Let me begin with facts—bare, meagre facts, verified by books and figures, and of which there can be no doubt. I must not confuse them...

I have had a long talk with the Count. I asked him a few questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject wonderfully....

WHEN I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering...