the fire-alarm scheme^✦︎

Also the old fire-alarm thing

Jeeves's plan to ring the fire bell so that each man rescues the girl he loves.

Connections

dealings

Bertie Wooster rejects, agrees to 2
Jeeves suggests 2

Talked about, but not there

Wandering stricken in the garden, Bertie bumps into Jeeves, makes him promise not to claim the mess jacket as his fee, and agrees to Jeeves's fire-alarm plan, fixing to ring the bell at 12.30 that night.Chapter 21, the garden at Brinkley, as the old fire-alarm thing

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DECENT MIRTH AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING ARE ALL RIGHT, BUT I DO BAR DANCING ON TABLES.Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, March 1917

ALLOW ME TO ASSURE YOU, SIR,' HE SAID, IN A RUMMY KIND OF VOICE, "'THEN THAT'S ALL RIGHT,' SAID THE CHAPPIE, HEARTILY. 'IHAT WAS ALL ' THAT I AM THE DUKE OF CHISWICK. WE WANTED TO KNOW. LET THE THING GO ON.Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg, Alfred Leete, The Strand Magazine, August 1917

Jeeves shied like a startled mustang. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said. "You are surely not proposing to appear in public in that thing ?Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, April 1922

I pulled the pearls out of the drawer and held them up. "I say, don't want to interrupt you and all that sort of thing, but aren't these the little chaps?Aunt Agatha Takes the Count, A. Wallis Mills, The Strand Magazine, April 1922

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I pointed out," said Jeeves, "that you were a light-hearted young gentleman who might well do such a thing as a practical joke.

Roberta Wickham was suggesting the ripest, fruitiest, brainiest scheme for bringing young Tuppy's grey hairs in sorrow to the grave.

the fire-alarm scheme✦︎

Connections

Talked about, but not there

the fire-alarm scheme^✦︎