# Indiscretions of Archie

It wasn't Archie's fault really. It's true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor, and if he did marry her—well, what else was there to do?
From his point of view, the whole thing was a thoroughly good egg; but Mr. Brewster, his father-in-law, thought differently. Archie had neither money nor occupation, which was distasteful in the eyes of the industrious Mr. Brewster; but the real bar was the fact that he had once adversely criticised one of his hotels.
Archie does his best to heal the breach; but, being something of an ass, genus priceless, he finds it almost beyond his powers to placate "the man-eating fish" whom Providence has given him as a father-in-law.
—Text from the fly-leaf
* INDISCRETIONS
* OF ARCHIE
* By P. G. WODEHOUSE
* Author of
* "The Little Warrior," "A Damsel in Distress," "Three Men and a Maid" etc.
* A. L. BURT COMPANY
* PublishersNew York
* Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company
* Printed in U. S. A.
COPYRIGHT, 1921,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
copyright, 1920, by international magazine company
(cosmopolitan magazine)
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | CHAPTER | PAGE |
| I | DISTRESSING SCENE IN A HOTEL | 11 |
| II | A SHOCK FOR MR. BREWSTER | 15 |
| III | MR. BREWSTER DELIVERS SENTENCE | 21 |
| IV | WORK WANTED | 28 |
| V | STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF AN ARTIST'S MODEL | 32 |
| VI | THE BOMB | 42 |
| VII | MR. ROSCOE SHERRIFF HAS AN IDEA | 55 |
| VIII | A DISTURBED NIGHT FOR DEAR OLD SQUIFFY | 67 |
| IX | A LETTER FROM PARKER | 80 |
| X | DOING FATHER A BIT OF GOOD | 92 |
| XI | SALVATORE CHOOSES THE WRONG MOMENT | 106 |
| XII | BRIGHT EYES—AND A FLY | 114 |
| XIII | RALLYING ROUND PERCY | 127 |
| XIV | THE SAD CASE OF LOONEY BIDDLE | 142 |
| XV | SUMMER STORMS | 154 |
| XVI | ARCHIE ACCEPTS A SITUATION | 169 |
| XVII | BROTHER BILL'S ROMANCE | 178 |
| XVIII | THE SAUSAGE CHAPPIE | 185 |
| XIX | REGGIE COMES TO LIFE | 196 |
| XX | THE SAUSAGE CHAPPIE CLICKS | 216 |
| XXI | THE GROWING BOY | 227 ​ |
| XXII | WASHY STEPS INTO THE HALL OF FAME | 243 |
| XXIII | MOTHER'S KNEE | 255 |
| XXIV | THE MELTING OF MR. CONNOLLY | 268 |
| XXV | THE WIGMORE VENUS | 280 |
| XXVI | A TALE OF A GRANDFATHER | 293 |
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