I have read of a gentleman who owned a so fine house in London, and when he went for months of summer to Switzerland and lock up his house, some burglar came and broke window at back and got in. Then he went and made open the shutters in front and walk out and in through the door, before the very eyes of the police. Then he has an auction in that house, and advertise it, and put up big notice; and when the day come he sells off by a great auctioneer all the goods of that other man who own them. Then he goes to a builder, and he sells him that house, making an agreement that he pull it down and take all away within a certain time. And your police and other authority help him all they can. And when that owner come back from his holiday in Switzerland he finds only an empty hole where his house had been. This was all done en regale; and in our work we shall be en regale too. We shall not go so early that the policemen who have then little to think of, shall deem it strange; but we shall go after ten o’clock, when there are many about, and such things would be done were we indeed owners of the house.

Dracula