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THE VISIT TO CLOVIS and Juanita took us along the northeastern tram loop. The tramline split off from the northwestern—hospital—line and described an M-shaped path along the northeastern shore of the island. It was a part of the train network that I very rarely used, a section of town that had been rebuilt not long before I came to Barresh. The houses were modern, the streets quiet, and the business premises that were dotted throughout the residential areas of the rest of the city were virtually absent. This was the height of modern Barresh suburbia.
New rich, they called this area, because any of the old rich families lived in the mansions behind the council buildings. Many people who lived in this area had made their wealth off their contracts providing services to gamra or the rapid
