All the difference does _not_ lie in a name. They were very
different causes, and the effects must be very different.
"When Teufelsbuerst came down in the morning, he crept into the studio like
a murderer. There lay the awful white block, seeming to his eyes just the
same as he had left it. What was to be done with it? He dared not open it.
Mould and model must go together. But whither? If inquiry should be made
after Wolkenlicht, and this were discovered anywhere on his premises,
would it not be enough to bring him at once to the gallows? Therefore it
would be dangerous to bury it in the garden, or in the cellar.
"'Besides,' thought he, with a shudder, 'that would be to fix the vampire
as a guest for ever.'--And the horrors of the past night rushed back upon
his imagination with renewed intensity. What would it be to have the dead
Karl crawling about his house for ever, now inside, now out, now sitting
on the stairs, now staring in at the windows?
"He would have dragged it to the bottom of his garden, past which the
Moldau flowed, and plunged it into the stream; but then, should the
spectre continue to prove troublesome, it would be almost impossible to
reach the body so as to destroy it by fire; besides which, he could not do
it without assistance, and the probability of discovery.
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