Ring for Jeeves, chapters 12–13, the living room, same evening
Biggar catches Bill and Jeeves from behind and proposes that Bill 'borrow' Mrs Spottsworth's pendant to pawn for a bet on Ballymore, and after telling how he once bought it from a beachcomber in Shanghai and gave it to her, wins Bill's agreement.
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Aside, a few years before Biggar meets his old Uppingham schoolfellow Beau Sycamore, now a beachcomber, in the Long Bar at Shanghai, and buys the pendant from him with Tubby Frobisher and the Subahdar.
Aside, years before Biggar wins the pendant at dice and gives it to Mrs Spottsworth as a memento after her husband is killed by a lion.
Aside, seventeenth century A Rowcester ancestor went to the scaffold on Tower Hill with the same quiet courage.
Present: Bill Rowcester, Captain Biggar, Jeeves
Also there: Bill's whisky
Mentioned: A. B. Spottsworth, Beau Sycamore, the beheaded ancestor, Bertie Wooster, Mrs Spottsworth, Somerset Maugham, the Subahdar, Tennyson, Tubby Frobisher, Ballymore♞︎, Dartmoor, the garden, the lion♞︎, the Long Bar, the pendant✦︎, the Rowcesters⁂, the spider sequence✦︎, Uppingham