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LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

Scene: The Foothills of North Carolina—Boston—New York
Time: From 1865 to 1900

• CHARLES GASTON . . . Who dreams of a Governor's Mansion
• SALLIE WORTH . . . A daughter of the old fashioned South
• GEN. DANIEL WORTH . . . Her father
• MRS. WORTH . . . Sallie's mother
• THE REV. JOHN DURHAM . . . A preacher who threw his life away
• MRS. DURHAM . . . Of the Southern Army that never surrendered
• TOM CAMP . . . A one-legged Confederate soldier
• FLORA . . . Tom's little daughter
• SIMON LEGREE . . . Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader
• ALLAN MCLEOD . . . A scalawag
• HON. EVERETT LOWELL . . . Member of Congress from Boston
• HELEN LOWELL . . . His daughter
• MISS SUSAN WALKER . . . A maiden of Boston
• MAJOR STUART DAMERON . . . Chief of the Ku Klux Klan
• HOSS NORMAN . . . A dare-devil poor white man
• NELSE . . . A black hero of the old regime
• AUNT EVE . . . His wife—"a respectable woman"
• HON. TIM SHELBY . . . Political boss of the new era
• HON. PETE SAWYER . . . Sold seven times, got the money once
• GEORGE HARRIS, JR. . . . An educated Negro, son of Eliza
• DICK . . . An unsolved riddle