Chapter 6 Summary

Grandpere leaves when he hears the news and Madame Horcada has Jo sit and eat some bread so that the Germans will believe he has simply come to make another delivery. When the Germans arrive, they search the house and barns, but find nothing. Afterward, Madame Horcada takes Jo into the mountains and to a cave only his grandpere once knew about. Grandpere has fixed the cave so that Benjamin and the children can hide there unnoticed. Jo meets several of the children, including a young boy who is a master chess player.

One of the Germans, a corporal, asks Jo to go with him into the mountains to look for eagles. Jo refuses, insisting that he take Hubert. When the two return, Jo learns they saw a large eagle and traced it back to its nest. A week later, the corporal takes...