James Orlebar Cloyster meets Margaret Goodwin while swimming in Fermain Bay on Guernsey, and they agree he will marry her once he earns a living by his pen in London. Struggling in Bohemia, he hits on a scheme of letting others take credit for his writing, and the deceptions multiply as the narrative passes between several tellers.
An early Wodehouse comedy of 1907, written with Herbert Westbrook, full of his young Fleet Street experience. Download the free EPUB.