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"It appears that what you refer to as graphologists,
in your profession, are much more thorough in their
analysis of handwriting and printing than you are.
The author of this book makes a point of insisting on
original, authenticated standards and doing several different
types of measurements. The idea being that when they decide
a document's author, it is based on several different tests.
"You did only a letter by letter comparison then. Every letter?"
"A majority of them."
It turned out not to be the case. Diana brought up letter after
letter that the analyst had not found a match to. "S" was one of them.
Looking hastily through the so-called standards, Avery finally found one,
but it was a printed capital "S" which he was saying was a match
for a small case scripted "s" found at the end of a word.
For all that time and trouble, he discovered it in a signature
purported to have been written by Diana twenty years ago!
This document also contained the writing of more than one person,
and the signature itself was written by Diana's daughter.
Other discrepancies were brought out. T's that were not
crossed, small i's with a backward slant, the written letter R
which looked like a U.
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