The student audience at Baird School sat in silence as Charlie Simms's fate balanced on the edge of Headmaster Trask's wooden pulpit.
Army Lieutenant Frank Slade sat as Simms's defense in the trial against Simms as a witness to several students playing a prank involving Trask's car.
"There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit," Slade said, during his passionate speech defending Simms's integrity and leadership potential for not naming the guilty students when threatened with expulsion.
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