer him -the crown. William’s conduct at first was moderate. But the insolence -of his Normans—’ How are you getting on now, my dear?” it continued, -turning to Alice as it spoke. - -“As wet as ever,” said Alice in a melancholy tone: “it doesn’t seem to -dry me at all.” - -“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move -that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic -remedies—” - -“Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half -those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” And -the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds -tittered audibly. - -“What I was going to say,” said the Dodo in an offended tone, “was, -that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.” - -“What _is_ a Caucus-race?” said Alice; not that she wanted much to -know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that _somebody_ ought to -speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything. - -“Why,” said the Dodo, “the best way to explain it is to do it.” (And, -as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will -tell you how the Dodo managed it.) - -First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact -shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed -along the course, here and there. There was no “One, two, three, and -away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they -liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, -when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry -again, the Dodo suddenly called out “The race is over!” and they all -crowded round it, panting, and asking, “But who has won?” - -This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of -thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its -forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the -pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo -said, “_Everybody_ has won, and all must have prizes.” - -“But who is to give the prizes?” quite a chorus of voices asked. - -“Why, _she_, of course,” said the Dodo, pointing to Alice with one -finger; and the whole party at once crowded round her, calling out in a -confused way, “Prizes! Prizes!” - -Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her -pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had -not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly -one a-piece, all round. - -“But she must have a prize herself, you know,” said the Mouse. - -“Of course,” the Dodo replied very gravely. “What else have you got in -your pocket?” he went on, turning to Alice. - -“Only a thimble,” said Alice sadly. - -“Hand it over here,” said the Dodo. - -Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly -presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant -thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all -cheered. - -Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave -that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything -to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as -she could. - -The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and -confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste -theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back. -However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and -begged the Mouse to tell them something more. - -“You promised to tell me your history, you know,” said Alice, “and why -it is you hate—C and D,” she added in a whisper, half afraid that it -would be offended again. - -“Mine is a long and a sad tale!” said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and -sighing. - -“It _is_ a long tail, certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder -at the Mouse’s tail; “but why do you call it sad?” And she kept on -puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the -tale was something like this:— - - “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both - go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no - denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve - nothing to do.’ Said the mouse to the cur, ‘Such a trial, dear - sir, With no jury or judge, would be wasting our breath.’ - ‘I’ll be judge, I’ll be jury,’ Said cunning old Fury: ‘I’ll - try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.’” - -“You are not attending!” said the Mouse to Alice severely. “What are -you thinking of?” - -“I beg your pardon,” said Alice very humbly: “you had got to the fifth -bend, I think?” - -“I had _not!_” cried the Mouse, sharply and very angrily. - -“A knot!” said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and looking -anxiously about her. “Oh, do let me help to undo it!” - -“I shall do nothing of the sort,” said the Mouse, getting up and -walking away. “You insult me by talking such nonsense!” - -“I didn’t mean it!” pleaded poor Alice. “But you’re so easily offended, -you know!” - -The Mouse only growled in reply. - -“Please come back and finish your story!” Alice called after it; and -the others all joined in chorus, “Yes, please do!” but the Mouse only -shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker. - -“What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was -quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to -her daughter “Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose -_your_ temper!” “Hold your tongue, Ma!” said the young Crab, a little -snappishly. “You’re enough to try the patience of an oyster!” - -“I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!” said Alice aloud, -addressing nobody in particular. “She’d soon fetch it back!” - -“And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?” said the -Lory. - -Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet: -“Dinah’s our cat. And she’s such a capital one for catching mice you -can’t think! And oh, I wish you could see her after the birds! Why, -she’ll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!” - -This speech caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the -birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very -carefully, remarking, “I really must be getting home; the night-air -doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice -to its children, “Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in -bed!” On various pretexts they all moved off, and Alice was soon left -alone. - -“I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” she said to herself in a melancholy -tone. “Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best -cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you -any more!” And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very -lonely and low-spirited. In a little while, however, she again heard a -little pattering of footsteps in the distance, and she looked up -eagerly, half hoping that the Mouse had changed his mind, and was -coming back to finish his story. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. -The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill - - -It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking -anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard -it muttering to itself “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh -my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are -ferrets! Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a -moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid -gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but -they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since -her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the -little door, had vanished completely. - -Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and -called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what _are_ you -doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and -a fan! Quick, now!” And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off -at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the -mistake it had made. - -“He took me for his housemaid,” she said to herself as she ran. “How -surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am! But I’d better take him -his fan and gloves—that is, if I can find them.” As she said this, she -came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass -plate with the name “W. RABBIT,” engraved upon it. She went in without -knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet the -real Mary Ann, and be turned out of the house before she had found the -fan and gloves. - -“How queer it seems,” Alice said to herself, “to be going messages for -a rabbit! I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!” And she -began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: “‘Miss Alice! Come -here directly, and get ready for your walk!’ ‘Coming in a minute, -nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.’ Only I -don’t think,” Alice went on, “that they’d let Dinah stop in the house -if it began ordering people about like that!” - -By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table -in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three -pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the -gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a -little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label -this time with the words “DRINK ME,” but nevertheless she uncorked it -and put it to her lips. “I know _something_ interesting is sure to -happen,” she said to herself, “whenever I eat or drink anything; so -I’ll just see what this bottle does. I do hope it’ll make me grow large -again, for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!” - -It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had -drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, -and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put -down the bottle, saying to herself “That’s quite enough—I hope I shan’t -grow any more—As it is, I can’t get out at the door—I do wish I hadn’t -drunk quite so much!” - -Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing, -and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there -was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with -one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head. -Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out -of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself “Now I -can do no more, whatever happens. What _will_ become of me?” - -Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, -and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there -seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room -again, no wonder she felt unhappy. - -“It was much pleasanter at home,” thought poor Alice, “when one wasn’t -always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and -rabbits. I almost wish I hadn’t gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and -yet—it’s rather curious, you know, this sort of life! I do wonder what -_can_ have happened to me! When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied -that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of -one! There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! And -when I grow up, I’ll write one—but I’m grown up now,” she added in a -sorrowful tone; “at least there’s no room to grow up any more _here_.” - -“But then,” thought Alice, “shall I _never_ get any older than I am -now? That’ll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but -then—always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn’t like _that!_” - -“Oh, you foolish Alice!” she answered herself. “How can you learn -lessons in here? Why, there’s hardly room for _you_, and no room at all -for any lesson-books!” - -And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and -making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes -she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen. - -“Mary Ann! Mary Ann!” said the voice. “Fetch me my gloves this moment!” -Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was -the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the -house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as -large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. - -Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as -the door opened inwards, and Alice’s elbow was pressed hard against it, -that attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say to itself “Then I’ll -go round and get in at the window.” - -“_That_ you won’t!” thought Alice, and, after waiting till she fancied -she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her -hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything, -but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, -from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a -cucumber-frame, or something of the sort. - -Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit’s—“Pat! Pat! Where are you?” And -then a voice she had never heard before, “Sure then I’m here! Digging -for apples, yer honour!” - -“Digging for apples, indeed!” said the Rabbit angrily. “Here! Come and -help me out of _this!_” (Sounds of more broken glass.) - -“Now tell me, Pat, what’s that in the window?” - -“Sure, it’s an arm, yer honour!” (He pronounced it “arrum.”) - -“An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole -window!” - -“Sure, it does, yer honour: but it’s an arm for all that.” - -“Well, it’s got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!” - -There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers -now and then; such as, “Sure, I don’t like it, yer honour, at all, at -all!” “Do as I tell you, you coward!” and at last she spread out her -hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were -_two_ little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. “What a number -of cucumber-frames there must be!” thought Alice. “I wonder what -they’ll do next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they -_could!_ I’m sure _I_ don’t want to stay in here any longer!” - -She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a -rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all -talking together: she made out the words: “Where’s the other -ladder?—Why, I hadn’t to bring but one; Bill’s got the other—Bill! -fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up at this corner—No, tie ’em -together first—they don’t reach half high enough yet—Oh! they’ll do -well enough; don’t be particular—Here, Bill! catch hold of this -rope—Will the roof bear?—Mind that loose slate—Oh, it’s coming down! -Heads below!” (a loud crash)—“Now, who did that?—It was Bill, I -fancy—Who’s to go down the chimney?—Nay, _I_ shan’t! _You_ do -it!—_That_ I won’t, then!—Bill’s to go down—Here, Bill! the master says -you’re to go down the chimney!” - -“Oh! So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?” said Alice to -herself. “Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn’t be in -Bill’s place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but -I _think_ I can kick a little!” - -She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till -she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) -scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, -saying to herself “This is Bill,” she gave one sharp kick, and waited -to see what would happen next. - -The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!” -then the Rabbit’s voice along—“Catch him, you by the hedge!” then -silence, and then another confusion of voices—“Hold up his head—Brandy -now—Don’t choke him—How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? Tell -us all about it!” - -Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought -Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m -a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me -like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!” - -“So you did, old fellow!” said the others. - -“We must burn the house down!” said the Rabbit’s voice; and Alice -called out as loud as she could, “If you do, I’ll set Dinah at you!” - -There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, “I -wonder what they _will_ do next! If they had any sense, they’d take the -roof off.” After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and -Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.” - -“A barrowful of _what?_” thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, -for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the -window, and some of them hit her in the face. “I’ll put a stop to -this,” she said to herself, and shouted out, “You’d better not do that -again!” which produced another dead silence. - -Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into -little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her -head. “If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make -_some_ change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it -must make me smaller, I suppose.” - -So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she -began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get -through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of -little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little Lizard, Bill, -was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it -something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the moment she -appeared; but she ran off as hard as she could, and soon found herself -safe in a thick wood. - -“The first thing I’ve got to do,” said Alice to herself, as she -wandered about in the wood, “is to grow to my right size again; and the -second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that -will be the best plan.” - -It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply -arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea -how to set about it; and while she was peering about anxiously among -the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a -great hurry. - -An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and -feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. “Poor little -thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to -it; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it -might be hungry, in which case it would be very likely to eat her up in -spite of all her coaxing. - -Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and -held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off -all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, -and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, -to keep herself from being run over; and the moment she appeared on the -other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head -over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was -very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every -moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then -the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a very -little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely -all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with -its tongue hanging out of its mouth, and its great eyes half shut. - -This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she -set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, -and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. - -“And yet what a dear little puppy it was!” said Alice, as she leant -against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the -leaves: “I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if—if I’d -only been the right size to do it! Oh dear! I’d nearly forgotten that -I’ve got to grow up again! Let me see—how _is_ it to be managed? I -suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great -question is, what?” - -The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round her at -the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that -looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. -There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as -herself; and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and -behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what -was on the top of it. - -She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the -mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue -caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly -smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of -anything else. - - - - -CHAPTER V. -Advice from a Caterpillar - - -The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in -silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and -addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. - -“Who are _you?_” said the Caterpillar. - -This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, -rather shyly, “I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know -who I _was_ when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been -changed several times since then.” - -“What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar sternly. “Explain -yourself!” - -“I can’t explain _myself_, I’m afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I’m -not myself, you see.” - -“I don’t see,” said the Caterpillar. - -“I’m afraid I can’t put it more clearly,” Alice replied very politely, -“for I can’t understand it myself to begin with; and being so many -different sizes in a day is very confusing.” - -“It isn’t,” said the Caterpillar. - -“Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,” said Alice; “but when you -have to turn into a chrysalis—you will some day, you know—and then -after that into a butterfly, I should think you’ll feel it a little -queer, won’t you?” - -“Not a bit,” said the Caterpillar. - -“Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,” said Alice; “all I know -is, it would feel very queer to _me_.” - -“You!” said the Caterpillar contemptuously. “Who are _you?_” - -Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. -Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s making such _very_ -short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, “I -think, you ought to tell me who _you_ are, first.” - -“Why?” said the Caterpillar. - -Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any -good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a _very_ unpleasant -state of mind, she turned away. - -“Come back!” the Caterpillar called after her. “I’ve something -important to say!” - -This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again. - -“Keep your temper,” said the Caterpillar. - -“Is that all?” said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she -could. - -“No,” said the Caterpillar. - -Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, -and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For -some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded -its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, “So you -think you’re changed, do you?” - -“I’m afraid I am, sir,” said Alice; “I can’t remember things as I -used—and I don’t keep the same size for ten minutes together!” - -“Can’t remember _what_ things?” said the Caterpillar. - -“Well, I’ve tried to say “How doth the little busy bee,” but it all -came different!” Alice replied in a very melancholy voice. - -“Repeat, ‘_You are old, Father William_,’” said the Caterpillar. - -Alice folded her hands, and began:— - -“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, - “And your hair has become very white; -And yet you incessantly stand on your head— - Do you think, at your age, it is right?” - -“In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, - “I feared it might injure the brain; -But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, - Why, I do it again and again.” - -“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before, - And have grown most uncommonly fat; -Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door— - Pray, what is the reason of that?” - -“In my youth,” said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, - “I kept all my limbs very supple -By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box— - Allow me to sell you a couple?” - -“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak - For anything tougher than suet; -Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— - Pray, how did you manage to do it?” - -“In my youth,” said his father, “I took to the law, - And argued each case with my wife; -And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, - Has lasted the rest of my life.” - -“You are old,” said the youth, “one would hardly suppose - That your eye was as steady as ever; -Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose— - What made you so awfully clever?” - -“I have answered three questions, and that is enough,” - Said his father; “don’t give yourself airs! -Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff? - Be off, or I’ll kick you down stairs!” - - -“That is not said right,” said the Caterpillar. - -“Not _quite_ right, I’m afraid,” said Alice, timidly; “some of the -words have got altered.” - -“It is wrong from beginning to end,” said the Caterpillar decidedly, -and there was silence for some minutes. - -The Caterpillar was the first to speak. - -“What size do you want to be?” it asked. - -“Oh, I’m not particular as to size,” Alice hastily replied; “only one -doesn’t like changing so often, you know.” - -“I _don’t_ know,” said the Caterpillar. - -Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life -before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. - -“Are you content now?” said the Caterpillar. - -“Well, I should like to be a _little_ larger, sir, if you wouldn’t -mind,” said Alice: “three inches is such a wretched height to be.” - -“It is a very good height indeed!” said the Caterpillar angrily, -rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). - -“But I’m not used to it!” pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she -thought of herself, “I wish the creatures wouldn’t be so easily -offended!” - -“You’ll get used to it in time,” said the Caterpillar; and it put the -hookah into its mouth and began smoking again. - -This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a -minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and -yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the -mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, -“One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you -grow shorter.” - -“One side of _what?_ The other side of _what?_” thought Alice to -herself. - -“Of the mushroom,” said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it -aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight. - -Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, -trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was -perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at -last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke -off a bit of the edge with each hand. - -“And now which is which?” she said to herself, and nibbled a little of -the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a -violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot! - -She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt -that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she -set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed -so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her -mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the -lefthand bit. - -* * * * * * * - - * * * * * * - -* * * * * * * - - -“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which -changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders -were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was -an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a -sea of green leaves that lay far below her. - -“What _can_ all that green stuff be?” said Alice. “And where _have_ my -shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can’t see you?” -She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, -except a little shaking among the distant green leaves. - -As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, -she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that -her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She -had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was -going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but -the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp -hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her -face, and was beating her violently with its wings. - -“Serpent!” screamed the Pigeon. - -“I’m _not_ a serpent!” said Alice indignantly. “Let me alone!” - -“Serpent, I say again!” repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued -tone, and added with a kind of sob, “I’ve tried every way, and nothing -seems to suit them!” - -“I haven’t the least idea what you’re talking about,” said Alice. - -“I’ve tried the roots of trees, and I’ve tried banks, and I’ve tried -hedges,” the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; “but those -serpents! There’s no pleasing them!” - -Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in -saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished. - -“As if it wasn’t trouble enough hatching the eggs,” said the Pigeon; -“but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I -haven’t had a wink of sleep these three weeks!” - -“I’m very sorry you’ve been annoyed,” said Alice, who was beginning to -see its meaning. - -“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the -Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I -should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down -from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!” - -“But I’m _not_ a serpent, I tell you!” said Alice. “I’m a—I’m a—” - -“Well! _What_ are you?” said the Pigeon. “I can see you’re trying to -invent something!” - -“I—I’m a little girl,” said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered -the number of changes she had gone through that day. - -“A likely story indeed!” said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest -contempt. “I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never -_one_ with such a neck as that! No, no! You’re a serpent; and there’s -no use denying it. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never -tasted an egg!” - -“I _have_ tasted eggs, certainly,” said Alice, who was a very truthful -child; “but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you -know.” - -“I don’t believe it,” said the Pigeon; “but if they do, why then -they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.” - -This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a -minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, “You’re -looking for eggs, I know _that_ well enough; and what does it matter to -me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?” - -“It matters a good deal to _me_,” said Alice hastily; “but I’m not -looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn’t want -_yours_: I don’t like them raw.” - -“Well, be off, then!” said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled -down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well -as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, -and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while -she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, -and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at -the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until -she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height. - -It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it -felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, -and began talking to herself, as usual. “Come, there’s half my plan -done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m -going to be, from one minute to another! However, I’ve got back to my -right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how -_is_ that to be done, I wonder?” As she said this, she came suddenly -upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. -“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them -_this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So she -began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go -near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. -Pig and Pepper - - -For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what -to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the -wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: -otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a -fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with his knuckles. It was opened by -another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a -frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled -all over their heads. She felt very curious to know what it was all -about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen. - -The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, -nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, -saying, in a solemn tone, “For the Duchess. An invitation from the -Queen to play croquet.” The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn -tone, only changing the order of the words a little, “From the Queen. -An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.” - -Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. - -Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood -for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the -Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the -door, staring stupidly up into the sky. - -Alice went timidly up to the door, and knocked. - -“There’s no sort of use in knocking,” said the Footman, “and that for -two reasons. First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you -are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could -possibly hear you.” And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary -noise going on within—a constant howling and sneezing, and every now -and then a great crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to -pieces. - -“Please, then,” said Alice, “how am I to get in?” - -“There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on -without attending to her, “if we had the door between us. For instance, -if you were _inside_, you might knock, and I could let you out, you -know.” He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and -this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. “But perhaps he can’t help it,” -she said to herself; “his eyes are so _very_ nearly at the top of his -head. But at any rate he might answer questions.—How am I to get in?” -she repeated, aloud. - -“I shall sit here,” the Footman remarked, “till tomorrow—” - -At this moment the door of the house opened, and a large plate came -skimming out, straight at the Footman’s head: it just grazed his nose, -and broke to pieces against one of the trees behind him. - -“—or next day, maybe,” the Footman continued in the same tone, exactly -as if nothing had happened. - -“How am I to get in?” asked Alice again, in a louder tone. - -“_Are_ you to get in at all?” said the Footman. “That’s the first -question, you know.” - -It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. “It’s really -dreadful,” she muttered to herself, “the way all the creatures argue. -It’s enough to drive one crazy!” - -The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for repeating his -remark, with variations. “I shall sit here,” he said, “on and off, for -days and days.” - -“But what am _I_ to do?” said Alice. - -“Anything you like,” said the Footman, and began whistling. - -“Oh, there’s no use in talking to him,” said Alice desperately: “he’s -perfectly idiotic!” And she opened the door and went in. - -The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from -one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool -in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, -stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup. - -“There’s certainly too much pepper in that soup!” Alice said to -herself, as well as she could for sneezing. - -There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed -occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling -alternately without a moment’s pause. The only things in the kitchen -that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting -on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear. - -“Please would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, for she was -not quite sure whether it was good manners for her to speak first, “why -your cat grins like that?” - -“It’s a Cheshire cat,” said the Duchess, “and that’s why. Pig!” - -She said the last word with such sudden violence that Alice quite -jumped; but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the -baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:— - -“I didn’t know that Cheshire cats always grinned; in fact, I didn’t -know that cats _could_ grin.” - -“They all can,” said the Duchess; “and most of ’em do.” - -“I don’t know of any that do,” Alice said very politely, feeling quite -pleased to have got into a conversation. - -“You don’t know much,” said the Duchess; “and that’s a fact.” - -Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would -be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she -was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the -fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at -the Duchess and the baby—the fire-irons came first; then followed a -shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes. The Duchess took no notice of -them even when they hit her; and the baby was howling so much already, -that it was quite impossible to say whether the blows hurt it or not. - -“Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down -in an agony of terror. “Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an -unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it -off. - -“If everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse -growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.” - -“Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to -get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. “Just -think of what work it would make with the day and night! You see the -earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis—” - -“Talking of axes,” said the Duchess, “chop off her head!” - -Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take -the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to -be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or -is it twelve? I—” - -“Oh, don’t bother _me_,” said the Duchess; “I never could abide -figures!” And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a -sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at -the end of every line: - -“Speak roughly to your little boy, - And beat him when he sneezes: -He only does it to annoy, - Because he knows it teases.” - - -CHORUS. -(In which the cook and the baby joined): - - -“Wow! wow! wow!” - - -While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing -the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, -that Alice could hardly hear the words:— - -“I speak severely to my boy, - I beat him when he sneezes; -For he can thoroughly enjoy - The pepper when he pleases!” - - -CHORUS. - - -“Wow! wow! wow!” - - -“Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!” the Duchess said to Alice, -flinging the baby at her as she spoke. “I must go and get ready to play -croquet with the Queen,” and she hurried out of the room. The cook -threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her. - -Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped -little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, -“just like a star-fish,” thought Alice. The poor little thing was -snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling -itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for -the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. - -As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to -twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right -ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it -out into the open air. “If I don’t take this child away with me,” -thought Alice, “they’re sure to kill it in a day or two: wouldn’t it be -murder to leave it behind?” She said the last words out loud, and the -little thing grunted in reply (it had left off sneezing by this time). -“Don’t grunt,” said Alice; “that’s not at all a proper way of -expressing yourself.” - -The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face -to see what was the matter with it. There could be no doubt that it had -a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also -its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did -not like the look of the thing at all. “But perhaps it was only -sobbing,” she thought, and looked into its eyes again, to see if there -were any tears. - -No, there were no tears. “If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear,” -said Alice, seriously, “I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind -now!” The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible -to say which), and they went on for some while in silence. - -Alice was just beginning to think to herself, “Now, what am I to do -with this creature when I get it home?” when it grunted again, so -violently, that she looked down into its face in some alarm. This time -there could be _no_ mistake about it: it was neither more nor less than -a pig, and she felt that it would be quite absurd for her to carry it -further. - -So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it -trot away quietly into the wood. “If it had grown up,” she said to -herself, “it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes -rather a handsome pig, I think.” And she began thinking over other -children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying -to herself, “if one only knew the right way to change them—” when she -was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of -a tree a few yards off. - -The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she -thought: still it had _very_ long claws and a great many teeth, so she -felt that it ought to be treated with respect. - -“Cheshire Puss,” she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know -whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little -wider. “Come, it’s pleased so far,” thought Alice, and she went on. -“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” - -“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. - -“I don’t much care where—” said Alice. - -“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat. - -“—so long as I get _somewhere_,” Alice added as an explanation. - -“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long -enough.” - -Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another -question. “What sort of people live about here?” - -“In _that_ direction,” the Cat said, waving its right paw round, “lives -a Hatter: and in _that_ direction,” waving the other paw, “lives a -March Hare. Visit either you like: they’re both mad.” - -“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. - -“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. -You’re mad.” - -“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice. - -“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.” - -Alice didn’t think that proved it at all; however, she went on “And how -do you know that you’re mad?” - -“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?” - -“I suppose so,” said Alice. - -“Well, then,” the Cat went on, “you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, -and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now _I_ growl when I’m pleased, -and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.” - -“_I_ call it purring, not growling,” said Alice. - -“Call it what you like,” said the Cat. “Do you play croquet with the -Queen to-day?” - -“I should like it very much,” said Alice, “but I haven’t been invited -yet.” - -“You’ll see me there,” said the Cat, and vanished. - -Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so used to queer -things happening. While she was looking at the place where it had been, -it suddenly appeared again. - -“By-the-bye, what became of the baby?” said the Cat. “I’d nearly -forgotten to ask.” - -“It turned into a pig,” Alice quietly said, just as if it had come back -in a natural way. - -“I thought it would,” said the Cat, and vanished again. - -Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not -appear, and after a minute or two she walked on in the direction in -which the March Hare was said to live. “I’ve seen hatters before,” she -said to herself; “the March Hare will be much the most interesting, and -perhaps as this is May it won’t be raving mad—at least not so mad as it -was in March.” As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat -again, sitting on a branch of a tree. - -“Did you say pig, or fig?” said the Cat. - -“I said pig,” replied Alice; “and I wish you wouldn’t keep appearing -and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy.” - -“All right,” said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, -beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which -remained some time after the rest of it had gone. - -“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a -grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!” - -She had not gone much farther before she came in sight of the house of -the March Hare: she thought it must be the right house, because the -chimneys were shaped like ears and the roof was thatched with fur. It -was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had -nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself -to about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather -timidly, saying to herself “Suppose it should be raving mad after all! -I almost wish I’d gone to see the Hatter instead!” - - - - -CHAPTER VII. -A Mad Tea-Party - - -There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the -March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting -between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a -cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head. “Very -uncomfortable for the Dormouse,” thought Alice; “only, as it’s asleep, -I suppose it doesn’t mind.” - -The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at -one corner of it: “No room! No room!” they cried out when they saw -Alice coming. “There’s _plenty_ of room!” said Alice indignantly, and -she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table. - -“Have some wine,” the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. - -Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. -“I don’t see any wine,” she remarked. - -“There isn’t any,” said the March Hare. - -“Then it wasn’t very civil of you to offer it,” said Alice angrily. - -“It wasn’t very civil of you to sit down without being invited,” said -the March Hare. - -“I didn’t know it was _your_ table,” said Alice; “it’s laid for a great -many more than three.” - -“Your hair wants cutting,” said the Hatter. He had been looking at -Alice for some time with great curiosity, and this was his first -speech. - -“You should learn not to make personal remarks,” Alice said with some -severity; “it’s very rude.” - -The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he _said_ -was, “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” - -“Come, we shall have some fun now!” thought Alice. “I’m glad they’ve -begun asking riddles.—I believe I can guess that,” she added aloud. - -“Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?” said -the March Hare. - -“Exactly so,” said Alice. - -“Then you should say what you mean,” the March Hare went on. - -“I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least—at least I mean what I -say—that’s the same thing, you know.” - -“Not the same thing a bit!” said the Hatter. “You might just as well -say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!” - -“You might just as well say,” added the March Hare, “that ‘I like what -I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I like’!” - -“You might just as well say,” added the Dormouse, who seemed to be -talking in his sleep, “that ‘I breathe when I sleep’ is the same thing -as ‘I sleep when I breathe’!” - -“It _is_ the same thing with you,” said the Hatter, and here the -conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while -Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and -writing-desks, which wasn’t much. - -The Hatter was the first to break the silence. “What day of the month -is it?” he said, turning to Alice: he had taken his watch out of his -pocket, and was looking at it uneasily, shaking it every now and then, -and holding it to his ear. - -Alice considered a little, and then said “The fourth.” - -“Two days wrong!” sighed the Hatter. “I told you butter wouldn’t suit -the works!” he added looking angrily at the March Hare. - -“It was the _best_ butter,” the March Hare meekly replied. - -“Yes, but some crumbs must have got in as well,” the Hatter grumbled: -“you shouldn’t have put it in with the bread-knife.” - -The March Hare took the watch and looked at it gloomily: then he dipped -it into his cup of tea, and looked at it again: but he could think of -nothing better to say than his first remark, “It was the _best_ butter, -you know.” - -Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. “What a -funny watch!” she remarked. “It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t -tell what o’clock it is!” - -“Why should it?” muttered the Hatter. “Does _your_ watch tell you what -year it is?” - -“Of course not,” Alice replied very readily: “but that’s because it -stays the same year for such a long time together.” - -“Which is just the case with _mine_,” said the Hatter. - -Alice felt dreadfully puzzled, The Hatter’s remark seemed to have no -sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. “I don’t quite -understand you,” she said, as politely as she could. - -“The Dormouse is asleep again,” said the Hatter, and he poured a little -hot tea upon its nose. - -The Dormouse shook its head impatiently, and said, without opening its -eyes, “Of course, of course; just what I was going to remark myself.” - -“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice -again. - -“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “what’s the answer?” - -“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. - -“Nor I,” said the March Hare. - -Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the -time,” she said, “than waste it in asking riddles that have no -answers.” - -“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk -about wasting _it_. It’s _him_.” - -“I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice. - -“Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said, tossing his head -contemptuously. “I dare say you never even spoke to Time!” - -“Perhaps not,” Alice cautiously replied: “but I know I have to beat -time when I learn music.” - -“Ah! that accounts for it,” said the Hatter. “He won’t stand beating. -Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, he’d do almost anything -you liked with the clock. For instance, suppose it were nine o’clock in -the morning, just time to begin lessons: you’d only have to whisper a -hint to Time, and round goes the clock in a twinkling! Half-past one, -time for dinner!” - -(“I only wish it was,” the March Hare said to itself in a whisper.) - -“That would be grand, certainly,” said Alice thoughtfully: “but then—I -shouldn’t be hungry for it, you know.” - -“Not at first, perhaps,” said the Hatter: “but you could keep it to -half-past one as long as you liked.” - -“Is that the way _you_ manage?” Alice asked. - -The Hatter shook his head mournfully. “Not I!” he replied. “We -quarrelled last March—just before _he_ went mad, you know—” (pointing -with his tea spoon at the March Hare,) “—it was at the great concert -given by the Queen of Hearts, and I had to sing - -‘Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! -How I wonder what you’re at!’ - - -You know the song, perhaps?” - -“I’ve heard something like it,” said Alice. - -“It goes on, you know,” the Hatter continued, “in this way:— - -‘Up above the world you fly, -Like a tea-tray in the sky. - Twinkle, twinkle—’” - - -Here the Dormouse shook itself, and began singing in its sleep -“_Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle_—” and went on so long that they -had to pinch it to make it stop. - -“Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,” said the Hatter, “when the -Queen jumped up and bawled out, ‘He’s murdering the time! Off with his -head!’” - -“How dreadfully savage!” exclaimed Alice. - -“And ever since that,” the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, “he won’t -do a thing I ask! It’s always six o’clock now.” - -A bright idea came into Alice’s head. “Is that the reason so many -tea-things are put out here?” she asked. - -“Yes, that’s it,” said the Hatter with a sigh: “it’s always tea-time, -and we’ve no time to wash the things between whiles.” - -“Then you keep moving round, I suppose?” said Alice. - -“Exactly so,” said the Hatter: “as the things get used up.” - -“But what happens when you come to the beginning again?” Alice ventured -to ask. - -“Suppose we change the subject,” the March Hare interrupted, yawning. -“I’m getting tired of this. I vote the young lady tells us a story.” - -“I’m afraid I don’t know one,” said Alice, rather alarmed at the -proposal. - -“Then the Dormouse shall!” they both cried. “Wake up, Dormouse!” And -they pinched it on both sides at once. - -The Dormouse slowly opened his eyes. “I wasn’t asleep,” he said in a -hoarse, feeble voice: “I heard every word you fellows were saying.” - -“Tell us a story!” said the March Hare. - -“Yes, please do!” pleaded Alice. - -“And be quick about it,” added the Hatter, “or you’ll be asleep again -before it’s done.” - -“Once upon a time there were three little sisters,” the Dormouse began -in a great hurry; “and their names were Elsie, Lacie, and Tillie; and -they lived at the bottom of a well—” - -“What did they live on?” said Alice, who always took a great interest -in questions of eating and drinking. - -“They lived on treacle,” said the Dormouse, after thinking a minute or -two. - -“They couldn’t have done that, you know,” Alice gently remarked; -“they’d have been ill.” - -“So they were,” said the Dormouse; “_very_ ill.” - -Alice tried to fancy to herself what such an extraordinary way of -living would be like, but it puzzled her too much, so she went on: “But -why did they live at the bottom of a well?” - -“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. - -“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t -take more.” - -“You mean you can’t take _less_,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to -take _more_ than nothing.” - -“Nobody asked _your_ opinion,” said Alice. - -“Who’s making personal remarks now?” the Hatter asked triumphantly. - -Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to -some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and -repeated her question. “Why did they live at the bottom of a well?” - -The Dormouse again took a minute or two to think about it, and then -said, “It was a treacle-well.” - -“There’s no such thing!” Alice was beginning very angrily, but the -Hatter and the March Hare went “Sh! sh!” and the Dormouse sulkily -remarked, “If you can’t be civil, you’d better finish the story for -yourself.” - -“No, please go on!” Alice said very humbly; “I won’t interrupt again. I -dare say there may be _one_.” - -“One, indeed!” said the Dormouse indignantly. However, he consented to -go on. “And so these three little sisters—they were learning to draw, -you know—” - -“What did they draw?” said Alice, quite forgetting her promise. - -“Treacle,” said the Dormouse, without considering at all this time. - -“I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place -on.” - -He moved on as he spoke, and the Dormouse followed him: the March Hare -moved into the Dormouse’s place, and Alice rather unwillingly took the -place of the March Hare. The Hatter was the only one who got any -advantage from the change: and Alice was a good deal worse off than -before, as the March Hare had just upset the milk-jug into his plate. - -Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very -cautiously: “But I don’t understand. Where did they draw the treacle -from?” - -“You can draw water out of a water-well,” said the Hatter; “so I should -think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well—eh, stupid?” - -“But they were _in_ the well,” Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing -to notice this last remark. - -“Of course they were,” said the Dormouse; “—well in.” - -This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for -some time without interrupting it. - -“They were learning to draw,” the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing -its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; “and they drew all manner of -things—everything that begins with an M—” - -“Why with an M?” said Alice. - -“Why not?” said the March Hare. - -Alice was silent. - -The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a -doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a -little shriek, and went on: “—that begins with an M, such as -mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness—you know you say -things are “much of a muchness”—did you ever see such a thing as a -drawing of a muchness?” - -“Really, now you ask me,” said Alice, very much confused, “I don’t -think—” - -“Then you shouldn’t talk,” said the Hatter. - -This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in -great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and -neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she -looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: -the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into -the teapot. - -“At any rate I’ll never go _there_ again!” said Alice as she picked her -way through the wood. “It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in -all my life!” - -Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door -leading right into it. “That’s very curious!” she thought. “But -everything’s curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.” And -in she went. - -Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little -glass table. “Now, I’ll manage better this time,” she said to herself, -and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that -led into the garden. Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom -(she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot -high: then she walked down the little passage: and _then_—she found -herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds -and the cool fountains. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. -The Queen’s Croquet-Ground - - -A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses -growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it, busily -painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she -went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up to them she heard -one of them say, “Look out now, Five! Don’t go splashing paint over me -like that!” - -“I couldn’t help it,” said Five, in a sulky tone; “Seven jogged my -elbow.” - -On which Seven looked up and said, “That’s right, Five! Always lay the -blame on others!” - -“_You’d_ better not talk!” said Five. “I heard the Queen say only -yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!” - -“What for?” said the one who had spoken first. - -“That’s none of _your_ business, Two!” said Seven. - -“Yes, it _is_ his business!” said Five, “and I’ll tell him—it was for -bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.” - -Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun “Well, of all the unjust -things—” when his eye chanced to fall upon Alice, as she stood watching -them, and he checked himself suddenly: the others looked round also, -and all of them bowed low. - -“Would you tell me,” said Alice, a little timidly, “why you are -painting those roses?” - -Five and Seven said nothing, but looked at Two. Two began in a low -voice, “Why the fact is, you see, Miss, this here ought to have been a -_red_ rose-tree, and we put a white one in by mistake; and if the Queen -was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off, you know. So -you see, Miss, we’re doing our best, afore she comes, to—” At this -moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called -out “The Queen! The Queen!” and the three gardeners instantly threw -themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many footsteps, -and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen. - -First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped like the -three gardeners, oblong and flat, with their hands and feet at the -corners: next the ten courtiers; these were ornamented all over with -diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers did. After these came -the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came -jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples: they were all -ornamented with hearts. Next came the guests, mostly Kings and Queens, -and among them Alice recognised the White Rabbit: it was talking in a -hurried nervous manner, smiling at everything that was said, and went -by without noticing her. Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying -the King’s crown on a crimson velvet cushion; and, last of all this -grand procession, came THE KING AND QUEEN OF HEARTS. - -Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face -like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard -of such a rule at processions; “and besides, what would be the use of a -procession,” thought she, “if people had all to lie down upon their -faces, so that they couldn’t see it?” So she stood still where she was, -and waited. - -When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and looked -at her, and the Queen said severely “Who is this?” She said it to the -Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in reply. - -“Idiot!” said the Queen, tossing her head impatiently; and, turning to -Alice, she went on, “What’s your name, child?” - -“My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,” said Alice very politely; -but she added, to herself, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after -all. I needn’t be afraid of them!” - -“And who are _these?_” said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners -who were lying round the rose-tree; for, you see, as they were lying on -their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of -the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, -or courtiers, or three of her own children. - -“How should _I_ know?” said Alice, surprised at her own courage. “It’s -no business of _mine_.” - -The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a -moment like a wild beast, screamed “Off with her head! Off—” - -“Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was -silent. - -The King laid his hand upon her arm, and timidly said “Consider, my -dear: she is only a child!” - -The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave “Turn -them over!” - -The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot. - -“Get up!” said the Queen, in a shrill, loud voice, and the three -gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the Queen, -the royal children, and everybody else. - -“Leave off that!” screamed the Queen. “You make me giddy.” And then, -turning to the rose-tree, she went on, “What _have_ you been doing -here?” - -“May it please your Majesty,” said Two, in a very humble tone, going -down on one knee as he spoke, “we were trying—” - -“_I_ see!” said the Queen, who had meanwhile been examining the roses. -“Off with their heads!” and the procession moved on, three of the -soldiers remaining behind to execute the unfortunate gardeners, who ran -to Alice for protection. - -“You shan’t be beheaded!” said Alice, and she put them into a large -flower-pot that stood near. The three soldiers wandered about for a -minute or two, looking for them, and then quietly marched off after the -others. - -“Are their heads off?” shouted the Queen. - -“Their heads are gone, if it please your Majesty!” the soldiers shouted -in reply. - -“That’s right!” shouted the Queen. “Can you play croquet?” - -The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question was -evidently meant for her. - -“Yes!” shouted Alice. - -“Come on, then!” roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession, -wondering very much what would happen next. - -“It’s—it’s a very fine day!” said a timid voice at her side. She was -walking by the White Rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her face. - -“Very,” said Alice: “—where’s the Duchess?” - -“Hush! Hush!” said the Rabbit in a low, hurried tone. He looked -anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon -tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered “She’s under -sentence of execution.” - -“What for?” said Alice. - -“Did you say ‘What a pity!’?” the Rabbit asked. - -“No, I didn’t,” said Alice: “I don’t think it’s at all a pity. I said -‘What for?’” - -“She boxed the Queen’s ears—” the Rabbit began. Alice gave a little -scream of laughter. “Oh, hush!” the Rabbit whispered in a frightened -tone. “The Queen will hear you! You see, she came rather late, and the -Queen said—” - -“Get to your places!” shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and -people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each -other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game -began. Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground -in her life; it was all ridges and furrows; the balls were live -hedgehogs, the mallets live flamingoes, and the soldiers had to double -themselves up and to stand on their hands and feet, to make the arches. - -The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: -she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, -under her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she -had got its neck nicely straightened out, and was going to give the -hedgehog a blow with its head, it _would_ twist itself round and look -up in her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help -bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and was -going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog -had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: besides all -this, there was generally a ridge or furrow in the way wherever she -wanted to send the hedgehog to, and, as the doubled-up soldiers were -always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground, Alice -soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed. - -The players all played at once without waiting for turns, quarrelling -all the while, and fighting for the hedgehogs; and in a very short time -the Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and -shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with her head!” about once in a -minute. - -Alice began to feel very uneasy: to be sure, she had not as yet had any -dispute with the Queen, but she knew that it might happen any minute, -“and then,” thought she, “what would become of me? They’re dreadfully -fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any -one left alive!” - -She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she -could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious -appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after -watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said -to herself “It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk -to.” - -“How are you getting on?” said the Cat, as soon as there was mouth -enough for it to speak with. - -Alice waited till the eyes appeared, and then nodded. “It’s no use -speaking to it,” she thought, “till its ears have come, or at least one -of them.” In another minute the whole head appeared, and then Alice put -down her flamingo, and began an account of the game, feeling very glad -she had someone to listen to her. The Cat seemed to think that there -was enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared. - -“I don’t think they play at all fairly,” Alice began, in rather a -complaining tone, “and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can’t hear -oneself speak—and they don’t seem to have any rules in particular; at -least, if there are, nobody attends to them—and you’ve no idea how -confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there’s the -arch I’ve got to go through next walking about at the other end of the -ground—and I should have croqueted the Queen’s hedgehog just now, only -it ran away when it saw mine coming!” - -“How do you like the Queen?” said the Cat in a low voice. - -“Not at all,” said Alice: “she’s so extremely—” Just then she noticed -that the Queen was close behind her, listening: so she went on, -“—likely to win, that it’s hardly worth while finishing the game.” - -The Queen smiled and passed on. - -“Who _are_ you talking to?” said the King, going up to Alice, and -looking at the Cat’s head with great curiosity. - -“It’s a friend of mine—a Cheshire Cat,” said Alice: “allow me to -introduce it.” - -“I don’t like the look of it at all,” said the King: “however, it may -kiss my hand if it likes.” - -“I’d rather not,” the Cat remarked. - -“Don’t be impertinent,” said the King, “and don’t look at me like -that!” He got behind Alice as he spoke. - -“A cat may look at a king,” said Alice. “I’ve read that in some book, -but I don’t remember where.” - -“Well, it must be removed,” said the King very decidedly, and he called -the Queen, who was passing at the moment, “My dear! I wish you would -have this cat removed!” - -The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or -small. “Off with his head!” she said, without even looking round. - -“I’ll fetch the executioner myself,” said the King eagerly, and he -hurried off. - -Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going -on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with -passion. She had already heard her sentence three of the players to be -executed for having missed their turns, and she did not like the look -of things at all, as the game was in such confusion that she never knew -whether it was her turn or not. So she went in search of her hedgehog. - -The hedgehog was engaged in a fight with another hedgehog, which seemed -to Alice an excellent opportunity for croqueting one of them with the -other: the only difficulty was, that her flamingo was gone across to -the other side of the garden, where Alice could see it trying in a -helpless sort of way to fly up into a tree. - -By the time she had caught the flamingo and brought it back, the fight -was over, and both the hedgehogs were out of sight: “but it doesn’t -matter much,” thought Alice, “as all the arches are gone from this side -of the ground.” So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not -escape again, and went back for a little more conversation with her -friend. - -When she got back to the Cheshire Cat, she was surprised to find quite -a large crowd collected round it: there was a dispute going on between -the executioner, the King, and the Queen, who were all talking at once, -while all the rest were quite silent, and looked very uncomfortable. - -The moment Alice appeared, she was appealed to by all three to settle -the question, and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they -all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly -what they said. - -The executioner’s argument was, that you couldn’t cut off a head unless -there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a -thing before, and he wasn’t going to begin at _his_ time of life. - -The King’s argument was, that anything that had a head could be -beheaded, and that you weren’t to talk nonsense. - -The Queen’s argument was, that if something wasn’t done about it in -less than no time she’d have everybody executed, all round. (It was -this last remark that had made the whole party look so grave and -anxious.) - -Alice could think of nothing else to say but “It belongs to the -Duchess: you’d better ask _her_ about it.” - -“She’s in prison,” the Queen said to the executioner: “fetch her here.” -And the executioner went off like an arrow. - -The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the -time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; so -the King and the executioner ran wildly up and down looking for it, -while the rest of the party went back to the game. - - - - -CHAPTER IX. -The Mock Turtle’s Story - - -“You can’t think how glad I am to see you again, you dear old thing!” -said the Duchess, as she tucked her arm affectionately into Alice’s, -and they walked off together. - -Alice was very glad to find her in such a pleasant temper, and thought -to herself that perhaps it was only the pepper that had made her so -savage when they met in the kitchen. - -“When _I’m_ a Duchess,” she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful -tone though), “I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen _at all_. Soup -does very well without—Maybe it’s always pepper that makes people -hot-tempered,” she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new -kind of rule, “and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes -them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children -sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew _that_: then they wouldn’t be -so stingy about it, you know—” - -She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little -startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. “You’re thinking -about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can’t -tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in -a bit.” - -“Perhaps it hasn’t one,” Alice ventured to remark. - -“Tut, tut, child!” said the Duchess. “Everything’s got a moral, if only -you can find it.” And she squeezed herself up closer to Alice’s side as -she spoke. - -Alice did not much like keeping so close to her: first, because the -Duchess was _very_ ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the -right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an -uncomfortably sharp chin. However, she did not like to be rude, so she -bore it as well as she could. - -“The game’s going on rather better now,” she said, by way of keeping up -the conversation a little. - -“’Tis so,” said the Duchess: “and the moral of that is—‘Oh, ’tis love, -’tis love, that makes the world go round!’” - -“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding -their own business!” - -“Ah, well! It means much the same thing,” said the Duchess, digging her -sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, “and the moral of -_that_ is—‘Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of -themselves.’” - -“How fond she is of finding morals in things!” Alice thought to -herself. - -“I dare say you’re wondering why I don’t put my arm round your waist,” -the Duchess said after a pause: “the reason is, that I’m doubtful about -the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?” - -“He might bite,” Alice cautiously replied, not feeling at all anxious -to have the experiment tried. - -“Very true,” said the Duchess: “flamingoes and mustard both bite. And -the moral of that is—‘Birds of a feather flock together.’” - -“Only mustard isn’t a bird,” Alice remarked. - -“Right, as usual,” said the Duchess: “what a clear way you have of -putting things!” - -“It’s a mineral, I _think_,” said Alice. - -“Of course it is,” said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to -everything that Alice said; “there’s a large mustard-mine near here. -And the moral of that is—‘The more there is of mine, the less there is -of yours.’” - -“Oh, I know!” exclaimed Alice, who had not attended to this last -remark, “it’s a vegetable. It doesn’t look like one, but it is.” - -“I quite agree with you,” said the Duchess; “and the moral of that -is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or if you’d like it put more -simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might -appear to others that what you were or might have been was not -otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be -otherwise.’” - -“I think I should understand that better,” Alice said very politely, -“if I had it written down: but I can’t quite follow it as you say it.” - -“That’s nothing to what I could say if I chose,” the Duchess replied, -in a pleased tone. - -“Pray don’t trouble yourself to say it any longer than that,” said -Alice. - -“Oh, don’t talk about trouble!” said the Duchess. “I make you a present -of everything I’ve said as yet.” - -“A cheap sort of present!” thought Alice. “I’m glad they don’t give -birthday presents like that!” But she did not venture to say it out -loud. - -“Thinking again?” the Duchess asked, with another dig of her sharp -little chin. - -“I’ve a right to think,” said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to -feel a little worried. - -“Just about as much right,” said the Duchess, “as pigs have to fly; and -the m—” - -But here, to Alice’s great surprise, the Duchess’s voice died away, -even in the middle of her favourite word ‘moral,’ and the arm that was -linked into hers began to tremble. Alice looked up, and there stood the -Queen in front of them, with her arms folded, frowning like a -thunderstorm. - -“A fine day, your Majesty!” the Duchess began in a low, weak voice. - -“Now, I give you fair warning,” shouted the Queen, stamping on the -ground as she spoke; “either you or your head must be off, and that in -about half no time! Take your choice!” - -The Duchess took her choice, and was gone in a moment. - -“Let’s go on with the game,” the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too -much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the -croquet-ground. - -The other guests had taken advantage of the Queen’s absence, and were -resting in the shade: however, the moment they saw her, they hurried -back to the game, the Queen merely remarking that a moment’s delay -would cost them their lives. - -All the time they were playing the Queen never left off quarrelling -with the other players, and shouting “Off with his head!” or “Off with -her head!” Those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the -soldiers, who of course had to leave off being arches to do this, so -that by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left, and -all the players, except the King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody -and under sentence of execution. - -Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, “Have -you seen the Mock Turtle yet?” - -“No,” said Alice. “I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.” - -“It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,” said the Queen. - -“I never saw one, or heard of one,” said Alice. - -“Come on, then,” said the Queen, “and he shall tell you his history.” - -As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low voice, -to the company generally, “You are all pardoned.” “Come, _that’s_ a -good thing!” she said to herself, for she had felt quite unhappy at the -number of executions the Queen had ordered. - -They very soon came upon a Gryphon, lying fast asleep in the sun. (If -you don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) “Up, lazy -thing!” said the Queen, “and take this young lady to see the Mock -Turtle, and to hear his history. I must go back and see after some -executions I have ordered;” and she walked off, leaving Alice alone -with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, -but on the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it -as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited. - -The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till -she was out of sight: then it chuckled. “What fun!” said the Gryphon, -half to itself, half to Alice. - -“What _is_ the fun?” said Alice. - -“Why, _she_,” said the Gryphon. “It’s all her fancy, that: they never -executes nobody, you know. Come on!” - -“Everybody says ‘come on!’ here,” thought Alice, as she went slowly -after it: “I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!” - -They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, -sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came -nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. She -pitied him deeply. “What is his sorrow?” she asked the Gryphon, and the -Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, “It’s all -his fancy, that: he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on!” - -So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large eyes -full of tears, but said nothing. - -“This here young lady,” said the Gryphon, “she wants for to know your -history, she do.” - -“I’ll tell it her,” said the Mock Turtle in a deep, hollow tone: “sit -down, both of you, and don’t speak a word till I’ve finished.” - -So they sat down, and nobody spoke for some minutes. Alice thought to -herself, “I don’t see how he can _ever_ finish, if he doesn’t begin.” -But she waited patiently. - -“Once,” said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, “I was a real -Turtle.” - -These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an -occasional exclamation of “Hjckrrh!” from the Gryphon, and the constant -heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly getting up and -saying, “Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,” but she could not -help thinking there _must_ be more to come, so she sat still and said -nothing. - -“When we were little,” the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, -though still sobbing a little now and then, “we went to school in the -sea. The master was an old Turtle—we used to call him Tortoise—” - -“Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn’t one?” Alice asked. - -“We called him Tortoise because he taught us,” said the Mock Turtle -angrily: “really you are very dull!” - -“You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple -question,” added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked -at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth. At last the -Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, “Drive on, old fellow! Don’t be all -day about it!” and he went on in these words: - -“Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn’t believe it—” - -“I never said I didn’t!” interrupted Alice. - -“You did,” said the Mock Turtle. - -“Hold your tongue!” added the Gryphon, before Alice could speak again. -The Mock Turtle went on. - -“We had the best of educations—in fact, we went to school every day—” - -“_I’ve_ been to a day-school, too,” said Alice; “you needn’t be so -proud as all that.” - -“With extras?” asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously. - -“Yes,” said Alice, “we learned French and music.” - -“And washing?” said the Mock Turtle. - -“Certainly not!” said Alice indignantly. - -“Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,” said the Mock Turtle in a -tone of great relief. “Now at _ours_ they had at the end of the bill, -‘French, music, _and washing_—extra.’” - -“You couldn’t have wanted it much,” said Alice; “living at the bottom -of the sea.” - -“I couldn’t afford to learn it.” said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. “I -only took the regular course.” - -“What was that?” inquired Alice. - -“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle -replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic—Ambition, -Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.” - -“I never heard of ‘Uglification,’” Alice ventured to say. “What is it?” - -The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. “What! Never heard of -uglifying!” it exclaimed. “You know what to beautify is, I suppose?” - -“Yes,” said Alice doubtfully: “it means—to—make—anything—prettier.” - -“Well, then,” the Gryphon went on, “if you don’t know what to uglify -is, you _are_ a simpleton.” - -Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so -she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said “What else had you to learn?” - -“Well, there was Mystery,” the Mock Turtle replied, counting off the -subjects on his flappers, “—Mystery, ancient and modern, with -Seaography: then Drawling—the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, -that used to come once a week: _he_ taught us Drawling, Stretching, and -Fainting in Coils.” - -“What was _that_ like?” said Alice. - -“Well, I can’t show it you myself,” the Mock Turtle said: “I’m too -stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.” - -“Hadn’t time,” said the Gryphon: “I went to the Classics master, -though. He was an old crab, _he_ was.” - -“I never went to him,” the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: “he taught -Laughing and Grief, they used to say.” - -“So he did, so he did,” said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both -creatures hid their faces in their paws. - -“And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry -to change the subject. - -“Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so -on.” - -“What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice. - -“That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: -“because they lessen from day to day.” - -This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little -before she made her next remark. “Then the eleventh day must have been -a holiday?” - -“Of course it was,” said the Mock Turtle. - -“And how did you manage on the twelfth?” Alice went on eagerly. - -“That’s enough about lessons,” the Gryphon interrupted in a very -decided tone: “tell her something about the games now.” - - - - -CHAPTER X. -The Lobster Quadrille - - -The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and drew the back of one flapper across -his eyes. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or -two sobs choked his voice. “Same as if he had a bone in his throat,” -said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in -the back. At last the Mock Turtle recovered his voice, and, with tears -running down his cheeks, he went on again:— - -“You may not have lived much under the sea—” (“I haven’t,” said -Alice)—“and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster—” -(Alice began to say “I once tasted—” but checked herself hastily, and -said “No, never”) “—so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a -Lobster Quadrille is!” - -“No, indeed,” said Alice. “What sort of a dance is it?” - -“Why,” said the Gryphon, “you first form into a line along the -sea-shore—” - -“Two lines!” cried the Mock Turtle. “Seals, turtles, salmon, and so on; -then, when you’ve cleared all the jelly-fish out of the way—” - -“_That_ generally takes some time,” interrupted the Gryphon. - -“—you advance twice—” - -“Each with a lobster as a partner!” cried the Gryphon. - -“Of course,” the Mock Turtle said: “advance twice, set to partners—” - -“—change lobsters, and retire in same order,” continued the Gryphon. - -“Then, you know,” the Mock Turtle went on, “you throw the—” - -“The lobsters!” shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air. - -“—as far out to sea as you can—” - -“Swim after them!” screamed the Gryphon. - -“Turn a somersault in the sea!” cried the Mock Turtle, capering wildly -about. - -“Change lobsters again!” yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice. - -“Back to land again, and that’s all the first figure,” said the Mock -Turtle, suddenly dropping his voice; and the two creatures, who had -been jumping about like mad things all this time, sat down again very -sadly and quietly, and looked at Alice. - -“It must be a very pretty dance,” said Alice timidly. - -“Would you like to see a little of it?” said the Mock Turtle. - -“Very much indeed,” said Alice. - -“Come, let’s try the first figure!” said the Mock Turtle to the -Gryphon. “We can do without lobsters, you know. Which shall sing?” - -“Oh, _you_ sing,” said the Gryphon. “I’ve forgotten the words.” - -So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now and -then treading on her toes when they passed too close, and waving their -forepaws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle sang this, very slowly -and sadly:— - -“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail. -“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. -See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! -They are waiting on the shingle—will you come and join the dance? -Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? -Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance? - -“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be -When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!” -But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance— -Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. -Would not, could not, would not, could not, would not join the dance. -Would not, could not, would not, could not, could not join the dance. - -“What matters it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied. -“There is another shore, you know, upon the other side. -The further off from England the nearer is to France— -Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. -Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance? -Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, won’t you join the dance?” - - -“Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,” said Alice, -feeling very glad that it was over at last: “and I do so like that -curious song about the whiting!” - -“Oh, as to the whiting,” said the Mock Turtle, “they—you’ve seen them, -of course?” - -“Yes,” said Alice, “I’ve often seen them at dinn—” she checked herself -hastily. - -“I don’t know where Dinn may be,” said the Mock Turtle, “but if you’ve -seen them so often, of course you know what they’re like.” - -“I believe so,” Alice replied thoughtfully. “They have their tails in -their mouths—and they’re all over crumbs.” - -“You’re wrong about the crumbs,” said the Mock Turtle: “crumbs would -all wash off in the sea. But they _have_ their tails in their mouths; -and the reason is—” here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his -eyes.—“Tell her about the reason and all that,” he said to the Gryphon. - -“The reason is,” said the Gryphon, “that they _would_ go with the -lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So they had to -fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in their mouths. So they -couldn’t get them out again. That’s all.” - -“Thank you,” said Alice, “it’s very interesting. I never knew so much -about a whiting before.” - -“I can tell you more than that, if you like,” said the Gryphon. “Do you -know why it’s called a whiting?” - -“I never thought about it,” said Alice. “Why?” - -“_It does the boots and shoes_,” the Gryphon replied very solemnly. - -Alice was thoroughly puzzled. “Does the boots and shoes!” she repeated -in a wondering tone. - -“Why, what are _your_ shoes done with?” said the Gryphon. “I mean, what -makes them so shiny?” - -Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she gave her -answer. “They’re done with blacking, I believe.” - -“Boots and shoes under the sea,” the Gryphon went on in a deep voice, -“are done with a whiting. Now you know.” - -“And what are they made of?” Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity. - -“Soles and eels, of course,” the Gryphon replied rather impatiently: -“any shrimp could have told you that.” - -“If I’d been the whiting,” said Alice, whose thoughts were still -running on the song, “I’d have said to the porpoise, ‘Keep back, -please: we don’t want _you_ with us!’” - -“They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no -wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” - -“Wouldn’t it really?” said Alice in a tone of great surprise. - -“Of course not,” said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to _me_, -and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise?’” - -“Don’t you mean ‘purpose’?” said Alice. - -“I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And -the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of _your_ adventures.” - -“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said -Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, -because I was a different person then.” - -“Explain all that,” said the Mock Turtle. - -“No, no! The adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: -“explanations take such a dreadful time.” - -So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first -saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it just at first, -the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened -their eyes and mouths so _very_ wide, but she gained courage as she -went on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the part -about her repeating “_You are old, Father William_,” to the -Caterpillar, and the words all coming different, and then the Mock -Turtle drew a long breath, and said “That’s very curious.” - -“It’s all about as curious as it can be,” said the Gryphon. - -“It all came different!” the Mock Turtle repeated thoughtfully. “I -should like to hear her try and repeat something now. Tell her to -begin.” He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of -authority over Alice. - -“Stand up and repeat ‘’_Tis the voice of the sluggard_,’” said the -Gryphon. - -“How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!” -thought Alice; “I might as well be at school at once.” However, she got -up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster -Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came -very queer indeed:— - -“’Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, -“You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.” -As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose -Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.” - -[later editions continued as follows -When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, -And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, -But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, -His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] - - -“That’s different from what _I_ used to say when I was a child,” said -the Gryphon. - -“Well, I never heard it before,” said the Mock Turtle; “but it sounds -uncommon nonsense.” - -Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her hands, -wondering if anything would _ever_ happen in a natural way again. - -“I should like to have it explained,” said the Mock Turtle. - -“She can’t explain it,” said the Gryphon hastily. “Go on with the next -verse.” - -“But about his toes?” the Mock Turtle persisted. “How _could_ he turn -them out with his nose, you know?” - -“It’s the first position in dancing.” Alice said; but was dreadfully -puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. - -“Go on with the next verse,” the Gryphon repeated impatiently: “it -begins ‘_I passed by his garden_.’” - -Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come -wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:— - -“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, -How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie—” - -[later editions continued as follows -The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, -While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat. -When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, -Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: -While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, -And concluded the banquet—] - - -“What _is_ the use of repeating all that stuff,” the Mock Turtle -interrupted, “if you don’t explain it as you go on? It’s by far the -most confusing thing _I_ ever heard!” - -“Yes, I think you’d better leave off,” said the Gryphon: and Alice was -only too glad to do so. - -“Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?” the Gryphon -went on. “Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you a song?” - -“Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,” Alice -replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather offended tone, -“Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her ‘_Turtle Soup_,’ will you, old -fellow?” - -The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked -with sobs, to sing this:— - -“Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, -Waiting in a hot tureen! -Who for such dainties would not stoop? -Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! -Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! - Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! - Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! -Soo—oop of the e—e—evening, - Beautiful, beautiful Soup! - -“Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, -Game, or any other dish? -Who would not give all else for two p -ennyworth only of beautiful Soup? -Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? - Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! - Beau—ootiful Soo—oop! -Soo—oop of the e—e—evening, - Beautiful, beauti—FUL SOUP!” - - -“Chorus again!” cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun -to repeat it, when a cry of “The trial’s beginning!” was heard in the -distance. - -“Come on!” cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, it hurried -off, without waiting for the end of the song. - -“What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only -answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly -came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:— - -“Soo—oop of the e—e—evening, - Beautiful, beautiful Soup!” - - - - -CHAPTER XI. -Who Stole the Tarts? - - -The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they -arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them—all sorts of little -birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave was -standing before them, in chains, with a soldier on each side to guard -him; and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one -hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. In the very middle of the -court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so -good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d -get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!” -But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at -everything about her, to pass away the time. - -Alice had never been in a court of justice before, but she had read -about them in books, and she was quite pleased to find that she knew -the name of nearly everything there. “That’s the judge,” she said to -herself, “because of his great wig.” - -The judge, by the way, was the King; and as he wore his crown over the -wig, (look at the frontispiece if you want to see how he did it,) he -did not look at all comfortable, and it was certainly not becoming. - -“And that’s the jury-box,” thought Alice, “and those twelve creatures,” -(she was obliged to say “creatures,” you see, because some of them were -animals, and some were birds,) “I suppose they are the jurors.” She -said this last word two or three times over to herself, being rather -proud of it: for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little -girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. However, “jury-men” -would have done just as well. - -The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates. “What are -they doing?” Alice whispered to the Gryphon. “They can’t have anything -to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.” - -“They’re putting down their names,” the Gryphon whispered in reply, -“for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.” - -“Stupid things!” Alice began in a loud, indignant voice, but she -stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit cried out, “Silence in the -court!” and the King put on his spectacles and looked anxiously round, -to make out who was talking. - -Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, -that all the jurors were writing down “stupid things!” on their slates, -and she could even make out that one of them didn’t know how to spell -“stupid,” and that he had to ask his neighbour to tell him. “A nice -muddle their slates’ll be in before the trial’s over!” thought Alice. - -One of the jurors had a pencil that squeaked. This of course, Alice -could _not_ stand, and she went round the court and got behind him, and -very soon found an opportunity of taking it away. She did it so quickly -that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out -at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he -was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this -was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate. - -“Herald, read the accusation!” said the King. - -On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then -unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:— - -“The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, - All on a summer day: -The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, - And took them quite away!” - - -“Consider your verdict,” the King said to the jury. - -“Not yet, not yet!” the Rabbit hastily interrupted. “There’s a great -deal to come before that!” - -“Call the first witness,” said the King; and the White Rabbit blew -three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, “First witness!” - -The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one hand -and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. “I beg pardon, your -Majesty,” he began, “for bringing these in: but I hadn’t quite finished -my tea when I was sent for.” - -“You ought to have finished,” said the King. “When did you begin?” - -The Hatter looked at the March Hare, who had followed him into the -court, arm-in-arm with the Dormouse. “Fourteenth of March, I _think_ it -was,” he said. - -“Fifteenth,” said the March Hare. - -“Sixteenth,” added the Dormouse. - -“Write that down,” the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly -wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and -reduced the answer to shillings and pence. - -“Take off your hat,” the King said to the Hatter. - -“It isn’t mine,” said the Hatter. - -“_Stolen!_” the King exclaimed, turning to the jury, who instantly made -a memorandum of the fact. - -“I keep them to sell,” the Hatter added as an explanation; “I’ve none -of my own. I’m a hatter.” - -Here the Queen put on her spectacles, and began staring at the Hatter, -who turned pale and fidgeted. - -“Give your evidence,” said the King; “and don’t be nervous, or I’ll -have you executed on the spot.” - -This did not seem to encourage the witness at all: he kept shifting -from one foot to the other, looking uneasily at the Queen, and in his -confusion he bit a large piece out of his teacup instead of the -bread-and-butter. - -Just at this moment Alice felt a very curious sensation, which puzzled -her a good deal until she made out what it was: she was beginning to -grow larger again, and she thought at first she would get up and leave -the court; but on second thoughts she decided to remain where she was -as long as there was room for her. - -“I wish you wouldn’t squeeze so,” said the Dormouse, who was sitting -next to her. “I can hardly breathe.” - -“I can’t help it,” said Alice very meekly: “I’m growing.” - -“You’ve no right to grow _here_,” said the Dormouse. - -“Don’t talk nonsense,” said Alice more boldly: “you know you’re growing -too.” - -“Yes, but _I_ grow at a reasonable pace,” said the Dormouse: “not in -that ridiculous fashion.” And he got up very sulkily and crossed over -to the other side of the court. - -All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and, -just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers -of the court, “Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!” -on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes -off. - -“Give your evidence,” the King repeated angrily, “or I’ll have you -executed, whether you’re nervous or not.” - -“I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” the Hatter began, in a trembling voice, -“—and I hadn’t begun my tea—not above a week or so—and what with the -bread-and-butter getting so thin—and the twinkling of the tea—” - -“The twinkling of the _what?_” said the King. - -“It _began_ with the tea,” the Hatter replied. - -“Of course twinkling begins with a T!” said the King sharply. “Do you -take me for a dunce? Go on!” - -“I’m a poor man,” the Hatter went on, “and most things twinkled after -that—only the March Hare said—” - -“I didn’t!” the March Hare interrupted in a great hurry. - -“You did!” said the Hatter. - -“I deny it!” said the March Hare. - -“He denies it,” said the King: “leave out that part.” - -“Well, at any rate, the Dormouse said—” the Hatter went on, looking -anxiously round to see if he would deny it too: but the Dormouse denied -nothing, being fast asleep. - -“After that,” continued the Hatter, “I cut some more bread-and-butter—” - -“But what did the Dormouse say?” one of the jury asked. - -“That I can’t remember,” said the Hatter. - -“You _must_ remember,” remarked the King, “or I’ll have you executed.” - -The miserable Hatter dropped his teacup and bread-and-butter, and went -down on one knee. “I’m a poor man, your Majesty,” he began. - -“You’re a _very_ poor _speaker_,” said the King. - -Here one of the guinea-pigs cheered, and was immediately suppressed by -the officers of the court. (As that is rather a hard word, I will just -explain to you how it was done. They had a large canvas bag, which tied -up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig, -head first, and then sat upon it.) - -“I’m glad I’ve seen that done,” thought Alice. “I’ve so often read in -the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts at -applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the -court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.” - -“If that’s all you know about it, you may stand down,” continued the -King. - -“I can’t go no lower,” said the Hatter: “I’m on the floor, as it is.” - -“Then you may _sit_ down,” the King replied. - -Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed. - -“Come, that finished the guinea-pigs!” thought Alice. “Now we shall get -on better.” - -“I’d rather finish my tea,” said the Hatter, with an anxious look at -the Queen, who was reading the list of singers. - -“You may go,” said the King, and the Hatter hurriedly left the court, -without even waiting to put his shoes on. - -“—and just take his head off outside,” the Queen added to one of the -officers: but the Hatter was out of sight before the officer could get -to the door. - -“Call the next witness!” said the King. - -The next witness was the Duchess’s cook. She carried the pepper-box in -her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the -court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. - -“Give your evidence,” said the King. - -“Shan’t,” said the cook. - -The King looked anxiously at the White Rabbit, who said in a low voice, -“Your Majesty must cross-examine _this_ witness.” - -“Well, if I must, I must,” the King said, with a melancholy air, and, -after folding his arms and frowning at the cook till his eyes were -nearly out of sight, he said in a deep voice, “What are tarts made of?” - -“Pepper, mostly,” said the cook. - -“Treacle,” said a sleepy voice behind her. - -“Collar that Dormouse,” the Queen shrieked out. “Behead that Dormouse! -Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his -whiskers!” - -For some minutes the whole court was in confusion, getting the Dormouse -turned out, and, by the time they had settled down again, the cook had -disappeared. - -“Never mind!” said the King, with an air of great relief. “Call the -next witness.” And he added in an undertone to the Queen, “Really, my -dear, _you_ must cross-examine the next witness. It quite makes my -forehead ache!” - -Alice watched the White Rabbit as he fumbled over the list, feeling -very curious to see what the next witness would be like, “—for they -haven’t got much evidence _yet_,” she said to herself. Imagine her -surprise, when the White Rabbit read out, at the top of his shrill -little voice, the name “Alice!” - - - - -CHAPTER XII. -Alice’s Evidence - - -“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how -large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such -a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, -upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there -they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of -goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before. - -“Oh, I _beg_ your pardon!” she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and -began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident -of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of -idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the -jury-box, or they would die. - -“The trial cannot proceed,” said the King in a very grave voice, “until -all the jurymen are back in their proper places—_all_,” he repeated -with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said so. - -Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put -the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its -tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. She soon -got it out again, and put it right; “not that it signifies much,” she -said to herself; “I should think it would be _quite_ as much use in the -trial one way up as the other.” - -As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being -upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to -them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the -accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do -anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the -court. - -“What do you know about this business?” the King said to Alice. - -“Nothing,” said Alice. - -“Nothing _whatever?_” persisted the King. - -“Nothing whatever,” said Alice. - -“That’s very important,” the King said, turning to the jury. They were -just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White -Rabbit interrupted: “_Un_important, your Majesty means, of course,” he -said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as -he spoke. - -“_Un_important, of course, I meant,” the King hastily said, and went on -to himself in an undertone, - -“important—unimportant—unimportant—important—” as if he were trying -which word sounded best. - -Some of the jury wrote it down “important,” and some “unimportant.” -Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; -“but it doesn’t matter a bit,” she thought to herself. - -At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in -his note-book, cackled out “Silence!” and read out from his book, “Rule -Forty-two. _All persons more than a mile high to leave the court_.” - -Everybody looked at Alice. - -“_I’m_ not a mile high,” said Alice. - -“You are,” said the King. - -“Nearly two miles high,” added the Queen. - -“Well, I shan’t go, at any rate,” said Alice: “besides, that’s not a -regular rule: you invented it just now.” - -“It’s the oldest rule in the book,” said the King. - -“Then it ought to be Number One,” said Alice. - -The King turned pale, and shut his note-book hastily. “Consider your -verdict,” he said to the jury, in a low, trembling voice. - -“There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,” said the -White Rabbit, jumping up in a great hurry; “this paper has just been -picked up.” - -“What’s in it?” said the Queen. - -“I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but it seems to be a -letter, written by the prisoner to—to somebody.” - -“It must have been that,” said the King, “unless it was written to -nobody, which isn’t usual, you know.” - -“Who is it directed to?” said one of the jurymen. - -“It isn’t directed at all,” said the White Rabbit; “in fact, there’s -nothing written on the _outside_.” He unfolded the paper as he spoke, -and added “It isn’t a letter, after all: it’s a set of verses.” - -“Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?” asked another of the jurymen. - -“No, they’re not,” said the White Rabbit, “and that’s the queerest -thing about it.” (The jury all looked puzzled.) - -“He must have imitated somebody else’s hand,” said the King. (The jury -all brightened up again.) - -“Please your Majesty,” said the Knave, “I didn’t write it, and they -can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end.” - -“If you didn’t sign it,” said the King, “that only makes the matter -worse. You _must_ have meant some mischief, or else you’d have signed -your name like an honest man.” - -There was a general clapping of hands at this: it was the first really -clever thing the King had said that day. - -“That _proves_ his guilt,” said the Queen. - -“It proves nothing of the sort!” said Alice. “Why, you don’t even know -what they’re about!” - -“Read them,” said the King. - -The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. “Where shall I begin, please -your Majesty?” he asked. - -“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you -come to the end: then stop.” - -These were the verses the White Rabbit read:— - -“They told me you had been to her, - And mentioned me to him: -She gave me a good character, - But said I could not swim. - -He sent them word I had not gone - (We know it to be true): -If she should push the matter on, - What would become of you? - -I gave her one, they gave him two, - You gave us three or more; -They all returned from him to you, - Though they were mine before. - -If I or she should chance to be - Involved in this affair, -He trusts to you to set them free, - Exactly as we were. - -My notion was that you had been - (Before she had this fit) -An obstacle that came between - Him, and ourselves, and it. - -Don’t let him know she liked them best, - For this must ever be -A secret, kept from all the rest, - Between yourself and me.” - - -“That’s the most important piece of evidence we’ve heard yet,” said the -King, rubbing his hands; “so now let the jury—” - -“If any one of them can explain it,” said Alice, (she had grown so -large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of -interrupting him,) “I’ll give him sixpence. _I_ don’t believe there’s -an atom of meaning in it.” - -The jury all wrote down on their slates, “_She_ doesn’t believe there’s -an atom of meaning in it,” but none of them attempted to explain the -paper. - -“If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of -trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any. And yet I don’t -know,” he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at -them with one eye; “I seem to see some meaning in them, after all. -“—_said I could not swim_—” you can’t swim, can you?” he added, turning -to the Knave. - -The Knave shook his head sadly. “Do I look like it?” he said. (Which he -certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.) - -“All right, so far,” said the King, and he went on muttering over the -verses to himself: “‘_We know it to be true_—’ that’s the jury, of -course—‘_I gave her one, they gave him two_—’ why, that must be what he -did with the tarts, you know—” - -“But, it goes on ‘_they all returned from him to you_,’” said Alice. - -“Why, there they are!” said the King triumphantly, pointing to the -tarts on the table. “Nothing can be clearer than _that_. Then -again—‘_before she had this fit_—’ you never had fits, my dear, I -think?” he said to the Queen. - -“Never!” said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard -as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his -slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily -began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long -as it lasted.) - -“Then the words don’t _fit_ you,” said the King, looking round the -court with a smile. There was a dead silence. - -“It’s a pun!” the King added in an offended tone, and everybody -laughed, “Let the jury consider their verdict,” the King said, for -about the twentieth time that day. - -“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.” - -“Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the -sentence first!” - -“Hold your tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple. - -“I won’t!” said Alice. - -“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody -moved. - -“Who cares for you?” said Alice, (she had grown to her full size by -this time.) “You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” - -At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down upon -her: she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and -tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her -head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead -leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. - -“Wake up, Alice dear!” said her sister; “Why, what a long sleep you’ve -had!” - -“Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!” said Alice, and she told her -sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange -Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; and when she -had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, “It _was_ a curious -dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.” -So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, -what a wonderful dream it had been. - - -But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her -hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all -her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, -and this was her dream:— - -First, she dreamed of little Alice herself, and once again the tiny -hands were clasped upon her knee, and the bright eager eyes were -looking up into hers—she could hear the very tones of her voice, and -see that queer little toss of her head to keep back the wandering hair -that _would_ always get into her eyes—and still as she listened, or -seemed to listen, the whole place around her became alive with the -strange creatures of her little sister’s dream. - -The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by—the -frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool—she -could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends -shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen -ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution—once more the pig-baby -was sneezing on the Duchess’s knee, while plates and dishes crashed -around it—once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the -Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, -filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock -Turtle. - -So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in -Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all -would change to dull reality—the grass would be only rustling in the -wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds—the rattling -teacups would change to tinkling sheep-bells, and the Queen’s shrill -cries to the voice of the shepherd boy—and the sneeze of the baby, the -shriek of the Gryphon, and all the other queer noises, would change -(she knew) to the confused clamour of the busy farm-yard—while the -lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock -Turtle’s heavy sobs. - -Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers -would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would -keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her -childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, -and make _their_ eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, -perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she -would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all -their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer -days. - -THE END - - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND *** - - - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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Yarroll, -Thorsten Kontowski, Irma Spehar, Markus Brenner and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - Der Struwwelpeter - - [Illustration] - - oder - - lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder - für Kinder von 3–6 Jahren - - von - Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann - - 564. Auflage - - Rütten & Loening Verlag in Frankfurt am Main - - =Originalausgabe= - - - - -Wie der »Struwwelpeter« entstand - - -Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann, der Verfasser des _»Struwwelpeter«_, erzählt -dessen Entstehung wie folgt: - -»Gegen Weihnachten des Jahres 1844, als mein ältester Sohn drei Jahre -alt war, ging ich in die Stadt, um demselben zum Festgeschenke ein -Bilderbuch zu kaufen, wie es der Fassungskraft des kleinen menschlichen -Wesens in solchem Alter entsprechend schien. Aber was fand ich? Lange -Erzählungen oder alberne Bildersammlungen, moralische Geschichten, die -mit ermahnenden Vorschriften begannen und schlossen, wie: »Das brave -Kind muß wahrhaft sein«; oder: »Brave Kinder müssen sich reinlich -halten« etc. – Als ich nun gar endlich ein Foliobuch fand, in welchem -eine Bank, ein Stuhl, ein Topf und vieles andere, was wächst oder -gemacht wird, ein wahres Weltrepertorium, abgezeichnet war, und wo bei -jedem Bild fein säuberlich zu lesen war: die Hälfte, ein Drittel, oder -ein Zehntel der natürlichen Größe, da war es mit meiner Geduld aus. -Einem Kind, dem man eine Bank zeichnet, und das sich daran erfreuen -soll, ist dies eine Bank, eine wirkliche Bank. Und von der wirklichen -Lebensgröße der Bank, hat und braucht das Kind gar keinen Begriff zu -haben. Abstrakt denkt ja das Kind noch gar nicht, und die allgemeine -Warnung: »Du sollst nicht lügen!« hat wenig ausgerichtet im Vergleich -mit der Geschichte: »Fritz, Fritz, die Brücke kommt!« - -Als ich damals heimkam, hatte ich aber _doch_ ein Buch mitgebracht; ich -überreichte es meiner Frau mit den Worten: »Hier ist das gewünschte Buch -für den Jungen!« Sie nahm es und rief verwundert: »Das ist ja ein -Schreibheft mit leeren weißen Blättern!« »Nun ja, da wollen wir ein Buch -daraus machen!« - -Damit ging es nun aber so zu. Ich war damals, neben meinem Amt als Arzt -der Irrenanstalt, auch noch auf Praxis in der Stadt angewiesen. Nun ist -es ein eigen Ding um den Verkehr des Arztes mit Kindern von drei bis -sechs Jahren. In gesunden Tagen wird der Arzt und der Schornsteinfeger -gar oft als Erziehungsmittel gebraucht: »Kind, wenn du nicht brav bist, -kommt der Schornsteinfeger und holt dich!« oder: »Kind, wenn du zu viel -davon issest, so kommt der Doktor und gibt dir bittere Arznei, oder -setzt dir gar Blutegel an!« Die Folge ist, daß, wenn in schlimmen Zeiten -der Doktor gerufen in das Zimmer tritt, der kleine kranke Engel zu -heulen, sich zu wehren, und um sich zu treten anfängt. Eine Untersuchung -des Zustandes ist schlechterdings unmöglich; stundenlang aber kann der -Arzt nicht den Beruhigenden, Besänftigenden machen. Da half mir -gewöhnlich rasch ein Blättchen Papier und Bleistift; eine der -Geschichten wie sie in dem Buche stehen, wird rasch erfunden, mit drei -Strichen gezeichnet, und dazu möglichst lebendig erzählt. Der wilde -Oppositionsmann wird ruhig, die Tränen trocknen, und der Arzt kann -spielend seine Pflicht tun. - -[Illustration: Heinrich Hoffmann] - -So entstanden die meisten dieser tollen Szenen, und ich schöpfte sie aus -vorhandenem Vorrate; einiges wurde später dazu erfunden, die Bilder -wurden mit derselben Feder und Tinte gezeichnet, mit der ich erst die -Reime geschrieben hatte, alles unmittelbar und ohne schriftstellerische -Absichtlichkeit. Das Heft wurde eingebunden und auf den Weihnachtstisch -gelegt. Die Wirkung auf den beschenkten Knaben war die erwartete; aber -unerwartet war die auf einige erwachsene Freunde, die das Büchlein zu -Gesicht bekamen. Von allen Seiten wurde ich aufgefordert, es drucken zu -lassen und es zu veröffentlichen. Ich lehnte es anfangs ab; ich hatte -nicht im Entferntesten daran gedacht, als Kinderschriftsteller und -Bilderbüchler aufzutreten. Fast wider Willen wurde ich dazu gebracht als -ich einst in einer literarischen Abendgesellschaft mit dem einen meiner -jetzigen Verleger gemütlich bei der Flasche zusammensaß. Und so trat das -bescheidene Hauskind plötzlich hinaus in die weite offene Welt und -machte nun seine Reise, ich kann wohl sagen, um die Welt, und ist heute -seit einunddreißig Jahren bis zur _hundertsten_ Auflage gelangt. Von -Uebersetzungen ist mir bis jetzt eine englische, holländische, dänische, -schwedische, russische, französische, italienische, spanische und eine -portugiesische (für Brasilien) zu Gesicht gekommen. - -Ich muß dabei auch des sonderbaren Erfolges erwähnen, den das Büchlein -anfangs in Frankfurt selbst hatte. In den ersten Monaten des Jahres -1846, nachdem der Struwwelpeter am vergangenen Christfest zum erstenmal -in die Kinderwelt getreten war, wurde ich oft von dankbaren Müttern oder -entzückten Vätern auf der Straße angehalten, welche mich mit den Worten -begrüßten: »Lieber Herr Doktor, was haben Sie uns eine Freude gemacht. -Ich habe da zu Hause ein dreijähriges Kind, welches sich bis jetzt sehr -langsam entwickelte und nun in ganz kurzer Zeit das ganze Buch auswendig -weiß und ganz allerliebst hersagt. Ich versichere Sie, in dem Kinde -steckt was!« – Damals waren die Genies unter den Kindern ganz gemein -geworden. Später sahen freilich die Leute ein, daß es nicht sowohl in -den außergewöhnlichen Anlagen der Kleinen, als in der glücklich -getroffenen plastischen Diktion steckte. - -Trotzdem hat man den Struwwelpeter aber auch großer Sünden beschuldigt, -denselben als gar zu märchenhaft, die Bilder als fratzenhaft oft herb -genug getadelt. Da hieß es: »Das Buch verdirbt mit seinen Fratzen das -ästhetische Gefühl des Kindes.« Nun gut, so erziehe man die Säuglinge in -Gemäldegalerien oder in Kabinetten mit antiken Gypsabdrücken! Aber man -muß dann auch verhüten, daß das Kind sich selbst nicht kleine -menschliche Figuren aus zwei Kreisen und vier geraden Linien in der -bekannten Weise zeichne und glücklicher dabei ist, als wenn man ihm den -Laokoon zeigt. – Das Buch soll ja märchenhafte, grausige, übertriebene -Vorstellungen hervorrufen! Das germanische Kind ist aber nur das -germanische Volk, und schwerlich werden diese National-Erzieher die -Geschichte vom Rotkäppchen, das der Wolf verschluckte, vom -Schneewittchen, das die böse Stiefmutter vergiftete, aus dem -Volksbewußtsein und aus der Kinderstube vertilgen. Mit der absoluten -Wahrheit, mit algebraischen oder geometrischen Sätzen rührt man aber -keine Kinderseele, sondern läßt sie elend verkümmern. – Und wie viele -Wunder umgeben denn nicht auch den Erwachsenen, selbst den nüchternsten -Naturforscher! Dem Kinde ist ja alles noch wunderbar, was es schaut und -hört, und im Verhältnis zum immer noch Unerklärten ist überhaupt die -Masse des Erkannten doch auch nicht so gewaltig. Der Verstand wird sich -sein Recht schon verschaffen, und der Mensch ist glücklich, der sich -einen Teil des Kindersinnes aus seinen ersten Dämmerungsjahren in das -Leben hinüber zu retten verstand. - -Meine weiteren Bücher der Art, »König Nußknacker«, »Im Himmel und auf -der Erde«, »Bastian der Faulpelz«, »Prinz Grünewald und Perlenfein«, -entstanden in derselben Absicht und aus derselben Ansicht. Immer aber -ging ich von der Ueberzeugung aus: Das Kind erfaßt und begreift nur, was -es sieht.« - - (Aus der Gartenlaube, Jahrgang 1871 Nr. 46) - - - - - Der Struwwelpeter - - oder - - lustige Geschichten - und - drollige Bilder - - -[Illustration] - -Wenn die Kinder artig sind, -kommt zu ihnen das Christkind; -wenn sie ihre Suppe essen -und das Brot auch nicht vergessen, -wenn sie, ohne Lärm zu machen, -still sind bei den Siebensachen, -beim Spaziergehn auf den Gassen -von Mama sich führen lassen, -bringt es ihnen Guts genug -und ein schönes Bilderbuch. - -Literarische Anstalt. Frankfurt a. M. - - -[Illustration] - -Sieh einmal, hier steht er, -pfui, der _Struwwelpeter_! -An den Händen beiden -ließ er sich nicht schneiden -seine Nägel fast ein Jahr; -kämmen ließ er nicht sein Haar. -Pfui, ruft da ein jeder: -Garstger Struwwelpeter! - - - - -Die Geschichte vom bösen Friederich - - -[Illustration] - -Der _Friederich_, der Friederich -das war ein arger Wüterich! -Er fing die Fliegen in dem Haus -und riß ihnen die Flügel aus. -Er schlug die Stühl und Vögel tot, -die Katzen litten große Not. -Und höre nur, wir bös er war: -Er peitschte seine Gretchen gar! - -[Illustration] - -Am Brunnen stand ein großer Hund, -trank Wasser dort mit seinem Mund. -Da mit der Peitsch herzu sich schlich -der bitterböse Friederich; -und schlug den Hund, der heulte sehr, -und trat und schlug ihn immer mehr. -Da biß der Hund ihn in das Bein, -recht tief bis in das Blut hinein. -Der bitterböse Friederich, -der schrie und weinte bitterlich. -Jedoch nach Hause lief der Hund -und trug die Peitsche in dem Mund. - -[Illustration] - -Ins Bett muß Friedrich nun hinein, -litt vielen Schmerz an seinem Bein; -und der Herr Doktor sitzt dabei -und gibt ihm bittre Arzenei. - -Der Hund an Friedrichs Tischchen saß, -wo er den großen Kuchen aß; -aß auch die gute Leberwurst -und trank den Wein für seinen Durst. -Die Peitsche hat er mitgebracht -und nimmt sie sorglich sehr in acht. - - - - -Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug - - -[Illustration] - -_Paulinchen_ war allein zu Haus, -die Eltern waren beide aus. -Als sie nun durch das Zimmer sprang -mit leichtem Mut und Sing und Sang, -da sah sie plötzlich vor sich stehn -ein Feuerzeug, nett anzusehn. -»Ei,« sprach sie, »ei, wie schön und fein! -Das muß ein trefflich Spielzeug sein. -Ich zünde mir ein Hölzchen an, -wie’s oft die Mutter hat getan.« - -Und _Minz_ und _Maunz_, die Katzen, -erheben ihre Tatzen. -Sie drohen mit den Pfoten: -»Der Vater hat’s verboten! -Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio! -laß stehn! sonst brennst du lichterloh!« - -Paulinchen hört die Katzen nicht! -Das Hölzchen brennt gar hell und licht, -das flackert lustig, knistert laut, -grad wie ihr’s auf dem Bilde schaut. -Paulinchen aber freut sich sehr -und sprang im Zimmer hin und her. - -Doch Minz und Maunz, die Katzen, -erheben ihre Tatzen. -Sie drohen mit den Pfoten: -»Die Mutter hat’s verboten! -Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio! -wirf’s weg! sonst brennst du lichterloh!« - -[Illustration] - -Doch weh! die Flamme faßt das Kleid, -die Schürze brennt, es leuchtet weit. -Es brennt die Hand, es brennt das Haar, -es brennt das ganze Kind sogar. - -Und Minz und Maunz, die schreien -gar jämmerlich zu zweien: -»Herbei! Herbei! Wer hilft geschwind? -In Feuer steht das ganze Kind! -Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio! -zu Hilf! das Kind brennt lichterloh!« - -Verbrannt ist alles ganz und gar, -das arme Kind mit Haut und Haar; -ein Häuflein Asche bleibt allein -und beide Schuh, so hübsch und fein. - -Und Minz und Maunz, die kleinen, -die sitzen da und weinen: -»Miau! Mio! Miau! Mio! -wo sind die armen Eltern! wo?« -Und ihre Tränen fließen -wie’s Bächlein auf den Wiesen. - - - - -Die Geschichte von den schwarzen Buben - - -[Illustration] - -Es ging spazieren vor dem Tor -ein kohlpechrabenschwarzer Mohr. -Die Sonne schien ihm aufs Gehirn, -da nahm er seinen Sonnenschirm. -Da kam der _Ludwig_ hergerannt -und trug sein Fähnchen in der Hand. -Der _Kaspar_ kam mit schnellem Schritt -und brachte seine Brezel mit. -Und auch der _Wilhelm_ war nicht steif -und brachte seinen runden Reif. -Die schrien und lachten alle drei, -als dort das Mohrchen ging vorbei, -weil es so schwarz wie Tinte sei! - -[Illustration] - -Da kam der große _Nikolas_ -mit seinem großen Tintenfaß. -Der sprach: »Ihr Kinder, hört mir zu -und laßt den Mohren hübsch in Ruh! -Was kann denn dieser Mohr dafür, -daß er so weiß nicht ist wie ihr?« -Die Buben aber folgten nicht -und lachten ihm ins Angesicht -und lachten ärger als zuvor -über den armen, schwarzen Mohr. - -[Illustration] - -Der Niklas wurde bös und wild, -du siehst es hier auf diesem Bild! -Er packte gleich die Buben fest, -beim Arm, beim Kopf, beim Rock und West -den Wilhelm und den Ludewig, -den Kaspar auch, der wehrte sich. -Er tunkt sie in die Tinte tief, -wie auch der Kaspar »Feuer« rief. -Bis übern Kopf ins Tintenfaß -tunkt sie der große Nikolas. - -[Illustration] - -Du siehst sie hier, wie schwarz sie sind, -viel schwärzer als das Mohrenkind. -Der Mohr voraus im Sonnenschein, -die Tintenbuben hinterdrein; -und hätten sie nicht so gelacht, -hätt Niklas sie nicht schwarz gemacht. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom wilden Jäger - - -[Illustration] - -Es zog der wilde Jägersmann -sein grasgrün neues Röcklein an; -nahm Ranzen, Pulverhorn und Flint -und lief hinaus ins Feld geschwind. - -Er trug die Brille auf der Nas -und wollte schießen tot den Has. - -Das Häschen sitzt im Blätterhaus -und lacht den wilden Jäger aus. - -Jetzt schien die Sonne gar zu sehr, -da ward ihm sein Gewehr zu schwer. -Er legte sich ins grüne Gras; -das alles sah der kleine Has. -Und als der Jäger schnarcht und schlief, -der Has ganz heimlich zu ihm lief -und nahm die Flint und auch die Brill -und schlich davon ganz leis und still. - -Die Brille hat das Häschen jetzt -sich selbst auf seine Nas gesetzt; -und schießen will’s aus dem Gewehr. -Der Jäger aber fürcht sich sehr. -Er läuft davon und springt und schreit: -»Zu Hilf, ihr Leut, zu Hilf, ihr Leut!« - -[Illustration] - -Da kommt der wilde Jägersmann -zuletzt beim tiefen Brünnchen an. -Er springt hinein. Die Not war groß; -es schießt der Has die Flinte los. - -[Illustration] - -Des Jägers Frau am Fenster saß -und trank aus ihrer Kaffeetaß. -Die schoß das Häschen ganz entzwei; -da rief die Frau: »O wei! O wei!« -Doch bei dem Brünnchen heimlich saß -des Häschens Kind, der kleine Has. -Der hockte da im grünen Gras; -dem floß der Kaffee auf die Nas. -Er schrie: »Wer hat mich da verbrannt?« -und hielt den Löffel in der Hand. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher - - -[Illustration] - -»_Konrad_,« sprach die Frau Mama, -»ich geh aus und du bleibst da. -Sei hübsch ordentlich und fromm, -bis nach Haus ich wieder komm. -Und vor allem, Konrad, hör! -lutsche nicht am Daumen mehr; -denn der Schneider mit der Scher -kommt sonst ganz geschwind daher, -und die Daumen schneidet er -ab, als ob Papier es wär.« - -[Illustration] - -Fort geht nun die Mutter und -wupp! den Daumen in den Mund. - -[Illustration] - -Bauz! da geht die Türe auf, -und herein in schnellem Lauf -springt der Schneider in die Stub -zu dem Daumen-Lutscher-Bub. -Weh! jetzt geht es klipp und klapp -mit der Scher die Daumen ab, -mit der großen, scharfen Scher! -Hei! da schreit der Konrad sehr. - -[Illustration] - -Als die Mutter kommt nach Haus, -sieht der Konrad traurig aus. -Ohne Daumen steht er dort, -die sind alle beide fort. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom Suppen-Kaspar - - -[Illustration] - -Der _Kaspar_, der war kerngesund, -ein dicker Bub und kugelrund. -Er hatte Backen rot und frisch; -die Suppe aß er hübsch bei Tisch. -Doch einmal fing er an zu schrein: -»Ich esse keine Suppe! nein! -Ich esse meine Suppe nicht! -Nein, meine Suppe eß ich nicht!« - -Am _nächsten_ Tag, – ja sieh nur her! -da war er schon viel magerer. -Da fing er wieder an zu schrein: -»Ich esse keine Suppe! nein! -Ich esse meine Suppe nicht! -Nein, meine Suppe eß ich nicht!« - -Am _dritten_ Tag, o weh und ach! -wie ist der Kaspar dünn und schwach! -Doch als die Suppe kam herein, -gleich fing er wieder an zu schrein: -»Ich esse keine Suppe! nein! -Ich esse meine Suppe nicht! -Nein, meine Suppe eß ich nicht!« - -Am _vierten_ Tage endlich gar -der Kaspar wie ein Fädchen war. -Er wog vielleicht ein halbes Lot – -und war am _fünften_ Tage tot. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom Zappel-Philipp - - -[Illustration] - -»Ob der _Philipp_ heute still -wohl bei Tische sitzen will?« -Also sprach in ernstem Ton -der Papa zu seinem Sohn, -und die Mutter blickte stumm -auf dem ganzen Tisch herum. -Doch der Philipp hörte nicht, -was zu ihm der Vater spricht. -Er gaukelt -und schaukelt, -er trappelt -und zappelt -auf dem Stuhle hin und her. -»Philipp, das mißfällt mir sehr!« - -[Illustration] - -Seht, ihr lieben Kinder, seht, -wie’s dem Philipp weiter geht! -Oben steht es auf dem Bild. -Seht! er schaukelt gar zu wild, -bis der Stuhl nach hinten fällt. -Da ist nichts mehr, was ihn hält. -Nach dem Tischtuch greift er, schreit. -Doch was hilft’s? Zu gleicher Zeit -fallen Teller, Flasch und Brot. -Vater ist in großer Not, -und die Mutter blicket stumm -auf dem ganzen Tisch herum. - -[Illustration] - -Nun ist Philipp ganz versteckt, -und der Tisch ist abgedeckt. -Was der Vater essen wollt, -unten auf der Erde rollt. -Suppe, Brot und alle Bissen, -alles ist herabgerissen. -Suppenschüssel ist entzwei, -und die Eltern stehn dabei. -Beide sind gar zornig sehr, -haben nichts zu essen mehr. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom Hanns Guck-in-die-Luft - - -[Illustration] - -Wenn der _Hanns_ zur Schule ging, -stets sein Blick am Himmel hing. -Nach den Dächern, Wolken, Schwalben -schaut er aufwärts allenthalben. -Vor die eignen Füße dicht, -ja, da sah der Bursche nicht, -also daß ein jeder ruft: -»Seht den Hanns Guck-in-die-Luft!« - -Kam ein Hund daher gerannt; -Hännslein blickte unverwandt -in die Luft. -Niemand ruft: -»Hanns! gib acht, der Hund ist nah!« -Was geschah? -Bauz, perdauz! – da liegen zwei, -Hund und Hännschen nebenbei. - -[Illustration] - -Einst ging er an Ufers Rand -mit der Mappe in der Hand. -Nach dem blauen Himmel hoch -sah er, wo die Schwalbe flog, -also daß er kerzengrad -immer mehr zum Flusse trat. - Und die Fischlein in der Reih - sind erstaunt sehr, alle drei. - -Noch ein Schritt! und plumps! der Hanns -stürzt hinab kopfüber ganz! – - Die drei Fischlein, sehr erschreckt, - haben sich sogleich versteckt. - -[Illustration] - -Doch zum Glück da kommen zwei -Männer aus der Näh herbei, -und die haben ihn mit Stangen -aus dem Wasser aufgefangen. - -Seht! nun steht der triefend naß! -Ei, das ist ein schlechter Spaß! -Wasser läuft dem armen Wicht -aus den Haaren ins Gesicht, -aus den Kleidern, von den Armen, -und es friert ihn zum Erbarmen. - -Doch die Fischlein alle drei, -schwimmen hurtig gleich herbei; -streckens Köpflein aus der Flut, -lachen, daß man’s hören tut, -lachen fort noch lange Zeit. -Und die Mappe schwimmt schon weit. - - - - -Die Geschichte vom fliegenden Robert - - -[Illustration] - -Wenn der Regen niederbraust, -wenn der Sturm das Feld durchsaust -bleiben Mädchen oder Buben -hübsch daheim in ihren Stuben. -_Robert_ aber dachte: Nein! -das muß draußen herrlich sein! -Und im Felde patschet er -mit dem Regenschirm umher. - -[Illustration] - -Hui, wie pfeift der Sturm und keucht, -daß der Baum sich niederbeugt! -Seht! den Schirm erfaßt der Wind, -und der Robert fliegt geschwind -durch die Luft so hoch, so weit. -Niemand hört ihn, wenn er schreit. -An die Wolken stößt er schon, -und der Hut fliegt auch davon. - -[Illustration] - -Schirm und Robert fliegen dort -durch die Wolken immerfort. -Und der Hut fliegt weit voran, -stößt zuletzt am Himmel an. -Wo der Wind sie hingetragen, -ja, das weiß kein Mensch zu sagen. - - - - -Die andern Bilderbücher - -_aus dem Verlag von Rütten & Loening_ - - -_Vom Verfasser des Struwwelpeter:_ - -[Illustration: Besuch bei Frau Sonne Aus dem Nachlaß herausgegeben von -Eduard und Walter Hessenberg] - -[Illustration: Im Himmel und auf der Erde] - -[Illustration: Bastian der Faulpelz] - -[Illustration: König Nußknacker und der arme Reinhold] - -[Illustration: Prinz Grünewald und Perlenfein] - -Melodien zu Dr. Heinrich Hoffmanns Struwwelpeter - - -_Von andern Verfassern:_ - - -Der Pegasus - -Klassisches Bilderbuch für die deutsche Jugend -von H. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online -at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, -you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this eBook. - -Title: Dracula - -Author: Bram Stoker - -Release date: October 1, 1995 [eBook #345] - Most recently updated: November 12, 2023 - -Language: English - -Credits: Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRACULA *** - - - - - DRACULA - - _by_ - - Bram Stoker - - [Illustration: colophon] - - NEW YORK - - GROSSET & DUNLAP - - _Publishers_ - - Copyright, 1897, in the United States of America, according - to Act of Congress, by Bram Stoker - - [_All rights reserved._] - - PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES - AT - THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - - - - - TO - - MY DEAR FRIEND - - HOMMY-BEG - - - - -Contents - -CHAPTER I. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER II. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER III. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER IV. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER V. Letters—Lucy and Mina -CHAPTER VI. Mina Murray’s Journal -CHAPTER VII. Cutting from “The Dailygraph,” 8 August -CHAPTER VIII. Mina Murray’s Journal -CHAPTER IX. Mina Murray’s Journal -CHAPTER X. Mina Murray’s Journal -CHAPTER XI. Lucy Westenra’s Diary -CHAPTER XII. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XIV. Mina Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER XV. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XVI. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XVII. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XVIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XIX. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER XX. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER XXI. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XXII. Jonathan Harker’s Journal -CHAPTER XXIII. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XXIV. Dr. Seward’s Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing -CHAPTER XXV. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XXVI. Dr. Seward’s Diary -CHAPTER XXVII. Mina Harker’s Journal - - - - -How these papers have been placed in sequence will be made manifest in -the reading of them. All needless matters have been eliminated, so that -a history almost at variance with the possibilities of later-day belief -may stand forth as simple fact. There is throughout no statement of -past things wherein memory may err, for all the records chosen are -exactly contemporary, given from the standpoints and within the range -of knowledge of those who made them. - - - - -DRACULA - - - - -CHAPTER I - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - -(_Kept in shorthand._) - - -_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at -Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an -hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I -got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the -streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived -late and would start as near the correct time as possible. The -impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the -East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is -here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish -rule. - -We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. -Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or -rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was -very good but thirsty. (_Mem._, get recipe for Mina.) I asked the -waiter, and he said it was called “paprika hendl,” and that, as it was a -national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the -Carpathians. I found my smattering of German very useful here; indeed, I -don’t know how I should be able to get on without it. - -Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the -British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the library -regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the -country could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a -nobleman of that country. I find that the district he named is in the -extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, -Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian -mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. I was -not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the -Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare -with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post -town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I shall enter -here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my -travels with Mina. - -In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: -Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the -descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the -East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended -from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered -the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it. I -read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the -horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of -imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (_Mem._, I -must ask the Count all about them.) - -I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had -all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my -window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been -the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was -still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous -knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then. -I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour -which they said was “mamaliga,” and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a -very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.” (_Mem._, get recipe -for this also.) I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little -before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to -the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour -before we began to move. It seems to me that the further east you go the -more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - -All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of -beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the -top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by -rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side -of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, and -running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. At every -station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts -of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home or those I -saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets and round hats -and home-made trousers; but others were very picturesque. The women -looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy -about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some kind or other, -and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of something -fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of course there -were petticoats under them. The strangest figures we saw were the -Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy -hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous -heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass -nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and -had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very -picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On the stage they would be -set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands. They are, -however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural -self-assertion. - -It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz, which is a -very interesting old place. Being practically on the frontier--for the -Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina--it has had a very stormy -existence, and it certainly shows marks of it. Fifty years ago a series -of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate -occasions. At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent -a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war -proper being assisted by famine and disease. - -Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I -found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of -course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. I was -evidently expected, for when I got near the door I faced a -cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peasant dress--white -undergarment with long double apron, front, and back, of coloured stuff -fitting almost too tight for modesty. When I came close she bowed and -said, “The Herr Englishman?” “Yes,” I said, “Jonathan Harker.” She -smiled, and gave some message to an elderly man in white shirt-sleeves, -who had followed her to the door. He went, but immediately returned with -a letter:-- - - “My Friend.--Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting - you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the diligence will - start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo - Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust - that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you - will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. - -“Your friend, - -“DRACULA.” - - -_4 May._--I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, -directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on -making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and -pretended that he could not understand my German. This could not be -true, because up to then he had understood it perfectly; at least, he -answered my questions exactly as if he did. He and his wife, the old -lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of -way. He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that -was all he knew. When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could -tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, -and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak -further. It was so near the time of starting that I had no time to ask -any one else, for it was all very mysterious and not by any means -comforting. - -Just before I was leaving, the old lady came up to my room and said in a -very hysterical way: - -“Must you go? Oh! young Herr, must you go?” She was in such an excited -state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what German she knew, and -mixed it all up with some other language which I did not know at all. I -was just able to follow her by asking many questions. When I told her -that I must go at once, and that I was engaged on important business, -she asked again: - -“Do you know what day it is?” I answered that it was the fourth of May. -She shook her head as she said again: - -“Oh, yes! I know that! I know that, but do you know what day it is?” On -my saying that I did not understand, she went on: - -“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when -the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have -full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?” -She was in such evident distress that I tried to comfort her, but -without effect. Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not -to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very -ridiculous but I did not feel comfortable. However, there was business -to be done, and I could allow nothing to interfere with it. I therefore -tried to raise her up, and said, as gravely as I could, that I thanked -her, but my duty was imperative, and that I must go. She then rose and -dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me. I -did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been -taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it -seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a -state of mind. She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the -rosary round my neck, and said, “For your mother’s sake,” and went out -of the room. I am writing up this part of the diary whilst I am waiting -for the coach, which is, of course, late; and the crucifix is still -round my neck. Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly -traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I -am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual. If this book should -ever reach Mina before I do, let it bring my good-bye. Here comes the -coach! - - * * * * * - -_5 May. The Castle._--The grey of the morning has passed, and the sun is -high over the distant horizon, which seems jagged, whether with trees or -hills I know not, for it is so far off that big things and little are -mixed. I am not sleepy, and, as I am not to be called till I awake, -naturally I write till sleep comes. There are many odd things to put -down, and, lest who reads them may fancy that I dined too well before I -left Bistritz, let me put down my dinner exactly. I dined on what they -called “robber steak”--bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red -pepper, and strung on sticks and roasted over the fire, in the simple -style of the London cat’s meat! The wine was Golden Mediasch, which -produces a queer sting on the tongue, which is, however, not -disagreeable. I had only a couple of glasses of this, and nothing else. - -When I got on the coach the driver had not taken his seat, and I saw him -talking with the landlady. They were evidently talking of me, for every -now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting -on the bench outside the door--which they call by a name meaning -“word-bearer”--came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them -pityingly. I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for -there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot -dictionary from my bag and looked them out. I must say they were not -cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”--Satan, “pokol”--hell, -“stregoica”--witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”--both of which mean the same -thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is -either were-wolf or vampire. (_Mem._, I must ask the Count about these -superstitions) - -When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time -swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and -pointed two fingers towards me. With some difficulty I got a -fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at -first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a -charm or guard against the evil eye. This was not very pleasant for me, -just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one -seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I -could not but be touched. I shall never forget the last glimpse which I -had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing -themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of -rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the -centre of the yard. Then our driver, whose wide linen drawers covered -the whole front of the box-seat--“gotza” they call them--cracked his big -whip over his four small horses, which ran abreast, and we set off on -our journey. - -I soon lost sight and recollection of ghostly fears in the beauty of the -scene as we drove along, although had I known the language, or rather -languages, which my fellow-passengers were speaking, I might not have -been able to throw them off so easily. Before us lay a green sloping -land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned -with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the -road. There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom--apple, -plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under -the trees spangled with the fallen petals. In and out amongst these -green hills of what they call here the “Mittel Land” ran the road, -losing itself as it swept round the grassy curve, or was shut out by the -straggling ends of pine woods, which here and there ran down the -hillsides like tongues of flame. The road was rugged, but still we -seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste. I could not understand then -what the haste meant, but the driver was evidently bent on losing no -time in reaching Borgo Prund. I was told that this road is in summertime -excellent, but that it had not yet been put in order after the winter -snows. In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in -the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept -in too good order. Of old the Hospadars would not repair them, lest the -Turk should think that they were preparing to bring in foreign troops, -and so hasten the war which was always really at loading point. - -Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes -of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right -and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon -them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, -deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where -grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and -pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where -the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the -mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again -the white gleam of falling water. One of my companions touched my arm as -we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered -peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to -be right before us:-- - -“Look! Isten szek!”--“God’s seat!”--and he crossed himself reverently. - -As we wound on our endless way, and the sun sank lower and lower behind -us, the shadows of the evening began to creep round us. This was -emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the -sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink. Here and there -we passed Cszeks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed -that goitre was painfully prevalent. By the roadside were many crosses, -and as we swept by, my companions all crossed themselves. Here and there -was a peasant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even -turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self-surrender of -devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the outer world. There were -many things new to me: for instance, hay-ricks in the trees, and here -and there very beautiful masses of weeping birch, their white stems -shining like silver through the delicate green of the leaves. Now and -again we passed a leiter-wagon--the ordinary peasant’s cart--with its -long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the -road. On this were sure to be seated quite a group of home-coming -peasants, the Cszeks with their white, and the Slovaks with their -coloured, sheepskins, the latter carrying lance-fashion their long -staves, with axe at end. As the evening fell it began to get very cold, -and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the -gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which -ran deep between the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the -Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of -late-lying snow. Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods -that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of -greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a -peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and -grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset -threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the -Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys. Sometimes the -hills were so steep that, despite our driver’s haste, the horses could -only go slowly. I wished to get down and walk up them, as we do at home, -but the driver would not hear of it. “No, no,” he said; “you must not -walk here; the dogs are too fierce”; and then he added, with what he -evidently meant for grim pleasantry--for he looked round to catch the -approving smile of the rest--“and you may have enough of such matters -before you go to sleep.” The only stop he would make was a moment’s -pause to light his lamps. - -When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the -passengers, and they kept speaking to him, one after the other, as -though urging him to further speed. He lashed the horses unmercifully -with his long whip, and with wild cries of encouragement urged them on -to further exertions. Then through the darkness I could see a sort of -patch of grey light ahead of us, as though there were a cleft in the -hills. The excitement of the passengers grew greater; the crazy coach -rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed like a boat tossed on a -stormy sea. I had to hold on. The road grew more level, and we appeared -to fly along. Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each -side and to frown down upon us; we were entering on the Borgo Pass. One -by one several of the passengers offered me gifts, which they pressed -upon me with an earnestness which would take no denial; these were -certainly of an odd and varied kind, but each was given in simple good -faith, with a kindly word, and a blessing, and that strange mixture of -fear-meaning movements which I had seen outside the hotel at -Bistritz--the sign of the cross and the guard against the evil eye. -Then, as we flew along, the driver leaned forward, and on each side the -passengers, craning over the edge of the coach, peered eagerly into the -darkness. It was evident that something very exciting was either -happening or expected, but though I asked each passenger, no one would -give me the slightest explanation. This state of excitement kept on for -some little time; and at last we saw before us the Pass opening out on -the eastern side. There were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the -air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder. It seemed as though the -mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got -into the thunderous one. I was now myself looking out for the conveyance -which was to take me to the Count. Each moment I expected to see the -glare of lamps through the blackness; but all was dark. The only light -was the flickering rays of our own lamps, in which the steam from our -hard-driven horses rose in a white cloud. We could see now the sandy -road lying white before us, but there was on it no sign of a vehicle. -The passengers drew back with a sigh of gladness, which seemed to mock -my own disappointment. I was already thinking what I had best do, when -the driver, looking at his watch, said to the others something which I -could hardly hear, it was spoken so quietly and in so low a tone; I -thought it was “An hour less than the time.” Then turning to me, he said -in German worse than my own:-- - -“There is no carriage here. The Herr is not expected after all. He will -now come on to Bukovina, and return to-morrow or the next day; better -the next day.” Whilst he was speaking the horses began to neigh and -snort and plunge wildly, so that the driver had to hold them up. Then, -amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing -of themselves, a calèche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook -us, and drew up beside the coach. I could see from the flash of our -lamps, as the rays fell on them, that the horses were coal-black and -splendid animals. They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown -beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us. I -could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red -in the lamplight, as he turned to us. He said to the driver:-- - -“You are early to-night, my friend.” The man stammered in reply:-- - -“The English Herr was in a hurry,” to which the stranger replied:-- - -“That is why, I suppose, you wished him to go on to Bukovina. You cannot -deceive me, my friend; I know too much, and my horses are swift.” As he -spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with -very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory. One of my -companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s “Lenore”:-- - - “Denn die Todten reiten schnell”-- - (“For the dead travel fast.”) - -The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a -gleaming smile. The passenger turned his face away, at the same time -putting out his two fingers and crossing himself. “Give me the Herr’s -luggage,” said the driver; and with exceeding alacrity my bags were -handed out and put in the calèche. Then I descended from the side of the -coach, as the calèche was close alongside, the driver helping me with a -hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel; his strength must have been -prodigious. Without a word he shook his reins, the horses turned, and we -swept into the darkness of the Pass. As I looked back I saw the steam -from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, and projected -against it the figures of my late companions crossing themselves. Then -the driver cracked his whip and called to his horses, and off they swept -on their way to Bukovina. As they sank into the darkness I felt a -strange chill, and a lonely feeling came over me; but a cloak was thrown -over my shoulders, and a rug across my knees, and the driver said in -excellent German:-- - -“The night is chill, mein Herr, and my master the Count bade me take all -care of you. There is a flask of slivovitz (the plum brandy of the -country) underneath the seat, if you should require it.” I did not take -any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all the same. I felt a -little strangely, and not a little frightened. I think had there been -any alternative I should have taken it, instead of prosecuting that -unknown night journey. The carriage went at a hard pace straight along, -then we made a complete turn and went along another straight road. It -seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground -again; and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was -so. I would have liked to have asked the driver what this all meant, but -I really feared to do so, for I thought that, placed as I was, any -protest would have had no effect in case there had been an intention to -delay. By-and-by, however, as I was curious to know how time was -passing, I struck a match, and by its flame looked at my watch; it was -within a few minutes of midnight. This gave me a sort of shock, for I -suppose the general superstition about midnight was increased by my -recent experiences. I waited with a sick feeling of suspense. - -Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road--a -long, agonised wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by -another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which -now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed -to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp -it through the gloom of the night. At the first howl the horses began to -strain and rear, but the driver spoke to them soothingly, and they -quieted down, but shivered and sweated as though after a runaway from -sudden fright. Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each -side of us began a louder and a sharper howling--that of wolves--which -affected both the horses and myself in the same way--for I was minded to -jump from the calèche and run, whilst they reared again and plunged -madly, so that the driver had to use all his great strength to keep them -from bolting. In a few minutes, however, my own ears got accustomed to -the sound, and the horses so far became quiet that the driver was able -to descend and to stand before them. He petted and soothed them, and -whispered something in their ears, as I have heard of horse-tamers -doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became -quite manageable again, though they still trembled. The driver again -took his seat, and shaking his reins, started off at a great pace. This -time, after going to the far side of the Pass, he suddenly turned down a -narrow roadway which ran sharply to the right. - -Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the -roadway till we passed as through a tunnel; and again great frowning -rocks guarded us boldly on either side. Though we were in shelter, we -could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the -rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along. -It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall, -so that soon we and all around us were covered with a white blanket. The -keen wind still carried the howling of the dogs, though this grew -fainter as we went on our way. The baying of the wolves sounded nearer -and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side. I -grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear. The driver, -however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to -left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness. - -Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The -driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses, and, -jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness. I did not know -what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer; but while -I wondered the driver suddenly appeared again, and without a word took -his seat, and we resumed our journey. I think I must have fallen asleep -and kept dreaming of the incident, for it seemed to be repeated -endlessly, and now looking back, it is like a sort of awful nightmare. -Once the flame appeared so near the road, that even in the darkness -around us I could watch the driver’s motions. He went rapidly to where -the blue flame arose--it must have been very faint, for it did not seem -to illumine the place around it at all--and gathering a few stones, -formed them into some device. Once there appeared a strange optical -effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, -for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. This startled me, but -as the effect was only momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me -straining through the darkness. Then for a time there were no blue -flames, and we sped onwards through the gloom, with the howling of the -wolves around us, as though they were following in a moving circle. - -At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he -had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble worse -than ever and to snort and scream with fright. I could not see any cause -for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just -then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the -jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw -around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, -with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were a hundred times more -terrible in the grim silence which held them than even when they howled. -For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man -feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand -their true import. - -All at once the wolves began to howl as though the moonlight had had -some peculiar effect on them. The horses jumped about and reared, and -looked helplessly round with eyes that rolled in a way painful to see; -but the living ring of terror encompassed them on every side; and they -had perforce to remain within it. I called to the coachman to come, for -it seemed to me that our only chance was to try to break out through the -ring and to aid his approach. I shouted and beat the side of the -calèche, hoping by the noise to scare the wolves from that side, so as -to give him a chance of reaching the trap. How he came there, I know -not, but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command, and -looking towards the sound, saw him stand in the roadway. As he swept his -long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves -fell back and back further still. Just then a heavy cloud passed across -the face of the moon, so that we were again in darkness. - -When I could see again the driver was climbing into the calèche, and the -wolves had disappeared. This was all so strange and uncanny that a -dreadful fear came upon me, and I was afraid to speak or move. The time -seemed interminable as we swept on our way, now in almost complete -darkness, for the rolling clouds obscured the moon. We kept on -ascending, with occasional periods of quick descent, but in the main -always ascending. Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the -driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a -vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, -and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit -sky. - - - - -CHAPTER II - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ - - -_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully -awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In -the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark -ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than -it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by daylight. - -When the calèche stopped, the driver jumped down and held out his hand -to assist me to alight. Again I could not but notice his prodigious -strength. His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have -crushed mine if he had chosen. Then he took out my traps, and placed -them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door, old and -studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of -massive stone. I could see even in the dim light that the stone was -massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and -weather. As I stood, the driver jumped again into his seat and shook the -reins; the horses started forward, and trap and all disappeared down one -of the dark openings. - -I stood in silence where I was, for I did not know what to do. Of bell -or knocker there was no sign; through these frowning walls and dark -window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate. The -time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fears crowding upon -me. What sort of place had I come to, and among what kind of people? -What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked? Was this a -customary incident in the life of a solicitor’s clerk sent out to -explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Solicitor’s -clerk! Mina would not like that. Solicitor--for just before leaving -London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a -full-blown solicitor! I began to rub my eyes and pinch myself to see if -I were awake. It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I -expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with -the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt -in the morning after a day of overwork. But my flesh answered the -pinching test, and my eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake -and among the Carpathians. All I could do now was to be patient, and to -wait the coming of the morning. - -Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching -behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming -light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of -massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise -of long disuse, and the great door swung back. - -Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white -moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck -of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver -lamp, in which the flame burned without chimney or globe of any kind, -throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the -open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly -gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation:-- - -“Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!” He made no -motion of stepping to meet me, but stood like a statue, as though his -gesture of welcome had fixed him into stone. The instant, however, that -I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and -holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, -an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as -ice--more like the hand of a dead than a living man. Again he said:-- - -“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the -happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to -that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that -for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was -speaking; so to make sure, I said interrogatively:-- - -“Count Dracula?” He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:-- - -“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome, Mr. Harker, to my house. Come in; -the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.” As he was -speaking, he put the lamp on a bracket on the wall, and stepping out, -took my luggage; he had carried it in before I could forestall him. I -protested but he insisted:-- - -“Nay, sir, you are my guest. It is late, and my people are not -available. Let me see to your comfort myself.” He insisted on carrying -my traps along the passage, and then up a great winding stair, and -along another great passage, on whose stone floor our steps rang -heavily. At the end of this he threw open a heavy door, and I rejoiced -to see within a well-lit room in which a table was spread for supper, -and on whose mighty hearth a great fire of logs, freshly replenished, -flamed and flared. - -The Count halted, putting down my bags, closed the door, and crossing -the room, opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room lit -by a single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort. Passing -through this, he opened another door, and motioned me to enter. It was a -welcome sight; for here was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed with -another log fire,--also added to but lately, for the top logs were -fresh--which sent a hollow roar up the wide chimney. The Count himself -left my luggage inside and withdrew, saying, before he closed the -door:-- - -“You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your -toilet. I trust you will find all you wish. When you are ready, come -into the other room, where you will find your supper prepared.” - -The light and warmth and the Count’s courteous welcome seemed to have -dissipated all my doubts and fears. Having then reached my normal state, -I discovered that I was half famished with hunger; so making a hasty -toilet, I went into the other room. - -I found supper already laid out. My host, who stood on one side of the -great fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful wave of -his hand to the table, and said:-- - -“I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse -me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.” - -I handed to him the sealed letter which Mr. Hawkins had entrusted to me. -He opened it and read it gravely; then, with a charming smile, he handed -it to me to read. One passage of it, at least, gave me a thrill of -pleasure. - -“I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant -sufferer, forbids absolutely any travelling on my part for some time to -come; but I am happy to say I can send a sufficient substitute, one in -whom I have every possible confidence. He is a young man, full of energy -and talent in his own way, and of a very faithful disposition. He is -discreet and silent, and has grown into manhood in my service. He shall -be ready to attend on you when you will during his stay, and shall take -your instructions in all matters.” - -The Count himself came forward and took off the cover of a dish, and I -fell to at once on an excellent roast chicken. This, with some cheese -and a salad and a bottle of old Tokay, of which I had two glasses, was -my supper. During the time I was eating it the Count asked me many -questions as to my journey, and I told him by degrees all I had -experienced. - -By this time I had finished my supper, and by my host’s desire had drawn -up a chair by the fire and begun to smoke a cigar which he offered me, -at the same time excusing himself that he did not smoke. I had now an -opportunity of observing him, and found him of a very marked -physiognomy. - -His face was a strong--a very strong--aquiline, with high bridge of the -thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and -hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His -eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy -hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I -could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather -cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over -the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a -man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops -extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm -though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor. - -Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees -in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing -them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather -coarse--broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in -the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp -point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not -repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a -horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could -not conceal. The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a -grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his -protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the -fireplace. We were both silent for a while; and as I looked towards the -window I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn. There seemed a -strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from -down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes -gleamed, and he said:-- - -“Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make!” -Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he -added:-- - -“Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the -hunter.” Then he rose and said:-- - -“But you must be tired. Your bedroom is all ready, and to-morrow you -shall sleep as late as you will. I have to be away till the afternoon; -so sleep well and dream well!” With a courteous bow, he opened for me -himself the door to the octagonal room, and I entered my bedroom.... - -I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, -which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the -sake of those dear to me! - - * * * * * - -_7 May._--It is again early morning, but I have rested and enjoyed the -last twenty-four hours. I slept till late in the day, and awoke of my -own accord. When I had dressed myself I went into the room where we had -supped, and found a cold breakfast laid out, with coffee kept hot by the -pot being placed on the hearth. There was a card on the table, on which -was written:-- - -“I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me.--D.” I set to and -enjoyed a hearty meal. When I had done, I looked for a bell, so that I -might let the servants know I had finished; but I could not find one. -There are certainly odd deficiencies in the house, considering the -extraordinary evidences of wealth which are round me. The table service -is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value. -The curtains and upholstery of the chairs and sofas and the hangings of -my bed are of the costliest and most beautiful fabrics, and must have -been of fabulous value when they were made, for they are centuries old, -though in excellent order. I saw something like them in Hampton Court, -but there they were worn and frayed and moth-eaten. But still in none of -the rooms is there a mirror. There is not even a toilet glass on my -table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I -could either shave or brush my hair. I have not yet seen a servant -anywhere, or heard a sound near the castle except the howling of wolves. -Some time after I had finished my meal--I do not know whether to call it -breakfast or dinner, for it was between five and six o’clock when I had -it--I looked about for something to read, for I did not like to go about -the castle until I had asked the Count’s permission. There was -absolutely nothing in the room, book, newspaper, or even writing -materials; so I opened another door in the room and found a sort of -library. The door opposite mine I tried, but found it locked. - -In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English -books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and -newspapers. A table in the centre was littered with English magazines -and newspapers, though none of them were of very recent date. The books -were of the most varied kind--history, geography, politics, political -economy, botany, geology, law--all relating to England and English life -and customs and manners. There were even such books of reference as the -London Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the -Army and Navy Lists, and--it somehow gladdened my heart to see it--the -Law List. - -Whilst I was looking at the books, the door opened, and the Count -entered. He saluted me in a hearty way, and hoped that I had had a good -night’s rest. Then he went on:-- - -“I am glad you found your way in here, for I am sure there is much that -will interest you. These companions”--and he laid his hand on some of -the books--“have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever -since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours -of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to -know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of -your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of -humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes -it what it is. But alas! as yet I only know your tongue through books. -To you, my friend, I look that I know it to speak.” - -“But, Count,” I said, “you know and speak English thoroughly!” He bowed -gravely. - -“I thank you, my friend, for your all too-flattering estimate, but yet I -fear that I am but a little way on the road I would travel. True, I know -the grammar and the words, but yet I know not how to speak them.” - -“Indeed,” I said, “you speak excellently.” - -“Not so,” he answered. “Well, I know that, did I move and speak in your -London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not -enough for me. Here I am noble; I am _boyar_; the common people know me, -and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men -know him not--and to know not is to care not for. I am content if I am -like the rest, so that no man stops if he see me, or pause in his -speaking if he hear my words, ‘Ha, ha! a stranger!’ I have been so long -master that I would be master still--or at least that none other should -be master of me. You come to me not alone as agent of my friend Peter -Hawkins, of Exeter, to tell me all about my new estate in London. You -shall, I trust, rest here with me awhile, so that by our talking I may -learn the English intonation; and I would that you tell me when I make -error, even of the smallest, in my speaking. I am sorry that I had to be -away so long to-day; but you will, I know, forgive one who has so many -important affairs in hand.” - -Of course I said all I could about being willing, and asked if I might -come into that room when I chose. He answered: “Yes, certainly,” and -added:-- - -“You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are -locked, where of course you will not wish to go. There is reason that -all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with -my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.” I said I was sure of -this, and then he went on:-- - -“We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are -not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from -what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of -what strange things there may be.” - -This led to much conversation; and as it was evident that he wanted to -talk, if only for talking’s sake, I asked him many questions regarding -things that had already happened to me or come within my notice. -Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by -pretending not to understand; but generally he answered all I asked most -frankly. Then as time went on, and I had got somewhat bolder, I asked -him of some of the strange things of the preceding night, as, for -instance, why the coachman went to the places where he had seen the blue -flames. He then explained to me that it was commonly believed that on a -certain night of the year--last night, in fact, when all evil spirits -are supposed to have unchecked sway--a blue flame is seen over any place -where treasure has been concealed. “That treasure has been hidden,” he -went on, “in the region through which you came last night, there can be -but little doubt; for it was the ground fought over for centuries by the -Wallachian, the Saxon, and the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil -in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, -patriots or invaders. In old days there were stirring times, when the -Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out -to meet them--men and women, the aged and the children too--and waited -their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep -destruction on them with their artificial avalanches. When the invader -was triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been -sheltered in the friendly soil.” - -“But how,” said I, “can it have remained so long undiscovered, when -there is a sure index to it if men will but take the trouble to look?” -The Count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, -sharp, canine teeth showed out strangely; he answered:-- - -“Because your peasant is at heart a coward and a fool! Those flames only -appear on one night; and on that night no man of this land will, if he -can help it, stir without his doors. And, dear sir, even if he did he -would not know what to do. Why, even the peasant that you tell me of who -marked the place of the flame would not know where to look in daylight -even for his own work. Even you would not, I dare be sworn, be able to -find these places again?” - -“There you are right,” I said. “I know no more than the dead where even -to look for them.” Then we drifted into other matters. - -“Come,” he said at last, “tell me of London and of the house which you -have procured for me.” With an apology for my remissness, I went into my -own room to get the papers from my bag. Whilst I was placing them in -order I heard a rattling of china and silver in the next room, and as I -passed through, noticed that the table had been cleared and the lamp -lit, for it was by this time deep into the dark. The lamps were also lit -in the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the sofa, -reading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw’s Guide. When I -came in he cleared the books and papers from the table; and with him I -went into plans and deeds and figures of all sorts. He was interested in -everything, and asked me a myriad questions about the place and its -surroundings. He clearly had studied beforehand all he could get on the -subject of the neighbourhood, for he evidently at the end knew very much -more than I did. When I remarked this, he answered:-- - -“Well, but, my friend, is it not needful that I should? When I go there -I shall be all alone, and my friend Harker Jonathan--nay, pardon me, I -fall into my country’s habit of putting your patronymic first--my friend -Jonathan Harker will not be by my side to correct and aid me. He will be -in Exeter, miles away, probably working at papers of the law with my -other friend, Peter Hawkins. So!” - -We went thoroughly into the business of the purchase of the estate at -Purfleet. When I had told him the facts and got his signature to the -necessary papers, and had written a letter with them ready to post to -Mr. Hawkins, he began to ask me how I had come across so suitable a -place. I read to him the notes which I had made at the time, and which I -inscribe here:-- - -“At Purfleet, on a by-road, I came across just such a place as seemed to -be required, and where was displayed a dilapidated notice that the place -was for sale. It is surrounded by a high wall, of ancient structure, -built of heavy stones, and has not been repaired for a large number of -years. The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with -rust. - -“The estate is called Carfax, no doubt a corruption of the old _Quatre -Face_, as the house is four-sided, agreeing with the cardinal points of -the compass. It contains in all some twenty acres, quite surrounded by -the solid stone wall above mentioned. There are many trees on it, which -make it in places gloomy, and there is a deep, dark-looking pond or -small lake, evidently fed by some springs, as the water is clear and -flows away in a fair-sized stream. The house is very large and of all -periods back, I should say, to mediæval times, for one part is of stone -immensely thick, with only a few windows high up and heavily barred with -iron. It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or -church. I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading -to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from -various points. The house has been added to, but in a very straggling -way, and I can only guess at the amount of ground it covers, which must -be very great. There are but few houses close at hand, one being a very -large house only recently added to and formed into a private lunatic -asylum. It is not, however, visible from the grounds.” - -When I had finished, he said:-- - -“I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to -live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a -day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. I rejoice -also that there is a chapel of old times. We Transylvanian nobles love -not to think that our bones may lie amongst the common dead. I seek not -gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and -sparkling waters which please the young and gay. I am no longer young; -and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not -attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the -shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken -battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow, and would -be alone with my thoughts when I may.” Somehow his words and his look -did not seem to accord, or else it was that his cast of face made his -smile look malignant and saturnine. - -Presently, with an excuse, he left me, asking me to put all my papers -together. He was some little time away, and I began to look at some of -the books around me. One was an atlas, which I found opened naturally at -England, as if that map had been much used. On looking at it I found in -certain places little rings marked, and on examining these I noticed -that one was near London on the east side, manifestly where his new -estate was situated; the other two were Exeter, and Whitby on the -Yorkshire coast. - -It was the better part of an hour when the Count returned. “Aha!” he -said; “still at your books? Good! But you must not work always. Come; I -am informed that your supper is ready.” He took my arm, and we went into -the next room, where I found an excellent supper ready on the table. The -Count again excused himself, as he had dined out on his being away from -home. But he sat as on the previous night, and chatted whilst I ate. -After supper I smoked, as on the last evening, and the Count stayed with -me, chatting and asking questions on every conceivable subject, hour -after hour. I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not -say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host’s wishes in -every way. I was not sleepy, as the long sleep yesterday had fortified -me; but I could not help experiencing that chill which comes over one at -the coming of the dawn, which is like, in its way, the turn of the tide. -They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to -the dawn or at the turn of the tide; any one who has when tired, and -tied as it were to his post, experienced this change in the atmosphere -can well believe it. All at once we heard the crow of a cock coming up -with preternatural shrillness through the clear morning air; Count -Dracula, jumping to his feet, said:-- - -“Why, there is the morning again! How remiss I am to let you stay up so -long. You must make your conversation regarding my dear new country of -England less interesting, so that I may not forget how time flies by -us,” and, with a courtly bow, he quickly left me. - -I went into my own room and drew the curtains, but there was little to -notice; my window opened into the courtyard, all I could see was the -warm grey of quickening sky. So I pulled the curtains again, and have -written of this day. - - * * * * * - -_8 May._--I began to fear as I wrote in this book that I was getting too -diffuse; but now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for -there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I -cannot but feel uneasy. I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had -never come. It may be that this strange night-existence is telling on -me; but would that that were all! If there were any one to talk to I -could bear it, but there is no one. I have only the Count to speak with, -and he!--I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place. Let -me be prosaic so far as facts can be; it will help me to bear up, and -imagination must not run riot with me. If it does I am lost. Let me say -at once how I stand--or seem to. - -I only slept a few hours when I went to bed, and feeling that I could -not sleep any more, got up. I had hung my shaving glass by the window, -and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, -and heard the Count’s voice saying to me, “Good-morning.” I started, for -it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass -covered the whole room behind me. In starting I had cut myself slightly, -but did not notice it at the moment. Having answered the Count’s -salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. -This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I -could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in -the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed; but there was no -sign of a man in it, except myself. This was startling, and, coming on -the top of so many strange things, was beginning to increase that vague -feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near; but at -the instant I saw that the cut had bled a little, and the blood was -trickling over my chin. I laid down the razor, turning as I did so half -round to look for some sticking plaster. When the Count saw my face, his -eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at -my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which -held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed -so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there. - -“Take care,” he said, “take care how you cut yourself. It is more -dangerous than you think in this country.” Then seizing the shaving -glass, he went on: “And this is the wretched thing that has done the -mischief. It is a foul bauble of man’s vanity. Away with it!” and -opening the heavy window with one wrench of his terrible hand, he flung -out the glass, which was shattered into a thousand pieces on the stones -of the courtyard far below. Then he withdrew without a word. It is very -annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case or -the bottom of the shaving-pot, which is fortunately of metal. - -When I went into the dining-room, breakfast was prepared; but I could -not find the Count anywhere. So I breakfasted alone. It is strange that -as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very -peculiar man! After breakfast I did a little exploring in the castle. I -went out on the stairs, and found a room looking towards the South. The -view was magnificent, and from where I stood there was every opportunity -of seeing it. The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A -stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without -touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree -tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and -there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through -the forests. - -But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I -explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and -bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there -an available exit. - -The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner! - - - - -CHAPTER III - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ - - -When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. -I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of -every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my -helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a -few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much -as a rat does in a trap. When, however, the conviction had come to me -that I was helpless I sat down quietly--as quietly as I have ever done -anything in my life--and began to think over what was best to be done. I -am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion. Of -one thing only am I certain; that it is no use making my ideas known to -the Count. He knows well that I am imprisoned; and as he has done it -himself, and has doubtless his own motives for it, he would only deceive -me if I trusted him fully with the facts. So far as I can see, my only -plan will be to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself, and my eyes -open. I am, I know, either being deceived, like a baby, by my own fears, -or else I am in desperate straits; and if the latter be so, I need, and -shall need, all my brains to get through. - -I had hardly come to this conclusion when I heard the great door below -shut, and knew that the Count had returned. He did not come at once into -the library, so I went cautiously to my own room and found him making -the bed. This was odd, but only confirmed what I had all along -thought--that there were no servants in the house. When later I saw him -through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the -dining-room, I was assured of it; for if he does himself all these -menial offices, surely it is proof that there is no one else to do them. -This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it -must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that -brought me here. This is a terrible thought; for if so, what does it -mean that he could control the wolves, as he did, by only holding up his -hand in silence. How was it that all the people at Bistritz and on the -coach had some terrible fear for me? What meant the giving of the -crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose, of the mountain ash? Bless -that good, good woman who hung the crucifix round my neck! for it is a -comfort and a strength to me whenever I touch it. It is odd that a thing -which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous -should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help. Is it that there -is something in the essence of the thing itself, or that it is a medium, -a tangible help, in conveying memories of sympathy and comfort? Some -time, if it may be, I must examine this matter and try to make up my -mind about it. In the meantime I must find out all I can about Count -Dracula, as it may help me to understand. To-night he may talk of -himself, if I turn the conversation that way. I must be very careful, -however, not to awake his suspicion. - - * * * * * - -_Midnight._--I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few -questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject -wonderfully. In his speaking of things and people, and especially of -battles, he spoke as if he had been present at them all. This he -afterwards explained by saying that to a _boyar_ the pride of his house -and name is his own pride, that their glory is his glory, that their -fate is his fate. Whenever he spoke of his house he always said “we,” -and spoke almost in the plural, like a king speaking. I wish I could put -down all he said exactly as he said it, for to me it was most -fascinating. It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country. He -grew excited as he spoke, and walked about the room pulling his great -white moustache and grasping anything on which he laid his hands as -though he would crush it by main strength. One thing he said which I -shall put down as nearly as I can; for it tells in its way the story of -his race:-- - -“We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood -of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship. Here, -in the whirlpool of European races, the Ugric tribe bore down from -Iceland the fighting spirit which Thor and Wodin gave them, which their -Berserkers displayed to such fell intent on the seaboards of Europe, ay, -and of Asia and Africa too, till the peoples thought that the -were-wolves themselves had come. Here, too, when they came, they found -the Huns, whose warlike fury had swept the earth like a living flame, -till the dying peoples held that in their veins ran the blood of those -old witches, who, expelled from Scythia had mated with the devils in the -desert. Fools, fools! What devil or what witch was ever so great as -Attila, whose blood is in these veins?” He held up his arms. “Is it a -wonder that we were a conquering race; that we were proud; that when the -Magyar, the Lombard, the Avar, the Bulgar, or the Turk poured his -thousands on our frontiers, we drove them back? Is it strange that when -Arpad and his legions swept through the Hungarian fatherland he found us -here when he reached the frontier; that the Honfoglalas was completed -there? And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were -claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries -was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more -than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, -‘water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.’ Who more gladly than we -throughout the Four Nations received the ‘bloody sword,’ or at its -warlike call flocked quicker to the standard of the King? When was -redeemed that great shame of my nation, the shame of Cassova, when the -flags of the Wallach and the Magyar went down beneath the Crescent? Who -was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat -the Turk on his own ground? This was a Dracula indeed! Woe was it that -his own unworthy brother, when he had fallen, sold his people to the -Turk and brought the shame of slavery on them! Was it not this Dracula, -indeed, who inspired that other of his race who in a later age again and -again brought his forces over the great river into Turkey-land; who, -when he was beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had -to come alone from the bloody field where his troops were being -slaughtered, since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph! They -said that he thought only of himself. Bah! what good are peasants -without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to -conduct it? Again, when, after the battle of Mohács, we threw off the -Hungarian yoke, we of the Dracula blood were amongst their leaders, for -our spirit would not brook that we were not free. Ah, young sir, the -Szekelys--and the Dracula as their heart’s blood, their brains, and -their swords--can boast a record that mushroom growths like the -Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The warlike days are over. -Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and -the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” - -It was by this time close on morning, and we went to bed. (_Mem._, this -diary seems horribly like the beginning of the “Arabian Nights,” for -everything has to break off at cockcrow--or like the ghost of Hamlet’s -father.) - - * * * * * - -_12 May._--Let me begin with facts--bare, meagre facts, verified by -books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. I must not -confuse them with experiences which will have to rest on my own -observation, or my memory of them. Last evening when the Count came from -his room he began by asking me questions on legal matters and on the -doing of certain kinds of business. I had spent the day wearily over -books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the -matters I had been examining at Lincoln’s Inn. There was a certain -method in the Count’s inquiries, so I shall try to put them down in -sequence; the knowledge may somehow or some time be useful to me. - -First, he asked if a man in England might have two solicitors or more. I -told him he might have a dozen if he wished, but that it would not be -wise to have more than one solicitor engaged in one transaction, as only -one could act at a time, and that to change would be certain to militate -against his interest. He seemed thoroughly to understand, and went on to -ask if there would be any practical difficulty in having one man to -attend, say, to banking, and another to look after shipping, in case -local help were needed in a place far from the home of the banking -solicitor. I asked him to explain more fully, so that I might not by any -chance mislead him, so he said:-- - -“I shall illustrate. Your friend and mine, Mr. Peter Hawkins, from under -the shadow of your beautiful cathedral at Exeter, which is far from -London, buys for me through your good self my place at London. Good! Now -here let me say frankly, lest you should think it strange that I have -sought the services of one so far off from London instead of some one -resident there, that my motive was that no local interest might be -served save my wish only; and as one of London residence might, perhaps, -have some purpose of himself or friend to serve, I went thus afield to -seek my agent, whose labours should be only to my interest. Now, suppose -I, who have much of affairs, wish to ship goods, say, to Newcastle, or -Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more -ease be done by consigning to one in these ports?” I answered that -certainly it would be most easy, but that we solicitors had a system of -agency one for the other, so that local work could be done locally on -instruction from any solicitor, so that the client, simply placing -himself in the hands of one man, could have his wishes carried out by -him without further trouble. - -“But,” said he, “I could be at liberty to direct myself. Is it not so?” - -“Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who -do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one person.” - -“Good!” he said, and then went on to ask about the means of making -consignments and the forms to be gone through, and of all sorts of -difficulties which might arise, but by forethought could be guarded -against. I explained all these things to him to the best of my ability, -and he certainly left me under the impression that he would have made a -wonderful solicitor, for there was nothing that he did not think of or -foresee. For a man who was never in the country, and who did not -evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were -wonderful. When he had satisfied himself on these points of which he had -spoken, and I had verified all as well as I could by the books -available, he suddenly stood up and said:-- - -“Have you written since your first letter to our friend Mr. Peter -Hawkins, or to any other?” It was with some bitterness in my heart that -I answered that I had not, that as yet I had not seen any opportunity of -sending letters to anybody. - -“Then write now, my young friend,” he said, laying a heavy hand on my -shoulder: “write to our friend and to any other; and say, if it will -please you, that you shall stay with me until a month from now.” - -“Do you wish me to stay so long?” I asked, for my heart grew cold at the -thought. - -“I desire it much; nay, I will take no refusal. When your master, -employer, what you will, engaged that someone should come on his behalf, -it was understood that my needs only were to be consulted. I have not -stinted. Is it not so?” - -What could I do but bow acceptance? It was Mr. Hawkins’s interest, not -mine, and I had to think of him, not myself; and besides, while Count -Dracula was speaking, there was that in his eyes and in his bearing -which made me remember that I was a prisoner, and that if I wished it I -could have no choice. The Count saw his victory in my bow, and his -mastery in the trouble of my face, for he began at once to use them, but -in his own smooth, resistless way:-- - -“I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things -other than business in your letters. It will doubtless please your -friends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to getting -home to them. Is it not so?” As he spoke he handed me three sheets of -note-paper and three envelopes. They were all of the thinnest foreign -post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, -with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red underlip, I understood -as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for -he would be able to read it. So I determined to write only formal notes -now, but to write fully to Mr. Hawkins in secret, and also to Mina, for -to her I could write in shorthand, which would puzzle the Count, if he -did see it. When I had written my two letters I sat quiet, reading a -book whilst the Count wrote several notes, referring as he wrote them to -some books on his table. Then he took up my two and placed them with his -own, and put by his writing materials, after which, the instant the door -had closed behind him, I leaned over and looked at the letters, which -were face down on the table. I felt no compunction in doing so, for -under the circumstances I felt that I should protect myself in every way -I could. - -One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The -Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to -Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, -bankers, Buda-Pesth. The second and fourth were unsealed. I was just -about to look at them when I saw the door-handle move. I sank back in my -seat, having just had time to replace the letters as they had been and -to resume my book before the Count, holding still another letter in his -hand, entered the room. He took up the letters on the table and stamped -them carefully, and then turning to me, said:-- - -“I trust you will forgive me, but I have much work to do in private this -evening. You will, I hope, find all things as you wish.” At the door he -turned, and after a moment’s pause said:-- - -“Let me advise you, my dear young friend--nay, let me warn you with all -seriousness, that should you leave these rooms you will not by any -chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has -many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. Be -warned! Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then -haste to your own chamber or to these rooms, for your rest will then be -safe. But if you be not careful in this respect, then”--He finished his -speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with his hands as if he were -washing them. I quite understood; my only doubt was as to whether any -dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom -and mystery which seemed closing around me. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no -doubt in question. I shall not fear to sleep in any place where he is -not. I have placed the crucifix over the head of my bed--I imagine that -my rest is thus freer from dreams; and there it shall remain. - -When he left me I went to my room. After a little while, not hearing any -sound, I came out and went up the stone stair to where I could look out -towards the South. There was some sense of freedom in the vast expanse, -inaccessible though it was to me, as compared with the narrow darkness -of the courtyard. Looking out on this, I felt that I was indeed in -prison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of -the night. I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me. -It is destroying my nerve. I start at my own shadow, and am full of all -sorts of horrible imaginings. God knows that there is ground for my -terrible fear in this accursed place! I looked out over the beautiful -expanse, bathed in soft yellow moonlight till it was almost as light as -day. In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows -in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness. The mere beauty seemed -to cheer me; there was peace and comfort in every breath I drew. As I -leaned from the window my eye was caught by something moving a storey -below me, and somewhat to my left, where I imagined, from the order of -the rooms, that the windows of the Count’s own room would look out. The -window at which I stood was tall and deep, stone-mullioned, and though -weatherworn, was still complete; but it was evidently many a day since -the case had been there. I drew back behind the stonework, and looked -carefully out. - -What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window. I did not -see the face, but I knew the man by the neck and the movement of his -back and arms. In any case I could not mistake the hands which I had had -so many opportunities of studying. I was at first interested and -somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter will interest -and amuse a man when he is a prisoner. But my very feelings changed to -repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the -window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, -_face down_ with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings. At -first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was some trick of the -moonlight, some weird effect of shadow; but I kept looking, and it could -be no delusion. I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the -stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus -using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable -speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall. - -What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the -semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering -me; I am in fear--in awful fear--and there is no escape for me; I am -encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of.... - - * * * * * - -_15 May._--Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion. -He moved downwards in a sidelong way, some hundred feet down, and a good -deal to the left. He vanished into some hole or window. When his head -had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without -avail--the distance was too great to allow a proper angle of sight. I -knew he had left the castle now, and thought to use the opportunity to -explore more than I had dared to do as yet. I went back to the room, and -taking a lamp, tried all the doors. They were all locked, as I had -expected, and the locks were comparatively new; but I went down the -stone stairs to the hall where I had entered originally. I found I could -pull back the bolts easily enough and unhook the great chains; but the -door was locked, and the key was gone! That key must be in the Count’s -room; I must watch should his door be unlocked, so that I may get it and -escape. I went on to make a thorough examination of the various stairs -and passages, and to try the doors that opened from them. One or two -small rooms near the hall were open, but there was nothing to see in -them except old furniture, dusty with age and moth-eaten. At last, -however, I found one door at the top of the stairway which, though it -seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure. I tried it harder, -and found that it was not really locked, but that the resistance came -from the fact that the hinges had fallen somewhat, and the heavy door -rested on the floor. Here was an opportunity which I might not have -again, so I exerted myself, and with many efforts forced it back so that -I could enter. I was now in a wing of the castle further to the right -than the rooms I knew and a storey lower down. From the windows I could -see that the suite of rooms lay along to the south of the castle, the -windows of the end room looking out both west and south. On the latter -side, as well as to the former, there was a great precipice. The castle -was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was -quite impregnable, and great windows were placed here where sling, or -bow, or culverin could not reach, and consequently light and comfort, -impossible to a position which had to be guarded, were secured. To the -west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged -mountain fastnesses, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with -mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in cracks and crevices and -crannies of the stone. This was evidently the portion of the castle -occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of -comfort than any I had seen. The windows were curtainless, and the -yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to -see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over -all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth. My -lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was -glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place -which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. Still, it was better -than living alone in the rooms which I had come to hate from the -presence of the Count, and after trying a little to school my nerves, I -found a soft quietude come over me. Here I am, sitting at a little oak -table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much -thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my -diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. It is -nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my -senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own -which mere “modernity” cannot kill. - - * * * * * - -_Later: the Morning of 16 May._--God preserve my sanity, for to this I -am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. -Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not -go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already. If I be sane, then surely it -is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this -hateful place the Count is the least dreadful to me; that to him alone I -can look for safety, even though this be only whilst I can serve his -purpose. Great God! merciful God! Let me be calm, for out of that way -lies madness indeed. I begin to get new lights on certain things which -have puzzled me. Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant -when he made Hamlet say:-- - - “My tablets! quick, my tablets! - ’Tis meet that I put it down,” etc., - -for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock -had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. -The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me. - -The Count’s mysterious warning frightened me at the time; it frightens -me more now when I think of it, for in future he has a fearful hold upon -me. I shall fear to doubt what he may say! - -When I had written in my diary and had fortunately replaced the book and -pen in my pocket I felt sleepy. The Count’s warning came into my mind, -but I took a pleasure in disobeying it. The sense of sleep was upon me, -and with it the obstinacy which sleep brings as outrider. The soft -moonlight soothed, and the wide expanse without gave a sense of freedom -which refreshed me. I determined not to return to-night to the -gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat -and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for -their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars. I drew a great -couch out of its place near the corner, so that as I lay, I could look -at the lovely view to east and south, and unthinking of and uncaring for -the dust, composed myself for sleep. I suppose I must have fallen -asleep; I hope so, but I fear, for all that followed was startlingly -real--so real that now sitting here in the broad, full sunlight of the -morning, I cannot in the least believe that it was all sleep. - -I was not alone. The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I -came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, -my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of -dust. In the moonlight opposite me were three young women, ladies by -their dress and manner. I thought at the time that I must be dreaming -when I saw them, for, though the moonlight was behind them, they threw -no shadow on the floor. They came close to me, and looked at me for some -time, and then whispered together. Two were dark, and had high aquiline -noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes that seemed to be -almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was -fair, as fair as can be, with great wavy masses of golden hair and eyes -like pale sapphires. I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it -in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the -moment how or where. All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like -pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something -about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some -deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would -kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some -day it should meet Mina’s eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth. -They whispered together, and then they all three laughed--such a -silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have -come through the softness of human lips. It was like the intolerable, -tingling sweetness of water-glasses when played on by a cunning hand. -The fair girl shook her head coquettishly, and the other two urged her -on. One said:-- - -“Go on! You are first, and we shall follow; yours is the right to -begin.” The other added:-- - -“He is young and strong; there are kisses for us all.” I lay quiet, -looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation. -The fair girl advanced and bent over me till I could feel the movement -of her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent -the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter -underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood. - -I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under -the lashes. The girl went on her knees, and bent over me, simply -gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling -and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips -like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining -on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp -teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of -my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat. Then she -paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked -her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck. Then the -skin of my throat began to tingle as one’s flesh does when the hand that -is to tickle it approaches nearer--nearer. I could feel the soft, -shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, -and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. -I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited--waited with beating -heart. - -But at that instant, another sensation swept through me as quick as -lightning. I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his -being as if lapped in a storm of fury. As my eyes opened involuntarily I -saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman and with -giant’s power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the -white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing red with -passion. But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to -the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light -in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His -face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; -the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar -of white-hot metal. With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman -from him, and then motioned to the others, as though he were beating -them back; it was the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the -wolves. In a voice which, though low and almost in a whisper seemed to -cut through the air and then ring round the room he said:-- - -“How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when -I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware -how you meddle with him, or you’ll have to deal with me.” The fair girl, -with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him:-- - -“You yourself never loved; you never love!” On this the other women -joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the -room that it almost made me faint to hear; it seemed like the pleasure -of fiends. Then the Count turned, after looking at my face attentively, -and said in a soft whisper:-- - -“Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it -not so? Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall -kiss him at your will. Now go! go! I must awaken him, for there is work -to be done.” - -“Are we to have nothing to-night?” said one of them, with a low laugh, -as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which -moved as though there were some living thing within it. For answer he -nodded his head. One of the women jumped forward and opened it. If my -ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a -half-smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with -horror; but as I looked they disappeared, and with them the dreadful -bag. There was no door near them, and they could not have passed me -without my noticing. They simply seemed to fade into the rays of the -moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could see outside the -dim, shadowy forms for a moment before they entirely faded away. - -Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. - - - - -CHAPTER IV - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL--_continued_ - - -I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must -have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but -could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were -certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by -in a manner which was not my habit. My watch was still unwound, and I am -rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and -many such details. But these things are no proof, for they may have been -evidences that my mind was not as usual, and, from some cause or -another, I had certainly been much upset. I must watch for proof. Of one -thing I am glad: if it was that the Count carried me here and undressed -me, he must have been hurried in his task, for my pockets are intact. I -am sure this diary would have been a mystery to him which he would not -have brooked. He would have taken or destroyed it. As I look round this -room, although it has been to me so full of fear, it is now a sort of -sanctuary, for nothing can be more dreadful than those awful women, who -were--who _are_--waiting to suck my blood. - - * * * * * - -_18 May._--I have been down to look at that room again in daylight, for -I _must_ know the truth. When I got to the doorway at the top of the -stairs I found it closed. It had been so forcibly driven against the -jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. I could see that the bolt -of the lock had not been shot, but the door is fastened from the inside. -I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise. - - * * * * * - -_19 May._--I am surely in the toils. Last night the Count asked me in -the suavest tones to write three letters, one saying that my work here -was nearly done, and that I should start for home within a few days, -another that I was starting on the next morning from the time of the -letter, and the third that I had left the castle and arrived at -Bistritz. I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state -of things it would be madness to quarrel openly with the Count whilst I -am so absolutely in his power; and to refuse would be to excite his -suspicion and to arouse his anger. He knows that I know too much, and -that I must not live, lest I be dangerous to him; my only chance is to -prolong my opportunities. Something may occur which will give me a -chance to escape. I saw in his eyes something of that gathering wrath -which was manifest when he hurled that fair woman from him. He explained -to me that posts were few and uncertain, and that my writing now would -ensure ease of mind to my friends; and he assured me with so much -impressiveness that he would countermand the later letters, which would -be held over at Bistritz until due time in case chance would admit of my -prolonging my stay, that to oppose him would have been to create new -suspicion. I therefore pretended to fall in with his views, and asked -him what dates I should put on the letters. He calculated a minute, and -then said:-- - -“The first should be June 12, the second June 19, and the third June -29.” - -I know now the span of my life. God help me! - - * * * * * - -_28 May._--There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to -send word home. A band of Szgany have come to the castle, and are -encamped in the courtyard. These Szgany are gipsies; I have notes of -them in my book. They are peculiar to this part of the world, though -allied to the ordinary gipsies all the world over. There are thousands -of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside all law. -They attach themselves as a rule to some great noble or _boyar_, and -call themselves by his name. They are fearless and without religion, -save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany -tongue. - -I shall write some letters home, and shall try to get them to have them -posted. I have already spoken them through my window to begin -acquaintanceship. They took their hats off and made obeisance and many -signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could -their spoken language.... - - * * * * * - -I have written the letters. Mina’s is in shorthand, and I simply ask Mr. -Hawkins to communicate with her. To her I have explained my situation, -but without the horrors which I may only surmise. It would shock and -frighten her to death were I to expose my heart to her. Should the -letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the -extent of my knowledge.... - - * * * * * - -I have given the letters; I threw them through the bars of my window -with a gold piece, and made what signs I could to have them posted. The -man who took them pressed them to his heart and bowed, and then put them -in his cap. I could do no more. I stole back to the study, and began to -read. As the Count did not come in, I have written here.... - - * * * * * - -The Count has come. He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest -voice as he opened two letters:-- - -“The Szgany has given me these, of which, though I know not whence they -come, I shall, of course, take care. See!”--he must have looked at -it--“one is from you, and to my friend Peter Hawkins; the other”--here -he caught sight of the strange symbols as he opened the envelope, and -the dark look came into his face, and his eyes blazed wickedly--“the -other is a vile thing, an outrage upon friendship and hospitality! It is -not signed. Well! so it cannot matter to us.” And he calmly held letter -and envelope in the flame of the lamp till they were consumed. Then he -went on:-- - -“The letter to Hawkins--that I shall, of course, send on, since it is -yours. Your letters are sacred to me. Your pardon, my friend, that -unknowingly I did break the seal. Will you not cover it again?” He held -out the letter to me, and with a courteous bow handed me a clean -envelope. I could only redirect it and hand it to him in silence. When -he went out of the room I could hear the key turn softly. A minute later -I went over and tried it, and the door was locked. - -When, an hour or two after, the Count came quietly into the room, his -coming awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa. He was very -courteous and very cheery in his manner, and seeing that I had been -sleeping, he said:-- - -“So, my friend, you are tired? Get to bed. There is the surest rest. I -may not have the pleasure to talk to-night, since there are many labours -to me; but you will sleep, I pray.” I passed to my room and went to bed, -and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms. - - * * * * * - -_31 May._--This morning when I woke I thought I would provide myself -with some paper and envelopes from my bag and keep them in my pocket, so -that I might write in case I should get an opportunity, but again a -surprise, again a shock! - -Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, -relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that -might be useful to me were I once outside the castle. I sat and pondered -awhile, and then some thought occurred to me, and I made search of my -portmanteau and in the wardrobe where I had placed my clothes. - -The suit in which I had travelled was gone, and also my overcoat and -rug; I could find no trace of them anywhere. This looked like some new -scheme of villainy.... - - * * * * * - -_17 June._--This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed -cudgelling my brains, I heard without a cracking of whips and pounding -and scraping of horses’ feet up the rocky path beyond the courtyard. -With joy I hurried to the window, and saw drive into the yard two great -leiter-wagons, each drawn by eight sturdy horses, and at the head of -each pair a Slovak, with his wide hat, great nail-studded belt, dirty -sheepskin, and high boots. They had also their long staves in hand. I -ran to the door, intending to descend and try and join them through the -main hall, as I thought that way might be opened for them. Again a -shock: my door was fastened on the outside. - -Then I ran to the window and cried to them. They looked up at me -stupidly and pointed, but just then the “hetman” of the Szgany came out, -and seeing them pointing to my window, said something, at which they -laughed. Henceforth no effort of mine, no piteous cry or agonised -entreaty, would make them even look at me. They resolutely turned away. -The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick -rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks -handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved. When -they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the -yard, the Slovaks were given some money by the Szgany, and spitting on -it for luck, lazily went each to his horse’s head. Shortly afterwards, I -heard the cracking of their whips die away in the distance. - - * * * * * - -_24 June, before morning._--Last night the Count left me early, and -locked himself into his own room. As soon as I dared I ran up the -winding stair, and looked out of the window, which opened south. I -thought I would watch for the Count, for there is something going on. -The Szgany are quartered somewhere in the castle and are doing work of -some kind. I know it, for now and then I hear a far-away muffled sound -as of mattock and spade, and, whatever it is, it must be the end of some -ruthless villainy. - -I had been at the window somewhat less than half an hour, when I saw -something coming out of the Count’s window. I drew back and watched -carefully, and saw the whole man emerge. It was a new shock to me to -find that he had on the suit of clothes which I had worn whilst -travelling here, and slung over his shoulder the terrible bag which I -had seen the women take away. There could be no doubt as to his quest, -and in my garb, too! This, then, is his new scheme of evil: that he will -allow others to see me, as they think, so that he may both leave -evidence that I have been seen in the towns or villages posting my own -letters, and that any wickedness which he may do shall by the local -people be attributed to me. - -It makes me rage to think that this can go on, and whilst I am shut up -here, a veritable prisoner, but without that protection of the law which -is even a criminal’s right and consolation. - -I thought I would watch for the Count’s return, and for a long time sat -doggedly at the window. Then I began to notice that there were some -quaint little specks floating in the rays of the moonlight. They were -like the tiniest grains of dust, and they whirled round and gathered in -clusters in a nebulous sort of way. I watched them with a sense of -soothing, and a sort of calm stole over me. I leaned back in the -embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more -fully the aërial gambolling. - -Something made me start up, a low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far -below in the valley, which was hidden from my sight. Louder it seemed to -ring in my ears, and the floating motes of dust to take new shapes to -the sound as they danced in the moonlight. I felt myself struggling to -awake to some call of my instincts; nay, my very soul was struggling, -and my half-remembered sensibilities were striving to answer the call. I -was becoming hypnotised! Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the -moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom -beyond. More and more they gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom -shapes. And then I started, broad awake and in full possession of my -senses, and ran screaming from the place. The phantom shapes, which were -becoming gradually materialised from the moonbeams, were those of the -three ghostly women to whom I was doomed. I fled, and felt somewhat -safer in my own room, where there was no moonlight and where the lamp -was burning brightly. - -When a couple of hours had passed I heard something stirring in the -Count’s room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed; and then -there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. With a -beating heart, I tried the door; but I was locked in my prison, and -could do nothing. I sat down and simply cried. - -As I sat I heard a sound in the courtyard without--the agonised cry of a -woman. I rushed to the window, and throwing it up, peered out between -the bars. There, indeed, was a woman with dishevelled hair, holding her -hands over her heart as one distressed with running. She was leaning -against a corner of the gateway. When she saw my face at the window she -threw herself forward, and shouted in a voice laden with menace:-- - -“Monster, give me my child!” - -She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same -words in tones which wrung my heart. Then she tore her hair and beat her -breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant -emotion. Finally, she threw herself forward, and, though I could not see -her, I could hear the beating of her naked hands against the door. - -Somewhere high overhead, probably on the tower, I heard the voice of the -Count calling in his harsh, metallic whisper. His call seemed to be -answered from far and wide by the howling of wolves. Before many minutes -had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when liberated, -through the wide entrance into the courtyard. - -There was no cry from the woman, and the howling of the wolves was but -short. Before long they streamed away singly, licking their lips. - -I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and -she was better dead. - -What shall I do? what can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful -thing of night and gloom and fear? - - * * * * * - -_25 June, morning._--No man knows till he has suffered from the night -how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. When the -sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great -gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me -as if the dove from the ark had lighted there. My fear fell from me as -if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. I must -take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. Last -night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal -series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the -earth. - -Let me not think of it. Action! - -It has always been at night-time that I have been molested or -threatened, or in some way in danger or in fear. I have not yet seen the -Count in the daylight. Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that -he may be awake whilst they sleep? If I could only get into his room! -But there is no possible way. The door is always locked, no way for me. - -Yes, there is a way, if one dares to take it. Where his body has gone -why may not another body go? I have seen him myself crawl from his -window. Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window? The -chances are desperate, but my need is more desperate still. I shall risk -it. At the worst it can only be death; and a man’s death is not a -calf’s, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me -in my task! Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and -second father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina! - - * * * * * - -_Same day, later._--I have made the effort, and God, helping me, have -come safely back to this room. I must put down every detail in order. I -went whilst my courage was fresh straight to the window on the south -side, and at once got outside on the narrow ledge of stone which runs -around the building on this side. The stones are big and roughly cut, -and the mortar has by process of time been washed away between them. I -took off my boots, and ventured out on the desperate way. I looked down -once, so as to make sure that a sudden glimpse of the awful depth would -not overcome me, but after that kept my eyes away from it. I knew pretty -well the direction and distance of the Count’s window, and made for it -as well as I could, having regard to the opportunities available. I did -not feel dizzy--I suppose I was too excited--and the time seemed -ridiculously short till I found myself standing on the window-sill and -trying to raise up the sash. I was filled with agitation, however, when -I bent down and slid feet foremost in through the window. Then I looked -around for the Count, but, with surprise and gladness, made a discovery. -The room was empty! It was barely furnished with odd things, which -seemed to have never been used; the furniture was something the same -style as that in the south rooms, and was covered with dust. I looked -for the key, but it was not in the lock, and I could not find it -anywhere. The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one -corner--gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and -Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as -though it had lain long in the ground. None of it that I noticed was -less than three hundred years old. There were also chains and ornaments, -some jewelled, but all of them old and stained. - -At one corner of the room was a heavy door. I tried it, for, since I -could not find the key of the room or the key of the outer door, which -was the main object of my search, I must make further examination, or -all my efforts would be in vain. It was open, and led through a stone -passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down. I descended, -minding carefully where I went, for the stairs were dark, being only lit -by loopholes in the heavy masonry. At the bottom there was a dark, -tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the -odour of old earth newly turned. As I went through the passage the smell -grew closer and heavier. At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood -ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently -been used as a graveyard. The roof was broken, and in two places were -steps leading to vaults, but the ground had recently been dug over, and -the earth placed in great wooden boxes, manifestly those which had been -brought by the Slovaks. There was nobody about, and I made search for -any further outlet, but there was none. Then I went over every inch of -the ground, so as not to lose a chance. I went down even into the -vaults, where the dim light struggled, although to do so was a dread to -my very soul. Into two of these I went, but saw nothing except fragments -of old coffins and piles of dust; in the third, however, I made a -discovery. - -There, in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on a -pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count! He was either dead or asleep, I -could not say which--for the eyes were open and stony, but without the -glassiness of death--and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all -their pallor; the lips were as red as ever. But there was no sign of -movement, no pulse, no breath, no beating of the heart. I bent over him, -and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain. He could not have lain -there long, for the earthy smell would have passed away in a few hours. -By the side of the box was its cover, pierced with holes here and there. -I thought he might have the keys on him, but when I went to search I saw -the dead eyes, and in them, dead though they were, such a look of hate, -though unconscious of me or my presence, that I fled from the place, and -leaving the Count’s room by the window, crawled again up the castle -wall. Regaining my room, I threw myself panting upon the bed and tried -to think.... - - * * * * * - -_29 June._--To-day is the date of my last letter, and the Count has -taken steps to prove that it was genuine, for again I saw him leave the -castle by the same window, and in my clothes. As he went down the wall, -lizard fashion, I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon, that I might -destroy him; but I fear that no weapon wrought alone by man’s hand would -have any effect on him. I dared not wait to see him return, for I feared -to see those weird sisters. I came back to the library, and read there -till I fell asleep. - -I was awakened by the Count, who looked at me as grimly as a man can -look as he said:-- - -“To-morrow, my friend, we must part. You return to your beautiful -England, I to some work which may have such an end that we may never -meet. Your letter home has been despatched; to-morrow I shall not be -here, but all shall be ready for your journey. In the morning come the -Szgany, who have some labours of their own here, and also come some -Slovaks. When they have gone, my carriage shall come for you, and shall -bear you to the Borgo Pass to meet the diligence from Bukovina to -Bistritz. But I am in hopes that I shall see more of you at Castle -Dracula.” I suspected him, and determined to test his sincerity. -Sincerity! It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in -connection with such a monster, so asked him point-blank:-- - -“Why may I not go to-night?” - -“Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission.” - -“But I would walk with pleasure. I want to get away at once.” He smiled, -such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile that I knew there was some trick -behind his smoothness. He said:-- - -“And your baggage?” - -“I do not care about it. I can send for it some other time.” - -The Count stood up, and said, with a sweet courtesy which made me rub my -eyes, it seemed so real:-- - -“You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is -that which rules our _boyars_: ‘Welcome the coming; speed the parting -guest.’ Come with me, my dear young friend. Not an hour shall you wait -in my house against your will, though sad am I at your going, and that -you so suddenly desire it. Come!” With a stately gravity, he, with the -lamp, preceded me down the stairs and along the hall. Suddenly he -stopped. - -“Hark!” - -Close at hand came the howling of many wolves. It was almost as if the -sound sprang up at the rising of his hand, just as the music of a great -orchestra seems to leap under the bâton of the conductor. After a pause -of a moment, he proceeded, in his stately way, to the door, drew back -the ponderous bolts, unhooked the heavy chains, and began to draw it -open. - -To my intense astonishment I saw that it was unlocked. Suspiciously, I -looked all round, but could see no key of any kind. - -As the door began to open, the howling of the wolves without grew louder -and angrier; their red jaws, with champing teeth, and their blunt-clawed -feet as they leaped, came in through the opening door. I knew then that -to struggle at the moment against the Count was useless. With such -allies as these at his command, I could do nothing. But still the door -continued slowly to open, and only the Count’s body stood in the gap. -Suddenly it struck me that this might be the moment and means of my -doom; I was to be given to the wolves, and at my own instigation. There -was a diabolical wickedness in the idea great enough for the Count, and -as a last chance I cried out:-- - -“Shut the door; I shall wait till morning!” and covered my face with my -hands to hide my tears of bitter disappointment. With one sweep of his -powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and the great bolts clanged -and echoed through the hall as they shot back into their places. - -In silence we returned to the library, and after a minute or two I went -to my own room. The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand -to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that -Judas in hell might be proud of. - -When I was in my room and about to lie down, I thought I heard a -whispering at my door. I went to it softly and listened. Unless my ears -deceived me, I heard the voice of the Count:-- - -“Back, back, to your own place! Your time is not yet come. Wait! Have -patience! To-night is mine. To-morrow night is yours!” There was a low, -sweet ripple of laughter, and in a rage I threw open the door, and saw -without the three terrible women licking their lips. As I appeared they -all joined in a horrible laugh, and ran away. - -I came back to my room and threw myself on my knees. It is then so near -the end? To-morrow! to-morrow! Lord, help me, and those to whom I am -dear! - - * * * * * - -_30 June, morning._--These may be the last words I ever write in this -diary. I slept till just before the dawn, and when I woke threw myself -on my knees, for I determined that if Death came he should find me -ready. - -At last I felt that subtle change in the air, and knew that the morning -had come. Then came the welcome cock-crow, and I felt that I was safe. -With a glad heart, I opened my door and ran down to the hall. I had seen -that the door was unlocked, and now escape was before me. With hands -that trembled with eagerness, I unhooked the chains and drew back the -massive bolts. - -But the door would not move. Despair seized me. I pulled, and pulled, at -the door, and shook it till, massive as it was, it rattled in its -casement. I could see the bolt shot. It had been locked after I left the -Count. - -Then a wild desire took me to obtain that key at any risk, and I -determined then and there to scale the wall again and gain the Count’s -room. He might kill me, but death now seemed the happier choice of -evils. Without a pause I rushed up to the east window, and scrambled -down the wall, as before, into the Count’s room. It was empty, but that -was as I expected. I could not see a key anywhere, but the heap of gold -remained. I went through the door in the corner and down the winding -stair and along the dark passage to the old chapel. I knew now well -enough where to find the monster I sought. - -The great box was in the same place, close against the wall, but the lid -was laid on it, not fastened down, but with the nails ready in their -places to be hammered home. I knew I must reach the body for the key, so -I raised the lid, and laid it back against the wall; and then I saw -something which filled my very soul with horror. There lay the Count, -but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair -and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, -and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than -ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the -corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, -burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches -underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were -simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his -repletion. I shuddered as I bent over to touch him, and every sense in -me revolted at the contact; but I had to search, or I was lost. The -coming night might see my own body a banquet in a similar way to those -horrid three. I felt all over the body, but no sign could I find of the -key. Then I stopped and looked at the Count. There was a mocking smile -on the bloated face which seemed to drive me mad. This was the being I -was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come -he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and -create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the -helpless. The very thought drove me mad. A terrible desire came upon me -to rid the world of such a monster. There was no lethal weapon at hand, -but I seized a shovel which the workmen had been using to fill the -cases, and lifting it high, struck, with the edge downward, at the -hateful face. But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full -upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror. The sight seemed to -paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, -merely making a deep gash above the forehead. The shovel fell from my -hand across the box, and as I pulled it away the flange of the blade -caught the edge of the lid which fell over again, and hid the horrid -thing from my sight. The last glimpse I had was of the bloated face, -blood-stained and fixed with a grin of malice which would have held its -own in the nethermost hell. - -I thought and thought what should be my next move, but my brain seemed -on fire, and I waited with a despairing feeling growing over me. As I -waited I heard in the distance a gipsy song sung by merry voices coming -closer, and through their song the rolling of heavy wheels and the -cracking of whips; the Szgany and the Slovaks of whom the Count had -spoken were coming. With a last look around and at the box which -contained the vile body, I ran from the place and gained the Count’s -room, determined to rush out at the moment the door should be opened. -With strained ears, I listened, and heard downstairs the grinding of the -key in the great lock and the falling back of the heavy door. There must -have been some other means of entry, or some one had a key for one of -the locked doors. Then there came the sound of many feet tramping and -dying away in some passage which sent up a clanging echo. I turned to -run down again towards the vault, where I might find the new entrance; -but at the moment there seemed to come a violent puff of wind, and the -door to the winding stair blew to with a shock that set the dust from -the lintels flying. When I ran to push it open, I found that it was -hopelessly fast. I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing -round me more closely. - -As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet -and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, -with their freight of earth. There is a sound of hammering; it is the -box being nailed down. Now I can hear the heavy feet tramping again -along the hall, with many other idle feet coming behind them. - -The door is shut, and the chains rattle; there is a grinding of the key -in the lock; I can hear the key withdraw: then another door opens and -shuts; I hear the creaking of lock and bolt. - -Hark! in the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels, -the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the -distance. - -I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Faugh! Mina is a woman, -and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit! - -I shall not remain alone with them; I shall try to scale the castle wall -farther than I have yet attempted. I shall take some of the gold with -me, lest I want it later. I may find a way from this dreadful place. - -And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away -from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his -children still walk with earthly feet! - -At least God’s mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the -precipice is steep and high. At its foot a man may sleep--as a man. -Good-bye, all! Mina! - - - - -CHAPTER V - -_Letter from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra._ - - -“_9 May._ - -“My dearest Lucy,-- - -“Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed -with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying. -I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together -freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard -lately, because I want to keep up with Jonathan’s studies, and I have -been practising shorthand very assiduously. When we are married I shall -be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I -can take down what he wants to say in this way and write it out for -him on the typewriter, at which also I am practising very hard. He -and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a -stenographic journal of his travels abroad. When I am with you I -shall keep a diary in the same way. I don’t mean one of those -two-pages-to-the-week-with-Sunday-squeezed-in-a-corner diaries, but a -sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not -suppose there will be much of interest to other people; but it is not -intended for them. I may show it to Jonathan some day if there is in it -anything worth sharing, but it is really an exercise book. I shall try -to do what I see lady journalists do: interviewing and writing -descriptions and trying to remember conversations. I am told that, with -a little practice, one can remember all that goes on or that one hears -said during a day. However, we shall see. I will tell you of my little -plans when we meet. I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan -from Transylvania. He is well, and will be returning in about a week. I -am longing to hear all his news. It must be so nice to see strange -countries. I wonder if we--I mean Jonathan and I--shall ever see them -together. There is the ten o’clock bell ringing. Good-bye. - -“Your loving - -“MINA. - -“Tell me all the news when you write. You have not told me anything for -a long time. I hear rumours, and especially of a tall, handsome, -curly-haired man???” - - -_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray_. - -“_17, Chatham Street_, - -“_Wednesday_. - -“My dearest Mina,-- - -“I must say you tax me _very_ unfairly with being a bad correspondent. I -wrote to you _twice_ since we parted, and your last letter was only your -_second_. Besides, I have nothing to tell you. There is really nothing -to interest you. Town is very pleasant just now, and we go a good deal -to picture-galleries and for walks and rides in the park. As to the -tall, curly-haired man, I suppose it was the one who was with me at the -last Pop. Some one has evidently been telling tales. That was Mr. -Holmwood. He often comes to see us, and he and mamma get on very well -together; they have so many things to talk about in common. We met some -time ago a man that would just _do for you_, if you were not already -engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent _parti_, being handsome, well -off, and of good birth. He is a doctor and really clever. Just fancy! He -is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under -his own care. Mr. Holmwood introduced him to me, and he called here to -see us, and often comes now. I think he is one of the most resolute men -I ever saw, and yet the most calm. He seems absolutely imperturbable. I -can fancy what a wonderful power he must have over his patients. He has -a curious habit of looking one straight in the face, as if trying to -read one’s thoughts. He tries this on very much with me, but I flatter -myself he has got a tough nut to crack. I know that from my glass. Do -you ever try to read your own face? _I do_, and I can tell you it is not -a bad study, and gives you more trouble than you can well fancy if you -have never tried it. He says that I afford him a curious psychological -study, and I humbly think I do. I do not, as you know, take sufficient -interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a -bore. That is slang again, but never mind; Arthur says that every day. -There, it is all out. Mina, we have told all our secrets to each other -since we were _children_; we have slept together and eaten together, and -laughed and cried together; and now, though I have spoken, I would like -to speak more. Oh, Mina, couldn’t you guess? I love him. I am blushing -as I write, for although I _think_ he loves me, he has not told me so in -words. But oh, Mina, I love him; I love him; I love him! There, that -does me good. I wish I were with you, dear, sitting by the fire -undressing, as we used to sit; and I would try to tell you what I feel. -I do not know how I am writing this even to you. I am afraid to stop, -or I should tear up the letter, and I don’t want to stop, for I _do_ so -want to tell you all. Let me hear from you _at once_, and tell me all -that you think about it. Mina, I must stop. Good-night. Bless me in your -prayers; and, Mina, pray for my happiness. - -“LUCY. - -“P.S.--I need not tell you this is a secret. Good-night again. - -“L.” - -_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Murray_. - -“_24 May_. - -“My dearest Mina,-- - -“Thanks, and thanks, and thanks again for your sweet letter. It was so -nice to be able to tell you and to have your sympathy. - -“My dear, it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs are. -Here am I, who shall be twenty in September, and yet I never had a -proposal till to-day, not a real proposal, and to-day I have had three. -Just fancy! THREE proposals in one day! Isn’t it awful! I feel sorry, -really and truly sorry, for two of the poor fellows. Oh, Mina, I am so -happy that I don’t know what to do with myself. And three proposals! -But, for goodness’ sake, don’t tell any of the girls, or they would be -getting all sorts of extravagant ideas and imagining themselves injured -and slighted if in their very first day at home they did not get six at -least. Some girls are so vain! You and I, Mina dear, who are engaged and -are going to settle down soon soberly into old married women, can -despise vanity. Well, I must tell you about the three, but you must keep -it a secret, dear, from _every one_, except, of course, Jonathan. You -will tell him, because I would, if I were in your place, certainly tell -Arthur. A woman ought to tell her husband everything--don’t you think -so, dear?--and I must be fair. Men like women, certainly their wives, to -be quite as fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are not always -quite as fair as they should be. Well, my dear, number One came just -before lunch. I told you of him, Dr. John Seward, the lunatic-asylum -man, with the strong jaw and the good forehead. He was very cool -outwardly, but was nervous all the same. He had evidently been schooling -himself as to all sorts of little things, and remembered them; but he -almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don’t generally do -when they are cool, and then when he wanted to appear at ease he kept -playing with a lancet in a way that made me nearly scream. He spoke to -me, Mina, very straightforwardly. He told me how dear I was to him, -though he had known me so little, and what his life would be with me to -help and cheer him. He was going to tell me how unhappy he would be if I -did not care for him, but when he saw me cry he said that he was a brute -and would not add to my present trouble. Then he broke off and asked if -I could love him in time; and when I shook my head his hands trembled, -and then with some hesitation he asked me if I cared already for any one -else. He put it very nicely, saying that he did not want to wring my -confidence from me, but only to know, because if a woman’s heart was -free a man might have hope. And then, Mina, I felt a sort of duty to -tell him that there was some one. I only told him that much, and then he -stood up, and he looked very strong and very grave as he took both my -hands in his and said he hoped I would be happy, and that if I ever -wanted a friend I must count him one of my best. Oh, Mina dear, I can’t -help crying: and you must excuse this letter being all blotted. Being -proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at -all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know -loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to -know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing -quite out of his life. My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so -miserable, though I am so happy. - -“_Evening._ - -“Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than when I left -off, so I can go on telling you about the day. Well, my dear, number Two -came after lunch. He is such a nice fellow, an American from Texas, and -he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost impossible that he -has been to so many places and has had such adventures. I sympathise -with poor Desdemona when she had such a dangerous stream poured in her -ear, even by a black man. I suppose that we women are such cowards that -we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him. I know now -what I would do if I were a man and wanted to make a girl love me. No, I -don’t, for there was Mr. Morris telling us his stories, and Arthur never -told any, and yet---- My dear, I am somewhat previous. Mr. Quincey P. -Morris found me alone. It seems that a man always does find a girl -alone. No, he doesn’t, for Arthur tried twice to _make_ a chance, and I -helping him all I could; I am not ashamed to say it now. I must tell you -beforehand that Mr. Morris doesn’t always speak slang--that is to say, -he never does so to strangers or before them, for he is really well -educated and has exquisite manners--but he found out that it amused me -to hear him talk American slang, and whenever I was present, and there -was no one to be shocked, he said such funny things. I am afraid, my -dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits exactly into whatever else he -has to say. But this is a way slang has. I do not know myself if I shall -ever speak slang; I do not know if Arthur likes it, as I have never -heard him use any as yet. Well, Mr. Morris sat down beside me and looked -as happy and jolly as he could, but I could see all the same that he was -very nervous. He took my hand in his, and said ever so sweetly:-- - -“‘Miss Lucy, I know I ain’t good enough to regulate the fixin’s of your -little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that is you -will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit. Won’t -you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road -together, driving in double harness?’ - -“Well, he did look so good-humoured and so jolly that it didn’t seem -half so hard to refuse him as it did poor Dr. Seward; so I said, as -lightly as I could, that I did not know anything of hitching, and that I -wasn’t broken to harness at all yet. Then he said that he had spoken in -a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in doing so -on so grave, so momentous, an occasion for him, I would forgive him. He -really did look serious when he was saying it, and I couldn’t help -feeling a bit serious too--I know, Mina, you will think me a horrid -flirt--though I couldn’t help feeling a sort of exultation that he was -number two in one day. And then, my dear, before I could say a word he -began pouring out a perfect torrent of love-making, laying his very -heart and soul at my feet. He looked so earnest over it that I shall -never again think that a man must be playful always, and never earnest, -because he is merry at times. I suppose he saw something in my face -which checked him, for he suddenly stopped, and said with a sort of -manly fervour that I could have loved him for if I had been free:-- - -“‘Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here -speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right -through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one good fellow -to another, is there any one else that you care for? And if there is -I’ll never trouble you a hair’s breadth again, but will be, if you will -let me, a very faithful friend.’ - -“My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy -of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great-hearted, true -gentleman. I burst into tears--I am afraid, my dear, you will think -this a very sloppy letter in more ways than one--and I really felt very -badly. Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want -her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say -it. I am glad to say that, though I was crying, I was able to look into -Mr. Morris’s brave eyes, and I told him out straight:-- - -“‘Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he -even loves me.’ I was right to speak to him so frankly, for quite a -light came into his face, and he put out both his hands and took mine--I -think I put them into his--and said in a hearty way:-- - -“‘That’s my brave girl. It’s better worth being late for a chance of -winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world. Don’t -cry, my dear. If it’s for me, I’m a hard nut to crack; and I take it -standing up. If that other fellow doesn’t know his happiness, well, he’d -better look for it soon, or he’ll have to deal with me. Little girl, -your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a -lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I’m going to have a pretty -lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Won’t you give me one kiss? -It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then. You can, you -know, if you like, for that other good fellow--he must be a good fellow, -my dear, and a fine fellow, or you could not love him--hasn’t spoken -yet.’ That quite won me, Mina, for it _was_ brave and sweet of him, and -noble, too, to a rival--wasn’t it?--and he so sad; so I leant over and -kissed him. He stood up with my two hands in his, and as he looked down -into my face--I am afraid I was blushing very much--he said:-- - -“‘Little girl, I hold your hand, and you’ve kissed me, and if these -things don’t make us friends nothing ever will. Thank you for your sweet -honesty to me, and good-bye.’ He wrung my hand, and taking up his hat, -went straight out of the room without looking back, without a tear or a -quiver or a pause; and I am crying like a baby. Oh, why must a man like -that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would -worship the very ground he trod on? I know I would if I were free--only -I don’t want to be free. My dear, this quite upset me, and I feel I -cannot write of happiness just at once, after telling you of it; and I -don’t wish to tell of the number three until it can be all happy. - -“Ever your loving - -“LUCY. - -“P.S.--Oh, about number Three--I needn’t tell you of number Three, need -I? Besides, it was all so confused; it seemed only a moment from his -coming into the room till both his arms were round me, and he was -kissing me. I am very, very happy, and I don’t know what I have done to -deserve it. I must only try in the future to show that I am not -ungrateful to God for all His goodness to me in sending to me such a -lover, such a husband, and such a friend. - -“Good-bye.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -(Kept in phonograph) - -_25 May._--Ebb tide in appetite to-day. Cannot eat, cannot rest, so -diary instead. Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty -feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth -the doing.... As I knew that the only cure for this sort of thing was -work, I went down amongst the patients. I picked out one who has -afforded me a study of much interest. He is so quaint that I am -determined to understand him as well as I can. To-day I seemed to get -nearer than ever before to the heart of his mystery. - -I questioned him more fully than I had ever done, with a view to making -myself master of the facts of his hallucination. In my manner of doing -it there was, I now see, something of cruelty. I seemed to wish to keep -him to the point of his madness--a thing which I avoid with the patients -as I would the mouth of hell. - -(_Mem._, under what circumstances would I _not_ avoid the pit of hell?) -_Omnia Romæ venalia sunt._ Hell has its price! _verb. sap._ If there be -anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards -_accurately_, so I had better commence to do so, therefore-- - -R. M. Renfield, ætat 59.--Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; -morbidly excitable; periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I -cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the -disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish; a possibly -dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In selfish men caution -is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. What I think of -on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is -balanced with the centrifugal; when duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed -point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of -accidents can balance it. - - -_Letter, Quincey P. Morris to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ - -“_25 May._ - -“My dear Art,-- - -“We’ve told yarns by the camp-fire in the prairies; and dressed one -another’s wounds after trying a landing at the Marquesas; and drunk -healths on the shore of Titicaca. There are more yarns to be told, and -other wounds to be healed, and another health to be drunk. Won’t you let -this be at my camp-fire to-morrow night? I have no hesitation in asking -you, as I know a certain lady is engaged to a certain dinner-party, and -that you are free. There will only be one other, our old pal at the -Korea, Jack Seward. He’s coming, too, and we both want to mingle our -weeps over the wine-cup, and to drink a health with all our hearts to -the happiest man in all the wide world, who has won the noblest heart -that God has made and the best worth winning. We promise you a hearty -welcome, and a loving greeting, and a health as true as your own right -hand. We shall both swear to leave you at home if you drink too deep to -a certain pair of eyes. Come! - -“Yours, as ever and always, - -“QUINCEY P. MORRIS.” - - -_Telegram from Arthur Holmwood to Quincey P. Morris._ - -“_26 May._ - -“Count me in every time. I bear messages which will make both your ears -tingle. - -“ART.” - - - - -CHAPTER VI - -MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL - - -_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and -lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in -which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the -Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the -harbour. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the -view seems somehow further away than it really is. The valley is -beautifully green, and it is so steep that when you are on the high land -on either side you look right across it, unless you are near enough to -see down. The houses of the old town--the side away from us--are all -red-roofed, and seem piled up one over the other anyhow, like the -pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby -Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene of part of -“Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most noble -ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is -a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Between it and -the town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big -graveyard, all full of tombstones. This is to my mind the nicest spot in -Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and has a full view of the -harbour and all up the bay to where the headland called Kettleness -stretches out into the sea. It descends so steeply over the harbour that -part of the bank has fallen away, and some of the graves have been -destroyed. In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches -out over the sandy pathway far below. There are walks, with seats beside -them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day long -looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze. I shall come and -sit here very often myself and work. Indeed, I am writing now, with my -book on my knee, and listening to the talk of three old men who are -sitting beside me. They seem to do nothing all day but sit up here and -talk. - -The harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall -stretching out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in -the middle of which is a lighthouse. A heavy sea-wall runs along outside -of it. On the near side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, -and its end too has a lighthouse. Between the two piers there is a -narrow opening into the harbour, which then suddenly widens. - -It is nice at high water; but when the tide is out it shoals away to -nothing, and there is merely the stream of the Esk, running between -banks of sand, with rocks here and there. Outside the harbour on this -side there rises for about half a mile a great reef, the sharp edge of -which runs straight out from behind the south lighthouse. At the end of -it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad weather, and sends in a -mournful sound on the wind. They have a legend here that when a ship is -lost bells are heard out at sea. I must ask the old man about this; he -is coming this way.... - -He is a funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is all -gnarled and twisted like the bark of a tree. He tells me that he is -nearly a hundred, and that he was a sailor in the Greenland fishing -fleet when Waterloo was fought. He is, I am afraid, a very sceptical -person, for when I asked him about the bells at sea and the White Lady -at the abbey he said very brusquely:-- - -“I wouldn’t fash masel’ about them, miss. Them things be all wore out. -Mind, I don’t say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn’t in -my time. They be all very well for comers and trippers, an’ the like, -but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and -Leeds that be always eatin’ cured herrin’s an’ drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ -out to buy cheap jet would creed aught. I wonder masel’ who’d be -bothered tellin’ lies to them--even the newspapers, which is full of -fool-talk.” I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting -things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about -the whale-fishing in the old days. He was just settling himself to begin -when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said:-- - -“I must gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand-daughter doesn’t like -to be kept waitin’ when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to -crammle aboon the grees, for there be a many of ’em; an’, miss, I lack -belly-timber sairly by the clock.” - -He hobbled away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down -the steps. The steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from -the town up to the church, there are hundreds of them--I do not know how -many--and they wind up in a delicate curve; the slope is so gentle that -a horse could easily walk up and down them. I think they must originally -have had something to do with the abbey. I shall go home too. Lucy went -out visiting with her mother, and as they were only duty calls, I did -not go. They will be home by this. - - * * * * * - -_1 August._--I came up here an hour ago with Lucy, and we had a most -interesting talk with my old friend and the two others who always come -and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them, and I should think -must have been in his time a most dictatorial person. He will not admit -anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he bullies -them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views. Lucy -was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock; she has got a -beautiful colour since she has been here. I noticed that the old men did -not lose any time in coming up and sitting near her when we sat down. -She is so sweet with old people; I think they all fell in love with her -on the spot. Even my old man succumbed and did not contradict her, but -gave me double share instead. I got him on the subject of the legends, -and he went off at once into a sort of sermon. I must try to remember it -and put it down:-- - -“It be all fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that’s what it be, an’ -nowt else. These bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles -an’ all anent them is only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women -a-belderin’. They be nowt but air-blebs. They, an’ all grims an’ signs -an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’ illsome beuk-bodies an’ -railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’ to get folks to do -somethin’ that they don’t other incline to. It makes me ireful to think -o’ them. Why, it’s them that, not content with printin’ lies on paper -an’ preachin’ them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin’ them on the -tombstones. Look here all around you in what airt ye will; all them -steans, holdin’ up their heads as well as they can out of their pride, -is acant--simply tumblin’ down with the weight o’ the lies wrote on -them, ‘Here lies the body’ or ‘Sacred to the memory’ wrote on all of -them, an’ yet in nigh half of them there bean’t no bodies at all; an’ -the memories of them bean’t cared a pinch of snuff about, much less -sacred. Lies all of them, nothin’ but lies of one kind or another! My -gog, but it’ll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgment when they -come tumblin’ up in their death-sarks, all jouped together an’ tryin’ to -drag their tombsteans with them to prove how good they was; some of them -trimmlin’ and ditherin’, with their hands that dozzened an’ slippy from -lyin’ in the sea that they can’t even keep their grup o’ them.” - -I could see from the old fellow’s self-satisfied air and the way in -which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was -“showing off,” so I put in a word to keep him going:-- - -“Oh, Mr. Swales, you can’t be serious. Surely these tombstones are not -all wrong?” - -“Yabblins! There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin’ where they make -out the people too good; for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be -like the sea, if only it be their own. The whole thing be only lies. Now -look you here; you come here a stranger, an’ you see this kirk-garth.” I -nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite -understand his dialect. I knew it had something to do with the church. -He went on: “And you consate that all these steans be aboon folk that be -happed here, snod an’ snog?” I assented again. “Then that be just where -the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be toom as -old Dun’s ’bacca-box on Friday night.” He nudged one of his companions, -and they all laughed. “And my gog! how could they be otherwise? Look at -that one, the aftest abaft the bier-bank: read it!” I went over and -read:-- - -“Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of -Andres, April, 1854, æt. 30.” When I came back Mr. Swales went on:-- - -“Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast -of Andres! an’ you consated his body lay under! Why, I could name ye a -dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above”--he pointed -northwards--“or where the currents may have drifted them. There be the -steans around ye. Ye can, with your young eyes, read the small-print of -the lies from here. This Braithwaite Lowrey--I knew his father, lost in -the _Lively_ off Greenland in ’20; or Andrew Woodhouse, drowned in the -same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape Farewell a year -later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me, drowned -in the Gulf of Finland in ’50. Do ye think that all these men will have -to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds? I have me antherums -aboot it! I tell ye that when they got here they’d be jommlin’ an’ -jostlin’ one another that way that it ’ud be like a fight up on the ice -in the old days, when we’d be at one another from daylight to dark, an’ -tryin’ to tie up our cuts by the light of the aurora borealis.” This was -evidently local pleasantry, for the old man cackled over it, and his -cronies joined in with gusto. - -“But,” I said, “surely you are not quite correct, for you start on the -assumption that all the poor people, or their spirits, will have to -take their tombstones with them on the Day of Judgment. Do you think -that will be really necessary?” - -“Well, what else be they tombstones for? Answer me that, miss!” - -“To please their relatives, I suppose.” - -“To please their relatives, you suppose!” This he said with intense -scorn. “How will it pleasure their relatives to know that lies is wrote -over them, and that everybody in the place knows that they be lies?” He -pointed to a stone at our feet which had been laid down as a slab, on -which the seat was rested, close to the edge of the cliff. “Read the -lies on that thruff-stean,” he said. The letters were upside down to me -from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over -and read:-- - -“Sacred to the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a -glorious resurrection, on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at -Kettleness. This tomb was erected by his sorrowing mother to her dearly -beloved son. ‘He was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.’ -Really, Mr. Swales, I don’t see anything very funny in that!” She spoke -her comment very gravely and somewhat severely. - -“Ye don’t see aught funny! Ha! ha! But that’s because ye don’t gawm the -sorrowin’ mother was a hell-cat that hated him because he was -acrewk’d--a regular lamiter he was--an’ he hated her so that he -committed suicide in order that she mightn’t get an insurance she put on -his life. He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that -they had for scarin’ the crows with. ’Twarn’t for crows then, for it -brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That’s the way he fell off the -rocks. And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I’ve often heard him -say masel’ that he hoped he’d go to hell, for his mother was so pious -that she’d be sure to go to heaven, an’ he didn’t want to addle where -she was. Now isn’t that stean at any rate”--he hammered it with his -stick as he spoke--“a pack of lies? and won’t it make Gabriel keckle -when Geordie comes pantin’ up the grees with the tombstean balanced on -his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!” - -I did not know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she -said, rising up:-- - -“Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favourite seat, and I cannot -leave it; and now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a -suicide.” - -“That won’t harm ye, my pretty; an’ it may make poor Geordie gladsome to -have so trim a lass sittin’ on his lap. That won’t hurt ye. Why, I’ve -sat here off an’ on for nigh twenty years past, an’ it hasn’t done me -no harm. Don’t ye fash about them as lies under ye, or that doesn’ lie -there either! It’ll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the -tombsteans all run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble-field. -There’s the clock, an’ I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!” And off -he hobbled. - -Lucy and I sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we -took hands as we sat; and she told me all over again about Arthur and -their coming marriage. That made me just a little heart-sick, for I -haven’t heard from Jonathan for a whole month. - - * * * * * - -_The same day._ I came up here alone, for I am very sad. There was no -letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the matter with Jonathan. -The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights scattered all over the -town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and sometimes singly; -they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the valley. To my -left the view is cut off by a black line of roof of the old house next -the abbey. The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind -me, and there is a clatter of a donkey’s hoofs up the paved road below. -The band on the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further -along the quay there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street. -Neither of the bands hears the other, but up here I hear and see them -both. I wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he -were here. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_5 June._--The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more I get to -understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed; -selfishness, secrecy, and purpose. I wish I could get at what is the -object of the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his own, -but what it is I do not yet know. His redeeming quality is a love of -animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I -sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd -sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has at present such a -quantity that I have had myself to expostulate. To my astonishment, he -did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the matter in -simple seriousness. He thought for a moment, and then said: “May I have -three days? I shall clear them away.” Of course, I said that would do. I -must watch him. - - * * * * * - -_18 June._--He has turned his mind now to spiders, and has got several -very big fellows in a box. He keeps feeding them with his flies, and -the number of the latter is becoming sensibly diminished, although he -has used half his food in attracting more flies from outside to his -room. - - * * * * * - -_1 July._--His spiders are now becoming as great a nuisance as his -flies, and to-day I told him that he must get rid of them. He looked -very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all -events. He cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same time -as before for reduction. He disgusted me much while with him, for when a -horrid blow-fly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, -he caught it, held it exultantly for a few moments between his finger -and thumb, and, before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his -mouth and ate it. I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it -was very good and very wholesome; that it was life, strong life, and -gave life to him. This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one. I must -watch how he gets rid of his spiders. He has evidently some deep problem -in his mind, for he keeps a little note-book in which he is always -jotting down something. Whole pages of it are filled with masses of -figures, generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the -totals added in batches again, as though he were “focussing” some -account, as the auditors put it. - - * * * * * - -_8 July._--There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in -my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, -unconscious cerebration! you will have to give the wall to your -conscious brother. I kept away from my friend for a few days, so that I -might notice if there were any change. Things remain as they were except -that he has parted with some of his pets and got a new one. He has -managed to get a sparrow, and has already partially tamed it. His means -of taming is simple, for already the spiders have diminished. Those that -do remain, however, are well fed, for he still brings in the flies by -tempting them with his food. - - * * * * * - -_19 July._--We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of -sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost obliterated. When I came -in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great favour--a very, -very great favour; and as he spoke he fawned on me like a dog. I asked -him what it was, and he said, with a sort of rapture in his voice and -bearing:-- - -“A kitten, a nice little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, -and teach, and feed--and feed--and feed!” I was not unprepared for this -request, for I had noticed how his pets went on increasing in size and -vivacity, but I did not care that his pretty family of tame sparrows -should be wiped out in the same manner as the flies and the spiders; so -I said I would see about it, and asked him if he would not rather have a -cat than a kitten. His eagerness betrayed him as he answered:-- - -“Oh, yes, I would like a cat! I only asked for a kitten lest you should -refuse me a cat. No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?” I shook -my head, and said that at present I feared it would not be possible, but -that I would see about it. His face fell, and I could see a warning of -danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant -killing. The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac. I shall test him -with his present craving and see how it will work out; then I shall know -more. - - * * * * * - -_10 p. m._--I have visited him again and found him sitting in a corner -brooding. When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and -implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it. -I was firm, however, and told him that he could not have it, whereupon -he went without a word, and sat down, gnawing his fingers, in the corner -where I had found him. I shall see him in the morning early. - - * * * * * - -_20 July._--Visited Renfield very early, before the attendant went his -rounds. Found him up and humming a tune. He was spreading out his sugar, -which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly beginning his -fly-catching again; and beginning it cheerfully and with a good grace. I -looked around for his birds, and not seeing them, asked him where they -were. He replied, without turning round, that they had all flown away. -There were a few feathers about the room and on his pillow a drop of -blood. I said nothing, but went and told the keeper to report to me if -there were anything odd about him during the day. - - * * * * * - -_11 a. m._--The attendant has just been to me to say that Renfield has -been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of feathers. “My belief is, -doctor,” he said, “that he has eaten his birds, and that he just took -and ate them raw!” - - * * * * * - -_11 p. m._--I gave Renfield a strong opiate to-night, enough to make -even him sleep, and took away his pocket-book to look at it. The thought -that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and the theory -proved. My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to -invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous -(life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he -can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. He -gave many flies to one spider and many spiders to one bird, and then -wanted a cat to eat the many birds. What would have been his later -steps? It would almost be worth while to complete the experiment. It -might be done if there were only a sufficient cause. Men sneered at -vivisection, and yet look at its results to-day! Why not advance science -in its most difficult and vital aspect--the knowledge of the brain? Had -I even the secret of one such mind--did I hold the key to the fancy of -even one lunatic--I might advance my own branch of science to a pitch -compared with which Burdon-Sanderson’s physiology or Ferrier’s -brain-knowledge would be as nothing. If only there were a sufficient -cause! I must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good -cause might turn the scale with me, for may not I too be of an -exceptional brain, congenitally? - -How well the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I -wonder at how many lives he values a man, or if at only one. He has -closed the account most accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How -many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? - -To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope, -and that truly I began a new record. So it will be until the Great -Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to -profit or loss. Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be -angry with my friend whose happiness is yours; but I must only wait on -hopeless and work. Work! work! - -If I only could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there--a -good, unselfish cause to make me work--that would be indeed happiness. - - -_Mina Murray’s Journal._ - -_26 July._--I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here; it -is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time. And -there is also something about the shorthand symbols that makes it -different from writing. I am unhappy about Lucy and about Jonathan. I -had not heard from Jonathan for some time, and was very concerned; but -yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a letter from -him. I had written asking him if he had heard, and he said the enclosed -had just been received. It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, -and says that he is just starting for home. That is not like Jonathan; -I do not understand it, and it makes me uneasy. Then, too, Lucy, -although she is so well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in -her sleep. Her mother has spoken to me about it, and we have decided -that I am to lock the door of our room every night. Mrs. Westenra has -got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and -along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over -with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place. Poor dear, she is -naturally anxious about Lucy, and she tells me that her husband, Lucy’s -father, had the same habit; that he would get up in the night and dress -himself and go out, if he were not stopped. Lucy is to be married in the -autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how her house is -to be arranged. I sympathise with her, for I do the same, only Jonathan -and I will start in life in a very simple way, and shall have to try to -make both ends meet. Mr. Holmwood--he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only -son of Lord Godalming--is coming up here very shortly--as soon as he can -leave town, for his father is not very well, and I think dear Lucy is -counting the moments till he comes. She wants to take him up to the seat -on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby. I daresay it -is the waiting which disturbs her; she will be all right when he -arrives. - - * * * * * - -_27 July._--No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him, -though why I should I do not know; but I do wish that he would write, if -it were only a single line. Lucy walks more than ever, and each night I -am awakened by her moving about the room. Fortunately, the weather is so -hot that she cannot get cold; but still the anxiety and the perpetually -being wakened is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous and -wakeful myself. Thank God, Lucy’s health keeps up. Mr. Holmwood has been -suddenly called to Ring to see his father, who has been taken seriously -ill. Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch -her looks; she is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely -rose-pink. She has lost that anæmic look which she had. I pray it will -all last. - - * * * * * - -_3 August._--Another week gone, and no news from Jonathan, not even to -Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard. Oh, I do hope he is not ill. He -surely would have written. I look at that last letter of his, but -somehow it does not satisfy me. It does not read like him, and yet it is -his writing. There is no mistake of that. Lucy has not walked much in -her sleep the last week, but there is an odd concentration about her -which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching -me. She tries the door, and finding it locked, goes about the room -searching for the key. - -_6 August._--Another three days, and no news. This suspense is getting -dreadful. If I only knew where to write to or where to go to, I should -feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan since that last -letter. I must only pray to God for patience. Lucy is more excitable -than ever, but is otherwise well. Last night was very threatening, and -the fishermen say that we are in for a storm. I must try to watch it and -learn the weather signs. To-day is a grey day, and the sun as I write is -hidden in thick clouds, high over Kettleness. Everything is grey--except -the green grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; -grey clouds, tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the -grey sea, into which the sand-points stretch like grey fingers. The sea -is tumbling in over the shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, -muffled in the sea-mists drifting inland. The horizon is lost in a grey -mist. All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and -there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom. -Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in -the mist, and seem “men like trees walking.” The fishing-boats are -racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into -the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Here comes old Mr. Swales. He is -making straight for me, and I can see, by the way he lifts his hat, that -he wants to talk.... - -I have been quite touched by the change in the poor old man. When he sat -down beside me, he said in a very gentle way:-- - -“I want to say something to you, miss.” I could see he was not at ease, -so I took his poor old wrinkled hand in mine and asked him to speak -fully; so he said, leaving his hand in mine:-- - -“I’m afraid, my deary, that I must have shocked you by all the wicked -things I’ve been sayin’ about the dead, and such like, for weeks past; -but I didn’t mean them, and I want ye to remember that when I’m gone. We -aud folks that be daffled, and with one foot abaft the krok-hooal, don’t -altogether like to think of it, and we don’t want to feel scart of it; -an’ that’s why I’ve took to makin’ light of it, so that I’d cheer up my -own heart a bit. But, Lord love ye, miss, I ain’t afraid of dyin’, not a -bit; only I don’t want to die if I can help it. My time must be nigh at -hand now, for I be aud, and a hundred years is too much for any man to -expect; and I’m so nigh it that the Aud Man is already whettin’ his -scythe. Ye see, I can’t get out o’ the habit of caffin’ about it all at -once; the chafts will wag as they be used to. Some day soon the Angel of -Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don’t ye dooal an’ greet, my -deary!”--for he saw that I was crying--“if he should come this very -night I’d not refuse to answer his call. For life be, after all, only a -waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that -we can rightly depend on. But I’m content, for it’s comin’ to me, my -deary, and comin’ quick. It may be comin’ while we be lookin’ and -wonderin’. Maybe it’s in that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with -it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts. Look! look!” he -cried suddenly. “There’s something in that wind and in the hoast beyont -that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and smells like death. It’s in the -air; I feel it comin’. Lord, make me answer cheerful when my call -comes!” He held up his arms devoutly, and raised his hat. His mouth -moved as though he were praying. After a few minutes’ silence, he got -up, shook hands with me, and blessed me, and said good-bye, and hobbled -off. It all touched me, and upset me very much. - -I was glad when the coastguard came along, with his spy-glass under his -arm. He stopped to talk with me, as he always does, but all the time -kept looking at a strange ship. - -“I can’t make her out,” he said; “she’s a Russian, by the look of her; -but she’s knocking about in the queerest way. She doesn’t know her mind -a bit; she seems to see the storm coming, but can’t decide whether to -run up north in the open, or to put in here. Look there again! She is -steered mighty strangely, for she doesn’t mind the hand on the wheel; -changes about with every puff of wind. We’ll hear more of her before -this time to-morrow.” - - - - -CHAPTER VII - -CUTTING FROM “THE DAILYGRAPH,” 8 AUGUST - - -(_Pasted in Mina Murray’s Journal._) - -From a Correspondent. - -_Whitby_. - -One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been -experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had -been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of -August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great -body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday for visits to Mulgrave Woods, -Robin Hood’s Bay, Rig Mill, Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in -the neighbourhood of Whitby. The steamers _Emma_ and _Scarborough_ made -trips up and down the coast, and there was an unusual amount of -“tripping” both to and from Whitby. The day was unusually fine till the -afternoon, when some of the gossips who frequent the East Cliff -churchyard, and from that commanding eminence watch the wide sweep of -sea visible to the north and east, called attention to a sudden show of -“mares’-tails” high in the sky to the north-west. The wind was then -blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in barometrical -language is ranked “No. 2: light breeze.” The coastguard on duty at once -made report, and one old fisherman, who for more than half a century has -kept watch on weather signs from the East Cliff, foretold in an emphatic -manner the coming of a sudden storm. The approach of sunset was so very -beautiful, so grand in its masses of splendidly-coloured clouds, that -there was quite an assemblage on the walk along the cliff in the old -churchyard to enjoy the beauty. Before the sun dipped below the black -mass of Kettleness, standing boldly athwart the western sky, its -downward way was marked by myriad clouds of every sunset-colour--flame, -purple, pink, green, violet, and all the tints of gold; with here and -there masses not large, but of seemingly absolute blackness, in all -sorts of shapes, as well outlined as colossal silhouettes. The -experience was not lost on the painters, and doubtless some of the -sketches of the “Prelude to the Great Storm” will grace the R. A. and R. -I. walls in May next. More than one captain made up his mind then and -there that his “cobble” or his “mule,” as they term the different -classes of boats, would remain in the harbour till the storm had passed. -The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there -was a dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on -the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature. There -were but few lights in sight at sea, for even the coasting steamers, -which usually “hug” the shore so closely, kept well to seaward, and but -few fishing-boats were in sight. The only sail noticeable was a foreign -schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards. The -foolhardiness or ignorance of her officers was a prolific theme for -comment whilst she remained in sight, and efforts were made to signal -her to reduce sail in face of her danger. Before the night shut down she -was seen with sails idly flapping as she gently rolled on the undulating -swell of the sea, - - “As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” - -Shortly before ten o’clock the stillness of the air grew quite -oppressive, and the silence was so marked that the bleating of a sheep -inland or the barking of a dog in the town was distinctly heard, and the -band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a discord in the -great harmony of nature’s silence. A little after midnight came a -strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to -carry a strange, faint, hollow booming. - -Then without warning the tempest broke. With a rapidity which, at the -time, seemed incredible, and even afterwards is impossible to realize, -the whole aspect of nature at once became convulsed. The waves rose in -growing fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a very few minutes -the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster. -White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the -shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept -the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier -of Whitby Harbour. The wind roared like thunder, and blew with such -force that it was with difficulty that even strong men kept their feet, -or clung with grim clasp to the iron stanchions. It was found necessary -to clear the entire piers from the mass of onlookers, or else the -fatalities of the night would have been increased manifold. To add to -the difficulties and dangers of the time, masses of sea-fog came -drifting inland--white, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, -so dank and damp and cold that it needed but little effort of -imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were -touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death, and many -a one shuddered as the wreaths of sea-mist swept by. At times the mist -cleared, and the sea for some distance could be seen in the glare of the -lightning, which now came thick and fast, followed by such sudden peals -of thunder that the whole sky overhead seemed trembling under the shock -of the footsteps of the storm. - -Some of the scenes thus revealed were of immeasurable grandeur and of -absorbing interest--the sea, running mountains high, threw skywards with -each wave mighty masses of white foam, which the tempest seemed to -snatch at and whirl away into space; here and there a fishing-boat, with -a rag of sail, running madly for shelter before the blast; now and again -the white wings of a storm-tossed sea-bird. On the summit of the East -Cliff the new searchlight was ready for experiment, but had not yet been -tried. The officers in charge of it got it into working order, and in -the pauses of the inrushing mist swept with it the surface of the sea. -Once or twice its service was most effective, as when a fishing-boat, -with gunwale under water, rushed into the harbour, able, by the guidance -of the sheltering light, to avoid the danger of dashing against the -piers. As each boat achieved the safety of the port there was a shout of -joy from the mass of people on shore, a shout which for a moment seemed -to cleave the gale and was then swept away in its rush. - -Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner -with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed -earlier in the evening. The wind had by this time backed to the east, -and there was a shudder amongst the watchers on the cliff as they -realized the terrible danger in which she now was. Between her and the -port lay the great flat reef on which so many good ships have from time -to time suffered, and, with the wind blowing from its present quarter, -it would be quite impossible that she should fetch the entrance of the -harbour. It was now nearly the hour of high tide, but the waves were so -great that in their troughs the shallows of the shore were almost -visible, and the schooner, with all sails set, was rushing with such -speed that, in the words of one old salt, “she must fetch up somewhere, -if it was only in hell.” Then came another rush of sea-fog, greater than -any hitherto--a mass of dank mist, which seemed to close on all things -like a grey pall, and left available to men only the organ of hearing, -for the roar of the tempest, and the crash of the thunder, and the -booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder -than before. The rays of the searchlight were kept fixed on the harbour -mouth across the East Pier, where the shock was expected, and men waited -breathless. The wind suddenly shifted to the north-east, and the remnant -of the sea-fog melted in the blast; and then, _mirabile dictu_, between -the piers, leaping from wave to wave as it rushed at headlong speed, -swept the strange schooner before the blast, with all sail set, and -gained the safety of the harbour. The searchlight followed her, and a -shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a -corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each -motion of the ship. No other form could be seen on deck at all. A great -awe came on all as they realised that the ship, as if by a miracle, had -found the harbour, unsteered save by the hand of a dead man! However, -all took place more quickly than it takes to write these words. The -schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on -that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many -storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East -Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier. - -There was of course a considerable concussion as the vessel drove up on -the sand heap. Every spar, rope, and stay was strained, and some of the -“top-hammer” came crashing down. But, strangest of all, the very instant -the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below, as -if shot up by the concussion, and running forward, jumped from the bow -on the sand. Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard -hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat -tombstones--“thruff-steans” or “through-stones,” as they call them in -the Whitby vernacular--actually project over where the sustaining cliff -has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed -intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight. - -It so happened that there was no one at the moment on Tate Hill Pier, as -all those whose houses are in close proximity were either in bed or were -out on the heights above. Thus the coastguard on duty on the eastern -side of the harbour, who at once ran down to the little pier, was the -first to climb on board. The men working the searchlight, after scouring -the entrance of the harbour without seeing anything, then turned the -light on the derelict and kept it there. The coastguard ran aft, and -when he came beside the wheel, bent over to examine it, and recoiled at -once as though under some sudden emotion. This seemed to pique general -curiosity, and quite a number of people began to run. It is a good way -round from the West Cliff by the Drawbridge to Tate Hill Pier, but your -correspondent is a fairly good runner, and came well ahead of the crowd. -When I arrived, however, I found already assembled on the pier a crowd, -whom the coastguard and police refused to allow to come on board. By the -courtesy of the chief boatman, I was, as your correspondent, permitted -to climb on deck, and was one of a small group who saw the dead seaman -whilst actually lashed to the wheel. - -It was no wonder that the coastguard was surprised, or even awed, for -not often can such a sight have been seen. The man was simply fastened -by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel. Between -the inner hand and the wood was a crucifix, the set of beads on which it -was fastened being around both wrists and wheel, and all kept fast by -the binding cords. The poor fellow may have been seated at one time, but -the flapping and buffeting of the sails had worked through the rudder of -the wheel and dragged him to and fro, so that the cords with which he -was tied had cut the flesh to the bone. Accurate note was made of the -state of things, and a doctor--Surgeon J. M. Caffyn, of 33, East Elliot -Place--who came immediately after me, declared, after making -examination, that the man must have been dead for quite two days. In his -pocket was a bottle, carefully corked, empty save for a little roll of -paper, which proved to be the addendum to the log. The coastguard said -the man must have tied up his own hands, fastening the knots with his -teeth. The fact that a coastguard was the first on board may save some -complications, later on, in the Admiralty Court; for coastguards cannot -claim the salvage which is the right of the first civilian entering on a -derelict. Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young -law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already -completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the -statutes of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of -delegated possession, is held in a _dead hand_. It is needless to say -that the dead steersman has been reverently removed from the place where -he held his honourable watch and ward till death--a steadfastness as -noble as that of the young Casabianca--and placed in the mortuary to -await inquest. - -Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; -crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over -the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further -details of the derelict ship which found her way so miraculously into -harbour in the storm. - -_Whitby_ - -_9 August._--The sequel to the strange arrival of the derelict in the -storm last night is almost more startling than the thing itself. It -turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the -_Demeter_. She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a -small amount of cargo--a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. -This cargo was consigned to a Whitby solicitor, Mr. S. F. Billington, of -7, The Crescent, who this morning went aboard and formally took -possession of the goods consigned to him. The Russian consul, too, -acting for the charter-party, took formal possession of the ship, and -paid all harbour dues, etc. Nothing is talked about here to-day except -the strange coincidence; the officials of the Board of Trade have been -most exacting in seeing that every compliance has been made with -existing regulations. As the matter is to be a “nine days’ wonder,” they -are evidently determined that there shall be no cause of after -complaint. A good deal of interest was abroad concerning the dog which -landed when the ship struck, and more than a few of the members of the -S. P. C. A., which is very strong in Whitby, have tried to befriend the -animal. To the general disappointment, however, it was not to be found; -it seems to have disappeared entirely from the town. It may be that it -was frightened and made its way on to the moors, where it is still -hiding in terror. There are some who look with dread on such a -possibility, lest later on it should in itself become a danger, for it -is evidently a fierce brute. Early this morning a large dog, a half-bred -mastiff belonging to a coal merchant close to Tate Hill Pier, was found -dead in the roadway opposite to its master’s yard. It had been fighting, -and manifestly had had a savage opponent, for its throat was torn away, -and its belly was slit open as if with a savage claw. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--By the kindness of the Board of Trade inspector, I have been -permitted to look over the log-book of the _Demeter_, which was in order -up to within three days, but contained nothing of special interest -except as to facts of missing men. The greatest interest, however, is -with regard to the paper found in the bottle, which was to-day produced -at the inquest; and a more strange narrative than the two between them -unfold it has not been my lot to come across. As there is no motive for -concealment, I am permitted to use them, and accordingly send you a -rescript, simply omitting technical details of seamanship and -supercargo. It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with -some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that -this had developed persistently throughout the voyage. Of course my -statement must be taken _cum grano_, since I am writing from the -dictation of a clerk of the Russian consul, who kindly translated for -me, time being short. - - LOG OF THE “DEMETER.” - - -_Varna to Whitby._ - -_Written 18 July, things so strange happening, that I shall keep -accurate note henceforth till we land._ - - * * * * * - -On 6 July we finished taking in cargo, silver sand and boxes of earth. -At noon set sail. East wind, fresh. Crew, five hands ... two mates, -cook, and myself (captain). - - * * * * * - -On 11 July at dawn entered Bosphorus. Boarded by Turkish Customs -officers. Backsheesh. All correct. Under way at 4 p. m. - - * * * * * - -On 12 July through Dardanelles. More Customs officers and flagboat of -guarding squadron. Backsheesh again. Work of officers thorough, but -quick. Want us off soon. At dark passed into Archipelago. - - * * * * * - -On 13 July passed Cape Matapan. Crew dissatisfied about something. -Seemed scared, but would not speak out. - - * * * * * - -On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady fellows, who -sailed with me before. Mate could not make out what was wrong; they only -told him there was _something_, and crossed themselves. Mate lost temper -with one of them that day and struck him. Expected fierce quarrel, but -all was quiet. - - * * * * * - -On 16 July mate reported in the morning that one of crew, Petrofsky, was -missing. Could not account for it. Took larboard watch eight bells last -night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk. Men more -downcast than ever. All said they expected something of the kind, but -would not say more than there was _something_ aboard. Mate getting very -impatient with them; feared some trouble ahead. - - * * * * * - -On 17 July, yesterday, one of the men, Olgaren, came to my cabin, and in -an awestruck way confided to me that he thought there was a strange man -aboard the ship. He said that in his watch he had been sheltering -behind the deck-house, as there was a rain-storm, when he saw a tall, -thin man, who was not like any of the crew, come up the companion-way, -and go along the deck forward, and disappear. He followed cautiously, -but when he got to bows found no one, and the hatchways were all closed. -He was in a panic of superstitious fear, and I am afraid the panic may -spread. To allay it, I shall to-day search entire ship carefully from -stem to stern. - - * * * * * - -Later in the day I got together the whole crew, and told them, as they -evidently thought there was some one in the ship, we would search from -stem to stern. First mate angry; said it was folly, and to yield to such -foolish ideas would demoralise the men; said he would engage to keep -them out of trouble with a handspike. I let him take the helm, while the -rest began thorough search, all keeping abreast, with lanterns: we left -no corner unsearched. As there were only the big wooden boxes, there -were no odd corners where a man could hide. Men much relieved when -search over, and went back to work cheerfully. First mate scowled, but -said nothing. - - * * * * * - -_22 July_.--Rough weather last three days, and all hands busy with -sails--no time to be frightened. Men seem to have forgotten their dread. -Mate cheerful again, and all on good terms. Praised men for work in bad -weather. Passed Gibralter and out through Straits. All well. - - * * * * * - -_24 July_.--There seems some doom over this ship. Already a hand short, -and entering on the Bay of Biscay with wild weather ahead, and yet last -night another man lost--disappeared. Like the first, he came off his -watch and was not seen again. Men all in a panic of fear; sent a round -robin, asking to have double watch, as they fear to be alone. Mate -angry. Fear there will be some trouble, as either he or the men will do -some violence. - - * * * * * - -_28 July_.--Four days in hell, knocking about in a sort of maelstrom, -and the wind a tempest. No sleep for any one. Men all worn out. Hardly -know how to set a watch, since no one fit to go on. Second mate -volunteered to steer and watch, and let men snatch a few hours’ sleep. -Wind abating; seas still terrific, but feel them less, as ship is -steadier. - - * * * * * - -_29 July_.--Another tragedy. Had single watch to-night, as crew too -tired to double. When morning watch came on deck could find no one -except steersman. Raised outcry, and all came on deck. Thorough search, -but no one found. Are now without second mate, and crew in a panic. Mate -and I agreed to go armed henceforth and wait for any sign of cause. - - * * * * * - -_30 July_.--Last night. Rejoiced we are nearing England. Weather fine, -all sails set. Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling -me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Only self and mate and -two hands left to work ship. - - * * * * * - -_1 August_.--Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped when in -the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere. -Not having power to work sails, have to run before wind. Dare not lower, -as could not raise them again. We seem to be drifting to some terrible -doom. Mate now more demoralised than either of men. His stronger nature -seems to have worked inwardly against himself. Men are beyond fear, -working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst. They are -Russian, he Roumanian. - - * * * * * - -_2 August, midnight_.--Woke up from few minutes’ sleep by hearing a cry, -seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed on deck, and -ran against mate. Tells me heard cry and ran, but no sign of man on -watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits -of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as -he heard the man cry out. If so we are now off in the North Sea, and -only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God -seems to have deserted us. - - * * * * * - -_3 August_.--At midnight I went to relieve the man at the wheel, and -when I got to it found no one there. The wind was steady, and as we ran -before it there was no yawing. I dared not leave it, so shouted for the -mate. After a few seconds he rushed up on deck in his flannels. He -looked wild-eyed and haggard, and I greatly fear his reason has given -way. He came close to me and whispered hoarsely, with his mouth to my -ear, as though fearing the very air might hear: “_It_ is here; I know -it, now. On the watch last night I saw It, like a man, tall and thin, -and ghastly pale. It was in the bows, and looking out. I crept behind -It, and gave It my knife; but the knife went through It, empty as the -air.” And as he spoke he took his knife and drove it savagely into -space. Then he went on: “But It is here, and I’ll find It. It is in the -hold, perhaps in one of those boxes. I’ll unscrew them one by one and -see. You work the helm.” And, with a warning look and his finger on his -lip, he went below. There was springing up a choppy wind, and I could -not leave the helm. I saw him come out on deck again with a tool-chest -and a lantern, and go down the forward hatchway. He is mad, stark, -raving mad, and it’s no use my trying to stop him. He can’t hurt those -big boxes: they are invoiced as “clay,” and to pull them about is as -harmless a thing as he can do. So here I stay, and mind the helm, and -write these notes. I can only trust in God and wait till the fog clears. -Then, if I can’t steer to any harbour with the wind that is, I shall cut -down sails and lie by, and signal for help.... - - * * * * * - -It is nearly all over now. Just as I was beginning to hope that the mate -would come out calmer--for I heard him knocking away at something in the -hold, and work is good for him--there came up the hatchway a sudden, -startled scream, which made my blood run cold, and up on the deck he -came as if shot from a gun--a raging madman, with his eyes rolling and -his face convulsed with fear. “Save me! save me!” he cried, and then -looked round on the blanket of fog. His horror turned to despair, and in -a steady voice he said: “You had better come too, captain, before it is -too late. _He_ is there. I know the secret now. The sea will save me -from Him, and it is all that is left!” Before I could say a word, or -move forward to seize him, he sprang on the bulwark and deliberately -threw himself into the sea. I suppose I know the secret too, now. It was -this madman who had got rid of the men one by one, and now he has -followed them himself. God help me! How am I to account for all these -horrors when I get to port? _When_ I get to port! Will that ever be? - - * * * * * - -_4 August._--Still fog, which the sunrise cannot pierce. I know there is -sunrise because I am a sailor, why else I know not. I dared not go -below, I dared not leave the helm; so here all night I stayed, and in -the dimness of the night I saw It--Him! God forgive me, but the mate was -right to jump overboard. It was better to die like a man; to die like a -sailor in blue water no man can object. But I am captain, and I must not -leave my ship. But I shall baffle this fiend or monster, for I shall tie -my hands to the wheel when my strength begins to fail, and along with -them I shall tie that which He--It!--dare not touch; and then, come good -wind or foul, I shall save my soul, and my honour as a captain. I am -growing weaker, and the night is coming on. If He can look me in the -face again, I may not have time to act.... If we are wrecked, mayhap -this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand; if not, -... well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust. God -and the Blessed Virgin and the saints help a poor ignorant soul trying -to do his duty.... - - * * * * * - -Of course the verdict was an open one. There is no evidence to adduce; -and whether or not the man himself committed the murders there is now -none to say. The folk here hold almost universally that the captain is -simply a hero, and he is to be given a public funeral. Already it is -arranged that his body is to be taken with a train of boats up the Esk -for a piece and then brought back to Tate Hill Pier and up the abbey -steps; for he is to be buried in the churchyard on the cliff. The owners -of more than a hundred boats have already given in their names as -wishing to follow him to the grave. - -No trace has ever been found of the great dog; at which there is much -mourning, for, with public opinion in its present state, he would, I -believe, be adopted by the town. To-morrow will see the funeral; and so -will end this one more “mystery of the sea.” - - -_Mina Murray’s Journal._ - -_8 August._--Lucy was very restless all night, and I, too, could not -sleep. The storm was fearful, and as it boomed loudly among the -chimney-pots, it made me shudder. When a sharp puff came it seemed to be -like a distant gun. Strangely enough, Lucy did not wake; but she got up -twice and dressed herself. Fortunately, each time I awoke in time and -managed to undress her without waking her, and got her back to bed. It -is a very strange thing, this sleep-walking, for as soon as her will is -thwarted in any physical way, her intention, if there be any, -disappears, and she yields herself almost exactly to the routine of her -life. - -Early in the morning we both got up and went down to the harbour to see -if anything had happened in the night. There were very few people about, -and though the sun was bright, and the air clear and fresh, the big, -grim-looking waves, that seemed dark themselves because the foam that -topped them was like snow, forced themselves in through the narrow mouth -of the harbour--like a bullying man going through a crowd. Somehow I -felt glad that Jonathan was not on the sea last night, but on land. But, -oh, is he on land or sea? Where is he, and how? I am getting fearfully -anxious about him. If I only knew what to do, and could do anything! - - * * * * * - -_10 August._--The funeral of the poor sea-captain to-day was most -touching. Every boat in the harbour seemed to be there, and the coffin -was carried by captains all the way from Tate Hill Pier up to the -churchyard. Lucy came with me, and we went early to our old seat, whilst -the cortège of boats went up the river to the Viaduct and came down -again. We had a lovely view, and saw the procession nearly all the way. -The poor fellow was laid to rest quite near our seat so that we stood on -it when the time came and saw everything. Poor Lucy seemed much upset. -She was restless and uneasy all the time, and I cannot but think that -her dreaming at night is telling on her. She is quite odd in one thing: -she will not admit to me that there is any cause for restlessness; or if -there be, she does not understand it herself. There is an additional -cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our -seat, his neck being broken. He had evidently, as the doctor said, -fallen back in the seat in some sort of fright, for there was a look of -fear and horror on his face that the men said made them shudder. Poor -dear old man! Perhaps he had seen Death with his dying eyes! Lucy is so -sweet and sensitive that she feels influences more acutely than other -people do. Just now she was quite upset by a little thing which I did -not much heed, though I am myself very fond of animals. One of the men -who came up here often to look for the boats was followed by his dog. -The dog is always with him. They are both quiet persons, and I never saw -the man angry, nor heard the dog bark. During the service the dog would -not come to its master, who was on the seat with us, but kept a few -yards off, barking and howling. Its master spoke to it gently, and then -harshly, and then angrily; but it would neither come nor cease to make a -noise. It was in a sort of fury, with its eyes savage, and all its hairs -bristling out like a cat’s tail when puss is on the war-path. Finally -the man, too, got angry, and jumped down and kicked the dog, and then -took it by the scruff of the neck and half dragged and half threw it on -the tombstone on which the seat is fixed. The moment it touched the -stone the poor thing became quiet and fell all into a tremble. It did -not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was -in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, -to comfort it. Lucy was full of pity, too, but she did not attempt to -touch the dog, but looked at it in an agonised sort of way. I greatly -fear that she is of too super-sensitive a nature to go through the world -without trouble. She will be dreaming of this to-night, I am sure. The -whole agglomeration of things--the ship steered into port by a dead -man; his attitude, tied to the wheel with a crucifix and beads; the -touching funeral; the dog, now furious and now in terror--will all -afford material for her dreams. - -I think it will be best for her to go to bed tired out physically, so I -shall take her for a long walk by the cliffs to Robin Hood’s Bay and -back. She ought not to have much inclination for sleep-walking then. - - - - -CHAPTER VIII - -MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL - - -_Same day, 11 o’clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I -had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely -walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some -dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse, -and frightened the wits out of us. I believe we forgot everything -except, of course, personal fear, and it seemed to wipe the slate clean -and give us a fresh start. We had a capital “severe tea” at Robin Hood’s -Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over -the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand. I believe we should have -shocked the “New Woman” with our appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless -them! Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest, -and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls. Lucy was -really tired, and we intended to creep off to bed as soon as we could. -The young curate came in, however, and Mrs. Westenra asked him to stay -for supper. Lucy and I had both a fight for it with the dusty miller; I -know it was a hard fight on my part, and I am quite heroic. I think that -some day the bishops must get together and see about breeding up a new -class of curates, who don’t take supper, no matter how they may be -pressed to, and who will know when girls are tired. Lucy is asleep and -breathing softly. She has more colour in her cheeks than usual, and -looks, oh, so sweet. If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her -only in the drawing-room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now. -Some of the “New Women” writers will some day start an idea that men and -women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or -accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to -accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make -of it, too! There’s some consolation in that. I am so happy to-night, -because dear Lucy seems better. I really believe she has turned the -corner, and that we are over her troubles with dreaming. I should be -quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan.... God bless and keep him. - - * * * * * - -_11 August, 3 a. m._--Diary again. No sleep now, so I may as well write. -I am too agitated to sleep. We have had such an adventure, such an -agonising experience. I fell asleep as soon as I had closed my diary.... -Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear -upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me. The room was dark, -so I could not see Lucy’s bed; I stole across and felt for her. The bed -was empty. I lit a match and found that she was not in the room. The -door was shut, but not locked, as I had left it. I feared to wake her -mother, who has been more than usually ill lately, so threw on some -clothes and got ready to look for her. As I was leaving the room it -struck me that the clothes she wore might give me some clue to her -dreaming intention. Dressing-gown would mean house; dress, outside. -Dressing-gown and dress were both in their places. “Thank God,” I said -to myself, “she cannot be far, as she is only in her nightdress.” I ran -downstairs and looked in the sitting-room. Not there! Then I looked in -all the other open rooms of the house, with an ever-growing fear -chilling my heart. Finally I came to the hall door and found it open. It -was not wide open, but the catch of the lock had not caught. The people -of the house are careful to lock the door every night, so I feared that -Lucy must have gone out as she was. There was no time to think of what -might happen; a vague, overmastering fear obscured all details. I took a -big, heavy shawl and ran out. The clock was striking one as I was in the -Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight. I ran along the North -Terrace, but could see no sign of the white figure which I expected. At -the edge of the West Cliff above the pier I looked across the harbour to -the East Cliff, in the hope or fear--I don’t know which--of seeing Lucy -in our favourite seat. There was a bright full moon, with heavy black, -driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of -light and shade as they sailed across. For a moment or two I could see -nothing, as the shadow of a cloud obscured St. Mary’s Church and all -around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey -coming into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light as sharp as -a sword-cut moved along, the church and the churchyard became gradually -visible. Whatever my expectation was, it was not disappointed, for -there, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a -half-reclining figure, snowy white. The coming of the cloud was too -quick for me to see much, for shadow shut down on light almost -immediately; but it seemed to me as though something dark stood behind -the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, -whether man or beast, I could not tell; I did not wait to catch another -glance, but flew down the steep steps to the pier and along by the -fish-market to the bridge, which was the only way to reach the East -Cliff. The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see; I rejoiced -that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy’s condition. The -time and distance seemed endless, and my knees trembled and my breath -came laboured as I toiled up the endless steps to the abbey. I must have -gone fast, and yet it seemed to me as if my feet were weighted with -lead, and as though every joint in my body were rusty. When I got almost -to the top I could see the seat and the white figure, for I was now -close enough to distinguish it even through the spells of shadow. There -was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the -half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, “Lucy! Lucy!” and -something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face -and red, gleaming eyes. Lucy did not answer, and I ran on to the -entrance of the churchyard. As I entered, the church was between me and -the seat, and for a minute or so I lost sight of her. When I came in -view again the cloud had passed, and the moonlight struck so brilliantly -that I could see Lucy half reclining with her head lying over the back -of the seat. She was quite alone, and there was not a sign of any living -thing about. - -When I bent over her I could see that she was still asleep. Her lips -were parted, and she was breathing--not softly as usual with her, but in -long, heavy gasps, as though striving to get her lungs full at every -breath. As I came close, she put up her hand in her sleep and pulled the -collar of her nightdress close around her throat. Whilst she did so -there came a little shudder through her, as though she felt the cold. I -flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, -for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, -unclad as she was. I feared to wake her all at once, so, in order to -have my hands free that I might help her, I fastened the shawl at her -throat with a big safety-pin; but I must have been clumsy in my anxiety -and pinched or pricked her with it, for by-and-by, when her breathing -became quieter, she put her hand to her throat again and moaned. When I -had her carefully wrapped up I put my shoes on her feet and then began -very gently to wake her. At first she did not respond; but gradually she -became more and more uneasy in her sleep, moaning and sighing -occasionally. At last, as time was passing fast, and, for many other -reasons, I wished to get her home at once, I shook her more forcibly, -till finally she opened her eyes and awoke. She did not seem surprised -to see me, as, of course, she did not realise all at once where she was. -Lucy always wakes prettily, and even at such a time, when her body must -have been chilled with cold, and her mind somewhat appalled at waking -unclad in a churchyard at night, she did not lose her grace. She -trembled a little, and clung to me; when I told her to come at once with -me home she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child. As we -passed along, the gravel hurt my feet, and Lucy noticed me wince. She -stopped and wanted to insist upon my taking my shoes; but I would not. -However, when we got to the pathway outside the churchyard, where there -was a puddle of water, remaining from the storm, I daubed my feet with -mud, using each foot in turn on the other, so that as we went home, no -one, in case we should meet any one, should notice my bare feet. - -Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw -a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of -us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as -there are here, steep little closes, or “wynds,” as they call them in -Scotland. My heart beat so loud all the time that sometimes I thought I -should faint. I was filled with anxiety about Lucy, not only for her -health, lest she should suffer from the exposure, but for her reputation -in case the story should get wind. When we got in, and had washed our -feet, and had said a prayer of thankfulness together, I tucked her into -bed. Before falling asleep she asked--even implored--me not to say a -word to any one, even her mother, about her sleep-walking adventure. I -hesitated at first to promise; but on thinking of the state of her -mother’s health, and how the knowledge of such a thing would fret her, -and thinking, too, of how such a story might become distorted--nay, -infallibly would--in case it should leak out, I thought it wiser to do -so. I hope I did right. I have locked the door, and the key is tied to -my wrist, so perhaps I shall not be again disturbed. Lucy is sleeping -soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea.... - - * * * * * - -_Same day, noon._--All goes well. Lucy slept till I woke her and seemed -not to have even changed her side. The adventure of the night does not -seem to have harmed her; on the contrary, it has benefited her, for she -looks better this morning than she has done for weeks. I was sorry to -notice that my clumsiness with the safety-pin hurt her. Indeed, it might -have been serious, for the skin of her throat was pierced. I must have -pinched up a piece of loose skin and have transfixed it, for there are -two little red points like pin-pricks, and on the band of her nightdress -was a drop of blood. When I apologised and was concerned about it, she -laughed and petted me, and said she did not even feel it. Fortunately it -cannot leave a scar, as it is so tiny. - - * * * * * - -_Same day, night._--We passed a happy day. The air was clear, and the -sun bright, and there was a cool breeze. We took our lunch to Mulgrave -Woods, Mrs. Westenra driving by the road and Lucy and I walking by the -cliff-path and joining her at the gate. I felt a little sad myself, for -I could not but feel how _absolutely_ happy it would have been had -Jonathan been with me. But there! I must only be patient. In the evening -we strolled in the Casino Terrace, and heard some good music by Spohr -and Mackenzie, and went to bed early. Lucy seems more restful than she -has been for some time, and fell asleep at once. I shall lock the door -and secure the key the same as before, though I do not expect any -trouble to-night. - - * * * * * - -_12 August._--My expectations were wrong, for twice during the night I -was wakened by Lucy trying to get out. She seemed, even in her sleep, to -be a little impatient at finding the door shut, and went back to bed -under a sort of protest. I woke with the dawn, and heard the birds -chirping outside of the window. Lucy woke, too, and, I was glad to see, -was even better than on the previous morning. All her old gaiety of -manner seemed to have come back, and she came and snuggled in beside me -and told me all about Arthur. I told her how anxious I was about -Jonathan, and then she tried to comfort me. Well, she succeeded -somewhat, for, though sympathy can’t alter facts, it can help to make -them more bearable. - - * * * * * - -_13 August._--Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist as -before. Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed, -still asleep, pointing to the window. I got up quietly, and pulling -aside the blind, looked out. It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft -effect of the light over the sea and sky--merged together in one great, -silent mystery--was beautiful beyond words. Between me and the moonlight -flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles. Once or -twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose, frightened at seeing me, -and flitted away across the harbour towards the abbey. When I came back -from the window Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully. -She did not stir again all night. - - * * * * * - -_14 August._--On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day. Lucy seems -to have become as much in love with the spot as I am, and it is hard to -get her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or -dinner. This afternoon she made a funny remark. We were coming home for -dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and -stopped to look at the view, as we generally do. The setting sun, low -down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness; the red light was -thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe -everything in a beautiful rosy glow. We were silent for a while, and -suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself:-- - -“His red eyes again! They are just the same.” It was such an odd -expression, coming _apropos_ of nothing, that it quite startled me. I -slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare -at her, and saw that she was in a half-dreamy state, with an odd look on -her face that I could not quite make out; so I said nothing, but -followed her eyes. She appeared to be looking over at our own seat, -whereon was a dark figure seated alone. I was a little startled myself, -for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like -burning flames; but a second look dispelled the illusion. The red -sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary’s Church behind our -seat, and as the sun dipped there was just sufficient change in the -refraction and reflection to make it appear as if the light moved. I -called Lucy’s attention to the peculiar effect, and she became herself -with a start, but she looked sad all the same; it may have been that she -was thinking of that terrible night up there. We never refer to it; so I -said nothing, and we went home to dinner. Lucy had a headache and went -early to bed. I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself; -I walked along the cliffs to the westward, and was full of sweet -sadness, for I was thinking of Jonathan. When coming home--it was then -bright moonlight, so bright that, though the front of our part of the -Crescent was in shadow, everything could be well seen--I threw a glance -up at our window, and saw Lucy’s head leaning out. I thought that -perhaps she was looking out for me, so I opened my handkerchief and -waved it. She did not notice or make any movement whatever. Just then, -the moonlight crept round an angle of the building, and the light fell -on the window. There distinctly was Lucy with her head lying up against -the side of the window-sill and her eyes shut. She was fast asleep, and -by her, seated on the window-sill, was something that looked like a -good-sized bird. I was afraid she might get a chill, so I ran upstairs, -but as I came into the room she was moving back to her bed, fast -asleep, and breathing heavily; she was holding her hand to her throat, -as though to protect it from cold. - -I did not wake her, but tucked her up warmly; I have taken care that the -door is locked and the window securely fastened. - -She looks so sweet as she sleeps; but she is paler than is her wont, and -there is a drawn, haggard look under her eyes which I do not like. I -fear she is fretting about something. I wish I could find out what it -is. - - * * * * * - -_15 August._--Rose later than usual. Lucy was languid and tired, and -slept on after we had been called. We had a happy surprise at breakfast. -Arthur’s father is better, and wants the marriage to come off soon. Lucy -is full of quiet joy, and her mother is glad and sorry at once. Later on -in the day she told me the cause. She is grieved to lose Lucy as her -very own, but she is rejoiced that she is soon to have some one to -protect her. Poor dear, sweet lady! She confided to me that she has got -her death-warrant. She has not told Lucy, and made me promise secrecy; -her doctor told her that within a few months, at most, she must die, for -her heart is weakening. At any time, even now, a sudden shock would be -almost sure to kill her. Ah, we were wise to keep from her the affair of -the dreadful night of Lucy’s sleep-walking. - - * * * * * - -_17 August._--No diary for two whole days. I have not had the heart to -write. Some sort of shadowy pall seems to be coming over our happiness. -No news from Jonathan, and Lucy seems to be growing weaker, whilst her -mother’s hours are numbering to a close. I do not understand Lucy’s -fading away as she is doing. She eats well and sleeps well, and enjoys -the fresh air; but all the time the roses in her cheeks are fading, and -she gets weaker and more languid day by day; at night I hear her gasping -as if for air. I keep the key of our door always fastened to my wrist at -night, but she gets up and walks about the room, and sits at the open -window. Last night I found her leaning out when I woke up, and when I -tried to wake her I could not; she was in a faint. When I managed to -restore her she was as weak as water, and cried silently between long, -painful struggles for breath. When I asked her how she came to be at the -window she shook her head and turned away. I trust her feeling ill may -not be from that unlucky prick of the safety-pin. I looked at her throat -just now as she lay asleep, and the tiny wounds seem not to have healed. -They are still open, and, if anything, larger than before, and the -edges of them are faintly white. They are like little white dots with -red centres. Unless they heal within a day or two, I shall insist on the -doctor seeing about them. - - -_Letter, Samuel F. Billington & Son, Solicitors, Whitby, to Messrs. -Carter, Paterson & Co., London._ - -“_17 August._ - -“Dear Sirs,-- - -“Herewith please receive invoice of goods sent by Great Northern -Railway. Same are to be delivered at Carfax, near Purfleet, immediately -on receipt at goods station King’s Cross. The house is at present empty, -but enclosed please find keys, all of which are labelled. - -“You will please deposit the boxes, fifty in number, which form the -consignment, in the partially ruined building forming part of the house -and marked ‘A’ on rough diagram enclosed. Your agent will easily -recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. The -goods leave by the train at 9:30 to-night, and will be due at King’s -Cross at 4:30 to-morrow afternoon. As our client wishes the delivery -made as soon as possible, we shall be obliged by your having teams ready -at King’s Cross at the time named and forthwith conveying the goods to -destination. In order to obviate any delays possible through any routine -requirements as to payment in your departments, we enclose cheque -herewith for ten pounds (£10), receipt of which please acknowledge. -Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if -greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from -you. You are to leave the keys on coming away in the main hall of the -house, where the proprietor may get them on his entering the house by -means of his duplicate key. - -“Pray do not take us as exceeding the bounds of business courtesy in -pressing you in all ways to use the utmost expedition. - -_“We are, dear Sirs, - -“Faithfully yours, - -“SAMUEL F. BILLINGTON & SON.”_ - - -_Letter, Messrs. Carter, Paterson & Co., London, to Messrs. Billington & -Son, Whitby._ - -“_21 August._ - -“Dear Sirs,-- - -“We beg to acknowledge £10 received and to return cheque £1 17s. 9d, -amount of overplus, as shown in receipted account herewith. Goods are -delivered in exact accordance with instructions, and keys left in parcel -in main hall, as directed. - -“We are, dear Sirs, - -“Yours respectfully. - -“_Pro_ CARTER, PATERSON & CO.” - - -_Mina Murray’s Journal._ - -_18 August._--I am happy to-day, and write sitting on the seat in the -churchyard. Lucy is ever so much better. Last night she slept well all -night, and did not disturb me once. The roses seem coming back already -to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and wan-looking. If she -were in any way anæmic I could understand it, but she is not. She is in -gay spirits and full of life and cheerfulness. All the morbid reticence -seems to have passed from her, and she has just reminded me, as if I -needed any reminding, of _that_ night, and that it was here, on this -very seat, I found her asleep. As she told me she tapped playfully with -the heel of her boot on the stone slab and said:-- - -“My poor little feet didn’t make much noise then! I daresay poor old Mr. -Swales would have told me that it was because I didn’t want to wake up -Geordie.” As she was in such a communicative humour, I asked her if she -had dreamed at all that night. Before she answered, that sweet, puckered -look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her -habit--says he loves; and, indeed, I don’t wonder that he does. Then she -went on in a half-dreaming kind of way, as if trying to recall it to -herself:-- - -“I didn’t quite dream; but it all seemed to be real. I only wanted to be -here in this spot--I don’t know why, for I was afraid of something--I -don’t know what. I remember, though I suppose I was asleep, passing -through the streets and over the bridge. A fish leaped as I went by, and -I leaned over to look at it, and I heard a lot of dogs howling--the -whole town seemed as if it must be full of dogs all howling at once--as -I went up the steps. Then I had a vague memory of something long and -dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very -sweet and very bitter all around me at once; and then I seemed sinking -into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have -heard there is to drowning men; and then everything seemed passing away -from me; my soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air. -I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, -and then there was a sort of agonising feeling, as if I were in an -earthquake, and I came back and found you shaking my body. I saw you do -it before I felt you.” - -Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I -listened to her breathlessly. I did not quite like it, and thought it -better not to keep her mind on the subject, so we drifted on to other -subjects, and Lucy was like her old self again. When we got home the -fresh breeze had braced her up, and her pale cheeks were really more -rosy. Her mother rejoiced when she saw her, and we all spent a very -happy evening together. - - * * * * * - -_19 August._--Joy, joy, joy! although not all joy. At last, news of -Jonathan. The dear fellow has been ill; that is why he did not write. I -am not afraid to think it or say it, now that I know. Mr. Hawkins sent -me on the letter, and wrote himself, oh, so kindly. I am to leave in the -morning and go over to Jonathan, and to help to nurse him if necessary, -and to bring him home. Mr. Hawkins says it would not be a bad thing if -we were to be married out there. I have cried over the good Sister’s -letter till I can feel it wet against my bosom, where it lies. It is of -Jonathan, and must be next my heart, for he is _in_ my heart. My journey -is all mapped out, and my luggage ready. I am only taking one change of -dress; Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for -it, for it may be that ... I must write no more; I must keep it to say -to Jonathan, my husband. The letter that he has seen and touched must -comfort me till we meet. - - -_Letter, Sister Agatha, Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste. Mary, -Buda-Pesth, to Miss Wilhelmina Murray._ - -“_12 August._ - -“Dear Madam,-- - -“I write by desire of Mr. Jonathan Harker, who is himself not strong -enough to write, though progressing well, thanks to God and St. Joseph -and Ste. Mary. He has been under our care for nearly six weeks, -suffering from a violent brain fever. He wishes me to convey his love, -and to say that by this post I write for him to Mr. Peter Hawkins, -Exeter, to say, with his dutiful respects, that he is sorry for his -delay, and that all of his work is completed. He will require some few -weeks’ rest in our sanatorium in the hills, but will then return. He -wishes me to say that he has not sufficient money with him, and that he -would like to pay for his staying here, so that others who need shall -not be wanting for help. - -“Believe me, - -“Yours, with sympathy and all blessings, - -“SISTER AGATHA. - -“P. S.--My patient being asleep, I open this to let you know something -more. He has told me all about you, and that you are shortly to be his -wife. All blessings to you both! He has had some fearful shock--so says -our doctor--and in his delirium his ravings have been dreadful; of -wolves and poison and blood; of ghosts and demons; and I fear to say of -what. Be careful with him always that there may be nothing to excite him -of this kind for a long time to come; the traces of such an illness as -his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we -knew nothing of his friends, and there was on him nothing that any one -could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard -was told by the station-master there that he rushed into the station -shouting for a ticket for home. Seeing from his violent demeanour that -he was English, they gave him a ticket for the furthest station on the -way thither that the train reached. - -“Be assured that he is well cared for. He has won all hearts by his -sweetness and gentleness. He is truly getting on well, and I have no -doubt will in a few weeks be all himself. But be careful of him for -safety’s sake. There are, I pray God and St. Joseph and Ste. Mary, many, -many, happy years for you both.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_19 August._--Strange and sudden change in Renfield last night. About -eight o’clock he began to get excited and sniff about as a dog does when -setting. The attendant was struck by his manner, and knowing my interest -in him, encouraged him to talk. He is usually respectful to the -attendant and at times servile; but to-night, the man tells me, he was -quite haughty. Would not condescend to talk with him at all. All he -would say was:-- - - “I don’t want to talk to you: you don’t count now; the Master is at - hand.” - -The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has -seized him. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with -homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The -combination is a dreadful one. At nine o’clock I visited him myself. His -attitude to me was the same as that to the attendant; in his sublime -self-feeling the difference between myself and attendant seemed to him -as nothing. It looks like religious mania, and he will soon think that -he himself is God. These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man -are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves -away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall; but the God created -from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, -if men only knew! - -For half an hour or more Renfield kept getting excited in greater and -greater degree. I did not pretend to be watching him, but I kept strict -observation all the same. All at once that shifty look came into his -eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it -the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to -know so well. He became quite quiet, and went and sat on the edge of his -bed resignedly, and looked into space with lack-lustre eyes. I thought I -would find out if his apathy were real or only assumed, and tried to -lead him to talk of his pets, a theme which had never failed to excite -his attention. At first he made no reply, but at length said testily:-- - -“Bother them all! I don’t care a pin about them.” - -“What?” I said. “You don’t mean to tell me you don’t care about -spiders?” (Spiders at present are his hobby and the note-book is filling -up with columns of small figures.) To this he answered enigmatically:-- - -“The bride-maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride; -but when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes -that are filled.” - -He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his bed -all the time I remained with him. - -I am weary to-night and low in spirits. I cannot but think of Lucy, and -how different things might have been. If I don’t sleep at once, chloral, -the modern Morpheus--C_{2}HCl_{3}O. H_{2}O! I must be careful not to let -it grow into a habit. No, I shall take none to-night! I have thought of -Lucy, and I shall not dishonour her by mixing the two. If need be, -to-night shall be sleepless.... - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Glad I made the resolution; gladder that I kept to it. I had -lain tossing about, and had heard the clock strike only twice, when the -night-watchman came to me, sent up from the ward, to say that Renfield -had escaped. I threw on my clothes and ran down at once; my patient is -too dangerous a person to be roaming about. Those ideas of his might -work out dangerously with strangers. The attendant was waiting for me. -He said he had seen him not ten minutes before, seemingly asleep in his -bed, when he had looked through the observation-trap in the door. His -attention was called by the sound of the window being wrenched out. He -ran back and saw his feet disappear through the window, and had at once -sent up for me. He was only in his night-gear, and cannot be far off. -The attendant thought it would be more useful to watch where he should -go than to follow him, as he might lose sight of him whilst getting out -of the building by the door. He is a bulky man, and couldn’t get through -the window. I am thin, so, with his aid, I got out, but feet foremost, -and, as we were only a few feet above ground, landed unhurt. The -attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a -straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could. As I got through the belt -of trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall which separates our -grounds from those of the deserted house. - -I ran back at once, told the watchman to get three or four men -immediately and follow me into the grounds of Carfax, in case our friend -might be dangerous. I got a ladder myself, and crossing the wall, -dropped down on the other side. I could see Renfield’s figure just -disappearing behind the angle of the house, so I ran after him. On the -far side of the house I found him pressed close against the old -ironbound oak door of the chapel. He was talking, apparently to some -one, but I was afraid to go near enough to hear what he was saying, lest -I might frighten him, and he should run off. Chasing an errant swarm of -bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping -is upon him! After a few minutes, however, I could see that he did not -take note of anything around him, and so ventured to draw nearer to -him--the more so as my men had now crossed the wall and were closing him -in. I heard him say:-- - -“I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave, and You will -reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped You long and afar -off. Now that You are near, I await Your commands, and You will not pass -me by, will You, dear Master, in Your distribution of good things?” - -He _is_ a selfish old beggar anyhow. He thinks of the loaves and fishes -even when he believes he is in a Real Presence. His manias make a -startling combination. When we closed in on him he fought like a tiger. -He is immensely strong, for he was more like a wild beast than a man. I -never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before; and I hope I -shall not again. It is a mercy that we have found out his strength and -his danger in good time. With strength and determination like his, he -might have done wild work before he was caged. He is safe now at any -rate. Jack Sheppard himself couldn’t get free from the strait-waistcoat -that keeps him restrained, and he’s chained to the wall in the padded -room. His cries are at times awful, but the silences that follow are -more deadly still, for he means murder in every turn and movement. - -Just now he spoke coherent words for the first time:-- - -“I shall be patient, Master. It is coming--coming--coming!” - -So I took the hint, and came too. I was too excited to sleep, but this -diary has quieted me, and I feel I shall get some sleep to-night. - - - - -CHAPTER IX - - -_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._ - -“_Buda-Pesth, 24 August._ - -“My dearest Lucy,-- - -“I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we -parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull -all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I -feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I -knew I was coming to Jonathan, and, that as I should have to do some -nursing, I had better get all the sleep I could.... I found my dear one, -oh, so thin and pale and weak-looking. All the resolution has gone out -of his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his -face has vanished. He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not -remember anything that has happened to him for a long time past. At -least, he wants me to believe so, and I shall never ask. He has had some -terrible shock, and I fear it might tax his poor brain if he were to try -to recall it. Sister Agatha, who is a good creature and a born nurse, -tells me that he raved of dreadful things whilst he was off his head. I -wanted her to tell me what they were; but she would only cross herself, -and say she would never tell; that the ravings of the sick were the -secrets of God, and that if a nurse through her vocation should hear -them, she should respect her trust. She is a sweet, good soul, and the -next day, when she saw I was troubled, she opened up the subject again, -and after saying that she could never mention what my poor dear raved -about, added: ‘I can tell you this much, my dear: that it was not about -anything which he has done wrong himself; and you, as his wife to be, -have no cause to be concerned. He has not forgotten you or what he owes -to you. His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can -treat of.’ I do believe the dear soul thought I might be jealous lest my -poor dear should have fallen in love with any other girl. The idea of -_my_ being jealous about Jonathan! And yet, my dear, let me whisper, I -felt a thrill of joy through me when I _knew_ that no other woman was a -cause of trouble. I am now sitting by his bedside, where I can see his -face while he sleeps. He is waking!... - -“When he woke he asked me for his coat, as he wanted to get something -from the pocket; I asked Sister Agatha, and she brought all his things. -I saw that amongst them was his note-book, and was going to ask him to -let me look at it--for I knew then that I might find some clue to his -trouble--but I suppose he must have seen my wish in my eyes, for he sent -me over to the window, saying he wanted to be quite alone for a moment. -Then he called me back, and when I came he had his hand over the -note-book, and he said to me very solemnly:-- - -“‘Wilhelmina’--I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has -never called me by that name since he asked me to marry him--‘you know, -dear, my ideas of the trust between husband and wife: there should be no -secret, no concealment. I have had a great shock, and when I try to -think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it -was all real or the dreaming of a madman. You know I have had brain -fever, and that is to be mad. The secret is here, and I do not want to -know it. I want to take up my life here, with our marriage.’ For, my -dear, we had decided to be married as soon as the formalities are -complete. ‘Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is -the book. Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me -know; unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to -the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.’ He fell -back exhausted, and I put the book under his pillow, and kissed him. I -have asked Sister Agatha to beg the Superior to let our wedding be this -afternoon, and am waiting her reply.... - - * * * * * - -“She has come and told me that the chaplain of the English mission -church has been sent for. We are to be married in an hour, or as soon -after as Jonathan awakes.... - - * * * * * - -“Lucy, the time has come and gone. I feel very solemn, but very, very -happy. Jonathan woke a little after the hour, and all was ready, and he -sat up in bed, propped up with pillows. He answered his ‘I will’ firmly -and strongly. I could hardly speak; my heart was so full that even those -words seemed to choke me. The dear sisters were so kind. Please God, I -shall never, never forget them, nor the grave and sweet responsibilities -I have taken upon me. I must tell you of my wedding present. When the -chaplain and the sisters had left me alone with my husband--oh, Lucy, it -is the first time I have written the words ‘my husband’--left me alone -with my husband, I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it -up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon -which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing-wax, -and for my seal I used my wedding ring. Then I kissed it and showed it -to my husband, and told him that I would keep it so, and then it would -be an outward and visible sign for us all our lives that we trusted each -other; that I would never open it unless it were for his own dear sake -or for the sake of some stern duty. Then he took my hand in his, and oh, -Lucy, it was the first time he took _his wife’s_ hand, and said that it -was the dearest thing in all the wide world, and that he would go -through all the past again to win it, if need be. The poor dear meant to -have said a part of the past, but he cannot think of time yet, and I -shall not wonder if at first he mixes up not only the month, but the -year. - -“Well, my dear, what could I say? I could only tell him that I was the -happiest woman in all the wide world, and that I had nothing to give him -except myself, my life, and my trust, and that with these went my love -and duty for all the days of my life. And, my dear, when he kissed me, -and drew me to him with his poor weak hands, it was like a very solemn -pledge between us.... - -“Lucy dear, do you know why I tell you all this? It is not only because -it is all sweet to me, but because you have been, and are, very dear to -me. It was my privilege to be your friend and guide when you came from -the schoolroom to prepare for the world of life. I want you to see now, -and with the eyes of a very happy wife, whither duty has led me; so that -in your own married life you too may be all happy as I am. My dear, -please Almighty God, your life may be all it promises: a long day of -sunshine, with no harsh wind, no forgetting duty, no distrust. I must -not wish you no pain, for that can never be; but I do hope you will be -_always_ as happy as I am _now_. Good-bye, my dear. I shall post this at -once, and, perhaps, write you very soon again. I must stop, for Jonathan -is waking--I must attend to my husband! - -“Your ever-loving - -“MINA HARKER.” - - -_Letter, Lucy Westenra to Mina Harker._ - -“_Whitby, 30 August._ - -“My dearest Mina,-- - -“Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your own -home with your husband. I wish you could be coming home soon enough to -stay with us here. The strong air would soon restore Jonathan; it has -quite restored me. I have an appetite like a cormorant, am full of -life, and sleep well. You will be glad to know that I have quite given -up walking in my sleep. I think I have not stirred out of my bed for a -week, that is when I once got into it at night. Arthur says I am getting -fat. By the way, I forgot to tell you that Arthur is here. We have such -walks and drives, and rides, and rowing, and tennis, and fishing -together; and I love him more than ever. He _tells_ me that he loves me -more, but I doubt that, for at first he told me that he couldn’t love me -more than he did then. But this is nonsense. There he is, calling to me. -So no more just at present from your loving - -“LUCY. - -“P. S.--Mother sends her love. She seems better, poor dear. -“P. P. S.--We are to be married on 28 September.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_20 August._--The case of Renfield grows even more interesting. He has -now so far quieted that there are spells of cessation from his passion. -For the first week after his attack he was perpetually violent. Then one -night, just as the moon rose, he grew quiet, and kept murmuring to -himself: “Now I can wait; now I can wait.” The attendant came to tell -me, so I ran down at once to have a look at him. He was still in the -strait-waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone -from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading--I might -almost say, “cringing”--softness. I was satisfied with his present -condition, and directed him to be relieved. The attendants hesitated, -but finally carried out my wishes without protest. It was a strange -thing that the patient had humour enough to see their distrust, for, -coming close to me, he said in a whisper, all the while looking -furtively at them:-- - -“They think I could hurt you! Fancy _me_ hurting _you_! The fools!” - -It was soothing, somehow, to the feelings to find myself dissociated -even in the mind of this poor madman from the others; but all the same I -do not follow his thought. Am I to take it that I have anything in -common with him, so that we are, as it were, to stand together; or has -he to gain from me some good so stupendous that my well-being is needful -to him? I must find out later on. To-night he will not speak. Even the -offer of a kitten or even a full-grown cat will not tempt him. He will -only say: “I don’t take any stock in cats. I have more to think of now, -and I can wait; I can wait.” - -After a while I left him. The attendant tells me that he was quiet -until just before dawn, and that then he began to get uneasy, and at -length violent, until at last he fell into a paroxysm which exhausted -him so that he swooned into a sort of coma. - - * * * * * - -... Three nights has the same thing happened--violent all day then quiet -from moonrise to sunrise. I wish I could get some clue to the cause. It -would almost seem as if there was some influence which came and went. -Happy thought! We shall to-night play sane wits against mad ones. He -escaped before without our help; to-night he shall escape with it. We -shall give him a chance, and have the men ready to follow in case they -are required.... - - * * * * * - -_23 August._--“The unexpected always happens.” How well Disraeli knew -life. Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly, so all our -subtle arrangements were for nought. At any rate, we have proved one -thing; that the spells of quietness last a reasonable time. We shall in -future be able to ease his bonds for a few hours each day. I have given -orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded room, -when once he is quiet, until an hour before sunrise. The poor soul’s -body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate it. Hark! -The unexpected again! I am called; the patient has once more escaped. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Another night adventure. Renfield artfully waited until the -attendant was entering the room to inspect. Then he dashed out past him -and flew down the passage. I sent word for the attendants to follow. -Again he went into the grounds of the deserted house, and we found him -in the same place, pressed against the old chapel door. When he saw me -he became furious, and had not the attendants seized him in time, he -would have tried to kill me. As we were holding him a strange thing -happened. He suddenly redoubled his efforts, and then as suddenly grew -calm. I looked round instinctively, but could see nothing. Then I caught -the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked -into the moonlit sky except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and -ghostly way to the west. Bats usually wheel and flit about, but this one -seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had -some intention of its own. The patient grew calmer every instant, and -presently said:-- - -“You needn’t tie me; I shall go quietly!” Without trouble we came back -to the house. I feel there is something ominous in his calm, and shall -not forget this night.... - - -_Lucy Westenra’s Diary_ - -_Hillingham, 24 August._--I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things -down. Then we can have long talks when we do meet. I wonder when it will -be. I wish she were with me again, for I feel so unhappy. Last night I -seemed to be dreaming again just as I was at Whitby. Perhaps it is the -change of air, or getting home again. It is all dark and horrid to me, -for I can remember nothing; but I am full of vague fear, and I feel so -weak and worn out. When Arthur came to lunch he looked quite grieved -when he saw me, and I hadn’t the spirit to try to be cheerful. I wonder -if I could sleep in mother’s room to-night. I shall make an excuse and -try. - - * * * * * - -_25 August._--Another bad night. Mother did not seem to take to my -proposal. She seems not too well herself, and doubtless she fears to -worry me. I tried to keep awake, and succeeded for a while; but when the -clock struck twelve it waked me from a doze, so I must have been falling -asleep. There was a sort of scratching or flapping at the window, but I -did not mind it, and as I remember no more, I suppose I must then have -fallen asleep. More bad dreams. I wish I could remember them. This -morning I am horribly weak. My face is ghastly pale, and my throat pains -me. It must be something wrong with my lungs, for I don’t seem ever to -get air enough. I shall try to cheer up when Arthur comes, or else I -know he will be miserable to see me so. - - -_Letter, Arthur Holmwood to Dr. Seward._ - -“_Albemarle Hotel, 31 August._ - -“My dear Jack,-- - -“I want you to do me a favour. Lucy is ill; that is, she has no special -disease, but she looks awful, and is getting worse every day. I have -asked her if there is any cause; I do not dare to ask her mother, for to -disturb the poor lady’s mind about her daughter in her present state of -health would be fatal. Mrs. Westenra has confided to me that her doom is -spoken--disease of the heart--though poor Lucy does not know it yet. I -am sure that there is something preying on my dear girl’s mind. I am -almost distracted when I think of her; to look at her gives me a pang. I -told her I should ask you to see her, and though she demurred at -first--I know why, old fellow--she finally consented. It will be a -painful task for you, I know, old friend, but it is for _her_ sake, and -I must not hesitate to ask, or you to act. You are to come to lunch at -Hillingham to-morrow, two o’clock, so as not to arouse any suspicion in -Mrs. Westenra, and after lunch Lucy will take an opportunity of being -alone with you. I shall come in for tea, and we can go away together; I -am filled with anxiety, and want to consult with you alone as soon as I -can after you have seen her. Do not fail! - -“ARTHUR.” - - -_Telegram, Arthur Holmwood to Seward._ - -“_1 September._ - -“Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write me fully -by to-night’s post to Ring. Wire me if necessary.” - - -_Letter from Dr. Seward to Arthur Holmwood._ - -“_2 September._ - -“My dear old fellow,-- - -“With regard to Miss Westenra’s health I hasten to let you know at once -that in my opinion there is not any functional disturbance or any malady -that I know of. At the same time, I am not by any means satisfied with -her appearance; she is woefully different from what she was when I saw -her last. Of course you must bear in mind that I did not have full -opportunity of examination such as I should wish; our very friendship -makes a little difficulty which not even medical science or custom can -bridge over. I had better tell you exactly what happened, leaving you to -draw, in a measure, your own conclusions. I shall then say what I have -done and propose doing. - -“I found Miss Westenra in seemingly gay spirits. Her mother was present, -and in a few seconds I made up my mind that she was trying all she knew -to mislead her mother and prevent her from being anxious. I have no -doubt she guesses, if she does not know, what need of caution there is. -We lunched alone, and as we all exerted ourselves to be cheerful, we -got, as some kind of reward for our labours, some real cheerfulness -amongst us. Then Mrs. Westenra went to lie down, and Lucy was left with -me. We went into her boudoir, and till we got there her gaiety remained, -for the servants were coming and going. As soon as the door was closed, -however, the mask fell from her face, and she sank down into a chair -with a great sigh, and hid her eyes with her hand. When I saw that her -high spirits had failed, I at once took advantage of her reaction to -make a diagnosis. She said to me very sweetly:-- - -“‘I cannot tell you how I loathe talking about myself.’ I reminded her -that a doctor’s confidence was sacred, but that you were grievously -anxious about her. She caught on to my meaning at once, and settled that -matter in a word. ‘Tell Arthur everything you choose. I do not care for -myself, but all for him!’ So I am quite free. - -“I could easily see that she is somewhat bloodless, but I could not see -the usual anæmic signs, and by a chance I was actually able to test the -quality of her blood, for in opening a window which was stiff a cord -gave way, and she cut her hand slightly with broken glass. It was a -slight matter in itself, but it gave me an evident chance, and I secured -a few drops of the blood and have analysed them. The qualitative -analysis gives a quite normal condition, and shows, I should infer, in -itself a vigorous state of health. In other physical matters I was quite -satisfied that there is no need for anxiety; but as there must be a -cause somewhere, I have come to the conclusion that it must be something -mental. She complains of difficulty in breathing satisfactorily at -times, and of heavy, lethargic sleep, with dreams that frighten her, but -regarding which she can remember nothing. She says that as a child she -used to walk in her sleep, and that when in Whitby the habit came back, -and that once she walked out in the night and went to East Cliff, where -Miss Murray found her; but she assures me that of late the habit has not -returned. I am in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of; I -have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of -Amsterdam, who knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in the -world. I have asked him to come over, and as you told me that all things -were to be at your charge, I have mentioned to him who you are and your -relations to Miss Westenra. This, my dear fellow, is in obedience to -your wishes, for I am only too proud and happy to do anything I can for -her. Van Helsing would, I know, do anything for me for a personal -reason, so, no matter on what ground he comes, we must accept his -wishes. He is a seemingly arbitrary man, but this is because he knows -what he is talking about better than any one else. He is a philosopher -and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; -and he has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron -nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, an indomitable resolution, -self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the -kindliest and truest heart that beats--these form his equipment for the -noble work that he is doing for mankind--work both in theory and -practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy. I -tell you these facts that you may know why I have such confidence in -him. I have asked him to come at once. I shall see Miss Westenra -to-morrow again. She is to meet me at the Stores, so that I may not -alarm her mother by too early a repetition of my call. - -“Yours always, - -“JOHN SEWARD.” - - -_Letter, Abraham Van Helsing, M. D., D. Ph., D. Lit., etc., etc., to Dr. -Seward._ - -“_2 September._ - -“My good Friend,-- - -“When I have received your letter I am already coming to you. By good -fortune I can leave just at once, without wrong to any of those who have -trusted me. Were fortune other, then it were bad for those who have -trusted, for I come to my friend when he call me to aid those he holds -dear. Tell your friend that when that time you suck from my wound so -swiftly the poison of the gangrene from that knife that our other -friend, too nervous, let slip, you did more for him when he wants my -aids and you call for them than all his great fortune could do. But it -is pleasure added to do for him, your friend; it is to you that I come. -Have then rooms for me at the Great Eastern Hotel, so that I may be near -to hand, and please it so arrange that we may see the young lady not too -late on to-morrow, for it is likely that I may have to return here that -night. But if need be I shall come again in three days, and stay longer -if it must. Till then good-bye, my friend John. - - “VAN HELSING.” - - -_Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ - -“_3 September._ - -“My dear Art,-- - -“Van Helsing has come and gone. He came on with me to Hillingham, and -found that, by Lucy’s discretion, her mother was lunching out, so that -we were alone with her. Van Helsing made a very careful examination of -the patient. He is to report to me, and I shall advise you, for of -course I was not present all the time. He is, I fear, much concerned, -but says he must think. When I told him of our friendship and how you -trust to me in the matter, he said: ‘You must tell him all you think. -Tell him what I think, if you can guess it, if you will. Nay, I am not -jesting. This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.’ I asked -what he meant by that, for he was very serious. This was when we had -come back to town, and he was having a cup of tea before starting on his -return to Amsterdam. He would not give me any further clue. You must not -be angry with me, Art, because his very reticence means that all his -brains are working for her good. He will speak plainly enough when the -time comes, be sure. So I told him I would simply write an account of -our visit, just as if I were doing a descriptive special article for -_The Daily Telegraph_. He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the -smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a -student here. I am to get his report to-morrow if he can possibly make -it. In any case I am to have a letter. - -“Well, as to the visit. Lucy was more cheerful than on the day I first -saw her, and certainly looked better. She had lost something of the -ghastly look that so upset you, and her breathing was normal. She was -very sweet to the professor (as she always is), and tried to make him -feel at ease; though I could see that the poor girl was making a hard -struggle for it. I believe Van Helsing saw it, too, for I saw the quick -look under his bushy brows that I knew of old. Then he began to chat of -all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite -geniality that I could see poor Lucy’s pretense of animation merge into -reality. Then, without any seeming change, he brought the conversation -gently round to his visit, and suavely said:-- - -“‘My dear young miss, I have the so great pleasure because you are so -much beloved. That is much, my dear, ever were there that which I do not -see. They told me you were down in the spirit, and that you were of a -ghastly pale. To them I say: “Pouf!”’ And he snapped his fingers at me -and went on: ‘But you and I shall show them how wrong they are. How can -he’--and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with -which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a -particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of--‘know anything -of a young ladies? He has his madmans to play with, and to bring them -back to happiness, and to those that love them. It is much to do, and, -oh, but there are rewards, in that we can bestow such happiness. But the -young ladies! He has no wife nor daughter, and the young do not tell -themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many -sorrows and the causes of them. So, my dear, we will send him away to -smoke the cigarette in the garden, whiles you and I have little talk all -to ourselves.’ I took the hint, and strolled about, and presently the -professor came to the window and called me in. He looked grave, but -said: ‘I have made careful examination, but there is no functional -cause. With you I agree that there has been much blood lost; it has -been, but is not. But the conditions of her are in no way anæmic. I have -asked her to send me her maid, that I may ask just one or two question, -that so I may not chance to miss nothing. I know well what she will say. -And yet there is cause; there is always cause for everything. I must go -back home and think. You must send to me the telegram every day; and if -there be cause I shall come again. The disease--for not to be all well -is a disease--interest me, and the sweet young dear, she interest me -too. She charm me, and for her, if not for you or disease, I come.’ - -“As I tell you, he would not say a word more, even when we were alone. -And so now, Art, you know all I know. I shall keep stern watch. I trust -your poor father is rallying. It must be a terrible thing to you, my -dear old fellow, to be placed in such a position between two people who -are both so dear to you. I know your idea of duty to your father, and -you are right to stick to it; but, if need be, I shall send you word to -come at once to Lucy; so do not be over-anxious unless you hear from -me.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_4 September._--Zoöphagous patient still keeps up our interest in him. -He had only one outburst and that was yesterday at an unusual time. Just -before the stroke of noon he began to grow restless. The attendant knew -the symptoms, and at once summoned aid. Fortunately the men came at a -run, and were just in time, for at the stroke of noon he became so -violent that it took all their strength to hold him. In about five -minutes, however, he began to get more and more quiet, and finally sank -into a sort of melancholy, in which state he has remained up to now. The -attendant tells me that his screams whilst in the paroxysm were really -appalling; I found my hands full when I got in, attending to some of the -other patients who were frightened by him. Indeed, I can quite -understand the effect, for the sounds disturbed even me, though I was -some distance away. It is now after the dinner-hour of the asylum, and -as yet my patient sits in a corner brooding, with a dull, sullen, -woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather to indicate than to show -something directly. I cannot quite understand it. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Another change in my patient. At five o’clock I looked in on -him, and found him seemingly as happy and contented as he used to be. He -was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture -by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of -padding. When he saw me, he came over and apologised for his bad -conduct, and asked me in a very humble, cringing way to be led back to -his own room and to have his note-book again. I thought it well to -humour him: so he is back in his room with the window open. He has the -sugar of his tea spread out on the window-sill, and is reaping quite a -harvest of flies. He is not now eating them, but putting them into a -box, as of old, and is already examining the corners of his room to find -a spider. I tried to get him to talk about the past few days, for any -clue to his thoughts would be of immense help to me; but he would not -rise. For a moment or two he looked very sad, and said in a sort of -far-away voice, as though saying it rather to himself than to me:-- - -“All over! all over! He has deserted me. No hope for me now unless I do -it for myself!” Then suddenly turning to me in a resolute way, he said: -“Doctor, won’t you be very good to me and let me have a little more -sugar? I think it would be good for me.” - -“And the flies?” I said. - -“Yes! The flies like it, too, and I like the flies; therefore I like -it.” And there are people who know so little as to think that madmen do -not argue. I procured him a double supply, and left him as happy a man -as, I suppose, any in the world. I wish I could fathom his mind. - - * * * * * - -_Midnight._--Another change in him. I had been to see Miss Westenra, -whom I found much better, and had just returned, and was standing at our -own gate looking at the sunset, when once more I heard him yelling. As -his room is on this side of the house, I could hear it better than in -the morning. It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky -beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows -and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul -water, and to realise all the grim sternness of my own cold stone -building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart -to endure it all. I reached him just as the sun was going down, and from -his window saw the red disc sink. As it sank he became less and less -frenzied; and just as it dipped he slid from the hands that held him, an -inert mass, on the floor. It is wonderful, however, what intellectual -recuperative power lunatics have, for within a few minutes he stood up -quite calmly and looked around him. I signalled to the attendants not to -hold him, for I was anxious to see what he would do. He went straight -over to the window and brushed out the crumbs of sugar; then he took his -fly-box, and emptied it outside, and threw away the box; then he shut -the window, and crossing over, sat down on his bed. All this surprised -me, so I asked him: “Are you not going to keep flies any more?” - -“No,” said he; “I am sick of all that rubbish!” He certainly is a -wonderfully interesting study. I wish I could get some glimpse of his -mind or of the cause of his sudden passion. Stop; there may be a clue -after all, if we can find why to-day his paroxysms came on at high noon -and at sunset. Can it be that there is a malign influence of the sun at -periods which affects certain natures--as at times the moon does others? -We shall see. - - -_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._ - -“_4 September._--Patient still better to-day.” - - -_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._ - -“_5 September._--Patient greatly improved. Good appetite; sleeps -naturally; good spirits; colour coming back.” - - -_Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam._ - -“_6 September._--Terrible change for the worse. Come at once; do not -lose an hour. I hold over telegram to Holmwood till have seen you.” - - - - -CHAPTER X - - -_Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood._ - -“_6 September._ - -“My dear Art,-- - -“My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit. -There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs. -Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me -professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told -her that my old master, Van Helsing, the great specialist, was coming to -stay with me, and that I would put her in his charge conjointly with -myself; so now we can come and go without alarming her unduly, for a -shock to her would mean sudden death, and this, in Lucy’s weak -condition, might be disastrous to her. We are hedged in with -difficulties, all of us, my poor old fellow; but, please God, we shall -come through them all right. If any need I shall write, so that, if you -do not hear from me, take it for granted that I am simply waiting for -news. In haste - -“Yours ever, - -“JOHN SEWARD.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_7 September._--The first thing Van Helsing said to me when we met at -Liverpool Street was:-- - -“Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?” - -“No,” I said. “I waited till I had seen you, as I said in my telegram. I -wrote him a letter simply telling him that you were coming, as Miss -Westenra was not so well, and that I should let him know if need be.” - -“Right, my friend,” he said, “quite right! Better he not know as yet; -perhaps he shall never know. I pray so; but if it be needed, then he -shall know all. And, my good friend John, let me caution you. You deal -with the madmen. All men are mad in some way or the other; and inasmuch -as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God’s madmen, -too--the rest of the world. You tell not your madmen what you do nor why -you do it; you tell them not what you think. So you shall keep knowledge -in its place, where it may rest--where it may gather its kind around it -and breed. You and I shall keep as yet what we know here, and here.” He -touched me on the heart and on the forehead, and then touched himself -the same way. “I have for myself thoughts at the present. Later I shall -unfold to you.” - -“Why not now?” I asked. “It may do some good; we may arrive at some -decision.” He stopped and looked at me, and said:-- - -“My friend John, when the corn is grown, even before it has -ripened--while the milk of its mother-earth is in him, and the sunshine -has not yet begun to paint him with his gold, the husbandman he pull the -ear and rub him between his rough hands, and blow away the green chaff, -and say to you: ‘Look! he’s good corn; he will make good crop when the -time comes.’” I did not see the application, and told him so. For reply -he reached over and took my ear in his hand and pulled it playfully, as -he used long ago to do at lectures, and said: “The good husbandman tell -you so then because he knows, but not till then. But you do not find the -good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow; that is for -the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of -the work of their life. See you now, friend John? I have sown my corn, -and Nature has her work to do in making it sprout; if he sprout at all, -there’s some promise; and I wait till the ear begins to swell.” He broke -off, for he evidently saw that I understood. Then he went on, and very -gravely:-- - -“You were always a careful student, and your case-book was ever more -full than the rest. You were only student then; now you are master, and -I trust that good habit have not fail. Remember, my friend, that -knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker. -Even if you have not kept the good practise, let me tell you that this -case of our dear miss is one that may be--mind, I say _may be_--of such -interest to us and others that all the rest may not make him kick the -beam, as your peoples say. Take then good note of it. Nothing is too -small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. -Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We -learn from failure, not from success!” - -When I described Lucy’s symptoms--the same as before, but infinitely -more marked--he looked very grave, but said nothing. He took with him a -bag in which were many instruments and drugs, “the ghastly paraphernalia -of our beneficial trade,” as he once called, in one of his lectures, the -equipment of a professor of the healing craft. When we were shown in, -Mrs. Westenra met us. She was alarmed, but not nearly so much as I -expected to find her. Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained -that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. Here, in a case -where any shock may prove fatal, matters are so ordered that, from some -cause or other, the things not personal--even the terrible change in her -daughter to whom she is so attached--do not seem to reach her. It is -something like the way Dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an -envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that -which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered -selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice -of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have -knowledge of. - -I used my knowledge of this phase of spiritual pathology, and laid down -a rule that she should not be present with Lucy or think of her illness -more than was absolutely required. She assented readily, so readily that -I saw again the hand of Nature fighting for life. Van Helsing and I were -shown up to Lucy’s room. If I was shocked when I saw her yesterday, I -was horrified when I saw her to-day. She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the -red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones of -her face stood out prominently; her breathing was painful to see or -hear. Van Helsing’s face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged -till they almost touched over his nose. Lucy lay motionless, and did not -seem to have strength to speak, so for a while we were all silent. Then -Van Helsing beckoned to me, and we went gently out of the room. The -instant we had closed the door he stepped quickly along the passage to -the next door, which was open. Then he pulled me quickly in with him and -closed the door. “My God!” he said; “this is dreadful. There is no time -to be lost. She will die for sheer want of blood to keep the heart’s -action as it should be. There must be transfusion of blood at once. Is -it you or me?” - -“I am younger and stronger, Professor. It must be me.” - -“Then get ready at once. I will bring up my bag. I am prepared.” - -I went downstairs with him, and as we were going there was a knock at -the hall-door. When we reached the hall the maid had just opened the -door, and Arthur was stepping quickly in. He rushed up to me, saying in -an eager whisper:-- - -“Jack, I was so anxious. I read between the lines of your letter, and -have been in an agony. The dad was better, so I ran down here to see for -myself. Is not that gentleman Dr. Van Helsing? I am so thankful to you, -sir, for coming.” When first the Professor’s eye had lit upon him he had -been angry at his interruption at such a time; but now, as he took in -his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong young manhood which -seemed to emanate from him, his eyes gleamed. Without a pause he said to -him gravely as he held out his hand:-- - -“Sir, you have come in time. You are the lover of our dear miss. She is -bad, very, very bad. Nay, my child, do not go like that.” For he -suddenly grew pale and sat down in a chair almost fainting. “You are to -help her. You can do more than any that live, and your courage is your -best help.” - -“What can I do?” asked Arthur hoarsely. “Tell me, and I shall do it. My -life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for -her.” The Professor has a strongly humorous side, and I could from old -knowledge detect a trace of its origin in his answer:-- - -“My young sir, I do not ask so much as that--not the last!” - -“What shall I do?” There was fire in his eyes, and his open nostril -quivered with intent. Van Helsing slapped him on the shoulder. “Come!” -he said. “You are a man, and it is a man we want. You are better than -me, better than my friend John.” Arthur looked bewildered, and the -Professor went on by explaining in a kindly way:-- - -“Young miss is bad, very bad. She wants blood, and blood she must have -or die. My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform -what we call transfusion of blood--to transfer from full veins of one to -the empty veins which pine for him. John was to give his blood, as he is -the more young and strong than me”--here Arthur took my hand and wrung -it hard in silence--“but, now you are here, you are more good than us, -old or young, who toil much in the world of thought. Our nerves are not -so calm and our blood not so bright than yours!” Arthur turned to him -and said:-- - -“If you only knew how gladly I would die for her you would -understand----” - -He stopped, with a sort of choke in his voice. - -“Good boy!” said Van Helsing. “In the not-so-far-off you will be happy -that you have done all for her you love. Come now and be silent. You -shall kiss her once before it is done, but then you must go; and you -must leave at my sign. Say no word to Madame; you know how it is with -her! There must be no shock; any knowledge of this would be one. Come!” - -We all went up to Lucy’s room. Arthur by direction remained outside. -Lucy turned her head and looked at us, but said nothing. She was not -asleep, but she was simply too weak to make the effort. Her eyes spoke -to us; that was all. Van Helsing took some things from his bag and laid -them on a little table out of sight. Then he mixed a narcotic, and -coming over to the bed, said cheerily:-- - -“Now, little miss, here is your medicine. Drink it off, like a good -child. See, I lift you so that to swallow is easy. Yes.” She had made -the effort with success. - -It astonished me how long the drug took to act. This, in fact, marked -the extent of her weakness. The time seemed endless until sleep began to -flicker in her eyelids. At last, however, the narcotic began to manifest -its potency; and she fell into a deep sleep. When the Professor was -satisfied he called Arthur into the room, and bade him strip off his -coat. Then he added: “You may take that one little kiss whiles I bring -over the table. Friend John, help to me!” So neither of us looked whilst -he bent over her. - -Van Helsing turning to me, said: - -“He is so young and strong and of blood so pure that we need not -defibrinate it.” - -Then with swiftness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed the -operation. As the transfusion went on something like life seemed to come -back to poor Lucy’s cheeks, and through Arthur’s growing pallor the joy -of his face seemed absolutely to shine. After a bit I began to grow -anxious, for the loss of blood was telling on Arthur, strong man as he -was. It gave me an idea of what a terrible strain Lucy’s system must -have undergone that what weakened Arthur only partially restored her. -But the Professor’s face was set, and he stood watch in hand and with -his eyes fixed now on the patient and now on Arthur. I could hear my own -heart beat. Presently he said in a soft voice: “Do not stir an instant. -It is enough. You attend him; I will look to her.” When all was over I -could see how much Arthur was weakened. I dressed the wound and took his -arm to bring him away, when Van Helsing spoke without turning round--the -man seems to have eyes in the back of his head:-- - -“The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have -presently.” And as he had now finished his operation, he adjusted the -pillow to the patient’s head. As he did so the narrow black velvet band -which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old -diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, -and showed a red mark on her throat. Arthur did not notice it, but I -could hear the deep hiss of indrawn breath which is one of Van Helsing’s -ways of betraying emotion. He said nothing at the moment, but turned to -me, saying: “Now take down our brave young lover, give him of the port -wine, and let him lie down a while. He must then go home and rest, sleep -much and eat much, that he may be recruited of what he has so given to -his love. He must not stay here. Hold! a moment. I may take it, sir, -that you are anxious of result. Then bring it with you that in all ways -the operation is successful. You have saved her life this time, and you -can go home and rest easy in mind that all that can be is. I shall tell -her all when she is well; she shall love you none the less for what you -have done. Good-bye.” - -When Arthur had gone I went back to the room. Lucy was sleeping gently, -but her breathing was stronger; I could see the counterpane move as her -breast heaved. By the bedside sat Van Helsing, looking at her intently. -The velvet band again covered the red mark. I asked the Professor in a -whisper:-- - -“What do you make of that mark on her throat?” - -“What do you make of it?” - -“I have not examined it yet,” I answered, and then and there proceeded -to loose the band. Just over the external jugular vein there were two -punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of -disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some -trituration. It at once occurred to me that this wound, or whatever it -was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood; but I abandoned -the idea as soon as formed, for such a thing could not be. The whole bed -would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood which the girl must -have lost to leave such a pallor as she had before the transfusion. - -“Well?” said Van Helsing. - -“Well,” said I, “I can make nothing of it.” The Professor stood up. “I -must go back to Amsterdam to-night,” he said. “There are books and -things there which I want. You must remain here all the night, and you -must not let your sight pass from her.” - -“Shall I have a nurse?” I asked. - -“We are the best nurses, you and I. You keep watch all night; see that -she is well fed, and that nothing disturbs her. You must not sleep all -the night. Later on we can sleep, you and I. I shall be back as soon as -possible. And then we may begin.” - -“May begin?” I said. “What on earth do you mean?” - -“We shall see!” he answered, as he hurried out. He came back a moment -later and put his head inside the door and said with warning finger held -up:-- - -“Remember, she is your charge. If you leave her, and harm befall, you -shall not sleep easy hereafter!” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary--continued._ - -_8 September._--I sat up all night with Lucy. The opiate worked itself -off towards dusk, and she waked naturally; she looked a different being -from what she had been before the operation. Her spirits even were good, -and she was full of a happy vivacity, but I could see evidences of the -absolute prostration which she had undergone. When I told Mrs. Westenra -that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her she -almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter’s renewed -strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made -preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the -night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by -the bedside. She did not in any way make objection, but looked at me -gratefully whenever I caught her eye. After a long spell she seemed -sinking off to sleep, but with an effort seemed to pull herself together -and shook it off. This was repeated several times, with greater effort -and with shorter pauses as the time moved on. It was apparent that she -did not want to sleep, so I tackled the subject at once:-- - -“You do not want to go to sleep?” - -“No; I am afraid.” - -“Afraid to go to sleep! Why so? It is the boon we all crave for.” - -“Ah, not if you were like me--if sleep was to you a presage of horror!” - -“A presage of horror! What on earth do you mean?” - -“I don’t know; oh, I don’t know. And that is what is so terrible. All -this weakness comes to me in sleep; until I dread the very thought.” - -“But, my dear girl, you may sleep to-night. I am here watching you, and -I can promise that nothing will happen.” - -“Ah, I can trust you!” I seized the opportunity, and said: “I promise -you that if I see any evidence of bad dreams I will wake you at once.” - -“You will? Oh, will you really? How good you are to me. Then I will -sleep!” And almost at the word she gave a deep sigh of relief, and sank -back, asleep. - -All night long I watched by her. She never stirred, but slept on and on -in a deep, tranquil, life-giving, health-giving sleep. Her lips were -slightly parted, and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a -pendulum. There was a smile on her face, and it was evident that no bad -dreams had come to disturb her peace of mind. - -In the early morning her maid came, and I left her in her care and took -myself back home, for I was anxious about many things. I sent a short -wire to Van Helsing and to Arthur, telling them of the excellent result -of the operation. My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all -day to clear off; it was dark when I was able to inquire about my -zoöphagous patient. The report was good; he had been quite quiet for the -past day and night. A telegram came from Van Helsing at Amsterdam whilst -I was at dinner, suggesting that I should be at Hillingham to-night, as -it might be well to be at hand, and stating that he was leaving by the -night mail and would join me early in the morning. - - * * * * * - -_9 September_.--I was pretty tired and worn out when I got to -Hillingham. For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my -brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral -exhaustion. Lucy was up and in cheerful spirits. When she shook hands -with me she looked sharply in my face and said:-- - -“No sitting up to-night for you. You are worn out. I am quite well -again; indeed, I am; and if there is to be any sitting up, it is I who -will sit up with you.” I would not argue the point, but went and had my -supper. Lucy came with me, and, enlivened by her charming presence, I -made an excellent meal, and had a couple of glasses of the more than -excellent port. Then Lucy took me upstairs, and showed me a room next -her own, where a cozy fire was burning. “Now,” she said, “you must stay -here. I shall leave this door open and my door too. You can lie on the -sofa for I know that nothing would induce any of you doctors to go to -bed whilst there is a patient above the horizon. If I want anything I -shall call out, and you can come to me at once.” I could not but -acquiesce, for I was “dog-tired,” and could not have sat up had I tried. -So, on her renewing her promise to call me if she should want anything, -I lay on the sofa, and forgot all about everything. - - -_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._ - -_9 September._--I feel so happy to-night. I have been so miserably weak, -that to be able to think and move about is like feeling sunshine after -a long spell of east wind out of a steel sky. Somehow Arthur feels very, -very close to me. I seem to feel his presence warm about me. I suppose -it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner -eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give Love -rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills. I know -where my thoughts are. If Arthur only knew! My dear, my dear, your ears -must tingle as you sleep, as mine do waking. Oh, the blissful rest of -last night! How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. -And to-night I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and -within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me! Thank God! -Good-night, Arthur. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_10 September._--I was conscious of the Professor’s hand on my head, and -started awake all in a second. That is one of the things that we learn -in an asylum, at any rate. - -“And how is our patient?” - -“Well, when I left her, or rather when she left me,” I answered. - -“Come, let us see,” he said. And together we went into the room. - -The blind was down, and I went over to raise it gently, whilst Van -Helsing stepped, with his soft, cat-like tread, over to the bed. - -As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I -heard the Professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a -deadly fear shot through my heart. As I passed over he moved back, and -his exclamation of horror, “Gott in Himmel!” needed no enforcement from -his agonised face. He raised his hand and pointed to the bed, and his -iron face was drawn and ashen white. I felt my knees begin to tremble. - -There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly -white and wan-looking than ever. Even the lips were white, and the gums -seemed to have shrunken back from the teeth, as we sometimes see in a -corpse after a prolonged illness. Van Helsing raised his foot to stamp -in anger, but the instinct of his life and all the long years of habit -stood to him, and he put it down again softly. “Quick!” he said. “Bring -the brandy.” I flew to the dining-room, and returned with the decanter. -He wetted the poor white lips with it, and together we rubbed palm and -wrist and heart. He felt her heart, and after a few moments of agonising -suspense said:-- - -“It is not too late. It beats, though but feebly. All our work is -undone; we must begin again. There is no young Arthur here now; I have -to call on you yourself this time, friend John.” As he spoke, he was -dipping into his bag and producing the instruments for transfusion; I -had taken off my coat and rolled up my shirt-sleeve. There was no -possibility of an opiate just at present, and no need of one; and so, -without a moment’s delay, we began the operation. After a time--it did -not seem a short time either, for the draining away of one’s blood, no -matter how willingly it be given, is a terrible feeling--Van Helsing -held up a warning finger. “Do not stir,” he said, “but I fear that with -growing strength she may wake; and that would make danger, oh, so much -danger. But I shall precaution take. I shall give hypodermic injection -of morphia.” He proceeded then, swiftly and deftly, to carry out his -intent. The effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge -subtly into the narcotic sleep. It was with a feeling of personal pride -that I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid -cheeks and lips. No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to -feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves. - -The Professor watched me critically. “That will do,” he said. “Already?” -I remonstrated. “You took a great deal more from Art.” To which he -smiled a sad sort of smile as he replied:-- - -“He is her lover, her _fiancé_. You have work, much work, to do for her -and for others; and the present will suffice.” - -When we stopped the operation, he attended to Lucy, whilst I applied -digital pressure to my own incision. I laid down, whilst I waited his -leisure to attend to me, for I felt faint and a little sick. By-and-by -he bound up my wound, and sent me downstairs to get a glass of wine for -myself. As I was leaving the room, he came after me, and half -whispered:-- - -“Mind, nothing must be said of this. If our young lover should turn up -unexpected, as before, no word to him. It would at once frighten him and -enjealous him, too. There must be none. So!” - -When I came back he looked at me carefully, and then said:-- - -“You are not much the worse. Go into the room, and lie on your sofa, and -rest awhile; then have much breakfast, and come here to me.” - -I followed out his orders, for I knew how right and wise they were. I -had done my part, and now my next duty was to keep up my strength. I -felt very weak, and in the weakness lost something of the amazement at -what had occurred. I fell asleep on the sofa, however, wondering over -and over again how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how -she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign anywhere to -show for it. I think I must have continued my wonder in my dreams, for, -sleeping and waking, my thoughts always came back to the little -punctures in her throat and the ragged, exhausted appearance of their -edges--tiny though they were. - -Lucy slept well into the day, and when she woke she was fairly well and -strong, though not nearly so much so as the day before. When Van Helsing -had seen her, he went out for a walk, leaving me in charge, with strict -injunctions that I was not to leave her for a moment. I could hear his -voice in the hall, asking the way to the nearest telegraph office. - -Lucy chatted with me freely, and seemed quite unconscious that anything -had happened. I tried to keep her amused and interested. When her mother -came up to see her, she did not seem to notice any change whatever, but -said to me gratefully:-- - -“We owe you so much, Dr. Seward, for all you have done, but you really -must now take care not to overwork yourself. You are looking pale -yourself. You want a wife to nurse and look after you a bit; that you -do!” As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, -for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted -drain to the head. The reaction came in excessive pallor as she turned -imploring eyes on me. I smiled and nodded, and laid my finger on my -lips; with a sigh, she sank back amid her pillows. - -Van Helsing returned in a couple of hours, and presently said to me: -“Now you go home, and eat much and drink enough. Make yourself strong. I -stay here to-night, and I shall sit up with little miss myself. You and -I must watch the case, and we must have none other to know. I have grave -reasons. No, do not ask them; think what you will. Do not fear to think -even the most not-probable. Good-night.” - -In the hall two of the maids came to me, and asked if they or either of -them might not sit up with Miss Lucy. They implored me to let them; and -when I said it was Dr. Van Helsing’s wish that either he or I should sit -up, they asked me quite piteously to intercede with the “foreign -gentleman.” I was much touched by their kindness. Perhaps it is because -I am weak at present, and perhaps because it was on Lucy’s account, that -their devotion was manifested; for over and over again have I seen -similar instances of woman’s kindness. I got back here in time for a -late dinner; went my rounds--all well; and set this down whilst waiting -for sleep. It is coming. - - * * * * * - -_11 September._--This afternoon I went over to Hillingham. Found Van -Helsing in excellent spirits, and Lucy much better. Shortly after I had -arrived, a big parcel from abroad came for the Professor. He opened it -with much impressment--assumed, of course--and showed a great bundle of -white flowers. - -“These are for you, Miss Lucy,” he said. - -“For me? Oh, Dr. Van Helsing!” - -“Yes, my dear, but not for you to play with. These are medicines.” Here -Lucy made a wry face. “Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or -in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall -point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing -so much beauty that he so loves so much distort. Aha, my pretty miss, -that bring the so nice nose all straight again. This is medicinal, but -you do not know how. I put him in your window, I make pretty wreath, and -hang him round your neck, so that you sleep well. Oh yes! they, like the -lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters -of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought -for in the Floridas, and find him all too late.” - -Whilst he was speaking, Lucy had been examining the flowers and smelling -them. Now she threw them down, saying, with half-laughter, and -half-disgust:-- - -“Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why, -these flowers are only common garlic.” - -To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his -iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting:-- - -“No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; -and I warn you that you do not thwart me. Take care, for the sake of -others if not for your own.” Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she might -well be, he went on more gently: “Oh, little miss, my dear, do not fear -me. I only do for your good; but there is much virtue to you in those so -common flowers. See, I place them myself in your room. I make myself the -wreath that you are to wear. But hush! no telling to others that make so -inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience; -and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait -for you. Now sit still awhile. Come with me, friend John, and you shall -help me deck the room with my garlic, which is all the way from Haarlem, -where my friend Vanderpool raise herb in his glass-houses all the year. -I had to telegraph yesterday, or they would not have been here.” - -We went into the room, taking the flowers with us. The Professor’s -actions were certainly odd and not to be found in any pharmacopoeia -that I ever heard of. First he fastened up the windows and latched them -securely; next, taking a handful of the flowers, he rubbed them all over -the sashes, as though to ensure that every whiff of air that might get -in would be laden with the garlic smell. Then with the wisp he rubbed -all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each side, and round -the fireplace in the same way. It all seemed grotesque to me, and -presently I said:-- - -“Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but -this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he -would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit.” - -“Perhaps I am!” he answered quietly as he began to make the wreath which -Lucy was to wear round her neck. - -We then waited whilst Lucy made her toilet for the night, and when she -was in bed he came and himself fixed the wreath of garlic round her -neck. The last words he said to her were:-- - -“Take care you do not disturb it; and even if the room feel close, do -not to-night open the window or the door.” - -“I promise,” said Lucy, “and thank you both a thousand times for all -your kindness to me! Oh, what have I done to be blessed with such -friends?” - -As we left the house in my fly, which was waiting, Van Helsing said:-- - -“To-night I can sleep in peace, and sleep I want--two nights of travel, -much reading in the day between, and much anxiety on the day to follow, -and a night to sit up, without to wink. To-morrow in the morning early -you call for me, and we come together to see our pretty miss, so much -more strong for my ‘spell’ which I have work. Ho! ho!” - -He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights -before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must -have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but -I felt it all the more, like unshed tears. - - - - -CHAPTER XI - -_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._ - - -_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr. -Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He -positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been -right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread -being alone to-night, and I can go to sleep without fear. I shall not -mind any flapping outside the window. Oh, the terrible struggle that I -have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, -or the pain of the fear of sleep, with such unknown horrors as it has -for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no -dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings -nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, -and lying like Ophelia in the play, with “virgin crants and maiden -strewments.” I never liked garlic before, but to-night it is delightful! -There is peace in its smell; I feel sleep coming already. Good-night, -everybody. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_13 September._--Called at the Berkeley and found Van Helsing, as usual, -up to time. The carriage ordered from the hotel was waiting. The -Professor took his bag, which he always brings with him now. - -Let all be put down exactly. Van Helsing and I arrived at Hillingham at -eight o’clock. It was a lovely morning; the bright sunshine and all the -fresh feeling of early autumn seemed like the completion of nature’s -annual work. The leaves were turning to all kinds of beautiful colours, -but had not yet begun to drop from the trees. When we entered we met -Mrs. Westenra coming out of the morning room. She is always an early -riser. She greeted us warmly and said:-- - -“You will be glad to know that Lucy is better. The dear child is still -asleep. I looked into her room and saw her, but did not go in, lest I -should disturb her.” The Professor smiled, and looked quite jubilant. He -rubbed his hands together, and said:-- - -“Aha! I thought I had diagnosed the case. My treatment is working,” to -which she answered:-- - -“You must not take all the credit to yourself, doctor. Lucy’s state this -morning is due in part to me.” - -“How you do mean, ma’am?” asked the Professor. - -“Well, I was anxious about the dear child in the night, and went into -her room. She was sleeping soundly--so soundly that even my coming did -not wake her. But the room was awfully stuffy. There were a lot of those -horrible, strong-smelling flowers about everywhere, and she had actually -a bunch of them round her neck. I feared that the heavy odour would be -too much for the dear child in her weak state, so I took them all away -and opened a bit of the window to let in a little fresh air. You will be -pleased with her, I am sure.” - -She moved off into her boudoir, where she usually breakfasted early. As -she had spoken, I watched the Professor’s face, and saw it turn ashen -grey. He had been able to retain his self-command whilst the poor lady -was present, for he knew her state and how mischievous a shock would be; -he actually smiled on her as he held open the door for her to pass into -her room. But the instant she had disappeared he pulled me, suddenly and -forcibly, into the dining-room and closed the door. - -Then, for the first time in my life, I saw Van Helsing break down. He -raised his hands over his head in a sort of mute despair, and then beat -his palms together in a helpless way; finally he sat down on a chair, -and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud, dry sobs -that seemed to come from the very racking of his heart. Then he raised -his arms again, as though appealing to the whole universe. “God! God! -God!” he said. “What have we done, what has this poor thing done, that -we are so sore beset? Is there fate amongst us still, sent down from the -pagan world of old, that such things must be, and in such way? This poor -mother, all unknowing, and all for the best as she think, does such -thing as lose her daughter body and soul; and we must not tell her, we -must not even warn her, or she die, and then both die. Oh, how we are -beset! How are all the powers of the devils against us!” Suddenly he -jumped to his feet. “Come,” he said, “come, we must see and act. Devils -or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him -all the same.” He went to the hall-door for his bag; and together we -went up to Lucy’s room. - -Once again I drew up the blind, whilst Van Helsing went towards the bed. -This time he did not start as he looked on the poor face with the same -awful, waxen pallor as before. He wore a look of stern sadness and -infinite pity. - -“As I expected,” he murmured, with that hissing inspiration of his which -meant so much. Without a word he went and locked the door, and then -began to set out on the little table the instruments for yet another -operation of transfusion of blood. I had long ago recognised the -necessity, and begun to take off my coat, but he stopped me with a -warning hand. “No!” he said. “To-day you must operate. I shall provide. -You are weakened already.” As he spoke he took off his coat and rolled -up his shirt-sleeve. - -Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to -the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep. This time I -watched whilst Van Helsing recruited himself and rested. - -Presently he took an opportunity of telling Mrs. Westenra that she must -not remove anything from Lucy’s room without consulting him; that the -flowers were of medicinal value, and that the breathing of their odour -was a part of the system of cure. Then he took over the care of the case -himself, saying that he would watch this night and the next and would -send me word when to come. - -After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and -seemingly not much the worse for her terrible ordeal. - -What does it all mean? I am beginning to wonder if my long habit of life -amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain. - - -_Lucy Westenra’s Diary._ - -_17 September._--Four days and nights of peace. I am getting so strong -again that I hardly know myself. It is as if I had passed through some -long nightmare, and had just awakened to see the beautiful sunshine and -feel the fresh air of the morning around me. I have a dim -half-remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing; darkness -in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress -more poignant: and then long spells of oblivion, and the rising back to -life as a diver coming up through a great press of water. Since, -however, Dr. Van Helsing has been with me, all this bad dreaming seems -to have passed away; the noises that used to frighten me out of my -wits--the flapping against the windows, the distant voices which seemed -so close to me, the harsh sounds that came from I know not where and -commanded me to do I know not what--have all ceased. I go to bed now -without any fear of sleep. I do not even try to keep awake. I have grown -quite fond of the garlic, and a boxful arrives for me every day from -Haarlem. To-night Dr. Van Helsing is going away, as he has to be for a -day in Amsterdam. But I need not be watched; I am well enough to be left -alone. Thank God for mother’s sake, and dear Arthur’s, and for all our -friends who have been so kind! I shall not even feel the change, for -last night Dr. Van Helsing slept in his chair a lot of the time. I found -him asleep twice when I awoke; but I did not fear to go to sleep again, -although the boughs or bats or something napped almost angrily against -the window-panes. - - -_“The Pall Mall Gazette,” 18 September._ - - THE ESCAPED WOLF. - - PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF OUR INTERVIEWER. - - _Interview with the Keeper in the Zoölogical Gardens._ - -After many inquiries and almost as many refusals, and perpetually using -the words “Pall Mall Gazette” as a sort of talisman, I managed to find -the keeper of the section of the Zoölogical Gardens in which the wolf -department is included. Thomas Bilder lives in one of the cottages in -the enclosure behind the elephant-house, and was just sitting down to -his tea when I found him. Thomas and his wife are hospitable folk, -elderly, and without children, and if the specimen I enjoyed of their -hospitality be of the average kind, their lives must be pretty -comfortable. The keeper would not enter on what he called “business” -until the supper was over, and we were all satisfied. Then when the -table was cleared, and he had lit his pipe, he said:-- - -“Now, sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You’ll excoose me -refoosin’ to talk of perfeshunal subjects afore meals. I gives the -wolves and the jackals and the hyenas in all our section their tea afore -I begins to arsk them questions.” - -“How do you mean, ask them questions?” I queried, wishful to get him -into a talkative humour. - -“’Ittin’ of them over the ’ead with a pole is one way; scratchin’ of -their hears is another, when gents as is flush wants a bit of a show-orf -to their gals. I don’t so much mind the fust--the ’ittin’ with a pole -afore I chucks in their dinner; but I waits till they’ve ’ad their -sherry and kawffee, so to speak, afore I tries on with the -ear-scratchin’. Mind you,” he added philosophically, “there’s a deal of -the same nature in us as in them theer animiles. Here’s you a-comin’ and -arskin’ of me questions about my business, and I that grumpy-like that -only for your bloomin’ ’arf-quid I’d ’a’ seen you blowed fust ’fore I’d -answer. Not even when you arsked me sarcastic-like if I’d like you to -arsk the Superintendent if you might arsk me questions. Without offence -did I tell yer to go to ’ell?” - -“You did.” - -“An’ when you said you’d report me for usin’ of obscene language that -was ’ittin’ me over the ’ead; but the ’arf-quid made that all right. I -weren’t a-goin’ to fight, so I waited for the food, and did with my ’owl -as the wolves, and lions, and tigers does. But, Lor’ love yer ’art, now -that the old ’ooman has stuck a chunk of her tea-cake in me, an’ rinsed -me out with her bloomin’ old teapot, and I’ve lit hup, you may scratch -my ears for all you’re worth, and won’t git even a growl out of me. -Drive along with your questions. I know what yer a-comin’ at, that ’ere -escaped wolf.” - -“Exactly. I want you to give me your view of it. Just tell me how it -happened; and when I know the facts I’ll get you to say what you -consider was the cause of it, and how you think the whole affair will -end.” - -“All right, guv’nor. This ’ere is about the ’ole story. That ’ere wolf -what we called Bersicker was one of three grey ones that came from -Norway to Jamrach’s, which we bought off him four years ago. He was a -nice well-behaved wolf, that never gave no trouble to talk of. I’m more -surprised at ’im for wantin’ to get out nor any other animile in the -place. But, there, you can’t trust wolves no more nor women.” - -“Don’t you mind him, sir!” broke in Mrs. Tom, with a cheery laugh. “’E’s -got mindin’ the animiles so long that blest if he ain’t like a old wolf -’isself! But there ain’t no ’arm in ’im.” - -“Well, sir, it was about two hours after feedin’ yesterday when I first -hear my disturbance. I was makin’ up a litter in the monkey-house for a -young puma which is ill; but when I heard the yelpin’ and ’owlin’ I kem -away straight. There was Bersicker a-tearin’ like a mad thing at the -bars as if he wanted to get out. There wasn’t much people about that -day, and close at hand was only one man, a tall, thin chap, with a ’ook -nose and a pointed beard, with a few white hairs runnin’ through it. He -had a ’ard, cold look and red eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, -for it seemed as if it was ’im as they was hirritated at. He ’ad white -kid gloves on ’is ’ands, and he pointed out the animiles to me and says: -‘Keeper, these wolves seem upset at something.’ - -“‘Maybe it’s you,’ says I, for I did not like the airs as he give -’isself. He didn’t git angry, as I ’oped he would, but he smiled a kind -of insolent smile, with a mouth full of white, sharp teeth. ‘Oh no, they -wouldn’t like me,’ ’e says. - -“‘Ow yes, they would,’ says I, a-imitatin’ of him. ‘They always likes a -bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea-time, which you ’as a -bagful.’ - -“Well, it was a odd thing, but when the animiles see us a-talkin’ they -lay down, and when I went over to Bersicker he let me stroke his ears -same as ever. That there man kem over, and blessed but if he didn’t put -in his hand and stroke the old wolf’s ears too! - -“‘Tyke care,’ says I. ‘Bersicker is quick.’ - -“‘Never mind,’ he says. ‘I’m used to ’em!’ - -“‘Are you in the business yourself?’ I says, tyking off my ’at, for a -man what trades in wolves, anceterer, is a good friend to keepers. - -“‘No,’ says he, ‘not exactly in the business, but I ’ave made pets of -several.’ And with that he lifts his ’at as perlite as a lord, and walks -away. Old Bersicker kep’ a-lookin’ arter ’im till ’e was out of sight, -and then went and lay down in a corner and wouldn’t come hout the ’ole -hevening. Well, larst night, so soon as the moon was hup, the wolves -here all began a-’owling. There warn’t nothing for them to ’owl at. -There warn’t no one near, except some one that was evidently a-callin’ a -dog somewheres out back of the gardings in the Park road. Once or twice -I went out to see that all was right, and it was, and then the ’owling -stopped. Just before twelve o’clock I just took a look round afore -turnin’ in, an’, bust me, but when I kem opposite to old Bersicker’s -cage I see the rails broken and twisted about and the cage empty. And -that’s all I know for certing.” - -“Did any one else see anything?” - -“One of our gard’ners was a-comin’ ’ome about that time from a ’armony, -when he sees a big grey dog comin’ out through the garding ’edges. At -least, so he says, but I don’t give much for it myself, for if he did ’e -never said a word about it to his missis when ’e got ’ome, and it was -only after the escape of the wolf was made known, and we had been up all -night-a-huntin’ of the Park for Bersicker, that he remembered seein’ -anything. My own belief was that the ’armony ’ad got into his ’ead.” - -“Now, Mr. Bilder, can you account in any way for the escape of the -wolf?” - -“Well, sir,” he said, with a suspicious sort of modesty, “I think I can; -but I don’t know as ’ow you’d be satisfied with the theory.” - -“Certainly I shall. If a man like you, who knows the animals from -experience, can’t hazard a good guess at any rate, who is even to try?” - -“Well then, sir, I accounts for it this way; it seems to me that ’ere -wolf escaped--simply because he wanted to get out.” - -From the hearty way that both Thomas and his wife laughed at the joke I -could see that it had done service before, and that the whole -explanation was simply an elaborate sell. I couldn’t cope in badinage -with the worthy Thomas, but I thought I knew a surer way to his heart, -so I said:-- - -“Now, Mr. Bilder, we’ll consider that first half-sovereign worked off, -and this brother of his is waiting to be claimed when you’ve told me -what you think will happen.” - -“Right y’are, sir,” he said briskly. “Ye’ll excoose me, I know, for -a-chaffin’ of ye, but the old woman here winked at me, which was as much -as telling me to go on.” - -“Well, I never!” said the old lady. - -“My opinion is this: that ’ere wolf is a-’idin’ of, somewheres. The -gard’ner wot didn’t remember said he was a-gallopin’ northward faster -than a horse could go; but I don’t believe him, for, yer see, sir, -wolves don’t gallop no more nor dogs does, they not bein’ built that -way. Wolves is fine things in a storybook, and I dessay when they gets -in packs and does be chivyin’ somethin’ that’s more afeared than they is -they can make a devil of a noise and chop it up, whatever it is. But, -Lor’ bless you, in real life a wolf is only a low creature, not half so -clever or bold as a good dog; and not half a quarter so much fight in -’im. This one ain’t been used to fightin’ or even to providin’ for -hisself, and more like he’s somewhere round the Park a-’idin’ an’ -a-shiverin’ of, and, if he thinks at all, wonderin’ where he is to get -his breakfast from; or maybe he’s got down some area and is in a -coal-cellar. My eye, won’t some cook get a rum start when she sees his -green eyes a-shining at her out of the dark! If he can’t get food he’s -bound to look for it, and mayhap he may chance to light on a butcher’s -shop in time. If he doesn’t, and some nursemaid goes a-walkin’ orf with -a soldier, leavin’ of the hinfant in the perambulator--well, then I -shouldn’t be surprised if the census is one babby the less. That’s -all.” - -I was handing him the half-sovereign, when something came bobbing up -against the window, and Mr. Bilder’s face doubled its natural length -with surprise. - -“God bless me!” he said. “If there ain’t old Bersicker come back by -’isself!” - -He went to the door and opened it; a most unnecessary proceeding it -seemed to me. I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so -well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a -personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. - -After all, however, there is nothing like custom, for neither Bilder nor -his wife thought any more of the wolf than I should of a dog. The animal -itself was as peaceful and well-behaved as that father of all -picture-wolves--Red Riding Hood’s quondam friend, whilst moving her -confidence in masquerade. - -The whole scene was an unutterable mixture of comedy and pathos. The -wicked wolf that for half a day had paralysed London and set all the -children in the town shivering in their shoes, was there in a sort of -penitent mood, and was received and petted like a sort of vulpine -prodigal son. Old Bilder examined him all over with most tender -solicitude, and when he had finished with his penitent said:-- - -“There, I knew the poor old chap would get into some kind of trouble; -didn’t I say it all along? Here’s his head all cut and full of broken -glass. ’E’s been a-gettin’ over some bloomin’ wall or other. It’s a -shyme that people are allowed to top their walls with broken bottles. -This ’ere’s what comes of it. Come along, Bersicker.” - -He took the wolf and locked him up in a cage, with a piece of meat that -satisfied, in quantity at any rate, the elementary conditions of the -fatted calf, and went off to report. - -I came off, too, to report the only exclusive information that is given -to-day regarding the strange escapade at the Zoo. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_17 September._--I was engaged after dinner in my study posting up my -books, which, through press of other work and the many visits to Lucy, -had fallen sadly into arrear. Suddenly the door was burst open, and in -rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion. I was -thunderstruck, for such a thing as a patient getting of his own accord -into the Superintendent’s study is almost unknown. Without an instant’s -pause he made straight at me. He had a dinner-knife in his hand, and, -as I saw he was dangerous, I tried to keep the table between us. He was -too quick and too strong for me, however; for before I could get my -balance he had struck at me and cut my left wrist rather severely. -Before he could strike again, however, I got in my right and he was -sprawling on his back on the floor. My wrist bled freely, and quite a -little pool trickled on to the carpet. I saw that my friend was not -intent on further effort, and occupied myself binding up my wrist, -keeping a wary eye on the prostrate figure all the time. When the -attendants rushed in, and we turned our attention to him, his employment -positively sickened me. He was lying on his belly on the floor licking -up, like a dog, the blood which had fallen from my wounded wrist. He was -easily secured, and, to my surprise, went with the attendants quite -placidly, simply repeating over and over again: “The blood is the life! -The blood is the life!” - -I cannot afford to lose blood just at present; I have lost too much of -late for my physical good, and then the prolonged strain of Lucy’s -illness and its horrible phases is telling on me. I am over-excited and -weary, and I need rest, rest, rest. Happily Van Helsing has not summoned -me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without -it. - - -_Telegram, Van Helsing, Antwerp, to Seward, Carfax._ - -(Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given; delivered late by -twenty-two hours.) - -“_17 September._--Do not fail to be at Hillingham to-night. If not -watching all the time frequently, visit and see that flowers are as -placed; very important; do not fail. Shall be with you as soon as -possible after arrival.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_18 September._--Just off for train to London. The arrival of Van -Helsing’s telegram filled me with dismay. A whole night lost, and I know -by bitter experience what may happen in a night. Of course it is -possible that all may be well, but what _may_ have happened? Surely -there is some horrible doom hanging over us that every possible accident -should thwart us in all we try to do. I shall take this cylinder with -me, and then I can complete my entry on Lucy’s phonograph. - - -_Memorandum left by Lucy Westenra._ - -_17 September. Night._--I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no -one may by any chance get into trouble through me. This is an exact -record of what took place to-night. I feel I am dying of weakness, and -have barely strength to write, but it must be done if I die in the -doing. - -I went to bed as usual, taking care that the flowers were placed as Dr. -Van Helsing directed, and soon fell asleep. - -I was waked by the flapping at the window, which had begun after that -sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and which now I -know so well. I was not afraid, but I did wish that Dr. Seward was in -the next room--as Dr. Van Helsing said he would be--so that I might have -called him. I tried to go to sleep, but could not. Then there came to me -the old fear of sleep, and I determined to keep awake. Perversely sleep -would try to come then when I did not want it; so, as I feared to be -alone, I opened my door and called out: “Is there anybody there?” There -was no answer. I was afraid to wake mother, and so closed my door again. -Then outside in the shrubbery I heard a sort of howl like a dog’s, but -more fierce and deeper. I went to the window and looked out, but could -see nothing, except a big bat, which had evidently been buffeting its -wings against the window. So I went back to bed again, but determined -not to go to sleep. Presently the door opened, and mother looked in; -seeing by my moving that I was not asleep, came in, and sat by me. She -said to me even more sweetly and softly than her wont:-- - -“I was uneasy about you, darling, and came in to see that you were all -right.” - -I feared she might catch cold sitting there, and asked her to come in -and sleep with me, so she came into bed, and lay down beside me; she did -not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while -and then go back to her own bed. As she lay there in my arms, and I in -hers, the flapping and buffeting came to the window again. She was -startled and a little frightened, and cried out: “What is that?” I tried -to pacify her, and at last succeeded, and she lay quiet; but I could -hear her poor dear heart still beating terribly. After a while there was -the low howl again out in the shrubbery, and shortly after there was a -crash at the window, and a lot of broken glass was hurled on the floor. -The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the -aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey -wolf. Mother cried out in a fright, and struggled up into a sitting -posture, and clutched wildly at anything that would help her. Amongst -other things, she clutched the wreath of flowers that Dr. Van Helsing -insisted on my wearing round my neck, and tore it away from me. For a -second or two she sat up, pointing at the wolf, and there was a strange -and horrible gurgling in her throat; then she fell over--as if struck -with lightning, and her head hit my forehead and made me dizzy for a -moment or two. The room and all round seemed to spin round. I kept my -eyes fixed on the window, but the wolf drew his head back, and a whole -myriad of little specks seemed to come blowing in through the broken -window, and wheeling and circling round like the pillar of dust that -travellers describe when there is a simoon in the desert. I tried to -stir, but there was some spell upon me, and dear mother’s poor body, -which seemed to grow cold already--for her dear heart had ceased to -beat--weighed me down; and I remembered no more for a while. - -The time did not seem long, but very, very awful, till I recovered -consciousness again. Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the -dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, -seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing. I was dazed and -stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the -nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort -me. The sounds seemed to have awakened the maids, too, for I could hear -their bare feet pattering outside my door. I called to them, and they -came in, and when they saw what had happened, and what it was that lay -over me on the bed, they screamed out. The wind rushed in through the -broken window, and the door slammed to. They lifted off the body of my -dear mother, and laid her, covered up with a sheet, on the bed after I -had got up. They were all so frightened and nervous that I directed them -to go to the dining-room and have each a glass of wine. The door flew -open for an instant and closed again. The maids shrieked, and then went -in a body to the dining-room; and I laid what flowers I had on my dear -mother’s breast. When they were there I remembered what Dr. Van Helsing -had told me, but I didn’t like to remove them, and, besides, I would -have some of the servants to sit up with me now. I was surprised that -the maids did not come back. I called them, but got no answer, so I went -to the dining-room to look for them. - -My heart sank when I saw what had happened. They all four lay helpless -on the floor, breathing heavily. The decanter of sherry was on the table -half full, but there was a queer, acrid smell about. I was suspicious, -and examined the decanter. It smelt of laudanum, and looking on the -sideboard, I found that the bottle which mother’s doctor uses for -her--oh! did use--was empty. What am I to do? what am I to do? I am back -in the room with mother. I cannot leave her, and I am alone, save for -the sleeping servants, whom some one has drugged. Alone with the dead! I -dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the -broken window. - -The air seems full of specks, floating and circling in the draught from -the window, and the lights burn blue and dim. What am I to do? God -shield me from harm this night! I shall hide this paper in my breast, -where they shall find it when they come to lay me out. My dear mother -gone! It is time that I go too. Good-bye, dear Arthur, if I should not -survive this night. God keep you, dear, and God help me! - - - - -CHAPTER XII - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. -Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently -and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her -mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, -finding no response, I knocked and rang again; still no answer. I cursed -the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an -hour--for it was now ten o’clock--and so rang and knocked again, but -more impatiently, but still without response. Hitherto I had blamed only -the servants, but now a terrible fear began to assail me. Was this -desolation but another link in the chain of doom which seemed drawing -tight around us? Was it indeed a house of death to which I had come, too -late? I knew that minutes, even seconds of delay, might mean hours of -danger to Lucy, if she had had again one of those frightful relapses; -and I went round the house to try if I could find by chance an entry -anywhere. - -I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened and -locked, and I returned baffled to the porch. As I did so, I heard the -rapid pit-pat of a swiftly driven horse’s feet. They stopped at the -gate, and a few seconds later I met Van Helsing running up the avenue. -When he saw me, he gasped out:-- - -“Then it was you, and just arrived. How is she? Are we too late? Did you -not get my telegram?” - -I answered as quickly and coherently as I could that I had only got his -telegram early in the morning, and had not lost a minute in coming here, -and that I could not make any one in the house hear me. He paused and -raised his hat as he said solemnly:-- - -“Then I fear we are too late. God’s will be done!” With his usual -recuperative energy, he went on: “Come. If there be no way open to get -in, we must make one. Time is all in all to us now.” - -We went round to the back of the house, where there was a kitchen -window. The Professor took a small surgical saw from his case, and -handing it to me, pointed to the iron bars which guarded the window. I -attacked them at once and had very soon cut through three of them. Then -with a long, thin knife we pushed back the fastening of the sashes and -opened the window. I helped the Professor in, and followed him. There -was no one in the kitchen or in the servants’ rooms, which were close at -hand. We tried all the rooms as we went along, and in the dining-room, -dimly lit by rays of light through the shutters, found four -servant-women lying on the floor. There was no need to think them dead, -for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the -room left no doubt as to their condition. Van Helsing and I looked at -each other, and as we moved away he said: “We can attend to them later.” -Then we ascended to Lucy’s room. For an instant or two we paused at the -door to listen, but there was no sound that we could hear. With white -faces and trembling hands, we opened the door gently, and entered the -room. - -How shall I describe what we saw? On the bed lay two women, Lucy and her -mother. The latter lay farthest in, and she was covered with a white -sheet, the edge of which had been blown back by the draught through the -broken window, showing the drawn, white face, with a look of terror -fixed upon it. By her side lay Lucy, with face white and still more -drawn. The flowers which had been round her neck we found upon her -mother’s bosom, and her throat was bare, showing the two little wounds -which we had noticed before, but looking horribly white and mangled. -Without a word the Professor bent over the bed, his head almost touching -poor Lucy’s breast; then he gave a quick turn of his head, as of one who -listens, and leaping to his feet, he cried out to me:-- - -“It is not yet too late! Quick! quick! Bring the brandy!” - -I flew downstairs and returned with it, taking care to smell and taste -it, lest it, too, were drugged like the decanter of sherry which I found -on the table. The maids were still breathing, but more restlessly, and I -fancied that the narcotic was wearing off. I did not stay to make sure, -but returned to Van Helsing. He rubbed the brandy, as on another -occasion, on her lips and gums and on her wrists and the palms of her -hands. He said to me:-- - -“I can do this, all that can be at the present. You go wake those maids. -Flick them in the face with a wet towel, and flick them hard. Make them -get heat and fire and a warm bath. This poor soul is nearly as cold as -that beside her. She will need be heated before we can do anything -more.” - -I went at once, and found little difficulty in waking three of the -women. The fourth was only a young girl, and the drug had evidently -affected her more strongly, so I lifted her on the sofa and let her -sleep. The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to -them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner. I was stern with -them, however, and would not let them talk. I told them that one life -was bad enough to lose, and that if they delayed they would sacrifice -Miss Lucy. So, sobbing and crying, they went about their way, half clad -as they were, and prepared fire and water. Fortunately, the kitchen and -boiler fires were still alive, and there was no lack of hot water. We -got a bath and carried Lucy out as she was and placed her in it. Whilst -we were busy chafing her limbs there was a knock at the hall door. One -of the maids ran off, hurried on some more clothes, and opened it. Then -she returned and whispered to us that there was a gentleman who had come -with a message from Mr. Holmwood. I bade her simply tell him that he -must wait, for we could see no one now. She went away with the message, -and, engrossed with our work, I clean forgot all about him. - -I never saw in all my experience the Professor work in such deadly -earnest. I knew--as he knew--that it was a stand-up fight with death, -and in a pause told him so. He answered me in a way that I did not -understand, but with the sternest look that his face could wear:-- - -“If that were all, I would stop here where we are now, and let her fade -away into peace, for I see no light in life over her horizon.” He went -on with his work with, if possible, renewed and more frenzied vigour. - -Presently we both began to be conscious that the heat was beginning to -be of some effect. Lucy’s heart beat a trifle more audibly to the -stethoscope, and her lungs had a perceptible movement. Van Helsing’s -face almost beamed, and as we lifted her from the bath and rolled her in -a hot sheet to dry her he said to me:-- - -“The first gain is ours! Check to the King!” - -We took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, and laid -her in bed and forced a few drops of brandy down her throat. I noticed -that Van Helsing tied a soft silk handkerchief round her throat. She was -still unconscious, and was quite as bad as, if not worse than, we had -ever seen her. - -Van Helsing called in one of the women, and told her to stay with her -and not to take her eyes off her till we returned, and then beckoned me -out of the room. - -“We must consult as to what is to be done,” he said as we descended the -stairs. In the hall he opened the dining-room door, and we passed in, he -closing the door carefully behind him. The shutters had been opened, but -the blinds were already down, with that obedience to the etiquette of -death which the British woman of the lower classes always rigidly -observes. The room was, therefore, dimly dark. It was, however, light -enough for our purposes. Van Helsing’s sternness was somewhat relieved -by a look of perplexity. He was evidently torturing his mind about -something, so I waited for an instant, and he spoke:-- - -“What are we to do now? Where are we to turn for help? We must have -another transfusion of blood, and that soon, or that poor girl’s life -won’t be worth an hour’s purchase. You are exhausted already; I am -exhausted too. I fear to trust those women, even if they would have -courage to submit. What are we to do for some one who will open his -veins for her?” - -“What’s the matter with me, anyhow?” - -The voice came from the sofa across the room, and its tones brought -relief and joy to my heart, for they were those of Quincey Morris. Van -Helsing started angrily at the first sound, but his face softened and a -glad look came into his eyes as I cried out: “Quincey Morris!” and -rushed towards him with outstretched hands. - -“What brought you here?” I cried as our hands met. - -“I guess Art is the cause.” - -He handed me a telegram:-- - -“Have not heard from Seward for three days, and am terribly anxious. -Cannot leave. Father still in same condition. Send me word how Lucy is. -Do not delay.--HOLMWOOD.” - -“I think I came just in the nick of time. You know you have only to tell -me what to do.” - -Van Helsing strode forward, and took his hand, looking him straight in -the eyes as he said:-- - -“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in -trouble. You’re a man and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against -us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.” - -Once again we went through that ghastly operation. I have not the heart -to go through with the details. Lucy had got a terrible shock and it -told on her more than before, for though plenty of blood went into her -veins, her body did not respond to the treatment as well as on the other -occasions. Her struggle back into life was something frightful to see -and hear. However, the action of both heart and lungs improved, and Van -Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia, as before, and with -good effect. Her faint became a profound slumber. The Professor watched -whilst I went downstairs with Quincey Morris, and sent one of the maids -to pay off one of the cabmen who were waiting. I left Quincey lying down -after having a glass of wine, and told the cook to get ready a good -breakfast. Then a thought struck me, and I went back to the room where -Lucy now was. When I came softly in, I found Van Helsing with a sheet or -two of note-paper in his hand. He had evidently read it, and was -thinking it over as he sat with his hand to his brow. There was a look -of grim satisfaction in his face, as of one who has had a doubt solved. -He handed me the paper saying only: “It dropped from Lucy’s breast when -we carried her to the bath.” - -When I had read it, I stood looking at the Professor, and after a pause -asked him: “In God’s name, what does it all mean? Was she, or is she, -mad; or what sort of horrible danger is it?” I was so bewildered that I -did not know what to say more. Van Helsing put out his hand and took the -paper, saying:-- - -“Do not trouble about it now. Forget it for the present. You shall know -and understand it all in good time; but it will be later. And now what -is it that you came to me to say?” This brought me back to fact, and I -was all myself again. - -“I came to speak about the certificate of death. If we do not act -properly and wisely, there may be an inquest, and that paper would have -to be produced. I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for if we -had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did. I know, and you -know, and the other doctor who attended her knows, that Mrs. Westenra -had disease of the heart, and we can certify that she died of it. Let us -fill up the certificate at once, and I shall take it myself to the -registrar and go on to the undertaker.” - -“Good, oh my friend John! Well thought of! Truly Miss Lucy, if she be -sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that -love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old -man. Ah yes, I know, friend John; I am not blind! I love you all the -more for it! Now go.” - -In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling him -that Mrs. Westenra was dead; that Lucy also had been ill, but was now -going on better; and that Van Helsing and I were with her. I told him -where I was going, and he hurried me out, but as I was going said:-- - -“When you come back, Jack, may I have two words with you all to -ourselves?” I nodded in reply and went out. I found no difficulty about -the registration, and arranged with the local undertaker to come up in -the evening to measure for the coffin and to make arrangements. - -When I got back Quincey was waiting for me. I told him I would see him -as soon as I knew about Lucy, and went up to her room. She was still -sleeping, and the Professor seemingly had not moved from his seat at her -side. From his putting his finger to his lips, I gathered that he -expected her to wake before long and was afraid of forestalling nature. -So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where -the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or -rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. When we were alone, he said -to me:-- - -“Jack Seward, I don’t want to shove myself in anywhere where I’ve no -right to be; but this is no ordinary case. You know I loved that girl -and wanted to marry her; but, although that’s all past and gone, I can’t -help feeling anxious about her all the same. What is it that’s wrong -with her? The Dutchman--and a fine old fellow he is; I can see -that--said, that time you two came into the room, that you must have -_another_ transfusion of blood, and that both you and he were exhausted. -Now I know well that you medical men speak _in camera_, and that a man -must not expect to know what they consult about in private. But this is -no common matter, and, whatever it is, I have done my part. Is not that -so?” - -“That’s so,” I said, and he went on:-- - -“I take it that both you and Van Helsing had done already what I did -to-day. Is not that so?” - -“That’s so.” - -“And I guess Art was in it too. When I saw him four days ago down at his -own place he looked queer. I have not seen anything pulled down so quick -since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of go to grass -all in a night. One of those big bats that they call vampires had got at -her in the night, and what with his gorge and the vein left open, there -wasn’t enough blood in her to let her stand up, and I had to put a -bullet through her as she lay. Jack, if you may tell me without -betraying confidence, Arthur was the first, is not that so?” As he spoke -the poor fellow looked terribly anxious. He was in a torture of suspense -regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible -mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain. His very -heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him--and there was a -royal lot of it, too--to keep him from breaking down. I paused before -answering, for I felt that I must not betray anything which the -Professor wished kept secret; but already he knew so much, and guessed -so much, that there could be no reason for not answering, so I answered -in the same phrase: “That’s so.” - -“And how long has this been going on?” - -“About ten days.” - -“Ten days! Then I guess, Jack Seward, that that poor pretty creature -that we all love has had put into her veins within that time the blood -of four strong men. Man alive, her whole body wouldn’t hold it.” Then, -coming close to me, he spoke in a fierce half-whisper: “What took it -out?” - -I shook my head. “That,” I said, “is the crux. Van Helsing is simply -frantic about it, and I am at my wits’ end. I can’t even hazard a guess. -There has been a series of little circumstances which have thrown out -all our calculations as to Lucy being properly watched. But these shall -not occur again. Here we stay until all be well--or ill.” Quincey held -out his hand. “Count me in,” he said. “You and the Dutchman will tell me -what to do, and I’ll do it.” - -When she woke late in the afternoon, Lucy’s first movement was to feel -in her breast, and, to my surprise, produced the paper which Van Helsing -had given me to read. The careful Professor had replaced it where it had -come from, lest on waking she should be alarmed. Her eye then lit on Van -Helsing and on me too, and gladdened. Then she looked around the room, -and seeing where she was, shuddered; she gave a loud cry, and put her -poor thin hands before her pale face. We both understood what that -meant--that she had realised to the full her mother’s death; so we tried -what we could to comfort her. Doubtless sympathy eased her somewhat, but -she was very low in thought and spirit, and wept silently and weakly for -a long time. We told her that either or both of us would now remain with -her all the time, and that seemed to comfort her. Towards dusk she fell -into a doze. Here a very odd thing occurred. Whilst still asleep she -took the paper from her breast and tore it in two. Van Helsing stepped -over and took the pieces from her. All the same, however, she went on -with the action of tearing, as though the material were still in her -hands; finally she lifted her hands and opened them as though scattering -the fragments. Van Helsing seemed surprised, and his brows gathered as -if in thought, but he said nothing. - - * * * * * - -_19 September._--All last night she slept fitfully, being always afraid -to sleep, and something weaker when she woke from it. The Professor and -I took it in turns to watch, and we never left her for a moment -unattended. Quincey Morris said nothing about his intention, but I knew -that all night long he patrolled round and round the house. - -When the day came, its searching light showed the ravages in poor Lucy’s -strength. She was hardly able to turn her head, and the little -nourishment which she could take seemed to do her no good. At times she -slept, and both Van Helsing and I noticed the difference in her, between -sleeping and waking. Whilst asleep she looked stronger, although more -haggard, and her breathing was softer; her open mouth showed the pale -gums drawn back from the teeth, which thus looked positively longer and -sharper than usual; when she woke the softness of her eyes evidently -changed the expression, for she looked her own self, although a dying -one. In the afternoon she asked for Arthur, and we telegraphed for him. -Quincey went off to meet him at the station. - -When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full -and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more -colour to the pale cheeks. When he saw her, Arthur was simply choking -with emotion, and none of us could speak. In the hours that had passed, -the fits of sleep, or the comatose condition that passed for it, had -grown more frequent, so that the pauses when conversation was possible -were shortened. Arthur’s presence, however, seemed to act as a -stimulant; she rallied a little, and spoke to him more brightly than she -had done since we arrived. He too pulled himself together, and spoke as -cheerily as he could, so that the best was made of everything. - -It was now nearly one o’clock, and he and Van Helsing are sitting with -her. I am to relieve them in a quarter of an hour, and I am entering -this on Lucy’s phonograph. Until six o’clock they are to try to rest. I -fear that to-morrow will end our watching, for the shock has been too -great; the poor child cannot rally. God help us all. - - -_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra._ - -(Unopened by her.) - -“_17 September._ - -“My dearest Lucy,-- - -“It seems _an age_ since I heard from you, or indeed since I wrote. You -will pardon me, I know, for all my faults when you have read all my -budget of news. Well, I got my husband back all right; when we arrived -at Exeter there was a carriage waiting for us, and in it, though he had -an attack of gout, Mr. Hawkins. He took us to his house, where there -were rooms for us all nice and comfortable, and we dined together. After -dinner Mr. Hawkins said:-- - -“‘My dears, I want to drink your health and prosperity; and may every -blessing attend you both. I know you both from children, and have, with -love and pride, seen you grow up. Now I want you to make your home here -with me. I have left to me neither chick nor child; all are gone, and in -my will I have left you everything.’ I cried, Lucy dear, as Jonathan and -the old man clasped hands. Our evening was a very, very happy one. - -“So here we are, installed in this beautiful old house, and from both my -bedroom and the drawing-room I can see the great elms of the cathedral -close, with their great black stems standing out against the old yellow -stone of the cathedral and I can hear the rooks overhead cawing and -cawing and chattering and gossiping all day, after the manner of -rooks--and humans. I am busy, I need not tell you, arranging things and -housekeeping. Jonathan and Mr. Hawkins are busy all day; for, now that -Jonathan is a partner, Mr. Hawkins wants to tell him all about the -clients. - -“How is your dear mother getting on? I wish I could run up to town for a -day or two to see you, dear, but I dare not go yet, with so much on my -shoulders; and Jonathan wants looking after still. He is beginning to -put some flesh on his bones again, but he was terribly weakened by the -long illness; even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in a sudden -way and awakes all trembling until I can coax him back to his usual -placidity. However, thank God, these occasions grow less frequent as the -days go on, and they will in time pass away altogether, I trust. And now -I have told you my news, let me ask yours. When are you to be married, -and where, and who is to perform the ceremony, and what are you to wear, -and is it to be a public or a private wedding? Tell me all about it, -dear; tell me all about everything, for there is nothing which interests -you which will not be dear to me. Jonathan asks me to send his -‘respectful duty,’ but I do not think that is good enough from the -junior partner of the important firm Hawkins & Harker; and so, as you -love me, and he loves me, and I love you with all the moods and tenses -of the verb, I send you simply his ‘love’ instead. Good-bye, my dearest -Lucy, and all blessings on you. - -“Yours, - -“MINA HARKER.” - - -_Report from Patrick Hennessey, M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I., -etc., etc., to John Seward, M. D._ - -“_20 September._ - -“My dear Sir,-- - -“In accordance with your wishes, I enclose report of the conditions of -everything left in my charge.... With regard to patient, Renfield, there -is more to say. He has had another outbreak, which might have had a -dreadful ending, but which, as it fortunately happened, was unattended -with any unhappy results. This afternoon a carrier’s cart with two men -made a call at the empty house whose grounds abut on ours--the house to -which, you will remember, the patient twice ran away. The men stopped at -our gate to ask the porter their way, as they were strangers. I was -myself looking out of the study window, having a smoke after dinner, and -saw one of them come up to the house. As he passed the window of -Renfield’s room, the patient began to rate him from within, and called -him all the foul names he could lay his tongue to. The man, who seemed a -decent fellow enough, contented himself by telling him to “shut up for a -foul-mouthed beggar,” whereon our man accused him of robbing him and -wanting to murder him and said that he would hinder him if he were to -swing for it. I opened the window and signed to the man not to notice, -so he contented himself after looking the place over and making up his -mind as to what kind of a place he had got to by saying: ‘Lor’ bless -yer, sir, I wouldn’t mind what was said to me in a bloomin’ madhouse. I -pity ye and the guv’nor for havin’ to live in the house with a wild -beast like that.’ Then he asked his way civilly enough, and I told him -where the gate of the empty house was; he went away, followed by threats -and curses and revilings from our man. I went down to see if I could -make out any cause for his anger, since he is usually such a -well-behaved man, and except his violent fits nothing of the kind had -ever occurred. I found him, to my astonishment, quite composed and most -genial in his manner. I tried to get him to talk of the incident, but he -blandly asked me questions as to what I meant, and led me to believe -that he was completely oblivious of the affair. It was, I am sorry to -say, however, only another instance of his cunning, for within half an -hour I heard of him again. This time he had broken out through the -window of his room, and was running down the avenue. I called to the -attendants to follow me, and ran after him, for I feared he was intent -on some mischief. My fear was justified when I saw the same cart which -had passed before coming down the road, having on it some great wooden -boxes. The men were wiping their foreheads, and were flushed in the -face, as if with violent exercise. Before I could get up to him the -patient rushed at them, and pulling one of them off the cart, began to -knock his head against the ground. If I had not seized him just at the -moment I believe he would have killed the man there and then. The other -fellow jumped down and struck him over the head with the butt-end of his -heavy whip. It was a terrible blow; but he did not seem to mind it, but -seized him also, and struggled with the three of us, pulling us to and -fro as if we were kittens. You know I am no light weight, and the others -were both burly men. At first he was silent in his fighting; but as we -began to master him, and the attendants were putting a strait-waistcoat -on him, he began to shout: ‘I’ll frustrate them! They shan’t rob me! -they shan’t murder me by inches! I’ll fight for my Lord and Master!’ and -all sorts of similar incoherent ravings. It was with very considerable -difficulty that they got him back to the house and put him in the padded -room. One of the attendants, Hardy, had a finger broken. However, I set -it all right; and he is going on well. - -“The two carriers were at first loud in their threats of actions for -damages, and promised to rain all the penalties of the law on us. Their -threats were, however, mingled with some sort of indirect apology for -the defeat of the two of them by a feeble madman. They said that if it -had not been for the way their strength had been spent in carrying and -raising the heavy boxes to the cart they would have made short work of -him. They gave as another reason for their defeat the extraordinary -state of drouth to which they had been reduced by the dusty nature of -their occupation and the reprehensible distance from the scene of their -labours of any place of public entertainment. I quite understood their -drift, and after a stiff glass of grog, or rather more of the same, and -with each a sovereign in hand, they made light of the attack, and swore -that they would encounter a worse madman any day for the pleasure of -meeting so ‘bloomin’ good a bloke’ as your correspondent. I took their -names and addresses, in case they might be needed. They are as -follows:--Jack Smollet, of Dudding’s Rents, King George’s Road, Great -Walworth, and Thomas Snelling, Peter Farley’s Row, Guide Court, Bethnal -Green. They are both in the employment of Harris & Sons, Moving and -Shipment Company, Orange Master’s Yard, Soho. - -“I shall report to you any matter of interest occurring here, and shall -wire you at once if there is anything of importance. - -“Believe me, dear Sir, - -“Yours faithfully, - -“PATRICK HENNESSEY.” - - -_Letter, Mina Harker to Lucy Westenra_. - -(Unopened by her.) - -“_18 September._ - -“My dearest Lucy,-- - -“Such a sad blow has befallen us. Mr. Hawkins has died very suddenly. -Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him -that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either -father or mother, so that the dear old man’s death is a real blow to me. -Jonathan is greatly distressed. It is not only that he feels sorrow, -deep sorrow, for the dear, good man who has befriended him all his life, -and now at the end has treated him like his own son and left him a -fortune which to people of our modest bringing up is wealth beyond the -dream of avarice, but Jonathan feels it on another account. He says the -amount of responsibility which it puts upon him makes him nervous. He -begins to doubt himself. I try to cheer him up, and _my_ belief in _him_ -helps him to have a belief in himself. But it is here that the grave -shock that he experienced tells upon him the most. Oh, it is too hard -that a sweet, simple, noble, strong nature such as his--a nature which -enabled him by our dear, good friend’s aid to rise from clerk to master -in a few years--should be so injured that the very essence of its -strength is gone. Forgive me, dear, if I worry you with my troubles in -the midst of your own happiness; but, Lucy dear, I must tell some one, -for the strain of keeping up a brave and cheerful appearance to Jonathan -tries me, and I have no one here that I can confide in. I dread coming -up to London, as we must do the day after to-morrow; for poor Mr. -Hawkins left in his will that he was to be buried in the grave with his -father. As there are no relations at all, Jonathan will have to be chief -mourner. I shall try to run over to see you, dearest, if only for a few -minutes. Forgive me for troubling you. With all blessings, - -“Your loving - -“MINA HARKER.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_20 September._--Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry -to-night. I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world -and all in it, including life itself, that I would not care if I heard -this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death. And he has -been flapping those grim wings to some purpose of late--Lucy’s mother -and Arthur’s father, and now.... Let me get on with my work. - -I duly relieved Van Helsing in his watch over Lucy. We wanted Arthur to -go to rest also, but he refused at first. It was only when I told him -that we should want him to help us during the day, and that we must not -all break down for want of rest, lest Lucy should suffer, that he agreed -to go. Van Helsing was very kind to him. “Come, my child,” he said; -“come with me. You are sick and weak, and have had much sorrow and much -mental pain, as well as that tax on your strength that we know of. You -must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms. -Come to the drawing-room, where there is a big fire, and there are two -sofas. You shall lie on one, and I on the other, and our sympathy will -be comfort to each other, even though we do not speak, and even if we -sleep.” Arthur went off with him, casting back a longing look on Lucy’s -face, which lay in her pillow, almost whiter than the lawn. She lay -quite still, and I looked round the room to see that all was as it -should be. I could see that the Professor had carried out in this room, -as in the other, his purpose of using the garlic; the whole of the -window-sashes reeked with it, and round Lucy’s neck, over the silk -handkerchief which Van Helsing made her keep on, was a rough chaplet of -the same odorous flowers. Lucy was breathing somewhat stertorously, and -her face was at its worst, for the open mouth showed the pale gums. Her -teeth, in the dim, uncertain light, seemed longer and sharper than they -had been in the morning. In particular, by some trick of the light, the -canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest. I sat down by her, -and presently she moved uneasily. At the same moment there came a sort -of dull flapping or buffeting at the window. I went over to it softly, -and peeped out by the corner of the blind. There was a full moonlight, -and I could see that the noise was made by a great bat, which wheeled -round--doubtless attracted by the light, although so dim--and every now -and again struck the window with its wings. When I came back to my seat, -I found that Lucy had moved slightly, and had torn away the garlic -flowers from her throat. I replaced them as well as I could, and sat -watching her. - -Presently she woke, and I gave her food, as Van Helsing had prescribed. -She took but a little, and that languidly. There did not seem to be with -her now the unconscious struggle for life and strength that had hitherto -so marked her illness. It struck me as curious that the moment she -became conscious she pressed the garlic flowers close to her. It was -certainly odd that whenever she got into that lethargic state, with the -stertorous breathing, she put the flowers from her; but that when she -waked she clutched them close. There was no possibility of making any -mistake about this, for in the long hours that followed, she had many -spells of sleeping and waking and repeated both actions many times. - -At six o’clock Van Helsing came to relieve me. Arthur had then fallen -into a doze, and he mercifully let him sleep on. When he saw Lucy’s face -I could hear the sissing indraw of his breath, and he said to me in a -sharp whisper: “Draw up the blind; I want light!” Then he bent down, -and, with his face almost touching Lucy’s, examined her carefully. He -removed the flowers and lifted the silk handkerchief from her throat. As -he did so he started back, and I could hear his ejaculation, “Mein -Gott!” as it was smothered in his throat. I bent over and looked, too, -and as I noticed some queer chill came over me. - -The wounds on the throat had absolutely disappeared. - -For fully five minutes Van Helsing stood looking at her, with his face -at its sternest. Then he turned to me and said calmly:-- - -“She is dying. It will not be long now. It will be much difference, mark -me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and -let him come and see the last; he trusts us, and we have promised him.” - -I went to the dining-room and waked him. He was dazed for a moment, but -when he saw the sunlight streaming in through the edges of the shutters -he thought he was late, and expressed his fear. I assured him that Lucy -was still asleep, but told him as gently as I could that both Van -Helsing and I feared that the end was near. He covered his face with his -hands, and slid down on his knees by the sofa, where he remained, -perhaps a minute, with his head buried, praying, whilst his shoulders -shook with grief. I took him by the hand and raised him up. “Come,” I -said, “my dear old fellow, summon all your fortitude: it will be best -and easiest for her.” - -When we came into Lucy’s room I could see that Van Helsing had, with -his usual forethought, been putting matters straight and making -everything look as pleasing as possible. He had even brushed Lucy’s -hair, so that it lay on the pillow in its usual sunny ripples. When we -came into the room she opened her eyes, and seeing him, whispered -softly:-- - -“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come!” He was stooping to -kiss her, when Van Helsing motioned him back. “No,” he whispered, “not -yet! Hold her hand; it will comfort her more.” - -So Arthur took her hand and knelt beside her, and she looked her best, -with all the soft lines matching the angelic beauty of her eyes. Then -gradually her eyes closed, and she sank to sleep. For a little bit her -breast heaved softly, and her breath came and went like a tired child’s. - -And then insensibly there came the strange change which I had noticed in -the night. Her breathing grew stertorous, the mouth opened, and the pale -gums, drawn back, made the teeth look longer and sharper than ever. In a -sort of sleep-waking, vague, unconscious way she opened her eyes, which -were now dull and hard at once, and said in a soft, voluptuous voice, -such as I had never heard from her lips:-- - -“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! Kiss me!” Arthur bent -eagerly over to kiss her; but at that instant Van Helsing, who, like me, -had been startled by her voice, swooped upon him, and catching him by -the neck with both hands, dragged him back with a fury of strength which -I never thought he could have possessed, and actually hurled him almost -across the room. - -“Not for your life!” he said; “not for your living soul and hers!” And -he stood between them like a lion at bay. - -Arthur was so taken aback that he did not for a moment know what to do -or say; and before any impulse of violence could seize him he realised -the place and the occasion, and stood silent, waiting. - -I kept my eyes fixed on Lucy, as did Van Helsing, and we saw a spasm as -of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed -together. Then her eyes closed, and she breathed heavily. - -Very shortly after she opened her eyes in all their softness, and -putting out her poor, pale, thin hand, took Van Helsing’s great brown -one; drawing it to her, she kissed it. “My true friend,” she said, in a -faint voice, but with untellable pathos, “My true friend, and his! Oh, -guard him, and give me peace!” - -“I swear it!” he said solemnly, kneeling beside her and holding up his -hand, as one who registers an oath. Then he turned to Arthur, and said -to him: “Come, my child, take her hand in yours, and kiss her on the -forehead, and only once.” - -Their eyes met instead of their lips; and so they parted. - -Lucy’s eyes closed; and Van Helsing, who had been watching closely, took -Arthur’s arm, and drew him away. - -And then Lucy’s breathing became stertorous again, and all at once it -ceased. - -“It is all over,” said Van Helsing. “She is dead!” - -I took Arthur by the arm, and led him away to the drawing-room, where he -sat down, and covered his face with his hands, sobbing in a way that -nearly broke me down to see. - -I went back to the room, and found Van Helsing looking at poor Lucy, and -his face was sterner than ever. Some change had come over her body. -Death had given back part of her beauty, for her brow and cheeks had -recovered some of their flowing lines; even the lips had lost their -deadly pallor. It was as if the blood, no longer needed for the working -of the heart, had gone to make the harshness of death as little rude as -might be. - - “We thought her dying whilst she slept, - And sleeping when she died.” - -I stood beside Van Helsing, and said:-- - -“Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!” - -He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-- - -“Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!” - -When I asked him what he meant, he only shook his head and answered:-- - -“We can do nothing as yet. Wait and see.” - - - - -CHAPTER XIII - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. - - -The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and -her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly -formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were -afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity. -Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to -me, in a confidential, brother-professional way, when she had come out -from the death-chamber:-- - -“She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It’s quite a privilege to -attend on her. It’s not too much to say that she will do credit to our -establishment!” - -I noticed that Van Helsing never kept far away. This was possible from -the disordered state of things in the household. There were no relatives -at hand; and as Arthur had to be back the next day to attend at his -father’s funeral, we were unable to notify any one who should have been -bidden. Under the circumstances, Van Helsing and I took it upon -ourselves to examine papers, etc. He insisted upon looking over Lucy’s -papers himself. I asked him why, for I feared that he, being a -foreigner, might not be quite aware of English legal requirements, and -so might in ignorance make some unnecessary trouble. He answered me:-- - -“I know; I know. You forget that I am a lawyer as well as a doctor. But -this is not altogether for the law. You knew that, when you avoided the -coroner. I have more than him to avoid. There may be papers more--such -as this.” - -As he spoke he took from his pocket-book the memorandum which had been -in Lucy’s breast, and which she had torn in her sleep. - -“When you find anything of the solicitor who is for the late Mrs. -Westenra, seal all her papers, and write him to-night. For me, I watch -here in the room and in Miss Lucy’s old room all night, and I myself -search for what may be. It is not well that her very thoughts go into -the hands of strangers.” - -I went on with my part of the work, and in another half hour had found -the name and address of Mrs. Westenra’s solicitor and had written to -him. All the poor lady’s papers were in order; explicit directions -regarding the place of burial were given. I had hardly sealed the -letter, when, to my surprise, Van Helsing walked into the room, -saying:-- - -“Can I help you, friend John? I am free, and if I may, my service is to -you.” - -“Have you got what you looked for?” I asked, to which he replied:-- - -“I did not look for any specific thing. I only hoped to find, and find I -have, all that there was--only some letters and a few memoranda, and a -diary new begun. But I have them here, and we shall for the present say -nothing of them. I shall see that poor lad to-morrow evening, and, with -his sanction, I shall use some.” - -When we had finished the work in hand, he said to me:-- - -“And now, friend John, I think we may to bed. We want sleep, both you -and I, and rest to recuperate. To-morrow we shall have much to do, but -for the to-night there is no need of us. Alas!” - -Before turning in we went to look at poor Lucy. The undertaker had -certainly done his work well, for the room was turned into a small -_chapelle ardente_. There was a wilderness of beautiful white flowers, -and death was made as little repulsive as might be. The end of the -winding-sheet was laid over the face; when the Professor bent over and -turned it gently back, we both started at the beauty before us, the tall -wax candles showing a sufficient light to note it well. All Lucy’s -loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, -instead of leaving traces of “decay’s effacing fingers,” had but -restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes -that I was looking at a corpse. - -The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved her as I had, and -there was no need for tears in his eyes. He said to me: “Remain till I -return,” and left the room. He came back with a handful of wild garlic -from the box waiting in the hall, but which had not been opened, and -placed the flowers amongst the others on and around the bed. Then he -took from his neck, inside his collar, a little gold crucifix, and -placed it over the mouth. He restored the sheet to its place, and we -came away. - -I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the -door, he entered, and at once began to speak:-- - -“To-morrow I want you to bring me, before night, a set of post-mortem -knives.” - -“Must we make an autopsy?” I asked. - -“Yes and no. I want to operate, but not as you think. Let me tell you -now, but not a word to another. I want to cut off her head and take out -her heart. Ah! you a surgeon, and so shocked! You, whom I have seen with -no tremble of hand or heart, do operations of life and death that make -the rest shudder. Oh, but I must not forget, my dear friend John, that -you loved her; and I have not forgotten it, for it is I that shall -operate, and you must only help. I would like to do it to-night, but for -Arthur I must not; he will be free after his father’s funeral to-morrow, -and he will want to see her--to see _it_. Then, when she is coffined -ready for the next day, you and I shall come when all sleep. We shall -unscrew the coffin-lid, and shall do our operation: and then replace -all, so that none know, save we alone.” - -“But why do it at all? The girl is dead. Why mutilate her poor body -without need? And if there is no necessity for a post-mortem and nothing -to gain by it--no good to her, to us, to science, to human -knowledge--why do it? Without such it is monstrous.” - -For answer he put his hand on my shoulder, and said, with infinite -tenderness:-- - -“Friend John, I pity your poor bleeding heart; and I love you the more -because it does so bleed. If I could, I would take on myself the burden -that you do bear. But there are things that you know not, but that you -shall know, and bless me for knowing, though they are not pleasant -things. John, my child, you have been my friend now many years, and yet -did you ever know me to do any without good cause? I may err--I am but -man; but I believe in all I do. Was it not for these causes that you -send for me when the great trouble came? Yes! Were you not amazed, nay -horrified, when I would not let Arthur kiss his love--though she was -dying--and snatched him away by all my strength? Yes! And yet you saw -how she thanked me, with her so beautiful dying eyes, her voice, too, so -weak, and she kiss my rough old hand and bless me? Yes! And did you not -hear me swear promise to her, that so she closed her eyes grateful? Yes! - -“Well, I have good reason now for all I want to do. You have for many -years trust me; you have believe me weeks past, when there be things so -strange that you might have well doubt. Believe me yet a little, friend -John. If you trust me not, then I must tell what I think; and that is -not perhaps well. And if I work--as work I shall, no matter trust or no -trust--without my friend trust in me, I work with heavy heart and feel, -oh! so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be!” He paused a -moment and went on solemnly: “Friend John, there are strange and -terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that so we work to -a good end. Will you not have faith in me?” - -I took his hand, and promised him. I held my door open as he went away, -and watched him go into his room and close the door. As I stood without -moving, I saw one of the maids pass silently along the passage--she had -her back towards me, so did not see me--and go into the room where Lucy -lay. The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful -to those who show it unasked to those we love. Here was a poor girl -putting aside the terrors which she naturally had of death to go watch -alone by the bier of the mistress whom she loved, so that the poor clay -might not be lonely till laid to eternal rest.... - - * * * * * - -I must have slept long and soundly, for it was broad daylight when Van -Helsing waked me by coming into my room. He came over to my bedside and -said:-- - -“You need not trouble about the knives; we shall not do it.” - -“Why not?” I asked. For his solemnity of the night before had greatly -impressed me. - -“Because,” he said sternly, “it is too late--or too early. See!” Here he -held up the little golden crucifix. “This was stolen in the night.” - -“How, stolen,” I asked in wonder, “since you have it now?” - -“Because I get it back from the worthless wretch who stole it, from the -woman who robbed the dead and the living. Her punishment will surely -come, but not through me; she knew not altogether what she did and thus -unknowing, she only stole. Now we must wait.” - -He went away on the word, leaving me with a new mystery to think of, a -new puzzle to grapple with. - -The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came: Mr. -Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale. He was very genial -and very appreciative of what we had done, and took off our hands all -cares as to details. During lunch he told us that Mrs. Westenra had for -some time expected sudden death from her heart, and had put her affairs -in absolute order; he informed us that, with the exception of a certain -entailed property of Lucy’s father’s which now, in default of direct -issue, went back to a distant branch of the family, the whole estate, -real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood. When he had -told us so much he went on:-- - -“Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and -pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either -penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial -alliance. Indeed, we pressed the matter so far that we almost came into -collision, for she asked us if we were or were not prepared to carry out -her wishes. Of course, we had then no alternative but to accept. We were -right in principle, and ninety-nine times out of a hundred we should -have proved, by the logic of events, the accuracy of our judgment. -Frankly, however, I must admit that in this case any other form of -disposition would have rendered impossible the carrying out of her -wishes. For by her predeceasing her daughter the latter would have come -into possession of the property, and, even had she only survived her -mother by five minutes, her property would, in case there were no -will--and a will was a practical impossibility in such a case--have been -treated at her decease as under intestacy. In which case Lord Godalming, -though so dear a friend, would have had no claim in the world; and the -inheritors, being remote, would not be likely to abandon their just -rights, for sentimental reasons regarding an entire stranger. I assure -you, my dear sirs, I am rejoiced at the result, perfectly rejoiced.” - -He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part--in which -he was officially interested--of so great a tragedy, was an -object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. - -He did not remain long, but said he would look in later in the day and -see Lord Godalming. His coming, however, had been a certain comfort to -us, since it assured us that we should not have to dread hostile -criticism as to any of our acts. Arthur was expected at five o’clock, so -a little before that time we visited the death-chamber. It was so in -very truth, for now both mother and daughter lay in it. The undertaker, -true to his craft, had made the best display he could of his goods, and -there was a mortuary air about the place that lowered our spirits at -once. Van Helsing ordered the former arrangement to be adhered to, -explaining that, as Lord Godalming was coming very soon, it would be -less harrowing to his feelings to see all that was left of his _fiancée_ -quite alone. The undertaker seemed shocked at his own stupidity and -exerted himself to restore things to the condition in which we left them -the night before, so that when Arthur came such shocks to his feelings -as we could avoid were saved. - -Poor fellow! He looked desperately sad and broken; even his stalwart -manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under the strain of his -much-tried emotions. He had, I knew, been very genuinely and devotedly -attached to his father; and to lose him, and at such a time, was a -bitter blow to him. With me he was warm as ever, and to Van Helsing he -was sweetly courteous; but I could not help seeing that there was some -constraint with him. The Professor noticed it, too, and motioned me to -bring him upstairs. I did so, and left him at the door of the room, as I -felt he would like to be quite alone with her, but he took my arm and -led me in, saying huskily:-- - -“You loved her too, old fellow; she told me all about it, and there was -no friend had a closer place in her heart than you. I don’t know how to -thank you for all you have done for her. I can’t think yet....” - -Here he suddenly broke down, and threw his arms round my shoulders and -laid his head on my breast, crying:-- - -“Oh, Jack! Jack! What shall I do! The whole of life seems gone from me -all at once, and there is nothing in the wide world for me to live for.” - -I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much -expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the -shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man’s -heart. I stood still and silent till his sobs died away, and then I said -softly to him:-- - -“Come and look at her.” - -Together we moved over to the bed, and I lifted the lawn from her face. -God! how beautiful she was. Every hour seemed to be enhancing her -loveliness. It frightened and amazed me somewhat; and as for Arthur, he -fell a-trembling, and finally was shaken with doubt as with an ague. At -last, after a long pause, he said to me in a faint whisper:-- - -“Jack, is she really dead?” - -I assured him sadly that it was so, and went on to suggest--for I felt -that such a horrible doubt should not have life for a moment longer than -I could help--that it often happened that after death faces became -softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty; that this was -especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged -suffering. It seemed to quite do away with any doubt, and, after -kneeling beside the couch for a while and looking at her lovingly and -long, he turned aside. I told him that that must be good-bye, as the -coffin had to be prepared; so he went back and took her dead hand in his -and kissed it, and bent over and kissed her forehead. He came away, -fondly looking back over his shoulder at her as he came. - -I left him in the drawing-room, and told Van Helsing that he had said -good-bye; so the latter went to the kitchen to tell the undertaker’s men -to proceed with the preparations and to screw up the coffin. When he -came out of the room again I told him of Arthur’s question, and he -replied:-- - -“I am not surprised. Just now I doubted for a moment myself!” - -We all dined together, and I could see that poor Art was trying to make -the best of things. Van Helsing had been silent all dinner-time; but -when we had lit our cigars he said-- - -“Lord----”; but Arthur interrupted him:-- - -“No, no, not that, for God’s sake! not yet at any rate. Forgive me, sir: -I did not mean to speak offensively; it is only because my loss is so -recent.” - -The Professor answered very sweetly:-- - -“I only used that name because I was in doubt. I must not call you -‘Mr.,’ and I have grown to love you--yes, my dear boy, to love you--as -Arthur.” - -Arthur held out his hand, and took the old man’s warmly. - -“Call me what you will,” he said. “I hope I may always have the title of -a friend. And let me say that I am at a loss for words to thank you for -your goodness to my poor dear.” He paused a moment, and went on: “I know -that she understood your goodness even better than I do; and if I was -rude or in any way wanting at that time you acted so--you remember”--the -Professor nodded--“you must forgive me.” - -He answered with a grave kindness:-- - -“I know it was hard for you to quite trust me then, for to trust such -violence needs to understand; and I take it that you do not--that you -cannot--trust me now, for you do not yet understand. And there may be -more times when I shall want you to trust when you cannot--and may -not--and must not yet understand. But the time will come when your trust -shall be whole and complete in me, and when you shall understand as -though the sunlight himself shone through. Then you shall bless me from -first to last for your own sake, and for the sake of others and for her -dear sake to whom I swore to protect.” - -“And, indeed, indeed, sir,” said Arthur warmly, “I shall in all ways -trust you. I know and believe you have a very noble heart, and you are -Jack’s friend, and you were hers. You shall do what you like.” - -The Professor cleared his throat a couple of times, as though about to -speak, and finally said:-- - -“May I ask you something now?” - -“Certainly.” - -“You know that Mrs. Westenra left you all her property?” - -“No, poor dear; I never thought of it.” - -“And as it is all yours, you have a right to deal with it as you will. I -want you to give me permission to read all Miss Lucy’s papers and -letters. Believe me, it is no idle curiosity. I have a motive of which, -be sure, she would have approved. I have them all here. I took them -before we knew that all was yours, so that no strange hand might touch -them--no strange eye look through words into her soul. I shall keep -them, if I may; even you may not see them yet, but I shall keep them -safe. No word shall be lost; and in the good time I shall give them back -to you. It’s a hard thing I ask, but you will do it, will you not, for -Lucy’s sake?” - -Arthur spoke out heartily, like his old self:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, you may do what you will. I feel that in saying this I -am doing what my dear one would have approved. I shall not trouble you -with questions till the time comes.” - -The old Professor stood up as he said solemnly:-- - -“And you are right. There will be pain for us all; but it will not be -all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too--you most of -all, my dear boy--will have to pass through the bitter water before we -reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our -duty, and all will be well!” - -I slept on a sofa in Arthur’s room that night. Van Helsing did not go to -bed at all. He went to and fro, as if patrolling the house, and was -never out of sight of the room where Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn with -the wild garlic flowers, which sent, through the odour of lily and rose, -a heavy, overpowering smell into the night. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_22 September._--In the train to Exeter. Jonathan sleeping. - -It seems only yesterday that the last entry was made, and yet how much -between then, in Whitby and all the world before me, Jonathan away and -no news of him; and now, married to Jonathan, Jonathan a solicitor, a -partner, rich, master of his business, Mr. Hawkins dead and buried, and -Jonathan with another attack that may harm him. Some day he may ask me -about it. Down it all goes. I am rusty in my shorthand--see what -unexpected prosperity does for us--so it may be as well to freshen it up -again with an exercise anyhow.... - -The service was very simple and very solemn. There were only ourselves -and the servants there, one or two old friends of his from Exeter, his -London agent, and a gentleman representing Sir John Paxton, the -President of the Incorporated Law Society. Jonathan and I stood hand in -hand, and we felt that our best and dearest friend was gone from us.... - -We came back to town quietly, taking a ’bus to Hyde Park Corner. -Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so -we sat down; but there were very few people there, and it was -sad-looking and desolate to see so many empty chairs. It made us think -of the empty chair at home; so we got up and walked down Piccadilly. -Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in old days -before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can’t go on -for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the -pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he -was my husband, and we didn’t know anybody who saw us--and we didn’t -care if they did--so on we walked. I was looking at a very beautiful -girl, in a big cart-wheel hat, sitting in a victoria outside Guiliano’s, -when I felt Jonathan clutch my arm so tight that he hurt me, and he said -under his breath: “My God!” I am always anxious about Jonathan, for I -fear that some nervous fit may upset him again; so I turned to him -quickly, and asked him what it was that disturbed him. - -He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and -half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and -black moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty -girl. He was looking at her so hard that he did not see either of us, -and so I had a good view of him. His face was not a good face; it was -hard, and cruel, and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all -the whiter because his lips were so red, were pointed like an animal’s. -Jonathan kept staring at him, till I was afraid he would notice. I -feared he might take it ill, he looked so fierce and nasty. I asked -Jonathan why he was disturbed, and he answered, evidently thinking that -I knew as much about it as he did: “Do you see who it is?” - -“No, dear,” I said; “I don’t know him; who is it?” His answer seemed to -shock and thrill me, for it was said as if he did not know that it was -to me, Mina, to whom he was speaking:-- - -“It is the man himself!” - -The poor dear was evidently terrified at something--very greatly -terrified; I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and to -support him he would have sunk down. He kept staring; a man came out of -the shop with a small parcel, and gave it to the lady, who then drove -off. The dark man kept his eyes fixed on her, and when the carriage -moved up Piccadilly he followed in the same direction, and hailed a -hansom. Jonathan kept looking after him, and said, as if to himself:-- - -“I believe it is the Count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be -so! Oh, my God! my God! If I only knew! if I only knew!” He was -distressing himself so much that I feared to keep his mind on the -subject by asking him any questions, so I remained silent. I drew him -away quietly, and he, holding my arm, came easily. We walked a little -further, and then went in and sat for a while in the Green Park. It was -a hot day for autumn, and there was a comfortable seat in a shady place. -After a few minutes’ staring at nothing, Jonathan’s eyes closed, and he -went quietly into a sleep, with his head on my shoulder. I thought it -was the best thing for him, so did not disturb him. In about twenty -minutes he woke up, and said to me quite cheerfully:-- - -“Why, Mina, have I been asleep! Oh, do forgive me for being so rude. -Come, and we’ll have a cup of tea somewhere.” He had evidently forgotten -all about the dark stranger, as in his illness he had forgotten all that -this episode had reminded him of. I don’t like this lapsing into -forgetfulness; it may make or continue some injury to the brain. I must -not ask him, for fear I shall do more harm than good; but I must somehow -learn the facts of his journey abroad. The time is come, I fear, when I -must open that parcel, and know what is written. Oh, Jonathan, you will, -I know, forgive me if I do wrong, but it is for your own dear sake. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--A sad home-coming in every way--the house empty of the dear -soul who was so good to us; Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a slight -relapse of his malady; and now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he -may be:-- - -“You will be grieved to hear that Mrs. Westenra died five days ago, and -that Lucy died the day before yesterday. They were both buried to-day.” - -Oh, what a wealth of sorrow in a few words! Poor Mrs. Westenra! poor -Lucy! Gone, gone, never to return to us! And poor, poor Arthur, to have -lost such sweetness out of his life! God help us all to bear our -troubles. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_22 September._--It is all over. Arthur has gone back to Ring, and has -taken Quincey Morris with him. What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe -in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy’s death as any -of us; but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America -can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world -indeed. Van Helsing is lying down, having a rest preparatory to his -journey. He goes over to Amsterdam to-night, but says he returns -to-morrow night; that he only wants to make some arrangements which can -only be made personally. He is to stop with me then, if he can; he says -he has work to do in London which may take him some time. Poor old -fellow! I fear that the strain of the past week has broken down even his -iron strength. All the time of the burial he was, I could see, putting -some terrible restraint on himself. When it was all over, we were -standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in -the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy’s veins; I -could see Van Helsing’s face grow white and purple by turns. Arthur was -saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married -and that she was his wife in the sight of God. None of us said a word of -the other operations, and none of us ever shall. Arthur and Quincey went -away together to the station, and Van Helsing and I came on here. The -moment we were alone in the carriage he gave way to a regular fit of -hysterics. He has denied to me since that it was hysterics, and insisted -that it was only his sense of humour asserting itself under very -terrible conditions. He laughed till he cried, and I had to draw down -the blinds lest any one should see us and misjudge; and then he cried, -till he laughed again; and laughed and cried together, just as a woman -does. I tried to be stern with him, as one is to a woman under the -circumstances; but it had no effect. Men and women are so different in -manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew -grave and stern again I asked him why his mirth, and why at such a time. -His reply was in a way characteristic of him, for it was logical and -forceful and mysterious. He said:-- - -“Ah, you don’t comprehend, friend John. Do not think that I am not sad, -though I laugh. See, I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But -no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come -just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your -door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not the true laughter. No! he is a -king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no -time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.’ Behold, in example I grieve my -heart out for that so sweet young girl; I give my blood for her, though -I am old and worn; I give my time, my skill, my sleep; I let my other -sufferers want that so she may have all. And yet I can laugh at her very -grave--laugh when the clay from the spade of the sexton drop upon her -coffin and say ‘Thud! thud!’ to my heart, till it send back the blood -from my cheek. My heart bleed for that poor boy--that dear boy, so of -the age of mine own boy had I been so blessed that he live, and with his -hair and eyes the same. There, you know now why I love him so. And yet -when he say things that touch my husband-heart to the quick, and make my -father-heart yearn to him as to no other man--not even to you, friend -John, for we are more level in experiences than father and son--yet even -at such moment King Laugh he come to me and shout and bellow in my ear, -‘Here I am! here I am!’ till the blood come dance back and bring some of -the sunshine that he carry with him to my cheek. Oh, friend John, it is -a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and -troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the -tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and -tears that burn as they fall--all dance together to the music that he -make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that -he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn -tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, -like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain -become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the -sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with -our labour, what it may be.” - -I did not like to wound him by pretending not to see his idea; but, as I -did not yet understand the cause of his laughter, I asked him. As he -answered me his face grew stern, and he said in quite a different -tone:-- - -“Oh, it was the grim irony of it all--this so lovely lady garlanded with -flowers, that looked so fair as life, till one by one we wondered if she -were truly dead; she laid in that so fine marble house in that lonely -churchyard, where rest so many of her kin, laid there with the mother -who loved her, and whom she loved; and that sacred bell going ‘Toll! -toll! toll!’ so sad and slow; and those holy men, with the white -garments of the angel, pretending to read books, and yet all the time -their eyes never on the page; and all of us with the bowed head. And all -for what? She is dead; so! Is it not?” - -“Well, for the life of me, Professor,” I said, “I can’t see anything to -laugh at in all that. Why, your explanation makes it a harder puzzle -than before. But even if the burial service was comic, what about poor -Art and his trouble? Why, his heart was simply breaking.” - -“Just so. Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had -made her truly his bride?” - -“Yes, and it was a sweet and comforting idea for him.” - -“Quite so. But there was a difficulty, friend John. If so that, then -what about the others? Ho, ho! Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, -and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church’s law, though -no wits, all gone--even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, -am bigamist.” - -“I don’t see where the joke comes in there either!” I said; and I did -not feel particularly pleased with him for saying such things. He laid -his hand on my arm, and said:-- - -“Friend John, forgive me if I pain. I showed not my feeling to others -when it would wound, but only to you, my old friend, whom I can trust. -If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; -if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so -now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him--for -he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time--maybe you would -perhaps pity me the most of all.” - -I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why. - -“Because I know!” - -And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will -sit over our roofs with brooding wings. Lucy lies in the tomb of her -kin, a lordly death-house in a lonely churchyard, away from teeming -London; where the air is fresh, and the sun rises over Hampstead Hill, -and where wild flowers grow of their own accord. - -So I can finish this diary; and God only knows if I shall ever begin -another. If I do, or if I even open this again, it will be to deal with -different people and different themes; for here at the end, where the -romance of my life is told, ere I go back to take up the thread of my -life-work, I say sadly and without hope, - - “FINIS.” - - -_“The Westminster Gazette,” 25 September._ - - A HAMPSTEAD MYSTERY. - - -The neighbourhood of Hampstead is just at present exercised with a -series of events which seem to run on lines parallel to those of what -was known to the writers of headlines as “The Kensington Horror,” or -“The Stabbing Woman,” or “The Woman in Black.” During the past two or -three days several cases have occurred of young children straying from -home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. In all -these cases the children were too young to give any properly -intelligible account of themselves, but the consensus of their excuses -is that they had been with a “bloofer lady.” It has always been late in -the evening when they have been missed, and on two occasions the -children have not been found until early in the following morning. It is -generally supposed in the neighbourhood that, as the first child missed -gave as his reason for being away that a “bloofer lady” had asked him to -come for a walk, the others had picked up the phrase and used it as -occasion served. This is the more natural as the favourite game of the -little ones at present is luring each other away by wiles. A -correspondent writes us that to see some of the tiny tots pretending to -be the “bloofer lady” is supremely funny. Some of our caricaturists -might, he says, take a lesson in the irony of grotesque by comparing the -reality and the picture. It is only in accordance with general -principles of human nature that the “bloofer lady” should be the popular -rôle at these _al fresco_ performances. Our correspondent naïvely says -that even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive as some of -these grubby-faced little children pretend--and even imagine -themselves--to be. - -There is, however, possibly a serious side to the question, for some of -the children, indeed all who have been missed at night, have been -slightly torn or wounded in the throat. The wounds seem such as might be -made by a rat or a small dog, and although of not much importance -individually, would tend to show that whatever animal inflicts them has -a system or method of its own. The police of the division have been -instructed to keep a sharp look-out for straying children, especially -when very young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog -which may be about. - - - _“The Westminster Gazette,” 25 September._ - - _Extra Special._ - - THE HAMPSTEAD HORROR. - - ANOTHER CHILD INJURED. - - _The “Bloofer Lady.”_ - -We have just received intelligence that another child, missed last -night, was only discovered late in the morning under a furze bush at the -Shooter’s Hill side of Hampstead Heath, which is, perhaps, less -frequented than the other parts. It has the same tiny wound in the -throat as has been noticed in other cases. It was terribly weak, and -looked quite emaciated. It too, when partially restored, had the common -story to tell of being lured away by the “bloofer lady.” - - - - -CHAPTER XIV - -MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL - - -_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that -he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible -things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the -responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself, -and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rising to the height of his -advancement and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon -him. He will be away all day till late, for he said he could not lunch -at home. My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal, -and lock myself up in my room and read it.... - - -_24 September_.--I hadn’t the heart to write last night; that terrible -record of Jonathan’s upset me so. Poor dear! How he must have suffered, -whether it be true or only imagination. I wonder if there is any truth -in it at all. Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those -terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall -never know, for I dare not open the subject to him.... And yet that man -we saw yesterday! He seemed quite certain of him.... Poor fellow! I -suppose it was the funeral upset him and sent his mind back on some -train of thought.... He believes it all himself. I remember how on our -wedding-day he said: “Unless some solemn duty come upon me to go back to -the bitter hours, asleep or awake, mad or sane.” There seems to be -through it all some thread of continuity.... That fearful Count was -coming to London.... If it should be, and he came to London, with his -teeming millions.... There may be a solemn duty; and if it come we must -not shrink from it.... I shall be prepared. I shall get my typewriter -this very hour and begin transcribing. Then we shall be ready for other -eyes if required. And if it be wanted; then, perhaps, if I am ready, -poor Jonathan may not be upset, for I can speak for him and never let -him be troubled or worried with it at all. If ever Jonathan quite gets -over the nervousness he may want to tell me of it all, and I can ask him -questions and find out things, and see how I may comfort him. - - -_Letter, Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker._ - -“_24 September._ - -(_Confidence_) - -“Dear Madam,-- - -“I pray you to pardon my writing, in that I am so far friend as that I -sent to you sad news of Miss Lucy Westenra’s death. By the kindness of -Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am -deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important. In them I find -some letters from you, which show how great friends you were and how you -love her. Oh, Madam Mina, by that love, I implore you, help me. It is -for others’ good that I ask--to redress great wrong, and to lift much -and terrible troubles--that may be more great than you can know. May it -be that I see you? You can trust me. I am friend of Dr. John Seward and -of Lord Godalming (that was Arthur of Miss Lucy). I must keep it private -for the present from all. I should come to Exeter to see you at once if -you tell me I am privilege to come, and where and when. I implore your -pardon, madam. I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good -you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, -enlighten him not, lest it may harm. Again your pardon, and forgive me. - -“VAN HELSING.” - - -_Telegram, Mrs. Harker to Van Helsing._ - -“_25 September._--Come to-day by quarter-past ten train if you can catch -it. Can see you any time you call. - -“WILHELMINA HARKER.” - -MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL. - -_25 September._--I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time -draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing, for somehow I expect that -it will throw some light upon Jonathan’s sad experience; and as he -attended poor dear Lucy in her last illness, he can tell me all about -her. That is the reason of his coming; it is concerning Lucy and her -sleep-walking, and not about Jonathan. Then I shall never know the real -truth now! How silly I am. That awful journal gets hold of my -imagination and tinges everything with something of its own colour. Of -course it is about Lucy. That habit came back to the poor dear, and that -awful night on the cliff must have made her ill. I had almost forgotten -in my own affairs how ill she was afterwards. She must have told him -of her sleep-walking adventure on the cliff, and that I knew all about -it; and now he wants me to tell him what she knows, so that he may -understand. I hope I did right in not saying anything of it to Mrs. -Westenra; I should never forgive myself if any act of mine, were it even -a negative one, brought harm on poor dear Lucy. I hope, too, Dr. Van -Helsing will not blame me; I have had so much trouble and anxiety of -late that I feel I cannot bear more just at present. - -I suppose a cry does us all good at times--clears the air as other rain -does. Perhaps it was reading the journal yesterday that upset me, and -then Jonathan went away this morning to stay away from me a whole day -and night, the first time we have been parted since our marriage. I do -hope the dear fellow will take care of himself, and that nothing will -occur to upset him. It is two o’clock, and the doctor will be here soon -now. I shall say nothing of Jonathan’s journal unless he asks me. I am -so glad I have 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. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--He has come and gone. Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it -all makes my head whirl round! I feel like one in a dream. Can it be all -possible, or even a part of it? If I had not read Jonathan’s journal -first, I should never have accepted even a possibility. Poor, poor, dear -Jonathan! How he must have suffered. Please the good God, all this may -not upset him again. I shall try to save him from it; but it may be even -a consolation and a help to him--terrible though it be and awful in its -consequences--to know for certain that his eyes and ears and brain did -not deceive him, and that it is all true. It may be that it is the doubt -which haunts him; that when the doubt is removed, no matter -which--waking or dreaming--may prove the truth, he will be more -satisfied and better able to bear the shock. Dr. Van Helsing must be a -good man as well as a clever one if he is Arthur’s friend and Dr. -Seward’s, and if they brought him all the way from Holland to look after -Lucy. I feel from having seen him that he _is_ good and kind and of a -noble nature. When he comes to-morrow I shall ask him about Jonathan; -and then, please God, all this sorrow and anxiety may lead to a good -end. I used to think I would like to practise interviewing; Jonathan’s -friend on “The Exeter News” told him that memory was everything in such -work--that you must be able to put down exactly almost every word -spoken, even if you had to refine some of it afterwards. Here was a rare -interview; I shall try to record it _verbatim_. - -It was half-past two o’clock when the knock came. I took my courage _à -deux mains_ and waited. In a few minutes Mary opened the door, and -announced “Dr. Van Helsing.” - -I rose and bowed, and he came towards me; a man of medium weight, -strongly built, with his shoulders set back over a broad, deep chest and -a neck well balanced on the trunk as the head is on the neck. The poise -of the head strikes one at once as indicative of thought and power; the -head is noble, well-sized, broad, and large behind the ears. The face, -clean-shaven, shows a hard, square chin, a large, resolute, mobile -mouth, a good-sized nose, rather straight, but with quick, sensitive -nostrils, that seem to broaden as the big, bushy brows come down and the -mouth tightens. The forehead is broad and fine, rising at first almost -straight and then sloping back above two bumps or ridges wide apart; -such a forehead that the reddish hair cannot possibly tumble over it, -but falls naturally back and to the sides. Big, dark blue eyes are set -widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. He -said to me:-- - -“Mrs. Harker, is it not?” I bowed assent. - -“That was Miss Mina Murray?” Again I assented. - -“It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was friend of that poor dear -child Lucy Westenra. Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead I come.” - -“Sir,” I said, “you could have no better claim on me than that you were -a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra.” And I held out my hand. He took -it and said tenderly:-- - -“Oh, Madam Mina, I knew that the friend of that poor lily girl must be -good, but I had yet to learn----” He finished his speech with a courtly -bow. I asked him what it was that he wanted to see me about, so he at -once began:-- - -“I have read your letters to Miss Lucy. Forgive me, but I had to begin -to inquire somewhere, and there was none to ask. I know that you were -with her at Whitby. She sometimes kept a diary--you need not look -surprised, Madam Mina; it was begun after you had left, and was in -imitation of you--and in that diary she traces by inference certain -things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her. In -great perplexity then I come to you, and ask you out of your so much -kindness to tell me all of it that you can remember.” - -“I can tell you, I think, Dr. Van Helsing, all about it.” - -“Ah, then you have good memory for facts, for details? It is not always -so with young ladies.” - -“No, doctor, but I wrote it all down at the time. I can show it to you -if you like.” - -“Oh, Madam Mina, I will be grateful; you will do me much favour.” I -could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit--I suppose it is -some of the taste of the original apple that remains still in our -mouths--so I handed him the shorthand diary. He took it with a grateful -bow, and said:-- - -“May I read it?” - -“If you wish,” I answered as demurely as I could. He opened it, and for -an instant his face fell. Then he stood up and bowed. - -“Oh, you so clever woman!” he said. “I knew long that Mr. Jonathan was a -man of much thankfulness; but see, his wife have all the good things. -And will you not so much honour me and so help me as to read it for me? -Alas! I know not the shorthand.” By this time my little joke was over, -and I was almost ashamed; so I took the typewritten copy from my -workbasket and handed it to him. - -“Forgive me,” I said: “I could not help it; but I had been thinking that -it was of dear Lucy that you wished to ask, and so that you might not -have time to wait--not on my account, but because I know your time must -be precious--I have written it out on the typewriter for you.” - -He took it and his eyes glistened. “You are so good,” he said. “And may -I read it now? I may want to ask you some things when I have read.” - -“By all means,” I said, “read it over whilst I order lunch; and then you -can ask me questions whilst we eat.” He bowed and settled himself in a -chair with his back to the light, and became absorbed in the papers, -whilst I went to see after lunch chiefly in order that he might not be -disturbed. When I came back, I found him walking hurriedly up and down -the room, his face all ablaze with excitement. He rushed up to me and -took me by both hands. - -“Oh, Madam Mina,” he said, “how can I say what I owe to you? This paper -is as sunshine. It opens the gate to me. I am daze, I am dazzle, with so -much light, and yet clouds roll in behind the light every time. But that -you do not, cannot, comprehend. Oh, but I am grateful to you, you so -clever woman. Madam”--he said this very solemnly--“if ever Abraham Van -Helsing can do anything for you or yours, I trust you will let me know. -It will be pleasure and delight if I may serve you as a friend; as a -friend, but all I have ever learned, all I can ever do, shall be for you -and those you love. There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; -you are one of the lights. You will have happy life and good life, and -your husband will be blessed in you.” - -“But, doctor, you praise me too much, and--and you do not know me.” - -“Not know you--I, who am old, and who have studied all my life men and -women; I, who have made my specialty the brain and all that belongs to -him and all that follow from him! And I have read your diary that you -have so goodly written for me, and which breathes out truth in every -line. I, who have read your so sweet letter to poor Lucy of your -marriage and your trust, not know you! Oh, Madam Mina, good women tell -all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that -angels can read; and we men who wish to know have in us something of -angels’ eyes. Your husband is noble nature, and you are noble too, for -you trust, and trust cannot be where there is mean nature. And your -husband--tell me of him. Is he quite well? Is all that fever gone, and -is he strong and hearty?” I saw here an opening to ask him about -Jonathan, so I said:-- - -“He was almost recovered, but he has been greatly upset by Mr. Hawkins’s -death.” He interrupted:-- - -“Oh, yes, I know, I know. I have read your last two letters.” I went -on:-- - -“I suppose this upset him, for when we were in town on Thursday last he -had a sort of shock.” - -“A shock, and after brain fever so soon! That was not good. What kind of -a shock was it?” - -“He thought he saw some one who recalled something terrible, something -which led to his brain fever.” And here the whole thing seemed to -overwhelm me in a rush. The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he -experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his diary, and the fear that -has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult. I suppose I -was hysterical, for I threw myself on my knees and held up my hands to -him, and implored him to make my husband well again. He took my hands -and raised me up, and made me sit on the sofa, and sat by me; he held my -hand in his, and said to me with, oh, such infinite sweetness:-- - -“My life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not -had much time for friendships; but since I have been summoned to here by -my friend John Seward I have known so many good people and seen such -nobility that I feel more than ever--and it has grown with my advancing -years--the loneliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here -full of respect for you, and you have given me hope--hope, not in what I -am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life -happy--good women, whose lives and whose truths may make good lesson for -the children that are to be. I am glad, glad, that I may here be of some -use to you; for if your husband suffer, he suffer within the range of my -study and experience. I promise you that I will gladly do _all_ for him -that I can--all to make his life strong and manly, and your life a happy -one. Now you must eat. You are overwrought and perhaps over-anxious. -Husband Jonathan would not like to see you so pale; and what he like not -where he love, is not to his good. Therefore for his sake you must eat -and smile. You have told me all about Lucy, and so now we shall not -speak of it, lest it distress. I shall stay in Exeter to-night, for I -want to think much over what you have told me, and when I have thought I -will ask you questions, if I may. And then, too, you will tell me of -husband Jonathan’s trouble so far as you can, but not yet. You must eat -now; afterwards you shall tell me all.” - -After lunch, when we went back to the drawing-room, he said to me:-- - -“And now tell me all about him.” When it came to speaking to this great -learned man, I began to fear that he would think me a weak fool, and -Jonathan a madman--that journal is all so strange--and I hesitated to go -on. But he was so sweet and kind, and he had promised to help, and I -trusted him, so I said:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, what I have to tell you is so queer that you must not -laugh at me or at my husband. I have been since yesterday in a sort of -fever of doubt; you must be kind to me, and not think me foolish that I -have even half believed some very strange things.” He reassured me by -his manner as well as his words when he said:-- - -“Oh, my dear, if you only know how strange is the matter regarding which -I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little -of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried to keep -an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close -it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that -make one doubt if they be mad or sane.” - -“Thank you, thank you, a thousand times! You have taken a weight off my -mind. If you will let me, I shall give you a paper to read. It is long, -but I have typewritten it out. It will tell you my trouble and -Jonathan’s. It is the copy of his journal when abroad, and all that -happened. I dare not say anything of it; you will read for yourself and -judge. And then when I see you, perhaps, you will be very kind and tell -me what you think.” - -“I promise,” he said as I gave him the papers; “I shall in the morning, -so soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I may.” - -“Jonathan will be here at half-past eleven, and you must come to lunch -with us and see him then; you could catch the quick 3:34 train, which -will leave you at Paddington before eight.” He was surprised at my -knowledge of the trains off-hand, but he does not know that I have made -up all the trains to and from Exeter, so that I may help Jonathan in -case he is in a hurry. - -So he took the papers with him and went away, and I sit here -thinking--thinking I don’t know what. - - * * * * * - -_Letter (by hand), Van Helsing to Mrs. Harker._ - -“_25 September, 6 o’clock._ - -“Dear Madam Mina,-- - -“I have read your husband’s so wonderful diary. You may sleep without -doubt. Strange and terrible as it is, it is _true_! I will pledge my -life on it. It may be worse for others; but for him and you there is no -dread. He is a noble fellow; and let me tell you from experience of men, -that one who would do as he did in going down that wall and to that -room--ay, and going a second time--is not one to be injured in -permanence by a shock. His brain and his heart are all right; this I -swear, before I have even seen him; so be at rest. I shall have much to -ask him of other things. I am blessed that to-day I come to see you, for -I have learn all at once so much that again I am dazzle--dazzle more -than ever, and I must think. - -“Yours the most faithful, - -“ABRAHAM VAN HELSING.” - - -_Letter, Mrs. Harker to Van Helsing._ - -“_25 September, 6:30 p. m._ - -“My dear Dr. Van Helsing,-- - -“A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a great weight -off my mind. And yet, if it be true, what terrible things there are in -the world, and what an awful thing if that man, that monster, be really -in London! I fear to think. I have this moment, whilst writing, had a -wire from Jonathan, saying that he leaves by the 6:25 to-night from -Launceston and will be here at 10:18, so that I shall have no fear -to-night. Will you, therefore, instead of lunching with us, please come -to breakfast at eight o’clock, if this be not too early for you? You can -get away, if you are in a hurry, by the 10:30 train, which will bring -you to Paddington by 2:35. Do not answer this, as I shall take it that, -if I do not hear, you will come to breakfast. - -“Believe me, - -“Your faithful and grateful friend, - -“MINA HARKER.” - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_26 September._--I thought never to write in this diary again, but the -time has come. When I got home last night Mina had supper ready, and -when we had supped she told me of Van Helsing’s visit, and of her having -given him the two diaries copied out, and of how anxious she has been -about me. She showed me in the doctor’s letter that all I wrote down was -true. It seems to have made a new man of me. It was the doubt as to the -reality of the whole thing that knocked me over. I felt impotent, and in -the dark, and distrustful. But, now that I _know_, I am not afraid, even -of the Count. He has succeeded after all, then, in his design in getting -to London, and it was he I saw. He has got younger, and how? Van Helsing -is the man to unmask him and hunt him out, if he is anything like what -Mina says. We sat late, and talked it all over. Mina is dressing, and I -shall call at the hotel in a few minutes and bring him over.... - -He was, I think, surprised to see me. When I came into the room where he -was, and introduced myself, he took me by the shoulder, and turned my -face round to the light, and said, after a sharp scrutiny:-- - -“But Madam Mina told me you were ill, that you had had a shock.” It was -so funny to hear my wife called “Madam Mina” by this kindly, -strong-faced old man. I smiled, and said:-- - -“I _was_ ill, I _have_ had a shock; but you have cured me already.” - -“And how?” - -“By your letter to Mina last night. I was in doubt, and then everything -took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the -evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know -what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been -the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted -myself. Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even -yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.” He -seemed pleased, and laughed as he said:-- - -“So! You are physiognomist. I learn more here with each hour. I am with -so much pleasure coming to you to breakfast; and, oh, sir, you will -pardon praise from an old man, but you are blessed in your wife.” I -would listen to him go on praising Mina for a day, so I simply nodded -and stood silent. - -“She is one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and -other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its -light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an -egoist--and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and -selfish. And you, sir--I have read all the letters to poor Miss Lucy, -and some of them speak of you, so I know you since some days from the -knowing of others; but I have seen your true self since last night. You -will give me your hand, will you not? And let us be friends for all our -lives.” - -We shook hands, and he was so earnest and so kind that it made me quite -choky. - -“And now,” he said, “may I ask you for some more help? I have a great -task to do, and at the beginning it is to know. You can help me here. -Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania? Later on I -may ask more help, and of a different kind; but at first this will do.” - -“Look here, sir,” I said, “does what you have to do concern the Count?” - -“It does,” he said solemnly. - -“Then I am with you heart and soul. As you go by the 10:30 train, you -will not have time to read them; but I shall get the bundle of papers. -You can take them with you and read them in the train.” - -After breakfast I saw him to the station. When we were parting he -said:-- - -“Perhaps you will come to town if I send to you, and take Madam Mina -too.” - -“We shall both come when you will,” I said. - -I had got him the morning papers and the London papers of the previous -night, and while we were talking at the carriage window, waiting for the -train to start, he was turning them over. His eyes suddenly seemed to -catch something in one of them, “The Westminster Gazette”--I knew it by -the colour--and he grew quite white. He read something intently, -groaning to himself: “Mein Gott! Mein Gott! So soon! so soon!” I do not -think he remembered me at the moment. Just then the whistle blew, and -the train moved off. This recalled him to himself, and he leaned out of -the window and waved his hand, calling out: “Love to Madam Mina; I shall -write so soon as ever I can.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_26 September._--Truly there is no such thing as finality. Not a week -since I said “Finis,” and yet here I am starting fresh again, or rather -going on with the same record. Until this afternoon I had no cause to -think of what is done. Renfield had become, to all intents, as sane as -he ever was. He was already well ahead with his fly business; and he had -just started in the spider line also; so he had not been of any trouble -to me. I had a letter from Arthur, written on Sunday, and from it I -gather that he is bearing up wonderfully well. Quincey Morris is with -him, and that is much of a help, for he himself is a bubbling well of -good spirits. Quincey wrote me a line too, and from him I hear that -Arthur is beginning to recover something of his old buoyancy; so as to -them all my mind is at rest. As for myself, I was settling down to my -work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might -fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming -cicatrised. Everything is, however, now reopened; and what is to be the -end God only knows. I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows, -too, but he will only let out enough at a time to whet curiosity. He -went to Exeter yesterday, and stayed there all night. To-day he came -back, and almost bounded into the room at about half-past five o’clock, -and thrust last night’s “Westminster Gazette” into my hand. - -“What do you think of that?” he asked as he stood back and folded his -arms. - -I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant; but he -took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed -away at Hampstead. It did not convey much to me, until I reached a -passage where it described small punctured wounds on their throats. An -idea struck me, and I looked up. “Well?” he said. - -“It is like poor Lucy’s.” - -“And what do you make of it?” - -“Simply that there is some cause in common. Whatever it was that injured -her has injured them.” I did not quite understand his answer:-- - -“That is true indirectly, but not directly.” - -“How do you mean, Professor?” I asked. I was a little inclined to take -his seriousness lightly--for, after all, four days of rest and freedom -from burning, harrowing anxiety does help to restore one’s spirits--but -when I saw his face, it sobered me. Never, even in the midst of our -despair about poor Lucy, had he looked more stern. - -“Tell me!” I said. “I can hazard no opinion. I do not know what to -think, and I have no data on which to found a conjecture.” - -“Do you mean to tell me, friend John, that you have no suspicion as to -what poor Lucy died of; not after all the hints given, not only by -events, but by me?” - -“Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.” - -“And how the blood lost or waste?” I shook my head. He stepped over and -sat down beside me, and went on:-- - -“You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; -but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears -hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to -you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, -and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But -there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men’s -eyes, because they know--or think they know--some things which other men -have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to -explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to -explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, -which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend -to be young--like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not -believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor -in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in -hypnotism----” - -“Yes,” I said. “Charcot has proved that pretty well.” He smiled as he -went on: “Then you are satisfied as to it. Yes? And of course then you -understand how it act, and can follow the mind of the great -Charcot--alas that he is no more!--into the very soul of the patient -that he influence. No? Then, friend John, am I to take it that you -simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion -be a blank? No? Then tell me--for I am student of the brain--how you -accept the hypnotism and reject the thought reading. Let me tell you, my -friend, that there are things done to-day in electrical science which -would have been deemed unholy by the very men who discovered -electricity--who would themselves not so long before have been burned -as wizards. There are always mysteries in life. Why was it that -Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and ‘Old Parr’ one hundred and -sixty-nine, and yet that poor Lucy, with four men’s blood in her poor -veins, could not live even one day? For, had she live one more day, we -could have save her. Do you know all the mystery of life and death? Do -you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the -qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others? Can you tell me -why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived -for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, -till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps? Can -you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that -come at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their -veins; how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang -on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant -nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that -it is hot, flit down on them, and then--and then in the morning are -found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?” - -“Good God, Professor!” I said, starting up. “Do you mean to tell me that -Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London -in the nineteenth century?” He waved his hand for silence, and went -on:-- - -“Can you tell me why the tortoise lives more long than generations of -men; why the elephant goes on and on till he have seen dynasties; and -why the parrot never die only of bite of cat or dog or other complaint? -Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are -some few who live on always if they be permit; that there are men and -women who cannot die? We all know--because science has vouched for the -fact--that there have been toads shut up in rocks for thousands of -years, shut in one so small hole that only hold him since the youth of -the world. Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die -and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the -corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men -come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian -fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?” Here -I interrupted him. I was getting bewildered; he so crowded on my mind -his list of nature’s eccentricities and possible impossibilities that my -imagination was getting fired. I had a dim idea that he was teaching me -some lesson, as long ago he used to do in his study at Amsterdam; but -he used then to tell me the thing, so that I could have the object of -thought in mind all the time. But now I was without this help, yet I -wanted to follow him, so I said:-- - -“Professor, let me be your pet student again. Tell me the thesis, so -that I may apply your knowledge as you go on. At present I am going in -my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an -idea. I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a mist, jumping -from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without -knowing where I am going.” - -“That is good image,” he said. “Well, I shall tell you. My thesis is -this: I want you to believe.” - -“To believe what?” - -“To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once -of an American who so defined faith: ‘that faculty which enables us to -believe things which we know to be untrue.’ For one, I follow that man. -He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of -truth check the rush of a big truth, like a small rock does a railway -truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value -him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in -the universe.” - -“Then you want me not to let some previous conviction injure the -receptivity of my mind with regard to some strange matter. Do I read -your lesson aright?” - -“Ah, you are my favourite pupil still. It is worth to teach you. Now -that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to -understand. You think then that those so small holes in the children’s -throats were made by the same that made the hole in Miss Lucy?” - -“I suppose so.” He stood up and said solemnly:-- - -“Then you are wrong. Oh, would it were so! but alas! no. It is worse, -far, far worse.” - -“In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?” I cried. - -He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his -elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke:-- - -“They were made by Miss Lucy!” - - - - -CHAPTER XV - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_. - - -For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life -struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to -him:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?” He raised his head and looked at me, and -somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. “Would I were!” he -said. “Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this. Oh, my -friend, why, think you, did I go so far round, why take so long to tell -you so simple a thing? Was it because I hate you and have hated you all -my life? Was it because I wished to give you pain? Was it that I wanted, -now so late, revenge for that time when you saved my life, and from a -fearful death? Ah no!” - -“Forgive me,” said I. He went on:-- - -“My friend, it was because I wished to be gentle in the breaking to you, -for I know you have loved that so sweet lady. But even yet I do not -expect you to believe. It is so hard to accept at once any abstract -truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we have always -believed the ‘no’ of it; it is more hard still to accept so sad a -concrete truth, and of such a one as Miss Lucy. To-night I go to prove -it. Dare you come with me?” - -This staggered me. A man does not like to prove such a truth; Byron -excepted from the category, jealousy. - - “And prove the very truth he most abhorred.” - -He saw my hesitation, and spoke:-- - -“The logic is simple, no madman’s logic this time, jumping from tussock -to tussock in a misty bog. If it be not true, then proof will be relief; -at worst it will not harm. If it be true! Ah, there is the dread; yet -very dread should help my cause, for in it is some need of belief. Come, -I tell you what I propose: first, that we go off now and see that child -in the hospital. Dr. Vincent, of the North Hospital, where the papers -say the child is, is friend of mine, and I think of yours since you were -in class at Amsterdam. He will let two scientists see his case, if he -will not let two friends. We shall tell him nothing, but only that we -wish to learn. And then----” - -“And then?” He took a key from his pocket and held it up. “And then we -spend the night, you and I, in the churchyard where Lucy lies. This is -the key that lock the tomb. I had it from the coffin-man to give to -Arthur.” My heart sank within me, for I felt that there was some fearful -ordeal before us. I could do nothing, however, so I plucked up what -heart I could and said that we had better hasten, as the afternoon was -passing.... - -We found the child awake. It had had a sleep and taken some food, and -altogether was going on well. Dr. Vincent took the bandage from its -throat, and showed us the punctures. There was no mistaking the -similarity to those which had been on Lucy’s throat. They were smaller, -and the edges looked fresher; that was all. We asked Vincent to what he -attributed them, and he replied that it must have been a bite of some -animal, perhaps a rat; but, for his own part, he was inclined to think -that it was one of the bats which are so numerous on the northern -heights of London. “Out of so many harmless ones,” he said, “there may -be some wild specimen from the South of a more malignant species. Some -sailor may have brought one home, and it managed to escape; or even from -the Zoölogical Gardens a young one may have got loose, or one be bred -there from a vampire. These things do occur, you know. Only ten days ago -a wolf got out, and was, I believe, traced up in this direction. For a -week after, the children were playing nothing but Red Riding Hood on the -Heath and in every alley in the place until this ‘bloofer lady’ scare -came along, since when it has been quite a gala-time with them. Even -this poor little mite, when he woke up to-day, asked the nurse if he -might go away. When she asked him why he wanted to go, he said he wanted -to play with the ‘bloofer lady.’” - -“I hope,” said Van Helsing, “that when you are sending the child home -you will caution its parents to keep strict watch over it. These fancies -to stray are most dangerous; and if the child were to remain out another -night, it would probably be fatal. But in any case I suppose you will -not let it away for some days?” - -“Certainly not, not for a week at least; longer if the wound is not -healed.” - -Our visit to the hospital took more time than we had reckoned on, and -the sun had dipped before we came out. When Van Helsing saw how dark it -was, he said:-- - -“There is no hurry. It is more late than I thought. Come, let us seek -somewhere that we may eat, and then we shall go on our way.” - -We dined at “Jack Straw’s Castle” along with a little crowd of -bicyclists and others who were genially noisy. About ten o’clock we -started from the inn. It was then very dark, and the scattered lamps -made the darkness greater when we were once outside their individual -radius. The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he -went on unhesitatingly; but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as to -locality. As we went further, we met fewer and fewer people, till at -last we were somewhat surprised when we met even the patrol of horse -police going their usual suburban round. At last we reached the wall of -the churchyard, which we climbed over. With some little difficulty--for -it was very dark, and the whole place seemed so strange to us--we found -the Westenra tomb. The Professor took the key, opened the creaky door, -and standing back, politely, but quite unconsciously, motioned me to -precede him. There was a delicious irony in the offer, in the -courtliness of giving preference on such a ghastly occasion. My -companion followed me quickly, and cautiously drew the door to, after -carefully ascertaining that the lock was a falling, and not a spring, -one. In the latter case we should have been in a bad plight. Then he -fumbled in his bag, and taking out a matchbox and a piece of candle, -proceeded to make a light. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed -with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some -days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites -turning to rust and their greens to browns; when the spider and the -beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance; when time-discoloured -stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished -brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a -candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been -imagined. It conveyed irresistibly the idea that life--animal life--was -not the only thing which could pass away. - -Van Helsing went about his work systematically. Holding his candle so -that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm -dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he -made assurance of Lucy’s coffin. Another search in his bag, and he took -out a turnscrew. - -“What are you going to do?” I asked. - -“To open the coffin. You shall yet be convinced.” Straightway he began -taking out the screws, and finally lifted off the lid, showing the -casing of lead beneath. The sight was almost too much for me. It seemed -to be as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have -stripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst living; I actually took -hold of his hand to stop him. He only said: “You shall see,” and again -fumbling in his bag, took out a tiny fret-saw. Striking the turnscrew -through the lead with a swift downward stab, which made me wince, he -made a small hole, which was, however, big enough to admit the point of -the saw. I had expected a rush of gas from the week-old corpse. We -doctors, who have had to study our dangers, have to become accustomed to -such things, and I drew back towards the door. But the Professor never -stopped for a moment; he sawed down a couple of feet along one side of -the lead coffin, and then across, and down the other side. Taking the -edge of the loose flange, he bent it back towards the foot of the -coffin, and holding up the candle into the aperture, motioned to me to -look. - -I drew near and looked. The coffin was empty. - -It was certainly a surprise to me, and gave me a considerable shock, but -Van Helsing was unmoved. He was now more sure than ever of his ground, -and so emboldened to proceed in his task. “Are you satisfied now, friend -John?” he asked. - -I felt all the dogged argumentativeness of my nature awake within me as -I answered him:-- - -“I am satisfied that Lucy’s body is not in that coffin; but that only -proves one thing.” - -“And what is that, friend John?” - -“That it is not there.” - -“That is good logic,” he said, “so far as it goes. But how do you--how -can you--account for it not being there?” - -“Perhaps a body-snatcher,” I suggested. “Some of the undertaker’s people -may have stolen it.” I felt that I was speaking folly, and yet it was -the only real cause which I could suggest. The Professor sighed. “Ah -well!” he said, “we must have more proof. Come with me.” - -He put on the coffin-lid again, gathered up all his things and placed -them in the bag, blew out the light, and placed the candle also in the -bag. We opened the door, and went out. Behind us he closed the door and -locked it. He handed me the key, saying: “Will you keep it? You had -better be assured.” I laughed--it was not a very cheerful laugh, I am -bound to say--as I motioned him to keep it. “A key is nothing,” I said; -“there may be duplicates; and anyhow it is not difficult to pick a lock -of that kind.” He said nothing, but put the key in his pocket. Then he -told me to watch at one side of the churchyard whilst he would watch at -the other. I took up my place behind a yew-tree, and I saw his dark -figure move until the intervening headstones and trees hid it from my -sight. - -It was a lonely vigil. Just after I had taken my place I heard a distant -clock strike twelve, and in time came one and two. I was chilled and -unnerved, and angry with the Professor for taking me on such an errand -and with myself for coming. I was too cold and too sleepy to be keenly -observant, and not sleepy enough to betray my trust so altogether I had -a dreary, miserable time. - -Suddenly, as I turned round, I thought I saw something like a white -streak, moving between two dark yew-trees at the side of the churchyard -farthest from the tomb; at the same time a dark mass moved from the -Professor’s side of the ground, and hurriedly went towards it. Then I -too moved; but I had to go round headstones and railed-off tombs, and I -stumbled over graves. The sky was overcast, and somewhere far off an -early cock crew. A little way off, beyond a line of scattered -juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim -figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. The tomb itself was hidden -by trees, and I could not see where the figure disappeared. I heard the -rustle of actual movement where I had first seen the white figure, and -coming over, found the Professor holding in his arms a tiny child. When -he saw me he held it out to me, and said:-- - -“Are you satisfied now?” - -“No,” I said, in a way that I felt was aggressive. - -“Do you not see the child?” - -“Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it wounded?” I -asked. - -“We shall see,” said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our way -out of the churchyard, he carrying the sleeping child. - -When we had got some little distance away, we went into a clump of -trees, and struck a match, and looked at the child’s throat. It was -without a scratch or scar of any kind. - -“Was I right?” I asked triumphantly. - -“We were just in time,” said the Professor thankfully. - -We had now to decide what we were to do with the child, and so consulted -about it. If we were to take it to a police-station we should have to -give some account of our movements during the night; at least, we should -have had to make some statement as to how we had come to find the child. -So finally we decided that we would take it to the Heath, and when we -heard a policeman coming, would leave it where he could not fail to find -it; we would then seek our way home as quickly as we could. All fell out -well. At the edge of Hampstead Heath we heard a policeman’s heavy -tramp, and laying the child on the pathway, we waited and watched until -he saw it as he flashed his lantern to and fro. We heard his exclamation -of astonishment, and then we went away silently. By good chance we got a -cab near the “Spaniards,” and drove to town. - -I cannot sleep, so I make this entry. But I must try to get a few hours’ -sleep, as Van Helsing is to call for me at noon. He insists that I shall -go with him on another expedition. - - * * * * * - -_27 September._--It was two o’clock before we found a suitable -opportunity for our attempt. The funeral held at noon was all completed, -and the last stragglers of the mourners had taken themselves lazily -away, when, looking carefully from behind a clump of alder-trees, we saw -the sexton lock the gate after him. We knew then that we were safe till -morning did we desire it; but the Professor told me that we should not -want more than an hour at most. Again I felt that horrid sense of the -reality of things, in which any effort of imagination seemed out of -place; and I realised distinctly the perils of the law which we were -incurring in our unhallowed work. Besides, I felt it was all so useless. -Outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead -nearly a week were really dead, it now seemed the height of folly to -open the tomb again, when we knew, from the evidence of our own -eyesight, that the coffin was empty. I shrugged my shoulders, however, -and rested silent, for Van Helsing had a way of going on his own road, -no matter who remonstrated. He took the key, opened the vault, and again -courteously motioned me to precede. The place was not so gruesome as -last night, but oh, how unutterably mean-looking when the sunshine -streamed in. Van Helsing walked over to Lucy’s coffin, and I followed. -He bent over and again forced back the leaden flange; and then a shock -of surprise and dismay shot through me. - -There lay Lucy, seemingly just as we had seen her the night before her -funeral. She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever; and I -could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than -before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom. - -“Is this a juggle?” I said to him. - -“Are you convinced now?” said the Professor in response, and as he spoke -he put over his hand, and in a way that made me shudder, pulled back the -dead lips and showed the white teeth. - -“See,” he went on, “see, they are even sharper than before. With this -and this”--and he touched one of the canine teeth and that below -it--“the little children can be bitten. Are you of belief now, friend -John?” Once more, argumentative hostility woke within me. I _could_ not -accept such an overwhelming idea as he suggested; so, with an attempt to -argue of which I was even at the moment ashamed, I said:-- - -“She may have been placed here since last night.” - -“Indeed? That is so, and by whom?” - -“I do not know. Some one has done it.” - -“And yet she has been dead one week. Most peoples in that time would not -look so.” I had no answer for this, so was silent. Van Helsing did not -seem to notice my silence; at any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor -triumph. He was looking intently at the face of the dead woman, raising -the eyelids and looking at the eyes, and once more opening the lips and -examining the teeth. Then he turned to me and said:-- - -“Here, there is one thing which is different from all recorded; here is -some dual life that is not as the common. She was bitten by the vampire -when she was in a trance, sleep-walking--oh, you start; you do not know -that, friend John, but you shall know it all later--and in trance could -he best come to take more blood. In trance she died, and in trance she -is Un-Dead, too. So it is that she differ from all other. Usually when -the Un-Dead sleep at home”--as he spoke he made a comprehensive sweep of -his arm to designate what to a vampire was “home”--“their face show what -they are, but this so sweet that was when she not Un-Dead she go back to -the nothings of the common dead. There is no malign there, see, and so -it make hard that I must kill her in her sleep.” This turned my blood -cold, and it began to dawn upon me that I was accepting Van Helsing’s -theories; but if she were really dead, what was there of terror in the -idea of killing her? He looked up at me, and evidently saw the change in -my face, for he said almost joyously:-- - -“Ah, you believe now?” - -I answered: “Do not press me too hard all at once. I am willing to -accept. How will you do this bloody work?” - -“I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall -drive a stake through her body.” It made me shudder to think of so -mutilating the body of the woman whom I had loved. And yet the feeling -was not so strong as I had expected. I was, in fact, beginning to -shudder at the presence of this being, this Un-Dead, as Van Helsing -called it, and to loathe it. Is it possible that love is all subjective, -or all objective? - -I waited a considerable time for Van Helsing to begin, but he stood as -if wrapped in thought. Presently he closed the catch of his bag with a -snap, and said:-- - -“I have been thinking, and have made up my mind as to what is best. If I -did simply follow my inclining I would do now, at this moment, what is -to be done; but there are other things to follow, and things that are -thousand times more difficult in that them we do not know. This is -simple. She have yet no life taken, though that is of time; and to act -now would be to take danger from her for ever. But then we may have to -want Arthur, and how shall we tell him of this? If you, who saw the -wounds on Lucy’s throat, and saw the wounds so similar on the child’s at -the hospital; if you, who saw the coffin empty last night and full -to-day with a woman who have not change only to be more rose and more -beautiful in a whole week, after she die--if you know of this and know -of the white figure last night that brought the child to the churchyard, -and yet of your own senses you did not believe, how, then, can I expect -Arthur, who know none of those things, to believe? He doubted me when I -took him from her kiss when she was dying. I know he has forgiven me -because in some mistaken idea I have done things that prevent him say -good-bye as he ought; and he may think that in some more mistaken idea -this woman was buried alive; and that in most mistake of all we have -killed her. He will then argue back that it is we, mistaken ones, that -have killed her by our ideas; and so he will be much unhappy always. Yet -he never can be sure; and that is the worst of all. And he will -sometimes think that she he loved was buried alive, and that will paint -his dreams with horrors of what she must have suffered; and again, he -will think that we may be right, and that his so beloved was, after all, -an Un-Dead. No! I told him once, and since then I learn much. Now, since -I know it is all true, a hundred thousand times more do I know that he -must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet. He, poor fellow, -must have one hour that will make the very face of heaven grow black to -him; then we can act for good all round and send him peace. My mind is -made up. Let us go. You return home for to-night to your asylum, and see -that all be well. As for me, I shall spend the night here in this -churchyard in my own way. To-morrow night you will come to me to the -Berkeley Hotel at ten of the clock. I shall send for Arthur to come too, -and also that so fine young man of America that gave his blood. Later we -shall all have work to do. I come with you so far as Piccadilly and -there dine, for I must be back here before the sun set.” - -So we locked the tomb and came away, and got over the wall of the -churchyard, which was not much of a task, and drove back to Piccadilly. - - -_Note left by Van Helsing in his portmanteau, Berkeley Hotel directed to -John Seward, M. D._ - -(Not delivered.) - -“_27 September._ - -“Friend John,-- - -“I write this in case anything should happen. I go alone to watch in -that churchyard. It pleases me that the Un-Dead, Miss Lucy, shall not -leave to-night, that so on the morrow night she may be more eager. -Therefore I shall fix some things she like not--garlic and a -crucifix--and so seal up the door of the tomb. She is young as Un-Dead, -and will heed. Moreover, these are only to prevent her coming out; they -may not prevail on her wanting to get in; for then the Un-Dead is -desperate, and must find the line of least resistance, whatsoever it may -be. I shall be at hand all the night from sunset till after the sunrise, -and if there be aught that may be learned I shall learn it. For Miss -Lucy or from her, I have no fear; but that other to whom is there that -she is Un-Dead, he have now the power to seek her tomb and find shelter. -He is cunning, as I know from Mr. Jonathan and from the way that all -along he have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy’s life, and -we lost; and in many ways the Un-Dead are strong. He have always the -strength in his hand of twenty men; even we four who gave our strength -to Miss Lucy it also is all to him. Besides, he can summon his wolf and -I know not what. So if it be that he come thither on this night he shall -find me; but none other shall--until it be too late. But it may be that -he will not attempt the place. There is no reason why he should; his -hunting ground is more full of game than the churchyard where the -Un-Dead woman sleep, and the one old man watch. - -“Therefore I write this in case.... Take the papers that are with this, -the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find this -great Un-Dead, and cut off his head and burn his heart or drive a stake -through it, so that the world may rest from him. - -“If it be so, farewell. - -“VAN HELSING.” - - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_28 September._--It is wonderful what a good night’s sleep will do for -one. Yesterday I was almost willing to accept Van Helsing’s monstrous -ideas; but now they seem to start out lurid before me as outrages on -common sense. I have no doubt that he believes it all. I wonder if his -mind can have become in any way unhinged. Surely there must be _some_ -rational explanation of all these mysterious things. Is it possible that -the Professor can have done it himself? He is so abnormally clever that -if he went off his head he would carry out his intent with regard to -some fixed idea in a wonderful way. I am loath to think it, and indeed -it would be almost as great a marvel as the other to find that Van -Helsing was mad; but anyhow I shall watch him carefully. I may get some -light on the mystery. - - * * * * * - -_29 September, morning._.... Last night, at a little before ten o’clock, -Arthur and Quincey came into Van Helsing’s room; he told us all that he -wanted us to do, but especially addressing himself to Arthur, as if all -our wills were centred in his. He began by saying that he hoped we would -all come with him too, “for,” he said, “there is a grave duty to be done -there. You were doubtless surprised at my letter?” This query was -directly addressed to Lord Godalming. - -“I was. It rather upset me for a bit. There has been so much trouble -around my house of late that I could do without any more. I have been -curious, too, as to what you mean. Quincey and I talked it over; but the -more we talked, the more puzzled we got, till now I can say for myself -that I’m about up a tree as to any meaning about anything.” - -“Me too,” said Quincey Morris laconically. - -“Oh,” said the Professor, “then you are nearer the beginning, both of -you, than friend John here, who has to go a long way back before he can -even get so far as to begin.” - -It was evident that he recognised my return to my old doubting frame of -mind without my saying a word. Then, turning to the other two, he said -with intense gravity:-- - -“I want your permission to do what I think good this night. It is, I -know, much to ask; and when you know what it is I propose to do you will -know, and only then, how much. Therefore may I ask that you promise me -in the dark, so that afterwards, though you may be angry with me for a -time--I must not disguise from myself the possibility that such may -be--you shall not blame yourselves for anything.” - -“That’s frank anyhow,” broke in Quincey. “I’ll answer for the Professor. -I don’t quite see his drift, but I swear he’s honest; and that’s good -enough for me.” - -“I thank you, sir,” said Van Helsing proudly. “I have done myself the -honour of counting you one trusting friend, and such endorsement is dear -to me.” He held out a hand, which Quincey took. - -Then Arthur spoke out:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, I don’t quite like to ‘buy a pig in a poke,’ as they -say in Scotland, and if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman -or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise. -If you can assure me that what you intend does not violate either of -these two, then I give my consent at once; though for the life of me, I -cannot understand what you are driving at.” - -“I accept your limitation,” said Van Helsing, “and all I ask of you is -that if you feel it necessary to condemn any act of mine, you will first -consider it well and be satisfied that it does not violate your -reservations.” - -“Agreed!” said Arthur; “that is only fair. And now that the -_pourparlers_ are over, may I ask what it is we are to do?” - -“I want you to come with me, and to come in secret, to the churchyard at -Kingstead.” - -Arthur’s face fell as he said in an amazed sort of way:-- - -“Where poor Lucy is buried?” The Professor bowed. Arthur went on: “And -when there?” - -“To enter the tomb!” Arthur stood up. - -“Professor, are you in earnest; or it is some monstrous joke? Pardon me, -I see that you are in earnest.” He sat down again, but I could see that -he sat firmly and proudly, as one who is on his dignity. There was -silence until he asked again:-- - -“And when in the tomb?” - -“To open the coffin.” - -“This is too much!” he said, angrily rising again. “I am willing to be -patient in all things that are reasonable; but in this--this desecration -of the grave--of one who----” He fairly choked with indignation. The -Professor looked pityingly at him. - -“If I could spare you one pang, my poor friend,” he said, “God knows I -would. But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths; or later, and -for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!” - -Arthur looked up with set white face and said:-- - -“Take care, sir, take care!” - -“Would it not be well to hear what I have to say?” said Van Helsing. -“And then you will at least know the limit of my purpose. Shall I go -on?” - -“That’s fair enough,” broke in Morris. - -After a pause Van Helsing went on, evidently with an effort:-- - -“Miss Lucy is dead; is it not so? Yes! Then there can be no wrong to -her. But if she be not dead----” - -Arthur jumped to his feet. - -“Good God!” he cried. “What do you mean? Has there been any mistake; has -she been buried alive?” He groaned in anguish that not even hope could -soften. - -“I did not say she was alive, my child; I did not think it. I go no -further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.” - -“Un-Dead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a nightmare, or what -is it?” - -“There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they -may solve only in part. Believe me, we are now on the verge of one. But -I have not done. May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?” - -“Heavens and earth, no!” cried Arthur in a storm of passion. “Not for -the wide world will I consent to any mutilation of her dead body. Dr. -Van Helsing, you try me too far. What have I done to you that you should -torture me so? What did that poor, sweet girl do that you should want to -cast such dishonour on her grave? Are you mad to speak such things, or -am I mad to listen to them? Don’t dare to think more of such a -desecration; I shall not give my consent to anything you do. I have a -duty to do in protecting her grave from outrage; and, by God, I shall do -it!” - -Van Helsing rose up from where he had all the time been seated, and -said, gravely and sternly:-- - -“My Lord Godalming, I, too, have a duty to do, a duty to others, a duty -to you, a duty to the dead; and, by God, I shall do it! All I ask you -now is that you come with me, that you look and listen; and if when -later I make the same request you do not be more eager for its -fulfilment even than I am, then--then I shall do my duty, whatever it -may seem to me. And then, to follow of your Lordship’s wishes I shall -hold myself at your disposal to render an account to you, when and where -you will.” His voice broke a little, and he went on with a voice full of -pity:-- - -“But, I beseech you, do not go forth in anger with me. In a long life of -acts which were often not pleasant to do, and which sometimes did wring -my heart, I have never had so heavy a task as now. Believe me that if -the time comes for you to change your mind towards me, one look from -you will wipe away all this so sad hour, for I would do what a man can -to save you from sorrow. Just think. For why should I give myself so -much of labour and so much of sorrow? I have come here from my own land -to do what I can of good; at the first to please my friend John, and -then to help a sweet young lady, whom, too, I came to love. For her--I -am ashamed to say so much, but I say it in kindness--I gave what you -gave; the blood of my veins; I gave it, I, who was not, like you, her -lover, but only her physician and her friend. I gave to her my nights -and days--before death, after death; and if my death can do her good -even now, when she is the dead Un-Dead, she shall have it freely.” He -said this with a very grave, sweet pride, and Arthur was much affected -by it. He took the old man’s hand and said in a broken voice:-- - -“Oh, it is hard to think of it, and I cannot understand; but at least I -shall go with you and wait.” - - - - -CHAPTER XVI - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ - - -It was just a quarter before twelve o’clock when we got into the -churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams -of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across -the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly -in front as he led the way. When we had come close to the tomb I looked -well at Arthur, for I feared that the proximity to a place laden with so -sorrowful a memory would upset him; but he bore himself well. I took it -that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some way a counteractant -to his grief. The Professor unlocked the door, and seeing a natural -hesitation amongst us for various reasons, solved the difficulty by -entering first himself. The rest of us followed, and he closed the door. -He then lit a dark lantern and pointed to the coffin. Arthur stepped -forward hesitatingly; Van Helsing said to me:-- - -“You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that -coffin?” - -“It was.” The Professor turned to the rest saying:-- - -“You hear; and yet there is no one who does not believe with me.” He -took his screwdriver and again took off the lid of the coffin. Arthur -looked on, very pale but silent; when the lid was removed he stepped -forward. He evidently did not know that there was a leaden coffin, or, -at any rate, had not thought of it. When he saw the rent in the lead, -the blood rushed to his face for an instant, but as quickly fell away -again, so that he remained of a ghastly whiteness; he was still silent. -Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and we all looked in and -recoiled. - -The coffin was empty! - -For several minutes no one spoke a word. The silence was broken by -Quincey Morris:-- - -“Professor, I answered for you. Your word is all I want. I wouldn’t ask -such a thing ordinarily--I wouldn’t so dishonour you as to imply a -doubt; but this is a mystery that goes beyond any honour or dishonour. -Is this your doing?” - -“I swear to you by all that I hold sacred that I have not removed nor -touched her. What happened was this: Two nights ago my friend Seward and -I came here--with good purpose, believe me. I opened that coffin, which -was then sealed up, and we found it, as now, empty. We then waited, and -saw something white come through the trees. The next day we came here in -day-time, and she lay there. Did she not, friend John?” - -“Yes.” - -“That night we were just in time. One more so small child was missing, -and we find it, thank God, unharmed amongst the graves. Yesterday I came -here before sundown, for at sundown the Un-Dead can move. I waited here -all the night till the sun rose, but I saw nothing. It was most probable -that it was because I had laid over the clamps of those doors garlic, -which the Un-Dead cannot bear, and other things which they shun. Last -night there was no exodus, so to-night before the sundown I took away my -garlic and other things. And so it is we find this coffin empty. But -bear with me. So far there is much that is strange. Wait you with me -outside, unseen and unheard, and things much stranger are yet to be. -So”--here he shut the dark slide of his lantern--“now to the outside.” -He opened the door, and we filed out, he coming last and locking the -door behind him. - -Oh! but it seemed fresh and pure in the night air after the terror of -that vault. How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing -gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and -passing--like the gladness and sorrow of a man’s life; how sweet it was -to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how -humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to -hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city. Each -in his own way was solemn and overcome. Arthur was silent, and was, I -could see, striving to grasp the purpose and the inner meaning of the -mystery. I was myself tolerably patient, and half inclined again to -throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing’s conclusions. Quincey -Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and -accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has to -stake. Not being able to smoke, he cut himself a good-sized plug of -tobacco and began to chew. As to Van Helsing, he was employed in a -definite way. First he took from his bag a mass of what looked like -thin, wafer-like biscuit, which was carefully rolled up in a white -napkin; next he took out a double-handful of some whitish stuff, like -dough or putty. He crumbled the wafer up fine and worked it into the -mass between his hands. This he then took, and rolling it into thin -strips, began to lay them into the crevices between the door and its -setting in the tomb. I was somewhat puzzled at this, and being close, -asked him what it was that he was doing. Arthur and Quincey drew near -also, as they too were curious. He answered:-- - -“I am closing the tomb, so that the Un-Dead may not enter.” - -“And is that stuff you have put there going to do it?” asked Quincey. -“Great Scott! Is this a game?” - -“It is.” - -“What is that which you are using?” This time the question was by -Arthur. Van Helsing reverently lifted his hat as he answered:-- - -“The Host. I brought it from Amsterdam. I have an Indulgence.” It was an -answer that appalled the most sceptical of us, and we felt individually -that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the Professor’s, a -purpose which could thus use the to him most sacred of things, it was -impossible to distrust. In respectful silence we took the places -assigned to us close round the tomb, but hidden from the sight of any -one approaching. I pitied the others, especially Arthur. I had myself -been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, -who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink -within me. Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or -yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree -or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so -mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a -woeful presage through the night. - -There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the -Professor a keen “S-s-s-s!” He pointed; and far down the avenue of yews -we saw a white figure advance--a dim white figure, which held something -dark at its breast. The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of -moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds and showed in startling -prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. -We could not see the face, for it was bent down over what we saw to be a -fair-haired child. There was a pause and a sharp little cry, such as a -child gives in sleep, or a dog as it lies before the fire and dreams. We -were starting forward, but the Professor’s warning hand, seen by us as -he stood behind a yew-tree, kept us back; and then as we looked the -white figure moved forwards again. It was now near enough for us to see -clearly, and the moonlight still held. My own heart grew cold as ice, -and I could hear the gasp of Arthur, as we recognised the features of -Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was -turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous -wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gesture, we -all advanced too; the four of us ranged in a line before the door of the -tomb. Van Helsing raised his lantern and drew the slide; by the -concentrated light that fell on Lucy’s face we could see that the lips -were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her -chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe. - -We shuddered with horror. I could see by the tremulous light that even -Van Helsing’s iron nerve had failed. Arthur was next to me, and if I had -not seized his arm and held him up, he would have fallen. - -When Lucy--I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her -shape--saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives -when taken unawares; then her eyes ranged over us. Lucy’s eyes in form -and colour; but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of -the pure, gentle orbs we knew. At that moment the remnant of my love -passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have -done it with savage delight. As she looked, her eyes blazed with unholy -light, and the face became wreathed with a voluptuous smile. Oh, God, -how it made me shudder to see it! With a careless motion, she flung to -the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had -clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls -over a bone. The child gave a sharp cry, and lay there moaning. There -was a cold-bloodedness in the act which wrung a groan from Arthur; when -she advanced to him with outstretched arms and a wanton smile he fell -back and hid his face in his hands. - -She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, -said:-- - -“Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are -hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!” - -There was something diabolically sweet in her tones--something of the -tingling of glass when struck--which rang through the brains even of us -who heard the words addressed to another. As for Arthur, he seemed under -a spell; moving his hands from his face, he opened wide his arms. She -was leaping for them, when Van Helsing sprang forward and held between -them his little golden crucifix. She recoiled from it, and, with a -suddenly distorted face, full of rage, dashed past him as if to enter -the tomb. - -When within a foot or two of the door, however, she stopped, as if -arrested by some irresistible force. Then she turned, and her face was -shown in the clear burst of moonlight and by the lamp, which had now no -quiver from Van Helsing’s iron nerves. Never did I see such baffled -malice on a face; and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by -mortal eyes. The beautiful colour became livid, the eyes seemed to throw -out sparks of hell-fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the folds of -the flesh were the coils of Medusa’s snakes, and the lovely, -blood-stained mouth grew to an open square, as in the passion masks of -the Greeks and Japanese. If ever a face meant death--if looks could -kill--we saw it at that moment. - -And so for full half a minute, which seemed an eternity, she remained -between the lifted crucifix and the sacred closing of her means of -entry. Van Helsing broke the silence by asking Arthur:-- - -“Answer me, oh my friend! Am I to proceed in my work?” - -Arthur threw himself on his knees, and hid his face in his hands, as he -answered:-- - -“Do as you will, friend; do as you will. There can be no horror like -this ever any more;” and he groaned in spirit. Quincey and I -simultaneously moved towards him, and took his arms. We could hear the -click of the closing lantern as Van Helsing held it down; coming close -to the tomb, he began to remove from the chinks some of the sacred -emblem which he had placed there. We all looked on in horrified -amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal -body as real at that moment as our own, pass in through the interstice -where scarce a knife-blade could have gone. We all felt a glad sense of -relief when we saw the Professor calmly restoring the strings of putty -to the edges of the door. - -When this was done, he lifted the child and said: - -“Come now, my friends; we can do no more till to-morrow. There is a -funeral at noon, so here we shall all come before long after that. The -friends of the dead will all be gone by two, and when the sexton lock -the gate we shall remain. Then there is more to do; but not like this of -to-night. As for this little one, he is not much harm, and by to-morrow -night he shall be well. We shall leave him where the police will find -him, as on the other night; and then to home.” Coming close to Arthur, -he said:-- - -“My friend Arthur, you have had a sore trial; but after, when you look -back, you will see how it was necessary. You are now in the bitter -waters, my child. By this time to-morrow you will, please God, have -passed them, and have drunk of the sweet waters; so do not mourn -overmuch. Till then I shall not ask you to forgive me.” - -Arthur and Quincey came home with me, and we tried to cheer each other -on the way. We had left the child in safety, and were tired; so we all -slept with more or less reality of sleep. - - * * * * * - -_29 September, night._--A little before twelve o’clock we three--Arthur, -Quincey Morris, and myself--called for the Professor. It was odd to -notice that by common consent we had all put on black clothes. Of -course, Arthur wore black, for he was in deep mourning, but the rest of -us wore it by instinct. We got to the churchyard by half-past one, and -strolled about, keeping out of official observation, so that when the -gravediggers had completed their task and the sexton under the belief -that every one had gone, had locked the gate, we had the place all to -ourselves. Van Helsing, instead of his little black bag, had with him a -long leather one, something like a cricketing bag; it was manifestly of -fair weight. - -When we were alone and had heard the last of the footsteps die out up -the road, we silently, and as if by ordered intention, followed the -Professor to the tomb. He unlocked the door, and we entered, closing it -behind us. Then he took from his bag the lantern, which he lit, and also -two wax candles, which, when lighted, he stuck, by melting their own -ends, on other coffins, so that they might give light sufficient to work -by. When he again lifted the lid off Lucy’s coffin we all looked--Arthur -trembling like an aspen--and saw that the body lay there in all its -death-beauty. But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but -loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy’s shape without her -soul. I could see even Arthur’s face grow hard as he looked. Presently -he said to Van Helsing:-- - -“Is this really Lucy’s body, or only a demon in her shape?” - -“It is her body, and yet not it. But wait a while, and you all see her -as she was, and is.” - -She seemed like a nightmare of Lucy as she lay there; the pointed teeth, -the bloodstained, voluptuous mouth--which it made one shudder to -see--the whole carnal and unspiritual appearance, seeming like a -devilish mockery of Lucy’s sweet purity. Van Helsing, with his usual -methodicalness, began taking the various contents from his bag and -placing them ready for use. First he took out a soldering iron and some -plumbing solder, and then a small oil-lamp, which gave out, when lit in -a corner of the tomb, gas which burned at fierce heat with a blue -flame; then his operating knives, which he placed to hand; and last a -round wooden stake, some two and a half or three inches thick and about -three feet long. One end of it was hardened by charring in the fire, and -was sharpened to a fine point. With this stake came a heavy hammer, such -as in households is used in the coal-cellar for breaking the lumps. To -me, a doctor’s preparations for work of any kind are stimulating and -bracing, but the effect of these things on both Arthur and Quincey was -to cause them a sort of consternation. They both, however, kept their -courage, and remained silent and quiet. - -When all was ready, Van Helsing said:-- - -“Before we do anything, let me tell you this; it is out of the lore and -experience of the ancients and of all those who have studied the powers -of the Un-Dead. When they become such, there comes with the change the -curse of immortality; they cannot die, but must go on age after age -adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that -die from the preying of the Un-Dead becomes themselves Un-Dead, and prey -on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the -ripples from a stone thrown in the water. Friend Arthur, if you had met -that kiss which you know of before poor Lucy die; or again, last night -when you open your arms to her, you would in time, when you had died, -have become _nosferatu_, as they call it in Eastern Europe, and would -all time make more of those Un-Deads that so have fill us with horror. -The career of this so unhappy dear lady is but just begun. Those -children whose blood she suck are not as yet so much the worse; but if -she live on, Un-Dead, more and more they lose their blood and by her -power over them they come to her; and so she draw their blood with that -so wicked mouth. But if she die in truth, then all cease; the tiny -wounds of the throats disappear, and they go back to their plays -unknowing ever of what has been. But of the most blessed of all, when -this now Un-Dead be made to rest as true dead, then the soul of the poor -lady whom we love shall again be free. Instead of working wickedness by -night and growing more debased in the assimilating of it by day, she -shall take her place with the other Angels. So that, my friend, it will -be a blessed hand for her that shall strike the blow that sets her free. -To this I am willing; but is there none amongst us who has a better -right? Will it be no joy to think of hereafter in the silence of the -night when sleep is not: ‘It was my hand that sent her to the stars; it -was the hand of him that loved her best; the hand that of all she would -herself have chosen, had it been to her to choose?’ Tell me if there be -such a one amongst us?” - -We all looked at Arthur. He saw, too, what we all did, the infinite -kindness which suggested that his should be the hand which would restore -Lucy to us as a holy, and not an unholy, memory; he stepped forward and -said bravely, though his hand trembled, and his face was as pale as -snow:-- - -“My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me -what I am to do, and I shall not falter!” Van Helsing laid a hand on his -shoulder, and said:-- - -“Brave lad! A moment’s courage, and it is done. This stake must be -driven through her. It will be a fearful ordeal--be not deceived in -that--but it will be only a short time, and you will then rejoice more -than your pain was great; from this grim tomb you will emerge as though -you tread on air. But you must not falter when once you have begun. Only -think that we, your true friends, are round you, and that we pray for -you all the time.” - -“Go on,” said Arthur hoarsely. “Tell me what I am to do.” - -“Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place the point over the -heart, and the hammer in your right. Then when we begin our prayer for -the dead--I shall read him, I have here the book, and the others shall -follow--strike in God’s name, that so all may be well with the dead that -we love and that the Un-Dead pass away.” - -Arthur took the stake and the hammer, and when once his mind was set on -action his hands never trembled nor even quivered. Van Helsing opened -his missal and began to read, and Quincey and I followed as well as we -could. Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could -see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might. - -The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech -came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and twisted -in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the -lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur -never faltered. He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm -rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst -the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it. His -face was set, and high duty seemed to shine through it; the sight of it -gave us courage so that our voices seemed to ring through the little -vault. - -And then the writhing and quivering of the body became less, and the -teeth seemed to champ, and the face to quiver. Finally it lay still. The -terrible task was over. - -The hammer fell from Arthur’s hand. He reeled and would have fallen had -we not caught him. The great drops of sweat sprang from his forehead, -and his breath came in broken gasps. It had indeed been an awful strain -on him; and had he not been forced to his task by more than human -considerations he could never have gone through with it. For a few -minutes we were so taken up with him that we did not look towards the -coffin. When we did, however, a murmur of startled surprise ran from one -to the other of us. We gazed so eagerly that Arthur rose, for he had -been seated on the ground, and came and looked too; and then a glad, -strange light broke over his face and dispelled altogether the gloom of -horror that lay upon it. - -There, in the coffin lay no longer the foul Thing that we had so dreaded -and grown to hate that the work of her destruction was yielded as a -privilege to the one best entitled to it, but Lucy as we had seen her in -her life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity. True that -there were there, as we had seen them in life, the traces of care and -pain and waste; but these were all dear to us, for they marked her truth -to what we knew. One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like -sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and -symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever. - -Van Helsing came and laid his hand on Arthur’s shoulder, and said to -him:-- - -“And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?” - -The reaction of the terrible strain came as he took the old man’s hand -in his, and raising it to his lips, pressed it, and said:-- - -“Forgiven! God bless you that you have given my dear one her soul again, -and me peace.” He put his hands on the Professor’s shoulder, and laying -his head on his breast, cried for a while silently, whilst we stood -unmoving. When he raised his head Van Helsing said to him:-- - -“And now, my child, you may kiss her. Kiss her dead lips if you will, as -she would have you to, if for her to choose. For she is not a grinning -devil now--not any more a foul Thing for all eternity. No longer she is -the devil’s Un-Dead. She is God’s true dead, whose soul is with Him!” - -Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the -tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point -of it in the body. Then we cut off the head and filled the mouth with -garlic. We soldered up the leaden coffin, screwed on the coffin-lid, -and gathering up our belongings, came away. When the Professor locked -the door he gave the key to Arthur. - -Outside the air was sweet, the sun shone, and the birds sang, and it -seemed as if all nature were tuned to a different pitch. There was -gladness and mirth and peace everywhere, for we were at rest ourselves -on one account, and we were glad, though it was with a tempered joy. - -Before we moved away Van Helsing said:-- - -“Now, my friends, one step of our work is done, one the most harrowing -to ourselves. But there remains a greater task: to find out the author -of all this our sorrow and to stamp him out. I have clues which we can -follow; but it is a long task, and a difficult, and there is danger in -it, and pain. Shall you not all help me? We have learned to believe, all -of us--is it not so? And since so, do we not see our duty? Yes! And do -we not promise to go on to the bitter end?” - -Each in turn, we took his hand, and the promise was made. Then said the -Professor as we moved off:-- - -“Two nights hence you shall meet with me and dine together at seven of -the clock with friend John. I shall entreat two others, two that you -know not as yet; and I shall be ready to all our work show and our plans -unfold. Friend John, you come with me home, for I have much to consult -about, and you can help me. To-night I leave for Amsterdam, but shall -return to-morrow night. And then begins our great quest. But first I -shall have much to say, so that you may know what is to do and to dread. -Then our promise shall be made to each other anew; for there is a -terrible task before us, and once our feet are on the ploughshare we -must not draw back.” - - - - -CHAPTER XVII - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY--_continued_ - - -When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram -waiting for him:-- - - “Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA - HARKER.” - -The Professor was delighted. “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,” he said, -“pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your -house, friend John. You must meet her at the station. Telegraph her _en -route_, so that she may be prepared.” - -When the wire was despatched he had a cup of tea; over it he told me of -a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me a typewritten -copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker’s diary at Whitby. “Take these,” he -said, “and study them well. When I have returned you will be master of -all the facts, and we can then better enter on our inquisition. Keep -them safe, for there is in them much of treasure. You will need all your -faith, even you who have had such an experience as that of to-day. What -is here told,” he laid his hand heavily and gravely on the packet of -papers as he spoke, “may be the beginning of the end to you and me and -many another; or it may sound the knell of the Un-Dead who walk the -earth. Read all, I pray you, with the open mind; and if you can add in -any way to the story here told do so, for it is all-important. You have -kept diary of all these so strange things; is it not so? Yes! Then we -shall go through all these together when we meet.” He then made ready -for his departure, and shortly after drove off to Liverpool Street. I -took my way to Paddington, where I arrived about fifteen minutes before -the train came in. - -The crowd melted away, after the bustling fashion common to arrival -platforms; and I was beginning to feel uneasy, lest I might miss my -guest, when a sweet-faced, dainty-looking girl stepped up to me, and, -after a quick glance, said: “Dr. Seward, is it not?” - -“And you are Mrs. Harker!” I answered at once; whereupon she held out -her hand. - -“I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but----” She stopped -suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face. - -The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it -was a tacit answer to her own. I got her luggage, which included a -typewriter, and we took the Underground to Fenchurch Street, after I had -sent a wire to my housekeeper to have a sitting-room and bedroom -prepared at once for Mrs. Harker. - -In due time we arrived. She knew, of course, that the place was a -lunatic asylum, but I could see that she was unable to repress a shudder -when we entered. - -She told me that, if she might, she would come presently to my study, as -she had much to say. So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph -diary whilst I await her. As yet I have not had the chance of looking at -the papers which Van Helsing left with me, though they lie open before -me. I must get her interested in something, so that I may have an -opportunity of reading them. She does not know how precious time is, or -what a task we have in hand. I must be careful not to frighten her. Here -she is! - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_29 September._--After I had tidied myself, I went down to Dr. Seward’s -study. At the door I paused a moment, for I thought I heard him talking -with some one. As, however, he had pressed me to be quick, I knocked at -the door, and on his calling out, “Come in,” I entered. - -To my intense surprise, there was no one with him. He was quite alone, -and on the table opposite him was what I knew at once from the -description to be a phonograph. I had never seen one, and was much -interested. - -“I hope I did not keep you waiting,” I said; “but I stayed at the door -as I heard you talking, and thought there was some one with you.” - -“Oh,” he replied with a smile, “I was only entering my diary.” - -“Your diary?” I asked him in surprise. - -“Yes,” he answered. “I keep it in this.” As he spoke he laid his hand on -the phonograph. I felt quite excited over it, and blurted out:-- - -“Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?” - -“Certainly,” he replied with alacrity, and stood up to put it in train -for speaking. Then he paused, and a troubled look overspread his face. - -“The fact is,” he began awkwardly, “I only keep my diary in it; and as -it is entirely--almost entirely--about my cases, it may be awkward--that -is, I mean----” He stopped, and I tried to help him out of his -embarrassment:-- - -“You helped to attend dear Lucy at the end. Let me hear how she died; -for all that I know of her, I shall be very grateful. She was very, very -dear to me.” - -To my surprise, he answered, with a horrorstruck look in his face:-- - -“Tell you of her death? Not for the wide world!” - -“Why not?” I asked, for some grave, terrible feeling was coming over me. -Again he paused, and I could see that he was trying to invent an excuse. -At length he stammered out:-- - -“You see, I do not know how to pick out any particular part of the -diary.” Even while he was speaking an idea dawned upon him, and he said -with unconscious simplicity, in a different voice, and with the naïveté -of a child: “That’s quite true, upon my honour. Honest Indian!” I could -not but smile, at which he grimaced. “I gave myself away that time!” he -said. “But do you know that, although I have kept the diary for months -past, it never once struck me how I was going to find any particular -part of it in case I wanted to look it up?” By this time my mind was -made up that the diary of a doctor who attended Lucy might have -something to add to the sum of our knowledge of that terrible Being, and -I said boldly:-- - -“Then, Dr. Seward, you had better let me copy it out for you on my -typewriter.” He grew to a positively deathly pallor as he said:-- - -“No! no! no! For all the world, I wouldn’t let you know that terrible -story!” - -Then it was terrible; my intuition was right! For a moment I thought, -and as my eyes ranged the room, unconsciously looking for something or -some opportunity to aid me, they lit on a great batch of typewriting on -the table. His eyes caught the look in mine, and, without his thinking, -followed their direction. As they saw the parcel he realised my meaning. - -“You do not know me,” I said. “When you have read those papers--my own -diary and my husband’s also, which I have typed--you will know me -better. I have not faltered in giving every thought of my own heart in -this cause; but, of course, you do not know me--yet; and I must not -expect you to trust me so far.” - -He is certainly a man of noble nature; poor dear Lucy was right about -him. He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in -order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and -said:-- - -“You are quite right. I did not trust you because I did not know you. -But I know you now; and let me say that I should have known you long -ago. I know that Lucy told you of me; she told me of you too. May I make -the only atonement in my power? Take the cylinders and hear them--the -first half-dozen of them are personal to me, and they will not horrify -you; then you will know me better. Dinner will by then be ready. In the -meantime I shall read over some of these documents, and shall be better -able to understand certain things.” He carried the phonograph himself up -to my sitting-room and adjusted it for me. Now I shall learn something -pleasant, I am sure; for it will tell me the other side of a true love -episode of which I know one side already.... - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_29 September._--I was so absorbed in that wonderful diary of Jonathan -Harker and that other of his wife that I let the time run on without -thinking. Mrs. Harker was not down when the maid came to announce -dinner, so I said: “She is possibly tired; let dinner wait an hour,” and -I went on with my work. I had just finished Mrs. Harker’s diary, when -she came in. She looked sweetly pretty, but very sad, and her eyes were -flushed with crying. This somehow moved me much. Of late I have had -cause for tears, God knows! but the relief of them was denied me; and -now the sight of those sweet eyes, brightened with recent tears, went -straight to my heart. So I said as gently as I could:-- - -“I greatly fear I have distressed you.” - -“Oh, no, not distressed me,” she replied, “but I have been more touched -than I can say by your grief. That is a wonderful machine, but it is -cruelly true. It told me, in its very tones, the anguish of your heart. -It was like a soul crying out to Almighty God. No one must hear them -spoken ever again! See, I have tried to be useful. I have copied out the -words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as -I did.” - -“No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I said in a low voice. She -laid her hand on mine and said very gravely:-- - -“Ah, but they must!” - -“Must! But why?” I asked. - -“Because it is a part of the terrible story, a part of poor dear Lucy’s -death and all that led to it; because in the struggle which we have -before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all -the knowledge and all the help which we can get. I think that the -cylinders which you gave me contained more than you intended me to know; -but I can see that there are in your record many lights to this dark -mystery. You will let me help, will you not? I know all up to a certain -point; and I see already, though your diary only took me to 7 September, -how poor Lucy was beset, and how her terrible doom was being wrought -out. Jonathan and I have been working day and night since Professor Van -Helsing saw us. He is gone to Whitby to get more information, and he -will be here to-morrow to help us. We need have no secrets amongst us; -working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than -if some of us were in the dark.” She looked at me so appealingly, and at -the same time manifested such courage and resolution in her bearing, -that I gave in at once to her wishes. “You shall,” I said, “do as you -like in the matter. God forgive me if I do wrong! There are terrible -things yet to learn of; but if you have so far travelled on the road to -poor Lucy’s death, you will not be content, I know, to remain in the -dark. Nay, the end--the very end--may give you a gleam of peace. Come, -there is dinner. We must keep one another strong for what is before us; -we have a cruel and dreadful task. When you have eaten you shall learn -the rest, and I shall answer any questions you ask--if there be anything -which you do not understand, though it was apparent to us who were -present.” - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_29 September._--After dinner I came with Dr. Seward to his study. He -brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took my typewriter. He -placed me in a comfortable chair, and arranged the phonograph so that I -could touch it without getting up, and showed me how to stop it in case -I should want to pause. Then he very thoughtfully took a chair, with his -back to me, so that I might be as free as possible, and began to read. I -put the forked metal to my ears and listened. - -When the terrible story of Lucy’s death, and--and all that followed, was -done, I lay back in my chair powerless. Fortunately I am not of a -fainting disposition. When Dr. Seward saw me he jumped up with a -horrified exclamation, and hurriedly taking a case-bottle from a -cupboard, gave me some brandy, which in a few minutes somewhat restored -me. My brain was all in a whirl, and only that there came through all -the multitude of horrors, the holy ray of light that my dear, dear Lucy -was at last at peace, I do not think I could have borne it without -making a scene. It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I -had not known Jonathan’s experience in Transylvania I could not have -believed. As it was, I didn’t know what to believe, and so got out of my -difficulty by attending to something else. I took the cover off my -typewriter, and said to Dr. Seward:-- - -“Let me write this all out now. We must be ready for Dr. Van Helsing -when he comes. I have sent a telegram to Jonathan to come on here when -he arrives in London from Whitby. In this matter dates are everything, -and I think that if we get all our material ready, and have every item -put in chronological order, we shall have done much. You tell me that -Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris are coming too. Let us be able to tell him -when they come.” He accordingly set the phonograph at a slow pace, and I -began to typewrite from the beginning of the seventh cylinder. I used -manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done with -all the rest. It was late when I got through, but Dr. Seward went about -his work of going his round of the patients; when he had finished he -came back and sat near me, reading, so that I did not feel too lonely -whilst I worked. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of -good men--even if there _are_ monsters in it. Before I left him I -remembered what Jonathan put in his diary of the Professor’s -perturbation at reading something in an evening paper at the station at -Exeter; so, seeing that Dr. Seward keeps his newspapers, I borrowed the -files of “The Westminster Gazette” and “The Pall Mall Gazette,” and took -them to my room. I remember how much “The Dailygraph” and “The Whitby -Gazette,” of which I had made cuttings, helped us to understand the -terrible events at Whitby when Count Dracula landed, so I shall look -through the evening papers since then, and perhaps I shall get some new -light. I am not sleepy, and the work will help to keep me quiet. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_30 September._--Mr. Harker arrived at nine o’clock. He had got his -wife’s wire just before starting. He is uncommonly clever, if one can -judge from his face, and full of energy. If this journal be true--and -judging by one’s own wonderful experiences, it must be--he is also a man -of great nerve. That going down to the vault a second time was a -remarkable piece of daring. After reading his account of it I was -prepared to meet a good specimen of manhood, but hardly the quiet, -business-like gentleman who came here to-day. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--After lunch Harker and his wife went back to their own room, -and as I passed a while ago I heard the click of the typewriter. They -are hard at it. Mrs. Harker says that they are knitting together in -chronological order every scrap of evidence they have. Harker has got -the letters between the consignee of the boxes at Whitby and the -carriers in London who took charge of them. He is now reading his wife’s -typescript of my diary. I wonder what they make out of it. Here it -is.... - - Strange that it never struck me that the very next house might be - the Count’s hiding-place! Goodness knows that we had enough clues - from the conduct of the patient Renfield! The bundle of letters - relating to the purchase of the house were with the typescript. Oh, - if we had only had them earlier we might have saved poor Lucy! - Stop; that way madness lies! Harker has gone back, and is again - collating his material. He says that by dinner-time they will be - able to show a whole connected narrative. He thinks that in the - meantime I should see Renfield, as hitherto he has been a sort of - index to the coming and going of the Count. I hardly see this yet, - but when I get at the dates I suppose I shall. What a good thing - that Mrs. Harker put my cylinders into type! We never could have - found the dates otherwise.... - - I found Renfield sitting placidly in his room with his hands - folded, smiling benignly. At the moment he seemed as sane as any - one I ever saw. I sat down and talked with him on a lot of - subjects, all of which he treated naturally. He then, of his own - accord, spoke of going home, a subject he has never mentioned to my - knowledge during his sojourn here. In fact, he spoke quite - confidently of getting his discharge at once. I believe that, had I - not had the chat with Harker and read the letters and the dates of - his outbursts, I should have been prepared to sign for him after a - brief time of observation. As it is, I am darkly suspicious. All - those outbreaks were in some way linked with the proximity of the - Count. What then does this absolute content mean? Can it be that - his instinct is satisfied as to the vampire’s ultimate triumph? - Stay; he is himself zoöphagous, and in his wild ravings outside the - chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of “master.” This - all seems confirmation of our idea. However, after a while I came - away; my friend is just a little too sane at present to make it - safe to probe him too deep with questions. He might begin to think, - and then--! So I came away. I mistrust these quiet moods of his; so - I have given the attendant a hint to look closely after him, and to - have a strait-waistcoat ready in case of need. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_29 September, in train to London._--When I received Mr. Billington’s -courteous message that he would give me any information in his power I -thought it best to go down to Whitby and make, on the spot, such -inquiries as I wanted. It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo -of the Count’s to its place in London. Later, we may be able to deal -with it. Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station, and -brought me to his father’s house, where they had decided that I must -stay the night. They are hospitable, with true Yorkshire hospitality: -give a guest everything, and leave him free to do as he likes. They all -knew that I was busy, and that my stay was short, and Mr. Billington had -ready in his office all the papers concerning the consignment of boxes. -It gave me almost a turn to see again one of the letters which I had -seen on the Count’s table before I knew of his diabolical plans. -Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and -with precision. He seemed to have been prepared for every obstacle which -might be placed by accident in the way of his intentions being carried -out. To use an Americanism, he had “taken no chances,” and the absolute -accuracy with which his instructions were fulfilled, was simply the -logical result of his care. I saw the invoice, and took note of it: -“Fifty cases of common earth, to be used for experimental purposes.” -Also the copy of letter to Carter Paterson, and their reply; of both of -these I got copies. This was all the information Mr. Billington could -give me, so I went down to the port and saw the coastguards, the Customs -officers and the harbour-master. They had all something to say of the -strange entry of the ship, which is already taking its place in local -tradition; but no one could add to the simple description “Fifty cases -of common earth.” I then saw the station-master, who kindly put me in -communication with the men who had actually received the boxes. Their -tally was exact with the list, and they had nothing to add except that -the boxes were “main and mortal heavy,” and that shifting them was dry -work. One of them added that it was hard lines that there wasn’t any -gentleman “such-like as yourself, squire,” to show some sort of -appreciation of their efforts in a liquid form; another put in a rider -that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had -elapsed had not completely allayed it. Needless to add, I took care -before leaving to lift, for ever and adequately, this source of -reproach. - - * * * * * - -_30 September._--The station-master was good enough to give me a line to -his old companion the station-master at King’s Cross, so that when I -arrived there in the morning I was able to ask him about the arrival of -the boxes. He, too, put me at once in communication with the proper -officials, and I saw that their tally was correct with the original -invoice. The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here -limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was -compelled to deal with the result in an _ex post facto_ manner. - -From thence I went on to Carter Paterson’s central office, where I met -with the utmost courtesy. They looked up the transaction in their -day-book and letter-book, and at once telephoned to their King’s Cross -office for more details. By good fortune, the men who did the teaming -were waiting for work, and the official at once sent them over, sending -also by one of them the way-bill and all the papers connected with the -delivery of the boxes at Carfax. Here again I found the tally agreeing -exactly; the carriers’ men were able to supplement the paucity of the -written words with a few details. These were, I shortly found, connected -almost solely with the dusty nature of the job, and of the consequent -thirst engendered in the operators. On my affording an opportunity, -through the medium of the currency of the realm, of the allaying, at a -later period, this beneficial evil, one of the men remarked:-- - -“That ’ere ’ouse, guv’nor, is the rummiest I ever was in. Blyme! but it -ain’t been touched sence a hundred years. There was dust that thick in -the place that you might have slep’ on it without ’urtin’ of yer bones; -an’ the place was that neglected that yer might ’ave smelled ole -Jerusalem in it. But the ole chapel--that took the cike, that did! Me -and my mate, we thort we wouldn’t never git out quick enough. Lor’, I -wouldn’t take less nor a quid a moment to stay there arter dark.” - -Having been in the house, I could well believe him; but if he knew what -I know, he would, I think, have raised his terms. - -Of one thing I am now satisfied: that _all_ the boxes which arrived at -Whitby from Varna in the _Demeter_ were safely deposited in the old -chapel at Carfax. There should be fifty of them there, unless any have -since been removed--as from Dr. Seward’s diary I fear. - -I shall try to see the carter who took away the boxes from Carfax when -Renfield attacked them. By following up this clue we may learn a good -deal. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Mina and I have worked all day, and we have put all the papers -into order. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal_ - -_30 September._--I am so glad that I hardly know how to contain myself. -It is, I suppose, the reaction from the haunting fear which I have had: -that this terrible affair and the reopening of his old wound might act -detrimentally on Jonathan. I saw him leave for Whitby with as brave a -face as I could, but I was sick with apprehension. The effort has, -however, done him good. He was never so resolute, never so strong, never -so full of volcanic energy, as at present. It is just as that dear, good -Professor Van Helsing said: he is true grit, and he improves under -strain that would kill a weaker nature. He came back full of life and -hope and determination; we have got everything in order for to-night. I -feel myself quite wild with excitement. I suppose one ought to pity any -thing so hunted as is the Count. That is just it: this Thing is not -human--not even beast. To read Dr. Seward’s account of poor Lucy’s -death, and what followed, is enough to dry up the springs of pity in -one’s heart. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Lord Godalming and Mr. Morris arrived earlier than we -expected. Dr. Seward was out on business, and had taken Jonathan with -him, so I had to see them. It was to me a painful meeting, for it -brought back all poor dear Lucy’s hopes of only a few months ago. Of -course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr. Van -Helsing, too, has been quite “blowing my trumpet,” as Mr. Morris -expressed it. Poor fellows, neither of them is aware that I know all -about the proposals they made to Lucy. They did not quite know what to -say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge; so they -had to keep on neutral subjects. However, I thought the matter over, and -came to the conclusion that the best thing I could do would be to post -them in affairs right up to date. I knew from Dr. Seward’s diary that -they had been at Lucy’s death--her real death--and that I need not fear -to betray any secret before the time. So I told them, as well as I -could, that I had read all the papers and diaries, and that my husband -and I, having typewritten them, had just finished putting them in order. -I gave them each a copy to read in the library. When Lord Godalming got -his and turned it over--it does make a pretty good pile--he said:-- - -“Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?” - -I nodded, and he went on:-- - -“I don’t quite see the drift of it; but you people are all so good and -kind, and have been working so earnestly and so energetically, that all -I can do is to accept your ideas blindfold and try to help you. I have -had one lesson already in accepting facts that should make a man humble -to the last hour of his life. Besides, I know you loved my poor Lucy--” -Here he turned away and covered his face with his hands. I could hear -the tears in his voice. Mr. Morris, with instinctive delicacy, just laid -a hand for a moment on his shoulder, and then walked quietly out of the -room. I suppose there is something in woman’s nature that makes a man -free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or -emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood; for when -Lord Godalming found himself alone with me he sat down on the sofa and -gave way utterly and openly. I sat down beside him and took his hand. I -hope he didn’t think it forward of me, and that if he ever thinks of it -afterwards he never will have such a thought. There I wrong him; I -_know_ he never will--he is too true a gentleman. I said to him, for I -could see that his heart was breaking:-- - -“I loved dear Lucy, and I know what she was to you, and what you were to -her. She and I were like sisters; and now she is gone, will you not let -me be like a sister to you in your trouble? I know what sorrows you have -had, though I cannot measure the depth of them. If sympathy and pity can -help in your affliction, won’t you let me be of some little service--for -Lucy’s sake?” - -In an instant the poor dear fellow was overwhelmed with grief. It seemed -to me that all that he had of late been suffering in silence found a -vent at once. He grew quite hysterical, and raising his open hands, beat -his palms together in a perfect agony of grief. He stood up and then sat -down again, and the tears rained down his cheeks. I felt an infinite -pity for him, and opened my arms unthinkingly. With a sob he laid his -head on my shoulder and cried like a wearied child, whilst he shook with -emotion. - -We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above -smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked; I felt this big -sorrowing man’s head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby -that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he -were my own child. I never thought at the time how strange it all was. - -After a little bit his sobs ceased, and he raised himself with an -apology, though he made no disguise of his emotion. He told me that for -days and nights past--weary days and sleepless nights--he had been -unable to speak with any one, as a man must speak in his time of -sorrow. There was no woman whose sympathy could be given to him, or with -whom, owing to the terrible circumstance with which his sorrow was -surrounded, he could speak freely. “I know now how I suffered,” he said, -as he dried his eyes, “but I do not know even yet--and none other can -ever know--how much your sweet sympathy has been to me to-day. I shall -know better in time; and believe me that, though I am not ungrateful -now, my gratitude will grow with my understanding. You will let me be -like a brother, will you not, for all our lives--for dear Lucy’s sake?” - -“For dear Lucy’s sake,” I said as we clasped hands. “Ay, and for your -own sake,” he added, “for if a man’s esteem and gratitude are ever worth -the winning, you have won mine to-day. If ever the future should bring -to you a time when you need a man’s help, believe me, you will not call -in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the -sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you -will let me know.” He was so earnest, and his sorrow was so fresh, that -I felt it would comfort him, so I said:-- - -“I promise.” - -As I came along the corridor I saw Mr. Morris looking out of a window. -He turned as he heard my footsteps. “How is Art?” he said. Then noticing -my red eyes, he went on: “Ah, I see you have been comforting him. Poor -old fellow! he needs it. No one but a woman can help a man when he is in -trouble of the heart; and he had no one to comfort him.” - -He bore his own trouble so bravely that my heart bled for him. I saw the -manuscript in his hand, and I knew that when he read it he would realise -how much I knew; so I said to him:-- - -“I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me -be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it? You -will know, later on, why I speak.” He saw that I was in earnest, and -stooping, took my hand, and raising it to his lips, kissed it. It seemed -but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I -bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a -momentary choking in his throat; he said quite calmly:-- - -“Little girl, you will never regret that true-hearted kindness, so long -as ever you live!” Then he went into the study to his friend. - -“Little girl!”--the very words he had used to Lucy, and oh, but he -proved himself a friend! - - - - -CHAPTER XVIII - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_30 September._--I got home at five o’clock, and found that Godalming -and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript -of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife -had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the -carriers’ men, of whom Dr. Hennessey had written to me. Mrs. Harker gave -us a cup of tea, and I can honestly say that, for the first time since I -have lived in it, this old house seemed like _home_. When we had -finished, Mrs. Harker said:-- - -“Dr. Seward, may I ask a favour? I want to see your patient, Mr. -Renfield. Do let me see him. What you have said of him in your diary -interests me so much!” She looked so appealing and so pretty that I -could not refuse her, and there was no possible reason why I should; so -I took her with me. When I went into the room, I told the man that a -lady would like to see him; to which he simply answered: “Why?” - -“She is going through the house, and wants to see every one in it,” I -answered. “Oh, very well,” he said; “let her come in, by all means; but -just wait a minute till I tidy up the place.” His method of tidying was -peculiar: he simply swallowed all the flies and spiders in the boxes -before I could stop him. It was quite evident that he feared, or was -jealous of, some interference. When he had got through his disgusting -task, he said cheerfully: “Let the lady come in,” and sat down on the -edge of his bed with his head down, but with his eyelids raised so that -he could see her as she entered. For a moment I thought that he might -have some homicidal intent; I remembered how quiet he had been just -before he attacked me in my own study, and I took care to stand where I -could seize him at once if he attempted to make a spring at her. She -came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command -the respect of any lunatic--for easiness is one of the qualities mad -people most respect. She walked over to him, smiling pleasantly, and -held out her hand. - -“Good-evening, Mr. Renfield,” said she. “You see, I know you, for Dr. -Seward has told me of you.” He made no immediate reply, but eyed her all -over intently with a set frown on his face. This look gave way to one -of wonder, which merged in doubt; then, to my intense astonishment, he -said:-- - -“You’re not the girl the doctor wanted to marry, are you? You can’t be, -you know, for she’s dead.” Mrs. Harker smiled sweetly as she replied:-- - -“Oh no! I have a husband of my own, to whom I was married before I ever -saw Dr. Seward, or he me. I am Mrs. Harker.” - -“Then what are you doing here?” - -“My husband and I are staying on a visit with Dr. Seward.” - -“Then don’t stay.” - -“But why not?” I thought that this style of conversation might not be -pleasant to Mrs. Harker, any more than it was to me, so I joined in:-- - -“How did you know I wanted to marry any one?” His reply was simply -contemptuous, given in a pause in which he turned his eyes from Mrs. -Harker to me, instantly turning them back again:-- - -“What an asinine question!” - -“I don’t see that at all, Mr. Renfield,” said Mrs. Harker, at once -championing me. He replied to her with as much courtesy and respect as -he had shown contempt to me:-- - -“You will, of course, understand, Mrs. Harker, that when a man is so -loved and honoured as our host is, everything regarding him is of -interest in our little community. Dr. Seward is loved not only by his -household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of -them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and -effects. Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I -cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates -lean towards the errors of _non causa_ and _ignoratio elenchi_.” I -positively opened my eyes at this new development. Here was my own pet -lunatic--the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met -with--talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished -gentleman. I wonder if it was Mrs. Harker’s presence which had touched -some chord in his memory. If this new phase was spontaneous, or in any -way due to her unconscious influence, she must have some rare gift or -power. - -We continued to talk for some time; and, seeing that he was seemingly -quite reasonable, she ventured, looking at me questioningly as she -began, to lead him to his favourite topic. I was again astonished, for -he addressed himself to the question with the impartiality of the -completest sanity; he even took himself as an example when he mentioned -certain things. - -“Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief. Indeed, -it was no wonder that my friends were alarmed, and insisted on my being -put under control. I used to fancy that life was a positive and -perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live things, no -matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong -life. At times I held the belief so strongly that I actually tried to -take human life. The doctor here will bear me out that on one occasion I -tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by -the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his -blood--relying, of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, ‘For the blood is -the life.’ Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has -vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt. Isn’t that true, -doctor?” I nodded assent, for I was so amazed that I hardly knew what to -either think or say; it was hard to imagine that I had seen him eat up -his spiders and flies not five minutes before. Looking at my watch, I -saw that I should go to the station to meet Van Helsing, so I told Mrs. -Harker that it was time to leave. She came at once, after saying -pleasantly to Mr. Renfield: “Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often, -under auspices pleasanter to yourself,” to which, to my astonishment, he -replied:-- - -“Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. -May He bless and keep you!” - -When I went to the station to meet Van Helsing I left the boys behind -me. Poor Art seemed more cheerful than he has been since Lucy first took -ill, and Quincey is more like his own bright self than he has been for -many a long day. - -Van Helsing stepped from the carriage with the eager nimbleness of a -boy. He saw me at once, and rushed up to me, saying:-- - -“Ah, friend John, how goes all? Well? So! I have been busy, for I come -here to stay if need be. All affairs are settled with me, and I have -much to tell. Madam Mina is with you? Yes. And her so fine husband? And -Arthur and my friend Quincey, they are with you, too? Good!” - -As I drove to the house I told him of what had passed, and of how my own -diary had come to be of some use through Mrs. Harker’s suggestion; at -which the Professor interrupted me:-- - -“Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain--a brain that a man -should have were he much gifted--and a woman’s heart. The good God -fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good -combination. Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of help -to us; after to-night she must not have to do with this so terrible -affair. It is not good that she run a risk so great. We men are -determined--nay, are we not pledged?--to destroy this monster; but it is -no part for a woman. Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her -in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in -waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. And, besides, -she is young woman and not so long married; there may be other things to -think of some time, if not now. You tell me she has wrote all, then she -must consult with us; but to-morrow she say good-bye to this work, and -we go alone.” I agreed heartily with him, and then I told him what we -had found in his absence: that the house which Dracula had bought was -the very next one to my own. He was amazed, and a great concern seemed -to come on him. “Oh that we had known it before!” he said, “for then we -might have reached him in time to save poor Lucy. However, ‘the milk -that is spilt cries not out afterwards,’ as you say. We shall not think -of that, but go on our way to the end.” Then he fell into a silence that -lasted till we entered my own gateway. Before we went to prepare for -dinner he said to Mrs. Harker:-- - -“I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have -put up in exact order all things that have been, up to this moment.” - -“Not up to this moment, Professor,” she said impulsively, “but up to -this morning.” - -“But why not up to now? We have seen hitherto how good light all the -little things have made. We have told our secrets, and yet no one who -has told is the worse for it.” - -Mrs. Harker began to blush, and taking a paper from her pockets, she -said:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, will you read this, and tell me if it must go in. It -is my record of to-day. I too have seen the need of putting down at -present everything, however trivial; but there is little in this except -what is personal. Must it go in?” The Professor read it over gravely, -and handed it back, saying:-- - -“It need not go in if you do not wish it; but I pray that it may. It can -but make your husband love you the more, and all us, your friends, more -honour you--as well as more esteem and love.” She took it back with -another blush and a bright smile. - -And so now, up to this very hour, all the records we have are complete -and in order. The Professor took away one copy to study after dinner, -and before our meeting, which is fixed for nine o’clock. The rest of us -have already read everything; so when we meet in the study we shall all -be informed as to facts, and can arrange our plan of battle with this -terrible and mysterious enemy. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_30 September._--When we met in Dr. Seward’s study two hours after -dinner, which had been at six o’clock, we unconsciously formed a sort of -board or committee. Professor Van Helsing took the head of the table, to -which Dr. Seward motioned him as he came into the room. He made me sit -next to him on his right, and asked me to act as secretary; Jonathan sat -next to me. Opposite us were Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. -Morris--Lord Godalming being next the Professor, and Dr. Seward in the -centre. The Professor said:-- - -“I may, I suppose, take it that we are all acquainted with the facts -that are in these papers.” We all expressed assent, and he went on:-- - -“Then it were, I think good that I tell you something of the kind of -enemy with which we have to deal. I shall then make known to you -something of the history of this man, which has been ascertained for me. -So we then can discuss how we shall act, and can take our measure -according. - -“There are such beings as vampires; some of us have evidence that they -exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the -teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane -peoples. I admit that at the first I was sceptic. Were it not that -through long years I have train myself to keep an open mind, I could not -have believe until such time as that fact thunder on my ear. ‘See! see! -I prove; I prove.’ Alas! Had I known at the first what now I know--nay, -had I even guess at him--one so precious life had been spared to many of -us who did love her. But that is gone; and we must so work, that other -poor souls perish not, whilst we can save. The _nosferatu_ do not die -like the bee when he sting once. He is only stronger; and being -stronger, have yet more power to work evil. This vampire which is -amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men; he is of -cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages; he have -still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the -divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are -for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in -callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within limitations, appear -at will when, and where, and in any of the forms that are to him; he -can, within his range, direct the elements; the storm, the fog, the -thunder; he can command all the meaner things: the rat, and the owl, and -the bat--the moth, and the fox, and the wolf; he can grow and become -small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown. How then are we to -begin our strike to destroy him? How shall we find his where; and having -found it, how can we destroy? My friends, this is much; it is a terrible -task that we undertake, and there may be consequence to make the brave -shudder. For if we fail in this our fight he must surely win; and then -where end we? Life is nothings; I heed him not. But to fail here, is not -mere life or death. It is that we become as him; that we henceforward -become foul things of the night like him--without heart or conscience, -preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best. To us for -ever are the gates of heaven shut; for who shall open them to us again? -We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s -sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. But we are face -to face with duty; and in such case must we shrink? For me, I say, no; -but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his -song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are -young. Some have seen sorrow; but there are fair days yet in store. What -say you?” - -Whilst he was speaking, Jonathan had taken my hand. I feared, oh so -much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I -saw his hand stretch out; but it was life to me to feel its touch--so -strong, so self-reliant, so resolute. A brave man’s hand can speak for -itself; it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music. - -When the Professor had done speaking my husband looked in my eyes, and I -in his; there was no need for speaking between us. - -“I answer for Mina and myself,” he said. - -“Count me in, Professor,” said Mr. Quincey Morris, laconically as usual. - -“I am with you,” said Lord Godalming, “for Lucy’s sake, if for no other -reason.” - -Dr. Seward simply nodded. The Professor stood up and, after laying his -golden crucifix on the table, held out his hand on either side. I took -his right hand, and Lord Godalming his left; Jonathan held my right with -his left and stretched across to Mr. Morris. So as we all took hands our -solemn compact was made. I felt my heart icy cold, but it did not even -occur to me to draw back. We resumed our places, and Dr. Van Helsing -went on with a sort of cheerfulness which showed that the serious work -had begun. It was to be taken as gravely, and in as businesslike a way, -as any other transaction of life:-- - -“Well, you know what we have to contend against; but we, too, are not -without strength. We have on our side power of combination--a power -denied to the vampire kind; we have sources of science; we are free to -act and think; and the hours of the day and the night are ours equally. -In fact, so far as our powers extend, they are unfettered, and we are -free to use them. We have self-devotion in a cause, and an end to -achieve which is not a selfish one. These things are much. - -“Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are -restrict, and how the individual cannot. In fine, let us consider the -limitations of the vampire in general, and of this one in particular. - -“All we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions. These do not -at the first appear much, when the matter is one of life and death--nay -of more than either life or death. Yet must we be satisfied; in the -first place because we have to be--no other means is at our control--and -secondly, because, after all, these things--tradition and -superstition--are everything. Does not the belief in vampires rest for -others--though not, alas! for us--on them? A year ago which of us would -have received such a possibility, in the midst of our scientific, -sceptical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century? We even scouted a belief -that we saw justified under our very eyes. Take it, then, that the -vampire, and the belief in his limitations and his cure, rest for the -moment on the same base. For, let me tell you, he is known everywhere -that men have been. In old Greece, in old Rome; he flourish in Germany -all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese; and in China, so -far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples fear him at -this day. He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the -devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar. So far, then, we -have all we may act upon; and let me tell you that very much of the -beliefs are justified by what we have seen in our own so unhappy -experience. The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the -time; he can flourish when that he can fatten on the blood of the -living. Even more, we have seen amongst us that he can even grow -younger; that his vital faculties grow strenuous, and seem as though -they refresh themselves when his special pabulum is plenty. But he -cannot flourish without this diet; he eat not as others. Even friend -Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him to eat, never! -He throws no shadow; he make in the mirror no reflect, as again -Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand--witness again -Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolfs, and when he help him -from the diligence too. He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather -from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as -bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John -saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at -the window of Miss Lucy. He can come in mist which he create--that noble -ship’s captain proved him of this; but, from what we know, the distance -he can make this mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He -come on moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those -sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we ourselves saw -Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a hairbreadth space at the -tomb door. He can, when once he find his way, come out from anything or -into anything, no matter how close it be bound or even fused up with -fire--solder you call it. He can see in the dark--no small power this, -in a world which is one half shut from the light. Ah, but hear me -through. He can do all these things, yet he is not free. Nay; he is even -more prisoner than the slave of the galley, than the madman in his cell. -He cannot go where he lists; he who is not of nature has yet to obey -some of nature’s laws--why we know not. He may not enter anywhere at the -first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come; -though afterwards he can come as he please. His power ceases, as does -that of all evil things, at the coming of the day. Only at certain times -can he have limited freedom. If he be not at the place whither he is -bound, he can only change himself at noon or at exact sunrise or sunset. -These things are we told, and in this record of ours we have proof by -inference. Thus, whereas he can do as he will within his limit, when he -have his earth-home, his coffin-home, his hell-home, the place -unhallowed, as we saw when he went to the grave of the suicide at -Whitby; still at other time he can only change when the time come. It is -said, too, that he can only pass running water at the slack or the flood -of the tide. Then there are things which so afflict him that he has no -power, as the garlic that we know of; and as for things sacred, as this -symbol, my crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to -them he is nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and -silent with respect. There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, -lest in our seeking we may need them. The branch of wild rose on his -coffin keep him that he move not from it; a sacred bullet fired into the -coffin kill him so that he be true dead; and as for the stake through -him, we know already of its peace; or the cut-off head that giveth rest. -We have seen it with our eyes. - -“Thus when we find the habitation of this man-that-was, we can confine -him to his coffin and destroy him, if we obey what we know. But he is -clever. I have asked my friend Arminius, of Buda-Pesth University, to -make his record; and, from all the means that are, he tell me of what he -has been. He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his -name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of -Turkey-land. If it be so, then was he no common man; for in that time, -and for centuries after, he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most -cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the ‘land beyond the -forest.’ That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his -grave, and are even now arrayed against us. The Draculas were, says -Arminius, a great and noble race, though now and again were scions who -were held by their coevals to have had dealings with the Evil One. They -learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake -Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due. In the -records are such words as ‘stregoica’--witch, ‘ordog,’ and -‘pokol’--Satan and hell; and in one manuscript this very Dracula is -spoken of as ‘wampyr,’ which we all understand too well. There have been -from the loins of this very one great men and good women, and their -graves make sacred the earth where alone this foulness can dwell. For it -is not the least of its terrors that this evil thing is rooted deep in -all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest.” - -Whilst they were talking Mr. Morris was looking steadily at the window, -and he now got up quietly, and went out of the room. There was a little -pause, and then the Professor went on:-- - -“And now we must settle what we do. We have here much data, and we must -proceed to lay out our campaign. We know from the inquiry of Jonathan -that from the castle to Whitby came fifty boxes of earth, all of which -were delivered at Carfax; we also know that at least some of these boxes -have been removed. It seems to me, that our first step should be to -ascertain whether all the rest remain in the house beyond that wall -where we look to-day; or whether any more have been removed. If the -latter, we must trace----” - -Here we were interrupted in a very startling way. Outside the house came -the sound of a pistol-shot; the glass of the window was shattered with a -bullet, which, ricochetting from the top of the embrasure, struck the -far wall of the room. I am afraid I am at heart a coward, for I shrieked -out. The men all jumped to their feet; Lord Godalming flew over to the -window and threw up the sash. As he did so we heard Mr. Morris’s voice -without:-- - -“Sorry! I fear I have alarmed you. I shall come in and tell you about -it.” A minute later he came in and said:-- - -“It was an idiotic thing of me to do, and I ask your pardon, Mrs. -Harker, most sincerely; I fear I must have frightened you terribly. But -the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat -and sat on the window-sill. I have got such a horror of the damned -brutes from recent events that I cannot stand them, and I went out to -have a shot, as I have been doing of late of evenings, whenever I have -seen one. You used to laugh at me for it then, Art.” - -“Did you hit it?” asked Dr. Van Helsing. - -“I don’t know; I fancy not, for it flew away into the wood.” Without -saying any more he took his seat, and the Professor began to resume his -statement:-- - -“We must trace each of these boxes; and when we are ready, we must -either capture or kill this monster in his lair; or we must, so to -speak, sterilise the earth, so that no more he can seek safety in it. -Thus in the end we may find him in his form of man between the hours of -noon and sunset, and so engage with him when he is at his most weak. - -“And now for you, Madam Mina, this night is the end until all be well. -You are too precious to us to have such risk. When we part to-night, you -no more must question. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men -and are able to bear; but you must be our star and our hope, and we -shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger, such as we -are.” - -All the men, even Jonathan, seemed relieved; but it did not seem to me -good that they should brave danger and, perhaps, lessen their -safety--strength being the best safety--through care of me; but their -minds were made up, and, though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow, -I could say nothing, save to accept their chivalrous care of me. - -Mr. Morris resumed the discussion:-- - -“As there is no time to lose, I vote we have a look at his house right -now. Time is everything with him; and swift action on our part may save -another victim.” - -I own that my heart began to fail me when the time for action came so -close, but I did not say anything, for I had a greater fear that if I -appeared as a drag or a hindrance to their work, they might even leave -me out of their counsels altogether. They have now gone off to Carfax, -with means to get into the house. - -Manlike, they had told me to go to bed and sleep; as if a woman can -sleep when those she loves are in danger! I shall lie down and pretend -to sleep, lest Jonathan have added anxiety about me when he returns. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_1 October, 4 a. m._--Just as we were about to leave the house, an -urgent message was brought to me from Renfield to know if I would see -him at once, as he had something of the utmost importance to say to me. -I told the messenger to say that I would attend to his wishes in the -morning; I was busy just at the moment. The attendant added:-- - -“He seems very importunate, sir. I have never seen him so eager. I don’t -know but what, if you don’t see him soon, he will have one of his -violent fits.” I knew the man would not have said this without some -cause, so I said: “All right; I’ll go now”; and I asked the others to -wait a few minutes for me, as I had to go and see my “patient.” - -“Take me with you, friend John,” said the Professor. “His case in your -diary interest me much, and it had bearing, too, now and again on _our_ -case. I should much like to see him, and especial when his mind is -disturbed.” - -“May I come also?” asked Lord Godalming. - -“Me too?” said Quincey Morris. “May I come?” said Harker. I nodded, and -we all went down the passage together. - -We found him in a state of considerable excitement, but far more -rational in his speech and manner than I had ever seen him. There was an -unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever -met with in a lunatic; and he took it for granted that his reasons would -prevail with others entirely sane. We all four went into the room, but -none of the others at first said anything. His request was that I would -at once release him from the asylum and send him home. This he backed up -with arguments regarding his complete recovery, and adduced his own -existing sanity. “I appeal to your friends,” he said, “they will, -perhaps, not mind sitting in judgment on my case. By the way, you have -not introduced me.” I was so much astonished, that the oddness of -introducing a madman in an asylum did not strike me at the moment; and, -besides, there was a certain dignity in the man’s manner, so much of -the habit of equality, that I at once made the introduction: “Lord -Godalming; Professor Van Helsing; Mr. Quincey Morris, of Texas; Mr. -Renfield.” He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn:-- - -“Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the -Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no -more. He was a man loved and honoured by all who knew him; and in his -youth was, I have heard, the inventor of a burnt rum punch, much -patronised on Derby night. Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great -state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have -far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold -alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a -vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true -place as a political fable. What shall any man say of his pleasure at -meeting Van Helsing? Sir, I make no apology for dropping all forms of -conventional prefix. When an individual has revolutionised therapeutics -by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain-matter, -conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to -one of a class. You, gentlemen, who by nationality, by heredity, or by -the possession of natural gifts, are fitted to hold your respective -places in the moving world, I take to witness that I am as sane as at -least the majority of men who are in full possession of their liberties. -And I am sure that you, Dr. Seward, humanitarian and medico-jurist as -well as scientist, will deem it a moral duty to deal with me as one to -be considered as under exceptional circumstances.” He made this last -appeal with a courtly air of conviction which was not without its own -charm. - -I think we were all staggered. For my own part, I was under the -conviction, despite my knowledge of the man’s character and history, -that his reason had been restored; and I felt under a strong impulse to -tell him that I was satisfied as to his sanity, and would see about the -necessary formalities for his release in the morning. I thought it -better to wait, however, before making so grave a statement, for of old -I knew the sudden changes to which this particular patient was liable. -So I contented myself with making a general statement that he appeared -to be improving very rapidly; that I would have a longer chat with him -in the morning, and would then see what I could do in the direction of -meeting his wishes. This did not at all satisfy him, for he said -quickly:-- - -“But I fear, Dr. Seward, that you hardly apprehend my wish. I desire to -go at once--here--now--this very hour--this very moment, if I may. Time -presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of -the essence of the contract. I am sure it is only necessary to put -before so admirable a practitioner as Dr. Seward so simple, yet so -momentous a wish, to ensure its fulfilment.” He looked at me keenly, and -seeing the negative in my face, turned to the others, and scrutinised -them closely. Not meeting any sufficient response, he went on:-- - -“Is it possible that I have erred in my supposition?” - -“You have,” I said frankly, but at the same time, as I felt, brutally. -There was a considerable pause, and then he said slowly:-- - -“Then I suppose I must only shift my ground of request. Let me ask for -this concession--boon, privilege, what you will. I am content to implore -in such a case, not on personal grounds, but for the sake of others. I -am not at liberty to give you the whole of my reasons; but you may, I -assure you, take it from me that they are good ones, sound and -unselfish, and spring from the highest sense of duty. Could you look, -sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which -animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of -your friends.” Again he looked at us all keenly. I had a growing -conviction that this sudden change of his entire intellectual method was -but yet another form or phase of his madness, and so determined to let -him go on a little longer, knowing from experience that he would, like -all lunatics, give himself away in the end. Van Helsing was gazing at -him with a look of utmost intensity, his bushy eyebrows almost meeting -with the fixed concentration of his look. He said to Renfield in a tone -which did not surprise me at the time, but only when I thought of it -afterwards--for it was as of one addressing an equal:-- - -“Can you not tell frankly your real reason for wishing to be free -to-night? I will undertake that if you will satisfy even me--a stranger, -without prejudice, and with the habit of keeping an open mind--Dr. -Seward will give you, at his own risk and on his own responsibility, the -privilege you seek.” He shook his head sadly, and with a look of -poignant regret on his face. The Professor went on:-- - -“Come, sir, bethink yourself. You claim the privilege of reason in the -highest degree, since you seek to impress us with your complete -reasonableness. You do this, whose sanity we have reason to doubt, since -you are not yet released from medical treatment for this very defect. If -you will not help us in our effort to choose the wisest course, how can -we perform the duty which you yourself put upon us? Be wise, and help -us; and if we can we shall aid you to achieve your wish.” He still shook -his head as he said:-- - -“Dr. Van Helsing, I have nothing to say. Your argument is complete, and -if I were free to speak I should not hesitate a moment; but I am not my -own master in the matter. I can only ask you to trust me. If I am -refused, the responsibility does not rest with me.” I thought it was now -time to end the scene, which was becoming too comically grave, so I went -towards the door, simply saying:-- - -“Come, my friends, we have work to do. Good-night.” - -As, however, I got near the door, a new change came over the patient. He -moved towards me so quickly that for the moment I feared that he was -about to make another homicidal attack. My fears, however, were -groundless, for he held up his two hands imploringly, and made his -petition in a moving manner. As he saw that the very excess of his -emotion was militating against him, by restoring us more to our old -relations, he became still more demonstrative. I glanced at Van Helsing, -and saw my conviction reflected in his eyes; so I became a little more -fixed in my manner, if not more stern, and motioned to him that his -efforts were unavailing. I had previously seen something of the same -constantly growing excitement in him when he had to make some request of -which at the time he had thought much, such, for instance, as when he -wanted a cat; and I was prepared to see the collapse into the same -sullen acquiescence on this occasion. My expectation was not realised, -for, when he found that his appeal would not be successful, he got into -quite a frantic condition. He threw himself on his knees, and held up -his hands, wringing them in plaintive supplication, and poured forth a -torrent of entreaty, with the tears rolling down his cheeks, and his -whole face and form expressive of the deepest emotion:-- - -“Let me entreat you, Dr. Seward, oh, let me implore you, to let me out -of this house at once. Send me away how you will and where you will; -send keepers with me with whips and chains; let them take me in a -strait-waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to a gaol; but let me go -out of this. You don’t know what you do by keeping me here. I am -speaking from the depths of my heart--of my very soul. You don’t know -whom you wrong, or how; and I may not tell. Woe is me! I may not tell. -By all you hold sacred--by all you hold dear--by your love that is -lost--by your hope that lives--for the sake of the Almighty, take me out -of this and save my soul from guilt! Can’t you hear me, man? Can’t you -understand? Will you never learn? Don’t you know that I am sane and -earnest now; that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting -for his soul? Oh, hear me! hear me! Let me go! let me go! let me go!” - -I thought that the longer this went on the wilder he would get, and so -would bring on a fit; so I took him by the hand and raised him up. - -“Come,” I said sternly, “no more of this; we have had quite enough -already. Get to your bed and try to behave more discreetly.” - -He suddenly stopped and looked at me intently for several moments. Then, -without a word, he rose and moving over, sat down on the side of the -bed. The collapse had come, as on former occasion, just as I had -expected. - -When I was leaving the room, last of our party, he said to me in a -quiet, well-bred voice:-- - -“You will, I trust, Dr. Seward, do me the justice to bear in mind, later -on, that I did what I could to convince you to-night.” - - - - -CHAPTER XIX - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - - -_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy -mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am -so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work. -Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at -all; but now that her work is done, and that it is due to her energy and -brains and foresight that the whole story is put together in such a way -that every point tells, she may well feel that her part is finished, and -that she can henceforth leave the rest to us. We were, I think, all a -little upset by the scene with Mr. Renfield. When we came away from his -room we were silent till we got back to the study. Then Mr. Morris said -to Dr. Seward:-- - -“Say, Jack, if that man wasn’t attempting a bluff, he is about the -sanest lunatic I ever saw. I’m not sure, but I believe that he had some -serious purpose, and if he had, it was pretty rough on him not to get a -chance.” Lord Godalming and I were silent, but Dr. Van Helsing added:-- - -“Friend John, you know more of lunatics than I do, and I’m glad of it, -for I fear that if it had been to me to decide I would before that last -hysterical outburst have given him free. But we live and learn, and in -our present task we must take no chance, as my friend Quincey would say. -All is best as they are.” Dr. Seward seemed to answer them both in a -dreamy kind of way:-- - -“I don’t know but that I agree with you. If that man had been an -ordinary lunatic I would have taken my chance of trusting him; but he -seems so mixed up with the Count in an indexy kind of way that I am -afraid of doing anything wrong by helping his fads. I can’t forget how -he prayed with almost equal fervour for a cat, and then tried to tear my -throat out with his teeth. Besides, he called the Count ‘lord and -master,’ and he may want to get out to help him in some diabolical way. -That horrid thing has the wolves and the rats and his own kind to help -him, so I suppose he isn’t above trying to use a respectable lunatic. He -certainly did seem earnest, though. I only hope we have done what is -best. These things, in conjunction with the wild work we have in hand, -help to unnerve a man.” The Professor stepped over, and laying his hand -on his shoulder, said in his grave, kindly way:-- - -“Friend John, have no fear. We are trying to do our duty in a very sad -and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best. What else have we to -hope for, except the pity of the good God?” Lord Godalming had slipped -away for a few minutes, but now he returned. He held up a little silver -whistle, as he remarked:-- - -“That old place may be full of rats, and if so, I’ve got an antidote on -call.” Having passed the wall, we took our way to the house, taking care -to keep in the shadows of the trees on the lawn when the moonlight shone -out. When we got to the porch the Professor opened his bag and took out -a lot of things, which he laid on the step, sorting them into four -little groups, evidently one for each. Then he spoke:-- - -“My friends, we are going into a terrible danger, and we need arms of -many kinds. Our enemy is not merely spiritual. Remember that he has the -strength of twenty men, and that, though our necks or our windpipes are -of the common kind--and therefore breakable or crushable--his are not -amenable to mere strength. A stronger man, or a body of men more strong -in all than him, can at certain times hold him; but they cannot hurt him -as we can be hurt by him. We must, therefore, guard ourselves from his -touch. Keep this near your heart”--as he spoke he lifted a little silver -crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him--“put these -flowers round your neck”--here he handed to me a wreath of withered -garlic blossoms--“for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this -knife; and for aid in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can -fasten to your breast; and for all, and above all at the last, this, -which we must not desecrate needless.” This was a portion of Sacred -Wafer, which he put in an envelope and handed to me. Each of the others -was similarly equipped. “Now,” he said, “friend John, where are the -skeleton keys? If so that we can open the door, we need not break house -by the window, as before at Miss Lucy’s.” - -Dr. Seward tried one or two skeleton keys, his mechanical dexterity as a -surgeon standing him in good stead. Presently he got one to suit; after -a little play back and forward the bolt yielded, and, with a rusty -clang, shot back. We pressed on the door, the rusty hinges creaked, and -it slowly opened. It was startlingly like the image conveyed to me in -Dr. Seward’s diary of the opening of Miss Westenra’s tomb; I fancy that -the same idea seemed to strike the others, for with one accord they -shrank back. The Professor was the first to move forward, and stepped -into the open door. - -“_In manus tuas, Domine!_” he said, crossing himself as he passed over -the threshold. We closed the door behind us, lest when we should have -lit our lamps we should possibly attract attention from the road. The -Professor carefully tried the lock, lest we might not be able to open it -from within should we be in a hurry making our exit. Then we all lit our -lamps and proceeded on our search. - -The light from the tiny lamps fell in all sorts of odd forms, as the -rays crossed each other, or the opacity of our bodies threw great -shadows. I could not for my life get away from the feeling that there -was some one else amongst us. I suppose it was the recollection, so -powerfully brought home to me by the grim surroundings, of that terrible -experience in Transylvania. I think the feeling was common to us all, -for I noticed that the others kept looking over their shoulders at every -sound and every new shadow, just as I felt myself doing. - -The whole place was thick with dust. The floor was seemingly inches -deep, except where there were recent footsteps, in which on holding down -my lamp I could see marks of hobnails where the dust was cracked. The -walls were fluffy and heavy with dust, and in the corners were masses of -spider’s webs, whereon the dust had gathered till they looked like old -tattered rags as the weight had torn them partly down. On a table in the -hall was a great bunch of keys, with a time-yellowed label on each. They -had been used several times, for on the table were several similar rents -in the blanket of dust, similar to that exposed when the Professor -lifted them. He turned to me and said:-- - -“You know this place, Jonathan. You have copied maps of it, and you know -it at least more than we do. Which is the way to the chapel?” I had an -idea of its direction, though on my former visit I had not been able to -get admission to it; so I led the way, and after a few wrong turnings -found myself opposite a low, arched oaken door, ribbed with iron bands. -“This is the spot,” said the Professor as he turned his lamp on a small -map of the house, copied from the file of my original correspondence -regarding the purchase. With a little trouble we found the key on the -bunch and opened the door. We were prepared for some unpleasantness, for -as we were opening the door a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale -through the gaps, but none of us ever expected such an odour as we -encountered. None of the others had met the Count at all at close -quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of -his existence in his rooms or, when he was gloated with fresh blood, in -a ruined building open to the air; but here the place was small and -close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul. There was -an earthy smell, as of some dry miasma, which came through the fouler -air. But as to the odour itself, how shall I describe it? It was not -alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the -pungent, acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had -become itself corrupt. Faugh! it sickens me to think of it. Every breath -exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and -intensified its loathsomeness. - -Under ordinary circumstances such a stench would have brought our -enterprise to an end; but this was no ordinary case, and the high and -terrible purpose in which we were involved gave us a strength which rose -above merely physical considerations. After the involuntary shrinking -consequent on the first nauseous whiff, we one and all set about our -work as though that loathsome place were a garden of roses. - -We made an accurate examination of the place, the Professor saying as we -began:-- - -“The first thing is to see how many of the boxes are left; we must then -examine every hole and corner and cranny and see if we cannot get some -clue as to what has become of the rest.” A glance was sufficient to show -how many remained, for the great earth chests were bulky, and there was -no mistaking them. - -There were only twenty-nine left out of the fifty! Once I got a fright, -for, seeing Lord Godalming suddenly turn and look out of the vaulted -door into the dark passage beyond, I looked too, and for an instant my -heart stood still. Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to -see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the -red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor. It was only for a moment, for, -as Lord Godalming said, “I thought I saw a face, but it was only the -shadows,” and resumed his inquiry, I turned my lamp in the direction, -and stepped into the passage. There was no sign of any one; and as there -were no corners, no doors, no aperture of any kind, but only the solid -walls of the passage, there could be no hiding-place even for _him_. I -took it that fear had helped imagination, and said nothing. - -A few minutes later I saw Morris step suddenly back from a corner, which -he was examining. We all followed his movements with our eyes, for -undoubtedly some nervousness was growing on us, and we saw a whole mass -of phosphorescence, which twinkled like stars. We all instinctively drew -back. The whole place was becoming alive with rats. - -For a moment or two we stood appalled, all save Lord Godalming, who was -seemingly prepared for such an emergency. Rushing over to the great -iron-bound oaken door, which Dr. Seward had described from the outside, -and which I had seen myself, he turned the key in the lock, drew the -huge bolts, and swung the door open. Then, taking his little silver -whistle from his pocket, he blew a low, shrill call. It was answered -from behind Dr. Seward’s house by the yelping of dogs, and after about a -minute three terriers came dashing round the corner of the house. -Unconsciously we had all moved towards the door, and as we moved I -noticed that the dust had been much disturbed: the boxes which had been -taken out had been brought this way. But even in the minute that had -elapsed the number of the rats had vastly increased. They seemed to -swarm over the place all at once, till the lamplight, shining on their -moving dark bodies and glittering, baleful eyes, made the place look -like a bank of earth set with fireflies. The dogs dashed on, but at the -threshold suddenly stopped and snarled, and then, simultaneously lifting -their noses, began to howl in most lugubrious fashion. The rats were -multiplying in thousands, and we moved out. - -Lord Godalming lifted one of the dogs, and carrying him in, placed him -on the floor. The instant his feet touched the ground he seemed to -recover his courage, and rushed at his natural enemies. They fled before -him so fast that before he had shaken the life out of a score, the other -dogs, who had by now been lifted in the same manner, had but small prey -ere the whole mass had vanished. - -With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for -the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at -their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed them in -the air with vicious shakes. We all seemed to find our spirits rise. -Whether it was the purifying of the deadly atmosphere by the opening of -the chapel door, or the relief which we experienced by finding ourselves -in the open I know not; but most certainly the shadow of dread seemed to -slip from us like a robe, and the occasion of our coming lost something -of its grim significance, though we did not slacken a whit in our -resolution. We closed the outer door and barred and locked it, and -bringing the dogs with us, began our search of the house. We found -nothing throughout except dust in extraordinary proportions, and all -untouched save for my own footsteps when I had made my first visit. -Never once did the dogs exhibit any symptom of uneasiness, and even when -we returned to the chapel they frisked about as though they had been -rabbit-hunting in a summer wood. - -The morning was quickening in the east when we emerged from the front. -Dr. Van Helsing had taken the key of the hall-door from the bunch, and -locked the door in orthodox fashion, putting the key into his pocket -when he had done. - -“So far,” he said, “our night has been eminently successful. No harm has -come to us such as I feared might be and yet we have ascertained how -many boxes are missing. More than all do I rejoice that this, our -first--and perhaps our most difficult and dangerous--step has been -accomplished without the bringing thereinto our most sweet Madam Mina or -troubling her waking or sleeping thoughts with sights and sounds and -smells of horror which she might never forget. One lesson, too, we have -learned, if it be allowable to argue _a particulari_: that the brute -beasts which are to the Count’s command are yet themselves not amenable -to his spiritual power; for look, these rats that would come to his -call, just as from his castle top he summon the wolves to your going and -to that poor mother’s cry, though they come to him, they run pell-mell -from the so little dogs of my friend Arthur. We have other matters -before us, other dangers, other fears; and that monster--he has not used -his power over the brute world for the only or the last time to-night. -So be it that he has gone elsewhere. Good! It has given us opportunity -to cry ‘check’ in some ways in this chess game, which we play for the -stake of human souls. And now let us go home. The dawn is close at hand, -and we have reason to be content with our first night’s work. It may be -ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril; -but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink.” - -The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who -was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning sound -from Renfield’s room. The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself, -after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of pain. - -I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so -softly that I had to put my ear down to hear it. She looks paler than -usual. I hope the meeting to-night has not upset her. I am truly -thankful that she is to be left out of our future work, and even of our -deliberations. It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not -think so at first, but I know better now. Therefore I am glad that it is -settled. There may be things which would frighten her to hear; and yet -to conceal them from her might be worse than to tell her if once she -suspected that there was any concealment. Henceforth our work is to be a -sealed book to her, till at least such time as we can tell her that all -is finished, and the earth free from a monster of the nether world. I -daresay it will be difficult to begin to keep silence after such -confidence as ours; but I must be resolute, and to-morrow I shall keep -dark over to-night’s doings, and shall refuse to speak of anything that -has happened. I rest on the sofa, so as not to disturb her. - - * * * * * - -_1 October, later._--I suppose it was natural that we should have all -overslept ourselves, for the day was a busy one, and the night had no -rest at all. Even Mina must have felt its exhaustion, for though I slept -till the sun was high, I was awake before her, and had to call two or -three times before she awoke. Indeed, she was so sound asleep that for a -few seconds she did not recognize me, but looked at me with a sort of -blank terror, as one looks who has been waked out of a bad dream. She -complained a little of being tired, and I let her rest till later in the -day. We now know of twenty-one boxes having been removed, and if it be -that several were taken in any of these removals we may be able to trace -them all. Such will, of course, immensely simplify our labour, and the -sooner the matter is attended to the better. I shall look up Thomas -Snelling to-day. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_1 October._--It was towards noon when I was awakened by the Professor -walking into my room. He was more jolly and cheerful than usual, and it -is quite evident that last night’s work has helped to take some of the -brooding weight off his mind. After going over the adventure of the -night he suddenly said:-- - -“Your patient interests me much. May it be that with you I visit him -this morning? Or if that you are too occupy, I can go alone if it may -be. It is a new experience to me to find a lunatic who talk philosophy, -and reason so sound.” I had some work to do which pressed, so I told him -that if he would go alone I would be glad, as then I should not have to -keep him waiting; so I called an attendant and gave him the necessary -instructions. Before the Professor left the room I cautioned him against -getting any false impression from my patient. “But,” he answered, “I -want him to talk of himself and of his delusion as to consuming live -things. He said to Madam Mina, as I see in your diary of yesterday, that -he had once had such a belief. Why do you smile, friend John?” - -“Excuse me,” I said, “but the answer is here.” I laid my hand on the -type-written matter. “When our sane and learned lunatic made that very -statement of how he _used_ to consume life, his mouth was actually -nauseous with the flies and spiders which he had eaten just before Mrs. -Harker entered the room.” Van Helsing smiled in turn. “Good!” he said. -“Your memory is true, friend John. I should have remembered. And yet it -is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes mental disease -such a fascinating study. Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the -folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. -Who knows?” I went on with my work, and before long was through that in -hand. It seemed that the time had been very short indeed, but there was -Van Helsing back in the study. “Do I interrupt?” he asked politely as he -stood at the door. - -“Not at all,” I answered. “Come in. My work is finished, and I am free. -I can go with you now, if you like. - -“It is needless; I have seen him!” - -“Well?” - -“I fear that he does not appraise me at much. Our interview was short. -When I entered his room he was sitting on a stool in the centre, with -his elbows on his knees, and his face was the picture of sullen -discontent. I spoke to him as cheerfully as I could, and with such a -measure of respect as I could assume. He made no reply whatever. “Don’t -you know me?” I asked. His answer was not reassuring: “I know you well -enough; you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself -and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed -Dutchmen!” Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable -sullenness as indifferent to me as though I had not been in the room at -all. Thus departed for this time my chance of much learning from this so -clever lunatic; so I shall go, if I may, and cheer myself with a few -happy words with that sweet soul Madam Mina. Friend John, it does -rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be -worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it -is better so.” - -“I agree with you with all my heart,” I answered earnestly, for I did -not want him to weaken in this matter. “Mrs. Harker is better out of it. -Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have -been in many tight places in our time; but it is no place for a woman, -and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time -infallibly have wrecked her.” - -So Van Helsing has gone to confer with Mrs. Harker and Harker; Quincey -and Art are all out following up the clues as to the earth-boxes. I -shall finish my round of work and we shall meet to-night. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_1 October._--It is strange to me to be kept in the dark as I am to-day; -after Jonathan’s full confidence for so many years, to see him -manifestly avoid certain matters, and those the most vital of all. This -morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday, and though -Jonathan was late too, he was the earlier. He spoke to me before he went -out, never more sweetly or tenderly, but he never mentioned a word of -what had happened in the visit to the Count’s house. And yet he must -have known how terribly anxious I was. Poor dear fellow! I suppose it -must have distressed him even more than it did me. They all agreed that -it was best that I should not be drawn further into this awful work, and -I acquiesced. But to think that he keeps anything from me! And now I am -crying like a silly fool, when I _know_ it comes from my husband’s great -love and from the good, good wishes of those other strong men. - -That has done me good. Well, some day Jonathan will tell me all; and -lest it should ever be that he should think for a moment that I kept -anything from him, I still keep my journal as usual. Then if he has -feared of my trust I shall show it to him, with every thought of my -heart put down for his dear eyes to read. I feel strangely sad and -low-spirited to-day. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible -excitement. - -Last night I went to bed when the men had gone, simply because they told -me to. I didn’t feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety. I -kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to -see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate -pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does -seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which -is most to be deplored. If I hadn’t gone to Whitby, perhaps poor dear -Lucy would be with us now. She hadn’t taken to visiting the churchyard -till I came, and if she hadn’t come there in the day-time with me she -wouldn’t have walked there in her sleep; and if she hadn’t gone there at -night and asleep, that monster couldn’t have destroyed her as he did. -Oh, why did I ever go to Whitby? There now, crying again! I wonder what -has come over me to-day. I must hide it from Jonathan, for if he knew -that I had been crying twice in one morning--I, who never cried on my -own account, and whom he has never caused to shed a tear--the dear -fellow would fret his heart out. I shall put a bold face on, and if I do -feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons -that we poor women have to learn.... - -I can’t quite remember how I fell asleep last night. I remember hearing -the sudden barking of the dogs and a lot of queer sounds, like praying -on a very tumultuous scale, from Mr. Renfield’s room, which is somewhere -under this. And then there was silence over everything, silence so -profound that it startled me, and I got up and looked out of the window. -All was dark and silent, the black shadows thrown by the moonlight -seeming full of a silent mystery of their own. Not a thing seemed to be -stirring, but all to be grim and fixed as death or fate; so that a thin -streak of white mist, that crept with almost imperceptible slowness -across the grass towards the house, seemed to have a sentience and a -vitality of its own. I think that the digression of my thoughts must -have done me good, for when I got back to bed I found a lethargy -creeping over me. I lay a while, but could not quite sleep, so I got out -and looked out of the window again. The mist was spreading, and was now -close up to the house, so that I could see it lying thick against the -wall, as though it were stealing up to the windows. The poor man was -more loud than ever, and though I could not distinguish a word he said, -I could in some way recognise in his tones some passionate entreaty on -his part. Then there was the sound of a struggle, and I knew that the -attendants were dealing with him. I was so frightened that I crept into -bed, and pulled the clothes over my head, putting my fingers in my ears. -I was not then a bit sleepy, at least so I thought; but I must have -fallen asleep, for, except dreams, I do not remember anything until the -morning, when Jonathan woke me. I think that it took me an effort and a -little time to realise where I was, and that it was Jonathan who was -bending over me. My dream was very peculiar, and was almost typical of -the way that waking thoughts become merged in, or continued in, dreams. - -I thought that I was asleep, and waiting for Jonathan to come back. I -was very anxious about him, and I was powerless to act; my feet, and my -hands, and my brain were weighted, so that nothing could proceed at the -usual pace. And so I slept uneasily and thought. Then it began to dawn -upon me that the air was heavy, and dank, and cold. I put back the -clothes from my face, and found, to my surprise, that all was dim -around. The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but turned down, -came only like a tiny red spark through the fog, which had evidently -grown thicker and poured into the room. Then it occurred to me that I -had shut the window before I had come to bed. I would have got out to -make certain on the point, but some leaden lethargy seemed to chain my -limbs and even my will. I lay still and endured; that was all. I closed -my eyes, but could still see through my eyelids. (It is wonderful what -tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.) The -mist grew thicker and thicker and I could see now how it came in, for I -could see it like smoke--or with the white energy of boiling -water--pouring in, not through the window, but through the joinings of -the door. It got thicker and thicker, till it seemed as if it became -concentrated into a sort of pillar of cloud in the room, through the top -of which I could see the light of the gas shining like a red eye. Things -began to whirl through my brain just as the cloudy column was now -whirling in the room, and through it all came the scriptural words “a -pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night.” Was it indeed some such -spiritual guidance that was coming to me in my sleep? But the pillar was -composed of both the day and the night-guiding, for the fire was in the -red eye, which at the thought got a new fascination for me; till, as I -looked, the fire divided, and seemed to shine on me through the fog like -two red eyes, such as Lucy told me of in her momentary mental wandering -when, on the cliff, the dying sunlight struck the windows of St. Mary’s -Church. Suddenly the horror burst upon me that it was thus that Jonathan -had seen those awful women growing into reality through the whirling mist -in the moonlight, and in my dream I must have fainted, for all became -black darkness. The last conscious effort which imagination made was to -show me a livid white face bending over me out of the mist. I must be -careful of such dreams, for they would unseat one’s reason if there were -too much of them. I would get Dr. Van Helsing or Dr. Seward to prescribe -something for me which would make me sleep, only that I fear to alarm -them. Such a dream at the present time would become woven into their -fears for me. To-night I shall strive hard to sleep naturally. If I do -not, I shall to-morrow night get them to give me a dose of chloral; that -cannot hurt me for once, and it will give me a good night’s sleep. Last -night tired me more than if I had not slept at all. - - * * * * * - -_2 October 10 p. m._--Last night I slept, but did not dream. I must have -slept soundly, for I was not waked by Jonathan coming to bed; but the -sleep has not refreshed me, for to-day I feel terribly weak and -spiritless. I spent all yesterday trying to read, or lying down dozing. -In the afternoon Mr. Renfield asked if he might see me. Poor man, he was -very gentle, and when I came away he kissed my hand and bade God bless -me. Some way it affected me much; I am crying when I think of him. This -is a new weakness, of which I must be careful. Jonathan would be -miserable if he knew I had been crying. He and the others were out till -dinner-time, and they all came in tired. I did what I could to brighten -them up, and I suppose that the effort did me good, for I forgot how -tired I was. After dinner they sent me to bed, and all went off to smoke -together, as they said, but I knew that they wanted to tell each other -of what had occurred to each during the day; I could see from Jonathan’s -manner that he had something important to communicate. I was not so -sleepy as I should have been; so before they went I asked Dr. Seward to -give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night -before. He very kindly made me up a sleeping draught, which he gave to -me, telling me that it would do me no harm, as it was very mild.... I -have taken it, and am waiting for sleep, which still keeps aloof. I hope -I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear -comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the -power of waking. I might want it. Here comes sleep. Good-night. - - - - -CHAPTER XX - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - - -_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal -Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The -very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had -proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I -learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he -was only the assistant to Smollet, who of the two mates was the -responsible person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph -Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a -saucer. He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable -type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own. He remembered all -about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared -notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the -seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, -half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes. There -were, he said, six in the cartload which he took from Carfax and left at -197, Chicksand Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he -deposited at Jamaica Lane, Bermondsey. If then the Count meant to -scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London, these places were -chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he might distribute more -fully. The systematic manner in which this was done made me think that -he could not mean to confine himself to two sides of London. He was now -fixed on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern -shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to -be left out of his diabolical scheme--let alone the City itself and the -very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. I went back -to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had -been taken from Carfax. - -He replied:-- - -“Well, guv’nor, you’ve treated me wery ’an’some”--I had given him half a -sovereign--“an’ I’ll tell yer all I know. I heard a man by the name of -Bloxam say four nights ago in the ’Are an’ ’Ounds, in Pincher’s Alley, -as ’ow he an’ his mate ’ad ’ad a rare dusty job in a old ’ouse at -Purfect. There ain’t a-many such jobs as this ’ere, an’ I’m thinkin’ -that maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut.” I asked if he could tell me -where to find him. I told him that if he could get me the address it -would be worth another half-sovereign to him. So he gulped down the rest -of his tea and stood up, saying that he was going to begin the search -then and there. At the door he stopped, and said:-- - -“Look ’ere, guv’nor, there ain’t no sense in me a-keepin’ you ’ere. I -may find Sam soon, or I mayn’t; but anyhow he ain’t like to be in a way -to tell ye much to-night. Sam is a rare one when he starts on the booze. -If you can give me a envelope with a stamp on it, and put yer address on -it, I’ll find out where Sam is to be found and post it ye to-night. But -ye’d better be up arter ’im soon in the mornin’, or maybe ye won’t ketch -’im; for Sam gets off main early, never mind the booze the night afore.” - -This was all practical, so one of the children went off with a penny to -buy an envelope and a sheet of paper, and to keep the change. When she -came back, I addressed the envelope and stamped it, and when Smollet had -again faithfully promised to post the address when found, I took my way -to home. We’re on the track anyhow. I am tired to-night, and want sleep. -Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as -though she had been crying. Poor dear, I’ve no doubt it frets her to be -kept in the dark, and it may make her doubly anxious about me and the -others. But it is best as it is. It is better to be disappointed and -worried in such a way now than to have her nerve broken. The doctors -were quite right to insist on her being kept out of this dreadful -business. I must be firm, for on me this particular burden of silence -must rest. I shall not ever enter on the subject with her under any -circumstances. Indeed, it may not be a hard task, after all, for she -herself has become reticent on the subject, and has not spoken of the -Count or his doings ever since we told her of our decision. - - * * * * * - -_2 October, evening._--A long and trying and exciting day. By the first -post I got my directed envelope with a dirty scrap of paper enclosed, on -which was written with a carpenter’s pencil in a sprawling hand:-- - -“Sam Bloxam, Korkrans, 4, Poters Cort, Bartel Street, Walworth. Arsk for -the depite.” - -I got the letter in bed, and rose without waking Mina. She looked heavy -and sleepy and pale, and far from well. I determined not to wake her, -but that, when I should return from this new search, I would arrange for -her going back to Exeter. I think she would be happier in our own home, -with her daily tasks to interest her, than in being here amongst us and -in ignorance. I only saw Dr. Seward for a moment, and told him where I -was off to, promising to come back and tell the rest so soon as I should -have found out anything. I drove to Walworth and found, with some -difficulty, Potter’s Court. Mr. Smollet’s spelling misled me, as I asked -for Poter’s Court instead of Potter’s Court. However, when I had found -the court, I had no difficulty in discovering Corcoran’s lodging-house. -When I asked the man who came to the door for the “depite,” he shook his -head, and said: “I dunno ’im. There ain’t no such a person ’ere; I never -’eard of ’im in all my bloomin’ days. Don’t believe there ain’t nobody -of that kind livin’ ere or anywheres.” I took out Smollet’s letter, and -as I read it it seemed to me that the lesson of the spelling of the name -of the court might guide me. “What are you?” I asked. - -“I’m the depity,” he answered. I saw at once that I was on the right -track; phonetic spelling had again misled me. A half-crown tip put the -deputy’s knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam, who -had slept off the remains of his beer on the previous night at -Corcoran’s, had left for his work at Poplar at five o’clock that -morning. He could not tell me where the place of work was situated, but -he had a vague idea that it was some kind of a “new-fangled ware’us”; -and with this slender clue I had to start for Poplar. It was twelve -o’clock before I got any satisfactory hint of such a building, and this -I got at a coffee-shop, where some workmen were having their dinner. One -of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a -new “cold storage” building; and as this suited the condition of a -“new-fangled ware’us,” I at once drove to it. An interview with a surly -gatekeeper and a surlier foreman, both of whom were appeased with the -coin of the realm, put me on the track of Bloxam; he was sent for on my -suggesting that I was willing to pay his day’s wages to his foreman for -the privilege of asking him a few questions on a private matter. He was -a smart enough fellow, though rough of speech and bearing. When I had -promised to pay for his information and given him an earnest, he told me -that he had made two journeys between Carfax and a house in Piccadilly, -and had taken from this house to the latter nine great boxes--“main -heavy ones”--with a horse and cart hired by him for this purpose. I -asked him if he could tell me the number of the house in Piccadilly, to -which he replied:-- - -“Well, guv’nor, I forgits the number, but it was only a few doors from a -big white church or somethink of the kind, not long built. It was a -dusty old ’ouse, too, though nothin’ to the dustiness of the ’ouse we -tooked the bloomin’ boxes from.” - -“How did you get into the houses if they were both empty?” - -“There was the old party what engaged me a-waitin’ in the ’ouse at -Purfleet. He ’elped me to lift the boxes and put them in the dray. Curse -me, but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an’ him a old feller, -with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he couldn’t throw -a shadder.” - -How this phrase thrilled through me! - -“Why, ’e took up ’is end o’ the boxes like they was pounds of tea, and -me a-puffin’ an’ a-blowin’ afore I could up-end mine anyhow--an’ I’m no -chicken, neither.” - -“How did you get into the house in Piccadilly?” I asked. - -“He was there too. He must ’a’ started off and got there afore me, for -when I rung of the bell he kem an’ opened the door ’isself an’ ’elped me -to carry the boxes into the ’all.” - -“The whole nine?” I asked. - -“Yus; there was five in the first load an’ four in the second. It was -main dry work, an’ I don’t so well remember ’ow I got ’ome.” I -interrupted him:-- - -“Were the boxes left in the hall?” - -“Yus; it was a big ’all, an’ there was nothin’ else in it.” I made one -more attempt to further matters:-- - -“You didn’t have any key?” - -“Never used no key nor nothink. The old gent, he opened the door ’isself -an’ shut it again when I druv off. I don’t remember the last time--but -that was the beer.” - -“And you can’t remember the number of the house?” - -“No, sir. But ye needn’t have no difficulty about that. It’s a ’igh ’un -with a stone front with a bow on it, an’ ’igh steps up to the door. I -know them steps, ’avin’ ’ad to carry the boxes up with three loafers -what come round to earn a copper. The old gent give them shillin’s, an’ -they seein’ they got so much, they wanted more; but ’e took one of them -by the shoulder and was like to throw ’im down the steps, till the lot -of them went away cussin’.” I thought that with this description I could -find the house, so, having paid my friend for his information, I started -off for Piccadilly. I had gained a new painful experience; the Count -could, it was evident, handle the earth-boxes himself. If so, time was -precious; for, now that he had achieved a certain amount of -distribution, he could, by choosing his own time, complete the task -unobserved. At Piccadilly Circus I discharged my cab, and walked -westward; beyond the Junior Constitutional I came across the house -described, and was satisfied that this was the next of the lairs -arranged by Dracula. The house looked as though it had been long -untenanted. The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were -up. All the framework was black with time, and from the iron the paint -had mostly scaled away. It was evident that up to lately there had been -a large notice-board in front of the balcony; it had, however, been -roughly torn away, the uprights which had supported it still remaining. -Behind the rails of the balcony I saw there were some loose boards, -whose raw edges looked white. I would have given a good deal to have -been able to see the notice-board intact, as it would, perhaps, have -given some clue to the ownership of the house. I remembered my -experience of the investigation and purchase of Carfax, and I could not -but feel that if I could find the former owner there might be some means -discovered of gaining access to the house. - -There was at present nothing to be learned from the Piccadilly side, and -nothing could be done; so I went round to the back to see if anything -could be gathered from this quarter. The mews were active, the -Piccadilly houses being mostly in occupation. I asked one or two of the -grooms and helpers whom I saw around if they could tell me anything -about the empty house. One of them said that he heard it had lately been -taken, but he couldn’t say from whom. He told me, however, that up to -very lately there had been a notice-board of “For Sale” up, and that -perhaps Mitchell, Sons, & Candy, the house agents, could tell me -something, as he thought he remembered seeing the name of that firm on -the board. I did not wish to seem too eager, or to let my informant know -or guess too much, so, thanking him in the usual manner, I strolled -away. It was now growing dusk, and the autumn night was closing in, so I -did not lose any time. Having learned the address of Mitchell, Sons, & -Candy from a directory at the Berkeley, I was soon at their office in -Sackville Street. - -The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but -uncommunicative in equal proportion. Having once told me that the -Piccadilly house--which throughout our interview he called a -“mansion”--was sold, he considered my business as concluded. When I -asked who had purchased it, he opened his eyes a thought wider, and -paused a few seconds before replying:-- - -“It is sold, sir.” - -“Pardon me,” I said, with equal politeness, “but I have a special reason -for wishing to know who purchased it.” - -Again he paused longer, and raised his eyebrows still more. “It is sold, -sir,” was again his laconic reply. - -“Surely,” I said, “you do not mind letting me know so much.” - -“But I do mind,” he answered. “The affairs of their clients are -absolutely safe in the hands of Mitchell, Sons, & Candy.” This was -manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with -him. I thought I had best meet him on his own ground, so I said:-- - -“Your clients, sir, are happy in having so resolute a guardian of their -confidence. I am myself a professional man.” Here I handed him my card. -“In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of -Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, -he understood, lately for sale.” These words put a different complexion -on affairs. He said:-- - -“I would like to oblige you if I could, Mr. Harker, and especially would -I like to oblige his lordship. We once carried out a small matter of -renting some chambers for him when he was the Honourable Arthur -Holmwood. If you will let me have his lordship’s address I will consult -the House on the subject, and will, in any case, communicate with his -lordship by to-night’s post. It will be a pleasure if we can so far -deviate from our rules as to give the required information to his -lordship.” - -I wanted to secure a friend, and not to make an enemy, so I thanked him, -gave the address at Dr. Seward’s and came away. It was now dark, and I -was tired and hungry. I got a cup of tea at the Aërated Bread Company -and came down to Purfleet by the next train. - -I found all the others at home. Mina was looking tired and pale, but she -made a gallant effort to be bright and cheerful, it wrung my heart to -think that I had had to keep anything from her and so caused her -inquietude. Thank God, this will be the last night of her looking on at -our conferences, and feeling the sting of our not showing our -confidence. It took all my courage to hold to the wise resolution of -keeping her out of our grim task. She seems somehow more reconciled; or -else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when -any accidental allusion is made she actually shudders. I am glad we -made our resolution in time, as with such a feeling as this, our growing -knowledge would be torture to her. - -I could not tell the others of the day’s discovery till we were alone; -so after dinner--followed by a little music to save appearances even -amongst ourselves--I took Mina to her room and left her to go to bed. -The dear girl was more affectionate with me than ever, and clung to me -as though she would detain me; but there was much to be talked of and I -came away. Thank God, the ceasing of telling things has made no -difference between us. - -When I came down again I found the others all gathered round the fire in -the study. In the train I had written my diary so far, and simply read -it off to them as the best means of letting them get abreast of my own -information; when I had finished Van Helsing said:-- - -“This has been a great day’s work, friend Jonathan. Doubtless we are on -the track of the missing boxes. If we find them all in that house, then -our work is near the end. But if there be some missing, we must search -until we find them. Then shall we make our final _coup_, and hunt the -wretch to his real death.” We all sat silent awhile and all at once Mr. -Morris spoke:-- - -“Say! how are we going to get into that house?” - -“We got into the other,” answered Lord Godalming quickly. - -“But, Art, this is different. We broke house at Carfax, but we had night -and a walled park to protect us. It will be a mighty different thing to -commit burglary in Piccadilly, either by day or night. I confess I don’t -see how we are going to get in unless that agency duck can find us a key -of some sort; perhaps we shall know when you get his letter in the -morning.” Lord Godalming’s brows contracted, and he stood up and walked -about the room. By-and-by he stopped and said, turning from one to -another of us:-- - -“Quincey’s head is level. This burglary business is getting serious; we -got off once all right; but we have now a rare job on hand--unless we -can find the Count’s key basket.” - -As nothing could well be done before morning, and as it would be at -least advisable to wait till Lord Godalming should hear from Mitchell’s, -we decided not to take any active step before breakfast time. For a good -while we sat and smoked, discussing the matter in its various lights and -bearings; I took the opportunity of bringing this diary right up to the -moment. I am very sleepy and shall go to bed.... - -Just a line. Mina sleeps soundly and her breathing is regular. Her -forehead is puckered up into little wrinkles, as though she thinks even -in her sleep. She is still too pale, but does not look so haggard as she -did this morning. To-morrow will, I hope, mend all this; she will be -herself at home in Exeter. Oh, but I am sleepy! - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_1 October._--I am puzzled afresh about Renfield. His moods change so -rapidly that I find it difficult to keep touch of them, and as they -always mean something more than his own well-being, they form a more -than interesting study. This morning, when I went to see him after his -repulse of Van Helsing, his manner was that of a man commanding destiny. -He was, in fact, commanding destiny--subjectively. He did not really -care for any of the things of mere earth; he was in the clouds and -looked down on all the weaknesses and wants of us poor mortals. I -thought I would improve the occasion and learn something, so I asked -him:-- - -“What about the flies these times?” He smiled on me in quite a superior -sort of way--such a smile as would have become the face of Malvolio--as -he answered me:-- - -“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical -of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well -when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” - -I thought I would push his analogy to its utmost logically, so I said -quickly:-- - -“Oh, it is a soul you are after now, is it?” His madness foiled his -reason, and a puzzled look spread over his face as, shaking his head -with a decision which I had but seldom seen in him, he said:-- - -“Oh, no, oh no! I want no souls. Life is all I want.” Here he brightened -up; “I am pretty indifferent about it at present. Life is all right; I -have all I want. You must get a new patient, doctor, if you wish to -study zoöphagy!” - -This puzzled me a little, so I drew him on:-- - -“Then you command life; you are a god, I suppose?” He smiled with an -ineffably benign superiority. - -“Oh no! Far be it from me to arrogate to myself the attributes of the -Deity. I am not even concerned in His especially spiritual doings. If I -may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things -purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied -spiritually!” This was a poser to me. I could not at the moment recall -Enoch’s appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt -that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:-- - -“And why with Enoch?” - -“Because he walked with God.” I could not see the analogy, but did not -like to admit it; so I harked back to what he had denied:-- - -“So you don’t care about life and you don’t want souls. Why not?” I put -my question quickly and somewhat sternly, on purpose to disconcert him. -The effort succeeded; for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his -old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as -he replied:-- - -“I don’t want any souls, indeed, indeed! I don’t. I couldn’t use them if -I had them; they would be no manner of use to me. I couldn’t eat them -or----” He suddenly stopped and the old cunning look spread over his -face, like a wind-sweep on the surface of the water. “And doctor, as to -life, what is it after all? When you’ve got all you require, and you -know that you will never want, that is all. I have friends--good -friends--like you, Dr. Seward”; this was said with a leer of -inexpressible cunning. “I know that I shall never lack the means of -life!” - -I think that through the cloudiness of his insanity he saw some -antagonism in me, for he at once fell back on the last refuge of such as -he--a dogged silence. After a short time I saw that for the present it -was useless to speak to him. He was sulky, and so I came away. - -Later in the day he sent for me. Ordinarily I would not have come -without special reason, but just at present I am so interested in him -that I would gladly make an effort. Besides, I am glad to have anything -to help to pass the time. Harker is out, following up clues; and so are -Lord Godalming and Quincey. Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the -record prepared by the Harkers; he seems to think that by accurate -knowledge of all details he will light upon some clue. He does not wish -to be disturbed in the work, without cause. I would have taken him with -me to see the patient, only I thought that after his last repulse he -might not care to go again. There was also another reason: Renfield -might not speak so freely before a third person as when he and I were -alone. - -I found him sitting out in the middle of the floor on his stool, a pose -which is generally indicative of some mental energy on his part. When I -came in, he said at once, as though the question had been waiting on his -lips:-- - -“What about souls?” It was evident then that my surmise had been -correct. Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the -lunatic. I determined to have the matter out. “What about them -yourself?” I asked. He did not reply for a moment but looked all round -him, and up and down, as though he expected to find some inspiration for -an answer. - -“I don’t want any souls!” he said in a feeble, apologetic way. The -matter seemed preying on his mind, and so I determined to use it--to “be -cruel only to be kind.” So I said:-- - -“You like life, and you want life?” - -“Oh yes! but that is all right; you needn’t worry about that!” - -“But,” I asked, “how are we to get the life without getting the soul -also?” This seemed to puzzle him, so I followed it up:-- - -“A nice time you’ll have some time when you’re flying out there, with -the souls of thousands of flies and spiders and birds and cats buzzing -and twittering and miauing all round you. You’ve got their lives, you -know, and you must put up with their souls!” Something seemed to affect -his imagination, for he put his fingers to his ears and shut his eyes, -screwing them up tightly just as a small boy does when his face is being -soaped. There was something pathetic in it that touched me; it also gave -me a lesson, for it seemed that before me was a child--only a child, -though the features were worn, and the stubble on the jaws was white. It -was evident that he was undergoing some process of mental disturbance, -and, knowing how his past moods had interpreted things seemingly foreign -to himself, I thought I would enter into his mind as well as I could and -go with him. The first step was to restore confidence, so I asked him, -speaking pretty loud so that he would hear me through his closed ears:-- - -“Would you like some sugar to get your flies round again?” He seemed to -wake up all at once, and shook his head. With a laugh he replied:-- - -“Not much! flies are poor things, after all!” After a pause he added, -“But I don’t want their souls buzzing round me, all the same.” - -“Or spiders?” I went on. - -“Blow spiders! What’s the use of spiders? There isn’t anything in them -to eat or”--he stopped suddenly, as though reminded of a forbidden -topic. - -“So, so!” I thought to myself, “this is the second time he has suddenly -stopped at the word ‘drink’; what does it mean?” Renfield seemed himself -aware of having made a lapse, for he hurried on, as though to distract -my attention from it:-- - -“I don’t take any stock at all in such matters. ‘Rats and mice and such -small deer,’ as Shakespeare has it, ‘chicken-feed of the larder’ they -might be called. I’m past all that sort of nonsense. You might as well -ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to -interest me about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before -me.” - -“I see,” I said. “You want big things that you can make your teeth meet -in? How would you like to breakfast on elephant?” - -“What ridiculous nonsense you are talking!” He was getting too wide -awake, so I thought I would press him hard. “I wonder,” I said -reflectively, “what an elephant’s soul is like!” - -The effect I desired was obtained, for he at once fell from his -high-horse and became a child again. - -“I don’t want an elephant’s soul, or any soul at all!” he said. For a -few moments he sat despondently. Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with -his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement. “To -hell with you and your souls!” he shouted. “Why do you plague me about -souls? Haven’t I got enough to worry, and pain, and distract me already, -without thinking of souls!” He looked so hostile that I thought he was -in for another homicidal fit, so I blew my whistle. The instant, -however, that I did so he became calm, and said apologetically:-- - -“Forgive me, Doctor; I forgot myself. You do not need any help. I am so -worried in my mind that I am apt to be irritable. If you only knew the -problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and -tolerate, and pardon me. Pray do not put me in a strait-waistcoat. I -want to think and I cannot think freely when my body is confined. I am -sure you will understand!” He had evidently self-control; so when the -attendants came I told them not to mind, and they withdrew. Renfield -watched them go; when the door was closed he said, with considerable -dignity and sweetness:-- - -“Dr. Seward, you have been very considerate towards me. Believe me that -I am very, very grateful to you!” I thought it well to leave him in this -mood, and so I came away. There is certainly something to ponder over in -this man’s state. Several points seem to make what the American -interviewer calls “a story,” if one could only get them in proper order. -Here they are:-- - -Will not mention “drinking.” - -Fears the thought of being burdened with the “soul” of anything. - -Has no dread of wanting “life” in the future. - -Despises the meaner forms of life altogether, though he dreads being -haunted by their souls. - -Logically all these things point one way! he has assurance of some kind -that he will acquire some higher life. He dreads the consequence--the -burden of a soul. Then it is a human life he looks to! - -And the assurance--? - -Merciful God! the Count has been to him, and there is some new scheme of -terror afoot! - - * * * * * - -_Later._--I went after my round to Van Helsing and told him my -suspicion. He grew very grave; and, after thinking the matter over for a -while asked me to take him to Renfield. I did so. As we came to the door -we heard the lunatic within singing gaily, as he used to do in the time -which now seems so long ago. When we entered we saw with amazement that -he had spread out his sugar as of old; the flies, lethargic with the -autumn, were beginning to buzz into the room. We tried to make him talk -of the subject of our previous conversation, but he would not attend. He -went on with his singing, just as though we had not been present. He had -got a scrap of paper and was folding it into a note-book. We had to come -away as ignorant as we went in. - -His is a curious case indeed; we must watch him to-night. - - -_Letter, Mitchell, Sons and Candy to Lord Godalming._ - -_“1 October._ - -“My Lord, - -“We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes. We beg, with -regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr. Harker on your -behalf, to supply the following information concerning the sale and -purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly. The original vendors are the executors -of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield. The purchaser is a foreign -nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the -purchase money in notes ‘over the counter,’ if your Lordship will pardon -us using so vulgar an expression. Beyond this we know nothing whatever -of him. - -“We are, my Lord, - -“Your Lordship’s humble servants, - -“MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_2 October._--I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to -make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield’s room, -and gave him instructions that if there should be anything strange he -was to call me. After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire -in the study--Mrs. Harker having gone to bed--we discussed the attempts -and discoveries of the day. Harker was the only one who had any result, -and we are in great hopes that his clue may be an important one. - -Before going to bed I went round to the patient’s room and looked in -through the observation trap. He was sleeping soundly, and his heart -rose and fell with regular respiration. - -This morning the man on duty reported to me that a little after midnight -he was restless and kept saying his prayers somewhat loudly. I asked him -if that was all; he replied that it was all he heard. There was -something about his manner so suspicious that I asked him point blank if -he had been asleep. He denied sleep, but admitted to having “dozed” for -a while. It is too bad that men cannot be trusted unless they are -watched. - -To-day Harker is out following up his clue, and Art and Quincey are -looking after horses. Godalming thinks that it will be well to have -horses always in readiness, for when we get the information which we -seek there will be no time to lose. We must sterilise all the imported -earth between sunrise and sunset; we shall thus catch the Count at his -weakest, and without a refuge to fly to. Van Helsing is off to the -British Museum looking up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old -physicians took account of things which their followers do not accept, -and the Professor is searching for witch and demon cures which may be -useful to us later. - -I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in -strait-waistcoats. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--We have met again. We seem at last to be on the track, and our -work of to-morrow may be the beginning of the end. I wonder if -Renfield’s quiet has anything to do with this. His moods have so -followed the doings of the Count, that the coming destruction of the -monster may be carried to him in some subtle way. If we could only get -some hint as to what passed in his mind, between the time of my argument -with him to-day and his resumption of fly-catching, it might afford us a -valuable clue. He is now seemingly quiet for a spell.... Is he?---- That -wild yell seemed to come from his room.... - - * * * * * - -The attendant came bursting into my room and told me that Renfield had -somehow met with some accident. He had heard him yell; and when he went -to him found him lying on his face on the floor, all covered with blood. -I must go at once.... - - - - -CHAPTER XXI - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well -as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I -can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed. - -When I came to Renfield’s room I found him lying on the floor on his -left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it -became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries; -there seemed none of that unity of purpose between the parts of the body -which marks even lethargic sanity. As the face was exposed I could see -that it was horribly bruised, as though it had been beaten against the -floor--indeed it was from the face wounds that the pool of blood -originated. The attendant who was kneeling beside the body said to me as -we turned him over:-- - -“I think, sir, his back is broken. See, both his right arm and leg and -the whole side of his face are paralysed.” How such a thing could have -happened puzzled the attendant beyond measure. He seemed quite -bewildered, and his brows were gathered in as he said:-- - -“I can’t understand the two things. He could mark his face like that by -beating his own head on the floor. I saw a young woman do it once at the -Eversfield Asylum before anyone could lay hands on her. And I suppose he -might have broke his neck by falling out of bed, if he got in an awkward -kink. But for the life of me I can’t imagine how the two things -occurred. If his back was broke, he couldn’t beat his head; and if his -face was like that before the fall out of bed, there would be marks of -it.” I said to him:-- - -“Go to Dr. Van Helsing, and ask him to kindly come here at once. I want -him without an instant’s delay.” The man ran off, and within a few -minutes the Professor, in his dressing gown and slippers, appeared. When -he saw Renfield on the ground, he looked keenly at him a moment, and -then turned to me. I think he recognised my thought in my eyes, for he -said very quietly, manifestly for the ears of the attendant:-- - -“Ah, a sad accident! He will need very careful watching, and much -attention. I shall stay with you myself; but I shall first dress myself. -If you will remain I shall in a few minutes join you.” - -The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that -he had suffered some terrible injury. Van Helsing returned with -extraordinary celerity, bearing with him a surgical case. He had -evidently been thinking and had his mind made up; for, almost before he -looked at the patient, he whispered to me:-- - -“Send the attendant away. We must be alone with him when he becomes -conscious, after the operation.” So I said:-- - -“I think that will do now, Simmons. We have done all that we can at -present. You had better go your round, and Dr. Van Helsing will operate. -Let me know instantly if there be anything unusual anywhere.” - -The man withdrew, and we went into a strict examination of the patient. -The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed -fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area. The -Professor thought a moment and said:-- - -“We must reduce the pressure and get back to normal conditions, as far -as can be; the rapidity of the suffusion shows the terrible nature of -his injury. The whole motor area seems affected. The suffusion of the -brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be -too late.” As he was speaking there was a soft tapping at the door. I -went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and -Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:-- - -“I heard your man call up Dr. Van Helsing and tell him of an accident. -So I woke Quincey or rather called for him as he was not asleep. Things -are moving too quickly and too strangely for sound sleep for any of us -these times. I’ve been thinking that to-morrow night will not see things -as they have been. We’ll have to look back--and forward a little more -than we have done. May we come in?” I nodded, and held the door open -till they had entered; then I closed it again. When Quincey saw the -attitude and state of the patient, and noted the horrible pool on the -floor, he said softly:-- - -“My God! what has happened to him? Poor, poor devil!” I told him -briefly, and added that we expected he would recover consciousness after -the operation--for a short time, at all events. He went at once and sat -down on the edge of the bed, with Godalming beside him; we all watched -in patience. - -“We shall wait,” said Van Helsing, “just long enough to fix the best -spot for trephining, so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove -the blood clot; for it is evident that the hæmorrhage is increasing.” - -The minutes during which we waited passed with fearful slowness. I had a -horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing’s face I gathered -that he felt some fear or apprehension as to what was to come. I dreaded -the words that Renfield might speak. I was positively afraid to think; -but the conviction of what was coming was on me, as I have read of men -who have heard the death-watch. The poor man’s breathing came in -uncertain gasps. Each instant he seemed as though he would open his eyes -and speak; but then would follow a prolonged stertorous breath, and he -would relapse into a more fixed insensibility. Inured as I was to sick -beds and death, this suspense grew, and grew upon me. I could almost -hear the beating of my own heart; and the blood surging through my -temples sounded like blows from a hammer. The silence finally became -agonising. I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from -their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal -torture. There was a nervous suspense over us all, as though overhead -some dread bell would peal out powerfully when we should least expect -it. - -At last there came a time when it was evident that the patient was -sinking fast; he might die at any moment. I looked up at the Professor -and caught his eyes fixed on mine. His face was sternly set as he -spoke:-- - -“There is no time to lose. His words may be worth many lives; I have -been thinking so, as I stood here. It may be there is a soul at stake! -We shall operate just above the ear.” - -Without another word he made the operation. For a few moments the -breathing continued to be stertorous. Then there came a breath so -prolonged that it seemed as though it would tear open his chest. -Suddenly his eyes opened, and became fixed in a wild, helpless stare. -This was continued for a few moments; then it softened into a glad -surprise, and from the lips came a sigh of relief. He moved -convulsively, and as he did so, said:-- - -“I’ll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait-waistcoat. I -have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot -move. What’s wrong with my face? it feels all swollen, and it smarts -dreadfully.” He tried to turn his head; but even with the effort his -eyes seemed to grow glassy again so I gently put it back. Then Van -Helsing said in a quiet grave tone:-- - -“Tell us your dream, Mr. Renfield.” As he heard the voice his face -brightened, through its mutilation, and he said:-- - -“That is Dr. Van Helsing. How good it is of you to be here. Give me some -water, my lips are dry; and I shall try to tell you. I dreamed”--he -stopped and seemed fainting, I called quietly to Quincey--“The -brandy--it is in my study--quick!” He flew and returned with a glass, -the decanter of brandy and a carafe of water. We moistened the parched -lips, and the patient quickly revived. It seemed, however, that his poor -injured brain had been working in the interval, for, when he was quite -conscious, he looked at me piercingly with an agonised confusion which I -shall never forget, and said:-- - -“I must not deceive myself; it was no dream, but all a grim reality.” -Then his eyes roved round the room; as they caught sight of the two -figures sitting patiently on the edge of the bed he went on:-- - -“If I were not sure already, I would know from them.” For an instant his -eyes closed--not with pain or sleep but voluntarily, as though he were -bringing all his faculties to bear; when he opened them he said, -hurriedly, and with more energy than he had yet displayed:-- - -“Quick, Doctor, quick. I am dying! I feel that I have but a few minutes; -and then I must go back to death--or worse! Wet my lips with brandy -again. I have something that I must say before I die; or before my poor -crushed brain dies anyhow. Thank you! It was that night after you left -me, when I implored you to let me go away. I couldn’t speak then, for I -felt my tongue was tied; but I was as sane then, except in that way, as -I am now. I was in an agony of despair for a long time after you left -me; it seemed hours. Then there came a sudden peace to me. My brain -seemed to become cool again, and I realised where I was. I heard the -dogs bark behind our house, but not where He was!” As he spoke, Van -Helsing’s eyes never blinked, but his hand came out and met mine and -gripped it hard. He did not, however, betray himself; he nodded slightly -and said: “Go on,” in a low voice. Renfield proceeded:-- - -“He came up to the window in the mist, as I had seen him often before; -but he was solid then--not a ghost, and his eyes were fierce like a -man’s when angry. He was laughing with his red mouth; the sharp white -teeth glinted in the moonlight when he turned to look back over the belt -of trees, to where the dogs were barking. I wouldn’t ask him to come in -at first, though I knew he wanted to--just as he had wanted all along. -Then he began promising me things--not in words but by doing them.” He -was interrupted by a word from the Professor:-- - -“How?” - -“By making them happen; just as he used to send in the flies when the -sun was shining. Great big fat ones with steel and sapphire on their -wings; and big moths, in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their -backs.” Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously:-- - -“The _Acherontia Aitetropos of the Sphinges_--what you call the -‘Death’s-head Moth’?” The patient went on without stopping. - -“Then he began to whisper: ‘Rats, rats, rats! Hundreds, thousands, -millions of them, and every one a life; and dogs to eat them, and cats -too. All lives! all red blood, with years of life in it; and not merely -buzzing flies!’ I laughed at him, for I wanted to see what he could do. -Then the dogs howled, away beyond the dark trees in His house. He -beckoned me to the window. I got up and looked out, and He raised his -hands, and seemed to call out without using any words. A dark mass -spread over the grass, coming on like the shape of a flame of fire; and -then He moved the mist to the right and left, and I could see that there -were thousands of rats with their eyes blazing red--like His, only -smaller. He held up his hand, and they all stopped; and I thought he -seemed to be saying: ‘All these lives will I give you, ay, and many more -and greater, through countless ages, if you will fall down and worship -me!’ And then a red cloud, like the colour of blood, seemed to close -over my eyes; and before I knew what I was doing, I found myself opening -the sash and saying to Him: ‘Come in, Lord and Master!’ The rats were -all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only -open an inch wide--just as the Moon herself has often come in through -the tiniest crack and has stood before me in all her size and -splendour.” - -His voice was weaker, so I moistened his lips with the brandy again, and -he continued; but it seemed as though his memory had gone on working in -the interval for his story was further advanced. I was about to call him -back to the point, but Van Helsing whispered to me: “Let him go on. Do -not interrupt him; he cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all -if once he lost the thread of his thought.” He proceeded:-- - -“All day I waited to hear from him, but he did not send me anything, not -even a blow-fly, and when the moon got up I was pretty angry with him. -When he slid in through the window, though it was shut, and did not even -knock, I got mad with him. He sneered at me, and his white face looked -out of the mist with his red eyes gleaming, and he went on as though he -owned the whole place, and I was no one. He didn’t even smell the same -as he went by me. I couldn’t hold him. I thought that, somehow, Mrs. -Harker had come into the room.” - -The two men sitting on the bed stood up and came over, standing behind -him so that he could not see them, but where they could hear better. -They were both silent, but the Professor started and quivered; his face, -however, grew grimmer and sterner still. Renfield went on without -noticing:-- - -“When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn’t the same; -it was like tea after the teapot had been watered.” Here we all moved, -but no one said a word; he went on:-- - -“I didn’t know that she was here till she spoke; and she didn’t look the -same. I don’t care for the pale people; I like them with lots of blood -in them, and hers had all seemed to have run out. I didn’t think of it -at the time; but when she went away I began to think, and it made me mad -to know that He had been taking the life out of her.” I could feel that -the rest quivered, as I did, but we remained otherwise still. “So when -He came to-night I was ready for Him. I saw the mist stealing in, and I -grabbed it tight. I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength; and -as I knew I was a madman--at times anyhow--I resolved to use my power. -Ay, and He felt it too, for He had to come out of the mist to struggle -with me. I held tight; and I thought I was going to win, for I didn’t -mean Him to take any more of her life, till I saw His eyes. They burned -into me, and my strength became like water. He slipped through it, and -when I tried to cling to Him, He raised me up and flung me down. There -was a red cloud before me, and a noise like thunder, and the mist seemed -to steal away under the door.” His voice was becoming fainter and his -breath more stertorous. Van Helsing stood up instinctively. - -“We know the worst now,” he said. “He is here, and we know his purpose. -It may not be too late. Let us be armed--the same as we were the other -night, but lose no time; there is not an instant to spare.” There was no -need to put our fear, nay our conviction, into words--we shared them in -common. We all hurried and took from our rooms the same things that we -had when we entered the Count’s house. The Professor had his ready, and -as we met in the corridor he pointed to them significantly as he said:-- - -“They never leave me; and they shall not till this unhappy business is -over. Be wise also, my friends. It is no common enemy that we deal with. -Alas! alas! that that dear Madam Mina should suffer!” He stopped; his -voice was breaking, and I do not know if rage or terror predominated in -my own heart. - -Outside the Harkers’ door we paused. Art and Quincey held back, and the -latter said:-- - -“Should we disturb her?” - -“We must,” said Van Helsing grimly. “If the door be locked, I shall -break it in.” - -“May it not frighten her terribly? It is unusual to break into a lady’s -room!” - -Van Helsing said solemnly, “You are always right; but this is life and -death. All chambers are alike to the doctor; and even were they not they -are all as one to me to-night. Friend John, when I turn the handle, if -the door does not open, do you put your shoulder down and shove; and you -too, my friends. Now!” - -He turned the handle as he spoke, but the door did not yield. We threw -ourselves against it; with a crash it burst open, and we almost fell -headlong into the room. The Professor did actually fall, and I saw -across him as he gathered himself up from hands and knees. What I saw -appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, -and my heart seemed to stand still. - -The moonlight was so bright that through the thick yellow blind the room -was light enough to see. On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan -Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor. -Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad -figure of his wife. By her side stood a tall, thin man, clad in black. -His face was turned from us, but the instant we saw we all recognised -the Count--in every way, even to the scar on his forehead. With his left -hand he held both Mrs. Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms -at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, -forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared -with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast which -was shown by his torn-open dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible -resemblance to a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of milk to -compel it to drink. As we burst into the room, the Count turned his -face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap -into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils -of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the -white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, -champed together like those of a wild beast. With a wrench, which threw -his victim back upon the bed as though hurled from a height, he turned -and sprang at us. But by this time the Professor had gained his feet, -and was holding towards him the envelope which contained the Sacred -Wafer. The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside -the tomb, and cowered back. Further and further back he cowered, as we, -lifting our crucifixes, advanced. The moonlight suddenly failed, as a -great black cloud sailed across the sky; and when the gaslight sprang up -under Quincey’s match, we saw nothing but a faint vapour. This, as we -looked, trailed under the door, which with the recoil from its bursting -open, had swung back to its old position. Van Helsing, Art, and I moved -forward to Mrs. Harker, who by this time had drawn her breath and with -it had given a scream so wild, so ear-piercing, so despairing that it -seems to me now that it will ring in my ears till my dying day. For a -few seconds she lay in her helpless attitude and disarray. Her face was -ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared -her lips and cheeks and chin; from her throat trickled a thin stream of -blood; her eyes were mad with terror. Then she put before her face her -poor crushed hands, which bore on their whiteness the red mark of the -Count’s terrible grip, and from behind them came a low desolate wail -which made the terrible scream seem only the quick expression of an -endless grief. Van Helsing stepped forward and drew the coverlet gently -over her body, whilst Art, after looking at her face for an instant -despairingly, ran out of the room. Van Helsing whispered to me:-- - -“Jonathan is in a stupor such as we know the Vampire can produce. We can -do nothing with poor Madam Mina for a few moments till she recovers -herself; I must wake him!” He dipped the end of a towel in cold water -and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while -holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was -heart-breaking to hear. I raised the blind, and looked out of the -window. There was much moonshine; and as I looked I could see Quincey -Morris run across the lawn and hide himself in the shadow of a great -yew-tree. It puzzled me to think why he was doing this; but at the -instant I heard Harker’s quick exclamation as he woke to partial -consciousness, and turned to the bed. On his face, as there might well -be, was a look of wild amazement. He seemed dazed for a few seconds, and -then full consciousness seemed to burst upon him all at once, and he -started up. His wife was aroused by the quick movement, and turned to -him with her arms stretched out, as though to embrace him; instantly, -however, she drew them in again, and putting her elbows together, held -her hands before her face, and shuddered till the bed beneath her shook. - -“In God’s name what does this mean?” Harker cried out. “Dr. Seward, Dr. -Van Helsing, what is it? What has happened? What is wrong? Mina, dear, -what is it? What does that blood mean? My God, my God! has it come to -this!” and, raising himself to his knees, he beat his hands wildly -together. “Good God help us! help her! oh, help her!” With a quick -movement he jumped from bed, and began to pull on his clothes,--all the -man in him awake at the need for instant exertion. “What has happened? -Tell me all about it!” he cried without pausing. “Dr. Van Helsing, you -love Mina, I know. Oh, do something to save her. It cannot have gone too -far yet. Guard her while I look for _him_!” His wife, through her terror -and horror and distress, saw some sure danger to him: instantly -forgetting her own grief, she seized hold of him and cried out:-- - -“No! no! Jonathan, you must not leave me. I have suffered enough -to-night, God knows, without the dread of his harming you. You must stay -with me. Stay with these friends who will watch over you!” Her -expression became frantic as she spoke; and, he yielding to her, she -pulled him down sitting on the bed side, and clung to him fiercely. - -Van Helsing and I tried to calm them both. The Professor held up his -little golden crucifix, and said with wonderful calmness:-- - -“Do not fear, my dear. We are here; and whilst this is close to you no -foul thing can approach. You are safe for to-night; and we must be calm -and take counsel together.” She shuddered and was silent, holding down -her head on her husband’s breast. When she raised it, his white -night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where -the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops. The instant she -saw it she drew back, with a low wail, and whispered, amidst choking -sobs:-- - -“Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it -should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy, and whom he may have -most cause to fear.” To this he spoke out resolutely:-- - -“Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not -hear it of you; and I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my -deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, -if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!” He put out -his arms and folded her to his breast; and for a while she lay there -sobbing. He looked at us over her bowed head, with eyes that blinked -damply above his quivering nostrils; his mouth was set as steel. After a -while her sobs became less frequent and more faint, and then he said to -me, speaking with a studied calmness which I felt tried his nervous -power to the utmost:-- - -“And now, Dr. Seward, tell me all about it. Too well I know the broad -fact; tell me all that has been.” I told him exactly what had happened, -and he listened with seeming impassiveness; but his nostrils twitched -and his eyes blazed as I told how the ruthless hands of the Count had -held his wife in that terrible and horrid position, with her mouth to -the open wound in his breast. It interested me, even at that moment, to -see, that, whilst the face of white set passion worked convulsively over -the bowed head, the hands tenderly and lovingly stroked the ruffled -hair. Just as I had finished, Quincey and Godalming knocked at the door. -They entered in obedience to our summons. Van Helsing looked at me -questioningly. I understood him to mean if we were to take advantage of -their coming to divert if possible the thoughts of the unhappy husband -and wife from each other and from themselves; so on nodding acquiescence -to him he asked them what they had seen or done. To which Lord Godalming -answered:-- - -“I could not see him anywhere in the passage, or in any of our rooms. I -looked in the study but, though he had been there, he had gone. He had, -however----” He stopped suddenly, looking at the poor drooping figure on -the bed. Van Helsing said gravely:-- - -“Go on, friend Arthur. We want here no more concealments. Our hope now -is in knowing all. Tell freely!” So Art went on:-- - -“He had been there, and though it could only have been for a few -seconds, he made rare hay of the place. All the manuscript had been -burned, and the blue flames were flickering amongst the white ashes; the -cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire, and the wax -had helped the flames.” Here I interrupted. “Thank God there is the -other copy in the safe!” His face lit for a moment, but fell again as he -went on: “I ran downstairs then, but could see no sign of him. I looked -into Renfield’s room; but there was no trace there except----!” Again he -paused. “Go on,” said Harker hoarsely; so he bowed his head and -moistening his lips with his tongue, added: “except that the poor fellow -is dead.” Mrs. Harker raised her head, looking from one to the other of -us she said solemnly:-- - -“God’s will be done!” I could not but feel that Art was keeping back -something; but, as I took it that it was with a purpose, I said nothing. -Van Helsing turned to Morris and asked:-- - -“And you, friend Quincey, have you any to tell?” - -“A little,” he answered. “It may be much eventually, but at present I -can’t say. I thought it well to know if possible where the Count would -go when he left the house. I did not see him; but I saw a bat rise from -Renfield’s window, and flap westward. I expected to see him in some -shape go back to Carfax; but he evidently sought some other lair. He -will not be back to-night; for the sky is reddening in the east, and the -dawn is close. We must work to-morrow!” - -He said the latter words through his shut teeth. For a space of perhaps -a couple of minutes there was silence, and I could fancy that I could -hear the sound of our hearts beating; then Van Helsing said, placing his -hand very tenderly on Mrs. Harker’s head:-- - -“And now, Madam Mina--poor, dear, dear Madam Mina--tell us exactly what -happened. God knows that I do not want that you be pained; but it is -need that we know all. For now more than ever has all work to be done -quick and sharp, and in deadly earnest. The day is close to us that must -end all, if it may be so; and now is the chance that we may live and -learn.” - -The poor, dear lady shivered, and I could see the tension of her nerves -as she clasped her husband closer to her and bent her head lower and -lower still on his breast. Then she raised her head proudly, and held -out one hand to Van Helsing who took it in his, and, after stooping and -kissing it reverently, held it fast. The other hand was locked in that -of her husband, who held his other arm thrown round her protectingly. -After a pause in which she was evidently ordering her thoughts, she -began:-- - -“I took the sleeping draught which you had so kindly given me, but for a -long time it did not act. I seemed to become more wakeful, and myriads -of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind--all of them -connected with death, and vampires; with blood, and pain, and trouble.” -Her husband involuntarily groaned as she turned to him and said -lovingly: “Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me -through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me -to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I -need your help. Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work -with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I resolutely set myself to -sleep. Sure enough sleep must soon have come to me, for I remember no -more. Jonathan coming in had not waked me, for he lay by my side when -next I remember. There was in the room the same thin white mist that I -had before noticed. But I forget now if you know of this; you will find -it in my diary which I shall show you later. I felt the same vague -terror which had come to me before and the same sense of some presence. -I turned to wake Jonathan, but found that he slept so soundly that it -seemed as if it was he who had taken the sleeping draught, and not I. I -tried, but I could not wake him. This caused me a great fear, and I -looked around terrified. Then indeed, my heart sank within me: beside -the bed, as if he had stepped out of the mist--or rather as if the mist -had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared--stood a -tall, thin man, all in black. I knew him at once from the description of -the others. The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which the light -fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white -teeth showing between; and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the -sunset on the windows of St. Mary’s Church at Whitby. I knew, too, the -red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him. For an instant -my heart stood still, and I would have screamed out, only that I was -paralysed. In the pause he spoke in a sort of keen, cutting whisper, -pointing as he spoke to Jonathan:-- - -“‘Silence! If you make a sound I shall take him and dash his brains out -before your very eyes.’ I was appalled and was too bewildered to do or -say anything. With a mocking smile, he placed one hand upon my shoulder -and, holding me tight, bared my throat with the other, saying as he did -so, ‘First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well -be quiet; it is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have -appeased my thirst!’ I was bewildered, and, strangely enough, I did not -want to hinder him. I suppose it is a part of the horrible curse that -such is, when his touch is on his victim. And oh, my God, my God, pity -me! He placed his reeking lips upon my throat!” Her husband groaned -again. She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if -he were the injured one, and went on:-- - -“I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long -this horrible thing lasted I know not; but it seemed that a long time -must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I -saw it drip with the fresh blood!” The remembrance seemed for a while to -overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her -husband’s sustaining arm. With a great effort she recovered herself and -went on:-- - -“Then he spoke to me mockingly, ‘And so you, like the others, would play -your brains against mine. You would help these men to hunt me and -frustrate me in my designs! You know now, and they know in part already, -and will know in full before long, what it is to cross my path. They -should have kept their energies for use closer to home. Whilst they -played wits against me--against me who commanded nations, and intrigued -for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were -born--I was countermining them. And you, their best beloved one, are now -to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful -wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my -helper. You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall -minister to your needs. But as yet you are to be punished for what you -have done. You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my -call. When my brain says “Come!” to you, you shall cross land or sea to -do my bidding; and to that end this!’ With that he pulled open his -shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When -the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding -them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to -the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the---- Oh -my God! my God! what have I done? What have I done to deserve such a -fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my -days. God pity me! Look down on a poor soul in worse than mortal peril; -and in mercy pity those to whom she is dear!” Then she began to rub her -lips as though to cleanse them from pollution. - -As she was telling her terrible story, the eastern sky began to quicken, -and everything became more and more clear. Harker was still and quiet; -but over his face, as the awful narrative went on, came a grey look -which deepened and deepened in the morning light, till when the first -red streak of the coming dawn shot up, the flesh stood darkly out -against the whitening hair. - -We have arranged that one of us is to stay within call of the unhappy -pair till we can meet together and arrange about taking action. - -Of this I am sure: the sun rises to-day on no more miserable house in -all the great round of its daily course. - - - - -CHAPTER XXII - -JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL - - -_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It -is now six o’clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and -take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed -that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God -knows, required to-day. I must keep writing at every chance, for I dare -not stop to think. All, big and little, must go down; perhaps at the end -the little things may teach us most. The teaching, big or little, could -not have landed Mina or me anywhere worse than we are to-day. However, -we must trust and hope. Poor Mina told me just now, with the tears -running down her dear cheeks, that it is in trouble and trial that our -faith is tested--that we must keep on trusting; and that God will aid us -up to the end. The end! oh my God! what end?... To work! To work! - -When Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward had come back from seeing poor -Renfield, we went gravely into what was to be done. First, Dr. Seward -told us that when he and Dr. Van Helsing had gone down to the room below -they had found Renfield lying on the floor, all in a heap. His face was -all bruised and crushed in, and the bones of the neck were broken. - -Dr. Seward asked the attendant who was on duty in the passage if he had -heard anything. He said that he had been sitting down--he confessed to -half dozing--when he heard loud voices in the room, and then Renfield -had called out loudly several times, “God! God! God!” after that there -was a sound of falling, and when he entered the room he found him lying -on the floor, face down, just as the doctors had seen him. Van Helsing -asked if he had heard “voices” or “a voice,” and he said he could not -say; that at first it had seemed to him as if there were two, but as -there was no one in the room it could have been only one. He could swear -to it, if required, that the word “God” was spoken by the patient. Dr. -Seward said to us, when we were alone, that he did not wish to go into -the matter; the question of an inquest had to be considered, and it -would never do to put forward the truth, as no one would believe it. As -it was, he thought that on the attendant’s evidence he could give a -certificate of death by misadventure in falling from bed. In case the -coroner should demand it, there would be a formal inquest, necessarily -to the same result. - -When the question began to be discussed as to what should be our next -step, the very first thing we decided was that Mina should be in full -confidence; that nothing of any sort--no matter how painful--should be -kept from her. She herself agreed as to its wisdom, and it was pitiful -to see her so brave and yet so sorrowful, and in such a depth of -despair. “There must be no concealment,” she said, “Alas! we have had -too much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can -give me more pain than I have already endured--than I suffer now! -Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!” -Van Helsing was looking at her fixedly as she spoke, and said, suddenly -but quietly:-- - -“But dear Madam Mina, are you not afraid; not for yourself, but for -others from yourself, after what has happened?” Her face grew set in its -lines, but her eyes shone with the devotion of a martyr as she -answered:-- - -“Ah no! for my mind is made up!” - -“To what?” he asked gently, whilst we were all very still; for each in -our own way we had a sort of vague idea of what she meant. Her answer -came with direct simplicity, as though she were simply stating a fact:-- - -“Because if I find in myself--and I shall watch keenly for it--a sign of -harm to any that I love, I shall die!” - -“You would not kill yourself?” he asked, hoarsely. - -“I would; if there were no friend who loved me, who would save me such a -pain, and so desperate an effort!” She looked at him meaningly as she -spoke. He was sitting down; but now he rose and came close to her and -put his hand on her head as he said solemnly: - -“My child, there is such an one if it were for your good. For myself I -could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, -even at this moment if it were best. Nay, were it safe! But my -child----” For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his -throat; he gulped it down and went on:-- - -“There are here some who would stand between you and death. You must not -die. You must not die by any hand; but least of all by your own. Until -the other, who has fouled your sweet life, is true dead you must not -die; for if he is still with the quick Un-Dead, your death would make -you even as he is. No, you must live! You must struggle and strive to -live, though death would seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death -himself, though he come to you in pain or in joy; by the day, or the -night; in safety or in peril! On your living soul I charge you that you -do not die--nay, nor think of death--till this great evil be past.” The -poor dear grew white as death, and shock and shivered, as I have seen a -quicksand shake and shiver at the incoming of the tide. We were all -silent; we could do nothing. At length she grew more calm and turning to -him said, sweetly, but oh! so sorrowfully, as she held out her hand:-- - -“I promise you, my dear friend, that if God will let me live, I shall -strive to do so; till, if it may be in His good time, this horror may -have passed away from me.” She was so good and brave that we all felt -that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we -began to discuss what we were to do. I told her that she was to have all -the papers in the safe, and all the papers or diaries and phonographs we -might hereafter use; and was to keep the record as she had done before. -She was pleased with the prospect of anything to do--if “pleased” could -be used in connection with so grim an interest. - -As usual Van Helsing had thought ahead of everyone else, and was -prepared with an exact ordering of our work. - -“It is perhaps well,” he said, “that at our meeting after our visit to -Carfax we decided not to do anything with the earth-boxes that lay -there. Had we done so, the Count must have guessed our purpose, and -would doubtless have taken measures in advance to frustrate such an -effort with regard to the others; but now he does not know our -intentions. Nay, more, in all probability, he does not know that such a -power exists to us as can sterilise his lairs, so that he cannot use -them as of old. We are now so much further advanced in our knowledge as -to their disposition that, when we have examined the house in -Piccadilly, we may track the very last of them. To-day, then, is ours; -and in it rests our hope. The sun that rose on our sorrow this morning -guards us in its course. Until it sets to-night, that monster must -retain whatever form he now has. He is confined within the limitations -of his earthly envelope. He cannot melt into thin air nor disappear -through cracks or chinks or crannies. If he go through a doorway, he -must open the door like a mortal. And so we have this day to hunt out -all his lairs and sterilise them. So we shall, if we have not yet catch -him and destroy him, drive him to bay in some place where the catching -and the destroying shall be, in time, sure.” Here I started up for I -could not contain myself at the thought that the minutes and seconds so -preciously laden with Mina’s life and happiness were flying from us, -since whilst we talked action was impossible. But Van Helsing held up -his hand warningly. “Nay, friend Jonathan,” he said, “in this, the -quickest way home is the longest way, so your proverb say. We shall all -act and act with desperate quick, when the time has come. But think, in -all probable the key of the situation is in that house in Piccadilly. -The Count may have many houses which he has bought. Of them he will have -deeds of purchase, keys and other things. He will have paper that he -write on; he will have his book of cheques. There are many belongings -that he must have somewhere; why not in this place so central, so quiet, -where he come and go by the front or the back at all hour, when in the -very vast of the traffic there is none to notice. We shall go there and -search that house; and when we learn what it holds, then we do what our -friend Arthur call, in his phrases of hunt ‘stop the earths’ and so we -run down our old fox--so? is it not?” - -“Then let us come at once,” I cried, “we are wasting the precious, -precious time!” The Professor did not move, but simply said:-- - -“And how are we to get into that house in Piccadilly?” - -“Any way!” I cried. “We shall break in if need be.” - -“And your police; where will they be, and what will they say?” - -I was staggered; but I knew that if he wished to delay he had a good -reason for it. So I said, as quietly as I could:-- - -“Don’t wait more than need be; you know, I am sure, what torture I am -in.” - -“Ah, my child, that I do; and indeed there is no wish of me to add to -your anguish. But just think, what can we do, until all the world be at -movement. Then will come our time. I have thought and thought, and it -seems to me that the simplest way is the best of all. Now we wish to get -into the house, but we have no key; is it not so?” I nodded. - -“Now suppose that you were, in truth, the owner of that house, and could -not still get in; and think there was to you no conscience of the -housebreaker, what would you do?” - -“I should get a respectable locksmith, and set him to work to pick the -lock for me.” - -“And your police, they would interfere, would they not?” - -“Oh, no! not if they knew the man was properly employed.” - -“Then,” he looked at me as keenly as he spoke, “all that is in doubt is -the conscience of the employer, and the belief of your policemen as to -whether or no that employer has a good conscience or a bad one. Your -police must indeed be zealous men and clever--oh, so clever!--in reading -the heart, that they trouble themselves in such matter. No, no, my -friend Jonathan, you go take the lock off a hundred empty house in this -your London, or of any city in the world; and if you do it as such -things are rightly done, and at the time such things are rightly done, -no one will interfere. I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine -house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland -and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window at back and -got in. Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out -and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police. Then he -have an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; -and when the day come he sell off by a great auctioneer all the goods of -that other man who own them. Then he go to a builder, and he sell him -that house, making an agreement that he pull it down and take all away -within a certain time. And your police and other authority help him all -they can. And when that owner come back from his holiday in Switzerland -he find only an empty hole where his house had been. This was all done -_en règle_; and in our work we shall be _en règle_ too. We shall not go -so early that the policemen who have then little to think of, shall deem -it strange; but we shall go after ten o’clock, when there are many -about, and such things would be done were we indeed owners of the -house.” - -I could not but see how right he was and the terrible despair of Mina’s -face became relaxed a thought; there was hope in such good counsel. Van -Helsing went on:-- - -“When once within that house we may find more clues; at any rate some of -us can remain there whilst the rest find the other places where there be -more earth-boxes--at Bermondsey and Mile End.” - -Lord Godalming stood up. “I can be of some use here,” he said. “I shall -wire to my people to have horses and carriages where they will be most -convenient.” - -“Look here, old fellow,” said Morris, “it is a capital idea to have all -ready in case we want to go horsebacking; but don’t you think that one -of your snappy carriages with its heraldic adornments in a byway of -Walworth or Mile End would attract too much attention for our purposes? -It seems to me that we ought to take cabs when we go south or east; and -even leave them somewhere near the neighbourhood we are going to.” - -“Friend Quincey is right!” said the Professor. “His head is what you -call in plane with the horizon. It is a difficult thing that we go to -do, and we do not want no peoples to watch us if so it may.” - -Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to see -that the exigency of affairs was helping her to forget for a time the -terrible experience of the night. She was very, very pale--almost -ghastly, and so thin that her lips were drawn away, showing her teeth in -somewhat of prominence. I did not mention this last, lest it should give -her needless pain; but it made my blood run cold in my veins to think of -what had occurred with poor Lucy when the Count had sucked her blood. As -yet there was no sign of the teeth growing sharper; but the time as yet -was short, and there was time for fear. - -When we came to the discussion of the sequence of our efforts and of the -disposition of our forces, there were new sources of doubt. It was -finally agreed that before starting for Piccadilly we should destroy the -Count’s lair close at hand. In case he should find it out too soon, we -should thus be still ahead of him in our work of destruction; and his -presence in his purely material shape, and at his weakest, might give us -some new clue. - -As to the disposal of forces, it was suggested by the Professor that, -after our visit to Carfax, we should all enter the house in Piccadilly; -that the two doctors and I should remain there, whilst Lord Godalming -and Quincey found the lairs at Walworth and Mile End and destroyed them. -It was possible, if not likely, the Professor urged, that the Count -might appear in Piccadilly during the day, and that if so we might be -able to cope with him then and there. At any rate, we might be able to -follow him in force. To this plan I strenuously objected, and so far as -my going was concerned, for I said that I intended to stay and protect -Mina, I thought that my mind was made up on the subject; but Mina would -not listen to my objection. She said that there might be some law matter -in which I could be useful; that amongst the Count’s papers might be -some clue which I could understand out of my experience in Transylvania; -and that, as it was, all the strength we could muster was required to -cope with the Count’s extraordinary power. I had to give in, for Mina’s -resolution was fixed; she said that it was the last hope for _her_ that -we should all work together. “As for me,” she said, “I have no fear. -Things have been as bad as they can be; and whatever may happen must -have in it some element of hope or comfort. Go, my husband! God can, if -He wishes it, guard me as well alone as with any one present.” So I -started up crying out: “Then in God’s name let us come at once, for we -are losing time. The Count may come to Piccadilly earlier than we -think.” - -“Not so!” said Van Helsing, holding up his hand. - -“But why?” I asked. - -“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he -banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?” - -Did I forget! shall I ever--can I ever! Can any of us ever forget that -terrible scene! Mina struggled hard to keep her brave countenance; but -the pain overmastered her and she put her hands before her face, and -shuddered whilst she moaned. Van Helsing had not intended to recall her -frightful experience. He had simply lost sight of her and her part in -the affair in his intellectual effort. When it struck him what he said, -he was horrified at his thoughtlessness and tried to comfort her. “Oh, -Madam Mina,” he said, “dear, dear Madam Mina, alas! that I of all who so -reverence you should have said anything so forgetful. These stupid old -lips of mine and this stupid old head do not deserve so; but you will -forget it, will you not?” He bent low beside her as he spoke; she took -his hand, and looking at him through her tears, said hoarsely:-- - -“No, I shall not forget, for it is well that I remember; and with it I -have so much in memory of you that is sweet, that I take it all -together. Now, you must all be going soon. Breakfast is ready, and we -must all eat that we may be strong.” - -Breakfast was a strange meal to us all. We tried to be cheerful and -encourage each other, and Mina was the brightest and most cheerful of -us. When it was over, Van Helsing stood up and said:-- - -“Now, my dear friends, we go forth to our terrible enterprise. Are we -all armed, as we were on that night when first we visited our enemy’s -lair; armed against ghostly as well as carnal attack?” We all assured -him. “Then it is well. Now, Madam Mina, you are in any case _quite_ safe -here until the sunset; and before then we shall return--if---- We shall -return! But before we go let me see you armed against personal attack. I -have myself, since you came down, prepared your chamber by the placing -of things of which we know, so that He may not enter. Now let me guard -yourself. On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred Wafer in the -name of the Father, the Son, and----” - -There was a fearful scream which almost froze our hearts to hear. As he -had placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it--had burned -into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal. My poor -darling’s brain had told her the significance of the fact as quickly as -her nerves received the pain of it; and the two so overwhelmed her that -her overwrought nature had its voice in that dreadful scream. But the -words to her thought came quickly; the echo of the scream had not ceased -to ring on the air when there came the reaction, and she sank on her -knees on the floor in an agony of abasement. Pulling her beautiful hair -over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out:-- - -“Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must -bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day.” They -all paused. I had thrown myself beside her in an agony of helpless -grief, and putting my arms around held her tight. For a few minutes our -sorrowful hearts beat together, whilst the friends around us turned away -their eyes that ran tears silently. Then Van Helsing turned and said -gravely; so gravely that I could not help feeling that he was in some -way inspired, and was stating things outside himself:-- - -“It may be that you may have to bear that mark till God himself see fit, -as He most surely shall, on the Judgment Day, to redress all wrongs of -the earth and of His children that He has placed thereon. And oh, Madam -Mina, my dear, my dear, may we who love you be there to see, when that -red scar, the sign of God’s knowledge of what has been, shall pass away, -and leave your forehead as pure as the heart we know. For so surely as -we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees right to lift the -burden that is hard upon us. Till then we bear our Cross, as His Son did -in obedience to His Will. It may be that we are chosen instruments of -His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other -through stripes and shame; through tears and blood; through doubts and -fears, and all that makes the difference between God and man.” - -There was hope in his words, and comfort; and they made for resignation. -Mina and I both felt so, and simultaneously we each took one of the old -man’s hands and bent over and kissed it. Then without a word we all -knelt down together, and, all holding hands, swore to be true to each -other. We men pledged ourselves to raise the veil of sorrow from the -head of her whom, each in his own way, we loved; and we prayed for help -and guidance in the terrible task which lay before us. - -It was then time to start. So I said farewell to Mina, a parting which -neither of us shall forget to our dying day; and we set out. - -To one thing I have made up my mind: if we find out that Mina must be a -vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible -land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant -many; just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so -the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks. - -We entered Carfax without trouble and found all things the same as on -the first occasion. It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic -surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such -fear as already we knew. Had not our minds been made up, and had there -not been terrible memories to spur us on, we could hardly have proceeded -with our task. We found no papers, or any sign of use in the house; and -in the old chapel the great boxes looked just as we had seen them last. -Dr. Van Helsing said to us solemnly as we stood before them:-- - -“And now, my friends, we have a duty here to do. We must sterilise this -earth, so sacred of holy memories, that he has brought from a far -distant land for such fell use. He has chosen this earth because it has -been holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more -holy still. It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it to -God.” As he spoke he took from his bag a screwdriver and a wrench, and -very soon the top of one of the cases was thrown open. The earth smelled -musty and close; but we did not somehow seem to mind, for our attention -was concentrated on the Professor. Taking from his box a piece of the -Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down -the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked. - -One by one we treated in the same way each of the great boxes, and left -them as we had found them to all appearance; but in each was a portion -of the Host. - -When we closed the door behind us, the Professor said solemnly:-- - -“So much is already done. If it may be that with all the others we can -be so successful, then the sunset of this evening may shine on Madam -Mina’s forehead all white as ivory and with no stain!” - -As we passed across the lawn on our way to the station to catch our -train we could see the front of the asylum. I looked eagerly, and in the -window of my own room saw Mina. I waved my hand to her, and nodded to -tell that our work there was successfully accomplished. She nodded in -reply to show that she understood. The last I saw, she was waving her -hand in farewell. It was with a heavy heart that we sought the station -and just caught the train, which was steaming in as we reached the -platform. - -I have written this in the train. - - * * * * * - -_Piccadilly, 12:30 o’clock._--Just before we reached Fenchurch Street -Lord Godalming said to me:-- - -“Quincey and I will find a locksmith. You had better not come with us in -case there should be any difficulty; for under the circumstances it -wouldn’t seem so bad for us to break into an empty house. But you are a -solicitor and the Incorporated Law Society might tell you that you -should have known better.” I demurred as to my not sharing any danger -even of odium, but he went on: “Besides, it will attract less attention -if there are not too many of us. My title will make it all right with -the locksmith, and with any policeman that may come along. You had -better go with Jack and the Professor and stay in the Green Park, -somewhere in sight of the house; and when you see the door opened and -the smith has gone away, do you all come across. We shall be on the -lookout for you, and shall let you in.” - -“The advice is good!” said Van Helsing, so we said no more. Godalming -and Morris hurried off in a cab, we following in another. At the corner -of Arlington Street our contingent got out and strolled into the Green -Park. My heart beat as I saw the house on which so much of our hope was -centred, looming up grim and silent in its deserted condition amongst -its more lively and spruce-looking neighbours. We sat down on a bench -within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little -attention as possible. The minutes seemed to pass with leaden feet as we -waited for the coming of the others. - -At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely -fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris; and down from the box descended -a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid -the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away. Together the two -ascended the steps, and Lord Godalming pointed out what he wanted done. -The workman took off his coat leisurely and hung it on one of the spikes -of the rail, saying something to a policeman who just then sauntered -along. The policeman nodded acquiescence, and the man kneeling down -placed his bag beside him. After searching through it, he took out a -selection of tools which he produced to lay beside him in orderly -fashion. Then he stood up, looked into the keyhole, blew into it, and -turning to his employers, made some remark. Lord Godalming smiled, and -the man lifted a good-sized bunch of keys; selecting one of them, he -began to probe the lock, as if feeling his way with it. After fumbling -about for a bit he tried a second, and then a third. All at once the -door opened under a slight push from him, and he and the two others -entered the hall. We sat still; my own cigar burnt furiously, but Van -Helsing’s went cold altogether. We waited patiently as we saw the -workman come out and bring in his bag. Then he held the door partly -open, steadying it with his knees, whilst he fitted a key to the lock. -This he finally handed to Lord Godalming, who took out his purse and -gave him something. The man touched his hat, took his bag, put on his -coat and departed; not a soul took the slightest notice of the whole -transaction. - -When the man had fairly gone, we three crossed the street and knocked at -the door. It was immediately opened by Quincey Morris, beside whom stood -Lord Godalming lighting a cigar. - -“The place smells so vilely,” said the latter as we came in. It did -indeed smell vilely--like the old chapel at Carfax--and with our -previous experience it was plain to us that the Count had been using the -place pretty freely. We moved to explore the house, all keeping together -in case of attack; for we knew we had a strong and wily enemy to deal -with, and as yet we did not know whether the Count might not be in the -house. In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found -eight boxes of earth. Eight boxes only out of the nine, which we sought! -Our work was not over, and would never be until we should have found the -missing box. First we opened the shutters of the window which looked out -across a narrow stone-flagged yard at the blank face of a stable, -pointed to look like the front of a miniature house. There were no -windows in it, so we were not afraid of being over-looked. We did not -lose any time in examining the chests. With the tools which we had -brought with us we opened them, one by one, and treated them as we had -treated those others in the old chapel. It was evident to us that the -Count was not at present in the house, and we proceeded to search for -any of his effects. - -After a cursory glance at the rest of the rooms, from basement to attic, -we came to the conclusion that the dining-room contained any effects -which might belong to the Count; and so we proceeded to minutely examine -them. They lay in a sort of orderly disorder on the great dining-room -table. There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle; -deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey; -note-paper, envelopes, and pens and ink. All were covered up in thin -wrapping paper to keep them from the dust. There were also a clothes -brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin--the latter containing -dirty water which was reddened as if with blood. Last of all was a -little heap of keys of all sorts and sizes, probably those belonging to -the other houses. When we had examined this last find, Lord Godalming -and Quincey Morris taking accurate notes of the various addresses of the -houses in the East and the South, took with them the keys in a great -bunch, and set out to destroy the boxes in these places. The rest of us -are, with what patience we can, waiting their return--or the coming of -the Count. - - - - -CHAPTER XXIII - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_3 October._--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for -the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep -our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent -purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. -The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see. -Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful -face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair. To-day he is a drawn, -haggard old man, whose white hair matches well with the hollow burning -eyes and grief-written lines of his face. His energy is still intact; in -fact, he is like a living flame. This may yet be his salvation, for, if -all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period; he will then, -in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life. Poor fellow, I -thought my own trouble was bad enough, but his----! The Professor knows -this well enough, and is doing his best to keep his mind active. What he -has been saying was, under the circumstances, of absorbing interest. So -well as I can remember, here it is:-- - -“I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands, all -the papers relating to this monster; and the more I have studied, the -greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out. All through there -are signs of his advance; not only of his power, but of his knowledge of -it. As I learned from the researches of my friend Arminus of Buda-Pesth, -he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier, statesman, and -alchemist--which latter was the highest development of the -science-knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond -compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He dared even to -attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time -that he did not essay. Well, in him the brain powers survived the -physical death; though it would seem that memory was not all complete. -In some faculties of mind he has been, and is, only a child; but he is -growing, and some things that were childish at the first are now of -man’s stature. He is experimenting, and doing it well; and if it had not -been that we have crossed his path he would be yet--he may be yet if we -fail--the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must -lead through Death, not Life.” - -Harker groaned and said, “And this is all arrayed against my darling! -But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!” - -“He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but -surely; that big child-brain of his is working. Well for us, it is, as -yet, a child-brain; for had he dared, at the first, to attempt certain -things he would long ago have been beyond our power. However, he means -to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait -and to go slow. _Festina lente_ may well be his motto.” - -“I fail to understand,” said Harker wearily. “Oh, do be more plain to -me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain.” - -The Professor laid his hand tenderly on his shoulder as he spoke:-- - -“Ah, my child, I will be plain. Do you not see how, of late, this -monster has been creeping into knowledge experimentally. How he has been -making use of the zoöphagous patient to effect his entry into friend -John’s home; for your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when -and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked thereto by -an inmate. But these are not his most important experiments. Do we not -see how at the first all these so great boxes were moved by others. He -knew not then but that must be so. But all the time that so great -child-brain of his was growing, and he began to consider whether he -might not himself move the box. So he began to help; and then, when he -found that this be all-right, he try to move them all alone. And so he -progress, and he scatter these graves of him; and none but he know where -they are hidden. He may have intend to bury them deep in the ground. So -that he only use them in the night, or at such time as he can change his -form, they do him equal well; and none may know these are his -hiding-place! But, my child, do not despair; this knowledge come to him -just too late! Already all of his lairs but one be sterilise as for him; -and before the sunset this shall be so. Then he have no place where he -can move and hide. I delayed this morning that so we might be sure. Is -there not more at stake for us than for him? Then why we not be even -more careful than him? By my clock it is one hour and already, if all be -well, friend Arthur and Quincey are on their way to us. To-day is our -day, and we must go sure, if slow, and lose no chance. See! there are -five of us when those absent ones return.” - -Whilst he was speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the -double postman’s knock of the telegraph boy. We all moved out to the -hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us to -keep silence, stepped to the door and opened it. The boy handed in a -despatch. The Professor closed the door again, and, after looking at the -direction, opened it and read aloud. - -“Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax hurriedly and -hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want -to see you: Mina.” - -There was a pause, broken by Jonathan Harker’s voice:-- - -“Now, God be thanked, we shall soon meet!” Van Helsing turned to him -quickly and said:-- - -“God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice -as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings.” - -“I care for nothing now,” he answered hotly, “except to wipe out this -brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!” - -“Oh, hush, hush, my child!” said Van Helsing. “God does not purchase -souls in this wise; and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not keep -faith. But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and your -devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you, how her pain would be -doubled, did she but hear your wild words. Do not fear any of us, we are -all devoted to this cause, and to-day shall see the end. The time is -coming for action; to-day this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, -and till sunset he may not change. It will take him time to arrive -here--see, it is twenty minutes past one--and there are yet some times -before he can hither come, be he never so quick. What we must hope for -is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first.” - -About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker’s telegram, there -came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door. It was just an ordinary -knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made -the Professor’s heart and mine beat loudly. We looked at each other, and -together moved out into the hall; we each held ready to use our various -armaments--the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right. Van -Helsing pulled back the latch, and, holding the door half open, stood -back, having both hands ready for action. The gladness of our hearts -must have shown upon our faces when on the step, close to the door, we -saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris. They came quickly in and closed -the door behind them, the former saying, as they moved along the -hall:-- - -“It is all right. We found both places; six boxes in each and we -destroyed them all!” - -“Destroyed?” asked the Professor. - -“For him!” We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said:-- - -“There’s nothing to do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn’t turn up -by five o’clock, we must start off; for it won’t do to leave Mrs. Harker -alone after sunset.” - -“He will be here before long now,” said Van Helsing, who had been -consulting his pocket-book. “_Nota bene_, in Madam’s telegram he went -south from Carfax, that means he went to cross the river, and he could -only do so at slack of tide, which should be something before one -o’clock. That he went south has a meaning for us. He is as yet only -suspicious; and he went from Carfax first to the place where he would -suspect interference least. You must have been at Bermondsey only a -short time before him. That he is not here already shows that he went to -Mile End next. This took him some time; for he would then have to be -carried over the river in some way. Believe me, my friends, we shall not -have long to wait now. We should have ready some plan of attack, so that -we may throw away no chance. Hush, there is no time now. Have all your -arms! Be ready!” He held up a warning hand as he spoke, for we all could -hear a key softly inserted in the lock of the hall door. - -I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a -dominant spirit asserted itself. In all our hunting parties and -adventures in different parts of the world, Quincey Morris had always -been the one to arrange the plan of action, and Arthur and I had been -accustomed to obey him implicitly. Now, the old habit seemed to be -renewed instinctively. With a swift glance around the room, he at once -laid out our plan of attack, and, without speaking a word, with a -gesture, placed us each in position. Van Helsing, Harker, and I were -just behind the door, so that when it was opened the Professor could -guard it whilst we two stepped between the incomer and the door. -Godalming behind and Quincey in front stood just out of sight ready to -move in front of the window. We waited in a suspense that made the -seconds pass with nightmare slowness. The slow, careful steps came along -the hall; the Count was evidently prepared for some surprise--at least -he feared it. - -Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room, winning a way past -us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something -so panther-like in the movement--something so unhuman, that it seemed -to sober us all from the shock of his coming. The first to act was -Harker, who, with a quick movement, threw himself before the door -leading into the room in the front of the house. As the Count saw us, a -horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long -and pointed; but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of -lion-like disdain. His expression again changed as, with a single -impulse, we all advanced upon him. It was a pity that we had not some -better organised plan of attack, for even at the moment I wondered what -we were to do. I did not myself know whether our lethal weapons would -avail us anything. Harker evidently meant to try the matter, for he had -ready his great Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at him. The -blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count’s -leap back saved him. A second less and the trenchant blade had shorne -through his heart. As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, -making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank-notes and a stream of gold -fell out. The expression of the Count’s face was so hellish, that for a -moment I feared for Harker, though I saw him throw the terrible knife -aloft again for another stroke. Instinctively I moved forward with a -protective impulse, holding the Crucifix and Wafer in my left hand. I -felt a mighty power fly along my arm; and it was without surprise that I -saw the monster cower back before a similar movement made spontaneously -by each one of us. It would be impossible to describe the expression of -hate and baffled malignity--of anger and hellish rage--which came over -the Count’s face. His waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast -of his burning eyes, and the red scar on the forehead showed on the -pallid skin like a palpitating wound. The next instant, with a sinuous -dive he swept under Harker’s arm, ere his blow could fall, and, grasping -a handful of the money from the floor, dashed across the room, threw -himself at the window. Amid the crash and glitter of the falling glass, -he tumbled into the flagged area below. Through the sound of the -shivering glass I could hear the “ting” of the gold, as some of the -sovereigns fell on the flagging. - -We ran over and saw him spring unhurt from the ground. He, rushing up -the steps, crossed the flagged yard, and pushed open the stable door. -There he turned and spoke to us:-- - -“You think to baffle me, you--with your pale faces all in a row, like -sheep in a butcher’s. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think -you have left me without a place to rest; but I have more. My revenge is -just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your -girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and -others shall yet be mine--my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my -jackals when I want to feed. Bah!” With a contemptuous sneer, he passed -quickly through the door, and we heard the rusty bolt creak as he -fastened it behind him. A door beyond opened and shut. The first of us -to speak was the Professor, as, realising the difficulty of following -him through the stable, we moved toward the hall. - -“We have learnt something--much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he -fears us; he fear time, he fear want! For if not, why he hurry so? His -very tone betray him, or my ears deceive. Why take that money? You -follow quick. You are hunters of wild beast, and understand it so. For -me, I make sure that nothing here may be of use to him, if so that he -return.” As he spoke he put the money remaining into his pocket; took -the title-deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the -remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with -a match. - -Godalming and Morris had rushed out into the yard, and Harker had -lowered himself from the window to follow the Count. He had, however, -bolted the stable door; and by the time they had forced it open there -was no sign of him. Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back -of the house; but the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart. - -It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. We had to -recognise that our game was up; with heavy hearts we agreed with the -Professor when he said:-- - -“Let us go back to Madam Mina--poor, poor dear Madam Mina. All we can do -just now is done; and we can there, at least, protect her. But we need -not despair. There is but one more earth-box, and we must try to find -it; when that is done all may yet be well.” I could see that he spoke as -bravely as he could to comfort Harker. The poor fellow was quite broken -down; now and again he gave a low groan which he could not suppress--he -was thinking of his wife. - -With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker -waiting us, with an appearance of cheerfulness which did honour to her -bravery and unselfishness. When she saw our faces, her own became as -pale as death: for a second or two her eyes were closed as if she were -in secret prayer; and then she said cheerfully:-- - -“I can never thank you all enough. Oh, my poor darling!” As she spoke, -she took her husband’s grey head in her hands and kissed it--“Lay your -poor head here and rest it. All will yet be well, dear! God will protect -us if He so will it in His good intent.” The poor fellow groaned. There -was no place for words in his sublime misery. - -We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us -all up somewhat. It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry -people--for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast--or the sense -of companionship may have helped us; but anyhow we were all less -miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope. True to -our promise, we told Mrs. Harker everything which had passed; and -although she grew snowy white at times when danger had seemed to -threaten her husband, and red at others when his devotion to her was -manifested, she listened bravely and with calmness. When we came to the -part where Harker had rushed at the Count so recklessly, she clung to -her husband’s arm, and held it tight as though her clinging could -protect him from any harm that might come. She said nothing, however, -till the narration was all done, and matters had been brought right up -to the present time. Then without letting go her husband’s hand she -stood up amongst us and spoke. Oh, that I could give any idea of the -scene; of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty -of her youth and animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which -she was conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our -teeth--remembering whence and how it came; her loving kindness against -our grim hate; her tender faith against all our fears and doubting; and -we, knowing that so far as symbols went, she with all her goodness and -purity and faith, was outcast from God. - -“Jonathan,” she said, and the word sounded like music on her lips it was -so full of love and tenderness, “Jonathan dear, and you all my true, -true friends, I want you to bear something in mind through all this -dreadful time. I know that you must fight--that you must destroy even as -you destroyed the false Lucy so that the true Lucy might live hereafter; -but it is not a work of hate. That poor soul who has wrought all this -misery is the saddest case of all. Just think what will be his joy when -he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have -spiritual immortality. You must be pitiful to him, too, though it may -not hold your hands from his destruction.” - -As she spoke I could see her husband’s face darken and draw together, as -though the passion in him were shrivelling his being to its core. -Instinctively the clasp on his wife’s hand grew closer, till his -knuckles looked white. She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she -must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing -than ever. As she stopped speaking he leaped to his feet, almost tearing -his hand from hers as he spoke:-- - -“May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that -earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond it I could send -his soul for ever and ever to burning hell I would do it!” - -“Oh, hush! oh, hush! in the name of the good God. Don’t say such things, -Jonathan, my husband; or you will crush me with fear and horror. Just -think, my dear--I have been thinking all this long, long day of it--that -... perhaps ... some day ... I, too, may need such pity; and that some -other like you--and with equal cause for anger--may deny it to me! Oh, -my husband! my husband, indeed I would have spared you such a thought -had there been another way; but I pray that God may not have treasured -your wild words, except as the heart-broken wail of a very loving and -sorely stricken man. Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence -of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom -so many sorrows have come.” - -We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them, and we wept -openly. She wept, too, to see that her sweeter counsels had prevailed. -Her husband flung himself on his knees beside her, and putting his arms -round her, hid his face in the folds of her dress. Van Helsing beckoned -to us and we stole out of the room, leaving the two loving hearts alone -with their God. - -Before they retired the Professor fixed up the room against any coming -of the Vampire, and assured Mrs. Harker that she might rest in peace. -She tried to school herself to the belief, and, manifestly for her -husband’s sake, tried to seem content. It was a brave struggle; and was, -I think and believe, not without its reward. Van Helsing had placed at -hand a bell which either of them was to sound in case of any emergency. -When they had retired, Quincey, Godalming, and I arranged that we should -sit up, dividing the night between us, and watch over the safety of the -poor stricken lady. The first watch falls to Quincey, so the rest of us -shall be off to bed as soon as we can. Godalming has already turned in, -for his is the second watch. Now that my work is done I, too, shall go -to bed. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_3-4 October, close to midnight._--I thought yesterday would never end. -There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief -that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must -now be for the better. Before we parted, we discussed what our next step -was to be, but we could arrive at no result. All we knew was that one -earth-box remained, and that the Count alone knew where it was. If he -chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years; and in the -meantime!--the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even now. -This I know: that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that -one is my poor wronged darling. I love her a thousand times more for her -sweet pity of last night, a pity that made my own hate of the monster -seem despicable. Surely God will not permit the world to be the poorer -by the loss of such a creature. This is hope to me. We are all drifting -reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. Thank God! Mina is -sleeping, and sleeping without dreams. I fear what her dreams might be -like, with such terrible memories to ground them in. She has not been so -calm, within my seeing, since the sunset. Then, for a while, there came -over her face a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March. -I thought at the time that it was the softness of the red sunset on her -face, but somehow now I think it has a deeper meaning. I am not sleepy -myself, though I am weary--weary to death. However, I must try to sleep; -for there is to-morrow to think of, and there is no rest for me -until.... - - * * * * * - -_Later._--I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was -sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face. I could see easily, -for we did not leave the room in darkness; she had placed a warning hand -over my mouth, and now she whispered in my ear:-- - -“Hush! there is someone in the corridor!” I got up softly, and crossing -the room, gently opened the door. - -Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake. He -raised a warning hand for silence as he whispered to me:-- - -“Hush! go back to bed; it is all right. One of us will be here all -night. We don’t mean to take any chances!” - -His look and gesture forbade discussion, so I came back and told Mina. -She sighed and positively a shadow of a smile stole over her poor, pale -face as she put her arms round me and said softly:-- - -“Oh, thank God for good brave men!” With a sigh she sank back again to -sleep. I write this now as I am not sleepy, though I must try again. - - * * * * * - -_4 October, morning._--Once again during the night I was wakened by -Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming -dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was -like a speck rather than a disc of light. She said to me hurriedly:-- - -“Go, call the Professor. I want to see him at once.” - -“Why?” I asked. - -“I have an idea. I suppose it must have come in the night, and matured -without my knowing it. He must hypnotise me before the dawn, and then I -shall be able to speak. Go quick, dearest; the time is getting close.” I -went to the door. Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and, seeing -me, he sprang to his feet. - -“Is anything wrong?” he asked, in alarm. - -“No,” I replied; “but Mina wants to see Dr. Van Helsing at once.” - -“I will go,” he said, and hurried into the Professor’s room. - -In two or three minutes later Van Helsing was in the room in his -dressing-gown, and Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming were with Dr. Seward at -the door asking questions. When the Professor saw Mina smile--a -positive smile ousted the anxiety of his face; he rubbed his hands as he -said:-- - -“Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is indeed a change. See! friend Jonathan, -we have got our dear Madam Mina, as of old, back to us to-day!” Then -turning to her, he said, cheerfully: “And what am I do for you? For at -this hour you do not want me for nothings.” - -“I want you to hypnotise me!” she said. “Do it before the dawn, for I -feel that then I can speak, and speak freely. Be quick, for the time is -short!” Without a word he motioned her to sit up in bed. - -Looking fixedly at her, he commenced to make passes in front of her, -from over the top of her head downward, with each hand in turn. Mina -gazed at him fixedly for a few minutes, during which my own heart beat -like a trip hammer, for I felt that some crisis was at hand. Gradually -her eyes closed, and she sat, stock still; only by the gentle heaving of -her bosom could one know that she was alive. The Professor made a few -more passes and then stopped, and I could see that his forehead was -covered with great beads of perspiration. Mina opened her eyes; but she -did not seem the same woman. There was a far-away look in her eyes, and -her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me. Raising his hand to -impose silence, the Professor motioned to me to bring the others in. -They came on tip-toe, closing the door behind them, and stood at the -foot of the bed, looking on. Mina appeared not to see them. The -stillness was broken by Van Helsing’s voice speaking in a low level tone -which would not break the current of her thoughts:-- - -“Where are you?” The answer came in a neutral way:-- - -“I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own.” For several -minutes there was silence. Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood -staring at her fixedly; the rest of us hardly dared to breathe. The room -was growing lighter; without taking his eyes from Mina’s face, Dr. Van -Helsing motioned me to pull up the blind. I did so, and the day seemed -just upon us. A red streak shot up, and a rosy light seemed to diffuse -itself through the room. On the instant the Professor spoke again:-- - -“Where are you now?” The answer came dreamily, but with intention; it -were as though she were interpreting something. I have heard her use the -same tone when reading her shorthand notes. - -“I do not know. It is all strange to me!” - -“What do you see?” - -“I can see nothing; it is all dark.” - -“What do you hear?” I could detect the strain in the Professor’s patient -voice. - -“The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap. I can -hear them on the outside.” - -“Then you are on a ship?” We all looked at each other, trying to glean -something each from the other. We were afraid to think. The answer came -quick:-- - -“Oh, yes!” - -“What else do you hear?” - -“The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the -creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan -falls into the rachet.” - -“What are you doing?” - -“I am still--oh, so still. It is like death!” The voice faded away into -a deep breath as of one sleeping, and the open eyes closed again. - -By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of -day. Dr. Van Helsing placed his hands on Mina’s shoulders, and laid her -head down softly on her pillow. She lay like a sleeping child for a few -moments, and then, with a long sigh, awoke and stared in wonder to see -us all around her. “Have I been talking in my sleep?” was all she said. -She seemed, however, to know the situation without telling, though she -was eager to know what she had told. The Professor repeated the -conversation, and she said:-- - -“Then there is not a moment to lose: it may not be yet too late!” Mr. -Morris and Lord Godalming started for the door but the Professor’s calm -voice called them back:-- - -“Stay, my friends. That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor -whilst she spoke. There are many ships weighing anchor at the moment in -your so great Port of London. Which of them is it that you seek? God be -thanked that we have once again a clue, though whither it may lead us we -know not. We have been blind somewhat; blind after the manner of men, -since when we can look back we see what we might have seen looking -forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but -that sentence is a puddle; is it not? We can know now what was in the -Count’s mind, when he seize that money, though Jonathan’s so fierce -knife put him in the danger that even he dread. He meant escape. Hear -me, ESCAPE! He saw that with but one earth-box left, and a pack of men -following like dogs after a fox, this London was no place for him. He -have take his last earth-box on board a ship, and he leave the land. He -think to escape, but no! we follow him. Tally Ho! as friend Arthur would -say when he put on his red frock! Our old fox is wily; oh! so wily, and -we must follow with wile. I, too, am wily and I think his mind in a -little while. In meantime we may rest and in peace, for there are waters -between us which he do not want to pass, and which he could not if he -would--unless the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or -slack tide. See, and the sun is just rose, and all day to sunset is to -us. Let us take bath, and dress, and have breakfast which we all need, -and which we can eat comfortably since he be not in the same land with -us.” Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked:-- - -“But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?” He -took her hand and patted it as he replied:-- - -“Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all -questions.” He would say no more, and we separated to dress. - -After breakfast Mina repeated her question. He looked at her gravely for -a minute and then said sorrowfully:-- - -“Because my dear, dear Madam Mina, now more than ever must we find him -even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell!” She grew paler as -she asked faintly:-- - -“Why?” - -“Because,” he answered solemnly, “he can live for centuries, and you are -but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded--since once he put that mark -upon your throat.” - -I was just in time to catch her as she fell forward in a faint. - - - - -CHAPTER XXIV - -DR. SEWARD’S PHONOGRAPH DIARY, SPOKEN BY VAN HELSING - - -This to Jonathan Harker. - -You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our -search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we -seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. -This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him -here. Let me tell you that so you will know what we four know already, -for I have tell them. He, our enemy, have gone away; he have gone back -to his Castle in Transylvania. I know it so well, as if a great hand of -fire wrote it on the wall. He have prepare for this in some way, and -that last earth-box was ready to ship somewheres. For this he took the -money; for this he hurry at the last, lest we catch him before the sun -go down. It was his last hope, save that he might hide in the tomb that -he think poor Miss Lucy, being as he thought like him, keep open to him. -But there was not of time. When that fail he make straight for his last -resource--his last earth-work I might say did I wish _double entente_. -He is clever, oh, so clever! he know that his game here was finish; and -so he decide he go back home. He find ship going by the route he came, -and he go in it. We go off now to find what ship, and whither bound; -when we have discover that, we come back and tell you all. Then we will -comfort you and poor dear Madam Mina with new hope. For it will be hope -when you think it over: that all is not lost. This very creature that we -pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London; and yet in -one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him out. He is -finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we do. -But we are strong, each in our purpose; and we are all more strong -together. Take heart afresh, dear husband of Madam Mina. This battle is -but begun, and in the end we shall win--so sure as that God sits on high -to watch over His children. Therefore be of much comfort till we return. - -VAN HELSING. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_4 October._--When I read to Mina, Van Helsing’s message in the -phonograph, the poor girl brightened up considerably. Already the -certainty that the Count is out of the country has given her comfort; -and comfort is strength to her. For my own part, now that his horrible -danger is not face to face with us, it seems almost impossible to -believe in it. Even my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem -like a long-forgotten dream. Here in the crisp autumn air in the bright -sunlight---- - -Alas! how can I disbelieve! In the midst of my thought my eye fell on -the red scar on my poor darling’s white forehead. Whilst that lasts, -there can be no disbelief. And afterwards the very memory of it will -keep faith crystal clear. Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been -over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality -seems greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less. There is -something of a guiding purpose manifest throughout, which is comforting. -Mina says that perhaps we are the instruments of ultimate good. It may -be! I shall try to think as she does. We have never spoken to each other -yet of the future. It is better to wait till we see the Professor and -the others after their investigations. - -The day is running by more quickly than I ever thought a day could run -for me again. It is now three o’clock. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_5 October, 5 p. m._--Our meeting for report. Present: Professor Van -Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, Jonathan -Harker, Mina Harker. - -Dr. Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to -discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:-- - -“As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that -he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since -by that way he come. It was a dreary blank that was before us. _Omne -ignotum pro magnifico_; and so with heavy hearts we start to find what -ships leave for the Black Sea last night. He was in sailing ship, since -Madam Mina tell of sails being set. These not so important as to go in -your list of the shipping in the _Times_, and so we go, by suggestion of -Lord Godalming, to your Lloyd’s, where are note of all ships that sail, -however so small. There we find that only one Black-Sea-bound ship go -out with the tide. She is the _Czarina Catherine_, and she sail from -Doolittle’s Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the -Danube. ‘Soh!’ said I, ‘this is the ship whereon is the Count.’ So off -we go to Doolittle’s Wharf, and there we find a man in an office of wood -so small that the man look bigger than the office. From him we inquire -of the goings of the _Czarina Catherine_. He swear much, and he red face -and loud of voice, but he good fellow all the same; and when Quincey -give him something from his pocket which crackle as he roll it up, and -put it in a so small bag which he have hid deep in his clothing, he -still better fellow and humble servant to us. He come with us, and ask -many men who are rough and hot; these be better fellows too when they -have been no more thirsty. They say much of blood and bloom, and of -others which I comprehend not, though I guess what they mean; but -nevertheless they tell us all things which we want to know. - -“They make known to us among them, how last afternoon at about five -o’clock comes a man so hurry. A tall man, thin and pale, with high nose -and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning. That he be all in -black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the -time. That he scatter his money in making quick inquiry as to what ship -sails for the Black Sea and for where. Some took him to the office and -then to the ship, where he will not go aboard but halt at shore end of -gang-plank, and ask that the captain come to him. The captain come, when -told that he will be pay well; and though he swear much at the first he -agree to term. Then the thin man go and some one tell him where horse -and cart can be hired. He go there and soon he come again, himself -driving cart on which a great box; this he himself lift down, though it -take several to put it on truck for the ship. He give much talk to -captain as to how and where his box is to be place; but the captain like -it not and swear at him in many tongues, and tell him that if he like he -can come and see where it shall be. But he say ‘no’; that he come not -yet, for that he have much to do. Whereupon the captain tell him that he -had better be quick--with blood--for that his ship will leave the -place--of blood--before the turn of the tide--with blood. Then the thin -man smile and say that of course he must go when he think fit; but he -will be surprise if he go quite so soon. The captain swear again, -polyglot, and the thin man make him bow, and thank him, and say that he -will so far intrude on his kindness as to come aboard before the -sailing. Final the captain, more red than ever, and in more tongues tell -him that he doesn’t want no Frenchmen--with bloom upon them and also -with blood--in his ship--with blood on her also. And so, after asking -where there might be close at hand a ship where he might purchase ship -forms, he departed. - -“No one knew where he went ‘or bloomin’ well cared,’ as they said, for -they had something else to think of--well with blood again; for it soon -became apparent to all that the _Czarina Catherine_ would not sail as -was expected. A thin mist began to creep up from the river, and it grew, -and grew; till soon a dense fog enveloped the ship and all around her. -The captain swore polyglot--very polyglot--polyglot with bloom and -blood; but he could do nothing. The water rose and rose; and he began to -fear that he would lose the tide altogether. He was in no friendly mood, -when just at full tide, the thin man came up the gang-plank again and -asked to see where his box had been stowed. Then the captain replied -that he wished that he and his box--old and with much bloom and -blood--were in hell. But the thin man did not be offend, and went down -with the mate and saw where it was place, and came up and stood awhile -on deck in fog. He must have come off by himself, for none notice him. -Indeed they thought not of him; for soon the fog begin to melt away, and -all was clear again. My friends of the thirst and the language that was -of bloom and blood laughed, as they told how the captain’s swears -exceeded even his usual polyglot, and was more than ever full of -picturesque, when on questioning other mariners who were on movement up -and down on the river that hour, he found that few of them had seen any -of fog at all, except where it lay round the wharf. However, the ship -went out on the ebb tide; and was doubtless by morning far down the -river mouth. She was by then, when they told us, well out to sea. - -“And so, my dear Madam Mina, it is that we have to rest for a time, for -our enemy is on the sea, with the fog at his command, on his way to the -Danube mouth. To sail a ship takes time, go she never so quick; and when -we start we go on land more quick, and we meet him there. Our best hope -is to come on him when in the box between sunrise and sunset; for then -he can make no struggle, and we may deal with him as we should. There -are days for us, in which we can make ready our plan. We know all about -where he go; for we have seen the owner of the ship, who have shown us -invoices and all papers that can be. The box we seek is to be landed in -Varna, and to be given to an agent, one Ristics who will there present -his credentials; and so our merchant friend will have done his part. -When he ask if there be any wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and -have inquiry made at Varna, we say ‘no’; for what is to be done is not -for police or of the customs. It must be done by us alone and in our own -way.” - -When Dr. Van Helsing had done speaking, I asked him if he were certain -that the Count had remained on board the ship. He replied: “We have the -best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this -morning.” I asked him again if it were really necessary that they should -pursue the Count, for oh! I dread Jonathan leaving me, and I know that -he would surely go if the others went. He answered in growing passion, -at first quietly. As he went on, however, he grew more angry and more -forceful, till in the end we could not but see wherein was at least some -of that personal dominance which made him so long a master amongst -men:-- - -“Yes, it is necessary--necessary--necessary! For your sake in the first, -and then for the sake of humanity. This monster has done much harm -already, in the narrow scope where he find himself, and in the short -time when as yet he was only as a body groping his so small measure in -darkness and not knowing. All this have I told these others; you, my -dear Madam Mina, will learn it in the phonograph of my friend John, or -in that of your husband. I have told them how the measure of leaving his -own barren land--barren of peoples--and coming to a new land where life -of man teems till they are like the multitude of standing corn, was the -work of centuries. Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do -what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have -been, or that will be, could aid him. With this one, all the forces of -nature that are occult and deep and strong must have worked together in -some wondrous way. The very place, where he have been alive, Un-Dead for -all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical -world. There are deep caverns and fissures that reach none know whither. -There have been volcanoes, some of whose openings still send out waters -of strange properties, and gases that kill or make to vivify. Doubtless, -there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations of -occult forces which work for physical life in strange way; and in -himself were from the first some great qualities. In a hard and warlike -time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve, more subtle brain, -more braver heart, than any man. In him some vital principle have in -strange way found their utmost; and as his body keep strong and grow and -thrive, so his brain grow too. All this without that diabolic aid which -is surely to him; for it have to yield to the powers that come from, -and are, symbolic of good. And now this is what he is to us. He have -infect you--oh, forgive me, my dear, that I must say such; but it is for -good of you that I speak. He infect you in such wise, that even if he do -no more, you have only to live--to live in your own old, sweet way; and -so in time, death, which is of man’s common lot and with God’s sanction, -shall make you like to him. This must not be! We have sworn together -that it must not. Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the -world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, -whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one -soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem -more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if -we fall, we fall in good cause.” He paused and I said:-- - -“But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely? Since he has been driven -from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from -which he has been hunted?” - -“Aha!” he said, “your simile of the tiger good, for me, and I shall -adopt him. Your man-eater, as they of India call the tiger who has once -tasted blood of the human, care no more for the other prey, but prowl -unceasing till he get him. This that we hunt from our village is a -tiger, too, a man-eater, and he never cease to prowl. Nay, in himself he -is not one to retire and stay afar. In his life, his living life, he go -over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground; he be -beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. -Look at his persistence and endurance. With the child-brain that was to -him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city. What -does he do? He find out the place of all the world most of promise for -him. Then he deliberately set himself down to prepare for the task. He -find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers. He -study new tongues. He learn new social life; new environment of old -ways, the politic, the law, the finance, the science, the habit of a new -land and a new people who have come to be since he was. His glimpse that -he have had, whet his appetite only and enkeen his desire. Nay, it help -him to grow as to his brain; for it all prove to him how right he was at -the first in his surmises. He have done this alone; all alone! from a -ruin tomb in a forgotten land. What more may he not do when the greater -world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death, as we know -him; who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole -peoples. Oh, if such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, -what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours. But we -are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our -efforts all in secret; for in this enlightened age, when men believe not -even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest -strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armour, and his weapons -to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls -for the safety of one we love--for the good of mankind, and for the -honour and glory of God.” - -After a general discussion it was determined that for to-night nothing -be definitely settled; that we should all sleep on the facts, and try to -think out the proper conclusions. To-morrow, at breakfast, we are to -meet again, and, after making our conclusions known to one another, we -shall decide on some definite cause of action. - - * * * * * - -I feel a wonderful peace and rest to-night. It is as if some haunting -presence were removed from me. Perhaps ... - -My surmise was not finished, could not be; for I caught sight in the -mirror of the red mark upon my forehead; and I knew that I was still -unclean. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_5 October._--We all rose early, and I think that sleep did much for -each and all of us. When we met at early breakfast there was more -general cheerfulness than any of us had ever expected to experience -again. - -It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let -any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way--even by -death--and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. More -than once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder whether -the whole of the past days had not been a dream. It was only when I -caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker’s forehead that I was -brought back to reality. Even now, when I am gravely revolving the -matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our -trouble is still existent. Even Mrs. Harker seems to lose sight of her -trouble for whole spells; it is only now and again, when something -recalls it to her mind, that she thinks of her terrible scar. We are to -meet here in my study in half an hour and decide on our course of -action. I see only one immediate difficulty, I know it by instinct -rather than reason: we shall all have to speak frankly; and yet I fear -that in some mysterious way poor Mrs. Harker’s tongue is tied. I _know_ -that she forms conclusions of her own, and from all that has been I can -guess how brilliant and how true they must be; but she will not, or -cannot, give them utterance. I have mentioned this to Van Helsing, and -he and I are to talk it over when we are alone. I suppose it is some of -that horrid poison which has got into her veins beginning to work. The -Count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called “the -Vampire’s baptism of blood.” Well, there may be a poison that distils -itself out of good things; in an age when the existence of ptomaines is -a mystery we should not wonder at anything! One thing I know: that if my -instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker’s silences, then there is a -terrible difficulty--an unknown danger--in the work before us. The same -power that compels her silence may compel her speech. I dare not think -further; for so I should in my thoughts dishonour a noble woman! - -Van Helsing is coming to my study a little before the others. I shall -try to open the subject with him. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of -things. I could see that he had something on his mind which he wanted to -say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subject. After beating -about the bush a little, he said suddenly:-- - -“Friend John, there is something that you and I must talk of alone, just -at the first at any rate. Later, we may have to take the others into our -confidence”; then he stopped, so I waited; he went on:-- - -“Madam Mina, our poor, dear Madam Mina is changing.” A cold shiver ran -through me to find my worst fears thus endorsed. Van Helsing -continued:-- - -“With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned -before things go too far. Our task is now in reality more difficult than -ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importance. I -can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her face. It is now -but very, very slight; but it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice -without to prejudge. Her teeth are some sharper, and at times her eyes -are more hard. But these are not all, there is to her the silence now -often; as so it was with Miss Lucy. She did not speak, even when she -wrote that which she wished to be known later. Now my fear is this. If -it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and -hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotise her first, and who -have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should, if he -will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?” I nodded -acquiescence; he went on:-- - -“Then, what we must do is to prevent this; we must keep her ignorant of -our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know not. This is a painful -task! Oh, so painful that it heart-break me to think of; but it must be. -When to-day we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not -to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by -us.” He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration -at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor -soul already so tortured. I knew that it would be some sort of comfort -to him if I told him that I also had come to the same conclusion; for at -any rate it would take away the pain of doubt. I told him, and the -effect was as I expected. - -It is now close to the time of our general gathering. Van Helsing has -gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of it. I -really believe his purpose is to be able to pray alone. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was -experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Mrs. Harker had sent a -message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present, as -she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our movements -without her presence to embarrass us. The Professor and I looked at each -other for an instant, and somehow we both seemed relieved. For my own -part, I thought that if Mrs. Harker realised the danger herself, it was -much pain as well as much danger averted. Under the circumstances we -agreed, by a questioning look and answer, with finger on lip, to -preserve silence in our suspicions, until we should have been able to -confer alone again. We went at once into our Plan of Campaign. Van -Helsing roughly put the facts before us first:-- - -“The _Czarina Catherine_ left the Thames yesterday morning. It will take -her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to -reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days. -Now, if we allow for two days less for the ship’s voyage, owing to such -weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear; and if -we allow a whole day and night for any delays which may occur to us, -then we have a margin of nearly two weeks. Thus, in order to be quite -safe, we must leave here on 17th at latest. Then we shall at any rate -be in Varna a day before the ship arrives, and able to make such -preparations as may be necessary. Of course we shall all go armed--armed -against evil things, spiritual as well as physical.” Here Quincey Morris -added:-- - -“I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be -that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to -our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any -trouble of that sort around. Do you remember, Art, when we had the pack -after us at Tobolsk? What wouldn’t we have given then for a repeater -apiece!” - -“Good!” said Van Helsing, “Winchesters it shall be. Quincey’s head is -level at all times, but most so when there is to hunt, metaphor be more -dishonour to science than wolves be of danger to man. In the meantime we -can do nothing here; and as I think that Varna is not familiar to any of -us, why not go there more soon? It is as long to wait here as there. -To-night and to-morrow we can get ready, and then, if all be well, we -four can set out on our journey.” - -“We four?” said Harker interrogatively, looking from one to another of -us. - -“Of course!” answered the Professor quickly, “you must remain to take -care of your so sweet wife!” Harker was silent for awhile and then said -in a hollow voice:-- - -“Let us talk of that part of it in the morning. I want to consult with -Mina.” I thought that now was the time for Van Helsing to warn him not -to disclose our plans to her; but he took no notice. I looked at him -significantly and coughed. For answer he put his finger on his lips and -turned away. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_5 October, afternoon._--For some time after our meeting this morning I -could not think. The new phases of things leave my mind in a state of -wonder which allows no room for active thought. Mina’s determination not -to take any part in the discussion set me thinking; and as I could not -argue the matter with her, I could only guess. I am as far as ever from -a solution now. The way the others received it, too, puzzled me; the -last time we talked of the subject we agreed that there was to be no -more concealment of anything amongst us. Mina is sleeping now, calmly -and sweetly like a little child. Her lips are curved and her face beams -with happiness. Thank God, there are such moments still for her. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--How strange it all is. I sat watching Mina’s happy sleep, and -came as near to being happy myself as I suppose I shall ever be. As the -evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun sinking -lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to me. All at -once Mina opened her eyes, and looking at me tenderly, said:-- - -“Jonathan, I want you to promise me something on your word of honour. A -promise made to me, but made holily in God’s hearing, and not to be -broken though I should go down on my knees and implore you with bitter -tears. Quick, you must make it to me at once.” - -“Mina,” I said, “a promise like that, I cannot make at once. I may have -no right to make it.” - -“But, dear one,” she said, with such spiritual intensity that her eyes -were like pole stars, “it is I who wish it; and it is not for myself. -You can ask Dr. Van Helsing if I am not right; if he disagrees you may -do as you will. Nay, more, if you all agree, later, you are absolved -from the promise.” - -“I promise!” I said, and for a moment she looked supremely happy; though -to me all happiness for her was denied by the red scar on her forehead. -She said:-- - -“Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for -the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or -implication; not at any time whilst this remains to me!” and she -solemnly pointed to the scar. I saw that she was in earnest, and said -solemnly:-- - -“I promise!” and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had -been shut between us. - - * * * * * - -_Later, midnight._--Mina has been bright and cheerful all the evening. -So much so that all the rest seemed to take courage, as if infected -somewhat with her gaiety; as a result even I myself felt as if the pall -of gloom which weighs us down were somewhat lifted. We all retired -early. Mina is now sleeping like a little child; it is a wonderful thing -that her faculty of sleep remains to her in the midst of her terrible -trouble. Thank God for it, for then at least she can forget her care. -Perhaps her example may affect me as her gaiety did to-night. I shall -try it. Oh! for a dreamless sleep. - - * * * * * - -_6 October, morning._--Another surprise. Mina woke me early, about the -same time as yesterday, and asked me to bring Dr. Van Helsing. I thought -that it was another occasion for hypnotism, and without question went -for the Professor. He had evidently expected some such call, for I found -him dressed in his room. His door was ajar, so that he could hear the -opening of the door of our room. He came at once; as he passed into the -room, he asked Mina if the others might come, too. - -“No,” she said quite simply, “it will not be necessary. You can tell -them just as well. I must go with you on your journey.” - -Dr. Van Helsing was as startled as I was. After a moment’s pause he -asked:-- - -“But why?” - -“You must take me with you. I am safer with you, and you shall be safer, -too.” - -“But why, dear Madam Mina? You know that your safety is our solemnest -duty. We go into danger, to which you are, or may be, more liable than -any of us from--from circumstances--things that have been.” He paused, -embarrassed. - -As she replied, she raised her finger and pointed to her forehead:-- - -“I know. That is why I must go. I can tell you now, whilst the sun is -coming up; I may not be able again. I know that when the Count wills me -I must go. I know that if he tells me to come in secret, I must come by -wile; by any device to hoodwink--even Jonathan.” God saw the look that -she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel -that look is noted to her everlasting honour. I could only clasp her -hand. I could not speak; my emotion was too great for even the relief of -tears. She went on:-- - -“You men are brave and strong. You are strong in your numbers, for you -can defy that which would break down the human endurance of one who had -to guard alone. Besides, I may be of service, since you can hypnotise me -and so learn that which even I myself do not know.” Dr. Van Helsing said -very gravely:-- - -“Madam Mina, you are, as always, most wise. You shall with us come; and -together we shall do that which we go forth to achieve.” When he had -spoken, Mina’s long spell of silence made me look at her. She had fallen -back on her pillow asleep; she did not even wake when I had pulled up -the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room. Van Helsing -motioned to me to come with him quietly. We went to his room, and within -a minute Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Mr. Morris were with us also. -He told them what Mina had said, and went on:-- - -“In the morning we shall leave for Varna. We have now to deal with a -new factor: Madam Mina. Oh, but her soul is true. It is to her an agony -to tell us so much as she has done; but it is most right, and we are -warned in time. There must be no chance lost, and in Varna we must be -ready to act the instant when that ship arrives.” - -“What shall we do exactly?” asked Mr. Morris laconically. The Professor -paused before replying:-- - -“We shall at the first board that ship; then, when we have identified -the box, we shall place a branch of the wild rose on it. This we shall -fasten, for when it is there none can emerge; so at least says the -superstition. And to superstition must we trust at the first; it was -man’s faith in the early, and it have its root in faith still. Then, -when we get the opportunity that we seek, when none are near to see, we -shall open the box, and--and all will be well.” - -“I shall not wait for any opportunity,” said Morris. “When I see the box -I shall open it and destroy the monster, though there were a thousand -men looking on, and if I am to be wiped out for it the next moment!” I -grasped his hand instinctively and found it as firm as a piece of steel. -I think he understood my look; I hope he did. - -“Good boy,” said Dr. Van Helsing. “Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God -bless him for it. My child, believe me none of us shall lag behind or -pause from any fear. I do but say what we may do--what we must do. But, -indeed, indeed we cannot say what we shall do. There are so many things -which may happen, and their ways and their ends are so various that -until the moment we may not say. We shall all be armed, in all ways; and -when the time for the end has come, our effort shall not be lack. Now -let us to-day put all our affairs in order. Let all things which touch -on others dear to us, and who on us depend, be complete; for none of us -can tell what, or when, or how, the end may be. As for me, my own -affairs are regulate; and as I have nothing else to do, I shall go make -arrangements for the travel. I shall have all tickets and so forth for -our journey.” - -There was nothing further to be said, and we parted. I shall now settle -up all my affairs of earth, and be ready for whatever may come.... - - * * * * * - -_Later._--It is all done; my will is made, and all complete. Mina if she -survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who -have been so good to us shall have remainder. - -It is now drawing towards the sunset; Mina’s uneasiness calls my -attention to it. I am sure that there is something on her mind which the -time of exact sunset will reveal. These occasions are becoming harrowing -times for us all, for each sunrise and sunset opens up some new -danger--some new pain, which, however, may in God’s will be means to a -good end. I write all these things in the diary since my darling must -not hear them now; but if it may be that she can see them again, they -shall be ready. - -She is calling to me. - - - - -CHAPTER XXV - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he -says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept. - -I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs. -Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to -understand that sunrise and sunset are to her times of peculiar freedom; -when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing -or restraining her, or inciting her to action. This mood or condition -begins some half hour or more before actual sunrise or sunset, and lasts -till either the sun is high, or whilst the clouds are still aglow with -the rays streaming above the horizon. At first there is a sort of -negative condition, as if some tie were loosened, and then the absolute -freedom quickly follows; when, however, the freedom ceases the -change-back or relapse comes quickly, preceded only by a spell of -warning silence. - -To-night, when we met, she was somewhat constrained, and bore all the -signs of an internal struggle. I put it down myself to her making a -violent effort at the earliest instant she could do so. A very few -minutes, however, gave her complete control of herself; then, motioning -her husband to sit beside her on the sofa where she was half reclining, -she made the rest of us bring chairs up close. Taking her husband’s hand -in hers began:-- - -“We are all here together in freedom, for perhaps the last time! I know, -dear; I know that you will always be with me to the end.” This was to -her husband whose hand had, as we could see, tightened upon hers. “In -the morning we go out upon our task, and God alone knows what may be in -store for any of us. You are going to be so good to me as to take me -with you. I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak -woman, whose soul perhaps is lost--no, no, not yet, but is at any rate -at stake--you will do. But you must remember that I am not as you are. -There is a poison in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me; which -must destroy me, unless some relief comes to us. Oh, my friends, you -know as well as I do, that my soul is at stake; and though I know there -is one way out for me, you must not and I must not take it!” She looked -appealingly to us all in turn, beginning and ending with her husband. - -“What is that way?” asked Van Helsing in a hoarse voice. “What is that -way, which we must not--may not--take?” - -“That I may die now, either by my own hand or that of another, before -the greater evil is entirely wrought. I know, and you know, that were I -once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit, even as you -did my poor Lucy’s. Were death, or the fear of death, the only thing -that stood in the way I would not shrink to die here, now, amidst the -friends who love me. But death is not all. I cannot believe that to die -in such a case, when there is hope before us and a bitter task to be -done, is God’s will. Therefore, I, on my part, give up here the -certainty of eternal rest, and go out into the dark where may be the -blackest things that the world or the nether world holds!” We were all -silent, for we knew instinctively that this was only a prelude. The -faces of the others were set and Harker’s grew ashen grey; perhaps he -guessed better than any of us what was coming. She continued:-- - -“This is what I can give into the hotch-pot.” I could not but note the -quaint legal phrase which she used in such a place, and with all -seriousness. “What will each of you give? Your lives I know,” she went -on quickly, “that is easy for brave men. Your lives are God’s, and you -can give them back to Him; but what will you give to me?” She looked -again questioningly, but this time avoided her husband’s face. Quincey -seemed to understand; he nodded, and her face lit up. “Then I shall tell -you plainly what I want, for there must be no doubtful matter in this -connection between us now. You must promise me, one and all--even you, -my beloved husband--that, should the time come, you will kill me.” - -“What is that time?” The voice was Quincey’s, but it was low and -strained. - -“When you shall be convinced that I am so changed that it is better that -I die than I may live. When I am thus dead in the flesh, then you will, -without a moment’s delay, drive a stake through me and cut off my head; -or do whatever else may be wanting to give me rest!” - -Quincey was the first to rise after the pause. He knelt down before her -and taking her hand in his said solemnly:-- - -“I’m only a rough fellow, who hasn’t, perhaps, lived as a man should to -win such a distinction, but I swear to you by all that I hold sacred and -dear that, should the time ever come, I shall not flinch from the duty -that you have set us. And I promise you, too, that I shall make all -certain, for if I am only doubtful I shall take it that the time has -come!” - -“My true friend!” was all she could say amid her fast-falling tears, as, -bending over, she kissed his hand. - -“I swear the same, my dear Madam Mina!” said Van Helsing. - -“And I!” said Lord Godalming, each of them in turn kneeling to her to -take the oath. I followed, myself. Then her husband turned to her -wan-eyed and with a greenish pallor which subdued the snowy whiteness of -his hair, and asked:-- - -“And must I, too, make such a promise, oh, my wife?” - -“You too, my dearest,” she said, with infinite yearning of pity in her -voice and eyes. “You must not shrink. You are nearest and dearest and -all the world to me; our souls are knit into one, for all life and all -time. Think, dear, that there have been times when brave men have killed -their wives and their womenkind, to keep them from falling into the -hands of the enemy. Their hands did not falter any the more because -those that they loved implored them to slay them. It is men’s duty -towards those whom they love, in such times of sore trial! And oh, my -dear, if it is to be that I must meet death at any hand, let it be at -the hand of him that loves me best. Dr. Van Helsing, I have not -forgotten your mercy in poor Lucy’s case to him who loved”--she stopped -with a flying blush, and changed her phrase--“to him who had best right -to give her peace. If that time shall come again, I look to you to make -it a happy memory of my husband’s life that it was his loving hand which -set me free from the awful thrall upon me.” - -“Again I swear!” came the Professor’s resonant voice. Mrs. Harker -smiled, positively smiled, as with a sigh of relief she leaned back and -said:-- - -“And now one word of warning, a warning which you must never forget: -this time, if it ever come, may come quickly and unexpectedly, and in -such case you must lose no time in using your opportunity. At such a -time I myself might be--nay! if the time ever comes, _shall be_--leagued -with your enemy against you.” - -“One more request;” she became very solemn as she said this, “it is not -vital and necessary like the other, but I want you to do one thing for -me, if you will.” We all acquiesced, but no one spoke; there was no need -to speak:-- - -“I want you to read the Burial Service.” She was interrupted by a deep -groan from her husband; taking his hand in hers, she held it over her -heart, and continued: “You must read it over me some day. Whatever may -be the issue of all this fearful state of things, it will be a sweet -thought to all or some of us. You, my dearest, will I hope read it, for -then it will be in your voice in my memory for ever--come what may!” - -“But oh, my dear one,” he pleaded, “death is afar off from you.” - -“Nay,” she said, holding up a warning hand. “I am deeper in death at -this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!” - -“Oh, my wife, must I read it?” he said, before he began. - -“It would comfort me, my husband!” was all she said; and he began to -read when she had got the book ready. - -“How can I--how could any one--tell of that strange scene, its -solemnity, its gloom, its sadness, its horror; and, withal, its -sweetness. Even a sceptic, who can see nothing but a travesty of bitter -truth in anything holy or emotional, would have been melted to the heart -had he seen that little group of loving and devoted friends kneeling -round that stricken and sorrowing lady; or heard the tender passion of -her husband’s voice, as in tones so broken with emotion that often he -had to pause, he read the simple and beautiful service from the Burial -of the Dead. I--I cannot go on--words--and--v-voice--f-fail m-me!” - - * * * * * - -She was right in her instinct. Strange as it all was, bizarre as it may -hereafter seem even to us who felt its potent influence at the time, it -comforted us much; and the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker’s coming -relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of despair to any -of us as we had dreaded. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_15 October, Varna._--We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, -got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the -Orient Express. We travelled night and day, arriving here at about five -o’clock. Lord Godalming went to the Consulate to see if any telegram had -arrived for him, whilst the rest of us came on to this hotel--“the -Odessus.” The journey may have had incidents; I was, however, too eager -to get on, to care for them. Until the _Czarina Catherine_ comes into -port there will be no interest for me in anything in the wide world. -Thank God! Mina is well, and looks to be getting stronger; her colour is -coming back. She sleeps a great deal; throughout the journey she slept -nearly all the time. Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very -wakeful and alert; and it has become a habit for Van Helsing to -hypnotise her at such times. At first, some effort was needed, and he -had to make many passes; but now, she seems to yield at once, as if by -habit, and scarcely any action is needed. He seems to have power at -these particular moments to simply will, and her thoughts obey him. He -always asks her what she can see and hear. She answers to the first:-- - -“Nothing; all is dark.” And to the second:-- - -“I can hear the waves lapping against the ship, and the water rushing -by. Canvas and cordage strain and masts and yards creak. The wind is -high--I can hear it in the shrouds, and the bow throws back the foam.” -It is evident that the _Czarina Catherine_ is still at sea, hastening on -her way to Varna. Lord Godalming has just returned. He had four -telegrams, one each day since we started, and all to the same effect: -that the _Czarina Catherine_ had not been reported to Lloyd’s from -anywhere. He had arranged before leaving London that his agent should -send him every day a telegram saying if the ship had been reported. He -was to have a message even if she were not reported, so that he might be -sure that there was a watch being kept at the other end of the wire. - -We had dinner and went to bed early. To-morrow we are to see the -Vice-Consul, and to arrange, if we can, about getting on board the ship -as soon as she arrives. Van Helsing says that our chance will be to get -on the boat between sunrise and sunset. The Count, even if he takes the -form of a bat, cannot cross the running water of his own volition, and -so cannot leave the ship. As he dare not change to man’s form without -suspicion--which he evidently wishes to avoid--he must remain in the -box. If, then, we can come on board after sunrise, he is at our mercy; -for we can open the box and make sure of him, as we did of poor Lucy, -before he wakes. What mercy he shall get from us will not count for -much. We think that we shall not have much trouble with officials or the -seamen. Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, -and we are well supplied with money. We have only to make sure that the -ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being -warned, and we shall be safe. Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I -think! - - * * * * * - -_16 October._--Mina’s report still the same: lapping waves and rushing -water, darkness and favouring winds. We are evidently in good time, and -when we hear of the _Czarina Catherine_ we shall be ready. As she must -pass the Dardanelles we are sure to have some report. - - * * * * * - -_17 October._--Everything is pretty well fixed now, I think, to welcome -the Count on his return from his tour. Godalming told the shippers that -he fancied that the box sent aboard might contain something stolen from -a friend of his, and got a half consent that he might open it at his own -risk. The owner gave him a paper telling the Captain to give him every -facility in doing whatever he chose on board the ship, and also a -similar authorisation to his agent at Varna. We have seen the agent, who -was much impressed with Godalming’s kindly manner to him, and we are all -satisfied that whatever he can do to aid our wishes will be done. We -have already arranged what to do in case we get the box open. If the -Count is there, Van Helsing and Seward will cut off his head at once and -drive a stake through his heart. Morris and Godalming and I shall -prevent interference, even if we have to use the arms which we shall -have ready. The Professor says that if we can so treat the Count’s body, -it will soon after fall into dust. In such case there would be no -evidence against us, in case any suspicion of murder were aroused. But -even if it were not, we should stand or fall by our act, and perhaps -some day this very script may be evidence to come between some of us and -a rope. For myself, I should take the chance only too thankfully if it -were to come. We mean to leave no stone unturned to carry out our -intent. We have arranged with certain officials that the instant the -_Czarina Catherine_ is seen, we are to be informed by a special -messenger. - - * * * * * - -_24 October._--A whole week of waiting. Daily telegrams to Godalming, -but only the same story: “Not yet reported.” Mina’s morning and evening -hypnotic answer is unvaried: lapping waves, rushing water, and creaking -masts. - -_Telegram, October 24th._ - -_Rufus Smith, Lloyd’s, London, to Lord Godalming, care of H. B. M. -Vice-Consul, Varna._ - -“_Czarina Catherine_ reported this morning from Dardanelles.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_25 October._--How I miss my phonograph! To write diary with a pen is -irksome to me; but Van Helsing says I must. We were all wild with -excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd’s. I -know now what men feel in battle when the call to action is heard. Mrs. -Harker, alone of our party, did not show any signs of emotion. After -all, it is not strange that she did not; for we took special care not to -let her know anything about it, and we all tried not to show any -excitement when we were in her presence. In old days she would, I am -sure, have noticed, no matter how we might have tried to conceal it; but -in this way she is greatly changed during the past three weeks. The -lethargy grows upon her, and though she seems strong and well, and is -getting back some of her colour, Van Helsing and I are not satisfied. We -talk of her often; we have not, however, said a word to the others. It -would break poor Harker’s heart--certainly his nerve--if he knew that we -had even a suspicion on the subject. Van Helsing examines, he tells me, -her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for -he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active -danger of a change in her. If this change should come, it would be -necessary to take steps!... We both know what those steps would have to -be, though we do not mention our thoughts to each other. We should -neither of us shrink from the task--awful though it be to contemplate. -“Euthanasia” is an excellent and a comforting word! I am grateful to -whoever invented it. - -It is only about 24 hours’ sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the -rate the _Czarina Catherine_ has come from London. She should therefore -arrive some time in the morning; but as she cannot possibly get in -before then, we are all about to retire early. We shall get up at one -o’clock, so as to be ready. - - * * * * * - -_25 October, Noon_.--No news yet of the ship’s arrival. Mrs. Harker’s -hypnotic report this morning was the same as usual, so it is possible -that we may get news at any moment. We men are all in a fever of -excitement, except Harker, who is calm; his hands are cold as ice, and -an hour ago I found him whetting the edge of the great Ghoorka knife -which he now always carries with him. It will be a bad lookout for the -Count if the edge of that “Kukri” ever touches his throat, driven by -that stern, ice-cold hand! - -Van Helsing and I were a little alarmed about Mrs. Harker to-day. About -noon she got into a sort of lethargy which we did not like; although we -kept silence to the others, we were neither of us happy about it. She -had been restless all the morning, so that we were at first glad to know -that she was sleeping. When, however, her husband mentioned casually -that she was sleeping so soundly that he could not wake her, we went to -her room to see for ourselves. She was breathing naturally and looked so -well and peaceful that we agreed that the sleep was better for her than -anything else. Poor girl, she has so much to forget that it is no wonder -that sleep, if it brings oblivion to her, does her good. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Our opinion was justified, for when after a refreshing sleep -of some hours she woke up, she seemed brighter and better than she had -been for days. At sunset she made the usual hypnotic report. Wherever he -may be in the Black Sea, the Count is hurrying to his destination. To -his doom, I trust! - - * * * * * - -_26 October._--Another day and no tidings of the _Czarina Catherine_. -She ought to be here by now. That she is still journeying _somewhere_ is -apparent, for Mrs. Harker’s hypnotic report at sunrise was still the -same. It is possible that the vessel may be lying by, at times, for fog; -some of the steamers which came in last evening reported patches of fog -both to north and south of the port. We must continue our watching, as -the ship may now be signalled any moment. - - * * * * * - -_27 October, Noon._--Most strange; no news yet of the ship we wait for. -Mrs. Harker reported last night and this morning as usual: “lapping -waves and rushing water,” though she added that “the waves were very -faint.” The telegrams from London have been the same: “no further -report.” Van Helsing is terribly anxious, and told me just now that he -fears the Count is escaping us. He added significantly:-- - -“I did not like that lethargy of Madam Mina’s. Souls and memories can do -strange things during trance.” I was about to ask him more, but Harker -just then came in, and he held up a warning hand. We must try to-night -at sunset to make her speak more fully when in her hypnotic state. - - * * * * * - - _28 October._--Telegram. _Rufus Smith, London, to Lord Godalming, - care H. B. M. Vice Consul, Varna._ - - “_Czarina Catherine_ reported entering Galatz at one o’clock - to-day.” - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_28 October._--When the telegram came announcing the arrival in Galatz I -do not think it was such a shock to any of us as might have been -expected. True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt would -come; but I think we all expected that something strange would happen. -The delay of arrival at Varna made us individually satisfied that things -would not be just as we had expected; we only waited to learn where the -change would occur. None the less, however, was it a surprise. I suppose -that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against -ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know -that they will be. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if -it be a will-o’-the-wisp to man. It was an odd experience and we all -took it differently. Van Helsing raised his hand over his head for a -moment, as though in remonstrance with the Almighty; but he said not a -word, and in a few seconds stood up with his face sternly set. Lord -Godalming grew very pale, and sat breathing heavily. I was myself half -stunned and looked in wonder at one after another. Quincey Morris -tightened his belt with that quick movement which I knew so well; in our -old wandering days it meant “action.” Mrs. Harker grew ghastly white, so -that the scar on her forehead seemed to burn, but she folded her hands -meekly and looked up in prayer. Harker smiled--actually smiled--the -dark, bitter smile of one who is without hope; but at the same time his -action belied his words, for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of -the great Kukri knife and rested there. “When does the next train start -for Galatz?” said Van Helsing to us generally. - -“At 6:30 to-morrow morning!” We all started, for the answer came from -Mrs. Harker. - -“How on earth do you know?” said Art. - -“You forget--or perhaps you do not know, though Jonathan does and so -does Dr. Van Helsing--that I am the train fiend. At home in Exeter I -always used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my -husband. I found it so useful sometimes, that I always make a study of -the time-tables now. I knew that if anything were to take us to Castle -Dracula we should go by Galatz, or at any rate through Bucharest, so I -learned the times very carefully. Unhappily there are not many to learn, -as the only train to-morrow leaves as I say.” - -“Wonderful woman!” murmured the Professor. - -“Can’t we get a special?” asked Lord Godalming. Van Helsing shook his -head: “I fear not. This land is very different from yours or mine; even -if we did have a special, it would probably not arrive as soon as our -regular train. Moreover, we have something to prepare. We must think. -Now let us organize. You, friend Arthur, go to the train and get the -tickets and arrange that all be ready for us to go in the morning. Do -you, friend Jonathan, go to the agent of the ship and get from him -letters to the agent in Galatz, with authority to make search the ship -just as it was here. Morris Quincey, you see the Vice-Consul, and get -his aid with his fellow in Galatz and all he can do to make our way -smooth, so that no times be lost when over the Danube. John will stay -with Madam Mina and me, and we shall consult. For so if time be long you -may be delayed; and it will not matter when the sun set, since I am here -with Madam to make report.” - -“And I,” said Mrs. Harker brightly, and more like her old self than she -had been for many a long day, “shall try to be of use in all ways, and -shall think and write for you as I used to do. Something is shifting -from me in some strange way, and I feel freer than I have been of late!” -The three younger men looked happier at the moment as they seemed to -realise the significance of her words; but Van Helsing and I, turning to -each other, met each a grave and troubled glance. We said nothing at the -time, however. - -When the three men had gone out to their tasks Van Helsing asked Mrs. -Harker to look up the copy of the diaries and find him the part of -Harker’s journal at the Castle. She went away to get it; when the door -was shut upon her he said to me:-- - -“We mean the same! speak out!” - -“There is some change. It is a hope that makes me sick, for it may -deceive us.” - -“Quite so. Do you know why I asked her to get the manuscript?” - -“No!” said I, “unless it was to get an opportunity of seeing me alone.” - -“You are in part right, friend John, but only in part. I want to tell -you something. And oh, my friend, I am taking a great--a terrible--risk; -but I believe it is right. In the moment when Madam Mina said those -words that arrest both our understanding, an inspiration came to me. In -the trance of three days ago the Count sent her his spirit to read her -mind; or more like he took her to see him in his earth-box in the ship -with water rushing, just as it go free at rise and set of sun. He learn -then that we are here; for she have more to tell in her open life with -eyes to see and ears to hear than he, shut, as he is, in his coffin-box. -Now he make his most effort to escape us. At present he want her not. - -“He is sure with his so great knowledge that she will come at his call; -but he cut her off--take her, as he can do, out of his own power, that -so she come not to him. Ah! there I have hope that our man-brains that -have been of man so long and that have not lost the grace of God, will -come higher than his child-brain that lie in his tomb for centuries, -that grow not yet to our stature, and that do only work selfish and -therefore small. Here comes Madam Mina; not a word to her of her trance! -She know it not; and it would overwhelm her and make despair just when -we want all her hope, all her courage; when most we want all her great -brain which is trained like man’s brain, but is of sweet woman and have -a special power which the Count give her, and which he may not take away -altogether--though he think not so. Hush! let me speak, and you shall -learn. Oh, John, my friend, we are in awful straits. I fear, as I never -feared before. We can only trust the good God. Silence! here she comes!” - -I thought that the Professor was going to break down and have hysterics, -just as he had when Lucy died, but with a great effort he controlled -himself and was at perfect nervous poise when Mrs. Harker tripped into -the room, bright and happy-looking and, in the doing of work, seemingly -forgetful of her misery. As she came in, she handed a number of sheets -of typewriting to Van Helsing. He looked over them gravely, his face -brightening up as he read. Then holding the pages between his finger and -thumb he said:-- - -“Friend John, to you with so much of experience already--and you, too, -dear Madam Mina, that are young--here is a lesson: do not fear ever to -think. A half-thought has been buzzing often in my brain, but I fear to -let him loose his wings. Here now, with more knowledge, I go back to -where that half-thought come from and I find that he be no half-thought -at all; that be a whole thought, though so young that he is not yet -strong to use his little wings. Nay, like the “Ugly Duck” of my friend -Hans Andersen, he be no duck-thought at all, but a big swan-thought that -sail nobly on big wings, when the time come for him to try them. See I -read here what Jonathan have written:-- - -“That other of his race who, in a later age, again and again, brought -his forces over The Great River into Turkey Land; who, when he was -beaten back, came again, and again, and again, though he had to come -alone from the bloody field where his troops were being slaughtered, -since he knew that he alone could ultimately triumph.” - -“What does this tell us? Not much? no! The Count’s child-thought see -nothing; therefore he speak so free. Your man-thought see nothing; my -man-thought see nothing, till just now. No! But there comes another word -from some one who speak without thought because she, too, know not what -it mean--what it _might_ mean. Just as there are elements which rest, -yet when in nature’s course they move on their way and they touch--then -pouf! and there comes a flash of light, heaven wide, that blind and kill -and destroy some; but that show up all earth below for leagues and -leagues. Is it not so? Well, I shall explain. To begin, have you ever -study the philosophy of crime? ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ You, John, yes; for it is -a study of insanity. You, no, Madam Mina; for crime touch you not--not -but once. Still, your mind works true, and argues not _a particulari ad -universale_. There is this peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant, -in all countries and at all times, that even police, who know not much -from philosophy, come to know it empirically, that _it is_. That is to -be empiric. The criminal always work at one crime--that is the true -criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. -This criminal has not full man-brain. He is clever and cunning and -resourceful; but he be not of man-stature as to brain. He be of -child-brain in much. Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime -also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he -have done. The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not -by principle, but empirically; and when he learn to do, then there is to -him the ground to start from to do more. ‘_Dos pou sto_,’ said -Archimedes. ‘Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the world!’ To do once, -is the fulcrum whereby child-brain become man-brain; and until he have -the purpose to do more, he continue to do the same again every time, -just as he have done before! Oh, my dear, I see that your eyes are -opened, and that to you the lightning flash show all the leagues,” for -Mrs. Harker began to clap her hands and her eyes sparkled. He went on:-- - -“Now you shall speak. Tell us two dry men of science what you see with -those so bright eyes.” He took her hand and held it whilst she spoke. -His finger and thumb closed on her pulse, as I thought instinctively and -unconsciously, as she spoke:-- - -“The Count is a criminal and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso would -so classify him, and _quâ_ criminal he is of imperfectly formed mind. -Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit. His past is a -clue, and the one page of it that we know--and that from his own -lips--tells that once before, when in what Mr. Morris would call a -‘tight place,’ he went back to his own country from the land he had -tried to invade, and thence, without losing purpose, prepared himself -for a new effort. He came again better equipped for his work; and won. -So he came to London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and when all -hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he fled back over -the sea to his home; just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube -from Turkey Land.” - -“Good, good! oh, you so clever lady!” said Van Helsing, -enthusiastically, as he stooped and kissed her hand. A moment later he -said to me, as calmly as though we had been having a sick-room -consultation:-- - -“Seventy-two only; and in all this excitement. I have hope.” Turning to -her again, he said with keen expectation:-- - -“But go on. Go on! there is more to tell if you will. Be not afraid; -John and I know. I do in any case, and shall tell you if you are right. -Speak, without fear!” - -“I will try to; but you will forgive me if I seem egotistical.” - -“Nay! fear not, you must be egotist, for it is of you that we think.” - -“Then, as he is criminal he is selfish; and as his intellect is small -and his action is based on selfishness, he confines himself to one -purpose. That purpose is remorseless. As he fled back over the Danube, -leaving his forces to be cut to pieces, so now he is intent on being -safe, careless of all. So his own selfishness frees my soul somewhat -from the terrible power which he acquired over me on that dreadful -night. I felt it! Oh, I felt it! Thank God, for His great mercy! My soul -is freer than it has been since that awful hour; and all that haunts me -is a fear lest in some trance or dream he may have used my knowledge for -his ends.” The Professor stood up:-- - -“He has so used your mind; and by it he has left us here in Varna, -whilst the ship that carried him rushed through enveloping fog up to -Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation for escaping from us. -But his child-mind only saw so far; and it may be that, as ever is in -God’s Providence, the very thing that the evil-doer most reckoned on for -his selfish good, turns out to be his chiefest harm. The hunter is taken -in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says. For now that he think he -is free from every trace of us all, and that he has escaped us with so -many hours to him, then his selfish child-brain will whisper him to -sleep. He think, too, that as he cut himself off from knowing your mind, -there can be no knowledge of him to you; there is where he fail! That -terrible baptism of blood which he give you makes you free to go to him -in spirit, as you have as yet done in your times of freedom, when the -sun rise and set. At such times you go by my volition and not by his; -and this power to good of you and others, as you have won from your -suffering at his hands. This is now all the more precious that he know -it not, and to guard himself have even cut himself off from his -knowledge of our where. We, however, are not selfish, and we believe -that God is with us through all this blackness, and these many dark -hours. We shall follow him; and we shall not flinch; even if we peril -ourselves that we become like him. Friend John, this has been a great -hour; and it have done much to advance us on our way. You must be scribe -and write him all down, so that when the others return from their work -you can give it to them; then they shall know as we do.” - -And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker -has written with her typewriter all since she brought the MS. to us. - - - - -CHAPTER XXVI - -DR. SEWARD’S DIARY - - -_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last -night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us -had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour, -and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and -for our work when we get to Galatz. When the usual time came round Mrs. -Harker prepared herself for her hypnotic effort; and after a longer and -more serious effort on the part of Van Helsing than has been usually -necessary, she sank into the trance. Usually she speaks on a hint; but -this time the Professor had to ask her questions, and to ask them pretty -resolutely, before we could learn anything; at last her answer came:-- - -“I can see nothing; we are still; there are no waves lapping, but only a -steady swirl of water softly running against the hawser. I can hear -men’s voices calling, near and far, and the roll and creak of oars in -the rowlocks. A gun is fired somewhere; the echo of it seems far away. -There is tramping of feet overhead, and ropes and chains are dragged -along. What is this? There is a gleam of light; I can feel the air -blowing upon me.” - -Here she stopped. She had risen, as if impulsively, from where she lay -on the sofa, and raised both her hands, palms upwards, as if lifting a -weight. Van Helsing and I looked at each other with understanding. -Quincey raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her intently, whilst -Harker’s hand instinctively closed round the hilt of his Kukri. There -was a long pause. We all knew that the time when she could speak was -passing; but we felt that it was useless to say anything. Suddenly she -sat up, and, as she opened her eyes, said sweetly:-- - -“Would none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!” We -could only make her happy, and so acquiesced. She bustled off to get -tea; when she had gone Van Helsing said:-- - -“You see, my friends. _He_ is close to land: he has left his -earth-chest. But he has yet to get on shore. In the night he may lie -hidden somewhere; but if he be not carried on shore, or if the ship do -not touch it, he cannot achieve the land. In such case he can, if it be -in the night, change his form and can jump or fly on shore, as he did -at Whitby. But if the day come before he get on shore, then, unless he -be carried he cannot escape. And if he be carried, then the customs men -may discover what the box contain. Thus, in fine, if he escape not on -shore to-night, or before dawn, there will be the whole day lost to him. -We may then arrive in time; for if he escape not at night we shall come -on him in daytime, boxed up and at our mercy; for he dare not be his -true self, awake and visible, lest he be discovered.” - -There was no more to be said, so we waited in patience until the dawn; -at which time we might learn more from Mrs. Harker. - -Early this morning we listened, with breathless anxiety, for her -response in her trance. The hypnotic stage was even longer in coming -than before; and when it came the time remaining until full sunrise was -so short that we began to despair. Van Helsing seemed to throw his whole -soul into the effort; at last, in obedience to his will she made -reply:-- - -“All is dark. I hear lapping water, level with me, and some creaking as -of wood on wood.” She paused, and the red sun shot up. We must wait till -to-night. - -And so it is that we are travelling towards Galatz in an agony of -expectation. We are due to arrive between two and three in the morning; -but already, at Bucharest, we are three hours late, so we cannot -possibly get in till well after sun-up. Thus we shall have two more -hypnotic messages from Mrs. Harker; either or both may possibly throw -more light on what is happening. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Sunset has come and gone. Fortunately it came at a time when -there was no distraction; for had it occurred whilst we were at a -station, we might not have secured the necessary calm and isolation. -Mrs. Harker yielded to the hypnotic influence even less readily than -this morning. I am in fear that her power of reading the Count’s -sensations may die away, just when we want it most. It seems to me that -her imagination is beginning to work. Whilst she has been in the trance -hitherto she has confined herself to the simplest of facts. If this goes -on it may ultimately mislead us. If I thought that the Count’s power -over her would die away equally with her power of knowledge it would be -a happy thought; but I am afraid that it may not be so. When she did -speak, her words were enigmatical:-- - -“Something is going out; I can feel it pass me like a cold wind. I can -hear, far off, confused sounds--as of men talking in strange tongues, -fierce-falling water, and the howling of wolves.” She stopped and a -shudder ran through her, increasing in intensity for a few seconds, -till, at the end, she shook as though in a palsy. She said no more, even -in answer to the Professor’s imperative questioning. When she woke from -the trance, she was cold, and exhausted, and languid; but her mind was -all alert. She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; -when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in -silence. - - * * * * * - -_30 October, 7 a. m._--We are near Galatz now, and I may not have time -to write later. Sunrise this morning was anxiously looked for by us all. -Knowing of the increasing difficulty of procuring the hypnotic trance, -Van Helsing began his passes earlier than usual. They produced no -effect, however, until the regular time, when she yielded with a still -greater difficulty, only a minute before the sun rose. The Professor -lost no time in his questioning; her answer came with equal quickness:-- - -“All is dark. I hear water swirling by, level with my ears, and the -creaking of wood on wood. Cattle low far off. There is another sound, a -queer one like----” She stopped and grew white, and whiter still. - -“Go on; go on! Speak, I command you!” said Van Helsing in an agonised -voice. At the same time there was despair in his eyes, for the risen sun -was reddening even Mrs. Harker’s pale face. She opened her eyes, and we -all started as she said, sweetly and seemingly with the utmost -unconcern:-- - -“Oh, Professor, why ask me to do what you know I can’t? I don’t remember -anything.” Then, seeing the look of amazement on our faces, she said, -turning from one to the other with a troubled look:-- - -“What have I said? What have I done? I know nothing, only that I was -lying here, half asleep, and heard you say ‘go on! speak, I command you!’ -It seemed so funny to hear you order me about, as if I were a bad -child!” - -“Oh, Madam Mina,” he said, sadly, “it is proof, if proof be needed, of -how I love and honour you, when a word for your good, spoken more -earnest than ever, can seem so strange because it is to order her whom I -am proud to obey!” - -The whistles are sounding; we are nearing Galatz. We are on fire with -anxiety and eagerness. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_30 October._--Mr. Morris took me to the hotel where our rooms had been -ordered by telegraph, he being the one who could best be spared, since -he does not speak any foreign language. The forces were distributed -much as they had been at Varna, except that Lord Godalming went to the -Vice-Consul, as his rank might serve as an immediate guarantee of some -sort to the official, we being in extreme hurry. Jonathan and the two -doctors went to the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival -of the _Czarina Catherine_. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is away, and the -Vice-Consul sick; so the routine work has been attended to by a clerk. -He was very obliging, and offered to do anything in his power. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_30 October._--At nine o’clock Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, and I called -on Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff, the agents of the London firm of -Hapgood. They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord -Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking us to show them any civility in -their power. They were more than kind and courteous, and took us at once -on board the _Czarina Catherine_, which lay at anchor out in the river -harbour. There we saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told us of his -voyage. He said that in all his life he had never had so favourable a -run. - -“Man!” he said, “but it made us afeard, for we expeckit that we should -have to pay for it wi’ some rare piece o’ ill luck, so as to keep up the -average. It’s no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi’ a wind -ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin’ on yer sail for his -ain purpose. An’ a’ the time we could no speer a thing. Gin we were nigh -a ship, or a port, or a headland, a fog fell on us and travelled wi’ us, -till when after it had lifted and we looked out, the deil a thing could -we see. We ran by Gibraltar wi’oot bein’ able to signal; an’ till we -came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we -never were within hail o’ aught. At first I inclined to slack off sail -and beat about till the fog was lifted; but whiles, I thocht that if the -Deil was minded to get us into the Black Sea quick, he was like to do it -whether we would or no. If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our -miscredit wi’ the owners, or no hurt to our traffic; an’ the Old Mon who -had served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no -hinderin’ him.” This mixture of simplicity and cunning, of superstition -and commercial reasoning, aroused Van Helsing, who said:-- - -“Mine friend, that Devil is more clever than he is thought by some; and -he know when he meet his match!” The skipper was not displeased with the -compliment, and went on:-- - -“When we got past the Bosphorus the men began to grumble; some o’ them, -the Roumanians, came and asked me to heave overboard a big box which had -been put on board by a queer lookin’ old man just before we had started -frae London. I had seen them speer at the fellow, and put out their twa -fingers when they saw him, to guard against the evil eye. Man! but the -supersteetion of foreigners is pairfectly rideeculous! I sent them aboot -their business pretty quick; but as just after a fog closed in on us I -felt a wee bit as they did anent something, though I wouldn’t say it was -agin the big box. Well, on we went, and as the fog didn’t let up for -five days I joost let the wind carry us; for if the Deil wanted to get -somewheres--well, he would fetch it up a’reet. An’ if he didn’t, well, -we’d keep a sharp lookout anyhow. Sure eneuch, we had a fair way and -deep water all the time; and two days ago, when the mornin’ sun came -through the fog, we found ourselves just in the river opposite Galatz. -The Roumanians were wild, and wanted me right or wrong to take out the -box and fling it in the river. I had to argy wi’ them aboot it wi’ a -handspike; an’ when the last o’ them rose off the deck wi’ his head in -his hand, I had convinced them that, evil eye or no evil eye, the -property and the trust of my owners were better in my hands than in the -river Danube. They had, mind ye, taken the box on the deck ready to -fling in, and as it was marked Galatz _via_ Varna, I thocht I’d let it -lie till we discharged in the port an’ get rid o’t althegither. We -didn’t do much clearin’ that day, an’ had to remain the nicht at anchor; -but in the mornin’, braw an’ airly, an hour before sun-up, a man came -aboard wi’ an order, written to him from England, to receive a box -marked for one Count Dracula. Sure eneuch the matter was one ready to -his hand. He had his papers a’ reet, an’ glad I was to be rid o’ the -dam’ thing, for I was beginnin’ masel’ to feel uneasy at it. If the Deil -did have any luggage aboord the ship, I’m thinkin’ it was nane ither -than that same!” - -“What was the name of the man who took it?” asked Dr. Van Helsing with -restrained eagerness. - -“I’ll be tellin’ ye quick!” he answered, and, stepping down to his -cabin, produced a receipt signed “Immanuel Hildesheim.” Burgen-strasse -16 was the address. We found out that this was all the Captain knew; so -with thanks we came away. - -We found Hildesheim in his office, a Hebrew of rather the Adelphi -Theatre type, with a nose like a sheep, and a fez. His arguments were -pointed with specie--we doing the punctuation--and with a little -bargaining he told us what he knew. This turned out to be simple but -important. He had received a letter from Mr. de Ville of London, telling -him to receive, if possible before sunrise so as to avoid customs, a box -which would arrive at Galatz in the _Czarina Catherine_. This he was to -give in charge to a certain Petrof Skinsky, who dealt with the Slovaks -who traded down the river to the port. He had been paid for his work by -an English bank note, which had been duly cashed for gold at the Danube -International Bank. When Skinsky had come to him, he had taken him to -the ship and handed over the box, so as to save porterage. That was all -he knew. - -We then sought for Skinsky, but were unable to find him. One of his -neighbours, who did not seem to bear him any affection, said that he had -gone away two days before, no one knew whither. This was corroborated by -his landlord, who had received by messenger the key of the house -together with the rent due, in English money. This had been between ten -and eleven o’clock last night. We were at a standstill again. - -Whilst we were talking one came running and breathlessly gasped out that -the body of Skinsky had been found inside the wall of the churchyard of -St. Peter, and that the throat had been torn open as if by some wild -animal. Those we had been speaking with ran off to see the horror, the -women crying out “This is the work of a Slovak!” We hurried away lest we -should have been in some way drawn into the affair, and so detained. - -As we came home we could arrive at no definite conclusion. We were all -convinced that the box was on its way, by water, to somewhere; but where -that might be we would have to discover. With heavy hearts we came home -to the hotel to Mina. - -When we met together, the first thing was to consult as to taking Mina -again into our confidence. Things are getting desperate, and it is at -least a chance, though a hazardous one. As a preliminary step, I was -released from my promise to her. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_30 October, evening._--They were so tired and worn out and dispirited -that there was nothing to be done till they had some rest; so I asked -them all to lie down for half an hour whilst I should enter everything -up to the moment. I feel so grateful to the man who invented the -“Traveller’s” typewriter, and to Mr. Morris for getting this one for -me. I should have felt quite astray doing the work if I had to write -with a pen.... - -It is all done; poor dear, dear Jonathan, what he must have suffered, -what must he be suffering now. He lies on the sofa hardly seeming to -breathe, and his whole body appears in collapse. His brows are knit; his -face is drawn with pain. Poor fellow, maybe he is thinking, and I can -see his face all wrinkled up with the concentration of his thoughts. Oh! -if I could only help at all.... I shall do what I can. - -I have asked Dr. Van Helsing, and he has got me all the papers that I -have not yet seen.... Whilst they are resting, I shall go over all -carefully, and perhaps I may arrive at some conclusion. I shall try to -follow the Professor’s example, and think without prejudice on the facts -before me.... - - * * * * * - -I do believe that under God’s providence I have made a discovery. I -shall get the maps and look over them.... - - * * * * * - -I am more than ever sure that I am right. My new conclusion is ready, so -I shall get our party together and read it. They can judge it; it is -well to be accurate, and every minute is precious. - - -_Mina Harker’s Memorandum._ - -(Entered in her Journal.) - -_Ground of inquiry._--Count Dracula’s problem is to get back to his own -place. - -(_a_) He must be _brought back_ by some one. This is evident; for had he -power to move himself as he wished he could go either as man, or wolf, -or bat, or in some other way. He evidently fears discovery or -interference, in the state of helplessness in which he must be--confined -as he is between dawn and sunset in his wooden box. - -(_b_) _How is he to be taken?_--Here a process of exclusions may help -us. By road, by rail, by water? - -1. _By Road._--There are endless difficulties, especially in leaving the -city. - -(_x_) There are people; and people are curious, and investigate. A hint, -a surmise, a doubt as to what might be in the box, would destroy him. - -(_y_) There are, or there may be, customs and octroi officers to pass. - -(_z_) His pursuers might follow. This is his highest fear; and in order -to prevent his being betrayed he has repelled, so far as he can, even -his victim--me! - -2. _By Rail._--There is no one in charge of the box. It would have to -take its chance of being delayed; and delay would be fatal, with enemies -on the track. True, he might escape at night; but what would he be, if -left in a strange place with no refuge that he could fly to? This is not -what he intends; and he does not mean to risk it. - -3. _By Water._--Here is the safest way, in one respect, but with most -danger in another. On the water he is powerless except at night; even -then he can only summon fog and storm and snow and his wolves. But were -he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would -indeed be lost. He could have the vessel drive to land; but if it were -unfriendly land, wherein he was not free to move, his position would -still be desperate. - -We know from the record that he was on the water; so what we have to do -is to ascertain _what_ water. - -The first thing is to realise exactly what he has done as yet; we may, -then, get a light on what his later task is to be. - -_Firstly._--We must differentiate between what he did in London as part -of his general plan of action, when he was pressed for moments and had -to arrange as best he could. - -_Secondly_ we must see, as well as we can surmise it from the facts we -know of, what he has done here. - -As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz, and sent -invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain his means of -exit from England; his immediate and sole purpose then was to escape. -The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel -Hildesheim to clear and take away the box _before sunrise_. There is -also the instruction to Petrof Skinsky. These we must only guess at; but -there must have been some letter or message, since Skinsky came to -Hildesheim. - -That, so far, his plans were successful we know. The _Czarina Catherine_ -made a phenomenally quick journey--so much so that Captain Donelson’s -suspicions were aroused; but his superstition united with his canniness -played the Count’s game for him, and he ran with his favouring wind -through fogs and all till he brought up blindfold at Galatz. That the -Count’s arrangements were well made, has been proved. Hildesheim cleared -the box, took it off, and gave it to Skinsky. Skinsky took it--and here -we lose the trail. We only know that the box is somewhere on the water, -moving along. The customs and the octroi, if there be any, have been -avoided. - -Now we come to what the Count must have done after his arrival--_on -land_, at Galatz. - -The box was given to Skinsky before sunrise. At sunrise the Count could -appear in his own form. Here, we ask why Skinsky was chosen at all to -aid in the work? In my husband’s diary, Skinsky is mentioned as dealing -with the Slovaks who trade down the river to the port; and the man’s -remark, that the murder was the work of a Slovak, showed the general -feeling against his class. The Count wanted isolation. - -My surmise is, this: that in London the Count decided to get back to his -castle by water, as the most safe and secret way. He was brought from -the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks -who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London. -Thus the Count had knowledge of the persons who could arrange this -service. When the box was on land, before sunrise or after sunset, he -came out from his box, met Skinsky and instructed him what to do as to -arranging the carriage of the box up some river. When this was done, and -he knew that all was in train, he blotted out his traces, as he thought, -by murdering his agent. - -I have examined the map and find that the river most suitable for the -Slovaks to have ascended is either the Pruth or the Sereth. I read in -the typescript that in my trance I heard cows low and water swirling -level with my ears and the creaking of wood. The Count in his box, then, -was on a river in an open boat--propelled probably either by oars or -poles, for the banks are near and it is working against stream. There -would be no such sound if floating down stream. - -Of course it may not be either the Sereth or the Pruth, but we may -possibly investigate further. Now of these two, the Pruth is the more -easily navigated, but the Sereth is, at Fundu, joined by the Bistritza -which runs up round the Borgo Pass. The loop it makes is manifestly as -close to Dracula’s castle as can be got by water. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal--continued._ - -When I had done reading, Jonathan took me in his arms and kissed me. The -others kept shaking me by both hands, and Dr. Van Helsing said:-- - -“Our dear Madam Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes have been where -we were blinded. Now we are on the track once again, and this time we -may succeed. Our enemy is at his most helpless; and if we can come on -him by day, on the water, our task will be over. He has a start, but he -is powerless to hasten, as he may not leave his box lest those who carry -him may suspect; for them to suspect would be to prompt them to throw -him in the stream where he perish. This he knows, and will not. Now men, -to our Council of War; for, here and now, we must plan what each and all -shall do.” - -“I shall get a steam launch and follow him,” said Lord Godalming. - -“And I, horses to follow on the bank lest by chance he land,” said Mr. -Morris. - -“Good!” said the Professor, “both good. But neither must go alone. There -must be force to overcome force if need be; the Slovak is strong and -rough, and he carries rude arms.” All the men smiled, for amongst them -they carried a small arsenal. Said Mr. Morris:-- - -“I have brought some Winchesters; they are pretty handy in a crowd, and -there may be wolves. The Count, if you remember, took some other -precautions; he made some requisitions on others that Mrs. Harker could -not quite hear or understand. We must be ready at all points.” Dr. -Seward said:-- - -“I think I had better go with Quincey. We have been accustomed to hunt -together, and we two, well armed, will be a match for whatever may come -along. You must not be alone, Art. It may be necessary to fight the -Slovaks, and a chance thrust--for I don’t suppose these fellows carry -guns--would undo all our plans. There must be no chances, this time; we -shall not rest until the Count’s head and body have been separated, and -we are sure that he cannot re-incarnate.” He looked at Jonathan as he -spoke, and Jonathan looked at me. I could see that the poor dear was -torn about in his mind. Of course he wanted to be with me; but then the -boat service would, most likely, be the one which would destroy the ... -the ... the ... Vampire. (Why did I hesitate to write the word?) He was -silent awhile, and during his silence Dr. Van Helsing spoke:-- - -“Friend Jonathan, this is to you for twice reasons. First, because you -are young and brave and can fight, and all energies may be needed at the -last; and again that it is your right to destroy him--that--which has -wrought such woe to you and yours. Be not afraid for Madam Mina; she -will be my care, if I may. I am old. My legs are not so quick to run as -once; and I am not used to ride so long or to pursue as need be, or to -fight with lethal weapons. But I can be of other service; I can fight in -other way. And I can die, if need be, as well as younger men. Now let -me say that what I would is this: while you, my Lord Godalming and -friend Jonathan go in your so swift little steamboat up the river, and -whilst John and Quincey guard the bank where perchance he might be -landed, I will take Madam Mina right into the heart of the enemy’s -country. Whilst the old fox is tied in his box, floating on the running -stream whence he cannot escape to land--where he dares not raise the lid -of his coffin-box lest his Slovak carriers should in fear leave him to -perish--we shall go in the track where Jonathan went,--from Bistritz -over the Borgo, and find our way to the Castle of Dracula. Here, Madam -Mina’s hypnotic power will surely help, and we shall find our way--all -dark and unknown otherwise--after the first sunrise when we are near -that fateful place. There is much to be done, and other places to be -made sanctify, so that that nest of vipers be obliterated.” Here -Jonathan interrupted him hotly:-- - -“Do you mean to say, Professor Van Helsing, that you would bring Mina, -in her sad case and tainted as she is with that devil’s illness, right -into the jaws of his death-trap? Not for the world! Not for Heaven or -Hell!” He became almost speechless for a minute, and then went on:-- - -“Do you know what the place is? Have you seen that awful den of hellish -infamy--with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every -speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? -Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?” Here he turned to -me, and as his eyes lit on my forehead he threw up his arms with a cry: -“Oh, my God, what have we done to have this terror upon us!” and he sank -down on the sofa in a collapse of misery. The Professor’s voice, as he -spoke in clear, sweet tones, which seemed to vibrate in the air, calmed -us all:-- - -“Oh, my friend, it is because I would save Madam Mina from that awful -place that I would go. God forbid that I should take her into that -place. There is work--wild work--to be done there, that her eyes may not -see. We men here, all save Jonathan, have seen with their own eyes what -is to be done before that place can be purify. Remember that we are in -terrible straits. If the Count escape us this time--and he is strong and -subtle and cunning--he may choose to sleep him for a century, and then -in time our dear one”--he took my hand--“would come to him to keep him -company, and would be as those others that you, Jonathan, saw. You have -told us of their gloating lips; you heard their ribald laugh as they -clutched the moving bag that the Count threw to them. You shudder; and -well may it be. Forgive me that I make you so much pain, but it is -necessary. My friend, is it not a dire need for the which I am giving, -possibly my life? If it were that any one went into that place to stay, -it is I who would have to go to keep them company.” - -“Do as you will,” said Jonathan, with a sob that shook him all over, “we -are in the hands of God!” - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Oh, it did me good to see the way that these brave men worked. -How can women help loving men when they are so earnest, and so true, and -so brave! And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! -What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do -when basely used. I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich, and -that both he and Mr. Morris, who also has plenty of money, are willing -to spend it so freely. For if they did not, our little expedition could -not start, either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within -another hour. It is not three hours since it was arranged what part each -of us was to do; and now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam -launch, with steam up ready to start at a moment’s notice. Dr. Seward -and Mr. Morris have half a dozen good horses, well appointed. We have -all the maps and appliances of various kinds that can be had. Professor -Van Helsing and I are to leave by the 11:40 train to-night for Veresti, -where we are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are -bringing a good deal of ready money, as we are to buy a carriage and -horses. We shall drive ourselves, for we have no one whom we can trust -in the matter. The Professor knows something of a great many languages, -so we shall get on all right. We have all got arms, even for me a -large-bore revolver; Jonathan would not be happy unless I was armed like -the rest. Alas! I cannot carry one arm that the rest do; the scar on my -forehead forbids that. Dear Dr. Van Helsing comforts me by telling me -that I am fully armed as there may be wolves; the weather is getting -colder every hour, and there are snow-flurries which come and go as -warnings. - - * * * * * - -_Later._--It took all my courage to say good-bye to my darling. We may -never meet again. Courage, Mina! the Professor is looking at you keenly; -his look is a warning. There must be no tears now--unless it may be that -God will let them fall in gladness. - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_October 30. Night._--I am writing this in the light from the furnace -door of the steam launch: Lord Godalming is firing up. He is an -experienced hand at the work, as he has had for years a launch of his -own on the Thames, and another on the Norfolk Broads. Regarding our -plans, we finally decided that Mina’s guess was correct, and that if any -waterway was chosen for the Count’s escape back to his Castle, the -Sereth and then the Bistritza at its junction, would be the one. We took -it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the -place chosen for the crossing the country between the river and the -Carpathians. We have no fear in running at good speed up the river at -night; there is plenty of water, and the banks are wide enough apart to -make steaming, even in the dark, easy enough. Lord Godalming tells me to -sleep for a while, as it is enough for the present for one to be on -watch. But I cannot sleep--how can I with the terrible danger hanging -over my darling, and her going out into that awful place.... My only -comfort is that we are in the hands of God. Only for that faith it would -be easier to die than to live, and so be quit of all the trouble. Mr. -Morris and Dr. Seward were off on their long ride before we started; -they are to keep up the right bank, far enough off to get on higher -lands where they can see a good stretch of river and avoid the following -of its curves. They have, for the first stages, two men to ride and lead -their spare horses--four in all, so as not to excite curiosity. When -they dismiss the men, which shall be shortly, they shall themselves look -after the horses. It may be necessary for us to join forces; if so they -can mount our whole party. One of the saddles has a movable horn, and -can be easily adapted for Mina, if required. - -It is a wild adventure we are on. Here, as we are rushing along through -the darkness, with the cold from the river seeming to rise up and strike -us; with all the mysterious voices of the night around us, it all comes -home. We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into -a whole world of dark and dreadful things. Godalming is shutting the -furnace door.... - - * * * * * - -_31 October._--Still hurrying along. The day has come, and Godalming is -sleeping. I am on watch. The morning is bitterly cold; the furnace heat -is grateful, though we have heavy fur coats. As yet we have passed only -a few open boats, but none of them had on board any box or package of -anything like the size of the one we seek. The men were scared every -time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and -prayed. - - * * * * * - -_1 November, evening._--No news all day; we have found nothing of the -kind we seek. We have now passed into the Bistritza; and if we are wrong -in our surmise our chance is gone. We have over-hauled every boat, big -and little. Early this morning, one crew took us for a Government boat, -and treated us accordingly. We saw in this a way of smoothing matters, -so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a -Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously. With every boat which we -have over-hauled since then this trick has succeeded; we have had every -deference shown to us, and not once any objection to whatever we chose -to ask or do. Some of the Slovaks tell us that a big boat passed them, -going at more than usual speed as she had a double crew on board. This -was before they came to Fundu, so they could not tell us whether the -boat turned into the Bistritza or continued on up the Sereth. At Fundu -we could not hear of any such boat, so she must have passed there in the -night. I am feeling very sleepy; the cold is perhaps beginning to tell -upon me, and nature must have rest some time. Godalming insists that he -shall keep the first watch. God bless him for all his goodness to poor -dear Mina and me. - - * * * * * - -_2 November, morning._--It is broad daylight. That good fellow would not -wake me. He says it would have been a sin to, for I slept peacefully and -was forgetting my trouble. It seems brutally selfish to me to have slept -so long, and let him watch all night; but he was quite right. I am a new -man this morning; and, as I sit here and watch him sleeping, I can do -all that is necessary both as to minding the engine, steering, and -keeping watch. I can feel that my strength and energy are coming back to -me. I wonder where Mina is now, and Van Helsing. They should have got to -Veresti about noon on Wednesday. It would take them some time to get the -carriage and horses; so if they had started and travelled hard, they -would be about now at the Borgo Pass. God guide and help them! I am -afraid to think what may happen. If we could only go faster! but we -cannot; the engines are throbbing and doing their utmost. I wonder how -Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris are getting on. There seem to be endless -streams running down the mountains into this river, but as none of them -are very large--at present, at all events, though they are terrible -doubtless in winter and when the snow melts--the horsemen may not have -met much obstruction. I hope that before we get to Strasba we may see -them; for if by that time we have not overtaken the Count, it may be -necessary to take counsel together what to do next. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_2 November._--Three days on the road. No news, and no time to write it -if there had been, for every moment is precious. We have had only the -rest needful for the horses; but we are both bearing it wonderfully. -Those adventurous days of ours are turning up useful. We must push on; -we shall never feel happy till we get the launch in sight again. - - * * * * * - -_3 November._--We heard at Fundu that the launch had gone up the -Bistritza. I wish it wasn’t so cold. There are signs of snow coming; and -if it falls heavy it will stop us. In such case we must get a sledge and -go on, Russian fashion. - - * * * * * - -_4 November._--To-day we heard of the launch having been detained by an -accident when trying to force a way up the rapids. The Slovak boats get -up all right, by aid of a rope and steering with knowledge. Some went up -only a few hours before. Godalming is an amateur fitter himself, and -evidently it was he who put the launch in trim again. Finally, they got -up the rapids all right, with local help, and are off on the chase -afresh. I fear that the boat is not any better for the accident; the -peasantry tell us that after she got upon smooth water again, she kept -stopping every now and again so long as she was in sight. We must push -on harder than ever; our help may be wanted soon. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_31 October._--Arrived at Veresti at noon. The Professor tells me that -this morning at dawn he could hardly hypnotise me at all, and that all I -could say was: “dark and quiet.” He is off now buying a carriage and -horses. He says that he will later on try to buy additional horses, so -that we may be able to change them on the way. We have something more -than 70 miles before us. The country is lovely, and most interesting; if -only we were under different conditions, how delightful it would be to -see it all. If Jonathan and I were driving through it alone what a -pleasure it would be. To stop and see people, and learn something of -their life, and to fill our minds and memories with all the colour and -picturesqueness of the whole wild, beautiful country and the quaint -people! But, alas!-- - - * * * * * - -_Later._--Dr. Van Helsing has returned. He has got the carriage and -horses; we are to have some dinner, and to start in an hour. The -landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough -for a company of soldiers. The Professor encourages her, and whispers to -me that it may be a week before we can get any good food again. He has -been shopping too, and has sent home such a wonderful lot of fur coats -and wraps, and all sorts of warm things. There will not be any chance of -our being cold. - - * * * * * - -We shall soon be off. I am afraid to think what may happen to us. We are -truly in the hands of God. He alone knows what may be, and I pray Him, -with all the strength of my sad and humble soul, that He will watch over -my beloved husband; that whatever may happen, Jonathan may know that I -loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my latest and -truest thought will be always for him. - - - - -CHAPTER XXVII - -MINA HARKER’S JOURNAL - - -_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The -horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go -willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many -changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to -think that the journey will be an easy one. Dr. Van Helsing is laconic; -he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to Bistritz, and pays them well -to make the exchange of horses. We get hot soup, or coffee, or tea; and -off we go. It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable -kinds, and the people are brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full -of nice qualities. They are _very, very_ superstitious. In the first -house where we stopped, when the woman who served us saw the scar on my -forehead, she crossed herself and put out two fingers towards me, to -keep off the evil eye. I believe they went to the trouble of putting an -extra amount of garlic into our food; and I can’t abide garlic. Ever -since then I have taken care not to take off my hat or veil, and so have -escaped their suspicions. We are travelling fast, and as we have no -driver with us to carry tales, we go ahead of scandal; but I daresay -that fear of the evil eye will follow hard behind us all the way. The -Professor seems tireless; all day he would not take any rest, though he -made me sleep for a long spell. At sunset time he hypnotised me, and he -says that I answered as usual “darkness, lapping water and creaking -wood”; so our enemy is still on the river. I am afraid to think of -Jonathan, but somehow I have now no fear for him, or for myself. I write -this whilst we wait in a farmhouse for the horses to be got ready. Dr. -Van Helsing is sleeping. Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and -grey, but his mouth is set as firmly as a conqueror’s; even in his sleep -he is instinct with resolution. When we have well started I must make -him rest whilst I drive. I shall tell him that we have days before us, -and we must not break down when most of all his strength will be -needed.... All is ready; we are off shortly. - - * * * * * - -_2 November, morning._--I was successful, and we took turns driving all -night; now the day is on us, bright though cold. There is a strange -heaviness in the air--I say heaviness for want of a better word; I mean -that it oppresses us both. It is very cold, and only our warm furs keep -us comfortable. At dawn Van Helsing hypnotised me; he says I answered -“darkness, creaking wood and roaring water,” so the river is changing as -they ascend. I do hope that my darling will not run any chance of -danger--more than need be; but we are in God’s hands. - - * * * * * - -_2 November, night._--All day long driving. The country gets wilder as -we go, and the great spurs of the Carpathians, which at Veresti seemed -so far from us and so low on the horizon, now seem to gather round us -and tower in front. We both seem in good spirits; I think we make an -effort each to cheer the other; in the doing so we cheer ourselves. Dr. -Van Helsing says that by morning we shall reach the Borgo Pass. The -houses are very few here now, and the Professor says that the last horse -we got will have to go on with us, as we may not be able to change. He -got two in addition to the two we changed, so that now we have a rude -four-in-hand. The dear horses are patient and good, and they give us no -trouble. We are not worried with other travellers, and so even I can -drive. We shall get to the Pass in daylight; we do not want to arrive -before. So we take it easy, and have each a long rest in turn. Oh, what -will to-morrow bring to us? We go to seek the place where my poor -darling suffered so much. God grant that we may be guided aright, and -that He will deign to watch over my husband and those dear to us both, -and who are in such deadly peril. As for me, I am not worthy in His -sight. Alas! I am unclean to His eyes, and shall be until He may deign -to let me stand forth in His sight as one of those who have not incurred -His wrath. - - -_Memorandum by Abraham Van Helsing._ - -_4 November._--This to my old and true friend John Seward, M.D., of -Purfleet, London, in case I may not see him. It may explain. It is -morning, and I write by a fire which all the night I have kept -alive--Madam Mina aiding me. It is cold, cold; so cold that the grey -heavy sky is full of snow, which when it falls will settle for all -winter as the ground is hardening to receive it. It seems to have -affected Madam Mina; she has been so heavy of head all day that she was -not like herself. She sleeps, and sleeps, and sleeps! She who is usual -so alert, have done literally nothing all the day; she even have lost -her appetite. She make no entry into her little diary, she who write so -faithful at every pause. Something whisper to me that all is not well. -However, to-night she is more _vif_. Her long sleep all day have refresh -and restore her, for now she is all sweet and bright as ever. At sunset -I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown -less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Well, -God’s will be done--whatever it may be, and whithersoever it may lead! - -Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her stenography, I -must, in my cumbrous old fashion, that so each day of us may not go -unrecorded. - -We got to the Borgo Pass just after sunrise yesterday morning. When I -saw the signs of the dawn I got ready for the hypnotism. We stopped our -carriage, and got down so that there might be no disturbance. I made a -couch with furs, and Madam Mina, lying down, yield herself as usual, but -more slow and more short time than ever, to the hypnotic sleep. As -before, came the answer: “darkness and the swirling of water.” Then she -woke, bright and radiant and we go on our way and soon reach the Pass. -At this time and place, she become all on fire with zeal; some new -guiding power be in her manifested, for she point to a road and say:-- - -“This is the way.” - -“How know you it?” I ask. - -“Of course I know it,” she answer, and with a pause, add: “Have not my -Jonathan travelled it and wrote of his travel?” - -At first I think somewhat strange, but soon I see that there be only one -such by-road. It is used but little, and very different from the coach -road from the Bukovina to Bistritz, which is more wide and hard, and -more of use. - -So we came down this road; when we meet other ways--not always were we -sure that they were roads at all, for they be neglect and light snow -have fallen--the horses know and they only. I give rein to them, and -they go on so patient. By-and-by we find all the things which Jonathan -have note in that wonderful diary of him. Then we go on for long, long -hours and hours. At the first, I tell Madam Mina to sleep; she try, and -she succeed. She sleep all the time; till at the last, I feel myself to -suspicious grow, and attempt to wake her. But she sleep on, and I may -not wake her though I try. I do not wish to try too hard lest I harm -her; for I know that she have suffer much, and sleep at times be -all-in-all to her. I think I drowse myself, for all of sudden I feel -guilt, as though I have done something; I find myself bolt up, with the -reins in my hand, and the good horses go along jog, jog, just as ever. I -look down and find Madam Mina still sleep. It is now not far off sunset -time, and over the snow the light of the sun flow in big yellow flood, -so that we throw great long shadow on where the mountain rise so steep. -For we are going up, and up; and all is oh! so wild and rocky, as though -it were the end of the world. - -Then I arouse Madam Mina. This time she wake with not much trouble, and -then I try to put her to hypnotic sleep. But she sleep not, being as -though I were not. Still I try and try, till all at once I find her and -myself in dark; so I look round, and find that the sun have gone down. -Madam Mina laugh, and I turn and look at her. She is now quite awake, -and look so well as I never saw her since that night at Carfax when we -first enter the Count’s house. I am amaze, and not at ease then; but she -is so bright and tender and thoughtful for me that I forget all fear. I -light a fire, for we have brought supply of wood with us, and she -prepare food while I undo the horses and set them, tethered in shelter, -to feed. Then when I return to the fire she have my supper ready. I go -to help her; but she smile, and tell me that she have eat already--that -she was so hungry that she would not wait. I like it not, and I have -grave doubts; but I fear to affright her, and so I am silent of it. She -help me and I eat alone; and then we wrap in fur and lie beside the -fire, and I tell her to sleep while I watch. But presently I forget all -of watching; and when I sudden remember that I watch, I find her lying -quiet, but awake, and looking at me with so bright eyes. Once, twice -more the same occur, and I get much sleep till before morning. When I -wake I try to hypnotise her; but alas! though she shut her eyes -obedient, she may not sleep. The sun rise up, and up, and up; and then -sleep come to her too late, but so heavy that she will not wake. I have -to lift her up, and place her sleeping in the carriage when I have -harnessed the horses and made all ready. Madam still sleep, and she look -in her sleep more healthy and more redder than before. And I like it -not. And I am afraid, afraid, afraid!--I am afraid of all things--even -to think but I must go on my way. The stake we play for is life and -death, or more than these, and we must not flinch. - - * * * * * - -_5 November, morning._--Let me be accurate in everything, for though you -and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think -that I, Van Helsing, am mad--that the many horrors and the so long -strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. - -All yesterday we travel, ever getting closer to the mountains, and -moving into a more and more wild and desert land. There are great, -frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held -sometime her carnival. Madam Mina still sleep and sleep; and though I -did have hunger and appeased it, I could not waken her--even for food. I -began to fear that the fatal spell of the place was upon her, tainted as -she is with that Vampire baptism. “Well,” said I to myself, “if it be -that she sleep all the day, it shall also be that I do not sleep at -night.” As we travel on the rough road, for a road of an ancient and -imperfect kind there was, I held down my head and slept. Again I waked -with a sense of guilt and of time passed, and found Madam Mina still -sleeping, and the sun low down. But all was indeed changed; the frowning -mountains seemed further away, and we were near the top of a -steep-rising hill, on summit of which was such a castle as Jonathan tell -of in his diary. At once I exulted and feared; for now, for good or ill, -the end was near. - -I woke Madam Mina, and again tried to hypnotise her; but alas! -unavailing till too late. Then, ere the great dark came upon us--for -even after down-sun the heavens reflected the gone sun on the snow, and -all was for a time in a great twilight--I took out the horses and fed -them in what shelter I could. Then I make a fire; and near it I make -Madam Mina, now awake and more charming than ever, sit comfortable amid -her rugs. I got ready food: but she would not eat, simply saying that -she had not hunger. I did not press her, knowing her unavailingness. But -I myself eat, for I must needs now be strong for all. Then, with the -fear on me of what might be, I drew a ring so big for her comfort, round -where Madam Mina sat; and over the ring I passed some of the wafer, and -I broke it fine so that all was well guarded. She sat still all the -time--so still as one dead; and she grew whiter and ever whiter till the -snow was not more pale; and no word she said. But when I drew near, she -clung to me, and I could know that the poor soul shook her from head to -feet with a tremor that was pain to feel. I said to her presently, when -she had grown more quiet:-- - -“Will you not come over to the fire?” for I wished to make a test of -what she could. She rose obedient, but when she have made a step she -stopped, and stood as one stricken. - -“Why not go on?” I asked. She shook her head, and, coming back, sat -down in her place. Then, looking at me with open eyes, as of one waked -from sleep, she said simply:-- - -“I cannot!” and remained silent. I rejoiced, for I knew that what she -could not, none of those that we dreaded could. Though there might be -danger to her body, yet her soul was safe! - -Presently the horses began to scream, and tore at their tethers till I -came to them and quieted them. When they did feel my hands on them, they -whinnied low as in joy, and licked at my hands and were quiet for a -time. Many times through the night did I come to them, till it arrive to -the cold hour when all nature is at lowest; and every time my coming was -with quiet of them. In the cold hour the fire began to die, and I was -about stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying -sweeps and with it a chill mist. Even in the dark there was a light of -some kind, as there ever is over snow; and it seemed as though the -snow-flurries and the wreaths of mist took shape as of women with -trailing garments. All was in dead, grim silence only that the horses -whinnied and cowered, as if in terror of the worst. I began to -fear--horrible fears; but then came to me the sense of safety in that -ring wherein I stood. I began, too, to think that my imaginings were of -the night, and the gloom, and the unrest that I have gone through, and -all the terrible anxiety. It was as though my memories of all Jonathan’s -horrid experience were befooling me; for the snow flakes and the mist -began to wheel and circle round, till I could get as though a shadowy -glimpse of those women that would have kissed him. And then the horses -cowered lower and lower, and moaned in terror as men do in pain. Even -the madness of fright was not to them, so that they could break away. I -feared for my dear Madam Mina when these weird figures drew near and -circled round. I looked at her, but she sat calm, and smiled at me; when -I would have stepped to the fire to replenish it, she caught me and held -me back, and whispered, like a voice that one hears in a dream, so low -it was:-- - -“No! No! Do not go without. Here you are safe!” I turned to her, and -looking in her eyes, said:-- - -“But you? It is for you that I fear!” whereat she laughed--a laugh, low -and unreal, and said:-- - -“Fear for _me_! Why fear for me? None safer in all the world from them -than I am,” and as I wondered at the meaning of her words, a puff of -wind made the flame leap up, and I see the red scar on her forehead. -Then, alas! I knew. Did I not, I would soon have learned, for the -wheeling figures of mist and snow came closer, but keeping ever without -the Holy circle. Then they began to materialise till--if God have not -take away my reason, for I saw it through my eyes--there were before me -in actual flesh the same three women that Jonathan saw in the room, when -they would have kissed his throat. I knew the swaying round forms, the -bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous -lips. They smiled ever at poor dear Madam Mina; and as their laugh came -through the silence of the night, they twined their arms and pointed to -her, and said in those so sweet tingling tones that Jonathan said were -of the intolerable sweetness of the water-glasses:-- - -“Come, sister. Come to us. Come! Come!” In fear I turned to my poor -Madam Mina, and my heart with gladness leapt like flame; for oh! the -terror in her sweet eyes, the repulsion, the horror, told a story to my -heart that was all of hope. God be thanked she was not, yet, of them. I -seized some of the firewood which was by me, and holding out some of the -Wafer, advanced on them towards the fire. They drew back before me, and -laughed their low horrid laugh. I fed the fire, and feared them not; for -I knew that we were safe within our protections. They could not -approach, me, whilst so armed, nor Madam Mina whilst she remained within -the ring, which she could not leave no more than they could enter. The -horses had ceased to moan, and lay still on the ground; the snow fell on -them softly, and they grew whiter. I knew that there was for the poor -beasts no more of terror. - -And so we remained till the red of the dawn to fall through the -snow-gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror; but -when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. -At the first coming of the dawn the horrid figures melted in the -whirling mist and snow; the wreaths of transparent gloom moved away -towards the castle, and were lost. - -Instinctively, with the dawn coming, I turned to Madam Mina, intending -to hypnotise her; but she lay in a deep and sudden sleep, from which I -could not wake her. I tried to hypnotise through her sleep, but she made -no response, none at all; and the day broke. I fear yet to stir. I have -made my fire and have seen the horses, they are all dead. To-day I have -much to do here, and I keep waiting till the sun is up high; for there -may be places where I must go, where that sunlight, though snow and mist -obscure it, will be to me a safety. - -I will strengthen me with breakfast, and then I will to my terrible -work. Madam Mina still sleeps; and, God be thanked! she is calm in her -sleep.... - - -_Jonathan Harker’s Journal._ - -_4 November, evening._--The accident to the launch has been a terrible -thing for us. Only for it we should have overtaken the boat long ago; -and by now my dear Mina would have been free. I fear to think of her, -off on the wolds near that horrid place. We have got horses, and we -follow on the track. I note this whilst Godalming is getting ready. We -have our arms. The Szgany must look out if they mean fight. Oh, if only -Morris and Seward were with us. We must only hope! If I write no more -Good-bye, Mina! God bless and keep you. - - -_Dr. Seward’s Diary._ - -_5 November._--With the dawn we saw the body of Szgany before us dashing -away from the river with their leiter-wagon. They surrounded it in a -cluster, and hurried along as though beset. The snow is falling lightly -and there is a strange excitement in the air. It may be our own -feelings, but the depression is strange. Far off I hear the howling of -wolves; the snow brings them down from the mountains, and there are -dangers to all of us, and from all sides. The horses are nearly ready, -and we are soon off. We ride to death of some one. God alone knows who, -or where, or what, or when, or how it may be.... - - -_Dr. Van Helsing’s Memorandum._ - -_5 November, afternoon._--I am at least sane. Thank God for that mercy -at all events, though the proving it has been dreadful. When I left -Madam Mina sleeping within the Holy circle, I took my way to the castle. -The blacksmith hammer which I took in the carriage from Veresti was -useful; though the doors were all open I broke them off the rusty -hinges, lest some ill-intent or ill-chance should close them, so that -being entered I might not get out. Jonathan’s bitter experience served -me here. By memory of his diary I found my way to the old chapel, for I -knew that here my work lay. The air was oppressive; it seemed as if -there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy. Either -there was a roaring in my ears or I heard afar off the howl of wolves. -Then I bethought me of my dear Madam Mina, and I was in terrible plight. -The dilemma had me between his horns. - -Her, I had not dare to take into this place, but left safe from the -Vampire in that Holy circle; and yet even there would be the wolf! I -resolve me that my work lay here, and that as to the wolves we must -submit, if it were God’s will. At any rate it was only death and -freedom beyond. So did I choose for her. Had it but been for myself the -choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than -the grave of the Vampire! So I make my choice to go on with my work. - -I knew that there were at least three graves to find--graves that are -inhabit; so I search, and search, and I find one of them. She lay in her -Vampire sleep, so full of life and voluptuous beauty that I shudder as -though I have come to do murder. Ah, I doubt not that in old time, when -such things were, many a man who set forth to do such a task as mine, -found at the last his heart fail him, and then his nerve. So he delay, -and delay, and delay, till the mere beauty and the fascination of the -wanton Un-Dead have hypnotise him; and he remain on and on, till sunset -come, and the Vampire sleep be over. Then the beautiful eyes of the fair -woman open and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a -kiss--and man is weak. And there remain one more victim in the Vampire -fold; one more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Un-Dead!... - -There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the mere presence -of such an one, even lying as she lay in a tomb fretted with age and -heavy with the dust of centuries, though there be that horrid odour such -as the lairs of the Count have had. Yes, I was moved--I, Van Helsing, -with all my purpose and with my motive for hate--I was moved to a -yearning for delay which seemed to paralyse my faculties and to clog my -very soul. It may have been that the need of natural sleep, and the -strange oppression of the air were beginning to overcome me. Certain it -was that I was lapsing into sleep, the open-eyed sleep of one who yields -to a sweet fascination, when there came through the snow-stilled air a -long, low wail, so full of woe and pity that it woke me like the sound -of a clarion. For it was the voice of my dear Madam Mina that I heard. - -Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching -away tomb-tops one other of the sisters, the other dark one. I dared not -pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should -begin to be enthrall; but I go on searching until, presently, I find in -a high great tomb as if made to one much beloved that other fair sister -which, like Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of -the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so -exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls -some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl -with new emotion. But God be thanked, that soul-wail of my dear Madam -Mina had not died out of my ears; and, before the spell could be wrought -further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work. By this time I had -searched all the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell; and as -there had been only three of these Un-Dead phantoms around us in the -night, I took it that there were no more of active Un-Dead existent. -There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and -nobly proportioned. On it was but one word - - DRACULA. - -This then was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire, to whom so many more -were due. Its emptiness spoke eloquent to make certain what I knew. -Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my -awful work, I laid in Dracula’s tomb some of the Wafer, and so banished -him from it, Un-Dead, for ever. - -Then began my terrible task, and I dreaded it. Had it been but one, it -had been easy, comparative. But three! To begin twice more after I had -been through a deed of horror; for if it was terrible with the sweet -Miss Lucy, what would it not be with these strange ones who had survived -through centuries, and who had been strengthened by the passing of the -years; who would, if they could, have fought for their foul lives.... - -Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work; had I not been nerved by -thoughts of other dead, and of the living over whom hung such a pall of -fear, I could not have gone on. I tremble and tremble even yet, though -till all was over, God be thanked, my nerve did stand. Had I not seen -the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over it just -ere the final dissolution came, as realisation that the soul had been -won, I could not have gone further with my butchery. I could not have -endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of -writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and -left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them -now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death -for a short moment ere fading. For, friend John, hardly had my knife -severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and -crumble in to its native dust, as though the death that should have come -centuries agone had at last assert himself and say at once and loud “I -am here!” - -Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can -the Count enter there Un-Dead. - -When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her -sleep, and, seeing, me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much. - -“Come!” she said, “come away from this awful place! Let us go to meet my -husband who is, I know, coming towards us.” She was looking thin and -pale and weak; but her eyes were pure and glowed with fervour. I was -glad to see her paleness and her illness, for my mind was full of the -fresh horror of that ruddy vampire sleep. - -And so with trust and hope, and yet full of fear, we go eastward to meet -our friends--and _him_--whom Madam Mina tell me that she _know_ are -coming to meet us. - - -_Mina Harker’s Journal._ - -_6 November._--It was late in the afternoon when the Professor and I -took our way towards the east whence I knew Jonathan was coming. We did -not go fast, though the way was steeply downhill, for we had to take -heavy rugs and wraps with us; we dared not face the possibility of being -left without warmth in the cold and the snow. We had to take some of our -provisions, too, for we were in a perfect desolation, and, so far as we -could see through the snowfall, there was not even the sign of -habitation. When we had gone about a mile, I was tired with the heavy -walking and sat down to rest. Then we looked back and saw where the -clear line of Dracula’s castle cut the sky; for we were so deep under -the hill whereon it was set that the angle of perspective of the -Carpathian mountains was far below it. We saw it in all its grandeur, -perched a thousand feet on the summit of a sheer precipice, and with -seemingly a great gap between it and the steep of the adjacent mountain -on any side. There was something wild and uncanny about the place. We -could hear the distant howling of wolves. They were far off, but the -sound, even though coming muffled through the deadening snowfall, was -full of terror. I knew from the way Dr. Van Helsing was searching about -that he was trying to seek some strategic point, where we would be less -exposed in case of attack. The rough roadway still led downwards; we -could trace it through the drifted snow. - -In a little while the Professor signalled to me, so I got up and joined -him. He had found a wonderful spot, a sort of natural hollow in a rock, -with an entrance like a doorway between two boulders. He took me by the -hand and drew me in: “See!” he said, “here you will be in shelter; and -if the wolves do come I can meet them one by one.” He brought in our -furs, and made a snug nest for me, and got out some provisions and -forced them upon me. But I could not eat; to even try to do so was -repulsive to me, and, much as I would have liked to please him, I could -not bring myself to the attempt. He looked very sad, but did not -reproach me. Taking his field-glasses from the case, he stood on the top -of the rock, and began to search the horizon. Suddenly he called out:-- - -“Look! Madam Mina, look! look!” I sprang up and stood beside him on the -rock; he handed me his glasses and pointed. The snow was now falling -more heavily, and swirled about fiercely, for a high wind was beginning -to blow. However, there were times when there were pauses between the -snow flurries and I could see a long way round. From the height where we -were it was possible to see a great distance; and far off, beyond the -white waste of snow, I could see the river lying like a black ribbon in -kinks and curls as it wound its way. Straight in front of us and not far -off--in fact, so near that I wondered we had not noticed before--came a -group of mounted men hurrying along. In the midst of them was a cart, a -long leiter-wagon which swept from side to side, like a dog’s tail -wagging, with each stern inequality of the road. Outlined against the -snow as they were, I could see from the men’s clothes that they were -peasants or gypsies of some kind. - -On the cart was a great square chest. My heart leaped as I saw it, for I -felt that the end was coming. The evening was now drawing close, and -well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned -there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all -pursuit. In fear I turned to the Professor; to my consternation, -however, he was not there. An instant later, I saw him below me. Round -the rock he had drawn a circle, such as we had found shelter in last -night. When he had completed it he stood beside me again, saying:-- - -“At least you shall be safe here from _him_!” He took the glasses from -me, and at the next lull of the snow swept the whole space below us. -“See,” he said, “they come quickly; they are flogging the horses, and -galloping as hard as they can.” He paused and went on in a hollow -voice:-- - -“They are racing for the sunset. We may be too late. God’s will be -done!” Down came another blinding rush of driving snow, and the whole -landscape was blotted out. It soon passed, however, and once more his -glasses were fixed on the plain. Then came a sudden cry:-- - -“Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the -south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow -blots it all out!” I took it and looked. The two men might be Dr. Seward -and Mr. Morris. I knew at all events that neither of them was Jonathan. -At the same time I _knew_ that Jonathan was not far off; looking around -I saw on the north side of the coming party two other men, riding at -break-neck speed. One of them I knew was Jonathan, and the other I took, -of course, to be Lord Godalming. They, too, were pursuing the party with -the cart. When I told the Professor he shouted in glee like a schoolboy, -and, after looking intently till a snow fall made sight impossible, he -laid his Winchester rifle ready for use against the boulder at the -opening of our shelter. “They are all converging,” he said. “When the -time comes we shall have gypsies on all sides.” I got out my revolver -ready to hand, for whilst we were speaking the howling of wolves came -louder and closer. When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again. -It was strange to see the snow falling in such heavy flakes close to us, -and beyond, the sun shining more and more brightly as it sank down -towards the far mountain tops. Sweeping the glass all around us I could -see here and there dots moving singly and in twos and threes and larger -numbers--the wolves were gathering for their prey. - -Every instant seemed an age whilst we waited. The wind came now in -fierce bursts, and the snow was driven with fury as it swept upon us in -circling eddies. At times we could not see an arm’s length before us; -but at others, as the hollow-sounding wind swept by us, it seemed to -clear the air-space around us so that we could see afar off. We had of -late been so accustomed to watch for sunrise and sunset, that we knew -with fair accuracy when it would be; and we knew that before long the -sun would set. It was hard to believe that by our watches it was less -than an hour that we waited in that rocky shelter before the various -bodies began to converge close upon us. The wind came now with fiercer -and more bitter sweeps, and more steadily from the north. It seemingly -had driven the snow clouds from us, for, with only occasional bursts, -the snow fell. We could distinguish clearly the individuals of each -party, the pursued and the pursuers. Strangely enough those pursued did -not seem to realise, or at least to care, that they were pursued; they -seemed, however, to hasten with redoubled speed as the sun dropped lower -and lower on the mountain tops. - -Closer and closer they drew. The Professor and I crouched down behind -our rock, and held our weapons ready; I could see that he was determined -that they should not pass. One and all were quite unaware of our -presence. - -All at once two voices shouted out to: “Halt!” One was my Jonathan’s, -raised in a high key of passion; the other Mr. Morris’ strong resolute -tone of quiet command. The gypsies may not have known the language, but -there was no mistaking the tone, in whatever tongue the words were -spoken. Instinctively they reined in, and at the instant Lord Godalming -and Jonathan dashed up at one side and Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris on the -other. The leader of the gypsies, a splendid-looking fellow who sat his -horse like a centaur, waved them back, and in a fierce voice gave to his -companions some word to proceed. They lashed the horses which sprang -forward; but the four men raised their Winchester rifles, and in an -unmistakable way commanded them to stop. At the same moment Dr. Van -Helsing and I rose behind the rock and pointed our weapons at them. -Seeing that they were surrounded the men tightened their reins and drew -up. The leader turned to them and gave a word at which every man of the -gypsy party drew what weapon he carried, knife or pistol, and held -himself in readiness to attack. Issue was joined in an instant. - -The leader, with a quick movement of his rein, threw his horse out in -front, and pointing first to the sun--now close down on the hill -tops--and then to the castle, said something which I did not understand. -For answer, all four men of our party threw themselves from their horses -and dashed towards the cart. I should have felt terrible fear at seeing -Jonathan in such danger, but that the ardour of battle must have been -upon me as well as the rest of them; I felt no fear, but only a wild, -surging desire to do something. Seeing the quick movement of our -parties, the leader of the gypsies gave a command; his men instantly -formed round the cart in a sort of undisciplined endeavour, each one -shouldering and pushing the other in his eagerness to carry out the -order. - -In the midst of this I could see that Jonathan on one side of the ring -of men, and Quincey on the other, were forcing a way to the cart; it was -evident that they were bent on finishing their task before the sun -should set. Nothing seemed to stop or even to hinder them. Neither the -levelled weapons nor the flashing knives of the gypsies in front, nor -the howling of the wolves behind, appeared to even attract their -attention. Jonathan’s impetuosity, and the manifest singleness of his -purpose, seemed to overawe those in front of him; instinctively they -cowered, aside and let him pass. In an instant he had jumped upon the -cart, and, with a strength which seemed incredible, raised the great -box, and flung it over the wheel to the ground. In the meantime, Mr. -Morris had had to use force to pass through his side of the ring of -Szgany. All the time I had been breathlessly watching Jonathan I had, -with the tail of my eye, seen him pressing desperately forward, and had -seen the knives of the gypsies flash as he won a way through them, and -they cut at him. He had parried with his great bowie knife, and at first -I thought that he too had come through in safety; but as he sprang -beside Jonathan, who had by now jumped from the cart, I could see that -with his left hand he was clutching at his side, and that the blood was -spurting through his fingers. He did not delay notwithstanding this, for -as Jonathan, with desperate energy, attacked one end of the chest, -attempting to prize off the lid with his great Kukri knife, he attacked -the other frantically with his bowie. Under the efforts of both men the -lid began to yield; the nails drew with a quick screeching sound, and -the top of the box was thrown back. - -By this time the gypsies, seeing themselves covered by the Winchesters, -and at the mercy of Lord Godalming and Dr. Seward, had given in and made -no resistance. The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the -shadows of the whole group fell long upon the snow. I saw the Count -lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from -the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen -image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I -knew too well. - -As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them -turned to triumph. - -But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. -I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same -moment Mr. Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart. - -It was like a miracle; but before our very eyes, and almost in the -drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from -our sight. - -I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final -dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never -could have imagined might have rested there. - -The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone -of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the -setting sun. - -The gypsies, taking us as in some way the cause of the extraordinary -disappearance of the dead man, turned, without a word, and rode away as -if for their lives. Those who were unmounted jumped upon the -leiter-wagon and shouted to the horsemen not to desert them. The wolves, -which had withdrawn to a safe distance, followed in their wake, leaving -us alone. - -Mr. Morris, who had sunk to the ground, leaned on his elbow, holding his -hand pressed to his side; the blood still gushed through his fingers. I -flew to him, for the Holy circle did not now keep me back; so did the -two doctors. Jonathan knelt behind him and the wounded man laid back his -head on his shoulder. With a sigh he took, with a feeble effort, my hand -in that of his own which was unstained. He must have seen the anguish of -my heart in my face, for he smiled at me and said:-- - -“I am only too happy to have been of any service! Oh, God!” he cried -suddenly, struggling up to a sitting posture and pointing to me, “It was -worth for this to die! Look! look!” - -The sun was now right down upon the mountain top, and the red gleams -fell upon my face, so that it was bathed in rosy light. With one impulse -the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest “Amen” broke from all -as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger. The dying man -spoke:-- - -“Now God be thanked that all has not been in vain! See! the snow is not -more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away!” - -And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a -gallant gentleman. - - - - - NOTE - - -Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of -some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. It -is an added joy to Mina and to me that our boy’s birthday is the same -day as that on which Quincey Morris died. His mother holds, I know, the -secret belief that some of our brave friend’s spirit has passed into -him. His bundle of names links all our little band of men together; but -we call him Quincey. - -In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went -over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and -terrible memories. It was almost impossible to believe that the things -which we had seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears were -living truths. Every trace of all that had been was blotted out. The -castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation. - -When we got home we were talking of the old time--which we could all -look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily -married. I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since -our return so long ago. We were struck with the fact, that in all the -mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one -authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later -note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing’s memorandum. -We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as -proofs of so wild a story. Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with -our boy on his knee:-- - -“We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This boy will some day -know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online -at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, -you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this eBook. - -Title: Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World - -Author: Jonathan Swift - -Editor: Thomas M. Balliet - -Release date: November 26, 2005 [eBook #17157] - Most recently updated: April 4, 2025 - -Language: English - -Credits: Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GULLIVER'S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE REGIONS OF THE WORLD *** - - - - -GULLIVER'S TRAVELS - -Into Several Remote Regions of the World - -by - -JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D. - -Edited with Introduction and Notes by Thomas M. Balliet -Superintendent of Schools, Springfield, Mass. - -With Thirty-Eight Illustrations and a Map - - -PART I - -A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT - - -PART II - -A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG - - - - - - - -[Illustration: "HE COMMANDED HIS GENERALS TO DRAW UP THE TROOPS." P. 42.] - - - - -D.C. Heath & Co., Publishers -Boston New York Chicago - -1900 - - - - -PREFACE. - - And lo! the book, from all its end beguiled, - A harmless wonder to some happy child. - - LORD LYTTON. - - -Gulliver's Travels was published in 1726; and, although it was by no -means intended for them, the book was soon appropriated by the children, -who have ever since continued to regard it as one of the most delightful -of their story books. They cannot comprehend the occasion which provoked -the book nor appreciate the satire which underlies the narrative, but -they delight in the wonderful adventures, and wander full of open-eyed -astonishment into the new worlds through which the vivid and logically -accurate imagination of the author so personally conducts them. And -there is a meaning and a moral in the stories of the Voyages to Lilliput -and Brobdingnag which is entirely apart from the political satire they -are intended to convey, a meaning and a moral which the youngest child -who can read it will not fail to seize, and upon which it is scarcely -necessary for the teacher to comment. - -For young children the book combines in a measure the interest of -_Robinson Crusoe_ and that of the fairy tale; its style is objective, -the narrative is simple, and the matter appeals strongly to the childish -imagination. For more mature boys and girls and for adults the interest -is found chiefly in the keen satire which underlies the narrative. It -appeals, therefore, to a very wide range of intelligence and taste, and -can be read with profit by the child of ten and by the young man or -woman of mature years. - -This edition is practically a reprint of the original (1726-27). The -punctuation and capitalization have been modernized, some archaisms -changed, and the paragraphs have been made more frequent. A few passages -have been omitted which would offend modern ears and are unsuitable for -children's reading, and some foot-notes have been added explaining -obsolete words and obscure expressions. - -As a reading book in school which must be adapted to the average mind, -these stories will be found suitable for classes from the fifth or sixth -school year to the highest grade of the grammar school. - -THOMAS M. BALLIET. - - - - -CONTENTS. - -VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT. - - -CHAPTER I. - -The Author gives some account of himself and family--His first -inducements to travel--He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life--Gets -safe on shore in the country of Lilliput--Is made a prisoner, and -carried up the country - -CHAPTER II. - -The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to -see the Author in his confinement--The emperor's person and habits -described--Learned men appointed to teach the Author their language--He -gains favor by his mild disposition--His pockets are searched, and his -sword and pistols taken from him - -CHAPTER III. - -The Author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a -very uncommon manner--The diversions of the court of Lilliput -described--The Author has his liberty granted him upon certain -conditions - -CHAPTER IV. - -Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the -emperor's palace--A conversation between the Author and a principal -secretary concerning the affairs of that empire--The Author's offers to -serve the emperor in his wars - -CHAPTER V. - -The Author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion--A high -title of honor is conferred upon him--Ambassadors arrive from the -emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace - -CHAPTER VI. - -Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs; the -manner of educating their children--The Author's way of living in that -country--His vindication of a great lady - -CHAPTER VII. - -The Author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high treason, -makes his escape to Blefuscu--His reception there - -CHAPTER VIII. - -The Author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and -after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country - - * * * * * - -LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. - - "He commanded his generals to draw up the troops" - Map of Lilliput and Blefuscu - "I lay all this while ... in great uneasiness" - "Producing his credentials" - "These gentlemen made an exact inventory" - "Her imperial majesty was pleased to smile very graciously upon me" - "And created me a _nardac_ upon the spot" - "Three hundred tailors were employed" - "The happiness ... of dining with me" - "He desired I would hear him with patience" - "I set sail ... at six in the morning" - -AND TWENTY-THREE SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT. - - - - -CONTENTS - -A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG. - -CHAPTER I. - -A great storm described; the long-boat sent to fetch water, the Author -goes with it to discover the country--He is left on shore, is seized by -one of the natives, and carried to a farmer's house--His reception -there, with several accidents that happened there--A description of the -inhabitants - -CHAPTER II. - -A description of the farmer's daughter--The Author carried to a -market-town, and then to the metropolis--The particulars of his journey - -CHAPTER III. - -The Author sent for to court--The queen buys him of his master the -farmer, and presents him to the king--He disputes with his majesty's -great scholars--An apartment at court provided for the Author--He is in -high favor with the queen--He stands up for the honor of his own -country--He quarrels with the queen's dwarf - -CHAPTER IV. - -The country described--A proposal for correcting modern maps--The king's -palace, and some account of the metropolis--The Author's way of -travelling--The chief temple described - -CHAPTER V. - -Several adventures that happened to the Author--The execution of a -criminal--The Author shows his skill in navigation - -CHAPTER VI. - -Several contrivances of the Author to please the king and queen--He -shows his skill in music--The king inquires into the state of Europe, -which the Author relates to him--The king's observations thereon - -CHAPTER VII. - -The Author's love of his country--He makes a proposal of much advantage -to the king, which is rejected--The king's great ignorance in -politics--The learning of that country very imperfect and -confined--Their laws, and military affairs, and in the state - -CHAPTER VIII. - -The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers--The Author attends -them--The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly -related--He returns to England - -NOTE - - * * * * * - -LIST OF FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. - - "They concluded I was only Relplum Sealcath" - Map of Brobdingnag - "A huge creature walking ... on the sea" - "Whereupon the huge creature trod short" - "I drew my hanger to defend myself" - "I called her my Glumdalclitch" - "Flourished after the manner of fencers in England" - "This gracious princess held out her little finger" - "She carried me to the king" - "I could only revenge myself by calling him brother" - "The smaller birds did not appear to be at all afraid of me" - "Gave me a gale with their fans" - "The most violent exercise I ever underwent" - "You have made an admirable panegyric" - "She had some foreboding" - "Somebody calling in the English tongue" - "My daughter kneeled, but I could not see her" - -AND TWELVE SMALLER ONES IN THE TEXT. - - - - -THE FIRST PUBLISHER TO THE READER. - - -The author of these travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and -intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the -mother's side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver, growing weary of the -concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff,[1] -made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in -Nottinghamshire, his native county, where he now lives retired, yet in -good esteem among his neighbors. - -Although Mr. Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire, where his father -dwelt, yet I have heard him say his family came from Oxfordshire; to -confirm which, I have observed in the churchyard at Banbury, in that -county, several tombs and monuments of the Gullivers. Before he quitted -Redriff he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with -the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit. I have carefully -perused them three times. The style is very plain and simple, and the -only fault I find is, that the author, after the manner of travellers, -is a little too circumstantial. There is an air of truth apparent -through the whole; and, indeed, the author was so distinguished for his -veracity, that it became a sort of proverb among his neighbors at -Redriff, when any one affirmed a thing, to say it was as true as if Mr. -Gulliver had spoken it. - -By the advice of several worthy persons, to whom, with the author's -permission, I communicated these papers, I now venture to send them into -the world, hoping they may be, at least for some time, a better -entertainment than the common scribbles about politics and party. - -This volume would have been at least twice as large if I had not made -bold to strike out innumerable passages relating to the winds and tides, -as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages; -together with the minute description of the management of the ship in -the storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes -and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend that Mr. Gulliver may -be a little dissatisfied; but I was resolved to fit the work as much as -possible to the general capacity of readers. However, if my own -ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I -alone am answerable for them, and if any traveller hath a curiosity to -see the whole work at large, as it came from the hand of the author, I -will be ready to gratify him. - -As for any farther particulars relating to the author, the reader will -receive satisfaction from the first pages of the book. - - RICHARD SYMPSON. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - -TRAVELS. - -PART I. - - -_A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT_. - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - THE AUTHOR GIVES SOME ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF AND FAMILY: HIS FIRST - INDUCEMENTS TO TRAVEL. HE IS SHIPWRECKED, AND SWIMS FOR HIS LIFE; - GETS SAFE ASHORE IN THE COUNTRY OF LILLIPUT; IS MADE A PRISONER, - AND CARRIED UP THE COUNTRY. - - -My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five -sons. He sent me to Emmanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, -where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; -but the charge of maintaining me, although I had a very scanty -allowance, being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice -to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued -four years; and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I -laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics -useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be, -some time or other, my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down -to my father, where, by the assistance of him, and my uncle John and -some other relations, I got forty pounds,[2] and a promise of thirty -pounds a year, to maintain me at Leyden. There I studied physic two -years and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages. - -Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master, -Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the "Swallow," Captain Abraham Pannell, -commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyage -or two into the Levant,[3] and some other parts. When I came back I -resolved to settle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged -me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a -small house in the Old Jewry; and, being advised to alter my condition, -I married Mrs. Mary Burton,[4] second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, -hosier in Newgate Street, with whom I received four hundred pounds for a -portion. - -But my good master, Bates, dying in two years after, and I having few -friends, my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer -me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having, -therefore, consulted with my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I -determined to go again to sea. I was surgeon successively in two ships, -and made several voyages, for six years, to the East and West Indies, by -which I got some addition to my fortune. My hours of leisure I spent in -reading the best authors, ancient and modern, being always provided with -a good number of books; and, when I was ashore, in observing the manners -and dispositions of the people, as well as learning their language, -wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of my memory. - -The last of these voyages not proving very fortunate, I grew weary of -the sea, and intended to stay at home with my wife and family. I removed -from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to -get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account. After -three years' expectation that things would mend, I accepted an -advantageous offer from Captain William Prichard, master of the -"Antelope," who was making a voyage to the South Sea.[5] We set sail -from Bristol, May 4, 1699; and our voyage at first was very prosperous. - -It would not be proper, for some reasons, to trouble the reader with the -particulars of our adventures in those seas. Let it suffice to inform -him, that, in our passage from thence to the East Indies, we were driven -by a violent storm, to the northwest of Van Diemen's Land.[6] - -By an observation, we found ourselves in the latitude of 30 degrees and -2 minutes south. Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and -ill food; the rest were in a very weak condition. - -On the fifth of November, which was the beginning of summer in those -parts, the weather being very hazy, the seamen spied a rock within half -a cable's length of the ship;[7] but the wind was so strong, that we -were driven directly upon it, and immediately split. Six of the crew, of -whom I was one, having let down the boat into the sea, made a shift to -get clear of the ship and the rock. We rowed, by my computation, about -three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent -with labor, while we were in the ship. We, therefore, trusted ourselves -to the mercy of the waves; and, in about half an hour, the boat was -overset by a sudden flurry from the north. What became of my companions -in the boat, as well as those who escaped on the rock, or were left in -the vessel, I cannot tell, but conclude they were all lost. - -For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward -by wind and tide. I often let my legs drop, and could feel no bottom; -but, when I was almost gone, and able to struggle no longer, I found -myself within my depth; and, by this time, the storm was much abated. - -The declivity was so small that I walked near a mile before I got to the -shore, which I conjectured was about eight o'clock in the evening. I -then advanced forward near half a mile, but could not discover any sign -of houses or inhabitants; at least, I was in so weak a condition, that I -did not observe them. I was extremely tired, and with that, and the -heat of the weather, and about half a pint of brandy that I drank as I -left the ship, I found myself much inclined to sleep. I lay down on the -grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I -remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine -hours; for, when I awaked, it was just daylight. I attempted to rise, -but was not able to stir: for as I happened to lie on my back, I found -my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and -my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I -likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits -to my thighs. I could only look upwards, the sun began to grow hot, and -the light offended my eyes. - -I heard a confused noise about me; but, in the posture I lay, could see -nothing except the sky. In a little time, I felt something alive moving -on my left leg, which, advancing gently forward over my breast, came -almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downward, as much as I -could, I perceived it to be a human creature, not six inches high, with -a bow and arrow in his hands, and a quiver at his back. In the meantime -I felt at least forty more of the same kind (as I conjectured) following -the first. - -I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran -back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt -with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. -However, they soon returned, and one of them, who ventured so far as to -get a full sight of my face, lifting up his hands and eyes by way of -admiration, cried out in a shrill, but distinct voice--_Hekinah degul!_ -the others repeated the same words several times, but I then knew not -what they meant. - -I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At -length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, -and wrench out the pegs, that fastened my left arm to the ground; for by -lifting it up to my face, I discovered the methods they had taken to -bind me, and, at the same time, with a violent pull, which gave me -excessive pain, I a little loosened the strings that tied down my hair -on the left side, so that I was just able to turn my head about two -inches. - -But the creatures ran off a second time, before I could seize them; -whereupon there was a great shout in a very shrill accent, and after it -ceased, I heard one of them cry aloud, _Tolgo phonac_; when, in an -instant, I felt above an hundred arrows discharged on my left hand, -which pricked me like so many needles; and, besides, they shot another -flight into the air, as we do bombs in Europe, whereof many, I suppose, -fell on my body (though I felt them not), and some on my face, which I -immediately covered with my left hand. - -When this shower of arrows was over, I fell a-groaning with grief and -pain, and then striving again to get loose, they discharged another -volley larger than the first, and some of them attempted with spears to -stick me in the sides; but by good luck I had on me a buff jerkin,[8] -which they could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie -still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand -being already loose, I could easily free myself; and as for the -inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the -greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same -size with him that I saw. - -[Illustration: "I LAY ALL THIS WHILE IN GREAT UNEASINESS" P. 8.] - -But fortune disposed otherwise of me. When the people observed I was -quiet, they discharged no more arrows: but, by the noise I heard, I knew -their numbers increased; and about four yards from me, over against my -right ear, I heard a knocking for above an hour, like that of people at -work; when, turning my head that way, as well as the pegs and strings -would permit me, I saw a stage erected, about a foot and a half from the -ground, capable of holding four of the inhabitants, with two or three -ladders to mount it; from whence one of them, who seemed to be a person -of quality, made me a long speech, whereof I understood not one -syllable. - -[Illustration] - -But I should have mentioned, that before the principal person began his -oration, he cried out three times, _Langro debul san_ (these words, and -the former, were afterwards repeated, and explained to me). Whereupon -immediately about fifty of the inhabitants came and cut the strings that -fastened the left side of my head, which gave me the liberty of turning -it to the right, and of observing the person and gesture of him that was -to speak. He appeared to be of a middle age, and taller than any of the -other three who attended him, whereof one was a page that held up his -train, and seemed to be somewhat longer than my middle finger; the other -two stood one on each side, to support him. He acted every part of an -orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of -promises, pity, and kindness. - -I answered in a few words, but in the most submissive manner, lifting up -my left hand, and both my eyes, to the sun, as calling him for a -witness: and, being almost famished with hunger, having not eaten a -morsel for some hours before I left the ship, I found the demands of -nature so strong upon me, that I could not forbear showing my impatience -(perhaps against the strict rules of decency) by putting my finger -frequently to my mouth, to signify that I wanted food. The _hurgo_ (for -so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learned) understood me very -well. He descended from the stage, and commanded that several ladders -should be applied to my sides; on which above a hundred of the -inhabitants mounted, and walked towards my mouth, laden with baskets -full of meat, which had been provided and sent thither by the king's -orders, upon the first intelligence he received of me. - -I observed there was the flesh of several animals, but could not -distinguish them by the taste. There were shoulders, legs, and loins, -shaped like those of mutton, and very well dressed, but smaller than the -wings of a lark. I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took -three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets. They -supplied me as they could, showing a thousand marks of wonder and -astonishment at my bulk and appetite. I then made another sign that I -wanted drink. - -They found by my eating that a small quantity would not suffice me; and -being a most ingenious people, they slung up with great dexterity, one -of their largest hogsheads, then rolled it towards my hand, and beat out -the top: I drank it off at a draught; which I might well do, for it did -not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small[9] wine of Burgundy, but -much more delicious. They brought me a second hogshead, which I drank in -the same manner, and made signs for more; but they had none to give me. - -When I had performed these wonders, they shouted for joy, and danced -upon my breast, repeating, several times, as they did at first, _Hekinah -degul_. They made me a sign, that I should throw down the two hogsheads, -but first warning the people below to stand out of the way, crying -aloud, _Borach nevola_; and, when they saw the vessels in the air, there -was an universal shout of _Hekinah degul_. - -I confess, I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and -forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in -my reach, and dash them against the ground. But the remembrance of what -I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the -promise of honor I made them--for so I interpreted my submissive -behavior--soon drove out those imaginations. Besides, I now considered -myself as bound, by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated -me with so much expense and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I -could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive -mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of -my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so -prodigious a creature, as I must appear to them. - -[Illustration: "PRODUCING HIS CREDENTIALS." P. 14.] - -After some time, when they observed that I made no more demands for -meat, there appeared before me a person of high rank from his imperial -majesty. His excellency, having mounted on the small of my right leg, -advanced forwards up to my face, with about a dozen of his retinue: and, -producing his credentials under the signet-royal,[10] which he applied -close to my eyes, spoke about ten minutes, without any signs of anger, -but with a kind of determinate resolution, often pointing forwards, -which, as I afterwards found, was towards the capital city, about half a -mile distant, whither it was agreed by his majesty in council that I -must be conveyed. I answered in few words, but to no purpose, and made a -sign with my hand that was loose, putting it to the other (but over his -excellency's head, for fear of hurting him or his train) and then to my -own head and body, to signify that I desired my liberty. - -It appeared that he understood me well enough, for he shook his head by -way of disapprobation, and held his hand in a posture to show that I -must be carried as a prisoner. However, he made other signs, to let me -understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good -treatment. Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my -bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their arrows upon my face and -hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking -in them, and observing, likewise, that the number of my enemies -increased, I gave tokens to let them know, that they might do with me -what they pleased. Upon this the _hurgo_ and his train withdrew, with -much civility, and cheerful countenances. - -Soon after, I heard a general shout, with frequent repetitions of the -words, _Peplom selan_, and I felt great numbers of people on my left -side, relaxing the cords to such a degree, that I was able to turn upon -my right, and to get a little ease. But, before this, they had daubed my -face and both my hands with a sort of ointment very pleasant to the -smell, which, in a few minutes, removed all the smart of their arrows. -These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their -victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. I -slept about eight hours, as I was afterwards assured; and it was no -wonder, for the physicians, by the emperor's order, had mingled a sleepy -potion in the hogsheads of wine. - -It seems that, upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the -ground after my landing, the emperor had early notice of it, by an -express; and determined in council, that I should be tied in the manner -I have related (which was done in the night, while I slept), that plenty -of meat and drink should be sent to me, and a machine prepared to carry -me to the capital city. - -This resolution, perhaps, may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am -confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe, on the like -occasion. However, in my opinion, it was extremely prudent, as well as -generous; for, supposing these people had endeavored to kill me with -their spears and arrows, while I was asleep, I should certainly have -awaked with the first sense of smart, which might so far have roused my -rage and strength, as to have enabled me to break the strings wherewith -I was tied; after which, as they were not able to make resistance, so -they could expect no mercy. - -These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great -perfection in mechanics, by the countenance and encouragement of the -emperor, who is a renowned patron of learning. The prince hath several -machines fixed on wheels for the carriage of trees, and other great -weights. He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine -feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on -these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea. Five hundred -carpenters and engineers were immediately set to work, to prepare the -greatest engine they had. It was a frame of wood, raised three inches -from the ground, about seven feet long and four wide, moving upon -twenty-two wheels. The shout I heard was upon the arrival of this -engine, which, it seems, set out in four hours after my landing. It was -brought parallel to me, as I lay. But the principal difficulty was, to -raise and place me in this vehicle. - -Eighty poles, each of one foot high, were erected for this purpose, and -very strong cords, of the bigness of packthread, were fastened by hooks -to many bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck, my hands, my -body, and my legs. Nine hundred of the strongest men were employed to -draw up these cords by many pulleys fastened on the poles; and thus, in -less than three hours, I was raised and slung into the engine, and tied -fast. - -[Illustration] - -All this I was told; for, while the whole operation was performing, I -lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine -infused into my liquor. Fifteen hundred of the emperor's largest horses, -each about four inches and a half high, were employed to draw me -towards the metropolis, which, as I said, was half a mile distant. - -About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked, by a very -ridiculous accident; for, the carriage being stopt a while, to adjust -something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had -the curiosity to see how I looked, when I was asleep. They climbed up -into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an -officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike[11] a good way -up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me -sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off, unperceived, and it was -three weeks before I knew the cause of my awaking so suddenly. - -We made a long march the remaining part of the day, and rested at night -with five hundred guards on each side of me, half with torches, and half -with bows and arrows, ready to shoot me, if I should offer to stir. The -next morning, at sunrise, we continued our march, and arrived within two -hundred yards of the city gates about noon. The emperor, and all his -court, came out to meet us; but his great officers would by no means -suffer his majesty to endanger his person, by mounting on my body. - -At the place where the carriage stopt, there stood an ancient temple, -esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom, which, having been -polluted some years before by an unnatural murder, was, according to the -zeal of those people, looked upon as profane, and therefore had been -applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furniture carried -away. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The great gate, -fronting to the north, was about four feet high, and almost two feet -wide, through which I could easily creep. On each side of the gate was a -small window, not above six inches from the ground; into that on the -left side the king's smith conveyed four score and eleven chains, like -those that hang to a lady's watch in Europe, and almost as large, which -were locked to my left leg with six-and-thirty padlocks. - -[Illustration] - -Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway, at -twenty feet distance, there was a turret at least five feet high. Here -the emperor ascended, with many principal lords of his court, to have an -opportunity of viewing me, as I was told, for I could not see them. It -was reckoned that above an hundred thousand inhabitants came out of the -town upon the same errand; and, in spite of my guards, I believe there -could not be fewer than ten thousand, at several times, who mounted my -body, by the help of ladders. But a proclamation was soon issued, to -forbid it, upon pain of death. - -When the workmen found it was impossible for me to break loose, they cut -all the strings that bound me; whereupon I rose up, with as melancholy a -disposition as ever I had in my life. But the noise and astonishment of -the people, at seeing me rise and walk, are not to be expressed. The -chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not -only the liberty of walking backwards and forwards in a semi-circle, -but, being fixed within four inches of the gate, allowed me to creep in, -and lie at my full length in the temple. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - THE EMPEROR OF LILLIPUT, ATTENDED BY SEVERAL OF THE NOBILITY, COMES - TO SEE THE AUTHOR IN HIS CONFINEMENT. THE EMPEROR'S PERSON AND - HABIT DESCRIBED. LEARNED MEN APPOINTED TO TEACH THE AUTHOR THEIR - LANGUAGE. HE GAINS FAVOR BY HIS MILD DISPOSITION. HIS POCKETS ARE - SEARCHED, AND HIS SWORD AND PISTOLS TAKEN FROM HIM. - - -When I found myself on my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I -never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country around, appeared -like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally -forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. These fields were -intermingled with woods of half a stang,[12] and the tallest trees, as I -could judge, appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the town on my -left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre. - -The emperor was already descended from the tower, and advancing on -horseback towards me, which had like to have cost him dear; for the -beast, though very well trained, yet wholly unused to such a sight, -which appeared as if a mountain moved before him, reared up on his hind -feet. But that prince, who is an excellent horseman, kept his seat, till -his attendants ran in and held the bridle, while his majesty had time to -dismount. - -When he alighted, he surveyed me round with great admiration, but kept -without the length of my chain. He ordered his cooks and butlers, who -were already prepared, to give me victuals and drink, which they pushed -forward in a sort of vehicles upon wheels, till I could reach them. I -took these vehicles, and soon emptied them all; twenty of them were -filled with meat; each afforded me two or three good mouthfuls. The -empress and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many -ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs;[13] but upon the accident -that happened to the emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his -person, which I am now going to describe. He is taller, by almost the -breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to -strike an awe into the beholders. His features are strong and masculine, -with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his -countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions -graceful, and his deportment majestic. He was then past his prime, being -twenty-eight years and three-quarters old, of which he had reigned about -seven in great felicity, and generally victorious. For the better -convenience of beholding him, I lay on my side, so that my face was -parallel to his, and he stood but three yards off. However, I have had -him since many times in my hand, and therefore cannot be deceived in the -description. - -[Illustration] - -His dress was very plain and simple, and the fashion of it between the -Asiatic and the European; but he had on his head a light helmet of gold, -adorned with jewels, and a plume an the crest.[14] He held his sword -drawn in his hand, to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; -it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold, -enriched with diamonds. His voice was shrill, but very clear and -articulate, and I could distinctly hear it, when I stood up. - -The ladies and courtiers were all most magnificently clad; so that the -spot they stood upon seemed to resemble a petticoat spread on the -ground, embroidered with figures of gold and silver. His imperial -majesty spoke often to me, and I returned answers, but neither of us -could understand a syllable. There were several of his priests and -lawyers present (as I conjectured by their habits), who were commanded -to address themselves to me; and I spoke to them in as many languages as -I had the least smattering of, which were, High and Low Dutch, Latin, -French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca;[15] but all to no purpose. - -After about two hours the court retired, and I was left with a strong -guard, to prevent the impertinence, and probably the malice of the -rabble, who were very impatient to crowd about me as near as they durst; -and some of them had the impudence to shoot their arrows at me, as I sat -on the ground by the door of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed -my left eye. But the colonel ordered six of the ring-leaders to be -seized, and thought no punishment so proper as to deliver them bound -into my hands; which some of his soldiers accordingly did, pushing them -forwards with the butt-ends of their pikes into my reach. I took them -all on my right hand, put five of them into my coat-pocket; and as to -the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive. The poor -man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much -pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife; but I soon put -them out of fear, for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the -strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he -ran. I treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one by one out -of my pocket; and I observed both the soldiers and people were highly -delighted at this mark of my clemency, which was represented very much -to my advantage at court. - -[Illustration] - -Towards night, I got with some difficulty into my house, where I lay on -the ground, and continued to do so about a fortnight, during which time -the emperor gave orders to have a bed prepared for me. Six hundred beds, -of the common measure, were brought in carriages and worked up in my -house; an hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the -breadth and length; and these were four double, which, however, kept me -but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, which was of -smooth stone. By the same computation, they provided me with sheets, -blankets, and coverlets, which were tolerable enough for one who had -been so long inured to hardships as I. - -As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought -prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that -the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and -household affairs must have ensued, if his imperial majesty had not -provided, by several proclamations and orders of state, against this -inconvenience. He directed that those who had already beheld me should -return home, and not presume to come within fifty yards of my house -without license from court; whereby the secretaries of state got -considerable fees. - -In the meantime, the emperor held frequent councils, to debate what -course should be taken with me; and I was afterwards assured by a -particular friend, a person of great quality, who was as much in the -secret as any, that the court was under many difficulties concerning me. -They apprehended my breaking loose; that my diet would be very -expensive, and might cause a famine. Sometimes they determined to starve -me, or at least to shoot me in the face and hands with poisoned arrows, -which would soon despatch me: but again they considered that the stench -of so large a carcase might produce a plague in the metropolis, and -probably spread through the whole kingdom. - -In the midst of these consultations, several officers of the army went -to the door of the great council-chamber, and two of them being -admitted, gave an account of my behavior to the six criminals -above-mentioned, which made so favorable an impression in the breast of -his majesty, and the whole board, in my behalf, that an imperial -commission was issued out, obliging all the villages nine hundred yards -round the city to deliver in, every morning, six beeves, forty sheep, -and other victuals, for my sustenance; together with a proportionable -quantity of bread and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of -which his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury. For this prince -lives chiefly upon his own demesnes, seldom, except upon great -occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to -attend him in his wars at their own expense. An establishment was also -made of six hundred persons, to be my domestics, who had board-wages -allowed for their maintenance, and tents built for them very -conveniently on each side of my door. - -It was likewise ordered that three hundred tailors should make me a suit -of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's -greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; -and lastly, that the emperor's horses, and those of the nobility and -troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to -accustom themselves to me. - -All these orders were duly put in execution, and in about three weeks I -made a great progress in learning their language; during which time the -emperor frequently honored me with his visits, and was pleased to assist -my masters in teaching me. We began already to converse together in some -sort; and the first words I learnt were to express my desire that he -would please give me my liberty, which I every day repeated on my -knees. His answer, as I could apprehend it, was, that this must be a -work of time, not to be thought on without the advice of his council, -and that first I must _lumos kelmin pesso desmar lon emposo_; that is, -swear a peace with him and his kingdom. However, that I should be used -with all kindness; and he advised me to acquire, by my patience and -discreet behavior, the good opinion of himself and his subjects. - -He desired I would not take it ill, if he gave orders to certain proper -officers to search me; for probably I might carry about me several -weapons which must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk -of so prodigious a person. I said his majesty should be satisfied, for I -was ready to strip myself and turn up my pockets before him. This I -delivered, part in words, and part in signs. - -He replied, that by the laws of the kingdom, I must be searched by two -of his officers; that he knew this could not be done without my consent -and assistance; that he had so good an opinion of my generosity and -justice, as to trust their persons in my hands; that whatever they took -from me should be returned when I left the country, or paid for at the -rate which I should set upon them. I took up the two officers in my -hands, put them first into my coat-pockets, and then into every other -pocket about me, except my two fobs and another secret pocket, which I -had no mind should be searched, wherein I had some little necessaries -that were of no consequence to any but myself. In one of my fobs there -was a silver watch, and in the other a small quantity of gold in a -purse. - -[Illustration: "THESE GENTLEMEN MADE AN EXACT INVENTORY OF EVERYTHING -THEY SAW" P. 30.] - -These gentlemen having pen, ink, and paper about them, made an exact -inventory of everything they saw; and, when they had done, desired I -would set them down, that they might deliver it to the emperor. This -inventory I afterwards translated into English, and is word for word as -follows:-- - -_Imprimis_,[16] In the right coat-pocket of the great man-mountain (for -so I interpret the words _quinbus flestrin_), after the strictest -search, we found only one great piece of coarse cloth, large enough to -be a foot-cloth for your majesty's chief room of state. In the left -pocket, we saw a huge silver chest, with a cover of the same metal, -which we the searchers were not able to lift. We desired it should be -opened, and one of us stepping into it, found himself up to the mid-leg -in a sort of dust, some part whereof flying up to our faces, set us both -a sneezing for several times together. In his right waistcoat pocket we -found a prodigious number of white thin substances folded one over -another, about the bigness of three men, tied with a strong cable, and -marked with black figures; which we humbly conceive to be writings, -every letter almost half as large as the palm of our hands. In the left, -there was a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty -long poles, resembling the palisadoes before your majesty's court; -wherewith we conjecture the man-mountain combs his head, for we did not -always trouble him with questions, because we found it a great -difficulty to make him understand us. In the large pocket on the right -side of his middle cover (so I translate the word _ranfu-lo_, by which -they meant my breeches), we saw a hollow pillar of iron, about the -length of a man, fastened to a strong piece of timber, larger than the -pillar; and upon one side of the pillar were huge pieces of iron -sticking out, cut into strange figures, which we know not what to make -of. In the left pocket, another engine of the same kind. In the smaller -pocket on the right side were several round flat pieces of white and red -metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to be silver, -were so large and so heavy, that my comrade and I could hardly lift -them. In the left pocket, were two black pillars irregularly shaped; we -could not without difficulty reach the top of them, as we stood at the -bottom of his pocket. One of them was covered, and seemed all of a -piece; but at the upper end of the other, there appeared a white and -round substance, about twice the bigness of our heads. Within each of -these was enclosed a prodigious plate of steel, which, by our orders, we -obliged him to show us, because we apprehended they might be dangerous -engines. He took them out of their cases, and told us that in his own -country his practice was to shave his beard with one of these, and to -cut his meat with the other. There were two pockets which we could not -enter: these he called his fobs. Out of the right fob hung a great -silver chain, with a wonderful kind of engine at the bottom. We directed -him to draw out whatever was at the end of that chain, which appeared to -be a globe, half silver, and half of some transparent metal; for on the -transparent side we saw certain strange figures, circularly drawn, and -thought we could touch them till we found our fingers stopped by that -lucid substance.[17] He put this engine to our ears, which made an -incessant noise, like that of a water-mill; and we conjecture it is -either some unknown animal, or the god that he worships; but we are more -inclined to the latter opinion, because he assured us (if we understood -him right, for he expressed himself very imperfectly), that he seldom -did anything without consulting it. He called it his oracle, and said it -pointed out the time for every action of his life. From the left fob he -took out a net almost large enough for a fisherman, but contrived to -open and shut like a purse, and served him for the same use; we found -therein several massy pieces of yellow metal, which, if they be real -gold, must be of immense value. - -Having thus, in obedience to your majesty's commands, diligently -searched all his pockets, we observed a girdle about his waist, made of -the hide of some prodigious animal, from which, on the left side, hung a -sword of the length of five men; and on the right, a bag or pouch, -divided into two cells, each cell capable of holding three of your -majesty's subjects. In one of these cells were several globes, or balls, -of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and required -a strong hand to lift them; the other cell contained a heap of certain -black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold about -fifty of them in the palms of our hands. - -This is an exact inventory of what we found about the body of the -man-mountain, who used us with great civility and due respect to your -majesty's commission. Signed and sealed, on the fourth day of the -eighty-ninth moon of your majesty's auspicious reign. - - CLEFRIN FRELOC. - MARSI FRELOC. - -When this inventory was read over to the emperor, he directed me, -although in very gentle terms, to deliver up the several particulars. - -He first called for my scimitar, which I took out, scabbard and all. In -the meantime, he ordered three thousand of his choicest troops (who then -attended him) to surround me at a distance, with their bows and arrows -just ready to discharge; but I did not observe it, for mine eyes were -wholly fixed upon his majesty. He then desired me to draw my scimitar, -which, although it had got some rust by the sea-water, was in most parts -exceedingly bright. I did so, and immediately all the troops gave a -shout between terror and surprise; for the sun shone clear, and the -reflection dazzled their eyes, as I waved the scimitar to and fro in my -hand. His majesty, who is a most magnanimous prince, was less daunted -than I could expect; he ordered me to return it into the scabbard, and -cast it on the ground as gently as I could, about six feet from the end -of my chain. - -The next thing he demanded was one of the hollow iron pillars, by which -he meant my pocket-pistols. I drew it out, and at his desire, as well as -I could, expressed to him the use of it; and charging it only with -powder, which, by the closeness of my pouch, happened to escape wetting -in the sea (an inconvenience against which all prudent mariners take -special care to provide), I first cautioned the emperor not to be -afraid, and then let it off in the air. - -The astonishment here was much greater than at the sight of my scimitar. -Hundreds fell down as if they had been struck dead; and even the -emperor, although he stood his ground, could not recover himself in some -time I delivered up both my pistols, in the same manner as I had done -my scimitar, and then my pouch of powder and bullets, begging him that -the former might be kept from fire, for it would kindle with the -smallest spark, and blow up his imperial palace into the air. - -[Illustration] - -I likewise delivered up my watch, which the emperor was very curious to -see, and commanded two of his tallest yeomen of the guards[18] to bear -it on a pole upon their shoulders, as draymen in England do a barrel of -ale. He was amazed at the continual noise it made and the motion of the -minute-hand, which he could easily discern; for their sight is much more -acute than ours. He asked the opinions of his learned men about it, -which were various and remote, as the reader may well imagine without my -repeating; although, indeed, I could not very perfectly understand them. - -I then gave up my silver and copper money, my purse, with nine large -pieces of gold, and some smaller ones; my knife and razor, my comb and -silver snuffbox, my handkerchief and journal-book. My scimitar, pistols, -and pouch were conveyed in carriages to his majesty's stores; but the -rest of my goods were returned to me. - -I had, as I before observed, one private pocket, which escaped their -search, wherein there was a pair of spectacles (which I sometimes use -for the weakness of mine eyes), a pocket perspective,[19] and some other -little conveniences; which, being of no consequence to the emperor, I -did not think myself bound in honor to discover; and I apprehended they -might be lost or spoiled if I ventured them out of my possession. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER III. - - THE AUTHOR DIVERTS THE EMPEROR AND HIS NOBILITY OF BOTH SEXES IN A - VERY UNCOMMON MANNER. THE DIVERSIONS OF THE COURT OF LILLIPUT - DESCRIBED. THE AUTHOR HAS HIS LIBERTY GRANTED HIM UPON CERTAIN - CONDITIONS. - - -My gentleness and good behavior had gained so far on the emperor and his -court, and indeed upon the army and people in general, that I began to -conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time, I took all -possible methods to cultivate this favorable disposition. The natives -came by degrees to be less apprehensive of any danger from me. I would -sometimes lie down, and let five or six of them dance on my hand, and at -last the boys and girls would venture to come and play at hide and seek -in my hair. I had now made a good progress in understanding and speaking -their language. - -The emperor had a mind, one day, to entertain me with one of the country -shows, wherein they exceed all nations I have known, both for dexterity -and magnificence. I was diverted with none so much as that of the -rope-dancers, performed upon a slender white thread, extended about two -feet, and twelve inches from the ground. Upon which I shall desire -liberty, with the reader's patience, to enlarge a little. - -[Illustration] - -This diversion is only practised by those persons who are candidates for -great employments and high favor at court. They are trained in this art -from their youth, and are not always of noble birth or liberal -education. When a great office is vacant, either by death or disgrace -(which often happens) five or six of those candidates petition the -emperor to entertain his majesty, and the court, with a dance on the -rope, and whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds in the -office. Very often the chief ministers themselves are commanded to show -their skill, and to convince the emperor that they have not lost their -faculty. Flimnap, the treasurer, is allowed to cut a caper on the -straight rope, at least an inch higher than any lord in the whole -empire. I have seen him do the summersault several times together upon a -trencher,[20] fixed on a rope, which is no thicker than a common -packthread in England. My friend Reldresal, principal secretary for -private affairs, is, in my opinion, if I am not partial, the second -after the treasurer; the rest of the great officers are much upon a par. - -These diversions are often attended with fatal accidents, whereof great -numbers are on record. I myself have seen two or three candidates break -a limb. But the danger is much greater when the ministers themselves are -commanded to show their dexterity! for, by contending to excel -themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly -one of them who hath not received a fall, and some of them two or three. -I was assured that a year or two before my arrival, Flimnap would have -infallibly broke his neck if one of the king's cushions, that -accidentally lay on the ground, had not weakened the force of his fall. - -There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the -emperor and empress and first minister, upon particular occasions. The -emperor lays on the table three fine silken threads, of six inches long; -one is purple, the other yellow, and the third white. These threads are -proposed as prizes for those persons whom the emperor hath a mind to -distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favor. The ceremony is performed -in his majesty's great chamber of state, where the candidates are to -undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former, and such as -I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the -old or new world. - -The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the -horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over -the stick, sometimes creep under it, backwards and forwards several -times, according as the stick is advanced or depressed. Sometimes the -emperor holds one end of the stick, and his first minister the other: -sometimes the minister has it entirely to himself. Whoever performs his -part with most agility, and holds out the longest in leaping and -creeping, is rewarded with the blue-colored silk; the yellow is given to -the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear girt twice -about the middle; and you see few great persons round about this court -who are not adorned with one of these girdles. - -The horses of the army, and those of the royal stables, having been -daily led before me, were no longer shy, but would come up to my very -feet without starting. The riders would leap them over my hand as I held -it on the ground; and one of the emperor's huntsmen, upon a large -courser, took my foot, shoe and all, which was indeed a prodigious leap. - -I had the good fortune to divert the emperor one day after a very -extraordinary manner. I desired he would order several sticks of two -feet high, and the thickness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me; -whereupon his majesty commanded the master of his woods to give -directions accordingly; and the next morning six wood-men arrived with -as many carriages, drawn by eight horses to each. - -I took nine of these sticks, and fixing them firmly in the ground in a -quadrangular figure, two feet and a half square, I took four other -sticks and tied them parallel at each corner, about two feet from the -ground; then I fastened my handkerchief to the nine sticks that stood -erect, and extended it on all sides, till it was as tight as the top of -a drum; and the four parallel sticks, rising about five inches higher -than the handkerchief, served as ledges on each side. - -When I had finished my work, I desired the emperor to let a troop of his -best horse, twenty-four in number, come and exercise upon this plain. -His majesty approved of the proposal, and I took them up one by one in -my hands, ready mounted and armed, with the proper officers to exercise -them. As soon as they got into order, they divided into two parties, -performed mock skirmishes, discharged blunt arrows, drew their swords, -fled and pursued, attacked and retired, and, in short, discovered the -best military discipline I ever beheld. The parallel sticks secured them -and their horses from falling over the stage: and the emperor was so -much delighted that he ordered this entertainment to be repeated several -days, and once was pleased to be lifted up and give the word of command; -and, with great difficulty, persuaded even the empress herself to let me -hold her in her close chair within two yards of the stage, from whence -she was able to take a full view of the whole performance. - -It was my good fortune that no ill accident happened in these -entertainments; only once a fiery horse, that belonged to one of the -captains, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and -his foot slipping, he overthrew his rider and himself; but I immediately -relieved them both, and covering the hole with one hand, I set down the -troop with the other, in the same manner as I took them up. The horse -that fell was strained in the left shoulder, but the rider got no hurt, -and I repaired my handkerchief as well as I could; however, I would not -trust to the strength of it any more in such dangerous enterprises. - -About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was -entertaining the court with feats of this kind, there arrived an express -to inform his majesty that some of his subjects riding near the place -where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on -the ground, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round as wide as his -majesty's bed-chamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; -that it was no living creature, as they had at first apprehended, for it -lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it -several times; that, by mounting upon each other's shoulders, they had -got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they -found it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might be -something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, -they would undertake to bring it with only five horses. - -[Illustration] - -I presently knew what they meant, and was glad at heart to receive this -intelligence. It seems, upon my first reaching the shore after our -shipwreck, I was in such confusion that, before I came to the place -where I went to sleep, my hat, which I had fastened with a string to my -head while I was rowing, and had stuck on all the time I was swimming, -fell off after I came to land; the string, as I conjecture, breaking by -some accident which I never observed, but thought my hat had been lost -at sea. I intreated his imperial majesty to give orders it might be -brought to me as soon as possible, describing to him the use and nature -of it; and the next day the wagoners arrived with it, but not in a very -good condition; they had bored two holes in the brim, within an inch and -a half of the edge, and fastened two hooks in the holes; these hooks -were tied by a long cord to the harness; and thus my hat was dragged -along for above half an English mile; but the ground in that country -being extremely smooth and level, it received less damage than I -expected. - -Two days after this adventure, the emperor, having ordered that part of -the army which quarters in and about his metropolis to be in readiness, -took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired -I would stand like a colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I -conveniently could. He then commanded his general (who was an old, -experienced leader and a great patron of mine) to draw up the troops in -close order and march under me; the foot by twenty-four abreast and the -horse by sixteen, with drums beating, colors flying, and pikes advanced. -This body consisted of three thousand foot and a thousand horse. - -I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my liberty, that his -majesty at length mentioned the matter, first in the cabinet, and then -in full council; where it was opposed by none, except Skyrris Bolgolam -who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy. But it -was carried against him by the whole board, and confirmed by the -emperor. That minister was _galbet_, or admiral of the realm, very much -in his master's confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of -a morose and sour complexion. However, he was at length persuaded to -comply; but prevailed, that the articles and conditions upon which I -should be set free, and to which I must swear, should be drawn up by -himself. - -These articles were brought to me by Skyrris Bolgolam in person, -attended by two under-secretaries, and several persons of distinction. -After they were read, I was demanded to swear to the performance of -them, first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the -method prescribed by their laws; which was, to hold my right foot in my -left hand, and to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown -of my head, and my thumb on the tip of my right ear. - -But because the reader may be curious to have some idea of the style and -manner of expression peculiar to that people, as well as to know the -articles upon which I recovered my liberty, I have made a translation of -the whole instrument, word for word, as near as I was able, which I here -offer to the public. - -_Golbasto Momaren Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue_, Most Mighty -Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions -extend five thousand _blustrugs_ (about twelve miles in circumference) to -the extremities of the globe; monarch of all monarchs, taller than the -sons of men; whose feet press down to the centre, and whose head strikes -against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their -knees; pleasant as the spring, comfortable as the summer, fruitful as -autumn, dreadful as winter. His most sublime majesty proposeth to the -man-mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following -articles, which by a solemn oath he shall be obliged to perform. - -First. The man-mountain shall not depart from our dominions without our -license under our great seal. - -Second. He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our -express order, at which time the inhabitants shall have two hours -warning to keep within doors. - -Third. The said man-mountain shall confine his walks to our principal -high roads, and not offer to walk or lie down in a meadow or field of -corn.[21] - -Fourth. As he walks the said roads, he shall take the utmost care not to -trample upon the bodies of any of our loving subjects, their horses or -carriages, nor take any of our subjects into his hands without their own -consent. - -Fifth. If an express requires extraordinary despatch, the man-mountain -shall be obliged to carry in his pocket the messenger and horse a -six-days' journey once in every moon, and return the said messenger back -(if so required) safe to our imperial presence. - -Sixth. He shall be our ally against our enemies in the island of -Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now -preparing to invade us. - -Seventh. That the said man-mountain shall at his times of leisure be -aiding and assisting to our workmen, in helping to raise certain great -stones, towards covering the wall of the principal park, and other our -royal buildings. - -Eighth. That the said man-mountain shall, in two moons time, deliver in -an exact survey of the circumference of our dominions, by a computation -of his own paces round the coast. - -Lastly. That upon his solemn oath to observe all the above articles, the -said man-mountain shall have a daily allowance of meat and drink -sufficient for the support of 1724 of our subjects, with free access to -our royal person, and other marks of our favor. Given at our palace at -Belfaborac, the twelfth day of the ninety-first moon of our reign. - -I swore and subscribed to the articles with great cheerfulness and -content, although some of them were not so honorable as I could have -wished; which proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyrris Bolgolam, the -high admiral; whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was -at full liberty. The emperor himself in person did me the honor to be by -at the whole ceremony. I made my acknowledgments, by prostrating myself -at his majesty's feet: but he commanded me to rise; and after many -gracious expressions, which, to avoid the censure of vanity, I shall not -repeat, he added, that he hoped I should prove a useful servant, and -well deserve all the favors he had already conferred upon me, or might -do for the future. - -The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article for the -recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of -meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians. Some -time after, asking a friend at court, how they came to fix on that -determinate number, he told me, that his majesty's mathematicians having -taken the height of my body by the help of a quadrant,[22] and finding -it to exceed theirs in the proportion of twelve to one, they concluded, -from the similarity of their bodies, that mine must contain at least -1724 of theirs, and consequently would require as much food as was -necessary to support that number of Lilliputians. By which the reader -may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the -prudent and exact economy of so great a prince. - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - - MILENDO, THE METROPOLIS OF LILLIPUT, DESCRIBED TOGETHER WITH THE - EMPEROR'S PALACE. A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE AUTHOR AND A PRINCIPAL - SECRETARY, CONCERNING THE AFFAIRS OF THAT EMPIRE. THE AUTHOR OFFERS - TO SERVE THE EMPEROR IN HIS WARS. - - -The first request I made, after I had obtained my liberty, was, that I -might have license to see Milendo, the metropolis; which the emperor -easily granted me, but with a special charge to do no hurt, either to -the inhabitants or their houses. The people had notice, by proclamation, -of my design to visit the town. - -The wall, which encompassed it, is two feet and a half high, and at -least eleven inches broad, so that a coach and horses may be driven very -safely round it; and it is flanked with strong towers at ten feet -distance. I stept over the great western gate, and passed very gently, -and sideling, through the two principal streets, only in my short -waistcoat, for fear of damaging the roofs and eaves of the houses with -the skirts[23] of my coat. I walked with the utmost circumspection, to -avoid treading on any stragglers who might remain in the streets; -although the orders were very strict, that all people should keep in -their houses at their own peril. The garret-windows and tops of houses -were so crowded with spectators, that I thought in all my travels I had -not seen a more populous place. - -The city is an exact square, each side of the wall being five hundred -feet long. The two great streets, which run across and divide it into -four quarters, are five feet wide. The lanes and alleys, which I could -not enter, but only viewed them as I passed, are from twelve to eighteen -inches. The town is capable of holding five hundred thousand souls; the -houses are from three to five stories; the shops and markets well -provided. - -The emperor's palace is in the centre of the city, where the two great -streets meet. It is enclosed by a wall of two foot high, and twenty foot -distant from the buildings. I had his majesty's permission to step over -this wall; and the space being so wide between that and the palace, I -could easily view it on every side. - -The outward court is a square of forty feet, and includes two other -courts; in the inmost are the royal apartments, which I was very -desirous to see, but found it extremely difficult; for the great gates -from one square into another were but eighteen inches high, and seven -inches wide. Now the buildings of the outer court were at least five -feet high, and it was impossible for me to stride over them without -infinite damage to the pile, though the walls were strongly built of -hewn stone, and four inches thick. - -At the same time, the emperor had a great desire that I should see the -magnificence of his palace; but this I was not able to do till three -days after, which I spent in cutting down, with my knife, some of the -largest trees in the royal park, about an hundred yards distance from -the city. Of these trees I made two stools, each about three feet high, -and strong enough to bear my weight. - -[Illustration: "HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY WAS PLEASED TO SMILE VERY GRACIOUSLY -UPON ME" P. 50.] - -The people having received notice a second time, I went again through -the city to the palace, with my two stools in my hands. When I came to -the side of the outer court, I stood upon one stool, and took the other -in my hand; this I lifted over the roof, and gently set it down on the -space between the first and second court, which was eight feet wide. I -then stept over the building very conveniently, from one stool to the -other, and drew up the first after me with a hooked stick. By this -contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I -applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left -open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be -imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several -lodgings, with their chief attendants about them. Her imperial majesty -was pleased to smile very graciously upon me, and gave me out of the -window her hand to kiss. - -But I shall not anticipate the reader with farther descriptions of this -kind, because I reserve them for a greater work, which is now almost -ready for the press, containing a general description of this empire, -from its first erection, through a long series of princes, with a -particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and -religion, their plants and animals, their peculiar manners and customs, -with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design, at present, -being only to relate such events and transactions as happened to the -public, or to myself, during a residence of about nine months in that -empire. - -One morning, about a fortnight after I had obtained my liberty, -Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for private affairs, -came to my house, attended only by one servant. He ordered his coach to -wait at a distance, and desired I would give him an hour's audience; -which I readily consented to, on account of his quality and personal -merits, as well as of the many good offices he had done me during my -solicitations at court. I offered to lie down, that he might the more -conveniently reach my ear; but he chose rather to let me hold him in my -hand during our conversation. - -He began with compliments on my liberty; said he might pretend to some -merit in it. But however, added, that if it had not been for the present -situation of things at court, perhaps I might not have obtained it so -soon. For, said he, as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in -to foreigners, we labor under two mighty evils: a violent faction at -home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from -abroad. As to the first, you are to understand, that, for above seventy -moons past, there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under -the names of _Tramecksan_ and _Slamecksan_, from the high and low heels -of their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves. It is alleged, -indeed, that the high heels are most agreeable to our ancient -constitution; but, however this may be, his majesty hath determined to -make use only of low heels in the administration of the government, and -all offices in the gift of the crown, as you cannot but observe: and -particularly, that his majesty's imperial heels are lower, at least by a -_drurr_, than any of his court (_drurr_ is a measure about the -fourteenth part of an inch). The animosities between these two parties -run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink nor talk with each -other. We compute the _Tramecksan_, or high heels, to exceed us in -number; but the power is wholly on our side. We apprehend his imperial -highness, the heir to the crown, to have some tendency towards the high -heels; at least, we can plainly discover that one of his heels is higher -than the other, which gives him a hobble in his gait. Now, in the midst -of these intestine disquiets, we are threatened with an invasion from -the island of Blefuscu, which is the other great empire of the universe, -almost as large and powerful as this of his majesty. For, as to what we -have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the -world, inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our -philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather conjecture that you -dropped from the moon or one of the stars, because it is certain, that -an hundred mortals of your bulk would, in a short time, destroy all the -fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions. Besides, our histories of -six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two -great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu. Which two mighty powers have, as -I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for -six-and-thirty moons past. It began upon the following occasion: It is -allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, before we -eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's -grandfather, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it -according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers. -Whereupon the emperor, his father, published an edict, commanding all -his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their -eggs. The people so highly resented this law, that our histories tell -us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account, wherein one -emperor lost his life, and another his crown. These civil commotions -were constantly fomented by the monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they -were quelled, the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is -computed, that eleven thousand persons have, at several times, suffered -death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many -hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy, but the -books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party -rendered incapable, by law, of holding employments. During the course of -these troubles, the Emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate, by -their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by -offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, -in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their -Alcoran)[24] This, however, is thought to be a mere strain upon the -text; for the words are these: That all true believers break their eggs -at the convenient end. And which is the convenient end, seems, in my -humble opinion, to be left to every man's conscience, or, at least, in -the power of the chief magistrate to determine. Now, the Big-endian -exiles have found so much credit in the emperor of Blefuscu's court, and -so much private assistance and encouragement from their party here at -home, that a bloody war hath been carried on between the two empires for -six-and-thirty moons, with various success; during which time we have -lost forty capital ships, and a much greater number of smaller vessels, -together with thirty thousand of our best seamen and soldiers; and the -damage received by the enemy is reckoned to be somewhat greater than -ours. However, they have now equipped a numerous fleet, and are just -preparing to make a descent upon us; and his imperial majesty, placing -great confidence in your valor and strength, hath commanded me to lay -this account of his affairs before you. - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - -I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor, and to -let him know that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, -to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, -to defend his person and state against all invaders. - - - - -CHAPTER V. - - THE AUTHOR, BY AN EXTRAORDINARY STRATAGEM, PREVENTS AN INVASION. A - HIGH TITLE OF HONOR IS CONFERRED UPON HIM. AMBASSADORS ARRIVE FROM - THE EMPEROR OF BLEFUSCU, AND SUE FOR PEACE. THE EMPRESS'S APARTMENT - ON FIRE, BY ACCIDENT; THE AUTHOR INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING THE REST OF - THE PALACE. - - -The empire of Blefuscu is an island, situate to the north northeast of -Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a channel of eight hundred -yards wide. I had not yet seen it; and upon this notice of an intended -invasion, I avoided appearing on that side of the coast, for fear of -being discovered by some of the enemy's ships, who had received no -intelligence of me, all intercourse between the two empires having been -strictly forbidden during the war, upon the pain of death, and an -embargo[25] laid by our emperor upon all vessels whatsoever. - -I communicated to his majesty a project I had formed, of seizing the -enemy's whole fleet; which, as our scouts assured us, lay at anchor in -the harbor, ready to sail with the first fair wind. I consulted the most -experienced seamen upon the depth of the channel, which they had often -plumbed; who told me, that in the middle, at high water, it was seventy -_glumgluffs_ deep, which is about six feet of European measure; and the -rest of it fifty _glumgluffs_ at most. I walked towards the northeast -coast, over against Blefuscu; where, lying down behind a hillock, I took -out my small perspective glass, and viewed the enemy's fleet at anchor, -consisting of about fifty men-of-war, and a great number of transports; -I then came back to my house, and gave orders (for which I had a -warrant) for a great quantity of the strongest cable and bars of iron. -The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length -and size of a knitting needle. I trebled the cable, to make it stronger; -and, for the same reason, I twisted three of the iron bars together, -bending the extremities into a hook. - -Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the -northeast coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked -into the sea in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before -high-water. I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle -about thirty yards, till I felt ground; I arrived at the fleet in less -than half an hour. The enemy were so frightened, when they saw me, that -they leaped out of their ships, and swam to shore, where there could not -be fewer than thirty thousand souls: I then took my tackling, and -fastening a hook to the hole at the prow of each, I tied all the cords -together at the end. - -While I was thus employed, the enemy discharged several thousand arrows, -many of which stuck in my hands and face; and, besides the excessive -smart, gave me much disturbance in my work. My greatest apprehension was -for mine eyes, which I should have infallibly lost, if I had not -suddenly thought of an expedient. I kept, among other little -necessaries, a pair of spectacles, in a private pocket, which, as I -observed before, had escaped the emperor's searchers. These I took out, -and fastened as strongly as I could upon my nose, and thus armed, went -on boldly with my work, in spite of the enemy's arrows, many of which -struck against the glasses of my spectacles, but without any other -effect, farther than a little to discompose them.[26] I had now fastened -all the hooks, and, taking the knot in my hand, began to pull: but not a -ship would stir, for they were all too fast held by their anchors; so -that the boldest part of my enterprise remained. I therefore let go the -cord, and, leaving the hooks fixed to the ships, I resolutely cut with -my knife the cables that fastened the anchors, receiving above two -hundred shots in my face and hands; then I took up the knotted end of -the cables, to which my hooks were tied, and, with great ease, drew -fifty of the enemy's largest men-of-war after me. - -The Blefuscudians, who had not the least imagination of what I intended, -were at first confounded with astonishment. They had seen me cut the -cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift, or -fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving -in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of -grief and despair as it is almost impossible to describe or conceive. -When I had got out of danger, I stopped awhile to pick out the arrows -that stuck in my hands and face: and rubbed on some of the same ointment -that was given me at my first arrival, as I have formerly mentioned. I -then took off my spectacles, and waiting about an hour, till the tide -was a little fallen, I waded through the middle with my cargo, and -arrived safe at the royal port of Lilliput. - -The emperor and his whole court stood on the shore, expecting the issue -of this great adventure. They saw the ships move forward in a large -half-moon, but could not discern me, who was up to my breast in water. -When I advanced to the middle of the channel, they were yet more in -pain, because I was under water to my neck. The emperor concluded me to -be drowned, and that the enemy's fleet was approaching in an hostile -manner: but he was soon eased of his fears; for the channel growing -shallower every step I made, I came in a short time within hearing; and -holding up the end of the cable, by which the fleet was fastened, I -cried in a loud voice, Long live the most puissant[27] emperor of -Lilliput! This great prince received me at my landing, with all possible -encomiums, and created me a _nardac_ upon the spot, which is the highest -title of honor among them. - -His majesty desired I would take some other opportunity of bringing all -the rest of his enemy's ships into his ports. And so immeasurable is the -ambition of princes, that he seemed to think of nothing less than -reducing the whole empire of Blefuscu into a province, and governing it -by viceroy; of destroying the Big-endian exiles, and compelling that -people to break the smaller end of their eggs, by which he would remain -the sole monarch of the whole world. But I endeavored to divert him from -this design, by many arguments, drawn from the topics of policy, as well -as justice. And I plainly protested, that I would never be an instrument -of bringing a free and brave people into slavery. And when the matter -was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were of my -opinion. - -[Illustration: "AND CREATED ME A _NARDAC_ UPON THE SPOT." P. 58.] - -This open, bold declaration of mine was so opposite to the schemes and -politics of his imperial majesty, that he could never forgive me; he -mentioned it, in a very artful manner, at council, where, I was told, -that some of the wisest appeared, at least by their silence, to be of my -opinion; but others, who were my secret enemies, could not forbear some -expressions, which by a side-wind reflected on me. And, from this time -began an intrigue between his majesty and a junto[28] of ministers -maliciously bent against me, which broke out in less than two months, -and had like to have ended in my utter destruction. Of so little weight -are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a -refusal to gratify their passions. - -About three weeks after this exploit, there arrived a solemn embassy -from Blefuscu, with humble offers of peace; which was soon concluded, -upon conditions very advantageous to our emperor, wherewith I shall not -trouble the reader. There were six ambassadors, with a train of about -five hundred persons; and their entry was very magnificent, suitable to -the grandeur of their master, and the importance of their business. When -their treaty was finished, wherein I did them several good offices, by -the credit I now had, or at least appeared to have at court, their -excellencies, who were privately told how much I had been their friend, -made me a visit in form. They began with many compliments upon my valor -and generosity, invited me to that kingdom, in the emperor their -master's name, and desired me to show some proofs of my prodigious -strength, of which they had heard so many wonders; wherein I readily -obliged them, but shall not trouble the reader with the particulars. - -[Illustration] - -When I had for some time entertained their Excellencies, to their -infinite satisfaction and surprise, I desired they would do me the honor -to present my most humble respects to the emperor their master, the -renown of whose virtues had so justly filled the whole world with -admiration, and whose royal person I resolved to attend, before I -returned to my own country. Accordingly, the next time I had the honor -to see our emperor, I desired his general license to wait on the -Blefuscudian monarch, which he was pleased to grant me, as I could -plainly perceive, in a very cold manner; but could not guess the reason, -till I had a whisper from a certain person, that Flimnap and Bolgolam -had represented my intercourse with those ambassadors as a mark of -disaffection, from which, I am sure, my heart was wholly free. And this -was the first time I began to conceive some imperfect idea of courts and -ministers. - -It is to be observed, that these ambassadors spoke to me by an -interpreter, the languages of both empires differing as much from each -other as any two in Europe, and each nation priding itself upon the -antiquity, beauty, and energy of its own tongue, with an avowed contempt -for that of its neighbor; yet our emperor, standing upon the advantage -he had got by the seizure of their fleet, obliged them to deliver their -credentials, and make their speech in the Lilliputian tongue. - -And it must be confessed, that, from the great intercourse of trade and -commerce between both realms; from the continual reception of exiles, -which is mutual among them; and from the custom in each empire, to send -their young nobility, and richer gentry, to the other, in order to -polish themselves, by seeing the world, and understanding men and -manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or, seamen, -who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both -tongues, as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to -the Emperor of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, -through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy adventure to me, -as I shall relate in its proper place. - -The reader may remember, that when I signed those articles, upon which I -recovered my liberty, there were some which I disliked, upon account of -their being too servile; neither could anything but an extreme necessity -have forced me to submit. But, being now a _nardac_ of the highest rank -in that empire, such offices were looked upon as below my dignity, and -the emperor, to do him justice, never once mentioned them to me. -However, it was not long before I had an opportunity of doing his -majesty, at least as I then thought, a most signal service. I was -alarmed at midnight with the cries of many hundred people at my door, by -which, being suddenly awaked, I was in some kind of terror. I heard the -word _burglum_ repeated incessantly. - -Several of the emperor's court, making their way through the crowd, -entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial -majesty's apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honor, -who fell asleep while she was reading a romance. I got up in an instant; -and orders being given to clear the way before me, and it being likewise -a moonshine night, I made a shift to get to the palace, without -trampling on any of the people. I found they had already applied ladders -to the walls of the apartment, and were well provided with buckets, but -the water was at some distance. These buckets were about the size of a -large thimble, and the poor people supplied me with them as fast as they -could; but the flame was so violent that they did little good. I might -easily have stifled it with my coat, which I unfortunately left behind -me for haste, and came away only in my leathern jerkin. The case seemed -wholly desperate and deplorable, and this magnificent palace would have -infallibly been burnt down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind -unusual to me, I had not suddenly thought of an expedient by which in -three minutes the fire was wholly extinguished, and the rest of that -noble pile, which had cost so many ages in erecting, preserved from -destruction. - -[Illustration] - -It was now daylight, and I returned to my house, without waiting to -congratulate with the emperor; because, although I had done a very -eminent piece of service, yet I could not tell how his majesty might -resent the manner by which I had performed it: for, by the fundamental -laws of the realm, it is capital in any man, of what quality soever, to -even touch the empress or the royal princesses without invitation. But I -was a little comforted by a message from his majesty, that he would give -orders to the grand justiciary for passing my pardon in form, which, -however, I could not obtain. And I was privately assured that the -empress, conceiving the greatest abhorrence of me, and, in the presence -of her chief confidants, could not forbear vowing revenge. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - - OF THE INHABITANTS OF LILLIPUT; THEIR LEARNING, LAWS, AND CUSTOMS; - THE MANNER OF EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN. THE AUTHOR'S WAY OF LIVING - IN THAT COUNTRY. - - -Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a -particular treatise, yet, in the meantime, I am content to gratify the -curious reader with some general ideas. As the common size of the -natives is somewhat under six inches high, so there is an exact -proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for -instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between four and five inches -in height, the sheep an inch and a half, more or less; their geese about -the bigness of a sparrow, and so the several gradations downwards, till -you come to the smallest, which, to my sight, were almost invisible; but -nature hath adapted the eyes of the Lilliputians to all objects proper -for their view; they see with great exactness, but at no great distance. -And, to show the sharpness of their sight, towards objects that are -near, I have been much pleased with observing a cook pulling[29] a lark, -which was not so large as a common fly; and a young girl threading an -invisible needle with invisible silk. - -Their tallest trees are about seven feet high; I mean some of those in -the great royal park, the tops whereof I could but just reach with my -fist clenched. The other vegetables are in the same proportion; but this -I leave to the reader's imagination. - -I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many -ages, hath flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner -of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right -like the Europeans; nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians; -nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of -the paper to the other, like ladies in England. - -They bury their dead with their heads directly downwards, because they -hold an opinion, that in eleven thousand moons they are all to rise -again, in which period the earth (which they conceive to be flat) will -turn upside down, and by this means they shall, at the resurrection, be -found ready, standing on their feet. The learned among them confess the -absurdity of this doctrine, but the practice still continues, in -compliance to the vulgar. - -There are some laws and customs in this empire very peculiar; and, if -they were not so directly contrary to those of my own dear country, I -should be tempted to say a little in their justification. It is only to -be wished they were as well executed. The first I shall mention relates -to informers. All crimes against the state are punished here with the -utmost severity; but, if the person accused maketh his innocence plainly -to appear upon his trial, the accuser is immediately put to an -ignominious death; and, out of his goods, or lands, the innocent person -is quadruply recompensed for the loss of his time, for the danger he -underwent, for the hardship of his imprisonment, and for all the charges -he hath been at in making his defence, or, it that fund be deficient, -it is largely supplied by the crown. The emperor also confers on him -some public mark of his favor, and proclamation is made of his innocence -through the whole city. - -They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom -fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, -with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from -thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning; and, since -it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying -and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and -connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always -undone, and the knave gets the advantage. I remember, when I was once -interceding with the king for a criminal, who had wronged his master of -a great sum of money, which he had received by order, and run away with, -and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was -only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me, to offer -as a defence the greatest aggravation of the crime; and, truly, I had -little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different -nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed. - -Although we usually call reward and punishment the two hinges upon which -all government turns, yet I could never observe this maxim to be put in -practice by any nation except that of Lilliput. Whoever can there bring -sufficient proof that he hath strictly observed the laws of his country -for seventy-three moons, hath a claim to certain privileges, according -to his quality and condition of life, with a proportionable sum of out -of a fund appropriated for that use; he likewise acquires the title of -_snillpall_, or _legal_, which is added to his name, but doth not -descend to his posterity. And these people thought it a prodigious -defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced -only by penalties, without any mention of reward. It is upon this -account that the image of Justice, in their courts of judicature, is -formed with six eyes, two before, as many behind, and on each side one, -to signify circumspection, with a bag of gold open in her right hand, -and a sword sheath in her left, to show she was more disposed to reward -than to punish. - -In choosing persons for all employments, they have more regard to good -morals than to great abilities; for, since government is necessary to -mankind, they believe that the common size of human understanding is -fitted to some station or other, and that Providence never intended to -make the management of public affairs a mystery, to be comprehended only -by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born -in an age; but they suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to -be in every man's power, the practice of which virtues, assisted by -experience, and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service -of his country, except where a course of study is required. But they -thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by -superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put -into such dangerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and at -least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous -disposition, would never be of such fatal consequences to the public -weal as the practices of a man whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, -and who had great abilities to manage, to multiply, and defend his -corruptions. - -In like manner, the disbelief of a Divine Providence renders a man -incapable of holding any public station; for, since kings avow -themselves to be the deputies of Providence, the Lilliputians think -nothing can be more absurd than for a prince to employ such men as -disown the authority under which he acts. - -In relating these and the following laws, I would only be understood to -mean the original institutions, and not the most scandalous corruptions -into which these people are fallen, by the degenerate nature of man. -For, as to that infamous practice of acquiring great employments by -dancing on the ropes, or badges of favor and distinction by leaping over -sticks, and creeping under them, the reader is to observe, that they -were first introduced by the grandfather of the emperor, now reigning, -and grew to the present height by the gradual increase of party and -faction. - -Ingratitude is, among them, a capital crime, as we read it to have been -in some other countries; for they reason thus, that whoever makes ill -returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of -mankind, from whom he hath received no obligation, and therefore such a -man is not fit to live. - -Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ -extremely from ours. Their opinion is, that parents are the last of all -others to be trusted with the education of their own children; and, -therefore, they have, in every town, public nurseries, where all -parents, except cottagers and laborers, are obliged to send their -infants of both sexes to be reared and educated, when they come to the -age of twenty moons, at which time they are supposed to have some -rudiments of docility. These schools are of several kinds, suited to -different qualities, and to both sexes. They have certain professors, -well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as -befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities as well as -inclinations. I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and -then of the female. - -The nurseries for males of noble or eminent birth are provided with -grave and learned professors, and their several deputies. The clothes -and food of the children are plain and simple. They are bred up in the -principles of honor, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion, and -love of their country; they are always employed in some business, except -in the times of eating and sleeping, which are very short, and two hours -for diversions, consisting of bodily exercises. They are dressed by men -till four years of age, and then are obliged to dress themselves, -although their quality be ever so great; and the women attendants, who -are aged proportionably to ours at fifty, perform only the most menial -offices. They are never suffered to converse with servants, but go -together in smaller or greater numbers to take their diversions, and -always in the presence of a professor, or one of his deputies; whereby -they avoid those early bad impressions of folly and vice, to which our -children are subject. Their parents are suffered to see them only twice -a year; the visit to last but an hour; they are allowed to kiss the -child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by on -those occasions, will not suffer them to whisper, or use any fondling -expressions, or bring any presents of toys, sweetmeats, and the like. - -The pension from each family, for the education and entertainment of a -child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor's officers. - -The nurseries for children of ordinary gentlemen, merchants, traders, -and handicrafts, are managed proportionally after the same manner; only -those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, -whereas those persons of quality continue in their exercises till -fifteen, which answers to twenty-one with us; but the confinement is -gradually lessened for the last three years. - -In the female nurseries, the young girls of quality are educated much -like the males, only they are dressed by orderly servants of their own -sex; but always in the presence of a professor or deputy, till they come -to dress themselves, which is at five years old. And if it be found that -these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or -foolish stories, or the common follies practised by the chambermaids -among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned -for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the -country. Thus, the young ladies there are as much ashamed of being -cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments beyond -decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their -education, made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of -the women were not altogether so robust, and that some rules were given -them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was -enjoined them: for their maxim is that, among people of quality, a wife -should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she -cannot always be young. When the girls are twelve years old, which -among them is the marriageable age, their parents or guardians take -them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and -seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions. - -In the nurseries of females of the meaner sort, the children are -instructed in all kinds of works proper for their sex and their several -degrees; those intended for apprentices are dismissed at seven years -old, the rest are kept to eleven. - -The meaner[30] families who have children at these nurseries are -obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to -return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their -gettings, to be a portion[31] for the child; and, therefore, all parents -are limited in their expenses by the law. For the Lilliputians think -nothing can be more unjust than for people to leave the burden of -supporting their children on the public. As to persons of quality, they -give security to appropriate a certain sum for each child, suitable to -their condition; and these funds are always managed with good husbandry -and the most exact justice. - -The cottagers and laborers keep their children at home, their business -being only to till and cultivate the earth, and therefore their -education is of little consequence to the public; but the old and -diseased among them are supported by hospitals; for begging is a trade -unknown in this empire. - -And here it may perhaps divert the curious reader to give some account -of my domestic,[32] and my manner of living in this country, during a -residence of nine months and thirteen days. Having a head for -mechanics, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself -a table and chair, convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the -royal park. Two hundred seamtresses were employed to make me shirts, -and linen for my bed and table, all of the strongest and coarsest kind -they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in -several folds, for the thickest was some degrees finer than lawn. Their -linen is usually three inches wide, and three feet make a piece. - -The seamtresses took my measure as I lay on the ground, one standing at -my neck, and another at my mid-leg, with a strong cord extended that -each held by the end, while a third measured the length of the cord with -a rule of an inch long. Then they measured my right thumb, and desired -no more; for, by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb -is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist, and by the -help of my old shirt, which I displayed on the ground before them for a -pattern, they fitted me exactly. Three hundred tailors were employed in -the same manner to make me clothes; but they had another contrivance for -taking my measure. I kneeled down, and they raised a ladder from the -ground to my neck; upon this ladder one of them mounted, and let fall a -plumb-line from my collar to the floor, which just answered the length -of my coat; but my waist and arms I measured myself. When my clothes -were finished, which was done in my house (for the largest of theirs -would not have been able to hold them), they looked like the patchwork -made by the ladies in England, only that mine were all of a color. - -[Illustration: "THREE HUNDRED TAILORS WERE EMPLOYED TO MAKE ME CLOTHES" -P. 74.] - -I had three hundred cooks to dress my victuals, in little convenient -huts built about my house, where they and their families lived, and -prepared me two dishes a-piece. I took up twenty waiters in my hand, and -placed them on the table; an hundred more attended below on the ground, -some with dishes of meat, and some with barrels of wine and other -liquors, flung on their shoulders; all of which the waiters above drew -up, as I wanted, in a very ingenious manner, by certain cords, as we -draw the bucket up a well in Europe. A dish of their meat was a good -mouthful, and a barrel of their liquor a reasonable draught. Their -mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent, I have had a sirloin -so large that I have been forced to make three bites of it; but this is -rare. My servants were astonished to see me eat it, bones and all, as in -our country we do the leg of a lark. Their geese and turkeys I usually -eat at a mouthful, and I must confess they far exceed ours. Of their -smaller fowl, I could take up twenty or thirty at the end of my knife. - -One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, -desired that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of -the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness, as he was pleased to -call it, of dining with me. They came accordingly, and I placed them in -chairs of state upon my table, just over against me, with their guards -about them. Flimnap, the lord high treasurer, attended there likewise, -with his white staff; and I observed he often looked on me with a sour -countenance, which I would not seem to regard, but eat more than usual, -in honor to my dear country, as well as to fill the court with -admiration. I have some private reasons to believe that this visit from -his majesty gave Flimnap an opportunity of doing me ill offices to his -master. That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he -outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his -nature. He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; -that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer -bills[33] would not circulate under nine per cent, below par; that I had -cost his majesty above a million and a half of _sprugs_ (their greatest -gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle); and, upon the whole, that it -would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of -dismissing me. - -[Illustration: "THE HAPPINESS ... OF DINING WITH ME." P. 76.] - -[Illustration] - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER VII. - - THE AUTHOR, BEING INFORMED OF A DESIGN TO ACCUSE HIM OF HIGH - TREASON, MAKES HIS ESCAPE TO BLEFUSCU. HIS RECEPTION THERE. - - -Before I proceed to give an account of my leaving this kingdom, it may -be proper to inform the reader of a private intrigue which had been for -two months forming against me. - -I had been hitherto all my life a stranger to courts, for which I was -unqualified by the meanness of my condition. I had indeed heard and read -enough of the dispositions of great princes and ministers, but never -expected to have found such terrible effects of them in so remote a -country, governed, as I thought, by very different maxims from those in -Europe. - -When I was just preparing to pay my attendance on the emperor of -Blefuscu, a considerable person at court (to whom I had been very -serviceable, at a time when he lay under the highest displeasure of his -imperial majesty) came to my house very privately at night, in a close -chair,[34] and without sending his name, desired admittance. The -chairmen were dismissed; I put the chair, with his lordship in it, into -my coat-pocket; and, giving orders to a trusty servant to say I was -indisposed and gone to sleep, I fastened the door of my house, placed -the chair on the table, according to my usual custom, and sat down by -it. After the common salutations were over, observing his lordship's -countenance full of concern, and inquiring into the reason, he desired I -would hear him with patience, in a matter that highly concerned my honor -and my life. His speech was to the following effect, for I took notes of -it as soon as he left me:-- - -You are to know, said he, that several committees of council have been -lately called in the most private manner on your account; and it is but -two days since his majesty came to a full resolution. - -You are very sensible that Skyrris Bolgolam (_galbet_ or high-admiral) -hath been your mortal enemy almost ever since your arrival: his original -reasons I know not; but his hatred is increased since your great success -against Blefuscu, by which his glory, as admiral, is much obscured. This -lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high treasurer, whose enmity -against you is notorious, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, -and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment -against you, for treason, and other capital crimes. - -This preface made me so impatient, being conscious of my own merits and -innocence, that I was going to interrupt; when he entreated me to be -silent, and thus proceeded. - -[Illustration: "HE DESIRED I WOULD HEAR HIM WITH PATIENCE." P. 80.] - -Out of gratitude for the favors you have done for me, I procured -information of the whole proceedings, and a copy of the articles; -wherein I venture my head for your service. - -ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN-MOUNTAIN. - -ARTICLE I. - - Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his Imperial Majesty - Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, That whoever shall lay hands - upon the empress, or upon any of the royal children, shall be - liable to the pains and penalties of high treason. Notwithstanding, - the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under - color of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his - Majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, and - traitorously, pull her by the arms, and lift her high in the air in - both his hands, against the statute in that case provided, &c., - against the duty, &c. - - ARTICLE II. - - That the said Quinbus Flestrin, having brought the imperial fleet - of Blefuscu into the royal port, and being afterwards commanded by - his imperial majesty to seize all the other ships of the said - empire of Blefuscu, and reduce that empire to a province, to be - governed by a viceroy from hence, and to destroy and put to death, - not only all the Big-endian exiles, but likewise all the people of - that empire who would not immediately forsake the Big-endian - heresy. He, the said Flestrin, like a false traitor against his - most auspicious, serene, imperial majesty, did petition to be - excused from the said service, upon pretence of unwillingness to - force the consciences or destroy the liberties and lives of an - innocent people. - - ARTICLE III. - - That, whereas certain ambassadors arrived from the court of - Blefuscu, to sue for peace in his majesty's court; he, the said - Flestrin, did, like a false traitor, aid, abet, comfort, and divert - the said ambassadors, although he knew them to be servants to a - prince who was lately an open enemy to his imperial majesty, and in - open war against his said majesty. - - ARTICLE IV. - - That the said Quinbus Flestrin, contrary to the duty of a faithful - subject, is now preparing to make a voyage to the court and empire - of Blefuscu, for which he hath received only verbal license from - his imperial majesty; and under color of the said license, doth - falsely and traitorously intend to take the said voyage, and - thereby to aid, comfort, and abet the emperor of Blefuscu, so late - an enemy, and in open war with his imperial majesty aforesaid. - -There are some other articles, but these are the most important, of -which I have read you an abstract. - -In the several debates upon this impeachment, it must be confessed that -his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often urging the -services you had done him, and endeavoring to extenuate your crimes. The -treasurer and admiral insisted that you should be put to the most -painful and ignominious death, by setting fire on your house at night; -and the general was to attend, with twenty thousand men armed with -poisoned arrows, to shoot you on the face and hands. Some of your -servants were to have private orders to strew a poisonous juice on your -shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and -die in the utmost torture. The general came into the same opinion; so -that for a long time there was a majority against you: but his majesty -resolving, if possible, to spare your life, at last brought off the -chamberlain. - -Upon this incident, Reldresal, principal secretary for private affairs, -who always approved himself your true friend, was commanded by the -emperor to deliver his opinion, which he accordingly did; and therein -justified the good thoughts you have of him. He allowed your crimes to -be great, but that still there was room for mercy, the most commendable -virtue in a prince, and for which his majesty was so justly celebrated. -He said, the friendship between you and him was so well known to the -world, that perhaps the most honorable board might think him partial; -however, in obedience to the command he had received, he would freely -offer his sentiments; that if his majesty, in consideration of your -services, and pursuant to his own merciful disposition, would please to -spare your life, and only give orders to put out both your eyes, he -humbly conceived that, by this expedient, justice might in some measure -be satisfied, and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor, -as well as the fair and generous proceedings of those who have the honor -to be his counsellors: that the loss of your eyes would be no impediment -to your bodily strength, by which you might still be useful to his -majesty: that blindness is an addition to courage, by concealing dangers -from us: that the fear you had for your eyes was the greatest difficulty -in bringing over the enemy's fleet: and it would be sufficient for you -to see by the eyes of the ministers, since the greatest princes do no -more. - -[Illustration] - -This proposal was received with the utmost disapprobation by the whole -board. Bolgolam, the admiral, could not preserve his temper, but rising -up in fury, said he wondered how the secretary durst presume to give his -opinion for preserving the life of a traitor: that the services you had -performed were, by all true reasons of state, the great aggravation of -your crimes: that you, who extinguished the fire in that unprincipled -manner, might at another time inundate and drown the whole palace; and -the same strength, which enabled you to bring over the enemy's fleet, -might serve, upon the first discontent, to carry it back: that he had -good reasons to think you were a Big-endian in your heart; and, as -treason begins in the heart, before it appears in overt acts, so he -accused you as a traitor on that account, and therefore insisted you -should be put to death. - -The treasurer was of the same opinion. He showed to what straits his -majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which -would soon grow insupportable. That the secretary's expedient of putting -out your eyes was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it -would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of -blinding some sort of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew -sooner fat. That his sacred majesty, and the council, who are your -judges, were to their own consciences fully convinced of your guilt, -which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death without the -formal proofs required by the strict letter of the law. - -But his imperial majesty, fully determined against capital punishment, -was graciously pleaded to say, that since the council thought the loss -of your eyes too easy a censure, some other might be inflicted -hereafter. And your friend, the secretary, humbly desiring to be heard -again, in answer to what the treasurer had objected concerning the great -charge his majesty was at in maintaining you, said that his excellency, -who had the sole disposal of the emperor's revenue, might easily provide -against that evil, by gradually lessening your establishment; by which, -for want of sufficient food, you would grow weak and faint, and lose -your appetite, and consume in a few months; neither would the stench of -your carcase be then so dangerous when it should become more than half -diminished; and, immediately upon your death, five or six thousand of -his majesty's subjects might in two or three days cut your flesh from -your bones, take it away by cart-loads, and bury it in distant parts, to -prevent infection, leaving the skeleton as a monument of admiration to -posterity. - -Thus, by the great friendship of the secretary, the whole affair was -compromised. It was strictly enjoined that the project of starving you -by degrees should be kept a secret, but the sentence of putting out your -eyes was entered on the books, none dissenting except Bolgolam, the -admiral, who, being a creature of the empress, was perpetually -instigated by her majesty to insist upon your death, she having borne -perpetual malice against you, on account of that illegal method you took -to remove her and her children the night of the fire. - -In three days, your friend the secretary will be directed to come to -your house and read before you the articles of impeachment; and then to -signify the great lenity and favor of his majesty and council, whereby -you are only condemned to the loss of your eyes, which his majesty doth -not question you will gratefully and humbly submit to; and twenty of his -majesty's surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well -performed, by discharging very sharp-pointed arrows into the balls of -your eyes as you lie on the ground. - -I leave to your prudence what measures you will take; and, to avoid -suspicion, I must immediately return, in as private a manner as I came. - -His lordship did so, and I remained alone, under many doubts and -perplexities of mind. - -It was a custom, introduced by this prince and his ministry (very -different, as I have been assured, from the practices of former times), -that after the court had decreed any cruel execution either to gratify -the monarch's resentment or the malice of a favorite, the emperor always -made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and -tenderness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world. This -speech was immediately published through the kingdom; nor did anything -terrify the people so much as those encomiums on his majesty's mercy; -because it was observed that, the more these praises were enlarged and -insisted on, the more inhuman was the punishment, and the sufferer more -innocent. Yet, as to myself, I must confess, having never been designed -for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a judge of -things that I could not discover the lenity and favor of this sentence, -but conceived it (perhaps erroneously) rather to be rigorous than -gentle, I sometimes thought of standing my trial; for although I could -not deny the facts alleged in the several articles, yet I hoped they -would admit of some extenuation. But having in my life perused many -state-trials, which I ever observed to terminate as the judges thought -fit to direct, I durst not rely on so dangerous a decision, in so -critical a juncture, and against such powerful enemies. Once I was -strongly bent upon resistance, for, while I had liberty, the whole -strength of that empire could hardly subdue me, and I might easily with -stones pelt the metropolis to pieces; but I soon rejected that project -with horror, by remembering the oath I had made to the emperor, the -favors I received from him, and the high title of _nardac_ he conferred -upon me. Neither had I so soon learned the gratitude of courtiers as to -persuade myself that his majesty's present seventies acquitted me of all -past obligations. - -At last I fixed upon a resolution, for which it is probable I may incur -some censure, and not unjustly; for I confess I owe the preserving mine -eyes, and consequently my liberty, to my own great rashness and want of -experience; because if I had then known the nature of princes and -ministers, which I have since observed in many other courts, and their -methods of treating criminals less obnoxious than myself, I should with -great alacrity and readiness have submitted to so easy a punishment. -But, hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial -majesty's license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I -took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a -letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting -out that morning for Blefuscu pursuant to the leave I had got; and, -without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where -our fleet lay. I seized a large man-of-war, tied a cable to the prow, -and lifting up the anchors, I stript myself, put my clothes (together -with my coverlet, which I carried under my arm) into the vessel, and -drawing it after me, between wading and swimming arrived at the royal -port of Blefuscu, where the people had long expected me; they lent me -two guides to direct me to the capital city, which is of the same name. -I held them in my hands until I came within two hundred yards of the -gate, and desired them to signify my arrival to one of the secretaries, -and let him know I there waited his majesty's command. I had an answer -in about an hour, that his majesty, attended by the royal family and -great officers of the court, was coming out to receive me. I advanced a -hundred yards. The emperor and his train alighted from their horses, the -empress and ladies from their coaches, and I did not perceive they were -in any fright or concern. I lay on the ground to kiss his majesty's and -the empress's hand. - -[Illustration] - -I told his majesty that I was come, according to my promise, and with -the license of the emperor, my master, to have the honor of seeing so -mighty a monarch, and to offer him any service in my power consistent -with my duty to my own prince, not mentioning a word of my disgrace, -because I had hitherto no regular information of it, and might suppose -myself wholly ignorant of any such design; neither could I reasonably -conceive that the emperor would discover the secret while I was out of -his power, wherein however it soon appeared I was deceived. - -I shall not trouble the reader with the particular account of my -reception at this court, which was suitable to the generosity of so -great a prince; nor of the difficulties I was in for want of a house and -bed, being forced to lie on the ground, wrapped up in my coverlet. