Conawago grinned. “And tell me, Duncan. What would be your choice, a starched-collar ball in the city or a walk in paradise?” he asked good-naturedly, with a gesture that took in the rolling hills around them.
Duncan knew that Conawago needed no answer to that question.
“ ‘Heavy hearts need busy hands,’ Brandt said,” Munro recalled. “But why would Rogers have a heavy heart? He was a hero, perhaps the most famous man on the continent for months after St. Francis.”
“He had a spy in the French camp, someone who had soured on King Louis,” Duncan suggested. “Rogers had become a son of the New Hampshire wilderness. English walked those mountains, but so did French from the Quebec country. There’s no clear border even now between Quebec and the English-speaking colonies. The outcome of the war
