CHAPTER 20.
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL.
1 October, evening .-- I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything.
The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.

I learned, however, from his wife, who seemed a decent, poor soul, that he was only the assistant of Smollet, who of the two mates was the responsible person.

So off I drove to Walworth, and found Mr.
Joseph Smollet at home and in his shirtsleeves, taking a late tea out of a saucer.

He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own.

He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.