Summary

The Gypsies dropped the children off at the railroad station in the town of Coal. After Horace slapped a fat wad of bills, that he brought from Cairnholm, down on the train clerk's counter, the man gave the children an entire first class car headed to London. The train conductor finally let the children board the train after they convinced him that their falcon, Miss Peregrine, was a toy. Just before they boarded, a gunshot rang out and a group of uniformed soldiers, wights as they children could tell by their lack of pupils, captured all of them except Hugh who managed to hide. The soldiers walked their hostages past three dead Gypsy horses and into a farmhouse surrounded by a beautiful field of wildflowers.

The wight in charge, named Mr. White, ushered them into the house to see Bekhir and his men...