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER VIII. - - THE AUTHOR, BY A LUCKY ACCIDENT, FINDS MEANS TO LEAVE BLEFUSCU, AND - AFTER SOME DIFFICULTIES, RETURNS SAFE TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY. - - -Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the northeast -coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, -somewhat that looked like a boat overturned. I pulled off my shoes and -stockings, and wading two or three hundred yards, I found the object to -approach nearer by force of the tide; and then plainly saw it to be a -real boat, which I supposed might by some tempest have been driven from -a ship: whereupon I returned immediately towards the city, and desired -his imperial majesty to lend me twenty of the tallest vessels he had -left after the loss of his fleet, and three thousand seamen under the -command of his vice-admiral. This fleet sailed round, while I went back -the shortest way to the coast, where I first discovered the boat. I -found the tide had driven it still nearer. The seamen were all provided -with cordage, which I had beforehand twisted to a sufficient strength. -When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within -a hundred yards of the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got -up to it. The seamen threw me the end of the cord, which I fastened to a -hole in the forepart of the boat, and the other end to a man-of-war. But -I found all my labor to little purpose; for, being out of my depth, I -was not able to work. In this necessity, I was forced to swim behind, -and push the boat forwards as often as I could with one of my hands, -and, the tide favoring me, I advanced so far, that I could just hold up -my chin and feel the ground. I rested two or three minutes, and then -gave the boat another shove, and so on till the sea was no higher than -my arm-pits; and now, the most laborious part being over, I took out my -other cables, which were stowed in one of the ships, and fastened them -first to the boat, and then to nine of the vessels which attended me; -the wind being favorable, the seamen towed, and I shoved, till we -arrived within forty yards of the shore, and waiting till the tide was -out, I got dry to the boat, and, by the assistance of two thousand men, -with ropes and engines, I made a shift to turn it on its bottom, and -found it was but little damaged. - -I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I was under, by the -help of certain paddles, which cost me ten days making, to get my boat -to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a mighty concourse of people -appeared upon my arrival, full of wonder at the sight of so prodigious a -vessel. I told the emperor that my good fortune had thrown this boat in -my way, to carry me to some place from whence I might return into my -native country, and begged his majesty's orders for getting materials to -fit it up, together with his license to depart, which, after some kind -expostulation, he was pleased to grant. - -I did very much wonder, in all this time, not to have heard of any -express relating to me from our emperor to the court of Blefuscu. But I -was afterwards given privately to understand that his imperial majesty, -never imagining I had the least notice of his designs, believed I was -only gone to Blefuscu in performance of my promise according to the -license he had given me, which was well known at our court, and would -return in a few days when the ceremony was ended. But he was at last in -pain at my long absence; and, after consulting with the treasurer and -the rest of that cabal,[35] a person of quality was despatched with the -copy of the articles against me. This envoy had instructions to -represent to the monarch of Blefuscu the great lenity of his master, who -was content to punish me no farther than the loss of mine eyes; that I -had fled from justice, and, if I did not return in two hours, I should -be deprived of my title of _nardac_ and declared a traitor. The envoy -farther added that, in order to maintain the peace and amity between -both empires, his master expected that his brother of Blefuscu would -give orders to have me sent back to Lilliput, bound hand and foot, to be -punished as a traitor. - -The emperor of Blefuscu, having taken three days to consult, returned an -answer consisting of many civilities and excuses. He said that, as for -sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible. That, although I -had deprived him of his fleet, yet he owed great obligations to me for -many good offices I had done him in making the peace. That, however, -both their majesties would soon be made easy; for I had found a -prodigious vessel on the shore, able to carry me on the sea, which he -had given orders to fit up with my own assistance and direction; and he -hoped in a few weeks both empires would be freed from so insupportable -an incumbrance. - -With this answer the envoy returned to Lilliput, and the monarch of -Blefuscu related to me all that had passed; offering me at the same time -(but under the strictest confidence) his gracious protection if I would -continue in his service; wherein, although I believed him sincere, yet I -resolved never more to put any confidence in princes or ministers where -I could possibly avoid it; and, therefore, with all due acknowledgments -for his favorable intentions, I humbly begged to be excused. I told him -that, since fortune, whether good or evil, had thrown a vessel in my -way, I was resolved to venture myself in the ocean, rather than be an -occasion of difference between two such mighty monarchs. Neither did I -find the emperor at all displeased; and I discovered, by a certain -accident, that he was very glad of my resolution, and so were most of -his ministers. - -These considerations moved me to hasten my departure somewhat sooner -than I intended; to which the court, impatient to have me gone, very -readily contributed. Five hundred workmen were employed to make two -sails to my boat, according to my directions, by quilting thirteen folds -of their strongest linen together. I was at the pains of making ropes -and cables, by twisting ten, twenty, or thirty of the thickest and -strongest of theirs. A great stone, that I happened to find after a long -search by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. I had the tallow of -three hundred cows for greasing my boat, and other uses. I was at -incredible pains in cutting down some of the largest timber-trees for -oars and masts, wherein I was, however, much assisted by his majesty's -ship-carpenters, who helped me in smoothing them after I had done the -rough work. - -In about a month, when all was prepared, I sent to receive his majesty's -commands, and to take my leave. The emperor and royal family came out of -the palace. I lay down on my face to kiss his hand, which he very -graciously gave me; so did the empress and young princes of the blood. -His majesty presented me with fifty purses of two hundred _sprugs_ -a-piece, together with his picture at full length, which I put -immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt. The -ceremonies at my departure were too many to trouble the reader with at -this time. - -[Illustration: "I SET SAIL AT SIX IN THE MORNING" P. 98.] - -I stored the boat with the carcases of a hundred oxen, and three hundred -sheep, with bread and drink proportionable, and as much meat ready -dressed as four hundred cooks could provide. I took with me six cows and -two bulls alive, with as many ewes and lambs, intending to carry them -into my own country, and propagate the breed. And to feed them on board, -I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn. I would gladly have -taken a dozen of the natives, but this was a thing the emperor would by -no means permit; and, besides a diligent search into my pockets, his -majesty engaged my honor not to carry away any of his subjects, although -with their own consent and desire. - -Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the -twenty-fourth day of September, 1701, at six in the morning; and, when I -had gone about four leagues to the northward, the wind being at -southeast, at six in the evening I descried a small island about half a -league to the northwest I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee -side[36] of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited. I then took some -refreshment, and went to my rest. I slept well, and, as I conjecture, at -least six hours, for I found the day broke two hours after I awaked. It -was a clear night. I ate my breakfast before the sun was up; and heaving -anchor, the wind being favorable, I steered the same course that I had -done the day before, wherein I was directed by my pocket-compass. My -intention was to reach, if possible, one of those islands, which, I had -reason to believe, lay to the northeast of Van Diemen's Land. I -discovered nothing all that day; but upon the next, about three o'clock -in the afternoon, when I had, by my computation, made twenty-four -leagues from Blefuscu, I descried a sail steering to the southeast: my -course was due east. I hailed her, but could get no answer; yet I found -I gained upon her, for the wind slackened. I made all the sail I could, -and in half-an-hour she spied me, then hung out her ancient,[37] and -discharged a gun. - -It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of -once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it. -The ship slackened her sails, and I came up with her, between five and -six in the evening, September twenty-sixth; but my heart leaped within -me to see her English colors. I put my cows and sheep into my -coat-pockets, and got on board with all my little cargo of provisions. -The vessel was an English merchantman returning from Japan by the North -and South Seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddle, of Deptford, a very civil -man and an excellent sailor. We were now in the latitude of 30 degrees -south. There were about fifty men in the ship; and here I met an old -comrade of mine, one Peter Williams, who gave me a good character to -the captain. This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I -would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; -which I did in few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the -dangers I had underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black -cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, -clearly convinced him of my veracity. I then showed him the gold given -me by the emperor of Blefuscu, together with his majesty's picture at -full length, and some other rareties of that country. I gave him two -purses of two hundred _sprugs_ each, and promised, when we arrived in -England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep. - -[Illustration] - -I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this voyage, -which was very prosperous for the most part. We arrived in the Downs[38] -on the thirteenth of April, 1702. I had only one misfortune, that the -rats on board carried away one of my sheep; I found her bones in a hole, -picked clean from the flesh. I got the rest of my cattle safe ashore, -and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the -fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always -feared the contrary: neither could I possibly have preserved them in so -long a voyage, if the captain had not allowed me some of his best -biscuits, which, rubbed to powder, and mingled with water, was their -constant food. The short time I continued in England, I made a -considerable profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and -others: and before I began my second voyage I sold them for six hundred -pounds. - -Since my last return, I find the breed is considerably increased, -especially the sheep, which I hope will prove much to the advantage of -the woollen manufacture, by the fineness of the fleeces. - -[Illustration] - -I stayed but two months with my wife and family; for my insatiable -desire of seeing foreign countries would suffer me to continue no -longer. I left fifteen hundred pounds with my wife and fixed her in a -good house at Redriff. My remaining stock I carried with me, part in -money, and part in goods, in hopes to improve my fortune. My eldest -uncle, John, had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty -pounds a year; and I had a long lease of the "Black Bull[39]," in -Fetter Lane, which yielded me as much more: so that I was not in any -danger of leaving my family upon the parish. My son Johnny, named so -after his uncle, was at the grammar-school, and a towardly[40] child. My -daughter Betty (who is now well married, and has children), was then at -her needlework. I took leave of my wife and boy and girl, with tears on -both sides, and went on board the "Adventure," a merchant ship of three -hundred tons, bound for Surat, Captain John Nicholas, of Liverpool, -commander. But my account of this voyage must be referred to the second -part of my travels. - -THE END OF THE FIRST PART. - -[Illustration: "THEY CONCLUDED ... THAT I WAS ONLY _Relplum -Scalcath_," P. 37.] - -[Illustration] - -TRAVELS. - - * * * * * - - - - -PART II. - -_A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG_. - - * * * * * - - - - -CHAPTER I. - - A GREAT STORM DESCRIBED; THE LONG-BOAT SENT TO FETCH WATER; THE - AUTHOR GOES WITH IT TO DISCOVER THE COUNTRY. HE IS LEFT ON SHORE, - IS SEIZED BY ONE OF THE NATIVES, AND CARRIED TO A FARMER'S HOUSE. - HIS RECEPTION, WITH SEVERAL ACCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED THERE. A - DESCRIPTION OF THE INHABITANTS. - - -Having been condemned by nature and fortune to an active and restless -life, in two months after my return I again left my native country, and -took shipping in the Downs on the twentieth day of June, 1702, in the -"Adventure," Captain John Nicholas, a Cornish man, commander, bound for -Surat. We had a very prosperous gale till we arrived at the Cape of Good -Hope, where we landed for fresh water; but, discovering a leak, we -unshipped our goods and wintered there: for, the captain falling sick of -an ague, we could not leave the Cape till the end of March. We then set -sail, and had a good voyage till we passed the Straits of -Madagascar;[41] but having got northward of that island, and to about -five degrees south latitude, the winds, which in those seas are observed -to blow a constant equal gale, between the north and west, from the -beginning of December to the beginning of May, on the nineteenth of -April began to blow with much greater violence and more westerly than -usual, continuing so for twenty days together, during which time we were -driven a little to the east of the Molucca Islands, and about three -degrees northward of the line,[42] as our captain found by an -observation he took the second of May, at which time the wind ceased and -it was a perfect calm; whereat I was not a little rejoiced. But, he, -being a man well experienced in the navigation of those seas, bid us all -prepare against a storm, which accordingly happened the day following: -for the southern wind, called the southern monsoon, began to set in, and -soon it was a fierce storm. - -Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by -to hand the foresail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were -all fast, and handed the mizzen. - -[Illustration] - -The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before -the sea, than trying, or hulling. We reefed the foresail and set him, we -hauled aft the foresheet: the helm was hard-a-weather. The ship wore -bravely. We belayed the fore down-haul; but the sail was split, and we -hauled down the yard, and got the sail into the ship, and unbound all -the things clear of it. It was a very fierce storm; the sea broke -strange and dangerous. We hauled off the laniard of the whipstaff, and -helped the man at the helm. We could not get down our topmast, but let -all stand, because she scudded before the sea very well, and we knew -that the topmast being aloft, the ship was the wholesomer, and made -better way through the sea, seeing we had sea-room. When the storm was -over, we set foresail and mainsail, and brought the ship to. Then we set -the mizzen, main-top-sail, and the fore-top-sail. Our course was east -north east, the wind was at southwest. We got the starboard tacks -aboard, we cast off our weather braces and lifts; we set in the lee -braces, and hauled forward by the weather bowlings, and hauled them -tight and belayed them, and hauled over the mizzen tack to wind-ward and -kept her full and by, as near as she could lie. - -During this storm, which was followed by a strong wind, west southwest, -we were carried, by my computation, about five hundred leagues to the -east, so that the oldest sailor on board could not tell in what part of -the world we were. Our provisions held out well, our ship was staunch, -and our crew all in good health; but we lay in the utmost distress for -water. We thought it best to hold on the same course, rather than turn -more northerly, which might have brought us to the northwest parts of -Great Tartary, and into the Frozen Sea. - -On the sixteenth day of June, 1703, a boy on the topmast discovered -land. On the seventeenth, we came in full view of a great island or -continent (for we knew not which), on the south side whereof was a small -neck of land, jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold -a ship of above one hundred tons. We cast anchor within a league of this -creek, and our captain sent a dozen of his men well armed in the -long-boat, with vessels for water, if any could be found. I desired his -leave to go with them, that I might see the country, and make what -discoveries I could. - -When we came to land, we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of -inhabitants. Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some -fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile on the other -side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky. I now began to -be weary, and seeing nothing to entertain my curiosity, I returned -gently down toward the creek; and the sea being full in my view, I saw -our men already got into the boat, and rowing for life to the ship. I -was going to holla after them, although it had been to little purpose, -when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast -as he could; he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took -prodigious strides; but our men had the start of him about half a -league, and the sea thereabouts being full of pointed rocks, the monster -was not able to overtake the boat. This I was afterwards told, for I -durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I -could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave -me some prospect of the country. I found it fully cultivated; but that -which first surprised me was the length of the grass, which, in those -grounds that seemed to be kept for hay, was about twenty feet high. - -[Illustration: "A HUGE CREATURE WALKING ... IN THE SEA." P. 6.] - -I fell into a high road, for so I took it to be, though it served to the -inhabitants only as a footpath through a field of barley. Here I walked -on for some time, but could see little on either side, it being now near -harvest, and the corn rising at least forty feet. I was an hour walking -to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least -one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I could -make no computation of their altitude. There was a stile to pass from -this field into the next. It had four steps, and a stone to cross over -when you came to the uppermost. It was impossible for me to climb this -stile because every step was six feet high, and the upper stone above -twenty. - -I was endeavoring to find some gap in the hedge, when I discovered one -of the inhabitants in the next field, advancing towards the stile, of -the same size with him whom I saw in the sea pursuing our boat. He -appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards -at every stride, as near as I could guess. I was struck with the utmost -fear and astonishment, and ran to hide myself in the corn, from whence I -saw him at the top of the stile, looking back into the next field on the -right hand, and heard him call in a voice many degrees louder than a -speaking trumpet; but the noise was so high in the air that at first I -certainly thought it was thunder. Whereupon seven monsters, like -himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook -about the largeness of six scythes. These people were not so well clad -as the first, whose servants or laborers they seemed to be; for, upon -some words he spoke, they went to reap the corn in the field where I -lay. I kept from them at as great a distance as I could, but was forced -to move, with extreme difficulty, for the stalks of the corn were -sometimes not above a foot distance, so that I could hardly squeeze my -body betwixt them. However, I made a shift to go forward till I came to -a part of the field where the corn had been laid by the rain and wind. -Here it was impossible for me to advance a step; for the stalks were so -interwoven that I could not creep through, and the beards of the fallen -ears so strong and pointed that they pierced through my clothes into my -flesh. At the same time I heard the reapers not above a hundred yards -behind me. - -Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief and -despair, I lay down between two ridges, and heartily wished I might -there end my days. I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children. -I lamented my own folly and wilfulness in attempting a second voyage -against the advice of all my friends and relations. In this terrible -agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose -inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in -the world; where I was able to draw an imperial fleet in my hand, and -perform those other actions which will be recorded forever in the -chronicles of that empire, while posterity shall hardly believe them, -although attested by millions. I reflected what a mortification it must -prove to me to appear as inconsiderable in this nation as one single -Lilliputian would be among us. But this I conceived was to be among the -least of my misfortunes: for, as human creatures are observed to be more -savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to -be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians -that should happen to seize me? Undoubtedly philosophers are in the -right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than -by comparison. It might have pleased fortune to let the Lilliputians -find some nation where the people were as diminutive with respect to -them as they were to me. And who knows but that even this prodigious -race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the -world, whereof we have yet no discovery? - -Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these -reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of -the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I -should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his -reaping-hook. And, therefore, when he was again about to move, I -screamed as loud as fear could make me. Whereupon the huge creature trod -short, and looking round about under him for some time, at last espied -me as I lay on the ground. He considered awhile, with the caution of one -who endeavors to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner -that it shall not be able either to scratch or to bite him, as I myself -have sometimes done with a weasel in England. - -[Illustration: "WHEREUPON THE HUGE CREATURE TROD SHORT." P. 10.] - -At length he ventured to take me up between his forefinger and thumb, -and brought me within three yards of his eyes, that he might behold my -shape more perfectly. I guessed his meaning, and my good fortune gave me -so much presence of mind that I resolved not to struggle in the least as -he held me in the air, above sixty feet from the ground, although he -grievously pinched my sides, for fear I should slip through his fingers. -All I ventured was to raise my eyes towards the sun, and place my -hands together in a supplicating posture, and to speak some words in an -humble melancholy tone, suitable to the condition I then was in. For I -apprehended every moment that he would dash me against the ground, as we -usually do any little hateful animal which we have a mind to destroy. -But my good star would have it that he appeared pleased with my voice -and gestures, and began to look upon me as a curiosity, much wondering -to hear me pronounce articulate words, although he could not understand -them. In the meantime I was not able to forbear groaning and shedding -tears, and turning my head towards my sides; letting him know, as well -as I could, how cruelly I was hurt by the pressure of his thumb and -finger. He seemed to apprehend my meaning; for, lifting up the lappet of -his coat, he put me gently into it, and immediately ran along with me to -his master, who was a substantial farmer, and the same person I had -first seen in the field. - -The farmer, having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account -of me as his servant could give him, took a piece of a small straw, -about the size of a walking-staff, and therewith lifted up the lappets -of my coat, which it seems he thought to be some kind of covering that -nature had given me. He blew my hair aside, to take a better view of my -face. He called his hinds[43] about him, and asked them (as I afterwards -learned) whether they had ever seen in the fields any little creature -that resembled me. He then placed me softly on the ground upon all -fours, but I got immediately up, and walked slowly backwards and -forwards to let those people see that I had no intent to run away. - -They all sat down in a circle about me, the better to observe my -motions. I pulled off my hat, and made a low bow towards the farmer. I -fell on my knees, and lifted up my hands and eyes, and spoke several -words as loud as I could: I took a purse of gold out of my pocket, and -humbly presented it to him. He received it on the palm of his hand, then -applied it close to his eye to see what it was, and afterwards turned it -several times with the point of a pin (which he took out of his sleeve), -but could make nothing of it. Whereupon I made a sign that he should -place his hand on the ground. I then took the purse, and opening it, -poured all the gold into his palm. There were six Spanish pieces, of -four pistoles[44] each, besides twenty or thirty smaller coins. I saw -him wet the tip of his little finger upon his tongue, and take up one of -my largest pieces, and then another, but he seemed to be wholly ignorant -what they were. He made me a sign to put them again into my purse, and -the purse again into my pocket, which, after offering it to him several -times, I thought it best to do. - -The farmer by this time was convinced I must be a rational creature. He -spoke often to me, but the sound of his voice pierced my ears like that -of a water-mill, yet his words were articulate enough. I answered as -loud as I could in several languages, and he often laid his ear within -two yards of me; but all in vain, for we were wholly unintelligible to -each other. He then sent his servants to their work, and taking his -handkerchief out of his pocket, he doubled and spread it on his left -hand, which he placed flat on the ground, with the palm upwards, making -me a sign to step into it, as I could easily do, for it was not above a -foot in thickness. - -I thought it my part to obey, and, for fear of falling, laid myself at -full length upon the handkerchief, with the remainder of which he lapped -me up to the head for farther security, and in this manner carried me -home to his house. There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but -she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad -or a spider. However, when she had awhile seen my behavior, and how well -I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by -degrees grew extremely tender of me. - -It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner. It was -only one substantial dish of meat (fit for the plain condition of an -husbandman) in a dish of about four-and-twenty feet diameter. The -company were the farmer and his wife, three children, and an old -grandmother. When they were sat down, the farmer placed me at some -distance from him on the table, which was thirty feet high from the -floor. I was in a terrible fright, and kept as far as I could from the -edge for fear of falling. The wife minced a bit of meat, then crumbled -some bread on a trencher,[45] and placed it before me. I made her a low -bow, took out my knife and fork, and fell to eat, which gave them -exceeding delight. - -The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about three -gallons, and filled it with drink: I took up the vessel with much -difficulty in both hands, and in a most respectful manner drank to her -ladyship's health, expressing the words as loud as I could in English, -which made the company laugh so heartily that I was almost deafened by -the noise. This liquor tasted like a small cider, and was not -unpleasant. Then the master made me a sign to come to his trencher-side; -but as I walked on the table, being in great surprise all the time, as -the indulgent reader will easily conceive and excuse, I happened to -stumble against a crust, and fell flat on my face, but received no hurt. -I got up immediately, and observing the good people to be in much -concern, I took my hat (which I held under my arm out of good manners), -and, waving it over my head, made three huzzas, to show that I had got -no mischief by my fall. - -But advancing forwards towards my master (as I shall henceforth call -him), his youngest son, who sat next him, an arch boy of about ten years -old, took me up by the legs, and held me so high in the air, that I -trembled in every limb; but his father snatched me from him, and at the -same time gave him such a box in the left ear as would have felled an -European troop of horse to the earth, ordering him to be taken from the -table. But being afraid the boy might owe me a spite, and well -remembering how mischievous all children among us naturally are to -sparrows, rabbits, young kittens, and puppy dogs, I fell on my knees, -and, pointing to the boy, made my master to understand as well as I -could, that I desired his son might be pardoned. The father complied, -and the lad took his seat again; whereupon I went to him and kissed his -hand, which my master took, and made him stroke me gently with it. - -In the midst of dinner, my mistress's favorite cat leapt into her lap. I -heard a noise behind me like that of a dozen stocking-weavers at work; -and, turning my head, I found it proceeded from the purring of that -animal, who seemed to be three times larger than an ox, as I computed by -the view of her head and one of her paws, while her mistress was feeding -and stroking her. The fierceness of this creature's countenance -altogether discomposed me, though I stood at the further end of the -table, above fifty feet off, and although my mistress held her fast, for -fear she might give a spring and seize me in her talons. - -But it happened there was no danger; for the cat took not the least -notice of me, when my master placed me within three yards of her. And as -I have been always told, and found true by experience in my travels, -that flying or discovering[46] fear before a fierce animal is a certain -way to make it pursue or attack you, so I resolved in this dangerous -juncture to show no manner of concern. I walked with intrepidity five or -six times before the very head of the cat, and came within half a yard -of her; whereupon she drew herself back, as if she were more afraid of -me. I had less apprehension concerning the dogs, whereof three or four -came into the room, as it is usual in farmers' houses; one of which was -a mastiff equal in bulk to four elephants, and a greyhound somewhat -taller than the mastiff, but not so large. - -When dinner was almost done, the nurse came in with a child of a year -old in her arms, who immediately spied me, and began a squall that you -might have heard from London Bridge to Chelsea,[47] after the usual -oratory of infants, to get me for a plaything. The mother out of pure -indulgence took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently -seized me by the middle and got my head in its mouth, where I roared so -loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should -infallibly have broke my neck if the mother had not held her apron -under me. The nurse, to quiet her babe, made use of a rattle, which was -a kind of hollow vessel filled with great stones, and fastened by a -cable to the child's waist. As she sat down close to the table on which -I stood, her appearance astonished me not a little. This made me reflect -upon the fair skins of our English ladies, who appear so beautiful to -us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be -seen but through a magnifying glass, where we find by experiment that -the smoothest and whitest skins look rough, and coarse and ill-colored. - -I remember, when I was at Lilliput, the complexions of those diminutive -people appeared to me the fairest in the world; and talking upon this -subject with a person of learning there, who was an intimate friend of -mine, he said that my face appeared much fairer and smoother when he -looked on me from the ground than it did upon a nearer view, when I took -him up in my hand and brought him close, which he confessed was at first -a very shocking sight. He said he could discover great holes in my skin; -that the stumps of my beard were ten times stronger than the bristles of -a boar, and my complexion made up of several colors altogether -disagreeable: although I must beg leave to say for myself that I am as -fair as most of my sex and country, and very little sunburnt by my -travels. On the other side, discoursing of the ladies of that emperor's -court, he used to tell me one had freckles, another too wide a mouth, a -third too large a nose, nothing of which I was able to distinguish. I -confess this reflection was obvious enough; which, however, I could not -forbear, lest the reader might think those vast creatures were actually -deformed: for I must do them justice to say they are a comely race of -people; and particularly the features of my master's countenance, -although he were but a farmer, when I beheld him from the height of -sixty feet, appeared very well proportioned. - -When dinner was done my master went out to his labors, and, as I could -discover by his voice and gestures, gave his wife a strict charge to -take care of me. I was very much tired and disposed to sleep, which, my -mistress perceiving, she put me on her own bed, and covered me with a -clean white handkerchief, but larger and coarser than the mainsail of a -man-of-war. - -I slept about two hours, and dreamed I was at home with my wife and -children, which aggravated my sorrows when I awaked and found myself -alone in a vast room, between two and three hundred feet wide, and above -two hundred high, lying in a bed twenty yards wide. My mistress was gone -about her household affairs, and had locked me in. The bed was eight -yards from the floor. - -[Illustration: "I ... DREW MY HANGER TO DEFEND MYSELF." P. 18.] - -Presently two rats crept up the curtains, and ran smelling backwards and -forwards on my bed. One of them came almost up to my face; whereupon I -rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself. The horrible -animals had the boldness to attack me both sides, and one of them held -his forefeet at my collar; but I killed him before he could do me any -mischief. He fell down at my feet; and the other, seeing the fate of his -comrade, made his escape, but not without one good wound on the back, -which I gave him as he fled, and made the blood run trickling from him. -After this exploit I walked gently to and fro on the bed to recover my -breath and loss of spirits. These creatures were of the size of a large -mastiff, but infinitely more nimble and fierce; so that, if I had -taken off my belt before I went to sleep, I must infallibly have been -torn to pieces and devoured. I measured the tail of the dead rat, and -found it to be two yards long wanting an inch; but it went against my -stomach to draw the carcase off the bed, where it still lay bleeding. I -observed it had yet some life; but, with a strong slash across the neck, -I thoroughly despatched it. - -I hope the gentle reader will excuse me for dwelling on these and the -like particulars, which, however insignificant they may appear to -grovelling vulgar minds, yet will certainly help a philosopher to -enlarge his thoughts and imagination, and apply them to the benefit of -public as well as private life, which was my sole design in presenting -this and other accounts of my travels to the world; wherein I have been -chiefly studious of truth, without affecting any ornaments of teaming or -style. But the whole scene of this voyage made so strong an impression -on my mind, and is so deeply memory, that in committing it to paper I -did not omit one material circumstance. However, upon a strict review, I -blotted out several passages of less moment which were in my first copy, -for fear of being censured as tedious and trifling, whereof travellers -are often, perhaps not without justice, accused. - - - - -CHAPTER II. - - A DESCRIPTION OF THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER. THE AUTHOR CARRIED TO A - MARKET-TOWN, AND THEN TO THE METROPOLIS. THE PARTICULARS OF THIS - JOURNEY. - - -My mistress had a daughter of nine years old, a child of toward parts -for her age, very dexterous at her needle, and skilful in dressing her -baby. Her mother and she contrived to fit up the baby's cradle for me -against night. The cradle was put into a small drawer cabinet, and the -drawer placed upon a hanging shelf for fear of the rats. This was my bed -all the time I stayed with these people, though made more convenient by -degrees, as I began to learn their language and make my wants known. - -She made me seven shirts, and some other linen, of as fine cloth as -could be got, which indeed was coarser than sackcloth; and these she -constantly washed for me with her own hands. She was likewise my -school-mistress, to teach me the language. When I pointed to anything, -she told me the name of it in her own tongue, so that in a few days I -was able to call for whatever I had a mind to. She was very -good-natured, and not above forty feet high, being little for her age. -She gave me the name of Grildrig, which the family took up, and -afterwards the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call -_nanunculus_, the Italians _homunceletino_, and the English _mannikin_. -To her I chiefly owe my preservation in that country. We never parted -while I was there; I called her my Glumdalclitch, or little nurse; and -should be guilty of great ingratitude if I omitted this honorable -mention of her care and affection towards me, which I heartily wish it -lay in my power to requite as she deserves. - -It now began to be known and talked of in the neighborhood, that my -master had found a strange animal in the field, about the bigness of a -_splacnuck_, but exactly shaped in every part like a human creature; -which it likewise imitated in all its actions, seemed to speak in a -little language of its own, had already learned several words of theirs, -went erect upon two legs, was tame and gentle, would come when it was -called, do whatever it was bid, had the finest limbs in the world, and a -complexion fairer than a nobleman's daughter of three years old. Another -farmer, who lived hard by, and was a particular friend of my master, -came on a visit on purpose to inquire into the truth of this story. I -was immediately produced and placed upon a table, where I walked as I -was commanded, drew my hanger, put it up again, made my reverence to my -master's guest, asked him in his own language how he did, and told him -_he was welcome_, just as my little nurse had instructed me. This man, -who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better, -at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes -appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows. Our -people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in -laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of -countenance. He had the character of a great miser; and, to my -misfortune, he well deserved it by the cursed advice he gave my -master, to show me as a sight upon a market-day in the next town, which -was half an hour's riding, about two-and-twenty miles from our house. I -guessed there was some mischief contriving, when I observed my master -and his friend whispering long together, sometimes pointing at me; and -my fears made me fancy that I overheard and understood some of their -words. - -[Illustration: "I CALLED HER MY GLUMDALCLITCH." P. 22.] - -But the next morning, Glumdalclitch, my little nurse, told me the whole -matter, which she had cunningly picked out from her mother. The poor -girl laid me on her bosom, and fell a-weeping with shame and grief. She -apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks, who -might squeeze me to death, or break one of my limbs by taking me in -their hands. She had also observed how modest I was in my nature, how -nicely I regarded my honor, and what an indignity conceive it to be -exposed for money, as a public spectacle, to the meanest of the people. -She said her papa and mamma had promised that Grildrig should be hers, -but now she found they meant to serve her as they did last year when -they pretended to give her a lamb, and yet as soon as it was fat sold it -to a butcher. For my own part I may truly affirm that I was less -concerned than my nurse. I had a strong hope, which left me, that I -should one day recover my liberty; to the ignominy of being carried -about for a monster, I considered myself to be a perfect stranger in the -country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a -reproach if ever I should return to England; since the king of Great -Britain himself, in my condition, must have undergone the same distress. - -My master, pursuant to the advice of his friend, carried me in a box -the next market-day, to the neighboring town, and took along with him -his little daughter, my nurse, upon a pillion[48] behind him. The box -was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and -a few gimlet holes to let in air. The girl had been so careful as to put -the quilt of her baby's bed into it, for me to lie down on. However, I -was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it were but -of half an hour. For the horse went about forty feet at every step, and -trotted so high that the agitation was equal to the rising and falling -of a ship in a great storm, but much more frequent; our journey was -somewhat farther than from London to St. Alban's. My master alighted at -an inn which he used to frequent; and after consulting a while with the -innkeeper and making some necessary preparations, he hired the -_grultrud_, or crier, to give notice through the town, of a strange -creature to be seen at the sign of the Green Eagle, not so big as a -_splacnuck_ (an animal in that country, very finely shaped, about six -feet long), and in every part of the body resembling a human creature, -could speak several words, and perform a hundred diverting tricks. - -I was placed upon a table in the largest room of the inn, which might be -near three hundred feet square. My little nurse stood on a low stool -close to the table, to take care of me, and direct what I should do. My -master, to avoid a crowd, would suffer only thirty people at a time to -see me. I walked about on the table as the girl commanded. She asked me -questions, as far as she knew my understanding of the language reached, -and I answered them as loud as I could. I turned about several times to -the company, paid my humble respects, said they were welcome, and used -some other speeches I had been taught. I took a thimble filled with -liquor, which Glumdalclitch had given me for a cup, and drank their -health. I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it, after the manner -of fencers in England. My nurse gave me part of a straw, which I -exercised as a pike, having learnt the art in my youth. I was that day -shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again -the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation. -For those who had seen me made such wonderful reports, that the people -were ready to break down the doors to come in. - -My master, for his own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me -except my nurse, and, to prevent danger, benches were set round the -table at such a distance as to put me out of everybody's reach. However, -an unlucky school-boy aimed a hazel-nut directly at my head, which very -narrowly missed me: otherwise, it came with so much violence, that it -would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large -as a small pumpion,[49] but I had the satisfaction to see the young -rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room. - -[Illustration: "FLOURISHED IT AFTER THE MANNER OF FENCERS IN ENGLAND." -P. 26.] - -My master gave public notice that he would show me again the next -market-day, and in the meantime he prepared a more convenient vehicle -for me, which he had reason enough to do; for I was so tired with my -first journey, and with entertaining company for eight hours together, -that I could hardly stand upon my legs or speak a word. It was at least -three days before I recovered my strength; and that I might have no rest -at home, all the neighboring gentleman, from a hundred miles round, -hearing of my fame, came to see me at my master's own house. There could -not be fewer than thirty persons with their wives and children (for the -country was very populous); and my master demanded the rate of a full -room whenever he showed me at home, although it were only to a single -family; so that for some time I had but little ease every day of the -week (except Wednesday which is their Sabbath), although I was not -carried to the town. - -My master, finding how profitable I was like to be, resolved to carry me -to the most considerable cities of the kingdom. Having, therefore, -provided himself with all things necessary for a long journey, and -settled his affairs at home, he took leave of his wife, and upon the -seventeenth of August, 1703, about two months after my arrival, we set -out for the metropolis, situated the middle of that empire, and about -three thousand miles distance from our house. My master made his -daughter Glumdalclitch ride behind him. She carried me on her lap, in a -box tied about her waist. The girl had lined it on all sides with the -softest cloth she could get, well quilted underneath, furnished it with -her baby's bed, provided me with linen and other necessaries, and made -everything as conveniently as she could. We had no other company but a -boy of the house, who rode after us with the luggage. - -My master's design was to show me in all the towns by the way, and to -step out of the road for fifty or a hundred miles, to any village, or -person of quality's house, where he might expect custom. We made easy -journeys of not above seven or eight score miles a day; for -Glumdalclitch, on purpose to spare me, complained she was tired with -the trotting of the horse. She often took me out of my box at my own -desire, to give me air and show me the country, but always held me fast -by a leading-string. We passed over five or six rivers, many degrees -broader and deeper than the Nile or the Ganges; and there was hardly a -rivulet so small as the Thames at London Bridge. We were ten weeks in -our journey, and I was shown in eighteen large towns, besides many -villages and private families. - -[Illustration] - -On the twenty-sixth of October we arrived at the metropolis, called in -their language, _Lorbrulgrud_, or Pride of the Universe. My master took -a lodging in the principal street of the city, not far from the royal -palace, and put out bills in the usual form, containing an exact -description of my person and parts.[50] He hired a large room between -three and four hundred feet wide. He provided a table sixty feet in -diameter, upon which I was to act my part, and palisadoed it round three -feet from the edge, and as many high, to prevent my falling over. I was -shown ten times a day, to the wonder and satisfaction of all people. I -could now speak the language tolerably well, and perfectly understood -every word that was spoken to me. Besides, I had learned their alphabet, -and could make a shift to explain a sentence here and there; for -Glumdalclitch had been my instructor while we were at home, and at -leisure hours during our journey. She carried a little book in her -pocket, not much larger than a Sanson's Atlas;[51] it was a common -treatise for the use of young girls, giving a short account of their -religion; out of this she taught me my letters, and interpreted the -words. - - - - -CHAPTER III. - - THE AUTHOR SENT FOR TO COURT. THE QUEEN BUYS HIM OF HIS MASTER THE - FARMER, AND PRESENTS HIM TO THE KING. HE DISPUTES WITH HIS - MAJESTY'S GREAT SCHOLARS. AN APARTMENT AT COURT PROVIDED FOR THE - AUTHOR. HE IS IN HIGH FAVOR WITH THE QUEEN. HE STANDS UP FOR THE - HONOR OF HIS OWN COUNTRY. HE QUARRELS WITH THE QUEEN'S DWARF. - - -The frequent labors I underwent every day, made in a few weeks a very -considerable change in my health; the more my master got by me, the more -insatiable he grew. I had quite lost my stomach, and was almost reduced -to a skeleton. The farmer observed it, and, concluding I must soon die, -resolved to make as good a hand of me[52] as he could. While he was thus -reasoning and resolving with himself, a _slardral_, or gentleman-usher, -came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither, -for the diversion of the queen and her ladies. Some of the latter had -already been to see me, and reported strange things of my beauty, -behavior, and good sense. Her majesty, and those who attended her, were -beyond measure delighted with my demeanor. I fell on my knees and begged -the honor of kissing her imperial foot; but this gracious princess held -out her little finger towards me, after I was set on a table, which I -embraced in both my arms, and put the tip of it with the utmost respect -to my lip. - -She made me some general questions about my country, and my travels, -which I answered as distinctly, and in as few words, as I could. She -asked whether I would be content to live at court. I bowed down to the -board of the table, and humbly answered that I was my master's slave; -but if I were at my own disposal, I should be proud to devote my life to -her majesty's service. She then asked my master whether he were willing -to sell me at a good price. He, who apprehended I could not live a -month, was ready enough to part with me, and demanded a thousand pieces -of gold, which were ordered him on the spot, each piece being the -bigness of eight hundred moidores[53]; but, for the proportion of all -things between that country and Europe, and the high price of gold among -them, was hardly so great a sum as a thousand guineas[54] would be in -England. I then said to the queen, since I was now her majesty's most -humble creature and vassal, I must beg the favor, that Glumdalclitch, -who had always attended me with so much care and kindness, and -understood to do it so well, might be admitted into her service, and -continue to be my nurse and instructor. - -Her majesty agreed to my petition, and easily got the farmer's consent, -who was glad enough to have his daughter preferred at court, and the -poor girl herself was not able to hide her joy. My late master withdrew, -bidding me farewell, and saying he had left me in good service, to -which I replied not a word, only making him a slight bow. - -[Illustration: "THIS GRACIOUS PRINCESS HELD OUT HER LITTLE FINGER." -P. 32.] - -The queen observed my coldness, and, when the farmer was gone out of -the apartment, asked me the reason. I made bold to tell her majesty -that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not -dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in -his field; which obligation was amply recompensed by the gain he had -made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now -sold me for. That the life I had since led was laborious enough to -kill an animal of ten times my strength. That my health was much -impaired by the continual drudgery of entertaining the rabble every -hour of the day, and that, if my master had not thought my life in -danger, her majesty would not have got so cheap a bargain. But as I -was out of all fear of being ill-treated under the protection of so -great and good an empress, the ornament of nature, the darling of the -world, the delight of her subjects, the phoenix[55] of the creation; -so, I hoped my late master's apprehensions would appear to be -groundless, for I already found my spirits to revive, by the influence -of her most august presence. - -This was the sum of my speech, delivered with great improprieties and -hesitation; the latter part was altogether framed in the style peculiar -to that people, whereof I learned some phrases from Glumdalclitch, while -she was carrying me to court. - -The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, -however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an -animal. - -[Illustration: "SHE ... CARRIED ME TO THE KING." P. 36.] - -She took me in her own hand, and carried me to the king, who was then -retired to his cabinet.[56] His majesty, a prince of much gravity and -austere countenance, not well observing my shape at first view, asked -the queen, after a cold manner, how long it was since she grew fond of a -_splacnuck_; for such it seems he took me to be, as I lay upon my breast -in her majesty's right hand. But this princess, who hath an infinite -deal of wit and humor, set me gently on my feet upon the scrutoire,[57] -and commanded me to give his majesty an account of myself, which I did -in a very few words; and Glumdalclitch, who attended at the -cabinet-door, and could not endure I should be out of her sight, being -admitted, confirmed all that had passed from my arrival at her father's -house. - -The king, although he be as learned a person as any in his dominions, -had been educated in the study of philosophy, and particularly -mathematics; yet, when he observed my shape exactly, and saw me walk -erect, before I began to speak, conceived I might be a piece of -clockwork (which is in that country arrived to a very great perfection) -contrived by some ingenious artist. But when he heard my voice, and -found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal -his astonishment. He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave -him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story -concerted between Glumdalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set -of words, to make me sell at a better price. Upon this imagination he -put several other questions to me, and still received rational answers, -no otherwise defective than by a foreign accent, and an imperfect -knowledge in the language, with some rustic phrases, which I had learned -at the farmer's house, and did not suit the polite style of a court. - -His majesty sent for three great scholars, who were then in their weekly -waiting[58] according to the custom in that country. These gentlemen, -after they had a while examined my shape with much nicety, were of -different opinions concerning me. They all agreed that I could not be -produced according to the regular laws of nature, because I was not -framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by swiftness or -climbing of trees, or digging holes in the earth. They observed by my -teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous -animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field-mice, -with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be -able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, -which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could -not possibly do. They would not allow me to be a dwarf, because my -littleness was beyond all degrees of comparison; for the queen's -favorite dwarf, the smallest ever known in that kingdom, was nearly -thirty feet high. After much debate, they concluded unanimously that I -was only _relplum scalcath_, which is interpreted literally, _lusus -naturae_;[59] a determination exactly agreeable to the modern philosophy -of Europe: whose professors, disdaining the old evasion of occult -causes, whereby the followers of Aristotle endeavored in vain to -disguise their ignorance, have invented this wonderful solution of all -difficulties, to the unspeakable advancement of human knowledge. - -After this decisive conclusion, I entreated to be heard a word or two. I -applied myself to the king, and assured his majesty that I came from a -country which abounded with several millions of both sexes, and of my -own stature; where the animals, trees, and houses were all in -proportion, and where, by consequence, I might be as able to defend -myself, and to find sustenance, as any of his majesty's subjects could -do here; which I took for a full answer to those gentlemen's arguments. -To this they only replied with a smile of contempt, saying, that the -farmer had instructed me very well in my lesson. The king, who had a -much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the -farmer, who, by good fortune, was not yet gone out of town; having -therefore first examined him privately, and then confronted him with me -and the young girl, his majesty began to think that what we had told him -might possibly be true. He desired the queen to order that a particular -care should be taken of me, and was of opinion that Glumdalclitch should -still continue in her office of tending me, because he observed that we -had a great affection for each other. A convenient apartment was -provided for her at court; she had a sort of governess appointed to take -care of her education, a maid to dress her, and two other servants for -menial offices; but the care of me was wholly appropriated to herself. -The queen commanded her own cabinet-maker to contrive a box, that might -serve me for a bed-chamber, after the model that Glumdalclitch and I -should agree upon. This man was a most ingenious artist, and, according -to my directions, in three weeks finished to me a wooden chamber of -sixteen feet square and twelve high, with sash-windows, a door, and two -closets, like a London bed-chamber. The board that made the ceiling was -to be lifted up and down by two hinges, to put in a bed ready furnished -by her majesty's upholsterer, which Glumdalclitch took out every day to -air, made it with her own hands, and, letting it down at night, locked -up the roof over me. A nice workman, who was famous for little -curiosities, undertook to make me two chairs, with backs and frames, of -a substance not unlike ivory, and two tables, with a cabinet to put my -things in. The room was quilted on all sides, as well as the floor and -the ceiling, to prevent any accident from the carelessness of those who -carried me, and to break the force of a jolt when I went in a coach. I -desired a lock for my door, to prevent rats and mice from coming in: the -smith, after several attempts, made the smallest that ever was seen -among them; for I have known a larger at the gate of a gentleman's house -in England. I made a shift to keep the key in a pocket of my own, -fearing Glumdalclitch might lose it. The queen likewise ordered the -thinnest silks that could be gotten to make me clothes, not much thicker -than an English blanket, very cumbersome, till I was accustomed to them. -They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the -Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit. - -The queen became so fond of my company that she could not dine without -me. I had a table placed upon the same at which her Majesty ate, just at -her left elbow, and a chair to sit on. Glumdalclitch stood on a stool on -the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me. I had an entire -set of silver dishes and plates, and other necessaries, which, in -proportion to those of the queen, were not much bigger than what I have -seen in a London toy-shop for the furniture of a baby-house: these my -little nurse kept in her pocket in a silver box, and gave me at meals -as I wanted them, always cleaning them herself. No person dined with the -queen but the two princesses royal the elder sixteen years old, and the -younger at that time thirteen and a month. Her majesty used to put a bit -of meat upon one of my dishes, out of which I carved for myself: and her -diversion was to see me eat in miniature; for the queen (who had, -indeed, but a weak stomach) took up at one mouthful as much as a dozen -English farmers could eat at a meal, which to me was for some time a -very nauseous sight. She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and -all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of -a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread in her mouth as big as two -twelve-penny loaves. She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at -a draught. Her knives were twice as long as a scythe, set straight upon -the handle. The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the -same proportion. I remember when Glumdalclitch carried me, out of -curiosity, to see some of the tables at court, where ten or a dozen of -these enormous knives and forks were lifted up together, I thought I had -never till then beheld so terrible a sight. - -It is the custom that every Wednesday (which, as I have before observed, -is their Sabbath) the king and queen, with the royal issue of both sexes -dine together in the apartment of his majesty, to whom I was now become -a great favorite; and, at these times, my little chair and table were -placed at his left hand, before one of the salt-cellars. This prince -took a pleasure in conversing with me, inquiring into the manners, -religion, taws, government, and learning of Europe; wherein I gave him -the best account I was able. His apprehension was so clear, and his -judgment so exact, that he made very wise reflections and observations -upon all I said. But I confess that after I had been a little too -copious in talking of my own beloved country, of our trade, and wars by -sea and land, of our schisms in religion, and parties in the state; the -prejudices of his education prevailed so far that he could not forbear -taking me up in his right hand, and, stroking me gently with the other, -after a hearty fit of laughing, asked me, whether I was a whig or a -tory? Then turning to his first minister, who waited behind him with a -white staff, near as tall as the mainmast of the "Royal Sovereign[60]," -he observed how contemptible a thing was human grandeur, which could be -mimicked by such diminutive insects as I: and yet, says he, I dare -engage these creatures have their titles and distinctions of honor; they -contrive little nests and burrows, that they call houses and cities; -they make a figure in dress and equipage; they love, they fight, they -dispute, they cheat, they betray. And thus he continued on, while my -color came and went several times with indignation, to hear our noble -country, the mistress of arts and arms, the scourge of France, the -arbitress of Europe, the seat of virtue, piety, honor, and truth, the -pride and envy of the world, so contemptuously treated. - -But, as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature -thoughts, I began to doubt whether I was injured or no. For, after -having been accustomed, several months, to the sight and converse of -this people, and observed every object upon which I cast mine eyes to be -of proportionable magnitude, the horror I had at first conceived from -their bulk and aspect was so far worn off, that, if I had then beheld a -company of English lords and ladies in their finery, and birthday -clothes, acting their several parts in the most courtly manner of -strutting and bowing and prating, to say the truth, I should have been -strongly tempted to laugh as much at them as the king and his grandees -did at me. Neither, indeed, could I forbear smiling at myself, when the -queen used to place me upon her hand towards a looking-glass, by which -both our persons appeared before me in full view together; and there -could nothing be more ridiculous than the comparison; so that I really -began to imagine myself dwindled many degrees below my usual size. - -Nothing angered and mortified me so much, as the queen's dwarf, who -being of the lowest stature that ever in that country (for I verily -think he was not full thirty feet high) became so insolent at seeing a -creature so much beneath him, that he would always affect to swagger, -and look big, as he passed by me in the queen's ante-chamber, while I -was standing on some table, talking with the lords or ladies of the -court, and he seldom failed of a smart word or two upon my littleness; -against which I could only revenge myself, by calling him brother, -challenging him to wrestle, and such repartees as are usual in the -mouths of court pages. One day, at dinner, this malicious little cub was -so nettled with something I had said to him, that, raising himself upon -the frame of her majesty's chair, he took me up, as I was sitting down, -not thinking any harm; and let me drop into a large silver bowl of -cream, and then ran away as fast as he could. I fell over head and ears, -and, if I had not been a good swimmer, it might have gone very hard with -me; for Glumdalclitch, in that instant, happened to be at the other -end of the room, and the queen was in such a fright, that she wanted -presence of mind to assist me. But my little nurse ran to my relief, and -took me out, after I had swallowed above a quart of cream. I was put to -bed; however, I received no other damage than the loss of a suit of -clothes, which was utterly spoiled. The dwarf was soundly whipped, and, -as a farther punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which -he had thrown me; neither was he ever restored to favor; for, soon -after, the queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality, so that I saw -him no more, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not tell to what -extremity such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment. - -[Illustration: "I COULD ONLY REVENGE MYSELF BY CALLING HIM BROTHER." -P. 42.] - -He had before served me a scurvy trick, which set the queen a-laughing, -although, at the same time she was heartily vexed, and would have -immediately cashiered him, if I had not been so generous as to -intercede. Her majesty had taken a marrow-bone upon her plate and, after -knocking out the marrow, placed the bone on the dish erect, as it stood -before. The dwarf watching his opportunity, while Glumdalclitch was gone -to the sideboard, mounted upon the stool she stood on to take care of me -at meals, took me up in both hands, and, squeezing my legs together, -wedged them into the marrow-bone above my waist, where I stuck for some -time, and made a very ridiculous figure, I believe it was near a minute -before any one knew what was became of me; for I thought it below me to -cry out. But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not -scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. The dwarf, -at my entreaty, had no other punishment than a sound whipping. - -I was frequently rallied by the queen upon account of my fearfulness; -and she used to ask me, whether the people of my country were as great -cowards as myself? The occasion was this; the kingdom is much pestered -with flies in summer; and these odious insects, each of them as big as a -Dunstable lark,[61] hardly gave me any rest, while I sat at dinner, with -their continual humming and buzzing about my ears. They would sometimes -alight upon my victuals. Sometimes they would fix upon my nose or -forehead, where they stung me to the quick, and I had much ado to defend -myself against these detestable animals, and could not forbear starting -when they came on my face. It was the common practice of the dwarf, to -catch a number of these insects in his hand, as school-boys do among us, -and let them out suddenly under my nose, on purpose to frighten me, and -divert the queen. My remedy was, to cut them in pieces with my knife, as -they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired. - -[Illustration] - -I remember, one morning, when Glumdalclitch had set me in my box upon a -window, as she usually did in fair days, to give me air (for I durst not -venture to let the box be hung on a nail out of the window, as we do -with cages in England) after I had lifted up one of my sashes, and sat -down at my table to eat a piece of sweet-cake for my breakfast, above -twenty wasps, allured by the smell, came flying into the room, humming -louder than the drones[62] of as many bag-pipes. Some of them seized my -cake, and carried it piece-meal away; others flew about my head and -face, confounding me with the noise, and putting me in the utmost -terror of their stings. However, I had the courage to rise and draw my -hanger, and attack them in the air. I despatched four of them, but the -rest got away, and I presently shut my window. These creatures were as -large as partridges; I took out their stings, found them an inch and a -half long, and as sharp as needles. I carefully preserved them all, and -having since shown them, with some other curiosities, in several parts -of Europe, upon my return to England, I gave three of them to Gresham -College,[63] and kept the fourth for myself. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER IV. - - THE COUNTRY DESCRIBED. A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING MODERN MAPS. THE - KING'S PALACE, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE METROPOLIS. THE AUTHOR'S WAY - OF TRAVELLING. THE CHIEF TEMPLE DESCRIBED. - - -I now intend to give the reader a short description of this country, as -far as I travelled in it, which was not above two thousand miles round -Lorbrulgrud, the metropolis. For the queen, whom I always attended, -never went farther when she accompanied the king in his progresses, and -there staid till his majesty returned from viewing his frontiers. The -whole extent of this prince's dominions reacheth about six thousand -miles in length, and from three to five in breadth. From whence I cannot -but conclude, that our geographers of Europe are in a great error, by -supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California; for it was ever -my opinion, that there must be a balance of earth to counterpoise the -great continent of Tartary; and therefore they ought to correct their -maps and charts, by joining this vast tract of land to the northwest -parts of America, wherein I shall be ready to lend them my assistance. - -The kingdom is a peninsula, terminated to the northeast by a ridge of -mountains, thirty miles high, which are altogether impassable, by reason -of the volcanoes upon the tops: neither do the most learned know what -sort of mortals inhabit beyond those mountains, or whether they be -inhabited at all. On the three other sides it is bounded by the ocean. -There is not one sea-port in the whole kingdom, and those parts of the -coasts into which the rivers issue, are so full of pointed rocks, and -the sea generally so rough, that there is no venturing with the smallest -of their boats; so that these people are wholly excluded from any -commerce with the rest of the world. - -But the large rivers are full of vessels, and abound with excellent -fish, for they seldom get any from the sea, because the sea-fish are of -the same size with those in Europe, and consequently not worth catching, -whereby it is manifest, that nature, in the production of plants and -animals of so extraordinary a bulk, is wholly confined to this -continent, of which I leave the reasons to be determined by -philosophers. However, now and then, they take a whale, that happens to -be dashed against the rocks, which the common people feed on heartily. -These whales I have known so large, that a man could hardly carry one -upon his shoulders; and sometimes, for curiosity, they are brought in -hampers to Lorbrulgrud: I saw one of them in a dish at the king's table, -which passed for a rarity, but I did not observe he was fond of it; for -I think indeed the bigness disgusted him, although I have seen one -somewhat larger in Greenland. - -The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a -hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages. To satisfy my -curious reader, it may be sufficient to describe Lorbrulgrud. This city -stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes -through. It contains above eighty thousand houses, and about six hundred -thousand inhabitants. It is in length three _glomglungs_ (which make -about fifty-four English miles) and two and a half in breadth, as I -measured it myself in the royal map made by the king's order, which was -laid on the ground on purpose for me, and extended a hundred feet: I -paced the diameter and circumference several times barefoot, and, -computing by the scale, measured it pretty exactly. - -The king's palace is no regular edifice, but a heap of buildings, about -seven miles round: the chief rooms are generally two hundred and forty -feet high, and broad and long in proportion. A coach was allowed to -Glumdalclitch and me, wherein her governess frequently took her out to -see the town, or go among the shops; and I was always of the party, -carried in my box; although the girl, at my own desire, would often take -me out, and hold me in her hand, that I might more conveniently view the -houses and the people as we passed along the streets, I reckoned our -coach to be about the square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so -high: however, I cannot be very exact. - -Besides the large box in which I was usually carried, the queen ordered -a smaller one to be made for me, of about twelve feet square and ten -high, for the convenience of travelling, because the other was somewhat -too large for Glumdalclitch's lap, and cumbersome in the coach. It was -made by the same artist, whom I directed in the whole contrivance. This -travelling closet was an exact square,[64] with a window in the middle -of three of the squares, and each window was latticed with iron wire on -the outside, to prevent accidents in long journeys. On the fourth side, -which had no window, two strong staples were fixed, through which the -person who carried me, when I had a mind to be on horseback, put a -leathern belt, and buckled it about his waist. This was always the -office of some grave, trusty servant, in whom I could confide, whether I -attended the king and queen in their progresses, or were disposed to see -the gardens, or pay a visit to some great lady or minister of state in -the court; for I soon began to be known and esteemed among the greatest -officers, I suppose more on account of their majesties' favor than any -merit of my own. - -In journeys, when I was weary of the coach, a servant on horseback would -buckle on my box, and place it upon a cushion before him; and there I -had a full prospect of the country on three sides from my three windows. -I had in this closet a field-bed, and a hammock hung from the ceiling, -two chairs and a table, neatly screwed to the floor, to prevent being -tossed about by the agitation of the horse or the coach. And having been -long used to sea voyages, those motions, although sometimes very -violent, did not much discompose me. - -Whenever I had a mind to see the town, it was always in my travelling -closet, which Glumdalclitch held in her lap, in a kind of open sedan, -after the fashion of the country, borne by four men, and attended by two -others in the queen's livery. The people, who had often heard of me, -were very curious to crowd about the sedan, and the girl was complaisant -enough to make the bearers stop, and to take me in her hand, that I -might be more conveniently seen. - -I was very desirous to see the chief temple, and particularly the tower -belonging to it, which is reckoned the highest in the kingdom. -Accordingly, one day my nurse carried me thither, but I must truly say -I came back disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand -feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, -allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in -Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in -proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.[65] But, not to -detract from a nation, to which during my life I shall acknowledge -myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed that whatever this famous -tower wants in height is amply made up in beauty and strength. For the -walls are nearly a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each -is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of -gods and emperors, cut in marble larger than life, placed in their -several niches. I measured a little finger which had fallen down from -one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found -it exactly four feet and an inch in length. Glumdalclitch wrapped it up -in her handkerchief and carried it home in her pocket, to keep among -other trinkets, of which the girl was very fond, as children at her age -usually are. - -The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about -six hundred feet high. The great oven is not so wide by ten paces as the -cupola at St. Paul's, for I measured the latter on purpose after my -return. But if I should describe the kitchen-grate, the prodigious pots -and kettles, the joints of meat turning on the spits, with many other -particulars, perhaps I should be hardly believed; at least, a severe -critic would be apt to think I enlarged a little, as travellers are -often suspected to do. To avoid which censure, I fear I have run too -much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to -be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general -name of that kingdom) and transmitted thither, the king and his people -would have reason to complain that I had done them an injury, by a false -and diminutive representation. - -His majesty seldom keeps above six hundred horses in his stables: they -are generally from fifty-four to sixty feet high. But when he goes -abroad on solemn days, he is attended for state by a militia guard of -five hundred horse, which indeed I thought was the most splendid sight -that could be ever beheld, till I saw part of his army in battalia,[66] -whereof I shall find another occasion to speak. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER V. - - SEVERAL ADVENTURES THAT HAPPENED TO THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR SHOWS - HIS SKILL IN NAVIGATION. - - -I should have lived happily enough in that country, if my littleness had -not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome accidents, some of -which I shall venture to relate. Glumdalclitch often carried me into the -gardens of the court in my smaller box, and would sometimes take me out -of it, and hold me in her hand, or set me down to walk. I remember, -before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those -gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, -near some dwarf apple-trees, I must needs show my wit by a silly -allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their -language, as it doth in ours. Whereupon the malicious rogue, watching -his opportunity, when I was walking under one of them, shook it directly -over my head; by which a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a -Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the -back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face; but I -received no other hurt; and the dwarf was pardoned at my desire, because -I had given the provocation. - -[Illustration] - -Another day, Glumdalclitch left me on a smooth grass-plot to divert -myself, while she walked at some distance with her governess. In the -meantime there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail, that I was -immediately, by the force of it, struck to the ground; and when I was -down, the hail stones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body as if I -had been pelted with tennis-balls, however, I made a shift to creep on -all fours, and shelter myself by lying flat on my face on the lee-side -of a border of lemon-thyme, but so bruised from head to foot that I -could not go abroad in ten days. Neither is this at all to be wondered -at, because nature, in that country, observing the same proportion -through all her operations, a hail-stone is near eighteen hundred times -as large as one in Europe, which I can assert upon experience, having -been so curious to weigh and measure them. - -But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden, when my -little nurse, believing she had put me in a secure place, which I often -entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own thoughts, and having left -my box at home, to avoid the trouble of carrying it, went to another -part of the garden with governess and some ladies of her acquaintance, -she was absent and out of hearing, a small white belonging to one of the -chief gardeners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to -place where I lay: the dog, following the scent, came directly up, and -taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master, wagging his tail, -and set me gently on the ground. By good fortune, he had been so well -taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or -even tearing my clothes. But the poor gardener, who knew me well, and -had a great kindness for me, was in a terrible fright: he gently took me -up in both his hands, and asked me how I did; but I was so amazed and -out of breath, that I could not speak a word. In a few minutes I came to -myself, and he carried me safe to my little nurse, who by this time had -returned to the place where she left me, and was in cruel agonies when I -did not appear nor answer when she called. She severely reprimanded the -gardener on account of his dog, but the thing was bushed up and never -known at court; for the girl was afraid of the queen's anger, and truly, -as to myself, I thought it would not be for my reputation that such a -story should go about. - -This accident absolutely determined Glumdalclitch never to trust me -abroad for the future out of her sight. I had been long afraid of this -resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky -adventures that happened in those times when I was left by myself. Once -a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me; and if I had not -resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier,[67] he would -have certainly carried me away in his talons. Another time, walking to -the top of a fresh mole-hill, I fell to my neck in the hole through -which that animal had cast up the earth. I likewise broke my right shin -against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over as I was -walking alone and thinking on poor England. - -I cannot tell whether I were more pleased or mortified to observe in -those solitary walks that the smaller birds did not appear to be at all -afraid of me, but would hop about within a yard's distance, looking for -worms and other food, with as much indifference and security as if no -creature at all were near them. I remember a thrush had the confidence -to snatch out of my hand with his bill a piece of cake that -Glumdalclitch had just given me for my breakfast. - -When I attempted to catch any of these birds they would boldly turn -against me, endeavoring to pick my fingers, which I durst not venture -within their reach; and then they would hop back unconcerned to hunt for -worms and snails as they did before. But one day I took a thick cudgel, -and threw it with all my strength so luckily at a linnet that I knocked -him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands ran with him in -triumph to my nurse. However, the bird, who had only been stunned, -recovering himself, gave me so many boxes with his wings on both sides -of my head and body, though I held him at arm's length and was out of -the reach of his claws, that I was twenty times thinking of letting him -go. But I was soon relieved by one of our servants, who wrung off the -bird's neck, and I had him next day for dinner by the queen's command. -This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger -than an English swan. - -The queen, who often used to hear me talk of my sea-voyages, and took -all occasions to divert me when I was melancholy, asked me, whether I -understood how to handle a sail or an oar, and whether a little exercise -of rowing might not be convenient for my health. I answered, that I -understood both very well; for, although my proper employment had been -to be surgeon or doctor to the ship, yet often, upon a pinch, I was -forced to work like a common mariner. But I could not see how this could -be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a -first-rate man-of-war among us, and such a boat as I could manage would -never live in any of their rivers. - -[Illustration: "THE SMALLER BIRDS DID NOT APPEAR TO BE AT ALL AFRAID OF -ME." P. 57.] - -Her majesty said, if I could contrive a boat, her own joiner should make -it, and she would provide a place for me to sail in. The fellow was an -ingenious workman, and, by my instructions, in ten days finished a -pleasure-boat, with all its tackling, able conveniently to hold eight -Europeans. When it was finished, the queen was so delighted that she -ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put in a -cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial; where I could not -manage my two sculls,[68] or little oars, for want of room. - -But the queen had before contrived another project. She ordered the -joiner to make a wooden trough of three hundred feet long, fifty broad, -and eight deep; which, being well pitched, to prevent leaking, was -placed on the floor along the wall in an outer room of the palace. It -had a cock near the bottom to let out the water, when it began to grow -stale; and two servants could easily fill it in half-an-hour. Here I -often used to row for my own diversion, as well as that of the queen and -her ladies, who thought themselves well entertained with my skill and -agility. Sometimes I would put up my sail, and then my business was only -to steer, while the ladies gave me a gale with their fans; and when they -were weary, some of their pages would blow my sail forward with their -breath, while I showed my art by steering starboard[69] or larboard, as -I pleased. When I had done, Glumdalclitch always carried back my boat, -into her closet, and hung it oh a nail to dry. - -In this exercise I once met an accident, which had like to have cost me -my life; for one of the pages having put my boat into the trough, the -governess, who attended Glumdalclitch, very officiously lifted me up to -place me in the boat, but I happened to slip through her fingers, and -should infallibly have fallen down forty feet upon the floor, if, by the -luckiest chance in the world, I had not been stopped by a -corking-pin[70] that stuck in the good gentlewoman's stomacher;[71] the -head of the pin passed between my shirt and the waistband of my -breeches, and thus I held by the middle in the air, till Glumdalclitch -ran to my relief. - -[Illustration: "GAVE ME A GALE WITH THEIR FANS." P. 60.] - -Another time, one of the servants, whose office it was to fill my trough -every third day with fresh water, was so careless as to let a huge frog -(not perceiving it) slip out of his pail. The frog lay concealed till I -was put into my boat, but then seeing a resting-place, climbed up, and -made it lean so much on one side that I was forced to balance it with -all my weight on the other to prevent overturning. When the frog was got -in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head -backwards and forwards. The largeness of its features made it appear the -most deformed animal that can be conceived. However, I desired -Glumdalclitch to let me deal with it alone. I banged it a good while -with one of my sculls, and at last forced it to leap out of the boat. - -But the greatest danger I ever underwent in that kingdom was from a -monkey, who belonged to one of the clerks of the kitchen. Glumdalclitch -had locked me up in her closet, while she went somewhere upon business -or a visit. The weather being very warm the closet window was left open, -as well as the windows and the door of my bigger box, in which I usually -lived, because of its largeness and conveniency. As I sat quietly -meditating at my table, I heard something bounce in at the closet -window, and skip about from one side to the other; whereat, although I -was much alarmed, yet I ventured to look out, but not stirring from my -seat; and then I saw this frolicsome animal frisking and leaping up and -down, till at last he came to my box, which he seemed to view with -great pleasure and curiosity, peeping in at the door and every window. - -[Illustration] - -I retreated to the farther corner of my room or box; but the monkey -looking in at every side, put me into such a fright that I wanted -presence of mind to conceal myself under the bed, as I might easily have -done. After some time spent in peeping, grinning, and chattering, he at -last espied me, and reaching one of his paws in at the door, as a cat -does when she plays with a mouse, although I often shifted place to -avoid him, he at length seized the lappet of my coat (which, being made -of that country silk, was very thick and strong), and dragged me out. He -took me out in his right fore-foot, and held me as a nurse does a child, -just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in -Europe: and, when I offered to struggle, he squeezed me so hard that I -thought it more prudent to submit. I have good reason to believe that he -took me for a young one of his own species, by his often stroking my -face very gently with his other paw. - -In these diversions he was interrupted by a noise at the closet door, as -if somebody were opening it; whereupon he suddenly leaped up to the -window, at which he had come in, and thence upon the leads and gutters -walking upon three legs, and holding me in the fourth, till he clambered -up to a roof that was next to ours. I heard Glumdalclitch give a shriek -at the moment he was carrying me out. The poor girl was almost -distracted. That quarter of the palace was all in an uproar; the -servants ran for ladders; the monkey was seen by hundreds in the court, -sitting upon the ridge of a building, holding me like a baby in one of -his fore-paws: whereat many of the rabble below could not forbear -laughing; neither do I think they justly ought to be blamed, for without -question, the sight was ridiculous enough to everybody but myself. Some -of the people threw up stones, hoping to drive the monkey down; but this -was strictly forbidden, or else very probably my brains had been dashed -out. - -The ladders were now applied, and mounted by several men, which the -monkey observing, and finding himself almost encompassed, not being able -to make speed enough with his three legs, let me drop on a ridge tile, -and made his escape. Here I sat for some time, five hundred yards from -the ground, expecting every moment to be blown down by the wind, or to -fall by my own giddiness, and come tumbling over and over from the ridge -to the eaves; but an honest lad, one of my nurse's footmen, climbed up, -and putting me into his breeches-pocket, brought me down safe. - -I was so weak and bruised in the sides with the squeezes given me by -this odious animal, that I was forced to keep my bed a fortnight. The -king, queen, and all the court, sent every day to inquire after my -health, and her majesty made me several visits during my sickness. The -monkey was killed, and an order made that no such animal should be kept -about the palace. - -When I attended the king, after my recovery, to return him thanks for -his favors, he was pleased to rally me a good deal upon this adventure. -He asked me what my thoughts and speculations were while I lay in the -monkey's paw. He desired to know what I would have done upon such an -occasion in my own country. I told his majesty that in Europe we had no -monkeys, except such as were brought for curiosities from other places, -and so small, that I could deal with a dozen of them together if they -presumed to attack me. And as for that monstrous animal with whom I was -so lately engaged (it was, indeed, as large as an elephant) if my fears -had suffered me to think so far as to make use of my hanger (looking -fiercely, and clapping my hand upon the hilt, as I spoke) when he poked -his paw into my chamber, perhaps I should have given him such a wound as -would have made him glad to withdraw it with more haste than he put it -in. This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest -his courage should be called in question. - -However, my speech produced nothing else besides a loud laughter, which -all the respect due to his majesty from those about him could not make -them contain. This made me reflect how vain an attempt it is for a man -to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of -equality or comparison with him. And yet I have seen the moral of my own -behavior very frequent in England since my return, where a little -contemptible varlet,[72] without the least title to birth, person, wit, -or common-sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself -upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom. - -I was every day furnishing the court with some ridiculous story; and -Glumdalclitch, although she loved me to excess, yet was arch enough to -inform the queen whenever I committed any folly that she thought would -be diverting to her majesty. The girl, who had been out of order, was -carried by her governess to take the air about an hour's distance, or -thirty miles from town. They alighted out of the coach near a small -footpath in a field, and, Glumdalclitch setting down my travelling-box, -I went out of it to walk. There was a pool of mud in the path, and I -must needs try my activity by attempting to leap over it. I took a run, -but unfortunately jumped short, and found myself just in the middle up -to my knees. I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the -footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was -filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box till we returned -home, when the queen was soon informed of what had passed, and the -footman spread it about the court; so that all the mirth for some days -was at my expense. - - - - -CHAPTER VI. - - SEVERAL CONTRIVANCES OF THE AUTHOR TO PLEASE THE KING AND QUEEN. HE - SHOWS HIS SKILL IN MUSIC. THE KING INQUIRES INTO THE STATE OF - ENGLAND, WHICH THE AUTHOR RELATES TO HIM. THE KING'S OBSERVATIONS - THEREON. - - -I used to attend the king's levee[73] once or twice a week, and had -often seen him under the barber's hand, which indeed was at first very -terrible to behold; for the razor was almost twice as long as an -ordinary scythe. His majesty, according to the custom of the country, -was only shaved twice a week. I once prevailed on the barber to give me -some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the -strongest stumps of hair, I then took a piece of fine wood and cut it -like the back of a comb, making several holes in it at equal distance -with as small a needle as I could get from Glumdalclitch. I fixed in the -stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife towards -the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable -supply, my own being so much broken in the teeth that it was almost -useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact -as would undertake to make me another. - -And this puts me in mind of an amusement wherein I spent many of my -leisure hours. I desired the queen's woman to save for me the combings -of her majesty's hair, whereof in time I got a good quantity; and -consulting with my friend the cabinet-maker, who had received general -orders to do little jobs for me, I directed him to make two -chair-frames, no larger than those I had in my box, and then to bore -little holes with a fine awl round those parts where I designed the -backs and seats; through these holes I wove the strongest hairs I could -pick out, just after the manner of cane chairs in England. When they -were finished I made a present of them to her majesty, who kept them in -her cabinet, and used to shew them for curiosities, as indeed they were -the wonder of every one that beheld them. Of these hairs (as I had -always a mechanical genius) I likewise made a neat little purse, about -five feet long, with her majesty's name deciphered in gold letters, -which I gave to Glumdalclitch, by the queen's consent. To say the truth, -it was more for show than use, being not of strength to bear the weight -of the larger coins, and therefore she kept nothing in it, but some -little coins that girls are fond of. - -The king, who delighted in music, had frequent concerts at court, to -which I was sometimes carried, and set in my box on a table to hear -them; but the noise was so great that I could hardly distinguish the -tunes. I am confident that all the drums and trumpets of a royal army -beating and sounding together just at your ears, could not equal it. My -practice was to have my box removed from the place where the performers -sat, as far as I could, then to shut the doors and windows of it, and -draw the window-curtains, after which I found their music not -disagreeable. - -[Illustration] - -I had learnt in my youth to play a little upon the spinet.[74] -Glumdalclitch kept one in her chamber, and a master attended twice a -week to teach her. I called it a spinet, because it somewhat resembled -that instrument, and was played upon in the same manner. - -A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen -with an English tune upon this instrument. But this appeared extremely -difficult; for the spinet was nearly sixty feet long, each key being -almost a foot wide, so that with my arms extended I could not reach to -above five keys, and to press them down required a good smart stroke -with my fist, which would be too great a labor, and to no purpose. The -method I contrived was this: I prepared two round sticks, about the -bigness of common cudgels; they were thicker at one end than the other, -and I covered the thicker ends with a piece of mouse's skin, that by -rapping on them I might neither damage the tops of the keys nor -interrupt the sound. Before the spinet a bench was placed about four -feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench. I ran sideling upon -it that way and this as fast as I could, banging the proper keys with my -two sticks, and made a shift to play a jig to the great satisfaction of -both their majesties; but it was the most violent exercise I ever -underwent, and yet I could not strike above sixteen keys, nor -consequently play the bass and treble together as other artists do, -which was a great disadvantage to my performance. - -The king, who, as I before observed, was a prince of excellent -understanding, would frequently order that I should be brought in my -box, and set upon the table in his closet.[75] He would then command me -to bring one of my chairs out of the box, and sit down within three -yards distance upon the top of the cabinet, which brought me almost to a -level with his face. In this manner I had several conversations with -him. I one day took the freedom to tell his majesty that the contempt -he discovered towards Europe and the rest of the world did not seem -answerable to those excellent qualities of mind that he was master of; -that reason did not extend itself with the bulk of the body; on the -contrary, we observed in our country that the tallest persons were -usually least provided with it. That, among other animals, bees and ants -had the reputation of more industry, art, and sagacity than many of the -larger kinds; and that, as inconsiderable as he took me to be, I hoped I -might live to do his majesty some signal[76] service. The king heard me -with attention, and began to conceive a much better opinion of me than -he had ever before. He desired I would give him as exact an account of -the government of England as I possibly could because, as fond as -princes commonly are of their own customs (for he conjectured of other -monarchs by my former discourses), he should be glad to hear of anything -that might deserve imitation. - -Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the -tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate -the praise of my own dear native country, in a style equal to its merits -and felicity. - -[Illustration: "THE MOST VIOLENT EXERCISE I EVER UNDERWENT." P. 71.] - -I began my discourse by informing his majesty that our dominions -consisted of two islands, which composed three mighty kingdoms, under -one sovereign, besides our plantations in America. I dwelt long upon the -fertility of our soil and the temperature of our climate. I then spoke -at large upon the constitution of an English parliament, partly made up -of an illustrious body, called the House of Peers, persons of the -noblest blood and of the most ancient and ample patrimonies. I -described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in -arts and arms, to qualify them for being counsellors both to the king -and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the -highest court of judicature, from whence there could be no appeal; and -to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and -country, by their valor, conduct, and fidelity. That these were the -ornament and bulwark of the kingdom, worthy followers of their most -renowned ancestors, whose honor had been the reward of their virtue, -from which their posterity were never once known to degenerate. To these -were joined several holy persons, as part of that assembly, under the -title of bishops, whose peculiar business it is to take care of -religion, and those who instruct the people therein. These were searched -and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest -counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly -distinguished by the sanctity of their lives and the depth of their -erudition, who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the -people. - -That the other part of the parliament consisted of an assembly, called -the House of Commons, who were all principal gentlemen, _freely_ picked -and culled out by the people themselves, for their great abilities and -love of their country, to represent the wisdom of the whole nation. And -that these two bodies made up the most august assembly in Europe, to -whom, in conjunction with the prince, the whole legislature is -committed. - -I then descended to the courts of justice, over which the judges, those -venerable sages and interpreters of the law, presided, for determining -the disputed rights and properties of men, as well as for the punishment -of vice and protection of innocence. I mentioned the prudent management -of our treasury, the valor and achievements of our forces by sea and -land. I computed the number of our people, by reckoning how many -millions there might be of each religious sect or political party among -us. I did not omit even our sports and pastimes, or any other -particular, which I thought might redound to the honor of my country. -And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events -in England for about a hundred years past. - -This conversation was not ended under five audiences, each of several -hours; and the king heard the whole with great attention, frequently -taking notes of what I spoke, as well as memorandums of what questions -he intended to ask me. - -When I had put an end to these long discourses, his majesty, in a sixth -audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and -objections, upon every article. He asked what methods were used to -cultivate the minds and bodies of our young nobility, and in what kind -of business they commonly spent the first and teachable part of their -lives? What course was taken to supply that assembly when any noble -family became extinct? What qualifications were necessary in those who -are to be created new lords; whether the humor of the prince, a sum of -money to a court lady as a prime minister, or a design of strengthening -a party opposite to the public interest, ever happened to be motives in -those advancements? What share of knowledge these lords had in the laws -of their country, and how they came by it, so as to enable them to -decide the properties of their fellow-subjects in the last resort? -Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, -that a bribe or some other sinister view could have no place among them? -Whether those holy lords I spoke of were always promoted to that rank -upon account of their knowledge in religious matters and the sanctity of -their lives; had never been compilers with the times while they were -common priests, or slavish prostitute chaplains to some noblemen, whose -opinions they continued servilely to follow, after they were admitted -into that assembly? - -He then desired to know what arts were practised in electing those whom -I called commoners; whether a stranger, with a strong purse, might not -influence the vulgar voters to choose him before their own landlord, or -the most considerable gentleman in the neighborhood? How it came to pass -that people were so violently bent upon getting into this assembly, -which I allowed to be a great trouble and expense, often to the ruin of -their families, without any salary or pension: because this appeared -such an exalted strain of virtue and public spirit, that his majesty -seemed to doubt it might possibly not be always sincere; and he desired -to know whether such zealous gentlemen could have any views of refunding -themselves for the charges and trouble they were at, by sacrificing the -public good to the designs of a weak and vicious prince, in conjunction -with a corrupted ministry? He multiplied his questions, and sifted me -thoroughly upon every part of this head, proposing numberless inquiries -and objections, which I think it not prudent or convenient to repeat. - -Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty -desired to be satisfied in several points; and this I was the better -able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in -chancery,[77] which was decreed for me with costs. He asked what time -was usually spent in determining between right and wrong, and what -degree of expense? Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in -causes, manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Whether -party in religion or politics was observed to be of any weight in the -scale of justice? Whether those pleading orators were persons educated -in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and -other local customs? Whether they, or their judges, had any part in -penning those laws which they assumed the liberty of interpreting and -glossing[78] upon at their pleasure? Whether they had ever, at different -times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to -prove contrary opinions? Whether they were a rich or a poor corporation? -Whether they received any pecuniary reward for pleading or delivering -their opinions? And, particularly, whether they were admitted as members -in the lower senate? - -He fell next upon the management of our treasury, and said he thought my -memory had failed me, because I computed our taxes at about five or six -millions a year, and, when I came to mention the issues, he found they -sometimes amounted to more than double; for the notes he had taken were -very particular in this point, because he hoped, as he told me, that the -knowledge of our conduct might be useful to him, and he could not be -deceived in his calculations. But if what I told him were true, he was -still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private -person. He asked me who were our creditors, and where we found to pay -them. He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and expensive wars; -that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad -neighbors and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings. He -asked what business we had out of our own islands, unless upon the score -of trade or treaty, or to defend the coasts with our fleet. Above all, -he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst -of peace and among a free people. He said if we were governed by our own -consent, in the persons of our representatives, he could not imagine of -whom we were afraid, or against whom we were to fight; and would hear my -opinion, whether a private man's house might not better be defended by -himself, his children, and family, than by half-a-dozen rascals, picked -up at a venture in the streets for small wages, who might get a hundred -times more by cutting their throats? - -He laughed at my odd kind of arithmetic (as he was pleased to call it), -in reckoning the numbers of our people by a computation drawn from the -several sects among us, in religion and politics. He said, he knew no -reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should -be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And as -it was tyranny in any government to require the first, so it was -weakness not to enforce the second: for a man may be allowed to keep -poisons in his closet, but not to vend them about for cordials. - -He observed, that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had -mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was -usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it -employed: whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes: -whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not -arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in -dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take -them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses -they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon -others? - -He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of -our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only a heap of -conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, -the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, -cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could -produce. - -His majesty, in another audience, was at the pains to recapitulate the -sum of all I had spoken; compared the questions he made with the answers -I had given; then taking me into his hands, and stroking me gently, -delivered himself in these words which I shall never forget, nor the -manner he spoke them in: "My little friend Grildrig, you have made a -most admirable panegyric upon your country; you have clearly proved that -ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying -a legislator; that laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by -those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and -eluding them. I observe among you some lines of an institution, which in -its original might have been tolerable, but these half erased, and the -rest wholly blurred and blotted by corruptions. It doth not appear, from -all you have said, how any one perfection is required towards the -procurement of any one station among you; much less that men are -ennobled on account of their virtue, that priests are advanced for their -piety or learning, soldiers for their conduct or valor, judges for their -integrity, senators for the love of their country, or counsellors for -their wisdom. As for yourself, continued the king, who have spent the -greatest part of your life in travelling, I am well disposed to hope you -may hitherto have escaped many vices of your country. But by what I have -gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains -wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your -natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that -nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth." - -[Illustration: "YOU HAVE MADE A MOST ADMIRABLE PANEGYRIC." P. 79.] - - - - -CHAPTER VII - - THE AUTHOR'S LOVE OF HIS COUNTRY. HE MAKES A PROPOSAL OF MUCH - ADVANTAGE TO THE KING, WHICH IS REJECTED. THE KING'S GREAT - IGNORANCE IN POLITICS. THE LEARNING OF THAT COUNTRY VERY IMPERFECT - AND CONFINED. THE LAWS, AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, AND PARTIES IN THE - STATE. - - -Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from -concealing this part of my story. It was in vain to discover my -resentments, which were always turned into ridicule; and I was forced to -rest with patience, while my noble and beloved country was so -injuriously treated. I am as heartily sorry as any of my readers can -possibly be, that such an occasion was given: but this prince happened -to be so curious and inquisitive upon every particular, that it could -not consist either with gratitude or good manners, to refuse giving him -what satisfaction I was able. Yet this much I may be allowed to say, in -my own vindication, that I artfully eluded many of his questions, and -gave to every point a more favorable turn, by many degrees, than the -strictness of truth would allow. For I have always borne that laudable -partiality to my own country, which Dionysius Halicarnassensis[79] with -so much justice, recommends to an historian: I would hide the frailties -and deformities of my political mother, and place her virtues and -beauties in the most advantageous light. This was my sincere endeavor, -in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it -unfortunately failed of success. - -But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded -from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether -unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other -nations: the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, -and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we and the politer -countries of Europe are wholly exempted. And it would be hard indeed, if -so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a -standard for all mankind. - -To confirm what I have now said, and farther to show the miserable -effects of a confined education, I shall here insert a passage which -will hardly obtain belief. In hopes to ingratiate myself farther into -his majesty's favor, I told him of an invention discovered between three -and four hundred years ago, to make a certain powder into a heap, on -which the smallest spark of fire falling would kindle the whole in a -moment, although it were as big as a mountain, and make it all fly up in -the air together with a noise and agitation greater than thunder. That a -proper quantity of this powder rammed into a hollow tube of brass or -iron, according to its bigness, would drive a ball of iron or lead with -such violence and speed as nothing was able to sustain its force. That -the largest balls thus discharged would not only destroy whole ranks of -an army at once, but batter the strongest walls to the ground, sink -down ships with a thousand men in each to the bottom of the sea; and, -when linked together by a chain, would cut through masts and rigging, -divide hundreds of bodies in the middle, and lay all waste before them. -That we often put this powder into large hollow balls of iron, and -discharged them by an engine into some city we were besieging, which -would rip up the pavements, tear the houses to pieces, burst and throw -splinters on every side, dashing out the brains of all who came near. -That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I -understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workman -how to make those tubes of a size proportionable to all other things in -his majesty's kingdom, and the largest need not to be above a hundred -feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper -quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the -strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole -metropolis if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands. -This I humbly offered to his majesty as a small tribute of -acknowledgment, in return for so many marks that I had received of his -royal favor and protection. - -The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of -those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made. He was amazed, how -so impotent and grovelling an insect as I (these were his expressions), -could entertain such inhuman ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to -appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation, which I -had painted, as the common effects of those destructive machines, -whereof, he said, some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the -first contriver. As for himself, he protested, that although few things -delighted him so much as new discoveries in art or in nature, yet he -would rather lose half his kingdom than be privy to such a secret, which -he commanded me, as I valued my life, never to mention any more. - -A strange effect of narrow principles and short views! that a prince -possessed of every quality which procures veneration, love, and esteem; -of strong parts, great wisdom, and profound learning, endowed with -admirable talents for government, and almost adored by his subjects, -should, from a nice unnecessary scruple, whereof in Europe we can have -no conception, let slip an opportunity put into his hands, that would -have made him absolute master of the lives, the liberties, and the -fortunes of his people. Neither do I say this with the least intention -to detract from the many virtues of that excellent king, whose character -I am sensible will on this account be very much lessened in the opinion -of an English reader; but I take this defect among them to have arisen -from their ignorance, by not having hitherto reduced politics into a -science, as the more acute wits of Europe have done. For I remember very -well, in a discourse one day with the king, when I happened to say there -were several thousand books among us, written upon the art of -government, it gave him (directly contrary to my intention) a very mean -opinion of our understandings. He professed both to abominate and -despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a -minister. He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an -enemy or some rival nation were not in the case. He confined the -knowledge of governing within very narrow bounds, to common sense and -reason, to justice and lenity, to the speedy determination of civil and -criminal causes, with some other obvious topics, which are not worth -considering. And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two -ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground, -where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more -essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put -together. - -The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in -morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed -to excel. But the last of these is wholly applied to what may be useful -in life, to the improvement of agriculture, and all mechanical arts; so -that among us it would be little esteemed. And as to ideas, entities, -abstractions, and transcendentals,[80] I could never drive the least -conception into their heads. - -No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in -their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty. But indeed few of -them extend even to that length. They are expressed in the most plain -and simple terms, wherein those people are not mercurial[81] enough to -discover above one interpretation; and to write a comment upon any law -is a capital crime. As to the decision of civil causes, or proceedings -against criminals, their precedents are so few, that they have little -reason to boast of any extraordinary skill in either. - -They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of -mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, -which is reckoned the largest, doth not amount to above a thousand -volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, from whence I -had liberty to borrow what books I pleased. The queen's joiner had -contrived in one of Glumdalclitch's rooms, a kind of wooden machine, -five-and-twenty feet high, formed like a standing ladder; the steps were -each fifty feet long: it was indeed a movable pair of stairs, the lowest -end placed at ten feet distance from the wall of the chamber. The book I -had a mind to read was put up leaning against the wall: I first mounted -to the upper step of the ladder, and turning my face towards the book -began at the top of the page, and so walking to the right and left about -eight or ten paces, according to the length of the lines, till I had -gotten a little below the level of mine eyes, and then descending -gradually, till I came to the bottom: after which I mounted again, and -began the other page in the same manner, and so turned over the leaf, -which I could easily do with both my hands, for it was as thick and -stiff as a paste-board, and in the largest folios not above eighteen or -twenty feet long. - -Their style is clear, masculine, and smooth, but not florid; for they -avoid nothing more than multiplying unnecessary words, or using various -expressions. I have perused many of their books, especially those in -history and morality. Among the rest, I was much diverted with a little -old treatise, which always lay in Glumdalclitch's bed-chamber, and -belonged to her governess, a grave elderly gentlewoman, who dealt in -writings of morality and devotion. The book treats of the weakness of -human kind, and is in little esteem, except among the women and the -vulgar. However, I was curious to see what an author of that country -could say upon such a subject. - -[Illustration] - -This writer went through all the usual topics of European moralists, -showing how diminutive, contemptible, and helpless an animal was man in -his own nature; how unable to defend himself from inclemencies of the -air, or the fury of wild beasts; how much he was excelled by one -creature in strength, by another in speed, by a third in foresight, by a -fourth in industry. He added, that nature was degenerated in these -latter declining ages of the world, and could now produce only small -births, in comparison to those in ancient times. He said, it was very -reasonable to think, not only that the species of men were originally -much larger, but also, that there must have been giants in former ages; -which as it is asserted by history and tradition, so it hath been -confirmed by huge bones and skulls, casually dug up in several parts of -the kingdom, far exceeding the common dwindled race of man in our days. -He argued, that the very laws of nature absolutely required we should -have been made in the beginning of a size more large and robust, not so -liable to destruction, from every little accident, of a tile falling -from a house, or a stone cast from the hand of a boy, or being drowned -in a little brook. From this way of reasoning the author drew several -moral applications, useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to -repeat. For my own part, I could not avoid reflecting, how universally -this talent was spread, of drawing lectures in morality, or, indeed, -rather matter of discontent and repining, from the quarrels we raise -with nature. And I believe, upon a strict inquiry, those quarrels might -be shown as ill-grounded among us as they are among that people. - -As to their military affairs, they boast that the king's army consists -of a hundred and seventy-six thousand foot, and thirty-two thousand -horse: if that may be called an army which is made up of tradesmen in -the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are -only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward. They are indeed -perfect enough in their exercises, and under very good discipline, -wherein I saw no great merit; for how should it be otherwise, where -every farmer is under the command of his own landlord, and every citizen -under that of the principal men in his own city, chosen after the manner -of Venice, by ballot? - -I have often seen the militia of Lorbrulgrud drawn out to exercise in a -great field, near the city, of twenty miles square. They were in all not -above twenty-five thousand foot, and six thousand horse: but it was -impossible for me to compute their number, considering the space of -ground they took up. A cavalier, mounted on a large steed, might be -about ninety feet high. I have seen this whole body of horse, upon a -word of command, draw their swords at once, and brandish them in the -air. Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so surprising, and so -astonishing! it looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were -darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky. - -I was curious to know how this prince, to whose dominions there is no -access from any other country, came to think of armies, or to teach his -people the practice of military discipline. But I was soon informed, -both by conversation and reading their histories: for in the course of -many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the -whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for -power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion. All -which, however, happily tempered by the laws of that kingdom, have been -sometimes violated by each of the three parties, and have more than once -occasioned civil wars, the last whereof was happily put an end to by -this prince's grandfather, in a general composition;[82] and the -militia, then settled with common consent, hath been ever since kept in -the strictest duty. - -[Illustration] - - - - -CHAPTER VIII - - THE KING AND QUEEN MAKE A PROGRESS[83] TO THE FRONTIERS. THE AUTHOR - ATTENDS THEM. THE MANNER IN WHICH HE LEAVES THE COUNTRY VERY - PARTICULARLY RELATED. HE RETURNS TO ENGLAND. - - -I had always a strong impulse that I should sometime recover my liberty, -though it was impossible to conjecture by what means, or to form any -project with the least hope of succeeding. The ship in which I sailed -was the first ever known to be driven within sight of the coast; and the -king had given strict orders, that if at any time another appeared, it -should be taken ashore, and with all its crew and passengers brought in -a tumbrel[84] to Lorbrulgrud. I was treated with much kindness: I was -the favorite of a great king and queen, and the delight of the whole -court; but it was upon such a footing as ill became the dignity of human -kind. I could never forget those domestic pledges I had left behind me. -I wanted to be among people with whom I could converse upon even terms, -and walk about the streets and fields, without being afraid of being -trod to death like a frog or a young puppy. But my deliverance came -sooner than I expected, and in a manner not very common: the whole story -and circumstances of which I shall faithfully relate. - -[Illustration: "SHE HAD SOME FOREBODING." P. 94.] - -I had now been two years in this country; and about the beginning of -the third, Glumdalclitch and I attended the king and queen in a progress -to the south coast of the kingdom. I was carried, as usual, in my -travelling-box, which, as I have already described, was a very -convenient closet of twelve feet wide. And I had ordered a hammock to be -fixed by silken ropes from the four corners at the top, to break the -jolts, when a servant carried me before him on horseback, as I sometimes -desired, and would often sleep in my hammock while we were upon the -road. On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the -hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to -give me air in hot weather as I slept, which hole I shut at pleasure -with a board that drew backwards and forwards through a groove. - -When we came to our journey's end, the king thought proper to pass a few -days at a palace he hath near Flanflasnic, a city within eighteen -English of the sea-side Glumdalclitch and I were much fatigued, I had -gotten a small cold, but the poor girl was so ill as to be confined to -her chamber. I longed to see the ocean, which must be the only scene of -my escape, if ever it should happen I pretended to be worse than I -really was, and desired leave to take the fresh air of the sea with a -page, whom I was very fond of, and who had sometimes been trusted with -me. I shall never forget with what unwillingness Glumdalclitch -consented, nor the strict charge she gave the page[85] to be careful of -me, bursting at the same time into a flood of tears, as if she had some -foreboding of what was to happen. - -The boy took me out in my box about half-an-hour's walk from the palace -towards the rocks on the sea-shore. I ordered him to set me down, and -lifting up one of my sashes, cast many a wistful melancholy look towards -the sea. I found myself not very well, and told the page that I had a -mind to take a nap in my hammock, which I hoped would do me good. I got -in, and the boy shut the window close down to keep out the cold. I soon -fell asleep, and all I can conjecture is, that while I slept, the page, -thinking no danger could happen, went among the rocks to look for birds' -eggs, having before observed him from my windows searching about, and -picking up one or two in the clefts. Be that as it will, I found myself -suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at -the top of my box for the conveniency of carriage. I felt my box raised -very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed. The -first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterwards -the motion was easy enough. I called out several times, as loud as I -could raise my voice, but all to no purpose. I looked towards my -windows, and could see nothing but the clouds and sky. I heard a noise -just over my head like the clapping of wings, and then began to perceive -the woful condition I was in, that some eagle had got the ring of my box -in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock like a tortoise in -a shell, and then pick out my body and devour it; for the sagacity and -smell of this bird enabled him to discover his quarry[86] at a great -distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch -board. - -[Illustration] - -In a little time I observed the noise and flutter of wings to increase -very fast, and my box was tossed up and down like a sign in a windy day. -I heard several bangs or buffets, as I thought, given to the eagle (for -such I am certain it must have been, that held the ring of my box in his -beak), and then all on a sudden felt myself falling perpendicularly down -for above a minute, but with such incredible swiftness, that I almost -lost my breath. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash,[87] that -sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara; after which I -was quite in the dark for another minute, and then my box began to rise -so high that I could see light from the tops of the windows. I now -perceived I was fallen into the sea. My box, by the weight of my body, -the goods that were in, and the broad plates of iron fixed for strength -at the four corners of the top and bottom, floated about five feet deep -in the water. I did then, and do now suppose, that the eagle which flew -away with my box was pursued by two or three others, and forced to let -me drop while he defended himself against the rest, who hoped to share -in the prey. The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for -those were the strongest) preserved the balance while it fell, and -hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water. Every joint -of it was well grooved, and the door did not move on hinges, but up and -down like a sash, which kept my closet so tight that very little water -came in. I got with much difficulty out of my hammock, having first -ventured to draw back my slip-board on the roof already mentioned, -contrived on purpose to let in air, for want of which I found myself -almost stifled. - -How often did I then wish myself with my dear Glumdalclitch, from whom -one single hour had so far divided me. And I may say with truth that in -the midst of my own misfortunes I could not forbear lamenting my poor -nurse, the grief she would suffer for my loss, the displeasure of the -queen, and the ruin of her fortune. Perhaps many travellers have not -been under greater difficulties and distress than I was at juncture, -expecting every moment to see my box dashed to pieces, or at least -overset by the first violent blast or rising wave. A breach in one -single pane of glass would have been immediate death; nor could anything -have preserved the windows but the strong lattice-wires placed on the -outside against accidents in travelling. I saw the water ooze in at -several crannies, although the leaks were not considerable, and I -endeavored to stop them as well as I could, I was not able to lift up -the roof of my closet, which otherwise I certainly should have done, and -sat on the top of it, where I might at least preserve myself some hours -longer, than by being shut up (as I may call it) in the hold. Or, if I -escaped these dangers for a day or two, what could I expect but a -miserable death of cold and hunger? I was four hours under these -circumstances, expecting, and indeed wishing, every moment to be my -last. - -I have already told the reader that there were two strong staples fixed -upon that side of my box which had no window, and into which the servant -who used to carry me on horseback would put a leathern belt, and buckle -it about his waist. Being in this disconsolate state, I heard, or at -least thought I heard, some kind of grating noise on that side of my box -where the staples were fixed, and soon after I began to fancy that the -box was pulled or towed along in the sea, for I now and then felt a sort -of tugging which made the waves rise near the tops of my windows, -leaving me almost in the dark. This gave me some faint hopes of relief, -although I was not able to imagine how it could be brought about. I -ventured to unscrew one of my chairs, which were always fastened to the -floor, and having made a hard shift to screw it down again directly -under the slipping board that I had lately opened, I mounted on the -chair, and putting my mouth as near as I could to the hole, I called for -help in a loud voice and in all the languages I understood. I then -fastened my handkerchief to a stick I usually carried, and thrusting it -up the hole, waved it several times in the air, that if any boat or ship -were near, the seamen might conjecture some unhappy mortal to be shut up -in the box. - -I found no effect from all I could do, but plainly perceived my closet -to be moved along; and in the space of an hour or better, that side of -the box where the staples were and had no window struck against -something that was hard. I apprehended it to be a rock, and found myself -tossed more than ever. I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my -closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through -the ring. I then found myself hoisted up by degrees, at least three feet -higher than I was before. Whereupon I again thrust up my stick and -handkerchief, calling for help till I was almost hoarse. In return to -which I heard a great shout repeated three times, giving me such -transports of joy as are not to be conceived but by those who feel them. -I now heard a trampling over my head, and somebody calling through the -hole with a loud voice in the English tongue. "If there be anybody -below, let them speak." I answered I was an Englishman, drawn by ill -fortune into the greatest calamity that ever any creature underwent, and -begged by all that was moving to be delivered out of the dungeon I was -in. The voice replied I was safe, for my box was fastened to their ship; -and the carpenter should immediately come and saw a hole in the cover, -large enough to pull me out. I answered that was needless, and would -take up too much time, for there was no more to be done, but let one of -the crew put his finger into the ring, and take the box out of the sea -into the ship, and so into the captain's cabin. Some of them upon -hearing me talk so wildly thought I was mad; others laughed; for indeed -it never came into my head that I was now got among people of my own -stature and strength. The carpenter came, and in a few minutes sawed a -passage about four feet square, then let down a small ladder upon which -I mounted, and from thence was taken into the ship in a very weak -condition. - -[Illustration: "SOMEBODY CALLING ... IN THE ENGLISH TONGUE." P. 99.] - -The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, -which I had no inclination to answer. I was equally confounded at the -sight of so many pygmies, for such I took them to be, after having so -long accustomed mine eyes to the monstrous objects I had left. But the -captain, Mr. Thomas Wilcocks, an honest, worthy Shropshire man, -observing I was ready to faint, took me into his cabin, gave me a -cordial to comfort me, and made me turn in upon his own bed, advising me -to take a little rest, of which I had great need. Before I went to -sleep, I gave him to understand that I had some valuable furniture in my -box, too good to be lost; a fine hammock, a handsome two chairs, a -table, and a cabinet. That my closet was hung on all sides, or rather -quilted, with silk and cotton: that if he would let one of the crew -bring my closet into his cabin, I would open it there before him, and -show him my goods. The captain, hearing me utter these absurdities, -concluded I was raving: however (I suppose to pacify me), he promised -to give orders as I desired, and going upon deck, sent some of his men -down into my closet, from whence (as I afterwards found) they drew up -all my goods, and stripped off the quilting; but the chairs, cabinet, -and bedstead, being screwed to the floor, were much damaged by the -ignorance of the seamen, who tore them up by force. Then they knocked -off some of the boards for the use of the ship, and when they had got -all they had a mind for, let the hull drop into the sea, which, by -reason of so many breaches made in the bottom and sides, sunk to -rights.[88] And indeed I was glad not to have been a spectator of the -havoc they made; because I am confident it would have sensibly -touched me, by bringing former passages into my mind, which I had rather -forgotten. - -I slept some hours, but was perpetually disturbed with dreams of the -place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped. However, upon waking, I -found myself much recovered. It was now about eight o'clock at night, -and the captain ordered supper immediately, thinking I had already -fasted too long. He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not -to look wildly, or talk inconsistently; and when we were left alone, -desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident -I came to be set adrift in that monstrous wooden chest. - -He said that about twelve o'clock at noon, as he was looking through his -glass, he spied it at a distance, and thought it was a sail, which he -had a mind to make[89], being not much out of his course, in hopes of -buying some biscuit, his own beginning to fall short. That upon coming -nearer and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what -it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they had seen a -swimming-house. That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the -boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them. That the -weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows -and wire-lattices that defenced them. That he discovered two staples -upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light. -He then commanded his men to row up to that side, and fastening a cable -to one of the staples, ordered them to tow my chest (as they called it) -towards the ship. When it was there, he gave directions to fasten -another cable to the ring fixed in the cover, and to raise up my chest -with pulleys, which all the sailors were not able to do above two or -three feet. He said they saw my stick and handkerchief thrust out of the -hole, and concluded that some unhappy man must be shut up in the cavity. -I asked whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air -about the time he first discovered me? to which he answered, that, -discoursing this matter with the sailors while I was asleep, one of them -said he had observed three eagles flying towards the north, but remarked -nothing of their being larger than the usual size, which I suppose must -be imputed to the great height they were at; and he could not guess the -reason of my question. I then asked the captain how far he reckoned we -might be from land? - -He said, by the best computation he could make, we were at least a -hundred leagues. I assured him that he must be mistaken by almost half, -for I had not left the country from whence I came above two hours before -I dropt into the sea. Whereupon he began again to think that my brain -was disturbed, of which he gave me a hint, and advised me to go to bed -in a cabin he had provided. I assured him I was well refreshed with his -good entertainment and company, and as much in my senses as ever I was -in my life. - -He then grew serious, and desired to ask me freely whether I were not -troubled in mind by the consciousness of some enormous crime, for which -I was punished by the command of some prince, by exposing me in that -chest, as great criminals in other countries have been forced to sea in -a leaky vessel without provisions; for although he should be sorry to -have taken so ill a man into his ship, yet he would engage his word to -set me safe ashore in the first port where we arrived. He added that his -suspicions were much increased by some very absurd speeches I had -delivered, at first to his sailors, and afterwards to himself, in -relation to my closet chest, as well as by my odd looks and behavior -while I was at supper. - -I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did, -from the last time I left England to the moment he first discovered me. -And as truth always forceth its way into rational minds, so this honest -worthy gentleman, who had some tincture of learning and very good sense, -was immediately convinced of my candor and veracity. But, farther to -confirm all I had said, I entreated him to give order that my cabinet -should be brought, of which I had the key in my pocket (for he had -already informed me how seamen disposed of my closet). I opened it in -his own presence, and showed him the small collection of rarities I made -in the country from whence I had been so strangely delivered. There was -the comb I had contrived out of the stumps of the king's beard. There -was a collection of needles and pins, from a foot to half a yard long; -four wasps' stings, like joiners' tacks; some combings of the queen's -hair; a gold ring, which one day she made me a present of in a most -obliging manner, taking it from her little finger and throwing it over -my head like a collar. I desired the captain would please to accept this -ring in return of his civilities, which he absolutely refused. Lastly I -desired him to see the breeches I had then on, which were made of a -mouse's skin. - -I could force nothing upon him but a footman's tooth, which I observed -him to examine with great curiosity, and found he had a fancy for it. He -received it with abundance of thanks, more than such a trifle could -deserve. It was drawn by an unskilful surgeon, in a mistake, from one of -Glumdalclitch's men, who was affected with the toothache, but it was as -sound as any in his head. I got it cleaned, and put it in my cabinet. It -was about a foot long, and four inches in diameter. - -The captain was very well satisfied with this plain relation I had given -him, and said he hoped when we returned to England I would oblige the -world by putting it on paper, and making it public. My answer was, that -I thought we were already overstocked with books of travels; that -nothing could now pass which was not extraordinary; wherein I doubted -some authors less consulted truth than their own vanity, or interest, or -the diversion of ignorant readers, that my story could contain little -besides common events, without those ornamental descriptions of strange -plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and -idolatry of savage people, with which most writers abound. However, I -thanked him for his good opinion, and promised to take the matter into -my thoughts. - -He said he wondered at one thing very much, which was, to hear me speak -so loud, asking me whether the king or queen of that country were thick -of hearing. I told him it was what I had been used to for above two -years past, and that I wondered as much at the voices of him and his -men, who seemed to me only to whisper, and yet I could hear them well -enough. But when I spoke in that country, it was like a man talking in -the street to another looking out from the top of a steeple, unless when -I was placed on a table, or held in any person's hand. I told him I had -likewise observed another thing, that when I first got into the ship, -and the sailors stood all about me, I thought they were the most -contemptible little creatures I had ever beheld. For indeed, while I was -in that prince's country, I could never endure to look in a glass, after -my eyes had been accustomed to such prodigious objects, because the -comparison gave me so despicable a conceit of myself. The captain said -that while we were at supper he observed me to look at everything with a -sort of wonder, and that I often seemed hardly able to contain my -laughter, which he knew not well how to take, but imputed it to some -disorder in my brain. I answered, it was very true, and I wondered how I -could forbear, when I saw his dishes of the size of a silver threepence, -a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not so big as a nut-shell, and so -I went on, describing the rest of his household stuff and provisions -after the same manner. For although the queen had ordered a little -equipage of all things necessary for me, while I was in her service, -yet my ideas were wholly taken up with what I saw on every side of me, -and I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults. The -captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied that he -did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day; and, -continuing in his mirth, protested he would have gladly given a hundred -pounds to have seen my closet in the eagle's bill, and afterwards in its -fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have -been a most astonishing object, worthy to have the description of it -transmitted to future ages: and the comparison of Phaeton[90] was so -obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much -admire the conceit. - -[Illustration: "MY DAUGHTER KNEELED BUT I COULD NOT SEE HER" P. 109.] - -The captain having been at Tonquin, was, in his return to England, -driven northeastward, to the latitude of 44 degrees, and of longitude -143. But meeting a trade-wind two days after I came on board him, we -sailed southward a long time, and, coasting New Holland, kept our course -west-south-west, and then south-south-west, till we doubled the Cape of -Good Hope. Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the -reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports, -and sent in his long-boat for provisions and fresh water, but I never -went out of the ship till we came into the Downs, which was on the third -day of June, 1706, about nine months after my escape. I offered to leave -pay goods in security for payment of my freight, but the captain -protested he would not receive one farthing. We took a kind leave of -each other, and I made him promise he would come to see me at my house -in Redriff. I hired a horse and guide for five shillings, which I -borrowed of the captain. - -As I was on the road, observing the littleness of the houses--the trees, -the cattle, and the people, I began to think myself in Lilliput. I was -afraid of trampling on every traveller I met, and often called aloud to -have them stand out of the way, so that I had like to have gotten one or -two broken heads for my impertinence. - -When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of -the servants opened the door, I bent down to go in (like a goose under a -gate), for fear of striking my head. My wife ran out to embrace me, but -I stooped lower than her knees, thinking she could otherwise never be -able to reach my mouth. My daughter kneeled to ask my blessing, but I -could not see her till she arose, having been so long used to stand with -my head and eyes erect to above sixty feet; and then I went to take her -up with one hand by the waist. I looked down upon the servants, and one -or two friends who were in the house, as if they had been pygmies, and I -a giant. I told my wife she had been too thrifty, for I found she had -starved herself and her daughter to nothing. In short, I behaved myself -so unaccountably, that they were all of the captain's opinion when he -first saw me, and concluded I had lost my wits. This I mention as an -instance of the great power of habit and prejudice. - -In a little time, I and my family and friends came to a right -understanding: but my wife protested I should never go to sea any more; -although my evil destiny so ordered, that she had not power to hinder -me, as the reader may know hereafter. In the meantime I here conclude -the second part of my unfortunate voyages. - -[Illustration] - - - - -NOTE. - - -Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667, and died in 1745. -His parents were English. His father died before he was born, and his -mother was supported on a slender pittance by his father's brother. He -was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and all through his early life -was dependent on the generosity of others. His college career was not -highly creditable, either from the point of view of manners, morals, or -learning. After leaving college, he travelled through England on foot, -and found employment with a relative of his mother's, Sir William -Temple, in whose house was a noble library; and for two years Swift made -up for some of his shortcomings by studying diligently therein. He went -to Oxford in 1692, took a degree and was ordained in 1694. He was given -a parish in Ireland, which he soon resigned, returning to the home of -Sir William Temple, where he remained until the death of the latter in -1699. - -Temple left Swift a legacy, and confided to him the editing and -publishing of his works. This task completed, Swift went again to -Ireland to another parish, and threw himself into political -pamphleteering with great effect, one of the results of his exertions -being the securing of freedom from taxation for the Irish clergy. He -subsequently became Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin, and for a period -achieved great popularity owing to his powerful political writings. - -While in what he called his "exile" he wrote _Gulliver's Travels_, which -was at first published anonymously, the secret of the authorship being -so closely guarded that the publisher did not know who was the author. -Dr. Johnson characterized it as "A production so new and strange that it -filled the reader with admiration and amazement. It was read by the high -and low, the learned and the illiterate." In this work, Jonathan Swift -appears as one of the greatest masters of English we have ever had; as -endowed with an imaginative genius inferior to few; as a keen and -pitiless critic of the world, and a bitter misanthropic accounter of -humanity at large. Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, -however he may have made exception to private life. His hero, Gulliver, -discovers race after race of beings who typify the genera in his -classification of mankind. Extremely diverting are Gulliver's adventures -among the tiny Lilliputians; only less so are his more perilous -encounters with the giants of Brobdingnag.... By a singular dispensation -of Providence, we usually read the _Travels_ while we are children; we -are delighted with the marvellous story, we are not at all injured by -the poison. Poor Swift! he was conscious of insanity's approach; he -repeated annually Job's curse upon the day of his birth; he died a -madman. - -There are numerous biographies of Swift; but probably the best -characterization of the man and his life, rather than of his books, is -to be found in Thackeray's _English Humorists_, and a closer study of -the man and his works in Leslie Stevenson's "Swift," in Morley's -_English Men of Letters_. The other biographies of him are: Lord Orrery -_Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift_, 1751; Hawkes, -on his life, 1765; Sheridan's life, 1785; Forster's life, 1875 -(unfinished); Henry Craik's life (1882). The best edition of Swift's -writings and correspondence is that edited by Scott, 1824. - - - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[1] _Redriff Rotherhithe_: then a Thames side village, now part of -London. - -[2] _Pound_: nearly five dollars. - -[3] _Levant_: the point where the sun rises. The countries about the -eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea and its adjoining waters. - -[4] _Mrs._: it was formerly the custom to call unmarried women Mrs. - -[5] _The South Sea_: the Pacific Ocean. - -[6] _Van Diemen's Land_: N.W. from Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and in -latitude 30 degrees 2 minutes would be in Australia or off the West -Coast. - -[7] _Cable's length_: about six hundred or seven hundred feet. - -[8] _Buff jerkin_ a leather jacket or waistcoat. - -[9] _Small_: weak, thin. - -[10] _Signet-royal_: the king's seal. - -[11] _Half-pike_ a short wooden staff, upon one end of which was a -steel head. - -[12] _Stang_: an old word for a perch, sixteen feet and a half, also -for a rood of ground. - -[13] _Chairs_: a sedan chair is here meant. It held one person, and -was carried by two men by means of projecting poles. - -[14] _Crest_: a decoration to denote rank. - -[15] _Lingua Franca_: a language--Italian mixed with Arabic, Greek, -and Turkish--used by Frenchmen, Spaniards, and Italians trading with -Arabs, Turks, and Greeks. It is the commercial language of -Constantinople. - -[16] _Imprimis_: in the first place, (pr.) im pri' mis. - -[17] _Lucid_: shining, transparent. - -[18] _Yeomen of the guards_: freemen forming the bodyguard of the -sovereign. - -[19] _Pocket perspective_: a small spy-glass or telescope. - -[20] _Trencher_: a wooden plate or platter. - -[21] _Corn_: such grains as wheat, rye, barley, oats. - -[22] _Quadrant_: an instrument long used for measuring altitudes. - -[23] _Skirt_: coat-tail. - -[24] _Alcoran_ the Koran or Mohammedan Bible. - -[25] _Embargo_: an order not to sail. - -[26] _Discompose them_: displace them. - -[27] _Puissant_: powerful. - -[28] _Junto_: a body of men secretly united to gain some political -end. - -[29] _Pulling_: plucking and drawing, preparatory to cooking, - -[30] _Meaner_: of lower rank. - -[31] _Portion_: the part of an estate given to a child. - -[32] _Domestic_: the household and all pertaining thereto. - -[33] _Exchequer bills_: bills of credit issued from the exchequer by -authority of parliament. - -[34] _Close chair_: sedan chair. - -[35] _Cabal_: a body of men united for some sinister purpose. - -[36] _Lee side_: side sheltered from the wind. - -[37] _Ancient_: flag, corrupted from ensign. - -[38] _Downs_: A famous natural roadstead off the southeast coast of -Kent, between Goodwin Sands and the mainland, south of the Thames -entrance. - -[39] _Black Bull_: inns in England are often named after animals with -an adjective descriptive of the color of the sign; as, _The Golden -Lion, The White Horse_. - -[40] _Towardly_: apt, docile. - -[41] _Straits of Madagascar_: Mozambique Channel. - -[42] _The line_: the equator. - -[43] _Hinds_: peasants; rustics. - -[44] _Pistoles_: about three dollars and sixty cents. - -[45] _Trencher-side_: up to his trencher or wooden plate. - -[46] _Discovering_: Showing. - -[47] _From London Bridge to Chelsea_: about three miles as the birds -fly. - -[48] _Pillion_: a cushion for a woman to ride on behind a person on -horseback. _From London to St. Alban's_: about twenty miles. - -[49] _Pumpion_: pumpkin. - -[50] _Parts_: accomplishments. - -[51] _Sanson's Atlas_: a very large atlas by a French geographer in -use in Swift's time. - -[52] _As good a hand of me_: as much money of me. - -[53] _Moidore_: a Portuguese gold piece worth about six dollars. - -[54] _Guineas_: an obsolete English gold coin, of the value of five -dollars. - -[55] _Phoenix_: a bird of fable said to live for a long time and rise -anew from its own ashes. - -[56] _Cabinet_: a private room. - -[57] _Scrutoire_: a writing-desk. - -[58] _Waiting_: attendance on the king. - -[59] _Lusus naturae_: a freak of nature. - -[60] _Royal Sovereign_: one of the great ships of Swift's time. - -[61] _Dunstable lark_: large larks are caught on the downs near -Dunstable between September and February, and sent to London for -luxurious tables. - -[62] _Drone_: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull -heavy tone. - -[63] _Gresham College_, in London, is named after the founder, an -English merchant, who died in 1579. - -[64] _The square of_: as large as the square of. - -[65] _Salisbury Steeple_: this is about four hundred feet high. - -[66] _Battalia_: the order of battle. - -[67] _Espalier_: a lattice upon which fruit-trees or shrubs are -trained. - -[68] _Scull_: a short oar. - -[69] _Starboard or larboard_: right or left. - -[70] _Corking-pin_: a larger-sized pin. - -[71] _Stomacher_: a broad belt. - -[72] _Varlet_: knave. - -[73] _Levee_: a ceremonious visit received by a distinguished person -in the morning. - -[74] _Spinet_: a stringed instrument, a forerunner of our piano. - -[75] _Closet_: private room. - -[76] _Signal_: memorable. - -[77] _Chancery_: a high court of equity. - -[78] _Glossing_: commenting. - -[79] _Dionysius of Halicarnassus_ was born about the middle of the -first century, B.C.; he endeavored in his history to relieve his Greek -countrymen from the mortification they had felt in their subjection to -the Romans, and patched up an old legend about Rome being of Greek -origin and therefore their "political mother." - -[80] _Ideas, entities, abstractions, transcendentals_, words used in -that philosophy which deals with thinking, existence, and things -beyond the senses. - -[81] _Mercurial_: active, spirited. - -[82] _Composition_: compact, agreement. - -[83] _Progress_: an old term for the travelling of the sovereign to -different parts of his country. - -[84] _Tumbrel_: a rough cart. - -[85] _Page_: a serving-boy, and especially one who waits on a person -of rank. - -[86] _Quarry_: prey. - -[87] _Squash_: shock, concussion. - -[88] _To rights_ speedily. - -[89] _To make_ To get alongside. - -[90] _Phaeton_ a son of Apollo who was dashed into the river Endanus -for his foolhardiness in attempting to drive the steeds of the sun for -one day. - - - -ADVERTISEMENTS - -Heath's Home and School Classics. - - -FOR GRADES I AND II. - -Mother Goose: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, arranged by C. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online -at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, -you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this eBook. - -Title: Romeo and Juliet - -Author: William Shakespeare - -Release date: November 1, 1998 [eBook #1513] - Most recently updated: June 19, 2024 - -Language: English - -Credits: the PG Shakespeare Team, a team of about twenty Project Gutenberg volunteers - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROMEO AND JULIET *** - - - - -THE TRAGEDY OF ROMEO AND JULIET - -by William Shakespeare - - - - -Contents - -THE PROLOGUE. - -ACT I -Scene I. A public place. -Scene II. A Street. -Scene III. Room in Capulet’s House. -Scene IV. A Street. -Scene V. A Hall in Capulet’s House. - -ACT II -CHORUS. -Scene I. An open place adjoining Capulet’s Garden. -Scene II. Capulet’s Garden. -Scene III. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. -Scene IV. A Street. -Scene V. Capulet’s Garden. -Scene VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. - -ACT III -Scene I. A public Place. -Scene II. A Room in Capulet’s House. -Scene III. Friar Lawrence’s cell. -Scene IV. A Room in Capulet’s House. -Scene V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden. - -ACT IV -Scene I. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. -Scene II. Hall in Capulet’s House. -Scene III. Juliet’s Chamber. -Scene IV. Hall in Capulet’s House. -Scene V. Juliet’s Chamber; Juliet on the bed. - -ACT V -Scene I. Mantua. A Street. -Scene II. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. -Scene III. A churchyard; in it a Monument belonging to the Capulets. - - - - - Dramatis Personæ - -ESCALUS, Prince of Verona. -MERCUTIO, kinsman to the Prince, and friend to Romeo. -PARIS, a young Nobleman, kinsman to the Prince. -Page to Paris. - -MONTAGUE, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Capulets. -LADY MONTAGUE, wife to Montague. -ROMEO, son to Montague. -BENVOLIO, nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo. -ABRAM, servant to Montague. -BALTHASAR, servant to Romeo. - -CAPULET, head of a Veronese family at feud with the Montagues. -LADY CAPULET, wife to Capulet. -JULIET, daughter to Capulet. -TYBALT, nephew to Lady Capulet. -CAPULET’S COUSIN, an old man. -NURSE to Juliet. -PETER, servant to Juliet’s Nurse. -SAMPSON, servant to Capulet. -GREGORY, servant to Capulet. -Servants. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE, a Franciscan. -FRIAR JOHN, of the same Order. -An Apothecary. -CHORUS. -Three Musicians. -An Officer. -Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women, relations to both houses; -Maskers, Guards, Watchmen and Attendants. - -SCENE. During the greater part of the Play in Verona; once, in the -Fifth Act, at Mantua. - - - - -THE PROLOGUE - - - Enter Chorus. - -CHORUS. -Two households, both alike in dignity, -In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, -From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, -Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. -From forth the fatal loins of these two foes -A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; -Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows -Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. -The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, -And the continuance of their parents’ rage, -Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, -Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; -The which, if you with patient ears attend, -What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. - - [_Exit._] - - - - -ACT I - -SCENE I. A public place. - - - Enter Sampson and Gregory armed with swords and bucklers. - -SAMPSON. -Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals. - -GREGORY. -No, for then we should be colliers. - -SAMPSON. -I mean, if we be in choler, we’ll draw. - -GREGORY. -Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o’ the collar. - -SAMPSON. -I strike quickly, being moved. - -GREGORY. -But thou art not quickly moved to strike. - -SAMPSON. -A dog of the house of Montague moves me. - -GREGORY. -To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand: therefore, if thou -art moved, thou runn’st away. - -SAMPSON. -A dog of that house shall move me to stand. -I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s. - -GREGORY. -That shows thee a weak slave, for the weakest goes to the wall. - -SAMPSON. -True, and therefore women, being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to -the wall: therefore I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and -thrust his maids to the wall. - -GREGORY. -The quarrel is between our masters and us their men. - -SAMPSON. -’Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the -men I will be civil with the maids, I will cut off their heads. - -GREGORY. -The heads of the maids? - -SAMPSON. -Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense -thou wilt. - -GREGORY. -They must take it in sense that feel it. - -SAMPSON. -Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ’tis known I am a -pretty piece of flesh. - -GREGORY. -’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. -Draw thy tool; here comes of the house of Montagues. - - Enter Abram and Balthasar. - -SAMPSON. -My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. - -GREGORY. -How? Turn thy back and run? - -SAMPSON. -Fear me not. - -GREGORY. -No, marry; I fear thee! - -SAMPSON. -Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. - -GREGORY. -I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as they list. - -SAMPSON. -Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them, which is disgrace to -them if they bear it. - -ABRAM. -Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? - -SAMPSON. -I do bite my thumb, sir. - -ABRAM. -Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? - -SAMPSON. -Is the law of our side if I say ay? - -GREGORY. -No. - -SAMPSON. -No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir. - -GREGORY. -Do you quarrel, sir? - -ABRAM. -Quarrel, sir? No, sir. - -SAMPSON. -But if you do, sir, I am for you. I serve as good a man as you. - -ABRAM. -No better. - -SAMPSON. -Well, sir. - - Enter Benvolio. - -GREGORY. -Say better; here comes one of my master’s kinsmen. - -SAMPSON. -Yes, better, sir. - -ABRAM. -You lie. - -SAMPSON. -Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy washing blow. - - [_They fight._] - -BENVOLIO. -Part, fools! put up your swords, you know not what you do. - - [_Beats down their swords._] - - Enter Tybalt. - -TYBALT. -What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? -Turn thee Benvolio, look upon thy death. - -BENVOLIO. -I do but keep the peace, put up thy sword, -Or manage it to part these men with me. - -TYBALT. -What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word -As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: -Have at thee, coward. - - [_They fight._] - - Enter three or four Citizens with clubs. - -FIRST CITIZEN. -Clubs, bills and partisans! Strike! Beat them down! -Down with the Capulets! Down with the Montagues! - - Enter Capulet in his gown, and Lady Capulet. - -CAPULET. -What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho! - -LADY CAPULET. -A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword? - -CAPULET. -My sword, I say! Old Montague is come, -And flourishes his blade in spite of me. - - Enter Montague and his Lady Montague. - -MONTAGUE. -Thou villain Capulet! Hold me not, let me go. - -LADY MONTAGUE. -Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. - - Enter Prince Escalus, with Attendants. - -PRINCE. -Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, -Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,— -Will they not hear? What, ho! You men, you beasts, -That quench the fire of your pernicious rage -With purple fountains issuing from your veins, -On pain of torture, from those bloody hands -Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground -And hear the sentence of your moved prince. -Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, -By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, -Have thrice disturb’d the quiet of our streets, -And made Verona’s ancient citizens -Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, -To wield old partisans, in hands as old, -Canker’d with peace, to part your canker’d hate. -If ever you disturb our streets again, -Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. -For this time all the rest depart away: -You, Capulet, shall go along with me, -And Montague, come you this afternoon, -To know our farther pleasure in this case, -To old Free-town, our common judgement-place. -Once more, on pain of death, all men depart. - - [_Exeunt Prince and Attendants; Capulet, Lady Capulet, Tybalt, - Citizens and Servants._] - -MONTAGUE. -Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach? -Speak, nephew, were you by when it began? - -BENVOLIO. -Here were the servants of your adversary -And yours, close fighting ere I did approach. -I drew to part them, in the instant came -The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d, -Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears, -He swung about his head, and cut the winds, -Who nothing hurt withal, hiss’d him in scorn. -While we were interchanging thrusts and blows -Came more and more, and fought on part and part, -Till the Prince came, who parted either part. - -LADY MONTAGUE. -O where is Romeo, saw you him today? -Right glad I am he was not at this fray. - -BENVOLIO. -Madam, an hour before the worshipp’d sun -Peer’d forth the golden window of the east, -A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad, -Where underneath the grove of sycamore -That westward rooteth from this city side, -So early walking did I see your son. -Towards him I made, but he was ware of me, -And stole into the covert of the wood. -I, measuring his affections by my own, -Which then most sought where most might not be found, -Being one too many by my weary self, -Pursu’d my humour, not pursuing his, -And gladly shunn’d who gladly fled from me. - -MONTAGUE. -Many a morning hath he there been seen, -With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, -Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs; -But all so soon as the all-cheering sun -Should in the farthest east begin to draw -The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed, -Away from light steals home my heavy son, -And private in his chamber pens himself, -Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out -And makes himself an artificial night. -Black and portentous must this humour prove, -Unless good counsel may the cause remove. - -BENVOLIO. -My noble uncle, do you know the cause? - -MONTAGUE. -I neither know it nor can learn of him. - -BENVOLIO. -Have you importun’d him by any means? - -MONTAGUE. -Both by myself and many other friends; -But he, his own affections’ counsellor, -Is to himself—I will not say how true— -But to himself so secret and so close, -So far from sounding and discovery, -As is the bud bit with an envious worm -Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, -Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. -Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, -We would as willingly give cure as know. - - Enter Romeo. - -BENVOLIO. -See, where he comes. So please you step aside; -I’ll know his grievance or be much denied. - -MONTAGUE. -I would thou wert so happy by thy stay -To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let’s away, - - [_Exeunt Montague and Lady Montague._] - -BENVOLIO. -Good morrow, cousin. - -ROMEO. -Is the day so young? - -BENVOLIO. -But new struck nine. - -ROMEO. -Ay me, sad hours seem long. -Was that my father that went hence so fast? - -BENVOLIO. -It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours? - -ROMEO. -Not having that which, having, makes them short. - -BENVOLIO. -In love? - -ROMEO. -Out. - -BENVOLIO. -Of love? - -ROMEO. -Out of her favour where I am in love. - -BENVOLIO. -Alas that love so gentle in his view, -Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof. - -ROMEO. -Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, -Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will! -Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here? -Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. -Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love: -Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! -O anything, of nothing first create! -O heavy lightness! serious vanity! -Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! -Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! -Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! -This love feel I, that feel no love in this. -Dost thou not laugh? - -BENVOLIO. -No coz, I rather weep. - -ROMEO. -Good heart, at what? - -BENVOLIO. -At thy good heart’s oppression. - -ROMEO. -Why such is love’s transgression. -Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, -Which thou wilt propagate to have it prest -With more of thine. This love that thou hast shown -Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. -Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; -Being purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; -Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears: -What is it else? A madness most discreet, -A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. -Farewell, my coz. - - [_Going._] - -BENVOLIO. -Soft! I will go along: -And if you leave me so, you do me wrong. - -ROMEO. -Tut! I have lost myself; I am not here. -This is not Romeo, he’s some other where. - -BENVOLIO. -Tell me in sadness who is that you love? - -ROMEO. -What, shall I groan and tell thee? - -BENVOLIO. -Groan! Why, no; but sadly tell me who. - -ROMEO. -Bid a sick man in sadness make his will, -A word ill urg’d to one that is so ill. -In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. - -BENVOLIO. -I aim’d so near when I suppos’d you lov’d. - -ROMEO. -A right good markman, and she’s fair I love. - -BENVOLIO. -A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. - -ROMEO. -Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit -With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit; -And in strong proof of chastity well arm’d, -From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharm’d. -She will not stay the siege of loving terms -Nor bide th’encounter of assailing eyes, -Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold: -O she’s rich in beauty, only poor -That when she dies, with beauty dies her store. - -BENVOLIO. -Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste? - -ROMEO. -She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste; -For beauty starv’d with her severity, -Cuts beauty off from all posterity. -She is too fair, too wise; wisely too fair, -To merit bliss by making me despair. -She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow -Do I live dead, that live to tell it now. - -BENVOLIO. -Be rul’d by me, forget to think of her. - -ROMEO. -O teach me how I should forget to think. - -BENVOLIO. -By giving liberty unto thine eyes; -Examine other beauties. - -ROMEO. -’Tis the way -To call hers, exquisite, in question more. -These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows, -Being black, puts us in mind they hide the fair; -He that is strucken blind cannot forget -The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. -Show me a mistress that is passing fair, -What doth her beauty serve but as a note -Where I may read who pass’d that passing fair? -Farewell, thou canst not teach me to forget. - -BENVOLIO. -I’ll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE II. A Street. - - Enter Capulet, Paris and Servant. - -CAPULET. -But Montague is bound as well as I, -In penalty alike; and ’tis not hard, I think, -For men so old as we to keep the peace. - -PARIS. -Of honourable reckoning are you both, -And pity ’tis you liv’d at odds so long. -But now my lord, what say you to my suit? - -CAPULET. -But saying o’er what I have said before. -My child is yet a stranger in the world, -She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; -Let two more summers wither in their pride -Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride. - -PARIS. -Younger than she are happy mothers made. - -CAPULET. -And too soon marr’d are those so early made. -The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she, -She is the hopeful lady of my earth: -But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, -My will to her consent is but a part; -And she agree, within her scope of choice -Lies my consent and fair according voice. -This night I hold an old accustom’d feast, -Whereto I have invited many a guest, -Such as I love, and you among the store, -One more, most welcome, makes my number more. -At my poor house look to behold this night -Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light: -Such comfort as do lusty young men feel -When well apparell’d April on the heel -Of limping winter treads, even such delight -Among fresh female buds shall you this night -Inherit at my house. Hear all, all see, -And like her most whose merit most shall be: -Which, on more view of many, mine, being one, -May stand in number, though in reckoning none. -Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about -Through fair Verona; find those persons out -Whose names are written there, [_gives a paper_] and to them say, -My house and welcome on their pleasure stay. - - [_Exeunt Capulet and Paris._] - -SERVANT. -Find them out whose names are written here! It is written that the -shoemaker should meddle with his yard and the tailor with his last, the -fisher with his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am sent to -find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what -names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned. In good -time! - - Enter Benvolio and Romeo. - -BENVOLIO. -Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning, -One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish; -Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; -One desperate grief cures with another’s languish: -Take thou some new infection to thy eye, -And the rank poison of the old will die. - -ROMEO. -Your plantain leaf is excellent for that. - -BENVOLIO. -For what, I pray thee? - -ROMEO. -For your broken shin. - -BENVOLIO. -Why, Romeo, art thou mad? - -ROMEO. -Not mad, but bound more than a madman is: -Shut up in prison, kept without my food, -Whipp’d and tormented and—God-den, good fellow. - -SERVANT. -God gi’ go-den. I pray, sir, can you read? - -ROMEO. -Ay, mine own fortune in my misery. - -SERVANT. -Perhaps you have learned it without book. -But I pray, can you read anything you see? - -ROMEO. -Ay, If I know the letters and the language. - -SERVANT. -Ye say honestly, rest you merry! - -ROMEO. -Stay, fellow; I can read. - - [_He reads the letter._] - -_Signior Martino and his wife and daughters; -County Anselmo and his beauteous sisters; -The lady widow of Utruvio; -Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; -Mercutio and his brother Valentine; -Mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters; -My fair niece Rosaline and Livia; -Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt; -Lucio and the lively Helena. _ - - -A fair assembly. [_Gives back the paper_] Whither should they come? - -SERVANT. -Up. - -ROMEO. -Whither to supper? - -SERVANT. -To our house. - -ROMEO. -Whose house? - -SERVANT. -My master’s. - -ROMEO. -Indeed I should have ask’d you that before. - -SERVANT. -Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet, -and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a -cup of wine. Rest you merry. - - [_Exit._] - -BENVOLIO. -At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s -Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lov’st; -With all the admired beauties of Verona. -Go thither and with unattainted eye, -Compare her face with some that I shall show, -And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. - -ROMEO. -When the devout religion of mine eye -Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fire; -And these who, often drown’d, could never die, -Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars. -One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun -Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun. - -BENVOLIO. -Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by, -Herself pois’d with herself in either eye: -But in that crystal scales let there be weigh’d -Your lady’s love against some other maid -That I will show you shining at this feast, -And she shall scant show well that now shows best. - -ROMEO. -I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, -But to rejoice in splendour of my own. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE III. Room in Capulet’s House. - - Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. - -LADY CAPULET. -Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me. - -NURSE. -Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old, -I bade her come. What, lamb! What ladybird! -God forbid! Where’s this girl? What, Juliet! - - Enter Juliet. - -JULIET. -How now, who calls? - -NURSE. -Your mother. - -JULIET. -Madam, I am here. What is your will? - -LADY CAPULET. -This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile, -We must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again, -I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel. -Thou knowest my daughter’s of a pretty age. - -NURSE. -Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. - -LADY CAPULET. -She’s not fourteen. - -NURSE. -I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth, -And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four, -She is not fourteen. How long is it now -To Lammas-tide? - -LADY CAPULET. -A fortnight and odd days. - -NURSE. -Even or odd, of all days in the year, -Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen. -Susan and she,—God rest all Christian souls!— -Were of an age. Well, Susan is with God; -She was too good for me. But as I said, -On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; -That shall she, marry; I remember it well. -’Tis since the earthquake now eleven years; -And she was wean’d,—I never shall forget it—, -Of all the days of the year, upon that day: -For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, -Sitting in the sun under the dovehouse wall; -My lord and you were then at Mantua: -Nay, I do bear a brain. But as I said, -When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple -Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, -To see it tetchy, and fall out with the dug! -Shake, quoth the dovehouse: ’twas no need, I trow, -To bid me trudge. -And since that time it is eleven years; -For then she could stand alone; nay, by th’rood -She could have run and waddled all about; -For even the day before she broke her brow, -And then my husband,—God be with his soul! -A was a merry man,—took up the child: -‘Yea,’ quoth he, ‘dost thou fall upon thy face? -Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; -Wilt thou not, Jule?’ and, by my holidame, -The pretty wretch left crying, and said ‘Ay’. -To see now how a jest shall come about. -I warrant, and I should live a thousand years, -I never should forget it. ‘Wilt thou not, Jule?’ quoth he; -And, pretty fool, it stinted, and said ‘Ay.’ - -LADY CAPULET. -Enough of this; I pray thee hold thy peace. - -NURSE. -Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh, -To think it should leave crying, and say ‘Ay’; -And yet I warrant it had upon it brow -A bump as big as a young cockerel’s stone; -A perilous knock, and it cried bitterly. -‘Yea,’ quoth my husband, ‘fall’st upon thy face? -Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age; -Wilt thou not, Jule?’ it stinted, and said ‘Ay’. - -JULIET. -And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I. - -NURSE. -Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace -Thou wast the prettiest babe that e’er I nurs’d: -And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish. - -LADY CAPULET. -Marry, that marry is the very theme -I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, -How stands your disposition to be married? - -JULIET. -It is an honour that I dream not of. - -NURSE. -An honour! Were not I thine only nurse, -I would say thou hadst suck’d wisdom from thy teat. - -LADY CAPULET. -Well, think of marriage now: younger than you, -Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, -Are made already mothers. By my count -I was your mother much upon these years -That you are now a maid. Thus, then, in brief; -The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. - -NURSE. -A man, young lady! Lady, such a man -As all the world—why he’s a man of wax. - -LADY CAPULET. -Verona’s summer hath not such a flower. - -NURSE. -Nay, he’s a flower, in faith a very flower. - -LADY CAPULET. -What say you, can you love the gentleman? -This night you shall behold him at our feast; -Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face, -And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen. -Examine every married lineament, -And see how one another lends content; -And what obscur’d in this fair volume lies, -Find written in the margent of his eyes. -This precious book of love, this unbound lover, -To beautify him, only lacks a cover: -The fish lives in the sea; and ’tis much pride -For fair without the fair within to hide. -That book in many’s eyes doth share the glory, -That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; -So shall you share all that he doth possess, -By having him, making yourself no less. - -NURSE. -No less, nay bigger. Women grow by men. - -LADY CAPULET. -Speak briefly, can you like of Paris’ love? - -JULIET. -I’ll look to like, if looking liking move: -But no more deep will I endart mine eye -Than your consent gives strength to make it fly. - - Enter a Servant. - -SERVANT. -Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you called, my young lady -asked for, the Nurse cursed in the pantry, and everything in extremity. -I must hence to wait, I beseech you follow straight. - -LADY CAPULET. -We follow thee. - - [_Exit Servant._] - -Juliet, the County stays. - -NURSE. -Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE IV. A Street. - - Enter Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, with five or six Maskers; - Torch-bearers and others. - -ROMEO. -What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? -Or shall we on without apology? - -BENVOLIO. -The date is out of such prolixity: -We’ll have no Cupid hoodwink’d with a scarf, -Bearing a Tartar’s painted bow of lath, -Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; -Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke -After the prompter, for our entrance: -But let them measure us by what they will, -We’ll measure them a measure, and be gone. - -ROMEO. -Give me a torch, I am not for this ambling; -Being but heavy I will bear the light. - -MERCUTIO. -Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance. - -ROMEO. -Not I, believe me, you have dancing shoes, -With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead -So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. - -MERCUTIO. -You are a lover, borrow Cupid’s wings, -And soar with them above a common bound. - -ROMEO. -I am too sore enpierced with his shaft -To soar with his light feathers, and so bound, -I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. -Under love’s heavy burden do I sink. - -MERCUTIO. -And, to sink in it, should you burden love; -Too great oppression for a tender thing. - -ROMEO. -Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, -Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn. - -MERCUTIO. -If love be rough with you, be rough with love; -Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. -Give me a case to put my visage in: [_Putting on a mask._] -A visor for a visor. What care I -What curious eye doth quote deformities? -Here are the beetle-brows shall blush for me. - -BENVOLIO. -Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in -But every man betake him to his legs. - -ROMEO. -A torch for me: let wantons, light of heart, -Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels; -For I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase, -I’ll be a candle-holder and look on, -The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done. - -MERCUTIO. -Tut, dun’s the mouse, the constable’s own word: -If thou art dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire -Or save your reverence love, wherein thou stickest -Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho. - -ROMEO. -Nay, that’s not so. - -MERCUTIO. -I mean sir, in delay -We waste our lights in vain, light lights by day. -Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits -Five times in that ere once in our five wits. - -ROMEO. -And we mean well in going to this mask; -But ’tis no wit to go. - -MERCUTIO. -Why, may one ask? - -ROMEO. -I dreamt a dream tonight. - -MERCUTIO. -And so did I. - -ROMEO. -Well what was yours? - -MERCUTIO. -That dreamers often lie. - -ROMEO. -In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. - -MERCUTIO. -O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. -She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes -In shape no bigger than an agate-stone -On the fore-finger of an alderman, -Drawn with a team of little atomies -Over men’s noses as they lie asleep: -Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners’ legs; -The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; -Her traces, of the smallest spider’s web; -The collars, of the moonshine’s watery beams; -Her whip of cricket’s bone; the lash, of film; -Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, -Not half so big as a round little worm -Prick’d from the lazy finger of a maid: -Her chariot is an empty hazelnut, -Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, -Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers. -And in this state she gallops night by night -Through lovers’ brains, and then they dream of love; -O’er courtiers’ knees, that dream on curtsies straight; -O’er lawyers’ fingers, who straight dream on fees; -O’er ladies’ lips, who straight on kisses dream, -Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues, -Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are: -Sometime she gallops o’er a courtier’s nose, -And then dreams he of smelling out a suit; -And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig’s tail, -Tickling a parson’s nose as a lies asleep, -Then dreams he of another benefice: -Sometime she driveth o’er a soldier’s neck, -And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, -Of breaches, ambuscados, Spanish blades, -Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon -Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; -And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, -And sleeps again. This is that very Mab -That plats the manes of horses in the night; -And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, -Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes: -This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs, -That presses them, and learns them first to bear, -Making them women of good carriage: -This is she,— - -ROMEO. -Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace, -Thou talk’st of nothing. - -MERCUTIO. -True, I talk of dreams, -Which are the children of an idle brain, -Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, -Which is as thin of substance as the air, -And more inconstant than the wind, who woos -Even now the frozen bosom of the north, -And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence, -Turning his side to the dew-dropping south. - -BENVOLIO. -This wind you talk of blows us from ourselves: -Supper is done, and we shall come too late. - -ROMEO. -I fear too early: for my mind misgives -Some consequence yet hanging in the stars, -Shall bitterly begin his fearful date -With this night’s revels; and expire the term -Of a despised life, clos’d in my breast -By some vile forfeit of untimely death. -But he that hath the steerage of my course -Direct my suit. On, lusty gentlemen! - -BENVOLIO. -Strike, drum. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE V. A Hall in Capulet’s House. - - Musicians waiting. Enter Servants. - -FIRST SERVANT. -Where’s Potpan, that he helps not to take away? -He shift a trencher! He scrape a trencher! - -SECOND SERVANT. -When good manners shall lie all in one or two men’s hands, and they -unwash’d too, ’tis a foul thing. - -FIRST SERVANT. -Away with the join-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the -plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and as thou loves me, -let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony and Potpan! - -SECOND SERVANT. -Ay, boy, ready. - -FIRST SERVANT. -You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the -great chamber. - -SECOND SERVANT. -We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys. Be brisk awhile, and -the longer liver take all. - - [_Exeunt._] - - Enter Capulet, &c. with the Guests and Gentlewomen to the Maskers. - -CAPULET. -Welcome, gentlemen, ladies that have their toes -Unplagu’d with corns will have a bout with you. -Ah my mistresses, which of you all -Will now deny to dance? She that makes dainty, -She I’ll swear hath corns. Am I come near ye now? -Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day -That I have worn a visor, and could tell -A whispering tale in a fair lady’s ear, -Such as would please; ’tis gone, ’tis gone, ’tis gone, -You are welcome, gentlemen! Come, musicians, play. -A hall, a hall, give room! And foot it, girls. - - [_Music plays, and they dance._] - -More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up, -And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot. -Ah sirrah, this unlook’d-for sport comes well. -Nay sit, nay sit, good cousin Capulet, -For you and I are past our dancing days; -How long is’t now since last yourself and I -Were in a mask? - -CAPULET’S COUSIN. -By’r Lady, thirty years. - -CAPULET. -What, man, ’tis not so much, ’tis not so much: -’Tis since the nuptial of Lucentio, -Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, -Some five and twenty years; and then we mask’d. - -CAPULET’S COUSIN. -’Tis more, ’tis more, his son is elder, sir; -His son is thirty. - -CAPULET. -Will you tell me that? -His son was but a ward two years ago. - -ROMEO. -What lady is that, which doth enrich the hand -Of yonder knight? - -SERVANT. -I know not, sir. - -ROMEO. -O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! -It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night -As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear; -Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! -So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows -As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows. -The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, -And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. -Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! -For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. - -TYBALT. -This by his voice, should be a Montague. -Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave -Come hither, cover’d with an antic face, -To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? -Now by the stock and honour of my kin, -To strike him dead I hold it not a sin. - -CAPULET. -Why how now, kinsman! -Wherefore storm you so? - -TYBALT. -Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; -A villain that is hither come in spite, -To scorn at our solemnity this night. - -CAPULET. -Young Romeo, is it? - -TYBALT. -’Tis he, that villain Romeo. - -CAPULET. -Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone, -A bears him like a portly gentleman; -And, to say truth, Verona brags of him -To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth. -I would not for the wealth of all the town -Here in my house do him disparagement. -Therefore be patient, take no note of him, -It is my will; the which if thou respect, -Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, -An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. - -TYBALT. -It fits when such a villain is a guest: -I’ll not endure him. - -CAPULET. -He shall be endur’d. -What, goodman boy! I say he shall, go to; -Am I the master here, or you? Go to. -You’ll not endure him! God shall mend my soul, -You’ll make a mutiny among my guests! -You will set cock-a-hoop, you’ll be the man! - -TYBALT. -Why, uncle, ’tis a shame. - -CAPULET. -Go to, go to! -You are a saucy boy. Is’t so, indeed? -This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what. -You must contrary me! Marry, ’tis time. -Well said, my hearts!—You are a princox; go: -Be quiet, or—More light, more light!—For shame! -I’ll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts. - -TYBALT. -Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting -Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. -I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall, -Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall. - - [_Exit._] - -ROMEO. -[_To Juliet._] If I profane with my unworthiest hand -This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, -My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand -To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. - -JULIET. -Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, -Which mannerly devotion shows in this; -For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, -And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. - -ROMEO. -Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? - -JULIET. -Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. - -ROMEO. -O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do: -They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. - -JULIET. -Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake. - -ROMEO. -Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take. -Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purg’d. -[_Kissing her._] - -JULIET. -Then have my lips the sin that they have took. - -ROMEO. -Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d! -Give me my sin again. - -JULIET. -You kiss by the book. - -NURSE. -Madam, your mother craves a word with you. - -ROMEO. -What is her mother? - -NURSE. -Marry, bachelor, -Her mother is the lady of the house, -And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous. -I nurs’d her daughter that you talk’d withal. -I tell you, he that can lay hold of her -Shall have the chinks. - -ROMEO. -Is she a Capulet? -O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt. - -BENVOLIO. -Away, be gone; the sport is at the best. - -ROMEO. -Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest. - -CAPULET. -Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone, -We have a trifling foolish banquet towards. -Is it e’en so? Why then, I thank you all; -I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night. -More torches here! Come on then, let’s to bed. -Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late, -I’ll to my rest. - - [_Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse._] - -JULIET. -Come hither, Nurse. What is yond gentleman? - -NURSE. -The son and heir of old Tiberio. - -JULIET. -What’s he that now is going out of door? - -NURSE. -Marry, that I think be young Petruchio. - -JULIET. -What’s he that follows here, that would not dance? - -NURSE. -I know not. - -JULIET. -Go ask his name. If he be married, -My grave is like to be my wedding bed. - -NURSE. -His name is Romeo, and a Montague, -The only son of your great enemy. - -JULIET. -My only love sprung from my only hate! -Too early seen unknown, and known too late! -Prodigious birth of love it is to me, -That I must love a loathed enemy. - -NURSE. -What’s this? What’s this? - -JULIET. -A rhyme I learn’d even now -Of one I danc’d withal. - - [_One calls within, ‘Juliet’._] - -NURSE. -Anon, anon! -Come let’s away, the strangers all are gone. - - [_Exeunt._] - - - - -ACT II - - - Enter Chorus. - -CHORUS. -Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, -And young affection gapes to be his heir; -That fair for which love groan’d for and would die, -With tender Juliet match’d, is now not fair. -Now Romeo is belov’d, and loves again, -Alike bewitched by the charm of looks; -But to his foe suppos’d he must complain, -And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks: -Being held a foe, he may not have access -To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear; -And she as much in love, her means much less -To meet her new beloved anywhere. -But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, -Tempering extremities with extreme sweet. - - [_Exit._] - -SCENE I. An open place adjoining Capulet’s Garden. - - Enter Romeo. - -ROMEO. -Can I go forward when my heart is here? -Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out. - - [_He climbs the wall and leaps down within it._] - - Enter Benvolio and Mercutio. - -BENVOLIO. -Romeo! My cousin Romeo! Romeo! - -MERCUTIO. -He is wise, -And on my life hath stol’n him home to bed. - -BENVOLIO. -He ran this way, and leap’d this orchard wall: -Call, good Mercutio. - -MERCUTIO. -Nay, I’ll conjure too. -Romeo! Humours! Madman! Passion! Lover! -Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh, -Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; -Cry but ‘Ah me!’ Pronounce but Love and dove; -Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, -One nickname for her purblind son and heir, -Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so trim -When King Cophetua lov’d the beggar-maid. -He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; -The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. -I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, -By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, -By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, -And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, -That in thy likeness thou appear to us. - -BENVOLIO. -An if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him. - -MERCUTIO. -This cannot anger him. ’Twould anger him -To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle, -Of some strange nature, letting it there stand -Till she had laid it, and conjur’d it down; -That were some spite. My invocation -Is fair and honest, and, in his mistress’ name, -I conjure only but to raise up him. - -BENVOLIO. -Come, he hath hid himself among these trees -To be consorted with the humorous night. -Blind is his love, and best befits the dark. - -MERCUTIO. -If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. -Now will he sit under a medlar tree, -And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit -As maids call medlars when they laugh alone. -O Romeo, that she were, O that she were -An open-arse and thou a poperin pear! -Romeo, good night. I’ll to my truckle-bed. -This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep. -Come, shall we go? - -BENVOLIO. -Go then; for ’tis in vain -To seek him here that means not to be found. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE II. Capulet’s Garden. - - Enter Romeo. - -ROMEO. -He jests at scars that never felt a wound. - - Juliet appears above at a window. - -But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? -It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! -Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, -Who is already sick and pale with grief, -That thou her maid art far more fair than she. -Be not her maid since she is envious; -Her vestal livery is but sick and green, -And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. -It is my lady, O it is my love! -O, that she knew she were! -She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? -Her eye discourses, I will answer it. -I am too bold, ’tis not to me she speaks. -Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, -Having some business, do entreat her eyes -To twinkle in their spheres till they return. -What if her eyes were there, they in her head? -The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, -As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven -Would through the airy region stream so bright -That birds would sing and think it were not night. -See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. -O that I were a glove upon that hand, -That I might touch that cheek. - -JULIET. -Ay me. - -ROMEO. -She speaks. -O speak again bright angel, for thou art -As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, -As is a winged messenger of heaven -Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes -Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him -When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds -And sails upon the bosom of the air. - -JULIET. -O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? -Deny thy father and refuse thy name. -Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, -And I’ll no longer be a Capulet. - -ROMEO. -[_Aside._] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? - -JULIET. -’Tis but thy name that is my enemy; -Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. -What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, -Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part -Belonging to a man. O be some other name. -What’s in a name? That which we call a rose -By any other name would smell as sweet; -So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, -Retain that dear perfection which he owes -Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, -And for thy name, which is no part of thee, -Take all myself. - -ROMEO. -I take thee at thy word. -Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptis’d; -Henceforth I never will be Romeo. - -JULIET. -What man art thou that, thus bescreen’d in night -So stumblest on my counsel? - -ROMEO. -By a name -I know not how to tell thee who I am: -My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, -Because it is an enemy to thee. -Had I it written, I would tear the word. - -JULIET. -My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words -Of thy tongue’s utterance, yet I know the sound. -Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? - -ROMEO. -Neither, fair maid, if either thee dislike. - -JULIET. -How cam’st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? -The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, -And the place death, considering who thou art, -If any of my kinsmen find thee here. - -ROMEO. -With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, -For stony limits cannot hold love out, -And what love can do, that dares love attempt: -Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. - -JULIET. -If they do see thee, they will murder thee. - -ROMEO. -Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye -Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet, -And I am proof against their enmity. - -JULIET. -I would not for the world they saw thee here. - -ROMEO. -I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes, -And but thou love me, let them find me here. -My life were better ended by their hate -Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. - -JULIET. -By whose direction found’st thou out this place? - -ROMEO. -By love, that first did prompt me to enquire; -He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. -I am no pilot; yet wert thou as far -As that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea, -I should adventure for such merchandise. - -JULIET. -Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, -Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek -For that which thou hast heard me speak tonight. -Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny -What I have spoke; but farewell compliment. -Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say Ay, -And I will take thy word. Yet, if thou swear’st, -Thou mayst prove false. At lovers’ perjuries, -They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo, -If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. -Or if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, -I’ll frown and be perverse, and say thee nay, -So thou wilt woo. But else, not for the world. -In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond; -And therefore thou mayst think my ’haviour light: -But trust me, gentleman, I’ll prove more true -Than those that have more cunning to be strange. -I should have been more strange, I must confess, -But that thou overheard’st, ere I was ’ware, -My true-love passion; therefore pardon me, -And not impute this yielding to light love, -Which the dark night hath so discovered. - -ROMEO. -Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow, -That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops,— - -JULIET. -O swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, -That monthly changes in her circled orb, -Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. - -ROMEO. -What shall I swear by? - -JULIET. -Do not swear at all. -Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, -Which is the god of my idolatry, -And I’ll believe thee. - -ROMEO. -If my heart’s dear love,— - -JULIET. -Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, -I have no joy of this contract tonight; -It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden, -Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be -Ere one can say “It lightens.” Sweet, good night. -This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, -May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. -Good night, good night. As sweet repose and rest -Come to thy heart as that within my breast. - -ROMEO. -O wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied? - -JULIET. -What satisfaction canst thou have tonight? - -ROMEO. -Th’exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine. - -JULIET. -I gave thee mine before thou didst request it; -And yet I would it were to give again. - -ROMEO. -Would’st thou withdraw it? For what purpose, love? - -JULIET. -But to be frank and give it thee again. -And yet I wish but for the thing I have; -My bounty is as boundless as the sea, -My love as deep; the more I give to thee, -The more I have, for both are infinite. -I hear some noise within. Dear love, adieu. -[_Nurse calls within._] -Anon, good Nurse!—Sweet Montague be true. -Stay but a little, I will come again. - - [_Exit._] - -ROMEO. -O blessed, blessed night. I am afeard, -Being in night, all this is but a dream, -Too flattering sweet to be substantial. - - Enter Juliet above. - -JULIET. -Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. -If that thy bent of love be honourable, -Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, -By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, -Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, -And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay -And follow thee my lord throughout the world. - -NURSE. -[_Within._] Madam. - -JULIET. -I come, anon.— But if thou meanest not well, -I do beseech thee,— - -NURSE. -[_Within._] Madam. - -JULIET. -By and by I come— -To cease thy strife and leave me to my grief. -Tomorrow will I send. - -ROMEO. -So thrive my soul,— - -JULIET. -A thousand times good night. - - [_Exit._] - -ROMEO. -A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. -Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, -But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. - - [_Retiring slowly._] - - Re-enter Juliet, above. - -JULIET. -Hist! Romeo, hist! O for a falconer’s voice -To lure this tassel-gentle back again. -Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud, -Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, -And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine -With repetition of my Romeo’s name. - -ROMEO. -It is my soul that calls upon my name. -How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, -Like softest music to attending ears. - -JULIET. -Romeo. - -ROMEO. -My dear? - -JULIET. -What o’clock tomorrow -Shall I send to thee? - -ROMEO. -By the hour of nine. - -JULIET. -I will not fail. ’Tis twenty years till then. -I have forgot why I did call thee back. - -ROMEO. -Let me stand here till thou remember it. - -JULIET. -I shall forget, to have thee still stand there, -Remembering how I love thy company. - -ROMEO. -And I’ll still stay, to have thee still forget, -Forgetting any other home but this. - -JULIET. -’Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone, -And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird, -That lets it hop a little from her hand, -Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves, -And with a silk thread plucks it back again, -So loving-jealous of his liberty. - -ROMEO. -I would I were thy bird. - -JULIET. -Sweet, so would I: -Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. -Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow -That I shall say good night till it be morrow. - - [_Exit._] - -ROMEO. -Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast. -Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest. -Hence will I to my ghostly Sire’s cell, -His help to crave and my dear hap to tell. - - [_Exit._] - -SCENE III. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. - - Enter Friar Lawrence with a basket. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night, -Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light; -And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels -From forth day’s pathway, made by Titan’s fiery wheels -Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, -The day to cheer, and night’s dank dew to dry, -I must upfill this osier cage of ours -With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. -The earth that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb; -What is her burying grave, that is her womb: -And from her womb children of divers kind -We sucking on her natural bosom find. -Many for many virtues excellent, -None but for some, and yet all different. -O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies -In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities. -For naught so vile that on the earth doth live -But to the earth some special good doth give; -Nor aught so good but, strain’d from that fair use, -Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. -Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, -And vice sometime’s by action dignified. - - Enter Romeo. - -Within the infant rind of this weak flower -Poison hath residence, and medicine power: -For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; -Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. -Two such opposed kings encamp them still -In man as well as herbs,—grace and rude will; -And where the worser is predominant, -Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. - -ROMEO. -Good morrow, father. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Benedicite! -What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? -Young son, it argues a distemper’d head -So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed. -Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, -And where care lodges sleep will never lie; -But where unbruised youth with unstuff’d brain -Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. -Therefore thy earliness doth me assure -Thou art uprous’d with some distemperature; -Or if not so, then here I hit it right, -Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight. - -ROMEO. -That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -God pardon sin. Wast thou with Rosaline? - -ROMEO. -With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No. -I have forgot that name, and that name’s woe. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -That’s my good son. But where hast thou been then? - -ROMEO. -I’ll tell thee ere thou ask it me again. -I have been feasting with mine enemy, -Where on a sudden one hath wounded me -That’s by me wounded. Both our remedies -Within thy help and holy physic lies. -I bear no hatred, blessed man; for lo, -My intercession likewise steads my foe. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; -Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. - -ROMEO. -Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set -On the fair daughter of rich Capulet. -As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine; -And all combin’d, save what thou must combine -By holy marriage. When, and where, and how -We met, we woo’d, and made exchange of vow, -I’ll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, -That thou consent to marry us today. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! -Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, -So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies -Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. -Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine -Hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline! -How much salt water thrown away in waste, -To season love, that of it doth not taste. -The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears, -Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears. -Lo here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit -Of an old tear that is not wash’d off yet. -If ere thou wast thyself, and these woes thine, -Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline, -And art thou chang’d? Pronounce this sentence then, -Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men. - -ROMEO. -Thou chidd’st me oft for loving Rosaline. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -For doting, not for loving, pupil mine. - -ROMEO. -And bad’st me bury love. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Not in a grave -To lay one in, another out to have. - -ROMEO. -I pray thee chide me not, her I love now -Doth grace for grace and love for love allow. -The other did not so. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -O, she knew well -Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. -But come young waverer, come go with me, -In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; -For this alliance may so happy prove, -To turn your households’ rancour to pure love. - -ROMEO. -O let us hence; I stand on sudden haste. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE IV. A Street. - - Enter Benvolio and Mercutio. - -MERCUTIO. -Where the devil should this Romeo be? Came he not home tonight? - -BENVOLIO. -Not to his father’s; I spoke with his man. - -MERCUTIO. -Why, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so -that he will sure run mad. - -BENVOLIO. -Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s -house. - -MERCUTIO. -A challenge, on my life. - -BENVOLIO. -Romeo will answer it. - -MERCUTIO. -Any man that can write may answer a letter. - -BENVOLIO. -Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared. - -MERCUTIO. -Alas poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black -eye; run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his heart -cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft. And is he a man to encounter -Tybalt? - -BENVOLIO. -Why, what is Tybalt? - -MERCUTIO. -More than Prince of cats. O, he’s the courageous captain of -compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, -and proportion. He rests his minim rest, one, two, and the third in -your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a duellist, a duellist; -a gentleman of the very first house, of the first and second cause. Ah, -the immortal passado, the punto reverso, the hay. - -BENVOLIO. -The what? - -MERCUTIO. -The pox of such antic lisping, affecting phantasies; these new tuners -of accent. By Jesu, a very good blade, a very tall man, a very good -whore. Why, is not this a lamentable thing, grandsire, that we should -be thus afflicted with these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, -these pardon-me’s, who stand so much on the new form that they cannot -sit at ease on the old bench? O their bones, their bones! - - Enter Romeo. - -BENVOLIO. -Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo! - -MERCUTIO. -Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou -fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in. Laura, to -his lady, was but a kitchen wench,—marry, she had a better love to -berhyme her: Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gypsy; Helen and Hero hildings -and harlots; Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior -Romeo, bonjour! There’s a French salutation to your French slop. You -gave us the counterfeit fairly last night. - -ROMEO. -Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you? - -MERCUTIO. -The slip sir, the slip; can you not conceive? - -ROMEO. -Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great, and in such a case as -mine a man may strain courtesy. - -MERCUTIO. -That’s as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow -in the hams. - -ROMEO. -Meaning, to curtsy. - -MERCUTIO. -Thou hast most kindly hit it. - -ROMEO. -A most courteous exposition. - -MERCUTIO. -Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. - -ROMEO. -Pink for flower. - -MERCUTIO. -Right. - -ROMEO. -Why, then is my pump well flowered. - -MERCUTIO. -Sure wit, follow me this jest now, till thou hast worn out thy pump, -that when the single sole of it is worn, the jest may remain after the -wearing, solely singular. - -ROMEO. -O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness! - -MERCUTIO. -Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint. - -ROMEO. -Swits and spurs, swits and spurs; or I’ll cry a match. - -MERCUTIO. -Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done. For thou hast -more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits, than I am sure, I have in my -whole five. Was I with you there for the goose? - -ROMEO. -Thou wast never with me for anything, when thou wast not there for the -goose. - -MERCUTIO. -I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. - -ROMEO. -Nay, good goose, bite not. - -MERCUTIO. -Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting, it is a most sharp sauce. - -ROMEO. -And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose? - -MERCUTIO. -O here’s a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an -ell broad. - -ROMEO. -I stretch it out for that word broad, which added to the goose, proves -thee far and wide a broad goose. - -MERCUTIO. -Why, is not this better now than groaning for love? Now art thou -sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as -well as by nature. For this drivelling love is like a great natural, -that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. - -BENVOLIO. -Stop there, stop there. - -MERCUTIO. -Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. - -BENVOLIO. -Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. - -MERCUTIO. -O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short, for I was come to the -whole depth of my tale, and meant indeed to occupy the argument no -longer. - - Enter Nurse and Peter. - -ROMEO. -Here’s goodly gear! -A sail, a sail! - -MERCUTIO. -Two, two; a shirt and a smock. - -NURSE. -Peter! - -PETER. -Anon. - -NURSE. -My fan, Peter. - -MERCUTIO. -Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer face. - -NURSE. -God ye good morrow, gentlemen. - -MERCUTIO. -God ye good-den, fair gentlewoman. - -NURSE. -Is it good-den? - -MERCUTIO. -’Tis no less, I tell ye; for the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the -prick of noon. - -NURSE. -Out upon you! What a man are you? - -ROMEO. -One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to mar. - -NURSE. -By my troth, it is well said; for himself to mar, quoth a? Gentlemen, -can any of you tell me where I may find the young Romeo? - -ROMEO. -I can tell you: but young Romeo will be older when you have found him -than he was when you sought him. I am the youngest of that name, for -fault of a worse. - -NURSE. -You say well. - -MERCUTIO. -Yea, is the worst well? Very well took, i’faith; wisely, wisely. - -NURSE. -If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you. - -BENVOLIO. -She will endite him to some supper. - -MERCUTIO. -A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho! - -ROMEO. -What hast thou found? - -MERCUTIO. -No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something -stale and hoar ere it be spent. -[_Sings._] - An old hare hoar, - And an old hare hoar, - Is very good meat in Lent; - But a hare that is hoar - Is too much for a score - When it hoars ere it be spent. -Romeo, will you come to your father’s? We’ll to dinner thither. - -ROMEO. -I will follow you. - -MERCUTIO. -Farewell, ancient lady; farewell, lady, lady, lady. - - [_Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio._] - -NURSE. -I pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this that was so full of his -ropery? - -ROMEO. -A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself talk, and will speak -more in a minute than he will stand to in a month. - -NURSE. -And a speak anything against me, I’ll take him down, and a were lustier -than he is, and twenty such Jacks. And if I cannot, I’ll find those -that shall. Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am none of -his skains-mates.—And thou must stand by too and suffer every knave to -use me at his pleasure! - -PETER. -I saw no man use you at his pleasure; if I had, my weapon should -quickly have been out. I warrant you, I dare draw as soon as another -man, if I see occasion in a good quarrel, and the law on my side. - -NURSE. -Now, afore God, I am so vexed that every part about me quivers. Scurvy -knave. Pray you, sir, a word: and as I told you, my young lady bid me -enquire you out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself. But first -let me tell ye, if ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they -say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say; for the -gentlewoman is young. And therefore, if you should deal double with -her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and -very weak dealing. - -ROMEO. Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I protest unto -thee,— - -NURSE. -Good heart, and i’faith I will tell her as much. Lord, Lord, she will -be a joyful woman. - -ROMEO. -What wilt thou tell her, Nurse? Thou dost not mark me. - -NURSE. -I will tell her, sir, that you do protest, which, as I take it, is a -gentlemanlike offer. - -ROMEO. -Bid her devise -Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, -And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’ cell -Be shriv’d and married. Here is for thy pains. - -NURSE. -No truly, sir; not a penny. - -ROMEO. -Go to; I say you shall. - -NURSE. -This afternoon, sir? Well, she shall be there. - -ROMEO. -And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall. -Within this hour my man shall be with thee, -And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair, -Which to the high topgallant of my joy -Must be my convoy in the secret night. -Farewell, be trusty, and I’ll quit thy pains; -Farewell; commend me to thy mistress. - -NURSE. -Now God in heaven bless thee. Hark you, sir. - -ROMEO. -What say’st thou, my dear Nurse? - -NURSE. -Is your man secret? Did you ne’er hear say, -Two may keep counsel, putting one away? - -ROMEO. -I warrant thee my man’s as true as steel. - -NURSE. -Well, sir, my mistress is the sweetest lady. Lord, Lord! When ’twas a -little prating thing,—O, there is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that -would fain lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief see a -toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her sometimes, and tell her that -Paris is the properer man, but I’ll warrant you, when I say so, she -looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not rosemary and -Romeo begin both with a letter? - -ROMEO. -Ay, Nurse; what of that? Both with an R. - -NURSE. -Ah, mocker! That’s the dog’s name. R is for the—no, I know it begins -with some other letter, and she hath the prettiest sententious of it, -of you and rosemary, that it would do you good to hear it. - -ROMEO. -Commend me to thy lady. - -NURSE. -Ay, a thousand times. Peter! - - [_Exit Romeo._] - -PETER. -Anon. - -NURSE. -Before and apace. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE V. Capulet’s Garden. - - Enter Juliet. - -JULIET. -The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse, -In half an hour she promised to return. -Perchance she cannot meet him. That’s not so. -O, she is lame. Love’s heralds should be thoughts, -Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams, -Driving back shadows over lowering hills: -Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love, -And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. -Now is the sun upon the highmost hill -Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve -Is three long hours, yet she is not come. -Had she affections and warm youthful blood, -She’d be as swift in motion as a ball; -My words would bandy her to my sweet love, -And his to me. -But old folks, many feign as they were dead; -Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead. - - Enter Nurse and Peter. - -O God, she comes. O honey Nurse, what news? -Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away. - -NURSE. -Peter, stay at the gate. - - [_Exit Peter._] - -JULIET. -Now, good sweet Nurse,—O Lord, why look’st thou sad? -Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily; -If good, thou sham’st the music of sweet news -By playing it to me with so sour a face. - -NURSE. -I am aweary, give me leave awhile; -Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I had! - -JULIET. -I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news: -Nay come, I pray thee speak; good, good Nurse, speak. - -NURSE. -Jesu, what haste? Can you not stay a while? Do you not see that I am -out of breath? - -JULIET. -How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath -To say to me that thou art out of breath? -The excuse that thou dost make in this delay -Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. -Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that; -Say either, and I’ll stay the circumstance. -Let me be satisfied, is’t good or bad? - -NURSE. -Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man. -Romeo? No, not he. Though his face be better than any man’s, yet his -leg excels all men’s, and for a hand and a foot, and a body, though -they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare. He is not the -flower of courtesy, but I’ll warrant him as gentle as a lamb. Go thy -ways, wench, serve God. What, have you dined at home? - -JULIET. -No, no. But all this did I know before. -What says he of our marriage? What of that? - -NURSE. -Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I! -It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. -My back o’ t’other side,—O my back, my back! -Beshrew your heart for sending me about -To catch my death with jauncing up and down. - -JULIET. -I’faith, I am sorry that thou art not well. -Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love? - -NURSE. -Your love says like an honest gentleman, -And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, -And I warrant a virtuous,—Where is your mother? - -JULIET. -Where is my mother? Why, she is within. -Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest. -‘Your love says, like an honest gentleman, -‘Where is your mother?’ - -NURSE. -O God’s lady dear, -Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow. -Is this the poultice for my aching bones? -Henceforward do your messages yourself. - -JULIET. -Here’s such a coil. Come, what says Romeo? - -NURSE. -Have you got leave to go to shrift today? - -JULIET. -I have. - -NURSE. -Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell; -There stays a husband to make you a wife. -Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks, -They’ll be in scarlet straight at any news. -Hie you to church. I must another way, -To fetch a ladder by the which your love -Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark. -I am the drudge, and toil in your delight; -But you shall bear the burden soon at night. -Go. I’ll to dinner; hie you to the cell. - -JULIET. -Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE VI. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. - - Enter Friar Lawrence and Romeo. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -So smile the heavens upon this holy act -That after-hours with sorrow chide us not. - -ROMEO. -Amen, amen, but come what sorrow can, -It cannot countervail the exchange of joy -That one short minute gives me in her sight. -Do thou but close our hands with holy words, -Then love-devouring death do what he dare, -It is enough I may but call her mine. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -These violent delights have violent ends, -And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, -Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey -Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, -And in the taste confounds the appetite. -Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; -Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. - - Enter Juliet. - -Here comes the lady. O, so light a foot -Will ne’er wear out the everlasting flint. -A lover may bestride the gossamers -That idles in the wanton summer air -And yet not fall; so light is vanity. - -JULIET. -Good even to my ghostly confessor. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both. - -JULIET. -As much to him, else is his thanks too much. - -ROMEO. -Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy -Be heap’d like mine, and that thy skill be more -To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath -This neighbour air, and let rich music’s tongue -Unfold the imagin’d happiness that both -Receive in either by this dear encounter. - -JULIET. -Conceit more rich in matter than in words, -Brags of his substance, not of ornament. -They are but beggars that can count their worth; -But my true love is grown to such excess, -I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Come, come with me, and we will make short work, -For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone -Till holy church incorporate two in one. - - [_Exeunt._] - - - - -ACT III - -SCENE I. A public Place. - - - Enter Mercutio, Benvolio, Page and Servants. - -BENVOLIO. -I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: -The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, -And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl, -For now these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. - -MERCUTIO. -Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he enters the confines of -a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says ‘God send me no -need of thee!’ and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the -drawer, when indeed there is no need. - -BENVOLIO. -Am I like such a fellow? - -MERCUTIO. -Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy; and as -soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved. - -BENVOLIO. -And what to? - -MERCUTIO. -Nay, an there were two such, we should have none shortly, for one would -kill the other. Thou? Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a -hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel -with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou -hast hazel eyes. What eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel? -Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy -head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast -quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath -wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall -out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with -another for tying his new shoes with an old riband? And yet thou wilt -tutor me from quarrelling! - -BENVOLIO. -And I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee -simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. - -MERCUTIO. -The fee simple! O simple! - - Enter Tybalt and others. - -BENVOLIO. -By my head, here comes the Capulets. - -MERCUTIO. -By my heel, I care not. - -TYBALT. -Follow me close, for I will speak to them. -Gentlemen, good-den: a word with one of you. - -MERCUTIO. -And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a -word and a blow. - -TYBALT. -You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, and you will give me -occasion. - -MERCUTIO. -Could you not take some occasion without giving? - -TYBALT. -Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo. - -MERCUTIO. -Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou make minstrels of -us, look to hear nothing but discords. Here’s my fiddlestick, here’s -that shall make you dance. Zounds, consort! - -BENVOLIO. -We talk here in the public haunt of men. -Either withdraw unto some private place, -And reason coldly of your grievances, -Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us. - -MERCUTIO. -Men’s eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. -I will not budge for no man’s pleasure, I. - - Enter Romeo. - -TYBALT. -Well, peace be with you, sir, here comes my man. - -MERCUTIO. -But I’ll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery. -Marry, go before to field, he’ll be your follower; -Your worship in that sense may call him man. - -TYBALT. -Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford -No better term than this: Thou art a villain. - -ROMEO. -Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee -Doth much excuse the appertaining rage -To such a greeting. Villain am I none; -Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not. - -TYBALT. -Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries -That thou hast done me, therefore turn and draw. - -ROMEO. -I do protest I never injur’d thee, -But love thee better than thou canst devise -Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. -And so good Capulet, which name I tender -As dearly as mine own, be satisfied. - -MERCUTIO. -O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! -[_Draws._] Alla stoccata carries it away. -Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk? - -TYBALT. -What wouldst thou have with me? - -MERCUTIO. -Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives; that I mean to -make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest -of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pilcher by the ears? -Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out. - -TYBALT. -[_Drawing._] I am for you. - -ROMEO. -Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up. - -MERCUTIO. -Come, sir, your passado. - - [_They fight._] - -ROMEO. -Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons. -Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage, -Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath -Forbid this bandying in Verona streets. -Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! - - [_Exeunt Tybalt with his Partizans._] - -MERCUTIO. -I am hurt. -A plague o’ both your houses. I am sped. -Is he gone, and hath nothing? - -BENVOLIO. -What, art thou hurt? - -MERCUTIO. -Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough. -Where is my page? Go villain, fetch a surgeon. - - [_Exit Page._] - -ROMEO. -Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. - -MERCUTIO. -No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis -enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a -grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both -your houses. Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to -death. A braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of -arithmetic!—Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your -arm. - -ROMEO. -I thought all for the best. - -MERCUTIO. -Help me into some house, Benvolio, -Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses. -They have made worms’ meat of me. -I have it, and soundly too. Your houses! - - [_Exeunt Mercutio and Benvolio._] - -ROMEO. -This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally, -My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt -In my behalf; my reputation stain’d -With Tybalt’s slander,—Tybalt, that an hour -Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet, -Thy beauty hath made me effeminate -And in my temper soften’d valour’s steel. - - Re-enter Benvolio. - -BENVOLIO. -O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio’s dead, -That gallant spirit hath aspir’d the clouds, -Which too untimely here did scorn the earth. - -ROMEO. -This day’s black fate on mo days doth depend; -This but begins the woe others must end. - - Re-enter Tybalt. - -BENVOLIO. -Here comes the furious Tybalt back again. - -ROMEO. -Again in triumph, and Mercutio slain? -Away to heaven respective lenity, -And fire-ey’d fury be my conduct now! -Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again -That late thou gav’st me, for Mercutio’s soul -Is but a little way above our heads, -Staying for thine to keep him company. -Either thou or I, or both, must go with him. - -TYBALT. -Thou wretched boy, that didst consort him here, -Shalt with him hence. - -ROMEO. -This shall determine that. - - [_They fight; Tybalt falls._] - -BENVOLIO. -Romeo, away, be gone! -The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. -Stand not amaz’d. The Prince will doom thee death -If thou art taken. Hence, be gone, away! - -ROMEO. -O, I am fortune’s fool! - -BENVOLIO. -Why dost thou stay? - - [_Exit Romeo._] - - Enter Citizens. - -FIRST CITIZEN. -Which way ran he that kill’d Mercutio? -Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he? - -BENVOLIO. -There lies that Tybalt. - -FIRST CITIZEN. -Up, sir, go with me. -I charge thee in the Prince’s name obey. - - Enter Prince, attended; Montague, Capulet, their Wives and others. - -PRINCE. -Where are the vile beginners of this fray? - -BENVOLIO. -O noble Prince, I can discover all -The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. -There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, -That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio. - -LADY CAPULET. -Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child! -O Prince! O husband! O, the blood is spill’d -Of my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true, -For blood of ours shed blood of Montague. -O cousin, cousin. - -PRINCE. -Benvolio, who began this bloody fray? - -BENVOLIO. -Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay; -Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink -How nice the quarrel was, and urg’d withal -Your high displeasure. All this uttered -With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow’d -Could not take truce with the unruly spleen -Of Tybalt, deaf to peace, but that he tilts -With piercing steel at bold Mercutio’s breast, -Who, all as hot, turns deadly point to point, -And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats -Cold death aside, and with the other sends -It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity -Retorts it. Romeo he cries aloud, -‘Hold, friends! Friends, part!’ and swifter than his tongue, -His agile arm beats down their fatal points, -And ’twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm -An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life -Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled. -But by and by comes back to Romeo, -Who had but newly entertain’d revenge, -And to’t they go like lightning; for, ere I -Could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain; -And as he fell did Romeo turn and fly. -This is the truth, or let Benvolio die. - -LADY CAPULET. -He is a kinsman to the Montague. -Affection makes him false, he speaks not true. -Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, -And all those twenty could but kill one life. -I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give; -Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live. - -PRINCE. -Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio. -Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe? - -MONTAGUE. -Not Romeo, Prince, he was Mercutio’s friend; -His fault concludes but what the law should end, -The life of Tybalt. - -PRINCE. -And for that offence -Immediately we do exile him hence. -I have an interest in your hate’s proceeding, -My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding. -But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine -That you shall all repent the loss of mine. -I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; -Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. -Therefore use none. Let Romeo hence in haste, -Else, when he is found, that hour is his last. -Bear hence this body, and attend our will. -Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE II. A Room in Capulet’s House. - - Enter Juliet. - -JULIET. -Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, -Towards Phoebus’ lodging. Such a waggoner -As Phaeton would whip you to the west -And bring in cloudy night immediately. -Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, -That runaway’s eyes may wink, and Romeo -Leap to these arms, untalk’d of and unseen. -Lovers can see to do their amorous rites -By their own beauties: or, if love be blind, -It best agrees with night. Come, civil night, -Thou sober-suited matron, all in black, -And learn me how to lose a winning match, -Play’d for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. -Hood my unmann’d blood, bating in my cheeks, -With thy black mantle, till strange love, grow bold, -Think true love acted simple modesty. -Come, night, come Romeo; come, thou day in night; -For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night -Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back. -Come gentle night, come loving black-brow’d night, -Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die, -Take him and cut him out in little stars, -And he will make the face of heaven so fine -That all the world will be in love with night, -And pay no worship to the garish sun. -O, I have bought the mansion of a love, -But not possess’d it; and though I am sold, -Not yet enjoy’d. So tedious is this day -As is the night before some festival -To an impatient child that hath new robes -And may not wear them. O, here comes my Nurse, -And she brings news, and every tongue that speaks -But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence. - - Enter Nurse, with cords. - -Now, Nurse, what news? What hast thou there? -The cords that Romeo bid thee fetch? - -NURSE. -Ay, ay, the cords. - - [_Throws them down._] - -JULIET. -Ay me, what news? Why dost thou wring thy hands? - -NURSE. -Ah, well-a-day, he’s dead, he’s dead, he’s dead! -We are undone, lady, we are undone. -Alack the day, he’s gone, he’s kill’d, he’s dead. - -JULIET. -Can heaven be so envious? - -NURSE. -Romeo can, -Though heaven cannot. O Romeo, Romeo. -Who ever would have thought it? Romeo! - -JULIET. -What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus? -This torture should be roar’d in dismal hell. -Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but Ay, -And that bare vowel I shall poison more -Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. -I am not I if there be such an I; -Or those eyes shut that make thee answer Ay. -If he be slain, say Ay; or if not, No. -Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe. - -NURSE. -I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes, -God save the mark!—here on his manly breast. -A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse; -Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub’d in blood, -All in gore-blood. I swounded at the sight. - -JULIET. -O, break, my heart. Poor bankrout, break at once. -To prison, eyes; ne’er look on liberty. -Vile earth to earth resign; end motion here, -And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier. - -NURSE. -O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had. -O courteous Tybalt, honest gentleman! -That ever I should live to see thee dead. - -JULIET. -What storm is this that blows so contrary? -Is Romeo slaughter’d and is Tybalt dead? -My dearest cousin, and my dearer lord? -Then dreadful trumpet sound the general doom, -For who is living, if those two are gone? - -NURSE. -Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished, -Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished. - -JULIET. -O God! Did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood? - -NURSE. -It did, it did; alas the day, it did. - -JULIET. -O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! -Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? -Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, -Dove-feather’d raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! -Despised substance of divinest show! -Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st, -A damned saint, an honourable villain! -O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell -When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend -In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? -Was ever book containing such vile matter -So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell -In such a gorgeous palace. - -NURSE. -There’s no trust, -No faith, no honesty in men. All perjur’d, -All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. -Ah, where’s my man? Give me some aqua vitae. -These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old. -Shame come to Romeo. - -JULIET. -Blister’d be thy tongue -For such a wish! He was not born to shame. -Upon his brow shame is asham’d to sit; -For ’tis a throne where honour may be crown’d -Sole monarch of the universal earth. -O, what a beast was I to chide at him! - -NURSE. -Will you speak well of him that kill’d your cousin? - -JULIET. -Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? -Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, -When I thy three-hours’ wife have mangled it? -But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin? -That villain cousin would have kill’d my husband. -Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring, -Your tributary drops belong to woe, -Which you mistaking offer up to joy. -My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain, -And Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband. -All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? -Some word there was, worser than Tybalt’s death, -That murder’d me. I would forget it fain, -But O, it presses to my memory -Like damned guilty deeds to sinners’ minds. -Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished. -That ‘banished,’ that one word ‘banished,’ -Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt’s death -Was woe enough, if it had ended there. -Or if sour woe delights in fellowship, -And needly will be rank’d with other griefs, -Why follow’d not, when she said Tybalt’s dead, -Thy father or thy mother, nay or both, -Which modern lamentation might have mov’d? -But with a rear-ward following Tybalt’s death, -‘Romeo is banished’—to speak that word -Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, -All slain, all dead. Romeo is banished, -There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, -In that word’s death, no words can that woe sound. -Where is my father and my mother, Nurse? - -NURSE. -Weeping and wailing over Tybalt’s corse. -Will you go to them? I will bring you thither. - -JULIET. -Wash they his wounds with tears. Mine shall be spent, -When theirs are dry, for Romeo’s banishment. -Take up those cords. Poor ropes, you are beguil’d, -Both you and I; for Romeo is exil’d. -He made you for a highway to my bed, -But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed. -Come cords, come Nurse, I’ll to my wedding bed, -And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead. - -NURSE. -Hie to your chamber. I’ll find Romeo -To comfort you. I wot well where he is. -Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night. -I’ll to him, he is hid at Lawrence’ cell. - -JULIET. -O find him, give this ring to my true knight, -And bid him come to take his last farewell. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE III. Friar Lawrence’s cell. - - Enter Friar Lawrence. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man. -Affliction is enanmour’d of thy parts -And thou art wedded to calamity. - - Enter Romeo. - -ROMEO. -Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom? -What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand, -That I yet know not? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Too familiar -Is my dear son with such sour company. -I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom. - -ROMEO. -What less than doomsday is the Prince’s doom? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -A gentler judgment vanish’d from his lips, -Not body’s death, but body’s banishment. - -ROMEO. -Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say death; -For exile hath more terror in his look, -Much more than death. Do not say banishment. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hence from Verona art thou banished. -Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. - -ROMEO. -There is no world without Verona walls, -But purgatory, torture, hell itself. -Hence banished is banish’d from the world, -And world’s exile is death. Then banished -Is death misterm’d. Calling death banished, -Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe, -And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -O deadly sin, O rude unthankfulness! -Thy fault our law calls death, but the kind Prince, -Taking thy part, hath brush’d aside the law, -And turn’d that black word death to banishment. -This is dear mercy, and thou see’st it not. - -ROMEO. -’Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here -Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog, -And little mouse, every unworthy thing, -Live here in heaven and may look on her, -But Romeo may not. More validity, -More honourable state, more courtship lives -In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize -On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand, -And steal immortal blessing from her lips, -Who, even in pure and vestal modesty -Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. -But Romeo may not, he is banished. -This may flies do, when I from this must fly. -They are free men but I am banished. -And say’st thou yet that exile is not death? -Hadst thou no poison mix’d, no sharp-ground knife, -No sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean, -But banished to kill me? Banished? -O Friar, the damned use that word in hell. -Howling attends it. How hast thou the heart, -Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, -A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d, -To mangle me with that word banished? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Thou fond mad man, hear me speak a little, - -ROMEO. -O, thou wilt speak again of banishment. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -I’ll give thee armour to keep off that word, -Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy, -To comfort thee, though thou art banished. - -ROMEO. -Yet banished? Hang up philosophy. -Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, -Displant a town, reverse a Prince’s doom, -It helps not, it prevails not, talk no more. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -O, then I see that mad men have no ears. - -ROMEO. -How should they, when that wise men have no eyes? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Let me dispute with thee of thy estate. - -ROMEO. -Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. -Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, -An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, -Doting like me, and like me banished, -Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair, -And fall upon the ground as I do now, -Taking the measure of an unmade grave. - - [_Knocking within._] - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Arise; one knocks. Good Romeo, hide thyself. - -ROMEO. -Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans -Mist-like infold me from the search of eyes. - - [_Knocking._] - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hark, how they knock!—Who’s there?—Romeo, arise, -Thou wilt be taken.—Stay awhile.—Stand up. - - [_Knocking._] - -Run to my study.—By-and-by.—God’s will, -What simpleness is this.—I come, I come. - - [_Knocking._] - -Who knocks so hard? Whence come you, what’s your will? - -NURSE. -[_Within._] Let me come in, and you shall know my errand. -I come from Lady Juliet. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Welcome then. - - Enter Nurse. - -NURSE. -O holy Friar, O, tell me, holy Friar, -Where is my lady’s lord, where’s Romeo? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk. - -NURSE. -O, he is even in my mistress’ case. -Just in her case! O woeful sympathy! -Piteous predicament. Even so lies she, -Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering. -Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man. -For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand. -Why should you fall into so deep an O? - -ROMEO. -Nurse. - -NURSE. -Ah sir, ah sir, death’s the end of all. - -ROMEO. -Spakest thou of Juliet? How is it with her? -Doth not she think me an old murderer, -Now I have stain’d the childhood of our joy -With blood remov’d but little from her own? -Where is she? And how doth she? And what says -My conceal’d lady to our cancell’d love? - -NURSE. -O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps; -And now falls on her bed, and then starts up, -And Tybalt calls, and then on Romeo cries, -And then down falls again. - -ROMEO. -As if that name, -Shot from the deadly level of a gun, -Did murder her, as that name’s cursed hand -Murder’d her kinsman. O, tell me, Friar, tell me, -In what vile part of this anatomy -Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack -The hateful mansion. - - [_Drawing his sword._] - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hold thy desperate hand. -Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. -Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote -The unreasonable fury of a beast. -Unseemly woman in a seeming man, -And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! -Thou hast amaz’d me. By my holy order, -I thought thy disposition better temper’d. -Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself? -And slay thy lady, that in thy life lives, -By doing damned hate upon thyself? -Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven and earth? -Since birth, and heaven and earth, all three do meet -In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose. -Fie, fie, thou sham’st thy shape, thy love, thy wit, -Which, like a usurer, abound’st in all, -And usest none in that true use indeed -Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit. -Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, -Digressing from the valour of a man; -Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, -Killing that love which thou hast vow’d to cherish; -Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, -Misshapen in the conduct of them both, -Like powder in a skilless soldier’s flask, -Is set afire by thine own ignorance, -And thou dismember’d with thine own defence. -What, rouse thee, man. Thy Juliet is alive, -For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead. -There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, -But thou slew’st Tybalt; there art thou happy. -The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend, -And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. -A pack of blessings light upon thy back; -Happiness courts thee in her best array; -But like a misshaped and sullen wench, -Thou putt’st up thy Fortune and thy love. -Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. -Go, get thee to thy love as was decreed, -Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her. -But look thou stay not till the watch be set, -For then thou canst not pass to Mantua; -Where thou shalt live till we can find a time -To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, -Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back -With twenty hundred thousand times more joy -Than thou went’st forth in lamentation. -Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady, -And bid her hasten all the house to bed, -Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto. -Romeo is coming. - -NURSE. -O Lord, I could have stay’d here all the night -To hear good counsel. O, what learning is! -My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come. - -ROMEO. -Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. - -NURSE. -Here sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir. -Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. - - [_Exit._] - -ROMEO. -How well my comfort is reviv’d by this. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Go hence, good night, and here stands all your state: -Either be gone before the watch be set, -Or by the break of day disguis’d from hence. -Sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man, -And he shall signify from time to time -Every good hap to you that chances here. -Give me thy hand; ’tis late; farewell; good night. - -ROMEO. -But that a joy past joy calls out on me, -It were a grief so brief to part with thee. -Farewell. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE IV. A Room in Capulet’s House. - - Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet and Paris. - -CAPULET. -Things have fallen out, sir, so unluckily -That we have had no time to move our daughter. -Look you, she lov’d her kinsman Tybalt dearly, -And so did I. Well, we were born to die. -’Tis very late; she’ll not come down tonight. -I promise you, but for your company, -I would have been abed an hour ago. - -PARIS. -These times of woe afford no tune to woo. -Madam, good night. Commend me to your daughter. - -LADY CAPULET. -I will, and know her mind early tomorrow; -Tonight she’s mew’d up to her heaviness. - -CAPULET. -Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender -Of my child’s love. I think she will be rul’d -In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not. -Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed, -Acquaint her here of my son Paris’ love, -And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next, -But, soft, what day is this? - -PARIS. -Monday, my lord. - -CAPULET. -Monday! Ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon, -A Thursday let it be; a Thursday, tell her, -She shall be married to this noble earl. -Will you be ready? Do you like this haste? -We’ll keep no great ado,—a friend or two, -For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late, -It may be thought we held him carelessly, -Being our kinsman, if we revel much. -Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends, -And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? - -PARIS. -My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow. - -CAPULET. -Well, get you gone. A Thursday be it then. -Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed, -Prepare her, wife, against this wedding day. -Farewell, my lord.—Light to my chamber, ho! -Afore me, it is so very very late that we -May call it early by and by. Good night. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE V. An open Gallery to Juliet’s Chamber, overlooking the Garden. - - Enter Romeo and Juliet. - -JULIET. -Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. -It was the nightingale, and not the lark, -That pierc’d the fearful hollow of thine ear; -Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree. -Believe me, love, it was the nightingale. - -ROMEO. -It was the lark, the herald of the morn, -No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks -Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. -Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day -Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. -I must be gone and live, or stay and die. - -JULIET. -Yond light is not daylight, I know it, I. -It is some meteor that the sun exhales -To be to thee this night a torchbearer -And light thee on thy way to Mantua. -Therefore stay yet, thou need’st not to be gone. - -ROMEO. -Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death, -I am content, so thou wilt have it so. -I’ll say yon grey is not the morning’s eye, -’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow. -Nor that is not the lark whose notes do beat -The vaulty heaven so high above our heads. -I have more care to stay than will to go. -Come, death, and welcome. Juliet wills it so. -How is’t, my soul? Let’s talk. It is not day. - -JULIET. -It is, it is! Hie hence, be gone, away. -It is the lark that sings so out of tune, -Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. -Some say the lark makes sweet division; -This doth not so, for she divideth us. -Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes. -O, now I would they had chang’d voices too, -Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray, -Hunting thee hence with hunt’s-up to the day. -O now be gone, more light and light it grows. - -ROMEO. -More light and light, more dark and dark our woes. - - Enter Nurse. - -NURSE. -Madam. - -JULIET. -Nurse? - -NURSE. -Your lady mother is coming to your chamber. -The day is broke, be wary, look about. - - [_Exit._] - -JULIET. -Then, window, let day in, and let life out. - -ROMEO. -Farewell, farewell, one kiss, and I’ll descend. - - [_Descends._] - -JULIET. -Art thou gone so? Love, lord, ay husband, friend, -I must hear from thee every day in the hour, -For in a minute there are many days. -O, by this count I shall be much in years -Ere I again behold my Romeo. - -ROMEO. -Farewell! -I will omit no opportunity -That may convey my greetings, love, to thee. - -JULIET. -O thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? - -ROMEO. -I doubt it not, and all these woes shall serve -For sweet discourses in our time to come. - -JULIET. -O God! I have an ill-divining soul! -Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, -As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. -Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale. - -ROMEO. -And trust me, love, in my eye so do you. -Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu. - - [_Exit below._] - -JULIET. -O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle, -If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him -That is renown’d for faith? Be fickle, Fortune; -For then, I hope thou wilt not keep him long -But send him back. - -LADY CAPULET. -[_Within._] Ho, daughter, are you up? - -JULIET. -Who is’t that calls? Is it my lady mother? -Is she not down so late, or up so early? -What unaccustom’d cause procures her hither? - - Enter Lady Capulet. - -LADY CAPULET. -Why, how now, Juliet? - -JULIET. -Madam, I am not well. - -LADY CAPULET. -Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death? -What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? -And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live. -Therefore have done: some grief shows much of love, -But much of grief shows still some want of wit. - -JULIET. -Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. - -LADY CAPULET. -So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend -Which you weep for. - -JULIET. -Feeling so the loss, -I cannot choose but ever weep the friend. - -LADY CAPULET. -Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death -As that the villain lives which slaughter’d him. - -JULIET. -What villain, madam? - -LADY CAPULET. -That same villain Romeo. - -JULIET. -Villain and he be many miles asunder. -God pardon him. I do, with all my heart. -And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart. - -LADY CAPULET. -That is because the traitor murderer lives. - -JULIET. -Ay madam, from the reach of these my hands. -Would none but I might venge my cousin’s death. - -LADY CAPULET. -We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not. -Then weep no more. I’ll send to one in Mantua, -Where that same banish’d runagate doth live, -Shall give him such an unaccustom’d dram -That he shall soon keep Tybalt company: -And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied. - -JULIET. -Indeed I never shall be satisfied -With Romeo till I behold him—dead— -Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex’d. -Madam, if you could find out but a man -To bear a poison, I would temper it, -That Romeo should upon receipt thereof, -Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors -To hear him nam’d, and cannot come to him, -To wreak the love I bore my cousin -Upon his body that hath slaughter’d him. - -LADY CAPULET. -Find thou the means, and I’ll find such a man. -But now I’ll tell thee joyful tidings, girl. - -JULIET. -And joy comes well in such a needy time. -What are they, I beseech your ladyship? - -LADY CAPULET. -Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child; -One who to put thee from thy heaviness, -Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy, -That thou expects not, nor I look’d not for. - -JULIET. -Madam, in happy time, what day is that? - -LADY CAPULET. -Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn -The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, -The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, -Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. - -JULIET. -Now by Saint Peter’s Church, and Peter too, -He shall not make me there a joyful bride. -I wonder at this haste, that I must wed -Ere he that should be husband comes to woo. -I pray you tell my lord and father, madam, -I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear -It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, -Rather than Paris. These are news indeed. - -LADY CAPULET. -Here comes your father, tell him so yourself, -And see how he will take it at your hands. - - Enter Capulet and Nurse. - -CAPULET. -When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew; -But for the sunset of my brother’s son -It rains downright. -How now? A conduit, girl? What, still in tears? -Evermore showering? In one little body -Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind. -For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, -Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, -Sailing in this salt flood, the winds, thy sighs, -Who raging with thy tears and they with them, -Without a sudden calm will overset -Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife? -Have you deliver’d to her our decree? - -LADY CAPULET. -Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. -I would the fool were married to her grave. - -CAPULET. -Soft. Take me with you, take me with you, wife. -How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks? -Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest, -Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought -So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom? - -JULIET. -Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. -Proud can I never be of what I hate; -But thankful even for hate that is meant love. - -CAPULET. -How now, how now, chopp’d logic? What is this? -Proud, and, I thank you, and I thank you not; -And yet not proud. Mistress minion you, -Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, -But fettle your fine joints ’gainst Thursday next -To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church, -Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. -Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! -You tallow-face! - -LADY CAPULET. -Fie, fie! What, are you mad? - -JULIET. -Good father, I beseech you on my knees, -Hear me with patience but to speak a word. - -CAPULET. -Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch! -I tell thee what,—get thee to church a Thursday, -Or never after look me in the face. -Speak not, reply not, do not answer me. -My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest -That God had lent us but this only child; -But now I see this one is one too much, -And that we have a curse in having her. -Out on her, hilding. - -NURSE. -God in heaven bless her. -You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. - -CAPULET. -And why, my lady wisdom? Hold your tongue, -Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go. - -NURSE. -I speak no treason. - -CAPULET. -O God ye good-en! - -NURSE. -May not one speak? - -CAPULET. -Peace, you mumbling fool! -Utter your gravity o’er a gossip’s bowl, -For here we need it not. - -LADY CAPULET. -You are too hot. - -CAPULET. -God’s bread, it makes me mad! -Day, night, hour, ride, time, work, play, -Alone, in company, still my care hath been -To have her match’d, and having now provided -A gentleman of noble parentage, -Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly allied, -Stuff’d, as they say, with honourable parts, -Proportion’d as one’s thought would wish a man, -And then to have a wretched puling fool, -A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender, -To answer, ‘I’ll not wed, I cannot love, -I am too young, I pray you pardon me.’ -But, and you will not wed, I’ll pardon you. -Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. -Look to’t, think on’t, I do not use to jest. -Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise. -And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; -And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, -For by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee, -Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. -Trust to’t, bethink you, I’ll not be forsworn. - - [_Exit._] - -JULIET. -Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, -That sees into the bottom of my grief? -O sweet my mother, cast me not away, -Delay this marriage for a month, a week, -Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed -In that dim monument where Tybalt lies. - -LADY CAPULET. -Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. -Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. - - [_Exit._] - -JULIET. -O God! O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? -My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven. -How shall that faith return again to earth, -Unless that husband send it me from heaven -By leaving earth? Comfort me, counsel me. -Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems -Upon so soft a subject as myself. -What say’st thou? Hast thou not a word of joy? -Some comfort, Nurse. - -NURSE. -Faith, here it is. -Romeo is banished; and all the world to nothing -That he dares ne’er come back to challenge you. -Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. -Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, -I think it best you married with the County. -O, he’s a lovely gentleman. -Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, -Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye -As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, -I think you are happy in this second match, -For it excels your first: or if it did not, -Your first is dead, or ’twere as good he were, -As living here and you no use of him. - -JULIET. -Speakest thou from thy heart? - -NURSE. -And from my soul too, -Or else beshrew them both. - -JULIET. -Amen. - -NURSE. -What? - -JULIET. -Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much. -Go in, and tell my lady I am gone, -Having displeas’d my father, to Lawrence’ cell, -To make confession and to be absolv’d. - -NURSE. -Marry, I will; and this is wisely done. - - [_Exit._] - -JULIET. -Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! -Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn, -Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue -Which she hath prais’d him with above compare -So many thousand times? Go, counsellor. -Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. -I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy. -If all else fail, myself have power to die. - - [_Exit._] - - - - -ACT IV - -SCENE I. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. - - - Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -On Thursday, sir? The time is very short. - -PARIS. -My father Capulet will have it so; -And I am nothing slow to slack his haste. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -You say you do not know the lady’s mind. -Uneven is the course; I like it not. - -PARIS. -Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, -And therefore have I little talk’d of love; -For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. -Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous -That she do give her sorrow so much sway; -And in his wisdom, hastes our marriage, -To stop the inundation of her tears, -Which, too much minded by herself alone, -May be put from her by society. -Now do you know the reason of this haste. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -[_Aside._] I would I knew not why it should be slow’d.— -Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell. - - Enter Juliet. - -PARIS. -Happily met, my lady and my wife! - -JULIET. -That may be, sir, when I may be a wife. - -PARIS. -That may be, must be, love, on Thursday next. - -JULIET. -What must be shall be. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -That’s a certain text. - -PARIS. -Come you to make confession to this father? - -JULIET. -To answer that, I should confess to you. - -PARIS. -Do not deny to him that you love me. - -JULIET. -I will confess to you that I love him. - -PARIS. -So will ye, I am sure, that you love me. - -JULIET. -If I do so, it will be of more price, -Being spoke behind your back than to your face. - -PARIS. -Poor soul, thy face is much abus’d with tears. - -JULIET. -The tears have got small victory by that; -For it was bad enough before their spite. - -PARIS. -Thou wrong’st it more than tears with that report. - -JULIET. -That is no slander, sir, which is a truth, -And what I spake, I spake it to my face. - -PARIS. -Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander’d it. - -JULIET. -It may be so, for it is not mine own. -Are you at leisure, holy father, now, -Or shall I come to you at evening mass? - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.— -My lord, we must entreat the time alone. - -PARIS. -God shield I should disturb devotion!— -Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye, -Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss. - - [_Exit._] - -JULIET. -O shut the door, and when thou hast done so, -Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help! - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -O Juliet, I already know thy grief; -It strains me past the compass of my wits. -I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it, -On Thursday next be married to this County. - -JULIET. -Tell me not, Friar, that thou hear’st of this, -Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it. -If in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help, -Do thou but call my resolution wise, -And with this knife I’ll help it presently. -God join’d my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands; -And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s seal’d, -Shall be the label to another deed, -Or my true heart with treacherous revolt -Turn to another, this shall slay them both. -Therefore, out of thy long-experienc’d time, -Give me some present counsel, or behold -’Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife -Shall play the empire, arbitrating that -Which the commission of thy years and art -Could to no issue of true honour bring. -Be not so long to speak. I long to die, -If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, -Which craves as desperate an execution -As that is desperate which we would prevent. -If, rather than to marry County Paris -Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, -Then is it likely thou wilt undertake -A thing like death to chide away this shame, -That cop’st with death himself to scape from it. -And if thou dar’st, I’ll give thee remedy. - -JULIET. -O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, -From off the battlements of yonder tower, -Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk -Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears; -Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house, -O’er-cover’d quite with dead men’s rattling bones, -With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls. -Or bid me go into a new-made grave, -And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; -Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble, -And I will do it without fear or doubt, -To live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hold then. Go home, be merry, give consent -To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow; -Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, -Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. -Take thou this vial, being then in bed, -And this distilled liquor drink thou off, -When presently through all thy veins shall run -A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse -Shall keep his native progress, but surcease. -No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest, -The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade -To paly ashes; thy eyes’ windows fall, -Like death when he shuts up the day of life. -Each part depriv’d of supple government, -Shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death. -And in this borrow’d likeness of shrunk death -Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, -And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. -Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes -To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead. -Then as the manner of our country is, -In thy best robes, uncover’d, on the bier, -Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault -Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie. -In the meantime, against thou shalt awake, -Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, -And hither shall he come, and he and I -Will watch thy waking, and that very night -Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua. -And this shall free thee from this present shame, -If no inconstant toy nor womanish fear -Abate thy valour in the acting it. - -JULIET. -Give me, give me! O tell not me of fear! - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous -In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed -To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. - -JULIET. -Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford. -Farewell, dear father. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE II. Hall in Capulet’s House. - - Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse and Servants. - -CAPULET. -So many guests invite as here are writ. - - [_Exit first Servant._] - -Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks. - -SECOND SERVANT. -You shall have none ill, sir; for I’ll try if they can lick their -fingers. - -CAPULET. -How canst thou try them so? - -SECOND SERVANT. -Marry, sir, ’tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers; -therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me. - -CAPULET. -Go, begone. - - [_Exit second Servant._] - -We shall be much unfurnish’d for this time. -What, is my daughter gone to Friar Lawrence? - -NURSE. -Ay, forsooth. - -CAPULET. -Well, he may chance to do some good on her. -A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is. - - Enter Juliet. - -NURSE. -See where she comes from shrift with merry look. - -CAPULET. -How now, my headstrong. Where have you been gadding? - -JULIET. -Where I have learnt me to repent the sin -Of disobedient opposition -To you and your behests; and am enjoin’d -By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here, -To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you. -Henceforward I am ever rul’d by you. - -CAPULET. -Send for the County, go tell him of this. -I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning. - -JULIET. -I met the youthful lord at Lawrence’ cell, -And gave him what becomed love I might, -Not stepping o’er the bounds of modesty. - -CAPULET. -Why, I am glad on’t. This is well. Stand up. -This is as’t should be. Let me see the County. -Ay, marry. Go, I say, and fetch him hither. -Now afore God, this reverend holy Friar, -All our whole city is much bound to him. - -JULIET. -Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, -To help me sort such needful ornaments -As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow? - -LADY CAPULET. -No, not till Thursday. There is time enough. - -CAPULET. -Go, Nurse, go with her. We’ll to church tomorrow. - - [_Exeunt Juliet and Nurse._] - -LADY CAPULET. -We shall be short in our provision, -’Tis now near night. - -CAPULET. -Tush, I will stir about, -And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife. -Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her. -I’ll not to bed tonight, let me alone. -I’ll play the housewife for this once.—What, ho!— -They are all forth: well, I will walk myself -To County Paris, to prepare him up -Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light -Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE III. Juliet’s Chamber. - - Enter Juliet and Nurse. - -JULIET. -Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse, -I pray thee leave me to myself tonight; -For I have need of many orisons -To move the heavens to smile upon my state, -Which, well thou know’st, is cross and full of sin. - - Enter Lady Capulet. - -LADY CAPULET. -What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? - -JULIET. -No, madam; we have cull’d such necessaries -As are behoveful for our state tomorrow. -So please you, let me now be left alone, -And let the nurse this night sit up with you, -For I am sure you have your hands full all -In this so sudden business. - -LADY CAPULET. -Good night. -Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. - - [_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._] - -JULIET. -Farewell. God knows when we shall meet again. -I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins -That almost freezes up the heat of life. -I’ll call them back again to comfort me. -Nurse!—What should she do here? -My dismal scene I needs must act alone. -Come, vial. -What if this mixture do not work at all? -Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? -No, No! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there. - - [_Laying down her dagger._] - -What if it be a poison, which the Friar -Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead, -Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d, -Because he married me before to Romeo? -I fear it is. And yet methinks it should not, -For he hath still been tried a holy man. -How if, when I am laid into the tomb, -I wake before the time that Romeo -Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point! -Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, -To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, -And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? -Or, if I live, is it not very like, -The horrible conceit of death and night, -Together with the terror of the place, -As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, -Where for this many hundred years the bones -Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d, -Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, -Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, -At some hours in the night spirits resort— -Alack, alack, is it not like that I, -So early waking, what with loathsome smells, -And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, -That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. -O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, -Environed with all these hideous fears, -And madly play with my forefathers’ joints? -And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud? -And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone, -As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? -O look, methinks I see my cousin’s ghost -Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body -Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! -Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink! I drink to thee. - - [_Throws herself on the bed._] - -SCENE IV. Hall in Capulet’s House. - - Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse. - -LADY CAPULET. -Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse. - -NURSE. -They call for dates and quinces in the pastry. - - Enter Capulet. - -CAPULET. -Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crow’d, -The curfew bell hath rung, ’tis three o’clock. -Look to the bak’d meats, good Angelica; -Spare not for cost. - -NURSE. -Go, you cot-quean, go, -Get you to bed; faith, you’ll be sick tomorrow -For this night’s watching. - -CAPULET. -No, not a whit. What! I have watch’d ere now -All night for lesser cause, and ne’er been sick. - -LADY CAPULET. -Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time; -But I will watch you from such watching now. - - [_Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse._] - -CAPULET. -A jealous-hood, a jealous-hood! - - Enter Servants, with spits, logs and baskets. - -Now, fellow, what’s there? - -FIRST SERVANT. -Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what. - -CAPULET. -Make haste, make haste. - - [_Exit First Servant._] - -—Sirrah, fetch drier logs. -Call Peter, he will show thee where they are. - -SECOND SERVANT. -I have a head, sir, that will find out logs -And never trouble Peter for the matter. - - [_Exit._] - -CAPULET. -Mass and well said; a merry whoreson, ha. -Thou shalt be loggerhead.—Good faith, ’tis day. -The County will be here with music straight, -For so he said he would. I hear him near. - - [_Play music._] - -Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say! - - Re-enter Nurse. - -Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up. -I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste, -Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already. -Make haste I say. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE V. Juliet’s Chamber; Juliet on the bed. - - Enter Nurse. - -NURSE. -Mistress! What, mistress! Juliet! Fast, I warrant her, she. -Why, lamb, why, lady, fie, you slug-abed! -Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why, bride! -What, not a word? You take your pennyworths now. -Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant, -The County Paris hath set up his rest -That you shall rest but little. God forgive me! -Marry and amen. How sound is she asleep! -I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam! -Ay, let the County take you in your bed, -He’ll fright you up, i’faith. Will it not be? -What, dress’d, and in your clothes, and down again? -I must needs wake you. Lady! Lady! Lady! -Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead! -O, well-a-day that ever I was born. -Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady! - - Enter Lady Capulet. - -LADY CAPULET. -What noise is here? - -NURSE. -O lamentable day! - -LADY CAPULET. -What is the matter? - -NURSE. -Look, look! O heavy day! - -LADY CAPULET. -O me, O me! My child, my only life. -Revive, look up, or I will die with thee. -Help, help! Call help. - - Enter Capulet. - -CAPULET. -For shame, bring Juliet forth, her lord is come. - -NURSE. -She’s dead, deceas’d, she’s dead; alack the day! - -LADY CAPULET. -Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead! - -CAPULET. -Ha! Let me see her. Out alas! She’s cold, -Her blood is settled and her joints are stiff. -Life and these lips have long been separated. -Death lies on her like an untimely frost -Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. - -NURSE. -O lamentable day! - -LADY CAPULET. -O woful time! - -CAPULET. -Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, -Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. - - Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris with Musicians. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Come, is the bride ready to go to church? - -CAPULET. -Ready to go, but never to return. -O son, the night before thy wedding day -Hath death lain with thy bride. There she lies, -Flower as she was, deflowered by him. -Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir; -My daughter he hath wedded. I will die -And leave him all; life, living, all is death’s. - -PARIS. -Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, -And doth it give me such a sight as this? - -LADY CAPULET. -Accurs’d, unhappy, wretched, hateful day. -Most miserable hour that e’er time saw -In lasting labour of his pilgrimage. -But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, -But one thing to rejoice and solace in, -And cruel death hath catch’d it from my sight. - -NURSE. -O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day. -Most lamentable day, most woeful day -That ever, ever, I did yet behold! -O day, O day, O day, O hateful day. -Never was seen so black a day as this. -O woeful day, O woeful day. - -PARIS. -Beguil’d, divorced, wronged, spited, slain. -Most detestable death, by thee beguil’d, -By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown. -O love! O life! Not life, but love in death! - -CAPULET. -Despis’d, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d. -Uncomfortable time, why cam’st thou now -To murder, murder our solemnity? -O child! O child! My soul, and not my child, -Dead art thou. Alack, my child is dead, -And with my child my joys are buried. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Peace, ho, for shame. Confusion’s cure lives not -In these confusions. Heaven and yourself -Had part in this fair maid, now heaven hath all, -And all the better is it for the maid. -Your part in her you could not keep from death, -But heaven keeps his part in eternal life. -The most you sought was her promotion, -For ’twas your heaven she should be advanc’d, -And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc’d -Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? -O, in this love, you love your child so ill -That you run mad, seeing that she is well. -She’s not well married that lives married long, -But she’s best married that dies married young. -Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary -On this fair corse, and, as the custom is, -And in her best array bear her to church; -For though fond nature bids us all lament, -Yet nature’s tears are reason’s merriment. - -CAPULET. -All things that we ordained festival -Turn from their office to black funeral: -Our instruments to melancholy bells, -Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; -Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; -Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, -And all things change them to the contrary. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him, -And go, Sir Paris, everyone prepare -To follow this fair corse unto her grave. -The heavens do lower upon you for some ill; -Move them no more by crossing their high will. - - [_Exeunt Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris and Friar._] - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone. - -NURSE. -Honest good fellows, ah, put up, put up, -For well you know this is a pitiful case. - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended. - - [_Exit Nurse._] - - Enter Peter. - -PETER. -Musicians, O, musicians, ‘Heart’s ease,’ ‘Heart’s ease’, O, and you -will have me live, play ‘Heart’s ease.’ - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Why ‘Heart’s ease’? - -PETER. -O musicians, because my heart itself plays ‘My heart is full’. O play -me some merry dump to comfort me. - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Not a dump we, ’tis no time to play now. - -PETER. -You will not then? - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -No. - -PETER. -I will then give it you soundly. - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -What will you give us? - -PETER. -No money, on my faith, but the gleek! I will give you the minstrel. - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Then will I give you the serving-creature. - -PETER. -Then will I lay the serving-creature’s dagger on your pate. I will -carry no crotchets. I’ll re you, I’ll fa you. Do you note me? - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -And you re us and fa us, you note us. - -SECOND MUSICIAN. -Pray you put up your dagger, and put out your wit. - -PETER. -Then have at you with my wit. I will dry-beat you with an iron wit, and -put up my iron dagger. Answer me like men. - ‘When griping griefs the heart doth wound, - And doleful dumps the mind oppress, - Then music with her silver sound’— -Why ‘silver sound’? Why ‘music with her silver sound’? What say you, -Simon Catling? - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound. - -PETER. -Prates. What say you, Hugh Rebeck? - -SECOND MUSICIAN. -I say ‘silver sound’ because musicians sound for silver. - -PETER. -Prates too! What say you, James Soundpost? - -THIRD MUSICIAN. -Faith, I know not what to say. - -PETER. -O, I cry you mercy, you are the singer. I will say for you. It is -‘music with her silver sound’ because musicians have no gold for -sounding. - ‘Then music with her silver sound - With speedy help doth lend redress.’ - - [_Exit._] - -FIRST MUSICIAN. -What a pestilent knave is this same! - -SECOND MUSICIAN. -Hang him, Jack. Come, we’ll in here, tarry for the mourners, and stay -dinner. - - [_Exeunt._] - - - - -ACT V - -SCENE I. Mantua. A Street. - - - Enter Romeo. - -ROMEO. -If I may trust the flattering eye of sleep, -My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. -My bosom’s lord sits lightly in his throne; -And all this day an unaccustom’d spirit -Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. -I dreamt my lady came and found me dead,— -Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think!— -And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips, -That I reviv’d, and was an emperor. -Ah me, how sweet is love itself possess’d, -When but love’s shadows are so rich in joy. - - Enter Balthasar. - -News from Verona! How now, Balthasar? -Dost thou not bring me letters from the Friar? -How doth my lady? Is my father well? -How fares my Juliet? That I ask again; -For nothing can be ill if she be well. - -BALTHASAR. -Then she is well, and nothing can be ill. -Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument, -And her immortal part with angels lives. -I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault, -And presently took post to tell it you. -O pardon me for bringing these ill news, -Since you did leave it for my office, sir. - -ROMEO. -Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars! -Thou know’st my lodging. Get me ink and paper, -And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight. - -BALTHASAR. -I do beseech you sir, have patience. -Your looks are pale and wild, and do import -Some misadventure. - -ROMEO. -Tush, thou art deceiv’d. -Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do. -Hast thou no letters to me from the Friar? - -BALTHASAR. -No, my good lord. - -ROMEO. -No matter. Get thee gone, -And hire those horses. I’ll be with thee straight. - - [_Exit Balthasar._] - -Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. -Let’s see for means. O mischief thou art swift -To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. -I do remember an apothecary,— -And hereabouts he dwells,—which late I noted -In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows, -Culling of simples, meagre were his looks, -Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; -And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, -An alligator stuff’d, and other skins -Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves -A beggarly account of empty boxes, -Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, -Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses -Were thinly scatter’d, to make up a show. -Noting this penury, to myself I said, -And if a man did need a poison now, -Whose sale is present death in Mantua, -Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him. -O, this same thought did but forerun my need, -And this same needy man must sell it me. -As I remember, this should be the house. -Being holiday, the beggar’s shop is shut. -What, ho! Apothecary! - - Enter Apothecary. - -APOTHECARY. -Who calls so loud? - -ROMEO. -Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. -Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have -A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear -As will disperse itself through all the veins, -That the life-weary taker may fall dead, -And that the trunk may be discharg’d of breath -As violently as hasty powder fir’d -Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb. - -APOTHECARY. -Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s law -Is death to any he that utters them. - -ROMEO. -Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness, -And fear’st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks, -Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes, -Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back. -The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law; -The world affords no law to make thee rich; -Then be not poor, but break it and take this. - -APOTHECARY. -My poverty, but not my will consents. - -ROMEO. -I pay thy poverty, and not thy will. - -APOTHECARY. -Put this in any liquid thing you will -And drink it off; and, if you had the strength -Of twenty men, it would despatch you straight. - -ROMEO. -There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, -Doing more murder in this loathsome world -Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. -I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. -Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh. -Come, cordial and not poison, go with me -To Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee. - - [_Exeunt._] - -SCENE II. Friar Lawrence’s Cell. - - Enter Friar John. - -FRIAR JOHN. -Holy Franciscan Friar! Brother, ho! - - Enter Friar Lawrence. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -This same should be the voice of Friar John. -Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo? -Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter. - -FRIAR JOHN. -Going to find a barefoot brother out, -One of our order, to associate me, -Here in this city visiting the sick, -And finding him, the searchers of the town, -Suspecting that we both were in a house -Where the infectious pestilence did reign, -Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth, -So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Who bare my letter then to Romeo? - -FRIAR JOHN. -I could not send it,—here it is again,— -Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, -So fearful were they of infection. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, -The letter was not nice, but full of charge, -Of dear import, and the neglecting it -May do much danger. Friar John, go hence, -Get me an iron crow and bring it straight -Unto my cell. - -FRIAR JOHN. -Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee. - - [_Exit._] - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Now must I to the monument alone. -Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. -She will beshrew me much that Romeo -Hath had no notice of these accidents; -But I will write again to Mantua, -And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. -Poor living corse, clos’d in a dead man’s tomb. - - [_Exit._] - -SCENE III. A churchyard; in it a Monument belonging to the Capulets. - - Enter Paris, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch. - -PARIS. -Give me thy torch, boy. Hence and stand aloof. -Yet put it out, for I would not be seen. -Under yond yew tree lay thee all along, -Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground; -So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread, -Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves, -But thou shalt hear it. Whistle then to me, -As signal that thou hear’st something approach. -Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go. - -PAGE. -[_Aside._] I am almost afraid to stand alone -Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure. - - [_Retires._] - -PARIS. -Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew. -O woe, thy canopy is dust and stones, -Which with sweet water nightly I will dew, -Or wanting that, with tears distill’d by moans. -The obsequies that I for thee will keep, -Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. - - [_The Page whistles._] - -The boy gives warning something doth approach. -What cursed foot wanders this way tonight, -To cross my obsequies and true love’s rite? -What, with a torch! Muffle me, night, awhile. - - [_Retires._] - - Enter Romeo and Balthasar with a torch, mattock, &c. - -ROMEO. -Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. -Hold, take this letter; early in the morning -See thou deliver it to my lord and father. -Give me the light; upon thy life I charge thee, -Whate’er thou hear’st or seest, stand all aloof -And do not interrupt me in my course. -Why I descend into this bed of death -Is partly to behold my lady’s face, -But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger -A precious ring, a ring that I must use -In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone. -But if thou jealous dost return to pry -In what I further shall intend to do, -By heaven I will tear thee joint by joint, -And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. -The time and my intents are savage-wild; -More fierce and more inexorable far -Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. - -BALTHASAR. -I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you. - -ROMEO. -So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that. -Live, and be prosperous, and farewell, good fellow. - -BALTHASAR. -For all this same, I’ll hide me hereabout. -His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. - - [_Retires_] - -ROMEO. -Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, -Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth, -Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, - - [_Breaking open the door of the monument._] - -And in despite, I’ll cram thee with more food. - -PARIS. -This is that banish’d haughty Montague -That murder’d my love’s cousin,—with which grief, -It is supposed, the fair creature died,— -And here is come to do some villainous shame -To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him. - - [_Advances._] - -Stop thy unhallow’d toil, vile Montague. -Can vengeance be pursu’d further than death? -Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee. -Obey, and go with me, for thou must die. - -ROMEO. -I must indeed; and therefore came I hither. -Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. -Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone; -Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, -Put not another sin upon my head -By urging me to fury. O be gone. -By heaven I love thee better than myself; -For I come hither arm’d against myself. -Stay not, be gone, live, and hereafter say, -A madman’s mercy bid thee run away. - -PARIS. -I do defy thy conjuration, -And apprehend thee for a felon here. - -ROMEO. -Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy! - - [_They fight._] - -PAGE. -O lord, they fight! I will go call the watch. - - [_Exit._] - -PARIS. -O, I am slain! [_Falls._] If thou be merciful, -Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. - - [_Dies._] - -ROMEO. -In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face. -Mercutio’s kinsman, noble County Paris! -What said my man, when my betossed soul -Did not attend him as we rode? I think -He told me Paris should have married Juliet. -Said he not so? Or did I dream it so? -Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet, -To think it was so? O, give me thy hand, -One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book. -I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave. -A grave? O no, a lantern, slaught’red youth, -For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes -This vault a feasting presence full of light. -Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr’d. - - [_Laying Paris in the monument._] - -How oft when men are at the point of death -Have they been merry! Which their keepers call -A lightning before death. O, how may I -Call this a lightning? O my love, my wife, -Death that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, -Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. -Thou art not conquer’d. Beauty’s ensign yet -Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, -And death’s pale flag is not advanced there. -Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet? -O, what more favour can I do to thee -Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain -To sunder his that was thine enemy? -Forgive me, cousin. Ah, dear Juliet, -Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe -That unsubstantial death is amorous; -And that the lean abhorred monster keeps -Thee here in dark to be his paramour? -For fear of that I still will stay with thee, -And never from this palace of dim night -Depart again. Here, here will I remain -With worms that are thy chambermaids. O, here -Will I set up my everlasting rest; -And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars -From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last. -Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you -The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss -A dateless bargain to engrossing death. -Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. -Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on -The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark. -Here’s to my love! [_Drinks._] O true apothecary! -Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. - - [_Dies._] - - Enter, at the other end of the Churchyard, Friar Lawrence, with a - lantern, crow, and spade. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Saint Francis be my speed. How oft tonight -Have my old feet stumbled at graves? Who’s there? -Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead? - -BALTHASAR. -Here’s one, a friend, and one that knows you well. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Bliss be upon you. Tell me, good my friend, -What torch is yond that vainly lends his light -To grubs and eyeless skulls? As I discern, -It burneth in the Capels’ monument. - -BALTHASAR. -It doth so, holy sir, and there’s my master, -One that you love. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Who is it? - -BALTHASAR. -Romeo. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -How long hath he been there? - -BALTHASAR. -Full half an hour. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Go with me to the vault. - -BALTHASAR. -I dare not, sir; -My master knows not but I am gone hence, -And fearfully did menace me with death -If I did stay to look on his intents. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Stay then, I’ll go alone. Fear comes upon me. -O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing. - -BALTHASAR. -As I did sleep under this yew tree here, -I dreamt my master and another fought, -And that my master slew him. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -Romeo! [_Advances._] -Alack, alack, what blood is this which stains -The stony entrance of this sepulchre? -What mean these masterless and gory swords -To lie discolour’d by this place of peace? - - [_Enters the monument._] - -Romeo! O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too? -And steep’d in blood? Ah what an unkind hour -Is guilty of this lamentable chance? -The lady stirs. - - [_Juliet wakes and stirs._] - -JULIET. -O comfortable Friar, where is my lord? -I do remember well where I should be, -And there I am. Where is my Romeo? - - [_Noise within._] - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest -Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. -A greater power than we can contradict -Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. -Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; -And Paris too. Come, I’ll dispose of thee -Among a sisterhood of holy nuns. -Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. -Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay. - -JULIET. -Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. - - [_Exit Friar Lawrence._] - -What’s here? A cup clos’d in my true love’s hand? -Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. -O churl. Drink all, and left no friendly drop -To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. -Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, -To make me die with a restorative. - - [_Kisses him._] - -Thy lips are warm! - -FIRST WATCH. -[_Within._] Lead, boy. Which way? - -JULIET. -Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger. - - [_Snatching Romeo’s dagger._] - -This is thy sheath. [_stabs herself_] There rest, and let me die. - - [_Falls on Romeo’s body and dies._] - - Enter Watch with the Page of Paris. - -PAGE. -This is the place. There, where the torch doth burn. - -FIRST WATCH. -The ground is bloody. Search about the churchyard. -Go, some of you, whoe’er you find attach. - - [_Exeunt some of the Watch._] - -Pitiful sight! Here lies the County slain, -And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead, -Who here hath lain this two days buried. -Go tell the Prince; run to the Capulets. -Raise up the Montagues, some others search. - - [_Exeunt others of the Watch._] - -We see the ground whereon these woes do lie, -But the true ground of all these piteous woes -We cannot without circumstance descry. - - Re-enter some of the Watch with Balthasar. - -SECOND WATCH. -Here’s Romeo’s man. We found him in the churchyard. - -FIRST WATCH. -Hold him in safety till the Prince come hither. - - Re-enter others of the Watch with Friar Lawrence. - -THIRD WATCH. Here is a Friar that trembles, sighs, and weeps. -We took this mattock and this spade from him -As he was coming from this churchyard side. - -FIRST WATCH. -A great suspicion. Stay the Friar too. - - Enter the Prince and Attendants. - -PRINCE. -What misadventure is so early up, -That calls our person from our morning’s rest? - - Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet and others. - -CAPULET. -What should it be that they so shriek abroad? - -LADY CAPULET. -O the people in the street cry Romeo, -Some Juliet, and some Paris, and all run -With open outcry toward our monument. - -PRINCE. -What fear is this which startles in our ears? - -FIRST WATCH. -Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain, -And Romeo dead, and Juliet, dead before, -Warm and new kill’d. - -PRINCE. -Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes. - -FIRST WATCH. -Here is a Friar, and slaughter’d Romeo’s man, -With instruments upon them fit to open -These dead men’s tombs. - -CAPULET. -O heaven! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! -This dagger hath mista’en, for lo, his house -Is empty on the back of Montague, -And it mis-sheathed in my daughter’s bosom. - -LADY CAPULET. -O me! This sight of death is as a bell -That warns my old age to a sepulchre. - - Enter Montague and others. - -PRINCE. -Come, Montague, for thou art early up, -To see thy son and heir more early down. - -MONTAGUE. -Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. -Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath. -What further woe conspires against mine age? - -PRINCE. -Look, and thou shalt see. - -MONTAGUE. -O thou untaught! What manners is in this, -To press before thy father to a grave? - -PRINCE. -Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while, -Till we can clear these ambiguities, -And know their spring, their head, their true descent, -And then will I be general of your woes, -And lead you even to death. Meantime forbear, -And let mischance be slave to patience. -Bring forth the parties of suspicion. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -I am the greatest, able to do least, -Yet most suspected, as the time and place -Doth make against me, of this direful murder. -And here I stand, both to impeach and purge -Myself condemned and myself excus’d. - -PRINCE. -Then say at once what thou dost know in this. - -FRIAR LAWRENCE. -I will be brief, for my short date of breath -Is not so long as is a tedious tale. -Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, -And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife. -I married them; and their stol’n marriage day -Was Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely death -Banish’d the new-made bridegroom from this city; -For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pin’d. -You, to remove that siege of grief from her, -Betroth’d, and would have married her perforce -To County Paris. Then comes she to me, -And with wild looks, bid me devise some means -To rid her from this second marriage, -Or in my cell there would she kill herself. -Then gave I her, so tutored by my art, -A sleeping potion, which so took effect -As I intended, for it wrought on her -The form of death. Meantime I writ to Romeo -That he should hither come as this dire night -To help to take her from her borrow’d grave, -Being the time the potion’s force should cease. -But he which bore my letter, Friar John, -Was stay’d by accident; and yesternight -Return’d my letter back. Then all alone -At the prefixed hour of her waking -Came I to take her from her kindred’s vault, -Meaning to keep her closely at my cell -Till I conveniently could send to Romeo. -But when I came, some minute ere the time -Of her awaking, here untimely lay -The noble Paris and true Romeo dead. -She wakes; and I entreated her come forth -And bear this work of heaven with patience. -But then a noise did scare me from the tomb; -And she, too desperate, would not go with me, -But, as it seems, did violence on herself. -All this I know; and to the marriage -Her Nurse is privy. And if ought in this -Miscarried by my fault, let my old life -Be sacrific’d, some hour before his time, -Unto the rigour of severest law. - -PRINCE. -We still have known thee for a holy man. -Where’s Romeo’s man? What can he say to this? - -BALTHASAR. -I brought my master news of Juliet’s death, -And then in post he came from Mantua -To this same place, to this same monument. -This letter he early bid me give his father, -And threaten’d me with death, going in the vault, -If I departed not, and left him there. - -PRINCE. -Give me the letter, I will look on it. -Where is the County’s Page that rais’d the watch? -Sirrah, what made your master in this place? - -PAGE. -He came with flowers to strew his lady’s grave, -And bid me stand aloof, and so I did. -Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb, -And by and by my master drew on him, -And then I ran away to call the watch. - -PRINCE. -This letter doth make good the Friar’s words, -Their course of love, the tidings of her death. -And here he writes that he did buy a poison -Of a poor ’pothecary, and therewithal -Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet. -Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague, -See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, -That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! -And I, for winking at your discords too, -Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punish’d. - -CAPULET. -O brother Montague, give me thy hand. -This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more -Can I demand. - -MONTAGUE. -But I can give thee more, -For I will raise her statue in pure gold, -That whiles Verona by that name is known, -There shall no figure at such rate be set -As that of true and faithful Juliet. - -CAPULET. -As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie, -Poor sacrifices of our enmity. - -PRINCE. -A glooming peace this morning with it brings; -The sun for sorrow will not show his head. -Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. -Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished, -For never was a story of more woe -Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. - - [_Exeunt._] - - - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROMEO AND JULIET *** - - - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online -at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, -you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located -before using this eBook. - -Title: The call of the wild - -Author: Jack London - -Release date: July 2, 2008 [eBook #215] - Most recently updated: August 4, 2024 - -Language: English - -Credits: Ryan, Kirstin, Linda and Rick Trapp and David Widger - - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CALL OF THE WILD *** - - - - -cover - - - - -The Call of the Wild - -by Jack London - - - - -Contents - - Chapter I. Into the Primitive - Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang - Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast - Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership - Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail - Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man - Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call - - - - -Chapter I. Into the Primitive - - -“Old longings nomadic leap, -Chafing at custom’s chain; -Again from its brumal sleep -Wakens the ferine strain.” - - -Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble -was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, -strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San -Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow -metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming -the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men -wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong -muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the -frost. - -Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge -Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden -among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide -cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached -by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns -and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things -were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great -stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad -servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long -grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there -was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank -where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in -the hot afternoon. - -And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he -had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other -dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they -did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or -lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of -Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange -creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On -the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, -who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the -windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with -brooms and mops. - -But Buck was neither house-dog nor kennel-dog. The whole realm was his. -He plunged into the swimming tank or went hunting with the Judge’s -sons; he escorted Mollie and Alice, the Judge’s daughters, on long -twilight or early morning rambles; on wintry nights he lay at the -Judge’s feet before the roaring library fire; he carried the Judge’s -grandsons on his back, or rolled them in the grass, and guarded their -footsteps through wild adventures down to the fountain in the stable -yard, and even beyond, where the paddocks were, and the berry patches. -Among the terriers he stalked imperiously, and Toots and Ysabel he -utterly ignored, for he was king,—king over all creeping, crawling, -flying things of Judge Miller’s place, humans included. - -His father, Elmo, a huge St. Bernard, had been the Judge’s inseparable -companion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father. He was -not so large,—he weighed only one hundred and forty pounds,—for his -mother, Shep, had been a Scotch shepherd dog. Nevertheless, one hundred -and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good -living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right -royal fashion. During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived -the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was -even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become -because of their insular situation. But he had saved himself by not -becoming a mere pampered house-dog. Hunting and kindred outdoor -delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles; and to him, as -to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a -health preserver. - -And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the -Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. -But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, -one of the gardener’s helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance. Manuel -had one besetting sin. He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his -gambling, he had one besetting weakness—faith in a system; and this -made his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money, while -the wages of a gardener’s helper do not lap over the needs of a wife -and numerous progeny. - -The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers’ Association, and the -boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of -Manuel’s treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard -on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a -solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known -as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between -them. - -“You might wrap up the goods before you deliver ’m,” the stranger said -gruffly, and Manuel doubled a piece of stout rope around Buck’s neck -under the collar. - -“Twist it, an’ you’ll choke ’m plentee,” said Manuel, and the stranger -grunted a ready affirmative. - -Buck had accepted the rope with quiet dignity. To be sure, it was an -unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and -to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. But when the -ends of the rope were placed in the stranger’s hands, he growled -menacingly. He had merely intimated his displeasure, in his pride -believing that to intimate was to command. But to his surprise the rope -tightened around his neck, shutting off his breath. In quick rage he -sprang at the man, who met him halfway, grappled him close by the -throat, and with a deft twist threw him over on his back. Then the rope -tightened mercilessly, while Buck struggled in a fury, his tongue -lolling out of his mouth and his great chest panting futilely. Never in -all his life had he been so vilely treated, and never in all his life -had he been so angry. But his strength ebbed, his eyes glazed, and he -knew nothing when the train was flagged and the two men threw him into -the baggage car. - -The next he knew, he was dimly aware that his tongue was hurting and -that he was being jolted along in some kind of a conveyance. The hoarse -shriek of a locomotive whistling a crossing told him where he was. He -had travelled too often with the Judge not to know the sensation of -riding in a baggage car. He opened his eyes, and into them came the -unbridled anger of a kidnapped king. The man sprang for his throat, but -Buck was too quick for him. His jaws closed on the hand, nor did they -relax till his senses were choked out of him once more. - -“Yep, has fits,” the man said, hiding his mangled hand from the -baggageman, who had been attracted by the sounds of struggle. “I’m -takin’ ’m up for the boss to ’Frisco. A crack dog-doctor there thinks -that he can cure ’m.” - -Concerning that night’s ride, the man spoke most eloquently for -himself, in a little shed back of a saloon on the San Francisco water -front. - -“All I get is fifty for it,” he grumbled; “an’ I wouldn’t do it over -for a thousand, cold cash.” - -His hand was wrapped in a bloody handkerchief, and the right trouser -leg was ripped from knee to ankle. - -“How much did the other mug get?” the saloon-keeper demanded. - -“A hundred,” was the reply. “Wouldn’t take a sou less, so help me.” - -“That makes a hundred and fifty,” the saloon-keeper calculated; “and -he’s worth it, or I’m a squarehead.” - -The kidnapper undid the bloody wrappings and looked at his lacerated -hand. “If I don’t get the hydrophoby—” - -“It’ll be because you was born to hang,” laughed the saloon-keeper. -“Here, lend me a hand before you pull your freight,” he added. - -Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life -half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors. But -he was thrown down and choked repeatedly, till they succeeded in filing -the heavy brass collar from off his neck. Then the rope was removed, -and he was flung into a cagelike crate. - -There he lay for the remainder of the weary night, nursing his wrath -and wounded pride. He could not understand what it all meant. What did -they want with him, these strange men? Why were they keeping him pent -up in this narrow crate? He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by -the vague sense of impending calamity. Several times during the night -he sprang to his feet when the shed door rattled open, expecting to see -the Judge, or the boys at least. But each time it was the bulging face -of the saloon-keeper that peered in at him by the sickly light of a -tallow candle. And each time the joyful bark that trembled in Buck’s -throat was twisted into a savage growl. - -But the saloon-keeper let him alone, and in the morning four men -entered and picked up the crate. More tormentors, Buck decided, for -they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed -and raged at them through the bars. They only laughed and poked sticks -at him, which he promptly assailed with his teeth till he realized that -that was what they wanted. Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed -the crate to be lifted into a wagon. Then he, and the crate in which he -was imprisoned, began a passage through many hands. Clerks in the -express office took charge of him; he was carted about in another -wagon; a truck carried him, with an assortment of boxes and parcels, -upon a ferry steamer; he was trucked off the steamer into a great -railway depot, and finally he was deposited in an express car. - -For two days and nights this express car was dragged along at the tail -of shrieking locomotives; and for two days and nights Buck neither ate -nor drank. In his anger he had met the first advances of the express -messengers with growls, and they had retaliated by teasing him. When he -flung himself against the bars, quivering and frothing, they laughed at -him and taunted him. They growled and barked like detestable dogs, -mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed. It was all very silly, he -knew; but therefore the more outrage to his dignity, and his anger -waxed and waxed. He did not mind the hunger so much, but the lack of -water caused him severe suffering and fanned his wrath to fever-pitch. -For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment -had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his -parched and swollen throat and tongue. - -He was glad for one thing: the rope was off his neck. That had given -them an unfair advantage; but now that it was off, he would show them. -They would never get another rope around his neck. Upon that he was -resolved. For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during -those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath -that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him. His eyes turned -blood-shot, and he was metamorphosed into a raging fiend. So changed -was he that the Judge himself would not have recognized him; and the -express messengers breathed with relief when they bundled him off the -train at Seattle. - -Four men gingerly carried the crate from the wagon into a small, -high-walled back yard. A stout man, with a red sweater that sagged -generously at the neck, came out and signed the book for the driver. -That was the man, Buck divined, the next tormentor, and he hurled -himself savagely against the bars. The man smiled grimly, and brought a -hatchet and a club. - -“You ain’t going to take him out now?” the driver asked. - -“Sure,” the man replied, driving the hatchet into the crate for a pry. - -There was an instantaneous scattering of the four men who had carried -it in, and from safe perches on top the wall they prepared to watch the -performance. - -Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging -and wrestling with it. Wherever the hatchet fell on the outside, he was -there on the inside, snarling and growling, as furiously anxious to get -out as the man in the red sweater was calmly intent on getting him out. - -“Now, you red-eyed devil,” he said, when he had made an opening -sufficient for the passage of Buck’s body. At the same time he dropped -the hatchet and shifted the club to his right hand. - -And Buck was truly a red-eyed devil, as he drew himself together for -the spring, hair bristling, mouth foaming, a mad glitter in his -blood-shot eyes. Straight at the man he launched his one hundred and -forty pounds of fury, surcharged with the pent passion of two days and -nights. In mid air, just as his jaws were about to close on the man, he -received a shock that checked his body and brought his teeth together -with an agonizing clip. He whirled over, fetching the ground on his -back and side. He had never been struck by a club in his life, and did -not understand. With a snarl that was part bark and more scream he was -again on his feet and launched into the air. And again the shock came -and he was brought crushingly to the ground. This time he was aware -that it was the club, but his madness knew no caution. A dozen times he -charged, and as often the club broke the charge and smashed him down. - -After a particularly fierce blow, he crawled to his feet, too dazed to -rush. He staggered limply about, the blood flowing from nose and mouth -and ears, his beautiful coat sprayed and flecked with bloody slaver. -Then the man advanced and deliberately dealt him a frightful blow on -the nose. All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the -exquisite agony of this. With a roar that was almost lionlike in its -ferocity, he again hurled himself at the man. But the man, shifting the -club from right to left, coolly caught him by the under jaw, at the -same time wrenching downward and backward. Buck described a complete -circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to the ground on -his head and chest. - -For the last time he rushed. The man struck the shrewd blow he had -purposely withheld for so long, and Buck crumpled up and went down, -knocked utterly senseless. - -“He’s no slouch at dog-breakin’, that’s wot I say,” one of the men on -the wall cried enthusiastically. - -“Druther break cayuses any day, and twice on Sundays,” was the reply of -the driver, as he climbed on the wagon and started the horses. - -Buck’s senses came back to him, but not his strength. He lay where he -had fallen, and from there he watched the man in the red sweater. - -“‘Answers to the name of Buck,’” the man soliloquized, quoting from the -saloon-keeper’s letter which had announced the consignment of the crate -and contents. “Well, Buck, my boy,” he went on in a genial voice, -“we’ve had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let -it go at that. You’ve learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good -dog and all ’ll go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I’ll -whale the stuffin’ outa you. Understand?” - -As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly -pounded, and though Buck’s hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the -hand, he endured it without protest. When the man brought him water he -drank eagerly, and later bolted a generous meal of raw meat, chunk by -chunk, from the man’s hand. - -He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for -all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned -the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was -a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, -and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a -fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it -with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. As the days went by, -other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and -some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched -them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater. Again and -again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven -home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, -though not necessarily conciliated. Of this last Buck was never guilty, -though he did see beaten dogs that fawned upon the man, and wagged -their tails, and licked his hand. Also he saw one dog, that would -neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for -mastery. - -Now and again men came, strangers, who talked excitedly, wheedlingly, -and in all kinds of fashions to the man in the red sweater. And at such -times that money passed between them the strangers took one or more of -the dogs away with them. Buck wondered where they went, for they never -came back; but the fear of the future was strong upon him, and he was -glad each time when he was not selected. - -Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little weazened man who -spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which -Buck could not understand. - -“Sacredam!” he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. “Dat one dam bully -dog! Eh? How moch?” - -“Three hundred, and a present at that,” was the prompt reply of the man -in the red sweater. “And seem’ it’s government money, you ain’t got no -kick coming, eh, Perrault?” - -Perrault grinned. Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed -skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an -animal. The Canadian Government would be no loser, nor would its -despatches travel the slower. Perrault knew dogs, and when he looked at -Buck he knew that he was one in a thousand—“One in ten t’ousand,” he -commented mentally. - -Buck saw money pass between them, and was not surprised when Curly, a -good-natured Newfoundland, and he were led away by the little weazened -man. That was the last he saw of the man in the red sweater, and as -Curly and he looked at receding Seattle from the deck of the _Narwhal_, -it was the last he saw of the warm Southland. Curly and he were taken -below by Perrault and turned over to a black-faced giant called -François. Perrault was a French-Canadian, and swarthy; but François was -a French-Canadian half-breed, and twice as swarthy. They were a new -kind of men to Buck (of which he was destined to see many more), and -while he developed no affection for them, he none the less grew -honestly to respect them. He speedily learned that Perrault and -François were fair men, calm and impartial in administering justice, -and too wise in the way of dogs to be fooled by dogs. - -In the ’tween-decks of the _Narwhal_, Buck and Curly joined two other -dogs. One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had -been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a -Geological Survey into the Barrens. He was friendly, in a treacherous -sort of way, smiling into one’s face the while he meditated some -underhand trick, as, for instance, when he stole from Buck’s food at -the first meal. As Buck sprang to punish him, the lash of François’s -whip sang through the air, reaching the culprit first; and nothing -remained to Buck but to recover the bone. That was fair of François, he -decided, and the half-breed began his rise in Buck’s estimation. - -The other dog made no advances, nor received any; also, he did not -attempt to steal from the newcomers. He was a gloomy, morose fellow, -and he showed Curly plainly that all he desired was to be left alone, -and further, that there would be trouble if he were not left alone. -“Dave” he was called, and he ate and slept, or yawned between times, -and took interest in nothing, not even when the _Narwhal_ crossed Queen -Charlotte Sound and rolled and pitched and bucked like a thing -possessed. When Buck and Curly grew excited, half wild with fear, he -raised his head as though annoyed, favored them with an incurious -glance, yawned, and went to sleep again. - -Day and night the ship throbbed to the tireless pulse of the propeller, -and though one day was very like another, it was apparent to Buck that -the weather was steadily growing colder. At last, one morning, the -propeller was quiet, and the _Narwhal_ was pervaded with an atmosphere -of excitement. He felt it, as did the other dogs, and knew that a -change was at hand. François leashed them and brought them on deck. At -the first step upon the cold surface, Buck’s feet sank into a white -mushy something very like mud. He sprang back with a snort. More of -this white stuff was falling through the air. He shook himself, but -more of it fell upon him. He sniffed it curiously, then licked some up -on his tongue. It bit like fire, and the next instant was gone. This -puzzled him. He tried it again, with the same result. The onlookers -laughed uproariously, and he felt ashamed, he knew not why, for it was -his first snow. - - - - -Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang - - -Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Every hour was -filled with shock and surprise. He had been suddenly jerked from the -heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. No -lazy, sun-kissed life was this, with nothing to do but loaf and be -bored. Here was neither peace, nor rest, nor a moment’s safety. All was -confusion and action, and every moment life and limb were in peril. -There was imperative need to be constantly alert; for these dogs and -men were not town dogs and men. They were savages, all of them, who -knew no law but the law of club and fang. - -He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his -first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was -a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it. -Curly was the victim. They were camped near the log store, where she, -in her friendly way, made advances to a husky dog the size of a -full-grown wolf, though not half so large as she. There was no warning, -only a leap in like a flash, a metallic clip of teeth, a leap out -equally swift, and Curly’s face was ripped open from eye to jaw. - -It was the wolf manner of fighting, to strike and leap away; but there -was more to it than this. Thirty or forty huskies ran to the spot and -surrounded the combatants in an intent and silent circle. Buck did not -comprehend that silent intentness, nor the eager way with which they -were licking their chops. Curly rushed her antagonist, who struck again -and leaped aside. He met her next rush with his chest, in a peculiar -fashion that tumbled her off her feet. She never regained them. This -was what the onlooking huskies had waited for. They closed in upon her, -snarling and yelping, and she was buried, screaming with agony, beneath -the bristling mass of bodies. - -So sudden was it, and so unexpected, that Buck was taken aback. He saw -Spitz run out his scarlet tongue in a way he had of laughing; and he -saw François, swinging an axe, spring into the mess of dogs. Three men -with clubs were helping him to scatter them. It did not take long. Two -minutes from the time Curly went down, the last of her assailants were -clubbed off. But she lay there limp and lifeless in the bloody, -trampled snow, almost literally torn to pieces, the swart half-breed -standing over her and cursing horribly. The scene often came back to -Buck to trouble him in his sleep. So that was the way. No fair play. -Once down, that was the end of you. Well, he would see to it that he -never went down. Spitz ran out his tongue and laughed again, and from -that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred. - -Before he had recovered from the shock caused by the tragic passing of -Curly, he received another shock. François fastened upon him an -arrangement of straps and buckles. It was a harness, such as he had -seen the grooms put on the horses at home. And as he had seen horses -work, so he was set to work, hauling François on a sled to the forest -that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood. Though -his dignity was sorely hurt by thus being made a draught animal, he was -too wise to rebel. He buckled down with a will and did his best, though -it was all new and strange. François was stern, demanding instant -obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while -Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters -whenever he was in error. Spitz was the leader, likewise experienced, -and while he could not always get at Buck, he growled sharp reproof now -and again, or cunningly threw his weight in the traces to jerk Buck -into the way he should go. Buck learned easily, and under the combined -tuition of his two mates and François made remarkable progress. Ere -they returned to camp he knew enough to stop at “ho,” to go ahead at -“mush,” to swing wide on the bends, and to keep clear of the wheeler -when the loaded sled shot downhill at their heels. - -“T’ree vair’ good dogs,” François told Perrault. “Dat Buck, heem pool -lak hell. I tich heem queek as anyt’ing.” - -By afternoon, Perrault, who was in a hurry to be on the trail with his -despatches, returned with two more dogs. “Billee” and “Joe” he called -them, two brothers, and true huskies both. Sons of the one mother -though they were, they were as different as day and night. Billee’s one -fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, -sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye. -Buck received them in comradely fashion, Dave ignored them, while Spitz -proceeded to thrash first one and then the other. Billee wagged his -tail appeasingly, turned to run when he saw that appeasement was of no -avail, and cried (still appeasingly) when Spitz’s sharp teeth scored -his flank. But no matter how Spitz circled, Joe whirled around on his -heels to face him, mane bristling, ears laid back, lips writhing and -snarling, jaws clipping together as fast as he could snap, and eyes -diabolically gleaming—the incarnation of belligerent fear. So terrible -was his appearance that Spitz was forced to forego disciplining him; -but to cover his own discomfiture he turned upon the inoffensive and -wailing Billee and drove him to the confines of the camp. - -By evening Perrault secured another dog, an old husky, long and lean -and gaunt, with a battle-scarred face and a single eye which flashed a -warning of prowess that commanded respect. He was called Sol-leks, -which means the Angry One. Like Dave, he asked nothing, gave nothing, -expected nothing; and when he marched slowly and deliberately into -their midst, even Spitz left him alone. He had one peculiarity which -Buck was unlucky enough to discover. He did not like to be approached -on his blind side. Of this offence Buck was unwittingly guilty, and the -first knowledge he had of his indiscretion was when Sol-leks whirled -upon him and slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and -down. Forever after Buck avoided his blind side, and to the last of -their comradeship had no more trouble. His only apparent ambition, like -Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, -each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition. - -That night Buck faced the great problem of sleeping. The tent, -illumined by a candle, glowed warmly in the midst of the white plain; -and when he, as a matter of course, entered it, both Perrault and -François bombarded him with curses and cooking utensils, till he -recovered from his consternation and fled ignominiously into the outer -cold. A chill wind was blowing that nipped him sharply and bit with -especial venom into his wounded shoulder. He lay down on the snow and -attempted to sleep, but the frost soon drove him shivering to his feet. -Miserable and disconsolate, he wandered about among the many tents, -only to find that one place was as cold as another. Here and there -savage dogs rushed upon him, but he bristled his neck-hair and snarled -(for he was learning fast), and they let him go his way unmolested. - -Finally an idea came to him. He would return and see how his own -team-mates were making out. To his astonishment, they had disappeared. -Again he wandered about through the great camp, looking for them, and -again he returned. Were they in the tent? No, that could not be, else -he would not have been driven out. Then where could they possibly be? -With drooping tail and shivering body, very forlorn indeed, he -aimlessly circled the tent. Suddenly the snow gave way beneath his fore -legs and he sank down. Something wriggled under his feet. He sprang -back, bristling and snarling, fearful of the unseen and unknown. But a -friendly little yelp reassured him, and he went back to investigate. A -whiff of warm air ascended to his nostrils, and there, curled up under -the snow in a snug ball, lay Billee. He whined placatingly, squirmed -and wriggled to show his good will and intentions, and even ventured, -as a bribe for peace, to lick Buck’s face with his warm wet tongue. - -Another lesson. So that was the way they did it, eh? Buck confidently -selected a spot, and with much fuss and waste effort proceeded to dig a -hole for himself. In a trice the heat from his body filled the confined -space and he was asleep. The day had been long and arduous, and he -slept soundly and comfortably, though he growled and barked and -wrestled with bad dreams. - -Nor did he open his eyes till roused by the noises of the waking camp. -At first he did not know where he was. It had snowed during the night -and he was completely buried. The snow walls pressed him on every side, -and a great surge of fear swept through him—the fear of the wild thing -for the trap. It was a token that he was harking back through his own -life to the lives of his forebears; for he was a civilized dog, an -unduly civilized dog, and of his own experience knew no trap and so -could not of himself fear it. The muscles of his whole body contracted -spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders -stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into -the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud. Ere he -landed on his feet, he saw the white camp spread out before him and -knew where he was and remembered all that had passed from the time he -went for a stroll with Manuel to the hole he had dug for himself the -night before. - -A shout from François hailed his appearance. “Wot I say?” the -dog-driver cried to Perrault. “Dat Buck for sure learn queek as -anyt’ing.” - -Perrault nodded gravely. As courier for the Canadian Government, -bearing important despatches, he was anxious to secure the best dogs, -and he was particularly gladdened by the possession of Buck. - -Three more huskies were added to the team inside an hour, making a -total of nine, and before another quarter of an hour had passed they -were in harness and swinging up the trail toward the Dyea Cañon. Buck -was glad to be gone, and though the work was hard he found he did not -particularly despise it. He was surprised at the eagerness which -animated the whole team and which was communicated to him; but still -more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-leks. They were -new dogs, utterly transformed by the harness. All passiveness and -unconcern had dropped from them. They were alert and active, anxious -that the work should go well, and fiercely irritable with whatever, by -delay or confusion, retarded that work. The toil of the traces seemed -the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and -the only thing in which they took delight. - -Dave was wheeler or sled dog, pulling in front of him was Buck, then -came Sol-leks; the rest of the team was strung out ahead, single file, -to the leader, which position was filled by Spitz. - -Buck had been purposely placed between Dave and Sol-leks so that he -might receive instruction. Apt scholar that he was, they were equally -apt teachers, never allowing him to linger long in error, and enforcing -their teaching with their sharp teeth. Dave was fair and very wise. He -never nipped Buck without cause, and he never failed to nip him when he -stood in need of it. As François’s whip backed him up, Buck found it to -be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate. Once, during a brief -halt, when he got tangled in the traces and delayed the start, both -Dave and Sol-leks flew at him and administered a sound trouncing. The -resulting tangle was even worse, but Buck took good care to keep the -traces clear thereafter; and ere the day was done, so well had he -mastered his work, his mates about ceased nagging him. François’s whip -snapped less frequently, and Perrault even honored Buck by lifting up -his feet and carefully examining them. - -It was a hard day’s run, up the Cañon, through Sheep Camp, past the -Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of -feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the -salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely -North. They made good time down the chain of lakes which fills the -craters of extinct volcanoes, and late that night pulled into the huge -camp at the head of Lake Bennett, where thousands of goldseekers were -building boats against the break-up of the ice in the spring. Buck made -his hole in the snow and slept the sleep of the exhausted just, but all -too early was routed out in the cold darkness and harnessed with his -mates to the sled. - -That day they made forty miles, the trail being packed; but the next -day, and for many days to follow, they broke their own trail, worked -harder, and made poorer time. As a rule, Perrault travelled ahead of -the team, packing the snow with webbed shoes to make it easier for -them. François, guiding the sled at the gee-pole, sometimes exchanged -places with him, but not often. Perrault was in a hurry, and he prided -himself on his knowledge of ice, which knowledge was indispensable, for -the fall ice was very thin, and where there was swift water, there was -no ice at all. - -Day after day, for days unending, Buck toiled in the traces. Always, -they broke camp in the dark, and the first gray of dawn found them -hitting the trail with fresh miles reeled off behind them. And always -they pitched camp after dark, eating their bit of fish, and crawling to -sleep into the snow. Buck was ravenous. The pound and a half of -sun-dried salmon, which was his ration for each day, seemed to go -nowhere. He never had enough, and suffered from perpetual hunger pangs. -Yet the other dogs, because they weighed less and were born to the -life, received a pound only of the fish and managed to keep in good -condition. - -He swiftly lost the fastidiousness which had characterized his old -life. A dainty eater, he found that his mates, finishing first, robbed -him of his unfinished ration. There was no defending it. While he was -fighting off two or three, it was disappearing down the throats of the -others. To remedy this, he ate as fast as they; and, so greatly did -hunger compel him, he was not above taking what did not belong to him. -He watched and learned. When he saw Pike, one of the new dogs, a clever -malingerer and thief, slyly steal a slice of bacon when Perrault’s back -was turned, he duplicated the performance the following day, getting -away with the whole chunk. A great uproar was raised, but he was -unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting -caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed. - -This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland -environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself -to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and -terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his -moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for -existence. It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of -love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; -but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such -things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he -would fail to prosper. - -Not that Buck reasoned it out. He was fit, that was all, and -unconsciously he accommodated himself to the new mode of life. All his -days, no matter what the odds, he had never run from a fight. But the -club of the man in the red sweater had beaten into him a more -fundamental and primitive code. Civilized, he could have died for a -moral consideration, say the defence of Judge Miller’s riding-whip; but -the completeness of his decivilization was now evidenced by his ability -to flee from the defence of a moral consideration and so save his hide. -He did not steal for joy of it, but because of the clamor of his -stomach. He did not rob openly, but stole secretly and cunningly, out -of respect for club and fang. In short, the things he did were done -because it was easier to do them than not to do them. - -His development (or retrogression) was rapid. His muscles became hard -as iron, and he grew callous to all ordinary pain. He achieved an -internal as well as external economy. He could eat anything, no matter -how loathsome or indigestible; and, once eaten, the juices of his -stomach extracted the last least particle of nutriment; and his blood -carried it to the farthest reaches of his body, building it into the -toughest and stoutest of tissues. Sight and scent became remarkably -keen, while his hearing developed such acuteness that in his sleep he -heard the faintest sound and knew whether it heralded peace or peril. -He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between -his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice -over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with -stiff fore legs. His most conspicuous trait was an ability to scent the -wind and forecast it a night in advance. No matter how breathless the -air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew -inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug. - -And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became -alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways -he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs -ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as -they ran it down. It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and -slash and the quick wolf snap. In this manner had fought forgotten -ancestors. They quickened the old life within him, and the old tricks -which they had stamped into the heredity of the breed were his tricks. -They came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been -his always. And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at -a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and -dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries and -through him. And his cadences were their cadences, the cadences which -voiced their woe and what to them was the meaning of the stiffness, and -the cold, and dark. - -Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged -through him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had -found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel was a gardener’s -helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers -small copies of himself. - - - - -Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast - - -The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce -conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. -His newborn cunning gave him poise and control. He was too busy -adjusting himself to the new life to feel at ease, and not only did he -not pick fights, but he avoided them whenever possible. A certain -deliberateness characterized his attitude. He was not prone to rashness -and precipitate action; and in the bitter hatred between him and Spitz -he betrayed no impatience, shunned all offensive acts. - -On the other hand, possibly because he divined in Buck a dangerous -rival, Spitz never lost an opportunity of showing his teeth. He even -went out of his way to bully Buck, striving constantly to start the -fight which could end only in the death of one or the other. Early in -the trip this might have taken place had it not been for an unwonted -accident. At the end of this day they made a bleak and miserable camp -on the shore of Lake Le Barge. Driving snow, a wind that cut like a -white-hot knife, and darkness had forced them to grope for a camping -place. They could hardly have fared worse. At their backs rose a -perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and François were compelled to -make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake -itself. The tent they had discarded at Dyea in order to travel light. A -few sticks of driftwood furnished them with a fire that thawed down -through the ice and left them to eat supper in the dark. - -Close in under the sheltering rock Buck made his nest. So snug and warm -was it, that he was loath to leave it when François distributed the -fish which he had first thawed over the fire. But when Buck finished -his ration and returned, he found his nest occupied. A warning snarl -told him that the trespasser was Spitz. Till now Buck had avoided -trouble with his enemy, but this was too much. The beast in him roared. -He sprang upon Spitz with a fury which surprised them both, and Spitz -particularly, for his whole experience with Buck had gone to teach him -that his rival was an unusually timid dog, who managed to hold his own -only because of his great weight and size. - -François was surprised, too, when they shot out in a tangle from the -disrupted nest and he divined the cause of the trouble. “A-a-ah!” he -cried to Buck. “Gif it to heem, by Gar! Gif it to heem, the dirty -t’eef!” - -Spitz was equally willing. He was crying with sheer rage and eagerness -as he circled back and forth for a chance to spring in. Buck was no -less eager, and no less cautious, as he likewise circled back and forth -for the advantage. But it was then that the unexpected happened, the -thing which projected their struggle for supremacy far into the future, -past many a weary mile of trail and toil. - -An oath from Perrault, the resounding impact of a club upon a bony -frame, and a shrill yelp of pain, heralded the breaking forth of -pandemonium. The camp was suddenly discovered to be alive with skulking -furry forms,—starving huskies, four or five score of them, who had -scented the camp from some Indian village. They had crept in while Buck -and Spitz were fighting, and when the two men sprang among them with -stout clubs they showed their teeth and fought back. They were crazed -by the smell of the food. Perrault found one with head buried in the -grub-box. His club landed heavily on the gaunt ribs, and the grub-box -was capsized on the ground. On the instant a score of the famished -brutes were scrambling for the bread and bacon. The clubs fell upon -them unheeded. They yelped and howled under the rain of blows, but -struggled none the less madly till the last crumb had been devoured. - -In the meantime the astonished team-dogs had burst out of their nests -only to be set upon by the fierce invaders. Never had Buck seen such -dogs. It seemed as though their bones would burst through their skins. -They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with -blazing eyes and slavered fangs. But the hunger-madness made them -terrifying, irresistible. There was no opposing them. The team-dogs -were swept back against the cliff at the first onset. Buck was beset by -three huskies, and in a trice his head and shoulders were ripped and -slashed. The din was frightful. Billee was crying as usual. Dave and -Sol-leks, dripping blood from a score of wounds, were fighting bravely -side by side. Joe was snapping like a demon. Once, his teeth closed on -the fore leg of a husky, and he crunched down through the bone. Pike, -the malingerer, leaped upon the crippled animal, breaking its neck with -a quick flash of teeth and a jerk, Buck got a frothing adversary by the -throat, and was sprayed with blood when his teeth sank through the -jugular. The warm taste of it in his mouth goaded him to greater -fierceness. He flung himself upon another, and at the same time felt -teeth sink into his own throat. It was Spitz, treacherously attacking -from the side. - -Perrault and François, having cleaned out their part of the camp, -hurried to save their sled-dogs. The wild wave of famished beasts -rolled back before them, and Buck shook himself free. But it was only -for a moment. The two men were compelled to run back to save the grub, -upon which the huskies returned to the attack on the team. Billee, -terrified into bravery, sprang through the savage circle and fled away -over the ice. Pike and Dub followed on his heels, with the rest of the -team behind. As Buck drew himself together to spring after them, out of -the tail of his eye he saw Spitz rush upon him with the evident -intention of overthrowing him. Once off his feet and under that mass of -huskies, there was no hope for him. But he braced himself to the shock -of Spitz’s charge, then joined the flight out on the lake. - -Later, the nine team-dogs gathered together and sought shelter in the -forest. Though unpursued, they were in a sorry plight. There was not -one who was not wounded in four or five places, while some were wounded -grievously. Dub was badly injured in a hind leg; Dolly, the last husky -added to the team at Dyea, had a badly torn throat; Joe had lost an -eye; while Billee, the good-natured, with an ear chewed and rent to -ribbons, cried and whimpered throughout the night. At daybreak they -limped warily back to camp, to find the marauders gone and the two men -in bad tempers. Fully half their grub supply was gone. The huskies had -chewed through the sled lashings and canvas coverings. In fact, -nothing, no matter how remotely eatable, had escaped them. They had -eaten a pair of Perrault’s moose-hide moccasins, chunks out of the -leather traces, and even two feet of lash from the end of François’s -whip. He broke from a mournful contemplation of it to look over his -wounded dogs. - -“Ah, my frien’s,” he said softly, “mebbe it mek you mad dog, dose many -bites. Mebbe all mad dog, sacredam! Wot you t’ink, eh, Perrault?” - -The courier shook his head dubiously. With four hundred miles of trail -still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break -out among his dogs. Two hours of cursing and exertion got the harnesses -into shape, and the wound-stiffened team was under way, struggling -painfully over the hardest part of the trail they had yet encountered, -and for that matter, the hardest between them and Dawson. - -The Thirty Mile River was wide open. Its wild water defied the frost, -and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held -at all. Six days of exhausting toil were required to cover those thirty -terrible miles. And terrible they were, for every foot of them was -accomplished at the risk of life to dog and man. A dozen times, -Perrault, nosing the way broke through the ice bridges, being saved by -the long pole he carried, which he so held that it fell each time -across the hole made by his body. But a cold snap was on, the -thermometer registering fifty below zero, and each time he broke -through he was compelled for very life to build a fire and dry his -garments. - -Nothing daunted him. It was because nothing daunted him that he had -been chosen for government courier. He took all manner of risks, -resolutely thrusting his little weazened face into the frost and -struggling on from dim dawn to dark. He skirted the frowning shores on -rim ice that bent and crackled under foot and upon which they dared not -halt. Once, the sled broke through, with Dave and Buck, and they were -half-frozen and all but drowned by the time they were dragged out. The -usual fire was necessary to save them. They were coated solidly with -ice, and the two men kept them on the run around the fire, sweating and -thawing, so close that they were singed by the flames. - -At another time Spitz went through, dragging the whole team after him -up to Buck, who strained backward with all his strength, his fore paws -on the slippery edge and the ice quivering and snapping all around. But -behind him was Dave, likewise straining backward, and behind the sled -was François, pulling till his tendons cracked. - -Again, the rim ice broke away before and behind, and there was no -escape except up the cliff. Perrault scaled it by a miracle, while -François prayed for just that miracle; and with every thong and sled -lashing and the last bit of harness rove into a long rope, the dogs -were hoisted, one by one, to the cliff crest. François came up last, -after the sled and load. Then came the search for a place to descend, -which descent was ultimately made by the aid of the rope, and night -found them back on the river with a quarter of a mile to the day’s -credit. - -By the time they made the Hootalinqua and good ice, Buck was played -out. The rest of the dogs were in like condition; but Perrault, to make -up lost time, pushed them late and early. The first day they covered -thirty-five miles to the Big Salmon; the next day thirty-five more to -the Little Salmon; the third day forty miles, which brought them well -up toward the Five Fingers. - -Buck’s feet were not so compact and hard as the feet of the huskies. -His had softened during the many generations since the day his last -wild ancestor was tamed by a cave-dweller or river man. All day long he -limped in agony, and camp once made, lay down like a dead dog. Hungry -as he was, he would not move to receive his ration of fish, which -François had to bring to him. Also, the dog-driver rubbed Buck’s feet -for half an hour each night after supper, and sacrificed the tops of -his own moccasins to make four moccasins for Buck. This was a great -relief, and Buck caused even the weazened face of Perrault to twist -itself into a grin one morning, when François forgot the moccasins and -Buck lay on his back, his four feet waving appealingly in the air, and -refused to budge without them. Later his feet grew hard to the trail, -and the worn-out foot-gear was thrown away. - -At the Pelly one morning, as they were harnessing up, Dolly, who had -never been conspicuous for anything, went suddenly mad. She announced -her condition by a long, heartbreaking wolf howl that sent every dog -bristling with fear, then sprang straight for Buck. He had never seen a -dog go mad, nor did he have any reason to fear madness; yet he knew -that here was horror, and fled away from it in a panic. Straight away -he raced, with Dolly, panting and frothing, one leap behind; nor could -she gain on him, so great was his terror, nor could he leave her, so -great was her madness. He plunged through the wooded breast of the -island, flew down to the lower end, crossed a back channel filled with -rough ice to another island, gained a third island, curved back to the -main river, and in desperation started to cross it. And all the time, -though he did not look, he could hear her snarling just one leap -behind. François called to him a quarter of a mile away and he doubled -back, still one leap ahead, gasping painfully for air and putting all -his faith in that François would save him. The dog-driver held the axe -poised in his hand, and as Buck shot past him the axe crashed down upon -mad Dolly’s head. - -Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, -helpless. This was Spitz’s opportunity. He sprang upon Buck, and twice -his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh -to the bone. Then François’s lash descended, and Buck had the -satisfaction of watching Spitz receive the worst whipping as yet -administered to any of the teams. - -“One devil, dat Spitz,” remarked Perrault. “Some dam day heem keel dat -Buck.” - -“Dat Buck two devils,” was François’s rejoinder. “All de tam I watch -dat Buck I know for sure. Lissen: some dam fine day heem get mad lak -hell an’ den heem chew dat Spitz all up an’ spit heem out on de snow. -Sure. I know.” - -From then on it was war between them. Spitz, as lead-dog and -acknowledged master of the team, felt his supremacy threatened by this -strange Southland dog. And strange Buck was to him, for of the many -Southland dogs he had known, not one had shown up worthily in camp and -on trail. They were all too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and -starvation. Buck was the exception. He alone endured and prospered, -matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning. Then he was a -masterful dog, and what made him dangerous was the fact that the club -of the man in the red sweater had knocked all blind pluck and rashness -out of his desire for mastery. He was preeminently cunning, and could -bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive. - -It was inevitable that the clash for leadership should come. Buck -wanted it. He wanted it because it was his nature, because he had been -gripped tight by that nameless, incomprehensible pride of the trail and -trace—that pride which holds dogs in the toil to the last gasp, which -lures them to die joyfully in the harness, and breaks their hearts if -they are cut out of the harness. This was the pride of Dave as -wheel-dog, of Sol-leks as he pulled with all his strength; the pride -that laid hold of them at break of camp, transforming them from sour -and sullen brutes into straining, eager, ambitious creatures; the pride -that spurred them on all day and dropped them at pitch of camp at -night, letting them fall back into gloomy unrest and uncontent. This -was the pride that bore up Spitz and made him thrash the sled-dogs who -blundered and shirked in the traces or hid away at harness-up time in -the morning. Likewise it was this pride that made him fear Buck as a -possible lead-dog. And this was Buck’s pride, too. - -He openly threatened the other’s leadership. He came between him and -the shirks he should have punished. And he did it deliberately. One -night there was a heavy snowfall, and in the morning Pike, the -malingerer, did not appear. He was securely hidden in his nest under a -foot of snow. François called him and sought him in vain. Spitz was -wild with wrath. He raged through the camp, smelling and digging in -every likely place, snarling so frightfully that Pike heard and -shivered in his hiding-place. - -But when he was at last unearthed, and Spitz flew at him to punish him, -Buck flew, with equal rage, in between. So unexpected was it, and so -shrewdly managed, that Spitz was hurled backward and off his feet. -Pike, who had been trembling abjectly, took heart at this open mutiny, -and sprang upon his overthrown leader. Buck, to whom fair play was a -forgotten code, likewise sprang upon Spitz. But François, chuckling at -the incident while unswerving in the administration of justice, brought -his lash down upon Buck with all his might. This failed to drive Buck -from his prostrate rival, and the butt of the whip was brought into -play. Half-stunned by the blow, Buck was knocked backward and the lash -laid upon him again and again, while Spitz soundly punished the many -times offending Pike. - -In the days that followed, as Dawson grew closer and closer, Buck still -continued to interfere between Spitz and the culprits; but he did it -craftily, when François was not around, With the covert mutiny of Buck, -a general insubordination sprang up and increased. Dave and Sol-leks -were unaffected, but the rest of the team went from bad to worse. -Things no longer went right. There was continual bickering and -jangling. Trouble was always afoot, and at the bottom of it was Buck. -He kept François busy, for the dog-driver was in constant apprehension -of the life-and-death struggle between the two which he knew must take -place sooner or later; and on more than one night the sounds of -quarrelling and strife among the other dogs turned him out of his -sleeping robe, fearful that Buck and Spitz were at it. - -But the opportunity did not present itself, and they pulled into Dawson -one dreary afternoon with the great fight still to come. Here were many -men, and countless dogs, and Buck found them all at work. It seemed the -ordained order of things that dogs should work. All day they swung up -and down the main street in long teams, and in the night their jingling -bells still went by. They hauled cabin logs and firewood, freighted up -to the mines, and did all manner of work that horses did in the Santa -Clara Valley. Here and there Buck met Southland dogs, but in the main -they were the wild wolf husky breed. Every night, regularly, at nine, -at twelve, at three, they lifted a nocturnal song, a weird and eerie -chant, in which it was Buck’s delight to join. - -With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping -in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of -snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, -only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and -half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of -existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself—one of the first -songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was -invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which -Buck was so strangely stirred. When he moaned and sobbed, it was with -the pain of living that was of old the pain of his wild fathers, and -the fear and mystery of the cold and dark that was to them fear and -mystery. And that he should be stirred by it marked the completeness -with which he harked back through the ages of fire and roof to the raw -beginnings of life in the howling ages. - -Seven days from the time they pulled into Dawson, they dropped down the -steep bank by the Barracks to the Yukon Trail, and pulled for Dyea and -Salt Water. Perrault was carrying despatches if anything more urgent -than those he had brought in; also, the travel pride had gripped him, -and he purposed to make the record trip of the year. Several things -favored him in this. The week’s rest had recuperated the dogs and put -them in thorough trim. The trail they had broken into the country was -packed hard by later journeyers. And further, the police had arranged -in two or three places deposits of grub for dog and man, and he was -travelling light. - -They made Sixty Mile, which is a fifty-mile run, on the first day; and -the second day saw them booming up the Yukon well on their way to -Pelly. But such splendid running was achieved not without great trouble -and vexation on the part of François. The insidious revolt led by Buck -had destroyed the solidarity of the team. It no longer was as one dog -leaping in the traces. The encouragement Buck gave the rebels led them -into all kinds of petty misdemeanors. No more was Spitz a leader -greatly to be feared. The old awe departed, and they grew equal to -challenging his authority. Pike robbed him of half a fish one night, -and gulped it down under the protection of Buck. Another night Dub and -Joe fought Spitz and made him forego the punishment they deserved. And -even Billee, the good-natured, was less good-natured, and whined not -half so placatingly as in former days. Buck never came near Spitz -without snarling and bristling menacingly. In fact, his conduct -approached that of a bully, and he was given to swaggering up and down -before Spitz’s very nose. - -The breaking down of discipline likewise affected the dogs in their -relations with one another. They quarrelled and bickered more than ever -among themselves, till at times the camp was a howling bedlam. Dave and -Sol-leks alone were unaltered, though they were made irritable by the -unending squabbling. François swore strange barbarous oaths, and -stamped the snow in futile rage, and tore his hair. His lash was always -singing among the dogs, but it was of small avail. Directly his back -was turned they were at it again. He backed up Spitz with his whip, -while Buck backed up the remainder of the team. François knew he was -behind all the trouble, and Buck knew he knew; but Buck was too clever -ever again to be caught red-handed. He worked faithfully in the -harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater -delight slyly to precipitate a fight amongst his mates and tangle the -traces. - -At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after supper, Dub turned up a -snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed. In a second the whole team -was in full cry. A hundred yards away was a camp of the Northwest -Police, with fifty dogs, huskies all, who joined the chase. The rabbit -sped down the river, turned off into a small creek, up the frozen bed -of which it held steadily. It ran lightly on the surface of the snow, -while the dogs ploughed through by main strength. Buck led the pack, -sixty strong, around bend after bend, but he could not gain. He lay -down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing -forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight. And leap by leap, -like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead. - -All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men -out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by -chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to -kill—all this was Buck’s, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was -ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the -living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes -in warm blood. - -There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which -life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes -when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that -one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the -artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to -the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it -came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining -after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through -the moonlight. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the -parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb -of Time. He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave -of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in -that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and -rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the -stars and over the face of dead matter that did not move. - -But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the -pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long -bend around. Buck did not know of this, and as he rounded the bend, the -frost wraith of a rabbit still flitting before him, he saw another and -larger frost wraith leap from the overhanging bank into the immediate -path of the rabbit. It was Spitz. The rabbit could not turn, and as the -white teeth broke its back in mid air it shrieked as loudly as a -stricken man may shriek. At sound of this, the cry of Life plunging -down from Life’s apex in the grip of Death, the full pack at Buck’s -heels raised a hell’s chorus of delight. - -Buck did not cry out. He did not check himself, but drove in upon -Spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. They -rolled over and over in the powdery snow. Spitz gained his feet almost -as though he had not been overthrown, slashing Buck down the shoulder -and leaping clear. Twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel -jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and -lifting lips that writhed and snarled. - -In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death. As -they circled about, snarling, ears laid back, keenly watchful for the -advantage, the scene came to Buck with a sense of familiarity. He -seemed to remember it all,—the white woods, and earth, and moonlight, -and the thrill of battle. Over the whiteness and silence brooded a -ghostly calm. There was not the faintest whisper of air—nothing moved, -not a leaf quivered, the visible breaths of the dogs rising slowly and -lingering in the frosty air. They had made short work of the snowshoe -rabbit, these dogs that were ill-tamed wolves; and they were now drawn -up in an expectant circle. They, too, were silent, their eyes only -gleaming and their breaths drifting slowly upward. To Buck it was -nothing new or strange, this scene of old time. It was as though it had -always been, the wonted way of things. - -Spitz was a practised fighter. From Spitzbergen through the Arctic, and -across Canada and the Barrens, he had held his own with all manner of -dogs and achieved to mastery over them. Bitter rage was his, but never -blind rage. In passion to rend and destroy, he never forgot that his -enemy was in like passion to rend and destroy. He never rushed till he -was prepared to receive a rush; never attacked till he had first -defended that attack. - -In vain Buck strove to sink his teeth in the neck of the big white dog. -Wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh, they were countered by -the fangs of Spitz. Fang clashed fang, and lips were cut and bleeding, -but Buck could not penetrate his enemy’s guard. Then he warmed up and -enveloped Spitz in a whirlwind of rushes. Time and time again he tried -for the snow-white throat, where life bubbled near to the surface, and -each time and every time Spitz slashed him and got away. Then Buck took -to rushing, as though for the throat, when, suddenly drawing back his -head and curving in from the side, he would drive his shoulder at the -shoulder of Spitz, as a ram by which to overthrow him. But instead, -Buck’s shoulder was slashed down each time as Spitz leaped lightly -away. - -Spitz was untouched, while Buck was streaming with blood and panting -hard. The fight was growing desperate. And all the while the silent and -wolfish circle waited to finish off whichever dog went down. As Buck -grew winded, Spitz took to rushing, and he kept him staggering for -footing. Once Buck went over, and the whole circle of sixty dogs -started up; but he recovered himself, almost in mid air, and the circle -sank down again and waited. - -But Buck possessed a quality that made for greatness—imagination. He -fought by instinct, but he could fight by head as well. He rushed, as -though attempting the old shoulder trick, but at the last instant swept -low to the snow and in. His teeth closed on Spitz’s left fore leg. -There was a crunch of breaking bone, and the white dog faced him on -three legs. Thrice he tried to knock him over, then repeated the trick -and broke the right fore leg. Despite the pain and helplessness, Spitz -struggled madly to keep up. He saw the silent circle, with gleaming -eyes, lolling tongues, and silvery breaths drifting upward, closing in -upon him as he had seen similar circles close in upon beaten -antagonists in the past. Only this time he was the one who was beaten. - -There was no hope for him. Buck was inexorable. Mercy was a thing -reserved for gentler climes. He manœuvred for the final rush. The -circle had tightened till he could feel the breaths of the huskies on -his flanks. He could see them, beyond Spitz and to either side, half -crouching for the spring, their eyes fixed upon him. A pause seemed to -fall. Every animal was motionless as though turned to stone. Only Spitz -quivered and bristled as he staggered back and forth, snarling with -horrible menace, as though to frighten off impending death. Then Buck -sprang in and out; but while he was in, shoulder had at last squarely -met shoulder. The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as -Spitz disappeared from view. Buck stood and looked on, the successful -champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found -it good. - - - - -Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership - - -“Eh? Wot I say? I spik true w’en I say dat Buck two devils.” This was -François’s speech next morning when he discovered Spitz missing and -Buck covered with wounds. He drew him to the fire and by its light -pointed them out. - -“Dat Spitz fight lak hell,” said Perrault, as he surveyed the gaping -rips and cuts. - -“An’ dat Buck fight lak two hells,” was François’s answer. “An’ now we -make good time. No more Spitz, no more trouble, sure.” - -While Perrault packed the camp outfit and loaded the sled, the -dog-driver proceeded to harness the dogs. Buck trotted up to the place -Spitz would have occupied as leader; but François, not noticing him, -brought Sol-leks to the coveted position. In his judgment, Sol-leks was -the best lead-dog left. Buck sprang upon Sol-leks in a fury, driving -him back and standing in his place. - -“Eh? eh?” François cried, slapping his thighs gleefully. “Look at dat -Buck. Heem keel dat Spitz, heem t’ink to take de job.” - -“Go ’way, Chook!” he cried, but Buck refused to budge. - -He took Buck by the scruff of the neck, and though the dog growled -threateningly, dragged him to one side and replaced Sol-leks. The old -dog did not like it, and showed plainly that he was afraid of Buck. -François was obdurate, but when he turned his back Buck again displaced -Sol-leks, who was not at all unwilling to go. - -François was angry. “Now, by Gar, I feex you!” he cried, coming back -with a heavy club in his hand. - -Buck remembered the man in the red sweater, and retreated slowly; nor -did he attempt to charge in when Sol-leks was once more brought -forward. But he circled just beyond the range of the club, snarling -with bitterness and rage; and while he circled he watched the club so -as to dodge it if thrown by François, for he was become wise in the way -of clubs. The driver went about his work, and he called to Buck when he -was ready to put him in his old place in front of Dave. Buck retreated -two or three steps. François followed him up, whereupon he again -retreated. After some time of this, François threw down the club, -thinking that Buck feared a thrashing. But Buck was in open revolt. He -wanted, not to escape a clubbing, but to have the leadership. It was -his by right. He had earned it, and he would not be content with less. - -Perrault took a hand. Between them they ran him about for the better -part of an hour. They threw clubs at him. He dodged. They cursed him, -and his fathers and mothers before him, and all his seed to come after -him down to the remotest generation, and every hair on his body and -drop of blood in his veins; and he answered curse with snarl and kept -out of their reach. He did not try to run away, but retreated around -and around the camp, advertising plainly that when his desire was met, -he would come in and be good. - -François sat down and scratched his head. Perrault looked at his watch -and swore. Time was flying, and they should have been on the trail an -hour gone. François scratched his head again. He shook it and grinned -sheepishly at the courier, who shrugged his shoulders in sign that they -were beaten. Then François went up to where Sol-leks stood and called -to Buck. Buck laughed, as dogs laugh, yet kept his distance. François -unfastened Sol-leks’s traces and put him back in his old place. The -team stood harnessed to the sled in an unbroken line, ready for the -trail. There was no place for Buck save at the front. Once more -François called, and once more Buck laughed and kept away. - -“T’row down de club,” Perrault commanded. - -François complied, whereupon Buck trotted in, laughing triumphantly, -and swung around into position at the head of the team. His traces were -fastened, the sled broken out, and with both men running they dashed -out on to the river trail. - -Highly as the dog-driver had forevalued Buck, with his two devils, he -found, while the day was yet young, that he had undervalued. At a bound -Buck took up the duties of leadership; and where judgment was required, -and quick thinking and quick acting, he showed himself the superior -even of Spitz, of whom François had never seen an equal. - -But it was in giving the law and making his mates live up to it, that -Buck excelled. Dave and Sol-leks did not mind the change in leadership. -It was none of their business. Their business was to toil, and toil -mightily, in the traces. So long as that were not interfered with, they -did not care what happened. Billee, the good-natured, could lead for -all they cared, so long as he kept order. The rest of the team, -however, had grown unruly during the last days of Spitz, and their -surprise was great now that Buck proceeded to lick them into shape. - -Pike, who pulled at Buck’s heels, and who never put an ounce more of -his weight against the breast-band than he was compelled to do, was -swiftly and repeatedly shaken for loafing; and ere the first day was -done he was pulling more than ever before in his life. The first night -in camp, Joe, the sour one, was punished roundly—a thing that Spitz had -never succeeded in doing. Buck simply smothered him by virtue of -superior weight, and cut him up till he ceased snapping and began to -whine for mercy. - -The general tone of the team picked up immediately. It recovered its -old-time solidarity, and once more the dogs leaped as one dog in the -traces. At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek and Koona, were -added; and the celerity with which Buck broke them in took away -François’s breath. - -“Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!” he cried. “No, nevaire! Heem worth -one t’ousan’ dollair, by Gar! Eh? Wot you say, Perrault?” - -And Perrault nodded. He was ahead of the record then, and gaining day -by day. The trail was in excellent condition, well packed and hard, and -there was no new-fallen snow with which to contend. It was not too -cold. The temperature dropped to fifty below zero and remained there -the whole trip. The men rode and ran by turn, and the dogs were kept on -the jump, with but infrequent stoppages. - -The Thirty Mile River was comparatively coated with ice, and they -covered in one day going out what had taken them ten days coming in. In -one run they made a sixty-mile dash from the foot of Lake Le Barge to -the White Horse Rapids. Across Marsh, Tagish, and Bennett (seventy -miles of lakes), they flew so fast that the man whose turn it was to -run towed behind the sled at the end of a rope. And on the last night -of the second week they topped White Pass and dropped down the sea -slope with the lights of Skaguay and of the shipping at their feet. - -It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty -miles. For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down -the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, -while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of -dog-busters and mushers. Then three or four western bad men aspired to -clean out the town, were riddled like pepper-boxes for their pains, and -public interest turned to other idols. Next came official orders. -François called Buck to him, threw his arms around him, wept over him. -And that was the last of François and Perrault. Like other men, they -passed out of Buck’s life for good. - -A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company -with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to -Dawson. It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil -each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train, -carrying word from the world to the men who sought gold under the -shadow of the Pole. - -Buck did not like it, but he bore up well to the work, taking pride in -it after the manner of Dave and Sol-leks, and seeing that his mates, -whether they prided in it or not, did their fair share. It was a -monotonous life, operating with machine-like regularity. One day was -very like another. At a certain time each morning the cooks turned out, -fires were built, and breakfast was eaten. Then, while some broke camp, -others harnessed the dogs, and they were under way an hour or so before -the darkness fell which gave warning of dawn. At night, camp was made. -Some pitched the flies, others cut firewood and pine boughs for the -beds, and still others carried water or ice for the cooks. Also, the -dogs were fed. To them, this was the one feature of the day, though it -was good to loaf around, after the fish was eaten, for an hour or so -with the other dogs, of which there were fivescore and odd. There were -fierce fighters among them, but three battles with the fiercest brought -Buck to mastery, so that when he bristled and showed his teeth they got -out of his way. - -Best of all, perhaps, he loved to lie near the fire, hind legs crouched -under him, fore legs stretched out in front, head raised, and eyes -blinking dreamily at the flames. Sometimes he thought of Judge Miller’s -big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley, and of the cement -swimming-tank, and Ysabel, the Mexican hairless, and Toots, the -Japanese pug; but oftener he remembered the man in the red sweater, the -death of Curly, the great fight with Spitz, and the good things he had -eaten or would like to eat. He was not homesick. The Sunland was very -dim and distant, and such memories had no power over him. Far more -potent were the memories of his heredity that gave things he had never -seen before a seeming familiarity; the instincts (which were but the -memories of his ancestors become habits) which had lapsed in later -days, and still later, in him, quickened and become alive again. - -Sometimes as he crouched there, blinking dreamily at the flames, it -seemed that the flames were of another fire, and that as he crouched by -this other fire he saw another and different man from the half-breed -cook before him. This other man was shorter of leg and longer of arm, -with muscles that were stringy and knotty rather than rounded and -swelling. The hair of this man was long and matted, and his head -slanted back under it from the eyes. He uttered strange sounds, and -seemed very much afraid of the darkness, into which he peered -continually, clutching in his hand, which hung midway between knee and -foot, a stick with a heavy stone made fast to the end. He was all but -naked, a ragged and fire-scorched skin hanging part way down his back, -but on his body there was much hair. In some places, across the chest -and shoulders and down the outside of the arms and thighs, it was -matted into almost a thick fur. He did not stand erect, but with trunk -inclined forward from the hips, on legs that bent at the knees. About -his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost -catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of -things seen and unseen. - -At other times this hairy man squatted by the fire with head between -his legs and slept. On such occasions his elbows were on his knees, his -hands clasped above his head as though to shed rain by the hairy arms. -And beyond that fire, in the circling darkness, Buck could see many -gleaming coals, two by two, always two by two, which he knew to be the -eyes of great beasts of prey. And he could hear the crashing of their -bodies through the undergrowth, and the noises they made in the night. -And dreaming there by the Yukon bank, with lazy eyes blinking at the -fire, these sounds and sights of another world would make the hair to -rise along his back and stand on end across his shoulders and up his -neck, till he whimpered low and suppressedly, or growled softly, and -the half-breed cook shouted at him, “Hey, you Buck, wake up!” Whereupon -the other world would vanish and the real world come into his eyes, and -he would get up and yawn and stretch as though he had been asleep. - -It was a hard trip, with the mail behind them, and the heavy work wore -them down. They were short of weight and in poor condition when they -made Dawson, and should have had a ten days’ or a week’s rest at least. -But in two days’ time they dropped down the Yukon bank from the -Barracks, loaded with letters for the outside. The dogs were tired, the -drivers grumbling, and to make matters worse, it snowed every day. This -meant a soft trail, greater friction on the runners, and heavier -pulling for the dogs; yet the drivers were fair through it all, and did -their best for the animals. - -Each night the dogs were attended to first. They ate before the drivers -ate, and no man sought his sleeping-robe till he had seen to the feet -of the dogs he drove. Still, their strength went down. Since the -beginning of the winter they had travelled eighteen hundred miles, -dragging sleds the whole weary distance; and eighteen hundred miles -will tell upon life of the toughest. Buck stood it, keeping his mates -up to their work and maintaining discipline, though he, too, was very -tired. Billee cried and whimpered regularly in his sleep each night. -Joe was sourer than ever, and Sol-leks was unapproachable, blind side -or other side. - -But it was Dave who suffered most of all. Something had gone wrong with -him. He became more morose and irritable, and when camp was pitched at -once made his nest, where his driver fed him. Once out of the harness -and down, he did not get on his feet again till harness-up time in the -morning. Sometimes, in the traces, when jerked by a sudden stoppage of -the sled, or by straining to start it, he would cry out with pain. The -driver examined him, but could find nothing. All the drivers became -interested in his case. They talked it over at meal-time, and over -their last pipes before going to bed, and one night they held a -consultation. He was brought from his nest to the fire and was pressed -and prodded till he cried out many times. Something was wrong inside, -but they could locate no broken bones, could not make it out. - -By the time Cassiar Bar was reached, he was so weak that he was falling -repeatedly in the traces. The Scotch half-breed called a halt and took -him out of the team, making the next dog, Sol-leks, fast to the sled. -His intention was to rest Dave, letting him run free behind the sled. -Sick as he was, Dave resented being taken out, grunting and growling -while the traces were unfastened, and whimpering broken-heartedly when -he saw Sol-leks in the position he had held and served so long. For the -pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick unto death, he could not -bear that another dog should do his work. - -When the sled started, he floundered in the soft snow alongside the -beaten trail, attacking Sol-leks with his teeth, rushing against him -and trying to thrust him off into the soft snow on the other side, -striving to leap inside his traces and get between him and the sled, -and all the while whining and yelping and crying with grief and pain. -The half-breed tried to drive him away with the whip; but he paid no -heed to the stinging lash, and the man had not the heart to strike -harder. Dave refused to run quietly on the trail behind the sled, where -the going was easy, but continued to flounder alongside in the soft -snow, where the going was most difficult, till exhausted. Then he fell, -and lay where he fell, howling lugubriously as the long train of sleds -churned by. - -With the last remnant of his strength he managed to stagger along -behind till the train made another stop, when he floundered past the -sleds to his own, where he stood alongside Sol-leks. His driver -lingered a moment to get a light for his pipe from the man behind. Then -he returned and started his dogs. They swung out on the trail with -remarkable lack of exertion, turned their heads uneasily, and stopped -in surprise. The driver was surprised, too; the sled had not moved. He -called his comrades to witness the sight. Dave had bitten through both -of Sol-leks’s traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in -his proper place. - -He pleaded with his eyes to remain there. The driver was perplexed. His -comrades talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied -the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where -dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut -out of the traces. Also, they held it a mercy, since Dave was to die -anyway, that he should die in the traces, heart-easy and content. So he -was harnessed in again, and proudly he pulled as of old, though more -than once he cried out involuntarily from the bite of his inward hurt. -Several times he fell down and was dragged in the traces, and once the -sled ran upon him so that he limped thereafter in one of his hind legs. - -But he held out till camp was reached, when his driver made a place for -him by the fire. Morning found him too weak to travel. At harness-up -time he tried to crawl to his driver. By convulsive efforts he got on -his feet, staggered, and fell. Then he wormed his way forward slowly -toward where the harnesses were being put on his mates. He would -advance his fore legs and drag up his body with a sort of hitching -movement, when he would advance his fore legs and hitch ahead again for -a few more inches. His strength left him, and the last his mates saw of -him he lay gasping in the snow and yearning toward them. But they could -hear him mournfully howling till they passed out of sight behind a belt -of river timber. - -Here the train was halted. The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his -steps to the camp they had left. The men ceased talking. A -revolver-shot rang out. The man came back hurriedly. The whips snapped, -the bells tinkled merrily, the sleds churned along the trail; but Buck -knew, and every dog knew, what had taken place behind the belt of river -trees. - - - - -Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail - - -Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt Water Mail, with -Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay. They were in a -wretched state, worn out and worn down. Buck’s one hundred and forty -pounds had dwindled to one hundred and fifteen. The rest of his mates, -though lighter dogs, had relatively lost more weight than he. Pike, the -malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully -feigned a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest. Sol-leks was limping, -and Dub was suffering from a wrenched shoulder-blade. - -They were all terribly footsore. No spring or rebound was left in them. -Their feet fell heavily on the trail, jarring their bodies and doubling -the fatigue of a day’s travel. There was nothing the matter with them -except that they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that -comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a -matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the -slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil. There was no -power of recuperation left, no reserve strength to call upon. It had -been all used, the last least bit of it. Every muscle, every fibre, -every cell, was tired, dead tired. And there was reason for it. In less -than five months they had travelled twenty-five hundred miles, during -the last eighteen hundred of which they had had but five days’ rest. -When they arrived at Skaguay they were apparently on their last legs. -They could barely keep the traces taut, and on the down grades just -managed to keep out of the way of the sled. - -“Mush on, poor sore feets,” the driver encouraged them as they tottered -down the main street of Skaguay. “Dis is de las’. Den we get one long -res’. Eh? For sure. One bully long res’.” - -The drivers confidently expected a long stopover. Themselves, they had -covered twelve hundred miles with two days’ rest, and in the nature of -reason and common justice they deserved an interval of loafing. But so -many were the men who had rushed into the Klondike, and so many were -the sweethearts, wives, and kin that had not rushed in, that the -congested mail was taking on Alpine proportions; also, there were -official orders. Fresh batches of Hudson Bay dogs were to take the -places of those worthless for the trail. The worthless ones were to be -got rid of, and, since dogs count for little against dollars, they were -to be sold. - -Three days passed, by which time Buck and his mates found how really -tired and weak they were. Then, on the morning of the fourth day, two -men from the States came along and bought them, harness and all, for a -song. The men addressed each other as “Hal” and “Charles.” Charles was -a middle-aged, lightish-colored man, with weak and watery eyes and a -mustache that twisted fiercely and vigorously up, giving the lie to the -limply drooping lip it concealed. Hal was a youngster of nineteen or -twenty, with a big Colt’s revolver and a hunting-knife strapped about -him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges. This belt was the -most salient thing about him. It advertised his callowness—a callowness -sheer and unutterable. Both men were manifestly out of place, and why -such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of -things that passes understanding. - -Buck heard the chaffering, saw the money pass between the man and the -Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the -mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of -Perrault and François and the others who had gone before. When driven -with his mates to the new owners’ camp, Buck saw a slipshod and -slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in -disorder; also, he saw a woman. “Mercedes” the men called her. She was -Charles’s wife and Hal’s sister—a nice family party. - -Buck watched them apprehensively as they proceeded to take down the -tent and load the sled. There was a great deal of effort about their -manner, but no businesslike method. The tent was rolled into an awkward -bundle three times as large as it should have been. The tin dishes were -packed away unwashed. Mercedes continually fluttered in the way of her -men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice. When -they put a clothes-sack on the front of the sled, she suggested it -should go on the back; and when they had put it on the back, and -covered it over with a couple of other bundles, she discovered -overlooked articles which could abide nowhere else but in that very -sack, and they unloaded again. - -Three men from a neighboring tent came out and looked on, grinning and -winking at one another. - -“You’ve got a right smart load as it is,” said one of them; “and it’s -not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn’t tote that tent -along if I was you.” - -“Undreamed of!” cried Mercedes, throwing up her hands in dainty dismay. -“However in the world could I manage without a tent?” - -“It’s springtime, and you won’t get any more cold weather,” the man -replied. - -She shook her head decidedly, and Charles and Hal put the last odds and -ends on top the mountainous load. - -“Think it’ll ride?” one of the men asked. - -“Why shouldn’t it?” Charles demanded rather shortly. - -“Oh, that’s all right, that’s all right,” the man hastened meekly to -say. “I was just a-wonderin’, that is all. It seemed a mite top-heavy.” - -Charles turned his back and drew the lashings down as well as he could, -which was not in the least well. - -“An’ of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption -behind them,” affirmed a second of the men. - -“Certainly,” said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the -gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. “Mush!” he -shouted. “Mush on there!” - -The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few -moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled. - -“The lazy brutes, I’ll show them,” he cried, preparing to lash out at -them with the whip. - -But Mercedes interfered, crying, “Oh, Hal, you mustn’t,” as she caught -hold of the whip and wrenched it from him. “The poor dears! Now you -must promise you won’t be harsh with them for the rest of the trip, or -I won’t go a step.” - -“Precious lot you know about dogs,” her brother sneered; “and I wish -you’d leave me alone. They’re lazy, I tell you, and you’ve got to whip -them to get anything out of them. That’s their way. You ask any one. -Ask one of those men.” - -Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain -written in her pretty face. - -“They’re weak as water, if you want to know,” came the reply from one -of the men. “Plum tuckered out, that’s what’s the matter. They need a -rest.” - -“Rest be blanked,” said Hal, with his beardless lips; and Mercedes -said, “Oh!” in pain and sorrow at the oath. - -But she was a clannish creature, and rushed at once to the defence of -her brother. “Never mind that man,” she said pointedly. “You’re driving -our dogs, and you do what you think best with them.” - -Again Hal’s whip fell upon the dogs. They threw themselves against the -breast-bands, dug their feet into the packed snow, got down low to it, -and put forth all their strength. The sled held as though it were an -anchor. After two efforts, they stood still, panting. The whip was -whistling savagely, when once more Mercedes interfered. She dropped on -her knees before Buck, with tears in her eyes, and put her arms around -his neck. - -“You poor, poor dears,” she cried sympathetically, “why don’t you pull -hard?—then you wouldn’t be whipped.” Buck did not like her, but he was -feeling too miserable to resist her, taking it as part of the day’s -miserable work. - -One of the onlookers, who had been clenching his teeth to suppress hot -speech, now spoke up:— - -“It’s not that I care a whoop what becomes of you, but for the dogs’ -sakes I just want to tell you, you can help them a mighty lot by -breaking out that sled. The runners are froze fast. Throw your weight -against the gee-pole, right and left, and break it out.” - -A third time the attempt was made, but this time, following the advice, -Hal broke out the runners which had been frozen to the snow. The -overloaded and unwieldy sled forged ahead, Buck and his mates -struggling frantically under the rain of blows. A hundred yards ahead -the path turned and sloped steeply into the main street. It would have -required an experienced man to keep the top-heavy sled upright, and Hal -was not such a man. As they swung on the turn the sled went over, -spilling half its load through the loose lashings. The dogs never -stopped. The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them. They were -angry because of the ill treatment they had received and the unjust -load. Buck was raging. He broke into a run, the team following his -lead. Hal cried “Whoa! whoa!” but they gave no heed. He tripped and was -pulled off his feet. The capsized sled ground over him, and the dogs -dashed on up the street, adding to the gayety of Skaguay as they -scattered the remainder of the outfit along its chief thoroughfare. - -Kind-hearted citizens caught the dogs and gathered up the scattered -belongings. Also, they gave advice. Half the load and twice the dogs, -if they ever expected to reach Dawson, was what was said. Hal and his -sister and brother-in-law listened unwillingly, pitched tent, and -overhauled the outfit. Canned goods were turned out that made men -laugh, for canned goods on the Long Trail is a thing to dream about. -“Blankets for a hotel” quoth one of the men who laughed and helped. -“Half as many is too much; get rid of them. Throw away that tent, and -all those dishes,—who’s going to wash them, anyway? Good Lord, do you -think you’re travelling on a Pullman?” - -And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the superfluous. Mercedes -cried when her clothes-bags were dumped on the ground and article after -article was thrown out. She cried in general, and she cried in -particular over each discarded thing. She clasped hands about knees, -rocking back and forth broken-heartedly. She averred she would not go -an inch, not for a dozen Charleses. She appealed to everybody and to -everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even -articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries. And in her zeal, -when she had finished with her own, she attacked the belongings of her -men and went through them like a tornado. - -This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a -formidable bulk. Charles and Hal went out in the evening and bought six -Outside dogs. These, added to the six of the original team, and Teek -and Koona, the huskies obtained at the Rink Rapids on the record trip, -brought the team up to fourteen. But the Outside dogs, though -practically broken in since their landing, did not amount to much. -Three were short-haired pointers, one was a Newfoundland, and the other -two were mongrels of indeterminate breed. They did not seem to know -anything, these newcomers. Buck and his comrades looked upon them with -disgust, and though he speedily taught them their places and what not -to do, he could not teach them what to do. They did not take kindly to -trace and trail. With the exception of the two mongrels, they were -bewildered and spirit-broken by the strange savage environment in which -they found themselves and by the ill treatment they had received. The -two mongrels were without spirit at all; bones were the only things -breakable about them. - -With the newcomers hopeless and forlorn, and the old team worn out by -twenty-five hundred miles of continuous trail, the outlook was anything -but bright. The two men, however, were quite cheerful. And they were -proud, too. They were doing the thing in style, with fourteen dogs. -They had seen other sleds depart over the Pass for Dawson, or come in -from Dawson, but never had they seen a sled with so many as fourteen -dogs. In the nature of Arctic travel there was a reason why fourteen -dogs should not drag one sled, and that was that one sled could not -carry the food for fourteen dogs. But Charles and Hal did not know -this. They had worked the trip out with a pencil, so much to a dog, so -many dogs, so many days, Q.E.D. Mercedes looked over their shoulders -and nodded comprehensively, it was all so very simple. - -Late next morning Buck led the long team up the street. There was -nothing lively about it, no snap or go in him and his fellows. They -were starting dead weary. Four times he had covered the distance -between Salt Water and Dawson, and the knowledge that, jaded and tired, -he was facing the same trail once more, made him bitter. His heart was -not in the work, nor was the heart of any dog. The Outsides were timid -and frightened, the Insides without confidence in their masters. - -Buck felt vaguely that there was no depending upon these two men and -the woman. They did not know how to do anything, and as the days went -by it became apparent that they could not learn. They were slack in all -things, without order or discipline. It took them half the night to -pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get -the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day -they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load. Some days they -did not make ten miles. On other days they were unable to get started -at all. And on no day did they succeed in making more than half the -distance used by the men as a basis in their dog-food computation. - -It was inevitable that they should go short on dog-food. But they -hastened it by overfeeding, bringing the day nearer when underfeeding -would commence. The Outside dogs, whose digestions had not been trained -by chronic famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites. -And when, in addition to this, the worn-out huskies pulled weakly, Hal -decided that the orthodox ration was too small. He doubled it. And to -cap it all, when Mercedes, with tears in her pretty eyes and a quaver -in her throat, could not cajole him into giving the dogs still more, -she stole from the fish-sacks and fed them slyly. But it was not food -that Buck and the huskies needed, but rest. And though they were making -poor time, the heavy load they dragged sapped their strength severely. - -Then came the underfeeding. Hal awoke one day to the fact that his -dog-food was half gone and the distance only quarter covered; further, -that for love or money no additional dog-food was to be obtained. So he -cut down even the orthodox ration and tried to increase the day’s -travel. His sister and brother-in-law seconded him; but they were -frustrated by their heavy outfit and their own incompetence. It was a -simple matter to give the dogs less food; but it was impossible to make -the dogs travel faster, while their own inability to get under way -earlier in the morning prevented them from travelling longer hours. Not -only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to -work themselves. - -The first to go was Dub. Poor blundering thief that he was, always -getting caught and punished, he had none the less been a faithful -worker. His wrenched shoulder-blade, untreated and unrested, went from -bad to worse, till finally Hal shot him with the big Colt’s revolver. -It is a saying of the country that an Outside dog starves to death on -the ration of the husky, so the six Outside dogs under Buck could do no -less than die on half the ration of the husky. The Newfoundland went -first, followed by the three short-haired pointers, the two mongrels -hanging more grittily on to life, but going in the end. - -By this time all the amenities and gentlenesses of the Southland had -fallen away from the three people. Shorn of its glamour and romance, -Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and -womanhood. Mercedes ceased weeping over the dogs, being too occupied -with weeping over herself and with quarrelling with her husband and -brother. To quarrel was the one thing they were never too weary to do. -Their irritability arose out of their misery, increased with it, -doubled upon it, outdistanced it. The wonderful patience of the trail -which comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of -speech and kindly, did not come to these two men and the woman. They -had no inkling of such a patience. They were stiff and in pain; their -muscles ached, their bones ached, their very hearts ached; and because -of this they became sharp of speech, and hard words were first on their -lips in the morning and last at night. - -Charles and Hal wrangled whenever Mercedes gave them a chance. It was -the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the -work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity. -Sometimes Mercedes sided with her husband, sometimes with her brother. -The result was a beautiful and unending family quarrel. Starting from a -dispute as to which should chop a few sticks for the fire (a dispute -which concerned only Charles and Hal), presently would be lugged in the -rest of the family, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, people thousands -of miles away, and some of them dead. That Hal’s views on art, or the -sort of society plays his mother’s brother wrote, should have anything -to do with the chopping of a few sticks of firewood, passes -comprehension; nevertheless the quarrel was as likely to tend in that -direction as in the direction of Charles’s political prejudices. And -that Charles’s sister’s tale-bearing tongue should be relevant to the -building of a Yukon fire, was apparent only to Mercedes, who -disburdened herself of copious opinions upon that topic, and -incidentally upon a few other traits unpleasantly peculiar to her -husband’s family. In the meantime the fire remained unbuilt, the camp -half pitched, and the dogs unfed. - -Mercedes nursed a special grievance—the grievance of sex. She was -pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But -the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save -chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon -which impeachment of what to her was her most essential -sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable. She no longer -considered the dogs, and because she was sore and tired, she persisted -in riding on the sled. She was pretty and soft, but she weighed one -hundred and twenty pounds—a lusty last straw to the load dragged by the -weak and starving animals. She rode for days, till they fell in the -traces and the sled stood still. Charles and Hal begged her to get off -and walk, pleaded with her, entreated, the while she wept and -importuned Heaven with a recital of their brutality. - -On one occasion they took her off the sled by main strength. They never -did it again. She let her legs go limp like a spoiled child, and sat -down on the trail. They went on their way, but she did not move. After -they had travelled three miles they unloaded the sled, came back for -her, and by main strength put her on the sled again. - -In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of -their animals. Hal’s theory, which he practised on others, was that one -must get hardened. He had started out preaching it to his sister and -brother-in-law. Failing there, he hammered it into the dogs with a -club. At the Five Fingers the dog-food gave out, and a toothless old -squaw offered to trade them a few pounds of frozen horse-hide for the -Colt’s revolver that kept the big hunting-knife company at Hal’s hip. A -poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped -from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back. In its frozen -state it was more like strips of galvanized iron, and when a dog -wrestled it into his stomach it thawed into thin and innutritious -leathery strings and into a mass of short hair, irritating and -indigestible. - -And through it all Buck staggered along at the head of the team as in a -nightmare. He pulled when he could; when he could no longer pull, he -fell down and remained down till blows from whip or club drove him to -his feet again. All the stiffness and gloss had gone out of his -beautiful furry coat. The hair hung down, limp and draggled, or matted -with dried blood where Hal’s club had bruised him. His muscles had -wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so -that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through -the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was -heartbreaking, only Buck’s heart was unbreakable. The man in the red -sweater had proved that. - -As it was with Buck, so was it with his mates. They were perambulating -skeletons. There were seven all together, including him. In their very -great misery they had become insensible to the bite of the lash or the -bruise of the club. The pain of the beating was dull and distant, just -as the things their eyes saw and their ears heard seemed dull and -distant. They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply -so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly. When a -halt was made, they dropped down in the traces like dead dogs, and the -spark dimmed and paled and seemed to go out. And when the club or whip -fell upon them, the spark fluttered feebly up, and they tottered to -their feet and staggered on. - -There came a day when Billee, the good-natured, fell and could not -rise. Hal had traded off his revolver, so he took the axe and knocked -Billee on the head as he lay in the traces, then cut the carcass out of -the harness and dragged it to one side. Buck saw, and his mates saw, -and they knew that this thing was very close to them. On the next day -Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be -malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not -conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still -faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so -little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far -that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was -fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer -enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness -half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim -feel of his feet. - -It was beautiful spring weather, but neither dogs nor humans were aware -of it. Each day the sun rose earlier and set later. It was dawn by -three in the morning, and twilight lingered till nine at night. The -whole long day was a blaze of sunshine. The ghostly winter silence had -given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life. This murmur -arose from all the land, fraught with the joy of living. It came from -the things that lived and moved again, things which had been as dead -and which had not moved during the long months of frost. The sap was -rising in the pines. The willows and aspens were bursting out in young -buds. Shrubs and vines were putting on fresh garbs of green. Crickets -sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, crawling -things rustled forth into the sun. Partridges and woodpeckers were -booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds -singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in -cunning wedges that split the air. - -From every hill slope came the trickle of running water, the music of -unseen fountains. All things were thawing, bending, snapping. The Yukon -was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down. It ate away -from beneath; the sun ate from above. Air-holes formed, fissures sprang -and spread apart, while thin sections of ice fell through bodily into -the river. And amid all this bursting, rending, throbbing of awakening -life, under the blazing sun and through the soft-sighing breezes, like -wayfarers to death, staggered the two men, the woman, and the huskies. - -With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing -innocuously, and Charles’s eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into -John Thornton’s camp at the mouth of White River. When they halted, the -dogs dropped down as though they had all been struck dead. Mercedes -dried her eyes and looked at John Thornton. Charles sat down on a log -to rest. He sat down very slowly and painstakingly what of his great -stiffness. Hal did the talking. John Thornton was whittling the last -touches on an axe-handle he had made from a stick of birch. He whittled -and listened, gave monosyllabic replies, and, when it was asked, terse -advice. He knew the breed, and he gave his advice in the certainty that -it would not be followed. - -“They told us up above that the bottom was dropping out of the trail -and that the best thing for us to do was to lay over,” Hal said in -response to Thornton’s warning to take no more chances on the rotten -ice. “They told us we couldn’t make White River, and here we are.” This -last with a sneering ring of triumph in it. - -“And they told you true,” John Thornton answered. “The bottom’s likely -to drop out at any moment. Only fools, with the blind luck of fools, -could have made it. I tell you straight, I wouldn’t risk my carcass on -that ice for all the gold in Alaska.” - -“That’s because you’re not a fool, I suppose,” said Hal. “All the same, -we’ll go on to Dawson.” He uncoiled his whip. “Get up there, Buck! Hi! -Get up there! Mush on!” - -Thornton went on whittling. It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool -and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter -the scheme of things. - -But the team did not get up at the command. It had long since passed -into the stage where blows were required to rouse it. The whip flashed -out, here and there, on its merciless errands. John Thornton compressed -his lips. Sol-leks was the first to crawl to his feet. Teek followed. -Joe came next, yelping with pain. Pike made painful efforts. Twice he -fell over, when half up, and on the third attempt managed to rise. Buck -made no effort. He lay quietly where he had fallen. The lash bit into -him again and again, but he neither whined nor struggled. Several times -Thornton started, as though to speak, but changed his mind. A moisture -came into his eyes, and, as the whipping continued, he arose and walked -irresolutely up and down. - -This was the first time Buck had failed, in itself a sufficient reason -to drive Hal into a rage. He exchanged the whip for the customary club. -Buck refused to move under the rain of heavier blows which now fell -upon him. Like his mates, he was barely able to get up, but, unlike -them, he had made up his mind not to get up. He had a vague feeling of -impending doom. This had been strong upon him when he pulled in to the -bank, and it had not departed from him. What of the thin and rotten ice -he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster -close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying -to drive him. He refused to stir. So greatly had he suffered, and so -far gone was he, that the blows did not hurt much. And as they -continued to fall upon him, the spark of life within flickered and went -down. It was nearly out. He felt strangely numb. As though from a great -distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of -pain left him. He no longer felt anything, though very faintly he could -hear the impact of the club upon his body. But it was no longer his -body, it seemed so far away. - -And then, suddenly, without warning, uttering a cry that was -inarticulate and more like the cry of an animal, John Thornton sprang -upon the man who wielded the club. Hal was hurled backward, as though -struck by a falling tree. Mercedes screamed. Charles looked on -wistfully, wiped his watery eyes, but did not get up because of his -stiffness. - -John Thornton stood over Buck, struggling to control himself, too -convulsed with rage to speak. - -“If you strike that dog again, I’ll kill you,” he at last managed to -say in a choking voice. - -“It’s my dog,” Hal replied, wiping the blood from his mouth as he came -back. “Get out of my way, or I’ll fix you. I’m going to Dawson.” - -Thornton stood between him and Buck, and evinced no intention of -getting out of the way. Hal drew his long hunting-knife. Mercedes -screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of -hysteria. Thornton rapped Hal’s knuckles with the axe-handle, knocking -the knife to the ground. He rapped his knuckles again as he tried to -pick it up. Then he stooped, picked it up himself, and with two strokes -cut Buck’s traces. - -Hal had no fight left in him. Besides, his hands were full with his -sister, or his arms, rather; while Buck was too near dead to be of -further use in hauling the sled. A few minutes later they pulled out -from the bank and down the river. Buck heard them go and raised his -head to see, Pike was leading, Sol-leks was at the wheel, and between -were Joe and Teek. They were limping and staggering. Mercedes was -riding the loaded sled. Hal guided at the gee-pole, and Charles -stumbled along in the rear. - -As Buck watched them, Thornton knelt beside him and with rough, kindly -hands searched for broken bones. By the time his search had disclosed -nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the -sled was a quarter of a mile away. Dog and man watched it crawling -along over the ice. Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into -a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air. -Mercedes’s scream came to their ears. They saw Charles turn and make -one step to run back, and then a whole section of ice give way and dogs -and humans disappear. A yawning hole was all that was to be seen. The -bottom had dropped out of the trail. - -John Thornton and Buck looked at each other. - -“You poor devil,” said John Thornton, and Buck licked his hand. - - - - -Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man - - -When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December his partners -had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves -up the river to get out a raft of saw-logs for Dawson. He was still -limping slightly at the time he rescued Buck, but with the continued -warm weather even the slight limp left him. And here, lying by the -river bank through the long spring days, watching the running water, -listening lazily to the songs of birds and the hum of nature, Buck -slowly won back his strength. - -A rest comes very good after one has travelled three thousand miles, -and it must be confessed that Buck waxed lazy as his wounds healed, his -muscles swelled out, and the flesh came back to cover his bones. For -that matter, they were all loafing,—Buck, John Thornton, and Skeet and -Nig,—waiting for the raft to come that was to carry them down to -Dawson. Skeet was a little Irish setter who early made friends with -Buck, who, in a dying condition, was unable to resent her first -advances. She had the doctor trait which some dogs possess; and as a -mother cat washes her kittens, so she washed and cleansed Buck’s -wounds. Regularly, each morning after he had finished his breakfast, -she performed her self-appointed task, till he came to look for her -ministrations as much as he did for Thornton’s. Nig, equally friendly, -though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and -half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature. - -To Buck’s surprise these dogs manifested no jealousy toward him. They -seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton. As Buck -grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in -which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion -Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence. Love, -genuine passionate love, was his for the first time. This he had never -experienced at Judge Miller’s down in the sun-kissed Santa Clara -Valley. With the Judge’s sons, hunting and tramping, it had been a -working partnership; with the Judge’s grandsons, a sort of pompous -guardianship; and with the Judge himself, a stately and dignified -friendship. But love that was feverish and burning, that was adoration, -that was madness, it had taken John Thornton to arouse. - -This man had saved his life, which was something; but, further, he was -the ideal master. Other men saw to the welfare of their dogs from a -sense of duty and business expediency; he saw to the welfare of his as -if they were his own children, because he could not help it. And he saw -further. He never forgot a kindly greeting or a cheering word, and to -sit down for a long talk with them (“gas” he called it) was as much his -delight as theirs. He had a way of taking Buck’s head roughly between -his hands, and resting his own head upon Buck’s, of shaking him back -and forth, the while calling him ill names that to Buck were love -names. Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound -of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his -heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy. And -when, released, he sprang to his feet, his mouth laughing, his eyes -eloquent, his throat vibrant with unuttered sound, and in that fashion -remained without movement, John Thornton would reverently exclaim, -“God! you can all but speak!” - -Buck had a trick of love expression that was akin to hurt. He would -often seize Thornton’s hand in his mouth and close so fiercely that the -flesh bore the impress of his teeth for some time afterward. And as -Buck understood the oaths to be love words, so the man understood this -feigned bite for a caress. - -For the most part, however, Buck’s love was expressed in adoration. -While he went wild with happiness when Thornton touched him or spoke to -him, he did not seek these tokens. Unlike Skeet, who was wont to shove -her nose under Thornton’s hand and nudge and nudge till petted, or Nig, -who would stalk up and rest his great head on Thornton’s knee, Buck was -content to adore at a distance. He would lie by the hour, eager, alert, -at Thornton’s feet, looking up into his face, dwelling upon it, -studying it, following with keenest interest each fleeting expression, -every movement or change of feature. Or, as chance might have it, he -would lie farther away, to the side or rear, watching the outlines of -the man and the occasional movements of his body. And often, such was -the communion in which they lived, the strength of Buck’s gaze would -draw John Thornton’s head around, and he would return the gaze, without -speech, his heart shining out of his eyes as Buck’s heart shone out. - -For a long time after his rescue, Buck did not like Thornton to get out -of his sight. From the moment he left the tent to when he entered it -again, Buck would follow at his heels. His transient masters since he -had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could -be permanent. He was afraid that Thornton would pass out of his life as -Perrault and François and the Scotch half-breed had passed out. Even in -the night, in his dreams, he was haunted by this fear. At such times he -would shake off sleep and creep through the chill to the flap of the -tent, where he would stand and listen to the sound of his master’s -breathing. - -But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to -bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, -which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active. -Faithfulness and devotion, things born of fire and roof, were his; yet -he retained his wildness and wiliness. He was a thing of the wild, come -in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of -the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of -civilization. Because of his very great love, he could not steal from -this man, but from any other man, in any other camp, he did not -hesitate an instant; while the cunning with which he stole enabled him -to escape detection. - -His face and body were scored by the teeth of many dogs, and he fought -as fiercely as ever and more shrewdly. Skeet and Nig were too -good-natured for quarrelling,—besides, they belonged to John Thornton; -but the strange dog, no matter what the breed or valor, swiftly -acknowledged Buck’s supremacy or found himself struggling for life with -a terrible antagonist. And Buck was merciless. He had learned well the -law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back -from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from -Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and -knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while -to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial -life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made -for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this -mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed. - -He was older than the days he had seen and the breaths he had drawn. He -linked the past with the present, and the eternity behind him throbbed -through him in a mighty rhythm to which he swayed as the tides and -seasons swayed. He sat by John Thornton’s fire, a broad-breasted dog, -white-fanged and long-furred; but behind him were the shades of all -manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves, urgent and prompting, -tasting the savor of the meat he ate, thirsting for the water he drank, -scenting the wind with him, listening with him and telling him the -sounds made by the wild life in the forest, dictating his moods, -directing his actions, lying down to sleep with him when he lay down, -and dreaming with him and beyond him and becoming themselves the stuff -of his dreams. - -So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and -the claims of mankind slipped farther from him. Deep in the forest a -call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call, mysteriously -thrilling and luring, he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire -and the beaten earth around it, and to plunge into the forest, and on -and on, he knew not where or why; nor did he wonder where or why, the -call sounding imperiously, deep in the forest. But as often as he -gained the soft unbroken earth and the green shade, the love for John -Thornton drew him back to the fire again. - -Thornton alone held him. The rest of mankind was as nothing. Chance -travellers might praise or pet him; but he was cold under it all, and -from a too demonstrative man he would get up and walk away. When -Thornton’s partners, Hans and Pete, arrived on the long-expected raft, -Buck refused to notice them till he learned they were close to -Thornton; after that he tolerated them in a passive sort of way, -accepting favors from them as though he favored them by accepting. They -were of the same large type as Thornton, living close to the earth, -thinking simply and seeing clearly; and ere they swung the raft into -the big eddy by the saw-mill at Dawson, they understood Buck and his -ways, and did not insist upon an intimacy such as obtained with Skeet -and Nig. - -For Thornton, however, his love seemed to grow and grow. He, alone -among men, could put a pack upon Buck’s back in the summer travelling. -Nothing was too great for Buck to do, when Thornton commanded. One day -(they had grub-staked themselves from the proceeds of the raft and left -Dawson for the head-waters of the Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting -on the crest of a cliff which fell away, straight down, to naked -bed-rock three hundred feet below. John Thornton was sitting near the -edge, Buck at his shoulder. A thoughtless whim seized Thornton, and he -drew the attention of Hans and Pete to the experiment he had in mind. -“Jump, Buck!” he commanded, sweeping his arm out and over the chasm. -The next instant he was grappling with Buck on the extreme edge, while -Hans and Pete were dragging them back into safety. - -“It’s uncanny,” Pete said, after it was over and they had caught their -speech. - -Thornton shook his head. “No, it is splendid, and it is terrible, too. -Do you know, it sometimes makes me afraid.” - -“I’m not hankering to be the man that lays hands on you while he’s -around,” Pete announced conclusively, nodding his head toward Buck. - -“Py Jingo!” was Hans’s contribution. “Not mineself either.” - -It was at Circle City, ere the year was out, that Pete’s apprehensions -were realized. “Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had -been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton -stepped good-naturedly between. Buck, as was his custom, was lying in a -corner, head on paws, watching his master’s every action. Burton struck -out, without warning, straight from the shoulder. Thornton was sent -spinning, and saved himself from falling only by clutching the rail of -the bar. - -Those who were looking on heard what was neither bark nor yelp, but a -something which is best described as a roar, and they saw Buck’s body -rise up in the air as he left the floor for Burton’s throat. The man -saved his life by instinctively throwing out his arm, but was hurled -backward to the floor with Buck on top of him. Buck loosed his teeth -from the flesh of the arm and drove in again for the throat. This time -the man succeeded only in partly blocking, and his throat was torn -open. Then the crowd was upon Buck, and he was driven off; but while a -surgeon checked the bleeding, he prowled up and down, growling -furiously, attempting to rush in, and being forced back by an array of -hostile clubs. A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that -the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged. But his -reputation was made, and from that day his name spread through every -camp in Alaska. - -Later on, in the fall of the year, he saved John Thornton’s life in -quite another fashion. The three partners were lining a long and narrow -poling-boat down a bad stretch of rapids on the Forty-Mile Creek. Hans -and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from -tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent -by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore. Buck, on the -bank, worried and anxious, kept abreast of the boat, his eyes never off -his master. - -At a particularly bad spot, where a ledge of barely submerged rocks -jutted out into the river, Hans cast off the rope, and, while Thornton -poled the boat out into the stream, ran down the bank with the end in -his hand to snub the boat when it had cleared the ledge. This it did, -and was flying down-stream in a current as swift as a mill-race, when -Hans checked it with the rope and checked too suddenly. The boat -flirted over and snubbed in to the bank bottom up, while Thornton, -flung sheer out of it, was carried down-stream toward the worst part of -the rapids, a stretch of wild water in which no swimmer could live. - -Buck had sprung in on the instant; and at the end of three hundred -yards, amid a mad swirl of water, he overhauled Thornton. When he felt -him grasp his tail, Buck headed for the bank, swimming with all his -splendid strength. But the progress shoreward was slow; the progress -down-stream amazingly rapid. From below came the fatal roaring where -the wild current went wilder and was rent in shreds and spray by the -rocks which thrust through like the teeth of an enormous comb. The suck -of the water as it took the beginning of the last steep pitch was -frightful, and Thornton knew that the shore was impossible. He scraped -furiously over a rock, bruised across a second, and struck a third with -crushing force. He clutched its slippery top with both hands, releasing -Buck, and above the roar of the churning water shouted: “Go, Buck! Go!” - -Buck could not hold his own, and swept on down-stream, struggling -desperately, but unable to win back. When he heard Thornton’s command -repeated, he partly reared out of the water, throwing his head high, as -though for a last look, then turned obediently toward the bank. He swam -powerfully and was dragged ashore by Pete and Hans at the very point -where swimming ceased to be possible and destruction began. - -They knew that the time a man could cling to a slippery rock in the -face of that driving current was a matter of minutes, and they ran as -fast as they could up the bank to a point far above where Thornton was -hanging on. They attached the line with which they had been snubbing -the boat to Buck’s neck and shoulders, being careful that it should -neither strangle him nor impede his swimming, and launched him into the -stream. He struck out boldly, but not straight enough into the stream. -He discovered the mistake too late, when Thornton was abreast of him -and a bare half-dozen strokes away while he was being carried -helplessly past. - -Hans promptly snubbed with the rope, as though Buck were a boat. The -rope thus tightening on him in the sweep of the current, he was jerked -under the surface, and under the surface he remained till his body -struck against the bank and he was hauled out. He was half drowned, and -Hans and Pete threw themselves upon him, pounding the breath into him -and the water out of him. He staggered to his feet and fell down. The -faint sound of Thornton’s voice came to them, and though they could not -make out the words of it, they knew that he was in his extremity. His -master’s voice acted on Buck like an electric shock. He sprang to his -feet and ran up the bank ahead of the men to the point of his previous -departure. - -Again the rope was attached and he was launched, and again he struck -out, but this time straight into the stream. He had miscalculated once, -but he would not be guilty of it a second time. Hans paid out the rope, -permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils. Buck held on -till he was on a line straight above Thornton; then he turned, and with -the speed of an express train headed down upon him. Thornton saw him -coming, and, as Buck struck him like a battering ram, with the whole -force of the current behind him, he reached up and closed with both -arms around the shaggy neck. Hans snubbed the rope around the tree, and -Buck and Thornton were jerked under the water. Strangling, suffocating, -sometimes one uppermost and sometimes the other, dragging over the -jagged bottom, smashing against rocks and snags, they veered in to the -bank. - -Thornton came to, belly downward and being violently propelled back and -forth across a drift log by Hans and Pete. His first glance was for -Buck, over whose limp and apparently lifeless body Nig was setting up a -howl, while Skeet was licking the wet face and closed eyes. Thornton -was himself bruised and battered, and he went carefully over Buck’s -body, when he had been brought around, finding three broken ribs. - -“That settles it,” he announced. “We camp right here.” And camp they -did, till Buck’s ribs knitted and he was able to travel. - -That winter, at Dawson, Buck performed another exploit, not so heroic, -perhaps, but one that put his name many notches higher on the -totem-pole of Alaskan fame. This exploit was particularly gratifying to -the three men; for they stood in need of the outfit which it furnished, -and were enabled to make a long-desired trip into the virgin East, -where miners had not yet appeared. It was brought about by a -conversation in the Eldorado Saloon, in which men waxed boastful of -their favorite dogs. Buck, because of his record, was the target for -these men, and Thornton was driven stoutly to defend him. At the end of -half an hour one man stated that his dog could start a sled with five -hundred pounds and walk off with it; a second bragged six hundred for -his dog; and a third, seven hundred. - -“Pooh! pooh!” said John Thornton; “Buck can start a thousand pounds.” - -“And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?” demanded -Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt. - -“And break it out, and walk off with it for a hundred yards,” John -Thornton said coolly. - -“Well,” Matthewson said, slowly and deliberately, so that all could -hear, “I’ve got a thousand dollars that says he can’t. And there it -is.” So saying, he slammed a sack of gold dust of the size of a bologna -sausage down upon the bar. - -Nobody spoke. Thornton’s bluff, if bluff it was, had been called. He -could feel a flush of warm blood creeping up his face. His tongue had -tricked him. He did not know whether Buck could start a thousand -pounds. Half a ton! The enormousness of it appalled him. He had great -faith in Buck’s strength and had often thought him capable of starting -such a load; but never, as now, had he faced the possibility of it, the -eyes of a dozen men fixed upon him, silent and waiting. Further, he had -no thousand dollars; nor had Hans or Pete. - -“I’ve got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fiftypound sacks of -flour on it,” Matthewson went on with brutal directness; “so don’t let -that hinder you.” - -Thornton did not reply. He did not know what to say. He glanced from -face to face in the absent way of a man who has lost the power of -thought and is seeking somewhere to find the thing that will start it -going again. The face of Jim O’Brien, a Mastodon King and old-time -comrade, caught his eyes. It was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him -to do what he would never have dreamed of doing. - -“Can you lend me a thousand?” he asked, almost in a whisper. - -“Sure,” answered O’Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of -Matthewson’s. “Though it’s little faith I’m having, John, that the -beast can do the trick.” - -The Eldorado emptied its occupants into the street to see the test. The -tables were deserted, and the dealers and gamekeepers came forth to see -the outcome of the wager and to lay odds. Several hundred men, furred -and mittened, banked around the sled within easy distance. Matthewson’s -sled, loaded with a thousand pounds of flour, had been standing for a -couple of hours, and in the intense cold (it was sixty below zero) the -runners had frozen fast to the hard-packed snow. Men offered odds of -two to one that Buck could not budge the sled. A quibble arose -concerning the phrase “break out.” O’Brien contended it was Thornton’s -privilege to knock the runners loose, leaving Buck to “break it out” -from a dead standstill. Matthewson insisted that the phrase included -breaking the runners from the frozen grip of the snow. A majority of -the men who had witnessed the making of the bet decided in his favor, -whereat the odds went up to three to one against Buck. - -There were no takers. Not a man believed him capable of the feat. -Thornton had been hurried into the wager, heavy with doubt; and now -that he looked at the sled itself, the concrete fact, with the regular -team of ten dogs curled up in the snow before it, the more impossible -the task appeared. Matthewson waxed jubilant. - -“Three to one!” he proclaimed. “I’ll lay you another thousand at that -figure, Thornton. What d’ye say?” - -Thornton’s doubt was strong in his face, but his fighting spirit was -aroused—the fighting spirit that soars above odds, fails to recognize -the impossible, and is deaf to all save the clamor for battle. He -called Hans and Pete to him. Their sacks were slim, and with his own -the three partners could rake together only two hundred dollars. In the -ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid -it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred. - -The team of ten dogs was unhitched, and Buck, with his own harness, was -put into the sled. He had caught the contagion of the excitement, and -he felt that in some way he must do a great thing for John Thornton. -Murmurs of admiration at his splendid appearance went up. He was in -perfect condition, without an ounce of superfluous flesh, and the one -hundred and fifty pounds that he weighed were so many pounds of grit -and virility. His furry coat shone with the sheen of silk. Down the -neck and across the shoulders, his mane, in repose as it was, half -bristled and seemed to lift with every movement, as though excess of -vigor made each particular hair alive and active. The great breast and -heavy fore legs were no more than in proportion with the rest of the -body, where the muscles showed in tight rolls underneath the skin. Men -felt these muscles and proclaimed them hard as iron, and the odds went -down to two to one. - -“Gad, sir! Gad, sir!” stuttered a member of the latest dynasty, a king -of the Skookum Benches. “I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before -the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands.” - -Thornton shook his head and stepped to Buck’s side. - -“You must stand off from him,” Matthewson protested. “Free play and -plenty of room.” - -The crowd fell silent; only could be heard the voices of the gamblers -vainly offering two to one. Everybody acknowledged Buck a magnificent -animal, but twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour bulked too large in their -eyes for them to loosen their pouch-strings. - -Thornton knelt down by Buck’s side. He took his head in his two hands -and rested cheek on cheek. He did not playfully shake him, as was his -wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear. “As you -love me, Buck. As you love me,” was what he whispered. Buck whined with -suppressed eagerness. - -The crowd was watching curiously. The affair was growing mysterious. It -seemed like a conjuration. As Thornton got to his feet, Buck seized his -mittened hand between his jaws, pressing in with his teeth and -releasing slowly, half-reluctantly. It was the answer, in terms, not of -speech, but of love. Thornton stepped well back. - -“Now, Buck,” he said. - -Buck tightened the traces, then slacked them for a matter of several -inches. It was the way he had learned. - -“Gee!” Thornton’s voice rang out, sharp in the tense silence. - -Buck swung to the right, ending the movement in a plunge that took up -the slack and with a sudden jerk arrested his one hundred and fifty -pounds. The load quivered, and from under the runners arose a crisp -crackling. - -“Haw!” Thornton commanded. - -Buck duplicated the manœuvre, this time to the left. The crackling -turned into a snapping, the sled pivoting and the runners slipping and -grating several inches to the side. The sled was broken out. Men were -holding their breaths, intensely unconscious of the fact. - -“Now, MUSH!” - -Thornton’s command cracked out like a pistol-shot. Buck threw himself -forward, tightening the traces with a jarring lunge. His whole body was -gathered compactly together in the tremendous effort, the muscles -writhing and knotting like live things under the silky fur. His great -chest was low to the ground, his head forward and down, while his feet -were flying like mad, the claws scarring the hard-packed snow in -parallel grooves. The sled swayed and trembled, half-started forward. -One of his feet slipped, and one man groaned aloud. Then the sled -lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it -never really came to a dead stop again...half an inch...an inch... two -inches... The jerks perceptibly diminished; as the sled gained -momentum, he caught them up, till it was moving steadily along. - -Men gasped and began to breathe again, unaware that for a moment they -had ceased to breathe. Thornton was running behind, encouraging Buck -with short, cheery words. The distance had been measured off, and as he -neared the pile of firewood which marked the end of the hundred yards, -a cheer began to grow and grow, which burst into a roar as he passed -the firewood and halted at command. Every man was tearing himself -loose, even Matthewson. Hats and mittens were flying in the air. Men -were shaking hands, it did not matter with whom, and bubbling over in a -general incoherent babel. - -But Thornton fell on his knees beside Buck. Head was against head, and -he was shaking him back and forth. Those who hurried up heard him -cursing Buck, and he cursed him long and fervently, and softly and -lovingly. - -“Gad, sir! Gad, sir!” spluttered the Skookum Bench king. “I’ll give you -a thousand for him, sir, a thousand, sir—twelve hundred, sir.” - -Thornton rose to his feet. His eyes were wet. The tears were streaming -frankly down his cheeks. “Sir,” he said to the Skookum Bench king, “no, -sir. You can go to hell, sir. It’s the best I can do for you, sir.” - -Buck seized Thornton’s hand in his teeth. Thornton shook him back and -forth. As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back -to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to -interrupt. - - - - -Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call - - -When Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John -Thornton, he made it possible for his master to pay off certain debts -and to journey with his partners into the East after a fabled lost -mine, the history of which was as old as the history of the country. -Many men had sought it; few had found it; and more than a few there -were who had never returned from the quest. This lost mine was steeped -in tragedy and shrouded in mystery. No one knew of the first man. The -oldest tradition stopped before it got back to him. From the beginning -there had been an ancient and ramshackle cabin. Dying men had sworn to -it, and to the mine the site of which it marked, clinching their -testimony with nuggets that were unlike any known grade of gold in the -Northland. - -But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were -dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a -dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve -where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed. They sledded -seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, -passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart -itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked -the backbone of the continent. - -John Thornton asked little of man or nature. He was unafraid of the -wild. With a handful of salt and a rifle he could plunge into the -wilderness and fare wherever he pleased and as long as he pleased. -Being in no haste, Indian fashion, he hunted his dinner in the course -of the day’s travel; and if he failed to find it, like the Indian, he -kept on travelling, secure in the knowledge that sooner or later he -would come to it. So, on this great journey into the East, straight -meat was the bill of fare, ammunition and tools principally made up the -load on the sled, and the time-card was drawn upon the limitless -future. - -To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite -wandering through strange places. For weeks at a time they would hold -on steadily, day after day; and for weeks upon end they would camp, -here and there, the dogs loafing and the men burning holes through -frozen muck and gravel and washing countless pans of dirt by the heat -of the fire. Sometimes they went hungry, sometimes they feasted -riotously, all according to the abundance of game and the fortune of -hunting. Summer arrived, and dogs and men packed on their backs, rafted -across blue mountain lakes, and descended or ascended unknown rivers in -slender boats whipsawed from the standing forest. - -The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the -uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the -Lost Cabin were true. They went across divides in summer blizzards, -shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber -line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming -gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and -flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast. In the fall -of the year they penetrated a weird lake country, sad and silent, where -wildfowl had been, but where then there was no life nor sign of -life—only the blowing of chill winds, the forming of ice in sheltered -places, and the melancholy rippling of waves on lonely beaches. - -And through another winter they wandered on the obliterated trails of -men who had gone before. Once, they came upon a path blazed through the -forest, an ancient path, and the Lost Cabin seemed very near. But the -path began nowhere and ended nowhere, and it remained mystery, as the -man who made it and the reason he made it remained mystery. Another -time they chanced upon the time-graven wreckage of a hunting lodge, and -amid the shreds of rotted blankets John Thornton found a long-barrelled -flint-lock. He knew it for a Hudson Bay Company gun of the young days -in the Northwest, when such a gun was worth its height in beaver skins -packed flat, And that was all—no hint as to the man who in an early day -had reared the lodge and left the gun among the blankets. - -Spring came on once more, and at the end of all their wandering they -found, not the Lost Cabin, but a shallow placer in a broad valley where -the gold showed like yellow butter across the bottom of the -washing-pan. They sought no farther. Each day they worked earned them -thousands of dollars in clean dust and nuggets, and they worked every -day. The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, -and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge. Like -giants they toiled, days flashing on the heels of days like dreams as -they heaped the treasure up. - -There was nothing for the dogs to do, save the hauling in of meat now -and again that Thornton killed, and Buck spent long hours musing by the -fire. The vision of the short-legged hairy man came to him more -frequently, now that there was little work to be done; and often, -blinking by the fire, Buck wandered with him in that other world which -he remembered. - -The salient thing of this other world seemed fear. When he watched the -hairy man sleeping by the fire, head between his knees and hands -clasped above, Buck saw that he slept restlessly, with many starts and -awakenings, at which times he would peer fearfully into the darkness -and fling more wood upon the fire. Did they walk by the beach of a sea, -where the hairy man gathered shellfish and ate them as he gathered, it -was with eyes that roved everywhere for hidden danger and with legs -prepared to run like the wind at its first appearance. Through the -forest they crept noiselessly, Buck at the hairy man’s heels; and they -were alert and vigilant, the pair of them, ears twitching and moving -and nostrils quivering, for the man heard and smelled as keenly as -Buck. The hairy man could spring up into the trees and travel ahead as -fast as on the ground, swinging by the arms from limb to limb, -sometimes a dozen feet apart, letting go and catching, never falling, -never missing his grip. In fact, he seemed as much at home among the -trees as on the ground; and Buck had memories of nights of vigil spent -beneath trees wherein the hairy man roosted, holding on tightly as he -slept. - -And closely akin to the visions of the hairy man was the call still -sounding in the depths of the forest. It filled him with a great unrest -and strange desires. It caused him to feel a vague, sweet gladness, and -he was aware of wild yearnings and stirrings for he knew not what. -Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though -it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly, as the mood -might dictate. He would thrust his nose into the cool wood moss, or -into the black soil where long grasses grew, and snort with joy at the -fat earth smells; or he would crouch for hours, as if in concealment, -behind fungus-covered trunks of fallen trees, wide-eyed and wide-eared -to all that moved and sounded about him. It might be, lying thus, that -he hoped to surprise this call he could not understand. But he did not -know why he did these various things. He was impelled to do them, and -did not reason about them at all. - -Irresistible impulses seized him. He would be lying in camp, dozing -lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and -his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet -and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and -across the open spaces where the niggerheads bunched. He loved to run -down dry watercourses, and to creep and spy upon the bird life in the -woods. For a day at a time he would lie in the underbrush where he -could watch the partridges drumming and strutting up and down. But -especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, -listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading -signs and sounds as man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious -something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him -to come. - -One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils -quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves. From the -forest came the call (or one note of it, for the call was many noted), -distinct and definite as never before,—a long-drawn howl, like, yet -unlike, any noise made by husky dog. And he knew it, in the old -familiar way, as a sound heard before. He sprang through the sleeping -camp and in swift silence dashed through the woods. As he drew closer -to the cry he went more slowly, with caution in every movement, till he -came to an open place among the trees, and looking out saw, erect on -haunches, with nose pointed to the sky, a long, lean, timber wolf. - -He had made no noise, yet it ceased from its howling and tried to sense -his presence. Buck stalked into the open, half crouching, body gathered -compactly together, tail straight and stiff, feet falling with unwonted -care. Every movement advertised commingled threatening and overture of -friendliness. It was the menacing truce that marks the meeting of wild -beasts that prey. But the wolf fled at sight of him. He followed, with -wild leapings, in a frenzy to overtake. He ran him into a blind -channel, in the bed of the creek where a timber jam barred the way. The -wolf whirled about, pivoting on his hind legs after the fashion of Joe -and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and bristling, clipping his -teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps. - -Buck did not attack, but circled him about and hedged him in with -friendly advances. The wolf was suspicious and afraid; for Buck made -three of him in weight, while his head barely reached Buck’s shoulder. -Watching his chance, he darted away, and the chase was resumed. Time -and again he was cornered, and the thing repeated, though he was in -poor condition, or Buck could not so easily have overtaken him. He -would run till Buck’s head was even with his flank, when he would whirl -around at bay, only to dash away again at the first opportunity. - -But in the end Buck’s pertinacity was rewarded; for the wolf, finding -that no harm was intended, finally sniffed noses with him. Then they -became friendly, and played about in the nervous, half-coy way with -which fierce beasts belie their fierceness. After some time of this the -wolf started off at an easy lope in a manner that plainly showed he was -going somewhere. He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they -ran side by side through the sombre twilight, straight up the creek -bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide -where it took its rise. - -On the opposite slope of the watershed they came down into a level -country where were great stretches of forest and many streams, and -through these great stretches they ran steadily, hour after hour, the -sun rising higher and the day growing warmer. Buck was wildly glad. He -knew he was at last answering the call, running by the side of his wood -brother toward the place from where the call surely came. Old memories -were coming upon him fast, and he was stirring to them as of old he -stirred to the realities of which they were the shadows. He had done -this thing before, somewhere in that other and dimly remembered world, -and he was doing it again, now, running free in the open, the unpacked -earth underfoot, the wide sky overhead. - -They stopped by a running stream to drink, and, stopping, Buck -remembered John Thornton. He sat down. The wolf started on toward the -place from where the call surely came, then returned to him, sniffing -noses and making actions as though to encourage him. But Buck turned -about and started slowly on the back track. For the better part of an -hour the wild brother ran by his side, whining softly. Then he sat -down, pointed his nose upward, and howled. It was a mournful howl, and -as Buck held steadily on his way he heard it grow faint and fainter -until it was lost in the distance. - -John Thornton was eating dinner when Buck dashed into camp and sprang -upon him in a frenzy of affection, overturning him, scrambling upon -him, licking his face, biting his hand—“playing the general tom-fool,” -as John Thornton characterized it, the while he shook Buck back and -forth and cursed him lovingly. - -For two days and nights Buck never left camp, never let Thornton out of -his sight. He followed him about at his work, watched him while he ate, -saw him into his blankets at night and out of them in the morning. But -after two days the call in the forest began to sound more imperiously -than ever. Buck’s restlessness came back on him, and he was haunted by -recollections of the wild brother, and of the smiling land beyond the -divide and the run side by side through the wide forest stretches. Once -again he took to wandering in the woods, but the wild brother came no -more; and though he listened through long vigils, the mournful howl was -never raised. - -He began to sleep out at night, staying away from camp for days at a -time; and once he crossed the divide at the head of the creek and went -down into the land of timber and streams. There he wandered for a week, -seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as -he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never -to tire. He fished for salmon in a broad stream that emptied somewhere -into the sea, and by this stream he killed a large black bear, blinded -by the mosquitoes while likewise fishing, and raging through the forest -helpless and terrible. Even so, it was a hard fight, and it aroused the -last latent remnants of Buck’s ferocity. And two days later, when he -returned to his kill and found a dozen wolverenes quarrelling over the -spoil, he scattered them like chaff; and those that fled left two -behind who would quarrel no more. - -The blood-longing became stronger than ever before. He was a killer, a -thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by -virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a -hostile environment where only the strong survived. Because of all this -he became possessed of a great pride in himself, which communicated -itself like a contagion to his physical being. It advertised itself in -all his movements, was apparent in the play of every muscle, spoke -plainly as speech in the way he carried himself, and made his glorious -furry coat if anything more glorious. But for the stray brown on his -muzzle and above his eyes, and for the splash of white hair that ran -midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic -wolf, larger than the largest of the breed. From his St. Bernard father -he had inherited size and weight, but it was his shepherd mother who -had given shape to that size and weight. His muzzle was the long wolf -muzzle, save that it was larger than the muzzle of any wolf; and his -head, somewhat broader, was the wolf head on a massive scale. - -His cunning was wolf cunning, and wild cunning; his intelligence, -shepherd intelligence and St. Bernard intelligence; and all this, plus -an experience gained in the fiercest of schools, made him as formidable -a creature as any that roamed the wild. A carnivorous animal living on -a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his -life, overspilling with vigor and virility. When Thornton passed a -caressing hand along his back, a snapping and crackling followed the -hand, each hair discharging its pent magnetism at the contact. Every -part, brain and body, nerve tissue and fibre, was keyed to the most -exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect -equilibrium or adjustment. To sights and sounds and events which -required action, he responded with lightning-like rapidity. Quickly as -a husky dog could leap to defend from attack or to attack, he could -leap twice as quickly. He saw the movement, or heard sound, and -responded in less time than another dog required to compass the mere -seeing or hearing. He perceived and determined and responded in the -same instant. In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, -determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were -the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous. His -muscles were surcharged with vitality, and snapped into play sharply, -like steel springs. Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad -and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer -ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world. - -“Never was there such a dog,” said John Thornton one day, as the -partners watched Buck marching out of camp. - -“When he was made, the mould was broke,” said Pete. - -“Py jingo! I t’ink so mineself,” Hans affirmed. - -They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see the instant and -terrible transformation which took place as soon as he was within the -secrecy of the forest. He no longer marched. At once he became a thing -of the wild, stealing along softly, cat-footed, a passing shadow that -appeared and disappeared among the shadows. He knew how to take -advantage of every cover, to crawl on his belly like a snake, and like -a snake to leap and strike. He could take a ptarmigan from its nest, -kill a rabbit as it slept, and snap in mid air the little chipmunks -fleeing a second too late for the trees. Fish, in open pools, were not -too quick for him; nor were beaver, mending their dams, too wary. He -killed to eat, not from wantonness; but he preferred to eat what he -killed himself. So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was -his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, -to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops. - -As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater -abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less -rigorous valleys. Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown -calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and -he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek. A band -of twenty moose had crossed over from the land of streams and timber, -and chief among them was a great bull. He was in a savage temper, and, -standing over six feet from the ground, was as formidable an antagonist -as even Buck could desire. Back and forth the bull tossed his great -palmated antlers, branching to fourteen points and embracing seven feet -within the tips. His small eyes burned with a vicious and bitter light, -while he roared with fury at sight of Buck. - -From the bull’s side, just forward of the flank, protruded a feathered -arrow-end, which accounted for his savageness. Guided by that instinct -which came from the old hunting days of the primordial world, Buck -proceeded to cut the bull out from the herd. It was no slight task. He -would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of -the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have -stamped his life out with a single blow. Unable to turn his back on the -fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of -rage. At such moments he charged Buck, who retreated craftily, luring -him on by a simulated inability to escape. But when he was thus -separated from his fellows, two or three of the younger bulls would -charge back upon Buck and enable the wounded bull to rejoin the herd. - -There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life -itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, -the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience -belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it -belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its -march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their -half-grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage. -For half a day this continued. Buck multiplied himself, attacking from -all sides, enveloping the herd in a whirlwind of menace, cutting out -his victim as fast as it could rejoin its mates, wearing out the -patience of creatures preyed upon, which is a lesser patience than that -of creatures preying. - -As the day wore along and the sun dropped to its bed in the northwest -(the darkness had come back and the fall nights were six hours long), -the young bulls retraced their steps more and more reluctantly to the -aid of their beset leader. The down-coming winter was harrying them on -to the lower levels, and it seemed they could never shake off this -tireless creature that held them back. Besides, it was not the life of -the herd, or of the young bulls, that was threatened. The life of only -one member was demanded, which was a remoter interest than their lives, -and in the end they were content to pay the toll. - -As twilight fell the old bull stood with lowered head, watching his -mates—the cows he had known, the calves he had fathered, the bulls he -had mastered—as they shambled on at a rapid pace through the fading -light. He could not follow, for before his nose leaped the merciless -fanged terror that would not let him go. Three hundredweight more than -half a ton he weighed; he had lived a long, strong life, full of fight -and struggle, and at the end he faced death at the teeth of a creature -whose head did not reach beyond his great knuckled knees. - -From then on, night and day, Buck never left his prey, never gave it a -moment’s rest, never permitted it to browse the leaves of trees or the -shoots of young birch and willow. Nor did he give the wounded bull -opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling -streams they crossed. Often, in desperation, he burst into long -stretches of flight. At such times Buck did not attempt to stay him, -but loped easily at his heels, satisfied with the way the game was -played, lying down when the moose stood still, attacking him fiercely -when he strove to eat or drink. - -The great head drooped more and more under its tree of horns, and the -shambling trot grew weak and weaker. He took to standing for long -periods, with nose to the ground and dejected ears dropped limply; and -Buck found more time in which to get water for himself and in which to -rest. At such moments, panting with red lolling tongue and with eyes -fixed upon the big bull, it appeared to Buck that a change was coming -over the face of things. He could feel a new stir in the land. As the -moose were coming into the land, other kinds of life were coming in. -Forest and stream and air seemed palpitant with their presence. The -news of it was borne in upon him, not by sight, or sound, or smell, but -by some other and subtler sense. He heard nothing, saw nothing, yet -knew that the land was somehow different; that through it strange -things were afoot and ranging; and he resolved to investigate after he -had finished the business in hand. - -At last, at the end of the fourth day, he pulled the great moose down. -For a day and a night he remained by the kill, eating and sleeping, -turn and turn about. Then, rested, refreshed and strong, he turned his -face toward camp and John Thornton. He broke into the long easy lope, -and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, -heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of -direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame. - -As he held on he became more and more conscious of the new stir in the -land. There was life abroad in it different from the life which had -been there throughout the summer. No longer was this fact borne in upon -him in some subtle, mysterious way. The birds talked of it, the -squirrels chattered about it, the very breeze whispered of it. Several -times he stopped and drew in the fresh morning air in great sniffs, -reading a message which made him leap on with greater speed. He was -oppressed with a sense of calamity happening, if it were not calamity -already happened; and as he crossed the last watershed and dropped down -into the valley toward camp, he proceeded with greater caution. - -Three miles away he came upon a fresh trail that sent his neck hair -rippling and bristling, It led straight toward camp and John Thornton. -Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and -tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story—all but -the end. His nose gave him a varying description of the passage of the -life on the heels of which he was travelling. He remarked the pregnant -silence of the forest. The bird life had flitted. The squirrels were in -hiding. One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray -dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the -wood itself. - -As Buck slid along with the obscureness of a gliding shadow, his nose -was jerked suddenly to the side as though a positive force had gripped -and pulled it. He followed the new scent into a thicket and found Nig. -He was lying on his side, dead where he had dragged himself, an arrow -protruding, head and feathers, from either side of his body. - -A hundred yards farther on, Buck came upon one of the sled-dogs -Thornton had bought in Dawson. This dog was thrashing about in a -death-struggle, directly on the trail, and Buck passed around him -without stopping. From the camp came the faint sound of many voices, -rising and falling in a sing-song chant. Bellying forward to the edge -of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with -arrows like a porcupine. At the same instant Buck peered out where the -spruce-bough lodge had been and saw what made his hair leap straight up -on his neck and shoulders. A gust of overpowering rage swept over him. -He did not know that he growled, but he growled aloud with a terrible -ferocity. For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp -cunning and reason, and it was because of his great love for John -Thornton that he lost his head. - -The Yeehats were dancing about the wreckage of the spruce-bough lodge -when they heard a fearful roaring and saw rushing upon them an animal -the like of which they had never seen before. It was Buck, a live -hurricane of fury, hurling himself upon them in a frenzy to destroy. He -sprang at the foremost man (it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping -the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood. -He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the -next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man. There was no -withstanding him. He plunged about in their very midst, tearing, -rending, destroying, in constant and terrific motion which defied the -arrows they discharged at him. In fact, so inconceivably rapid were his -movements, and so closely were the Indians tangled together, that they -shot one another with the arrows; and one young hunter, hurling a spear -at Buck in mid air, drove it through the chest of another hunter with -such force that the point broke through the skin of the back and stood -out beyond. Then a panic seized the Yeehats, and they fled in terror to -the woods, proclaiming as they fled the advent of the Evil Spirit. - -And truly Buck was the Fiend incarnate, raging at their heels and -dragging them down like deer as they raced through the trees. It was a -fateful day for the Yeehats. They scattered far and wide over the -country, and it was not till a week later that the last of the -survivors gathered together in a lower valley and counted their losses. -As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated -camp. He found Pete where he had been killed in his blankets in the -first moment of surprise. Thornton’s desperate struggle was -fresh-written on the earth, and Buck scented every detail of it down to -the edge of a deep pool. By the edge, head and fore feet in the water, -lay Skeet, faithful to the last. The pool itself, muddy and discolored -from the sluice boxes, effectually hid what it contained, and it -contained John Thornton; for Buck followed his trace into the water, -from which no trace led away. - -All day Buck brooded by the pool or roamed restlessly about the camp. -Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the -lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead. It -left a great void in him, somewhat akin to hunger, but a void which -ached and ached, and which food could not fill. At times, when he -paused to contemplate the carcasses of the Yeehats, he forgot the pain -of it; and at such times he was aware of a great pride in himself,—a -pride greater than any he had yet experienced. He had killed man, the -noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club -and fang. He sniffed the bodies curiously. They had died so easily. It -was harder to kill a husky dog than them. They were no match at all, -were it not for their arrows and spears and clubs. Thenceforward he -would be unafraid of them except when they bore in their hands their -arrows, spears, and clubs. - -Night came on, and a full moon rose high over the trees into the sky, -lighting the land till it lay bathed in ghostly day. And with the -coming of the night, brooding and mourning by the pool, Buck became -alive to a stirring of the new life in the forest other than that which -the Yeehats had made, He stood up, listening and scenting. From far -away drifted a faint, sharp yelp, followed by a chorus of similar sharp -yelps. As the moments passed the yelps grew closer and louder. Again -Buck knew them as things heard in that other world which persisted in -his memory. He walked to the centre of the open space and listened. It -was the call, the many-noted call, sounding more luringly and -compellingly than ever before. And as never before, he was ready to -obey. John Thornton was dead. The last tie was broken. Man and the -claims of man no longer bound him. - -Hunting their living meat, as the Yeehats were hunting it, on the -flanks of the migrating moose, the wolf pack had at last crossed over -from the land of streams and timber and invaded Buck’s valley. Into the -clearing where the moonlight streamed, they poured in a silvery flood; -and in the centre of the clearing stood Buck, motionless as a statue, -waiting their coming. They were awed, so still and large he stood, and -a moment’s pause fell, till the boldest one leaped straight for him. -Like a flash Buck struck, breaking the neck. Then he stood, without -movement, as before, the stricken wolf rolling in agony behind him. -Three others tried it in sharp succession; and one after the other they -drew back, streaming blood from slashed throats or shoulders. - -This was sufficient to fling the whole pack forward, pell-mell, crowded -together, blocked and confused by its eagerness to pull down the prey. -Buck’s marvellous quickness and agility stood him in good stead. -Pivoting on his hind legs, and snapping and gashing, he was everywhere -at once, presenting a front which was apparently unbroken so swiftly -did he whirl and guard from side to side. But to prevent them from -getting behind him, he was forced back, down past the pool and into the -creek bed, till he brought up against a high gravel bank. He worked -along to a right angle in the bank which the men had made in the course -of mining, and in this angle he came to bay, protected on three sides -and with nothing to do but face the front. - -And so well did he face it, that at the end of half an hour the wolves -drew back discomfited. The tongues of all were out and lolling, the -white fangs showing cruelly white in the moonlight. Some were lying -down with heads raised and ears pricked forward; others stood on their -feet, watching him; and still others were lapping water from the pool. -One wolf, long and lean and gray, advanced cautiously, in a friendly -manner, and Buck recognized the wild brother with whom he had run for a -night and a day. He was whining softly, and, as Buck whined, they -touched noses. - -Then an old wolf, gaunt and battle-scarred, came forward. Buck writhed -his lips into the preliminary of a snarl, but sniffed noses with him, -Whereupon the old wolf sat down, pointed nose at the moon, and broke -out the long wolf howl. The others sat down and howled. And now the -call came to Buck in unmistakable accents. He, too, sat down and -howled. This over, he came out of his angle and the pack crowded around -him, sniffing in half-friendly, half-savage manner. The leaders lifted -the yelp of the pack and sprang away into the woods. The wolves swung -in behind, yelping in chorus. And Buck ran with them, side by side with -the wild brother, yelping as he ran. - - -And here may well end the story of Buck. The years were not many when -the Yeehats noted a change in the breed of timber wolves; for some were -seen with splashes of brown on head and muzzle, and with a rift of -white centring down the chest. But more remarkable than this, the -Yeehats tell of a Ghost Dog that runs at the head of the pack. They are -afraid of this Ghost Dog, for it has cunning greater than they, -stealing from their camps in fierce winters, robbing their traps, -slaying their dogs, and defying their bravest hunters. - -Nay, the tale grows worse. Hunters there are who fail to return to the -camp, and hunters there have been whom their tribesmen found with -throats slashed cruelly open and with wolf prints about them in the -snow greater than the prints of any wolf. Each fall, when the Yeehats -follow the movement of the moose, there is a certain valley which they -never enter. And women there are who become sad when the word goes over -the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an -abiding-place. - -In the summers there is one visitor, however, to that valley, of which -the Yeehats do not know. It is a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, -and yet unlike, all other wolves. He crosses alone from the smiling -timber land and comes down into an open space among the trees. Here a -yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the -ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mould -overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses -for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs. - -But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the -wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running -at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering -borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow -as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack. - - - - -*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CALL OF THE WILD *** - - - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg™ electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG™ -concept and trademark. 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then - vsi_image_id="r010-e7b25759-7857-455a-aec0-904b65c3c4cb" -elif [[ "$REGION" == "eu-gb" ]]; then - vsi_image_id="r018-31655c46-96e7-4d38-b61a-2ab1b66b9bbd" -elif [[ "$REGION" == "us-east" ]]; then - vsi_image_id="r014-b7f47448-72db-4012-b018-bb120518b078" -else - echo "Fleet sandbox setup is currently not supported in region ($region), exiting setup... " - exit -1 -fi - -# ============================== -# COMMON FUNCTIONS -# ============================== - -SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd ) -source ${SCRIPT_DIR}/common.sh - -# Clean up previous run -function clean() { - ( - target_region $REGION - target_resource_group $resource_group_name - - rm -f ${sshkey_name} - rm -f ${sshkey_name}.pub - - if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" == "true" ]]; then - ibmcloud resource service-key-delete ${sysdig_key_name} -f -q 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete ${sysdig_name} -g ${resource_group_name} -f -q 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is endpoint-gateway-delete ${sysdig_name}-vpegw --force 2>/dev/null - fi - - if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" == "true" ]]; then - ibmcloud iam service-id-delete ${icl_name}-svc-id -f 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is endpoint-gateway-delete ${icl_name}-vpegw --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete $icl_name -g ${resource_group_name} -f -q 2>/dev/null - fi - - ibmcloud iam api-key-delete ${apikey_name} --force 2>/dev/null - - ibmcloud is key-delete ${sshkey_name} --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is subnet-delete $vpc_name-subnet --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is network-acl-delete $vpc_name-acl --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is public-gateway-delete $vpc_name-gateway --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is security-group-delete $vpc_name-group --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud is vpc-delete $vpc_name --force 2>/dev/null - while [ $? == 0 ]; do - sleep 2 - ibmcloud is vpc $vpc_name >/dev/null 2>&1 - done - - ibmcloud resource service-key-delete ${cos_key_name} --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud cos bucket-delete --bucket ${cos_bucket_name} --force 2>/dev/null - ibmcloud resource service-instance-delete ${cos_name} -f -q 2>/dev/null - - ibmcloud ce project select --name ${ce_project_name} --quiet 2>/dev/null - if [ $? == 0 ]; then - ibmcloud ce project delete --name ${ce_project_name} --force --hard --no-wait 2>/dev/null - fi - - ibmcloud resource group $resource_group_name --quiet 2>/dev/null - if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then - COUNTER=0 - # some resources (e.g. boot volumes) are deleted with some delay. Hence, the script waits before exiting with an error - while (( "$(ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION --output json | jq -r '. | length')" > 0 )); do - sleep 5 - COUNTER=$((COUNTER + 1)) - if ((COUNTER > 3)); then - print_error "Cleanup failed! Please make sure to delete remaining resources manually to avoid unwanted charges." - ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION - exit 1 - fi - done - fi - - ibmcloud resource group-delete $resource_group_name --force 2>/dev/null - ) -} - -function abortScript() { - if [[ "${CLEANUP_ON_ERROR}" == true ]]; then - clean - else - print_msg "\nSkipping deletion of the created IBM Cloud resources. Please be aware that the created resources will occur costs in your account." - echo "$ ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION" - ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION - fi - exit 1 -} - - - -if [[ "$1" == "clean" ]]; then - print_msg "\nCleaning up the created IBM Cloud resources ..." - clean - print_success "\n==========================================\n DONE\n==========================================\n" - exit 0 -fi - -# ============================== -# MAIN SCRIPT FLOW -# ============================== - -print_msg "\n======================================================" -print_msg " Setting up \"Code Engine Serverless Fleet\" sample" -print_msg "======================================================\n" - -if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" != "true" || "$SETUP_MONITORING" != "true" ]]; then - print_msg " ATTENTION: You requested to setup a fleet sandbox without : \n" - if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" != "true" ]]; then - print_msg " - logging support \n" - fi - if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" != "true" ]]; then - print_msg " - monitoring support \n" - fi - print_msg "Do you really want to continue setup without these services? They cannot be added later \n" - read -p "Continue [y|n]? " yn - case $yn in - [Yy]* ) ;; - * ) exit -1;; - esac -fi - -echo "" -echo "Please note: This script will install various IBM Cloud resources within the resource group '$resource_group_name'." - -print_msg "\nChecking prerequisites ..." -check_prerequisites - - -# Ensure that latest versions of used IBM Cloud ClI is installed -print_msg "\nPulling latest IBM Cloud CLI release ..." -ibmcloud update --force - -# Ensure that latest versions of used IBM Cloud CLI plugins are installed -print_msg "\nInstalling required experiemental IBM Cloud CLI plugins ..." -export CE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLEET=true -ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date code-engine -ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date vpc-infrastructure -ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date cloud-object-storage -ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date container-registry - -target_region $REGION - -# -# Create the resource group, if it does not exist -ibmcloud resource group $resource_group_name --quiet -if [ $? != 0 ]; then - print_msg "\nCreating resource group '$resource_group_name' ..." - ibmcloud resource group-create $resource_group_name -fi -target_resource_group $resource_group_name - -# -# Check whether Logging should be configured -print_msg "\nShould IBM Cloud Logs be configured?" -if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" != "true" ]]; then - echo "No! " -else - echo "Yes!" - print_msg "\nCreating the IBM Cloud Logs instance '$icl_name' ..." - ibmcloud resource service-instance-create $icl_name logs standard $REGION -p '{"private_endpoints_only": true}' - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IBM Cloud Logs creation failed!" - abortScript - fi - icl_instance=$(ibmcloud resource service-instance $icl_name -o JSON) - icl_guid=$(echo "$icl_instance"|jq -r '.[0].guid') - icl_crn=$(echo "$icl_instance"|jq -r '.[0].crn') - icl_ingestion_host=$(echo "$icl_instance"|jq -r '.[0].extensions.external_ingress_private') - icl_dashboard_url=$(echo "$icl_instance"|jq -r '.[0].dashboard_url') - - print_msg "\nCreating the IAM serviceID, policy and APIKey to be able to ingest logs into the IBM Cloud Logs instance '$icl_name' ..." - ibmcloud iam service-id-create ${icl_name}-svc-id --description "CE Fleets - ServiceID to ingest into IBM Cloud Logs instance: '${icl_name}/${icl_guid}'" - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IAM ServiceID creation failed!" - abortScript - fi - ibmcloud iam service-policy-create ${icl_name}-svc-id --service-name logs --roles Sender --service-name logs --service-instance ${icl_guid} - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IAM ServiceID policy creation failed!" - abortScript - fi - icl_ingestion_apikey=$(ibmcloud iam service-api-key-create logs-ingestion-key ${icl_name}-svc-id --description "API key to ingest logs into IBM Cloud Logs instance: '${icl_guid}'" --output JSON|jq -r '.apikey') - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IAM ServiceID APIkey creation failed!" - abortScript - fi -fi - -# -# Check whether monitoring should be configured -print_msg "\nShould IBM Cloud Monitoring be configured?" -if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" != "true" ]]; then - echo "No!" -else - echo "Yes!" - print_msg "\nCreating the IBM Cloud Monitoring instance '$sysdig_name' ..." - ibmcloud resource service-instance-create $sysdig_name sysdig-monitor graduated-tier $REGION -p '{"default_receiver": false}' - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IBM Cloud Monitoring creation failed!" - abortScript - fi - print_msg "\nCreating service key '$sysdig_key_name' for IBM Cloud Monitoring instance for '$sysdig_name' ..." - sysdig_key=$(ibmcloud resource service-key-create $sysdig_key_name Manager --instance-name $sysdig_name --output json) - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "IBM Cloud Monitoring key creation failed!" - abortScript - fi - sysdig_access_key=$(echo $sysdig_key | jq '.credentials["Sysdig Access Key"]' -r) - sysdig_collector_host=$(echo "$sysdig_key" | jq '.credentials["Sysdig Collector Endpoint"]' -r) - sysdig_instance=$(ibmcloud resource service-instance $sysdig_name -o JSON) - sysdig_crn=$(echo "$sysdig_instance"|jq -r '.[0].crn') -fi - -# -# Create the VPC -print_msg "\nCreating the VPC '$vpc_name' ..." -ibmcloud is vpc-create $vpc_name --resource-group-name $resource_group_name -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "VPC creation failed!" - abortScript -fi - -# -# Wait for the VPC to become available -print_msg "\nWaiting for the VPC $vpc_name to become available ..." -COUNTER=0 -while ! [[ $(ibmcloud is vpc $vpc_name --output json | jq -r '.status') == "available" ]]; do - sleep 2 - COUNTER=$((COUNTER + 1)) - if ((COUNTER > 10)); then - echo $(ibmcloud is vpc $vpc_name) - print_error "The VPC does not became ready as expected.\nRun 'ibmcloud is vpc $vpc_name' for further insights" - abortScript - fi -done -echo "VPC '$vpc_name' is now available, now!" - -# -# Create the Public gateway -print_msg "\nCreating the VPC Public gateway '$vpc_name-gateway' ..." -ibmcloud is public-gateway-create $vpc_name-gateway $vpc_name $REGION-1 --resource-group-name $resource_group_name -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "VPC Public gateway creation failed!" - abortScript -fi - -# -# Create the Network ACL -print_msg "\nCreating the VPC Network ACL '$vpc_name-acl' ..." -ibmcloud is network-acl-create $vpc_name-acl $vpc_name --rules '[{ "name": "egress", "action": "allow", "destination": "0.0.0.0/0", "direction": "outbound", "source": "0.0.0.0/0", "protocol": "all" }, { "name": "ingress", "action": "allow", "destination": "0.0.0.0/0", "direction": "inbound", "source": "0.0.0.0/0", "protocol": "all" }]' -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "VPC Network ACL creation failed!" - abortScript -fi - -# -# Create the VPC subnet -print_msg "\nCreating the VPC Subnet '$vpc_name-subnet' ..." -ibmcloud is subnet-create $vpc_name-subnet $vpc_name --zone $REGION-1 --resource-group-name $resource_group_name --ipv4-address-count 256 --pgw $vpc_name-gateway --acl $vpc_name-acl -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "VPC Subnet creation failed!" - abortScript -fi - -# Create the security group and its rules -print_msg "\nCreating the VPC Security group '$vpc_name-group' ..." -ibmcloud is security-group-create $vpc_name-group $vpc_name -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "VPC Security group creation failed!" - abortScript -fi - -print_msg "\nCreating required VPC Security group rules ..." -ibmcloud is security-group-rule-add $vpc_name-group outbound all --remote 0.0.0.0/0 --vpc $vpc_name >/dev/null -ibmcloud is security-group-rule-add $vpc_name-group inbound all --remote $vpc_name-group --vpc $vpc_name >/dev/null -echo "Done" - -print_msg "\nPrinting the VPC Security group '$vpc_name-group' ..." -ibmcloud is security-group $vpc_name-group - -# -# Creating the VPE Gateway to enable log ingestion -if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" == "true" ]]; then - print_msg "\nCreating a VPE Gateway to enable log ingestion ..." - subnet_id=$(ibmcloud is subnet $vpc_name-subnet --vpc $vpc_name --output JSON | jq -r '.id') - ibmcloud is endpoint-gateway-create \ - --vpc $vpc_name \ - --subnet $vpc_name-subnet \ - --sg $vpc_name-group \ - --target ${icl_crn} \ - --name "${icl_name}-vpegw" \ - --new-reserved-ip "{\"subnet\": {\"id\": \"${subnet_id}\"},\"name\":\"${icl_name}-vpegw-ip\",\"auto_delete\":false}" \ - --allow-dns-resolution-binding false - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "ICL VPE Gateway creation failed!" - abortScript - fi -fi - -if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" == "true" ]]; then - print_msg "\nCreating a VPE Gateway to enable monitoring ingestion ..." - subnet_id=$(ibmcloud is subnet $vpc_name-subnet --vpc $vpc_name --output JSON | jq -r '.id') - ibmcloud is endpoint-gateway-create \ - --vpc $vpc_name \ - --subnet $vpc_name-subnet \ - --sg $vpc_name-group \ - --target ${sysdig_crn} \ - --name "${sysdig_name}-vpegw" \ - --new-reserved-ip "{\"subnet\": {\"id\": \"${subnet_id}\"},\"name\":\"${sysdig_name}-vpegw-ip\",\"auto_delete\":false}" \ - --allow-dns-resolution-binding false - if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "Monitoring VPE Gateway creation failed!" - abortScript - fi -fi - -# -# Creating COS instance and bucket -print_msg "\nCreating COS instance '${cos_name}' ..." -ibmcloud resource service-instance-create $cos_name cloud-object-storage standard global -d premium-global-deployment-iam -COS_ID=$(ibmcloud resource service-instance $cos_name | awk '/^ID/{ print $2 }') -ibmcloud cos config auth --method IAM -ibmcloud cos config region --region $REGION - -# Create COS bucket -print_msg "\nCreating COS bucket '${cos_bucket_name}' ..." -ibmcloud cos bucket-create --bucket ${cos_bucket_name} --ibm-service-instance-id $COS_ID - -# Create COS credentials -print_msg "\nCreating COS service key '${cos_key_name}' ..." -ibmcloud resource service-key-create ${cos_key_name} --parameters '{"HMAC":true}' --instance-id $COS_ID - -print_msg "\nCOS instance '${COS_ID}' and bucket '${cos_bucket_name}' created ..." - -ibmcloud cos config crn --force --crn $(ibmcloud resource service-instance $cos_name --crn | grep "crn") - -print_msg "\ncreateing bucket lifecycle configuration for objects in the result folder with 1 day retention ..." -ibmcloud cos bucket-lifecycle-configuration-put --bucket ${cos_bucket_name} --region ${REGION} --lifecycle-configuration '{ "Rules": [ {"Expiration": {"Days": 1},"Filter": {"Prefix": "result/ticker"},"ID": "ticker results","Status": "Enabled"}, {"Expiration": {"Days": 1},"Filter": {"Prefix": "result/inferencing"},"ID": "inferencing results","Status": "Enabled"}, {"Expiration": {"Days": 1},"Filter": {"Prefix": "result/docling"},"ID": "docling results","Status": "Enabled"}, {"Expiration": {"Days": 1},"Filter": {"Prefix": "result/wordcount"},"ID": "wordcount results","Status": "Enabled"} ] }' - -print_msg "\nCreating local rclone environment .rclone.conf to upload/download to the COS bucket..." - -cat > .rclone.conf << EOF -[s3] -type = s3 -provider = IBMCOS -access_key_id = $(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .access_key_id') -secret_access_key = $(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .secret_access_key') -endpoint = https://s3.$REGION.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud -acl = private -region = $REGION -location_constraint = $REGION -EOF - -cat > download << EOF -#!/bin/sh -rclone --config .rclone.conf sync s3:${cos_bucket_name} data --progress --multi-thread-streams=16 --checkers=32 --transfers=8 -EOF -chmod +x download - -cat > upload << EOF -#!/bin/sh -rclone --config .rclone.conf sync data s3:${cos_bucket_name} --progress --multi-thread-streams=16 --checkers=32 --transfers=8 -EOF -chmod +x upload - -mkdir -p ./data - -# -# Create the Code Engine project -print_msg "\nCreating the Code Engine project '$ce_project_name' ..." -ibmcloud ce project create --name $ce_project_name -if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then - print_error "Code Engine project creation failed!" - abortScript -fi -project_guid=$(ibmcloud ce project current --output json | jq -r '.guid') - -# -# Create the ssh key for jump box server VSI -print_msg "\nGenerating a ssh key-pair in './${sshkey_name}' and './${sshkey_name}.pub' ..." -ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ${sshkey_name} -N '' -ibmcloud is key-create ${sshkey_name} @./${sshkey_name}.pub - -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine secret 'fleet-ssh-secret' for public ssh key ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-ssh-secret --format ssh --key-path ./${sshkey_name}.pub - -print_msg "\nCreating an API Key '${apikey_name}' for ICR credentials ..." -apikey="$(ibmcloud iam api-key-create ${apikey_name} -q -o json|jq -r '.apikey')" - -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine secret 'fleet-registry-secret' for ICR credentials ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-registry-secret --format registry --server 'de.icr.io' --username iamapikey --password $apikey - -# using the common base VSI image "jwe-ubuntu24-gpu" enabled for GPU and including podman and s3fs -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine configmap 'fleet-vpc-config' to access the new VPC ..." - -print_msg "\nSelected the ubuntu-24 vsi image for fleets with the image-id = $vsi-image-id" -ibmcloud ce configmap create --name fleet-vpc-config \ ---from-literal NETWORK_ZONE="${REGION}-1" \ ---from-literal SSH_SECRET_NAME="fleet-ssh-secret" \ ---from-literal VPC_ID="$(ibmcloud is vpc ${vpc_name} --output json | jq -r '.id')" \ ---from-literal SUBNET_ID="$(ibmcloud is subnet ${vpc_name}-subnet --output json | jq -r '.id')" \ ---from-literal SECURITY_GROUP_ID="$(ibmcloud is security-group ${vpc_name}-group --output json | jq -r '.id')" \ ---from-literal VSI_IMAGE_ID="$vsi_image_id" \ ---from-literal VSI_PREFERRED_PROFILE="cx2-2x4" - -# alternative to fetch the latest stock image: -# --from-literal VSI_IMAGE_ID="$(ibmcloud is image ibm-ubuntu-24-04-6-minimal-amd64-1 --output json | jq -r '.id')" - -## crawl+ -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine secret 'fleet-cos-config' to access the COS bucket ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-cos-config \ ---from-literal access_key_id=$(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .access_key_id') \ ---from-literal secret_access_key=$(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .secret_access_key') \ ---from-literal apikey=$(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .apikey') \ ---from-literal endpoint="https://s3.direct.${REGION}.cloud-object-storage.appdomain.cloud" \ ---from-literal bucket_name=${cos_bucket_name} \ ---from-literal bucket_region=$REGION \ ---from-literal container_mount_point="/mnt/ce/data" \ ---from-literal prefix="" \ ---from-literal resource_instance_id=$COS_ID - -## walk -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine Persistant Data Store 'fleet-task-store' to access the COS bucket as the task state store ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-task-store-secret \ ---format hmac \ ---secret-access-key $(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .secret_access_key') \ ---access-key-id $(ibmcloud resource service-key ${cos_key_name} --output JSON | jq -r '.[0] | .credentials | .cos_hmac_keys | .access_key_id') -## walk -ibmcloud ce pds create --name fleet-task-store \ ---cos-bucket-name ${cos_bucket_name} \ ---cos-bucket-location ${REGION} \ ---cos-access-secret fleet-task-store-secret - -## walk -print_msg "\nCreating the Code Engine default secret 'codeengine-fleet-defaults' with observability and VPC subnet configurations ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create -n codeengine-fleet-defaults \ ---from-literal pool_subnet_crn_1="$(ibmcloud is subnet ${vpc_name}-subnet --output json | jq -r '.crn')" \ ---from-literal pool_security_group_crns_1="$(ibmcloud is security-group ${vpc_name}-group --output json | jq -r '.crn')" - -print_msg "\nCreating a Code Engine secret 'fleet-observability-config' to enable logging and monitoring integrations ..." -ibmcloud ce secret create --name fleet-observability-config --format generic --from-literal LOGGING_ENABLED=${SETUP_LOGGING} -if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" == "true" ]]; then - print_msg "\nMake sure logs are sent to '${icl_ingestion_host}' ..." - ## crawl+ - ibmcloud ce secret update --name fleet-observability-config \ - --from-literal LOGGING_INGESTION_HOST=${icl_ingestion_host} \ - --from-literal LOGGING_INGESTION_APIKEY=${icl_ingestion_apikey} \ - --from-literal LOGGING_LEVEL_AGENT=info \ - --from-literal LOGGING_LEVEL_WORKER=info - ## walk - ibmcloud ce secret update -n codeengine-fleet-defaults \ - --from-literal LOGGING_INGRESS_ENDPOINT="${icl_ingestion_host}" \ - --from-literal LOGGING_SENDER_API_KEY="${icl_ingestion_apikey}" \ - --from-literal LOGGING_LEVEL_AGENT=info \ - --from-literal LOGGING_LEVEL_WORKER=info -fi -if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" == "true" ]]; then - print_msg "\nMake sure monitoring is enabled to '${sysdig_collector_host}' ..." - ibmcloud ce secret update --name fleet-observability-config \ - --from-literal MONITORING_INGESTION_KEY=${sysdig_access_key} \ - --from-literal MONITORING_INGESTION_REGION=${REGION} -fi - -print_msg "\nThe Fleet demo sandbox has been configured. Please be aware that the created resources will occur costs in your account." -echo "$ ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION" -ibmcloud resource service-instances --type all -g $resource_group_name --location $REGION - -print_msg "\nFollow the tutorial to launch your first Serverless Fleet with './run'" - -if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" == "true" ]]; then - print_msg "\nLogging is enabled and logs can be accessed using the IBM Cloud Logs instance '$icl_name': $icl_dashboard_url" -fi - -print_success "\n==========================================" -print_success " SUCCESS" -print_success "==========================================\n" diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/jump b/experimental/serverless-fleets/jump deleted file mode 100755 index f97bbee7..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/jump +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -IP=$1 -NAME_PREFIX="${NAME_PREFIX:=ce-fleet-sandbox}" - -JUMPBOX_FIP=$(ibmcloud is instance "${NAME_PREFIX}--is-vsi-jumpbox" --output json | jq -r '.primary_network_interface|.floating_ips|.[0]|.address') - -echo "copy private ssh-key './${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey' to jumpbox $JUMPBOX_FIP" -scp -i "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeychecking=no "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" root@${JUMPBOX_FIP}:/root/.ssh/id_rsa - -echo "jump to $IP via jumpbox $JUMPBOX_FIP" -ssh -ti "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeychecking=no -o IdentitiesOnly=yes root@$JUMPBOX_FIP -- ssh root@$IP diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/jumpbox b/experimental/serverless-fleets/jumpbox deleted file mode 100755 index 356dbdce..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/jumpbox +++ /dev/null @@ -1,12 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -IP=$1 -NAME_PREFIX="${NAME_PREFIX:=ce-fleet-sandbox}" - -JUMPBOX_FIP=$(ibmcloud is instance "${NAME_PREFIX}--is-vsi-jumpbox" --output json | jq -r '.primary_network_interface|.floating_ips|.[0]|.address') - -echo "copy private ssh-key './${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey' to jumpbox $JUMPBOX_FIP" -scp -i "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeychecking=no "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" root@${JUMPBOX_FIP}:/root/.ssh/id_rsa - -echo "jump to $IP via jumpbox $JUMPBOX_FIP" -ssh -i "./${NAME_PREFIX}--sshkey" -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o StrictHostKeychecking=no -o IdentitiesOnly=yes root@$JUMPBOX_FIP diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/login b/experimental/serverless-fleets/login deleted file mode 100755 index 9939ae34..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/login +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -REGION="${REGION:=eu-de}" -NAME_PREFIX="${NAME_PREFIX:=ce-fleet-sandbox}" - -ibmcloud login --sso -r "$REGION" -g "${NAME_PREFIX}--rg" - - -ibmcloud ce project select --name "${NAME_PREFIX}--ce-project" - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run b/experimental/serverless-fleets/run deleted file mode 100755 index dfe0af20..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " " --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " " --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest -echo " " --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " " --command="sleep" -echo " " --arg "60" -echo " " --worker-profile cx2-2x4 -echo " " --tasks 1 -echo " " --cpu 2 -echo " " --memory 4G -echo " " --max-scale 1 - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile cx2-2x4 --max-scale 1 --command="sleep" --arg "60" --tasks 1 --cpu 2 --memory 4G diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_gpu b/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_gpu deleted file mode 100755 index fe3991e5..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_gpu +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " " --image docker.io/nvidia/cuda:12.8.0-base-ubuntu24.04 -echo " " --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " " --worker-profile gx3-24x120x1l40s -echo " " --command="nvidia-smi" -echo " " --arg "pmon -c 120" -echo " " --tasks 1 -echo " " --cpu 1 -echo " " --memory 4G -echo " " --max-scale 1 - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image docker.io/nvidia/cuda:12.8.0-base-ubuntu24.04 --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile gx3-24x120x1l40s --max-scale 1 --command="nvidia-smi" --arg "pmon" --arg "-c" --arg "120" --tasks 1 --cpu 1 --memory 4G diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks b/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks deleted file mode 100755 index b376224a..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -TASKS=100 -MAX_SCALE=10 -PROFILE=cx2-2x4 -CPU=1 -MEMORY=2G - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest -echo " "--registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " "--worker-profile $PROFILE -echo " "--command="sleep" -echo " "--arg "2" -echo " "--tasks $TASKS -echo " "--cpu $CPU -echo " "--memory $MEMORY -echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --command="sleep" --arg "2" --tasks $TASKS --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_scaleout b/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_scaleout deleted file mode 100755 index 76e2f0b5..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_scaleout +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -TASKS=10000 -MAX_SCALE=512 -PROFILE="bx2-16x64" -SLEEP="3" - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " " --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " " --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest -echo " " --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " " --command="sleep" -echo " " --arg "$SLEEP" -echo " " --tasks $TASKS -echo " " --cpu 1 -echo " " --memory 4G -echo " " --max-scale $MAX_SCALE -echo " " --worker-profile $PROFILE - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --command="sleep" --arg "$SLEEP" --tasks $TASKS --cpu 1 --memory 4G - - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount b/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount deleted file mode 100755 index e59d4722..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount +++ /dev/null @@ -1,37 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -echo "Did you upload the .txt files to COS?" -select yn in "Yes" "No"; do - case $yn in - Yes ) break;; - No ) echo "exiting... run ./upload first"; exit;; - esac -done - - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -MAX_SCALE=4 -PROFILE=cx2-2x4 -CPU=1 -MEMORY=2G -CMDS=wordcount_commands.jsonl - -# construct the wordcount_commands.jsonl -# ls data/tutorials/wordcount | awk '{ printf " { \"command\":\"/bin/bash\", \"args\": [\"-c\", \"cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/"$1" > result/wordcount_"$1"\"]}\n" }' > wordcount_commands.jsonl - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest -echo " "--registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " "--worker-profile $PROFILE -echo " "--tasks-from-file $CMDS -echo " "--cpu $CPU -echo " "--memory $MEMORY -echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --tasks-from-file $CMDS --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index de20da89..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,195 +0,0 @@ -# Tutorial: Docling - -This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on using Docling to convert PDFs into Markdown format using serverless fleets. It leverages cloud object storage for managing both the input PDFs and the resulting Markdown files. The process is streamlined using IBM’s Code Engine to build the Docling container, which is then pushed to a container registry. Users can run a serverless fleet, which autonomously spawns workers to run the Docling container for efficient, scalable conversion tasks. - -Key steps covered in the Tutorial: -1. Upload the examples PDFs to COS -2. Run a fleet of workers that automatically runs the official docling container, ensuring scalability and efficiency. -4. Download the resulting markdown files from COS - -This setup is ideal for automating document conversion workflows in a cost-effective, serverless environment. - - -![](../../images/examples_docling_flow.png) - -> Note: The tutorial assumes that you have created the fleet sandbox using the fully automated approach which creates the rclone environment as well as the upload/download scripts. If that's not the case, you would need to upload the PDFs and download the results using the COS CLI or other means. - -## Steps - - -### Step 1 - Upload - -The 11 example PDFs are located in the `data/tutorials/docling/pdfs` directory. Run the following commands in the root directory to list and upload the example PDFs to COS. -``` -ls data/tutorials/docling/pdfs -./upload -``` - -### Step 2 - Review the commands - -Review the `commands.jsonl` which defines the tasks to run the docling command and arguments for each of the pdfs. -``` -cd tutorials/docling -cat commands.jsonl -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ cat commands.jsonl - -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2203.01017v2.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2203.01017v2.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2206.01062.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2206.01062.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2305.03393v1-pg9.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2305.03393v1-pg9.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2305.03393v1.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2305.03393v1.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/amt_handbook_sample.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_amt_handbook_sample.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/code_and_formula.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_code_and_formula.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/picture_classification.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_picture_classification.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/redp5110_sampled.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_redp5110_sampled.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_01.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_01.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_02.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_02.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_03.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_03.pdf.md" ]} -``` -
-
- -### Step 3 - Run the Fleet - -Now run the fleet to process the PDFs. In this tutorial we use the static array index with `--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl` to specify the tasks for the 11 pdfs. We give each task 24 vCPU, run docling with `--num-threads 24` and choose a mx3d-24x240 worker profile with 24 vCPU. Therefore we run only 1 docling command per worker at a time and utilize the full worker per pdf processing. We run `--max-scale 4` instances and workers in parallel. - -Launch the fleet with the following command in the `tutorials/docling` directory. -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ docling ./run -using image: de.icr.io/ce--fleet-docling/docling -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name fleet-0eb02f2f-1 - --image de.icr.io/ce--fleet-docling/docling - --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret - --worker-profile mx3d-24x240 - --max-scale 4 - --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - --cpu 24 - --memory 240G -Preparing your tasks: ⠼ Please wait...took 11.233582 seconds. -Preparing your tasks: ⠴ Please wait... -COS Bucket used 'ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d'... -Launching fleet 'fleet-0eb02f2f-1'... -Current fleet status 'Launching'... -OK -Getting Fleet 'fleet-0eb02f2f-1'... -OK - -Name: fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -Status: provisioning -Age: 0s -Created: 2025-04-30T08:56:58+02:00 -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ID: a73a8ed0-fe7d-4335-971d-f9932516b4d3 - -Task Summary: - Tasks: 11 - Instances: 4 - Workers: 4 - Instances per Worker: 1 -``` -
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- - -Verify that the machines are starting -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet worker list -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -Name Status IP Zone Age Profile Fleet Name -fleet-0eb02f2f-10000-80223816 running 10.243.0.116 eu-de-1 78s mx3d-24x240 fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -fleet-0eb02f2f-10001-07b9f1c9 running 10.243.0.117 eu-de-1 78s mx3d-24x240 fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -fleet-0eb02f2f-10002-33e72f0f running 10.243.0.115 eu-de-1 78s mx3d-24x240 fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -fleet-0eb02f2f-10003-1a2cc4c0 running 10.243.0.118 eu-de-1 78s mx3d-24x240 fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -``` -
-
- -Observe the tasks: - -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -Getting your tasks: ⠸ Please wait...Duration of list in seconds '0.262680'... -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -Project ID: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -Fleet Name: fleet-0eb02f2f-1 -ID: a73a8ed0-fe7d-4335-971d-f9932516b4d3 - - - -COS Task Store: -Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d -Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/a73a8ed0-fe7d-4335-971d-f9932516b4d3/v1/queue/ - -Task Summary: -Pending Tasks: 7 -Running Tasks: 4 -Failed Tasks: 0 -Succeeded Tasks: 0 -``` -
-
- -(optional) If you like you can jump to the machine and see docling processing by running the following command in the root directory: -``` -./jump -``` - -You can use `htop` to see that docling is processing the PDFs -![](../../images/examples_docling.jpg) - - -#### Playing with more parallism - -If you want to modify the tutorial to add some more parallism, e.g. to run 4 docling commands per worker, you could change the arguments and run script as follows: -1. the arguments in commands.jsonl to `--num-threads 6` -2. the cpu per task to `--cpu 6` -Now, with `--max-scale 4` you would only get a single worker. Modify `--max-scale 8` to get 2 workers, each processing 4 docling commands. - -#### Run with a Serverless GPU - -Run `./run_gpu` to launch the docling commands on a GPU. This example, is bringing up a single `gx3-24x120x1l40s` and runs the 11 pdfs sequentially. - - -### Step 4 - Download results - -Download the results from the COS by running the following command in the root directory: -``` -./download -``` - -You can find the results under -``` -ls -l data/result/docling_* -``` - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl deleted file mode 100644 index 47eba41f..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2203.01017v2.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2203.01017v2.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2206.01062.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2206.01062.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2305.03393v1-pg9.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2305.03393v1-pg9.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/2305.03393v1.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_2305.03393v1.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/amt_handbook_sample.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_amt_handbook_sample.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/code_and_formula.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_code_and_formula.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/picture_classification.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_picture_classification.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/redp5110_sampled.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_redp5110_sampled.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_01.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_01.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_02.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_02.pdf.md" ]} -{ "command":"docling", "args": ["--num-threads", "24", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/right_to_left_03.pdf", "--output", "/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_right_to_left_03.pdf.md" ]} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands deleted file mode 100755 index 1af1681b..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -#ls -l ../../data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/*.pdf | awk '{ printf " { \"command\":\"docling\", \"args\": [\"--num-threads\", \"24\", \""$8"\", \"--output\", \"/mnt/ce/data/result\"$8".md\" ]}\n" }' > commands.jsonl - -cd ../../data/tutorials/docling/pdfs -for file in *.pdf; do echo "{ \"command\":\"docling\", \"args\": [\"--num-threads\", \"24\", \"/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/"$file""\", \"--output\", \"/mnt/ce/data/result/docling_""$file".md\" ]}"; done > commands.jsonl -cd - -mv ../../data/tutorials/docling/pdfs/commands.jsonl . -cat commands.jsonl diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run deleted file mode 100755 index b26affaf..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -IMAGE="quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve-cpu" - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image $IMAGE -echo " "--registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " "--worker-profile mx3d-24x240 -echo " "--max-scale 4 -echo " "--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl -echo " "--cpu 24 -echo " "--memory 240G - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ ---image $IMAGE \ ---registry-secret fleet-registry-secret \ ---worker-profile mx3d-24x240 \ ---max-scale 4 \ ---tasks-from-file commands.jsonl \ ---cpu 24 \ ---memory 240G \ - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet get --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu deleted file mode 100755 index 1c856df5..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -# https://github.com/docling-project/docling-serve?tab=readme-ov-file#container-images -IMAGE="quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve" - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image $IMAGE -echo " "--registry-secret fleet-registry-secret -echo " "--worker-profile gx3-24x120x1l40s -echo " "--max-scale 1 -echo " "--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl -echo " "--cpu 24 -echo " "--memory 120G - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ ---image $IMAGE \ ---registry-secret fleet-registry-secret \ ---worker-profile gx3-24x120x1l40s \ ---max-scale 1 \ ---tasks-from-file commands.jsonl \ ---cpu 24 \ ---memory 120G \ - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet get --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 910bfb8b..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,237 +0,0 @@ -# Tutorial: Batch Inferencing - -This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide on using Serverless GPUs to perform batch inferencing. The example extracts temperatur and duration of a set of cookbook recipes (from [recipebook](https://github.com/dpapathanasiou/recipebook)) by using a LLM. - -Such a cookbook recipe looks like: -``` -{ - "directions": [ - "In a large pot over medium heat, cook chicken pieces in oil until browned on both sides. Stir in onion and cook 2 minutes more. Pour in water and chicken bouillon and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes.", - "Stir in celery, carrots, garlic, salt and pepper. Simmer until carrots are just tender. Remove chicken pieces and pull the meat from the bone. Stir the noodles into the pot and cook until tender, 10 minutes. Return chicken meat to pot just before serving." - ], - "ingredients": [ - "2 tablespoons vegetable oil", - "2 skinless chicken leg quarters", - "1/2 cup chopped onion", - "2 quarts water", - "3 cubes chicken bouillon, crumbled", - "1 stalk celery, chopped", - "3 carrots, chopped", - "1 clove roasted garlic, minced", - "salt and pepper to taste", - "1 (12 ounce) package thin egg noodles" - ], - "language": "en-US", - "source": "allrecipes.com", - "tags": [], - "title": "A-1 Chicken Soup", - "url": "http://allrecipes.com/recipe/25651/a-1-chicken-soup/" -} -``` - -We use three different prompts for performing the inferencing task which are formulated as follows (see [src/app.py](./src/app.py)) -``` -1. extract temperature and duration values for each step of the following recipe. Use the following format for each sentence of the recipe: temperature=..., duration=.... -2. from the following recipe, list temperature and time like: temperature=..., duration=... -3. summarize temperature and time values for this recipe, where applicable in the following format: step1: temperature=..., time=...; step2: etc. -``` - -As a result we receive an augmented .json file which is including the quantitivate meassures -``` -Temperature: 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) -Duration: 1 hour -``` - -In another example, the result might look like: -``` -step1: temperature=medium -step2: temperature=medium, duration=2 minutes -step3: temperature=boil -step4: temperature=simmer, duration=45 minutes -step7: duration=10 minutes -``` - - -The tutorial consists of 30 recipes which are devided into 3 batches each containing 10 recipes. Defining the tasks as batches of 10 recipes is improving the efficiency by reducing overhead of loading the LLM into the GPU. The Serverless Fleet is launched with 3 tasks to process the 3 batches on a single GPU. However, the 3 tasks could simply distributed across 3 different GPUs in order to accelerate the computation. Of-course the batch size, number of batches and the number of GPUs is only limited by actual available capacity. - -Key steps covered in the tutorial: -1. Upload the recipes and batches to COS -2. Build the container image -2. Run a fleet with Serverless GPUs -4. Download the resulting augmented json files from COS - - -![](../../images/examples_inferencing_flow.png) - -> Note: The tutorial assumes that you have created the fleet sandbox using the fully automated approach which creates the rclone environment as well as the upload/download scripts. If that's not the case, you would need to upload the recipes and batches, and download the results using the COS CLI or other means. - -## Steps - - -### Step 1 - Upload - -The 30 example recipes and 3 batches are located in the `data/tutorials/inferencing/` directory. Run the following commands in the root directory to list and upload the example PDFs to COS. -``` -ls data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes -ls data/tutorials/inferencing/batches - -./upload -``` - -### Step 2 - Build the container image - -If you're interested review the code by looking at [src/app.py](./src/app.py), which downloads the LLM and generates the responses for the prompts on each line in the batch file. - -Now, run the build script to run a Code Engine build to build a container image using and push it to the container registry - -``` -cd tutorials/inferencing -./build -``` - - -### Step 3 - Review the commands - -Review the `commands.jsonl` which defines the tasks to run the docling command and arguments for each of the pdfs. -``` -cd tutorials/inferencing -cat commands.jsonl -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ cat commands.jsonl - -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/0.txt"]} -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/1.txt"]} -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/2.txt"]} - -``` -
-
- -### Step 3 - Run the Fleet - -Now run the fleet to process the PDFs. In this tutorial we use the static array index with `--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl` to specify the tasks for the 11 pdfs. We give each task 24 vCPU, run docling with `--num-threads 24` and choose a mx3d-24x240 worker profile with 24 vCPU. Therefore we run only 1 docling command per worker at a time and utilize the full worker per pdf processing. We run `--max-scale 4` instances and workers in parallel. - -Launch the fleet with the following command in the `tutorials/docling` directory. -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ inferencing ./run -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run - --name fleet-f7e02a29-1 - --image de.icr.io/ce--fleet-inferencing-7e0a5f0d/inferencing - --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - --worker-profile gx3-24x120x1l40s - --cpu 24 - --memory 120G - --max-scale 1 -Preparing your tasks: ⠹ Please wait...took 0.375807 seconds. -Preparing your tasks: ⠇ Please wait... -COS Bucket used 'ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d'... -Launching fleet 'fleet-f7e02a29-1'... -Current fleet status 'Launching'... -OK -Getting Fleet 'fleet-f7e02a29-1'... -OK - -Name: fleet-f7e02a29-1 -Status: provisioning -Age: 71s -Created: 2025-08-06T08:35:35Z -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ID: 5772d148-f655-4b98-a04b-2e51698aa4b8 - -COS Task Store: - Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d - Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/5772d148-f655-4b98-a04b-2e51698aa4b8/ - -Task Summary: - Tasks: 3 - Instances: 1 - Workers: 1 - Instances per Worker: 1 -``` -
-
- - -Verify that the machines are starting -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet worker list -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ inferencing ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -Name Status IP Zone Age Profile Fleet Name -fleet-f7e02a29-10000-4a7d3832 running 10.243.0.245 eu-de-1 2m1s gx3-24x120x1l40s fleet-f7e02a29-1 -``` -
-
- -Observe the tasks: - -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - -
- Output - -``` -Getting your tasks: ⠹ Please wait...Duration of list in seconds '0.371897'... -OK - -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -Project ID: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -Fleet Name: fleet-f7e02a29-1 - -COS Task Store: - Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d - Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/5772d148-f655-4b98-a04b-2e51698aa4b8/v1/queue/ - -Task Summary: - Pending Tasks: 3 - Claimed Tasks: 0 - Running Tasks: 0 - Failed Tasks: 0 - Successful Tasks: 0 -``` -
-
- - -#### Playing with more parallism - -If you want to modify the tutorial to add some more parallism, e.g. to run each batch on it's own GPU, you can change `--max-scale 3` in the run script. - - -### Step 4 - Download results - -Download the results from the COS by running the following command in the root directory: -``` -./download -``` - -You can find the results under -``` -ls -l data/result/inferencing_* -``` - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build deleted file mode 100755 index ba5033cc..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - - -IMAGE=$(ibmcloud cr images | grep "ce--fleet-inferencing" | awk '{print $1}') - -if [[ "$IMAGE" != "" ]]; then - ibmcloud cr image-rm $(ibmcloud cr images | grep "ce--fleet-inferencing" | awk '{print $1}') -fi - -REGISTRY=$(ibmcloud ce secret get -n fleet-registry-secret --output json | jq -r '.data.server') - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -ibmcloud ce buildrun submit --name ce--fleet-inferencing-build-${uuid} --source ./src --strategy dockerfile --image $REGISTRY/ce--fleet-inferencing-${uuid}/inferencing:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --size xxlarge --timeout 2400 - -ibmcloud ce buildrun logs -f -n ce--fleet-inferencing-build-${uuid} - -# takes about ??s. diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl deleted file mode 100644 index 07263402..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/0.txt"]} -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/1.txt"]} -{"command": "python", "args": ["app.py", "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/2.txt"]} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands deleted file mode 100755 index de3bd4bf..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands +++ /dev/null @@ -1,25 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env bash -set -eu - -truncate -s0 commands.jsonl - -batch_size=10 -idx=0 -batch_idx=0 - -for f in ../../data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/*.json; do - idx=$(( idx + 1 )) - if (( idx % batch_size == 0 )); then - echo "{\"command\": \"python\", \"args\": [\"app.py\", \"/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/$batch_idx.txt\"]}" >> commands.jsonl - batch_idx=$(( batch_idx + 1 )) - fi - - file_in=$(basename "$f") - file_out=${file_in%.*}.augmented.json - - # echo "batch=$batch_idx idx=$idx file=$f" - echo "/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/recipes/$file_in;/mnt/ce/data/result/inferencing_$file_out" >> "../../data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/$batch_idx.txt" - -done - -echo "{\"command\": \"python\", \"args\": [\"app.py\", \"/mnt/ce/data/tutorials/inferencing/batches/$batch_idx.txt\"]}" >> commands.jsonl diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run deleted file mode 100755 index 06239883..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,31 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -IMAGE=$(ibmcloud cr images | grep "ce--fleet-inferencing" | awk '{print $1}') - -if [ -z "${IMAGE}" ]; then - echo "no image found. pls build a inferencing image with ./build" - exit -1 -fi - -MAX_SCALE=1 -PROFILE="gx3-24x120x1l40s" -CPU=24 -MEMORY=120G - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image $IMAGE -echo " "--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl -echo " "--worker-profile "$PROFILE" -echo " "--cpu $CPU -echo " "--memory $MEMORY -echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE - - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image $IMAGE --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - -ic ce exp fleet get -n "fleet-${uuid}-1" diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile deleted file mode 100644 index 75213d6e..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,22 +0,0 @@ -FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda:12.9.0-runtime-ubuntu24.04 - -RUN apt-get update \ - && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ - git \ - python3 \ - python3-pip \ - python3-venv \ - && apt-get clean \ - && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* - -ENV VIRTUAL_ENV=/opt/env -ENV PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH" - -RUN python3 -m venv $VIRTUAL_ENV - -RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip - -COPY app.py requirements.txt . -RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt - -# CMD ["python", "app.py"] diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py deleted file mode 100644 index 4119c616..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,62 +0,0 @@ -import argparse -import json -import os -import transformers -from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM - -model_name = 'tiiuae/falcon-7b-instruct' - -tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained( - model_name, - ) - -model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( - model_name, - device_map='auto', - low_cpu_mem_usage=False, - ) - -generator = transformers.pipeline( - 'text-generation', - model=model, - tokenizer=tokenizer, - device_map='auto', - ) - -parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() -parser.add_argument('input') -args = parser.parse_args() - -with open(args.input) as cmdFile: - for line in cmdFile: - inPath, outPath = line.split(';', 1) - - with open(inPath) as inFile: - inputData = json.load(inFile) - inputData['quantitativeMeasures'] = [] - - recipe =' '.join(inputData['directions']) - prompts = [ - f'User: extract temperature and duration values for each step of the following recipe. Use the following format for each sentence of the recipe: temperature=..., duration=....\nRecipe:\n{recipe}\n\nAssistant:', - f'User: from the following recipe, list temperature and time like: temperature=..., duration=...\n{recipe}\n\nAssistant:', - f'User: summarize temperature and time values for this recipe, where applicable in the following format: step1: temperature=..., time=...; step2: etc.\n{recipe}\n\nAssistant:' - ] - - - for idx, prompt in enumerate(prompts): - outputs = generator( - prompt, - do_sample=False, - max_new_tokens=200, - return_full_text=False, - truncation=True - ) - output_text = outputs[0]['generated_text'] - - print(f'output = {output_text}') - - inputData['quantitativeMeasures'].append(output_text) - - os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(outPath), exist_ok=True) - with open(outPath, 'w') as outFile: - json.dump(inputData, outFile) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f2fcd284..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -accelerate==1.6.0 -certifi==2025.4.26 -charset-normalizer==3.4.2 -filelock==3.18.0 -fsspec==2025.3.2 -hf-xet==1.1.0 -huggingface-hub==0.31.1 -idna==3.10 -Jinja2==3.1.6 -MarkupSafe==3.0.2 -mpmath==1.3.0 -networkx==3.4.2 -numpy==2.2.5 -packaging==25.0 -psutil==7.0.0 -PyYAML==6.0.2 -regex==2024.11.6 -requests==2.32.4 -safetensors==0.5.3 -sympy==1.14.0 -tokenizers==0.21.1 -torch==2.8.0 -tqdm==4.67.1 -transformers @ git+https://www.github.com/huggingface/transformers@a5c6172c81d69a6fa2c3b1340d72fc669b941dcd -typing_extensions==4.13.2 -urllib3==2.5.0 diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/Dockerfile b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/Dockerfile deleted file mode 100644 index dc55e3fb..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/Dockerfile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -FROM ubuntu:latest - -ENV GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" - -RUN apt update \ - && apt upgrade -y \ - && apt install -y \ - python3 \ - python3-numpy \ - python3-scipy \ - python3-pip \ - openmpi-bin \ - openmpi-common \ - openmpi-doc \ - git \ - libopenmpi-dev \ - python3-mpi4py - -RUN /bin/true \ -&& pip install pyscf --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages \ -&& pip install git+https://github.com/pyscf/mpi4pyscf --no-cache-dir --break-system-packages - - -WORKDIR /app - -COPY pyscf_mpi.py /app/pyscf_mpi.py -COPY requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt - -# Reset the entrypoint -ENTRYPOINT [] - -CMD ["python3", "pyscf_mpi.py"] - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 39a675ce..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,131 +0,0 @@ -# Tutorial: Run PySCF with MPI on multi-core fleet workers - -**PySCF** (Python-based Simulations of Chemistry Framework) is an open-source **quantum chemistry software package** written primarily in Python, designed for electronic structure calculations such as Hartree-Fock, post-Hartree-Fock, and density functional theory methods. It offers a flexible and modular programming environment for quantum chemistry simulations. - -**MPI** (Message Passing Interface) is a standardized communication protocol used for **parallel programming** across distributed-memory systems. It enables **multiple processors** or nodes to exchange messages and coordinate tasks efficiently, making it a core technology in high-performance computing for **compute-intensive tasks**. - -In the context of PySCF, MPI is used to **parallelize computationally demanding quantum chemistry calculations**. PySCF can launch MPI processes to distribute workload across multiple nodes or processors, improving performance and scalability. Additionally, PySCF supports hybrid parallelism by combining MPI with OpenMP threading to **optimize both speed and memory usage on multi-core architectures**. This hybrid approach allows each MPI process to spawn multiple threads, enhancing scalability and efficiency in large-scale calculations. - -Thus, PySCF leverages MPI to handle communication and workload distribution in compute-intensive quantum chemistry tasks, enabling efficient use of high-performance computing resources. - -**Serverless fleets** can greatly enhance the automation and scalability of running thousands of PySCF and MPI jobs by managing the provisioning and orchestration of compute infrastructure in the cloud. Code Engine automatically allocates the necessary compute resources on demand, enabling large batches of quantum chemistry calculations to be executed in parallel without manual intervention. By abstracting away the complexities of resource management, serverless fleets ensure that compute-intensive PySCF workflows, which rely on MPI for distributed parallelism, can run efficiently and continuously at scale. This approach also supports long-running and complex simulations by persisting jobs in the cloud environment, allowing researchers to focus on their computational tasks while the underlying infrastructure dynamically scales to meet workload demands. - - -## Steps - - -### Step 1 - Build and Push the container registry - -Build the container image using Code Engine's build capabilities by running the following command in the `tutorials/pyscf` directory. - -If you're interested review the code, by looking at the `pyscf_mpi.py`, which contains a simple example of such chemical calculations using PySCF and MPI -``` -cat pyscf_mpi.py -``` - -Now, run the build script to run a Code Engine to build a container image using and push it to the container registry - -``` -./build -``` - -### Step 2 - Prepare the tasks - -In this tutorial we use the `--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl` option to submit the tasks. Therefore we have prepared a file in [jsonfiles](https://jsonlines.org/) format which contains 1 task per line. Each line specifies command and arguments for this task. Let's review the file in the `tutorials/simulation` directory: - -``` -cat commands.jsonl -``` - - -
- Output -``` -➜ simulation cat commands.jsonl -{ "command":"mpirun", "args": ["-np", "4", "python", "pyscf_mpi.py", "atom1", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} -``` -
-
- - -### Step 3 - Run the Fleet - -Now run the fleet to process the 24 stock tickers. In this tutorial we use the `--tasks-from-file ` to specify the tasks. Each task will get 1 CPU and 4 GB memory. We choose the mx2-4x32 profile and want to run a total of 24 simulations in parallel. Therefore, the system is deploying 6 workers, each running 4 instances concurrently, e.g. each worker is running 4 simulations at a point in time. -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -TBD -``` -
-
- -Review the fleet -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet get -n -``` - -
- Output - -``` -TBD -``` -
-
- - - -Verify that the machines are starting -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet worker list -``` -TBD -``` -TBD -``` - -
- -Observe the tasks: - -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - -
- Output - -``` -TBD -``` -
-
- -### Step 4 - Download results - -Download the results from the COS by running the following command in the root directory: -``` -./download -``` - -You can find the results under -``` -ls -l data/result/pyscf_* -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -TBD -``` -
-
- diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/build b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/build deleted file mode 100755 index 75308c95..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/build +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -REGISTRY=$(ibmcloud ce secret get -n fleet-registry-secret --output json | jq -r '.data.server') - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -ibmcloud ce buildrun submit --source . --strategy dockerfile --image $REGISTRY/ce--fleet-pyscf/pyscf:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --name ce--fleet-pyscf-build-${uuid} --size medium --timeout 600 - -ibmcloud ce buildrun logs -f -n ce--fleet-pyscf-build-${uuid} - -# takes about ??s. diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/commands.jsonl b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/commands.jsonl deleted file mode 100644 index b3db658e..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/commands.jsonl +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ - { "command":"mpirun", "args": ["-np", "4", "--use-hwthread-cpus", "python", "pyscf_mpi.py", "atom1", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_dft.py b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_dft.py deleted file mode 100644 index e3b3e7e3..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_dft.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ -from pyscf import gto, dft -mol_hf = gto.M(atom = 'H 0 0 0; F 0 0 1.1', basis = 'ccpvdz', symmetry = True) -mf_hf = dft.RKS(mol_hf) -mf_hf.xc = 'lda,vwn' # default -mf_hf = mf_hf.newton() # second-order algortihm -mf_hf.kernel() \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_mpi.py b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_mpi.py deleted file mode 100644 index ea621b87..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/pyscf_mpi.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env python - -''' -mpirun -np 2 python pyscf_mpi.py -''' - -from pyscf import gto -from pyscf import scf -from mpi4pyscf import cc as mpicc -from pyscf import cc as serial_cc -import os -import sys - -def calculate_energy(atom): - mol = gto.Mole() - mol.atom = [ - [8 , (0. , 0. , 0.)], - [1 , (0. , -0.757 , 0.587)], - [1 , (0. , 0.757 , 0.587)]] - mol.basis = '6-31g' - mol.verbose = 4 - mol.build() - mf = scf.RHF(mol) - mf.chkfile = 'h2o.chk' - mf.run() - - mycc = mpicc.RCCSD(mf) - mycc.diis_file = 'mpi_ccdiis.h5' - mycc.kernel() - - mycc.restore_from_diis_('mpi_ccdiis.h5') - mycc.kernel() - - - s_cc = serial_cc.RCCSD(mf) - s_cc.diis_file = 'serial_ccdiis.h5' - s_cc.kernel() - - p_cc = mpicc.RCCSD(mf) - p_cc.restore_from_diis_('serial_ccdiis.h5') - p_cc.kernel() - - print('E_CORR: %s' % mycc.e_corr) - print('E_CCSD: %s' % mycc.e_tot) - - return mycc.e_corr, mycc.e_tot - - -if __name__ == "__main__": - - if len(sys.argv) != 3: - print_usage() - - ATOM = sys.argv[1] - RESULT_FOLDER = sys.argv[2] - CE_TASK_ID = os.environ.get('CE_TASK_ID', '0') - - e_corr, e_tot = calculate_energy(ATOM) - - filename="%s/pyscf_%s.result" % (RESULT_FOLDER, CE_TASK_ID) - with open(filename, "w+") as f: - f.write("e_corr: %.2f\n" % (e_corr)) - f.write("e_tot: %.2f\n" % (e_tot)) \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/requirements.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/requirements.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 11327c3b..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/requirements.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -pyscf -mpi4pyscf \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/run b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/run deleted file mode 100755 index 0208bbac..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/pyscf/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -IMAGE=$(ibmcloud cr images | grep "ce--fleet-pyscf" | awk '{print $1}') - -if [ -z "${IMAGE}" ]; then - echo "no image found. pls build a pyscf image with ./build" - exit -1 -fi - -MAX_SCALE=1 -PROFILE="mx2-4x32" -CPU=4 -MEMORY=32G - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image $IMAGE -echo " "--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl -echo " "--cpu $CPU -echo " "--memory $MEMORY -echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE -echo " "--worker-profile $PROFILE - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image $IMAGE --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY --env OMPI_ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT_CONFIRM=1 -env OMPI_ALLOW_RUN_AS_ROOT=1 --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore deleted file mode 100644 index 5ceb3864..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -venv diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore deleted file mode 100644 index 5ceb3864..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore +++ /dev/null @@ -1 +0,0 @@ -venv diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile deleted file mode 100644 index 49c41108..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -FROM python:3.11-slim-bookworm - -ENV GIT_SSH_COMMAND="ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" - -RUN apt-get update \ - && apt-get clean - -WORKDIR /app - -COPY simulate.py /app/simulate.py -COPY requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt - -RUN python3 -m ensurepip && pip install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements.txt - -# Reset the entrypoint -ENTRYPOINT [] - -CMD ["python3", "simulate.py"] - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 399a4b86..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,240 +0,0 @@ -# Tutorial: Monte Carlo Simulation - -This tutorial provides a comprehensive guide of running a simple monte carlo simulation to calculate the VaR of 24 stock tickers using serverless fleets. It leverages Cloud Object Storage to store the results. The process is streamlined using IBM’s Code Engine to build the container image, which is then pushed to a container registry. Users can run a serverless fleet, which autonomously spawns workers to run the simulation container for efficient, scalable conversion tasks. - -Key steps covered in the Tutorial: -1. Containerization with Code Engine: Build the Docling container and push it to a registry for deployment. -3. Run a fleet of workers that automatically runs the container, ensuring scalability and efficiency. -4. Download the results from COS - - -![](../../images/examples_simulation_flow.png) - -> Note: The tutorial assumes that you have created the fleet sandbox using the fully automated approach which creates the rclone environment as well as the upload/download scripts. If that's not the case, you would need to upload the PDFs and download the results using the COS CLI or other means. - -## Steps - - -### Step 1 - Build and Push the container registry - -Build the container image using Code Engine's build capabilities by running the following command in the `tutorials/simulation` directory. - -If you're interested review the code, by looking at the `simulate.py`, which contains a simple method that downloads the last year stock prices of a stock ticker, performs 100k simulations and writes the VaR at a csv file. It receives the stock ticker and output directory as arguments. -``` -cat simulate.py -``` - -Now, run the build script to run a Code Engine build to build a container image using and push it to the container registry - -``` -cd tutorials/simulation -./build -``` - -### Step 2 - Prepare the tasks - -In this tutorial we use the `--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl` option to submit the tasks. Therefore we have prepared a file in [jsonfiles](https://jsonlines.org/) format which contains 1 task per line. Each line specifies command and arguments for this task. Let's review the file in the `tutorials/simulation` directory: - -``` -cat commands.jsonl -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ simulation cat commands.jsonl - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AKAM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "MO", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AMZN", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AMGN", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AAPL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "T", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "BA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "CAT", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "CVX", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "DIS", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "KO", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "DELL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "F", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "INTC", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "IBM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "MSFT", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "NFLX", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "NVDA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "ORCL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "QCOM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "X", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "VZ", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "V", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} -``` - -
-
- - -### Step 3 - Run the Fleet - -Now run the fleet to process the 24 stock tickers. In this tutorial we use the `--tasks-from-file ` to specify the tasks. Each task will get 1 CPU and 4 GB memory. We choose the mx2-4x32 profile and want to run a total of 24 simulations in parallel. Therefore, the system is deploying 6 workers, each running 4 instances concurrently, e.g. each worker is running 4 simulations at a point in time. -``` -./run -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ simulation ./run -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run - --name fleet-78748303-1 - --image de.icr.io/ce--fleet-montecarlo/montecarlo - --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - --cpu 1 - --memory 8G - --max-scale 24 -Preparing your tasks: ⠸ Please wait...took 0.465460 seconds. -Preparing your tasks: ⠴ Please wait... -COS Bucket used 'ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d'... -Launching fleet 'fleet-78748303-1'... -Current fleet status 'Launching'... -OK -``` -
-
- -Review the fleet -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet get -n -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ simulation ibmcloud ce exp fleet get -n fleet-78748303-1 -Getting Fleet 'fleet-78748303-1'... -OK - -Name: fleet-78748303-1 -Status: provisioning -Age: 16s -Created: 2025-04-30T09:46:33+02:00 -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -ID: bf4c38ca-b6b2-455a-8891-81cda506b39e - -Task Summary: - Tasks: 24 - Instances: 24 - Workers: 6 - Instances per Worker: 4 -``` -
-
- - - -Verify that the machines are starting -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet worker list -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list -Listing serverless fleet workers... -OK - -Name Status IP Zone Age Profile Fleet Name -fleet-78748303-10000-55f78ac1 running 10.243.0.122 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -fleet-78748303-10001-e43a0490 running 10.243.0.124 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -fleet-78748303-10002-b93ebfbc running 10.243.0.120 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -fleet-78748303-10003-8312ed29 running 10.243.0.119 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -fleet-78748303-10004-be7bdb8d running 10.243.0.121 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -fleet-78748303-10005-3b758798 running 10.243.0.123 eu-de-1 43s mx2-4x32 fleet-78748303-1 -``` -
-
- -Observe the tasks: - -``` -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet task list --fleet-name -``` - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce exp fleet task list --fleet-name fleet-78748303-1 -Getting your tasks: ⠼ Please wait...Duration of list in seconds '0.313647'... -Project Name: ce-fleet-sandbox--ce-project -Project ID: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf -Fleet Name: fleet-78748303-1 -ID: bf4c38ca-b6b2-455a-8891-81cda506b39e - - - -COS Task Store: -Bucket Name: ce-fleet-sandbox-data-fbfdde1d -Prefix: e1501040-e56e-48b6-b9f0-1695908199bf/bf4c38ca-b6b2-455a-8891-81cda506b39e/v1/queue/ - -Task Summary: -Pending Tasks: 24 -Running Tasks: 0 -Failed Tasks: 0 -Succeeded Tasks: 0 -``` -
-
- -### Step 4 - Download results - -Download the results from the COS by running the following command in the root directory: -``` -./download -``` - -You can find the results under -``` -ls -l data/result/ticker_* -``` - - -
- Output - -``` -➜ serverless-fleets ls -l data/result/ticker_* --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 31 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_AA.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_AAPL.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_AKAM.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_AMGN.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_AMZN.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 31 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_BA.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 32 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_CAT.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 32 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_CVX.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_DELL.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 32 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_DIS.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 30 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_F.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 32 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_IBM.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_INTC.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 31 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_KO.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 31 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_MO.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_MSFT.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_NFLX.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_NVDA.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_ORCL.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 33 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_QCOM.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 30 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_T.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 30 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_V.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 31 Apr 30 09:48 data/result/ticker_VZ.result --rw-r--r-- 1 jeremiaswerner staff 30 Apr 30 09:47 data/result/ticker_X.result -``` -
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- diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build deleted file mode 100755 index 980b6968..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build +++ /dev/null @@ -1,11 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -REGISTRY=$(ibmcloud ce secret get -n fleet-registry-secret --output json | jq -r '.data.server') - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -ibmcloud ce buildrun submit --source . --strategy dockerfile --image $REGISTRY/ce--fleet-montecarlo/montecarlo:latest --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --name ce--fleet-montecarlo-build-${uuid} --size medium --timeout 300 - -ibmcloud ce buildrun logs -f -n ce--fleet-montecarlo-build-${uuid} - -# takes about ??s. diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl deleted file mode 100644 index 55200759..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AKAM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "MO", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AMZN", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AMGN", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "AAPL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "T", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "BA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "CAT", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "CVX", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "DIS", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "KO", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "DELL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "F", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "INTC", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "IBM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "MSFT", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "NFLX", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "NVDA", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "ORCL", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "QCOM", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "X", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "VZ", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} - { "command":"python3", "args": ["simulate.py", "V", "/mnt/ce/data/result"]} diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/create_commands b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/create_commands deleted file mode 100755 index 1f030411..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/create_commands +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -cat ../../data/examples/simulation/tickers.txt | awk '{ printf " { \"command\":\"python3\", \"args\": [\"simulate.py\", \""$1"\", \"/mnt/ce/data/result\"]}\n" }' > commands.jsonl - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local deleted file mode 100755 index c34bc088..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4 +0,0 @@ -python3 -m venv venv -source ./venv/bin/activate -python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip -pip3 install -r requirements.txt diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e77cf5fe..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -matplotlib -yfinance -numpy diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run deleted file mode 100755 index 805ff955..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') - -IMAGE=$(ibmcloud cr images | grep "ce--fleet-montecarlo" | awk '{print $1}') - -if [ -z "${IMAGE}" ]; then - echo "no image found. pls build a montecarlo image with ./build.sh" - exit -1 -fi - -MAX_SCALE=24 -PROFILE="mx2-4x32" -CPU=1 -MEMORY=8G - -echo ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run -echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" -echo " "--image $IMAGE -echo " "--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl -echo " "--cpu $CPU -echo " "--memory $MEMORY -echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE - - -ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet run --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --image $IMAGE --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile $PROFILE --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY --tasks-from-file commands.jsonl - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py b/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py deleted file mode 100644 index d5a9f7c0..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -import sys -import os -import numpy as np -import yfinance as yf - -def monte_carlo_simulation(ticker): - # Fetch historical data for a stock - data = yf.download(ticker, start="2024-01-01", end="2025-01-01", auto_adjust=True, progress=False) - returns = data['Close'].pct_change().dropna() - - # Simulate future returns using Monte Carlo - num_simulations = 100000 - simulation_horizon = 252 # Number of trading days in a year - stddev = np.std(returns, axis=0) - simulated_returns = np.random.normal(np.mean(returns, axis=0), stddev, (simulation_horizon, num_simulations)) - - # Calculate the simulated portfolio values - initial_investment = 1000000 # $1,000,000 - portfolio_values = initial_investment * np.exp(np.cumsum(simulated_returns, axis=0)) - - # Calculate the portfolio returns - portfolio_returns = portfolio_values[-1] / portfolio_values[0] - 1 - - # Calculate the VaR at 99.5% confidence level - confidence_level = 0.995 - VaR = np.percentile(portfolio_returns, (1 - confidence_level) * 100) - return (ticker, VaR, stddev.iloc[0]) - -def print_usage(): - print("usage: python3 simulate.py ") - print("") - print(" TICKER : stock ticker" ) - print(" RESULT_FOLDER : folder of the results") - print("") - sys.exit(-1) - - -if __name__ == "__main__": - - if len(sys.argv) != 3: - print_usage() - - TICKER = sys.argv[1] - RESULT_FOLDER = sys.argv[2] - - (ticker, VaR, stddev) = monte_carlo_simulation(TICKER) - - print("VaR of ticker %s: %s (%s)" % (ticker, VaR, stddev) ) - - filename="%s/ticker_%s.result" % (RESULT_FOLDER,TICKER) - with open(filename, "w+") as f: - f.write("Ticker,VaR,STDEV\n") - f.write("%s,%.2f,%.2f\n" % (ticker,VaR,stddev)) - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_results b/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_results deleted file mode 100755 index 9aa32a0f..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_results +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -crn=$(ibmcloud resource service-instance ce-fleet-sandbox--cos --crn | grep "crn") - -ibmcloud cos config crn --crn $crn - -bucket=$(ibmcloud cos buckets --json | jq -r '.Buckets[0].Name') - -watch -n 2 ibmcloud cos list-objects-v2 --bucket "$bucket" --prefix "result/$1" diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_tasks b/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_tasks deleted file mode 100755 index c05c40d8..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_tasks +++ /dev/null @@ -1,7 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/bash - -set -e - -watch -n 2 ibmcloud code-engine experimental fleet task list --fleet-name "$1" - - diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_workers b/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_workers deleted file mode 100755 index 4eff8934..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/watch_workers +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh - -watch -n 2 ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list diff --git a/experimental/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl b/experimental/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl deleted file mode 100644 index e8b9ecb8..00000000 --- a/experimental/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,6 +0,0 @@ - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/alice_in_wonderland.txt > result/wordcount_alice_in_wonderland.txt"]} - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/der_struwwelpeter.txt > result/wordcount_der_struwwelpeter.txt"]} - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/dracula.txt > result/wordcount_dracula.txt"]} - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/gullivers_travels.txt > result/wordcount_gullivers_travels.txt"]} - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/romeo_and_juliet.txt > result/wordcount_romeo_and_juliet.txt"]} - { "command":"/bin/bash", "args": ["-c", "cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/the_call_of_the_wild.txt > result/wordcount_the_call_of_the_wild.txt"]} diff --git a/helloworld/helloworld.go b/helloworld/helloworld.go index b3ec144f..05e023fb 100644 --- a/helloworld/helloworld.go +++ b/helloworld/helloworld.go @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func ShouldCrash() bool { return true } - // If the env var SUCCESS_RATE is set the decision to succeed or failed is being calculated randomly + // If the env var SUCCESS_RATE is set, the decision to succeed or failed is being calculated randomly if os.Getenv("SUCCESS_RATE") != "" { successRate, err := strconv.ParseFloat(os.Getenv("SUCCESS_RATE"), 64) if err != nil || successRate > 1 || successRate < 0 { @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ func main() { // If the 'CRASH' or 'FAIL' env vars are set then crash! if ShouldCrash() { - fmt.Printf("Crashing...") + fmt.Printf("Crashing...\n") os.Exit(1) } diff --git a/job2vsi/Dockerfile b/job2vsi/Dockerfile deleted file mode 100644 index eea6a317..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/Dockerfile +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -FROM quay.io/centos/centos:stream9 AS build -RUN \ - yum --assumeyes --nodocs install go-toolset openssh-clients git && \ - yum clean all && \ - rm -rf /var/cache/yum - -ARG GO111MODULE="on" -ENV GO111MODULE $GO111MODULE -USER root - -WORKDIR /tmp/build -# First, download dependencies so we can cache this layer -COPY go.mod . -COPY go.sum . -COPY internal/*.go . - -RUN if [ "${GO111MODULE}" = "on" ]; then go mod download; fi - -# Copy the rest of the source code and build -COPY . . - -ENV GOOS=linux -ENV GOARCH=amd64 -ARG PROGRAM="vsi-proxy" - -ENV CGO_ENABLED=0 - - -RUN mkdir -p /etc/vsi-proxy/config -RUN mkdir -p /etc/vsi-proxy/templates - -RUN cp -p internal/cloud-config-template.tmpl /etc/vsi-proxy/templates/ - -# Display Go version and build -RUN go version && \ - go build \ - -a \ - -tags timetzdata,netgo,osusergo \ - -ldflags='-extldflags "-static"' \ - -o "${PROGRAM}" \ - ./*.go && ls -RUN cp -p "${PROGRAM}" /usr/bin/vsi-proxy - -# Multi stage build -FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest -USER 0 -RUN mkdir -p /etc/vsi-proxy/config -RUN mkdir -p /opt/vsi-proxy/templates -RUN mkdir -p /opt/vsi-proxy/generated -WORKDIR /opt/vsi-proxy -COPY --from=build /usr/bin/vsi-proxy /opt/vsi-proxy/vsi-proxy -COPY --from=build /etc/vsi-proxy/templates/cloud-config-template.tmpl /opt/vsi-proxy/templates/cloud-config-template.tmpl -ENTRYPOINT [ "/opt/vsi-proxy/vsi-proxy", "-config", "/etc/vsi-proxy/config/vsi-proxy-config.yaml" ] diff --git a/job2vsi/README.md b/job2vsi/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3fce8c6a..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,79 +0,0 @@ -# job2vsi demo - -The sample shows how a job can be used to spawn [Virtual Server Instances (VSIs)]((https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers)) in your IBM Cloud account and run workload on them. There are various configuration options for VPC, VSI image, VSI flavour and customization commands to adapt the workload execution. - -## Setup - -You need to have a [Virtual private cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/network/vpcs) (VPC) in your account. - -Export an API KEY which is allowed to access your VPC. E.g.: - -`export IBMCLOUD_API_KEY=` - -before running the `run` script. - -### Tools -- ibmcloud cli with codengine (ce) and vpc-infrastructure (is) plugins. Make sure you use the latest versions -- optional: docker to run the `build` script (alternatively, you can use a prebuilt image provided in the IBM registry) - - -# How to use the sample - -The `run` script will run the sample based on the configuration in [config.yaml](config.yaml). Before executing the `run` script, you need to go through [config.yaml](config.yaml) and add the IDs of your VPC, region, VSI image etc. to be used. In addition, you can customize the workload execution to your needs, the sample config contains a simple `echo "${CE_JOBRUN} ${JOB_INDEX}"` command. All configuration options which require updates are marked with "TODO" - e.g.: - -```yaml -# TODO: add the id of your VPC -# list available vpcs: `ibmcloud is vpcs` -vpc_id: "r038-690ee3d2-23e2-4d5f-83b6-f7b13b3281ca" -``` - -You can adjust other config options according to your needs. - -Note: it is not necessary to run the `build` script, the `run` script defaults to a prebuilt container image. - -What the sample does - in a nutshell: - -1. create a secret for the API KEY -1. create a config map for the `config.yaml` -1. create a job which uses the referenced container image, API KEY and config map -1. run that job - 1. the job will use the VPC API to create a VSI based on the `config.yaml`; the VSI will be configured via cloud init. - 1. environment variables from the job will be forwarded to the VSI - 1. the workload commands will be invoked. Once all commands are executed the VSI will be shutdown - 1. the job monitors the VSI and deprovisions the VSI, once the workload completed - -## Debugging on the VSI - -By default, the job will delete the VSIs once the workload is complete. You can disable the deprovisioning step in [config.yaml](config.yaml) by setting `delete_vsi_after_execution` to `false`. However, you need to delete the VSI manually in this case. See the cleanup section for details. - -In order to -be able to login to the VSI you can [create an SSH key in your VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/compute/sshKeys). Then you will need to provide the id of that key in -[config.yaml](config.yaml) via `ssh_key_id`. If a ssh key is provided, it will be configured to allow you to login as root user. - -You can attach a floating ip to your VSI by setting `floating_ip_name_prefix` in -the [config.yaml](config.yaml). However, floating ips need manual cleanup. See the cleanup section for details. - -Then you can ssh to your VSI by using the following command: - -``` -ssh -i -l root -``` - -# Cleanup - -You can run `run clean` to cleanup all artifacts the run script created. - -If you attached floating ips to your VSIs by setting the `floating_ip_name_prefix` parameter, then you have to manually release the floating ips, again. - -If you set `delete_vsi_after_execution` to `false`, then you have to delete the VSI by yourself. - - -- - - - -As noted in [the main README](../README.md), this sample has two pieces: - -- a `build` script which will build the container image used -- a `run` script which deploys resources that use this container image - -The main purpose of this example is the `run` script, but the `build` -script is included for complete educational (and reuse) purposes. diff --git a/job2vsi/build b/job2vsi/build deleted file mode 100755 index 771c157e..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/build +++ /dev/null @@ -1,17 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env bash - -# Env Vars: -# REGISTRY: name of the image registry/namespace to store the images -# -# NOTE: to run this you MUST set the REGISTRY environment variable to -# your own image registry/namespace otherwise the `docker push` commands -# will fail due to an auth failure. Which means, you also need to be logged -# into that registry before you run it. - - -set -ex -export REGISTRY=${REGISTRY:-icr.io/codeengine} - -# Build the job image and push it -docker build -t "${REGISTRY}"/job2vsi -f Dockerfile . --platform linux/amd64 -docker push "${REGISTRY}"/job2vsi diff --git a/job2vsi/config.yaml b/job2vsi/config.yaml deleted file mode 100644 index 29a698d3..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/config.yaml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -# in order to run `ibmcloud is` commands, you need to install the vpc-infrastructure plugin -# see the docs here: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-infrastructure-cli-plugin-vpc-reference -# ibmcloud plugin install vpc-infrastructure - -# TODO: add the region where the VPC is located -region: "ca-tor" - -# TODO: add the virtual service instance profile you want to use -# list available profiles: `ibmcloud is instance-profiles` -profile: "bx2-2x8" - -# prefix of the VSI name -name_prefix: "job2vsi-demo-" - -# TODO: add the id of your VPC -# list available vpcs: `ibmcloud is vpcs` -# note: if the VPC list is empty, you need to create one via the cloud UI or -# switch to another region which has VPCs in your account (`ibmcloud target -r `) -vpc_id: "r038-690ee3d2-23e2-4d5f-83b6-f7b13b3281ca" # Put your VPC id - -# TODO: add a zone name of the VPC -# Use `ibmcloud is vpc ` to get the list of the zones for this VPC -# use one of the zones of your VPC -zone_name: "ca-tor-1" - -# TODO: add the image id you want to use (image ids are region specific) -# list available images: `ibmcloud is images` -# put the image id you want to use -image: "r038-83d9d391-4449-4037-b64f-fdb642c2786c" #ubuntu 22.04 - -# TODO: add one subnet available in your VPC -# list available subnets: `ibmcloud is subnets` -# note: subnets are zone and vpc specific, make sure you pick the one which matches -subnet_id: "02q7-4e0173f7-8635-4158-954b-c4f86371b212" - -# workload you want to execute in the VSI -customer_commands: - # minimal example - - echo "${CE_JOBRUN} ${JOB_INDEX}" >> /run/workload.log - - # simple git example - # git could be used to host your workload, like scripts or go code executed with "go run" - # - apt install git - # - cd /root && git clone https://github.com/IBM/CodeEngine.git - # - cd CodeEngine && git log -n 1 >> /run/workload.log - -# timeout in minute. If the VSI is not started within this timeout, then the VSI will be considered as failed -vsi_start_timeout: 5 - -# if true, then the VSI will be shutdown after running the customer_commands -shut_down_vsi: true - -# if this config is set true, then the VSI will be deleted for any of the following conditions: -# - if the VSI has failed (i.e. VSI is hanging in the starting/pending state for more than the vsi_start_timeout) -# - or, if the VSI is already in the shutdown state -delete_vsi_after_execution: true - -# no floating ip will be added if the `floating_ip_name_prefix` is not provided -# floating ips can be helpfull to debug issues on the VSI, pls note you need to delete them manually -# floating_ip_name_prefix: "job2vsi-floating-ip-" - -# you can create a ssh key to access your VSI, essential for debugging -# see " ibmcloud is keys" or https://cloud.ibm.com/vpc-ext/compute/sshKeys -# for more details, see the documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vpc?topic=vpc-ssh-keys -# ssh_key_id: "r038-bce71c2a-5a3d-4c05-a353-a36228bad8e4" - -# if the instance profile has storage(s), by default those will be mounted to /mnt/internal-storage-disk0, /mnt/internal-storage-disk1 etc. -# use the following config to change the default location -instance_storage_mount_path: "/mnt/" - -# to add tags to your VSI -vsi_tags: - - "CUSTOM_TAG" diff --git a/job2vsi/go.mod b/job2vsi/go.mod deleted file mode 100644 index 5bf54b59..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/go.mod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -module github.com/IBM/CodeEngine/job2vsi - -go 1.19 - -require ( - github.com/IBM/go-sdk-core/v5 v5.10.1 - github.com/IBM/platform-services-go-sdk v0.28.1 - github.com/IBM/vpc-go-sdk v0.21.0 - github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 - gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 -) - -require ( - github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20200907205600-7a23bdc65eef // indirect - github.com/go-openapi/errors v0.19.8 // indirect - github.com/go-openapi/strfmt v0.21.2 // indirect - github.com/go-playground/locales v0.14.0 // 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item will be executed in order at rc.local like level with -# output to the console -# - runcmd only runs during the first boot -# - if the item is a list, the items will be properly executed as if -# passed to execve(3) (with the first arg as the command). -# - if the item is a string, it will be simply written to the file and -# will be interpreted by 'sh' -# -# Note, that the list has to be proper yaml, so you have to quote -# any characters yaml would eat (':' can be problematic) -write_files: - - content: | - {{range $key, $val := .ENV_VARS}}export {{$key}}='{{$val}}' - {{end}} - export INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH={{.INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH}} - owner: root:root - path: /etc/batch_env_variables - permissions: "0644" - - content: | - {{range $key, $val := .ENV_VARS}}{{$key}}='{{$val}}' - {{end}} - INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH={{.INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH}} - owner: root:root - path: /etc/job_env_vars - permissions: "0644" - - - content: | - #!/usr/bin/env bash - set -e - set -o pipefail - source /etc/batch_env_variables - {{range .CUSTOMER_COMMANDS}}{{.}} - {{end}} - touch /run/.success - owner: root:root - path: /run/run_workload.sh - permissions: "0755" - - - content: | - #!/usr/bin/env bash - sleep 20 - - if test -f "/run/.success"; then - # this line is important, otherwise the if block will be empty in case shut down is disabled and the script will fail - echo ".success file present, will shutdown if shutdown config is enabled" - {{.SHUT_DOWN}} - else - dist=`grep DISTRIB_ID /etc/*-release | awk -F '=' '{print $2}'` - if [ "$dist" == "Ubuntu" ]; then - echo mem > /sys/power/state - else - systemctl suspend - fi - fi - owner: root:root - path: /run/complete_workload.sh - permissions: "0755" - - - content: | - name=instance-storage - log_file=$name.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log - exec 3>&1 1>>$log_file 2>&1 - - function log_info { - printf "\e[1;34m$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %T') %s\e[0m\n" "$@" 1>&3 - } - - function log_success { - printf "\e[1;32m$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %T') %s\e[0m\n" "$@" 1>&3 - } - - function log_warning { - printf "\e[1;33m$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %T') %s\e[0m\n" "$@" 1>&3 - } - - function log_error { - printf >&2 "\e[1;31m$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %T') %s\e[0m\n" "$@" 1>&3 - } - - # Finds Instance Storage disks that are not formatted and returns a list, i.e.L /dev/vdb, /dev/vdc, etc... - disks=$(for disk in $(lsblk -p -o NAME,TYPE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC,MOUNTPOINT | grep disk | grep 4096 | awk 'NR>0{print $1}');\ - do file -s $disk | grep "$disk: data" | awk 'NR==1{print $1}' | sed 's/:$//'; done) - - # Initializing a counter used in scheme for naming mount points - disk_counter=0 - - for config_disk in $disks; do - log_info "Running format on each identified disk: mkfs.ext4 -F $config_disk" - mkfs.ext4 -F $config_disk - - mount_point=$INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH$disk_counter - - log_info "Creating directory for mount point if required: mkdir $mount_point" - mkdir -p $mount_point - - log_info "Updating /etc/fstab for automatic mounting of file system on reboot, using block ID for disk" - sed -i.bak "\@$mount_point @d" /etc/fstab - echo UUID=`blkid -s UUID -o value $config_disk` $mount_point ext4 defaults,nofail 0 0 | tee -a /etc/fstab - - log_info "Updating systemd with latest configuration" - systemctl daemon-reload - - log_info "Running mount -a" - mount -a - [ $? -ne 0 ] && log_error "Failed mounting of new partition, review log file $log_file." && return 1 - - chmod a+w $mount_point - - log_info "Updating counter for next disk/mount point" - disk_counter=$((disk_counter+1)) - done - owner: root:root - path: /run/mount_instance_storage.sh - permissions: "0755" - -runcmd: - - source /etc/batch_env_variables - - bash /run/mount_instance_storage.sh - - bash /run/run_workload.sh - - bash /run/complete_workload.sh diff --git a/job2vsi/internal/cloud_config.go b/job2vsi/internal/cloud_config.go deleted file mode 100644 index e22c6df3..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/internal/cloud_config.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,81 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2022 IBM Corporation -// -// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); -// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. -// You may obtain a copy of the License at -// -// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -// -// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -// limitations under the License. -package main - -import ( - "bytes" - "log" - "os" - "strings" - "text/template" -) - -var ( - DeniedEnvVars = []string{"KUBERNETES_", "PATH", "PWD", "HOME", "USER", "TEMP", "SHELL", "LANG", "HOSTNAME", "LC_"} -) - -func CreateCloudConfigFromTemplate(conf *Config, cloudConfigTemplate *template.Template) (userData string, err error) { - templateVars := make(map[string]interface{}) - templateVars["ENV_VARS"] = FilterEnvVars() - - log.Printf("[INFO] Customer commands: %s \n", conf.CustomerCommands) - templateVars["CUSTOMER_COMMANDS"] = conf.CustomerCommands - - if conf.ShutDownVSI { - templateVars["SHUT_DOWN"] = "shutdown -h now" - } else { - templateVars["SHUT_DOWN"] = "" - } - - if conf.InstanceStorageMountPath != "" { - templateVars["INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH"] = conf.InstanceStorageMountPath - } else { - templateVars["INSTANCE_STORAGE_MOUNT_PATH"] = "/mnt/internal-storage-disk" - } - - var tempBuffer bytes.Buffer - err = cloudConfigTemplate.Execute(&tempBuffer, templateVars) - if err != nil { - return - } - - userData = tempBuffer.String() - - // Uncomment the below line to see the generated cloud config - // log.Printf("[DEBUG] %s", userData) - - return -} - -func FilterEnvVars() map[string]string { - envVarMap := make(map[string]string) - envVarList := os.Environ() - for _, envVar := range envVarList { - envKey := strings.Split(envVar, "=")[0] - if !ArrayContainsString(DeniedEnvVars, envKey) { - envValue := os.Getenv(envKey) - envVarMap[envKey] = envValue - } - } - return envVarMap -} - -func ArrayContainsString(s []string, str string) bool { - for _, v := range s { - if strings.Contains(str, v) { - return true - } - } - return false -} diff --git a/job2vsi/internal/config.go b/job2vsi/internal/config.go deleted file mode 100644 index 949b62ba..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/internal/config.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,74 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2022 IBM Corporation -// -// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); -// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. -// You may obtain a copy of the License at -// -// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -// -// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -// limitations under the License. -package main - -import ( - "fmt" - "io/ioutil" - "log" - "os" - "path/filepath" - "time" - - "github.com/pkg/errors" - "gopkg.in/yaml.v3" -) - -type Config struct { - Region string `yaml:"region" validate:"required"` - Profile string `yaml:"profile" validate:"required"` - NamePrefix string `yaml:"name_prefix" validate:"required"` - VpcID string `yaml:"vpc_id" validate:"required"` - ZoneName string `yaml:"zone_name" validate:"required"` - Image string `yaml:"image" validate:"required"` - SubnetID string `yaml:"subnet_id" validate:"required"` - FloatingIpNamePrefix string `yaml:"floating_ip_name_prefix" validate:"required"` - SshKeyID string `yaml:"ssh_key_id" validate:"required"` - UserDataFilePath string `yaml:"user_data_file_path" validate:"required"` - DeleteVsiAfterExecution bool `yaml:"delete_vsi_after_execution" validate:"required"` - ShutDownVSI bool `yaml:"shut_down_vsi" validate:"required"` - Name string `yaml:"-"` - FloatingIPName string `yaml:"-"` - CustomerCommands []string `yaml:"customer_commands"` - InstanceStorageMountPath string `yaml:"instance_storage_mount_path"` - VsiTags []string `yaml:"vsi_tags"` - VsiStartTimeout int `yaml:"vsi_start_timeout"` -} - -func ReadFromPath(path string) (c Config, err error) { - configFilePath := filepath.Clean(path) - configFileContent, err := ioutil.ReadFile(configFilePath) - if err != nil { - return Config{}, err - } - - c = Config{} - err = yaml.Unmarshal(configFileContent, &c) - if err != nil { - return Config{}, errors.Errorf("Cannot unmarshal configuration yaml: %s", err) - } - - log.Println("[INFO] Config initialized") - - jobIndex := os.Getenv("JOB_INDEX") - if jobIndex != "" { - jobIndex = fmt.Sprintf("-%s", jobIndex) - c.Name = c.NamePrefix + time.Now().Format("20060102150405") + "-" + jobIndex - } else { - c.Name = c.NamePrefix + time.Now().Format("20060102150405") - } - - c.FloatingIPName = c.FloatingIpNamePrefix + time.Now().Format("20060102150405") - return -} diff --git a/job2vsi/internal/main.go b/job2vsi/internal/main.go deleted file mode 100644 index c2583f2f..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/internal/main.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,64 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2022 IBM Corporation -// -// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); -// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. -// You may obtain a copy of the License at -// -// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -// -// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -// limitations under the License. -package main - -import ( - "flag" - "fmt" - "log" - "os" - "path/filepath" -) - -var configFilePath string - -func init() { - flag.StringVar( - &configFilePath, - "config", - "", - "The path to the JSON configuration file (required)", - ) - - flag.Usage = func() { - fmt.Fprintf(flag.CommandLine.Output(), "Usage: ./%s [options]\n\nOptions:\n", filepath.Base(os.Args[0])) - flag.PrintDefaults() - fmt.Fprint(flag.CommandLine.Output(), "\nEnvironment variables:\n IBMCLOUD_API_KEY\n\tAPI Key used for authorization against IBM Cloud services (required)\n") - } -} - -func main() { - flag.Parse() - - if configFilePath == "" { - flag.Usage() - os.Exit(2) - } - - apiKey := os.Getenv("IBMCLOUD_API_KEY") - if apiKey == "" { - flag.Usage() - os.Exit(2) - } - - conf, err := ReadFromPath(configFilePath) - if err != nil { - log.Fatalf("Error while fetching config: %s", err) - } - - err = ExecuteJob(apiKey, conf) - if err != nil { - log.Fatalf("Error while executing VSI Job: %s", err) - } -} diff --git a/job2vsi/internal/vsi.go b/job2vsi/internal/vsi.go deleted file mode 100644 index d39e0dbb..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/internal/vsi.go +++ /dev/null @@ -1,264 +0,0 @@ -// Copyright 2022 IBM Corporation -// -// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); -// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. -// You may obtain a copy of the License at -// -// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -// -// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software -// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, -// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. -// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and -// limitations under the License. -package main - -import ( - "log" - "text/template" - "time" - - "github.com/IBM/go-sdk-core/v5/core" - "github.com/IBM/platform-services-go-sdk/globaltaggingv1" - "github.com/IBM/vpc-go-sdk/vpcv1" - "github.com/pkg/errors" -) - -const ( - cloudConfigTemplateFilePath = "templates/cloud-config-template.tmpl" -) - -var vsiStartTime time.Time - -func ExecuteJob(apiKey string, conf Config) error { - cloudConfigTemplate, err := template.ParseFiles(cloudConfigTemplateFilePath) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error while parsing cloud config template: %s", err) - } - - userData, err := CreateCloudConfigFromTemplate(&conf, cloudConfigTemplate) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error while generating cloud config: %s", err) - } - - vpcService, err := instantiateVpcService(apiKey, conf.Region) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error creating VPC Service: %s", err) - } - - instance, response, err := createInstance(vpcService, conf, userData, conf.SshKeyID) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Failed to create VSI: %s \nVPC API response: %s", err, response) - } - - vsiStartTime = time.Now() - - if conf.FloatingIpNamePrefix != "" { - floatingIP, response, err := createFloatingIp(conf.FloatingIPName, conf.ZoneName, vpcService) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Failed to create Floating IP: %s\nAPI response: %s", err, response) - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Created floating ip: %s\n", *floatingIP.Address) - - floatingIP, response, err = addFloatingIpToVSI(*floatingIP.ID, *instance.ID, *instance.PrimaryNetworkInterface.ID, vpcService) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error while adding floating ip to instance: %s\nAPI response: %s", err, response) - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Added floating ip '%s' to VSI '%s'\n", *floatingIP.Name, *instance.Name) - } - - err = attachTags(apiKey, conf.VsiTags, instance) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Failed to attach tags to vsi: %v \nError: %s", conf.VsiTags, err) - } - - err = manageVSILifecycle(vpcService, instance, time.Duration(10)*time.Second, conf.DeleteVsiAfterExecution, conf.VsiStartTimeout) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error during management of VSI lifecycle: %s", err) - } - - return nil -} - -func instantiateVpcService(apiKey, region string) (vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1, err error) { - vpcService, err = vpcv1.NewVpcV1(&vpcv1.VpcV1Options{ - Authenticator: &core.IamAuthenticator{ - ApiKey: apiKey, - }, - URL: "https://" + region + ".iaas.cloud.ibm.com/v1", - }) - return -} - -func createInstance(vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1, conf Config, userData string, sshKeyID string) (instance *vpcv1.Instance, response *core.DetailedResponse, err error) { - instancePrototype := &vpcv1.InstancePrototype{ - Image: &vpcv1.ImageIdentity{ - ID: &conf.Image, - }, - Zone: &vpcv1.ZoneIdentity{ - Name: &conf.ZoneName, - }, - Profile: &vpcv1.InstanceProfileIdentity{ - Name: &conf.Profile, - }, - Name: &conf.Name, - VPC: &vpcv1.VPCIdentity{ - ID: &conf.VpcID, - }, - PrimaryNetworkInterface: &vpcv1.NetworkInterfacePrototype{ - Subnet: &vpcv1.SubnetIdentity{ - ID: &conf.SubnetID, - }}, - UserData: &userData, - } - - if sshKeyID != "" { - log.Printf("[INFO] SSH key ID '%s' will be added to the VSI\n", sshKeyID) - - keyObjects := make([]vpcv1.KeyIdentityIntf, 1) - keyObjects[0] = &vpcv1.KeyIdentity{ - ID: &sshKeyID, - } - - instancePrototype.Keys = keyObjects - } - - options := &vpcv1.CreateInstanceOptions{ - InstancePrototype: instancePrototype, - } - - instance, response, err = vpcService.CreateInstance(options) - if err != nil { - return - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Instance created. Name: %s ID: %s", *instance.Name, *instance.ID) - return -} - -func createFloatingIp(floatingIPName, zoneName string, vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1) (floatingIP *vpcv1.FloatingIP, response *core.DetailedResponse, err error) { - optionsFloatingIP := &vpcv1.CreateFloatingIPOptions{} - optionsFloatingIP.SetFloatingIPPrototype(&vpcv1.FloatingIPPrototype{ - Name: &floatingIPName, - Zone: &vpcv1.ZoneIdentity{ - Name: &zoneName, - }, - }) - return vpcService.CreateFloatingIP(optionsFloatingIP) -} - -func addFloatingIpToVSI(floatingIpId, instanceID, networkInterfaceID string, vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1) (result *vpcv1.FloatingIP, response *core.DetailedResponse, err error) { - options := &vpcv1.AddInstanceNetworkInterfaceFloatingIPOptions{} - options.SetID(floatingIpId) - options.SetInstanceID(instanceID) - options.SetNetworkInterfaceID(networkInterfaceID) - - return vpcService.AddInstanceNetworkInterfaceFloatingIP(options) -} - -func attachTags(apiKey string, vsiTags []string, instance *vpcv1.Instance) (err error) { - taggingServiceClientOptions := &globaltaggingv1.GlobalTaggingV1Options{ - URL: "https://tags.global-search-tagging.cloud.ibm.com", - Authenticator: &core.IamAuthenticator{ - ApiKey: apiKey, - }, - } - - taggingServiceClient, err := globaltaggingv1.NewGlobalTaggingV1UsingExternalConfig(taggingServiceClientOptions) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error creating service client: %s", err) - } - - resourceToTag := &globaltaggingv1.Resource{ - ResourceID: instance.CRN, - } - - attachTagOptions := taggingServiceClient.NewAttachTagOptions( - []globaltaggingv1.Resource{*resourceToTag}, - ) - - vsiTags = append(vsiTags, "CE_BATCH_VSI") - attachTagOptions.SetTagNames(vsiTags) - attachTagOptions.SetTagType("user") - - _, _, err = taggingServiceClient.AttachTag(attachTagOptions) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error Attaching tags to VSI: %s", *instance.Name) - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Successfully added tags: %+v\n", vsiTags) - - return -} - -func manageVSILifecycle(vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1, instance *vpcv1.Instance, pollInterval time.Duration, deleteVsiAfterExecution bool, vsiStartTimeout int) error { - for { - instance, response, err := getStatusOfVSI(vpcService, instance) - if err != nil && instance == nil { - log.Printf("[WARNING] Retrieving instance '%s' with error: %s\nAPI response: %s", *instance.Name, err, response) - continue // Continue as this could be a temporary hickup - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Current status of VSI - %s", *instance.Status) - - if isInstanceFinished(instance) { - log.Printf("[INFO] VSI instance '%s' finished execution. Stopping...", *instance.Name) - - if deleteVsiAfterExecution { - return deleteInstance(vpcService, instance) - } - - return nil - } - - if isInstanceStuck(instance, vsiStartTimeout) { - if deleteVsiAfterExecution { - return deleteInstance(vpcService, instance) - } - - return errors.Errorf("Failing the job index as the VSI is in hanging state %s", *instance.Name) - } - - log.Printf("[INFO] Waiting %s for resource to change status.", pollInterval) - - time.Sleep(pollInterval) - } -} - -func getStatusOfVSI(vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1, instance *vpcv1.Instance) (*vpcv1.Instance, *core.DetailedResponse, error) { - options := &vpcv1.GetInstanceOptions{ - ID: instance.ID, - } - - return vpcService.GetInstance(options) -} - -func isInstanceFinished(instance *vpcv1.Instance) bool { - return *instance.Status == vpcv1.InstanceStatusStoppedConst -} - -func isInstanceStuck(instance *vpcv1.Instance, vsiStartTimeout int) bool { - return *instance.Status == vpcv1.InstanceStatusStartingConst && isStartTimeoutElapsed(vsiStartTimeout) -} - -func deleteInstance(vpcService *vpcv1.VpcV1, instance *vpcv1.Instance) error { - log.Printf("[INFO] Deleting VSI '%s'\n", *instance.Name) - - options := &vpcv1.DeleteInstanceOptions{ - ID: instance.ID, - } - - response, err := vpcService.DeleteInstance(options) - if err != nil { - return errors.Errorf("Error while deleting VSI '%s': %s\nAPI response: %s", *instance.Name, err, response) - } - - return nil -} - -func isStartTimeoutElapsed(vsiStartTimeout int) bool { - elapsed := time.Since(vsiStartTime) - return int(elapsed.Minutes()) > vsiStartTimeout -} diff --git a/job2vsi/run b/job2vsi/run deleted file mode 100755 index 027d0503..00000000 --- a/job2vsi/run +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ -#!/usr/bin/env bash - -# required tools -# docker -# ibmcloud CLI with latest version of ce,is - -# required env vars: -# IBMCLOUD_API_KEY: API KEY which is allowed to create VSIs in your own VPC. - -# optional env vars: -# REGISTRY: name of the image registry/namespace to get the container images from, will default to icr.io/codeengine -# PROJECT: name of the project to run the sample within -# REGION your VPC is in (needs to match region in config; icr region can be different) - -set -e -if [ -z "$IBMCLOUD_API_KEY" ]; then - echo "env variable IBMCLOUD_API_KEY is not set" - exit 1 -fi - -export REGISTRY=${REGISTRY:-icr.io/codeengine} -export PROJECT=${PROJECT:-demos} -export RESOURCEGROUP=${RESOURCEGROUP:-default} -export PREFIX=${PREFIX:-job2vsi} -export REGION=${REGION:-ca-tor} - -ibmcloud login --apikey ${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY} -g ${RESOURCEGROUP} -r ${REGION} - -# select an existing project, or create if not exists -set +e -ibmcloud ce project select --name ${PROJECT} -if [ $? != "0" ]; then - ibmcloud ce project create --name ${PROJECT} -fi -set -e - -if [ "$1" == "clean" ]; then - ibmcloud ce secret delete --name ${PREFIX}-api-key -f -inf - ibmcloud ce cm delete -n ${PREFIX}-vsi-config -f -inf - ibmcloud ce job delete -n ${PREFIX}-job -f -inf - ibmcloud ce jr delete -n ${PREFIX}-job-run -f -inf - exit 0 -fi - -# create a secret in the project which contains the API KEY to access the VPC -ibmcloud ce secret delete --name ${PREFIX}-api-key -f -inf -ibmcloud ce secret create --name ${PREFIX}-api-key --from-literal IBMCLOUD_API_KEY="${IBMCLOUD_API_KEY}" - -# create a config map which contains the config.yml -ibmcloud ce cm delete -n ${PREFIX}-vsi-config -f -inf -ibmcloud ce cm create -n ${PREFIX}-vsi-config --from-file vsi-proxy-config.yaml=config.yaml - -# create a job which uses the secret, config and configured image -ibmcloud ce job delete -n ${PREFIX}-job -f -inf -ibmcloud ce job create -n ${PREFIX}-job -i ${REGISTRY}/job2vsi --env-from-secret ${PREFIX}-api-key \ - --mount-configmap /etc/vsi-proxy/config/=${PREFIX}-vsi-config - -# createa job run; modify "--ai 1" if you want multiple -ibmcloud ce jr delete -n ${PREFIX}-job-run -f -inf -ibmcloud ce jr submit --ai 1 -job ${PREFIX}-job -n ${PREFIX}-job-run - -# watch what the jobrun is doing -ibmcloud ce jr logs -n ${PREFIX}-job-run -f diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/.gitignore b/serverless-fleets/.gitignore similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/.gitignore rename to serverless-fleets/.gitignore diff --git a/serverless-fleets/README.md b/serverless-fleets/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6b869776 --- /dev/null +++ b/serverless-fleets/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,581 @@ +# Simplify and optimize large-scale parallel computation with Serverless Fleets + +As artificial intelligence continues to grow and demand for cloud-based solutions increases, the ability to run large-scale, compute-intensive workloads both quickly and efficiently has become critical. + +In this hands-on lab, you will deploy your first Serverless Fleet on IBM Code Engine—IBM’s strategic container platform designed to handle large-scale, compute-intensive workloads. + +Using both the intuitive graphical user interface and the command line, you will be guided step by step through the process. With just three clicks, you will have a Serverless Fleet up and running on IBM Cloud. + +**Table of Contents:** + +- [Key differentiators of Fleets](#key-differentiators-of-fleets) +- [What is a fleets](#what-is-a-fleet) +- [Architecture](#architecture) +- [One Time Setup](#one-time-setup) +- [Launch a Fleet](#launch-a-fleet) +- [Launch a Fleet with GPUs](#launch-a-fleet-with-gpus) +- [Launch a fleet with parallel tasks](#launch-a-fleet-with-parallel-tasks) +- [Launch a fleet to count words of novels](#launch-a-fleet-to-count-words-of-novels) +- [Tutorial: Docling](./tutorials/docling/README.md) +- [Tutorial: Batch Inferencing](./tutorials/inferencing/README.md) +- [Tutorial: Monte Carlo Simulation](./tutorials/simulation/README.md) +- [HowTo](#howto) +- [Troubleshooting](#troubleshooting) + + +## Key differentiators of Fleets + +Fleets offer the following advantages: +1. Support for large-scale parallel computing tasks, with no limits on vCPU, memory, or task duration. +2. Automatic, dynamic scaling—from a single task to millions of tasks. +3. Consumption-based pricing: pay only for the resources you use, with no idle or fixed costs. +4. Fully managed service—no infrastructure administration required. +5. Broad machine type support, including GPU-enabled instances. +6. Seamless integration with your VPC network. + +## What is a fleet + +![](./images/prototype_concept.png) + +A fleet (also referred to as a serverless fleet) is a Code Engine compute resource that runs one or more instances of user code in parallel to process a large set of compute-intensive tasks. + +Fleets can connect to Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) to securely access user data and services. They provide dynamic task queuing, single-tenant isolation, and support for GPU workloads. + +A fleet consists of a collection of worker nodes that automatically scale up or down based on resource requirements. Each instance runs on a worker node to complete a single task. When a task finishes, the worker node immediately starts the next task in the queue. This process continues until all tasks are completed, after which the worker nodes are automatically deprovisioned. + +Like applications, jobs, and functions, fleets run within a Code Engine project. A project is a grouping of Code Engine resources within a specific IBM Cloud region. Projects are used to organize resources and manage access to entities such as configmaps, secrets, and persistent data stores. + + +## Architecture + +The architecture used in this tutorial looks as follows. + +![](./images/prototype_architecture.png) + +Key aspects of the architecture: +1. Code Engine is running the fleet and provisions fleet workers +2. Fleet workers are VPC VSIs running in the Code Engine managed accounts +3. Fleet workers are provisioned based on an VSI image provided and managed by Code Engine +4. Fleet workers are connected to the VPC subnet owned by the customer +5. Tasks and data are stored in a Task State Store which is a COS bucket owned by the customer +6. Logs are ingested to an IBM Cloud Logs instances owned by the customer + +In terms of roles and responsibilities it's important to understand that: +- The user is responsible to manage the VPC, Subnet, COS Bucket, Containers and ICL instance +- Code Engine is responsible to manage the life-cycle of Fleets, Tasks, Instances and Workers. + +The One-time-setup procedure will help to automatically provision / de-provision all required resources, but NOT manage their life-cycle. + +## One Time Setup + +The tutorial has been tested on a MacOS and Ubuntu24 client machine with the following tools pre-installed: +- `ibmcloud` - IBM Cloud CLI +- `jq` - for parsing JSON response +- `rclone` - for syncing local directory with COS bucket + +Clone this repository +``` +git clone https://github.com/IBM/CodeEngine.git +``` + +Switch to the `serverless-fleets` directory, which will be the root directory for all steps of this tutorial + +To run this end-to-end sample, open a terminal, [login into your IBM Cloud account using the IBM Cloud CLI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-install-cli). + +Install the Code Engine CLI with the latest version and enable fleets: +``` +CE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLEET=true ibmcloud plugin install code-engine -f --quiet +``` + +If you don't have a fleet sandbox, choose one of the two methods to create one. + + +
+ Fully automated creation of cloud resources + +Run the following command, which will create all required cloud resources for you. +``` +NAME_PREFIX=ce-fleet-sandbox REGION=eu-de ./init-fleet-sandbox +``` + + +> Note: Your account need wide permissions to create all the resources mentioned above. If you don't have persmission, ask you Administrator or follow the steps for the [custom configuration](#custom-configuration) + +The following resources will be created in the resource group `ce-fleet-sandbox--rg` in `eu-de`. + +![](./images/prototype_resources.png) + +The tutorial configures three COS buckets and corresponding Code Engine [Persistent Data Stores](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-persistent-data-store) for different purposes: +1. `fleet-task-store` - used by Code Engine to queue and persist tasks and their state +2. `fleet-input-store` - used to read data for processing like PDFs, or txt files +3. `fleet-outout-store` - used to write results as the output of processing + +![](./images/prototype_persistant_data_stores.png) + +In addition, the `init-fleet-sandbox` script configures a local rclone environment including the `.rclone-config` as well as the `upload` and `download` script. Use `./upload` to load data from your local `./data/input` directory to the `fleet-input-store` bucket and `./download` to download from the `fleet-output-store` bucket to the `./data/output` directory. This allows you to share files easily with your container instance. + +You can later clean-up all resources by running `NAME_PREFIX=ce-fleet-sandbox REGION=eu-de ./init-fleet-sandbox clean`. +
+ + +
+ Bring your own cloud resources + +If you already have a VPC, subnets, COS bucket and credentials you can just create the code engine project and related artefacts, follow the instructions in the official documentation + +
+
+ +## Launch a Fleet + +Run a serverless fleet that runs 1 single task and instance with 2 CPUs and 4 GB of memory that sleeps for 2 minutes +``` +./run +``` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ./run +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create + --name fleet-b4bd2a33-1 + --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store + --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest + --command=sleep + --arg 60 + --tasks 1 + --cpu 2 + --memory 4G + --max-scale 1 +Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-b4bd2a33-1' and ID 'e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +OK +``` +
+
+ +To observe the fleet and its progress, run a combination of the following commands. The fleet summarizes the number of workers, tasks and instances. A single worker will be provisioned. The worker will process a single task, which will move from *Pending* to *Running* to *Succeeded*. Afterwards the worker will be deprovisioned. + +### Get the details of the fleet + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet get --id +``` + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet get --id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 +Getting fleet 'e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716'... +OK + +Name: fleet-b4bd2a33-1 +ID: e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 +Status: pending +Created: 44s +Project region: br-sao +Project name: fleetlab-user1--ce-project + +Tasks status: + Failed: 0 + Cancelled: 0 + Succeeded: 0 + Running: 0 + Pending: 1 + Total: 1 + +Code: + Container image reference: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest + Registry access secret: fleet-registry-secret + Command 0: sleep + Argument 0: 60 + +Tasks specification: + Task state store: fleet-task-store + Indexes: 0-0 + +Resources and scaling: + CPU per instance: 2 + Memory per instance: 4G + Preferred worker profile: cx2-2x4 + Max number of instances: 1 + Max execution time: + Max retries per task: 3 + +Network placement: + Network reference 0: 996b1f58-61d1-401c-9b53-312253de7f2c +``` +
+
+ +### List the tasks of the fleet + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id +``` + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 +Listing serverless fleet tasks... +OK + +Index ID Status Result code Worker ID +000-00000-0 b3c7c020-5e4c-50fb-ac7d-513b2fb95b5c running - 000-00000-0 +``` +
+
+ +### List the workers running in the fleet + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id +``` + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id e3caac88-cfc2-4602-8684-b527a6811716 +Listing serverless fleet workers... +OK + +ID Status Profile IP Zone Age +5b99e38f-f239-4340-a0c6-d70432c21730 initializing cx2-2x4 10.250.0.15 br-sao-1 71s +``` +
+
+ +🚀 You just launched a fleet with a single task 🚀 + + +## Launch a Fleet with GPUs + +Run a fleet that runs a single task on a *Serverless GPU* using a Nvidia L40s for 2 minutes: +``` +./run_gpu +``` + +The GPUs are defined by setting the family and the number of GPUs per task, e.g. `--gpu GPU_FAMILY:NUMBER_OF_GPUS`, where the number of GPUs can be fractional for GPU families that support MIG. In our case we configure `--gpu l40s:1` with a `--max-scale 1` to get exactly one `gx3-24x120x1l40s`. + +Observe the progress of the fleet with the same commands as above. + +🚀 You just launched a fleet with a Serverless GPU 🚀 + +## Launch a fleet with parallel tasks + +Run a serverless fleet to process 100 tasks where each tasks gets 1 CPU and 2 GB memory. Run 10 tasks in parallel and use a worker profile of cx2-2x4: + +``` +./run_parallel_tasks +``` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud code-engine fleet create + --name fleet-847292b7-1 + --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest + --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store + --command=sleep + --arg 2 + --tasks 100 + --cpu 1 + --memory 2G + --max-scale 10 +``` +
+
+ +In the fleet details you will see 5 workers being provisined. The number of workers is determined by the profile, cpu/memory and number of parallel tasks. + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet get --id +``` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 +Getting fleet '08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4'... +OK + +Name: fleet-847292b7-1 +ID: 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 +Status: pending +Created: 23s +Project region: br-sao +Project name: fleetlab-user1--ce-project + +Tasks status: + Failed: 0 + Cancelled: 0 + Succeeded: 0 + Running: 0 + Pending: 100 + Total: 100 + +Code: + Container image reference: registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest + Registry access secret: fleet-registry-secret + Command 0: sleep + Argument 0: 2 + +Tasks specification: + Task state store: fleet-task-store + Indexes: 0-99 + +Resources and scaling: + CPU per instance: 1 + Memory per instance: 2G + Max number of instances: 10 + Max execution time: + Max retries per task: 3 + +Network placement: + Network reference 0: daf4f3a0-00a6-46c3-b5cf-cbcbdba049fc +``` +
+
+ + +In our case, a cx2-2x4 has two CPUs and can run 2 instances on a single worker. Since we want to process 10 tasks in parallel, Code Engine provisioned 5 workers. + +Repeat the following command until you see the Fleet worker to appear, which takes about 30s: + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id +``` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 +Listing serverless fleet workers... +OK + +ID Status Profile IP Zone Age +273d3d7c-cdb2-4ed9-ac97-bafe76f4f59f initializing cx2-8x16 10.250.0.16 br-sao-1 55s +99e535e2-acd0-4b9e-97a2-4e245402c13c initializing cx2-2x4 10.250.0.17 br-sao-1 55s + +``` +
+
+ +Observe the progress of the task execution by repeatingly running the following command: + +``` +ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id +``` + +Altneratively, you can filter by status `--status ` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id 08a05e59-0a35-4da0-885f-5eb3f6f589d4 +Listing serverless fleet tasks... +OK + +Index ID Status Result code Worker ID +000-00000-65 00eef277-6973-56a7-9c7a-1cf1b4d1f945 pending - - +000-00000-80 020fa8bd-d30f-583d-acfa-84253bb2f399 pending - - +000-00000-72 06e4ef8f-1b8f-58b0-95cc-e8191d71403c pending - - +000-00000-82 08aca6c5-c787-589f-8c9a-4f35483ec1ac pending - - +000-00000-77 126be911-8238-5bf6-a5c6-a18991c60377 pending - - +... +``` +
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+ +Repeat the steps to observe the fleet. + +:rocket: You just launched your first Serverless Fleet which run 100 tasks in parallel and scaled down after all tasks completed :rocket: + +## Launch a fleet to count words of novels + +This example will run a simple `wc` (word count) on a list of [novels](./data/input/wordcount) stored as objects in .txt format in Cloud Object Storage. +The 6 tasks are submitted using the `tasks-from-local-file` option using the [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) as input. + +![](./images/example_wordcount.png) + +The example mounts the [Persistant Data Stores](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/codeengine?topic=codeengine-persistent-data-store) (PDS) to the container using the `--mount-data-store MOUNT_DIRECTORY=STORAGE_NAME:[SUBPATH]`, where +- `MOUNT_DIRECTORY` - is the directory within the container +- `STORAGE_NAME` - is the name of the PDS +- `SUBPATH` - is the prefix within the COS bucket to mount. + +It mounts the `fleet-input-store:/wordcount` to `/input` and `fleet-output-store:/wordcount` to `/output`. + +> Note, this example assumes that the automated One-Time-Setup has been performed. Otherwise, the upload and download would need to be done manually. + + +Four steps are required to run the example: + +#### Step 1 - Upload files + +Upload the .txt files from the local data directory to Cloud Object Storage +``` +./upload +``` + +#### Step 2 - Run the fleet + +Launch the fleet to perform `wc` on each of the novels which defines the tasks from [wordcount_commands.jsonl](./wordcount_commands.jsonl) and mounts the input and output data stores. +``` +./run_wordcount +``` + +Confirm that you uploaded the files with `#? 1` + + +
+ Output + +``` +➜ serverless-fleets ./run_wordcount +Did you upload the .txt files to COS? +1) Yes +2) No +#? 1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet run + --name fleet-7e818989-1 + --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest + --tasks-from-local-file wordcount_commands.jsonl + --cpu 1 + --memory 2G + --max-scale 4 + --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/wordcount + --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/wordcount +Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-7e818989-1' and ID '3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id 3f7a1c2a-6d85-4b27-bc4f-7e519645e23b' to retrieve a list of tasks. +OK +``` + +
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+ +#### Step 3 - Watch results + +You can run the following command to watch the COS bucket for the results, press ctrl-c if all 6 results are present +``` +./watch_result wordcount +``` + + +
+ Output + +``` +Every 2.0s: ibmcloud cos list-objects-v2 --bucket fleetlab-dev-output-91b55a45 --prefix wordcount Jeremiass-MacBook-Pro.local: 13:48:47 + +OK +Name Last Modified (UTC) Object Size +wordcount/.keep Aug 29, 2025 at 12:05:04 0 B +wordcount/wordcount_alice_in_wonderland.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:16 52 B +wordcount/wordcount_der_struwwelpeter.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:14 47 B +wordcount/wordcount_dracula.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:16 40 B +wordcount/wordcount_gullivers_travels.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:14 50 B +wordcount/wordcount_romeo_and_juliet.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:30 49 B +wordcount/wordcount_the_call_of_the_wild.txt Sep 01, 2025 at 11:51:31 53 B + +Found 7 objects in bucket 'fleetlab-dev-output-91b55a45' +``` + +
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+ +#### Step 4 - Download the results + +Download the results from the output COS bucket to `./data/output` + +``` +./download +```` + + +🚀 The example was successful, if you can tell the number of words of the "Alice in Wonderland" novel 🚀 + + +## Tutorials + +- [Tutorial: Docling](./tutorials/docling/README.md) +- [Tutorial: Inferencing](./tutorials/inferencing/README.md) +- [Tutorial: Simulation](./tutorials/simulation/README.md) + + +## HowTo + +### How to use your own container and image + +In order to use your own container image, you would need to build and push the image to an ICR namespace within the cloud account. + +Build: +``` +podman build --platform linux/amd64,linux/amd64 . -t .icr.io//: +``` + +Push: +``` +ic cr login --client podman +podman push .icr.io//: +``` + +Update the Code Engine registry secret to use the same registry endpoint: +``` +ibmcloud ce secret update --name fleet-registry-secret --server .icr.io +``` + +Once the push is complete, you can run the fleet by modifying `./run` and replace +- the image, e.g. `--image .icr.io//:` +- the command, e.g. `--command "/bin/bash"` +- the arguments, e.g. `--arg "-c" --arg "sleep 120"` +- the environment variables, e.g. `--env foo=bar` + + + +### How to access logs + +An IBM Cloud Logs instance is being setup and enabled by default during the automated One Time Setup. Each fleet worker will ingest logs to the IBM Cloud Logs instance by default. [Navigating to the UI](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-instance-launch) and use [Using Livetail](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-livetail) or [Filtering log data](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-logs?topic=cloud-logs-query-data-filter) to view the logs. + +![](./images/prototype_logs.png) + +### Cleanup the Environment + +To clean up all IBM Cloud resources, that have been created as part of the provided script, run: + +``` +./init-fleet-sandbox clean +``` + +## Troubleshooting + +### How to delete workers manually? + +If you need to end your fleet's processing before it ran to completion, or to get rid of workers that are kept alive for troubleshooting (see above), you can delete the workers. + +Run the following command to delete a single worker: + +``` +ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker delete -n +``` + +Run the following command to delete all workers in your project: +``` +ibmcloud ce exp fleet worker list | grep "fleet-" | awk '{print $1}' 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index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/images/prototype_persistant_data_stores.png rename to serverless-fleets/images/prototype_persistant_data_stores.png diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/images/prototype_resources.png b/serverless-fleets/images/prototype_resources.png similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/images/prototype_resources.png rename to serverless-fleets/images/prototype_resources.png diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox b/serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox similarity index 99% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox rename to serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox index 851a1407..806ea694 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox +++ b/serverless-fleets/init-fleet-sandbox @@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ ibmcloud update --force # Ensure that latest versions of used IBM Cloud CLI plugins are installed print_msg "\nInstalling required experiemental IBM Cloud CLI plugins ..." -export CE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLEET=true ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date code-engine ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date vpc-infrastructure ensure_plugin_is_up_to_date cloud-object-storage @@ -503,8 +502,8 @@ if [[ "$SETUP_LOGGING" == "true" && "$icl_ingestion_apikey" != "" ]]; then ibmcloud ce secret update -n codeengine-fleet-defaults \ --from-literal logging_ingress_endpoint="${icl_ingestion_host}" \ --from-literal logging_sender_api_key="${icl_ingestion_apikey}" \ - --from-literal logging_level_agent=debug \ - --from-literal logging_level_worker=debug + --from-literal logging_level_agent=info \ + --from-literal logging_level_worker=info fi if [[ "$SETUP_MONITORING" == "true" ]]; then print_msg "\nMake sure monitoring is enabled to '${sysdig_collector_host}' ..." diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/login b/serverless-fleets/login similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/login rename to serverless-fleets/login diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/run b/serverless-fleets/run similarity index 57% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/run rename to serverless-fleets/run index cd7861ab..5da47b7b 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/run +++ b/serverless-fleets/run @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create echo " " --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " " --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store echo " " --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest @@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ echo " " --cpu 2 echo " " --memory 4G echo " " --max-scale 1 -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale 1 --command="sleep" --arg "60" --tasks 1 --cpu 2 --memory 4G \ No newline at end of file +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale 1 --command="sleep" --arg "60" --tasks 1 --cpu 2 --memory 4G \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_gpu b/serverless-fleets/run_gpu similarity index 57% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/run_gpu rename to serverless-fleets/run_gpu index baed2dec..c2d873f8 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_gpu +++ b/serverless-fleets/run_gpu @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create echo " " --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " " --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store echo " " --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ echo " " --tasks 1 echo " " --max-scale 1 echo " " --gpu l40s:1 -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale 1 --command="sleep" --arg "60" --tasks 1 --gpu l40s:1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale 1 --command="sleep" --arg "60" --tasks 1 --gpu l40s:1 diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks b/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks similarity index 58% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks rename to serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks index fc0303e5..b5e3673b 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks +++ b/serverless-fleets/run_parallel_tasks @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MAX_SCALE=10 CPU=1 MEMORY=2G -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi-minimal:latest echo " "--tasks-state-store fleet-task-store @@ -20,4 +20,4 @@ echo " "--cpu $CPU echo " "--memory $MEMORY echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale ${MAX_SCALE} --command="sleep" --arg "2" --tasks ${TASKS} --cpu ${CPU} --memory ${MEMORY} +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale ${MAX_SCALE} --command="sleep" --arg "2" --tasks ${TASKS} --cpu ${CPU} --memory ${MEMORY} diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount b/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount similarity index 70% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount rename to serverless-fleets/run_wordcount index abc13ad1..f8051906 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount +++ b/serverless-fleets/run_wordcount @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ CMDS=wordcount_commands.jsonl # construct the wordcount_commands.jsonl # ls data/tutorials/wordcount | awk '{ printf " { \"command\":\"/bin/bash\", \"args\": [\"-c\", \"cd /mnt/ce/data; wc tutorials/wordcount/"$1" > result/wordcount_"$1"\"]}\n" }' > wordcount_commands.jsonl -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet run +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet run echo " "--name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest echo " "--tasks-from-local-file $CMDS @@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE echo " "--mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/wordcount echo " "--mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/wordcount -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --tasks-from-local-file $CMDS --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/wordcount --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/wordcount +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" --tasks-state-store fleet-task-store --image registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi-minimal:latest --max-scale $MAX_SCALE --tasks-from-local-file $CMDS --cpu $CPU --memory $MEMORY --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/wordcount --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/wordcount diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md similarity index 88% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md index 856acc5a..e8b8aa2d 100644 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/README.md @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Launch the fleet with the following command in the `tutorials/docling` directory ``` ➜ docling ./run -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-3128b1c7-1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name fleet-3128b1c7-1 --image quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve-cpu --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --worker-profile mx3d-24x240 @@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-3128b1c7-1 --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/docling --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/docling Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-3128b1c7-1' and ID 'bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. OK ``` @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ OK List the fleet details with the command printed in the output, e.g. ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +ibmcloud ce fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 ``` @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 Output ``` -➜ docling ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +➜ docling ibmcloud ce fleet get --id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 Getting fleet 'bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576'... OK @@ -149,14 +149,14 @@ Network placement: Verify that the machines are starting ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 ```
Output ``` -➜ docling ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +➜ docling ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 Listing serverless fleet workers... OK @@ -172,14 +172,14 @@ df27ff63-34dc-45b0-8f87-9c5f64aec388 running mx3d-24x240 10.250.0.10 br-sao- Observe the tasks: ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 ```
Output ``` -➜ docling ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +➜ docling ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 Listing serverless fleet tasks... OK @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ Repeat the steps above to observe the fleet and wait until all tasks are success Finally, observe that the workers are stopped and deleted automatically. ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 ``` @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac5 Output ``` -➜ docling ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 +➜ docling ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id bd00d46e-4645-43b0-a892-d153455ac576 Listing serverless fleet tasks... OK @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ The GPUs are defined by setting the family and the number of GPUs per task, e.g. Output ``` ./run_gpu -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-cc1f880d-1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name fleet-cc1f880d-1 --image quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve --registry-secret fleet-registry-secret --max-scale 1 @@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-cc1f880d-1 --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/docling --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/docling Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-cc1f880d-1' and ID 'b824738b-3ffd-44cb-9044-db1f11b24076' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id b824738b-3ffd-44cb-9044-db1f11b24076' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id b824738b-3ffd-44cb-9044-db1f11b24076' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id b824738b-3ffd-44cb-9044-db1f11b24076' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id b824738b-3ffd-44cb-9044-db1f11b24076' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. OK ```
diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/commands.jsonl diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/create_commands diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run similarity index 84% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run index c876930e..c4ab8e73 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') IMAGE="quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve-cpu" -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image $IMAGE echo " "--worker-profile mx3d-24x240 echo " "--max-scale 8 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ echo " "--memory 120G echo " "--mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/docling echo " "--mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/docling -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ --image $IMAGE \ --worker-profile mx3d-24x240 \ --max-scale 8 \ diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu similarity index 83% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu index 3df2d98f..64165a84 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/docling/run_gpu @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ uuid=$(uuidgen | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | awk -F- '{print $1}') # https://github.com/docling-project/docling-serve?tab=readme-ov-file#container-images IMAGE="quay.io/docling-project/docling-serve" -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image $IMAGE echo " "--max-scale 1 echo " "--tasks-from-local-file commands.jsonl @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ echo " "--gpu l40s echo " "--mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/docling echo " "--mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/docling -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ --image $IMAGE \ --max-scale 1 \ --tasks-from-local-file commands.jsonl \ diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md similarity index 92% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md index 948b6d0b..e0d2506f 100644 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/README.md @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ The fleet is created with `--tasks-from-file commands.jsonl` which will queue 3 ``` ➜ inferencing ./run -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-6d2924fc-1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name fleet-6d2924fc-1 --image private.br.icr.io/ce--fleet-inferencing-be1899e3/inferencing --registry-secret ce-auto-icr-private-br-sao --max-scale 1 @@ -152,9 +152,9 @@ ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-6d2924fc-1 --mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/inferencing --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/inferencing Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-6d2924fc-1' and ID '98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to retrieve a list of tasks. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d' to retrieve a list of tasks. OK ```
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ OK Show the fleet details ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id +ibmcloud ce fleet get --id ``` @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id Output ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d +ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d Getting fleet '98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d'... OK @@ -213,14 +213,14 @@ Network placement: Verify that the machines are starting ``` -ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id +ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id ```
Output ``` -➜ inferencing ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d +➜ inferencing ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 98b63936-c7b6-4034-ab30-d6aa4da4af8d Listing serverless fleet workers... OK @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ Name ID Status Profile IP Observe the tasks: ``` -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet task list --fleet-id +ibmcloud code-engine fleet task list --fleet-id ```
diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/build diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/commands.jsonl diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/create-commands diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run similarity index 89% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run index f1036d9b..34e1eee5 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/run @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME="ce-auto-icr-private-$REGION" PRIVATE_IMAGE="private.$IMAGE" -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image $PRIVATE_IMAGE echo " "--registry-secret $REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME echo " "--max-scale 1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ echo " "--memory 120G echo " "--mount-data-store /input=fleet-input-store:/inferencing echo " "--mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/inferencing -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ --image $PRIVATE_IMAGE \ --registry-secret $REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME \ --max-scale 1 \ diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/Dockerfile diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/app.py diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/inferencing/src/requirements.txt diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.ceignore diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/.gitignore diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/Dockerfile diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md similarity index 92% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md index 726a0181..fbaad7dd 100644 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/README.md @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Now run the fleet to process the 24 stock tickers. In this tutorial we use the ` ``` ➜ simulation ./run -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-c042e88d-1 +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name fleet-c042e88d-1 --image private.br.icr.io/ce--fleet-simulation/simulation --registry-secret ce-auto-icr-private-br-sao --worker-profile mx2-4x32 @@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name fleet-c042e88d-1 --max-scale 24 --mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/simulation Successfully created fleet with name 'fleet-c042e88d-1' and ID '630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to check the fleet status. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. -Run 'ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to retrieve a list of tasks. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to check the fleet status. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to retrieve a list of provisioned workers. +Run 'ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8' to retrieve a list of tasks. OK ```
@@ -108,14 +108,14 @@ OK Review the fleet ``` -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet get --id +ibmcloud code-engine fleet get --id ```
Output ``` -➜ simulation ibmcloud ce beta fleet get --id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8 +➜ simulation ibmcloud ce fleet get --id 630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8 Getting fleet '630569df-c6c0-44dc-a376-e2f5d8d7aad8'... OK @@ -160,14 +160,14 @@ Network placement: Verify that the machines are starting ``` -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet worker list --fleet-id +ibmcloud code-engine fleet worker list --fleet-id ```
Output ``` -➜ ibmcloud ce beta fleet worker list --fleet-id 709f5fee-59ca-41b3-b518-9e5f665e4d78 +➜ ibmcloud ce fleet worker list --fleet-id 709f5fee-59ca-41b3-b518-9e5f665e4d78 Listing serverless fleet workers... OK @@ -185,14 +185,14 @@ fleet-709f5fee-59ca-41b3-b518-9e5f665e4d78-5 1113a857-9880-4193-9e6e-d62fc9c66a Observe the tasks: ``` -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet task list --fleet-id +ibmcloud code-engine fleet task list --fleet-id ```
Output ``` -➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce beta fleet task list --fleet-id 709f5fee-59ca-41b3-b518-9e5f665e4d78 +➜ serverless-fleets ibmcloud ce fleet task list --fleet-id 709f5fee-59ca-41b3-b518-9e5f665e4d78 Listing serverless fleet tasks... OK diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/build diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/commands.jsonl diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/local diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/requirements.txt diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run similarity index 89% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run index 3aba34f0..5dbd6d16 100755 --- a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run +++ b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/run @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME="ce-auto-icr-private-$REGION" PRIVATE_IMAGE="private.$IMAGE" -echo ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" +echo ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" echo " "--image $PRIVATE_IMAGE echo " "--registry-secret $REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME echo " "--worker-profile $PROFILE @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ echo " "--memory $MEMORY echo " "--max-scale $MAX_SCALE echo " "--mount-data-store /output=fleet-output-store:/simulation -ibmcloud code-engine beta fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ +ibmcloud code-engine fleet create --name "fleet-${uuid}-1" \ --image $PRIVATE_IMAGE \ --registry-secret $REGISTRY_SECRET_NAME \ --max-scale $MAX_SCALE \ diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py b/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py rename to serverless-fleets/tutorials/simulation/simulate.py diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/upload b/serverless-fleets/upload similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/upload rename to serverless-fleets/upload diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/watch_results b/serverless-fleets/watch_results similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/watch_results rename to serverless-fleets/watch_results diff --git a/beta/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl b/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl similarity index 100% rename from beta/serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl rename to serverless-fleets/wordcount_commands.jsonl