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Oh, Jeeves!
By David Shaw (david@f-e-mail.com)
***
A parody of the popular mini series on PBS "Jeeves and
Wooster. Only this episode would never make it onto
television. Maybe video? (MF, humor, parody)
***
The ghost of Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse is going to
haunt me for this!
***
Whatever dramas may have arisen from time to time in
life, Jeeves' grip on the morning saucer has always
remained firm and unshaken. Whether conveying news of
political friction in the Balkans or of irrupting aunts
on the doorstep the man has always carried a beautiful
cup of tea. So when I heard the ominous clink of
crockery I knew the world's foundations were quivering
even before I opened my eyes.
"What ho, Jeeves. Nice morning, what?"
A fairly safe opening, I thought, given that the newly
drawn curtains were admitting a whole treasury of
golden rays to brighten the interior of the Wooster
bedroom with their cheerful glow. Yet the springing
sun's touch was clearly failing to pluck at Jeeves'
manly heartstrings. Framed in the halo of sunlight he
loomed over me like Jehovah about to inflict a plague
of pyramid scheme salesmen on both the upper and lower
Nile.
One look at the height of his raised left eyebrow and I
felt as apprehensive as if the morning refreshment was
being served up by a Chicago musician carrying a violin
case covered in gun oil stains. Any valet displaying an
irate eyebrow in that openly disapproving fashion
towards the young master was clearly as impervious to
polite chit chat as Vlad the Impaler in the grip of a
hangover.
The thing was, I couldn't imagine what could have
caught the man so fully on what was clearly the rawest
of raw spots. I'd never seen him in such a state
before, not even when a gang of red revolutionaries had
turned up at the apartment at five o'clock in the
afternoon for an anticipated feast of scrambled eggs
and sardines.
Although, to be fair, on that occasion it had been the
sight of Bingo Little's false beard which had unmanned
Jeeves to the extent of forcing him to clutch at a
table for support. But the premises were currently pest
free and without trace of either Bingo, any of his many
fiancés, or even revolutionaries of any hue. The only
thing visible which might have been described as
slightly irregular was the decidedly well shaped leg
which had somehow escaped from underneath my rather
disordered bed clothes -- a female leg in point of
fact, if you see what I'm driving at.
Yet there was nothing in that which should have been
responsible for poor old Bertie getting his hot tea
handed to him in a frozen mitt. Jeeves knows very well
there are some services which even the best of
gentlemen's gentlemen cannot provide for the young
master and none of my modest domestic debaucheries has
ever drawn a hint of disapproval from the great man
before. Indeed, whereas we have frequently failed to
see eye to eye in the matter of floral cummerbunds or
purple socks, Jeeves has uniformly approved my choice
of women.
I like females who laugh a lot -- well, what other sort
would consort with a certified half wit like Bertram?
But whatever their shape, size or inclination to lots
of giggles after generous doses of champagne, Jeeves
has always greeted each and every one of them into the
apartment as warmly as if they the proverbial flowers
in May.
I daresay that may be because the relationships are
always of a transient nature. A pair of spats in old
Estonian colors I'll wear as often as Jeeves will let
me get away with, but no girl need expect an invitation
to linger in Abernathy Mansions once the trysting's
done and completed to everybody's satisfaction.
Truth to tell, ever since Cynthia Wickhammersley nearly
sank one of her floating ribs laughing at my tentative
offer of a joint canter to the alter rail I've decided
that the life of a bachelor gay is what suits Bertie
Wooster best. It's true that I've been greatly scorned
by many of my contemporaries who've boldly set off
along the tempting highway of marital life, but I'm
also duty bound to record that several of them have
since ended up with their offside wheels very deep in
the ditch. Enough at least for Bertie to reflect that
there are worse fates than being stupid and single,
provided one has -- as I have -- a considerable private
income and Jeeves' unparalleled problem solving
abilities to keep us both in our present happy state.
So, to labor the point, why was I waking up to find
myself underneath eyes of terrible aspect, prying
through the portage of Jeeves' head like brass cannon?
Where was the usual feudal spirit of goodwill between
master and man, between valet and valeted? It suddenly
occurred to me that I might gain an insight into the
developing plotline by asking him that very question.
"Something wrong, Jeeves?" I asked lightly, pretending
not to be aware of the storm clouds gathering in a
black line on the horizon.
"Might one inquire as to where you happened to meet the
young lady, sir?"
This was a decidedly rum question, a blatant expression
of curiosity as far distant from Jeeves' usual
disinterested behavior as it was possible to imagine: I
felt as if I was watching an Old Bailey Judge enter his
courtroom with his face blacked up and playing a banjo
-- the senses reeled, as you might say. But I rallied
and responded.
"It happened to be at Goodwood. In the private
enclosure, if it matters."
There was some emphasis on the last words, a firmly
implied measure of rebuke. After all, where does one
get off if the domestic staff feel entitled to an full
explanation of their employer's activities? Apart from
anything else it was dashed embarrassing to have
somebody else listening to one being cross examined by
one's manservant as to one's doings, if one gets one's
drift.
Fortunately, apart from the eye-catching leg, the only
other thing visible from underneath the bedding was a
tangle of blonde hair and the only noise coming from
the night's partner was a regular series of snores.
And, don't you know, I felt quite bucked up: there's
nothing like a love sated girl as compensation for the
fact that Bertram's life had been singularly free of
any kind of formal prizes since my collection of
pressed flowers was judged best in class at infant
school.
"And may I assume that the lady was wearing her
travelling coat at the time you met and kept it on
until you returned home? And may I further assume that
she disrobed in the dark?"
