Inside the story
Meet Neville St. Clair
Neville St. Clair is a respectable suburban gentleman whose comfortable domestic life conceals a second existence. In London, he is also known as Hugh Boone, a disfigured professional beggar who works the streets under an assumed identity.
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A gentleman of about thirty-seven leading a double life. In his true form: respectable, well-dressed and clean-featured, of medium build. In his beggar disguise as Hugh Boone: an arresting, hideous face with a shock of vivid orange-red hair, pale skin, and a horrible scar that has twisted and turned up the outer edge of the upper lip into a permanent sneer, with a bulldog jaw and penetrating dark eyes; wrapped in ragged clothing with a greasy leather cap.
