# Robbery Under Arms — Character guide

> Key figures in Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood.

- [Jim Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/jim_marston.md): Jim is Dick Marston's younger brother, raised into the family trade of cattle-duffing and now riding with Starlight's gang. Where he was once careless and full of monkey tricks, the outlaw life has turned him brooding an
- [Captain Starlight](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/starlight.md): Starlight commands the Marstons' gang, a polished man whose manners and education set him apart from the rough hands he rides with. He blames a refused army commission for the vanity of leadership that ruined him, and hi
- [Aileen Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/aileen_marston.md): Aileen keeps the family's home fires burning while her brothers ride with outlaws, knitting socks for men she may never see again. She flirts with Sir Ferdinand Morringer to stall his search, a small deception she manage
- [Warrigal](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/warrigal.md): Warrigal rides with Starlight as servant, accomplice, and something closer than either, the only human creature he loves. Volatile and watchful, he nurses old grudges against the Marstons, and a knock-down from Dick fest
- [Dan Moran](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/dan_moran.md): Moran rides with Wall and Hulbert, a rival crew whose paths cross Starlight's at the Knightleys' station. He has sworn to avenge Daly's death and will not be talked out of it, glaring at Starlight like a dingo ringed by 
- [George Storefield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/george_storefield.md): George Storefield is the Marstons' old neighbour, a plain man who made his fortune supplying horse-feed to the camps and police stations. He takes his seat beside the Commissioner at Turon, disagreeing where he knows the
- [Father Doyle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/father_doyle.md): Father Doyle moves between the Marston homestead and the rough stations where the family's double life plays out, one of the few outsiders trusted with their secrets. His presence sharpens the tension between the faith t
- [Dick Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/dick_marston.md): Dick narrates his own descent, caught between his father's cold nerve, his brother Jim's easy charm, and the pull of a respectable life he keeps half-promising to women like Maddie Barnes. He bristles at being second-gue
- [Sir Ferdinand Morringer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/sir_ferdinand_morringer.md): Sir Ferdinand arrives at the goldfields with warrants, a jealous woman's tip, and a taste for gentlemanly fencing that stops short of actual duels. He trades barbs with Clifford over Starlight's escape, hinting at arrest
- [Maddie Barnes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/maddie_barnes.md): Maddie is the pick of the down-the-river girls, lively enough to draw the Commissioner's eye and steady enough to beg Dick to leave his outlaw life behind and follow Jim's example. She waits for him with a patience that 
- [Jeanie Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/jeanie_morrison.md): Jeanie meets Jim through her sister Kate and the landlady's well-meant boating parties, and the pair fall into an easy, hopeful love that stands in sharp contrast to the Marstons' outlaw world. Where Kate's attachment to
- [Mr. Knightley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/mr_knightley.md): When Moran wants blood for the death of Daly, Mr. Knightley lights a cigar and offers five hundred pounds instead, playing the gang's own divisions against each other with the calm of a man who has nothing left to lose. 
- [Billy the Boy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/billy_the_boy.md): Billy is a boy among hardened men, yet he carries himself with a swagger that makes Dick Marston look foolish when he tries to send him home. He has a mother somewhere, a revolver he is not afraid to use, and a tongue sh
- [Old Rainbow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/old_rainbow.md): The Marstons' faithful old horse.
- [Kate Mullockson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/kate_mullockson.md): Wife of the brutal publican Mullockson.
- [Gracey Storefield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/gracey_storefield.md): Gracey Storefield is the quiet, decent love Dick Marston keeps hidden behind his reckless flirtations, and the letter she writes him becomes the spark that turns Kate into a vengeful enemy. She represents the honest life
- [Falkland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/falkland.md): Miss Falkland is a woman of evident refinement trapped in a night of terror at Darjallook, and her piercing scream when Moran seizes her becomes the moral test that separates Starlight's men from common ruffians. Her dig
- [Kate Morrison](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/kate_morrison.md): Jeanie's sister who marries into wealth.
- [Dad Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/dad_marston.md): Dad Marston is the patriarch of the Marston family and a veteran of the criminal life, respected enough at the gang's council that Hulbert calls on him to speak first. He offers his sons a legacy of outlawry and a mother
- [Sergeant Goring](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/sergeant_goring.md): Sergeant Goring is the law's face in the novel, a man who took the honest road where Starlight took the crooked one, and who pursues Jim Marston with methodical confidence. He is neither cruel nor corrupt, just relentles
- [Mother Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/mother_marston.md): Mother Marston is the quiet center of the Marston family's sorrow, a woman who has watched her sons become hunted men and whose health fails under the weight of it. She clings to Dick when he returns and does not ask wha
- [Mr. Falkland](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/mr_falkland.md): Wealthy squatter and father of Miss Falkland.
- [Arizona Bill](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/arizona_bill.md): American miner and friend to the Marstons.
- [Richard Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/richard_marston.md): Jim's alias when captured and put on trial.
- [Crib](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/crib.md): The Marstons' loyal sheepdog.
- [Grace Storefield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/grace_storefield.md): George Storefield's wife.
- [Mrs. Knightley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/mrs_knightley.md): Wife of Mr. Knightley, a society lady.
- [Ben Marston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/robbery_under_arms_se/characters/ben_marston.md): Jim's uncle, a bushranger killed early in the story.

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