By Jove, that collapsed my self confidence in short
order. No one has more respect for the raw horsepower
residing in Jeeves' fish fed cerebral cells than
Bertie, but even I had never suspected that his
intellect was of positively Sherlockian caliber.
"Good Lord, Jeeves, how did you know that?"
I'm sure that for a second he was on the point of
saying, 'Elementary, my dear Wooster' but even the most
insidious temptation has always found it hard going
with a personage of Jeeves' strong character. Instead
of speaking he simply pointed to a set of nether
garments thrown over the back of a chair and revealed
to a disbelieving world by the rising sun.
"Good God," I choked, "Trousers!"
"Or slacks," Jeeves suggested icily.
"She's an American -- pants," I adjudicated, and then
seized the cup of tea with fingers that trembled a
great deal more than Jeeves had. "I've escorted a woman
wearing pants around the private enclosure of Goodwood.
If anybody ever finds out about this I'll be the
laughing stock of London -- no, but wait, she was
wearing a skirt underneath her coat. She must have
been, because I could see her ankles and calves. I'm
sure of that because I remember admiring them an awful
lot."
Jeeves picked up the feminine abominations and showed
them to me as undeniable evidence for the prosecution.
"Sir, allow me to point out the numerous wrinkles
around the lower legs and the knees. I believe that the
young lady initially tried to enter the private
enclosure with her pants in full view underneath her
coat and was very properly turned away by the enclosure
stewards for being inappropriately dressed. Normally,
that would have been an end to the matter, but being an
American and quite without shame, I believe she simply
retired to some private place and there rolled up her
trouser legs, perhaps securing them with string or in
some other extemporized fashion, and then entered the
enclosure by another gate. Of course nobody would have
dreamed that she was not wearing a skirt underneath her
travelling coat."
"Good God, Jeeves." I hadn't been so shaken since Aunt
Agatha had blithely announced that I was under
starter's orders to marry Honoria Glossop. "Imagine if
one of those confounded leggings had come adrift and
unrolled down as I was talking to her -- I'd have been
warned off the turf for life. No decent bookie would
have accepted one of Bertram Wooster's wagers ever
again.
It's all the fault of those blasted Americans for not
taking a hard line with their womenfolk from an early
age. Just because they can get away with outlandish
behavior in California they think they can do it in
civilization. This has been a lesson to me, Jeeves, a
very firm lesson to stay away in future from any girls
with any hint at of sun tan. Not unless we're at the
Casino at Roville-sur-mer."
"A wise decision, if I may venture to comment, sir. But
I fear you've failed to grasp the situation in its
entirety. If you met this young person in the private
enclosure at Goodwood, then may I assume she has a
certain social status which requires she be allowed to
leave in a manner befitting such standing?"
They say that no man is a hero to his valet, and has
the implications of Jeeves' words sank in, I must have
looked more like a stunned mullet than any human being
has a right to. For he was absolutely spot on; had I
been entertaining a chorus line girl it would have been
a simple matter to dress her, pop a couple of crisp
fivers down her cleavage as marks of appreciation for a
night well spent and to gently push her out through the
door with expressions of mutual good will. But in this
case...
"Jeeves, dash it all, she was carrying a letter of
introduction to one and all in society signed by
Freddie Threepwood -- you remember Freddie Threepwood?"
"Certainly, sir, the second son of Lord Emsworth of
Blandings Castle. He married Miss Niagra Donaldson, the
daughter of the founder of Donaldson's Dog Biscuits
company of Long Island. A most successful union, I am
led to believe."
"That's as maybe, Jeeves, but whom we have here is
Annette Pederson, the daughter of the family Pederson,
with which is associated the family enterprise of
Pederson's Prophylactics of San Francisco, rubber goods
as sold at all good barber shops and drug stores.
Every time an American on the West Coast gets the urge
the necessary item he reaches for first is almost
certainly to be a Pederson manufactured prophylactic.
And if the Americans out West are anything like the
Americans we've met in New York I daresay they get the
urge an awful lot. The essential point, the nub of the
conversation I'm trying to put across is that the
Pederson's have more dollars to scratch themselves with
than all the consumers of Donaldson's dog biscuits put
together have fleas.
Reading between the lines of Freddie's letter it seems
that we're talking about a family business which every
day fills entire trains of boxcars with rubber
necessities intended to keep the size of the population
of the United States within reasonable limits."
"Doubtless a worthwhile aim, sir, though not perhaps
achieving as much success as one might wish for in an
ideal world. None the less, from what you've said it's
clear that we cannot simply put Miss Pederson out into
the street. She must be escorted back to her residence
with all due politeness, or at least seen into her
taxi, if so she chooses to depart. Therein lies the
difficulty.
As you may have already observed, today is
distinguished with remarkably clement weather. So
clement indeed that I fear there is no possibility of
Miss Pederson wearing her coat -- nor do I think she
would be amenable to any suggestion of rolling up
her... hmmm... her pants again."
"So at the very least, Jeeves, the good old noblesse
oblige of the Wooster's requires me to escort her
downstairs and to open the taxi door for her. Is that
the way you see the scenario unfolding?"
"I fear so, sir."
"Are you seriously suggesting that I appear in public
on the pavement of Berkeley Square with a woman wearing
pants? I'll swim in blood first!"
Fear had gripped Bertie's palpitating organs in a grip
of steel. For I knew, I just knew, that fate would
decree the moment I stepped out into the sunlight would
be the moment that Aunt Agatha would loom over the
horizon.
Aunt Agatha, the curse of the Wooster's, who dated the
start of the fall of the Empire from the first raising
of a skirt hem above floor level. Aunt Agatha, widely
known as the fiery harridan of the Fernie Hunt ever
since a female huntress of advanced ideas had been
observed riding astride a horse instead of using a side
saddle as nature intended. If Aunt Agatha saw Bertram
on the streets of London escorting a trouser clad
female the resulting invective would make Lloyd George
at his rabble rousing noisiest sound like a soft breeze
brushing the tree tops.
Within hours the entire mass of Wooster matriarchs
would be trampling me underfoot, invariably bringing in
their wake Sir Roderick Glossop and the certificate of
lunacy he'd been itching to inscribe Bertram's moniker
on ever since the unfortunate affair of the cats, the
fish and the stolen hat. Another by product would
probably be a sinking of Anglo-US relationships to a
level not known since 1812, but such diplomatic
niceties would mean nothing to a man being hunted down
by an Agony of Aunts.
Or, even worse yet, what if one of my fellow members
from the Drones Club espied me in the streets with a
trousered female: the thought was enough to make me
cringe like a beaten puppy: "What ho, Bertie, taking
your girl rat catching, what?"
My name would be stricken from the Club records and
made a hissing and mockery amongst London society.
Instead of being a proud adornment to my fellows
because of my achievements I would be shunned and
passed on the other side of the street. No longer would
people remark on sighting the elegant Wooster frame:
"You wouldn't believe it to look at him, but that chap
can throw a bread roll further than any other man in
London."
Instead, it would be: "You wouldn't believe it to look
at him, but that chap was once seen in broad daylight
in Berkeley Square with a colonial female dressed like
a chap herself. By Jove, they should have treated him
like Oscar Wilde and thrown him into Reading jail."
I stared at the glowing window like those soothsayers
in the fiery furnace awaiting their doom: "No chance at
all of rain, Jeeves? Not even a hint of a cloud
anywhere in the sky?" I pleaded forlornly.
"None at all, sir. The weather forecast on the wireless
was emphatic on the uniformly fine sunshine which may
be expected for the next twenty four hours. No doubt we
can rely on the veracity of the British Broadcasting
Corporation."
I felt like sobbing: "No rain, not a drop -- in
England, of all places. Dash it all, Jeeves, it's hard,
it's dashed hard. I feel like a Bedouin camel herder
drowning in the only deep oasis in ten thousand square
miles of desert because I never bothered to learn to
swim."
"An elegant description of your difficulty, sir."
"No, wait a minute, I see a way out. You can escort
Annette down to the street yourself and hail a taxi for
her. I'll say I've sprained my ankle or something."
Jeeves drew himself up to his full height with graven
mien: he regarded me with hooded eyes and the
expression of a Roman Senator arriving home
unexpectedly to find his wife trying on a new male
slave for size.
"I fear, sir, that such an undertaking would be totally
incompatible with my position as Grand Master of the
Worshipful Guild of Personal Retainers."
So there it was, mutiny above decks in broad daylight,
shameless and flagrant, with poor old Bertie cast in
the role of Captain Bligh. With any other servant I
would have sprung from the bed with an angry cry and
shown him the way out. But that had been Captain
Bligh's response too, and look where that got him, cast
adrift in an open boat. Which was where I would end up
too, floating aimlessly on the sea of life without
Jeeves as my guiding star. No, I must put my faith in
the man's genius to get us out of this spot.
"Then what's to be done, Jeeves, what's to be done?" I
demanded in desperation.
"Well, sir, it would be quite easy to buy a dress: the
problem which presents itself is in persuading Miss
Pederson that she must change her apparel because she
cannot possibly appear on the streets of London wearing
pants. Do you feel she might take the suggestion
amiss?"
I shuddered: "Jeeves, this is a girl who apparently
flies her own aeroplane, hunts mountain goats with a
rifle through the Californian high country and is on
first name terms with everybody in Grosvenor Square
from the US Ambassador on down. Apart from which her
father can apparently call up President Hoover whenever
he likes by mentioning two magic words, 'Campaign
Funds'.
"If we insult her there'll be a huge scandal, not to
mention that we might end leaping from rooftop to
rooftop around Berkeley Square like goats ourselves,
dodging Miss Pederson's gunfire. No, blast it, I can't
simply tell her that while she might be appropriately
attired for the High Sierras she's currently the
essence of high farce in high society."
"Then we must depend on the psychology of the
individual. You, sir, must rise immediately and repair
immediately without bathing to the Maison de Mode dress
shop in Cumberland Street. It's only a few minutes walk
away. I will give you a note for Madam Juin, the
proprietress, to explain the situation.
"She will immediately select something suitable and you
will bring it back. You will then tell Miss Pederson
that you rushed out and bought the garment as a token
of your appreciation for the pleasure of her company
during the night. Then you must beg her to try the
dress on and see how it looks. We may hope that she
will be so pleased with the spontaneous presentation of
your gift that she will keep on wearing it when you
take her out to her taxi."
"Go out, unbathed and unshaven -- into a female dress
shop. Jeeves!"
It was a cry of anguish torn from my soul.
"Should you meet any of your friends, sir, you can
explain away your appearance by saying that you've
spent all night at the tables at Crockfords, and have
just finished breaking your fast at a costermonger's
coffee stall in Covent Garden. As for Madam Juin, she
is discretion herself, and so are her staff. Your
secret will be safe."
"Safe! And what if one of Bingo Little's ex-fiancées
arrives in the Maison De Mode whilst I'm there? The
story will be spread around the whole Metrop before
I've finished signing Madam Juin's check."
"The likelihood of any such encounter is extremely
remote, sir," the man said loftily, rather like Zeus
having to explain his grand plans to a slow witted
mortal.
"Remote! Do you know how many girls Bingo has been
affianced to in his time? Laid end to end they'd
stretch the length of Rotten Row."
"Considering the general quality of Mr. Little's
selections that might be an appropriate venue for the
event, sir. Though I'm bound to say the sight would
probably frighten the horses rather badly."
"Ah!" I said. Fear had lent wings to my normally
sluggish brain and exposed the flaw in Jeeves'
strategy. "You're forgetting, I can't buy a dress for
Miss Pederson without knowing her dress size. So that
puts paid to that idea."
"Not at all, sir. We shall simply lift the bedclothes
off Miss Pederson and I will be able to judge her
requirements by eye."
Had anybody else bar a master tailor made such a claim
I wouldn't have believed it. Yet I'd had it proved to
me time and time again that Jeeves could indeed name my
clothing sizes to within a fraction of an inch with a
single glance. That the talent might extend as far as
female bodies was something I'd never considered, but
presumably he knew his own abilities best.
"She... she hasn't got any clothes on at the moment,
Jeeves."
"Then my task will be so much the easier, sir."
Crushed -- I was fairly crushed underneath the dead
weight of his reply. Not that they'd been any insolence
at all in his reply, nor did there need to be, after
the stupidity of my remark. Poor old Bertie was a very
embarrassed employer indeed as he slipped out from
underneath the covers without a stitch to cover himself
and prepared to help Jeeves throw the bed clothes back
from the figure still underneath them.
It seemed that the Pederson's were a family who liked
their sleep almost as much as they liked collecting
federally printed autographs of the Secretary of the
Treasury. Deprived of the warmth and shelter of the
blankets, Annette curled herself up on her stomach like
an uncovered dormouse in the depths of hibernation and
continued to put plenty of solid spadework into her
snoring.
Dash it all, though, noise apart, she was a vision
which would have been worthy of any painters' brush
work, even Rembrandt's. A kind of pocket Venus De Milo,
with all those curves and enticing handfuls that are
creation's most interesting mystery. The good thing
about looking at her on top of the mattress was that
her breasts were tucked out of sight underneath her,
which let you admire her hips and bottom without being
afraid you might be missing out of a glimpse of
something even better somewhere else.
All in all, taking a look at the little blonde
bombshell, any impartial male observer would have to
agree that Annette Pederson had more attractive
trimmings on her than any Christmas tree you ever saw.
Which begged a couple of questions, such as why she'd
ended up in bed with silly ass Bertie, and where the
devil was her chaperone on this holiday jaunt of hers
across Europe?
Considerations which went completely out of my mind as
Jeeves leaned forward and tickled the bottom of
Annette's right foot. She made a kind of intake of
breath and rolled over on her back. Two delightful
mounds of faintly freckled flesh swung and heaved
together in graceful arcs before gently settling into
the gentle swaying motion. A pair of large brown
nipples rose and fell with her breathing, like fishing
floats on a moving sea twitching with the promise of
hidden life below, if only a man could haul them in.
Then her eyelids opened and her vivid blue eyes glanced
incuriously at me before turning toward Jeeves. I tried
to think of something I could possibly say but only
managed a kind of choking gargle.
"Good morning, Madam," Jeeves said cordially. "Could
you possibly oblige me by sitting upright so that I can
obtain a clearer impression of the size of your bosom?"
"Huh... sure."
You know, over the years I've had to put up with a
great deal of loose gossip about how I let Jeeves make
too much of himself, and how I talk a lot of nonsense
about what strength of character he has. So, let the
record show, that when Miss Pederson was subjected to
the Jeeves' treatment she was as much putty in his
hands as poor old Bertram has ever been, for all of her
own undoubted personal strengths. Summoned straight
from the depths of sleep and confronted with Jeeves'
iron will, you may as well try to argue the toss with
the Recording Angel, should you happen to find him in
the bed chamber writing down the names of all your
tribe.
So, to resume the narrative, Annette heaved herself up,
leaned back against the bed head, put her hands
underneath her well developed charms and displayed them
to my valet as calmly as if they were a pair of second
hand bolsters with dubiously hued antimacassars.
"Will that do?"
"Thank you, Madam, that view is amply sufficient,"
Jeeves answered with due deference and some
considerable degree of understatement. "Now that I know
your approximate dimensions I can work out your
displacement and run your bath to the correct level and
temperature. I will call you as soon as it is ready.
Would you wish me to leave a cup of hot coffee beside
the tub as well?"
Annette lay there, as naked as she could be, bar her
earrings, and smiled at him as calmly as before: "That
sounds like a great idea. You wouldn't like to give me
a hand in the bath as well, I suppose?"
"I have done such services for other ladies, Madam.
Many of them have been kind enough to congratulate me
on my skills as a masseur. Though I cannot recall any
of them as your equal in pulchritude. Naturally, if
called upon, I will endeavor to give every satisfaction
within my power."
"Pulchritude?"
Annette arched her eyebrows in question marks and
joggled herself at Jeeves with both hands. I had a
vague sensation of a locomotive letting off steam
somewhere between my ears. One of the big American
Pacific class steamers.
"I was merely stating the obvious fact that Madam is
the fortune possessor of a great measure of extremely
enticing physical beauty. Madam will excuse me?"
