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`` Does he generally lock the door at night ? '' asked the lawyer . `` No ; and I knew by that that he meant to have a good sleep , and not be disturbed this morning . So I never went near him till I heard his bell , between ten and eleven o'clock ; and when I went he was just getting out of bed , so that he had a matter of six hours ' sleep . '' `` It do n't seem to have done him much good any way , '' rejoined the lawyer , thinking to himself that the hours during which Nanni supposed his master to have been sleeping , had more probably been spent in restless agitation , the result of bringing his mind to the determination which he had definitely announced to the lawyer , when he had summoned him about an hour after he had risen from his sleepless bed . `` I shall come and see how he is to-morrow morning , '' the lawyer added ; `` and I hope I may bring some good news about Signor Ludovico . '' Behind the Palazzo Castelmare there was an extensive range of stabling and coach-houses , with a large stable-yard opening on to a back street , which was the nearest way to the house of the Signor Professore Tomosarchi , on whom Signor Fortini thought he would call , just to ask whether he had yet seen the body , or at what hour in the morning he thought of making his post-mortem examination .