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It's time for part two of our presentation of Jonathan Harkas Journal,

a.k.a aka the opening of Bram Stokas, Dracula.

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I must have been asleep.

For certainly, if I had been fully awake, I must have noticed the approach of such a

remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways

led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.

I have not yet been able to see it by daylight.

When the clash stopped the driver, jumped down and held out his hand to assist me to a light. Again, I could not but notice his

prodigious strength. His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine

if he had chosen. Then he took out my traps and placed them on the ground beside me as I stood close to a great door,

old and studded with large iron nails, and set in a projecting doorway of massive stone.

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