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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 : —
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