Dracula
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- During the past 2/3 days several cases occurred of young children straying from home or neglecting to return from their playing on the Heath. and when they did return the consensus of their excuses was that they had been with ‘bloofer lady.’ Hence there is a big fuss about who the 'bloofer lady' is, and why is she kidnapping the children and returning them back. So the neighborhood of Hampstead is on alert.
- You too John
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- HeadlineThe Woman in Black
- Hopefully she is caught soon
- Extra Extra!! Get your news today
- Better keep your son in the house for next few days James
- HeadlineThe Stabbing Woman
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- "Beware of the Bloofer Lady" She struck again huh
- Van Helsing finally explains what he believes to have happened to Lucy. He announces that Lucy is probably a vampire. Seward is shocked by this, and has a difficult time believing, but Van Helsing reiterates that he is a man of science, and that he can prove, by experiment, that this "magic" is real. Van Helsing asks Seward to believe in his research and to work with him to track down Lucy, whom Van Helsing says is the "bloofer lady," and therefore responsible for the child abductions happening in London. Seward is further shocked and has a great deal of difficulty believing his former professor.
- They were made by Miss Lucy!
- Then you are wrong. Oh, would it be so! But alas! No. It is worse, far, far worse
- You think then that those small holes in the children’s throats were made by the same that made the holes in Miss Lucy?
- Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?
- I suppose so
- In God’s name, Professor Van Helsing, what do you mean?
- Dr. Seward accuses Van Helsing of madness, but Van Helsing counter by prying open the casket thought to contain Lucy; it is empty, and though Van Helsing says this proves that Lucy walks the night as a vampire, Seward says that, quite easily, Lucy's body may simply have been stolen by a graverobber. Seward believes he sees a "white streak" in the cemetery, among the graves, and he and the Professor soon find that this "streak" has deposited a child nearby. Next afternoon they visit the tomb again and Lucy's body is in the casket, and Dr. Seward seems to believe, now, that Lucy truly is a vampire, but Seward hesitates to agree to "truly kill" Lucy.
- We shall see
- Do you not see the child?
- Are you satisfied now?
- Yes, it is a child, but who brought it here? And is it wounded?
- No!!
- When Van Helsing proposes to open Lucy's casket, Arthur says Van Helsing is mad, and that his proposal is un-Christian. Van Helsing counters by saying that Lucy is Undead, a vampire herself, hovering between life and death, capable of moving only at night, when she feeds on the blood of the young and innocent. When they find that Lucy's body is not in the Casket, everyone suspects that it is Van Helsing's doing.
- Yes
- It was
- You hear, and yet there is no one who does not believe with me.
- Professor, I answered for you. Your word is all I want. I wouldn’t ask such a thing ordinarily, I wouldn’t so dishonor you as to imply a doubt, but this is a mystery that goes beyond any honor or dishonor. Is this your doing?
- May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?
- I swear to you by all that I hold sacred that I have not removed or touched her. The next day we came here in daytime and she lay there. Did she not, friend John?
- You were with me here yesterday. Was the body of Miss Lucy in that coffin?
- Heavens and earth, no!!
- Suddenly, Lucy, appears, moving towards the group. Upon sighting Arthur, she begins to refer to him as her "love," and to beckon him to come with her. Arthur is flabbergasted and horrified, as are Morris and Seward, but Van Helsing seems to have expected exactly this. Van Helsing asks Arthur whether they may go ahead with their plan of releasing Lucy from her vampiric state and Arthur, in shock at Lucy's Undeadness, agrees readily.
- Do as you will, friend. Do as you will. There can be no horror like this ever any more
- Answer me, oh my friend! Am I to proceed in my work?
- Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together. Come, my husband, come!
- Next night the group come to the cemetery again to "kill" Lucy. Van Helsing asks Arthur to do the dubious "honors" of releasing Lucy, since they were to be married, and this will allow Arthur, finally, to be freed of the horrors of not knowing whether Lucy is alive or dead. After some hesitation, Arthur agrees, and on Van Helsing's signal, drives a wooden stake into Lucy's heart with a hammer. Lucy writhes for a moment and appears ghastly and horrifying, shrieking loudly, then "truly dies".
- Forgiven! God bless you that you have given my dear one her soul again, and me peace.
- My true friend, from the bottom of my broken heart I thank you. Tell me what I am to do, and I shall not falter!
- Now, my friends, one step of our work is done
- Go on, tell me what I am to do.
- Take this stake in your left hand, ready to place to the point over the heart, and the hammer in your right.
- And now, Arthur my friend, dear lad, am I not forgiven?’
- Is this really Lucy’s body, or only a demon in her shape?
- It is her body, and yet not it. But wait a while, and you shall see her as she was, and is.
- Brave lad! A moment’s courage, and it is done. This stake must bedriven through her.
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