The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle Volume 1 Chapter 68

In which our young adventurer, attending with dutiful affection upon his ailing uncle, resolves his family's affairs before setting out to London, where a cool reunion with his old friend Godfrey leads to renewed camaraderie and shared confidences. Upon their journey to the fashionable spa town of Bath, they encounter a melancholy gamester whose tale of a cunning company of adventurers, adept in various arts of deception, ignites Peregrine's resolve to devise a plan for their just retribution.