A giant, intelligent, and dangerous con man who once extorted Lethierry's savings and capital before vanishing. Cornered by the similarly minded Clubin, he is forced to surrender the 75,000 francs (Lethierry's actual money) he had kept in usury for ten years—using blackmail and threats—at the point of Clubin's gun. He escapes from the Channel shores to across the ocean by colluding with smugglers.
He comes from a family heavily sentenced for theft and fraud in the shadow of the French Revolution. He has changed dozens of masks, names, disguises, and professions. His whole life has been spent pursuing illegal interests all over the world.
A massive, tall, broad-shouldered thief with a Herculean physique, graying hair, and a frightening presence, appearing sometimes in a cloak and sometimes in Quaker attire.
Sieur Clubin
They are ploughed pigs of the same field, but Clubin hunts him down with his own strength and cunning.
Üstat Lethierry
The unfortunate man whose fortune was stolen; Rantaine drags Clubin into the mud as well by sending him a letter with only a mocking confession.