Leroy Scott (1875-1929) was an American author. His works include: The Walking Delegate (1905), To Him That Hath (1907), Counsel for the Defense (1912), No. 13 Washington Square (1912) and Children of the Whirlwind (1921). “It was a raw, ill-humored afternoon, yet too late in the spring for the ministration of steam heat, so the unseasonable May chill was banished from Mrs. De Peyster's sitting-room by a wood fire that crackled in the grate; crackled most decorously, be it added, for Mrs. De Peyster's fire would no more have forgotten itself and shown a boisterous enthusiasm than would one of her admirably trained servants. ”
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