1 He mumbled out that the money had been sent in a letter, and that was all he knew.
2 The strange driver evidently heard the words, for he looked up with a gleaming smile.
3 His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen.
4 Without a word he shook his reins, the horses turned, and we swept into the darkness of the Pass.
5 It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.
6 I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us.
7 As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still.
8 This time, after going to the far side of the Pass, he suddenly turned down a narrow roadway which ran sharply to the right.
9 The driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses, and, jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness.
10 This could not be true, because up to then he had understood it perfectly; at least, he answered my questions exactly as if he did.
11 The driver, however, was not in the least disturbed; he kept turning his head to left and right, but I could not see anything through the darkness.
12 How he came there, I know not, but I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command, and looking towards the sound, saw him stand in the roadway.
13 Once there appeared a strange optical effect: when he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same.
14 At last there came a time when the driver went further afield than he had yet gone, and during his absence, the horses began to tremble worse than ever and to snort and scream with fright.
15 When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further.
16 With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.
17 I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.
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