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try something different. It'll beat jail,
I bet."
"You'd do that for me?" I asked, relieved to be seeing a way
out of all this at last. "You'd let me stay here and work for
you?"
"Oh, you'll be working all right," Devil smirked. "You
may not like all of it, but you can always leave and try something
else if you're too unhappy here, and you wouldn't get that choice
in prison. But there's one other thing, from what you've said,
when word of Martin Howard's death gets out, those detectives that
you and your Uncle hired are going to come down on this place like
a pack of hungry hounds. They'Il find your cousin Molly, of
course, and take 's off to be reunited with 's rich Daddy. No
problem there but while they're here, and we don't know for sure
when they'll be coming or how long they'll stay, we've got to make
sure they don't recognize you or take any pictures of you that
someone else might be able to identify. In other words, we've got
to disguise you even more than you are now. Enough so that no one
will ever recognize you!"
"But, how will we do that?"
"Let's take care of this thing first."
Devil nudged the body of my late Cousin with the toe of
her high-hee
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