unknown size · floor uncertain · last known use empty
the door is plain and heavy and shut. it carries a small brass knob, a keyhole with no key in it, and a horizontal iron bolt which has been drawn across from inside. when the door is tried, it does not yield. there is no other way in.
the room behind the door is empty. the keeper knows this from a high transom window above the lintel, through which a candle held up shows wide-plank floor and four bare walls and nothing else — no occupant, no chair, no body, no bedroll. the dust is undisturbed.
the keeper supposes the room was locked by someone who left through a passage no longer locatable. the keeper supposes also that the room may have locked itself, but does not write this in the log.
field-note: the bolt has not rusted. nothing about it suggests it has been drawn very long.