# The Secret Tomb — Character guide

> Key figures in The Secret Tomb by Maurice Leblanc.

- [Dorothy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/dorothy.md): Dorothy commands a traveling troupe of four orphaned boys while secretly pursuing the word 'Roborey' her dying father repeated, a thread that leads her to estranged aristocratic cousins and a buried family fortune. Her g
- [Baron Saint-Quentin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/quentin.md): Saint-Quentin travels with Dorothy's caravan as her right-hand man, a stickler for propriety who nonetheless thrives on the road and in her company. When she promises him fine clothes and a princess's future once the Gol
- [Raoul Davernoie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/raoul_davernoie.md): Raoul moves between Hillocks Manor and Dorothy's orbit as both kin and threat, the relative whose presence unsettles the four boys who guard her. He rows her across the lake where sunken stones spell out the family motto
- [D'Estreicher](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/d_estreicher.md): D'Estreicher orchestrates a long con built on a dress rehearsal, a bribed confederate, and a forged identity, all to seize the codicil at the reading of the will. When his accomplice wavers, he kills him without hesitati
- [Maître Delarue](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/maitre_delarue.md): Delarue arrives at the clock tower clutching the gold medal and the instructions of a client long dead, the legal hinge on which the whole inheritance turns. He is pompous about his office yet craven in a crisis, cowerin
- [Archibald Webster](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/archibald_webster.md): Webster answers Dorothy's summons as one of the four scattered heirs, producing the medal passed down through his mother's line and speaking excellent French with quiet formality. He is a decorated veteran, and his calm 
- [Count Octave de Chagny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/count_octave.md): Count Octave de Chagny presides over the family council that folds Dorothy and Raoul into the old partnership of their murdered fathers, presenting the arrangement as both duty and magnanimous gesture. His eloquence is g
- [Marco Dario](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/marco_dario.md): A character associated with the circus or the secret tomb.
- [Sire Montfaucon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/sire_montfaucon.md): Montfaucon is the comrade whose kidnapping, reported by a frightened child, turns the tower from a possible refuge into a trap Dorothy cannot leave while he is missing. His disappearance is the hinge on which her courage
- [George Errington](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/george_errington.md): A nervous character who appears in the story.
- [Marquis de Beaugreval](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/marquis_de_beaugreval.md): The Marquis de Beaugreval left behind a statement so precise that Errington treats him as a host expecting guests, and the stones, the staircase, and the step count oblige with unnerving exactness. His letter turns a tre
- [Juliet Assire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/juliet_assire.md): An elderly woman with knowledge of past events.
- [Castor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/castor.md): One of a pair of twins or companions in the story.
- [Pollux](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/pollux.md): The twin or companion of Castor.
- [Monsieur Voirin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/monsieur_voirin.md): A character with a minor role in the narrative.
- [Geoffrey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/geoffrey.md): A minor character mentioned in the story.
- [Jean d'Argonne](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/jean_d_argon.md): A historical figure mentioned in connection with Yolande.
- [Sire Barbier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/sire_barbier.md): A scrivener or clerk involved in legal matters.
- [Commandant Georges Davernoie](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/commandant_georges_davernoie.md): A military officer and relative of Raoul.
- [Kourobelef](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_secret_tomb_se/characters/kourobelef.md): A foreign character with a minor role.

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