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My
father
related
to
the
Baron
Vordenburg
,
who
remained
with
us
for
two
or
three
weeks
after
the
expulsion
of
Carmilla
,
the
story
about
the
Moravian
nobleman
and
the
vampire
at
Karnstein
churchyard
,
and
then
he
asked
the
Baron
how
he
had
discovered
the
exact
position
of
the
long-concealed
tomb
of
the
Countess
Mircalla
?
The
Baron
's
grotesque
features
puckered
up
into
a
mysterious
smile
;
he
looked
down
,
still
smiling
on
his
worn
spectacle
case
and
fumbled
with
it
.
Then
looking
up
,
he
said
:
"
I
have
many
journals
,
and
other
papers
,
written
by
that
remarkable
man
;
the
most
curious
among
them
is
one
treating
of
the
visit
of
which
you
speak
,
to
Karnstein
.
The
tradition
,
of
course
,
discolors
and
distorts
a
little
.
He
might
have
been
termed
a
Moravian
nobleman
,
for
he
had
changed
his
abode
to
that
territory
,
and
was
,
beside
,
a
noble
.
But
he
was
,
in
truth
,
a
native
of
Upper
Styria
.
It
is
enough
to
say
that
in
very
early
youth
he
had
been
a
passionate
and
favored
lover
of
the
beautiful
Mircalla
,
Countess
Karnstein
.
Her
early
death
plunged
him
into
inconsolable
grief
.
It
is
the
nature
of
vampires
to
increase
and
multiply
,
but
according
to
an
ascertained
and
ghostly
law
.
"
Assume
,
at
starting
,
a
territory
perfectly
free
from
that
pest
.
How
does
it
begin
,
and
how
does
it
multiply
itself
?
I
will
tell
you
.
A
person
,
more
or
less
wicked
,
puts
an
end
to
himself
.
A
suicide
,
under
certain
circumstances
,
becomes
a
vampire
.
That
specter
visits
living
people
in
their
slumbers
;
they
die
,
and
almost
invariably
,
in
the
grave
,
develop
into
vampires
.
This
happened
in
the
case
of
the
beautiful
Mircalla
,
who
was
haunted
by
one
of
those
demons
.
My
ancestor
,
Vordenburg
,
whose
title
I
still
bear
,
soon
discovered
this
,
and
in
the
course
of
the
studies
to
which
he
devoted
himself
,
learned
a
great
deal
more
.
"
Among
other
things
,
he
concluded
that
suspicion
of
vampirism
would
probably
fall
,
sooner
or
later
,
upon
the
dead
Countess
,
who
in
life
had
been
his
idol
.
He
conceived
a
horror
,
be
she
what
she
might
,
of
her
remains
being
profaned
by
the
outrage
of
a
posthumous
execution
.
He
has
left
a
curious
paper
to
prove
that
the
vampire
,
on
its
expulsion
from
its
amphibious
existence
,
is
projected
into
a
far
more
horrible
life
;
and
he
resolved
to
save
his
once
beloved
Mircalla
from
this
.
"
He
adopted
the
stratagem
of
a
journey
here
,
a
pretended
removal
of
her
remains
,
and
a
real
obliteration
of
her
monument
.
When
age
had
stolen
upon
him
,
and
from
the
vale
of
years
,
he
looked
back
on
the
scenes
he
was
leaving
,
he
considered
,
in
a
different
spirit
,
what
he
had
done
,
and
a
horror
took
possession
of
him
.
He
made
the
tracings
and
notes
which
have
guided
me
to
the
very
spot
,
and
drew
up
a
confession
of
the
deception
that
he
had
practiced
If
he
had
intended
any
further
action
in
this
matter
,
death
prevented
him
;
and
the
hand
of
a
remote
descendant
has
,
too
late
for
many
,
directed
the
pursuit
to
the
lair
of
the
beast
.
"
We
talked
a
little
more
,
and
among
other
things
he
said
was
this
:
"
One
sign
of
the
vampire
is
the
power
of
the
hand
.
The
slender
hand
of
Mircalla
closed
like
a
vice
of
steel
on
the
General
's
wrist
when
he
raised
the
hatchet
to
strike
.
But
its
power
is
not
confined
to
its
grasp
;
it
leaves
a
numbness
in
the
limb
it
seizes
,
which
is
slowly
,
if
ever
,
recovered
from
.
"
The
following
Spring
my
father
took
me
a
tour
through
Italy
.
We
remained
away
for
more
than
a
year
.
It
was
long
before
the
terror
of
recent
events
subsided
;
and
to
this
hour
the
image
of
Carmilla
returns
to
memory
with
ambiguous
alternations
--
sometimes
the
playful
,
languid
,
beautiful
girl
;
sometimes
the
writhing
fiend
I
saw
in
the
ruined
church
;
and
often
from
a
reverie
I
have
started
,
fancying
I
heard
the
light
step
of
Carmilla
at
the
drawing
room
door
.