His innocent ward

re swarming over the small cottage like mail clad lo

of the soldiers said 'The next village will t

bt of what they intended It was more than a punishment it wa

Her mother Had to reach her before the soldiers di

oo late The Englis

a vicious bloody massacre The soldiers were sparing no one Old women Children Women even babies were cut down before her strick

of that now He

elf of the horror but she knew she

her and her stepfather-her second father until he'd been killed last summer if an

were no soldiers swarming around it. It was eeril

ze in sheer terror Though she'd never heard her mother make a sound l