He had covered their faces, and now gave the order to lift them into the carriage.

Taffy noticed that he was obeyed without demur or question.

And there flashed on his memory a grey morning, not unlike this one, when he had missed his father at breakfast: "He had been called away suddenly," Humility explained, "and there would be no lessons that day," and she kept the boy indoors all the morning and busy with a netting-stitch he had been bothering her to teach him.
"Father," he asked as they followed the cart, "does this often happen ?" "Your mother hasn't thought it well for you to see these sights." "Then it _has_ happened, often ?" "I have buried seventeen," said Mr.Raymond.
That afternoon he showed Taffy their graves.

"I know the names of all but two.

The bodies have marks about them--tattooed, you know-- and that helps.