MDMD "invisable Gamesters"

[Terrance]

MD.40 

"In calculating her odds vis-à-vis the Seahorse, the invisible Gamesters
who wager daily upon the doings of Commerce and Government must have
discounted her advantage in guns and broadside weight, noting that a
crew so melancholick is not the surest guarantee of prevailing in a
Naval dispute." 

Invisible Gamesters? 

Dave Monroe posted on the Welsh Main: 

[[[[["Both Gentlemen note, after a while, that the net
motion of the Company is away from the Street-Doors
and towards the back of the Establishment, where, upon
a length of turf fertiliz'd with the blood and the
droppings of generations of male Poultry, beneath a
bright inverted Cone of Lanthorn-Light striking blue a
great ever-stirring Knot of Smoke, and a Defaulter
merry beyond the limits of cock-fight etiquette
suspended in a basket above the Pit, a Welsh Main is
in progress." (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 24)

"Welsh Main" = Battle Royal

"Beyond this, a Visto of gaming tables may be made
out, and further back a rickety Labyrinth of Rooms for
sleeping or debauchery, all receding like headlands
into a mist." (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 24)]]]]]


The LED, offended by the Fop/Lunarian Derek's opinion that eating dog in
palm leaves is an uncivilized offense to good taste,  responds with a
gibe  about Macaroni Italian style. The two end up in a encircled by
gamblers and spectators, a ring with a radius measuring a fathom. Derek
has a sword, not unlike the advantage in guns and broadside weight
favoring the French Ship, but the LED threatens to infect the Lunarian
with his fear of water, the onset of the Great H or hydrophobia. Bodine
will take a book on the Dog and asks round for wagers. 

But who or what are  the invisible Gamesters who seem to be making the
odds for the House Invisible?  

Could Uncle LeSpark know something about all this?