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the Sluggered by P.G. Woodhouse.

2:16

Now. That it's all over. I may

2:18

as well admit that there wasn't time

2:20

during the rather funny affair of rock

2:22

metal toed. When I thought the sees

2:24

was going to let me down. The. Man

2:26

had the appearance of being performed. Jeeves.

2:29

Is my man. You know. Officially, he

2:31

puts in his weekly wages for passing

2:33

my clothes and all that, sort of.

2:35

And but actually, Is. More like what

2:37

the poet John and called some bird of

2:39

his acquaintance with up to rally around him

2:41

in times of need. The god don't you

2:43

know. Philosopher. If I

2:46

remember Arthur and are rather fancy.

2:48

Said. I rely on him at

2:50

every turn. So. Naturally, When.

2:53

Rocky Todd told me about his and

2:55

I didn't hesitate. Jeeves was in on

2:57

the thing from the start. The

2:59

affair of Rocky Todd broke loose early

3:01

one morning of Spring. I. Was

3:03

in bed, Restoring. The good old

3:06

tissues with about nine hours of the dreamless.

3:08

When. The door flew open and somebody put

3:10

me in the lower ribs and began to

3:13

shake the bedclothes. After blinking

3:15

a bit and generally pulling myself together.

3:17

And located rocky. My. First

3:20

impression was. That. Was some

3:22

horrid dream. Rocky you

3:24

see lived down on Long Island, somewhere

3:26

miles away from New York. And

3:28

not only that, But. He had told me

3:31

himself more than once that he never got

3:33

up before Twelve. And. Sell them earlier

3:35

than one. Constitutionally.

3:37

The laziest young devil in America.

3:40

It. Hit on a walk in life which enabled

3:42

him to go the limit in that direction. He.

3:44

Was a poet. And east he wrote poems

3:47

when he did anything. But. Most of his

3:49

time as far as I could make out. He.

3:51

Spent in a sort of trance. He

3:53

told me once that he could sit on a

3:55

sense watching a worm and wondering what on earth

3:58

it was up to four hours at a. Scratch.

4:01

He had a scheme of life worked out

4:03

to assign point. About. Once a

4:05

month to take three days writing

4:07

a few poems. The. Other three

4:10

hundred and twenty nine days of the year

4:12

he rest. I. Didn't know there

4:14

was enough money in poetry. The Supported Shabby.

4:17

He. Would in the way and with Rocky lived. But.

4:19

It seems as. If you stick to

4:21

exhortations two young men to lead the

4:23

strenuous live don't show of in any

4:26

rhymes. American. Editors fight for

4:28

the stuff. Rocky. Showed me

4:30

one of his things once. A B M. B

4:33

B. The past

4:35

is dead. Tomorrow is not

4:37

born be to day to

4:39

day. Be with every

4:41

nerve with every muscle. With.

4:43

Every drop of your red blood. Be.

4:48

There. Was printed opposite the frontispiece. oh

4:50

Magazine. The. Sort of screw around

4:52

it. And. A picture in the middle

4:54

of a fairly new Chappie. With. Bulging

4:56

muscles, Given. The Rising Sun The

4:59

glad I'm. Rocky. Said the gave

5:01

him a hundred dollars for it. And. He

5:03

stayed in bed to fall in the afternoon for

5:05

over a month. As regarded

5:07

the future, he was pretty solid. Only.

5:09

The fact that he had the moneyed

5:11

and tucked away somewhere in Illinois. And

5:14

as he had been named rock metal or after

5:16

her. And. Was her only nephew.

5:19

His position was pretty sound. He.

5:21

Told me that when he did come into the money. He.

5:24

Meant to do no work at all. Except.

5:26

Apps and occasional poem that commending the

5:28

young man with life opening up before

5:30

him with all it's splendid possibilities to

5:32

light a pipe and self his feet

5:34

up on the mantelpiece. And.

5:36

This was the man. Who. Was putting me

5:39

in the ribs And the great Dawn. Raid

5:41

this Bertie. I as a see

5:43

that he was waving a literal something equally

5:45

sol in my face. Wake up and read

5:48

this. I can't leave

5:50

before I've had my morning tea in a

5:52

cigarette. I groped from the bell.

5:55

Just came in looking as fresh as a dewy

5:57

violet. It's a mystery to me. I'll he does

5:59

it. He to use. That.

6:01

A good so. He. Filled

6:03

silently out of the room. He. Always

6:06

gives you the impression of being some liquid

6:08

substance when they moves. And. I

6:10

found that Rocky was surging round with

6:12

his beastly lesser again. What?

6:15

Is it I said on s the

6:17

matter Read it. A can't. I

6:20

had my T loud. Listen

6:22

them. Was. It from. My.

6:24

Aunt. This. Point:

6:26

I fell asleep again. I. Woke

6:28

to hear him saying. So what

6:30

on Earth am I going to do? Geez

6:34

trickled into the tray. Like. Some

6:36

silence stream meandering over it's mossy

6:38

bed. And I saw daylight. Read.

6:41

It again rocky a tough I said.

6:43

I won't seem to hear it but Mr

6:45

Towards and has written him a rather rummy

6:47

less as east we want your advice. Very

6:50

good sir. He

6:52

stood in the middle of the room

6:54

registering devotion to the cause and Rocky

6:57

started again. My. Dear Rock

6:59

Mettler. I've been thinking things

7:01

over for a long while. And

7:03

I've come to the conclusion that I have been. Or

7:06

a softness to wait long before doing what

7:08

I have made up my mind to do

7:10

now. What? Do you make of that? seems?

7:13

He. Seems a little obscure. it's presence

7:15

of. But. No doubt, and becomes

7:17

clearer at a later point in the

7:19

communication. And. Becomes clear as

7:21

mud. Said. Rookie: Proceeded

7:24

Scout I said something. my bread

7:26

and butter. You know how

7:29

all my life I have longed to visit

7:31

New York and. See. For myself,

7:33

the wonderful gay life of which I have

7:35

read so much. I. Fear that

7:37

now it will be impossible for me to

7:39

fulfill my dream. I'm. Old

7:41

and worn out. I seem

7:43

to have no strength left in me. Sad

7:47

teams? What? Extremely sir.

7:50

Said. Nothing. Said. Rocky.

7:52

It's. Sheer laziness. I

7:54

want see her last Christmas and she was

7:57

bursting with health! and doctor told

7:59

me hims. If there was nothing wrong

8:01

with her or whatever. That. She

8:03

will insist that she's a hopeless invalid.

8:06

Certainly. Has to agree with her. She

8:08

got a fixed idea that the trip to New

8:11

York would kill her. So. Well

8:14

it's been her ambition all her life to

8:16

come here and see. Stays or see is.

8:19

Rather, Like that somebody who's heartless in

8:21

the highlands chasing the deer. Geez, The.

8:24

Cases are in some respects parallels

8:26

Her. Carry. On Rocky Dear

8:28

boy. So I have decided

8:30

that. If I cannot enjoy

8:32

all the marvels of the city myself,

8:35

I can at least enjoy them

8:37

through Seal. I suddenly

8:39

thought of this yesterday after reading a

8:41

beautiful poem in the Sunday Paper. About

8:44

a young man who had longed all his life for

8:46

a certain thing and one it in the end. Only

8:48

when he was too old to enjoy

8:50

it. Was. Very sad. And.

