Money in the Bank by P. G. Wodehouse

Author:P. G. Wodehouse [Wodehouse, P. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, humor
ISBN: 9781585676576
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Published: 2005-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER XV

The hour of seven-fifteen found Chimp Twist at the main gates of Shipley Hall, humming a gay air beneath his breath and feeling that God was in His heaven and all right with the world. He surveyed the rolling parkland, and admired it enormously. He listened to the carolling of the birds, and thought how sweet their music was. Even an insect, which got entangled in his moustache, struck him as probably quite a decent insect, if one had only got to know it. His mood, in short, was one of saccharine benevolence. He was in the frame of mind when he would have patted a small boy on the head and given him sixpence, though it is probable that a moment later he would have tossed him for it and won it back again.

The letter which Jeff had sent round by district messenger boy that morning had brought to this monkey-faced little chevalier of industry a sensation of relief and bien etre which he could scarcely have obtained from a brimming beaker of the most widely advertised nerve tonic on the market. Ever since the Board Meeting which had ended in his being compelled to entrust the executive end of their venture to the Molloys, Chimp Twist had been tortured by the problem of how to prevent these old friends double-crossing him, as he had no doubt they would do, should the opportunity arise, with that blithe alacrity which he had so often noted in them.

If, he had felt with a sinking heart, they succeeded in locating that ice, they would do it while he was far away, unable to keep an eye on them. And if ever a couple lived and breathed on whom it was advisable for a shareholder to keep an eye, and that a skinned one, it was the Molloys, Mr. and Mrs. He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.

But now this letter had come, removing all obstacles in the way of a visit to Shipley Hall. And on top of that there had been his recent interview with Soapy.

The whole thing, he felt as he floated through the sunlit grounds, was going to be almost too easy to be interesting. And when he stood outside the window of Lord Uffenham's bedroom, and noted that it was open and presented no difficulties of access to even the least nimble of intruders, his confidence reached its peak.

Until this moment, burglary was a form of gainful occupation of which Chimp Twist had had no experience. He had always made his money by brain work. But now the circumstances had turned him temporarily into a manual labourer, there was no diffidence in his soul, no hesitation in his bearing. If, as he stood at journey's end, his heart beat a little faster, that was all.

Inside the room, his first act was to go to the door, open it and listen intently. Somewhere

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