In the short story The Soul of the Croupier, Pierre Vaucher is the croupier at a casino in Monte Carlo. It turns out that he was formerly a jeweler in Paris. He fell for and married a poor girl but the marriage was not a success. She left him and made good on her own while he took to drink and his business failed. He was saved by the war when he was drafted as a soldier which gave him a fresh purpose in life. After the war, he travelled to the south of France and took up a job as a croupier. Here he finds himself the subject of Harley Quin's help. What happens forms part of the main plot of the story.
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