The first to act was Harker, who with a quick movement, threw himself before the door leading into the room in the front of the houseAs the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eyeteeth long and pointedBut the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like disdainHis expression again changed as, with a single impulse, we all advanced upon himIt was a pity that we had not some better organized plan of attack, for even at the moment I wondered what we were to doI did not myself know whether our lethal weapons would avail us anything Harker evidently meant to try the matter, for he had ready his great Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at himThe blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back saved himA second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through his heartAs it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank notes and a stream of gold fell outThe expression of the Count's face was so hellish, that for a moment I feared for Harker, though I saw him throw the terrible knife aloft again for another strokeInstinctively I moved forward with a protective impulse, holding the Crucifix and Wafer in my left handI felt a mighty power fly along my arm, and it was without surprise that I saw the monster cower back before a similar movement made spontaneously by each one of usIt would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity, of anger and hellish rage, which came over the Count's faceHis waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast of his burning eyes, and the red scar on the forehead showed on the pallid skin like a palpitating woundThe next instant, with a sinuous dive he swept under Harker's arm, ere his blow could fall, and grasping a handful of the money from the floor, dashed across the room, threw himself at the windowAmid the crash and glitter of the falling glass, he tumbled into the flagged area belowThrough the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging We ran over and saw him spring unhurt from the groundHe, rushing up the steps, crossed the flagged yard, and pushed open the stable doorThere he turned and spoke to us "You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher'sYou shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have moreMy revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my sideYour girls that you all love are mine alreadyAnd through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feedBah!" With a contemptuous sneer, he passed quickly through the door, and we heard the rusty bolt creak as he fastened it behind himA door beyond opened and shutThe first of us to speak was the ProfessorRealizing the difficulty of following him through the stable, we moved toward the hall "We have learnt something? much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he fears usHe fears time, he fears want! For if not, why he hurry so? His very tone betray him, or my ears deceiveWhy take that money? You follow quickYou are hunters of the wild beast, and understand it soFor me, I make sure that nothing here may be of use to him, if so that he returns As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match Godalming and Morris had rushed out into the yard, and Harker had lowered himself from the window to follow the CountHe had, however, bolted the stable door, and by the time they had forced it open there was no sign of himVan Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the houseBut the mews was deserted and no one had seen him shop depart

His father-in-law, a businessman, would want to see the "title deed Unable to think of a solution, he was prepared to return home ,brazen-faced and tell them that he had not obtained a degree One day as he was going to the Chinese bibliography section of the Ber lin library to see a German friend, he noticed on the floor a large stack of periodicals published in Shanghai during the first years of the Republic of China, including The Eastern Miscellany, Short Story Monthly, The Grand China, and the Women's MagazineHaving stopped to leaf leisurely through one, he happened to see an advertisement with Chinese and English parallel texts placed by the "Correspondence Division of the Carleton Institute of Law 12 and Commerce" in the city of New YorkIt stated that for those Chinese students who had the desire to study abroad but no opportunity to do 50, the school had special correspondence courses, upon completion of which certifi of the B M A or ees would be granted The cate equivalents degr brochures would be forwarded immediately upon request by writing to such and such a number and on such and such a street in New York City Fang's heart skipped a beatAs a good twenty years had elapsed since the date of the advertisement, he had no way of knowing whether the school still existed or notAt any rate sending off a letter of inquiry won't cost much, he thought The man who had placed the advertisement was actually a swindlerSince no Chinese was ever taken in, he had dropped it for another line of busi ness and died some time agoThe apartment he had lived in was now rented to an