A fictional character, Rafferty is an affable, "jaunty little leprechaun with a merry eye" (pg. 75), an Irish-born Catholic priest serving near the waterfront in Baltimore, MD. He advises narrator Sir Harry Flashman, posing as Grattan Nugent-Hare, newly-arrived and destitute, that he must go to Washington, DC, to see a British consul. Over tea, Rafferty leads Flashy into a trap about his supposed identity, but offers him train fair, partly as a loan and partly as wages for weeding his garden. Rafferty deduces that Flashy is an officer and at odds with the church. He advises Flashy on heading to Willard's Hotel and thence to the consulate, and emphasizes that Washington is full of muggers.
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