8:53

It touched me. Saying.

8:56

Into. Of related rocky bitterly. That.

8:59

I've not been able to do. and ten

9:01

years. As you

9:03

know, you will have my money. What I

9:05

am gone. But. Until now.

9:08

I have never been able to see my ways

9:10

of doing a little allowance. I

9:12

have now decided to do so. On

9:14

one condition. I. Have

9:16

written to affirm of lawyers in New York.

9:19

Giving. Them instructions to pay you quite

9:21

a substantial sum each month. My.

9:24

One condition. Is. That you live

9:26

in New York. And. Enjoy yourself as

9:28

I have always wished to do. I.

9:31

Want you to be my representative. To.

9:33

Spend this money for me as I

9:35

should do myself. I want

9:38

you to plunge into the gay, prismatic

9:40

life of New York. I

9:42

want you to be the life and

9:44

soul of Bruins supper parties. Above.

9:47

All. I. Once you, indeed, I

9:49

insist on this. To. Write me

9:51

letters at least once a week, Given

9:54

me a full description of all you're

9:56

doing. And all that is going on in

9:58

the city. That I'm. They enjoy

10:00

a second hand. Of. My

10:02

wretched health convince me enjoying for

10:05

myself. Remember that I

10:07

saw her expect full details. And. That

10:09

no detail is too trivial to insist.

10:12

Your. Affections and. Isabel

10:14

Rock Bachelor. What

10:17

about it? Said. Rocky.

10:20

What? About his I said. Yes,

10:23

What on Earth am I going to do? It

10:26

was only then that I really got on

10:28

to the extremely run the attitude of this

10:31

shabby. In view of the fact

10:33

that the quite unexpected mess of the right

10:35

stuff that suddenly descended on him from a

10:37

blue sky. To my mind was

10:39

an occasion for the beaming smile in the

10:42

joyous whoop. It. Here the

10:44

man was looking and talking as if

10:46

sated. Swung on his solar plexus. It.

10:48

Amazed me. I don't you booked

10:51

I said. Box.

10:53

If. I were in your place. I should

10:55

be freshly based. I consider this

10:57

pretty soft feel. The.

11:00

Game kind of Yelp. Stared at me for

11:02

a moment. And. Then began to talk of

11:04

New York in a way that reminded me

11:06

of Jimmy Monday, The Reform a sharpie. Jimmy

11:09

had just come to New York on us

11:11

hit the trail campaign. And. I popped into

11:13

the God and the couple of days of fall for

11:15

half an hour or so to hear him. He

11:18

has certainly told New York some pretty strange things

11:20

about itself. Having apparently taken a

11:22

dislike to the place, But. By

11:24

Jove you know the road rocky and made

11:26

him look like a publicity agent for the

11:28

old Metropcs. Pretty. Soft.

11:32

Decried. The Fastest! Come

11:34

and live in New York.

11:37

Staff to leave my little cottage. In.

11:39

Take Us Duffy Smelly, overheated

11:42

the whole of an apartment

11:44

in this seven forsaken less

11:46

during Just Emma def the

11:49

mix night after night with

11:51

a mob. Who. Think that

11:53

life is a sort of Saint Vitus

11:55

as dance. And. Imagine other having

11:58

a good time because the make. Of

12:00

noise for six. And. Drinking

12:02

too much with ten, I

12:04

lows New York bertie. I

12:07

wouldn't come near the place of I

12:09

hadn't got to see editors occasionally as

12:11

a blight on it. It's

12:13

got moral delirium. Tremens is the

12:15

limit. Very thought of staying

12:17

more than and day and it makes me

12:20

sick. And you call

12:22

this thing pretty soft for me. I

12:25

felt rather like lots friends must have done.

12:28

With. A dropped in for quiet Shot and

12:30

their genial hose began to criticize the cities

12:32

of the plane. I. Have no

12:34

idea old Rocky could be so eloquent. He.

12:38

Would kill me to have to live

12:40

in New York. He. Went on.

12:43

To. Have to share the air with

12:45

six million people. Def

12:47

to where's if callers and decent

12:50

clothes all the time. Did. He.

12:53

Started could lot. I

12:55

suppose I should have to. Dress. For

12:57

dinner in the evenings? What I

12:59

can sleep notion. I

13:02

was Shocked. Absolutely Shocked. My.

13:04

Dear chap, I said reproachfully.

13:07

Do. You dress for dinner every night.

13:09

thirty. Jeeves. I

13:12

said totally. The. Man was still standing

13:14

like a statue by the door. Somebody.

13:17

suits of evening. close ally. We.

13:19

Have three suits full of evening dress

13:21

up. To dinner jackets

13:24

three. For. Practical purposes

13:26

to only so if you remember,

13:28

we cannot wear the third. We.

13:30

Also have seven white with skills. And.

13:33

Shirts for doesn't sir. And

13:36

white ties. The. First to

13:38

solo cells in the chest of drawers

13:40

are completely filled with our white ties.

13:42

Her. I. To

13:44

Rocky. To see. The.

13:47

Chappie Rise like the Electric, Some.

13:50

I won't do it. I. Can't do it.

13:53

Now. Be hanged if I'll do it. How

13:55

on earth can I dress up like

13:57

that? Do realize that most days I

13:59

don't get. The net and most to

14:01

find in the afternoon. And

14:03

then I just put on an old sweater. Or

14:06

so teams when sports are. The. Sort

14:09

of revelations shocked his finest feelings. Then

14:12

what are you going to do about it I

14:14

said. Muzzle I want and now.

14:17

You. Might write and explain to your and

14:19

I might. Have. I wanted or

14:21

to get round of our lawyers and to rapid

14:23

leaves and kept me out of her well. My

14:26

saw his point. What? Do

14:29

you suggest cheese? I said. Jeeves

14:31

cleared his throat respectfully. The.

14:35

Crux of the matter? What appeared to be so.

14:37

That. Mr. Tude is obliged by the conditions

14:40

under which the money is delivered into

14:42

his position. To. Rights Miss

14:44

Rock met the long and

14:46

detailed letters relating to his

14:48

movements. And the only method

14:50

by which this can be accomplished. If.

14:52

Mister Todd adheres to the as expressed

14:55

intention of remaining in the country. Is

14:57

well Mister Todd to induce some. Second

14:59

part is. To. Gather the actual

15:02

experiences which miss rock, metal or wishes

15:04

report it to her. And

15:06

to convey these to him. In. The

15:08

shape of a careful report. on

15:10

which it would be possible for him. With

15:12

the aid of his imagination. To

15:15

base suggest respondents. Having

15:18

got which off the old diaphragm,

15:20

Jeeves was silent. Rocky.

15:22

Looked at me and a helpless sort of where. He.

15:25

Hasn't been brought up on Jeeves as I have,

15:27

and he isn't on to his curves. That.

15:30

He put it a little clearer bertie. He

15:32

said. I thought of the start. it was

15:34

going to make sense, but it. Kind. Of

15:37

flickered was the idea. My.

