Having been expelled from Theffects School for Troubled Boys, William Teller Fontaine ('Tell'), the son of a skiving small-town mayor returns home to find an empty house and a farewell letter from his father. Knowing his father to play an arcane prank every now and then, he thinks nothing of it--until the neighbors and representatives from a local orphanage show up. When Tell flees to a nearby wheat field and is greeted by a babbling, self-proclaimed...