The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-06-01
icoDyhghE, Ia, By e. W. DilInEhAla OoapEayj
SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER I.-Howard Jennes. bank
er's son. under the evil influence OF Rob-
ert Underwood. feiiow-5trdent At Yale.
leads = hfe OF dissipation. marries the
daughter OF 4 gambler who died IN pri-
son. and Is diEowned by his father.
Forced to leave college, he tries 20 get
work and fails. His wife. Annie. Is
straight as a die. and has q heart OF
gold. A former college chum maKeA
BUSINESS proposition to Howard which
requires 1900 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 Jeffr4eS home
Underwood has apartments in the As
truria, an exclusive apartment house.
Howard recalls $50 loan TO Underwood
that remains unpaid and decides 10 ask
him for the 5000 he needs.
CHAPTER Iu.-Mrs. Jenries ST.. fool
4shly encourages dangerous intimacy
with Underwood which the latter takes
advantage of until he becomes a sort OF
social h!Ghwaynan. Discovering his true
house.
CHAPTER Iv.-Alicia receives note
from Underwood threatening suicide I'M
less she revokeS her sentence OF Danish
---' Sh" decides TO go and see h'--
CHAPTER v.-Underwood is IN desper-
ate financial straits. Merchants for whom
he has acted as commissioner in the sale
OF art treasures demand an accounting.
Underwood cannot make good. Howard
Jefries calls at Underwoods apartments
II an Intoxicated condition.
CHAPTER VIE asks Underwood for
5000 and Is told the latter IS in debt Up
l.. lis eyes. Howard drinks himself into
mauci:n condition and finally goes I,
sleep on n divnn. A caller is announced
and Underwood draws a screen around
the drunken sleeper. Alicia enters.
CHAPTER Whsle demands from
Underwood q promise that he will not
t. ~ Hfe. pointing to the disgrace
that would attach to herself from having
been associated with suicide. Under
wood r"'uses TO promise unless she will
T-ncw her patronage. This she refuses
10 do. and takes her leave Underwood
turns out the lights. places pistol at
his temple. and fires.
CHAPTER vIu.-The report Of the p!s-
W. ~ ElO"hEu AEOHl Ellh drunken
slumber. He stumbles over the dead
eody ~ Underwood. Realizing his seri-
Gus pradicament he starts TO leave the
roorl and is met by Underwood's valet
The latter discovers the body. raises an
alarm and Howard Is turned over to the
police.
ENPTER IX.-capt Clinton. notori-
GUS for his brutal treatment OF prisoners.
puts Howard through an ordeal known
in police parlance as the third degree.
CUAPTER X.-After being compelled
to stand in one position FOR five hours
while the bullying captain hurled cues
t'""s at him. Howard is practically hyp-
nuGzed when the shining revolver Is
flashed IN his eyes. and mechanically re-
peats after the captain what purports to
Dc confession OF murder.
CHAPTER X.-Annie declares her
f-'th in her husbands innocence. despite
the alleged confession. and says she will
c'"ar him II 1t takes everything she pos
Sesses in the world.
CHAPTER XII.-Shc pleads with How
ards father to come 10 his sons assist
Hnce. He refuses to do so unless Annie
win consent 10 4 divorce and promise to
tHaNe the country, never to return. To
save Howard she consents. When she
finds that JcfTrics does not intend to come
out publicly and stand by his son. but
merely 10 give financial assistance. she
declines his help.
CHAPTER XIII.-Annle appeals to
Judge Brewster. r lawyer OF information
NJ reputation and attorney FOR the elder
JeHries TO take the case. but he de-
clines.
CHAPTER XIv.-Annie hunts Brew
{ ster's ONCE. A report that she IS going
on the stage brings the banker and his
wife TO the lawyer to find some way 20
prevent It. Brewster promises Jefrries
that he will not take his sons case.
CHAPTER Xv.-AnnIe again pleads
With Brewster to take Towards case.
He consents
..iuen yooo II ms own 30 OacH On
him"
Annie's eye flashed.
Precisely" she exclaimed. But
his own won't go back on him. III