The Splendid Spur · Character

Joan

A grey-tor girl with firm red lips and a soldier's hands, Joan hauls wounded men off battlefields and calls no one master but her own conscience.

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Also known as Joan of Arc, she, her

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Rescues Jack, carries him to her home, tends his wound, and hides him from troopers.

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Joan of the Tor moves between the Cornish hills and the edges of the war, mending wounds, hiding fugitives, and speaking in a blunt country tongue that hides a fierce competence. She saves Jack's life with sackcloth and…

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Aftermath
Closing

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I Ride Down Into Temple: And Am Well Treated There
Rescues Jack, carries him to her home, tends his wound, and hides him from troopers.
How Joan Saved the Army of the West; and Saw the Fight on Braddock Down
Hides Jack from troopers, delivers the King's letter to Sir Ralph Hopton, and saves the Royalist army.
XIII: I Buy a Looking Glass at Bodmin Fair: And Meet with Mr. Hannibal Tingcomb
Accompanies Jack to the fair, brawls with the Cheap Jack, identifies Mr. Tingcomb, and buries her father without tears.
XIV: I Do No Good in the House of Gleys
Found washing at the well; helps Jack prepare for his journey.
XV: I Leave Joan and Ride to the Wars
Found in the Jew's Kitchen dressed up; wrestles Jack and declares her love and submission.
XVIII: Joan Does Me Her Last Service
Sacrifices herself by luring four rebels into a quagmire; dies from a gunshot wound in Jack's arms.
The Adventure of the Hearse
Is buried by Jack in a grave dug near her father's resting place; Delia prepares her body.

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