Counsel for the Defense

By: Scott, Leroy

Book Excerpt: ...d with that he passed out of the office and down the stairway to the street.CHAPTER IITHE BUBBLE REPUTATIONDespite its thirty thousand population--"Forty thousand, and growing, sir " loyally declared those disinterested citizens engaged in the sale of remote fields of ragweed as building lots--Westville was still but half-evolved from its earlier state of an overgrown country town. It was as yet semi-pastoral, semi-urban. Automobiles and farm wagons locked hubs in brotherly embrace upon its highways; cowhide boots and patent leather shared its sidewalks. There was a stockbroker's office that was thoroughly metropolitan in the facilities it afforded the lite for relieving themselves of the tribulation of riches; and adjoining it was Simpson Brothers & Company, wherein hick'ry-shirted gentlemen bartered for threshing machines, hayrakes, axle grease, and such like baubles of Arcadian pastime.There were threeClose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08J55MRLG
• ISBN13: 9798677477676
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"