convinced Hector, and he agreed to let them have the English weapons. “Just don’t lose them,” he cautioned.
The next morning several girls, who were shy about having so many boys about them all the time, decided they wanted to be on their own raft. “Some of those boys are entirely too curious about us,” said one girl. “We need more privacy.”
“Go ahead. Make the switch if you’ll be more comfortable with that arrangement,” Hector said.
They approached Tatamagouche near dusk in a good frame of mind until they got a closer look at the town.
“Oh, no!” cried Jocelyne. “Every building’s been burnt to the ground, even the church.”
“Over there,” Nola said. “There are dozens of new mounds in that cemetery. At least they took the time to bury the dead.”
Grandpa remarked that he had heard about some towns being ransacked before the expulsion at Grand Pré but hadn’t believed it. “Now I see it was true.”
Frank was shocked. “I’ve been told that war is horrible. Now I see horrible in real life. Everything here is in total ruin.”
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