15:39

Dear old Man. Perfectly simple. I

15:41

knew we could stand on Jeeves. All

15:44

you've got to do is to get somebody

15:46

to go round town for you and take

15:48

a few notes, and then you work the

15:50

notes up into letters. That's it

15:52

Isn't achieves. Precisely. Saw.

15:56

The. Light of hope gleamed in Rockies

15:58

eyes. He. looked at zero in

16:00

a startled way, dazed by the

16:02

man's vast intellect. But

16:04

who would do it? He said. He

16:07

would have to be a pretty smart sort of man, a

16:10

man who would notice things. Jeeves,

16:12

I said, let Jeeves do it.

16:15

But would he? You would do it,

16:17

wouldn't you, Jeeves? For

16:19

the first time in our long connection I

16:22

observed Jeeves' almost smile. The

16:25

corner of his mouth curved quite a quarter of

16:27

an inch, and for a moment

16:29

his eye ceased to look like a meditative

16:31

fishes. I

16:33

should be delighted to oblige, sir. As

16:36

a matter of fact, I have already visited some

16:38

of New York's places of interest on my evening

16:40

out, and it would be most

16:43

enjoyable to make a practice of the pursuit. Fine!

16:46

I know exactly what your aunt wants to hear about,

16:48

Rocky. She wants an earful of

16:50

cabaret stuff. The place you ought

16:53

to go first, Jeeves, is Riegelheimer's. It's on

16:55

42nd Street. Anybody

16:57

will show you the way. Jeeves shook

16:59

his head. Pardon me, sir. People

17:02

are no longer going to Riegelheimer's. The

17:05

place of the moment is frolics on the roof.

17:08

You see, I said to Rocky, leave

17:10

it to Jeeves. He knows. It

17:14

isn't often that you find an entire group

17:16

of your fellow humans happy in this world, but

17:19

our little circle was certainly an example of

17:21

the fact that it can be done. We

17:24

were all full of beings. Everything

17:26

went absolutely wrong from the start. Jeeves

17:29

was happy, partly because he loves

17:31

to exercise his giant brain, and

17:34

partly because he was having a corking

17:36

time among the birthlights. I

17:38

saw him one night at the midnight raffle. He

17:40

was sitting at a table on the edge

17:43

of the dancing floor, doing himself remarkably well

17:45

with a fat cigar and a bottle of

17:47

the best. I had never imagined

17:49

he could look so nearly human. His

17:51

face wore an expression of austere benevolence, and

17:54

he was making notes in a small book. As

17:57

for the rest of us, I was feeling pretty

17:59

good. Because I was fond of old

18:01

Rocky and glad to be able to do him a

18:03

good turn. Rocky was perfectly

18:06

contented because he was still

18:08

able to sit on fences in his pyjamas

18:10

and watch worms, and, as

18:12

for the aunt, she seemed tickled to

18:14

death. She was getting Broadway

18:16

at pretty long range, but it seemed to be

18:19

hitting her just right. I read

18:21

one of her letters to Rocky, and it was full of life.

18:24

But then Rocky's letters, based on

18:26

Jesus' notes, were enough to buck

18:28

anybody up. It was Rony

18:30

when he came to think of it. There

18:32

was I, loving the life, while the

18:34

mere mention of it gave Rocky a tired

18:37

feeling. Yet here is

18:39

a letter I wrote to a pal of mine in London. Dear

18:42

Freddy, Well, here I am in New

18:44

York. It's not a bad place. I'm

18:46

not having a bad time. Everything's

18:48

pretty all right. The

18:51

cabarets aren't bad. You

18:53

know when I shall be back. How's everybody?

18:55

Chiro, yours Bertie. P.S.

18:58

Seen old Ted lately? Not

19:00

that I cared about Ted, but if

19:02

I hadn't dragged him in, I couldn't have got the

19:05

confounded thing on to the second page. Now

19:08

here's old Rocky on exactly the same

19:10

subject. Dearest

19:12

Aunt Isabelle, how

19:14

can I ever thank you enough for

19:16

giving me the opportunity to live in

19:19

this astounding city? New

19:21

York seems more wonderful every day. Fifth

19:24

Avenue is at its best, of course, just

19:26

now. The dresses are

19:29

magnificent. Wards

19:31

of stuff about the dresses. I didn't know Jeeves

19:33

was such an authority. I

19:35

was out with some of the crowd at the

19:37

midnight revels the other night. We

19:40

took in a show first, after

19:42

a little dinner at a new place on 43rd Street.

19:46

We were quite a gay party. George

19:48

E. Cohan looked in about midnight

19:50

and got off a good one

19:52

about Willie Collier. Fred

19:54

Stone could only stay a minute, but Doug

19:57

Fairbanks did all sorts of stunts and

19:59

made us roar. Diamond

20:02

Jim Brady was there, as usual, and

20:04

Lorette Taylor showed up with a party. The

20:07

show at the Revels is quite good. I

20:09

am enclosing a program. Last

20:11

night a few of us went round to Frolic's on the

20:13

roof." And so on

20:16

and so forth, yards of it. I

20:18

suppose it's the artistic temperament of something.

20:21

What I mean is, it's easier for a chappy who's

20:23

used to writing poems and that sort of tosh put

20:26

a bit of a punch into a letter than it

20:28

is for a chappy like me. Anyway,

20:30

there's no doubt that Rocky's correspondence was hot

20:32

stuff. I called Jeeves in

20:34

and congratulated him. Jeeves, you're

20:36

a wonder. Thank you, sir.

20:39

How you notice everything in these places beats me.

20:42

I couldn't tell you a thing about them, except that I've

20:44

had a good time. It's

20:46

just a knack, sir. Well,

20:48

Mr. Todd's letters ought to brace Miss Rock-Metal, all

20:50

right. What? Undoubtedly,

20:52

sir. Agreed, Jeeves. And

20:55

by Jove, they did. They certainly

20:58

did, by George. What I

21:00

mean to say is, I was sitting in

21:02

the apartment one afternoon, about a month after

21:04

the thing had started, smoking a cigarette and

21:06

resting the old bean, when the

21:08

door opened, when the voice of Jeeves

21:10

burst the silence like a bomb. It

21:14

wasn't that he spoke loudly. He has

21:16

one of those soft, soothing voices that

21:18

slide through the atmosphere like the note

21:20

of a far-off sheep. It was

21:22

what he said that made me leap like

21:25

a young gazelle, Miss

21:27

Rock-Metal. And

21:29

in came a large, solid female.

21:33

The situation floored me. I'm not denying it.

21:35

Hamlet must have felt much as I did, when

21:38

his father's ghost bobbed up in the fairway. I'd

21:41

come to look on Rocky's aunt as

21:43

such a permanency in her own home

21:45

that it didn't seem possible that she could

21:47

really be here in New York. I

21:49

stared at her. Then I looked at Jeeves.

21:52

He was standing there in an attitude

21:54

of dignified detachment, the chump. When,

21:57

if ever, he should have been rallying round the

21:59

young man's house. master, it was now. Rocky's

22:02

aunt looked less like an invalid than

22:04

any one I've ever seen, except

22:07

my aunt Agatha. She had a good

22:09

deal of aunt Agatha about her, as a matter of fact.

