Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-22
SYNOPSIS

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CHAPTER 1-Captain WAYNE tens
Alan OF the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alans health on ms
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
a picture for Alix Lansing. The 1u1ee
defends Alan in his business with ms
employers.
CHAPTER IV-Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
Irritation. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster'
ling asks Alan to so away from AIN.
Alix 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
CHAPTER VII--Alix leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to hho
that Gerry has disappeared
CHAPTER NIlG-Gerry leaves Per
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. ON
canoe trip he meets q native glrl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails 10
trace Gerry. A baby is born TO Ain
CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows MIN
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 u
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER RXII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives her
encouragement about Gerry.
CHAPTER NIII-Alan comes back
to town but does not so home. He
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins to
improve Margarita's plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER NN--In Africa Alan
reads Clems letters and dreams of
home.
CHAPTER NvI-Gerry pastures
Liebers cattle during the drought a
baby comes to Gerry and Margarita.
meets AliH in the city and finds her
changed
CHAPTER NNIII-Alan meets AliN.
I J. Y. and Glenn, grown to beautiful
womanhood, in the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for a
Iless of pottage.
CHAPTER NIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Lieber and the three exies are drawn to-
gether by common tie.
CHAPTER XXI-I.ieber tells his story.
Home is the anchor of a mans soul.
want TO go home"
CHAPTER xXII-Tn South America
Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares
TO send him to the coast
Lieber's fazenda. almost dead, and Gerry
sees him.
CHAPTER XXIV-Alan tells Gerry the
truth about Alix and Gerry tells him OF
Margarita and the baby. Alan wonders
and is disgustCd.
CHAPTER XXv-A flood carries away
. hnh 70 fc
attempt at rescue.
But True Blue ouly came to a stag
gering stop under the quirt. With his
forefeet he still marked time as though
with them he would drag his heavy
body and master one step nearer home.
From his loins back he was paralyZed.
With a last desperate effort he
straddled his forelegs, but he could not
brace himself against the backward
sag of dead weight. Gerry felt him
sinking beneath him and suddenly
| found himself standing over his pros
trate horse. or True Blue, his forefeet
outstretched. his head and breast still
held high, there was left only great
spirit chained to a fallen and dying
body.
cry escaped Gerry's lips-a cry Of
horror at what he had done. Then
he remembered why he had done it
and ran not for the slulce- gate but for
the bridge. As he reached it the roar
became deafening. There was spliu-
tering. cracking sound that, meas
ured by the great commotion, seemed
like the tinkle of tiny bell. But there
was something in the sound that called
to his brain, He cast glance yer his
shoulder. The monster beams OF his
sluice-gate, hurled. splintered, into the
air. were still hanging against the blue
sky. Under them surged an angry
white wall of racing water. Even as
he started to run down the long slope
to the house Gerry thought with a
great relief that if the gate had been
closed it would have gone even so, like
matchwood
Below him Fazenda Flores lay peace
| full, still. under the blazing sun. The
| cotton was a little wited but high and
! strong, the cane stunted but alive.
! Only in the pasture bottoms the stock
had gathered in frightened clumps.
! Their instinct had told them that dan
/ ger lowered near. Suddenly from the
quiet house burst Margarita, carrying
her son on one arm. She had seen
Gerry from a window While the 9TH
ers watched the rising river, and now
this terrifying torrent bursting down
| upon them from above, she had slipped
! out to run to him.
The house at FaZenda Flores stood
on domed mound. Behind the mound
was slight hollow before the steady
rise to the bridge began. Gerry caught
sight of Margarita as she ran down
towards this hollow. Terrified, he cast
a glance at the descending flood and
his eye measured its pace against hers.
go back" he shouted with all the
strength of his lungs, and waved his
arms. 1t was as though he had not
spoken. Through the din and roar OF
the flood the sound of the words scarce
| ly reached his own ears.
At the very bottom of the hollow
Margarita felt that she was stepping
In water. she took her eyes from
/ Gerry, who she thought was beckoning
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