Inside the story
Meet Richard Sutherland
Arthur Severn's old school friend, a young engineer and geologist employed by Murtagh Murdock to investigate the bog and search for buried iron. He is intelligent, scientifically minded, outspoken, and deeply in love with Norah Joyce.
On the page
A man in early middle age, burly, hale, and stalwart, with keen eyes, an ample lofty white brow, and a flowing brown beard. He wears well-kept late-Victorian gentleman's country attire.
