THE SALAD OF COLONEL CRAY A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories entails this is your
0:33.8	host John Haggadorn today a father brown story from g k chesterton called the
0:38.8	salad of colonel cray in this story father Brown solves a mysterious burglary this time he quit with a
0:45.8	cruet of salad dressing in his cassock pocket to disprove the alleged curse of
0:49.9	the temple of the monkey after which you could have suggested, let us pray.
0:56.2	Father Brown was walking home from Mass on a white, weird morning when the mists were slowly
1:01.3	lifting.
1:02.3	One of those mornings when the very element of light appears
1:05.2	as something mysterious and new.
1:08.0	The scattered trees outlined themselves more and more out of the vapor, as if they were first drawn in gray chalk and then in charcoal.
1:17.4	At yet more distant intervals appeared the houses upon the broken fringe of the
1:21.0	suburb.
1:22.1	Their outlines became clearer and clearer until he recognized the But all the windows and doors were sealed.
1:33.0	None of the people were of the sort that would be up at such a time,
1:36.0	or still less on such an errand.
1:39.0	But as he passed under the shadow of one handsome villa,
1:42.0	with verandas and wide or
1:44.0	innate gardens, he heard a noise that made him almost involuntarily stop.
1:48.3	It was the unmistakable noise of a pistol or carbon or some light firearm discharged, but it was not
1:55.5	this that puzzled him most.
1:57.8	The first full noise was immediately followed by a series of fainter noises, as he counted
2:02.4	them about six.
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