And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host

John Haggadorn. Today a great father brown story from g k Jesterton second book of short

stories titled The Wisdom of Father Brown.

We begin with a conversation between Father Brown and his longtime friend and ex-Jule thief,

Flambeau.

And now the mistake of the machine.

Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the temple gardens about sunset and their neighborhood or some

such accidental influence had turned their talk to matters of legal process.

From the problem of the I've been reading said Blambeau of this new psychometric method they talk about so much

especially in America you know what I mean they put a pulsometer on a man's wrist and

judged by how his heart goes at the pronunciation

of certain words.

What do you think of it?

I'd think it very interesting, replied Father Brown. It reminds me of that interesting idea in the Dark Ages,

that blood would flow from a corpse if the murderer touched it.

Do you really mean?

Demanded Blambeau, that you think the two methods equally valuable?

I think them equally valueless, replied Brown.

Blood flows, faster slow, in dead folk or living, for so many more million reasons than we can

ever know.

Blood will have to flow very funnily.

Blood will have to flow up the Matterhorn, before I will take it as a sign that I am to shed it.

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