An unkind fate preserved the conductor to confront his
ignominy. It was found that
HE HAD FORGOTTEN TO WIND UP HIS WATCH!
How could such a butchery have been brought about, save by a course of
small errors which had eaten into his moral nature, leaving him a great
ghoulish fiend of Carelessness, running his pitiless Juggernaut up and
down the highway between two great cities! The hideous errors made by
men are always indicative of those particular men. Some people never
make errors at all! Why? Because they are careful. Simple, is it
not--like Napoleon's tactics? Yet that constant care is so wonderful in
its effects that human science cannot peer into the mystery of its
action. Men laboring under total aberration of the mind have been known
to carefully wind a clock at a given hour, and evince no other power to
do a reasonable thing. Begin early in life to do all these little things
with the greatest care.
IMITATE THE CELEBRATED DETECTIVES,
who actually pay little attention to things gross and palpable, but
follow the more closely those minute clews which, interlacing and
concentering, often as a whole, lead them, with the greatest certainty,
to the dark hand that did the foul deed.
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