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Van Helsing described what steps were taken during the day to discover on what boat and whither bound Count Dracula made his escape:⁠—

“As I knew that he wanted to get back to Transylvania, I felt sure that he must go by the Danube mouth; or by somewhere in the Black Sea, since by that way he come. It was a dreary blank that was before us.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico