A Regimental Scandal (1892)

This episode, we attend an army barracks where a card game raises questions of honour in ‘A Regimental Scandal’, published in 1892.

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Synopsis

Major Errington is one of the most respected and popular officers in the Third Carabiniers, a veteran of numerous campaigns as both a soldier and a war correspondent. He is quiet, self-effacing and wise; he is also rich, but far from ostentatious. He is in fact more notable than the regiment’s nominal commander, Colonel Lovell, who is not unpopular but granted a degree of favour for his widely admired daughter, Violet. Lovell, or the Chief as he is known, is at heart an old-fashioned plunger who loves horses and gambling, but has also taken to playing the stock market and has had his fingers badly burned in American railway speculation. To recoup some of these losses, he takes to high-stakes games of écarté with Major Errington with little success. And then a rumour takes hold that the Major may be cheating…

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