Sergeant Voules

Also called Voules, Sergeant, Police Sergeant Voules, Uncle Ted, the arm of the Law, Vouleses, the Sergeant, the Law

Police Sergeant Voules of Chuffnell Regis, Bertie's stout, harmonium-playing neighbour and Dobson's uncle, whose knocking haunts Bertie's nights and who is hurt fighting the fire.

Connections

dealings

• thinks is loony, annoys Bertie Wooster 22
• is uncle of, persecutes Constable Dobson 3
• questions, warns Brinkley 2
• is neighbour of Seaview Cottage 2
• is nephew of Aunt Maud 1
• is a member of the Chuffnell Regis police^⁂ 1
• summons J. Washburn Stoker 1
• suspects the minstrels^⁂ 1

Everyone and everything else (3)

• catches Pauline Stoker 1
• arrests Sir Roderick Glossop 1
• fights the spider^♞︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie surveys his peaceful cottage and the new yacht in the harbour, then finds Seabury tooting his car horn with an invitation to lunch from Chuffy.Chapter 3, the cottage garden, as Police Sergeant Voules
2. It is Sergeant Voules and his nephew Constable Dobson about the broken window; Bertie blames Brinkley and refuses to let them search the house, and Voules complains of the police being shackled.Chapter 8, the front door
3. Bertie tries to sleep in his two-seater, is rousted by Sergeant Voules with a lantern, and decides to move to the garden shed.Chapter 8, the garage, as Sergeant
4. The police find Bertie sleeping on sacking in the shed and, deciding he has a touch of the sun, leave him; he drops off, only to be woken by Chuffy.Chapters 8–9, the potting shed
5. Carried up to his bed, Bertie finds Pauline gone, but she emerges from the hanging cupboard in his pyjamas, Chuffy accuses her of still loving Bertie, she tells him she hates him, and he storms out and falls down the stairs.Chapters 9–10, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage
6. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage, as Police Sergeant Voules

Talked about, but not there

1. Bertie meets Chuffy in Piccadilly, learns he is lunching with Sir Roderick Glossop, rents a cottage at Chuffnell Regis from him, and tells him he has parted with Jeeves, whereupon Chuffy decides to call at the flat.Chapter 2, Piccadilly, as Police Sergeant Voules
2. Expecting Sergeant Voules, Bertie instead finds J. Washburn Stoker, who searches the cottage for Pauline, finds nothing, and leaves apologising after Bertie insists she is not infatuated with him.Chapter 10, Seaview Cottage
3. Bertie wakes undisturbed at half past ten on a fine morning and goes down to the kitchen for breakfast.Chapter 10, Seaview Cottage, as a police sergeant
4. Bertie tells Jeeves of the night's disasters and Chuffy's row with Pauline, and Jeeves brings an invitation to dinner from Stoker, whom he has talked out of thinking Bertie mad; they agree Bertie will tell Pauline that Chuffy is pining, and remain at odds over the banjolele.Chapter 11, the cottage garden
5. Stoker shows Bertie into a guest state-room, slams and locks the door on him, and ignores his calls.Chapters 11–12, the state-room, as your local police sergeant
6. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis, as Police Sergeant Voules
7. Safe in a wood as the cottage burns, Bertie draws up a credit-and-debit account and decides to go to Jeeves at the Hall for butter and his fare to London.Chapter 13, the wood
8. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall
9. Bertie spends a cold, sleepless night in the summer-house, too afraid of Voules to go to the garage, and wakes at dawn ravenous.Chapter 17, the summer-house, as Voules
10. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall
11. Over breakfast after his acquittal Jeeves reveals that he faked the cable about the contested will, and, since he will not serve a married man, asks to come back to Bertie, who gratefully accepts.Chapter 22, the small morning-room, as Police Sergeant Voules