Chapter 29
Week 12, Instructor Calendar, December 1896
One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
I, v.
The day was overcast and blustery, scuttling dried leaves against the curb as the driver handed Concordia into the Adams’ carriage for the ride back to the college. She wrapped her jacket more tightly and shivered from more than the cold.
How could she get the dean to confess to what he had done? What if he denied it all? She had no proof, although Capshaw may be able to confirm the man’s identity through replies to his telegrams. But what would that prove? Only that Dean Pierce was actually the man named “Red” in her father’s journals, and had been associated with him long ago. The rest of it, what Concordia surmised to be Pierce’s single-minded pursuit of the amulets—so single
