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Almost automatically the eyes of the group turned slowly towards it, but as yet
there was no sound. If that was good enough for Doom, by all that is holy it is
good enough for Merton. He realized that he was among foreigners, even if he
was among friends.
I should run down and see how he is getting on.
In that case
it will not hurt him if I tell you a little more about it. The dog was the only
mystic in our company. And he killed himself when he found he’d killed his
kinsman for nothing. Now I’m bound to say that the secretary is something of a
busybody. Anyhow, he’s certainly looking for the man called Doom.
No doubt the
universal secretary knew more about the doctor’s name than the doctor did.
In
his fine black clothes he was almost foppish, yet you can hardly call him
fashionable.
See what he’s been doing in the way of amateur detection. What
started you off with your own story?
See what he’s been doing in the way of
amateur detection.
Father Brown’s face had a yet heavier gravity as he looked
slowly round the semicircle effaces.
It was the cry the girl gave when she
first saw the body of her father. Father Brown’s face had a yet heavier gravity
as he looked slowly round the semicircle effaces.
For he must have used a
lancet or something, and he never seems to have gone home. Otherwise he was
done; he’d lost his police job; he was beggared at Monte Carlo.
But if you know
the truth about this, where the devil did you get it from?
I suppose the
suicide is almost a confession. That could only come by his having really
failed to realize what he was suggesting.
I gave you your chance of pitying the
poor devil when you thought he was a common criminal. Almost automatically the
eyes of the group turned slowly towards it, but as yet there was no sound.
He
not only knew everything, but he warned everybody against everybody.
I suppose
the suicide is almost a confession. What about the papers and the big business
people? The master who followed the dog shared the excitement if not the
enthusiasm. I looked all round, everything seemed to be in its ordinary place.
And that’s what we come back to after all.
The objection to Wilton’s way of
doing it is that we shall never hear Doom’s side of the case.
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