# Mr. Mathew Draper — A Bid for Fortune character guide

> Mr. Mathew Draper in A Bid for Fortune by Guy Boothby.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Draper, Draper, No Mr. Draper

**First appearance:** 0001-part-i-i-i-determine-to-take-a-holiday-sydney-and-what-befell-me-there

## Snapshot

A smooth-tongued stranger who lures a coachman into a private room with talk of a stud farm and a three-hundred-a-year billet.

## Who they are

Draper presents himself to Thompson as an English gentleman flush with racing money, offering the coachman a manager's post and a drink at the Canary Bird Hotel. His small hands, death's-head complexion, and glittering black eyes mark him as the very man who shadowed the party from Melbourne. His drugged conspiracy to abduct Miss Wetherell exposes the organized criminal machinery working against the Wetherells.

## Relationships

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Mr. Mathew Draper is a business associate or legal advisor who interacts with the narrator on financial or legal matters.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Mr. Mathew Draper is a business associate or legal advisor who interacts with the narrator on financial or legal matters.

### [Unknown Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/characters/unknown_narrator)

_professional_

Mr. Mathew Draper is a business associate or legal advisor who interacts with the narrator on financial or legal matters.

## In the story

### [I: I Determine to Take a Holiday—Sydney, and What Befell Me There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-i-i-determine-to-take-a-holiday-sydney-and-what-befell-me-there)

A lawyer in Sydney who warns Hatteras against the suspicious stranger in the saloon.

### [I Meet Dr. Nikola Again](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-i-vi-i-meet-dr-nikola-again)

Not directly present but referenced in the context of Hatteras's business affairs.

### [Lord Beckenham's Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_bid_for_fortune_se/chapters/part-ii-iii-lord-beckenham-s-story)

Ally of Nikola; his house is discovered and raided.

## Links

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