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 note-books 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.”