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The setting is St. Oswald's school, an all boys school in a small English village. The main character is the Latin master who has been at the school thirty plus years and usually has a good relationship with his "boys". Some of these boys return years later in the midst of the school's fiscal and academic troubles; one of them is capable of terrible things. He tells his story in a series of letters addressed to an old friend; these letters tell the stories of the terrible things. Seeing these bo
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