Burke's Strange Behavior

The next day, November 1st, Burke went to the boarding house to check on the, on the lodgers that had been sent to the house. One of these lodgers thought that Burke was behaving a little strangely. She said he was very nervously watching her and calling after her when she began cleaning around a pile of straw near the corner of the room. He kept up his weird, like anxious behavior for most of the morning. When several, several of the occupants of the house needed to go out that afternoon, Burke actually instructed Mr. Brogan, who knows about all this stuff now, to sit in a chair by the bed in the corner and not move until he returned.