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Bad news spreads quickly. By the quarter to eleven interval next day the facts concerning Wyatt and Mr. Wain were public property. Mike, as an actual spectator of the drama, was in great request as an informant. As he told the story to a group of sympathisers outside the school shop, Burgess came up, his eyes rolling in a fine frenzy.
"Anybody seen young -- oh, here you are. What's all this about Jimmy Wyatt? They're saying he's been sacked, or some rot. "