# The Truth About Tristrem Varick — Character guide

> Key figures in The Truth About Tristrem Varick by Edgar Saltus.

- [Tristrem Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/tristrem_varick.md): Tristrem is the only son of Erastus Varick, raised on ample funds and a liberal education that fitted him for everything except the money-getting age he lives in. When his father's seven-million-dollar estate goes to a h
- [Royal Weldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/royal_weldon.md): Weldon has been Tristrem's intimate since their school days at St. Paul's, the kind of friend whose watch bears the motto Well done, Weldon. In one silent minute he crosses a room, looks Tristrem full in the eyes with mu
- [The Girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/the_girl.md): She hovers at the center of the book's emotional weather, invoked in the narrator's warning that truth is not always dressed like a girl on her wedding-day. When Weldon's lie detonates, she is the one who sinks into a ch
- [Miss Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/miss_raritan.md): Miss Raritan belongs to the drawing-room world where Tristrem's tragedy unfolds, present at the scene where his closest friend exposes himself as a stranger. When Weldon departs, she throws herself into a chair and burie
- [The Doctor](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/the_doctor.md): In a story where the newspaper public and the world agree on exactly one theory, that Tristrem Varick was insane, the doctor's verdict carries weight. The narrator insists Tristrem was not insane, only possessed of a fib
- [Alphabet Jones](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/alphabet_jones.md): Alphabet Jones carries a name that announces him before he speaks, one of those eccentric fixtures of old New York society that Saltus delights in cataloguing. He belongs to the same drawing rooms as Tristrem and the Rar
- [Viola Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/viola_raritan.md): Viola belongs to the social world that watches and judges Tristrem Varick, and her name is bound up with the intrigue that the newspapers will later misread. She carries the peculiar burden of being both desired and disc
- [Mr. Dirck Van Norden](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/mr_dirck_van_norden.md): Dirck Van Norden is the old New York gentleman whose daughter married Erastus Varick and died after giving birth to Tristrem. When Erastus's will leaves seven million dollars to a hospital and only a Panama hat and a bun
- [Mr. Yorke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/mr_yorke.md): Mr. Yorke moves through the same drawing rooms and confidences that surround Tristrem, and his connections place him near the heart of the affair the world will later get wrong. He is the kind of presence whose loyalties
- [Mrs. Raritan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/mrs_raritan.md): Mrs. R. F. Raritan presides over the family whose name is entangled with Tristrem Varick's fate, and her standing gives her the power to bless or bury reputations. She is the sort of woman for whom appearances are a curr
- [Victoria Cross Fellow](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/victoria_cross_fellow.md): Victoria Cross Fellow carries the prestige of service and the expectations that come with it into the drawing rooms where Tristrem Varick's story unfolds. His standing makes him both a witness and a participant, a man wh
- [Mrs. Weldon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/mrs_weldon.md): Wife of Royal Weldon, part of the domestic circle.
- [Ledyard Yorke](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/ledyard_yorke.md): A relative or associate of Mr. Yorke with a minor role.
- [Meggs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/meggs.md): A minor character mentioned in the story.
- [Mrs. Manhattan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/mrs_manhattan.md): A minor character mentioned in passing.
- [Erastus Varick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_truth_about_tristrem_varick_se/characters/erastus_varick.md): A relative of Tristrem Varick with a minor role.

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