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The Jesuits and the Mohawks were surprisingly adept at what Woolford had taken to calling urban rangering. Each in their way had been evading, and watching, enemies for years, and now reports came in almost hourly to Duncan and Woolford as they waited in the vaulted kitchen of the old rectory. Between reports, they debated as to why Livingston would have business with the French spies. At best, he was just another merchant being asked about financial transfers supporting settlement in the Champlain Valley, as the French tried to find the missing gold. At worse, he was an operative for the French, though neither Duncan nor Woolford could imagine a goal that the French would have in New York town or the Hudson Valley.
“But it isn’t about the gold for Livingston. It’s about the ledger,”
