months later, back in rainy Cambridge, Psmith hears that Waring lost his election, and that Kid Brady has won his chance at a title-fight, while Mr Wilberfloss has regained the paper's old subscribers. Characters Psmith, an eccentric English dandy, on vacation from University Mike Jackson, his close friend, a cricketer on tour Bat Jarvis, the cat-loving leader of the "Groome Street" gang Long Otto, one of Jarvis' henchmen, a stringy, silent young man Spider Reilly, another gang boss, head of the "Three Points" gang Jack Repetto, a thug in Reilly's gang, with hair like Bat Jarvis Dude Dawson, head of the "Table Hill" gang, Reilly's main rival Mr Gooch, a well-dressed rent-collector of Pleasant Street Stewart Waring, Gooch's employer, a crooked politician and tenement-owner Francis Parker, a well-dressed but sinister crook in a tall-shaped hat Kid Brady, a promising light-weight boxer, from Wyoming Jimmy Garvin, boxing champ who the Kid hopes to face someday "Cyclone" Al. Wolmann, a long-armed boxer who takes on the Kid The staff of Cosy Moments: Mr J. Fillken Wilberfloss, editor and guiding spirit of Cosy Moments Billy Windsor, sub-editor, who takes over in Wilberfloss' absence Mr. Benjamin White, owner of Cosy Moments, away in Europe for some time Pugsy Maloney, the office-boy at Cosy Moments, cousin to Bat Jarvis Mr Wheeler, the paper's business manager, who has never read an issue Luella Granville Waterman, writer of Moments in the Nursery Mr Waterman, her husband, a small round gentleman B. Henderson Asher, a man with a face like a walnut, who writes Moments of Mirth Reverend Edwin T. Philpotts, a cadaverous-looking man, who writes Moments of Meditation Reworkings The book published in the US in February 1912 under the title The Prince and Betty merges the plot of the version which had appeared a month earlier in Ainslee's magazine with the plot of Psmith, Journalist (which at that date had only appeared in The Captain magazine). The first eleven chapters of the book follow the plot of the magazine version, with John Maude and Betty Silver meeting and falling out in Mervo. From chapter twelve onwards the story mirrors Psmith, Journalist, with some changes. Psmith becomes Rupert Smith, a Harvard alumnus (Psmith's first name is Rupert in Mike and Psmith in the City; it is not mentioned in Psmith, Journalist, and has changed to Ronald for his next appearance), although he retains Psmith's characteristic monocle, mode