13 The Saint Intervenes (Boodle)

THE

SAINT

INTERVENES

LESLIE CHARTERIS

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A MACFADDEN-BARTELL BOOK

TO

H. H. GIBSON

Many years ago I resolved that you were one of the first people I must dedicate a book to. But time slips by, and it's sadly easy to lose touch with someone who lives hundreds of miles away. So this comes very late, but I hope not too late; because even though this may be a bad book, if 1 hadn't come tinder your guidance many years ago it would probably have been very much worse.

THIS IS THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THE HARDCOVER EDITION

A MACFADDEN BOOK   ....   1966

MACFADDEN BOOKS are published by

Macfadden-Bartell Corporation

205 East 42nd Street, New York, New York, 10017

This story was originally published in England under the title Boodle.

Copyright, 1934, by Leslie Charteris. All rights reserved. Published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A.

CONTENTS

      I       The Ingenuous Colonel

    II     The Unfortunate Financier

   III       The Newdick Helicopter

   IV       The Prince of Cherkessia

      V       The Treasure of Turk's Lane

   VI       The Sleepless Knight

 VII        The Uncritical Publisher

VIII       The Noble Sportsman

  IX       The Damsel in Distress

    X       The Loving Brothers

  XI       The Tall Timber

 XII       The Art Photographer

XIII     The Man Who Liked Toys

XIV       The Mixture as Before

The villains in this book are entirely imaginary, and have no relation to any living person.

 

I

The Ingenuous Colonel

Lieut.-Colonel Sir George Uppingdon, it must be admitted, was not a genuine knight; neither, as a matter of fact, was he a genuine colonel. This is not to say that he thought that sandbags contained the material for mixing trench mortar, or that an observation post was a species of flagpole on which inquisitive brigadiers hung at half-mast; but his military ex­perience was certainly limited to a brief period during