The People Of The Story
_ THE MISSOURIAN, known in every fight as the Storm Centre. His real name is John D. Driscoll, familiarly shortened to Din Driscoll. At the close of the Civil War he finds himself a lieutenant-colonel in General Joe Shelby‘s brigade of Confederate daredevils, sent by his comrades as emissary to the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
JACQUELINE, who is the Marquise Jeanne d‘Aumerle, on a mission of high politics from Napoleon III. to the Court of Mexico.
BERTHE, her maid.
MAXIMILIAN, archduke of Austria, occupant of the New World throne created for him.
CHARLOTTE OF ORLEANS, the Empress.
ANASTASIO MURGUIA, a Mexican hacendado, who acquires riches by running Federal blockades into Southern ports. He is both a coward and a miser.
MARIA DE LA LUZ, his daughter.
RODRIGO GALAN, brigand and guerrilla.
TIBURCIO, blackmailer of the highway, scout, and "loyal Imperialist."
AUGUSTIN FISCHER, "the Fat Padre," a renegade priest of subtle parts.
MICHEL N

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