Chapter NineTHE STREETS OF HUE were empty and bleak. It would be dusk in an hour, and the refugees gathered their children and whisked them inside the abandoned houses. When barred from entering an already overcrowded house, the families pushed on to the next. An affluent area of Hue, it was the perfect place for squatters, as the well-to-do had fled. Many of the wealthy had been captured by the communists and assassinated, and those who escaped the initial purge piled everything they could into cars and sped south.
Ehlo led Hines, Grimm and Latimere to the same three mamasans who had sold him bread earlier. The men bought loaves and wedged them under the straps on their packs. They bought an extra loaf which they broke and shared, and the bread smelled wonderful and tasted delicious.
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