Dedication to B. W. King-Hall

My dear Buddy,--

We have been friends for eighteen years. A considerable proportion of my books were written under your hospitable roof. And yet I have never dedicated one to you. What will be the verdict of Posterity on this? The fact is, I have become rather superstitious about dedications. No sooner do you label a book with the legend--

TO MY
BEST FRIEND
X

than X cuts you in Piccadilly, or you bring a lawsuit against him. There is a fatality about it. However, I can‘t imagine anyone quarrelling with you, and I am getting more attractive all the time, so let‘s take a chance.

Yours ever,

P. G. WODEHOUSE.

Chapter I. Distressing Scene

"I say, laddie!" said Archie.

"Sir?" replied the desk-clerk alertly. All the employes of the Hotel Cosmopolis were alert. It was one of the things on wh

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