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Well-lit and handsomely furnished, this office is dominated by a large
desk and a leather-cushioned chair.  Upon the cherry-wood desktop, sits a
flickering oil lamp, ingeniously cantilevered from a heavy base upon a
linkage of brass rods so that it may be easily positioned to cast light
where it is needed.  A massive trunk sits under the frosted-pane window on
the southern wall and two full-bodied tabby cats lounge upon its flat top,
basking in the warm sun.  An unobtrusive door leads north.  

An imposingly boisterous woman in seafaring garb eyes you from behind the counter.