“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!” The strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver, whose face I had not seen, that for a moment I doubted if it were not the same person to whom I was speaking; so to make sure, I said interrogatively:⁠—

“Count Dracula?” He bowed in a courtly way as he replied:⁠—

“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome,

Mr.