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And it was while I was at the flat, towelling the torso after a much-needed rinse, that Jeeves, as we chatted of this and thatpicking up the threads, as it weresuddenly brought the name of Gussie Fink-Nottle into the conversation.

"Mr. Fink-Nottle?" "Yes, sir." "You don't mean Mr. Fink-Nottle?" "Yes, sir.

"Mr. Fink-Nottle?" "Yes, sir." "You don't mean Mr. Fink-Nottle?" "Yes, sir.

This Fink-Nottle, you see, was one of those freaks you come across from time to time during life's journey who can't stand London.

Mr. Fink-Nottle has a strong newt complex.

I am inclined to think that there must be some mistake, and that this bird who has been calling here is some different variety of Fink-Nottle.

Mr. Fink-Nottle confided to me his motive in visiting the metropolis.

Conceding the fact that Gussie Fink-Nottle, against all the ruling of the form book, might have fallen in love, why should he have been haunting my flat like this?

Mr. Fink-Nottle did not call to see you, sir.

But it appears that Mr. Sipperley, a fellow student with whom Mr. Fink-Nottle had been at the university, recommended him to place his affairs in my hands.

I wouldn't have thought that this Fink-Nottle would ever have fallen a victim to the divine p, but, if he has, no wonder he finds the going sticky.

Mr. Fink-Nottle speaks highly of her attractions.

A closer scrutiny informed me that it was Gussie Fink-Nottle, dressed as Mephistopheles.

I mean to say, this Fink-Nottle, as I remembered him, was the sort of shy, shrinking goop who might have been expected to shake like an aspen if invited to so much as a social Saturday afternoon at the vicarage.

Here was Jeeves making heavy weather about me wearing a perfectly ordinary white mess jacket, a garment not only tout ce qu'il y a de chic, but absolutely de rigueur, and in the same breath, as you might say, inciting Gussie Fink-Nottle to be a blot on the London scene in scarlet tights.

There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

Yes, Jeeves?" "Mr. Fink-Nottle's cab, sir.

" "Well, then, I have been having a chat with Mr. Fink-Nottle, and he has been telling me about this Mephistopheles scheme of yours."

If I follow your reasoning correctly, you think that, stimulated by being upholstered throughout in scarlet tights, Mr. Fink-Nottle, on encountering the adored object, will vibrate his tail and generally let himself go with a whoop.

All you have done is to subject Mr. Fink-Nottle to the nameless horrors of a fancy-dress ball for nothing.

[Illustration: The Chief Fink Frank P. Christensen, who was the "fixer" for the prosecution.

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