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Philp flung out the challenge modestly enough, but with a certain force behind it that did not fail to make a proper impression on the bench. There was not a man there who had not known Philp from his earliest days or who was ignorant of the name that he was making for himself in London, nor was there one of them who would not have given a good deal to see Macrae walk away a free man without a stain on his character.
At the first sound of Philp's voice David threw up his head and looked the interested spectators in the face. He seemed to realise that the crisis was at hand and that ere long he was going to hear something of the truth. Philippa, seated with her father behind the solicitors' table, glanced up and met his eyes with a serene and smiling confidence in her own. And then the friendly duel between Philp and Dent began in earnest.