How it opens
The Sagalac ran shallow and brown between two towns that hated each other with the pure, inherited hatred of the old countries both had fled.
Manitou on the west bank was French, Catholic, and remembered every wrong since the Conquest, and Barrow on the east was English, Protestant, and remembered nothing, which comes to the same thing.
Mayor FetterleyYou are the junction man, then. Barrow wants it, Mr Ingolby, and Barrow is English, and the company is English.
Choose
Take a room in Barrow, where the company is expected to live.
Take a room in Manitou, where nobody expects the company to live.
Sleep on the flats, in a tent of your own, among the tents.