Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-10
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uncle. J. Y. as a moral failure. Glenn
runs after him in a tangle of short
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey 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
filtration. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from Alix.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, her
husband. for her conduct with Alan
and def1es him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry. as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything, and goes to Pernambuco.
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 native girl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails to
trace Gerry. A baby is born to Alix.
CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows MIN
the ruined plantation she is mistress
of. Gerry marries her.
CHAPTER XI = 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 XIII-Alan comes back
to town but does not go home. He
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins to
i1o1n TO- Tn1a N 70 nd
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER XV-In Africa Alan
reads Clem's letters and dreams of
home.
CHAPTER XvI-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 XVIII-Alan meets Alix.
]. Y. and Clem, grown to beautiful
womanhood. in the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER XIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
Gerry was feeling a strange elation
that he strove in vain to account for.
This was an American but beyond that
they had nothing In common. New
York and Texas are connected only by
fiction. Perhaps it was just curiosity.
Curiosity invaded him. What was a
Texas cowboy doing on the road past
FaZenda Flores with a mule-train of
orchids? AS an opener he declared
himself. "My names Gerry Lansing"
he said. 1--WE settled down here.''
cofd hn
his vest pockets the nahngs of ciga-
rette. Gerry had seen the yellow pa
pers and the little bags of faxed to-
bacco. They struck convincingly the
note of the West. Reckon you're I'm
the States" drawled Kemp as he ac-
complished the cigarette.
YES" said Gerry and added, with
an idea to establishing a link, "like
you"
Reckon you're I'm Moo Yawk," was
Kemp's next deliberate contribution
to the conversation.
With that, talk Jagged. Gerry in
stinctively avoided the question direct
and Kemp vouchsafed nothing more.
Not till Gerry came upon him hitching
up his loads early next morning did
he speak again and then he said with
a CLINT in his eye that was almost a
smile, II guess them's the first orchids
that ever Travelled to ma'ket under a
diamond hitch"
Here was an opening but it came
too late. Gerry did not try to follow
it up. Once more in the saddle Kemp
seemed to acquire a sudden new ease
of body and mind. He hung by one
knee and stirrup and leaned over
toward Gerry. stranger" he said,
I'm much obliged to We. It's a long
way f'm the Alamo to Moo Yawk, but
the hull country's under one fence"
He waved his hand and was gone af-
ter his pack-train, lifting his mule with
his goose-necked spurs into a protest.
ing canter. Two weeks after bis pass
ing, as evening was settling on Fa-
zenda Flores, the echo of a mules
mincing steps on the bridge made Ger
ry look up from his work.
"Howdy," said Kemp and paused on
that to measure his welcome. He was
satisfied and urged his tired mule oD
towards the house. Gerry walked be-
side him and learned that the ship
ment of orchids had just caught the
steamer at the coast. Kemp unsaddled
his mule and tossed the harness and
slicker upon the veranda. AS Gerry
was closing the gap into the pasture
Kemp came up and stood beside him.
He cast knowing eye over the fat
stock. ''You done a good job for Lie
ber." he remarked.
Gerry nodded little sadly. "Yes,"
he said, "the contracts filed. Lieber's
sending for the stock day after tomor-
row."
AS they sat on the veranda that
night smoking endless cigarettes,
Kemp turned to his host. "D'ye mind
IL stay over day with you? Truth
is, / want to hep drive that stock up
to Lieber's. I want to hep whistle a
bunch o. steers along once more and
smell the dust an the leakin' udders,
an I shouldn't wonder II I let out a
yell or so, corralin' 'em at the other
end"
Gerry nodded understandingly.
"Why did you leave it?" he yentured
and then regretted and murmured,
dtNovor mind