[Either Dixon or an editor at Doubleday, Page prepared this list of characters; it appeared before the Contents pages.]

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
HOSE 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