Trapped in Transylvania by Tony Abbott

Author:Tony Abbott
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781480486850
Publisher: Open Road Media

Chapter 14

Dr. Seward’s house in London was stuck between a hospital on one side and a dark old house on the other. Although it was rainy and cold and the fog was thick, it was still warm and cozy inside. A fire crackled noisily in the fireplace as we gathered around the dining room table.

While Van Helsing paced up and down, Morris chewed a big cigar, and Holmwood sat frowning in a corner. Not only was Lucy dead, but Holmwood’s father had just died, so now everybody was calling him Lord Godalming. Sort of a mouthful, if you ask me. I turned to Frankie and checked her place in the book.

We had a lot of pages left.

“Shouldn’t we start the big meeting of the guys?” I asked.

Van Helsing shook his head. “We are waiting for—”

“More characters?” said Frankie. “I mean … people?”

I looked at her. She looked at me. People. Right. They did seem a lot more real now than when we had started.

“We wait for the doorbell,” said Van Helsing.

I gave Frankie the old head nod, and she began reading. Suddenly, she jumped up and rushed to the door.

Ding—!

Frankie pulled the door open before it donged, and Harker and his wife Mina stumbled into the room.

“Mr. Harker Jonathan and his wife of charms, Mina!” Van Helsing boomed, clasping their hands. “I am with so much pleasure meeting you now both!”

Then with a snap of his fingers, the professor bid us all to sit down and start the meeting.

“Begin us now!” he said. “First, Harker Jonathan, what say you?”

Harker stood up and glanced at all of us one by one. He looked tired and scared. “Dracula is in London,” he said. “And though it seems impossible, he appears to be younger, stronger, and more powerful than before. Not only that, but with Mina helping me, we have tracked down the boxes of dirt—”

“Evil dirt!” I said.

“Bad evil!” Frankie added.

“Ya—quiet!” said Van Helsing. “And the dirty boxes are where?”

“They were unloaded from the boat at Whitby and brought to the house Dracula purchased,” said Mina. “An old house in London known as Carfax Abbey—”

“Oh—my—gosh!” Dr. Seward exclaimed suddenly, jumping up from the table. “Carfax? Carfax? Carfax!”

“Carfax Abbey,” said Frankie, pointing to the page.

“But—Carfax Abbey is—the house next door!”

Dr. Seward pointed out the window at the dark hulky shape beyond the trees. It looked ultraspooky.

“Astounding it is!” said Van Helsing. “Right here?”

I gasped. “That’s some kind of coincidence!”

“All fifty boxes were brought to the chapel at Carfax,” Harker went on. “I’ve been asking, and it seems Dracula has purchased three other London houses, but I know not where. Some boxes may have been moved around.”

“We must destroy all the boxes,” said Lord Godalming—formerly Holmwood—from his chair. “To avenge my dear, dear Lucy!”

“What I want to know,” drawled Quincey Morris, his cigar held tight between his teeth, “is why there is silly dirt in the boxes. Man alive! Back in America, we leave dirt on the ground—where it belongs!”

“Ah!” said Van Helsing, puffing up his chest.

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