o back without fail today. "You know Florence said she'd either be there by noon, or that there'd be a letter

go to the village. You want to get another look at those sm

to find out how often those men come to the village-where they go on their trips farther into the inte

glorified kind of Sherlock

I want to play safe, but if we can get any information that'll aid in catching that band of s

siastic about your mystery-solving. One good thing, José will go

y José to the village again. They were ready and waiting impatiently for hi

pottery and gone before we get to the village,

e better for us. I, for on

out their plans

n left their horses and the burro at the ro

ame," Peggy suggested as

House? That's what it is now. It's the first time the garag

eafter, then, this

Ann began looking eagerly to see if th

e middle of her sentence. José was beginning to understand English much better now that he was sta

d been worrying all the way down the mountai

as it had been the day they had all driven from the city. There was no si

too early," P

," Jo Ann replied. "If there isn't a letter from her, we'll know she

for those old smugglers to appear w

and me go back to that shack and find out if any of the fam

ouldn't be any danger abo

osé squatting on the sidewalk smoking his corn-shuck c

t of the stair-step children she had seen previously, standing close to the piles of pott

she said in her slow Spanish.

She picked up a small,

mired Jo Ann. "You

two dimples twinkled in her oli

utes longer, Jo Ann asked haltingly, "Do you

ck braids swaying with the motion.

efinite word in the Spanish language. It might mean tomorrow, and it

Fri

t ti

. "Maybe in the morning; maybe

come last time they

her head. "I d

ed in the doorway and smiled broad

ked if she knew exactly when the men were coming after the pottery, ending,

sture as had her daughter-a shrug o

sually come?" J

hour. They stop at Pedro's sto

d. At last she had secu

ing. Question after question brought forth only th

ling and asking teasingly, "Have you learned yet what this means?" Sh

ied, "It means anything and everything. I'm going to cultivate

, the mail had arrived and

saying, "She'll be here tomorrow afternoon-and so'll we be here." To herself she added tha