Crossed Trails in Mexico / Mexican Mystery Stories #3

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Crossed Trails in Mexico, by Nell Virginia Fairfax and Helen Allan Ripley
HELEN RANDOLPH
A. L. BURT COMPANY, Publishers New York Chicago
Mexican Mystery Stories For Girls By HELEN RANDOLPH
COPYRIGHT 1936 BY A. L. Burt Company PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
Peggy nudged Jo Ann and pointed to the sign ahead: “Speed limit, 80 miles.”
Jo Ann’s dark brown eyes twinkled. “It’s plain to see we’re out in the Texas open now—the wide open.”
“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.” Peggy gestured toward the small, trim, fair-haired girl at the wheel.
“Florence has lived in Mexico so long that she’s slow but sure like the Mexicans. She’s always saying, ‘Why the great rush? There’s plenty of time!’ If I were driving, now—” Jo Ann nodded her mop of unruly black curls vigorously—“I’d encourage Jitters to go her limit, especially since she has brand-new tires.”
“Here too. Weren’t we lucky to find such a bargain in a car? I’ll admit she’s not much on looks and that she shakes till she deserves the name of Jitters—but she’s ours, all ours.” Peggy’s hazel eyes gazed admiringly upon their old battered Ford.
“And look where she’s carrying us: to Mexico! All the way to the land of mystery and romance!”
“I can hardly wait to get back down there again. I wonder if we’ll run into as thrilling adventures as we did last summer when we were visiting Florence.”