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The Eye of Apollo by G.
K. Chesterton. That singular smoky sparkle,

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at once a confusion and a transparency, which is the strange secret of

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the Thames was changing more and more
from its gray to its glittering extreme.

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As the sun climbed to the zenith
over Westminster, and two men crossed Westminster

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Bridge. One man was very tall
and the other very short. They might

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even have been fantastically compared to the
arrogant clock tower of Parliament and the humbler

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humped shoulders of the abbey, for
the short man was in clerical dress.

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The official description of the tall man
was m Hercule Flambeau, private detective,

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and he was going to his new
offices in a new pile of flats facing

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the abbey entrance. The official description
of the short man was the Reverend J.

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Brown, attached to Saint Francis Xavior's
Church, Camberwell, and he was

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coming from a Camberwell deathbed to see
the new offices of his friend. The

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building was America in its skyscraping altitude, an American also in the oiled elaboration

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of its machinery of telephones and lifts, but it was barely finished. And

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still understaffed. Only three tenants had
moved in the office just above Flambeau was

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occupied, as also was the office
just below him. The two floors above

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that and the three floors below were
entirely bare. But the first glance the

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new tower of Flats caught something much
more arresting. Save for a few relics

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of scaffolding, the one glaring object
was erected outside the office just above Flambeau's.

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It was an enormous guilt effigy of
the human eye, surrounded with rays

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of gold, and taking up as
much room as two or three of the

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office windows. What on earth is
that? Asked Father Brown, and stood

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still. Oh a new religion,
said Flambeau, laughing, one of those

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new religions that forgive your sins by
saying you never had any, rather like

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Christian science. I should think.
The fact is that a fellow calling himself

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Ceylon. I don't know what his
name is, except that it can't be

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that has taken the flat just to
me. I have two lady typewriters underneath

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me, and this enthusiastic old humbug
on top. He calls himself the new

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Priest of Apollo, and he worships
the Sun. Let him look out,

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said father Brown. The son was
the cruelest of all the gods. But

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what does that monstrous? I mean? As I understand it, it is

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a theory of theirs, answered Flambeau. That a man can endure anything if

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his mind is quite steady. The
two great symbols are the sun and the

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open eye. For they say that
if a man were really healthy, he

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could stare at the sun. If
a man were really healthy, said father

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Brown, you would not bother to
stare at it. Well, that's all

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I can tell you about the new
religion, went on Flambeaux carelessly. It

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claims, of course, that it
can cure all physical diseases. Can a

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cure the one's spiritual disease? Asked
Father Brown, with a serious curiosity.

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And what is the one's spiritual disease? Asked Flambeaux, smiling, Oh,

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thinking one is quite well, said
his friend. Flambeau was more interested in

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the quiet little office below him than
in the flatboyant temple above. He was

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a lucid Southerner, incapable of conceiving
himself as anything but a Catholic or an

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atheist. And new religions of a
bright and pallid sort were not much in

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his line, but humanity was always
in his line, especially when it was

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good looking. Moreover, the ladies
downstairs were characters in their way. The

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office was kept by two sisters,
both slight and dark, one of them

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tall and striking. She had a
dark, eager, and aquiline profile,

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and was one of those women whom
one always thinks of a profile as of

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the clean cut edge of some weapon. She seemed to cleave her way through

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life. She had eyes of a
startling brilliancy, but it was the brilliancy

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of steel rather than of diamonds,
and her straight swim figure was a shade

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too stiff for its grace. Her
younger sister was like her shortened shadow,

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a little grayer, paler, and
more insignificant. They both wore a business

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like black, with little masculine cuffs
and collars. There are thousands of such

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curt strenuous ladies in the offices of
London, but the interests of these lay

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rather in their rear than their apparent
position. For Pauline Stacy the Elder was

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actually the heiress of a crest and
half a county, as well as great

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wealth. She had been brought up
in castles and gardens before a frigid,

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fierceness peculiar to the modern woman,
had driven her to what she considered a

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harsher and a higher existence. She
had not, indeed surrendered her money in

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that there would have been a romantic
or monkish abandon quite alien to her masterful

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utilitarianism. She held her wealth,
she would say, for use upon practical

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social objects. Part of it she
had put into her business the nucleus of

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a model typewriting. Important part of
it was distributed in various leagues and causes

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for the advancement of such work among
women. How far Joan, her sister

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and partner, shared this slightly prosaic
idealism known could be very sure, But

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she followed her leader with a doglike
affection, which was somewhow more attractive with

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its touch of tragedy than the hard
high spirits of the elder. For Pauline

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Stacey had nothing to say to tragedy. She was understood to deny its existence.

