Chapter 17
Dr. Seward's Diary—cont.When we arrived at the Berkely 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 dispatched he had a cup of tea. Over it he
told me of a diary kept by Jonathan Harker when abroad, and gave me
a typewritten copy of it, as also of Mrs. Harker's diary at Whitby.
"Take these," he said,"and study them well. When I have returned
you will be master of all the facts, and we can then better enter
on our inquisiti
