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  1. Cover
  2. One
  3. Two
  4. Three
  5. Four
  6. Five
  7. Six
  8. Seven
  9. Eight
  10. Nine
  11. Ten
  12. Eleven
  13. Twelve
  14. Thirteen
  15. Fourteen
  16. Fifteen
  17. Sixteen
  18. Seventeen
  19. Eighteen
  20. Nineteen
  21. Twenty
  22. Twenty-One
  23. Twenty-Two
  24. Twenty-Three
  25. Twenty-Four
  26. Twenty-Five
  27. Twenty-Six
  28. Twenty-Seven
  29. Twenty-Eight
  30. Twenty-Nine
  31. Thirty
  32. Thirty-One
  33. Thirty-Two
  34. Thirty-Three
  35. Thirty-Four
  36. Thirty-Five
  37. Thirty-Six
  38. Thirty-Seven
  39. Thirty-Eight
  40. Thirty-Nine
  41. Forty
  42. Forty-One
  43. Forty-Two
  44. Forty-Three
  45. Forty-Four
  46. Forty-Five
  47. Forty-Six
  48. Forty-Seven
  49. Forty-Eight
  50. Forty-Nine
  51. Fifty
  52. Fifty-One
  53. Fifty-Two
  54. Fifty-Three
  55. Fifty-Four
  56. Fifty-Five
  57. Fifty-Six
  58. Fifty-Seven
  59. Fifty-Eight
  60. Acknowledgements
  61. About the author

Rumours of abusive behaviour would occasionally jump up all over the place. Cardilini couldn’t remember anything coming of them. And he didn’t know why he would usually dismiss them as nonsense. He shook his head in answer to Carmody’s earnestness.

‘Don’t you want Edmund’s behaviour exposed?’ Cardilini asked.

‘For what purpose?’

‘Justice.’

‘Three boys I know ended their lives for fear of exposure. There could be any number of others. You want those boys to do the same?’ Carmody asked.

Cardilini sat astonished staring at Carmody then asked.

‘Isn’t that what they want? To be recognised, to be apologised to?’

‘Not the ones I’ve spoken to. That’s why I’m staggered the boy said anything to you,’ Carmody replied.

Cardilini turned his head aside and watched some children playing. Then turned to Carmody and said, ‘Concealing evidence is a crime that receives jail time.’

‘But protecting an abuser of children isn’t a crime?’ Carmody asked.

Cardilini thought about that and realised Carmody was right. Concealment of paedophiles hadn’t been seen as a crime.

‘What’re you going to do?’ Carmody asked.

‘I’m not doing anything. You made sure of that,’ Cardilini answered. Carmody stood and walked away.

‘What are you going to do?’ Cardilini called.

‘I’m going to speak to the boy you spoke to,’ Carmody said, without turning.

Forty

FORTY

Day 19

St Nicholas College

12.20 a.m. Thursday, 12th November 1965

A boy, Burnside, had told him to report to the sixth form common room after school the next day. He had hoped Carmody would want to see him again and decided he would get the bullet just in case Carmody wanted it.