This is part 5 of the great Saga DE BELLIS STELLARUM: a tale of the battle between Light and Darkness, and the return of chivalry through the founding of a modern Order of Knights. It's November of 2008 and Steve Brown, a junior at Quayment High, is starting to consider colleges. He works at Weaver's and decides to ask Matt about it. Matt finds out that Steve is no ordinary high school student; he's been training himself for something remarkable, and even gotten his younger brother Bernie and his pal Marty Felsen involved.Trumpet-player and fellow classmate Chuck Weller convinces Steve to visit Howell College, but on the way they get sidetracked in North Belloc where they meet a great mathematician and a world-famous jazz trombonist, and things start getting complicated.And then, the day after a local bibliophile and millionaire dies, something strange appears in the Quayment paper: a "broadside" of some 50,000 apparently random characters which Chuck dubs the "Alphabet Soup Page." People are still arguing about it when the U.S. Navy sends one of its destroyers to patrol Quayment's little bay...
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