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SHORT STORY,

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THE STRANGE CRIME OF JOHN BOULNOIS.

A STIRRING DETECTIVE

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"Why?" asked the other, and turned bis round face from the sky to the lady.

He hated my husband be cause. it is a strange, hardly know how to say it because.

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"Yes" said Brown patiently. "Because my husband would n't hate him."

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To let **ROGATE,” Austin. continued absent mindedly:

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The crisis came, continued from 1st

To let, furnished for one year I attach a good deal of import became suddenly strong and full. suaded John to let me talte down Tonnis Latin

November next ance to vague ideas. All those

"I don't baliove," she said, some of his speculations and things that aren't evidence are he ever cared about me a rap send them to a magazine. They what convince one. I think a He hated my husband." moral impossibility the biggest

especially in America; and one began attract attention of all impossibilities.

paper wanted to interview him. know your husband only alightly, but I think this crime of

terviewed nearly every day) heard When Champion (who was in his, as generally conceived, some

of this late little crumb of success thing very like a moral impossib. ility. Please do not think that

falling to his unconscious rival, Boulnois could not be so wicked.

back his devilish, hatred. Then the last link snapped that held Anybody can be wicked: as

he began to lay that insane alege wicked as he chooses. We can direct our 'moral wills; bur wo Father Brown only nodded and has been the talk of the shire."

to my own love and honour which can't generally change out in seemed still to be listening. He You will ask me why I allowed stinctive tastes and ways of doing differed from most detectives in such things. Boulnois might commit fact and fiction in a small point; answer that I could not have a, murder, but not this murder he never pretended not to under- declined them except by explain- He would not snatch Rome's stand when he understood paring to my husband; and there sword from ita romantic scabbard; featly well.

are aome things the soul can not or slay his foe on the sun-dial, as

do, as the body can not fly. No- on a kind of altar; or leave bis

body could have explained to my body among the roses; fling the

husband Nobody could do it Aword away among the pipes. It "My husban," she said, "is Boulnois killed anyone, he'd do great man." She said it as if it many words, 'Champion is steal the verdict returned at an inquest

now. If you said to him in so, it quietly and heavily, as he'd do were secret, and she somehowing your wife, he would think Strood, near Rochester, recently. any other doub ful thing, take a made the hearer foal it was a the joke a little vulgar: that it on Thomas Ridley Tanner, forty- tenth glass of port, or read a loose fact. It was as if she had said could be anything but a joke—| Greek post. No the romantic he was a negro or an albino; it that notion, could find no creek even, labourer, who died from a Betting is not like Boulnois. It's was not a matter of opinion.

in his great skull to get in by to a blow from his son. It was "Sir Clande Champion," she Well, John was to come and see stated that Tanner' struck his wife, fractured skull, alleged to be due more like Champion.".

"Ab?" she said, and looked went on, was not a great man"; eat him with eyes like diamonds, he was a celebrated and sucCESS-

as aet this evening, but, just as and that the son, aged twenty "And the trivial thing was ful men. Aly husband was wouldn't--he had got an interest-the Navy, interfered to shield his we were starting. he said he four, who recently retired from this," said Brown. "Thore were not calebrater or

successfoing book and a cigar. I told this finger prints on that sword. and it is the solemn truth to Sir Claude, and it was bis Finger prints can be detected that bo never dreamed of being death-blow. Somehow there wAS quite a time after they are made, so. Ile no more experts to be something so careless and crush- if it's on some polished surface famous for thinking than foring, so elephantine and innocent, like glass or steel. These were smoking cigars. On all that about John's leaving as together on a polished surface. They were side he has a sort of splendid while he finished a page or two half way down the blade of the stupidity. He has never grown of print, that the monomanise sword. Whose prints they were up. He still liked Champion suddenly saw despair. He stab- I have no sarthly clue; but why exactly as he liked him at school; bed himself, crying out like as impracticable, and that the one should anybody hold a sword be admired him as be would ad- devil that Boulnois was slaying hopeful feature of an otherwise half way down? It was a long mire a conjuring trick at table. him. Helios there in the garden, hopeless situation is Yuan Shih-Note sword, but length is an advant. But he could not be got to con- dead of his own jealousy to pro-kai's steady increase of power. age in lunging at an enemy. At ceive the notion of anoying duce jealousy, and John is sitting The unswerving loyalty of the least at most enemies. At all Champion. And Champion want in the dining-room, reading a enemies except one!?

ed to be envied. He went mad book."

Vice-President may enable Yuan "Except one," she repeated. and killed himself for that." "There is only one enemy?

"Yes," said Father Brown; said Father Brown, "whom it is "I think I begin to understand."

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easier to kill with than a dagger than a swords."

"I know," said the woman, 'One's self."

There was a long silence, and then the priest said quietly but abruptly:

"Am I right then? Did Sir Claude kill himself?"

"Yes," she said, with a faco like marble.""I saw him do it." "He died," said Father Brown, "for love of you?"

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Mrs. Boulpoia drew near once more, with the same contained glow of certainty:

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