I displaced three bulky folio sheaves of typewritten matter from a chair and seated myself behind him.

He continued to read.
"I hadn't seen these rooms before," I said, for want of something to say.
The room was not so much scantily as arbitrarily furnished.

It contained a big mahogany sideboard; a common deal table, an extraordinary kind of folding wash-hand-stand; a deal bookshelf, the cane lounge, and three unrelated chairs.

There were three framed Dutch prints on the marble mantel-shelf; striped curtains before the windows.

A square, cheap looking-glass, with a razor above it, hung between them.