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Ian Vascombe had acted more wisely than he knew when he had suggested that Parkhurst should be called in to act for Gilchrist in the hour of his trouble. Because Parkhurst was not a solicitor in the ordinary sense of the word, that is to say he was not content with the ordinary routine of the law which is a dry thing in itself, but because he was a man of imagination and a close student of criminology. Therefore, he had chosen, when he left school, to become a mere attorney instead of a barrister. And, having considerable means of his own, he was quite content to wait until some particularly fine piece of work should bring to him the type of client he was seeking.
That was the man or woman who was either in some sort of trouble or trying to escape from it. Intricate missions connected with family secrets, the delicate manipulation of negotiations where blackmail was concerned or the hushing up of some scandal hanging over a great house, all that sort of thing. And from the first, Parkhurst had been successful.