CHAPTER 14 Start of the school year at Our Lady of DesolationIn the days that followed they didn’t have time to talk about that terrible evening. Tuesday October 1st, 1912, would be the date when they went back to school and their parents wanted them to be ready for this important day. They had to check that all the required school equipment was in the schoolbag, that the black smock and the Sunday suit didn’t need mending and were properly ironed, that the shoes were clean and polished.
Jules was beginning to dread this day. Being the new boy at school was not an enviable situation to be in, and even less when it meant being in the same school as the boys whose fathers he suspected of being murderers!
Nevertheless, as he was about to repeat his second year, he might be less bothered. De
