# Gerard — The Cloven Foot character guide

> Gerard in The Cloven Foot by M. E. Braddon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Gerard, poor Gerard

**First appearance:** 0000-i-the-heir-presumptive

## Snapshot

A sharp-eyed young doctor with a pocket microscope and a memory for faces, Gerard finds a dagger in a dead woman's room and a secret in her husband's past.

## Who they are

Gerard moves through the aftermath of La Chicot's murder with clinical precision, examining the tarnished Italian dagger hidden in Jack Chicot's paint box and reading guilt in the husband's disappearance. He knows John Chicot and John Treverton are the same man, and he carries that knowledge like a weapon. His refusal to shake Treverton's hand at the church gate signals a moral reckoning that will shadow the novel's middle chapters.

## In the story

### [Edward Clare Goes on a Voyage of Discovery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_cloven_foot_se/chapters/xxviii-edward-clare-goes-on-a-voyage-of-discovery)

Agrees to accompany Edward Clare to Devonshire, motivated by curiosity about La Chicot's fate.

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