Your head
bookkeeper may have real talents in this direction--if he is
not above using them. Naturally, the first essential is
brains--and if you can give the time to the matter, your own
head will probably be the best one for your purposes. If,
then, you are willing to undertake the job yourself, all you
need is some person or persons to carry out your instructions,
and such are by no means difficult to find. I have had many a
case run down by my own office force--clerks, lawyers, and
stenographers, all taking a turn at it. Why not? Is the
professional sleuth working on a fixed salary for a regular
agency and doing a dozen different jobs each month as likely
to bring to bear upon your own private problem as much
intelligence as you yourself?
There is no mystery about such work, except what the detective
himself sees fit to enshroud it with. Most of us do detective
work all the time without being conscious of it. Simply
because the matter concerns the theft of a pearl, or the
betraying of a business or professional secret, or the
disappearance of a friend, the opinion of a stranger becomes
no more valuable.
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