Chapter 13
Week 5, Instructor Calendar, March 1896
“Two pranks in ten days is an outrage, especially after Miss Lyman’s death,” President Richter thundered. He had recovered from his bout of laryngitis, and was as loud as ever. He turned to the lady principal. “Miss Hamilton, what has been done to catch these girls? Have you made any progress?”
It was just after the evening meal, and the staff, most still in their dinner attire, had gathered in the spacious parlor of Sycamore House, which housed the president, dean, and visiting male professors. Fires in the hearths at each end of the room cast dancing shadows upon worried faces.
Concordia could sympathize with his frustration, although she bristled with the barely-restrained urge to defend the lady principal. It certainly wasn’t
