THE RAT-TRAP
By
DOLF WYLLARDE
New York:
JOHN LANE COMPANY
1914
Copyright 1904
By John Lane
TO
THE GENERAL PUBLIC
The only critic whose opinion is finally worth having
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHARACTERS
- 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)