I had only one thought in my head - to kill the vampire, to finish him for ever. Arthur and jack were right behind me when I got to the cart. I jumped from my horse onto the cart, and while jack and Arthur fought the driver and the other men, I pushed the coffin to the ground. It fell and broke open Count Dracula lay there, and the last light from the sun fell on his terrible face. His eyes burned red and they looked at me in hate. In a few seconds, when the sun went down, he would be free to move. I jumped down to the ground, held my knife high over his heart, and brought it down as hard as I could. It went straight through the vampire's heart. Count Dracula gave a horrible scream, and then lay quiet. In the same second the sun went down, and when we looked into the coffin again, it was empty ...