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to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John

Haggadorn. Today it's been a while of Father Brown's story. This one from the book called The Secret of Father Brown. It's the number two story called The Man with Two Beards.

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And now, The Man with Two Beards.

This tale was told by Father Brown to present. Beards.

This tale was told by Father Brown to Professor Craig, the celebrated criminologist, after dinner

at a club where the two were introduced to each other as sharing a harmless hobby of murder and robbery.

But his Father Brown's version rather minimized his own part in the matter.

It is here re-told in a more impartial style.

It arose out of a playful passage of arms in which the

professor was very scientific and the priest rather skeptical.

My good sir said the professor in remonstrance, don't you believe that criminology is a science?

I'm not sure, replied Father Brown.

Do you believe that hagiologies of science?

What's that? asked a specialist sharply.

No, it's not the study of hags, and has nothing to do with burning witches, said the priest, smiling.

It's the study of holy things, saints, and so on.

You see, the Dark Age just tried to make a science about good people, but our own humane and enlightened age is only interested in a science about bad ones.

Yet I think our general experience is that every conceivable sort of man has been a saint.

And I suspect you will find too that every conceivable sort of man has been a murderer.

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