Attached to his own large room there was a small closet, in which sat the signing-clerk's clerk,--a lad of perhaps seventeen years of age, who spent the greatest part of his time playing tit-tat-to by himself upon official blotting-paper. 
Attached to his own large room there was a small closet in which sat his clerk, a youth who spent most of his time doodling on the blotting-paper.
