The original vendors are the executors of the late Mr.Archibald Winter-Suffield.

The purchaser is a foreign nobleman, Count de Ville, who effected the purchase himself paying the purchase money in notes 'over the counter,' if your Lordship will pardon us using so vulgar an expression.

Beyond this we know nothing whatever of him.
"We are, my Lord, "Your Lordship's humble servants, "MITCHELL, SONS & CANDY." DR.SEWARD'S DIARY.
2 October .-- I placed a man in the corridor last night, and told him to make an accurate note of any sound he might hear from Renfield's room, and gave him instructions that if there should be anything strange he was to call me.

After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire in the study, Mrs.Harker having gone to bed, we discussed the attempts and discoveries of the day.

Harker was the only one who had any result, and we are in great hopes that his clue may be an important one.
Before going to bed I went round to the patient's room and looked in through the observation trap.