Chapter 19: War Graves
It was Edward’s idea that Mrs. Bundy and Billy Devlin be given a decent Christian burial. While inquiring about funeral arrangements, he’d spoken with one of the camp guards. When family and relatives were out of the picture, the man said, internees who passed were buried on the island in what they called war graves—faithful British subjects along with others of questionable loyalties. He suggested a farm they used for such purposes, but Edward would have none of it.
At dawn on the eighth day of August, and in a place of Edward’s choosing, a vicar from the nearby village of Cregneash laid to rest Billy Devlin and his aunt side by side in a churchyard cemetery.
“I still don’t understand how you found me,” Caroline said.
An early morning wind whipped past the newly
