They're both proud members of the Ku Klux Klan, and pride themselves on keeping their workers poor and downtrodden. They're both corrupt as corrupt can be, and mean, to boot. Arthur Devlin and Lester BurtonĪrthur Devlin is the owner of the Manifest coal mine, and Lester Burton is his pit boss. It's their idea to set off fireworks to distract the janitor so Abilene can escape from the school building unnoticed. Of course, they have a trouble-making side, too. They're probably the nicest girls in town, too (apart from Abilene, obvs)-they're the only ones who made an effort to make her feel welcome when she first arrived, running all over town collecting bottles to sell so they could bring her a Coke and a sandwich and get to know her. They are totally psyched about the hunt for the Rattler and love hearing Abilene tell them the latest installment of Miss Sadie's stories.
Lettie and Ruthanne are cousins, and they're Abilene's new Manifest friends. Then the claws come out, and she helps the townspeople trick him into losing the land he needs to buy for his mine. Until he makes the mistake of dissing her late husband, that is. She's wealthy and influential in Manifest, and is friends with the jerky Arthur Devlin. Unfortunately, it's to the point of being totally prejudiced against people with unknown backgrounds-like Ned and Miss Sadie. Larkin is the president of the Manifest Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, so it's no surprise that she's interested in people's family history. To prove he's as much of a man and a proud citizen as Lance, he joins the army, too. He's always felt bad about not knowing where he came from, and because of that, he's easily tipped over the edge by Lance Devlin's taunts. In terms of biography, Ned is Miss Sadie's son, adopted by the Gillen family in Manifest.
A bunch of them were his letters to Jinx from while he was away at war-and they're the main way we get to know him, as he goes from upbeat and confident to miserable and hopeless. If you liked those primary sources littered throughout Moon Over Manifest, you have Ned to thank.
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