THE SIGN OF THE BROKEN SWORD A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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This is one of best Father Brown stories I have had the pleasure to share. Its a great story that rings true- a story of a military leader whose legend was perhaps not as well deserved as all his admirers believed.
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| 0:53.0 | It's time for another Father Brown story. |
| 0:55.0 | Today, The Sign of the Broken Sword |
| 0:59.0 | A Father Brown Mystery by GKK. Chesterton. Enjoy. The thousand arms of the forest were |
| 1:08.0 | gray and its million fingers silver. In a sky of dark green-blue-like slate, the stars were bleak and brilliant like splintered |
| 1:16.8 | ice. All that thickly wooded and sparsely tenanted countryside was stiff with a bitter and brittle frost. |
| 1:24.6 | The black hollows between the trunks of the trees looked like bottoms black caverns of that |
| 1:29.3 | Scandinavian hell, a hell of incalculable cold. |
| 1:34.1 | Even the square stone tower of the church looked to northern to the point of heathenry, as if it were |
| 1:38.8 | some barbaric tower among the sea rocks of Iceland. It was a queer night for anyone to explore a churchyard, |
| 1:46.0 | but on the other hand perhaps it was worth exploring. |
| 1:50.0 | It rose abruptly out of the as and wastes of forests in a sort of hump or shoulder of green turf that looked gray in the starlight. |
| 1:59.0 | Most of the graves were on a slant, and the path leading up to the church was as steep as a staircase. |
| 2:06.3 | On the top of the hill, in the one flat and prominent place was the monument for which the |
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