Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

I have known life and love, I have known death and disaster; Foregathered with fools, succumbed to sin, been not unacquainted with shame; Doubted, and yet held fast to a faith no doubt could o'ermaster. Won and lost:—and I know it was all a part of the Game.
Youth and the dreams of youth, hope, and the triumph of sorrow: I took as they came, I played them all; and I trumped the trick when I could. And now, O Mover of Men, let the end be to-day or to-morrow— I have staked and played for Myself, and You and the Game were good!




Father Armand Jean De Rancé, Catholic Priest of Appleboro, South Carolina
Madame De Rancé, his Mother
Clélie, their Servant
Laurence Mayne, the Boy
Mary Virginia Eustis, the Girl