When we got home we were talking of the old time, which we could all look back on without despair, for Godalming and Seward are both happily married.  I took the papers from the safe where they had been ever since our return so long ago.  We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document.  Nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later notebooks of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing’s memorandum.  We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.  Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee.

“We want no proofs.  We ask none to believe us!  This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is.  Already he knows her sweetness and loving care.  Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.”

JONATHAN HARKER