The sign reads: "MARK TWAIN"S FATHER"S LAW OFFICE. Young Sam Clemens (Mark Twain) saw a dead man on the floor in here one night. Sam went out at a window, taking the sash with him. 'I didn't need the sash," he recalled. "but it was handier to take it than it was to leave it. So I took it. I wasn't exactly scared, but I was -- ah -- considerably agitated'"