Chapter 14.

Mina Harker's Journal 23 September.

Jonathan is better after a bad night.

I am so glad that he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible

things.

And oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with responsibility of his new position.

I knew he would be true to himself, and now how proud I am to see my Jonathan rise into

the height of his advancement, and keeping pace in all ways with the duties that come upon

him.

He will be away all day till late, for he said he could not lunch at home.

My household work is done, so I shall take his foreign journal and lock myself up in

my room and read it.

24 September.

I had at the heart to write last night that terrible record of Jonathan's upset me so,

poor dear.

How he must have suffered, whether it be true or only imagination.

I wonder if there is any truth in it at all.

Did he get his brain fever and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause

for it all?

I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him.

And yet, that man we saw yesterday, he seemed quite certain of him, poor fellow.

I suppose it was the funeral upset him and sent his mind back on some train of thought.

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