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The Simon Scott Compendium-
1571-1610 - Life of the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. C1600 - Caravaggio paints "Love Victorious," a work of art with a boy named Cecco as the model for Cupid. Although a eunuch, Cecco is painted as an intact Cupid. Historical Note - Caravaggio was fond of using Castrati and prostitutes as models in his works. 1850 –
Archibald Scott, textile maker, moves from 1850-something, circa - The home that will become Southdown Hall School is built. Lord Starborough will host an autumn ball some years later, but a weak canal bank will break, flooding the ballroom and killing 20 guests. The canal goes out of use and becomes an ornamental lake, and the house is reported to be haunted by dancing ghosts in the autumns hence.
About this time - Lord Phillpotts makes a hit of the (shoe) polish business and
will later become a benefactor to the School, his money sponsoring an essay
contest, which will be won by Simon Scott many years hence. Intermarrying
turns
the Scott Family Tree into a maze. The Scott Family adopts the practice of sending “the fool of the family” into the service of the Church. This happens 3 times: Jabez Scott, Adolphus Scott and Tom Scott. 1945 - Official end of World War 2. A Dakota airplane crashes into the lake at Southdown School and is reported MIA. 1970 - Most British Army bases in Singapore close down. Present Day - Carl Scott, uncle of Simon – is considered head of the senior branch of the Scott Family. Carl Scott will later come to own a large reproduction of the painting "Love Victorious". Max Riche,
born of a Scott daughter, at some point in his adult life is assigned to
secretive career work as a “Fixer”. His interest in young Chinese (or any
Asian) boys is a
factor in this. Simon Scott (no middle name given) is born in July. Around this time, most of the friends he will make at School are born as well. Birth-Age 10 –
Simon Scott resides in Cape Town, RSA.
He is born there.
He is an
only-child. Simon’s parents are Tom & Peggy Scott. Tom is one those “family fools” who is sent
off for church work. Peggy is
described as a fat farmer’s daughter. Age unknown – childhood – Simon has his tonsils taken out. Simon is also susceptible to nightmares; he will not admit this until he is almost 16. Age 1 (for Simon) - Roddy (Roderick) Fisher is born, but is orphaned. He is later adopted by the Knight-Fox family. Age 2 - Tommy ("Tommy Revisited") is born in the Orient. He eventually ends up in the care of Dr. Kristin Geller, along with Jimmy. Age 3 - (Give or take) Kim-Bok and his friends are born, probably in China but later drift down to the Malaysian jungle area. Ricky (Ricardo) Silva is born, July 4th, probably in the USA, but there is no record. He is described as "a Chinese boy in features, but with cornflower blue eyes and blonde hair of a Scandinavian". He is later orphaned in the Orient, somewhere, and is taken in by Dr. Geller when he is delivered there in a "shipment" of boys delivered by Uncle Carl's and Max Riche's "business" in the same country. ('Ricky Goes to School') - age is conjecture. (Simon turns 16 in this chapter, Ricky is listed as 13, but no one is sure of his age. Ricky is sure he was born on July 4th. Ricky arrives one year or so prior, guessed at age 11 or 12.) Jimmy is born in the Orient. He will later end up orphaned and in the care of the home/business that Dr. Kristin Geller later buys. After a year in her care, Jimmy will be castrated. Fannie,
Simon’s
nurse, a Cape Town native, gives him an enema every day to make him go when SHE wants him to, and
to avoid accidents in public. He also receives one each night at bedtime.
Fannie uses warm water and soap. Simon’s parents
don’t seem to have much time for him, spending most of their time on missions
“up north”. Colin & Calum Hislop come down with severe mumps, which effectively neuters them. Calum is the little brother. Age 8-9? –
Simon gets circumcised, but not much - just the
tip - to keep him from “fiddling with it”. Method unknown; it’s not much of a
cut. Simon still fiddles with it. It’s unclear exactly when he is
circumcised, but he is fully healed by the time he arrives in Age 10 – approximately – Simon
comes to Simon goes to
live with the Saundersons, Jennifer
and Malcolm, close relatives of Carl and the distant cousins of Simon.
Their three children are Sue, 13; Vikki, 10; Charlie, 7. The Saunderson children go nude during warm weather.
Nothing else is known of Charlie or Vikki, but Sue is a slut. Simon and Charlie
share baths and a room, each having his own twin bed. Simon meets his
Uncle Carl in person for the first time; Carl thinks that the boy’s genitals
would not be out of place on a toddler. Simon’s loose shorts afford Carl a peek. Simon is labeled
“unattractive” by Uncle Carl the first time the man sees him. No one seems to
want him. The description of the boy by his parents is obviously false. Dr George Holroyd, MD (London) PhD (Cambridge)
takes over at Southdown Hall. ("Ricky Goes to School").
Simon is accused
of not wiping properly and not taking care of his laundry. He is moody, lazy,
dirty, and overall unpleasant.
Aunt Jennifer
refuses to give Simon his daily and nighttime enemas, telling him to go when he has
to like everyone else. As Simon has
never had to deal with bowel urges before, this could explain the state of
his underwear. Simon never mentions enemas to her again. He will not receive
routine enemas again until boarding school. Uncle Carl
is a
worldly man with expensive tastes and obviously, the money to back them up!
He likes good suits and fancy cars. He is about to trade up to a Jaguar. The
Jag is later traded for a gun-metal gray Aston-Martin. We learn that
Carl’s surname is Scott, just like Simon’s. Mark Maitland, Simon's future best
friend, begins to study castration and eunuchs at this time. By age 11-12, he
will have his balls pricked as well. Manchit
Khannah,
living in The Roebuck
Twins, Jon and Jamie, are living in an orphanage in a At some point in
time, perhaps earlier, Carl Scott
is in the area of Simon begins to
realize that people might want to see his body for some reason. Upon his arrival,
Simon is said (by his parents) to be bright and can sing. He should easily
get scholarships to school. Simon starts school locally. Entrance exams for
school show Simon to be “dumb” and he can’t sing a note. The Saundersons are
out thousands in school fees. Canon Barker at the school shows
Jennifer Simon’s dismal test results, yet the boy is admitted.
Simon gets placed in Form 2C.
Uncle Carl begins
to entertain the notion that a “couple of snips” would be good for Simon.
Simon’s parents, Tom
& Peggy, vanish from human ken after abandoning him to the Saundersons. Simon settles into boarding school, but doesn’t seem to care much about it. School is viewed
as being at least something keeping him out of their way, for the Saundersons. Jennifer will later admit
it as worth the money, as Simon blows up a lawnmower and a vacuum cleaner on
the same day that summer. Simon’s school
buddy, Ekins, tells Simon about
young junior boys being used as bum-boys by the senior boys. Simon becomes
the “flower” of Ramsay, the
Prefect, and captain of football. Ramsay genuinely likes him, and buys him
gifts including cream teas, sweets, and a fancy ink pen. He never hurts him,
and Simon comes to enjoy their conjugal visits. These always take place on
Sunday, right after Matron’s enema sessions. They usually bike it to a
deserted old house. Despite being
used as Ramsay’s bum-boy for the whole term, Simon never has an orgasm.
Ekins suggests that all that buggering will allow Simon to “pass
tree trunks”; Simon experiences no adverse rectal effects, though. Simon and some
friends discuss castration at school one day, on the field. It is very
interesting. Ekins, nor any of the
other boys, appear to be neutered, but claim to know boys who are and what it
does to them. Simon is very
glad to meet his “Uncle” Max on winter holidays at the Saundersons. Max is
Carl’s brother-in-law, and buys Simon several toys. One of the toys is a
fancy model electric train. Simon seduces him; he will later come to regret
this. His penis is about 3 cm. with most of it being loose skin only. Max is also a
well traveled and worldly man. He is quite the mystery. Uncle Max
sodomizes Simon at the boy’s insistence, as well as doing oral on him. This
is the first time that Simon has been anally penetrated by a man. Max does it
properly so as not to hurt him. Simon thinks it felt good, but does not
orgasm. Max explains castration as well, and agrees that Simon could be done,
for he is “just the right age.” They have a lengthy discussion about
geldings, both horses and boys. Simon begins to
tire of being a bum-boy and wants some action with girls of his own. Being Ramsay’s bum-boy has made him quite
“tarty” as well. Age 11.5 –
Simon is described as a
scruffy boy with mouse-brown hair and is still a grubby little urchin. His
testicles are no larger than a man’s thumbnail and his penis is likened to an
“acorn not out of place on a 4 year old.”
Simon’s Uncle Carl is actually his 4th cousin a
few times removed.
Max is married to (one of) Carl’s sisters. Simon has learned
about “the birds and the bees” at school, and confirms his data with Uncle
Carl. Later in the day, Simon meets up with a gelded horse, Mustang. Simon
thinks it’s mean to cut a horse’s balls off. Uncle Carl explains the reasons
for gelding a horse, and Simon entertains his first ideas about human
castration. “Do they ever do that on boys?” He asks. Mustang attempts to
mount a mare and then gives up. Uncle Carl tells
Simon several tales of gelded boys he has known of, the world over. The boy
is fascinated. Simon says he was circumcised, to “keep him from fiddling with
it.” He still fiddles with it.
Simon has the full story on castration explained
to him by
Uncle Carl; it conforms to Uncle Max’s story. He also has his genitals
examined during such, and learns a neat trick for going to the bathroom in
the wilds.
Simon has his bum fucked for the first time by Uncle Carl,
who does it properly. He enjoys it, mainly for the novelty of it being
‘dirty’ or taboo. Anything dirty, or to do with sex appeals to him, as it
does most young boys at that age. Carl seems to enjoy it as well, and does
not hurt him. Simon relishes in the dirty little secret that they share.
Simon had previously been sodomized by Max Riche.
Simon’s erect length is, at this time, all of 2 inches. Later that month,
Simon admits to being able to masturbate, but not ejaculate. He just plays with
it until it goes stiff. He is caught attempting sex with 13-14 year old Sue, her idea. Aunt Jennifer catches them in the act. Simon is labeled as
“depraved” by his Aunt Jennifer and seen as a “dirty minded kid”. Carl
suggests having him neutered to Jennifer, after she comes to Carl for advice
on her “insane and depraved children”. Carl diagnoses
Simon with ADHS / ADHD.
Neutering is the preferred cure, not medications. No mention of
Vikki and Charlie Saunderson being depraved.
Simon finds out that he is to be neutered. He asks Uncle Carl about
it, who explains it all again. Carl then informs him, in a “no-argument”
tone, that he IS going to be neutered. Simon agrees that it sounds fine to
him and asks when it can be done. Later though, he wanders off crying, since
“nobody cares”. Uncle Max has
talked to Carl about having Simon neutered as well. They tend to be in
agreement that it is the best course of action for the boy, citing that
neutering has “been the making” of some problem boys they have known. Simon seems to
grow a bit depressed and gets an attitude. He later tells his little cousin Charlie (turned 8) that HE is going
to be neutered as well when he’s a bit older. We don’t know if Charlie ever
got neutered or not. Simon is told he
is being taken to Uncle Carl has a
go at Sue, whom he describes as “slutty”. Simon is rewarded with the offer of
a new computer of his choice, though, to sooth his feelings. He still harbors
some anger about being lied to about Disney, though, thinking that the idea
of trading his balls for a PC isn’t too fair. Carl later comes
to regret the PC idea, as Simon is a dirty-minded kid who gets into Internet
porn and develops sharp skills on the PC. Carl trades up to
a new Jaguar. It will later be traded off for an Aston-Martin. Simon first sees
a painting of Cecco called "Love Victorious". Cecco was a
prepubescent eunuch, and a famous model in Simon Scott,
age 11 years, 7 months, almost 12, has his balls pricked with Neutersol-Plus.
Dr. Belmarsh performs the procedure. Part of the exam
includes a warm, soapy enema.
Simon enjoys this. So does the Doctor’s Nurse, who delights in neutering
“sweet little boys”. Two other boys are neutered that day with Simon – one
wants to be (for religious reasons), but the other cries a lot. Simon is not
impressed with him. Note - some years later, Simon will recall 4
boys from that day. Probably his imagination. In bed that night,
as Simon’s balls itch and as he realizes what they’ve done to him, he cries.
In a week,
Simon’s balls begin to turn to mush. One month later, Simon’s balls and cords
are gone, his scrotum shrinks up tight, and he is left impotent with a penis hardly
big enough to let him pee standing up.
Neutersol is said to also destroy the nerves that allow
a boy to attain erection, as well as destroying his testicles, making HRT
(Hormone Replacement Therapy)
an option that will still NOT permit the neutered boy to fuck a
girl. His secondary sex characteristics, including a deep voice and a beard,
will be attained with HRT, but erectile capability will not. Belmarsh
mentions HRT at a later date, which makes no sense to Simon. Carl seems to
blow it off, thus hinting that HRT is NOT an option for Simon – ever.
Uncle Carl may or
may not have gone along…he later says he drove Simon to the clinic in his
Jaguar, but Simon seems to recall having it done elsewhere – perhaps a
traumatic delusion? He could also have been lied to. It is safer to take
Carl’s account of the boy’s neutering, instead of Simon’s, as boys tend to
embellish stories. Simon recovers quickly, though. Simon is told
that he may have to be circumcised again when his penis beings to shrink up.
This doesn’t seem to bother him much. Simon is told
that he is a boy-eunuch now and
will never have another erection, and never be able to fuck girls. Stunned,
Simon contemplates his neutering all the way home. He can hardly believe that
they actually did it to him. Sue teases Simon
relentlessly, singing, “Simon’s had his balls pricked…” over and over. At
near 15, Sue is “a slut.” Sue’s teasing begins to get on Simon’s
nerves. Uncle Carl makes
use of Simon’s bum once again, and the now-boy-eunuch enjoys it. Simon begins to
grow taller, a “big-little boy”. Simon officially
becomes Carl’s Ward after the incident with Sue that led to his neutering.
The Saundersons want no more to do with him. School becomes his home until
Carl can figure out what to do with him.
Simon becomes impotent after a few weeks and
stops “fiddling with it,” citing there is no point to it anymore. Impotency
sets in. He seems to accept his eunuch status. Carl prepares for
a trip to the Age 11.5-12 – Simon isn’t doing well in
school, in academia, choir, or sports. He is unpopular and still scruffy.
Here we first learn that part of the school health care program is a weekly
enema session with cold water from a hose on the tap. Simon dreads this,
believing that Matron is just trying to fill a boy to bursting. All junior
boys must receive a weekly enema. Age 12 - Mark
Maitland
-
(future best friend of Simon) is neutered at age 12 by his Aunt's consent, to further
his singing career. After much research, this is Mark's own idea and she
agrees. We know nothing of Mark’s parents, other than that they
were lost in a boating accident when Mark was only 5. Shortly before
being neutered, Mark manages to penetrate
his girlfriend, Wendy,
vaginally, with his erect penis. He even has a dry orgasm inside of her. His
penis later shrinks up to be the tiniest one Simon has ever seen, and Mark
cannot pee standing up. Mark orders a
strap-on dildo online to keep Wendy happy once he becomes impotent. Mark
records another CD, but is unaware of how much money he makes. He gets a
scholarship to a school in (Marks’ neutering
probably took place on summer break ON HIS BIRTHDAY (12). Mark says he rode
his bike to the Doctor’s office and rode back; it was that trivial of a
thing! We find out some time later that Mark lives at a flat in
Music critics
begin to call Mark Maitland the
successor to Aled Jones, for whom Mark doesn’t care much. Mark makes
money, but his accountants and Auntie handle all that. He has no idea he is
loaded and could buy a manor house if he liked. Fearing Mark's
voice will change (they have no idea about his neutering), the recording company secretly archives a lot of his work
for future release. Roddy Fisher (Roddy
Knight-Fox)
will later voice-over for duets with him, boosting sales. Mark begins to get
used to his celebrity, and his looks as an angelic choirboy.
