Excerpt from Told Out of Court: Personal Experiences of Members of the Chicago Bench and Bar
"Come in," I said, in response to a gentle tap at my office door, and at once I was impressed by the appearance of my visitor and prospective client.
He was a combination of Hercules and Apollo - a tall and athletic-looking man of about thirty-five, of graceful and well-knitted figure, handsome and open countenance, dark hair and mustache. His attire, which he immensely became, was evidently the product of some high-class sartorial artist. On the whole his gentlemanly and distinguished mien was such as would have attracted attention and admiration at any social gathering. It would have lent marked tone to a select audience at fashionable tableaux vivants, perhaps even have caused the society dames posing in the frames to forget to keep still and stiff, like the long dead people they were representing, in order to turn their heads and gaze on him.
My first feeling was one of pride at this flattering addition to my clientele, my next one of uneasiness lest he might have mistaken my office for that of somebody else.
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