Of course that danger might possibly have been incurred without his
knowledge, but another possibility was that the scourge might have been
visited upon us through her infection by malignant design.
We knew there was bitter feeling against us among the old Puritans of
Roxbury. They hated us and took occasion to annoy and injure us in many
mean ways. Very little heed was given to these neighborly attentions and
very likely the matter would not have been thought of in connection with
the smallpox had that been all we had to suffer, but it was not.
When three mysterious fires occurred, one after another, destroying the
three principal houses on the domain, Pilgrim Hall, the Eyrie and the
Phalanstery, it was impossible to account for the origin of any of them.
Then it was that memory inevitably recalled manifestations of hostility
that could be accounted for with absolute certainty.
Pilgrim Hall was the main dormitory for pupils, a plain but substantial
structure, the first one erected for school purposes.
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