Flambeau and his friend the priest were sitting in the Temple gardens at sunset; and their neighborhood or some accidental influence had turned their discourse towards questions of legal procedure. From the problem of license in cross-examination, their remarks stray to Roman and medieval torture, to the examining magistrate in France and the Third Degree in America.
/"I have read," said Flambeau, "of this new psychometric method, there is so much talk, especially in America. You see what I mean: we put a pulsometer on a man's wrist and we judge by the way his heart goes to the pronunciation of certain words What do you think?/"
/"I think it's very interesting," replied Father Brown; /"It reminds me of that interesting idea from the Dark Ages that blood would flow from a corpse if the murderer touched it./"
/"Do you really mean," asked his friend, /"that you think both methods have the same value?/"
/"I think them equally worthless," replied Brown. /"Blood flows, quickly or slowly, among the dead or the living, for so many millions of reasons that we can never imagine. The blood will have to flow in a very funny way; the blood will have to flow to the Matterhorn, before I take it as a sign that I need to get rid of it./"
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