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A Gamble with Hearts

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In the Black Forest Spa town of Baden-Baden for the money to be made at the gaming tables, professional gambler and Englishman Quintus Tiverton is disturbed to hear the sound of an English girl being whipped savagely in an attic room of a country inn. 

‘It is none of my business,’ he tells himself, but the sound of the girl’s weeping is inescapable and he has to go and investigate. 

Instantly he is captivated by Selina Wade, the blue-eyed waif he encounters and, finding that she is being exploited cruelly by a ‘domestic agency’ proprietor who is little better than a ‘madam’, resolves to save her.

Quintus Tiverton smuggles her out of the inn in the early morning and he then spends a great deal of money, which he does not have, in buying her new fashionable dresses to make even more beautiful.

And so naïve Selina finds herself posing as the gambler’s pretty sister, as Quintus Tiverton tries to marry her off to someone suitably rich amongst the international wealthy who frequent Baden-Baden in the Season . 

Little does Quintus know that poor Selina’s heart is already taken.  And she only has eyes for him! 

Still less does he realise that he too is falling in love. 

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Author’s NoteBaden-Baden, ‘The Pearl of the Black Forest’ in the 1860s, was the summer Capital of Europe. The description of the visitors to this enchanted town is accurate. ‘Madame Maximus’, Léonide Leblanc was there with the Royal Duc d’Aumale and she twice broke the Bank at the casino. In 1868 Caroline Letessier was forced to leave St. Petersburg and the Grand Duke left with her. They settled in a sumptuous Villa just off the Lichtenthal Strasse, and the incident in the casino with Hortense Schneider is authentic. When Léonide Leblanc died of cancer at the age of fifty-two, Dumas fils said jokingly, “She will have a national funeral and the Duc d’Aumale will command the troops.” Caroline Letessier saved nothing of her fortune and died ugly and forgotten in absolute poverty.

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