I am an anti-detective.

Never heard of that sort of person, I suppose ?" "Never," said Lawrence, curtly.
"Well, sir, the organization which I belong to is one which is filling a long felt want.

You know very well, sir, that this country is full of detective officers, not only those who belong to a regular police force, but lots of private ones, who, if anybody will pay them for it, will go to Jericho to hunt a man up.

Now, sir, our object is to protect society against these people.

When we get information that a man is going to be hounded down by any of these detectives--and we have private ways of knowing these things--we just go to that man, and if he is willing to become one of our clients, we take him into our charge; and our business, after that, is to keep him informed of just what is being done against him.