# Kenelm Jerton — Short Fiction character guide

> Kenelm Jerton in Short Fiction by Saki.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Holiday Task Kenelm Jerton, Jerton

**First appearance:** 0110-a-holiday-task

## Snapshot

A hotel guest whose holiday task goes so wrong that he flees to the Turkish baths and stays there for hours.

## Who they are

Jerton is the man at the center of a luggage mix-up, overhearing a furious lady demand why her dress-basket and dressing-case have been tampered with. He recognizes the name Kestrel-Smith, hears enough, and vanishes into the Turkish bath rather than face the consequences. His panic matters because it establishes him as a man whose small evasions keep compounding into larger predicaments.

## Relationships

### [Lady Drakmanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/characters/lady_drakmanton)

_romantic_

Kenelm Jerton and Lady Drakmanton share romantic tension or a courtship dynamic.

### [Lady Drakmanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/characters/lady_drakmanton)

_romantic_

Kenelm Jerton and Lady Drakmanton share romantic tension or a courtship dynamic.

### [Lady Drakmanton](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/characters/lady_drakmanton)

_romantic_

Kenelm Jerton and Lady Drakmanton share romantic tension or a courtship dynamic.

## In the story

### [A Holiday Task](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_49_se/chapters/a-holiday-task)

The protagonist who becomes entangled with a mysterious woman claiming amnesia.

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