22:12

She looked as if she might be ducidly dangerous

22:14

if put upon, and something seemed

22:16

to tell me that she would certainly regard

22:18

herself as put upon if she ever found

22:20

out the game which poor old Rocky had

22:22

been pulling on her. Good

22:25

afternoon, I managed to

22:27

say. How do you do? She

22:29

said. Mr. Cohan? No. Mr. Fred

22:32

Stone? Not

22:35

absolutely. As a matter of

22:37

fact, my name's Worcester. Bertie Worcester. She

22:41

seemed disappointed. The

22:43

fine old name of Worcester appeared

22:45

to mean nothing in her life.

22:47

"'Isn't Rock-Metler home?' she

22:50

said. "'Where is he?' She

22:52

had me with the first shot. I couldn't

22:55

think of anything to say. I couldn't tell

22:57

her that Rocky was down in the country

22:59

watching worms. There was

23:01

the faintest clutter of sound in the background. It

23:04

was the respectful cough with which Jeeves announces that

23:06

he is about to speak without having been spoken

23:08

to. If you

23:10

remember, sir, Mr. Todd

23:12

went out in the automobile with

23:14

a party in the afternoon. "'So

23:16

he did, Jeeves. So he did,' I

23:19

said, looking at my watch. Did he say

23:21

when he would be back?' He

23:23

gave me to understand, sir, that

23:25

he would be somewhat late in returning. He

23:29

vanished, and the aunt took the

23:31

chair which I had forgotten to offer her. She

23:34

looked at me in rather a rummy way. It was

23:37

a nasty look. It made me

23:39

feel as if I was something the dog had brought

23:41

in and had tended to bury later on when he

23:43

had time. My own

23:45

aunt Agatha, back in England, has

23:47

looked at me in exactly the same way many

23:50

a time, and it never fails

23:52

to make my spine curl. You

23:54

seem very much at home here, young

23:56

man. Are you a

23:59

great friend of Rocky's?" Oh

24:01

yes, rather. She. Frowned

24:03

as if she had expected better things of

24:05

old Rocky. Well you

24:07

need to be. She. Said. The.

24:10

Way you treat his flat as your own. I

24:14

give you my word. This quite unseen

24:16

slam simply robbed me of the power

24:18

of speech. I'd been looking

24:20

on myself and the light of the dashing host.

24:23

And. Suddenly to be treated as an intruder

24:25

shot me. It wasn't mark

24:27

you as a She had spoken in a

24:29

way to suggest that she considered My presence

24:32

in the plays as an ordinary social call.

24:34

She obviously looked on me as a cross

24:36

between a burglar in the summers man come

24:38

to fix the league in the bathroom. It.

24:41

Third, her my being

24:43

there, At this

24:45

juncture. For. The conversation showing every sign

24:48

of being about to die in awful

24:50

agonies. An. Idea came to me.

24:52

T. The. Good old standbys.

24:55

Would you care for a cup of tea? I said.

24:58

He is. To. Soak as if

25:01

she had never heard of the stuff. Nothing.

25:03

Like a cup of tea after a journey I said.

25:05

Bucks. You up? With. A bit of the

25:07

zipping deal. What? I mean is restores you

25:09

and so on. Don't know? I'll go and tell

25:12

geez. I taught her

25:14

down the passage to laugh. The

25:16

man was reading the evening paper as if we haven't

25:18

the care in the world. Jeeves

25:20

I said. We. Want some tea?

25:23

That. A good so. I say

25:25

geez is a bit sick What? I

25:28

wanted sympathy. Don't know. Sympathy.

25:30

And kindness. The. Old nerve centers

25:32

and have the to so a shock. She's.

25:35

Got the idea. This place belongs to Mister

25:37

Todd. What on earth put that into ahead.

25:40

Jeeves. Filled the kettle with the restraints,

25:42

dignity, No doubt

25:44

because of Mister Toad's letters. He

25:47

said. It. Was my suggestion said

25:49

of you Remember. That they should

25:51

be addressed from this apartment. In. Order

25:53

that Mister Todd should appear to possess a

25:56

good central residents in the city. I

25:59

remembered. We thought it a brainy scheme

26:01

of the time. So. That's barely

26:03

awkward, you know? Geez. She. Looks on

26:05

me as an intruder. Bite. Of.

26:08

I suppose he thinks I'm someone who

26:10

thinks about her putting Mister Todd for

26:12

free meals and borrowing his shirts. Yes,

26:14

Sir. Is. Pretty rough and you know.

26:17

Most. Disturbing sir. And

26:19

there's another thing when we did do about

26:21

Mister Todd with perfect, get him up here

26:23

as soon as ever we can. When you

26:26

have brought the T, you'd better go out

26:28

and send him a telegram telling him to

26:30

come up by the next train. I

26:32

have already done so so. I

26:34

took the liberty of writing the message and

26:36

dispatching it by the list. You

26:41

think of everything, Jeeves. Thank you sir.

26:43

A little buttered toast with the T, Just

26:46

so sir. Thank. You. I

26:49

went back to the sitting room. She. Hasn't

26:51

moved an inch. She. Was still

26:53

bolt upright on the edge of her chair. Gripping.

26:56

Her umbrella like a hammer throw up. To.

26:59

Give me another of those looks as I came in.

27:01

There was no doubt about it. For. Some

27:03

reason she had taken a dislike to me.

27:06

I suppose, because I wasn't George M.

27:08

Callahan. Was. A bit hard on. This.

27:13

Is a surprise want. I said.

27:15

After about five minutes rest will silence

27:17

trying to crank the conversation up again.

27:20

Last is a surprise. The

27:22

old coming here don't know and so on. C.

27:25

Raised her eyebrows and drank me in

27:27

the bit more through her glasses. Why?

27:31

Is it surprising? That. I

27:33

should visit my only nephew. She.

27:35

Said. Would. Like that. Of

27:38

course it did seem reasonable. Or.

27:40

Rather, I said. Of course.

27:42

Certainly what I mean is. T

27:45

is projected himself into the room with the

27:47

T. I was jolly glad to see

27:49

him. As. Nothing like having a bit

27:51

of business reigns to one one one these

27:53

uncertain of one's lines. With. The people

27:55

to fool about Way as I felt happier. T

27:58

T P What? What? I said. It

28:01

wasn't what I had meant to say. My

28:03

idea had been to be a good deal more formal

28:06

and so on. Still, it's covered

28:08

the situation. I pulled her out

28:10

a cup. She. Sipped it and put the

28:12

cup down with the sugar. Do you

28:14

mean to say young man? She.

28:16

Said for silly. Did. You expect

28:19

me to drink this stuff? Rather,

28:22

Box you up, you know? What?

28:24

Do you mean by the expression

28:26

Box you op. Well. It

28:28

makes you full of beans. You know?

28:30

Nexus is. I don't

28:33

understand a word you say. Your.

28:35

English onto. I.

28:37

Admitted it. She didn't say a

28:39

word. And. Somehow she did it in

28:41

a way that made it worse. And if she

28:43

had spoken for hours, Some. Out

28:46

was brought home to me that she didn't like

28:48

englishman. And. If she had to meet

28:50

an Englishman, I. Was the one

28:52

seat have chosen last. Conversation.

