# Ruthen — The Splendid Spur character guide

> Ruthen in The Splendid Spur by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0007-vi-the-flight-in-the-pine-wood

## Who they are

A soft-voiced Justice of the Peace whose saintly reproofs mask the halting step of a man the narrator has already met committing murder.

## In the story

### [How Joan Saved the Army of the West; and Saw the Fight on Braddock Down](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_splendid_spur_se/chapters/xii-how-joan-saved-the-army-of-the-west-and-saw-the-fight-on-braddock-down)

Leader of the rebel vanguard at Liskeard.

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