Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, chapter 11, Plank's house, afternoon, straight after
At Bertie's car Jeeves explains that Sir Watkyn told Stiffy he really paid Plank a thousand pounds and lied to Uncle Tom to annoy him, briefs Bertie on Plank, and takes the statuette himself in case Spode searches Bertie.
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Aside, shortly after luncheon that day Stiffy appealed to Sir Watkyn, who chuckled and confided that he had paid Plank a thousand pounds, not five, for the statuette.
Aside, years before Bertie recalls standing in the dock before magistrate Bassett and thinking he had a shifty eye.
Present: Bertie Wooster, Jeeves
Also there: Bertie's two-seater, the black amber statuette
Mentioned: Major Plank, the old lady at the post office, Plank's godfather, Roderick Spode, Sir Watkyn Bassett, Stiffy Byng, Uncle Tom, the collection-room, the Hockley-cum-Meston Rugby team⁂, Plank's cocker spaniels♞︎, Totleigh Towers