Chapter 38
Week 13, Instructor Calendar December 1898
Love without trust is without respect, and if a lover has not respected his fiancée, he will never respect his wife. ~Mrs. John Sherwood
“I’m sorry, Miss Wells, but Mr. Bradley has already gone,” a student said. She was drying the last of the glass beakers beside the sink. “With so few of us left attending class, we finished up early. I volunteered to clean up.”
“How kind of you,” Concordia said. “Do you know where he has gone?”
The girl shrugged and gestured to the newspaper flung on his desk. “He was reading that—the boy just brought in the mail—and suddenly said he had to leave.”
Concordia picked up the paper. Her stomach clenched.
Dean of Women’s College Arrested for Sanbourne MurderWordlessly, she passed it over.
“We are to
