THANK YOU JEEVES [187-066-4.3]
By: P. G. WODEHOUSE
Category: Fiction Humor
Synopsis:
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HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
:3 YORK STREET • ST. JAMES'S LONDON S.W., fl fl fl
CONTENTS
I. JEEVES GIVES NOTICE . - - -
II. CHUFFY --------21
III. RE-ENTER THE DEAD PAST - - -
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IV. ANNOYING PREDICAMENT OF PAULINE STOKER -
V. BERTIE TAKES THINGS IN HAND - -
VI. COMPLICATIONS SET IN ---- 66
VII. A VISITOR FOR BERTIE ---- 92
VIII. POLICE PERSECUTION ---- 103
IX. LOVERS' MEETINGS - - - - -
X. ANOTHER VISITOR ------
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XI. SINISTER BEHAVIOUR OF A YACHT-OWNER -
XII. START SMEARING, JEEVES t - - - l6l
XIII. A VALET EXCEEDS HIS DUTIES ...
XI». THE BUTTER SITUATION ----IQ3
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XV. DEVELOPMENT OF THE BUTTER SITUATION - 207
XVI. TROUBLE AT THE DOWER HOUSE ...229
XVII. BREAKFAST-TIME AT THE HALL - - - 240
XVIII. BLACK WORK IN A STUDY - - - -251
XIX. PREPARATIONS FOR HANDLING FATHER - - 264
XX. JEEVES HAS NEWS .... -278
XXI. JEEVES FINDS THE WAY - - - -287
XXII. JEEVES APPLIES FOR A SITUATION"- - :
THANK YOU, JEEVES
CHAPTER I
JEEVES GIVES NOTICE
I WAS a shade perturbed. Nothing to signify, really, but still just a
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spot concerned. As I sat in the old flat, idly touching the strings of
my banjolele, an instrument to which I had become greatly addicted of
late, you couldn't have said that the brow was actually furrowed, and
yet, on the other hand, you couldn't have stated absolutely that it
wasn't. Perhaps the word " pensive " about covers it. It seemed to me
that a situation fraught with embarrassing potentialities had arisen. "
Jeeves," I said, " do you know what ? " " No, sir." " Do you know whom I
saw last night ? " " No, sir." " J. Washbum Stoker and his daughter,
Pauline." " Indeed, sir ? " " They must be over here." " It would seem
so, sir."
* " Awkward, what ? " " I can conceive that after what occurred in New
