Four orphans set out on a journy. Their goal is to leave France and to reach the French sea coast to catch a ship for Amsterdam. Because the year is 1686, however, and the children profess to be Huguenots, their youthful days are more then often not filled with adventure and fear. Forced at an early age to consider the gravity of life and death, the children forge a bond of loyalty that goes beyond family ties. Their unfaltering trust in God provides the 20th century child with a wonderful role model of just what it means to totall give up everything for one's faith. Well and most movingly written, this novel is heartily recommended.
