Saint on the Spanish Main by Leslie Charteris

Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Mystery
ISBN: 9780856172014
Publisher: Ace
Published: 1955-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"God burn it," said the Saint in disgust, "it just starts to get somewhere and then it veers off again. And there are only a few lines left."

14th. That two white men to be nominated by His Excellency or the commander in chief for the time being shall constantly live and reside with Captain Cudjoe and his successors in order to maintain a friendly correspondence with the inhabitants of this Island.

"That's an item that somebody seems to have overlooked," Simon observed. "It might be some help, but it isn't exactly a lightning solution."

The excitement with which he had started reading was beginning to drag its tail. The lift of a couple of false hopes had only made the subsequent let-downs more discouraging. The Treaty, although its simplicity and straightforwardness could have been studied with advantage by the architects of more modern pacts, left vast areas untouched. The only regulation it set up for the internal affairs of the Maroons was that they should not execute each other. How otherwise they should organize their freedom seemed to have been wholly outside the scope of the agenda.

There was only one clause left; and the Saint's heart sank as the first words foreshadowed its stately irrelevance.

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