Ashe confronts Freddie and assures him Joan never had any intention of blackmailing him - he gets the scarab beetle back, and is then able to turn it in to Mr. After repeated attempts to steal back the scarab beetle, one almost-successful attempt ends when Ashe realizes that the scarab beetle is missing! It turns out that it was stolen all along by Freddie Threepwood, the wealthy son of Emsworth who turns out to desperately need money after all - he must pay Jones for attempting to stop Joan Valentine from (Freddie's imagined) blackmail over the old letters he sent her. In doing so, Ashe arouses suspicions from Baxter and the Blandings butler, Beach. There are a series of amusing mishaps in which Ashe fails to follow the rigid rules of Edwardian Britain in regards to how servants behaved in a great English manor house, and how the class rules between gentlemen and servants were maintained. Joan also arrives at Blandings Castle at the same time, also on a quest to retrieve the scarab beetle first and so claim the reward. Peters' valet, or personal manservant, to get into Blandings Castle, where he must deal with Baxter, who is Emsworth's all-knowing and highly intelligent secretary.
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