Mark's Aunt Freda begins to entertain
notions on how to get at the boy's money from his CD sales. Three years
later, Mark's lawyers will leave
HER high and dry. The Roebuck
Twins
are
neutered at age 12 in a Graham
"Jack" Elliot, hits puberty and becomes a sex maniac. He is a crude boy with
a hard Geordie accent. Shortly thereafter, he is neutered at 12 to calm him down and subdue his
“Romeo-type” conquests. Jack doesn’t
think he can live without his balls, but soon adapts. This improves his voice, as well as his
repertoire of dirty jokes – most involving Vicars buggering choirboys.
Age 12.5-13 – Simon
changes schools after being signed over to Uncle Carl. He is enrolled at
Southdown Hall. His grades improve
dramatically in his new school at Uncle Carl
describes Simon’s inability to box as being related to his lack
of male hormones, citing that he “has no iron in his bones” to
toughen him up. The games master says that in winter (Rugby Union being the
major sport) in the Under-14 team; Simon was a “winger” with a remarkable
turn of speed. In the athletics season he was developing well in the triple
jump, and was shortly going to train for distance running – he seemed to have
just the right build. Uncle Carl realizes that his long legs and thin build
of a eunuch are to credit for this. Simon also isn't
too good at gymnastics, and at age 14.5-15 will injure himself on a
horizontal beam jump. Being a eunuch saves him from more serious injury.
Sandie Ross, future friend of Simon's
and a good alto singer, is neutered to prevent him shafting his female
cousins (According to Sandie). One of the cousins is named Allie, with whom Sandie is caught. This turns out to
be the last time Sandie will sport
his 2” erection. This turns Sandie
into quite the bottom boy who is always ready for action, and gets him the
reputation as the “house tart”. There is some confusion as to Sandie's
neutering, as it also fits the timetable for the Dr. Jolly / Joli scandal. Later evidence verifies Sandie’s
neutering by his guardians. Carl’s job had
taken him to the Far East for about 18 months prior, but he returns a bit
sooner. (Simon’s guess.) Simon is very happy to see him; two years prior, he
would not even have spoken to him. Uncle Carl examines Simon, testing his
penis by stroking him to see if he is truly impotent. Simon cannot get an
erection, but feels like he needs “to be excused,” proving that he is still
capable of SOME kind of erotic sensations.
Simon’s uniform is described as a white vest with navy
blue blazer, white satin shorts and white trainers with ankle socks. Simon
usually doesn’t wear underwear, but is described as “spotless” and very neat.
There is no mention of a tie, but we can assume it is navy blue as well.
Simon’s haircut is probably a neat Ivy League-blend type. Simon has
grown,
almost as tall as Carl; probably 5’6" or so. Before going back to school
after this first weekend back in England of Carl’s, Simon almost literally
begs his Uncle to sodomize him again. Carl obliges him. Carl's height is given
at near 6' (~2M) even. ('Ricky Goes to School'). Carl has taken
full custody of Simon and his welfare.
He is letting him stay with his friends,
the Knight-Foxes, at New Forest by Lymington Haven, while
he is not around and/or gone on work. His travels are extensive, and
obviously work-related. Rumor is that he is involved in “Operation
Sugar
“Operation
Sugar Plum”
is a covert group of men who import and export unwanted boys to be neutered
and to serve as docile and ‘safe’ servants to various upper class citizens
the world over. They usually operate out of South America. Uncle Max is involved. Carl gives us a
broad scope of his knowledge of boys being neutered the world over. It seems
that he has been everywhere, as the old song goes… His friends, the Knight-Foxes, were described as
lovely people with three boys. Simon likes his new school, and soon discovers he is not the only boy-eunuch there. This seems to brighten his spirits and his grades improve. He sometimes misses Ramsay, however, but not much.
Ramsay continues his career with no further mention, once Simon changes
schools. Simon Scott
meets Mark Maitland
at School and the two become fast friends. Mark is the first neutered boy, other than
himself, that Simon has ever
encountered. Having a best friend is probably the reason for his dramatic
turnaround. Simon met no other eunuchs at his old school, or if he did, we
don't know about them.
Mark Maitland invites Simon to stay at his Aunt’s
Simon becomes
leading chorister –
his singing voice began to improve from the moment of getting
his balls pricked. Mark also excels at all sorts of athletics. Simon meets the Roebuck
Twins, Jon & Jamie, who are great at swimming and Judo. The Roebuck
boys were orphaned at age 5 in a
The boy-eunuchs
form a sort of club at school and
admit other boys who have lost their balls in many other ways. Some members
include Colin Hislop, whose balls had withered away after a bad attack
of the mumps. Manchit Khannah’s
had been chopped off in some sort of ritual, in his native India. It hadn’t
prevented him becoming a demon fast bowler, though. With their skills, they
were starting to earn certain privileges. It
wouldn’t be long before boys went deliberately to get their balls pricked, to
gain admission to their circle...according to Simon. No data is given
on what boys in this “inner circle” have volunteered to be neutered. We
assume castration via Neutersol injection.
Colin Hislop has a little brother, Calum, also a eunuch. He had mumps as a little boy. Calum contracted mumps from his brother as well, rendering him a eunuch too. Manchit Khannah takes up boxing as a fly-weight, which Simon can’t do because he is prone to tears. Why Manchit can do it and Simon cannot, we don't know. Simon goes to
London as a birthday gift from Uncle Max. They stay with a lady known as Aunt Glenda.
Simon meets his distant
cousin Wendy and does some “fiddling” with her. He is stunned to learn
that this same Wendy is his cousin AND Mark’s girlfriend! Uncle Carl finds
out that Simon is indeed “the boy eunuch of erotic fiction” and
totally impotent when he examines him again. Carl seems quite taken with his
young Ward, and compares him to Cecco, an Italian castrato of a famous
painting. Simon is again fascinated by Cecco, although the boy in the portrait has
large balls “painted on”, even though he was a Castrato at the time he
modeled. Simon has seen this painting, "Love Victorious" before. Uncle Carl is
back earlier than 18 months. Simon’s comprehensions of time, as are most
children’s, are a bit off. Simon tells Carl all about Wendy and her friend Lorna and the things they let him to do them since he was “safe” eunuch. For a eunuch, Simon certainly gets around. He describes having an enema, and then the girls used a dildo on him after he uses the strap-on on them. Simon is amazed at “how dirty girls can be.” Simon decided that he really liked the girls, and he excels at ‘oral’. Carl listens intently. Although he is
anally penetrated on a regular basis, (even by the girls with the dildo!)
Simon has yet to experience an orgasm. He begins to wonder why people like to
put things up his bum. Age 13.5-14 –
Simon writes a term paper
about being neutered as the most important day of his young life. He gets
very high marks on his essay, “Simon Tells It Like It Was.”
Simon mistakenly cites that he was 12, not
11, when he was neutered. (At this time of
life, 11 years 7 months is as good as 12 to a boy, and Simon was probably pushing it!)
At this age, Simon shows NO secondary male sexual
characteristics, and knows that he never will. He realizes that even with
HRT, he will never have balls or an erection again and can never fuck a girl.
Writing the report makes him a bit melancholy.
Mr. Meredith, the invigilator, pop-eyed and
bald-headed, wonders if Simon is “quite with us at all”, as the boy daydreams
a 2-hour period away and has to make it up later instead of seeing a film so
as to complete his paper. Simon realizes that, no, he is NOT “all there”,
which is funny. Age 13.5-14*(2)* – Simon back at the
Knight-Fox household. John, the
eldest son, has moved out to
Tommy Chow Bing Wah comes to England from China. Conjecture. Uncle Carl’s
whereabouts are unknown. Conjecture
that he is busy with some covert eunuch
importation/production operation. Simon has been
watching straight porn vids on the Internet
and feeling longings to be able to fuck girls like the boys do in the vids. Neutersol, it seems, has eliminated
his ability but not his desires. He is very frustrated. Simon meets
Melanie, a nice girl obsessed with horses and geldings.
They become an item.
Melanie takes pity on Simon for being castrated, but falls madly in lust with
him because he is a eunuch. Simon discovers that although he can’t DO IT to
her, he still has urges for Melanie and is embarrassed and frustrated. He
tells his neutering story to her, she cries, and they have a go orally. Melanie confesses
to Simon of being obsessed with neutering, be it horses or otherwise. She
also suspects that Malcolm Knight-Fox
is gay and is using his little brother, Roddy,
as a bum-boy. Simon describes
his friend Mark Maitland as pretty, although he himself is ordinary. Simon
still doesn’t wear underwear, citing no need to, but Mark likes to wear tight
white nylon girls’ briefs. His Aunt’s home was at Rustington-on-sea, not far
from the school. More to the point it wasn’t too far from Lymington Haven: a
bus ride to Portsmouth then train on the coastwise line towards Brighton.
Already Simon had the beginnings of an idea: a foursome: Melanie and himself, and Mark and his girlfriend.
Mark also uses a strap-on for her which he bought off the Internet right
after having his balls pricked.
Simon and Melanie take the train to Mark’s
place. Simon is still a bit shocked to know that Mark’s girlfriend is none
other than his “cousin”, Wendy! There seem to be no hard feelings, though.
Mark
states that
his Aunt routinely gives him enemas to keep him regular, and insists that he
and Simon have one before their sexual adventures with the girls. Mark knows
how to administer an enema, and gives them both one with “the bag”. Simon is
confused, but finds out why, when Melanie introduces him to the game of
Ride the Gelding. This involves her riding him like a pony while sodomizing
him with a double-ended dildo! Simon comes to find this OK, although it does
nothing for him sexually. (Mark’s enema bag
is probably a 2-quart standard red bag. If he knows where it’s kept, and how
to use it, it’s safe to assume that he enjoys his enemas.) Mark also keeps a
stash of chilled wine. The boy-eunuchs bring the girls to smashing
orgasms, both with oral and the dildos. They all end up sweaty and
exhausted.
Two days later, all four of them meet and do it again!
Mark extols the
virtues of being a eunuch to Simon, who is longing to be “a real man”. Mark
cites that he wouldn’t have lasted 10 minutes if he had a 6” penis and could
get hard. The girls love their eunuchs because they can go so long, unlike
“other boys”. Simon begins
wearing a pair of Melanie’s tiny black thong underwear which he received in
the mail. Age 14.0 –
Simon at the Knight-Foxes’. He is a very sensitive boy, but finds the life
there boring. He shares the house with Mr. and Mrs. Knight-Fox, their three
boys, and Mrs. Hodges, the Housekeeper.
The eldest son John is still away at Sandhurst, having moved out. Roddy and Malcolm attend a boarding school at Devon. Date Unknown - Dr. Kristin Geller, MD, sets up business in the Orient, location unknown, buying and running a self-sustaining medical center/orphanage in a remote region of some unknown country where there is no cell phone service and 'if-fy' landline service. She moves here from Texas, USA, time/date unknown, reasons unknown. Conjecture that changes in international laws for castration prompt her move. Dr. Geller, an American, maintains a lawyer in Wichita Falls, USA, and many contacts in the USA. She is devoted to her practice, and actually enjoys castrating boys within the boundaries of the law. Her enjoyment is much the same as Melanie's; she states that it makes her "quite wet". (see-'How to Make a Cherub'*). Note - the date of Dr. Geller's purchase of the place is vague; it's possible that she bought it when Simon was 13, not 14. Dr. Geller is also skilled in the art of penectomy (removal of the penis) as well, although she does not do this often. Her only listed nullification is a 7-year old boy named Kyle, who asks for it only after being castrated. Kyle is listed as one of her first, if not THE first, castration at this location. Kyle is a 4th son, but adopted. His father was diagnosed by Dr. Geller some years before as being sterile, but wanting a family. She suspects Kyle's father is at least bisexual, when she wonders about whether the man will show Kyle prostate stimulation, as she exams the boy's. The man adopts at least 4 boys over time. Law states that Kyle -as a 4th son- must be castrated, but not the other 3 brothers. Conjecture - Kyle's older 3 brothers are not castrated, even though they are adopted orphans. Dr. Geller tries to talk Kyle out of a penectomy; the little boy insists, citing that if he isn't to be a male, he wants to be neutral. After bringing him to an orgasm, of sorts, by fondling him, Dr. Geller quickly snips off his undersized penis. Both young eunuch and father are pleased with the nullification results. Kyle goes home to become a passive but neutral-gendered sex partner for his father. Dr. Geller's staff includes - Martin Lindenbaum, PhD Medieval European History; Martin has an 8" cock and is muscular. Nurses - Mary and Jenny. Jenny is a American of African heritage. Dr. Geller says of it: It was a territory that for a long time had had a shifting population of foreign aid workers from the West, with the inevitable result that there were large numbers of children of mixed race, whom no one wanted. While some were more obviously “ethnic”, a large number might have passed for full Caucasian. A proportion of these ended up in my orphanage where I had about 130 boys at any one time. (There was an equivalent number of girls but that’s another story entirely). Few of these children had more than one or two words of English and none had attended school. One source of income for Dr. Geller's business/orphanage is prostitution of the residents, mainly the boys. One of these children is Tommy, age 12, blonde, brown eyes. Dr. Geller also rationalizes that there is nothing she can do about adults desiring sex with minors. She CAN, as she states, make sure that it takes place in a clean, safe environment, however. Tommy is one of about 20 boys "on staff" that are "leased out". These boys receive a powerful soap and water enema every day to keep them clean for customers. Tommy also has a very limited vocabulary and doesn't talk much. Tommy is later sold (time unknown, but before Ricky Silva arrives) for a 4-digit figure to a client who enjoys him very much. He pays in travelers' checks. He also pays $500 more to have Tommy castrated. Tommy is fond of hot chocolate, and is drugged with a cup that night after his performance. Mary and Jenny assist with his castration. Next day - Tommy shows his castration scars to 2 others "cheeky" boys, who get erections upon seeing him. Dr. Geller makes a note to cut them as soon as possible. 3 Days later - Tommy leaves Dr. Geller's care with this man. Note - this is NOT Max Riche. This man claims to have a 14 year old daughter, and insists that Tommy must be "made safe". Dressed all in white, as Ricky will be when he goes to England, Tommy leaves with this man. Dr. Geller never sees him again. "Tommy Revisited" - Dr. Geller has a mad, passionate sexual relationship with Martin. (Conjecture above - Dr. Geller keeps Ricky Silva for one year after his arrival. Another boy in her care, Jimmy, was castrated by force a year prior. One year goes by before "Ricky Goes to School".) Conjecture as well that non-Oriental parents and others seek out her services of castrating surgically, 3 to 4 boys a week. She also states buying the place "some years ago." Jimmy - an Asian boy who "comes with the business", begins to annoy Dr. Geller by having a near-constant erection and becoming preoccupied with sex. Jimmy is the first and last boy that Dr. Geller will castrate by force, having to be strapped down, gagged, and with help from Mary. After castration, Jimmy settles into a passive role as a "bum-boy" and enjoys it. By the time Ricky Silva arrives, Jimmy will be the ONLY neutered bum-boy on staff offering his "services".
Laurie Lloyd, an orphan in a home near the St. Anselme's Diocesan School
in England,
has his balls pricked by the Orphanage Nurse, along with many of the other
boys to keep them from messing with the girls. CONJECTURE - assuming
Laurie is about 3 years younger than Simon at this time, 11. Lloyd
is sent to St. Anselme's with some of the other orphans, for a total of 4 in
the School population (that we know of). Lloyd will later describe this to
Simon and his friends as a standard procedure at the orphanage.
Roddy Knight-Fox is just turned
thirteen, with blond hair
and the sort of peaches-and-cream complexion that often comes with very fair
people. There was a sort of 'little-boy-lost' air about Roddy: not that he
was small and slight – he wasn’t, he was quite well made – but sometimes his
blue eyes would open wide and his mouth quivered, as if he was going to cry.
Roddy is quiet and is not circumcised. He enjoys chess and stamp collecting.
