# Lucien Wallace — The Circular Staircase character guide

> Lucien Wallace in The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Lucien, Wallace, little Lucien

**First appearance:** 0027-xxviii-a-tramp-and-the-toothache

## Who they are

A young boy who appears briefly.

## In the story

### [Fourteen Elm Street](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_circular_staircase_se/chapters/xxi-fourteen-elm-street)

A young boy boarded with Mrs. Tate, whose mother has not paid his board; he is identified as Lucien Wallace and speaks a word of German.

### [XXXII: Anne Watson’s Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_circular_staircase_se/chapters/xxxii-anne-watson-s-story)

Mrs. Watson's nephew, the son of Arnold Armstrong and Lucy Haswell, hidden at a farmhouse near Casanova.

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