Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-14
ME
A Novel
by
George Agnew Chamberlain
Copyright by the Century Coz
SYNOPSIS
George Agnew Chamberlain

! CHAPTER Allan Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by MS
uncle, J. Y. as a moral failure. Clem
runs after him in a tangle OF short
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER II--Captain Wayne tells
Alan OF the falling of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on MS
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
picture for Alix Lansing. The Judge
| defends Alan in his business with MS
| employers.
CHAPTER ~ Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
| Irritation. which becomes serious.
| CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from ak.
AK is taken to task by Gerry. her
husband. for her conduct with Alan
| and defies him.
CHAPTER vI-Gerry, as he thinks.
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything, and goes to Pernamouco.
| CHAPTER VII-AliX leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to find
that Gerry has disappeared.
| CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves Per
nambuco and goes TO Piranhas. On
canoe trip he meets a native girl.
CHAPTER IN-The judge fails TO
trace Gerry. A baby is born TO AliX
/ CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows him
the ruined plantation she is mistress
of. Gerry marries her.
/ CHAPTER NJ - At Maple house
Collingeford tells how he met Alan
Ten Per Cent Wayne"-building a
bridge in Africa.
/ CHAPTER XII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives her
encouragement about Gerry.
/ CHAPTER NIII-Alan comes back
] TO town but does not go home. He
makes several calls in tho city.
CHAPTER XIN-Gerry begins to
improve Margaritas plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER XV-In Africa Alan
reads Clem's letters and dreams OF
CHAPTER NvI-Gerry pastures
Lieber's cattle during the drought A
baby comes to Gerry and Margarita.
CHAPTER XVII Collingford
meets AliX in the city and finds her
changed.
CHAPTER NVIII-Alan meets Alix.
J. Y. and elem, grown to beautiful
womanhood, IN the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER XIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Lieber and the three eEiles are drawn to-
gether By common tie.
There are lots of men with the be-
ginning OF my story. It's common and
takes little telling. was born in
Pennsylvania. We were mighty poor
farmers but l got all the schooling
there was within walking distance of
home. My old man saw to that. When
I was still a boy our little bank took
me in. 1t wasn't doing much business
then but a couple Of years later the
region struck oil and the banks bust
ness scared by leaps and bounds. 1t
turned into as good a spouter as any
OF the wells. The family that ran it
became rich and went to higher jobs
or out altogether. The stafr was
showed up and about the time was of
age | was handling more money than
I'd ever known was in the world. The
amount | stole was an even thirty
thousand and l got away with it. 1t
/ was easier to do thirty years ago than
It is today. I got away with it and
then 1t got away with me. 1t lasted
me year and four months and saw
the end of it up the coast at Pernam-
buco.
II date my birth from the day [
spent the last dollar and woke up. |
worked. Nothing was too small or too
big for me to handle. | got something
to risk and then l rlsked it. l risked
It again and again. After ten years |
could draw my check for thirty thous-
and plus interest and did. l sent the
check to the little bank back home. |
waited two months for the answer and
then it came; my check torn across
and short letter saying that the loss
had already been met by a bankers
surety association. ! wrote the asso-
citation a dozen letters and some of
them took some writing. In the last
l offered fourfold the theft. There had
been plenty of Bible in my bringing
up. They wrote back that 1t was no
use-that could keep on climbing in
peace but 1t was their business to Jail
me for fifteen years the first chance
they got and they'd do it the minute |
set foot where they could grab me.
"That letter frightened me. | be-
gan to realize that what I'd been work
ing for wasn't money, or honor, or
rehabilitation but just the right to go
back-the right TO go back home.
Nobody had been harder on me
than my old man. For years nobody
in the house was allowed to say my
name and IL he saw letter from me
he threw 1t in the fire, opened or un-
opened. But somehow it got to him
that had offered to pay fourfold and
that I'd been refused and that turned
him. 1t was the fourfold that did it
the divine and sacred measure of JUS
tice. He started to fight for me as
( hard az ha'd evar fought against And