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Dracula

Chapter 20

JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
1 October, evening.—I found Thomas Snelling in his
house at Bethnal 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 the assistant
of Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible
person. So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr. Joseph
Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea
out of a saucer. He is 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-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 destinations
of the boxes. There were, he said, six in the cartload
which he took from Carfax and left at 197 Chicksand
Street, Mile End New Town, and another six which he

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