Fifteen-year-old Malcolm couldn’t have been more
different – a true son of his father. Wing
Commander Knight-Fox was a thick-set, burly man with iron-grey hair that
had once been black, and strong features. Malcolm was as dark as his father
had been and the same sort of build, big feet and big, rough hands. (Roddy’s
hands were slender and delicate). He had inherited the same large nose and
prominent chin. Only his mouth was different. The Wing-Commander always
looked good-humored; Malcolm’s mouth was turned-down and ugly. He has an ugly
personality, too. At freshly 16, Malcolm gets drunk and crashes
the family BMW, killing a vagrant in the process. He is sent away. The
Knight-Fox parents go on holiday after it’s all said and done. Mrs. Hodges,
the housekeeper, looks after Simon and Roddy. The boys successfully avoid the
media that descends upon the
house. Roddy becomes
withdrawn and stops talking to Simon, mainly keeping to his room. Roddy learns
that Simon has been neutered
after seeing him naked in the shower. He is
fascinated. He then runs off and vanishes. Simon and Melanie track him down
later in the day. Simon learns that
little Roddy Knight-Fox is adopted, and that Malcolm, the Knight-Fox’s
natural son, is openly gay and has been abusing him. Roddy is very
traumatized by it, and hates his life. He wishes he’d never been adopted. He
hates being Malcolm’s bum-boy, and is often sore since Malcolm hurts him.
Simon doesn’t mind being a bum-boy now and then, but Roddy can’t understand
that. (This is probably due to Malcolm brutalizing him and not doing it
properly.) Malcolm tends to
frequent gay bars with some friends and enjoys sex with street boys. Roddy is
afraid he will bring a disease home to him, we later learn. Roddy states that
he is “different”, and is so despondent that Simon and Melanie are worried.
Roddy
Knight-Fox confesses to Melanie and Simon that he wants “to be like Simon.” – ie., castrated. This is
brought on by Malcolm, who is, in Roddy’s mind, all the things that he fears
growing up to be like. The thought of puberty horrifies Roddy, and he cries
himself to sleep after lunch. Simon discovers
that Melanie’s Mum is indeed Uncle
Carl’s younger sister! Melanie says it’s good that Simon is a eunuch;
otherwise they’d have had “loopy children” by now! (Actually, they are distant
enough cousins to eliminate this worry, but it is a moot point!) Simon and Melanie
plot to castrate Roddy. They order Neutersol on Melanie’s Mum’s gold Visa
card online from a company in America. Simon is very good with computers, we
learn. Simon and Mark
will later be disgusted to learn how much is being charged for Neutersol when
Mark's Aunt Freda sues the boy for
medical costs. She gets 3k Pounds out of it. Melanie waylays
the postman (method unknown!) and brings the Neutersol over in the
Near 11:00 PM
that night, Melanie injects Roddy’s balls with Neutersol Plus.
She floods her pants in
orgasm upon doing a real live boy! Roddy never even wakes up. The boy dreams
on, not realizing that he’s just had his balls pricked and is now a eunuch. Simon and Melanie
have crazed sex in his attic room. Melanie is very wound up, since injecting
Roddy. Simon comes to
believe that his days as a bum-boy are over. He is wrong. Melanie drives
the Land Rover home. Simon feels sorry for the poor car as he wanders off to
bed. Next day –
the verdict of Malcolm
Knight-Fox’s trial - he gets 2 years in YOC, where he’ll be “buggered
rotten”. Roddy enjoys this news. Then he wanders off in blissful shock upon
being told that he’s really a boy-eunuch now, and was not dreaming it! Uncle Carl
finally arrives home! He lets his cottage out to renters and takes over the
Knight-Fox house and property. The elder Knight-Foxes move to
Roddy does not
move with them. With one week
until school starts, Uncle Carl takes Simon to Euro-Disney as he promised, out of guilt for lying to him about
it. Simon vows that he won’t be buggering him ever again, but goes to Disney
anyway, and is happy. Melanie and Roddy go to. Roddy
transfers to Simon’s school - Southdown Hall - at start of term. An embarrassing
picture of Simon in Mickey Mouse ears
was taken at Disney and gets loose at school, mortifying him. We can assume
that Melanie snapped it, or at least ordered it. If there was one of Roddy,
it’s never mentioned. Back at school
a week later
- Roddy Knight-Fox has been taken in hand, upon his arrival, by the Roebuck
Twins; their gentle appearance conceals the fact that they are both Black
Belts in Judo. They let Simon know. (The Twins quiet demeanor is probably the
factor in dealing with Roddy.) Simon wants Roddy
to meet as many of his friends as could get together, so he sent word around
and found an empty room. All the familiar faces are there: Mark Maitland,
professional singer, successor to Aled Jones; shy and diffident Colin
Hislop, maths genius, and his younger brother Calum; Manchit Khannah,
who had survived a crude village castration and the horrible life of a
“hijra” to become a demon fast bowler. (Manchit later states that he is NOT
an actual hijra, although this is often assumed because of his Indian
heritage. Manchit still has a penis. His castration method was to have his
scrotum bound with a horsehair tourniquet until his balls withered away; they
are later chopped off); and cheeky Graham “Jack” Elliott, who prefers
to be called by ‘Jack’, and had never lost his Geordie accent; and
a few others who had apparently had their balls pricked over the summer
holidays and were still coming to terms with it. ‘Jack’ Elliot
says that there “aren’t a
pair of Knackers in the room.” He
is called crude by Mark, which is funny. Jack tells a joke about a Priest who
buggers an altar boy. At the beginning
of each term, Simon states that “new boy-eunuchs” are apparent and trying to
figure out what has happened to them. We learn that showering in communal.
Simon and his gang end up to take the new eunuchs in hand.
Roddy fits right in and is finally happy. He joins the choir and
can sing “like an angel”. Simon describes it as “coming home” for Roddy.
Age 14 –
February – at school – same term as above – Friday – Simon gets an enema by Matron. She uses warm soapy water and
a large enema bulb, not a hose connected to a cold tap as his old school
Matron did. Simon finds it soothing. Matron seems only concerned about his
backside, and not about the fact that he’s a eunuch.
Junior boys are all subjected to weekly “hot soap and waters”
as a matter of hygiene. Senior boys are not? (With a covert
provision in the law for neutering, as well as communal showering, we can
assume that it is common knowledge at the school that some boys do not have
balls. Obviously, with the number of them that we know of, Matron would not
be impressed by it.) Simon has regular
weekly meetings with Dr. A.D. Jolly, D Mus., MA., the choral director,
Friday evenings, right after his enema sessions. Dr. Jolly uses Simon for a
bum-boy, much to Simon’s chagrin. It does nothing for Simon sexually, as they
watch an illegal porno with an Asian eunuch boy in it and do the same things,
every time: They have éclairs and tea, and discuss choir business. Simon meets
Tommy Chow Bing Wah in Dr. Jolly’s office. Tommy is a conceited Chinese boy, but he can sing. Tommy
has a thick accent and some trouble with English pronunciations. Simon is head of
one part of the Choir, while Mark handles the other part. Simon discovers
that Dr. Jolly has a dream of a choir
of 40+ boy eunuchs, to revive the lost operas of Handel, and that Tommy Chow is to be the next castrato. Simon is
assigned to get him neutered, or at least, talked into it. Simon finds out
that Dr. Jolly is buggering Mark Maitland as well, threatening to cancel his
scholarship if he tells. Simon tricks this information out of Mark. Mark is
not happy about Tommy Chow’s choir placement, which is unseemly given his
talent and tenure. Simon and Mark
discover that Dr. Jolly is having boys castrated for his dream choir – boys
with no parents nearby to interfere. Among them is little Harry Ricketts,
a boy who only dreams of being in the Army.
Simon finds Harry
crying several times during term, but Harry won’t talk about it. Other boys
neutered, that Simon and Mark know of, are: Ellison, Raxworthy, Peter Forster, Foulkes, and Elliot – not
JACK / GRAHAM ELLIOT. Jack Elliot is not neutered until “Made Safe”
one month prior to that. This is obviously a different Elliot boy, as at this
time, Jack still has his balls and is a sex maniac. Jack Elliot is referred
to by name; the other Elliot is referred to as 'Elliot Minor'. Simon also makes
the comment that he can come up with four
or five other choirboys that he knows have been neutered. Simon and Roddy
explain castration as done in the West to Tommy. Tommy tells what he knows of
Chinese eunuchs after Simon and Roddy drop their pants for him. Tommy is
stunned to see that Western eunuchs get to keep their penises. Unsure at first, Tommy agrees to castration upon
realizing that he too can keep his penis – unlike the Chinese eunuchs that he
knows about. The boys head to Roddy’s home with Tommy to meet Melanie. Melanie admits to
having screwed a “real boy” the summer before last. She prefers a gelded
Simon, however, and tells him this when he frets about it. Melanie soothes
his insecurities.
Note that Melanie
confesses to having cheated on Simon. Simon admits
to having erotic dreams,
despite being a eunuch. We do not know the content of these
dreams. We can assume that Simon doesn’t have wet or ‘dry’ wet dreams. Melanie goes
online and orders a Neutersol pack for Tommy Chow’s castration, again using
her Mum’s Visa card. Only her accountant ever sees the bills, anyway. The boys head
back to school. Some days later, the Neutersol arrives and Melanie books a
hotel room under an assumed name to neuter Tommy.
Tommy shares his ideas of replacing Simon as head
chorister.
Simon is not impressed. Simon realizes
that Tommy’s smug attitude will soon vanish with castration, and he’ll “do as
he’s told” after being neutered. Simon then realizes that HE himself is
just like that – docile and servile
to a point. He has read that eunuchs tend to be. This bothers him when it
dawns on him. One week
later, Tommy Chow is neutered by Simon at the hotel.
Melanie is too excited to
do it and floods herself in ecstasy again. Dr. Jolly seeks
to have more boys neutered for his choir, so Simon informs Melanie, after Tommy
is told to rest up.
Little Harry Ricketts blows the whistle on Dr.
Jolly.
Having been neutered and used as a bum-boy is too much for him. He contacts
his lawyers and files charges. Mark Maitland
calls them on the phone at the hotel and informs Simon that all leaves are
cancelled. Dr. Jolly has been found to be a fraud, and arrested. His name,
actually Joli, and all of his credentials are found to be false. The
scandal of his castration of several boys is a brief thing. Joli
disappears
after deportation. Neutersol Plus
is found to NOT be foolproof – Harry
Ricketts and his balls survive it, and Harry, who has been sad and in
much pain from his body’s unique 1 in 1,000,000 efforts to save his balls,
goes to see a specialist in (It is possible
that this event, or more like it, is the catalyst for the development of Neutersol
Rapid.) Some weeks later,
Harry returns with balls intact and
healthy, to show Simon and his friends. They are happy for him. He later joins the Army, a fully
functional male, at age 16; he
gets to realize his dream. His father is proud of him. Easter that
year - Mr. Trefusis,
the new director, reorganizes the choir. An overconfident
Tommy Chow fails his exam, and leaves the school. Roddy earns High
Distinctions. Mark passes easily, as does Simon. Mr. Trefusis' comment about
them sounding like a bunch of howling cats is never mentioned again. Simon states that
Mr. Trefusis knows nothing of the boy-eunuchs, neutered for choir or NOT. We
don't know for sure if Trefusis knows or not, really; if he does, he’s not
talking about it RIGHT then. Certainly he should know, though. Simon admits that
Mark is much more talented that he is. Unbeknownst to anyone, however, Mark is very worried and feelings of
guilt are causing him anxiety. The
first thoughts of regret over being neutered surface in his mind, but he
keeps quiet. Simon takes a
leave and goes home to see Melanie after a fortnight. They play “Ride the
Gelding” again. Melanie collapses on top of Simon, and the dildo hits his
prostate. Simon almost panics at the erotic and unfamiliar feelings, and
doesn’t like it one bit. Frightened of having sexual pleasure as a bum-boy,
he returns to school. Simon ponders why
everyone wants to use him for a bum-boy, still upset over the dildo incident.
The School begins
accepting local boys, known as “day
boys” for tuition fees. One of these new boys is Jesse Morris.
Simon gets beaten
up badly by a new “day-boy” at school and needs 12 stitches to close a wound
over his left eye. Jesse Morris, or “Jazza”, as he prefers to be
called, does it at a rugby game. Jazza also attempts to break Simon’s spine
by stomping on him. Simon wakes up in
the san (infirmary) to meet Nurse, a
new employee, who promptly gives him an enema. Simon is afraid that he has lost his eye, but has not.
Nurse is fascinated by the fact that Simon is a
eunuch
and thinks all eunuch boys are “cut”. Simon corrects her. She listens to his
tale intently.
Jesse Morris (Jazza) is a racially mixed, unintelligent boy with a
superiority complex. He is not well liked. His entire existence seems to be
rooted in sex, and Simon shivers at the thought of how many bastard children
he has sired – IF his tales are true about never using a condom. Jazza DOES in
fact have an impressive penis. Jazza turns out
to be a thief, the first hint
being when Roddy gets a call to come and pick up his stamp collection from a
local pawn shop. Jazza, it turns out, has quite the stolen goods ring
running. Roddy and Mark do
some duet work for Mark’s recording label. This was Simon’s idea.
Simon is subjected to daily enemas by Nurse during his
protracted stay in the Infirmary for his facial and back wounds. He still wonders
why everyone insists on putting things up his bum so often. Nurse is quite
gentle with Simon, and uses an enema bulb. Simon “relaxes lazily” in bed
while being filled. Roddy is
awarded his Under XV Colours
for playing junior
rugby and is happy; he comes to show Simon. He is very proud of himself.
Simon is happy for him. Simon wanders out
of the san., in violation of the rules. Later on, he sets up a trap for Jazza
after finding his stash of stolen goods on campus. The Roebuck Twins take Jazza down, and he is arrested and taken
into custody, proclaiming that they will never get him. Jazza arrives
back at school in the san. with Simon, who realizes that as punishment for
his juvenile crimes, Jazza has had his balls pricked with new Neutersol Rapid! Jazza becomes violently
ill, experiencing all of the flu-like side effects. He has a spontaneous
ejaculation, much to Simon’s disgust. Simon suggests that Nurse give him a
high-volume enema. Just before his
enema, Simon tells Jazza that his
erection is the last one he’ll ever have. Jazza does not believe him.
Some of the
blanks as to what has transpired are soon filled in by an unexpected letter
from Uncle Carl. The trial of Jazza had been almost a family affair, since
the Hon. Selena Scott Hamilton (Melanie’s Mum) was presiding
magistrate, assisted on the one side by Uncle Carl himself and on the other
by Commandant Mrs. Briggs OBE,
head of the local Red Cross and a sort of aunt of Melanie’s on her father’s
side. They had sentenced Jazza to neutering under a covert new law. Roddy writes to
Uncle Carl, exposing his castration and how happy he is. Uncle Carl is not
upset. Uncle Carl
advises Simon to watch Melanie before she gelds every boy in town! Jazza is expelled
and vanishes. Simon delights in the knowledge of what the crude boy will
suffer through during testosterone withdrawal. Simon gets new
white thong underwear from Nurse and models them for her. Nurse is delighted.
Mark and Roddy’s
new album is released to rave reviews. Roddy goes
back to his old name of Roddy Fisher. Near the end
of term –
Simon meets up with Jason Johnson, an American boy making a fresh start in life in Simon finds
Jason’s rural Midwest American accent hard to understand. Jason relates his
gelding by his stepmother, at the hands of one Jewish Dr. Benjamin, to Simon. He later goes on to tell Simon how he was
‘made safe’ for his stepmother Layla’s
and stepsisters’ benefit, and how his dad has had a vasectomy.
Conjecture – this is the end of the Johnson line on Jason’s side, as both
males are now sterile.
Lalla…Layla…Lynda…whatever…Simon can’t
catch her name properly, enrolled Jason in a boys’ club in the city, he tells
Simon. Getting information out of Jason Johnson is not easy. Simon is
horrified to learn that Jason has been used as a eunuch sex toy by perverse
men in Jason does the
same, and the boy-eunuchs have a discussion about circumcision in general. Jason is tightly circumcised as well.
Jason explains to
Simon about being a boy-toy to older men, and being made to wear a butt plug to keep him "ready". Simon is sickened, even
though Jason seems to like it. He also likes “big boys.” Simon cannot
comprehend wearing a butt plug all of the time. (We don’t know if Jason still
wears one.) Simon learns that
the club where Jason was enrolled, along with several other boys, was busted
and many arrests were made. Dr. Benjamin vanishes. Jason’s Poppa divorces his
stepmother over this incident, hence their arrival in England. No hard
evidence can be found that Jason’s stepmother willingly endangered him, but
she is highly suspect. Jason charges
money for sexual favors, and is making a lot of money. Roddy reports this to
Simon after seeing him at the bank.
