Big Money - P.G Wodehouse

SPOILER ALERT

1. Berry and Biscuit, both impecunious, scions of nobility

2. The former forced to become a working stiff, a wage slave, rush-to-reach-the-office-on-time

3.  The latter keeping up appearances, 'the touch' being the chosen and fallen-to way of generating income.

4. Biscuits 'Guvnor', a Lord, with a large estate eating taxes, lives the same way.

5.  Biscuit always dreams of fortune, is always open for the large jackpot, not beneath walking up to strangers and saying' I know your secret' and acting on the outcome. Berry shows no such appetite for fortune - he'd rather be out prospecting in the West, and be known as  ' as tough as they come'

6. Biscuit sniffs Hoke's scam, walks up to Hoke, says ' I know your secret', and is prepared to raise money to buy up all Horned Toad stock the next morning.
If the story has a comfortable ending with a large buffer of money,  it is this activity that brings it about.

7.  Berry facilitates by knocking out Hoke ( and  his Retainer, by knocking out the Captain).