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Showing up in the office, gildersleeve is lured away when Judge Hooker offers to take him to lunch. Should he be doing that? Bessie has some important correspondence for her boss concerning the state water inspector. What do the trends in water usage mean? Should he be concerned about water inspector McGregor?
Leroy and Marjorie pop in, but will there uncle be too busy even for them? Matters of allowances maybe easy to handle, but when Charlie Anderson visits things may become complicated. How long will that tired old pump last without parts and repairs?
Taking his troubles to Floyd the Barber, Gildersleeve seeks some advice. My the state inspector be distracted by being shown a night out on the town? Stopping in at Peavey’s drug store Gildy wants to use the telephone. The busy signal he gets means he needs to talk to Layla Ransom in person, to see if she’s up to attend a party.
When he offends the fickle feelings of his girlfriend, gildersleeve needs to go back to his office, and face the music. Getting ready to prime the pump with some girl companionship, sent over by Floyd the barber, Gildy plans to give the water in-specter a cigar. There’s just one thing he didn’t count on, a female water inspector.
