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

BY
IRVING CRUMP

Illustrations by
LESLIE CRUMP

NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1914

Published September, 1914

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Jack Straw’s Mission to Mexico	[1]
II	“In Self Defense”	[17]
III	Seasick	[26]
IV	At Odds with Customs Inspectors	[40]
V	In the Hands of the Secret Service	[50]
VI	On Trial as a Spy	[58]
VII	Off for Necaxa	[67]
VIII	The Crippled Generators	[79]
IX	Jack Proposes a Trap	[88]
X	Footprints	[100]
XI	Searching for the Man with the Scarred Heel	[108]
XII	The Drawings are Stolen	[119]
XIII	A Weakened Garrison	[129]
XIV	The Night Watch	[139]
XV	Improvised Searchlights	[151]
XVI	A Warning	[162]
XVII	Who will be Food for the Vultures	[174]
XVIII	The Wires are Down	[184]
XIX	To the Rescue	[193]
XX	“Shoot! Shoot!”	[205]
XXI	“Yes, Yes, I Did It”	[216]
XXII	Good-by Necaxa	[226]

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