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Chapter 3
In which we are introduced to the Black Jack Gaming Hell of Camberwell Grove and the owner of the Spoon
“One thing for it”, as it turned out, was Baggage bundling the infant under her threadbare cloak and smuggling her back to the only home she’d
ever known.
A word is needed here about the Black Jack Gaming
Hell where Baggage resided. A large house at the top of Camberwell Grove, located south of the Thames where the city of London straggled out and expired, the Black Jack was owned by the formidable Madam Manzoni-Jones (more of whom later). This place had earned a reputation as one of the blackest gaming hells in England. By which I mean, a place where extremely well-off young gentlemen – lords, baronets-to-be, heirs to dukedoms, even minor members of royalty –
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