nevertheless, the congregation sets out and finds the witch. upon finding her, the pastor directs the crowd to take her to the lake, where she will be impaled and dunked to death. as bardella is tied into the chair, she curses the people and their descendants for what they are doing and threatens she will return. the count and his attendant secretly watch the execution from a distance upon a hilltop and seemingly purposely do not intervene. then the story returns to the reflective von helsing in his cave.