Chapter 15
Week 6, Instructor Calendar, October 1896
Do not forever with thy vailed lids
Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
I.ii
Concordia awoke to the sound of rain beating against the windows. The walk to chapel was going to be miserable. And after chapel, the trolley ride to her mother’s house would be even worse. There was no help for it.
Even if Concordia didn’t learn enough in her visit to her mother to catch the real killer, perhaps she could find sufficient evidence to convince Sophia to retract her confession and give Capshaw an additional lead to pursue. Thank goodness the dean had managed to coax Miss Grant into lifting the off-campus restriction. Concordia would have been a muddy mess crawling between fences today.
After chapel, Concordia didn’t bother to change into
