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For my brief inspection of his hair had convinced me that he was not the unknown man whom I sought ; and , though he would make an acceptable addition to the group of specimens in the long wall-case , I was more interested in the companion whom I felt confident he would bring with him . The elation of spirit produced by the prospect of this second visit was such that I forthwith closed the shop and spent the rest of the evening exercising with the concussor and practicing flying leaps down the cellar steps with the aid of the giant-stride . `` I slept little that night . As a special precaution against failure , I had left the back gate unbolted and refrained from locking the outside cellar door ; with the sole result that I was roused up at one in the morning by a meddlesome constable and rebuked sourly for my carelessness . Otherwise , not a soul came to enliven my solitude . The second night passed in the same dull fashion , leaving me restless and disappointed ; and when the third slipped by without the sign of a visitor , I became really uneasy . `` The fourth day was Saturday , and the late evening -- the end of the Sabbath -- turned my shop into a veritable Land of Goshen .