Once More the Saint

Contains

Canonical title

Once More the Saint

Original title

Once More the Saint; The ait and mr Teal

Original publication date

1933

People/Characters

Patricia Holm; Simon Templar (the Saint, Sebastian Tombs); Claud Eustace Teal (Chief Inspector); Laura Berwick; Clements; Joe Corrigan (show all 19); Clem Enright (Green Cross gang); Tex Goldman (William Gold); Toby Halidom; Ronald Nilder; Ted Orping (Green Cross gang); Abdul Osman; Oojy-Woojy Peabody; Brian Quell; Sylvester Quell; Smithson Smith; Galbraith Stride; Basher Tope (Green Cross gang); Harry Trape

Important places

London, England, UK; Newhaven, East Sussex, England, UK; Isles of Scilly, England, UK; Paris, France

First words

Simon Templar landed in England when the news of Brian Quell's murder was on the streets. ("The gold standard")

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A certain Mr. Peabody, known to his wife as Oojy-Woojy, was no fool. ("The man from St. Louis")

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They hanged Galbraith Stride at eight o'clock in the morning of the 22nd of November. ("The death penalty")

Quotations

He was a thin, mild-mannered man with sandy grey hair, a tiny moustache, and an extraordinary gentle voice; and it was a strange thing that he was only one of many men in those islands who were more familiar with the romantic... (show all) cities of the East than they were with the capital of their own country. Simon had been struck by that odd fact on his first call at Tregarthen's, and subsequent visits had confirmed it. There, on those lonely clusters of rock breaking out of the sea forty miles from Land's End, where you would expect to find men who had seen scarcely anything of the world outside the other rocky islands around their own homes, you found instead these simple men whose turns of reminiscence recalled the streets of Damascus and Bagdad by their names. And whenever reminiscence turned that way Mr. Smithson Smith would call on his own memories, with a faraway look in his eyes, and the same faraway sound in that very gentle voice, as if his dreams saw the deserts of Arabia more vividly than the blue bay beyond his windows. "I mind a time when I was in Capernaum..." - Simon had heard him say it, and felt that for that man at least all the best days lay in the past. It was the war, of course, that had picked men out of every sleepy hamlet in England and hurled them into the familiarity of strange sights and places as well as the flaming shadows of death, and in the end sent them back to those same sleepy hamlets to remember; but there was in that quiet man a mystic sensitiveness, a tenseness of poetry struggling rather puzzledly for the expression he could not give it, that made his memories more dreamy with a quaint kind of reverence than most others.

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Mr. Smithson Smith was oddly afraid of being boring, as if he felt that any mundane restlessness in his audience would break the fragile glamour of those wonderful things he could remember.

Last words

(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"We shan't be needing it." ("The gold standard")

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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Only for wilful murder," said the Saint unctuously, and watched Chief Inspector Teal lumbering ponderously across the road towards them. ("The man from St. Louis")

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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Somewhere a clock was striking the hour of eight. ("The death penalty")

Original language

English

Disambiguation notice

ONCE MORE THE SAINT has also appeared as THE SAINT AND MR. TEAL.