Good! It has given us opportunity to cry 'check' in some ways in this chess game, which we play for the stake of human souls.

And now let us go home.

The dawn is close at hand, and we have reason to be content with our first night's work.

It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink." The house was silent when we got back, save for some poor creature who was screaming away in one of the distant wards, and a low, moaning sound from Renfield's room.

The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself, after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of pain.
I came tiptoe into our own room, and found Mina asleep, breathing so softly that I had to put my ear down to hear it.