ABSTRACT
THE function of secretaries, or clerks, is generally a safeguard to all men, because the rights of everyone are preserved by their responsibility and loyalty. Some people perhaps are ruined by fires, others stripped bare by covert theft, and yet others, through their own carelessness, lose what they have acquired by undeviating application. But whatever has been lost or found wanting by private individuals is very easily restored through the loyalty of trustworthy secretaries, for they normally give more heed to other men's affairs than to their own.
