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The famous criminal lawyer received his visitors the following morning and listened carefully to all that Tom Gilchrist had to say. It was a pretty lengthy statement and, at the end of it, the lawyer nodded gravely.
"It seems a very complicated case," he said. "But there are certain points which are not unfavourable. Of course, Miss Vascombe's evidence will be regarded with a certain amount of suspicion, that is, unless we can get someone to substantiate what she says. Speaking on the spur of the moment, what I most fear is that the jury would regard Miss Vascombe's evidence on the subject of the dagger as sheer perjury.