Sentence:  At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector <WSD>disinterred</WSD> the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.