# Ticket No. 9672 — Character guide

> Key figures in Ticket No. 9672 by Jules Verne.

- [Hulda Hansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/hulda_hansen.md): A Norwegian innkeeper's daughter whose sailor betrothed sends her a lottery ticket from a sinking ship, making her the quiet center of a town's wildest hopes.
- [Sylvius Hogg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/sylvius_hogg.md): A celebrated Norwegian professor and deputy whose impulsive mountain walk nearly kills him, until a brother and sister pull him back from the Rjukanfos.
- [Joel Hansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/joel_hansen.md): A proud mountain guide from Dal who guards his sister's interests with a temper he barely keeps leashed when opportunists come calling for her ticket.
- [Dame Hansen](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/dame_hansen.md): The Hansen family's stern, black-clad matriarch, who keeps her worries about failing crops and family finances locked behind a reserve her children cannot breach.
- [Ole Kamp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/ole_kamp.md): A young Bergen mate raised on fjords and seabird nests, who courts his cousin Hulda with plainspoken warmth between voyages on the Viking.
- [Monsieur Sandgoist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/monsieur_sandgoist.md): A Drammen businessman who arrives at the Hansen inn determined to buy Hulda's lottery ticket, treating superstition as a market he intends to corner.
- [Mr. Benett](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/mr_benett.md): Mr. Benett is a friend and confidant whose well-appointed carriages are recalled enviously when Sylvius Hogg and his young companions must endure the jolting national karjol over Telemark's roads. He moves in the same co
- [Siegfrid Helmboe](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/siegfrid_helmboe.md): Siegfrid Helmboe is the pretty, warm-hearted daughter of Farmer Helmboe of Bamble, betrothed to Joel Hansen and the closest friend of Hulda. When Hulda is consumed by despair over Ole's disappearance, Siegfrid refuses to
- [The Stranger](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/the_stranger.md): The stranger is an enigmatic presence in the crowd at the great Schools Lottery drawing, a solemn-looking man whose deep voice and restless attention to the numbers suggest he has much riding on the outcome. His identity
- [Junior](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/junior.md): A minor character associated with the Help family business.
- [The Viking](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/the_viking.md): A legendary or symbolic figure referenced in the narrative.
- [The Skydskarl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/the_skydskarl.md): A driver or postilion who appears in travel scenes.
- [Help Bros.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/help_bros.md): A business entity or family name mentioned in the story.
- [Mother](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/mother.md): A maternal figure referenced in dialogue or narration.
- [Captain Mosselman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/ticket_no_9672_se/characters/captain_mosselman.md): A sea captain mentioned in the narrative.

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