Unnamed English Lover of Joan Heppleton

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Unnamed English Lover of Joan Heppleton
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Unnamed English Lover of Joan Heppleton
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In Flags in the Dust this is the man for whom Joan Heppleton leaves her husband and goes to Australia. While living there she assumed his name, but since she married again later that name might not have been Heppleton. The narrator sums his character up by saying "no Englishman out of his native island has any honor about women" (321); at some point the pair went to India, where he deserted Joan in Bombay.