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In the Lap of the Gods 16 “Wow! The heroes have returned!” Conrad informed the rest of the changing room. “Let’s be looking at the damage then.” Boarding schools are notorious for communal showers so it naturally came to pass that during the nightly showering ritual all of School House got a free look at the bruised and bloodied backsides of The Lawyers. The corrugated bumps and blue-tinged bruises remained for over a week and were somewhat of a badge of honour in the showers. However the three recipients had to stand ignominiously during lessons and meal times since it was far too sore to sit down. Steve stood during class lessons but, even though the skin stretched and stung, steeled himself to sit during meal times so as not to let the Head have the satisfaction of knowing he had hurt him. Nothing was said but the other boys knew that this show of defiance was only going to come back and haunt him later. Sisyphus, it seemed, had only succeeded in making the mountain larger. At the beginning of the next year Treadray and Noble graduated to the Third Form while Steve stayed with Baldy in Form II. This was somewhat fortuitous because while they attracted a lot more attention from some of the masters Steve didn’t. However life can’t always run smoothly.
At the end of the asphalt quadrangle was a stand of thick pine trees that then lead down onto the major playing fields below. A wide pathway lead through the trees that abruptly stopped and acted like a shelterbelt of soldiers that sat on top of a natural amphitheatre. It was on this grassy bank that the whole school could easily have sat and watched any part of the sports being played below. It was in this wooded area that Steve first met a kindly soul called Deighton. A senior boy who was a rough diamond from an East Coast farm in Opotiki. He was big-boned, wiry and wore his clothes as if they were broken-in and comfortable. A rustic boy/man who spoke little and kept his thoughts private. No trespassing. While he didn’t cause any fuss and kept himself to himself, he feared no one. It was rumoured that on his first day as a senior he had told Barnett to keep away from him or he’d knock his bloody block off. Barnett, being the coward that he was who only liked to pick on the small and weak, had given him a wide berth. For some strange reason he befriended Steve as if they were kindred spirits wandering this earth dispensing good where they saw evil. “This is how you hold it,” said Deighton. “Put the end of the rubber in your left hand and pull back on the pouch with your right. Got it?” Stephen reached for the shanghai which was totally different from the two- pronged ones he had made as a child in England. This Kiwi model had only one strip of narrow tyre tube rubber fixed at one end with a pouch to hold the stone. This was then flicked forward, a little like the slingshot David used to slay Goliath. A few of the boys had the banned weapons but only used them in the pine plantation so that the masters wouldn’t see. Every now and then, when things got out of hand, there would be a blitz and they would disappear for a while. More in Chapter 17.... The outcome
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