Chapter 24
As it turned out, the hardest part about turning Miss Zenobia Weekes' School for Exceptional Young Ladies into the McTavet-Scott Academy for Exceptional Youngsters wasn't the legal stuff. Mr. Trevor just put in a call to that young lawyer Cynthia Thomas had mentored, and she took on every bureaucratic hoop and barrier with a gleeful tenacity that really endeared her to me.
No, the hardest part was demagicking the house.
Brianna had left behind the box that connected to the hidden library in Boston, and book by book, artifact by artifact, I sent her everything from our library and Miss Zenobia's office and the cellar. Even after all that was gone, I was still finding things in the parlor and the kitchen that I realized when I touched them had some sort of enchantment to them.
