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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 — —
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