Room 2D

Photo-story from Janus 150 Alan ‘Badger’ Bartholomew was a college tutor in Science, but other things besides. Disciplinarian, for instance, for which his reputation was steadily growing. We have already seen him in action twice [ 3 for the High Jump  and  Double Trouble 1 / Double Trouble 2 ] , redressing the balance between right and wrong, redirecting transgressive young ladies back on to the straight and narrow way and nipping dissent in the bud wherever it threatened to flower. As we will learn later in this story, life turns up more coincidences than any work of fiction could get away with. And it happened recently that a troubled phone call from Elaine Jensen, principle of the local girls’ college, three of whose pupils had already been disciplined by Badger ( Janus 142 ), informed him that one of her students from the Upper Sixth, Romany Hampton, had walked out of lessons and been sighted leaning on some railin...