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

CHAPTER ALAN Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by his
runs after him in a tangle of short
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER 1I--Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
birthday.
CHAPTER 1II-Judge Tealey buys
picture for AliX Lansing. The Judge
defends Alan in his business with his
employers.
CHAPTER IV-Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start a
Irritation. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster-
ling asks Alan to so away from AK.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, her
husband. for her conduct with Alan
and defles him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything. and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER Villain leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to find
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves Per-
nambuco and goes 10 Piranhas. on
a canoe trip he meets a native girl
CHAPTER IN-Thc Judge fails to
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AliX.
CHAPTER N-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows him
of. Gerry marries her.
CHAPTER NI - At Maple house
Collingeford tells how he met Alan
Ten Per Cent. Wayne"-building a
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 go home. He
lSnS several palla n the CITY
CHAPTER NIN-Gerry begins to
improve Margarita's plantation and
builds an irrigatng ditch.
CHAPTER \N-In Africa Alan
reads Clem's letters and dreams of
home.
CHAPTER NVI-Gerry pastures
Lieber's cattle during the drought A
baby comes to Gerry and Margarita.
Alan sat in the circle of light from
the hanging lamp and stared into the
darkness. From the river came tho
sound of sucking mud. then a heavy
tread. monster hippo blundered
through the bushes In search of food.
On the other side of the tree trunk the
Zanzibar was snoring. The fires we're
burning out at the mems camp. Once
more the odor of their bodies hung in
the air.
Alan arose and dragged his chair to
the outer edge OF the mango tree. He
sat down and with hands locked and
elbows on knees gave himself up to
memory. He forgot the sounds and
smells of Africa, the blackNreeu Of
overhanging leaves. the black shadows
OF the swirllng river, the blsck-bronze
of the men about him. For an hour he
tore himself away from the black
world to wander over the beloved hills
in New England where summer dies
in burst of light.
Red Hill, crowned with mountain
ash, called to his spirit as torch in
the night to q lost wanderer. The thlr-
ty months that bad passed since last
he saw its budding promise were
swept away. He ina gined those very
budding leaves at the end of their
course, the pale amber of the elms,
the deep note of the steadfast frs, the
Haunting fire of the brave naples.
Maple House arose before him. its
lawn carpeted with dry leaves. From
the leaves fioated an incense, dusty,
pungent. The cool shadows of the
great, rambling house beckoned to
him. Here is peace, here is rest, they
seemed to cry. The memory of home
gripped him, held him and soothed
him. His head nodded and he slept
only to awake with start, for he had
dreamed that he had lost the way
back forever.