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To contrast to furnish such buildings at $12,000.00 or east I rather think at $10,000.000 and they say that has cost at least $16,000.00, and they have spent someway about twenty one or two thousand. I saw Mrs. Saunders who is now nominally the head of the school. They will have some more suitable head in the spring doubtless. The school now has only 16 or 17 scholars! The school almost completely broken up by the conduct of Miss Paine. What a time they have had. It appears she was 'engaged' to the worthless shiftless boy three or four years ago. It appears that their conduct caused some scandal among the children or scholars then, but the old folks thought nothing of it. He went away east to school; whether she paid his expenses I do not know. He came back and the community were thunderstruck by the Announcement that they were to be married the next day! All were invited to the wedding, but nobody went. He had positively nothing to live on; his friends all poor as cats. His wife took him right into the seminary to room with her there! And then they continued in spite of all could be done, The Board of Trustees, after all she had done or tried to do for the Institution, did not like to discharge her. She refused to resign & Mr. Wood, Weeks' uncle upheld her, and compelled the Burbanks to help him to do so. Moreover Weeks took airs & authorities upon himself, as head, or husband of the head, of the school, attended in the committee room, wanted to be Secretary etc. etc. At last I suspect Mr. Pease, My friend the R.R. Suptdt., who had become a member of the board, had to take upon himself the natural authority of his nature, and command a peace. Mt. & Mrs. Weeks left, went to Pinckneyville, he studies law, and she writes upon the subject of her sacrifices and persecutions. The people at the Old Town are very sore upon the subject; they think she robbed the Seminary most egregiously. Furniture & books & bedding etc. etc. which they thought had been donated to the Seminary, she claimed