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Her rigid rapidity and cold impatience had
amused Flambeaux very much on the first

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occasion of his entering the flats.
He had lingered outside the lift in the

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entrance hall, waiting for the lift
boy, who generally conduct strangers to the

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various floors. But this bright eyed
falcon of a girl had openly refused to

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endure such official delay. She said
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and was not dependent on boys or
men either. Though her flat was only

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three floors above, she managed in
the few seconds of ascent to give Flambeaux

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a great many of her fundamental views
in an offhand manner. They were to

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the general effect that she was a
modern working woman and loved modern working machinery.

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Her bright black eyes blazed with abstract
anger against those who were buque mechanic

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science and asked for the return of
romance. Everyone, she said, ought

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to be able to manage machines,
just as she could manage the lift.

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She seemed almost to resent the fact
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and that gentleman went up to his
own apartment, smiling with somewhat mingled

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feelings at the memory of such spitfire
self dependence. She certainly had a temper

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of a snappy, practical sort.
The gestures of her thin, elegant hands

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were abrupt or even destructive. Once
Flambeau entered her office on some typewriting business

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and found she had just flung a
pair of spectacles belonged to her sister into

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the middle of the floor and stamped
on them. She was already in the

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rapids of an ethical tirade about the
sickly medical notions and the morbid admission of

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weakness implied in such an apparatus.
She dared her sister to bring such artificial,

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unhealthy rubbish into the place again.
She asked if she was expected to

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wear wooden legs, or false hair
or glass eyes, and as she spoke,

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her eyes sparkled like the terrible crystal. Flambeau, quite bewildered with this

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fanaticism, could not refrain from asking
Miss Pauline, with direct French logic,

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why a pair of spectacles was a
more morbid sign of weakness than the lift,

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And why if science might help us
in one effort, it might not

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help us in the other. That
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Batteries and motors and all those things
are marks of the force of man.

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Yes, mister Flambeau, and the
force of woman too. We shall

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take our turn at these great engines
that devour distance intofy time. That is

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high and splendid. That is really
science. But these nasty props and plasters

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the doctors sell, why they are
just badges of poltroonery. Doctors stick on

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legs and arms as if we were
born cripples and six slaves. But I

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was free born, mister Flambeau.
People only think they need these things because

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they have been trained in fear instead
of being trained in power and courage.

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Just as the silly nurses tell children
not to stare at the sun, and

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so they can't do it without blinking. But why among the stars should there

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be one star that I may not
see. The Sun is not my master,

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and I will open my eyes and
stare at him whenever I choose your

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eyes, said Flambeau, with a
foreign bow, will dazzle the sun.

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He took pleasure in complimenting this strange, stiff beauty, partly because it threw

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her a little off her balance.
But as he went upstairs to his floor,

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he drew a deep breath and whistled, saying to himself, she has

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got into the hands of that conjuror
upstairs with his golden eye. For little

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as he knew or cared about the
new religion of Chelon, he had heard

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of his special notion about sun gazing. He soon discovered that the spiritual bond

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between the floors above and below him
was close and increasing. The man who

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called himself Chelon was a magnificent creature, worthy in a physical sense to be

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pontiff of Apollo. He was nearly
as tall even as Flambeaux, and very

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much better looking, with a golden
beard, strong blue eyes, and a

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mane flung back like a lion's.
In structure, he was the blonde beast

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of Nietzsche. But all this animal
beauty was heightened, brightened, and softened

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by genuine intellect and spirituality. If
he looked like one of the great Saxon

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kings, he looked like one of
the kings that were also saints. And

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this despite the cockney incongruity of his
surroundings, the fact that he had an

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office halfway up a building in Victoria
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youth in cuffs and collars, sat
in the outer room between him and the

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corridor that his name was on a
brass plate, and the gilt emblem of

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his creed hung above his street like
the advertisement of an oculist. All this

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vulgarity could not take away from the
man called Chelon, the vivid oppression and

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inspiration that came from his soul and
body. When all was said, a

