
Four months after leaving unsettled Massachusetts, you walked beside your cousin William Welch on his isolated Lake Huron farm. Your canoe work is sound now, Harold; bring fish today, because warning or weather may soon keep us ashore. You step into this one-chapter preview with Jack Pearson at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. The forest kept both the missing hunter and the escaped scout beyond the end of the chapter. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
Read True to the Old Flag