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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.

LETTERS, ETC.- continued.

Letter, Dr. Seward to Hon. Arthur Holmwood.

"6 September.

"My dear Art,-

"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning has 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 a
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