Next morning, Ashe and Joan decide to become allies and, after flipping a coin, agree to take turns at stealing the scarab. Mr Peters also has stomach trouble and Ashe threatens him with non-cooperation unless he takes some exercise and stops smoking cigars.Īt night, Ashe and Joan are both trying to get at the scarab when Lord Emsworth's watchful secretary, Rupert Baxter, nearly catches them. After their arrival, Ashe is terrified to be interviewed by the butler, Beach, and has to listen to a recital of his troubles with his feet and his stomach. She hopes this will persuade him to give up his quest and remove himself as her competitor. During the trip Joan warns Ashe of the complicated system of etiquette observed among servants of a large house. Peters, who is looking for somebody to steal back the scarab during his visit to Blandings.Īshe informs Joan about this as they both take the train from London. Acting separately, Ashe answers a newspaper advert and is engaged as his valet by Mr. Hearing that Aline's father is offering £1,000 to anybody who can retrieve his scarab, Joan decides that she will go herself to Blandings, posing as Aline's maid, so as to recover the scarab and scoop the reward.
As Jones is leaving, Aline, a former school friend of Joan, arrives on a visit, and the suspicious Jones listens at the door. Jones finds the address of Freddie's ex-sweetheart, Joan Valentine, who tells him she has long since destroyed any letters she may have had from Freddie. Having befriended Freddie Threepwood, George has been invited to Blandings Castle, the family home, at the same time that Aline and her father are paying a visit. Though Peters suspects the Earl, he cannot confront him for fear of endangering his daughter's marriage.Īline is being pursued by George Emerson, a Hong Kong police officer, who wishes to marry her. His father later calls on Aline's father to view his collection of scarabs and absent-mindedly puts Mr Peters’ prize exhibit in his pocket.
Jones, hoping to recover letters he once sent to a certain chorus girl, feeling they might be used to make a breach of promise case against him. Freddie pays a visit to a shady fixer, R. Meanwhile, Freddie Threepwood, younger son of the Earl of Emsworth, is engaged to marry Aline Peters, the daughter of American millionaire J. Joan urges Ashe to overcome his discontentment and take a fresh direction in life. Gruger in The Saturday Evening PostĪshe Marson and his fellow lodger Joan Valentine discover that they both work as writers for the Mammoth Publishing Company. Joan Valentine and Ashe Marson, 1915 illustration by F.
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