The age-herald., 1899-02-19
THE EXCEPTIONAL CASE.

Brown Rembrantesque shadows length- ened the shelves where the law books stood in serried ranks, whne from the deep embrasure of the window long shafts of sunlight suggestive of the heat with out, fell upon the carpeted floor
 Click, click, clickety clack, and the sound of human voices and of hurrying foot steps were heard as the elevator unloaded its human freight in the railways as It passed up and down continually during the day.
 Against the wall hung two large steel en- cravings, pictures of two men prominent in the annals of his country which showed that the occupant of the office was hero- wofshipper and true to the traditions of his ancestors and his native land.
 On the top of a bookcase that stood near one of the windows that looked out over blackened housetops were two certificates framed, one given him on his graduation from the University of T., the other on his passing the examination before the bar of the city where he lived
 The desk where he wrote his briefs and the revolving chair in which he sat while propounding law to his clients were the same as are usually found in offices On the desk with some papers was calendar with the date, July 14th, 1897, on the up- turned leaf, and in between the pen-rack was a newspaper clipping showing su- Drem0 court 1uQSe s uSClSlOn III d tCot SdoS covering the rights of patents, showing the lawyer was in close touch with his profess sion, which is a noble trait, for the lawyer holds the same relation to the human family as the doctor; both are priests to whom men and women confer.
 The doctor must know the condition or his patients mind before he can prescribe for the bodily ailment; and the lawyer must know the history and crime or the man who has sinned and the woman who has erred before he can plead their cause. Both should be men of purity and honor. The lawyer was a scion Of an ola anu aristocratic family, whose men had been noted for generations for their chlvalry and culture. .,
 He was above the average in height, with n slight stoop often. seen in students who have attained their mental growth early. He was a well-grooned man, even 10 the polishing of his finger nails.
 His hands were long and shapely and as soft as a woman's who had been tenderiy reared, but there was in the pressure or his hand-clap that indescribabie some thing which differentiates character. In taIixirs he would now and then shrug his shoulders while sinister look lurked in his eve which de.racted from an otherwise pleasing appearance. ~4 sy-
 He had d baiitiy and 1t had been expanded by a classical education, but he had let vanity and conceit prey upon ais mind un-
 
 right and duty.
 A gentle rap on the door reused him from his work The "come in" given, there walked Into his office a young girl just budding into wofnanhood Her form was one of curves rounded but to faint sug- eestion of voluptuousnesss With the pink of dawn in her cheeks, smile in her wide open eyes and a curve in her red lips; a lot of wavy light brown hair was prettily parted and knotted into a psyche on the t-, --1IH lnr frnR n 1n- expensive organdie was daintily fashioned, showing she had been reared mindst cul- ture and refinement if not walth. She was we'll educated in music and 1t was her ab- sorbing love for music that brought her to see the lawyer.
 Walking up to the lawyer who rose to meet her, she told him she had heard of his kindness and generosity and had come to ask him to give her Chickering piano.
 "Humph, she must take me for a Croe- sus,' he said to himself, recovering his breath Well, if this isn't stunner," he continued.
 Women often went to his office. It is nothing unusual for a woman to go into mans office these days. She goes to see her physician at his office, goes to see her rental agent, the gas man and the water rent man, and to see her lawyer. She may go to see him in regard to delinquent renter, to getting relief from marital ob- ligation that have become burdensome. to get him to bring suit for her against some man for breach of promise or to get him to plead for some erring loved one.
 Men are often called upon in their office by agents, women and girls representing everything published or invented. Some are honest in their relations. some are not.
 But this was-an exceptional case; this young girl was neither a client or an agent but a warm, breathing. living reality--that was as palpitant with animal life as a young deer that roamed the barfens.
 Standing near her he could almost hear her heart beats. Looking into her eyes that were as soft and as brown as a tropic twilight, he saw in them the souls lack of moral character, he noted the weak lines in the upward curve of the full red lips, and 1t caused the hot blood to surge through his veins like an oyercharged river. He piled her with those subtle fiat