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Content warning. This

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episode contains racist language and stereotypes.

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Some slurs have been changed, but the sentiment

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remains. Jonathan

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Harker's journal. Kept in

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shorthand. The 28th of May.

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There is a chance of escape. Or,

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at any rate, of being able to send word

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home.

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A band of Saskani have come to

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the castle, and are encamped in the courtyard.

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These Saskani are Romani. I

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have notes of them in my book. They

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are peculiar to this part of the world, though allied

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to the ordinary Romani all the world over.

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There are thousands of them in Hungary and Transylvania,

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who are almost outside all law.

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They attach themselves as a rule to some

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great noble or boyar, and

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call themselves by his name. They

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are fearless and without religion, save

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superstition, and they talk only

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their own varieties of the Romani tongue.

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I shall write some letters home,

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and shall try to get them to have

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them post it. I

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have already spoken them through my window to begin

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acquaintanceship. They took

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their hats off and made obeyance and many signs,

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which, however, I could

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not understand any more than I could their spoken

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language. I

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have written the letters. Mina's

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is in shorthand, and I simply asked

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Mr. Hawkins to communicate with her. To

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her I have explained my situation, but

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without the horrors which I may only surmise.

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It would shock and frighten her to death were

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I to expose my heart to her. Should

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the letters not carry, then, the Count shall not

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yet know my secret or the extent of

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my knowledge.

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I have given the letters. I threw them

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through the window. the bars of my window with a gold piece,

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and made what signs I could to have them posted.

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The man who took them pressed them to his heart and

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bowed, and then put them in his cap.

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I could do no more. I stole back

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to the study and began to read, as

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the Count did not come in I

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have written here. The

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Count has come. He

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sat down beside me and said in his

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smoothest voice as he opened two

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letters. N'zgani has given

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me these, of which, though I know

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not whence they come, I shall of course

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take care. See?

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He must have looked at it. One is

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from you, and to my friend Peter Hawkins.

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The other? Here

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he caught sight of the strange symbols as he opened

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the envelope, and the dark look

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came into his face, and his

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eyes blazed wickedly. The

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other is a vile thing, an

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outrage upon friendship and hospitality.

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It is not signed, well,

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so it cannot matter to us. And

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he calmly

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held letter and envelope in

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the flame of the lamp till they were

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consumed. Then

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he went on. The letter to Hawkins, that I

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shall of course send on, since

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it is yours. Your letters

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are sacred to me. You are pardoned,

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my friend, but unknowingly I did break the seal.

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Will you not cover it again? He

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held out the letter to me, and

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with a courteous bow handed me a clean

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envelope.

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I

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could only redirect it and hand

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it to him in silence. When

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he went out of the room, I could hear the key turn

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softly. A minute

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later I went over and tried it, and the door

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was locked. When

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an hour or two after the Count

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came quietly into the room, his coming

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awakened me, for I had gone to sleep on the sofa.

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He was very courteous and very

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cheery in his manner, and seeing that I

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had been sleeping, he said, So, my friend,

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you are tired? Get to bed.

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I may not have the pleasure to talk tonight, since

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there are many labors to me. But

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you will sleep, I pray. I

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passed to my room and went to bed, and,

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strange to say, slept without dreaming.

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Despair

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has its own calms. This

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episode featured Ben Galpin

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as Jonathan Harker and Kareem Cronfley

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as Dracula. Directed by

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Steven Indrosano, dialogue

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editing by Steven Indrosano, sound

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design by Tal Meneer, produced

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by Ella Watts and Pacific S

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Obadiah, with executive producers

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Steven Indrosano, Tal Meneer,

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and Hannah Wright.

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A bloody FM production.