Chapter 25
Week 7, Instructor Calendar November 1898
It is the privilege of the bride to name the wedding day. ~Mrs. John Sherwood
Concordia and David helped the rest of the staff set up cots and curtained dressing areas for the students from Willow and Hemlock Cottages, nearly four dozen of them in all, except for the four young ladies who remained in the infirmary. Word of the college’s misfortune had spread, and donations of pillows, blankets, and clothing had been brisk.
It was certainly a boost to the spirits after the dismal experience of picking through her charred, sodden belongings earlier in the day. She had lost all of her skirts and shirtwaists, and the books from her sitting room were a pulpy mess.
But she would miss her bicycle most of all. The adjoining shed it had been
