Here it was that Senator Hanway held his conferences; it was here he laid his plans and brooded them.

When Senator Hanway desired to meet a gentleman and preferred to keep the meeting dark, this study was the scene of that secrecy.

In such event, the blinds were drawn to baffle what prying or casual eye might come marching up the street; for in Washington, to see two men conversing, is to know nine times in ten precisely what the conversation is about.

Commonly, however, the blinds were thrown wide, as though the study's pure proprietor courted a world's scrutiny.
It was in this study that Richard was received by Senator Hanway.

There was an outside door; a caller might be admitted from the veranda without troubling the main portals of the Harley house.