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The Cruise of the Jasper B.

CHAPTER XX
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DETECTIVE Wilton Barnstable was the inventor of a new school of detection of crime.

The system came in with him, and it may go out with him for lack of a man of his genius to perpetuate it.

He insisted that there was nothing spectacular or romantic in the pursuit of the criminal, or, at least, that there should be nothing of the sort.

And he was especially disgusted when anyone referred to him as "a second Sherlock Holmes." "I am only a plain business man," he would insist, urbanely, with a wave of his hand.

"I have merely brought order, method, system, business principles, logic, to the detection of crime.


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