The method is safer.

In twenty-six years of this work I have never lost a single jewel." "One firm employs you exclusively, then ?" "One firm.

But it has many branches." "It is a trust ?" "Oh, no; we have many competitors; but none very important.

Our closest rival, for instance, has headquarters on this very coast--in San Francisco--but spreads, as we do, over the civilized world.

Yet Jephson's--that's the firm--do not claim to equal our business.