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He had deserted after a year in the Spanish Foreign Legion. He had run guns into China, whisky into the United States, and perfume into England. He had won a gold rush in South Africa and lost his holding in a poker game twenty-four hours later. There seemed to be few of the wilder parts of the world which he had not visited, and few of those in which he had not had adventures. He talked interestingly-if with a strong egotistical bias-about places as far removed from civilization and from each other as Vladivostok, Armenia, Moscow, Lapland, Chungking, Pernambuco, and Sierra Leone. We eavesdrop as the Saint entertains Patricia and others in the local community with stories from his recent adventures: We shall be married-вЂќДЄnd Patricia does indeed appear in many more adventures, although sheвЂ™s often absent in some of the later stories, when the SaintвЂ™s more amorous adventures are being told. I shall kiss her very passionately in the last chapter. вЂњBy all the laws of adventure, IвЂ™m bound to have to save her life two or three times during the next ten days. вЂњIвЂ™ve met the most wonderful girl in the world,вЂќ said Simon impenitently.

We also meet, for the first time, a young girl named Patricia Holm, and we all, Simon Templar included, immediately fall in love with her. Templar and his ever-present manservant, Orace, are on the trail of a mysterious villain known as вЂњThe TigerвЂќ. In 1918 the garrison and the guns had been removed, and the miniature concrete fortress had been abandoned to the games of the local children until Simon Templar, by some means known only to himself, had discovered that the Pill Box sand the quarter of a square mile of land in which it stood were still the property of the War Office, and in some secret way had managed to persuade the said War Office to sell him the freehold for twenty-five pounds. The work had been efficiently carried out, and a small garrison had been installed but apparently the War Office had been cleverer than the German tacticians, for no attempt was made to land an army at Baycombe. Possibly because they thought Baycombe was the last point at which any enemy strategist would expect them to look for an invasion, the War Office had erected a kind of Pill Box on the tor above the village. The house he lived in (it may perhaps be dignified with the title of вЂњhouse,вЂќ since a gang of workmen from Ilfracombe had worked without rest for thirty-six hours to make it habitable) had been built during the war as a coast defence station, at a time when the War Office were vaguely alarmed by rumours of a projected invasion at some unlikely point. Baycombe did that within the first two days of his arrival, and it must be admitted that he had given some grounds for speculation. It was not long before Baycombe had observed him more closely, and woven mysterious legends about him. Simon Templar-in some parts of the world he was quite well known, from his initials, as the Saint-was a man of twenty-seven, tall, dark, keen faced, deeply tanned, blue eyed. It was not so very long after Simon Templar had settled down in Baycombe that that peacefully sedate village became most unsettled, and things began to happen there that shocked and flabbergasted its peacefully sedate inhabitants, as will be related but at first Simon Templar found Baycombe as dull as it had been for the last six hundred years.

Consequently, there was some sort of excuse for a man who had taken up his dwelling there falling into the monotony of regular habits-even for a man who had only lived there for three days-even (let the worst be known) for a man so unconventional as Simon Templar. HeвЂ™s already impossibly and incredibly brilliant at everything, and Charteris cleverly makes him 27 years old, already a successful bucanneer with enough experiences under his belt to last a lifetime.Д«aycombe is a village on the North Devon coast that is so isolated from civilization that even at the height of the summer holiday season it is neglected by the rush of lean and plump, tall and short, papas, mammas, and infants. In Meet the Tiger, we meet Simon Templar, the modern Robin Hood and swashbuckling adventurer, for the very first time.

Leslie Charteris wrote his first Saint book when he was 20.

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