 However, his heart remains true to Holm in the early books, culminating in his considering marriage in the novella "The Melancholy Journey of Mr. Teal," only to have Holm say she had no interest in marrying.Holm disappeared in the late 1940s, and according to Barer's history of "The Saint," Charteris refused to allow Templar a steady girlfriend, or Holm to return.