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man in the presence of this quack
did feel in the presence of a great

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man. Even in the loose jacket
suit of linen that he wore as a

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workshop dress in his office, he
was a fascinating and formidable figure. And

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when robed in the white vestments and
crowned with a golden circulate in which he

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daily sluted the sun, he really
looked so splendid that the laughter of the

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street people sometimes died suddenly on their
lips. For three times in the day

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the new sun worshiper went out on
his little balcony in the face of all

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Westminster to say some litany to his
shining Lord, once at daybreak, once

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at sunset, and once at the
shock of noon. And it was while

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the shock of noon still shook faintly
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that Father Brown, the friend of
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white priest of Apollo. Flambeau had
seen quite enough of these daily salutations of

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Phoebus, and plunged into the porch
of the tall building without even looking for

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his clerical friend to follow. But
Father Brown, whether from a professional interest

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in ritual or a strong individual interest
in tom foolery, stopped and stared up

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at the balcony of the sun worshiper, just as he might have stopped and

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stared up at a pung and judy
calon. The prophet was already erect with

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argent garments and uplifted hands, and
the sound of his strangely penetrating voice could

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be heard all the way down the
busy street, uttering his solar litany.

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He was already in the middle of
it. His eyes were fixed upon the

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flaming disc. It is doubtful if
he saw anything or anyone on this earth.

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It is substantially certain that he did
not see a stunted, round faced

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priest who in the crowd below clip
at him with blinking eyes. That was

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perhaps the most starling difference between even
these two far divided men. Father Brown

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could not look at anything without blinking, but the Priest of Apollo could look

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on the blaze at noon without a
quiver of the eyelid. Oh Son cried

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the prophet, O star that are
too great to be allowed among the stars,

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O fountain that flowest quietly in that
secret spot that is called space.

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White, Father of all white,
unwearied things, white flames and white flowers

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and white peaks, Father, who
are more innocent than all thy most innocent

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and quiet children, primal purity,
into the peace of which a rush and

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crash, like the reversed rush of
a rocket, was cloven with a strident

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and incessant yelling. Five people rushed
into the gate of the mansions, as

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three people rushed out, and for
an instant they all deafened each other,

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the sense of some utterly abrupt horror
seen for a moment to fill half the

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street with bad news, bad news
that was all the worst, because no

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one knew what it was. Two
figures remained still after the crash of commotion,

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the fair Priest of Apollo on the
balcony above, and the ugly Priest

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of Christ below him. At last, the tall figure and titanic energy of

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Flambeau appeared in the doorway of the
mansions and dominated the little mob. Looking

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at the top of his voice like
a foghorn, he told somebody or anybody

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to go for a surgeon. And
as he turned back into the dark and

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frogged entrance, his friend, Father
Brown, dipped in insignificantly after him.

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Even as he ducked and dived through
the crowd, he could still hear the

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magnificent melody and monotony of the solar
priest, still calling on the happy God,

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who is the friend of fountains and
flowers. Father Brown found Flambeaux and

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some six other people standing around the
enclosed space into which the lift commonly descended.

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But the lift had not descended.
Something else had descended, something that

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ought to have come by a lift. For the last four minutes Flambeau had

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looked down on it, had seen
the brained and bleeding figure of that beautiful

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woman who denied the existence of tragedy. He had never had the slightest doubt

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that it was Pauline Stacy, and
though he had sent for a doctor,

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he had not the slightest doubt that
she was dead. He could not remember

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for certain whether he had liked her
or disliked her. There was so much

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both to like and dislike, but
she had been a person to him,

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and the unbearable pathos of details and
habits stabbed him with all the small daggers

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of bereavement. He remembered her pretty
face and the priggish speeches with a sudden,

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secret vividness, which is all the
bitterness of death. In an instant,

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like a bolt from the blue,
like a thunderbolt from nowhere, that

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beautiful and defiant body had been dashed
down the open well of the lift to

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death at the bottom. Was it
suicide? With so insolent an optimist,

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it seemed impossible? Was it murder? But who was there in those hardily

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inhabited flats to murder anybody? In
a rush of raucous words which he meant

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to be strong and suddenly found weak, he asked, where was that fellow

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Chelon? A voice, habitually heavy, quiet and full assured him that Chelon,

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for the last fifteen minutes had been
away up on his balcony, worshiping

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his God. When Flambeau heard the
voice and felt the hand of Father Brown,

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he turned his swarthy face and said, abruptly, then, if he

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has been up there all the time, who can have done it? Perhaps,

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said the other. We might go
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half an hour before the police will
move. Leaving the body of the slain

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heiress in charge of the surgeons,
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office, found it utterly empty,
and then dashed up to his own.