28:54

Languished again after that. Then

28:57

I tried again. I. Was becoming

28:59

more convinced every moment that you can't

29:01

make a real lively so long with

29:03

a couple of people. Especially if

29:05

one of them let it go a word

29:07

time. Are you

29:09

comfortable with your hotel I said. At

29:12

which hotel. So. Tell

29:14

your staying at. I'm not staying

29:16

at a hotel. Stop. Him

29:19

with friends on. I'm naturally stopping

29:21

with my nephew. I

29:24

didn't get it for the moment. Then.

29:26

It hit me. Was here.

29:29

I. Gurgles. Certainly. What?

29:31

Else should I go? The.

29:34

Full horror for the situation rolled

29:36

over me like a way. I

29:39

couldn't see what on earth I was to do. I

29:42

could explain that this wasn't rockies flat of

29:44

up giving the poor old chap away hopelessly

29:46

because she would then asked me where he

29:48

did leave and then he would be right

29:50

in the soup. And was

29:52

trying to induce the old been to recover from

29:54

the shock and produce some results. When she spoke

29:57

again. Would. You

29:59

kindly tell. Interviews manservant to

30:01

prepare my room. I. Wish

30:03

to lie down. So. Nephews

30:06

answers and. The. Man,

30:08

you called geez. If rock

30:10

metal or has gone for an automobile right, there

30:12

is no need for you to wait for him.

30:15

He. Will naturally wish to be alone with me

30:17

when he returns. I

30:19

found myself torturing out of the room.

30:22

The. Thing was too much for me. I

30:25

crept into Jesus. Then. She

30:27

his. I whispered. Sir.

30:30

Mix me a Be and s thieves. I

30:32

feel weak. Very. Good sir.

30:35

Is getting sticker every minute. Geez. Sir.

30:39

Think so Mister Toad's man. She

30:41

thinks that whole. Place. Is

30:43

keys and everything in it. I

30:46

don't see what your to do accept stay

30:48

on and keep it up. The can't say

30:50

anything or she'll get onto the whole thing

30:52

and I don't want to let Mister Todd

30:54

down. By the way, Geez, She.

30:56

Wants you to prepare her bed. He.

30:59

Looked wounded. It's. Hardly

31:01

my place. I know,

31:03

I know. But do it as

31:05

a personal favor to me. Become. The

31:07

that. It's hardly my place to be flung

31:09

out of the flat like this and have to go

31:12

to and hotel want. Is it

31:14

your intention to go to know Telesur. What?

31:16

Will you do feel close? With

31:19

lot I hadn't thought of that. Can you

31:21

put a few things in a bag when she isn't looking

31:23

and sneak them down to me? The Suntory A. I

31:26

will endeavour to do so sir. Well.

31:29

I don't think there's anything more is

31:31

the. Tell Mister Todd what

31:34

I am when he gets here. But.

31:36

A good sir. And

31:38

the ground. The plus. The moment

31:41

of parting had come. As

31:43

outside. The whole thing

31:45

reminded me of one of those melodramas. Where.

31:47

They drive shop is out of the old homestead into

31:49

the snow. Goodbye.

31:52

Geez I said. Goodbye

31:55

Sir. A stuck

31:57

it out. In

31:59

Iraq. Think I agree with those poet

32:01

and philosopher John. Who. Insist.

32:04

That. A fellow ought to be devil is pleased as

32:06

he has a bit of trouble. Or.

32:08

Less of a lot. Being. Refined by suffering

32:10

in our. Suffering. Does

32:12

give atop a sort of broader and

32:15

more sympathetic outlook. It. Helps

32:17

you understand other people's misfortunes if

32:19

you've been through the same thing

32:21

yourself. As. I stood in

32:23

my lonely bedroom at the hotel. Time.

32:25

To time I wipe time myself. It.

32:28

Struck me for the first time. That. The

32:30

must be whole squads of chapters in the world

32:32

who had to get along without a man to

32:34

look after them. I. Always thought

32:36

of Jeeves as a kind of natural

32:38

phenomenon. The. By Jove. Of

32:41

course when they come to think of it

32:43

was quite a lot of fellows left oppressed

32:45

their own clothes themselves. And haven't got

32:47

anybody to bring them to in the morning and so on.

32:50

Those. Rather a solemn thought. don't know, I

32:52

mean to say. Ever since then, I've

32:54

been able to appreciate the frightful positions

32:56

the poor have to stick. I

33:00

got dressed somehow. Sees.

33:02

Hadn't forgotten the thing in a speaking.

33:04

everything was there, down to the final

33:06

stand. I'm. Not sure this didn't

33:08

make me feel worse. The. Kind of

33:10

deepened the pathos. It. Was what

33:12

somebody rather wrote about The Touch of have Vanished

33:15

and. I had a

33:17

bit of dinner somewhere and when to his

33:19

of some kind. But. Nothing seemed

33:21

to make any difference. As if we

33:23

hadn't a hard to go on the supper anywhere. I

33:26

just suck down a whiskey and soda in the

33:28

hotel smoking room. That. Went straight up to

33:30

bet. That know when I

33:32

felt so rotten. Somehow. I

33:35

found myself moving about the room softly. As.

33:37

If that had been a death in the family, If

33:40

I had anybody to talk to. I. Should have

33:42

taught in a whisper. In fact, When.

33:44

The telephone bell rang. I answered in

33:47

such a sad, hushed voice. That.

33:49

The fellow on the other end of the wire

33:51

said hello. Five. Times thinking he

33:53

hadn't got me. Is

33:55

rocky. The. Poor old Scout

33:57

was deeply agitated. That. The

34:00

that you buddy? Oh gosh, I'm

34:02

having a time. Where.

34:04

Are you speaking from. The. Midnight

34:06

revels. Vinny or about an

34:09

hour. I think we're a fixture for

34:11

the night. Of told and Isabel

34:13

I've gone out to call up a friend and

34:15

join us. Sees. Glued to

34:17

share with this is the Life

34:19

written all over her. Taking

34:22

it in through the pores See loves

34:24

it and I'm nearly crazy. Tell.

34:27

Me all oh top I said. A

34:29

little more of this he said. And.

34:32

I still sneak quietly after the river

34:34

and ended all. The mean

34:36

to say you go through this sort of

34:38

thing every night? Booty. And. Enjoy

34:40

it. It's. Simply infernal.

34:43

Adjust snatching a wink of sleep behind the

34:46

bill of fare just now. That

34:48

about a million yelling girls swoop

34:50

down with toy balloons. There.

34:52

To orchestras here it's trying to see of

34:54

can play louder than the other. I'm

34:57

a mental and physical read. And

34:59

your telegram arrived. I was just lying

35:02

down for a quiet type. With.

35:04

A sense of absolute piece stealing

35:06

over me. I. Had

35:08

to get dressed and sprint two miles to

35:10

test the train. In. The other give

35:12

me a heart failure and on top of that. I

35:15

was got brain fever inventing lies to

35:17

tell and Isabel and then I had

35:20

to cram myself into these can sound

35:22

good evening. close of yours. I

35:25

can shop. Whale of Agony. It.

35:27

Hadn't struck me till then that Rocky

35:29

was depending on my wardrobe to see

35:31

him through. Your ruined

35:33

them. I hope so. Said.

