We will go through this room now," said the first policeman, putting his hand on the lock of the chamber door.
"Ye sell na gae into my bedroom, ye de'il! It is na decent for a strange mon to gae into a leddy's chamber!" cried Rose, springing before him to bar his entrance.
"Never mind her, Mr.Pryor; I'll take care of her," said the man called Perkins, as with a firm hand he laid hold of his prisoner, and forced her, screaming, scratching, and resisting with all her might from the door.
"Excuse me, my girl, but this is a murder case, and we must not stand upon politeness to the fair sex; here," added Perkins, as he forced her down upon her chair and held her there so firmly that all she could do was to spit, glare, and rail at him.
"Oh, my dear, good lady, do be quiet.

You are in the hands of the law, which I believe you to be as innersent as the dove unborn; but it will be the best for you to submit quietly," said the housekeeper, who had hitherto sat in appalled silence, taking note of the proceedings.
"I will na submit to ony sic indignity," screamed Rose, with an additional torrent of very objectionable language.
Meantime officers Pryor and Thompson passed into the bedroom and began the search.

Bureau and bureau drawers, wardrobes, boxes, caskets, cases, were opened, ransacked, and their contents turned out, but no sign of the stolen property was discovered.

Closets, wash-stands, and chair cushions next underwent a thorough examination, with a similar result.
Then the bed was pulled to pieces, and the mattresses were closely scrutinized, to detect any sign of a recent ripping and re-sewing of any part of the seams through which the stolen jewels might have been pushed in among the stuffing, but evidently the mattresses had not been tampered with.
Then the two officers of the law stopped and looked at each other.
"Before proceeding further in our search, we must be sure as the stolen goods are not in this room," said Pryor.
"I don't know where they can be concealed in this room," said Thompson.
"We must apply our infallible square inch rule, now.

Take the inside of this room from floor to ceiling, and search in succession _every square inch of it_.