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‘I suppose your trip was not interesting,’ began the doctor, ‘and you've found it a very boring village.’

it’s a very unusual village indeed

‘I’ve been working with the only unusual thing that ever happened here, I should think,’ noticed Dr Mulborough. ‘And even that happened to somebody from outside. I may tell you they managed the exhumation quietly last night; and I did the autopsy this morning. In plain words we’ve been digging up a body that’s simply full of poison.’

‘A body full of poison,’ repeated Father Brown. ‘Believe me, your village has something much more unusual than that.’

There was sudden silence, and then also a sudden sound of the old bell on the doorstep of the lawyer’s house; and that legal gentleman invited them in, and he presented them to a white-haired, yellow-faced gentleman with a scar, who was the Admiral.

he himself was put back into the early nineteenth century, rather than that the lawyer had survived into the early twentieth

showed some surprise on finding that Father Brown was rather ready to defend the priest’s son