bicky admits the truth about the birdsburg men and his financial status. his uncle is furious, and threatens to cut off all money to bicky. jeeves, however, suggests that bicky could sell the story of this encounter with the birdsburg convention to a newspaper. chiswick, who has a horror of publicity, is browbeaten into offering bicky a secretarial job back in london. bicky negotiates for a high salary of five hundred pounds a year. they leave. impressed by jeeves, bertie tells him to fetch his shaving things and shave off his moustache. jeeves, deeply moved, thanks him.