35:36

Rocky the most unpleasant way.

35:39

His. Troubles into how the worst effect on

35:41

his character. As you'd like

35:43

to get back of them, Somehow they've given

35:45

me a bad enough time. There. About

35:47

three sizes too small. And.

35:49

Something's apps to give it any moment.

35:52

With. The goodness. A wooden. And

35:54

give me a chance to breathe. I

35:56

will breathe since half past seven. and

35:59

kevin And Jeeves managed to get out and

36:01

buy me a collar that fitted, for I

36:03

should be a strangled corpse by now. It

36:06

was touch and go till the stud broke. Bertie,

36:09

this is pure Hades. Aunt

36:12

Isabelle keeps urging me to dance. How on earth

36:14

can I dance when I don't know a soul

36:16

to dance with? And how the deuce

36:18

could I, even if I knew every girl

36:20

in the place? Is taking

36:23

big chances even to move in these

36:25

trousers? I had to tell her I've

36:27

hurt my ankle. She keeps asking me

36:29

when Cohan and Stone are going to

36:31

show up, and it's simply a question

36:33

of time before she discovers that Stone

36:35

is sitting two tables away. Something's

36:38

got to be done, Bertie. You've got to

36:40

think up some way of getting me out of this mess. It

36:43

was you who got me into it. Me? What

36:46

do you mean? Well, Jeeves, then, it's all

36:48

the same. It was you

36:50

who suggested leaving it to Jeeves. It

36:52

was those letters I wrote from his notes that

36:54

did the mischief. I made them

36:57

too good. My aunt's just been

36:59

telling me about it. She says she had

37:01

resigned herself to ending her life where she

37:03

was, and then my

37:05

letters began to arrive, describing

37:07

the joys of New York,

37:10

and they stimulated her to such an extent

37:12

that she pulled herself together and made

37:15

the trip. She seems

37:17

to think that she has some miraculous kind of

37:19

faith cure. I tell you, I

37:21

can't stand it, Bertie. It's got to end. Can't

37:24

Jeeves think of anything? No. He

37:27

just hangs around saying, Most disturbing, sir.

37:30

A fat lot of help that is. Well,

37:33

old lad, I said, after

37:35

all, it's far worse for me than it is for you.

37:38

You've got a possible home in Jeeves, and

37:41

you're saving a lot of money. Saving

37:43

money? What do you mean, saving money? Well, the

37:46

allowance your aunt is giving you. I

37:49

suppose she's paying all the expenses now, isn't she? Certainly

37:52

she is, but she stopped the

37:54

allowance. She wrote the lawyers

37:56

tonight. She Says that now she's

37:58

in New York, There is no necessity. The city

38:00

for it to go on. As. We

38:02

shall always be together. And

38:05

it's simpler for her to look after that

38:07

end of it. until your Bertie. I've

38:09

examined the darn cloud of the microscope,

38:11

and if it's got a silver lining,

38:13

it's some little assembler. But.

38:15

Rocky old top. it's to valley Awful you

38:18

know notion of what I'm going through this

38:20

Beasley hotel without see use. I must get

38:22

back to the said. Don't come

38:25

near the flat. But. It's

38:27

my own flat. Can help that.

38:30

And Isabel doesn't like you. To.

38:32

Ask me what you did for a living. And

38:34

when I told her you didn't do anything. She

38:36

said she thought as much and

38:39

the your typical specimen of a

38:41

useless and decaying aristocracy. So.

38:43

If you think you have made a hit, forget it. Now

38:46

I must be going back years. He'll be coming

38:49

out here after me. Good. Bye.

38:52

Next morning Jeeves came round. It

38:55

was all so a home like when he

38:57

floated noiselessly into the room. That. I

38:59

nearly broke down. Good.

39:02

Morning Sir. He said. I

39:04

have brought a few more of your personal belongings.

39:08

Began to instruct the suitcase he was carrying.

39:11

Did you have any trouble sneaking them away?

39:14

It. Was not easy sir. I had

39:16

was my chance. Miss. Rock Mettler

39:19

is remarkably alert. Lady. You.

39:22

Know these, say what you like. This. Is

39:24

a bit sick, isn't it? The

39:26

situation is certainly one that as never before

39:28

come under my notice. A. I

39:31

have brought the have mixture suit. As.

39:33

The climax. The conditions are congenial. Tomorrow.

39:36

Is not prevented. I. Will endeavour

39:38

to add the brown lounge with the same

39:41

green twill. It can

39:43

to on the sort of thing. To use.

39:45

We. Must hope for the best sir. Can't.

39:48

You think of anything to do. I.

39:51

Have been giving the matter considerable thought

39:53

so. But. So far without

39:55

success. i am placing

39:57

three silk shirts the dove college

40:00

The light blew and the mauve in

40:02

the first long draw, sir. You

40:04

don't mean to say you can't think of anything, Jeeves?"

40:08

For the moment, sir, no. You

40:10

will find a dozen handkerchiefs and the tan

40:12

socks in the upper drawer on the left.

40:16

He strapped the suitcase and put it on a

40:18

chair. A curious

40:20

lady, Miss Rock-Metaller, sir. You

40:23

understate Jeeves." He

40:25

gazed meditatively out of the window. In

40:29

many ways, sir, Miss Rock-Metaller reminds me of

40:31

an aunt of mine who resides

40:33

in the south-east portion of London. Their

40:36

temperaments are much alike. My

40:39

aunt has the same taste for the pleasures of

40:41

the great city. It is

40:43

a passion with her to ride in handsome cabs, sir.

40:46

Whenever the family take their eyes off her, she

40:49

escapes from the house and spends the day

40:51

riding about in cabs. On

40:53

several occasions, she is broken into

40:55

the Children's Savings Bank to secure the means

40:58

to enable her to gratify this desire. "'I

41:01

love to have these little chats with you

41:04

about your female relatives, Jeeves,' I

41:06

said coldly. For I felt that the

41:08

man had let me down, and I was fed up

41:10

with him. But I don't see what

41:12

all this has got to do with my trouble." I

41:15

beg your pardon, sir. I

41:17

am leaving the small assortment of neckties on

41:19

the mantelpiece, sir, for you to

41:21

select according to your preference. I

41:24

should recommend the blue with the red domino pattern,

41:26

sir. Then he

41:28

streams imperceptibly toward the door and

41:31

flowed silently out. I

41:35

have often heard that chappies, after some

41:37

great shock or loss, have a habit,

41:39

after they have been on the floor for a while

41:41

wondering what hit them, of picking

41:43

themselves up and piecing themselves together

41:46

and sort of taking a whirl at beginning a

41:48

new life. Time, the

41:50

great healer, and nature adjusting itself and

41:52

so on and so forth, there

41:54

is a lot in it, I know. But

41:57

in my own case, after a day or two

41:59

of which call prostration, I

42:02

began to recover. The

42:04

frightful loss of Jeeves made any thought of

42:06

pleasure more or less a mockery, but

42:08

at least I found I was able to have a

42:10

dash at enjoying life again. What I

42:12

mean is, I was braced up to the

42:15

extent of going round a cabaret once more, so

42:17

as to try to forget, if only for the

42:19

moment. New York's

42:22

a small place when it comes to

42:24

the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is

42:26

going to bed, and it wasn't

42:28

long before my tracks began to cross old

42:30

Rockies. I saw him once

42:32

at peels and again at frolics on the roof.

