CHAPTER SEVEN
Marta Mendoza was shocked when she received the short note from Rita Serrano. The girl wrote that she was staying in Mexico City indefinitely and was going to work for one Madame Fifi. It was the first time one of Marta's girls had ever walked out on her, and she didn't know what to do or say.
There was to be another inquiry into the death of Senor del Rio that afternoon, and Marta had been summoned. Too many things were happen- ing, cutting into her trade. Business was fine, except for the various interruptions. She'd worked up quite a clientele among a group of American tourists, businessmen away from their wives.
She arrived at the meeting early. Ramon Rivera was already there, and he was telling somebody, "If a man doesn't like a place, he'd better pull up and leave