Irishman, with all the Irish irresponsibility, quick wit, and povertyIt is said that an Irishman's fortune consists of his two breasts and two but tocks, but this one, being a tall, thin Bernard Shaw-type of man, did not have much breast or buttocksWhen he came upon Fang's letter in his mailbox, he thought the mailman had made a mistakeBut the address was clearly his; so full of curiosity, he opened the letterGreatly puzzled, he mulled over it for a while, then leaped for joy He quickly borrowed a typewriter from a tabloid reporter next door and typed out the following reply: "Since you have been studying in a uni versity in Europe, your level of achievement must be quite high, making it unnecessary for you to go through the correspondence proceduresYou need only send a 10,000-word dissertation and enclose five hundred UAfter evaluating your qualifications, we will immediately forward to you a Ph Letters can be addressed to myself without having to write the name of the schoolSigned, Patrick Mahoney Underneath his name he conferred upon himself four or five doctoral titles When Fang saw the letter was written on ordinary stationery without the name of the school engraved on it, and as the contents clearly showed the school to be fraudulent, he put it aside and forgot about it The Irishman meanwhile grew impatient and sent off another letter stating that if Fang found the price too high, the price could be negotiatedHe himself had always loved China, and as an educator, he was particularly averse to profit-seekingFang mulled it over for a while, suspecting that the Irishman was undoubted ly up to tricksIf he bought a bogus diploma and went back to dupe other people with it, wouldn't he himself be a fraud? But, remember, Fang had once been a philosophy major, and to a philosophy major lying and cheating were not always immoralIn Plato's Ideal State soldiers were justified in fooling the enemy, doctors in fooling their patients, and officials in fooling the peopleA sage like Confucius had pretended to be ill in order to trick Ju Pei into leav 13 ing,'6 and even Mencius had lied to King Hsuan of Ch'i and pretended that he was ill'~ Since both his father and his father-in-law hoped he would be come a Ph how could he, a son and son-in-law, dare disappoint them? Buying a degree to deceive them was like purchasing an official rank in Man chu times,18 or like the merchants of a British colony contributing a few ten thousand pound notes to the royal exchequer in exchange for a knighthood, he reasonedEvery dutiful son and worthy son-in-law should seek to please his elders by bringing glory to the familyIn any case, when later it came time for him to look for a job, he would never include this degree in his resum

Van Helsing continued "With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too farOur task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importanceI can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her faceIt is now but very, very slightBut it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without prejudgeHer teeth are sharper, and at times her eyes are more hardBut these are not all, there is to her the silence now often, as so it was with Miss LucyShe did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known laterIf it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescenceHe went on, "Then, what we must do is to prevent thisWe must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know notThis is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must beWhen today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so torturedI knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same conclusionFor at any rate it would take away the pain of doubtI told him, and the effect was as I expected It is now close to the time of our general gatheringVan Helsing has gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of itI really believe his purpose is to be able to pray alone-At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myselfHarker had sent a message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present, as she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our movements without her presence to embarrass usThe Professor and I looked at each other for an instant, and somehow we both seemed relievedFor my own part, I thought that if MrsHarker realized the danger herself, it was much pain as well as much danger avertedUnder the circumstances we agreed, by a questioning look and answer, with finger on lip, to preserve silence in our suspicions, until we should have been able to confer alone againWe went at once into our Plan of Campaign Van Helsing roughly put the facts before us first, "The Czarina Catherine left the Thames yesterday morningIt will take her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach VarnaBut we can travel overland to the same place in three daysNow, if we allow for two days less for the ship's voyage, owing to such weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear, and if we allow a whole day and night for any delays which may occur to us, then we have a margin of nearly two weeks "Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at latestThen we shall at any rate be in Varna a day before the ship arrives, and able to make such preparations as may be necessaryOf course we shall all go armed, armed against evil things, spiritual as well as physical Here Quincey Morris added, "I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before usI propose that we add Winchesters to our armamentI have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort aroundDo you remember, Art, when we had the pack after us at Tobolsk? What wouldn't we have given then for a repeater apiece!" "Good!" said Van Helsing, "Winchesters it shall beQuincey's head is level at times, but most so when there is to hunt, metaphor be more dishonour to science than wolves be of danger to shop man

"With the sad experience of Miss Lucy, we must this time be warned before things go too farOur task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importanceI can see the characteristics of the vampire coming in her faceIt is now but very, very slightBut it is to be seen if we have eyes to notice without prejudgeHer teeth are sharper, and at times her eyes are more hardBut these are not all, there is to her the silence now often, as so it was with Miss LucyShe did not speak, even when she wrote that which she wished to be known laterIf it be that she can, by our hypnotic trance, tell what the Count see and hear, is it not more true that he who have hypnotize her first, and who have drink of her very blood and make her drink of his, should if he will, compel her mind to disclose to him that which she know?" I nodded acquiescenceHe went on, "Then, what we must do is to prevent thisWe must keep her ignorant of our intent, and so she cannot tell what she know notThis is a painful task! Oh, so painful that it heartbreak me to think of it, but it must beWhen today we meet, I must tell her that for reason which we will not to speak she must not more be of our council, but be simply guarded by us He wiped his forehead, which had broken out in profuse perspiration at the thought of the pain which he might have to inflict upon the poor soul already so torturedI knew that it would be some sort of comfort to him if I told him that I also had come to the same conclusionFor at any rate it would take away the pain of doubtI told him, and the effect was as I expected It is now close to the time of our general gatheringVan Helsing has gone away to prepare for the meeting, and his painful part of itI really believe his purpose is to be able to pray alone-At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myselfHarker had sent a message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present, as she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our movements without her presence to embarrass usThe Professor and I looked at each other for an instant, and somehow we both seemed relievedFor my own part, I thought that if MrsHarker realized the danger herself, it was much pain as well as much danger avertedUnder the circumstances we agreed, by a questioning look and answer, with finger on lip, to preserve silence in our suspicions, until we should have been able to confer alone againWe went at once into our Plan of Campaign Van Helsing roughly put the facts before us first, "The Czarina Catherine left the Thames yesterday morningIt will take her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach VarnaBut we can travel overland to the same place in three daysNow, if we allow for two days less for the ship's voyage, owing to such weather influences as we know that the Count can bring to bear, and if we allow a whole day and night for any delays which may occur to us, then we have a margin of nearly two weeks "Thus, in order to be quite safe, we must leave here on 17th at latestThen we shall at any rate be in Varna a day before the ship arrives, and able to make such preparations as may be necessaryOf course we shall all go armed, armed against evil things, spiritual as well as physical Here Quincey Morris added, "I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before usI propose that we add Winchesters to our armamentI have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort aroundDo you remember, Art, when we had the pack after us at Tobolsk? What wouldn't we have given then for a repeater apiece!" "Good!" said Van Helsing, "Winchesters it shall beQuincey's head is level at times, but most so when there is to hunt, metaphor be more dishonour to science than wolves be of danger to manIn the meantime we can do nothing shop here