Roddy suffers from phimosis and balantitis, and has a radical, tight
circumcision, including total frenulum
removal. Simon is frightened and stunned by it. Roddy says it makes “having
a pee just awful.” Simon begins
to fear penectomy, or total emasculation,
as well, after seeing Roddy’s butchered up
and tiny little penis. “One more little cut and he’d have been a full and
proper eunuch boy…” Not having seen
much of one another, Roddy almost tearfully begs Simon to stay with him in
the san and have a game of chess with him. Roddy wins. Roddy heals up
fast from his circumcision and
reports more odd goings-on to Simon about Jason. Strange events
lead up to the discovery that Jason has a large sex-ring-for-money running
with many of the senior boys. He is suspended and put in therapy, in a “rehab
place”, to help him. He is exposed to the teachers by Gerard Hopkins,
the captain of the senior boys’ team. The senior boys escape the scandal
somehow. Simon, Mark,
Roddy, Melanie and Wendy
at Roddy’s house on break some days later near end of term. “The Knickers Club” meetings, as Simon
calls them. Mark Maitland
begins gaining weight and could pass for a girl. Wendy feels bad for Jason
Johnson.
Mark
announces to Simon and Roddy that he’s got a lot of
money now from his music CD’s, and doesn’t
want to be a eunuch anymore. He decides to go for experimental treatment
and HRT to make him a man again. He cites Wendy wanting a normal man, even
though Melanie is very happy with a gelded Simon. Simon is unsure
how to take Mark’s admission. He seems somewhat hurt and insecure, though.
Simon and Mark
ask Roddy, who says you should never do “some things only for money.” We
don’t know what he means, as the girls return with food and interrupt them.
Mark foregoes HRT
and the experiments for at least one more year, much to Simon’s relief. Mark does have a consult booked with a
doctor in Shortly after
Summer Session begins, immediately preceding "Made Safe" - July - Simon is winding down a
weekend leave and awaiting his meeting up with Mark at The Lemon Tree Cafe. He
is thinking of the trouble that he had to help get Roddy out of for switching
beds and sleeping bare. Roddy has swapped beds with Michael Banner, a
boy who was neutered by Dr. Jolly. They did, in fact, want to switch beds
'for the view'.
After this incident, the School decides to
separate intact boys from eunuch-boys in the Dorms. Showering is also
segregated after sports.
Mark Maitland has been in Germany that summer, to be
examined by a Professor Zuniger at
the
Homosexual happenings are brought to light
because of this bed-check and decision to separate the boys and eunuchs. Sandie
Ross, 13, in particular, is fond of 'having
a homo' as it's called. Sandie is described as a peaches-and-cream
complected boy, who was neutered to keep him from shafting his cousins.
Sandie is also rather chubby, but not unattractive. While waiting,
Simon thinks of Melanie and how they haven't played "Ride the Gelding" lately due to Simon's odd feelings
of anal pleasure and confusion.
Mark tells Simon of his plans to use stem-cell
culture to reverse his neutering
operation. Simon is stunned by it all. He is also
afraid for Mark, in that it won't work. Mark seems to have gained weight.
Mark's Aunt Cathy, pregnant again, is to
supply umbilical cord blood and cells for the experiment. Simon notes that
Mark is becoming depressed over being nothing more than a singing eunuch.
Still, he is looking at over a year, maybe two, for the operation to prove
out. During their
chat, Mark suddenly has a breakdown and begins to cry, begging Simon not to
leave him "like this." Again, Simon is stunned but very touched. Simone swears
never to leave him – as a friend. Simon and Mark are not – at this point –
sexually involved with one another. Mark then becomes
very ill on the way back to School. He is taken to the Hospital, where meningitis
is confirmed. Simon suspects he was infected by the exam in
Later on in the week, Simon meets up with some
friends about odd goings-on near the School. One of the boys suspects the Steward, who glares at them often, of
being a child molester.
The Hill Rise Army Camp, very near the School,
has been the sight of some odd happenings. Clues are found by the boys,
indicating that someone from the School is coming and going in and out of
Hill Rise covertly. Simon relates a history of his School:
Like how that in the 1850’s the main school building had been a country
house, the home of an idle young peer, Lord Starborough. One autumn night His
Lordship was giving a grand ball to his guests. The previous summer had been
the wettest on record, and the canal bank was dangerously rotten. Without
warning, part of it collapsed, releasing not only the canal but the pent-up
water in the reservoir, at a higher level. Bursting through the windows, the
torrent flooded the ballroom twelve feet deep. Twenty of the dancers were
drowned or crushed.
The canal went
out of use. Later owners of the house sealed off the reservoir as an
ornamental lake. The ballroom was demolished – local people said that on wet
windy nights they could still hear the frenzied screaming of those trapped
inside. Still, others said that on moonlit lovely evenings, one could sneak a
peek and see their ghostly forms still dancing the night away - almost if
trying to finish the evening that had not been.
And later
still, the founders of our school had bought the building. One other creepy
fact about the area they investigate is that the small lake was dredged and
there was discovered a downed WW2
Dakota airplane in it, complete with 4
skeletons in it.
Manchit Khannah, The Roebuck Twins, and Jack
Elliot
claim the need to pee as they investigate for clues. Simon claims it's not a
"tiny cock contest" and to hurry up. Indeed, nearly all of them do not
have enough cock left to pee standing up with. The eunuch-sleuths
are interrupted by a boy and girl, who have sex in the forest. Simon is
disgusted and annoyed at hiding. That night, Simon
misses Mark's sounds of slumber. Peter
Keeble, the other boy next to him, is a likely candidate for neutering,
Simon thinks. Obviously, the
sleeping arrangements haven't been changed in Simon's Dorm yet, as Peter is intact. The clues
continue to mount, and Simon enlists the aid of some street urchins. One is a
boy named Merv. He is fascinated,
as are his friends, by finding that Simon is a eunuch. Simon trades this
information, as well as showing them his eunuch status, for their continued
aid. One of the girls proves to be very well skilled with the boys, but Simon
is content to watch only. Next week, Merv
calls Simon at school. Merv and his
Marauders have waylaid a van at the gates of the base. Simon and Mr.
Trefusis, who knows to believe Simon by now, go to investigate. They get the
Sergeant on duty to secure the camp, and it turns out that Simon's Geography Professor, Mr. Edward
Waterbury, aka Edvard Wasserbillig, is really an Al-Qa'ida spy and
stealing munitions. After Dr. Jolly,
and now Back at School,
Simon is called to Dr. Holroyd's
office where he meets up with his Uncle Max, and Major-General Frobisher of Military Intelligence. Wasserbillig
and his 3 young cohorts are arrested, and the School gets an award which
Simon narrowly avoids having HIS name put on. It would have been embarrassing
to him to have the OBE awarded. The General asks
Simon if he'd like to think about the Military, but Uncle Max whispers to him
about Simon, saving the boy from explaining. The General is shocked. This is
one reason that little Harry Ricketts was so upset - obsessed with an Army
career, he knew that
they didn't take
eunuchs. Simon is
frightened to find out that Uncle Max has heard of Merv's Marauders, the
vagrant kids in town. He refuses to tell him any more about them, for fear
that Merv and his boys will end up neutered and sold as slaves or something
in "Operation Sugar Plum".
Next day - Simon
at The Lemon Tree again - He misses the only bus to Melanie's and tries to
avoid Uncle Max as well. He ponders how he found out about Max on his own
computer, thanking Uncle Carl for turning him onto PC's. Max is not exactly a
PC expert, even if he is great at international intrigue. Simon goes to
visit Mark, who is pale and weak but getting over it. Mark tells Simon that Dr. Holroyd really IS an MD, not a
professor-only doctor, and he's getting into Mark's case with stem cell
research. Simon is still very worried over Mark. Mark announces to
Simon that while he didn't die, didn't lose any arms or legs to the meningitis,
that he can no longer sing and has a hard time talking. Inwardly, and not
realizing it, Simon is crushed and almost cries. He holds Mark's hand until
he falls back to sleep, frightened to death that the neutering-reversal won't
work and that Mark will end up with nothing. Mark recovers
enough to be asked to go on a "Mission of National Security" with
Simon and some others. It does him a lot of good in the long run. Roddy is
not invited to go, as Simon feels he wouldn't concentrate on the job at hand.
Shortly before
age 14.4-15 – Captain Iain Donald is sacked from his job at “Operation Sugar Donald meets Max
Riche, Simon’s ‘uncle’, who offers him a job. Max is a smoker.
Max mentions his friends’ adopted son, autistic, who has been castrated.
He mentions scars, so the boy probably
was cut and not injected with Neutersol. The boy settles right down and
likes to collect stamps. (This is NOT Roddy.) Donald moves to
the “ Donald’s ID is
changed to Commander Donald, R.N. Age 14.5+15? – No age given in the
story. Simon and some of his friends are recruited by Captain Donald, at
Uncle Max’s suggestion, to work with stray boys in “Operation Westward
Ho,” a program for providing neutered boy servants to upper-upper
class high society folks in the West. Their Headmaster releases them from
school on “work of national importance.” Uncle Carl buys
and begins restoring an old house just across the border from Lymington Haven
to turn into a country club/retreat. (Conjecture.) He commissions a special
bronze statue to be made. Captain Donald
has been involved extensively in “Operation
Sugar Plum,” before being sacked; however, this highly secretive
organization is not mentioned to Simon and the other “Eunuch Trainers”. After settling in
and meeting some staff, Donald sees Simon for the first time at the complex’s
indoor swimming pool. He has five cohorts with him.
Simon’s hair has gone more blonde since his neutering.
He has the body of a lithe young god,
according to Donald. The boy-eunuch “Trainers” swim nude. Donald describes
Simon’s voice as that of a female mezzo-soprano: light but not shrill. Simon IS shrill
when excited and talking. The other boys
who go on “the mission” with him are Graham “Jack” Elliot (gymnast and
former sex maniac), Mark Maitland (singer formerly rivaling Aled Jones
and swimmer), Manchit Khannah, the Indian boy (an acolyte and would-be
eunuch priest and fast bowler/fly-weight boxer), the ginger-headed and
freckled Roebuck Twins, Jamie and Jon (British orphans raised from
ages 5 to 12 in a Gulf States orphanage, neutered at 12, and specialists in
unarmed combat). The way to tell the Roebuck Twins apart is their facial
features: Jon’s are softer, and Jamie’s cheekbones are more prominent.
Elliot
is described as fair-haired with a pretty face; he
is also small and wiry. He has only been “done” for a few months, obviously
with Neutersol Rapid. He is still a bit self-conscious. He has had his balls
pricked on orders of his Aunt and Uncle, his guardians who take little notice
of him, because he is a developing “sex maniac” and prone to almost priapasm.
Manchit Khannah is described as diminutive in size, but
good at many sports. His skin tone is described as “coffee colored”. Of the
lot, Manchit is the only one who has been castrated via knife and not
Neutersol. He doesn’t discuss it at all, until much later. (Conjecture -
Simon knows, but who told him is not clear.)
Mark
says he had managed to have penetrative sex with
his girlfriend a few times before being neutered, but no longer can, after
being neutered at his Aunt’s insistence for his 12th birthday to further his
singing career. He is skilled at oral on Wendy now, and has the tiniest penis
of the lot. He claims to still experience “very strong feelings down there”,
although he can’t orgasm. The “spy
eunuchs” realize their job is in helping boys adjust to being neutered.
Manchit is worried that
they will have their balls painfully “chopped off” like him, but takes
comfort in the fact that the boys destined for servitude will have their
balls pricked painlessly, like Simon. Simon will later find out that Manchit
suffered through having a horsehair tourniquet tied tightly and painfully
around his scrotum, and that his balls were only chopped off after they'd
withered away to almost nothing. Shortly after
meeting his “employees”, Donald takes delivery of three boys from one Margy Townsend. They are Wayne,
Gary and Glen. They will have their balls pricked in two weeks from their
arrival at the Center. The boy-eunuchs
tend to sleep nude at “the center”, and Graham
Elliot puts Donald in mind of Narses, the Byzantine boy slave who rose to command armies and conquer
Neutersol
Rapid is
mentioned in a German text. It is the drug of choice. It works much faster,
but gives the boy massive erections for the next day or two with spontaneous
ejaculations. It sometimes causes flu-like symptoms, but not always.
Testicular destruction is much faster than with Neutersol Plus or Regular. It
is also approved for boys (recall Jazza Morris) who are well into puberty
already.
Conclusion
– Boys into puberty already will experience
withdrawals from testosterone, and would remain impotent and frustrated even
WITH HRT.
Donald finds some extensive literature complete with pictures of
boys, before and after neutering, and reads up. He wonders why the beautiful
fair-haired boy in the images was neutered and what became of him. Next morning, the
new boys have nothing to do with Simon and his lot. One of the
trainee boys - Glen, while in the
showers, calls Manchit a “wog” and the Indian eunuch works him
over for it. The Roebuck Twins
pummel Wayne and Gary when they
try to come to his aid. Having mistaken Simon and his friends for a bunch of
softies, the newcomers learn a valuable lesson. One of the Twins offers the
beaten boys a hand-up.
Glen later tries to trip Mark in the pool, but Mark throws Glen in (fully clothed) and
then has to pull him back out. Donald orders the
boys to play a game of ball and then swim laps – nude – so as the new boys
can get a good look at their eunuch-peers’ naked bodies. All of this
training and exercise is good for Mark, who is still not up to full par from
having had meningitis. He is recovering very well, though, Simon notes.
The plan works. Three days later, the new boys are talking
about neutering with their “Trainer Eunuchs” and hearing the ‘good things’
about it. From there on out, they all seem to get along much better, sitting
together for meals and happily chatting. Simon still wonders of the new boys
will ask to be neutered, though. Donald puts a
revised timetable together in my head, based on the knowledge (a) that
Neutersol Rapid works very fast, but (b) the results wouldn’t begin to appear
until the three were out of the country and what was much more important,
split up and living among strangers.
Donald lies to the new boys, telling them they are
going on a special mission like 007, spies. The timetable is revised to four weeks to allow them to learn
enough French. The boys buy it.
Some time later, the boys are sedated and have their balls
pricked while asleep. None of them even wake up or make a sound. The next
day, they try in vain to hide their constant erections. Next night,
Donald delivers the three boys to a man named Aristide at Molyneux Junction train-station. It
is a starry and cold night. The three new boy-eunuchs are shipped out, never
to be heard of again…? Four months
pass,
as Simon and company “train” twelve more
boys to be eunuchs. The boys are shipped out when deemed ready.
Schoolwork and lessons, as well as physical training and recreation are seen
to at the facility. The boys have plenty to do. Donald begins to
miss Paraguay, Max Riche and
Donald chat on the phone. Max has just arrived back from
Donald is missing
his thirty-some usual protégés and the warm climates, finding the troglodyte
lifestyle of the Center and the six ‘all-business’ eunuchs to be unnerving.
They view it as an extension of school, speak only when spoken to, etc., and
not are not “exuberant” enough for Donald. Simon is
caught watching straight video porn, of two teens, on a computer. He is “sick
with frustration” at watching what he longs to do, and cannot.
Simon finds out the hard
way that castration may or may not do away with sexual urges. He snaps at the
Captain, who decides to leave him alone. Missing Melanie
makes it all the more painful for Simon.
Max Riche offers Donald, whom we find is his
acquaintance of over two years, a job
in exporting eunuch boys to Nazi heirs in Max figures no
one would touch the Nazi deal, anyway, and compliments Donald (surprisingly)
on his morals and ethics.
Captain Donald is transferred to be the military
attaché in the Gilbert and Ellice
Islands. He is shocked to find out that he is to ‘respectable’, finally,
and that the crime of neutering boys there carries the death penalty if
caught.