42:35

There wasn't anybody with him either time except

42:38

the aunt, and though he was

42:40

trying to look as if he had struck the

42:42

ideal life, it wasn't difficult

42:44

for me, knowing the circumstances, to

42:47

see that beneath the mask the poor

42:49

chap was suffering. My

42:51

heart bled for the fellow, at least

42:53

what there was of it, that wasn't bleeding for

42:55

myself bled for him. He

42:57

had the air of one who was about to crack under the

42:59

strain. It seemed to

43:02

me that the aunt was looking slightly upset

43:04

also. I took it that

43:06

she was beginning to wonder when the celebrities were

43:08

going to surge round, and what

43:10

had suddenly become of all those wild, careless spirits

43:12

Rocky used to mix with in his letters. I

43:15

didn't blame her. I had only read a

43:17

couple of his letters, but they certainly gave

43:19

the impression that poor old Rocky

43:22

was by way of being the hub

43:24

of New York nightlife, and that if

43:26

by any chance he failed to show up at a

43:28

cabaret, the management said, What's the

43:30

use and put up the shutters? The

43:33

next two nights I didn't come across them, for

43:36

the night after that I was sitting

43:38

by myself at the Maison Pierre when

43:40

somebody tapped me on the shoulder blade,

43:42

and I found Rocky standing beside me

43:44

with a sort of mixed expression of

43:47

wistfulness and apoplexy on his face. How

43:50

the chapid contrived to wear my evening

43:52

clothes so many times without disaster was

43:55

a mystery to me. He

43:57

Confided later that early in the proceedings

43:59

he had. A waistcoat up the

44:01

back. And. That that had helped a bit. For.

44:04

The moment I had the idea that he had managed

44:06

to get away from his on for the evening. But.

44:09

Looking past him. I saw that

44:11

she was in again. She. Was at

44:13

a table of by the wall. Looking.

44:15

At me as if I was something the management

44:17

ought to be complaints to about. Bertie

44:20

old scout. Said.

44:22

Rocky. And acquired sort of

44:24

trust voice. We've always

44:26

been. Pals, Ever way.

44:29

I mean. You know I do you a

44:31

good turn if you ask me. What?

44:34

He wrote last I said. The.

44:36

Man had moved me. Then. For.

44:39

Heaven's sake. Film over and

44:41

sit at our table for the rest of the evening.

44:44

Oh, you know there are limits to the sacred

44:47

claims of friendship. My. Dear

44:49

Old Chance I said. You.

44:51

Know I do anything and reason

44:53

of you must come thirty he

44:55

to. Something's got to be done

44:57

to divert her mind sees brooding

45:00

about something. He's. Been like

45:02

that for the last two days. I

45:04

think she's beginning to suspect. She.

45:06

Can understand why We never seem to meet

45:09

anyone. I know it these joints. The

45:11

few nights ago I happened to run into to

45:13

newspaper man I used to know fairly well. That.

45:16

Kept me going for a while. I.

45:18

Introduce them to and Isabel as they would

45:20

blast Go and Jim Corbett and it went

45:22

well. But. The effect is worn

45:25

off now. This is beginning to

45:27

wonder again. Something's. Got

45:29

to be done. And she will

45:31

find out everything and if she does I'd take

45:33

a nickle for my chance of getting has sent

45:35

from her later on. So.

45:37

For the love of Mike, come across to our

45:39

table and help things along. I

45:42

went along. When.

45:44

As to rally around the palin distress. Aren't

45:47

Isabel was sitting bolt upright as usual.

45:50

It certainly did seem as if she had lost

45:52

a bit of the zest with which he had

45:54

started out to explore brought when. She.

45:57

Looks as if she had been thinking a good

45:59

deal of up rather until the things. You've

46:01

met Bertie Wooster and Isabel.

46:04

Said. Rocky. I

46:07

have. There.

46:09

Was something in her eye that seemed to say. That.

46:11

Have a city of six million people.

46:13

Why did you pick on me? Take.

46:16

A Seat Birdie Lily as.

46:19

Said. Rocky. And. So

46:21

the marry party began. Is

46:24

one of those jolie happy bread crumbling

46:26

parties way. It costs twice before you

46:28

speak and then decide not to say

46:30

it. After all. After

46:32

we had an hour of this

46:35

wild dissipation, Aren't Isabel said she

46:37

wanted to go home? And the light

46:39

of what rocky have telling me this struck me

46:41

as sinister. I had gathered

46:43

that at the beginning of her visit she'd had

46:45

to be dragged home with ropes. And

46:47

must have hit rocky the same way. For. He

46:50

gave me a pleading look. He'll

46:52

come along once a birdie. And

46:54

have a drink at the flat. Out

46:57

a feeling that this wasn't in the contract. But.

47:00

There wasn't anything to be done. It

47:02

seemed brutal to leave the poor chap alone with the

47:04

woman. So. I went along. Right

47:07

from the start. From the moment

47:09

we stepped into the taxi. The. Ceiling

47:11

began to grow that something was about

47:13

to break loose. A massive

47:15

silence prevailed in the corner where the

47:18

answers and though rocky. Balancing.

47:20

Himself, on the little seat in

47:22

France did his best to supply

47:24

dialogue. We weren't a chatty party.

47:28

I a glimpse of Jesus we went into the

47:30

slot sitting in his last. And I

47:32

wished I could have pulled to him to rally round. Something.

47:35

Told me that I was about need him.

47:38

The. Stuff was on the table in the sitting room. Monkey

47:40

two cups of the counter. Say.

47:42

When thirty stop. Box.

47:45

The and and he dropped it. I

47:48

caught Rockies I as he stooped to pick

47:50

up the ruins. Was. The I

47:52

have one who sees it coming. The

47:54

with their rock metal or. Said.

47:57

Aren't Isabel? And. Rocky left it there.

48:00

The. Time has come to speak.

48:02

She. Said. I cannot stand

48:04

idly by and see a young man

48:06

going to Perdition. Poor.

48:09

Old Rocky give a sort of gurgle. The.

48:11

Kind of sound rather like the whiskey had

48:13

made running out of the decanter on the

48:15

my carpet. Way. He

48:18

said blinking. The. And

48:20

proceeded. The float she

48:22

said. Was. Mine. I

48:25

had not seen then the light. Of.

48:27

Now my eyes are open. I.

48:30

See the hideous mistake I have

48:32

made. I shudder at

48:34

the thought of the wrong I did.

48:36

You block Mettler by urging you into

48:38

contact with this wicked city. I

48:42

saw Rocky Group C Believe for the table.

48:44

His. Fingers touched it. And. A look of

48:47

relief came into the porch. Up he says. I

48:49

understood his feelings. But.

48:51

When I wrote to that letter Rock Metal? or.

48:54

Instructing you to go to the city and

48:56

limits life. I. Had not had

48:58

the privilege of hearing Mr. Monday speak on

49:00

the subject of New York. To

49:03

be Monday I cried. You.