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Having entered that, he abruptly returned
with a new and white face to his

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friend her sister. He said,
with an unpleasant seriousness, Her sister seems

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to have gone out for a walk. Father Brown nodded. Or she may

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have gone up to the office of
that sunman, he said. If I

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were you, I should just verify
that and then let us all talk it

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over in your office. No,
he added, suddenly, as if remembering

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something. Shall I ever get over
that stupidity of mine? Of course,

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in their office downstairs. Flambeau stared, but he followed the little father downstairs

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to the empty flat of the Staceys, where that impenetrable pasture took a large

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red leather chair in the very entrance, from which he could not see the

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stairs and landings, and waited.
He did not wait very long. In

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about four minutes, three figures descended
the stairs, alike only in their solemnity.

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The first was Joan Stacey, the
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she had been upstairs in the temporary
temple of Apollo. The second was the

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Priest of Apollo himself, his whotny
finished sweeping down the empty stairs and utter

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magnificence. Something in his white robes, beard and parted hair had the look

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of doors Christ leaving the praetorium.
The third was Flambeaux, black browed and

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somewhat bewildered. Miss Joan Stacey,
dark, with a drawn face and hair

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prematurely touched with gray, walked straight
to her own desk and set out her

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papers with a practical flap. The
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If Miss Joan Stacey was a criminal, she was a cool one. Father

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Brown regarded her for some time with
an odd little smile, and then,

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without taking his eyes off her,
addressed himself to somebody else. Prophet,

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he said, presumably addressing Chelon.
I wish you would tell me a lot

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about your religion. I shall be
proud to do it, said Chelon,

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inclining his still crowned head but I'm
not sure that I understand why it's like

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this, said father Brown in his
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if a man has really bad first
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But for all that, we can
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insults his quite clear conscience and a
man with a conscience more or less clouded

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with sophistries. Now do you really
think that murder is wrong at all?

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Is this an accusation? Asked Chelon, very quietly. No, answered Brown

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equally gently. Is the speech for
the defense? In the long and startled

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stillness of the room, the profit
of Apollo slowly rose, And really it

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was like the rising of the sun. He filled that room with his light

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and life, and such a manner
that a man felt he could as easily

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have filled Salisbury Plain. His robed
form seemed to hang the whole room with

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classic draperies. His epic gesture seemed
to extend it into grander perspectives, till

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the little black figure of the modern
cleric seemed to be a fault and an

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intrusion, a round black blot upon
some splendor of Hellas we meet at last,

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Caiaphas, said the prophet. Your
church and mine are the only realities

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on this earth. I adore the
sun, and you the darkening of the

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sun. You are the priests of
the dying and I of the living God.

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Your present work of suspicion and slander
is worthy of your code and creed.

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All your church is but a black
police. You are only spies and

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detectives seeking to tear from men confessions
of guilt, whether by treachery or torture.

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You would convict men of crime,
I would convict them of innocence.

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You would convince them of sin.
I would convince them of virtue. Reader

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of the Books of the Ease,
one more word before I blow away your

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baseless nightmares forever. Not even faintly, could you understand how little I care

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whether you could convict me or know
The things you call disgrace and horrible hanging

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are to me no more than an
ogre and a child's toy book to a

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man once grown up. You said
you were offering this speech for the defense.

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I care so little for the cloud
land of this life that I will

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offer you the speech for the prosecution. There is but one thing that can

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be said against me in this matter, and I will say it myself.

