his resources certain papers belonging
to the records of the Pansophian Society, which he can make free use of,
either for the illustration of the narrative, or for a diversion during
those intervals in which the flow of events is languid, or even ceases
for the time to manifest any progress. The reader can hardly have failed
to notice that the old Anchor Tavern had become the focal point where a
good deal of mental activity converged. There were the village people,
including a number of cultivated families; there were the visitors, among
them many accomplished and widely travelled persons; there was the
University, with its learned teachers and aspiring young men; there was
the Corinna Institute, with its eager, ambitious, hungry-souled young
women, crowding on, class after class coming forward on the broad stream
of liberal culture, and rounding the point which, once passed, the
boundless possibilities of womanhood opened before them. All this
furnished material enough and to spare for the records and the archives
of the society.

The new Secretary infused fresh life into the meetings. It may be
remembered that the girls had said of her, when she was The Terror, that
"she knew everything and didn't believe anything." That was just the
kind of person for a secretary of such an association. Properly
interpreted, the saying meant that she knew a great deal, and wanted to
know a great deal more, and was consequently always on the lookout for
information; that she believed nothing without sufficient proof that it
was true, and therefore was perpetually asking for evidence where, others
took assertions on trust.

It was astonishing to see what one little creature like The Terror could
accomplish in the course of a single season. She found out what each
member could do and wanted to do. She wrote to the outside visitors whom
she suspected of capacity, and urged them to speak at the meetings, or
send written papers to be read. As an official, with the printed title
at the head of her notes, PANSOPHIAN SOCIETY, she was a privileged
personage. She begged the young persons who had travelled to tell
something of their experiences. She had contemplated getting up a
discussion on the woman's rights question, but being a wary little body,
and knowing that the debate would become a dispute and divide the members
into two hostile camps, she deferred this project indefinitely. It would
be time enough after she had her team well in han