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THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN with the disaster either, since she had not got, and could not have, any firearms.

"Well," said Father Brown, rising cheerfully, "I hope they're happy."

"Where are you going?" asked his friend.

"I'm going to have another look at that portrait of the Chamberlain, the Arnhold who betrayed his brethren," answered the priest. "I wonder what part—— I wonder if a man is less a traitor when he is twice a traitor?" And he ruminated long before the portrait of a white-haired man with black eyebrows and a pink, painted sort of smile that seemed to contradict the black warning in the eyes.