Chapter 21 No.21

Ah, my dear Sir, it is easy enough to despise our profession, but believe me that all the finer qualities-those of loyalty and of truth-are essential, not only to us, but to our subordinates, if we are to succeed in making even a small competence out of it.

Now let me give you an instance. Here was I, Hector Ratichon, settled in Paris in that ev