NAN SHERWOOD ON THE MEXICAN BORDER
BY
ANNIE ROE CARR
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THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY CLEVELAND NEW YORK
_Published 1937 by The World Syndicate Publishing Co._
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_Printed in the United States of America_
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I UNEXPECTED GUESTS 1
II YOU'RE GOING WITH ME 12
III ADAIR MACKENZIE SPEAKS UP 24
IV TROUBLE AT THE BORDER 32
V TELL US ABOUT THE HACIENDA 40
VI SOMETHING ABOUT MEXICO 48
VII BESS SMELLS A ROMANCE 57
VIII TROUBLE FOR RHODA 66
IX RESOLUTIONS 73
X FIRST MEXICAN EXPERIENCE 81
XI A LEGEND 90
XII LINDA RIGGS TURNS UP 97
XIII NAN TURNS PHOTOGRAPHER 104
XIV SMUGGLERS 111
XV A BULLFIGHT 117
XVI END OF THE FIGHT 124
XVII A HASTY DEPARTURE 132
XVIII LINDA PERFORMS AN INTRODUCTION 140
XIX FLOATING GARDENS 149
XX GOOD-BYE TO MEXICO CITY 156
XXI THE HACIENDA 165
XXII STUBBORN FOOLS 174
XXIII IN A PATIO 183
XXIV STOLEN! 189
XXV BESS HAS SUSPICIONS 195
XXVI SERENADERS 200
XXVII WALKER DEPARTS 208
XXVIII NAN'S BIG ADVENTURE 214
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Carr
- 2: Nan and Bess both nodded at this
- 3: You're not going to stay here in Tillbury for the summer
- 4: Had taken Adair into their confidence
- 5: Adair MacKenzie frowned at Nan
- 6: As Laura Polk immediately dubbed Cousin Adair
- 7: Momsey Sherwood is ill and Papa Sherwood
- 8: Sherwood patted her hand beneath the tablecloth
- 9: Of course I remember and he wasn't smart alecky
- 10: With the help of Nan and the Lakeview Hall crowd
- 11: Adair MacKenzie tried to sound brusk
- 12: Walker Jamieson shook his head sadly
- 13: In days long before Nan and Bess descended on Lakeview Hall
- 14: Jamieson a few days after being asked
- 15: And Adair MacKenzie followed him
- 16: She's no credit to Lakeview Hall
- 17: If we may return to the present and Laredo
- 18: Says that we didn't see anything when we saw Emberon
- 19: Did you ever have the whim whams
- 20: Cupp and they have catalogues showing the sharp
- 21: Lakeview Hall certainly wouldn't be complete without her
- 22: Adair MacKenzie joined the party
- 23: Walker Jamieson is in love with Alice MacKenzie
- 24: Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar
- 25: CHAPTER VIIITROUBLE FOR RHODA Oh
- 26: And it was a great comfort to completely bewildered Rhoda
- 27: Adair MacKenzie forestalled her thanks
- 28: Adair MacKenzie appeared in the doorway
- 29: Adair MacKenzie went fuming from the room
- 30: Bess had improved considerably
- 31: Then from Villa Juarez to Tamazunchale
- 32: It was Walker Jamieson who did the ordering
- 33: Remembered ever afterwards by the girls for its huge cacti
- 34: Walker Jamieson had started his little harangue half in fun
- 35: A symbol of the love of Popocatepetl for Ixtaccihuatl
- 36: Adair MacKenzie was not to be mollified now
- 37: Adair MacKenzie was immediately all contrition
- 38: Professor Krenner joined the party in London
- 39: Laura quoted the guidebook glibly
- 40: Walker Jamieson assumed the responsibility willingly enough
- 41: CHAPTER XIVSMUGGLERS A bullfight
- 42: Bess was rummaging through her purse
- 43: Walker Jamieson said nothing further
- 44: I kept tinkering around with the radio
- 45: Walker answered Nan's question
- 46: Nan hadn't heard what her friend had said
- 47: For Bess was decidedly impressed by her wealth
- 48: Everyone called Linda snobbish
- 49: Couldn't possibly sit quietly and watch a bullfight
- 50: And the bullfight is forgotten
- 51: Maybe if you had seen Linda Riggs looking around at us
- 52: But could you direct us to Avenida Chapultepec
- 53: I thought you didn't like Cousin Adair
- 54: That was the Midwestern merger
- 55: Adair MacKenzie cleared his throat as he seated his bulk
- 56: A descendant of these same Aztecs
- 57: Adair dismissed this as an objection
- 58: Bess rolled over in her bed and looked at Nan
- 59: Bess exclaimed as though horrified
- 60: Walker Jamieson joined the rest in the lobby
- 61: Walker Jamieson agreed with the old man
- 62: And a courtyard or patio complete with palms
- 63: Bess exclaimed when she had disappeared
- 64: Walker answered before Nan could say anything
- 65: Adair turned to Nan with this last
- 66: He had a bad case of the wanderlust
- 67: Think you can vanquish Adair MacKenzie
- 68: But I wonder where cousin Adair and everyone is now
- 69: In through the arches of the patio
- 70: I'm going to tell cousin Adair
- 71: Then he quizzed all of the upstairs' servants
- 72: The thought of what Bess had said
- 73: When she got Walker Jamieson alone
- 74: Laura was almost as excited as Nan
- 75: That Nan and Walter had a moment alone together
- 76: It was Bess who sought Nan out
- 77: Adair was immensely pleased at this outburst
- 78: Adair brought this fact to life
- 79: Nan was taken completely by surprise
- 80: They didn't know anything beyond what Walker did
- 81: Then gave way and Walker found Nan
- 82: Bess hugged Nan in her excitement