Instant search being often made, we never could discover any appearance of human or brute being.
Repeatedly disturbed in the same manner, I made it my constant practice to search the room and closets within, and to secure the only door on the inside.

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Yet this precaution did not preclude the disturbance, which continued with little interruption." Nobody, in short, could enter this room, except by passing through that of Mrs.Ricketts, the door of which "was always made fast by a drawn bolt".