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"
'
And
what
is
the
nature
of
the
seizure
you
speak
of
?
'
I
entreated
.
"
'
I
have
stated
all
fully
in
this
note
,
which
I
place
in
your
hands
upon
the
distinct
condition
that
you
send
for
the
nearest
clergyman
,
and
open
my
letter
in
his
presence
,
and
on
no
account
read
it
till
he
is
with
you
;
you
would
despise
it
else
,
and
it
is
a
matter
of
life
and
death
.
Should
the
priest
fail
you
,
then
,
indeed
,
you
may
read
it
.
'
"
He
asked
me
,
before
taking
his
leave
finally
,
whether
I
would
wish
to
see
a
man
curiously
learned
upon
the
very
subject
,
which
,
after
I
had
read
his
letter
,
would
probably
interest
me
above
all
others
,
and
he
urged
me
earnestly
to
invite
him
to
visit
him
there
;
and
so
took
his
leave
.
"
The
ecclesiastic
was
absent
,
and
I
read
the
letter
by
myself
.
At
another
time
,
or
in
another
case
,
it
might
have
excited
my
ridicule
.
But
into
what
quackeries
will
not
people
rush
for
a
last
chance
,
where
all
accustomed
means
have
failed
,
and
the
life
of
a
beloved
object
is
at
stake
?
"
Nothing
,
you
will
say
,
could
be
more
absurd
than
the
learned
man
's
letter
.
"
It
was
monstrous
enough
to
have
consigned
him
to
a
madhouse
.
He
said
that
the
patient
was
suffering
from
the
visits
of
a
vampire
!
The
punctures
which
she
described
as
having
occurred
near
the
throat
,
were
,
he
insisted
,
the
insertion
of
those
two
long
,
thin
,
and
sharp
teeth
which
,
it
is
well
known
,
are
peculiar
to
vampires
;
and
there
could
be
no
doubt
,
he
added
,
as
to
the
well-defined
presence
of
the
small
livid
mark
which
all
concurred
in
describing
as
that
induced
by
the
demon
's
lips
,
and
every
symptom
described
by
the
sufferer
was
in
exact
conformity
with
those
recorded
in
every
case
of
a
similar
visitation
.
"
Being
myself
wholly
skeptical
as
to
the
existence
of
any
such
portent
as
the
vampire
,
the
supernatural
theory
of
the
good
doctor
furnished
,
in
my
opinion
,
but
another
instance
of
learning
and
intelligence
oddly
associated
with
someone
hallucination
.
I
was
so
miserable
,
however
,
that
,
rather
than
try
nothing
,
I
acted
upon
the
instructions
of
the
letter
.
"
I
concealed
myself
in
the
dark
dressing
room
,
that
opened
upon
the
poor
patient
's
room
,
in
which
a
candle
was
burning
,
and
watched
there
till
she
was
fast
asleep
.
I
stood
at
the
door
,
peeping
through
the
small
crevice
,
my
sword
laid
on
the
table
beside
me
,
as
my
directions
prescribed
,
until
,
a
little
after
one
,
I
saw
a
large
black
object
,
very
ill-defined
,
crawl
,
as
it
seemed
to
me
,
over
the
foot
of
the
bed
,
and
swiftly
spread
itself
up
to
the
poor
girl
's
throat
,
where
it
swelled
,
in
a
moment
,
into
a
great
,
palpitating
mass
.
