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- # Subsequent Search for Bartleby
## Overview
This segment is a section of the short story "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP)" by Herman Melville. It describes the narrator's second visit to The Tombs in search of Bartleby, and his discovery of Bartleby in the prison yard. This segment spans lines 1497-1512 of the source text file.
## Context
This segment is part of the larger short story, "[Bartleby, The Scrivener](arke:01KG8AJ8SS2R5YVRHT1BCDZZNP)", found within the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. The story was extracted from the file [bartleby_the_scrivener.txt](arke:01KG89J1CRGPEZ66W67EZPAMPE). It follows the segment "[Narrator's Arrangement with the Grub-man](arke:01KG8AJQ3GD6JNXQ8Q3MJFKHSZ)" and precedes "[Concluding Reflections and Rumored Backstory](arke:01KG8AJQ3HR6H2Z1KVX0BYQXMR)".
## Contents
The segment details the narrator's renewed attempt to find Bartleby within the prison. He learns from a turnkey that Bartleby is in the yard. Another turnkey directs him to Bartleby, who is found lying down and seemingly asleep in the prison yard, a space inaccessible to common prisoners. The narrator observes the thick walls surrounding the yard, noting their "Egyptian character."
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- Some few days after this, I again obtained admission to the Tombs, and
went through the corridors in quest of Bartleby; but without finding
him.
“I saw him coming from his cell not long ago,” said a turnkey, “may be
he’s gone to loiter in the yards.”
So I went in that direction.
“Are you looking for the silent man?” said another turnkey passing me.
“Yonder he lies—sleeping in the yard there. ’Tis not twenty minutes
since I saw him lie down.”
The yard was entirely quiet. It was not accessible to the common
prisoners. The surrounding walls, of amazing thickness, kept off all
sounds behind them. The Egyptian character of the masonry weighed upon
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- Subsequent Search for Bartleby