Characters

**Nick Rivers**
A boy that plays baseball and has a strong sense of injustice, Nick Rivers decided to try and set things straight when he finds out his neighbor was accused of murder over forty years ago. Nick is fifteen years old and almost five foot eleven. He has blue eyes, light brown hair, and weighs one hundred and sixty-five pounds. He lives with his mother and father and two sisters (Beth and Lizzy). Nick acquired high quality wooden baseball bats from a man named Tom Baines. They have improved his hitting skills considerably. Nick watches Bede kneel by Mary's grave every Thursday night. When Bede is done, he limpes off to the east.

Agustus Bede
A man who was accused of murder over forty years ago. He lives in a house on a hill. He has rusty machine parts scattered around his front lawn ( That has recieved criticism from various adults.) and has a grave for his wife, Mary Bede. A smart man, Bede went through the hardest collages in New England as if they were childs play. He has a large number of patents and spends his time inventing new things. (Like a machine that made the baseball bats Tom Baines gave to Nick.) Most adults shun Bede because they beleive he murdered Mary. Nick Rivers payed a visit to Bede's house when he found out his family was away for the day. Bede showed no intention of being a murderer and Nick started to befriend the man.

Miss Wortmann
An overweight woman who hates men, Miss Wortmann enjoys her work and has expelled several boys from Nick's High School by planting drugs in their backpacks and other simmilar things. She hangs out with Miss Foster, who is also Nick's art teacher. Miss Wortmann called Nick in her office because Nick's art teacher accused him of being on drugs. Nick was just being calm to avoid having zits growing on his face for the school dance. Miss Wortmann found no drugs on Nick and then tried to expell him by making threats of banning his baseball practices in hopes of him flipping out. Nick then accused Miss Foster of giving him pills and Miss Wortmann let him go.