The Washington times., 1917-12-22
DRACULA,
THE VAMPIRE
By BRAN STOKER.

We wish to get into the house, but We
have no key; is 1t not so?" I nodded.
THE SIMPLEST WAY
WAY Is THE BESZ.
'sNow, suppops that you were, in
truth. the owner OF that house, and
could not still get Il; and think there
was to you no conscience Of ths
housebreaker, what would you DOR
81 should get a respectable lock-
smith, and set him to work to pick
The lock for me-"
And your police. they would inter-
fere, would they not?'
"Oh, no! not IL they knew the man
was properly employed"
Then" he looked at me keenly as
he spoke. "all that Il In doubt 10 the
conscience OF the employer. and the
belief OF your policemen as to whether =.
or no that Employer has a good con
science or a bad one. Your police must
indeed be jealous men and clever-oh,
so clever.-in reading the heart. that
they trouble themselves in such mat
ter.
mo, no, my friend Jonathan. you go
take the lock on a hundred empty
house in this your London, or OF any
city in the world; and II you do IL as
such things are rightly done, and at
the time such things are rightly done.
no one will interfere. have read OF
a gentleman who owned a so fine
went for months of summer to Swift
zerland and lock up his house, some
burglar came and broke window At
back and got in.
Then he went and made open the
shutters in front and walk out and in
through the door, before the very
eyes OF the police. Then he have an
auction in that house. and advertise
IL, and put hp big notice; and when
the day come he sell on by a great
auctioneer all the goods OF that other
builder, and he sell him that house.
making an agreement that he pull II
down and take all away within GER
tain time. And your police and other
authority help him all they can.
"And when that owner come back
from his holiday in Switzerland he
find only an empty hole where his
house had been This was all done
en- regle; and in our work we shall
be en- regle, too. We shall not go 80
early that the policemen. who have
then little to think of. shall deem IL
strange: but we shall go after 10
o'clock, when there are many about.
and when such things would be done
were we, indeed, owners OF the
house"
PRACTICABILITY OF PLAN
BECOMES APPARENT.
could not but see how right he
was. and the terrible despair OF Mina's
face became relaxed a thought: there
was hope in such good counsel. Van
went on:
when once within that house We
masgand more clues; at any rate some
OF .aS Sshsremain there whilst the rest
find the other places where there be
more earth-boxes-at Bermondsey and
Mile End"
Lord GodalminE stood up. "I can be
OF some use here" he said. at shall
wire to my people to have horses and
carriages where they will be most con-
venient."
Look here, old fellow" said Nor
riS, cit Is a capital idea to have all
ready in case We want to 60 horse
backing; but don't you think that one
Of your snappy carriages with its
heraldic adoenments in q byway Of
walworth or Mile End wOuld attract
too much attention for our purposes?
Il seems to me that we ought to take
cabs when we go south or east: and
even leave them somewhere near the
we are going to-"
Friend Quincy is rightr' said the
professor. His head Is what you call
in plane with the horizon It Is .
difficult thing that we go to do, and
we do not want no peoples to watch
Us II so II may"
CTO he Continued TonOrrow)
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