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