Fictional characters, Spring appears in two previous Flashman novels as the captain of a slave ship whom narrator Sir Harry Flashman keeps from being convicted of piracy in order to save his own neck in "Flash for Freedom!" and then happily sees shanghaied to South Africa in "Flashman and the Redskins." Spring is a large, cold man, with a scar across his forehead that reddens when he is angry, who has studied the classics at Oriel College, Oxford, before being expelled. Latin epigrams are constantly on his tongue. After being cleared of piracy charges, Spring gets into a brawl in a New Orleans bar, kills Peter Omohundro, and flees with Flashy to the bordello owned by Flashy's old friend Susie Willinck. Distrusting him, she administers knock-out drops and signs him aboard a commercial boat bound for Africa.
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