Jeeves inclined his head like Gladstone doing the
polite by Queen Victoria and vanished in the same
uncanny way that he seems to arrive, appearing and
disappearing into the atmosphere with the facility of
an errant wisp of steam in a Turkish bath. Personally,
my flabber was entirely ghast, as you might say.
First of all there was that cunning little diversionary
tale about needing to see Annette naked so as to judge
the right level for the bath, and then there was that
casual flash of the bat sending a six to the boundary
as Jeeves talked about his services to other ladies --
his services, mark you, and what ladies might they be,
I wondered?
Come to think of it, hadn't there been a lot of girls
through the Mansions who'd left envelopes behind with
Jeeves' name on them? Minor gratuities for minor
services, I'd always assumed, but how minor, that was
the moot point. Dash it all, none of them had left any
keepsakes for Bertie Wooster, the official and duly
appointed resident Romeo in these premises.
These were deep waters, especially for a naked man with
only a few sips of tea in his system and an urgent need
to drag on his clothes before taking urgent flight to
Madam Juin's. Deep waters which suddenly became deeper
and murkier.
"That must have been Jeeves, I suppose?" Annette asked
me.
Quite an unsettling question to put to a chap when a
chap is standing on one leg and trying to put the other
one into the correct hole of his pinstripes. I mean, I
was well off balance to begin with.
"Jeeves? yes, that was Jeeves, but how come you to know
his name?"
Annette leaned back and put her hands behind her head:
watching the effect on her body, I nearly tore the
gusset out of my trousers.
"Bertie, everybody knows about Jeeves. Freddie
Threepwood made me promise I'd meet Jeeves whilst I was
over here. He said that Jeeves and Westminster Abbey
were the two things in London I mustn't miss out on, no
matter what."
"Well, confound his cheek," I grumbled. "He's got no
business telling people to meet my valet. Dash it all,
there'll be a plaque outside the next thing you know,
'JEEVES LIVES HERE', with Bertram opening the door for
visiting tourists wanting to go sightseeing around one
of the stately retainers of old England."
"Don't be so grumpy on such a nice morning, Bertie.
Everybody thinks you're so clever to have found Jeeves
for yourself. I think you're very clever to, and very
handsome."
Well, that put a different complexion on things, don't
you know? What with Annette's magnificent contours on
display, and her honeyed words, well I'd begun
undressing again given half a chance. But duty called,
so I kept on buttoning up.
"Where are you going, Bertie, and in that state? I
doubt if Jeeves will let you out looking like that."
I drew myself up to full height, displaying the
haughtiness that the Wooster's have always been able to
call on ever since Sir Bertram De Wooster fell off his
steed in full armor at the battle of Agincourt and
landed on top of the High Constable of France, thereby
instantly reducing him to the Low Constable of France.
"Jeeves is not my keeper, and if you knew my business,
you would entreat me go rather than stay."
Annette fluttered her eyelids: "Yes, Master Petruchio.
In any case it seems that I'm taking over your bath, so
you may as well make tracks until I've finished
wallowing in it."
"Look, Annette, it is important that I have to go out
now, dashed important," I said diplomatically. The
realization had come back to haunt me about how I was
going to have to sweet talk this squawking squaw into
dressing with some degree of decorum before she issued
forth over the Wooster doormat.
"Sure, take as long as you like, I won't be offended.
Can Jeeves cook -- a breakfast, I mean?"
"Of course, anything you want, and to perfection. He'll
look after you until I get back."
Annette slid down into the rumpled bed and heaved a
great sigh of pleasure: "I'm sure he will. Did you hear
him say I had pul... pulc... whatever?"
Watching the effect of the sigh on her breasts was
having a hampering effect on my own breathing: "Yes,
well he's right, you've got bags of charm."
"Have I really, Bertie?"
"Oh yes, by Jove, I can see two of them at least from
here, don't you know?"
She giggled and threw a pillow at me: "Don't be gone
long, Bertie. After I've had a bath and some breakfast
I may need another lesson in English lovemaking."
Well, that was an inducement I badly needed as I sidled
out of the Mansions by the tradesman's entrance, collar
turned up and shoulders hunched in fear of detection.
After I'd travelled the length of the street with
people staring after me as though I was wearing a mask
and had a bag marked "SWAG" over my shoulder, I
realized that what might suit James Cagney in the Bronx
after he'd fled the Big House at the dead of night
might not be quite the thing on a sunny Mayfair
morning. It was the lack of a shave which was really
undermining the Wooster morale and impeding my thought
processes to no small extent.
Anyway, I shall simply record that the next hour was
one of the grisliest ever suffered by your
correspondent. Bad enough to be sneaking through the
streets in desperate fear of being arrested as a
vagrant at any moment. Worse yet to be standing in
Madam Juin's establishment of frills and fripperies
with blasted girls appearing from behind screens in all
directions to gape and giggle at Bertie as he presented
Jeeves' note and was in turn presented with a selection
of dresses to choose from, as though I knew or cared
anything about any of the deuced things.
Most depressing of all was the sight of the telephone
on the counter of the shop and the far too late
realization that I could have simply phoned through an
order and arranged for a messenger to deliver it to the
apartment. But perhaps Jeeves thought that my chances
of getting Annette to take me to her heart would be
improved by Bertie bringing the bacon home personally,
as you might say.
At any event I decided to take three different dresses
and to hope that one of them would appeal to the brazen
hussy who'd accepted an invitation into my home and
hearth without warning me of the appalling state of her
apparel. So you may consider my state of apprehension
as I tiptoed back home through the streets, not only
unbathed and unshaven, but clutching three large be-
ribboned boxes to my chest and trying to hide my face
behind them.
