Dracula by Bram Stoker,

Brahm Stoker,

Red by Mike Bennett.

Episode 27.

Chapter 27

Meena Harker's Journal, 1 November.

All day long we have travelled and at a good speed.

The horses seem to know that they are being

kindly treated for they will go willingly their full stage at best speed. We have

now had so many changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged

to think that the journey will be an easy one.

Dr Van Helsing is laconic, he tells the farmers that he is hurrying to bistritts and pays them well to make the exchange of horses.

We get hot soup or coffee or tea and off we go.

It is a lovely country, full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave and strong and simple and seem full of nice qualities. They are very, very superstitious. In the first house where we stopped,

when the woman who served us saw the scar on my forehead, she crossed herself and put out two fingers towards me to keep off the evil eye.

I believe they went to the trouble of putting an extra amount of garlic into our food,

and I can't abide garlic. Ever since then I have taken care not to take off

my hat or veil and so have escaped their suspicions and as we have no driver with us to

carry tails we go ahead of scandal.

But I dare say that the fear of the evil lie will follow hard behind us all the way.

The Professor seems tireless. All day he would not take any rest, though he made me sleep for a long spell.

At sunset time he hypnotized me and he says I answered as usual darkness lapping water and creaking wood so our

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