It is seventy-five per cent of its capital.
It is entirely beyond the reach of the mushroom agency, which in consequence has to accept less desirable retainers involving no such requirements, or go to the wall.

The collection of photographs is almost priceless and the clippings, letters, and memoranda in the filing cases only secondarily so.

Very few of the "operators" pretend to anything but common-sense, with perhaps some special knowledge of the men they are after.

They are not clairvoyants or mystery men, but they will tirelessly follow a crook until they get him.

They are the regular troops who take their orders without question.