Crossed Trails in Mexico Mexican Mystery Stories #3

The next three days were busy ones for the girls. Miss Prudence had bought scores of yards of gay-colored cretonnes and other materials, and she now set all three to work making...

Although Peggy had vowed she would never be able to close her eyes all night with that prisoner in the house, she was so tired that she was not long in dropping off to sleep. Ex...

Jo Ann nodded understandingly. Those men would have been more angry than ever if they had known that she and Florence had been listening to them and peeking into their car. It w...

It was not till after they had gone to bed that night that the girls had an opportunity to talk over the woman's story and Jo Ann's and Florence's discovery of the smuggler's pr...

Florence and Peggy exchanged glances, then Florence answered, "I hired the boy to watch our car while we went to the market. The lock on the car wouldn't work. I'm to blame."

Almost simultaneously one of the men turned and stared incredulously, then shouted out a sharp order. The next instant the other man swerved his car dangerously toward them, try...

The next morning the girls waited anxiously for José to return from his trip to the village for the mail. They had wanted to go with him, but Miss Prudence had vetoed that plan...

In another moment the man had grabbed the _olla_ out of Jo Ann's hand and had placed it back in its nest of straw in the car. "What are you doing?" he demanded sharply, edging b...

"Get my dress--the pink taffeta--out, too," Jo Ann called out on her way to the bathroom. "It's in your suitcase. I'll have my bath in two jiffies and be in my dress in another...

Once they were in the car and on their way, winding along the Rio Grande and breathing in the fresh, invigorating morning air, they felt better about having had to start so early.

"Too bad poor old Jitters can't accept the invitation to do eighty. She's doing well when she makes forty or fifty. But even if she could go faster, Florence wouldn't let her."...

"So that was what you and Florence were so excited about when you came back to the car out there in the desert. Hurry up and tell me all about it."

Before dropping to sleep that night Jo Ann decided that as soon as she got up in the morning she would urge Miss Prudence to let her and Peggy go to the city. "I'll tell her wha...

So worried over Manuel was Jo Ann that she paid little heed to Peggy's continued laments. If only this awful suspense about him was over! Surely he must be only unconscious. If...

When they neared the foot of the lofty mountains and the end of the automobile road, Jo Ann parked the car in front of a small thatched adobe house. "This is the jumping-off pla...

"Yes, and he was glad to get the information. He gave me his card. See? His name's Mr. Andrews, and I'm to write to him here in care of general delivery. I'll tell you all about...

"Well, just as I had reached your door and was about to knock, I heard a man in the room directly across the hall say in the most earnest voice imaginable, 'I'm afraid I'm going...

All at once it dawned upon Jo Ann that they had not got any ferns and would soon be back at the pool empty-handed. "Miss Prudence'll wonder why we didn't get some ferns," she sa...

Miss Prudence spoke up quickly: "We're not going to follow anybody who's expecting to be murdered any minute. We'd better go the Brownsville road. Back to that filling station a...

The girls had thought that as usual José would accompany them to the village the next day. As it happened, however, there was some extra work for him to do about the mine, and M...

As soon as Jo Ann woke the third morning after their trip to the village, she reminded Peggy that they must go back without fail today. "You know Florence said she'd either be t...