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The text is took from a literary composition written by Gilbert Chesterton.

The
facts took placein a Little village of Bohun Beacon In England. In that village, there
was an aristocratic family that dated from the middle ages, The Bohuns. Wilfrid
and Norman, a couple of brothers but they were so different, for one hand,
Wilfrid is a very devout person but his elder brother, the colonel Norman was
the opposite. They met in the street while the colonel was looking for the
blacksmith and Wilfrid told him the blacksmith was out of town. Wilfrid was the
reverend of the village which the church, was at the peak of the highest
mountain of that place. Wilfred always tried to make his brother a kind person
and the colonel had not fear of god, as we can see, this is one of the
commandments, fear of god because he is the one and only that we can adore,
Wilfrid said if you do not fear, you have a good reason to fear man, who's with
god, who is against me, but the colonel still thinks that he is able to defend
himself.
An half an hour later appeared the cobbler in the church and wilfrid knew that
was not for good reason because he was atheist and his appearance in church
was more extraordinary than mad Joes, who had never been known to pray
before. The cobbler said the colonel was dead. Some people were gathered
around the dead body and close to the body there was a hammer. The skull
was smashed. They started to look for answers to solve that mystery. They
blamed the blacksmith because he was a very strong man who could kill him
with that hammer. But the blamed man was not in the village and hi could
prove that he was with people when he was out.
They continued looking for the real murderer giving some options; the
hammers smallness moves the doctor to guess that the smiths wife killed the
colonel. This theory is discarded, however, because the fatal blow was too
powerful for her to have dealt. The curate suggests that the village idiot, Mad
Joe, might be capable of such a blow. He recalls seeing Mad Joe, the smiths
nephew, praying in the chapel just before the murder, and seeing his brother,
the colonel, mercilessly teasing the poor soul as he left the chapel. The only
one who does not seem content with the curates solution to the mystery is
Father Brown, who suddenly becomes noticeable in the crowd. When he is
alone with Reverend Bohun in the spire of the church, he offers his own solution
to the mystery: The murderer is Bohun himself, and the mysterious force that
crushed his brothers metal helmet with such a small hammer is a natural one:
gravity. Having picked up a hammer while pleading with the colonel at the
smithy, Bohun threw it from the top of the belfry onto his brothers head, the
acceleration giving the tiny tool tremendous force. Father Brown swears that he
will not reveal Bohuns secret but urges him to give himself up, which the
curate does immediately.
Trying to find the real Colonels murderer the story at first gets a little
confusing, because they try to find the guilty by elimination looking strength

and tenacity of each of the characters and gives a rather unexpected turn
when the real murderer is revealed . Maybe unconsciously, the Reverend
wanted to punish his brother because he said he did not fear God. In my opinion

I think that in some ways the story is an adaptation of the story of Cain and Abel from the
Bible, a devout brother and the other not much, but a change occurs in the end you could
say that is the ray of God (hammer) who it was not pious of the Old Testament.

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