Simon's umbrella swung elegantly in his hand.
He sighed.
"The idea is amusing," he murmured. "And yet I can't quite see myself running on the side of Law and Order. As you've so kindly pointed out on several occasions, dear old horseradish, my free-lance style is rather cramped now that you all know so much about me; but I'm afraid--oh. Teal, my bonny, I'm terribly afraid that yours is not the only way. I should become so hideously respectable before you finished with me. And there is another objection."
"What's that?"
The Saint removed his shining headpiece and dusted it lovingly with a large silk handkerchief.
"I could not wear a bowler hat," he said.
Teal stopped, and turned.
"Are you really going to refuse?" he asked; and Simon nodded.
"I am," he said sadly,: "It would have been a hopeless failure. I should have been fired in a week anyway. Scotland House would become a bear garden. The most weird and wonderful stories would be told in the Old Bailey, Gentlemen would write to the Times--Teal, I don't want to be a wet blanket, but I might want that arm again--"
"Templar," said the detective glumly, "that's the worst news I've heard for a long time!"
"Is it?" drawled the Saint, appearing slightly puzzled. "I thought everyone knew. It's the arm I drink with."
"I mean, if you really are going on in the same old way--"
"Oh, that!"
The Saint smiled beatifically. He glanced at his watch.
"Let us go and have lunch," he said, "and weep over my wickedness, I'm such a picturesque villain, too." He sighed again. "Tell me, Teal, where can a policeman and a pirate lunch together in safety?"
"Anywhere you like," said Teal unhappily,
Simon Templar gazed across Piccadilly Circus.
"I seem to remember a very good restaurant in the Law Courts themselves," he remarked. "I lunched there one day just after I'd murdered someone or other. It gave me a great sensation. And this, I think, is my cue to repeat the performance. Come, Archibald, and I will tell you the true story about the Bishop and the Actress."
WATCH FOR THE SIGN OF THE SAINT. HE Will BE BACK ON OTHER CHARTER BOOKS.
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