Crossword-Solution: MADAMA 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Mexicans on the ranch also took up the name, adding another syllable to accommodate their lingual incapacity for the final “p,” gravely referring to her as “La Madama Bo-Peepy.” Eventually it spread, and “Madame Bo-Peep’s ranch” was as often mentioned as the “Rancho de las Sombras.” Came the long, hot season from May to September, when work is scarce on the ranches.

Did you sign those lease-renewal applications yet, madama? They’ve got to be on file in the land office by the thirty-first.” Teddy turned his head lazily.

The _pulperia_—or drinking shop—of the proprietress, Madama Timotea Ortiz, occupied the ground floor.

Sometimes a fruit-grower, riding in from his plantation to confer with his agent, would pass a melancholy night in the dismal upper story; sometimes a minor native official on some trifling government quest would have his pomp and majesty awed by Madama’s sepulchral hospitality.

Smith? I was not aware that any boats except the _Karlsefin_ had arrived for some days.” The two leaned against the deserted bar; and Madama set out a bottle without waiting for the doctor’s order.