CHARACTERS
Reading edition
Evelyn Gregory, Administrator and Colonial Secretary of Key Island
Alfred Halton, commissioned to enquire into the causes of recent riots when the island was under the administration of the British African Island Company
The Hon. Arthur White, Attorney-General of Key Island
Major Bute Churton (the Wessex Regiment), Officer commanding H. M. Troops in Key Island
Gifford Ambroise, Town Warden of Port Albert
John Burton, Town Warden of China Town
Melton Hanney, British Consul at Port Cecil, East Africa
Captain Alaric Lewin (28th Lancers), Private Secretary and A. D. C. to the Administrator of Key Island
Captain Bristow Nugent (Wessex Regiment)
Lieutenant Hamilton Gurney (Wessex Regiment)
Captain Wray Gilderoy (Royal Garrison Artillery at Key Island)
Second Lieutenant Edward Rennie (Royal Garrison Artillery at Key Island)
Lieutenant George Clayton (Army Service Corps)
The Rev. Archie Lysle (Chaplain to the Forces)
Captain Ritchie Stern, R.N., commanding H.M.S. Greville
The Hon. James Denver, Sugar Planter, Member of the Legislative Council
Abdallah, Captain Lewin’s Arab butler
Leoline Lewin, Captain Lewin’s wife
Diana Churton, Major Churton’s wife
Alice Gilderoy, Captain Gilderoy’s wife
Eva Clayton, Lieutenant Clayton’s wife
Blanche Stern, Captain Ritchie Stern’s wife
Mrs. Arthur White (wife of the Attorney-General)
Beatrix Denver (James Denver’s daughter)