Dracula by Bram Stoker,

Brahm Stoker,

Red by Mike Bennett. Bannett.

Episode 16.

Chapter 16, Dr Seward's Diary continued.

It was just a quarter before 12 o'clock when we got into the churchyard over the low wall.

The night was dark with occasional gleams of

moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scuddied across the sky.

We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly in front as he led the way.

When we had come close to the tomb, I looked well at Arthur, for I feared that the proximity to a place laden with so sorrowful

of memory would upset him, but he bore himself well. I took it that the very mystery of the proceeding was in some way a counteractant to his grief.

The professor unlocked the door and seeing a natural hesitation amongst us for various reasons, solved the difficulty by entering first himself.

The rest of us followed and he closed the door. He then lit a dark lantern and pointed to the coffin. Arthur stepped forward, hesitatingly.

Van Helsing said to me,

You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that coffin?

It was. The professor turned to the rest saying, You hear? And yet there is no one who does not believe with me. He took his

screwdriver and again took off the lid of the coffin. Arthur looked on, very pale but silent. When the lid was removed he stepped forward. He

evidently did not know that there was a Leddon coffin, or at any rate had not thought of it. When he saw the

rent in the lead the blood rushed to his face for an instant but as quickly fell away

again so that he remained of a ghastly whiteness.

He was still silent.

Van Helsing forced back the leaden flange, and we all looked in and recoiled. The coffin was empty. For several minutes no one spoke

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