ATDTDA (14) references p 383

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

so the tunnels are real!

cuchillo - knife 

momias - mummies 

"serenely believing themselves in,
but not inescapably of, Mexico"

I dunno, I blur this with Frank's and 
Ewball-the-remittance-man's status there too -
the Ousts not ponying up the cash to spring
the fellas...maybe an arms-length transaction
of some kind (hard to believe they'd abandon
him entirely; though he is obviously
some kinda black sheep, families have been
known to put that quality to use -- "the secretary
will disavow all knowledge" (I think it was
a MAD magazine parody or something similar where
I read "Damn, why don't they for once send me
on a mission they can talk about")

fairly straightforward page?