Simon and his friends return to their normal
school lives after almost the whole of the Autumn term at the Westward-Ho Center. They are reminded that
they are "back in school now." Double-PE takes place on Saturday
mornings. Simon, citing
weak wrists and such, has an accident on the horizontal beam in the Gym. He
comes down square on the beam, right between the legs. Despite being a
eunuch, this jars his spine and Simon becomes very ill. The Janitor cleans up
and Nurse takes Simon away for a poultice and bed rest - preceded by a very
relaxing enema the he enjoys. Memories of Cecco
and the first time he saw him in a painting come to mind as Simon broods,
thankful that he lives in the 21st century and not in the days when boys had
their testicles burnt out with hot irons. He remembers the painting, and how
worried he was about being neutered. He contemplates the thought that some of the boys neutered, back then,
must have died of a broken heart instead of shock or infection. Roddy Fisher has
adapted to School well and has his own circle of friends, including: Colin
Hislop's little brother, Calum, & Michael
Banner. Several Senior Boys have crushes on Roddy and the lot, but they
never get anywhere with them. Simon describes their pleasures as
"innocent." Roddy
concentrates on his new interest of surveying, when he's not recording in the
studio. Uncle Carl buys him a new theodolite.
Mark
comes to visit Simon in the Infirmary. He tells
his friend about taking his Aunt Freda to court, and that he is now homeless.
After Mark's round of meningitis, and losing his voice, the old bitty tries
to throw him out and take his money. Mark's lawyers send HER packing, but
Mark must find a new place to live. He
asks to move in with Simon at his and Roddy's house, overseen by Uncle Carl.
Simon joyfully accepts. Simon describes
Mark's body as "good to look at." Mark is doing well, although he
can't sing and sometimes has trouble talking. "Operation Made Safe" was incremental in his recovery. More of
Mark's
older unreleased work is voiced-over with Roddy, and sales are climbing. Mark
cites that he has plenty of money, and Roddy is doing all the work and gaining
fame. Mark cites that
his producers knew his voice would change, but he doesn’t say how.
Obviously, they don't know he's a eunuch. By June,
according to Mark, the stem-cell experiment to reverse his castration will be
ready. Simon is worried about this, and thinks it might well fail due to the
effects of Neutersol on the erectile nerves. Martin Mooney, a day boy, is raped by
the janitor, one Mr. Meggarty. Martin is very stupid, overweight, and
Simon doesn't like him. Mooney once confronted Simon about his neutering,
saying, "There's something wrong with you, Scott, isn't there?"
Simon is very put out by this, citing that boy-eunuchs simply
"ARE", meaning there's nothing 'wrong' with it and no one faults
them for it. All of the
Masters dread having Mooney in class. On one assignment for species observed
on the wing, the boy writes "Boeing 777". Mooney is brought
to the Infirmary by Nurse, who blows Simon a kiss. Simon decides
that if any boy should be
neutered, it should be Martin Mooney, to take him OUT of the gene pool!
Martin's parents own and operate a local store. Martin slowly
describes his rape by Meggarty to Simon. Simon finds it much like watching
paint dry. Meggarty is described as about 60, bald, squat, grey-faced, and
bristly - an unattractive specimen. The old man likes to tease boys with,
"Like it up yer bum, do yer? Har, har, har!" Meggarty has been
arrested once for such, but the boy who complained was a criminal and not
believed. Meggarty gets away with no time or charges. Mooney says the
attack took place at Sixfields, an
abandoned airport 3 miles from School and
Simon tells
Nurse, who is stunned. She takes a swab, and Simon convinces Martin to not
tell. He begins to form a plan. Simon
contemplates Martin's rape vs. what Uncle Carl and others have done to him.
While it isn't the same thing, he feels that in a way, it is. It is very
confusing to him. Later, at
Sunday
- Roddy begins leading the
Decani side of Choir in
Mark's place. Manchit Khannah, a Hindu, is excused and in the library. During
this time, Simon notices a new choirboy, Paul Abbott, and comes to the
decision that Paul should be neutered. Paul seems to be a good singer and mischievous.
Simon wonders WHY is he is thinking this, yet proceeds to plan Paul's later
neutering. Simon finds
Manchit after Choir. Manchit tells him that Meggarty attacked a boy named Adam Logan once, but the boy got away
with only a torn shirt. Manchit brings up Uncle Carl in the plan to get
Meggarty caught.
Winter Sundays, dark at four, long and boring. Simon
hates them and wonders HOW he is going to get to see Uncle Carl. As luck
would have it, Carl shows up in his new gunmetal-gray Aston-Martin. So much
for the Jaguar!
Uncle Carl, aka. Lord Manningham and viscount, prefers to be not so
formally addressed. Carl announces a
new business venture and wants to take Simon out to talk about it. Simon
brings Manchit along, mainly to keep from being seduced by his Uncle. He is
still confused about his sexuality. Carl takes the
two boys to The Grand, and talks
to Manchit in his native tongue of Telugu
along the way. Manchit is very impressed. The big news is
that Uncle Carl has bought and restored an old house just across the border
from Lymington Haven. He plans to
call it THE SIMON SCOTT CENTRE.
It is to be a country club and retreat as well. Simon is to have a block of
shares, a room and board, and income from it. Manchit is VERY impressed.
The boys tell
Carl about Martin Mooney being raped. They form a plan to have Meggarty grab
Manchit, while Simon gets evidence, pictures, etc. Later, Carl will show up
after coordinating it with cell phones with the boys, bringing the police. The plan works,
and Manchit does some kind of sexual Indian trick to Meggarty, immobilizing
him and leaving him in great pain. He refuses to tell Simon what he did,
citing only that he learned it while at
Meggarty gets
arrested and sentenced to four years. Simon thinks he should have gotten more
than that. Martin Mooney goes AWOL. It turns out, the dull boy hopped a train - a cross country train! Seems he was investigating a car when it took off with him and he just rode it. In the Orient - same time - Dr. Kristin Geller in business for almost a year. Jimmy is castrated by force with nurse Mary's help. He cries and mopes for days, then adjusts. Dr. Geller continues to practice castration under the local laws for income, also "renting out" the "services" of some of her boys, intact and neutered both. One of her boys, Tommy, is castrated for an extra fee from a customer about this time. End of term at Southdown Hall - Simon packs and goes
'home'. Roddy and Mark follow on a later train, giving their friend time
along to think.
2 hours later - Melanie shows up in the Rover. After
being gone for so long, wild sex ensues! She missed Simon very much. Simon tells
Melanie all about Paul Abbott and
how he must be neutered. Melanie heartily agrees, and it makes her so horny
talking about that she can hardly stand it! Melanie falls
into her Dominatrix role and orders Simon to get ready, which means an enema,
for a session of "Ride the
Gelding." Melanie introduces Simon to a new dildo. He is cursing the
thought of it as she mounts him and puts it up his bum. It feels enormous,
but Simon is obedient and agrees to it.
The new dildo causes Simon to have his first
all-out full orgasm of his life via his prostate. It makes him collapse,
and he is frightened to the point of even scaring Melanie. He is determined
that if the only way that he can ever
orgasm is to have a penis or dildo
up his bum, then he NEVER wants to have another one.
Christmas
Morning -
Simon is prepared for a quiet time, but guests come. All of the boys from
School with nowhere to go for Christmas are invited over for dinner by Uncle
Carl. Simon soon notices that as Jack Elliot once said, there aren't a pair
of knackers amongst them! Beneath an 8-foot tree, Simon finds most of his presents are clothes - which he needs and likes. All of the other boys have presents as well. Mark's are mainly music related, and Roddy's new Christmas CD plays in the background. Simon worries about Mark, and wonders how many girls are drooling over Roddy's voice, not knowing that he is a eunuch.
Roddy continues to make new CD's, some with Mark in duet, and puts
some music into storage for later release. Royalty checks continue to come in. Dinnertime - most
of the boys eat themselves into oblivion and are put to bed here and there by
Mrs. Hodges, the housekeeper.
Boxing Day - Uncle Carl proposes
a trip to the new Club he's done up. Simon doesn't tell about the name of it,
and no one notices the plaque with his name on it. Carl shows them Simon's
new room, and Jack is very impressed. The room beyond
appears to be full of junk, until a light reveals that it is a massive model
railway for the club from School to use. Sandie Ross is beside himself. Simon notices that his very old model train is
running, the old Burlington and Northern Diesel, and becomes a bit misty
at seeing it. Simon cannot
figure out WHY, as he looks over the place, that Uncle Carl has done this for
him. He also can't understand why he treats him so, encouraged his neutering,
and uses him as a lover. It makes no sense to Simon. New Years
Resolution
- To get Paul Abbott neutered with Melanie helping! April that
following Spring
- Simon is at the Centre again, and it is all done and open for business. People seem to know who Simon is.
Following an odd noise, Simon finds a bronze nude statue of himself in the
gardens. But the statue is made as an intact boy, not a eunuch. Simon considers
evening the score with a torch! He also wonders at the Cherubs and Putti here
and there, with their sturdy genitals, all intact. He thinks of how their
real life counterparts would have been "suitably pruned" down there
to prevent them from doing this and that. Yet immortalized in marble, they
are not. Simon thinks of "Artistic License."
(Simon's Revenge)
Melanie gets a
new digital camera. She sends Simon a very erotic print. Late April,
Sunday -
While talking with Paul Abbott, Simon realizes that his penis has shrunk to
just over an inch. Roddy goes in
town, and takes the wrong bus back. He gets lost. Simon informs us
that Being exposed to
boy eunuchs every day begins to "get to" Paul Abbott. We learn that
he has a girlfriend, Donna, but
that he is unable to do much of anything with her, sexually. Simon suggests a
chat with Roddy Fisher, after telling Paul what he can. Paul surprises Simon by referring to Roddy as talented and beautiful.
Simon and Paul
attend tea, at Mr. Carter's insistence. Roddy is absent.
Dr. Holroyd sends for Simon, when the Dr. is unable to locate
Lord Manningham (Uncle Carl). Uncle Carl doesn't like to use that title. The
Dr. tells Simon that Roddy has been brutally attacked and is in the hospital.
Roddy's injuries
include being beaten with a large stick, trampled by spiked running shoes,
and being gang raped. He is found by Mr.
Jackson near St. Augustine's Church after being beaten and left. Simon receives
permission, and goes to visit Roddy in hospital the next day. At this time,
Carl is abroad again. Mark is also
abroad, visiting Professor Zuniger at Simon visits
Roddy in the hospital. It turns out that the little boy grabbed the wrong bus
and wound up in the wrong part of town. (Roddy is becoming somewhat little for his age,
despite being a eunuch.) Roddy tells his story to Simon - he was attacked by three boys in black school uniforms. The uniforms had an emblem much like a rocket on them, as perceived by Roddy. Gray wool sweaters/vests are also on the list.
Simon fears that Roddy may be suicidal, after
being raped again,
since he was used a sex toy by his adoptive older brother when he was taken
in by the Knight-Foxes. Quite upset, Simon bids Roddy goodbye with a soft kiss on the cheek and stops off at the school outfitters, Souter's. He identifies the uniform as that of St. Anselme's Diocesan Catholic Upper School. Simon knows nothing of this mysterious school. They do not play them at rugby, or anything else. Simon seeks out Jimmy Brotherton, "the fount of all local knowledge," full name: Harry James Brotherton. Jimmy refers to
St. Anselme's as "the leper colony". No one goes to St. Anselme's if they can avoid it. The school
even takes day boys from the local residential
care facility (Beechwood) and boys released for school under Youth Custody. Jimmy then makes
a comment to Simon that "boys like you" left their mark on history.
Jimmy seems to know a lot about
eunuchs. As Simon goes off
thinking about this comment, he thinks of the something that he learned from
Classical Greek, which he has just begun to study: "The glory of youth
is ruined," a comment made by Aeschylus.
Aeschylus was referring to castration. There are no
plans on neutering Jimmy, according to Simon. A white-faced,
nervous, second-former finds Simon, and tells him that Matron is looking for
him.
Conjecture that Nurse, formerly, has been
promoted to Matron now. Simon reports to
the san for his usual enema session. He is not impressed to find that Matron has taken to wrapping a tight
elastic band around the base of the eunuch boys' little penises to
prevent them from wetting on her floor. She states that boy eunuchs have
little to no bladder control, which Simon finds ridiculous. No
mention of WHO wet on the floor during his enema. Simon is helpless
to do anything about this humiliating process, however, and endures it. Simon, after
being cleansed and dismissed by Matron, asks Mr. Trefusis and Dr. Holroyd why
they don't play St. Anselme's. He is informed that St. Anselme's belief is to
come out on top, come hell or high water. They have not played them since the
debacle of a
Simon is given "full latitude of discretion" by Dr. Holroyd in
identifying Roddy's attackers after he tells them what he knows already.
It seems that the Staff is already aware of Simon's talents at sleuthing.
Simon investigates the School after hours (it is a day school only, no
Boarders) and finds a
great amount of hateful graffiti painted on a wall there. Simon returns to
his own school and finds Graham
"Jack" Elliot, who rounds everyone up for the "council of war".
Little Calum Hislop, a eunuch by mumps,
suggests infiltration.
"It takes one to find one," he declares.
Calum chooses Michael Banner, Christopher Foulkes,
Elliott minor, Jan Raxworthy, Sean Ellison, and Peter Forster. All of these boys are on
the small side, and not really noticeable. (Elliot minor is not Graham
"Jack" Elliot. Elliot minor's only claim to fame is having been
neutered with no local anesthetic, which he claims didn't hurt much at all.)
Next day - Mark returns from Prof. Zuniger's. He shows Simon
the work so far, and is now wearing pale blue boys' briefs, Y-front, instead
of girls' white underwear. Simon is shocked
to see that Mark now has a penis and a
scrotum, which appears to be full. Mark explains that he has neoprene implants, to stretch his
scrotum. Simon deems Mark's extended penis (lowered by a ligament cut) as
small and limp, but a penis all the same. Mark also states that his voice,
ruined by meningitis, is returning to a good alto form. He informs Simon that
his new testicles, being grown via
stem-cell culture, are developing nicely. Simon shares his
plan to identify those who attacked Roddy, with Mark. All they can do is wait
for "The Magnificent Seven"
to infiltrate and come back with information.
That evening - Roddy comes back to the san at school.
To Nurse's disappointment, he is under strict orders for NO ENEMAS. Simon goes to
visit Roddy in the san. Roddy is a bit depressed, "sore", as Simon
tells it, about his circumcision. While Roddy was ecstatic to lose his balls,
he is not happy with his radical circumcision nor having been repeatedly sodomized
and now beaten up. Simon gives him a kiss goodbye and warns him that Paul
Abbott will be by to talk. Paul talks to
Roddy, then finds Simon. Simon shows him a picture of Melanie, taken with her
new digital camera. She is holding up a burdizzo.
Paul is stunned and wants to meet her.
Calum Hislop, effervescent and about to burst with
news, finds Simon and tells him what they've found. Calum and his
party locate four boy eunuchs at St.
Anselme's. Laurie Lloyd, dark hair, is the only one whose full name we
find out. Lloyd informs Simon's
spies that eunuch boys are badly treated at St. Anselme's, and are often
beaten. One of them even has a front tooth missing. Another of them, Bertie, has recently been beaten up.
Sean Ellison turns out to be one of the last boys
neutered by Dr. Jolly. Laurie Lloyd
gives the names of Roddy's
attackers as Keith Medford (The Crusher, looks like Dracula with his
teeth), along with Derek Robinson and Liam Halloran. They are all
pre-release from Young Offenders.
Lloyd also describes how he was an orphan at a
local orphanage, where ALL of the boys are neutered by "having their
balls pricked".
This is to keep them from messing around with the girls. One boy in Lloyd's
party seems rather lean and hungry and anxious. Simon recognizes that look -
being unable to DO anything with girls is driving him wild! Trying to think
of a plan for revenge, Simon
visits Simon meets with
the Staff and presents the idea of inviting St. Anselme's to a competition,
which will take place on the University's neutral grounds. Mr. Carter knows Mr.
Uncle Carl and Mrs.
Nostell are to be briefed and ready at the meet. Carl's return from abroad,
on what business, is NOT specified. Simon later calls
Melanie on his cellular and finds that the Neutersol Company has sent her a
free sample of Neutersol Plus. They arrange a meeting in the hotel to neuter
Paul Abbott, much like they did Tommy Chow. They call it "The Holiday Inn Arrangement."
