Chapter 73

“You’re crooked all through; I suppose you weren’t born so; I fancy Joe Wyvern started you vamping and swindling and blackmailing. You’ve done about everything a crooked woman can do short of murder. . . . I don’t want to fool with you. Dirty women disgust me. . . . I don’t know that you ever could clean up. . . . Perhaps you could. You still wear your scapular. . . . Well, you know how it’s done. Blood and tears, I guess. . . . I suppose nothing is impossible. . . . But if you try to clean up because you think the…