Senor Saint
Language: English
Pages: 192
ISBN: 0330104594
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Ex library (discard) with usual stamps and stickers, protected by clear plastic cover. An acceptable reading copy. Some creasing to spine and covers, pages tanned.
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Presently by another man in a similar dark suit, the two of them having none of the seaside vacationing air of the other guests, and the two put their heads together and kept looking at her and Ramón as they talked. And though the glimpse she had had upstairs had been far too narrow for positive recognition, she felt utterly certain that the second man was the one who had been watching when she left her room. She had hesitantly asked Ramón what he thought of them. “I’d already noticed them,” he.
Actually taken out a prospecting licence from the Government, and he must have told a dozen people where he’s going. If he disappeared, we’d have too many tough questions to answer.” It was only after she had said it that the fantastic thought crossed her mind that Sebastian Tombs might have done all that, and taken pains to tell her about it, as an elaborate precaution against the very thing that Loro was advocating, and a subtle warning that if perchance that was what they had in mind they had.
Then you fought a rearguard action for two days down the river. And yet we came here all the way from Panama in two days, and Loro is going to make a deal with the head-hunters and be back with the golden frogs tomorrow.” Again she was barely touched by a fleeting uneasiness, but she was ready with the answer. “Last time, we were exploring. We went off on big swings through the jungle, covering as much ground as we could. We were on one of those hikes when we found the cave. We’d left the boat.
Money as quickly as possible and return here while we were still hot on the scent, as you might say, of those golden frogs.” “Naturally.” “Getting the money was only a matter of formality. Then I wired Alice, and took the next plane back here after my lecture. Of course, by that time you had already left on your ill-fated trip. No doubt you can imagine my feelings when she was forced to tell me the whole story. It would be impossible for me to forgive the bargain she made with you if I did not.
I took him in my house. Then, when he did not get well quickly, I was afraid. I thought, if I call the police, they will say I did it to rob him. I sent for a doctor I know. Together we took care of him. He was sick for a long time. And then I could not turn him out, because he was blind.” “And you’ve looked after him ever since,” said the Saint, and deliberately averted his eyes. “I was glad to.” He heard only her voice. “Because then I had fallen in love.” And now the Saint understood at.