Jack, if you may tell me without betraying confidence, Arthur was the first, is not that so ?" As he spoke the poor fellow looked terribly anxious.

He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain.

His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down.

I paused before answering, for I felt that I must not betray anything which the Professor wished kept secret, but already he knew so much, and guessed so much, that there could be no reason for not answering, so I answered in the same phrase.
"That's so." "And how long has this been going on ?" "About ten days." "Ten days! Then I guess, Jack Seward, that that poor pretty creature that we all love has had put into her veins within that time the blood of four strong men.

Man alive, her whole body wouldn't hold it." Then coming close to me, he spoke in a fierce half-whisper.