63. into his head

that James was to blame for everything that was wrong in the place. No wages, lack of houses and little food were his entire fault. Quigley said that Orlowski had killed James in a drunken fit of rage and set fire to the wooden house that rapidly burnt down. Quigley also told Jeffrey the next day he had sent Orlowski under armed guard out with the next shipload of wood and that the Ranger had been taken care of. But due to poor weather the ship had been forced into St John's and Orlowski had managed to escape.
Jeffrey was at the mercy of Quigley who quickly ordered Sam and Ron to do the burying. Acting on Quigley's instructions, they inscribed the first concrete headstone as they saw fit.
Quigley hastily arranged for two visiting student Moravian missionaries, Eclaud Ysuf Boltrum and Toscott Jacob Shoic from Germany to conduct the burial service on the Sunday only two days later.
Quigley's first inscription reflected his “glorious friendship” with James or rather that's what he wanted Jeffrey to believe. But he was then forced to have second thoughts after Jeffrey told him to send him his sketch and measurements for a proper new grander memorial to be erected. Jeffrey felt that he at least owed that to his son and that he should make a success of the Wild Bay operation in his memory. Jeffrey decided that Emily's name should be raised up from the surface of the stone in special memory.
Jeffrey was frustrated because he had heard absolutely nothing about the memorial that should be built on the spot where they had died. Quigley had in fact lied about having sent him three cables that all was well in that respect.
Jeffrey made absolutely sure that the wording of the second new inscription cut and chiselled in Cardiff, portrayed the sort of heroism