Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapters 10–11, Plank's house, afternoon
Plank, a Rugger-mad explorer, takes Bertie for a Daily Express reporter, and when Bertie produces the statuette and asks for five pounds he threatens to call the police, just as Jeeves comes in through the french window.
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Aside, imagined Bertie pictures Plank as a gnarled labourer whose sailor son brought the statuette home, only for Sir Watkyn to swindle them.
Aside, at school Plank shows his school football photograph, with Scrubby Willoughby who never learned the reverse pass and Smiler Todd the prop forward.
Aside, years before Plank was stationed in West Africa, where his attempts to teach the natives Rugger caused deaths and blood feuds.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Jeeves, Major Plank
Also there: the Alpine hat, the black amber statuette
Mentioned: Oofy Prosser, the reporter, Scrubby Willoughby, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Smiler Todd, Stiffy Byng, the Daily Express⁂, the Drones Club, Hockley-cum-Meston, the Hockley-cum-Meston Rugby team⁂, Totleigh Towers