[1] The Reggie Pepper version was published in the UK in The Strand Magazine in May 1913, and in the US in Pictorial Review in April 1914 under the title "Rallying Round Clarence".
In the story "Jeeves Makes an Omelette", Bertie is tasked by his Aunt Dahlia with stealing and destroying a painting.
She is at Marsham Manor, where she is trying to convince the romance novelist Cornelia Fothergill into selling her new novel to Aunt Dahlia's weekly paper, Milady's Boudoir, as a serial.
Bertie agrees, not wishing to be barred from the cooking of Aunt Dahlia's superb chef Anatole.
Aunt Dahlia wants Bertie to steal and destroy the painting, leaving the window open so that thieves will be blamed.
Bertie consults Jeeves, who advises using treacle and brown paper to silently break the window instead.
I had scarcely got through my first whisky and s. and was beginning on another, when all that was left of the Venus, not counting the ashes, was the little bit at the south-east end which Jeeves was holding.
All three cut up and burn the painting; Bertie using the knife, Aunt Dahlia scissors, and Jeeves garden shears.
Aunt Dahlia proposes hitting Bertie on the head with something, and Jeeves suggests the gong stick.
Aunt Dahlia tells him that Cornelia was grateful for Bertie's bravery and sold her the serial at a low price.
[10] The Reggie Pepper story "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good" was included in the 1919 UK collection My Man Jeeves, and the American version, "Rallying Round Clarence", was included in the American edition of the collection The Man with Two Left Feet, published in 1933.