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Title: Across the Mesa

Author: Jarvis Hall

Illustrator: Henry Pitz

Release Date: October 21, 2008 [EBook #26984]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE PONY PUT HER TWO FOREFEET OVER THE EDGE
OF THE DESCENT.]

Across the Mesa

By
JARVIS HALL

AUTHOR OF "THROUGH MOCKING BIRD GAP"

Frontispiece by
HENRY PITZ

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA
1922

COPYRIGHT
1922 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

Across the Mesa

Made in the U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I Why Not? 7
II Athens 14
III En Route 30
IV Juan Pachuca 48
V Polly Arrives 65
VI Local Activities 80
VII Miss Chicago 97
VIII The Prisoner 109
IX At Liberty 126
X The Discovery 142
XI Casa Grande 159
XII A Night Ride 179
XIII The Wagon 188
XIV The Trail 208
XV Angel 222
XVI Tom Does a Marathon 238
XVII At Soria's 251
XVIII Back to Athens 276
XIX Polly Makes a New Acquaintance 283
XX Treasure Trove 303

ACROSS THE MESA

CHAPTER I

WHY NOT?

Polly Street drove her little electric down Michigan Boulevard, with
bitterness in her heart.

It was a cold wet day in the early spring of 1920, and Chicago was doing
her best to show her utter indifference to anyone's opinion as to what
spring weather ought to be. It was the sort of day when, if you had any
ambition left after a dreary winter, you began to plot desperate things.

Polly hated driving the electric--her soul yearned for a gas car. M