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.
MAXIMILÍAN, archduke of Austria, occupant of the New World throne created for him.
ANASTASIO MURGUÍA, a Mexican hacendado, who acquires riches by running Federal blockades into Southern ports. He is both a coward and a miser.
TIBURCIO, blackmailer of the highway, scout, and "loyal Imperialist."
AUGUSTIN FISCHER, "the Fat Padre," a renegade priest of subtle parts.
MICHEL NEY, grandson of the "Bravest of the Brave."
THE MARSHAL BAZAINE, commander-in-chief of the French Army of Occupation in Mexico.
COLONEL DUPIN, the "Tiger of the Tropics," chief of the Contra Guerrillas.
MIGUEL LOPEZ, colonel of Dragoons, a favorite of the Emperor.
MARQUEZ, MIRAMON, MEJÍA, MENDEZ, Imperialist officers.
DANIEL BOONE, first scout among the Missourians, one-time editor and editor yet to be.
"OLD BROTHERS AND SISTERS," "TALL MOSE" BLEDSOE, OF THE COUNTY OF PIKE, and yet more of the Missouri colonels.
BENITO JUAREZ, president of the Mexican Republic.
"JACQUELINE" "She was the spirit of the enigma, the very personification of the Napoleonic sphinx" _Frontispiece_
"MURGUÍA" "He had evidently passed through salty spray, had braved the deep, this shrinking old man in frayed black" 16
"RODRIGO GALÁN" "The fierce stranger, however, seemed undecided. His brow furrowed, and for the moment he only stared" 18
"JOHN DINWIDDIE DRISCOLL, THE MISSOURIAN" "His cheeks were smooth, but they were tight and hard and brown from the weathering of sun and blizzard" 38
"COLONEL DUPIN" "The Tiger of the Tropics ... the chief of Contra Guerrillas" 94
"MARÍA DE LA LUZ" "The tapestry behind them parted and fell" 146
"BERTHE" "... brought down the ponderous knocker so terrifically that it abashed her, for all her present agitation" 220
"Array you, lordyngs, one and all, For here begins no peace." --_The Ballad of the Battle of Otterburn_