Lapping waves, rushing water, and creaking masts.
TELEGRAM, OCTOBER 24TH RUFUS SMITH, LLOYD'S, LONDON, TO LORD GODALMING, CARE OF H.B.M.VICE CONSUL, VARNA.
"Czarina Catherine reported this morning from Dardanelles." DR.SEWARD'S DIARY.
25 October .-- How I miss my phonograph! To write a diary with a pen is irksome to me! But Van Helsing says I must.

We were all wild with excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd's.

I know now what men feel in battle when the call to action is heard.
Mrs.Harker, alone of our party, did not show any signs of emotion.
After all, it is not strange that she did not, for we took special care not to let her know anything about it, and we all tried not to show any excitement when we were in her presence.

In old days she would, I am sure, have noticed, no matter how we might have tried to conceal it.

But in this way she is greatly changed during the past three weeks.