It looks like saying nothing while your whole body wants to scream.

The reason is simple and unforgiving.

The moment a guilty person knows he is seen, he moves.

He shreds the records.

He empties the accounts.

He gets his story straight and rehearses the people around him in their lines.

Confront too early, with nothing in your hand but a suspicion, and all you accomplish is to teach the fraud exactly how he was almost caught, so that next time he is more careful.

If I marched down to the water now, Julian would laugh.