ck run past Mendoza's ho
use to
see if the
panel van was there, before moving
on to
the Granite Pass Ranch and then
to Virden.
At the house a man
he took to be Mendoza was
washing
the Motor Transportation squad car in
the
driveway. As Kerney drove by, a y
ounger-looking
man
exited the hou
se and climbed into the driver's seat of the panel van parked at the curb
e men and ke
pt going, wondering who
the
young man was and whether or n
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just drop t
he whole thing and leave it all up to Agent
Please fill out the following form to contact New Mexico Tech/s Fidel and Bratton to figure out. The cop in him said no. On the highway to the ranch Kerney thought about the Jordan family. Joe and Bessie came from frontier stock. Bessie's ancestors had arrived soon after the Civil War to take tip ranching along the Rio Grande near the military outpost of Fort McRae, no
w submerged
under the waters of Elephant Butte Lake, a
man-made reservoir built in the early twentieth
century. Joe's grandfather had migrated w
est t
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so in th
e 1880s and mad
e his money
in banking before buying a huge tract of land on the
Jomada, east of the Caballo Mountains.
Joe had inherited not only t
he ranch but a majority
ownership of the bank his grandfather had
established
in Tr
Fax:uth or Conse
quences. Why had Joe
sold both interests,
taken a job as presid
ent of a saving
s
and loan in De