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The woman that is dead was my
love and my bride, not after such

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manner as your tin chapels call lawful, but by a law purer and sterner

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than you will ever understand. She
and I walked another world from yours,

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and trod palaces of crystal, while
you were plodding through tunnels and corridors of

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brick. Well, I know that
policemen, theological and otherwise, always fancy

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that where there has been love,
there must soon be hatred. So there

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you have the first point made for
the prosecution. But the second point is

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stronger. I do not grudge it
you. Not only is it true that

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Pauline loved me, but it is
also true that this very morning before she

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died, she wrote at that table
a will leaving me and my new church

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half a million. Come. Where
are the handcuffs? Do you suppose I

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care what foolish things you do with
me? Penal Sertude will only be like

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waiting for her at a wayside station. The gallows will only be going to

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her in a headlong car. He
spoke with the brain shaking authority of an

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orator and Flambeau and Joan Stacy stared
at him in amazed admiration. Father Brown's

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face seemed to express nothing but extreme
distress. He looked at the ground with

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one wrinkle of pinon across his forehead. The Prophet of the Sun leaned easily

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against the mantelpiece and resumed in a
few words, I have put before you

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the whole case against me, the
only possible case against me. In fewer

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words still, I will blow it
to pieces so that not a trace of

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it remains as to whether I have
committed this crime. The truth is in

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one sentence. I could not have
committed this crime. Pauline Stacy fell from

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this floor to the ground at five
minutes past twelve. A hundred people will

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go into the witness box and say
that I was standing out upon the balcony

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of my own rooms above from just
before the stroke of noon to a quarter

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past the usual period of my public
prayers. My clerk, our respectable youth

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from Clapham, with no sort of
connection with me, will swear that he

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sat in my outer office all the
morning, and that no communication passed through.

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He will swear that I arrived a
full ten minutes before the hour,

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fifteen minutes before any whisper of the
accident, and that I did not leave

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the office or the balcony all that
time. No one ever had so complete

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an alibi I could subpoena half Westminster. I think you had better put the

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handcuffs away again. The case is
at an end. But last of all,

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that no breath of this idiotic suspicion
remained in the air. I will

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tell you all you want to know. I believe I do know how my

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unhappy friend came by her death.
You can, if you choose, blame

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me for it, or my faith
and philosophy at least, but you certainly

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cannot lock me up. It is
well known to all students of the Higher

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Truths that certain adepts and illuminati have
in history attained the power of levitation,

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that is, of being self sustained
upon the empty air. It is but

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a part of that general conquest of
matter, which is the main element in

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our occult wisdom. Poor Pauline was
of an impulsive and ambitious temper, I

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think, to tell the truth,
she thought herself somewhat deeper in the mysteries

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than she was, and she has
often said to me as we went down

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in the lift together, that if
one's will were strong enough, one could

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float down as harmlessly as a feather. I solemnly believe that, in some

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ecstasy of noble thoughts, she attempted
the miracle. Her will or faith must

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have failed her at the crucial instant, and the lower law of matter had

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its horrible revenge. There is the
whole story, gentlemen, very sad,

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and as you think, very presumptuous
and wicked, but certainly not criminal or

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in any way connected with me.
In the shorthand of the police courts.

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You had better call it suicide.
I shall always call it heroic failure for

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the advance of science and the slow
scaling of heaven. It was the first

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time Flambeau had ever seen Father Brown
vanquished. He still sat looking at the

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ground with a painful and corrugated brow, as if in shame. It was

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impossible to avoid the feeling which the
prophet's winged words had fanned, that here

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was a sullen, professional suspecter of
men, overwhelmed by a prouder and pure

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spirit of natural liberty and help.
At last, he said, blinking as

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if in bodily distress. Well,
If that is so, sir, you

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need to do no more than take
the testamentary paper you spoke of and go.

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I wonder where the poor lady left
it. It will be over there

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on her desk by the door,
I think, said Caelon, with that

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massive innocence of manner that seemed to
acquit him wholly. She told me specially

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she would write it this morning,
and I actually saw her writing as I

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went up in the lift to my
own room. Was her door open,

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then, asked the priest, with
his eye on the corner of the matting.

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Yes, said Chevon, calmly ah, it has been open ever since,

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said the other, and resumed his
silent study of the map. There

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is a paper over here, said
the grim miss Jane, in a somewhat

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singular voice. She had passed over
to her sister's desk by the doorway and

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was holding a sheet of blue fool's
cap in her hand. There was a

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sour smile on her face that seemed
unfit for such a scene or occasion,

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and Flambaud looked at her with a
darkening brow. Cheyvon the prophet stood away

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from the paper with that loyal unconsciousness
that had carried him through, but Flambaud

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took it out of the lady's hand
and read it with the utmost amazement.

