Chapter TenDoña Alcira looked up impatiently when there was a knock on her door.
She was tired for Miajado had visited her the night before and had only crept out of the house as dawn was breaking.
Since her father’s death Doña Alcira had administered the Carcastillo fortunes and she had found that her work connected with the estates increased day by day. She could, of course, have turned everything over to the Attorneys as other women would have done in her place or she could have appointed one of her many cousins to be in charge of her affairs, but Doña Alcira trusted nobody.
She had long suspected that her father, being too easy-going had been cheated by those he most trusted and one of the first things she did when she took over was to dismiss old employees and servants who had been
