Dracula by Bram Stoker, read by Mike Bennett. Bannett.

Episode 20.

Chapter 20

20 Jonathan Harker's Journal Chapter 20

Jonathan Harker's Journal

First October, evening.

I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnall Green,

but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.

The very prospect of beer, which my expected coming had opened to him, had proved too much,

and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.

I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul,

that he was only assistant to Smollett, who, of the two mates, was the responsible person.

So I drove off to Walworth and found Mr. Joseph Smollett at home and in his shirt sleeves,

taking a late tea out of a saucer.

He has a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece

of his own. He remembered all about the incident of the boxes and from a wonderful dog's-eared notebook which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers and which had

hieroglyphical entries in thick half obliterated pencil he gave me the

destination of the boxes there were he said six in the cart load which he took from Carfax and left at 197 Mile End

New Town, and another six which he deposited at Jamaica Lane, Burmancy.

If then the Count meant to scatter these ghastly refuges of his over London,

these places were chosen as the first of delivery, so that later he might distribute more fully.

The systematic manner in which this was done made me think that he could not mean to confine himself to two sides of London. He was now fixed on the far

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