Next weekend - Simon and Melanie take Paul to the
hotel, where Melanie neuters him with the Neutersol Plus. She floods herself
in excitement again, but does manage to get it done. Paul is quiet on
the train back. Simon wonders how Donna will take it. Three weeks
later - Early May, a lovely Saturday
afternoon at the University. Simon
spies Paul Abbott kissing Laurie Lloyd, and realizes that Paul is really
gay. Simon wonders just what it is that the two boy eunuchs plan to do with
one another, though! Simon is entered
for the 800 meter run. It is his best event. The boys from St.
Anselme's don't do so well in any events. They are either clumsy, disregard
the rules, or are out of shape.
Derek Robinson insults the Roebuck Twins between events. Jon throws him when he is barged by Derek and dislocates his shoulder. Liam Halloran comes to help, and is worked over by Jamie. Liam is left with either
a busted femur or dislocated hip, Jamie isn't sure which. He'd never used
that throw before. Paramedics are
called, and Mrs. Nostell identifies Derek and Liam to DI Samuelson, who takes them into custody.
Crusher, still at large, had not been doing well at the
meet. He turns up looking for his mates, sees the police and Mrs. Nostell,
and runs off. Simon pursues him. Crusher is no
match for Simon, who runs him down on a broken bridge with a large section
gone. Murderous with rage, Simon screams at him to jump it. Whether from fear
of the police or the goading of a eunuch, Crusher jumps. He falls. Crusher falls
into the power lines below, is electrocuted, and falls onto train tracks
below the bridge. His body is torn in half by a passing train as Simon looks
on. Simon takes one
look down and vomits. Simon cleans up
and receives a gold medal for the 800M; the Roebuck Twins take silver and
bronze. Uncle Carl points out that Simon's running shorts are nearly
transparent, and while on the podium, everyone got a good look at Simon's
parts, or lack thereof. Simon and the
choir perform a Requiem Mass for Crusher, but Roddy is not there; he is not
well enough as it is and it would have been too much. Crusher is written off with
"death by misadventure." Uncle Carl takes over the running of St. Anselme's, much to Simon's chagrin. He can only wonder WHY he'd want to! Big changes are planned for that school, which the Staff of Southdown refers to as a "hellhole". St. Anselme's School, unaware of what's about to happen with its running, continues on for a bit. Carl makes plans to overhaul the Staff.
Hugh Cameron reads “The Alteration” by Kingsely
Amis and takes up choir. Editor's Note: PURE CONJECTURE - While it is never mentioned, Simon HAS been thinking about at least ONE private enterprise in the exportation of boy-eunuchs for servants to the upper class here and there and around the world. He knows of ONE ring for sure, and is getting suspicious. (Read "Made Safe 1 and 2"). In the duty of finding out Roddy's attackers and bringing them to justice, however, this thought is dismissed quickly. Although Simon doesn't know it, this theory will prove true in "Ricky Goes to School", where Carl and Max Riche have been trading eunuch-boys to the Arabs for economic (oil) reasons. St. Anselme's School undergoes a "violent" shakeup. The young offenders students are expelled, many teachers are fired and replaced with younger ones, Carl Scott takes over the Board, and most of the Board is sacked as well. Funds come pouring in from all over to restructure the School and cleanse its horrible reputation. In a dramatic move by Carl Scott, the School is bought out from under Diocesan control. The Papal crest is removed from the emblem, and the remaining Governors are sacked. St. Anselme's Boarding Wing is reopened. The Chapel is remodeled in a non-denominational manner. More problem students are expelled; more teachers are fired (sacked); mainly the old incompetent ones. Late May, at
the Simon Scott Centre - at Uncle Carl's Suite. Simon meets Marcia, a young girl being trained up by Uncle Carl for
'something'. Marcia states that she knows who Simon is, but that she wouldn't
want to DO IT with a boy anyway. Simon learns that
Paul Abbott, in the company of Laurie Lloyd, has gotten into selling his body
for money with older men. Paul is
caught in a sting, but Laurie escapes. Paul is put in rehab, where he is constantly deluged by
straight-sex videos and such featuring Asian girls and boy eunuchs. He is
quite miserable and begs Simon for help. Simon asks Uncle
Carl about what will happen to Derek and Liam. He is expecting them to
"have their balls pricked," but is shockingly disappointed to find
that they won't. Uncle Carl explains what a wonderful thing that neutering is
for boys, and what it has done for Simon. He cites that Simon is fast on the way to becoming a celebrity, pointing out
his many adventures and awards, and cites that these two don't deserve to be
neutered. It would provide, Uncle Carl, says, competition for Simon. Derek and Liam
are taken back into custody. Uncle Carl orders them to be
"birched". When Simon hears
all of this, he runs to the window and bursts into tears, thinking that his
Uncle has missed the point totally. November - Age 15 – “Simon Takes Stock” – Simon plays rugby in the cold and mud, takes a hot shower. Note that this chapter takes place after "Made Safe".
Hugh Cameron,
almost 12,
cricket fan, asks Simon about castration.
Hugh is almost a twin of
the boy in the painting “Young England”.
Hugh has a Simon explains
the ball-pricking procedure to Hugh.
Hugh is surprised to learn that he would retain his penis as
well. He is also surprised to find
out, that while he hasn’t had a girlfriend yet, that he will no longer be able
“to enjoy a wank” after neutering.
Hugh reports having dry orgasms. Something inside Simon snaps – like the Greek boy eunuch Hermotimus from Herodotus’ Histories, Simon realizes that he too is a “nothing” – not male, not female. Conjecture - Not long before he turns 16, Simon will find that he hates his Uncle Max on a deep level. For now, there is a veneer of indifference towards Max Riche on Simon's part. It is probably at this point in time that Simon's psyche develops the tools it needs, in order to make the events in "Simon in the Orient" possible. Paul Abbott, one of the boys Simon helped to have neutered, is still undergoing psychiatric care. Paul will be released back to Southdown Hall the spring before Simon turns 16.
Next day – Hugh writes Simon a note saying that he doesn’t
want to be neutered anymore and is going for a Naval Cadetship. Simon
surmises that Hugh will be buggered rotten in the Navy anyway.
Simon retires to Juniors’ dayroom, where he finds – in
a collection of women’s magazines – an article about himself.
“Auntie Jennifer Remembers”, after a quick scan by Simon, turns
out to be about Simon himself. Simon
is not impressed.
“They tell me that my nephew Simon is doing very
well these days,”
the article begins, quoting Jennifer Saunderson.
Mark Maitland
back from his last surgery in Simon and Mark
meet at the old Knight-Fox house, which is not well kept up. While still clean, Simon feels it to be
forlorn. Mark shows Simon his ‘new’
genitals, telling him look but don’t touch. Mrs. Hodges, the housekeeper, has left them tea and a snack. Simon and Mark
watch a typical porno video. Simon
becomes increasingly frustrated at his desire, but lack of ability to fuck
girls. Mark leaves early
before Simon, leaving him a note reminding him of his duty with the junior
model railroad club.
Later, at the Simon Scott Centre-
Simon finds Marcia in his
room. Marcia is the protégé of Carl. She
has a master pass key.
Marcia seduces Simon, who performs devastating
oral sex on her. Marcia then gets Simon to take off his underwear, a small
white thong. Marcia is amazed
by Simon’s eunuch state. She had no
idea, she admits. Simon loses his
temper and throws Marcia out. He then sobs for quite some time in realizing
that he has cheated on Melanie. It never recurs to him that Melanie once cheated
on him with a “real boy”. Simon visits his bronze look-alike statue in the garden. The statue has a full bag, unlike Simon, who considers taking a cutting torch to it again to even the score. Simon prepares to
leave on the bus with the junior railway club. He is joined by one Michael Cribb, a cheery freckled 11-year
old. Cribb
is not impressed
with Simon, obviously expecting more of the “great” Simon Scott. Cribb almost
talks Simon senseless. Simon returns to school and retrieves the magazine with the article in it. Jennifer Saunderson states that Carl (Manningham) Scott was attached to a section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and doing work overseeing international human-rights legislations. Simon is not convinced. Jennifer claims, in the article, that Simon “owes is all to me” for how successful he now is. Simon is REALLY not impressed by this point. Simon’s thoughts
are interrupted by Michael Cribb
and his friends, in search of cocoa, when Cribb says,
“Is it true that Simon Scott is
an ‘it’ – him and that other 4th-year he hangs out with?” Cribb’s statement
and Jennifer’s article weigh heavily on Simon’s mind as he wanders outside. Simon comes to realize, and think of himself, as a ‘nothing’. He also comes to believe that he owes NOTHING to ANYONE. Some weeks before - Simon overhears an argument at lunch that makes him realize that neutering is taking place at an even earlier age than ever before. Selwyn Cox, 11, fat and unattractive, adopted, and a "disaster" of accidents, thinks that ALL boys get to have their balls pricked. Simon concludes that Selwyn's being neutered is a good thing, to take his sluggish genes out of circulation. Another boy, Cardew, misinformed as well, believes that all boys are circumcised. Timms, the table monitor, tries to clarify things. It seems much like talking to a brick wall. Roger Mortimer, a Welsh redhead, dumps the water jug over Cox's head in anger. "Simon Toes the Line" - Age 15 very near 16 - Simon meets up with Uncle Carl at the Simon Scott Centre shortly after his go with Marcia. Uncle Carl pulls out his briar pipe to smoke. Simon knows from this sign that he's in for it, despite the assurance from Carl that he wants to 'talk business'. Simon's height given at 5'8". Carl tells Simon that he knows about the Marcia-incident and threatens to tell Melanie about it. Simon breaks down, even considering suicide if Melanie were to dump him. His first idea is to grab the overhead wire at the railway. After recomposing himself, Simon asks what Carl wants him to do. The first thing Carl wants is to "have a good look at him". This consists of Simon being "screwed like a girl, spread-eagled on the bed..." Simon doesn't argue and goes along. Simon experiences a prostatic orgasm while being fucked by Carl. Carl realizes this and seems very upset, even shocked, but never tells Simon why. After cleaning up, Uncle Carl reveals his plans to increase the boy-eunuch population of St. Anselme's, which is now HIS school. Simon is to be put in charge of this mission, otherwise, Carl might just tell Melanie of Simon's go with Marcia. Faced with no choice, Simon returns to Southdown with Uncle Carl in the Aston Martin and begins seeking out his other eunuch friends for help and ideas. Note - this gives a hint that there is probably closed-circuit TV monitoring Simon's rooms at the Centre, as well as his every move there. Note - Carl still has the car. He usually trades off regularly. Sometime during this Term - Carl Scott (Lord Manningham) & Max Riche visit the Orient "on business". Marcia goes with them; it is her first trip abroad. The party pays a visit to Dr. Kristin Geller's clinic/orphanage, where they bribe her into making a deal to take delivery of, medically examine, and neuter, orphaned boys who are to be shipped to the Middle East in exchange for pleasant relations to insure oil production. (According to Carl). He describes their operation as "a very small cog in the big machine." "Dr. Geller Goes Into Partnership": Carl's party arrives at Dr. Geller's in a silver Mercedes. Dr. Geller takes an instant dislike to Riche. Dr. Geller sees an 8x10 of Simon. Carl Scott states that they are loosely operating under UNICEF. Dr. Geller doesn't believe him. Carl explains his bargain in that Dr. Geller will receive, care for, neuter, then ship out x-number of boys in shipments for Carl's and Max's organization. Carl provides her with 100 packs of Neutersol-Plus. Conjecture - this puts a kink in Dr. Geller's business of "legal castrations," at the rate of 3 or 4 per week. By this time, Jimmy is the only neutered bum-boy there. Conjecture as well that the population of nearly 130 boys has diminished by this time. Later that day - the first shipment of 16 boys arrives, aged 8-12. Ricky Silva, fair skinned with blonde hair and blue eyes, but Chinese in features, is among them. Carl explains that the boys were found in a camp allegedly run the Peace Corps, when it fact, it was a boys'-only camp run by hippies. The hippies take their own children and abandon the rest. Dr. Geller resists Carl's offer. Carl informs her that he knows that she makes money off of the use of some of her boys, neutered or not, as prostitutes. Dr. Geller concedes to his wishes, for which she will profit as well. Dr. Geller and the staff get the orphaned boys settled in, bathed, fed, given exams, enemas, buzz haircuts, etc. None of them are circumcised, and all are in good to fair health. Jimmy, the only neutered boy "on hand" at that time, is "rented" by Max Riche. Marcia and Carl have a go as well in their room. Dr. Geller tapes it all on CCTV for blackmail later. Same day - in the showers, Dr. Geller finds Ricky Silva alone, and talks to him about castration. Ricky accepts it, and almost begs Dr. Geller to do him right then before he changes his mind. Dr. Geller obliges him, surgically castrating him and deciding to keep him, then puts him to bed. The only clue to Ricky's identity is an old, battered United Airlines baggage tag. Ricky doesn't remember his father, and only vaguely recalls "a woman", and reports that he once had a cat. Note - Ricky is not nullified as Kyle was, about two years prior to now. Part of the deal with Carl and Max is that for less than 20 boys done, Dr. Geller may keep one. For over each 20, she may keep 2. She keeps Ricky, surprising Carl with the news that she's already cut him. Marcia seems to hate Ricky. Carl doesn't approve of her attitude. Conjecture that Ricky reminds her too much of Simon. The process of Dr. Geller's processing of the boys for Carl's enterprise is to take a week. The boys will be neutered via Neutersol-Plus on day 5, then picked up by someone after 7 days. Carl's party leaves in the Mercedes. One week later - the boys, all fed, healthy, clothed, and unknown to THEM, neutered, are shipped out. Only Ricky remains behind; Ricky is the only one surgically castrated. Ricky asks if he'll have to become a "bum-boy" like Jimmy - who likes it. Dr. Geller assures him he won't. A plan begins to form in Dr. Geller's mind to ensure Ricky's future, as he proves to be sweet, bright, and she becomes attached to him. At this same time in England - Simon reasons that the only 4 eunuchs from St. Anselme's have probably been shipped out in the School's restructuring. Faced with this prospect, Simon recalls his own neutering - mistakenly remembering that he was 12 and not 11 when it was done to him. Note - Simon doesn't seem to keep very good track of his birthdays. We can conjecture that since no one celebrated them much, he doesn't really care. We can conjecture Simon's birthday to be in July (Simon in the Orient). Southdown Hall, with something of a culture change going on, becomes reputable among boys, especially eunuchs, that there is a disproportionate number of boy-eunuchs in attendance, and that neutered boys will not be out of place there. The culture change that Simon mentions involves neutering, with Neutersol - of course - happening at earlier and earlier ages now. The number is approaching 80 by this time, requiring eunuch-only dormitory expansions. Simon theorizes that neutering, even as young as 7 or 8, is becoming so commonplace as to be thought of as nothing more than another vaccination. Boys might not even realize that anything is missing until they go to School and meet 'intact' boys there. The reformulation of the compound from a gel-like substance to more of a liquid now requires a Band-Aid on the injection sites. Jon Roebuck comes up with the idea to become coaches to younger boys in athletics at St. Anselme's. He figures the boys there will soon discover that their new Southdown Coaches are eunuchs, and want to have it done too. Simon and the Roebuck Twins make up their coaching skills list, submit it, and are approved by their own Mr. Carter and one Peter Gilchrist at St. Anselme's. Manchit Khannah and Roddy Fisher are slated to serve as bowling and rugby coaches in season, later on. Following Wednesday - Simon & the Twins coach boxing at St. Anselme's. The two 11 year-old contenders are John Clegg, Northerner, and Owen Roberts, Welsh. Roberts gets punched. Simon and the Twins call it a day and head for the showers to clean up and socialize. Owen Roberts spies Jamie Roebuck showering. He asks if it was an illness. Roberts has neutering explained to him, somewhat loudly. This draws a crowd of other 2nd and 3rd Years. Simon figures they've "made a hit." Wednesday Next - Simon concludes that Owen Roberts would make a wonderful eunuch, as excited and curious as he was. Simon is reminded of Roddy Fisher by Roberts' appearance. Roberts, however, is missing from practice. Simon spots a mystery in the boy's disappearing. Much to