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.
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