_Letter, Mitchell, Sons and Candy to Lord Godalming._
_ 1 October._
My Lord,
We are at all times only too happy to meet your wishes. We beg, with
regard to the desire of your Lordship, expressed by Mr. Harker on your
behalf, to supply the following information concerning the sale and
purchase of No. 347, Piccadilly. The original vendors are the executors
of the late Mr. Archibald Winter-Suffield. The purchaser is a foreign
nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the
purchase money in notes over the counter, if your Lordship will pardon
us using so vulgar an expression. Beyond this we know nothing whatever
of him.
We are, my Lord,
Your Lordship s humble servants,
MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY.
_Dr. Seward s Diary._
_2 October._--I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to
make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield s room,
and gave him instructions that if there should be anything strange he
was to call me. After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire
in the study--Mrs. Harker having gone to bed--we discussed the attempts
and discoveries of the day. Harker was the only one who had any result,
and we are in great hopes that his clue may be an important one.
Before going to bed I went round to the patient s room and looked in
through the observation trap. He was sleeping soundly, and his heart
rose and fell with regular respiration.
This morning the man on duty reported to me that a little after midnight
he was restless and kept saying his prayers somewhat loudly. I asked him
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