Vague talk of returning from some prolonged nocturnal
roistering might have served before, but what was
Bertram Wooster doing creeping around the streets with
the sun well over the yardarm, dressed like an organ
grinder, smelling like his monkey, and carrying an
assortment of Madam Juin's finest creations?
Let that question be bruited around amongst London's
fashionable inhabitants and Sir Roderick would be
packing up his collection of little rubber hammers and
calling around at Berkeley Square with a couple of
white coated assistants faster than Bingo Little could
get himself engaged in a ballroom full of drunken
debutantes.
Bearing that thought in mind, you'll appreciate the
shock to the poor old Wooster system when I opened the
door to my apartment and found two burly men in scarlet
coats and wigs standing to attention in the hallway
like extras in a Regency play. Whilst I was still
gaping at this unexpected turn of events one of the
unidentified retainers stepped forward and neatly
scooped Madam Lafarge's packages out of my limp arms.
"Welcome home, Mr. Wooster," he said, rather like the
Biblical Patriarch giving the formal greeting to the
Prodigal Son.
"Er, yes, thank you."
Truth to tell, I was rather keen on knowing why my
front hall was being cluttered up with ornately dressed
servants who certainly were not part of the Wooster
household. The difficulty was that when it came to
questions, it was rather a case of dealing with a
embarrassment of riches -- or a richness of
embarrassment. One might, for example, have also turned
to the matter of the silver tray being held by one of
these magnificently turned out menials, a tray well
nigh covered with packets of what I recognized as
Pederson's Prophylactics.
Recognizable to me even though I'd never been West of
West Point because Annette had been carrying several
similar packets inside her handbag and had insisted,
like the man in the soap advertisement, that I should
use no other. No wonder a family with such faith in its
goods did so well on the retail side, but, whatever
their sterling qualities, I was unaware that Pederson's
useful rubber goods were on sale anywhere in the
sterling area, so their sudden appearance on a salver
in my London apartment, was, like that of the scarlet
jacketed retainers, shrouded in mystery.
Still, leaving that aside, one might also wonder these
footmen were also shrouded in clouds of vapor as though
the Wooster premises had its own private peasouper: but
this was steam I was seeing, not fog, coming from the
opened bathroom doorway. Along with a sound like a pair
of kippers being beaten into pulp against an elephant's
flank. All in all, Bertram's brain was as misted up as
my front hall seemed to be. It was a relief when one of
the men in red gave tongue.
"My name is Woodend, sir, and this is Chataway. We are
part of Sir Max Hobden's household. Sir Max is away at
the moment, sir, in America, and we are here because
Mr. Jeeves asked for our help."
Sir Max Hobden -- well, everybody knew who he was. The
most successful actor ever to leave the West End
Theatres to seek fame and fortune in the film lots of
Hollywood, a search which had turned up more treasure
for the titled thespian in the role of Long John Silver
than any buccaneer had ever buried.
"Mr. Jeeves is aware of the fact that Sir Max greatly
favors the Pederson brand of prophylactics, sir, an
habit he acquired in California, and Mr. Jeeves
requested that I bring around some of Sir Max's stock
as a matter of urgency."
Good God, was there nothing that the Servant's Hall
didn't know about who did what with who and with what
upstairs? That was a revelation, I can tell you but
bigger and better shocks were coming. This was an
earthquake which had just begin to shake things up.
"But, dash it all, Woodend, why bring the bally things
here?"
"Apparently there's a young lady who's eager to enjoy
herself, but who needed to be reassured that a adequate
supply of Pederson Prophylactics was at hand before she
would consent to begin."
I gaped at him, and then turned and gaped just as
inanely at the direction of the bathroom, where a sound
vaguely reminiscent of a wolverine going through a
particularly difficult birth was making the clouds of
steam quiver. The thought occurred that none of this
was doing the flock wallpaper any good -- the further
thought occurred that what I was hearing was Annette
either in total agony or in total ecstasy.
When I looked through the bathroom door and waved aside
the strata of hanging steam I saw her standing behind
the massage table and leaning forward over it with both
arms stretched out stiffly in front of her, one cheek
against the leatherwork, hair twisted around her
forehead and ear in damp curls, calling out a name very
loudly and dribbling out of the corner of her mouth
like an infant. The owner of the name was standing
directly behind her, naked himself except for his
washing up apron, which was lifted up and spread out as
a kind of concession to modesty over Annette's haunches
as she thrust herself back wildly against his own
matching movements.
Jeeves nodded deferentially at me across her back, an
act which seemed definitely incongruous, especially as
he was slapping the flats of his hands against her
cloth covered bottom like an tribal drummer beating on
a Tom-Tom. Rather a good rhythm he was keeping under
the circumstances, too. So now at least I didn't need
to ask what was making the 'elephant assaulted by
kipper' sound. One query which did cross my mind was
why my valet was giving my female guest what seemed to
be the experience of her life, as unsheltered as that
life seemed to be.
Jeeves nodded again, seemed to slow his own stroke rate
to half of what it had been and then pressed down hard
against Annette's buttocks, holding her to ransom for
her own satisfaction against whatever movement he chose
to give her. Annette wailed in despair at being
restrained, wriggled around like a trapped rabbit,
curled her hands into fists and then thumped them down
on the massage table as if she was throwing a tantrum.
"Jeeves... please!"
"Be quiet, Madam. Otherwise no more treats for you.
