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| has a grave that is hidden from potential enemies |
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| owner of the boarding house in Jefferson |
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| Jefferson's district attorney |
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| fights a man over a woman's honor and loses |
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| a waitress who can't remember her menstrual cycle |
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| murders two people, first a male and then a young woman |
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| a female who is kind to Jeoa dn whom he appreciates at the orphanage |
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| intends for Joe to take on the "family name" |
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| has waited 30 years for answers to questions he/she was afraid to ask |
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| lies to his/her spouse about aboy's clothing |
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| plots a homicide/suicide that goes awry |
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| kills 2 men with one shot on the town square |
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| offers a $1000 reward for murder |
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| jumps out of a window and later jumps onto a train |
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| scolds his/her "worker" for being too generous |
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| worked at Doane's Mill before it closed down |
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| a vigilante who was born too late to fight in the war |
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| Joe swaps his shoes so that he can confuse the cops. The cops fall for it and wonder why Joe has been so careless and surround a house only to find a negro woman and realize they have been fooled |
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| Byron Bunch sets Lena up in the cabin to temporarily live. It ist eh same cabin where Joes brown and Joe Christmas lived. Byron sets up a tent near the cabin where he can sleep so he can help Lena out if she needs it |
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| a furniture deaqler and his wife |
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| Byron Bunch and Lena travel with the furniture dealer and his wife--? the furniture dealer convinces byron that he has a chance with lena |
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| Joe gets in a fight with Roz's grandpappy and Roz steps in to defend him |
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| Doc Hines' real name; whenever Mrs. HInes wants to get her husband under control she says "Eupheus" in a calm but firm voice. Mrs. Hines is the only person in the novel that refers to Doc Hines as Eupheus |
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| the father of Joe Christmas and the man who impregnated Milly supposedly comes from a circus and he is a mexican. Mr. Hines proceeds to kill this man |
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