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The flight from Chicago to Mexico City was uneventful except for the fact that Ruthanne was just about going out of her mind with anticipation of seeing Jake for the first time in over thirty-six hours! After two glasses of wine followed by a Tom Collins, Ruthanne slowly began relaxing, until finally slipping off into a deep if not restful sleep! She roused to her senses when a speaker directly over her seat broke out with the message, "This is your captain, we will be landing in Mexico City in ten minutes, so everyone please fasten your seat belts!" "The temperature in Mexico City is eighty-two degrees and the estimated time of landing is 8:15 central standard time, and thank you again for flying Mex-Air!"

While shaking the cobwebs out of her head, Ruthanne buckled her belt, closed her eyes, and pictured Jake taking her into his arms and kissing her hello! Thirty minutes later she found herself in front of the terminal hailing a cab for the trip downtown, "El Condor," she told the cabbie while leaning back in her seat and enjoying the ride to the hotel, "boy is he gonna be surprised!"

Ruthanne waited impatiently at the front desk of the El Condor hotel as the lone clerk checked in a young American couple from Baltimore! When he was finally ready to take care of her, the phone rang and he spent another five minutes speaking in Spanish as if he hadn't a care in the world! At last, he hung up the phone and asked, "Now, how may I help you!!" "My husband is staying in your hotel and I need to find out his room number, his name is Jake Gannon, he's with the Med-Sure company!"

The clerk punched a few buttons on the computer and in a few seconds announced, "He is in room 1154, take those elevators to the eleventh floor and turn right!" Ruthanne thanked the man and almost in a sprint headed for the elevator! Now standing in front of room 1154, Ruthanne barely could control her emotions as she knocked softly on the door! After what seemed to be an eternity, the door swung open, only it wasn't her husband who was standing before her, it was Jake's secretary, Anna! "W-what are you doing here," Ruthanne stammered to the stunned girl Friday?" "Uh we were just going over tomorrow's itinerary," the blonde mumbled while looking over her shoulder to the other side of the room!

Now a fury grew in Ruthanne's gut as she barged in past Anna to confront her two-timing husband, but much to her chagrin, there was Jake and several Mexican gentlemen seated at a table going over some paperwork! Jake turned his head, and with his mouth hanging open almost shouted, "Ruthie, what in the heck are you doing here?" Now totally embarrassed by her outburst, she hung her head and replied softly, "I-I just wanted to surprise you, but I see I shouldn't have come, I'm sorry!" Jake leaped to his feet and put his arms around his shaken spouse and while turning to his Spanish guests offered, "Can we take this up tomorrow?" After everyone had left and Anna had returned to her own room, all at once, the tears poured from Ruthanne's eyes while she buried her face in her husband's shoulder!