We have a cruel and dreadful task.

When you have eaten you shall learn the rest, and I shall answer any questions you ask, if there be anything which you do not understand, though it was apparent to us who were present." MINA HARKER'S JOURNAL.
29 September .-- After dinner I came with Dr.Seward to his study.

He brought back the phonograph from my room, and I took a chair, and arranged the phonograph so that I could touch it without getting up, and showed me how to stop it in case I should want to pause.

Then he very thoughtfully took a chair, with his back to me, so that I might be as free as possible, and began to read.

I put the forked metal to my ears and listened.
When the terrible story of Lucy's death, and all that followed, was done, I lay back in my chair powerless.