The Paradise Of Thieves
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The Paradise of Thieves
The rich English family Harrogate is on holiday in Italy. The young Italian poet Muscari who likes Ethel Harrogate, the daughter of the banker from Yorkshire and therefore prefers to eat in the restaurant that is close to the hotel of the Harrogate family.In the restaurant Muscari meets an old friend, Ezza. they went to school together a lot of years ago. Ezza tells Muscari that he is a Futurist, works as a courier and he is accompanying the Harrogate family now. The Harrogate family seems to be excited because of some dangers in the mountain pass they are to cross that week. Ethel has been told that this mountain pass is ruled by the King of Thieves called Montano and therefore is excited. Muscari agrees to Ethel but Ezza say that there is danger. When Ezza, Mr Harrogate, Ethel and Muscari leave the restaurant a priest walks towards the banker’s son Frank and asks him to take care of his sister in her great sadness. Two days later the Harrogate family, Ezza, Muscari and the priest, Father Brown start their journey to the dangerous mountain range. They drive in a coach and enjoy the landscape. But suddenly the horses tremble and the coach tips over. The people and their bags fall on a grassy and flowery hollow with little damage. When Father Brown looks around he finds a glass bottle. It was poison. But at that moment a poorly dressed man with a unusual shaped knife, enters the scene and Muscari is convinced that the bandits are going to attack them. But when he asks Ezza for help he reveals himself as “Montano, King of Thieves”. More and more men with weapons come out of the bushes and Ezza/Montano explains that he wants to get two thousand pounds from Mr. Harrogate now and in addition three thousand pounds payment from his relatives.Father Brown and Muscari sit down a few meters away later on and the priest explains that in his opinion there are three strange difficulties in this attack. The first one is that
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The Paradise of Thieves
The rich English family Harrogate is on holiday in Italy. The young Italian poet Muscari who likes Ethel Harrogate, the daughter of the banker from Yorkshire and therefore prefers to eat in the restaurant that is close to the hotel of the Harrogate family.In the restaurant Muscari meets an old friend, Ezza. they went to school together a lot of years ago. Ezza tells Muscari that he is a Futurist, works as a courier and he is accompanying the Harrogate family now. The Harrogate family seems to be excited because of some dangers in the mountain pass they are to cross that week. Ethel has been told that this mountain pass is ruled by the King of Thieves called Montano and therefore is excited. Muscari agrees to Ethel but Ezza say that there is danger. When Ezza, Mr Harrogate, Ethel and Muscari leave the restaurant a priest walks towards the banker’s son Frank and asks him to take care of his sister in her great sadness. Two days later the Harrogate family, Ezza, Muscari and the priest, Father Brown start their journey to the dangerous mountain range. They drive in a coach and enjoy the landscape. But suddenly the horses tremble and the coach tips over. The people and their bags fall on a grassy and flowery hollow with little damage. When Father Brown looks around he finds a glass bottle. It was poison. But at that moment a poorly dressed man with a unusual shaped knife, enters the scene and Muscari is convinced that the bandits are going to attack them. But when he asks Ezza for help he reveals himself as “Montano, King of Thieves”. More and more men with weapons come out of the bushes and Ezza/Montano explains that he wants to get two thousand pounds from Mr. Harrogate now and in addition three thousand pounds payment from his relatives.Father Brown and Muscari sit down a few meters away later on and the priest explains that in his opinion there are three strange difficulties in this attack. The first one is that