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Counsel for the Defense

by Leroy Scott

★4.0/5
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The room was thick with dust and draped with ancient cobwebs. In one corner dismally reposed a literary junk heap-old magazines, broken-backed works of reference, novels once unanimously read but now unanimously forgotten. The desk was a helter-skelter of papers. One of the two chairs had its burst cane seat mended by an atlas of the world; and wherever any of the floor peered dimly through the general debris it showed a complexion of dark and ineradicable greasiness. Altogether, it was a room hopelessly unfit for human habitation; which is perhaps but an indirect manner of stating that it was...

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