The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-06-08
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER L-Howard Jerr1es. bank
er's son. under the eva influence OF Rob
ert Underwood. fellow-student at Yale.
leeds a hfe OF dissipation. marries the
daughter OF gambler who died IN pri-
son. and Is disowned by his father.
Forced to leave college he tries TO get
work and falls. HIS wife. Annie. IS
straight as a die, and has n heart OF
gold. A former college chum makes a
business proposition TO Howard which
requires 5000 cash. and Howard is broke
CHAPTER u.-Robert Underwood. who
had made love to Annie in his college
days and was repulSed. and was once en-
gagged to Towards stepmother. Alicia. is
q welcome visitor at the Jenries home.
Underwood has apartments in the AS
truria, an exclusive apartment house.
Howard recalls a $50 loan TO Underwood
that remains unpaid and decides TO ask
him for the 5000 he needs.
CHAPTER Iu.-AIrs. Jenries. sr.. fool
ishly encourages dangerous intimacy
wIth Underwood which the latter takes
advantage OF until he becomes a sort OF
social hiEhwayman Discovering his true
character. Mrs. Jenries denies him the
house.
CHAPTER Iv.-Al!cia receives a note
from Underwood threatening suicide I'M
less she revokes her sentence OF Danish
--"' Sh" decides to go and see h''-
CHAPTER v.-Unde-wood IL in desper-
ate financial straits. Merchants for whom
ne has acted as commissioner in the sale
OF art treasures demand an accounting.
Underwood cannot make good. Howard
JeffrieS calls at Underwood'S apartments
IN an int"S! ated condition.
CHAPTER WIFE asks Underwood for
G nOO and is told the latter Is in debt W
u his ewes. Howard drinks himself int
-nauoi:n condition and finally goes |.
sleep on a divan. a caller is announced
and Underwood draws screen around
the 'runken sleeper. Alicia enters.
CHAPTER Whsle demands from
Underwood r promise that he will not
ta'-" MS ne. pointing TO the disgrace
that would attach 10 herself from having
been associated with a suicide Under
~"nH r"f''seS to promise unless abe will
renew pr patronage. This she refuses
20 do. and takes her leave. Underwood
turns -: the lights. places a pistol AZ
his temple. and fires.
CHAPTER vTII.-The report Of the pIs-
toi awAkens Howard from his drunken
slumber. He stumbles over the dead
body o. Underwood. Realizing his s.ri-
Gus pr"dicament ne starts 10 leave the
room and is met by Underwood's valet.
The Inter discovers the body. raises an
alarm and Howard IS turned over to the
police.
CHAPTER N.-capt. Clinton. notori-
Gus FOR his brutal treatment OF prisoners.
puts Howard through an ordeal known
in police parlance as the third degree
G. NPTER X.-Atter being compelled
10 stand in one position FOR I'VE hours
while the bullying captain hurled ques-
tic IT him. Howard Is practically hyp-
Noticed when the shining revolver is
fiaSH"d in his eyes. and mechanically re-
peats after the captain what purports to
be confession OF murder.
CHAPTER M.-Annle declare. her
fa'.h in her husbands Innocence. despite
the alleged confession. and says she yyiIl
clear him II II takes everything she pos
Sesses in The world.
CHAPTER X1I.-she pleads with How
ards father to come 70 his sons assist
ace. He refuses 10 do so unless Annie
VIA Not'N''AN ~ q NlNNTfe anu promise 20
le"Te the country. never to return. To
save Howard she consents. When she
fTis that Jeffrics does not intend to come
out publicly and stand by his son. bu;
merely 70 give financial assistance. she
declines his help.
CHAPTER XIII.-Annle appeals 10
Judge Brewster. lawyer OF interna;lon-
al reputation and attorney for the elder
Je1ries. TO take the case. bu, he de-
clInes
CHAPTER XIv.-Annie haunts Brew
ster's ONCE. A report that she is going
on the stage brings the banker and his
wife TO the lawyer TO ind some way TO
prevent It. Brewster promises Jefrries
that he will not take his sons case.
CHAPTER Xv.-Annle again pleads
With Brewster to take Towards case.
He consents
said the oanHer coIGIy.
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