Dracula
Bram Stoker

Renfield's Pets
Chapter Three part two

Mina Murray's diary, 24 July, Wittby.
Lucy came to meet me at the station.
Wittby is a lovely town by the sea.
There's an old abbey at the top of the hill.
Next to the abbey is a graveyard.
It's on a cliff.
There are some wonderful views up there.
People often go up there to walk.
Lucy and I went for a walk there this afternoon.
There are some lovely walks along the cliffs.
You can sit there too and watch the ships in the harbour.
The first of August.
We went up to the abbey again today.
We sat in the graveyard and looked at the view.
Lucy talked a lot about Arthur.
She talked about her wedding.
I'm happy for her, but I was also a little sad.
I haven't heard anything from Jonathan for almost a month.
Later I went up to the graveyard alone.
I could see the lights from the ships.
I thought about Jonathan.
I hope he's well and nothing has happened.
I want to see him.
I miss him.
Dr. Suez Diary, 5 June.
Rentfield is a very interesting patient.
He has the look of a killer in his eyes, but he has a good quality.
He likes animals.
At the moment he likes flies.
The flies are his pets.
He's got a lot.
He gives them sugar and they come to him.
I think that there are too many.
The 18th of June.
Now Rentfield likes spiders.
So spiders are his new pets.
He gives the flies to the spiders.
The spiders eat them.
There aren't many flies left now.
The 1st of July.
Rentfield has now got a lot of spiders.
He's got a notebook where he writes lots of notes.
I think there are notes about the spiders.
The 8th of July.
Now he has a new pet.
He's got a little bird.
There aren't so many spiders now.
He gives the spiders to the bird.
The bird eats them.
The 19th of July.
Rentfield has now got a lot of birds.
They come to him for food.
I went to see him.
He was very pleased to see me.
He asked me for something.
I want a kitten.
He said, I want a kitten that I can feed and feed and feed.
I was ready for this.
First he had some flies.
Then he had some spiders.
His spiders ate the flies.
Then he had some birds.
His birds ate the spiders.
Now he wants a cat.
I understood his plan.
I'll think about it.
I said to him.
He looked at me.
He was angry.
He's an interesting patient.
Evening.
I went to see Rentfield again.
He was crying.
He asked me again and again.
Can I have a kitten?
Please, please, please.
I said no.
The 20th of July.
I went to see him this morning.
He was happy.
He was giving sugar to flies again.
There weren't any birds in his room.
But there was some blood.
He says the birds have gone away.
I think he's eaten them.
He's definitely a killer.
He needs my help.
Mina Murray's diary, the 26th of July.
I'm very worried.
Lucy isn't sleeping very well.
She's walking in her sleep.
Tonight I'm locking the door.
I don't want her to hurt herself.
Her mother, Mrs. Weston Row, thinks this is a good idea.
The 3rd of August.
There's still no news from Jonathan.
I looked at his last letter.
It's a little strange.
It's in his writing, but he seems very formal.
I hope he isn't ill.
I hope he's alright.
I'm not sleeping very well because Lucy is still walking in her sleep.
She gets out of bed.
Then she goes to the door.
When she finds it's locked, she goes to look for the key.
I'm worried about her.
The 6th of August.
The weather is very stormy today.
Lucy and I went up to the cliff.
The fishing boats were all coming home before the storm.
A kind old man came to talk to us.
His name's Mr. Sales.
He was once a sailor.
We all saw a ship in the distance.
The old man thinks it's an empty ship.
He can see by the way it moves in the wind.
He says the ship will probably come to the harbor tomorrow.
The storm will bring it.
Reports from the Daily Graph newspaper, from Mina Harker's diary.
The 8th of August, Whitby, report by George White.
Whitby Storm Mystery.
During last night's terrible storm in Whitby, a Russian ship the Demeter came into the harbor.
The captain of the ship was dead.
He had a cross in his hand.
There was no one else on the ship.
People saw a huge dog.
It jumped off the ship and ran up the hill to the graveyard.
Local people have tried to find the dog.
They want to give it food.
9th August, Whitby, report by George White.
Russian captain's diary found.
The Russian ship, the Demeter, is carrying 50 wooden boxes.
They're full of earth for scientific research.
A Whitby lawyer, Mr. Billington, has instructions to send them to a house in the village of Carfax.
No one has seen the huge dog.
A translation of the captain's diary follows.
14 July, the sailors are afraid.
They say that there's something on the ship.
Then they make the sign of the cross.
19 July, Petrovsky is missing.
Olga Rin says there's a strange man on the ship.
26 July, another sailor disappeared today.
The other men are all frightened.
I have my gun with me.
We can't find the strange man.
The 30th July, there are only four of us on the ship now.
I don't understand what's happening.
The 3rd August, someone cried in the night.
I went to look outside.
There was no one at the wheel.
I've searched the ship.
I'm alone.
I'm the captain.
I must stay with my ship.
Help me, God.
The next page was blank.
What happened on the Demeter?
We demand to know.
10 August, Whitby, report by George White.
Dead dogs on Baker's farm.
Another Whitby mystery.
Who or what killed the dogs on Baker's farm?
William Baker found his dogs this morning.
They were covered in blood.
Is Whitby safe?
Mina Murray's diary, 8 August.
Luce, he didn't sleep very well last night.
She got up twice and got dressed.
I put her back to bed.
I think the storm disturbed her.
This morning we went down to the harbor together.
It was a beautiful day.
The air was clear and fresh.
The old sailor was right.
The empty ship was in the harbor.
The poor captain was dead.
Some people saw a huge dog.
It ran off the boat.
Lucy and I tried to find it.
We wanted to give it some food and water.
We couldn't find it.
10 August, it was the poor captain's few or all today.
Some of the sea captains from the harbor carried the coffin up the hill.
All the sailors followed.
My kind old sailor Mr. Sales wasn't there.
He died this morning too.
They found him by our favorite seat near the abbey.
He had a broken neck.
People say he looked frightened.
What happened to him?
I want Lucy to sleep well tonight.
We're going to go for a long walk.
Then she'll be tired and she'll sleep.
The 11th of August, 3am.
I can't sleep now.
I'm too worried.
I woke up at about one o 'clock.
Lucy wasn't here.
I went downstairs to look for her.
The front door was open.
I ran outside and looked in the street.
There was no one there.
I looked for her everywhere.
Then I thought about the abbey and our favorite seat.
I began to climb the hill.
Then I saw her.
She was lying on our seat.
Was she sleeping?
There was a man near her.
Lucy, Lucy, I shouted.
She didn't answer.
The man looked up and I saw a very white face and red eyes.
Then he ran away.
Lucy was still sleeping but she looked cold.
I put my coat around her neck.
But I think I heard her.
I saw a little blood on her neck.
There were two small marks there.
Then I woke her up.
I carefully took her home.
I put her to bed.
I locked the door and have the key around my wrist.
Same day, much later, night time.
I woke Lucy in the morning.
She didn't look tired after her busy night.
She looked very well.
We had a happy day together.
We had a picnic by the sea with Mrs. Weston -Ruh.
I'm sad that Jonathan isn't here.
I miss him very much.
Again, I've locked the door of our room.
The key is around my wrist.
But I don't think there'll be any problems tonight.
The 12th of August.
I was wrong.
Lucy got up twice in the night.
She was asleep but she seemed very worried that the door was locked.
Both times she went back to bed.
But she was almost angry.