Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border

"But do you think the others can go?" Bess asked anxiously when Adair MacKenzie and Alice had driven off in search of Mr. Sherwood. "To bring him home where he belongs when he h...

There was no answer. She ran up the steps and into the cottage, letting the screen door bang behind her. A friend since primary school days of Nan Sherwood, she was like one of...

"Well, how are the charming senoritas this morning?" Walker Jamieson dropped his feet from the chair next to him and rose as Nan and her friends entered the lounge of the hotel.

Before anyone could answer Linda rushed over to Nan and took her by the arm. "Why, Nancy Sherwood!" she exclaimed as though Nan was the best friend she had in the world. "I'm so...

"You mean," Amelia turned the open book over on her lap and answered Laura's question, "that you have awakened early in a hotel in a strange city, that you want like anything to...

"Oh, Bess, you should see yourself now," Nan laughed the next morning. It was early and the girls were all mounted on mules as they passed through the archway of the patio and o...

"He'd probably roar a mighty roar if he heard you say that," Bess laughed at the prospect, "but you know, I quite agree with you, even if it isn't my friend that he has invited...

Nan's eyes were riveted on the ring, where the bullfighter with his spear was waiting for a propitious moment to plunge it into the mad bleeding animal that was lunging at him.

"What did you think?" Laura inquired afterwards when the girls were all settled in a hotel close to the border for the night. "That the walls of that inner office would just cav...

"Mother's condition very serious. Not much hope." That was the second and the girls scarcely had the heart to go on with Adair MacKenzie's party. Privately, they gave up hope en...

The party had, despite sundry irritating delays, left Mexico City in the middle of the forenoon, and now, as evening approached they did sight the hacienda, their destination an...

It was a sad little party that drew out of Laredo that afternoon. The thoughts of Nan and her friends were all with Rhoda. At every turn they wondered where she was and what she...

"Here, here, what's eating you two?" Adair MacKenzie came bursting forth from the door he had entered just a few moments before Nan's encounter with the Mexican. "H-m-m, lost yo...

"Got everything?" Adair MacKenzie asked gruffly when the bevy of pretty young girls, all in their early teens, had stepped, one after the other, from the streamlined train that...

"Sit quietly and watch a bullfight!" Adair MacKenzie had heard Nan's counsel to Bess. "Never heard of such a thing. Never saw such a thing happen. Couldn't possibly sit quietly...

"What's going on downstairs?" Laura came into Nan's room quietly. "Of course, it's none of my business," she went on, "but everything seems to be in an uproar. Your cousin is ra...

Walker Jamieson in a newspaper office in Mexico City got no further as the news came over the wire. He grabbed a phone, asked for long distance, and called the hacienda.

Adair MacKenzie was quick to note the change in their mood. "Wells Fargo and Co., Madero 14." He gave instructions to the chauffeur, and then turned to Nan. "It's the American E...

"Oh, always interested in whatever goes on," Walker answered off-handedly. "You know how it is. See a story breaking, you want to be in on the kill. Just can't help yourself. Ge...

"Oh, it's Rhoda," Laura admitted when the door was closed. "Nan, something terrible's happened and Rhoda is in her room crying her eyes out. Won't you come and see if you can't...

Adair MacKenzie in his desire to introduce the girls to something that would make them forget the bullfight had brought them to one of the prettiest places in all Mexico. Now, h...

"Mexico City," he went on, as though he were a guide introducing a party of tourists to its first sight of a city, "lies, as you can see from here, in a mountain valley on the G...

"Well, what's on the program this morning?" Adair MacKenzie was in a genial mood the day after the telegram had informed the girls that Rhoda's mother was going to recover.

"Oh, dear!" Nan's face was flushed and her eyes bright as she answered. "There was never in all this wide world a nicer cousin than you are being to me."

"Oh, you are just the same, Elizabeth Harley," Nan returned. "When Cousin Adair told us at the luncheon table what we were going to do this afternoon, you were just as excited a...

"Are you hurt? Daddy, are you hurt?" Alice cried, but even as she did, tears of laughter were rolling down her cheeks. She had never in her life seen her father in such a ridicu...

"Nan, it's a letter from Rhoda," Bess repeated the information twice before she got any response at all, and then it was only a grunt. It was the morning after the famous mule-b...

"I have," Bess insisted. "Walker wanted to marry Alice and Adair MacKenzie said 'no!' Walker left without saying goodby to anyone and nobody knows when he is going to return if...

They did leave it up to Adair MacKenzie, and for several days nothing happened. The house was like a morgue, for everyone suspected everyone else and the servants were all under...