The Saint Meets His Match
The Saint Meets His Match
“TEAL WOKE UP SIMON had slipped out his cigarette case and absently selected a cigarette. He lighted the cigarette, looking at a picture on the opposite wall without seeing it; and his faintly thoughtful smile lingered on the corners of his mouth, rather recklessly and dangerously. But that was like Simon Templar, who never got worked up about anything.
“Of course,” he said quietly, “I’ve been rather liable to overlook that.”
“Why not?” she answered, in a tone that matched his own for evennes...s. “You can’t spend twenty-four hours a day thinking and talking about nothing but that.”
He shifted his gaze to her face. Her beauty was utterly calm and tranquil. She showed nothing—not in the tremor of a lip, or the flicker of an eyelid. And unless something were done there and then, she might have less than two months of life ahead of her before a paid menial of the law hanged her by the neck… .
Teal’s whistle, in the street below, shrieked again like a lost soul.
And Jill Trelawney laughed.MoreLess
“Of course,” he said quietly, “I’ve been rather liable to overlook that.”
“Why not?” she answered, in a tone that matched his own for evennes...s. “You can’t spend twenty-four hours a day thinking and talking about nothing but that.”
He shifted his gaze to her face. Her beauty was utterly calm and tranquil. She showed nothing—not in the tremor of a lip, or the flicker of an eyelid. And unless something were done there and then, she might have less than two months of life ahead of her before a paid menial of the law hanged her by the neck… .
Teal’s whistle, in the street below, shrieked again like a lost soul.
And Jill Trelawney laughed.MoreLess
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