Chapter 22

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“SO SWEET OF YOU TO see me, Miss Carwell, in all your grief, and I must apologize for troubling you.” Miss Tighe, alias Morocco Kate, fairly gushed out the words as she extended a hand to Viola in the library. The first glance at the “large blonde,” as the maid had described her, shocked the girl. She could hardly repress a shudder of disgust as she looked at the bleached hair. But, nerving herself for the effort, Viola let her hand rest limply for a moment in the warm moist grip of Miss Tighe. “Won’t you sit down?” asked Viola. “Thank you. I won’t detain you long. I called merely on business, though I suppose you think I’m not a very business-like looking person. But I am strictly business, all the way through,” and she tittered. “I find it pays better to really dress the part,” she ad

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