CHAPTER 4 - Jonathan Harker's Journal Continued, part 18

The door is shut, the chains rattle.

There is a grinding of the key in the lock. I can hear the key withdrawn, then another door opens and shuts. I hear the creaking of lock and bolt. Hark!

In the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels, the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the distance. I am alone in the castle with those horrible women.

Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit! I shall not remain alone with them.

I shall try to scale the castle wall farther than I have yet attempted. I shall take some of the gold with me, lest I want it later. I may find a way from this dreadful place. And then away for home!

Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from the cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet! At least God's mercy is better than that of those monsters, and the precipice is steep and high.

At its foot a man may sleep, as a man. Goodbye, all. Mina!