Ch.12 and Ch.13

Much Worse

Dr Seward arrives at the death scene not knowing that disaster had fallen upon the house. As no one answers the door the thought that comes to his mind is Lucy's safety. He suspects that something might have happened and that he was too late. In a state of confusion Van arrives at the scene and they together crash into the house. They first notice the unconscious maids on the floor and hurriedly look for Lucy. As they enter the room, they find Mrs Westenrna's body and Lucy beside her. They prepare themselves to aid upon the half-dead girl but find themselves hesitating for need of blood transfusion. Luckily, Mr Morris arrives bringing a telegram from Arthur and provides his blood to Lucy. This makes her condition a lot better than they found her in the morning. As Van awaits for Lucy to wake up, Dr Seward explains everything that had happened for the past weeks. As we know Mr Morris was also in love with Lucy, he also teams up with the doctors to provide help as much as he can. They find Lucy's memorandum that she had kept in her breasts. Kindly Van returns it where it was supposed to be.
I keep on thinking that even though some terrible things have been befalling the poor woman, she should think of herself as lucky since beside her stands such caring friends. Even a stranger like Van Helsing who has nothing to do with her, is helping her as much as he can sacrificing his nights and nights.

Mina To Lucy

Their friendship is something that must be admired. Especially how caring Mina is towards Lucy. Even though she has to take care of her own husband who have still to recover from his nightmares, she still worries about her dear friend. However, it is quite sad that nothing is revealed to her about Lucy's condition and does not know anything about Mrs Westerna's death. She also has some good news to tell. It seems that they have been chosen to inherit Mr Hawkins property. I thought it was weird that the letter about the inheritance was sent on the 17th September and the next day another letter arrives about Mr Hawkins death. Either Mr Hawkins knew that his end was near or [just a wild guess] Mina and Jonathan has something to do with it. I think they both are really kind-hearted so then the sudden death of Mr Hawkin could be directing to Dracula.

R.I.P Lucy
All four men, in turns, are busy guarding Lucy and taking care of her. Arthur, her love, Dr Seward and Mr Morris, who loves her dearly and Dr Van, her saviour. Lucy is getting weaker and weaker and has no strength to wake up from her sleep. As Van and Seward are examining her, they notice that the mark in her neck had completely disappeared. Van's reaction tells us that it is not a good sign as he asks Seward to get Arthur immediately. Lucy wakes up and looks at Arthur, her voluptuous voice calls out "Arthur! Kiss me!" At such a state, Van forbiddens Arthur to go near her. I think she was turning into the vampires we had seen in earlier chapters. She turns back to normal again and thanks Van for it. Blesses him and bids everyone farewell and goes into a deep sleep to never wake up. I thought this was the best quote "We thought her dying whilst she slept, And sleeping when she died." That day a beautiful and innocent lady had left the world forever.

Last Words For His Love

The beautiful corpse of Lucy Westerna is buried and with it all her memories of her love, her family and her friends. Van Helsing becomes keen on reading her papers and letters looking for something unknown to Dr Seward. Although Dr Seward trusts Van but as he is keeping more and more things to himself he seems to have doubts about the things he has been doing. Van explains that they would be doing a postmortem to Lucy's body which Dr Seward thinks is not necessary. But since he knows his master well and knows that behind everything he does there must be a reason, he agrees with it. The part where Van puts a garlic necklace around Lucy and a puts a cruxifix on her chest was strange to me. The next day when the cruxifix is found stolen and Van cancels their plan is even strager. It is questioning that why the cruxifix was important after all Lucy was already dead. The same question occurs again and again whether Lucy has really died or she is in a deep sleep as her corpse is as beautiful as if she were alive. Dr Seward also mentions that Mr Quincey who was also in love with Lucy laughs all of a sudden. When he is asked he gives all sorts of explanation like how Arthur says he already felt like he and Lucy were married when he donated his blood to her while the others had also donated theirs without his knowledge. Or how such a beautiful and innocent lady loved by so many had died. But Seward could find no proper answer to why such things could bring laughter. He concludes that he is ending the diary which contains his romantic feelings and his hardships he has experienced for the woman he loved.

The encounter

With Mr Hawkins death and his inheritance passed onto Jonathan and Mina, Jonathan is now a solicitor, a partner, rich and master of his own business. When they are returning from Exter to their lifeless house they walk down to Piccadilly on the way. As they are walking by, as Mina says 'like in the old days', Jonathan shows nervousness again. As Mina tries to find what has disturbed him she sees him gazing at a tall, thin man observing a beautiful girl. The description itself reminded me of The Count Dracula. Jonathan looked terrified and kept staring at the man and beside him Mina was confused and shocked as ever. Then he says that it is the Count and confuses Mina more. He mentions that the Count looks younger. It is because he had been sucking blood from Lucy and many others like her? We also find out that Jonathan seems to forget everything that has disturbed him like before. Poor Mina then decides that she is going to read the diary Jonathan had handed her.