1 Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam.
2 Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam.
3 Telegram, Seward, London, to Van Helsing, Amsterdam.
4 To-night I leave for Amsterdam, but shall return to-morrow night.
5 To-night Dr. Van Helsing is going away, as he has to be for a day in Amsterdam.
6 This was when we had come back to town, and he was having a cup of tea before starting on his return to Amsterdam.
7 Dr. Vincent, of the North Hospital, where the papers say the child is, is friend of mine, and I think of yours since you were in class at Amsterdam.
8 He goes over to Amsterdam to-night, but says he returns to-morrow night; that he only wants to make some arrangements which can only be made personally.
9 I am in doubt, and so have done the best thing I know of; I have written to my old friend and master, Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam, who knows as much about obscure diseases as any one in the world.
10 I had a dim idea that he was teaching me some lesson, as long ago he used to do in his study at Amsterdam; but he used then to tell me the thing, so that I could have the object of thought in mind all the time.
11 A telegram came from Van Helsing at Amsterdam whilst I was at dinner, suggesting that I should be at Hillingham to-night, as it might be well to be at hand, and stating that he was leaving by the night mail and would join me early in the morning.