Remember that he has the strength of twenty men, and that, though our necks or our windpipes are of the common kind, and therefore breakable or crushable, his are not amenable to mere strength.

A stronger man, or a body of men more strong in all than him, can at certain times hold him, but they cannot hurt him as we can be hurt by him.

We must, therefore, guard ourselves from his touch.

Keep this near your heart." As he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me, I being nearest to him, "put these flowers round your neck," here he handed to me a wreath of withered garlic blossoms, "for other enemies more mundane, this revolver and this knife, and for aid in all, these so small electric lamps, which you can fasten to your breast, and for all, and above all at the last, this, which we must not desecrate needless." This was a portion of Sacred Wafer, which he put in an envelope and handed to me.

Each of the others was similarly equipped.
"Now," he said, "friend John, where are the skeleton keys?
If so that we can open the door, we need not break house by the window, as before at Miss Lucy's." Dr.Seward tried one or two skeleton keys, his mechanical dexterity as a surgeon standing him in good stead.