This growth must be cut out at the roots, and cut
out quickly. This is the first fact to be determined, and a fool
would know it. The second fact is that you must do it yourself.
Hired killers are like the grave and the daughters of the horse
leech,--they cry always, 'Give, Give.' They are only palliatives,
not cures. By using them you swap perils. You simply take a stay
of execution at best. The common criminal would know this. These
are the facts of your problem. The master plotters of crime would
see here but two difficulties to meet:
"A practical method for accomplishing the body of the crime.
"A cover for the criminal agent.
"They would see no farther, and attempt to guard no farther. After
they had provided a plan for the killing, and a means by which the
killer could cover his trail and escape from the theater of the
homicide, they would believe all the requirements of the problems
met, and would stop. The greatest, the very giants among them,
have stopped here and have been in great error.
"In every crime, especially in the great ones, there exists a third
element, preeminently vital.
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