Chapter 18
Week 6, Instructor Calendar, October 1896
Time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will.
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Concordia barely returned in time for Sunday service. As she made her way into the pew, hymnal in hand, she saw Miss Grant give her what the students had dubbed “the Ogre Eye.” She was in for a tongue-lashing later.
She tried not to squirm as she waited for chapel to conclude. She wanted to talk with Miss Phillips right away, to try to make heads-or-tails of her father’s journals. It looked to be in a special kind of shorthand that Miss Phillips, accomplished in all things cryptogram, might be able to decode.
Lieutenant Capshaw had perked up considerably when she showed him her father’s letter mentioning a third man, “Red.” Could this man have broken into the house in
