The Eye of Apollo

Download or read book The Eye of Apollo written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Complete Father Brown. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That singular smoky sparkle, at once a confusion and a transparency, which is thestrange secret of the Thames, was changing more and more from its grey to itsglittering extreme as the sun climbed to the zenith over Westminster, and two mencrossed Westminster Bridge. One man was very tall and the other very short; theymight even have been fantastically compared to the arrogant clock-tower ofParliament and the humbler humped shoulders of the Abbey, for the short man was in clerical dress. The official description of the tall man was M. Hercule Flambeau,private detective, and he was going to his new offices in a new pile of flats facingthe Abbey entrance. The official description of the short man was the Reverend J.Brown, attached to St. Francis Xavier's Church, Camberwell, and he was comingfrom a Camberwell deathbed to see the new offices of his friend.