Epilogue
Summer Recess, June 1896
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow…
V.v
A warm breeze fluttered the curtains of the French doors in the lady principal’s study, thrown open to reduce the stuffiness. Miss Hamilton quickly anchored the skittering papers, and turned back to her packing.
“Where will you go next, Miss Hamilton?” Concordia asked, as she crouched beside a low shelf, putting books in a box.
“I’ll stay with my sister in Chicago, until the agency has another assignment for me.”
Which no doubt would be soon, as Miss Hamilton was back in her employer’s good graces. She had, in fact, been awarded a bonus for successfully solving the murders of both Arthur Richter and Ruth Lyman. Despite the lady principal’s objections, Concordia had insisted that Miss Hamilton take sole cr
