The Secret of Casa Grande
Mexican Mystery Stories
Helen Randolph
Helen A. Ripley
9781465590169
56 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
Aroused by a slight noise in the room, Jo Ann sleepily tossed back the turbulent black curls from her forehead and slowly opened first one eye, then the other. She lay staring half dazedly as the solid doorlike shutters swung back, letting the rays of the morning sun filter into the room through the iron bars of the window. Where was she? Why the iron bars? Slowly her gaze traveled over the room, taking in the high, heavily beamed ceiling, the bare plastered walls, and finally resting on Peggy sleeping peacefully beside her. Everything floated again before her mind's eye: their long trip to Mexico, their midnight arrival at this great old stone house, and their warm welcome by Peggy's friend, Florence Blackwell, whom she had never seen before. The next moment the Indian woman, who had wakened her by opening the heavy shutters, noiselessly crossed the room and began arranging dishes on a small table beside the bed.
