 The Countess sends Sandor to fetch her a model to paint ; he returns with Lili ( Nan Grey ) . Countess Zaleska initially resists her urges but succumbs and attacks Lili . Although the girl survives the attack , when Dr. Garth tries to hypnotize her to learn what happened , she suffers heart failure and dies . As the Countess comes to accept that a cure is not possible — and the doctor discovers the truth about her condition — she lures him to Transylvania by kidnapping Janet ( Marguerite Churchill ) , the woman he loves . She intends to transform him into a vampire to be her eternal companion ; Dr. Garth agrees to exchange his life for Janet 's . Before he can be transformed , Countess Zaleska is destroyed when Sandor shoots her through the heart with an arrow as revenge for her breaking her promise to make him immortal . He takes aim at Dr. Garth but is shot dead by a policeman . 