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It did indeed begin in the formal
manner of a will, but after the

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words I give and bequeath all of
which I die possessed, the writing abruptly

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stopped with a set of scratches,
and there is no trace of the name

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of any legatee. Flambeau in wonder
handed this truncated testament to his clerical friend,

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who glanced at it and silently gave
it to the priests of the Sun.

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An instant afterwards, that Pontiff and
his splendid sweeping draperies had crossed the

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room in two great strides, and
was towering over Joan Stacey, his blue

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eyes standing from his head. What
monkey tricks have you been playing here?

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He cried, That's not all,
Pauline wrote. They were startled to hear

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him speak in quite a new voice, with a Yankee shrillness in it.

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All his grandeur and good English had
fallen from him like a cloak. That

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is the only thing on her desk, said Joan, and confronted him steadily

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with the same smile of ill favor. Of a sudden the man broke out

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into blasphemies and cataracts of incredulous words. There was something shocking about the dropping

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of his man. It was like
a man's real face falling off. See

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here, he cried and broad American
when he was breathless with cursing. I

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may be an adventurer, but I
guess you're a murderess. Yes, gentlemen,

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here's your death explained, and without
any levitation. The poor girl was

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writing a will in my favor.
Her cursed sister comes in, struggles for

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the pen, drags her to the
well, and throws her down before she

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could finish it. Sakes, I
reckon, we want the handcuffs after all,

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as you have truly remarked, replied
Joan, with ugly calm. Your

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clerk is a very respectable young man
who knows the nature of an oath,

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and he will swear in any court
that I was up in your office arranging

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some typewriting work for five minutes before
and five minutes after my sister fell.

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Mister Flambeau will tell you that he
found me there. There was a silence,

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Why then, cried Flambeau, Pauline
was alone when she fell, and

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it was suicide. She wasn't alone
when she fell, said father Brown.

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But it was not suicide. Then
how did she die, asked Flambeau impatiently.

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She was murdered, but she was
alone, objected to the detective.

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She was murdered when she was all
alone, answered the priest. All the

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rest stared at him, but he
remained sitting in the same old, dejected

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attitude, with a wrinkle in his
round forehead and an appearance of impersonal shame

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and sorrow. His voice was colorless
and sad. What I want to know,

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cried Caelon with an oath, is
when the police are coming for this

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bloody and wicked sister. She's killed
her flesh and blood. She drobbed me

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of half a million. That was
just as sacredly mine as come, come,

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Prophet, interrupted Flambeaud with a kind
of sneer. Remember that all this

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world is a cloud of land,
the hiro font of the sun. God

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made an effort to climb back on
his pedestal. It is not the mere

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money, he cried, though that
would equip the cause throughout the world.

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It is also my beloved one's wishes
to Pauline. All this was holy.

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In Pauline's eyes, Father Brown suddenly
sprang erect, so that his chair fell

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over flat behind him. He was
deathly pale. If he seen fired with

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a hope, his eyes shone.
That's it, he cried in a clear

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voice. That's the way to begin. In Pauline's eyes, the tall prophet

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retreated before the tiny priest in an
almost mad disorder. What do you mean?

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How dare you? He cried repeatedly. In Pauline's eyes, repeated the

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priest, his own shining more and
more, go on, in God's name,

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go on, the foulest crime the
fiends ever prompted. Feels lighter after

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confession. And I implore you to
confess. Go on, go on.

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In Pauline's eyes, let me go, you devil, thundered Kaelon, struggling

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like a giant in bonds. Who
are you, you cursed spy to weave

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your spiders webs round me and peep
and peer, let me go? Shall

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I stop him, asked Flambeaux,
bounding towards the exit, for Kaelon had

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already thrown the door wide open.
No let him pass, said Father Brown,

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with a strange deep sigh that seemed
to come from the depths of the

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universe. But Caine passed by,
for he belongs to God. There was

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a long drawn silence in the room
when he had left it, which was

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to Flambeau's fierce wits, one long
agony of interrogation. Miss Joan Stacy very

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coolly tidied up the papers on her
desk, Father, said Flambou. At

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last, it is my duty,
not my curiosity. Only it is my

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duty to find out, if I
can, who committed the crime. Which

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crime, asked Father Brown. The
one we are dealing with, of course,

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replied his impatient friend. We are
dealing with two crimes, said Brown,

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crimes of very different weight and by
very different criminals. Miss Joan Stacy,

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having collected and put away her papers, proceeded to lock up her drawer.

