"Comrade Bingo" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves.
[1] In the story, Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with a revolutionary, Charlotte Rowbotham, and joins her communist group to win her affection.
He invites himself to Bertie's flat the next day, and will bring Charlotte, as well as her father Rowbotham and Comrade Butt, both members of the Red Dawn.
After Bittlesham leaves, Bingo shows Bertie that his uncle paid him fifty pounds to investigate the threat.
Jeeves explains to Bertie that he informed Comrade Butt about Bingo being Lord Bittlesham's nephew.
Pleased, Bertie tells Jeeves he may take the notes and coins on the dressing table, which amounts to fourteen pounds, one shilling, six pence, and a halfpenny.
At the beginning of the story, Bingo implies to Bertie that Lord Bittlesham must have paid a significant amount of money for his new title.
This is a reference to the "cash for honors" scandal during that period, when Prime Minister David Lloyd George's government was accused of openly selling peerages at an unprecedented scale.
[5] "Comrade Bingo" was included along with "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy" in the 1976 anthology Classics of Humour, illustrated by Donald Room and published by Book Club Association.
[7] There are some differences in plot, including: This story, along with the rest of The Inimitable Jeeves, was adapted into a radio drama in 1973 as part of the series What Ho!