sentences:  The place they came to had many vacant homes probably because many people left on account of the war.The Indian soldiers would quit the army and run away in groups; raiding houses as they went, taking everything they saw and killing any in their way.The families who Lucinda was with would always send scouters to look at the home to see if it were vacant and livable, but mainly because it was liable that there was already a scout of someone else's in there.