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Dracula
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It was on the dark side of twilight when we got to Bistritz,
which is a very interesting old place. Being practically on the
frontier for the Borgo Pass leads from it into Bukovina it
has had a very stormy existence, and it certainly shows marks
of it. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which
made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. At the very be-
ginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three
weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being
assisted by famine and disease.
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone
Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-
fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways
of the country. I was evidently expected, for when I got near the
door I faced a cheery-looking elderly woman in the usual peas-
ant dress white undergarment with long double apron, front,
and back, of coloured stuff fitting almost too tight for modesty.
When I came close she bowed and said, «The Herr English-
man?» «Yes,» I said, «Jonathan Harker.» She smiled, and gave
some message to an elderly man in white shirt-sleeves, who had
followed her to the door. He went, but immediately returned
with a letter:
«My Friend. Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously
expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the dili-
gence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At
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the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you
to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy
one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.
«Your friend,
«DRACULA.»
4 May. I found that my landlord had got a letter from the
Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for
me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat
reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my Ger-
man. This could not be true, because up to then he had under-
stood it perfectly; at least, he answered my questions exactly
as if he did. He and his wife, the old lady who had received me,
looked at each other in a frightened sort of way. He mumbled
out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all
r _he knew. When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and
could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed
themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply
refused to speak further. It was so near the time of starting that
I had no time to ask any one else, for it was all very mysterious
and not by any means comforting.
Just before I was levying, the old lady came up to my room
and said in a very liysteric^L way:
«Must you go? Oh! young Herr, must you go? "She was in such
an excited state that she seemed to have lost her grip of what
German she knew, and mixed it all up with some other language
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