Port Hope Simpson wild bay

historical fiction based on year as vso volunteer in Port Hope Simpson, Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada 1969-70 and coming back out to The Town of Port Hope Simpson's Coming Home Celebrations in July 2002; also based on holiday travels; Richard ap Meurig's sense of purpose, peace, quietness,returning to awe-inspiring wilderness of The Labrador, spiritual retreat & renewal...http://porthopesimpson.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

20. read. At that time the British Government was trying to collect as much damning evidence against



J. O. Jeffrey as they could find. Ready for it to be brought out at The Public Enquiry held in 1944 they had cunningly deceived Jeffrey into believing had been his idea all along. Jeffrey would have been desperate with the Public Enquiry looming about avoiding any sort of scandal about how his son and grand-daughter had died. He would have cabled Quigley at Wild Bay to make sure they were buried as quickly as possible to try and make sure that nobody else knew what he was convinced had really happened. Or Quigley more likely acted on his own initiative without contacting Jeffrey at the time.
“God bless you! That would explain why we had to bury them in a concrete grave first of all and then later the tombstone was built on top,” said Sam.
“You mean they were buried twice?” said Richard.
“No. We were told to build on top as soon as the marble stone arrived from Wales.”
This was all news to Richard who was busy comparing the changed inscription that he had seen with what he had just heard. Richard had discovered however, that Jeffrey had been frustrated by the lack of news from Wild Bay about John and Emily’s tombstone. Jeffrey was appalled that Quigley had said he would be planting a rock garden around their graves because that is what he thought Jeffrey would have wanted. He complained that he hadn’t even been told what the dimensions of the tomb would be. Jeffrey had written that was the type of people they were, whatever that meant. He said he had learned about the true nature about Loga. Again without being more specific.
He had been responsible for sending John out to oversee the Company’s operations assuming that John and Kevin would work well together as they had before in Finland. In his worst imaginings he