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"What are you saying?" Hugh almost shouted.
"I thought it would astonish you," Jimmy went on. "I am prepared to swear that the work Bascoe did on that drawing was done after eleven o'clock on the night of the crime and that it occupied him at least 25 minutes. You can make the best or worst of that, old chap, but at any rate, it proves that for some reason or another Bascoe was telling a deliberate lie. Either he wants to incriminate Connie, or he has some reason for shielding the identity of the real criminal.