When Jeeves comes in with his breakfast the following day Bertie tells him about the impossible position Stiffy has put him in. Jeeves informs him that he cannot get to the object because it has been locked in the safe by Sir Watkyn on Spode's suggestion, who thinks Bertie is after the statuette himself. Jeeves is sent to Stiffy to convey the message, and returns with the statuette which Stiffy got out of the safe using a spare key to the safe she has in her posession. Bertie sets off with the statuette to Hockley-cum-Meston to find Plank and finds him at his home, where he is first mistaken for a reporter and then, having produced the statuette and offering to return it to Plank for a fiver, being taken for a crook trying to rip mr Plank off, at wich point Plank is about to call the police when Jeeves walks in.