Counsel for the Defense

Leroy Scott (1875-1929) was an American author. His works include: The Walking Delegate (1905), To Him That Hath (1907), Counsel for the Defense (1912), No. 13 Washington Square (1912) and Children of the Whirlwind (1921). "The room was thick with dust and draped with ancient cobwebs. In one corner dismally reposed a literary junk heap-old magazines, brokenbacked 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 the office of the editor of a successful newspaper. "