his shock, there is no roll call or bed check, which would have spotted the boy missing much sooner. Simon plans to remedy this. Roberts, they conclude, is an avid bird-watcher. Clues put together lead Simon and the Twins to Blue Circle Works at West Clayton, upon Harry (Jimmy) Brotherton's knowledge of the local geography. Owen Roberts, it seems, was in pursuit of an owl the day before and climbed into a derelict water tower and fell in. His resulting injuries are a 4" gash to his leg and severe damage to his balls. Roberts is rescued after a night in the water tank, miraculously not bleeding to death, by Simon and the Twins. Roberts is taken by ambulance to the Hospital, and Simon & the Twins are deemed heroes. Roberts undergoes surgery to repair his wounds and is discharged later to Southdown's San to recover, as St. Anselme's is not yet functional. Simon visits him to find out that the boy has had 2 units of blood, several stitches, 2 enemas from Nurse, and has been surgically castrated. He explains that he wasn't afraid of having to be castrated because his friends were eunuchs, too. He also explains to Simon that from life on the farm, he was used to the idea of castrations and that his Aunt frequently gave him enemas as maintenance. He also shows Simon his bandaging. Simon thinks of his little penis as 'neat', just above the flat dressings. Fearing an emotional onset, Simon kisses Owen Roberts' cheek and leaves. On the way out, he spies a whole shelf full of Neutersol Rapid packs, a good 50 of them. He wonders why Nurse has those in stock. Following Wednesday - Simon and the Twins are summoned by Mr. Carter and Dr. Holroyd, in their Sunday best, to taxi to Connaught Rooms near Holborn, London. It turns out to be a formal awards ceremony. Simon isn't paying much attention, because he has to pee. Jamie Roebuck and Simon receive the Society's Silver Cross Award for heroism in their rescue of Owen Roberts and in getting the old water tank demolished. Jon Roebuck receives the Bronze Cross, the highest award for his role. Normally very self-effacing, the Twins are highly embarrassed. The boys return to School thereafter. Simon finds Roberts dressed in pyjamas, sitting in a chair and reading. Nurse is gone; Roberts explains that she is over at St. Anselme's, filling in to "treat the walking wounded" as she does each day. Roberts looks forward to having his stitches out the next day, and is advised to consider a change of underwear styles. Simon suggests the girls' thong, as he wears, since there's nothing to support any longer. Roberts decides, after a talk with Mr. Trefusis, to join the Choir. Simon agrees, in that all Welsh kids can sing somewhat, and that castration will only make Roberts sing better. Simon tells him this. Owen cries, Simon kisses him goodbye again before he starts, too, and leaves. Sunday next - 3rd Sunday in Advent - A Choir concert at St. Anselme's. Simon realizes that Owen Roberts has a beautiful voice and that Roddy will probably be upstaged shortly. The concert is a big success. Last Day of Term - 1 week before Christmas - Everyone is leaving or gone, and Simon realizes he'll be spending the Holiday all alone. Simon watches everyone else leave for home, and realizes that he doesn't even have a home to go to. He thinks about his parents, wondering what's become of them, and becomes depressed again. Later in the day, Simon answers the Staff phone and it is Melanie, wondering where he is. 'Pipkin,' P. Hipkin BA, a Staff member, has failed to give Simon Melanie's 2 other messages about a Christmas Holiday in Spain. Mr. Carter rushes Simon to the airport at 2PM, just in time to catch Melanie and her parents for the trip on Iberian Airways to Alicante. Melanie's parents are John Hamilton and The Hon. Selena Scott Hamilton, Uncle Carl's sister. John makes frequent trips to South African, where Simon originated. Simon cannot tell him much, though, which disappoints John. In Spain, Simon relates the tale of Owen Roberts to Melanie. Melanie becomes aroused at the thought of Owen's surgical castration, leading to wild sex (as best Simon can). Melanie admits that she might be falling in love with Simon; Simon wants to say 'there's not much point in that', but doesn't. He realizes that Melanie knows nothing about Marcia. New Years comes and goes. January 3rd - Start of Term - Simon to be coaching diving/swimming at St. Anselme's. Simon had received a letter from Owen Roberts citing that he's healed up nicely and adjusting to his new life. Simon stays at the Centre just before School starts up, even though it will mean facing his Uncle Carl to report that the eunuch count has gone up by the total of ONE. Simon discovers upon his arrival at the Centre that Carl and Max Riche are gone together for a trip to Asia. Simon doesn't want to think about what all shady business that will entail. During Lent Term - Quiet, according to Simon, coaching again. He spies upon 2 other boys in the changing room, through the matchboard dividers. Both have recently had their balls pricked. Afterwards, in the mandatory showers, Simon counts 10 more boys with either Band-Aids on their scrotums, or obvious shrinkage and realizes that neutering at St. Anselme's has caught on. He reasons if there are 10, there are probably double that more. Simon then realizes why Nurse was making the day trips, and why she had so many Neutersol kits in stock. "Nothing succeeds with boys like a craze," Simon thinks. Simon returns to School to write to Uncle Carl about the news. Simon in the Orient:
February - Simon nearing age 16 -
Simon ponders his eunuch status, given that at age 16, boys are of legal age
to have sex:
"When I get
to be 17, I can get myself a driving license. At 18 I shall be
able to vote, and legally go into pubs. But at 16? At 16, a boy can
legally fuck girls." He also muses: "Okay.
Castration affects boys in different ways. Take me for example. As an
11-year-old I’d been on the short and stocky side. People said I was “homely”
or more bluntly “pudding-faced". My hair had been mouse-brown, but within a
year of being neutered I’d become blond. I’d also begun to grow taller. Now,
four years on, I had a well-muscled, slim body that was good to look at. My
bum-cheeks were rounded, but athletics and especially hurdling, had turned
them to solid muscle. Nothing could change the fact that my face was too round
and my nose too short, but at least people didn’t look away. By contrast,
there was Selwyn Cox in the second year. A fat, stupid, unattractive
little boy, castration seemed to have made little or no difference. He was now
a fat, stupid, unattractive little boy who would never be able to “do it” with
a girl." Simon also calculates that he was 11 years, 7 months old when he was neutered. Four years have gone by, now that Simon is more intelligent and mature enough to accurately recall his age at that time, placing his birthday in July. He also recalls 4 boys were neutered that day, instead of 2.
Nightmares begin to plague Simon more and more, often coming in visions of (probably) nonexistent family members. It is interesting to note that with such a convoluted and large family as the Scotts, that Simon has no real family of his own. One predominant nightmare is one of an old lady fondling Simon's genitals (or lack thereof) and making fun of him.
Second & even First Year students begin showing up at Southdown Hall School, already neutered. The practice, Simon reads in medical journals, is becoming more and more commonplace, as are press articles about the practice and the disorders it can cure.
Roddy Fisher begins to develop a sinus condition, causing him to snore at night, sometimes loudly. Roddy lives in Dorm A of the eunuchs' quarters with Simon & the Roebuck Twins.
Southdown had about a dozen
boy-eunuchs when Simon arrived, but after the tenure of Dr. Joli
(Jolly), Simon
estimates the count to be 30-40. Simon describes Dr. Holroyd, the
Headmaster, and some changes at the School this term:
"Dr Holroyd
who combined being an honours MD with a specialism in social psychology, was
no ivory-tower academic. He had always maintained a Chinese wall between the
upper school and the junior school. A literal one: the only physical
connection between the two wings of the building were the fire doors and they
would only open when the fire alarm was set off.
(Note -
This gives us a clue that there is an age limit on the boy-eunuch population
of Southdown. The older boys, segregated by Dr Holroyd, all would appear to be
intact. There is not mention of any eunuch older than Simon and his friends.) Dr. Holroyd, Simon notes, never mentions the eunuch status to the boys who are such, but seems to hold them in regard for what they have proven they can do. He also maintains a "Chinese Wall", literally, between the upper and lower schools, which are connected only by fire doors.
Southdown's population is estimated at near 200 by Simon. Of this, 80 are eunuchs.
Simon has developed some kind of relationship with Gunner, the Groundsman. He often uses the man's kettle in the sports room.
Ash Wednesday, Simon meets up with
Mark Maitland, who describes his new stem-cell cultured and implanted
"new" testicles as having had the following effects on him. Simon notices
that Mark's voice is creaky, no longer so familiar, and that Mark is beginning to sprout dark fuzz on his upper lip:
“The good
Prof” he replied, after a pause, “thought that things were going too slowly –
that they needed kick-starting. He’d developed this booster; but the trouble
was, it was totally new and he’d no idea what side effects there might be. Mark has been at the clinic under Dr. Zuniger's care since New Years. Simon has not seen him since Christmas.
Simon and Mark have coffee, then Simon retires to the Lemon Tree Cafe after a grueling exam. He overhears some girls talking about a large girl called "Cave Woman," who turns out to be a boy forced into a sex change operation when his cock was blown off by a firecracker. This only serves to disturb Simon further. No further mention of Cave Woman.
Simon returns to school and finds a man named Harmsworth waiting for him. Harmsworth is "extremely tall" and well dressed. Dr. Holroyd grants Simon a leave from school. Simon's only clue as to where his is going is that the temperature is about 33C there - in February.
Arriving at the airport after a fast pack for hopefully 2 weeks of being gone, Simon finds that they are headed to Singapore. He is dressed as if for PE class, and has packed a book of Wordsworth's poems. Upon arriving, Simon is handed over to one Lt. Robin Henchard, who is much more talkative than Harmsworth.
While Simon is IN the Orient, and is in the 'neighborhood' of Dr. Geller's clinic, he never goes there, or knows of it.
Henchard and Simon take rooms at the Furama Hotel, where Brigadier Henderson has his office. Henderson interviews Simon, revealing that he answers to General Frobisher, whom Simon has already met. ("Simon's Summertime Adventures")
During the interview, Henderson reveals that Frobisher - ADMI (Assistant Director, Military Intelligence) feels that Simon is good at finding things out. Henderson presents Simon with a small photo of the boy's Uncle Max - Major Max Riche. Simon admits to this relationship.
Robin gets Simon "kitted out" as a 2nd Lieutenant. Records are falsified, and despite his age and the Queen's rules, Simon is temporarily drafted.
After a rough and slow train ride, Simon
finds himself at a British Army camp in the middle of the sultry,
insect-infested Malaysian jungle. Robin explains:
"The pinnacles
of red, crumbly-looking earth were not termite nests but the result of illicit
opencast tin-mining. That the handsome grey-barked trees with herringbone
patterns on their trunks were not a native variety but rubber trees imported
from South America in the 1800’s. That the Chinese would open up a
market-garden wherever there was a few feet of space. Jeremy Fothergill, S O grade 4, takes Simon to meet Brigadier B.P. Rawlings, who is, at that moment, impatient and snappish. He is also known as "The Water Buffalo", which suits his build and his temper. The base seems to employ Gurkha soldiers as well.
Rawlings explains that 6 months prior,
a Diplomat had shown up in the area, a fellow named Manningham.
Simon realizes that this is obviously one of Uncle Carl's (aka Lord
Manningham) mysterious trips. Rawlings explains:
"He’d been to
talk to the local politicians – the Kuala Lumpur lot – and he went on to visit
the Sultan of Pahang. Before flying home he stopped off here to say everything
was going ahead and I could expect the contractors any day.
The
contractors moved in and started building jeep tracks into the mountains.
Nothing to do with the army; we just left them to it.” 8 weeks prior - Manningham returns with Major Max Riche, in charge of security. Rawlings doesn't know what he is a Major "in". Uncle Carl "vanishes", leaving Riche behind. One week later - Riche vanishes, and a murdered taxi driver turns up.
Shortly thereafter - things begin to go wrong in the mountains - waste, explosions, landslides without precipitating weather; all of this is blamed on Malaysian bandits, until a very old bandit mentions a British Officer - Riche.
Three weeks prior - Rawlings sends in an armed patrol, which is ambushed. There are no survivors. He loses his son in this "fiasco".
Simon is informed that on this mission, he might be killed. He mentions notifying Dr. Holroyd, since there is no one else. He is given a room, and meets Private Bolsover: The speaker looked to be in his eighties, and probably was. He wore a private’s uniform, and a private he may have been, but many, many years before. I listened to his story. As a very young man he’d fought through Burma with Fourteenth Army. Surviving, young Private Bolsover decided he liked the Far East, so when peace came in 1945, instead of repatriation, he sought a transfer to a unit that was staying on."
After a quiet dinner, Simon goes to bed and has bad dreams about listening to girls talking about sex with boys. "They weren't talking about me," he muses, that morning. After breakfast, Simon goes for a walk to get used to the climate. Simon begins wondering, although he doesn't go into great detail, just what all of Uncle Carl's trips to the Far East are about and WHAT he was doing THERE with Uncle Max.
Odds are, Carl and Max are scoping out Dr. Geller.
Simon meets up with a local- and very scruffy - Chinese boy, Kim-Bok, 12 or 13, near the forest. The boy offers a "wanky-wanky" to Simon, who refuses. Simon realizes that the boy probably does this for other soldiers as a source of income, and instead asks for a look at the boy. Simon describes Kim-Bok as being built like a 5th Century Greek artwork, despite being dirty and poorly dressed.
Kim-Bok, after seeing Simon, is clearly impressed and asks, "Cut off?" at the sight of Simon having no testicles. He calls Simon "a great man." Simon explains: "Nobody now alive remembers the Chinese Empire for real. But whilst it existed, posts in the Manchu Court – the Forbidden City - were held entirely by eunuchs. Families with more than one son frequently got some of the younger ones castrated in the hope of finding them a niche in the Imperial Service. Being so close to the centre of power gave some of the eunuchs very great influence. “Ta Jen” was not just an honorific. It was often literally true. Some Chief Eunuchs ran the country, and not for the country’s good. Kim-Bok had no doubt heard legends of the Dragon Throne and the court eunuchs, no doubt with a certain frisson at the idea that, if he’d lived a century earlier, he too might have had his balls taken out. And now, here I was. I was a eunuch, therefore, by definition, I was a 'Great Man'."
Note - Kim-Bok might have known about the Chinese eunuchs of the past, but he doesn't seem surprised to see that Simon, whom he calls "Ta Jen", still has a (small) penis that is NOT cut off too. Chinese eunuchs had ALL of their external genitalia removed.
Five more children appear out of the bush - Ah Foon, Ah Feng, Ah Choi, Ah Yip and Ah Yau. Kim-Bok introduces Simon to them, and the mention of his eunuch status, the children become a "captive audience" to Simon, fascinated.
Simon shows them a photo of Uncle Max. The children ALL recognize him, describing him, in pidgin English, as a "very dirty man" who likes "wanky-wanky" and anal intercourse - a LOT.
Ah Choi says that Riche went to "Jay Faw", which Simon later finds is "Jade Falls". The children drift off. Simon masturbates Kim-Bok to a dry orgasm as a reward for his help. "Pidgin English" seems to begin to stick in Simon's mind.
No one believes Simon's information, until he mentions the Chinese children all recognizing the photo. Someone mentions a complaint from a Chinese boy, name unknown, about a local British Officer some weeks before.
Jade Falls is described as a ghost town, a tourist resort high up that never took off, but is still standing. By 2PM that afternoon, Simon is under the command of Subhadar Singh in a full-blown military operation to capture Jade Falls.
While hiding, Simon's patrol meets up with a Gurkha patrol, who has Ah Choi in custody. Ah Choi informs them that "no good men" have made a base of the abandoned Jade Falls hotel and have Kim-Bok inside.
Sneaking into the hotel, Simon and his patrol find that the 2nd floor has been set up as a surgical theatre - and a naked, unconscious Kim-Bok is on the operating table, anesthetized, and about to be castrated.
Acting out of reflex, Simon pulls his weapon and shoots the surgeon, who falls dead. Uncle Max, very well dressed, emerges from a side door at the commotion. He doesn't recognize Simon in his soldier gear.
