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The Disappearance
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of James H___
Articles 8 January 2007
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By Hal Duncan
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begins to cough and
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1. The New Boy
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There is a new boy at the school. He sits at the
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desk where Brown once sat, and carved his
name in the wood with a pocketknife's point, and 1 January 2007
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was caned for it; but he is not Brown. He is
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colour of gemstones and jungles, foreign seas and anyone suspect, his
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forest serpents. He sits where Brown once sat mother told him. That
but the master does not notice, nor order him to was the first rule she
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read from Homer, nor snap his name as he gazes taught him, and the last,
Contact out the window. As he turns to look at me, before she left him here
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languid, smiling in his sly silence. alone with It.
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2. A Fob Watch
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We watch the fifth formers in the cloisters, all tall by Matthew Johnson
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enough to wear tailcoats, dandies in top hats, thin
cigars in their mouths. I have studied the way they18 December 2006
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stand, perfected the slouchтАФboth knees bent a Pale as he was, it was
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