Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Jack Straw in Mexico, by Irving Crump, Illustrated by Leslie Crump
JACK STRAW IN MEXICO
“The door was pushed violently open”
JACK STRAW IN MEXICO
How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant
BY IRVING CRUMP
Illustrations by LESLIE CRUMP
NEW YORK McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY 1914
Copyright, 1914, by McBride, Nast & Co.
Published September, 1914

Five members of the “D” club had gathered in Jack Straw’s room on the top floor of Phillip’s Hall the last Saturday afternoon before the end of the Spring term. They had not assembled in official conclave, indeed they had not intended to assemble at all. They had merely gravitated there one by one in search of something to take their minds off the worst disappointment they had been compelled to face that year. The Drueryville-Seaton baseball game, the one that was to have settled the preparatory school championship of Vermont, had been scheduled for that Saturday afternoon, and, lo and behold, in spite of the importance of the day, Jupiter Pluvius or whoever it was that controlled the rain supply, had made the game impossible by deluging everything in sight since early morning. And there was no chance of postponing the contest either as school closed the following Friday. The championship would have to remain undecided. And this was just the year Drueryville stood a better chance than ever of adding the “prep” cup to her trophy case. It was enough to make anyone glum.