The Episode Of The Exiled Monarch
"The Episode of the Exiled Monarch", a.k.a. The Diverting Episode of the Exiled Monarch, is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the August 1914 issue of the Strand, and in the United States in the September 1916 Pictorial Review. It was published in book form in the collection A Man of Means in 1991.
It is the fifth of six stories to feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom financial success is always a mixed blessing.
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