Katie

Katie is a teenaged girl living Evergreen, New York in

1898. She was born with a cleft palate, making her look deformed. Her parents shunned her and sent to her to the Evergreen Insane Asylum, although she is perfectly sane. She meets Strat when he is there by his father between the first and second books. Strat, after first escaping himself, returns to rescue her and Douglass, a young mute man, who was considered to have little intelligence by his parents, so he was locked up. Strat takes them with him on his way to Egypt to start a new life, with them as his siblings. Katie loves Strat very much. She appears in the second and fourth books. In the fourth book, she is seen as a nurse at leper hospital in Spain.