I pushed open a shutter and looked about me.

The rooms were not only unoccupied, but unfurnished! The walls and floors were utterly bare! Not a sign of human occupancy existed.

I hastened out to the little walk, and looked up and down the street, to satisfy myself that I had made no mistake.

No, this was the number--this was the place.
Yesterday these rooms were fitted sumptuously as for a princess; now they were naked.

Not a stick of the furniture existed, nor was there any trace either of haste or deliberation in this removal.