Ring For Jeeves

if the only means of securing it was to go to Rosalinda Spottsworth and coo, then go and coo he must.

easure in the arms of another man, particularly another man as good-looking as William,

Remember that man's life lies all within this present, as 'twere but a hair's-breadth of time. As for the rest, the past is gone, the future yet unseen."
"Eh?"
"Marcus Aurelius, m'lord."

Jeeves had entered, bearing coffee. His deportment was, as ever, serene. Like Bill, he found Captain Biggar's presence in the home disturbing, but where Bill quaked and quivered, he continued to resemble a well-bred statue.

"Sir?"

"Captain Biggar won three thousand quid on the Oaks." "Indeed, sir? A consummation devoutly to be wished."' "Yes," said the Captain sombrely.. Three thousand pounds I won, and the bookie did a bolt." Rory stared. "No!"

"I assure you."

"Skipped by the light of the moon?" "Exactly."

Rory was overcome.

"I never heard anything so monstrous. Did you ever hear anything so monstrous, Jeeves? Wasn't that the frozen limit, Bill?"

Bill seemed to come out of a trance.

"Sorry, Rory, I'm afraid I was thinking of s

"Don't talk to me about knaves I Yogi tulsiram faginath! I met the king of men this afternoon, blister his insides. Well, as I was saying, these chaps of mine put me on to good; things from time to. time, and today they advised a double. Lucy Glitters in the two-thirty and Whistler's Mother for the Oaks." "Extraordinary, Whistler's Mother winning like that," said Rory. The consensus of opinion at Harrige's was that she hadn't a hope."

"And what happened? Lucy Glitters rolled in

If 'twere done, then 'twere well 'twere done quickly.