the safe^✦︎

Also safe, safe door, Uncle Tom’s safe, the safe door, the closed door, the door of the safe

Uncle Tom's safe in the hall at Brinkley, where the necklaces are kept; left open after the coshing and shut by L.G. Trotter before Bertie can put back the necklace.

Connections

dealings

• L. G. Trotter shuts 2
• Roderick Spode examines, finds 2
• Bertie Wooster finds 1
• Uncle Tom owns 1

Scenes it is in

1. Back at Brinkley, Aunt Dahlia rages that Tom has carried Spode off to look at his silver before she could work her scheme, savages the over-solicitous Percy, and leaves; Percy goes to tell Stilton Bertie is back, and Stilton arrives as Bertie grips the cosh.Chapters 16–17, the hall
2. Bertie rushes back to the hall to find the cosh gone and Uncle Tom's safe standing open.Chapters 17–18, the hall, as Uncle Tom’s safe
3. Before Bertie can put the necklace back, a dyspeptic L.G. Trotter tuts at the open safe and slams it shut.Chapters 18–19, the hall, as safe

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie learns he went to the wrong window, Uncle Tom reveals he took the ladder and locked the necklace in the safe, and Jeeves reveals that Lord Sidcup is Roderick Spode, who can be silenced with Eulalie Sœurs.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Brinkley, as safe
2. Aunt Dahlia triumphantly tells Bertie how, finding Spode no longer owns Eulalie Sœurs, she coshed him and got her necklace back, and Bertie realises the necklace he took is Mrs. Trotter's and must go back in the safe.Chapter 18, Aunt Dahlia's den, as safe
3. Aunt Dahlia learns Mrs. Trotter wants Anatole, Uncle Tom reports the necklace stolen, and Jeeves offers to return the pearls secretly and reveals that L.G. Trotter refused a knighthood, giving Aunt Dahlia a hold over him.Chapter 19, Aunt Dahlia's den
4. At breakfast a beaming Stilton thanks Bertie for freeing him from Florence and leaves to go rowing with Daphne, then Mrs. Trotter reads that Robert Blenkinsop has been knighted and orders Trotter to refuse any knighthood, wrecking Aunt Dahlia's hold on him, just as Seppings brings in a pearl necklace.Chapters 20–22, the Brinkley dining-room