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`` Not in reason , sir . But this is out of all reason . He has been there for ten days , and neither Mr. Warren , nor I , nor the girl has once set eyes upon him . We can hear that quick step of his pacing up and down , up and down , night , morning , and noon ; but except on that first night he had never once gone out of the house . '' `` Oh , he went out the first night , did he ? '' `` Yes , sir , and returned very late -- after we were all in bed . He told me after he had taken the rooms that he would do so and asked me not to bar the door .