While still in Shanghai, Ch'ien had become dissatisfied with Fortress Besieged, and thought he could do betterHe began to write another novel to be called "Heart of the Artichoke" (Pai-ho hsin), after Baudelaire's phrase "Le coeur d'artichaut He had written some 3,000 to 4,000 words, but unfortunately the manuscript was lost in the mail when the Ch'iens moved from Shanghai to PekingHe has not worked on the novel since then In Peking Ch'ien first worked as a researcher in the Foreign Literature Institute of the Academy of Sciences; then he transferred to the Chinese Literature Institute of the same academySince the foundation of the Institute of Literature in the Academy of Social Sciences in 1952, he has been one of its two senior fellows, the other being Yu Ping-Po, well-known for his studies on the Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-lou meng)Ch'ien's wife Yang Chiang is a researcher in the institute Ch'ien seems to have abandoned the writing of his earlier vitriolic works and restricted himself to literary scholarshipHis most significant post-1949 work has been Annotated Selection of Sung Poetry (Sung-shib hsiian-chu), which was published in 1958Later he headed a team of scholars responsible for the writing of the T'ang and Sung sections of a history of Chinese literatureIn 1974 it was widely rumored that he had diedHsia to write a memorial essay, "In Memory of MrCh'ien Chung-shu" (Chui-nien Ch'ien Chung-shu hsien-sheng) ~6 Ch'ien, how ever, is alive and well and has been "resurrected" after the fall of the Gang of FourHis recent activities include visits to Rome in the fall of 1978 and to the United States in the spring of 1979 as a member of Chinese academic delegationsWhile he was in Italy, he talked with three scholars who were translating or had translated Fortress Besieged into French, Czech, and RussianYang Chiang was a member of a Chinese delegation in Paris while her husband was in AmericaHer most recent publication was a Chinese translation of Don Quixote in 1978, and it is now in its second printing In 1979 Ch'ien published a book containing four studies, one on Chinese painting and Chinese poetry dating back to the 1930s and the other three essays written since 1949 (including one on Lin Shu, which was partially translated by George Kao and published in Renditions)Also in 1979 a new edition of Annotated Selection of Sung Poetry with thirty additional notes was published Ch'ien's most important publication in 1979, however, is a mammoth work of over one million words entitled Kuan-chui pien, in four volumesEach section focuses on one major classical Chinese work: I ching, Shib ching, Chuang-tzu, Lieh-tzu, Shib-chi, Tso-chuan, and the complete pre T'ang proseAltogether ten studies, both philological and comparative (Western), comprising the four divisions of ching, shib, tzu, and chi, are written in a style more elegant and archaic than that of On the Art of PoetryCh'ien wanted to show the world that there is at least one person in China who can write in this style and has not broken with the old tradition; he also hoped to inspire younger Chinese everywhere to study the Chinese pastKuan-chui pien, Ch'ien believes, will be his masterworkthesis, On the Art of Poetry, and Annotated Selection of Sung Poetry are all works of solid scholarshipThe first represents meticulous research; the second contains many references to Western poetics from Plato to the Abb~ Bremond and an honest evaluation of Chinese poets and their shortcomings; and the preface to the third is a masterpiece of literary analysis Apart from these works, Ch'ien is primarily a satirist in his essays and short storiesFor example, the first essay in Marginalia of Life is "Satan Pays an Evening Visit to MrCh'ien Chung-shu" (Mo-kuei yeh fang Ch'ien Chung-shu hsien-sheng), a satire on man through the super natural, the targets being hypocrisy and ignoranceIn "On Laughter and Humor" (Shuo hsiao), he attacks those lacking humor; he mocks and scorns false champions of moraFortress Besiegedlity in "Those Who Moralize" (T'an chiao-hsun); he chides the hypocrites in "Men of Letters" (Lun wen-jen) and literary charlatans in "Illiteracy" (Shih wen-mang)In a similar vein, his vitriolic fire is also apparent in his short stories, most notably in "Inspiration" (Ling kan), a satiric and harsh attack on the writing profession itself and a lampoon on a number of well-known literary figuresLampooning as much as he does in Men, Beasts, and Ghosts, he is also a fine writer of psychological insightHis story "Cat" (Mao) is a good example of marital strife which mars the happiness of a certain Li familyEven finer than "Cat" is "Souvenir" (Chi nien), often considered the best story in Men, Beasts, and GhostsA study of the seduction of a lonely married woman by an air force pilot during the Sino-Japanese War, it emphasizes the heroine's feelings of guilt, fascination, revulsion, and relief toward her extramarital affairAlso well done is the story's ironic endingAfter the pilot dies in action, the woman's husband, not knowing of his wife's infidelity and impregnation by the pilot, suggests that they commemorate the dead pilot by naming the baby after him, if it is a boy Fortress Besieged, however, remains the best of Ch'ien's pre-1949 worksStructured in nine chapters, it is a comedy of manners with much picaresque humor, as well as a scholar's novel, a satire, a commentary on courtship and marriage, and a study of one contemporary man The nine chapters can be divided into four sections, or what Roland Barthes calls "functional sequences": 9 Section I (chapters 1?4); Section II (chapter 5); Section III (chapters 6?8); and Section IV (chapter shop 9)