Saint Steps in
Saint Steps in
““I’ve told you my name. But perhaps you’d know me better if I said—the Saint.”
Imberline’s cigar jerked in his mouth as his teeth clamped on it, and his eyes squeezed up again. But there was no change of color in the florid face. No—Frank Imberline, with or without a guilty conscience, wasn’t panicked by shadows.
He stared back at the Saint, without blinking, puffing smoke out of the side of his mouth in intermittent clouds.
“You’re a crook,” he said.
“If you’d care to put that in writing,” sai...d the Saint calmly, “I shall be very glad to sue you for libel. There isn’t a single legal charge that can be brought against me—other than this little matter of breaking and entering tonight.”
The other made a short impatient gesture.
“Oh, I’m sure you’ve been clever. And I’ve read some of that stuff about your Robin Hood motives. But your methods, sir, are not those which have been set up by our democratic constitution. The end does not justify the means.MoreLess
Imberline’s cigar jerked in his mouth as his teeth clamped on it, and his eyes squeezed up again. But there was no change of color in the florid face. No—Frank Imberline, with or without a guilty conscience, wasn’t panicked by shadows.
He stared back at the Saint, without blinking, puffing smoke out of the side of his mouth in intermittent clouds.
“You’re a crook,” he said.
“If you’d care to put that in writing,” sai...d the Saint calmly, “I shall be very glad to sue you for libel. There isn’t a single legal charge that can be brought against me—other than this little matter of breaking and entering tonight.”
The other made a short impatient gesture.
“Oh, I’m sure you’ve been clever. And I’ve read some of that stuff about your Robin Hood motives. But your methods, sir, are not those which have been set up by our democratic constitution. The end does not justify the means.MoreLess
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