49:05

Know how it is sometimes when everything seems

49:07

all mixed up and you suddenly get a

49:10

clue. When. She mentioned Jimmy

49:12

Monday. I began to understand more

49:14

or less what had happened. I'd.

49:17

Seen as haven't before. I. Remember

49:19

back in England. A man

49:21

I met before Jeeves sneaked off to a

49:23

meeting on his evening out. And

49:25

came back and denounced me in front of

49:28

a crowd of sharpies I was giving a

49:30

bit of supper to as a moral leper.

49:33

The. On gave me a withering up and down.

49:36

Yes, Jimmy Monday. She.

49:38

Said. I'm. Surprised at a

49:40

man of your stamp, having heard of

49:42

him. There. Is no music

49:45

that are no drunk and dancing men.

49:47

Know. Shameless flaunting women at his

49:50

meetings. So. For you, they

49:52

would have no attraction. But.

49:54

Rather is less dead in sin.

49:57

He. Has his message. Is.

49:59

Gum to say. New York from itself. To.

50:01

Force it in his picture as crazy.

50:04

To. Hit the trail. Who's. Three

50:06

days ago. Rock metal or that I first heard of

50:09

him. Who. Was accident that took

50:11

me to his meeting. I'll

50:13

often in this life a mere accidents

50:15

may save our whole future. You

50:17

have been called away by the telephone message

50:20

from Mister Belasco. So. You could

50:22

not take me to the Hippodrome. As we

50:24

had arranged. I asked you

50:26

manservant Jeeves to take me. That. The.

50:28

Man has very little intelligence. He

50:31

seems to have misunderstood me. I am

50:33

thankful that he did. He

50:35

took me to what I subsequently learned

50:37

was Madison Square Garden. Where. Mr.

50:39

Monday is holding his meetings. Escorted.

50:42

Me to a seat and than left me.

50:45

That. Was not to the meeting and big town. That.

50:47

I discovered the mistake which had been made. My.

50:50

Seat as in the middle of a row. I

50:52

cannot leave without inconveniencing a great many

50:55

people. so I remained. She.

50:57

Got. Rock. Madness. I

51:00

have never been so thankful for

51:02

anything else. Mr. Monday

51:04

was wonderful. It. Was like

51:06

some profit of old skirting the

51:08

sins of the people. He. Leaves

51:11

about in a frenzy of inspiration. Till.

51:13

I feared he would do himself an injury. Sometimes.

51:16

He expressed himself in a somewhat odd

51:18

manner. But. Every word carried

51:21

conviction. He. Showed me New

51:23

York in it's True Colors. He

51:25

showed me the vanity. And. Wickedness

51:27

of sitting and gilded aunts

51:29

and vice. Eating a. When.

51:32

Decent people should be in bed. She.

51:35

Said that the Tango Foxtrot would

51:37

devices of the bubble the drug

51:40

people down into the bottomless pit.

51:42

He said. That there was

51:44

more seen in ten minutes with a

51:46

negro banjo orchestra than and all the

51:48

ancient rebels of Nineveh and Babylon. And

51:51

when he stood on one leg and

51:53

pointed right at where I was sitting

51:55

and shouted, this means you. I

51:58

could have sunk through the floor. I

52:00

can we changed woman. Surely you

52:02

must have noticed a change in may rock metal

52:04

if. You must have seen

52:07

that I was no longer the careless,

52:09

thoughtless person who had urged you to.

52:12

Dance in those places of wickedness. Rocky

52:15

was holding onto the table as if it was

52:17

his only friend. Yes,

52:21

He. Stammered eyes thought something

52:23

was wrong. Wrong.

52:26

Something. Was right, everything was right rock

52:28

metal or it is not too late for

52:30

you to be saved. The of

52:32

only sipped of the evil cup. You're blood

52:34

trained. It. Is. Will be hard

52:36

at first. Would. You will find that

52:39

you can do it if you fight with

52:41

a stout heart against the glamour and fascination

52:43

of this dreadful city. Bone.

52:45

To for my sake try rock metal.

52:48

Won't you go back to the country tomorrow?

52:51

And. Begin the struggle. Little by

52:53

little if you use your will.

52:56

I. Can't help thinking it must have been

52:58

the word will. That. Roused dear old

53:00

Rocky like a trumpet call. It

53:03

must have brought home to him the realization. That.

53:05

A miracle come off and saved him from

53:08

being cut out of and his the bells.

53:10

At any rate, as he said it, he

53:12

perked up, let go of the table and

53:15

faced her with gleaming eyes. Do.

53:17

You want Me to go back

53:19

to the country? And Isabel. Yes,

53:23

Not. To live in the country.

53:26

Yes, Rock metal or. Stay

53:28

in the country. All. The time? He

53:30

mean. Never. Come to New York.

53:33

Yes, Rock Metal or. I mean

53:35

just that. it is the only way.

53:38

Only there can you be safe from

53:41

temptation. Will. You do it.

53:43

rock metal or. Will you? For.

53:45

My sake. Rocky

53:48

grab the table again. He. Seemed draw

53:50

a lot of encouragement from that table. I

53:53

will. He said. Geez.

53:57

I said. It was next day. That

54:00

was back at the old flat, lying in

54:02

the old armchair. With. My feed upon

54:04

the good old table. I.

54:06

Had just come from seeing dear old Rocky

54:08

off to his country cottage. At

54:10

an hour before he had seen as aren't all

54:12

to what have a hamlet Id laws that she

54:14

was the curse of. So. We were

54:17

alone at last. Geez

54:19

as no place like home

54:21

was. Very. True, So.

54:24

That's all you're just pre and all that sort of thing was.

54:27

The precise lisa. And

54:29

lit another cigarette. She's.

54:32

Sir. You know, At.

54:34

One point in the business, I really thought

54:37

you were baffled. Indeed, So.

54:40

When. Did you get the idea of taking this

54:42

rock met or to The meeting was pure genius.

54:45

Thing. To say. It came

54:47

to me a little suddenly. One.

54:49

Morning when I was thinking of my

54:51

Aunt. Phil. And.

54:54

A handsome cab One. Yes, I

54:57

recollected that. whenever. We observed

54:59

one of her attacks calling on. We.

55:01

Used to send for the clergyman of the Paris.

55:04

We. Always found that as he talked to

55:06

her a while of higher things. He

55:08

diverted her mind from handsome cap.

55:11

It. Occurred to me that the same treatment

55:14

might prove efficacious. In. The case of

55:16

Miss Rock member. I.

55:18

Was stunned by the man's results.

55:21

It's. Brain I said to a

55:23

brain. But he would do to get

55:25

like that. chiefs. I believe you must a

55:27

lot of fish or something. Still a lot of see

55:29

Steve. Knows. Her. And.

55:31

Will. And it's just a gift. I take

55:33

it. And if you aren't born

55:35

that way, there's no use worrying. Precise.

55:38

Lisa. Said. Geez. If

55:41

I might make the suggestions or. I

55:43

should not continue to wear your presence

55:45

tie. The. Greens shade gives you

55:48

a slightly billie as as. I.

55:50

Should strongly advocate the blue with the

55:52

red domino pattern and. Or

55:56

I tease us and humbly,

55:58

You know, And

56:16

the has Bj Harrison. I. Hope

56:18

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56:21

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56:23

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