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Father Brown went on, noticing her
as little as she noticed him.

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The two crimes, he observed,
were committed against the same weakness of the

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same person. In a struggle for
her money. The author of the larger

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crime found himself thwarted by the smaller
crime. The author of the smaller crime

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got the money. Oh, don't
go on like a lecturer groaned Flambeaux put

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it in a few words. I
can put it in one word, answered

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his friend, Miss Joe. And
Stacey skewered her business like black hat on

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to her head with a business like
black frown before a little mirror, and

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as the conversation proceeded, took her
handbag an umbrella in an unhurried style,

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and left the room. The truth
is one word, and a short one,

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said father Brown. Pauline Stacy was
blind, blind, repeated Flambeau,

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and rose slowly to his whole huge
stature. She was subject to it by

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blood. Brown proceeded. Her sister
would have started eyeglasses if Pauline would have

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let her, But it was her
special philosophy or fad, that one must

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not encourage such diseases by yielding to
them. She would not admit the cloud,

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or she tried to dispel it by
will. So her eyes got worse

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and worse with straining. But the
worst strain was to come. It came

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with this precious prophet or whatever he
calls himself, who taught her to stare

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at the hot sun with the naked
eye. It was called accepting a poddle.

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Oh, if these new pagans would
only be old pagan They would be

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a little wiser. The old pagans
knew that mere naked nature worship must have

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a cruel side. They knew that
the eye of Apollo can blast and blind.

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There was a pause, and the
priest went on in a gentle and

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even broken voice, whether or no
that devil deliberately made her blind, there

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is no doubt that he deliberately killed
her through her blindness. The very simplicity

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of the crime is sickening. You
know, he and she went up and

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down in those lifts without official help. You know also how smoothly and silently

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the lift slide. Caelon brought the
lift of the girl's landing and saw her

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through the open door, writing in
her slow, slightless way the will she

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had promised him. He called out
to her cheerily that he had to lift

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ready for her, and she was
to come out when she was ready.

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Then he pressed a button and shot
soundlessly up to his own floor, walked

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through his own office, owed on
to his own balcony, and was safely

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praying before the crowded street. When
the poor girl, having finished her work,

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gran gaily out to where lover and
lift were to receive her and stepped.

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Don't, cried Flambeau. He ought
to have got half a million by

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pressing that button, continued the little
Father, in the colorless voice in which

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she talked of such horrors. But
that went smash. It went smash because

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there happened to be another person who
also wanted the money, and who also

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knew the secret about poor Pauline's sight. There was one thing about that will

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which I think nobody noticed. Although
it was unfinished and without signature, the

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other Miss Stacy and some servant of
hers had already signed it as witnesses.

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Joan had signed first, saying Pauline
could finish it later, with a typical

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feminine contempt for legal forms. Therefore, Joan wanted her sister to sign the

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will without real witnesses. Why.
I thought of the blindness and felt sure

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she had wanted Pauline to sign in
solitude, because she had not wanted her

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to sign at all. People like
the Staces always use fountain pens, but

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this was specially natural to Pauline.
By habit and her strong will and memory.

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She could still write almost as well
as if she saw, but she

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could not tell when her pen needed
dipping. Therefore, her fountain pens were

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carefully filled by her sister, all
except this fountain pen. This was carefully

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not filled by her sister. The
remains of the ink held out for a

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few lines and then failed altogether,
and the prophet lost five hundred thousand pounds

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and committed one of the most brutal
and brilliant murders in human history for nothing.

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Flambeau went to the open door and
heard the official police ascending the stairs.

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He turned and said, you must
have followed everything devilish close to have

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traced the crime to Kaelon in ten
minutes. Father Brown gave a sort of

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start oh to him. He said, no, I had to follow rather

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close to find out about miss Joan
and the fountain pen. But I knew

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Aylon was the criminal before I came
into the front door. You must be

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joking, cried Flambeaud. I'm quite
serious, answered the priest. I tell

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you, I knew he had done
it, even before I knew what he

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had done. But why these pagan
stoics, said Father Brown reflectively, always

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fail by their strength. There came
a crash and a screamed down the street,

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and the Priest of Apollo did not
start or look around. I did

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not know what it was, but
I knew that he was expecting it.

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And of the eye of Apollo by
G. K. Chesterton