The Wooster Papers

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Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

1954. 22 chapters, 36 scenes.

Chapter 1

  1. Bertie, in the bath and dreading a dinner with Aunt Dahlia's Trotters, greets the returning Jeeves, who reads him Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds to back his play of Florence Craye's Spindrift, and they agree to refuse.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Fortified by one of Jeeves's specials, Bertie refuses to shave off the moustache Jeeves disapproves of, just as Stilton Cheesewright arrives.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room

Chapter 2

  1. Fortified by one of Jeeves's specials, Bertie refuses to shave off the moustache Jeeves disapproves of, just as Stilton Cheesewright arrives.Continued from chapter 1
  2. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Chapters 2–3, Bertie's flat

Chapter 3

  1. Stilton lectures Bertie on keeping fit for the Drones Darts sweep, bristles with jealousy at the mention of Florence, calls the moustache ghastly, and is interrupted as Florence arrives.Continued from chapter 2
  2. Recalling how Florence tried to improve him with Tolstoy, Bertie goes to the Savoy and endures a dreary dinner with the Trotters.Chapter 3, the Savoy
  3. Bertie relaxes alone in the Drones smoking-room until he finds Stilton beside him.Chapters 3–4, the Drones smoking-room

Chapter 4

  1. Bertie relaxes alone in the Drones smoking-room until he finds Stilton beside him.Continued from chapter 3
  2. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat

Chapter 5

  1. Bertie recalls the Mottled Oyster's raffish history of raids and changes of name.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster
  2. Over kippers at the Mottled Oyster Bertie fails to reconcile Florence with Stilton, and when the club is raided she bolts and Bertie trips the pursuing constable and is arrested.Chapter 5, the Mottled Oyster

Chapter 6

  1. After a night in the cells, Bertie, as 'Gadsby', tries to pass off tripping the constable as an accident, and the jesting Vinton Street magistrate fines him ten pounds.Chapter 6, Vinton Street police court
  2. Bertie tells Jeeves of his arrest, orders a huge breakfast, and laments that the Junior Ganymede club book has nothing on Cheesewright, who has become a menace.Chapter 6, Bertie's flat
  3. Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's flat

Chapter 7

  1. Florence telephones to learn that the magistrate who fined Bertie is Stilton's uncle, reveals that she and Stilton are engaged again, begs Bertie to keep the night club secret, and Stilton silently appears in the room.Continued from chapter 6

Chapter 8

  1. Bertie, enjoying a Stilton-free Drones, swaps telegrams with Aunt Dahlia, who orders him to Brinkley to cheer up a whiskered guest and bring her pearl necklace, but he hesitates for fear of Stilton.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
  2. Aunt Dahlia phones to bully Bertie into coming to amuse the lovesick Percy Gorringe while she works on selling Milady's Boudoir to L.G. Trotter, and the promise of Anatole's cooking wins him over.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves they are off to Brinkley and asks him to fetch the necklace; Jeeves asks leave to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon, and Bertie wonders who the mug was who backed Percy.Chapter 8, Bertie's flat

Chapter 9

  1. Bertie arrives at Brinkley and hands Aunt Dahlia her necklace; she explains she bought the Morehead serial to salt the mine for Trotter, won't say how she got the money from Uncle Tom, blames Ma Trotter for Trotter's stalling, throws her Agatha Christie at Bertie for singing, and introduces him to a reproachful Percy before sending him out to cheer Percy up.Chapter 9, Aunt Dahlia's den
  2. Bertie reluctantly goes out after Percy, gives up when he can't find him, and then meets him rounding a rhododendron bush.Chapters 9–10, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 10

  1. Bertie reluctantly goes out after Percy, gives up when he can't find him, and then meets him rounding a rhododendron bush.Continued from chapter 9
  2. Florence, savaging a gooseberry bush, tells Bertie that Stilton found from the night club's book that she dined there with Bertie and has vowed to break Bertie's spine in five places; Bertie consoles himself that Stilton will never come to Brinkley.Chapter 10, the kitchen garden
  3. Bertie hurries in late to dress, and Jeeves mentions he told Mr. Cheesewright that Bertie was out strolling in the grounds.Chapters 10–11, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 11

  1. Bertie hurries in late to dress, and Jeeves mentions he told Mr. Cheesewright that Bertie was out strolling in the grounds.Continued from chapter 10
  2. Anatole's superb dinner turns to ashes in Bertie's mouth as Stilton glares at him across the table and ignores Mrs Trotter's chatter.Chapter 11, the Brinkley dining-room
  3. Bertie slips out of the dining-room into the garden to dodge Stilton, plans to flee, and meets Uncle Tom, who grumbles about his guests and says Aunt Dahlia nearly fainted while he talked of Sidcup coming to see his silver.Chapter 11, the garden at Brinkley
  4. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 12

  1. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Continued from chapter 11
  2. Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Chapters 12–14, Florence's bedroom

Chapter 13

  1. Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Continued from chapter 12

Chapter 14

  1. Bertie climbs the ladder into what he takes for Aunt Dahlia's room, knocks over a table, and finds Florence Craye sitting up in bed.Continued from chapter 13
  2. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley

Chapter 15

  1. A jubilant Aunt Dahlia bursts in on Bertie's breakfast, having learned from Jeeves that Lord Sidcup is Spode and planning to silence him with Eulalie Sœurs, and warns Bertie that Florence is planning the wedding, which he shrugs off since Stilton has drawn him in the Darts sweep.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court
  2. Strolling in the grounds and gloating over having bottled Stilton up, Bertie gives Jeeves leave to go to London to chair the Junior Ganymede luncheon and lends him the two-seater.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley
  3. Percy Gorringe, refused by Florence, calls Bertie a weedy butterfly and then reveals he has bought Stilton's sweep ticket on him, so Stilton is free to thrash Bertie, who dashes to the stables hoping to catch Jeeves.Chapter 15, the garden at Brinkley

Chapter 16

  1. Bertie catches Jeeves just as he is driving off to London and arranges to go with him to collect the cosh Jeeves confiscated from young Thos, so as to face Stilton armed.Chapter 16
  2. In London Jeeves hands over the cosh at the flat, goes off to his luncheon, and Bertie lunches at the Drones and drives back.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
  3. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall

Chapter 17

  1. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Continued from chapter 16
  2. Stilton goes off to show Daphne the grounds, and Bertie naps in his room until he wakes remembering the cosh.Chapter 17, Bertie's room at Brinkley
  3. Bertie rushes back to the hall to find the cosh gone and Uncle Tom's safe standing open.Chapters 17–18, the hall

Chapter 18

  1. Bertie rushes back to the hall to find the cosh gone and Uncle Tom's safe standing open.Continued from chapter 17
  2. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den
  3. Before Bertie can put the necklace back, a dyspeptic L.G. Trotter tuts at the open safe and slams it shut.Chapters 18–19, the hall

Chapter 19

  1. Before Bertie can put the necklace back, a dyspeptic L.G. Trotter tuts at the open safe and slams it shut.Continued from chapter 18
  2. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den

Chapter 20

  1. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room

Chapter 21

  1. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Continued from chapter 20

Chapter 22

  1. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Continued from chapter 21
  2. Aunt Dahlia reports that Jeeves's mixture has cured Trotter, who will sign, and once she leaves Bertie tells Jeeves he will shave off his moustache.Chapter 22, the Brinkley dining-room