Excuse me for taking this liberty, sir, but I had no
choice. I'm afraid that Miss Pederson was awake during
our conversation after all, and eventually expressed
her deepest conviction to me that she would not change
her clothes merely to save you some minor
embarrassment. So I was forced into a change of
tactics."
"Jeeves! Fuck me! Now!"
I suddenly found that the American girl's call of the
wild was being answered. Two more shapes appeared in
the doorway, displaying an startling amount of untanned
flesh between eyes and knees. In fact there are few
more unsettling sights than seeing two men suddenly
appear in your bathroom, especially when they're
wearing nothing but wigs and silk stockings.
"Ah, Woodend and Chataway. I think Madam needs a
gobstopper if you can find one of a suitable flavor."
"Certainly, Mr. Jeeves, certainly. My pleasure."
The duo of domestics walked in, surrounded the table,
each slipping a hand under Annette and seizing hold of
a breast each. As far as both of them were concerned
Bertie Wooster might as well have been one of the
fixtures and fittings. Dashed high handed, I thought,
as well as low handed as well, but at least I wasn't
having Annette's troubles.
I saw her eyes bulge wide open in surprise, and then
even wider as she found her lips being pushed opened by
the Woodend family's pride and joy, and if Woodend
wasn't exactly a fully qualified footman he went almost
three quarters of the way at full stretch towards
matching his job description. He was certainly well
enough endowed to keep Annette completely out of the
conversation.
When Jeeves gave her a couple of quick beats to the bar
the only response which came out around the Woodend
scepter of masculinity was a series of gargles vaguely
reminiscent of a plumber's mate being applied to a well
blocked drain.
Meanwhile Bertie was leaning back against the tiled
wall feeling as if he was already facing the inevitable
firing squad. Not that I've any objection to orgies as
such, but one has to be so dashed careful about whom
one sends the invitation cards to -- and Annette hadn't
even been invited to this one, simply press-ganged into
it by all appearances.
By the time she'd finished having her most intimate
mysteries delved into by a valet and two flunkies she
was likely to be as sore as a gum boil. By Jove, if
this got into the courts it would be a matter of
rapine, mass rapine, with three further offences of
stealing policemen's helmets on boat race nights to be
taken into consideration in the sentencing of Childe
Bertram to durance vile.
"Dash it all, Jeeves, what have you done. How? Why?"
"Well, sir, since Madam is determined to leave in her
pants the only thing we can do is to delay her
departure until dark. So I asked her if I could massage
her shoulders as she lay on the table in a towel. Mmmm,
excuse me, sir."
The blighter blinked his eyes, took a deep breath, rose
on the tips of his toes and lunged into Annette like a
matador striking for the bull's neck: her eyes rolled
back in their sockets as if Jeeves had scored a winning
stroke off the cush with both of them.
"Madam has remarkably tight vagina muscles. I can't
keep her in play much longer. Fortunately Woodend and
Chataway are here to keep the momentum going until we
can begin a new innings."
There were things to be said here, including a definite
refusal on Bertram's part to bowl any googlies onto an
already well dampened wicket. But before I could give
voice to any of these matters of pith and substance,
Jeeves took his pressure off Annette's bottom.
It was as though he'd released the mechanism on a life-
sized clockwork doll: she thrashed herself against him
and moaned like a gale from the ice fields tearing
through the shrouds of a clipper ship rounding Cape
Horn. Not that I've ever actually been to Cape Horn of
course, but at least I can say for sure that Annette
Pederson was as close to Jeeves' horn as a girl could
be: until they both ran aground on each other, anyway.
Jeeves said: "Thank you, Madam," as he finished his
work. Annette, typically American, made more noise than
a speakeasy being raided and ended on a higher note
than Louis Armstrong finishing off a bracket. Then
Jeeves stepped back and smoothed out the wrinkles in
his apron. I sincerely hoped he wasn't going to be
still wearing it when he finally got around to cooking
my breakfast.
"Well done indeed, Madam. You are a truly enjoyable
partner. Now please go into the master bedroom with
these two friends of mine and let them play at being
your masters for a while."
Annette half turned and stared back at him as if he was
the most marvelous thing she'd ever seen. Freddie
Threepwood would have been pleased if he'd been there
to see the excellent results of his advice, although I
doubted if Annette would ever look at Westminster Abbey
with the same expression of awed respect that she was
directing at Jeeves.
"Jeeves, do the Chinese thing for me again, please --
pretty please..."
"Not until you've fucked both of these stalwart lads to
the extent they can't stand up. Then you can have it
again, only even better than before."
Her eyes lit up with delight. Here was a conundrum
which baffled Bertram as much as the Times crossword
had ever done. What is it that a millionaire's daughter
needs so desperately and can't get elsewhere that she
has to beg for it from Bertie's domestic staff? Not
just sex, of course, so what was the magic ingredient?
Whatever the answer, it had a galvanic effect on my
guest. She stood up with remarkable energy, seized hold
of Woodend and Chataway's jutting appendages and then
walked backwards out of the bathroom, the two footmen
putting their best feet forward with urgent necessity
as she led them to the bedroom like a pair of
greyhounds being paraded around the stadium before they
were let off the leash. I noticed that Woodend's wig
was already well askew and would probably fall off in
the first lap.
"The Chinese thing, Jeeves? What is the woman talking
about? Does she have some kind of a fetish for stroking
my Ming vase?"
"No, sir. Madam was referring to my demonstration of a
certain technique of using my fingers inside her body
whilst applying my tongue to her clitoris. The method
was developed in the Forbidden City of China as the
ultimate source of satisfaction for the female nervous
system and practitioners of the art were often granted
secret access to the Empress of the day and her
ladies."
"Huh..." Bertie was well and truly stumped. "That's a
useful thing to know Jeeves. Does it have a name, this
hmmmm... technique?"
"Certainly, sir. The Chinese know it as 'Pan-chiu hu-
t'ung wei-hua p'i-p'a', which roughly translates as
'The making of a woman's heavenly thunderstorm of inner
delight'."
"Really? Have you... have you ever been to China,
Jeeves?"
"No, sir, I have not had that pleasure. But I was once
in service as Under Butler at Seend Palace, the
residence of His Grace the Bishop of Ching and Wye. And
His Grace has spent many years in the East as a
missionary."
"The Bishop taught you about this heavenly thunderstorm
business?" It was my morning for asking stupid
questions.
"Certainly not, sir," Jeeves replied in a dignified
rebuttal quite remarkable for a man wearing only an
apron. "But His Grace was kind enough to provide
practical demonstrations of the technique to the Head
House Maid, the Head Still Room Maid, two upstairs
maids, one nursery maid, one scullery maid and the
resident Governess. And they, in turn, were kind enough
to teach me how to achieve the same ends with their own
nerve ends."
"Bless my soul," I said, astonished. "Always a seeker
after knowledge, hey, Jeeves?"
"One tries, sir, one tries."
"Dash it, Jeeves, remember that business at Twing Hall,
the Great Sermon Handicap? If the Bishop had been
speaking on his favorite subject he could have cantered
in while all the other clergy had long since de-banned
and gone into the clubhouse, and still not a muscle
would have twitched in the congregation. Spell-binding
stuff, what? Especially with a Sunday afternoon at hand
to allow time to try out a little laying on of hands
before a general laying."
"An interesting thought, sir, although I fear the
ecclesiastical authorities might be a little prurient
about broaching such matters with the laity. Would you
like to take a bath now, sir? And perhaps a fresh pot
of tea would be in order?"
"An excellent idea, Jeeves. Away you go and infuse the
tea leaves until your trained senses tell you that the
brew has infused enough."
He left, I undressed and slid into the still steaming
bath. I didn't care who'd used it before, nor did I pay
more than minor attention to the grunts, groans,
feminine cries and creaking bedsprings echoing across
the hall. For Bertie had much to think about: perhaps
the greatest mystery in life had been solved, which
was, of course, how come there are so many totally ugly
and totally awful men who seemed to have total control
over so many woman?
Now perhaps I understood why. Perhaps there was a club
of privileged males who had been made privy to this
woman shaking secret and were able to make themselves
known to the distaff side of society by some mysterious
means. Perhaps it was all done by handshakes, like the
Freemasons, with every woman knowing the secret existed
and just waiting with repressed eagerness until some
Eastern trained adept arrived in her circle and made
himself known.
Mmmm, put that way it didn't sound very likely. I would
need to consult Jeeves on the matter. And it was at
that moment, thinking of nerve shattering
thunderstorms, that a nerve shattering thought crossed
my mind like lightning flickering across the accursed
heath and illuminating the witches -- well, one witch
at least. For I'd seen the look in Annette Pederson's
eyes when she'd demanded that Jeeves work his magic
manipulation on her again: if it had been Freddie's
alternative sight seeing destination she'd been gazing
at instead of Jeeves I'd be harboring great fears about
seeing the whole edifice eventually shipped out to
California in large crates labeled:
"Westminster Abbey -- fragile -- this way up." But
she'd been looking at Jeeves, not the Abbey, and Jeeves
might be a lot easier to transship to the orange groves
of the West Coast than a cathedral.
No, the old Wooster brain box might not be the deliver
of Nobel Prize type insights, but even it could see
that there was every sign of a sudden takeover raid
being launched against the majority shareholder in
Jeeves incorporated, i.e. the young master himself,
Bertie. As I moodily plied the sponge around my
trembling torso I found my thoughts turning to Lord
Bittlesham.
When that elderly peer had found himself liable to lose
his much treasured cook to a higher bidder he'd taken
the drastic but effective counter-attack of marrying
her. A capital notion, but I could hardly keep Jeeves
out of Annette's claws by marrying him. Not even at the
Drones Club could I get away with that.
Nor could I hope to win any kind of financial bidding
duel with a girl who had access to the Pederson family
purse. No, if Annette was determined to take Jeeves
away and if he had any weaknesses at all she would find
a way to exploit them until his steamer trunk had San
Francisco labels stuck all over it.
Then it suddenly occurred to me that if only Jeeves
could be induced to teach his Chinese chicanery to some
other chap then Annette could take the other chap back
to California instead and everything would be tickety-
boo again. But was there anybody I knew who would be a
cad enough to want to learn such dirty tricks and then
to use them to play the gigolo for a domineering
American female? Was there anybody from the old school
so low down, so lacking in moral fiber, so desperate
for money that he'd even consider doing such a
despicable thing?
"Jeeves," I shouted. I needed to because Woodend and
Chataway seemed to be doing something complicated with
a Annette in the bedroom which involved a three way
lift, lots of grunts and some vaguely hydraulic sounds.
"Sir."
He'd done it again, materializing out of nowhere. But
at least he was properly dressed again.
"Jeeves, consult the telephone directory and lay it
down next to the instrument."
"Sir. And am I looking for any particular name, sir?"
"Ukridge," I said smugly. "Stanley Featherstonehaugh
Ukridge."
The End
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