Dracula By Bram Stoker Chapters 7-8     From a correspondent.
One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The
weather had been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon
in the month of August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever
known, and the great body of holiday-makers laid out yesterday
for visits to Mulgrave Woods, Robin Hood's Bay, Rig Mill,
Runswick, Staithes, and the various trips in the neighborhood of
Whitby. The steamers Emma and Scarborough made trips up and down
the coast, and there was an unusual amount of 'tripping' both to
and from Whitby. The day was unusually fine till the afternoon,
when some of the gossips who frequent the East Cliff churchyard,
and from the commanding eminence watch the wide sweep of sea
visible to the north and east, called attention to a sudden show
of 'mares tails' high in the sky to the northwest. The wind was
then blowing from the south-west in the mild degree which in
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