Alain Johns

But on this day there were none but Jamie DeCurry, Cuthbert Allgood, Alain Johns, and Thomas Whitman. They clustered at the boy’s end, gape-mouthed and frankly terrified. “Your weapon, stupid!” Cuthbert hissed, in agony.

Alain stands among the boys watching Roland’s test with Cort.

Roland remembered very little of that time; he had been raving, delirious. He sometimes called Eddie Alain, sometimes Cuthbert, and always he called the woman Susan. His fever had abated little by little, and they began the laborious trek into the hills.

Roland remembers Alain and calls Eddie by his old companion’s name while delirious. A separate source passage explicitly calls Alain one of his sworn brothers killed by Roland and Cuthbert. Recommend the missing mentioned membership, not an Eddie alias.

Now the sullen eyes glinted at him dangerously; they reminded him of Alain’s eyes when good-natured Alain was finally roused. “Yonder stones are those men,” Roland said softly. “The men who locked you in a cell and left you to foul yourself. The men with the clubs and the dogs.

Roland recalls Alain's normally good nature and anger.

Cuthbert admired that. Upon first meeting him, many people dismissed Alain Johns as something of a dullard. That was very far from the truth.

Alain makes the tactful observation that Cuthbert admires in the Mejis scene.

“Both of them.” “The vagrant dead,” Roland replied. “I heard of them from Alain Johns’s father.

Roland recalls learning about the vagrant dead from Alain’s father after Mejis.

… but he found a battered coffee pot on one of the shelves that was not much different from the one Alain Johns had carried in his gunna long ago, when three boys had come to Mejis to count stock. Sai King’s stove ran on electricity, but a child could have …

Roland compares a coffee pot to the one Alain carried to Mejis.

There were others—Alain Johns had been one, Jamie DeCurry another—for whom a sense of caution had been inbred, but that had never been the case with Roland, whose tendency had …

Roland remembers Alain’s inborn caution.