The Saint Bids Diamonds

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The Saint Bids Diamonds
Leslie Charteris
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Genres: Fiction
he snapped. “We haven’t got all day to waste.”
“Take it easy, take it easy,” said Palermo soothingly. “Tombs and me are just getting along fine. Tombs is a good fellow. He just doesn’t understand us properly yet. Isn’t that right, Tombs?”
Simon picked a piece of cuttlefish out of his paella and chewed it laboriously. It tasted exactly like high-grade rubber.
“You’re wrong there,” he said coolly. “I think I understand you pretty well. When you’ve met one skunk, you recognise the smell of the oth
...ers-whether they’re wearing an old school tie or a little piece of gigolo whisker.”
The refined face of Mr Aliston pinkened, but Palermo’s retained its swarthy impassivity. He stared at the Saint with his head cocked on one side like a sparrow.
“You talk fast,” he said.
“I think like that,” said the Saint easily. “It didn’t even take me long to figure out that you aren’t only double-crossing me-you’re double-crossing Graner as well.”
There was a certain period of silence, during which the girl’s knife and fork clinked softly as she continued to eat with wholehearted concentration.
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