The attendant told me the patient had gone to the left, and had taken a
straight line, so I ran as quickly as I could. As I got through the belt of
trees I saw a white figure scale the high wall which separates our grounds from
those of the deserted house.
I ran back at once, told the watchman to get three or four men immediately
and follow me into the grounds of Carfax, in case our friend might be
dangerous. I got a ladder myself, and crossing the wall, dropped down on the
other side. I could see Renfield's figure just disappearing behind the angle of
the house, so I ran after him. On the far side of the house I found him pressed
close against the old ironbound oak door of the chapel.
He was talking, apparently to some one, but I was afraid to go near enough
to hear what he was saying, les t I might frighten him, and he should run off.
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic,
when the fit of escaping is upon him! After a few minutes, however, I could see
that he did not take note of anything around him, and so ventured to draw
nearer to him, the more so as my men had now crossed the wall and were closing
him in. I heard him say . . .

LETTER, MINA HARKER TO LUCY WESTENRA
Buda-Pesth, 24 August.
"My dearest Lucy,
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we
parted at the railway station at Whitby.
"Well, my dear, I got to Hull all right,
and caught the boat to Hamburg,
and then the train on here. I feel that I can hardly recall anything of the
journey, except that I knew I was coming to Jonathan, and that as I should have
to do some nursing, I had better get all the sleep I could. I found my dear
one, oh, so thin and pale and weaklooking. All the resolution has gone out of
his dear eyes, and that quiet dignity which I told you was in his face has
vanished. He is only a wreck of himself, and he does not remember anything that
has happened to him for a long time past. At least, he wants me to believe so,
and I shall never ask.