A Terribly Strange Bed

A Terribly Strange Bed" is a short story by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1852 in Household Words, a magazine edited by Charles Dickens.
Written in the narrative, the story is about a young man staying in Paris, after finishing his college education, and is exploring the amusements there. As a change from respectable establishments, he visits a low gambling house, where a variety of unsavory characters are playing Rouge e Noir. There he meets a “dissolute-looking elderly man, formerly a soldier in the French army” who encourages him to continue to gamble. From there on, our narrator becomes a victim of an unscrupulous team of villains.