The Affair at Grover Station - Characters

Characters

  • The outer narrator, unnamed. He went to Princeton University with Rodgers and is doing geological research off Sterling, Colorado, where he meets with Rodgers after years apart.
  • Terrapin Rodgers. He went to Princeton University and now works at the railroad office at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
  • Lawrence O'Toole, the murdered agent of Grover Station. Rodgers calls him Larry.
  • Miss Helen Masterson. She went to Wellesley and lived in Washington, D.C. many years.
  • Mr Freymark He lived in Paris many years and therefore speaks several European languages. He likes to gamble at card games. Although he pretends to be a Jew, he is the son of a Chinese slavegirl his father bought when he was living there.
  • John J. Masterson, Helen's father. He was a United States Senator from Wyoming.
  • Harry Burns, a journalist for The Times and a cousin of Larry's. He is the one who found out about Freymark's scandalous birth.
  • The dispatcher from Holyoke, Colorado
  • Connelly, the station conductor.
  • Helena, a friend of Helen's.
  • Laramie, a friend of Helen's.

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