Simon thinks:
This was
Uncle Max. Corrupting a child is said to be the one totally unforgivable
sin. But Uncle Max had traded on my dirty curiosity, aged ten;
fascinated me with his talk of my privates and what they were for, of having
my balls pricked, until I actually wanted it to happen! Uncle Max had
sodomised me time and again, riding me like a beast. Uncle Max, finally,
had dropped the last shreds of decency overboard and become a traitor.
Max asks
-
“Yes, I
remember you well, Simon. And why do you suppose I should take any notice of
you?” At this point in time, Simon's true feelings for his "uncle" come to bear - he would just as soon shoot the man who had started him on the path that his life has taken. Never mind his betrayal of the British Army, or his apparent use of Jade Falls as a secret base for the production of Asian boy-eunuchs. (Conjectured - evidenced from Riche's presence at Kim-Bok's attempted neutering and the fact that Ah Choi seems to be the boy who complained about him weeks ago.)
Riche attempts escape, as all hell breaks loose in a firefight in the hotel. Riche jumps a train to head down, with Simon and Singh in pursuit aboard another old wood-powered steam train they commandeer.
At the base of the mountain, Riche is
apprehended by Gurkahs. Simon explains:
"For its
timely arrival, we found out later, we had Ah Choi to thank – Ah Choi
who had first given us the lowdown about the hotel and its inmates. Ah Choi
who had climbed a tree for a better view. Ah Choi who had crept through the
elephant grass, flagged down the convoy and, finding Robin, had conveyed to
him (somehow!) that the “ve’y dirtee man” had made his escape. Ah Choi,
finally, who had braved the fire-fight that was still going on, found Kim-Bok,
groggy from anesthetic, and helped him to safety."
Rawlings arrives with the Royal Military Police and takes Riche into custody, "dismissing him". Simon is told that his Uncle Max will simply disappear, which Simon deems fit.
Max Riche protests -
“They were
all conspiring against me” he was saying. “I can give you a full report;
names, dates, instances. I can assure you that...” The van door slammed,
cutting off the last words I would ever hear from Uncle Max."
Provided he doesn't escape, this is the last we'll see of Max Riche.
The bandits in league with Riche are no match for the military at Jade Falls, and the fallen ones are seen, dead, with their severed genitals stuffed into their own mouths by the Gurkahs.
Rawlings
is amused at the following scene:
While the Brigadier stood taking stock of the situation, a diminutive figure
broke away and ran towards me. He took my hand in his grubby paw. Kim-Bok
stared up at the Brigadier’s great height. “This-y one, Sai-Mun” he said.
“Sai-Mun, my ve’y goo’ flien’”. Then Ah Choi appeared also, from
nowhere. “Sai-mun, ve’y gleat man” Ah Choi told the Brigadier. Kim-Bok was
gazing at me adoringly, like a spaniel. The boys would go back to their
village and their other friends, unharmed and intact. If I’d arrived a few
seconds later it might have been different. Kim-Bok would have lost his balls
and, unable to father sons, would have been rejected by his family, his only
future that of a pampered bum-boy."
Words
of warning from the Brigadier: “Don’t talk about this episode, young
Scott. You know the score. And don’t look for “the battle of Jade Falls”
in the papers. It’s just one more case of the army assisting the civil power,
so don’t expect any medals either. I’ll be doing a report, but that won’t
become public for another fifty years.” He paused, then took my hand in
his. “Well, it’s goodbye then. Ever thought of applying for a regular
commission?” Simon doesn't bother to mention his eunuch status, which would keep him OUT of the regular Military. (Recall Harry Ricketts from the Dr. Joli era, and how devastated Harry had been to find the Army wouldn't take him as a eunuch.)
Fothergill promises to forward letters from Kim-Bok and the children to Simon in England.
Some time later - Simon is debriefed and put on a plane back to England. He muses about the following: There had been a few loose ends, mainly to do with my initial shots, which had saved Kim-Bok’s future manhood but alerted the bandits. There was also the matter of a civilian doctor being killed. Subhadar Singh’s report read - “On entering the building my patrol came under fire from the bandits. Mr Scott courageously returned their fire and in a confused situation, a stray shot struck and killed a civilian doctor, who was in the building for reasons unknown." Thus is history re-written!
Simon also ponders his information about
his Uncle Max. He wasn’t a traitor by inclination. His relationship with
the bandits was a simple one. They were on the lookout for “squeeze”;
Max would point them in the direction of the contractors, and they – in theory
– would pay protection money, to be allowed to get on with their work. http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/T/ea_23138tommy_re.htm , "Tommy Revisited".
At this time, Ricky Silva is still living with Dr. Geller in the Orient, and has adapted to being a eunuch.
Max seems to have been experiencing financial problems at this time, odd for a Scott family member of his caliber.
Max was obsessed with the idea of creating for
himself, in the seclusion of Jade Falls, a harem, modeled on the
neutered boy-slaves of classical antiquity. This was a mistake. But a far
worse one was his becoming involved with blowing-up the fighting patrol some
weeks earlier, when the Brigadier’s son had been killed. This guaranteed that
everyone’s hand would be against him. M I 6, I knew, had their own
methods of dealing with agents who went wrong. Uncle Max would disappear
from human ken. Also there would be some doctoring of the records, so that
there would be no evidence that Major Maxwell G. Riche had ever existed.
Once Simon arrives back in England, he pulls rank on a snotty, lower-ranking soldier who refuses to give him directions. It works. Simon is still dressed in his uniform, and finds in his pack, a book of Wordsworth's poems he had been studying for a test. There is a piece of grenade shrapnel embedded in the cover, which cuts his finger. The book had saved his life at the firefight in Jade Falls.
Simon arrives safely back at School, cleans up, but can't get all the paint off of his face, but still reports to class as normal. P. Hipkin, BA is angry with him, but cuts his hand on the shrapnel when he takes Simon's book of poems away from him in a rage over damaging it. He refuses to believe the story of the boy's 5-day absence. Pipkin, as he is known, summons Dr. Holroyd, who along with the boys, believes Simon and makes Pipkin look the fool. Only Jamie Roebuck seems to notice anything, asking if Simon took an Outward Bound Course. Simon says yes, but also notices that the boys seem to be avoiding him.
Inspired by Kipling, Simon enters into an essay contest on literature and writes about his adventures. The prize is a large sum of money left by a 19th century benefactor of the school, Lord Phillpotts. A fortnight later, Simon is informed by Dr. Holroyd that he has won, and Holroyd is deeply impressed. He informs Simon, however, that the paper will have to reside in his safe indefinitely, due to its nature. Simon begins to cry, "one of those eunuch things", he calls it.
A week later - Simon gets another medal. Some clerk in Army Records had done some homework and discovered that a Second Lieutenant Scott had been in a particular place on a particular date, and qualified for the General Service Medal. "It was a silver thing on a blue-and-green ribbon and had my name engraved on the rim". Brigadier Rawlings had been wrong about that.
"Ricky Goes to School" - at Dr. Geller's place in the Orient:
Dr. Geller's business of neutering boys in her practice goes by the wayside in light of Carl's new business he has imposed upon her. Dr. Geller plots to get even with him. Every other week, a new shipment of boys arrives from the Interior for "processing".
Dr. Geller and Ricky Silva both begin to worry about the boy's future. Jimmy, currently the only neutered bum-boy "on staff" - and favorite of Max Riche (before his disappearance, "Simon in the Orient") - Jimmy begins teasing Ricky about becoming "Number-Two-bum-boy", like him. Ricky doesn't like that idea, nor does Dr. Geller.
Max Riche was arrested, with Simon's help. ("Simon in the Orient"). Riche then vanished after being arrested.
Castration has not changed Jimmy's annoying personality, even if it has made him a "tart".
Tenth of the month - Dr. Geller's usual medical journal comes. In it is an article by Dr. George Holroyd, Headmaster of Southdown Hall. "The Education of Neutered Boys." Dr. Geller is fascinated by it. Dr. Holroyd calls the boy-eunuchs his most gifted students, citing a dozen at school when he took over 5 years prior. "So far from being the spiritless creatures that some readers might imagine, boy eunuchs get into everything!" He goes on to say, "What a boy has in his head is far more important than what he has in his underpants." He also states that he has about 80 boy eunuchs so far, and that he no longer runs a "single sex" school.
Dr. Geller sends Carl a letter. He shows up very quickly in a Land Rover.
After going at one another for a while, over the legalities of their trade and guilt, Geller and Carl Scott reach an agreement. Geller is shocked to find that Carl knows Dr. Holroyd, and that Simon is Carl's nephew, and also neutered. Plans are made to send Ricky to school at Southdown Hall. Carl arranges it, planning a bursary for Ricky.
Carl shows her a photo of Simon again and relates Simon's case and need to have been neutered. Shortly thereafter, Carl leaves.
Ricky is shocked to find he'll be going to school in England. He doesn't know where it is. Geller promises to somehow visit, and makes him promise to write.
Ricky is then informed of Simon Scott, and shown the picture. He is also told that Simon is a eunuch as well. Ricky says "Gosh!" a great deal.
March 27 - 6 weeks to go. After a mountain of paperwork and letters from Holroyd and Mr. Carter - Ricky's future Housemaster - the process seems complete. Geller's lawyer advises she file for guardianship of him. Documents are falsified, but they work. Each trip to court is a 10 hour drive.
Ricky Silva is declared an orphan, born on July 4th, age 13. A judge declares Geller his guardian. All forms are completed, a passport done, and ticket on Far East Airways into London Gatwick is procured.
Weekend of May 6-7-8 : Ricky Silva arrives in England and is met at the airport by Simon Scott. Ricky has one tiny little bag, and arrives cold and hungry, dressed all in new white clothes.
Simon takes Ricky to Suter's shoppe for school clothes, to a barber - where Ricky gets his hair cut like Simon's - and then goes next door to Contessa's - to buy Ricky some size 8-UK thong underwear.
Simon and Ricky meet Roddy Fisher and Paul Abbott at the Lemon Tree Cafe, where they feed him - a lot. Ricky eats - a lot. The Cafe is become a common hangout for the boy eunuchs of Southdown Hall.
Upon meeting them and realizing their kindnesses, Ricky bursts into tears. All of them, being eunuchs as well, understand.
Ricky is taken to the school grounds. The Archdeaconry, huge and ugly, is being remodeled into dorms - for the coming autumn - for boy eunuchs over the age of 16. (Simon will be living there that next fall - at this point, May, he is still 15.).
Mr. Trefusis sends Paul Abbott for Ricky, along with two other 12 year old eunuchs that Simon hardly knows, Barclay Minor and Meadows. Both are described as not the kind to "say boo to a goose", and both had been neutered at their former prep school the past term, "for health reasons."
Before going, Ricky discovers his cubicle in the cozy dormitory, sees all his things, and bursts into tears again.
Ricky is assigned to Nelson House, where Roddy says they all live. Mr. Trefusis is made House Tutor.
Due to his nervous collapse and psychotherapy, Paul Abbott is placed in form 3c. Roddy is in 3a. Ricky will be in 3c for tutoring with Paul as well. Note - Ricky is not stupid; he is simply uneducated.
Roddy takes Ricky to meet Nurse and check him in. Roddy describes it as thus: What wasn't a closed book to him was the san, though, and he wasn't at all terrified of Nurse as some boys are. Having been raised by a doctor, though, I guess it follows that he'd know about all that medical stuff. When I took him down to check in with Nurse after he'd settled, Ricky didn't even bat an eye. He just took off his clothes and hopped up to be examined. Nurse was ecstatic, and promptly fetched her favourite enema kit. I shivered; Ricky didn't seem bothered. Nurse was concerned with past poor diet, the long flight, and what we'd already fed him at the Cafe. Ricky explained that Dr Geller gave 'her boys' enemas every week. Nurse asked him if he was incontinent, then had to explain it. Lucky for Ricky, she decided to forego wrapping the tight elastic band around his tiny penis to keep him from peeing during his enema! "Every week, if not twice, too!" Nurse scheduled him.
Ricky makes up for his lack of education on the sports field. He is strongest in the 400M hurdles event. The nickname "Spider" doesn't stick.
Ricky makes the under-14 House Team right away.
Ricky also excels at gymnastics. Roddy and he both share a love of map making, drawing, sketching. They become close friends; Roddy states: And, of course, there were the confidences. One day in the shower, I saw that Ricky had the remains of a scrotum. (Mine has totally disappeared and after getting circumcised I had the smallest penis in the third year, smaller than Ricky’s. That doesn’t bother me.)
Roddy and Ricky then go to look at some porn on Roddy's laptop. Both boys realize they can never do it, but still like to watch it.
Late May - Roddy & Ricky have gone all over South Downs & along Sussex coast. Roddy suggests a trip to Ditchling for Geography class. They get the wrong bus and wind up in Sheffield Park. Then they end up in East Grinstead near London, miss the bus back and start walking along the railroad tracks after a short train trip. Turns out the train is reserved for some kind of special party trip. The boys begin walking back home along the tracks.
A rare earthquake hits, right UNDER the boys, causing a railway viaduct to collapse. The boys realize the train is coming. Ricky scampers up a signal pole to change it, Roddy flags down the train. The train stops just before plunging into a deep valley to certain death.
Dr. Holroyd is on the train and suggests everyone listen to his boys.
Ricky tears his shorts off getting down off the signal pole. He is not wearing his thong. He tries to hide himself with his torn shorts. On the train are also General and Mrs. Sir Cyril Fenton. Mrs. Fenton fixes Ricky's shorts. The General sees that Ricky is a eunuch and is shocked. Mrs. Fenton isn't.
Smithers, the engineer, backs the train all the way to Kingscote and does a run-around. Dr. Holroyd takes the boys back to school in his car, by 6 o'clock.
The boys have hardly an hour to turn in their Geography homework. They succeed, working in tandem. They get D-'s. Next morning, Roddy proves the story with the newspaper about the quake. They get A's.
Summer - July - Simon disappears a lot (He turns 16). Simon takes up golf. Roddy borrows his No. 3 wood and smashes something in the distance with his tee off. Simon disappears somewhere with Uncle Carl.
End of November that term - Ricky learns to play cricket as a wicket keeper; his stamina is not good enough for a consistent bat.
Roddy reminisces about summer at Lymington Haven house, where Simon came to visit a few times. Simon was gone most of the summer. Melanie visits too, meets Ricky. Melanie is in a magazine as "Ms. Burdizzo 2005". She gets wet at the sight of Ricky stripping out of his shorts after swimming. Simon and Melanie disturb the boys at night "making noise".
Ricky takes up with Jimmy Brotherton, a very quiet day-boy with glasses who is the fount of all local knowledge. They keep busy drawing, boating, swimming, etc. Jimmy is not a eunuch, that we know of. This evidences the fact that Dr. Holroyd's separation of boys and eunuchs is not 100%. Jimmy is a day boy, however, not a Boarder at Southdown Hall. It's possible that Roddy and the other eunuchs know him from town, or from class time before the segregation of boys vs. eunuchs.
Ricky takes up Rugby in mid-field. He is quick to learn and good at it.
Dr. Holroyd summons Roddy to his
office, and not about the golf club incident. The Wealden Railway Society,
owners of the restored classic train which Roddy and Ricky saved, wants to honor them
with a ceremony. Roddy has to refuse:
"Terrible, because in some circles, I
was pretty well known, because of my records. I kept in the background as much
as I could – my agents had somebody to deal with the fan mail. Fisher of 3a,
and “the internationally acclaimed boy-soprano Roddy Fisher” had
to be kept strictly apart. I would not – could not dare – make a public
appearance. I’d probably get mobbed, and after that, life at school would be
impossible. Journalists from music magazines would be camping out at the
school gate. As for a gold watch I’d already got two, a Gucci and a
Vacheron-Constantin. There was nothing I either wanted, or needed. I made four
or five new albums a year and the royalties just poured in". Roddy suggests the honour be all Ricky's. The Bishop of Guildford is to present them, on a gray blustery afternoon in East Grinstead.
Ricky (listed as "Ricardo") Silva is presented with a gold Rolex watch during the ceremony. Roddy just watches, hidden in the crowd. The BBC Regional News covers it.
Ricky is mobbed by a gang of girls, 13-14 years old. They even give him their knickers.
Roddy suggest to Ricky that he wear them! (Obviously in reference to the shorts-ripping incident!)
To be continued?! |