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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.

when the clock struck six

-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

Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock. She has got a beautiful colour since she has been here.

I got him on the subject of the legends, and he went off at once into a sort of sermon.

bans an' wafts an' boh-ghosts an' bar-guests an' bogles an' all anent

Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?"

'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,

Do ye think that all these men will have to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds?

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 wonder where Jonathan is and if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.

DR. SEWARD'S DIARY

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.

Just now his hobby is catching flies

He has turned his mind now to spiders

he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome, that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him.

he keeps a little notebook in which he is always jotting down something

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

We are progressing. My friend has now a whole colony of sparrows

I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.

took away his pocketbook to look at it. The thought that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and the theory proved.

I shall have to invent a new classification for him

zoophagous (life-eating) maniac

If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good, unselfish cause to make me work,

MINA MURRAY'S JOURNAL

yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a letter from him

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.

has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep

Mr. Holmwood, he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only son of Lord Godalming, is coming up here very shortly

27 July.--No news from Jonathan. I am getting quite uneasy about him

6 August.--Another three days, and no news.

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.

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."

Here comes old Mr. Swales

I didn't mean them, and I want ye to remember that when I'm gone

My time must be nigh at hand now,

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 is steered mighty strangely

"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'.

he got up, shook hands with me, and blessed me, and said goodbye