How was it they didn't find it if it's in the library, and how was it the Miss Penfolds allowed them to search ?" "They couldn't help it," Jane replied.

"There was an order from the court in London, or a judge or some one, and they couldn't stop it.
They went away when the men came and didn't come back till it was all over.

I don't know how it was that they didn't find it in the library, for they searched it regular.

I was in there two or three times while they were at work, and they took out all the books from the shelves and pulled down a lot of the wood-work and turned it all upside down, but they couldn't find anything.

Still, you see, it ain't a likely tale of theirs as they keeps the door locked because they want it to be just as he left it, when it's all been turned topsy-turvy and everything put out of its place.
"That's what Martha and me couldn't get over, though Martha told me they done their best to have it put just as it was; and there's paper and pens on the table, just to pretend it is exactly as it used to be and that no one hadn't been in.