Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-23
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Allan Wayne Is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by MS
uncle. j. Y. as moral failure. lem
runs after him in a tangle of snort
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER 11-Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on ms
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
d picture for Alix Lansing. The Judge
defends Alan In his business with MS
CHAPTER IV-Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
Irritation. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Rance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from AhN.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, her
husband. for her conduct with Alan
and deiies him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything. and goes to Pernamouco.
CHAPTER V1I--AliX leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to hho
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves FER
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. Cii
a canoe trip he meets native Slrl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails TO
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AIN.
CHAPTER X-The native girl taxes
Gerry to her home and shows MN
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
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER RXII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives heI
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 ano
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 - CollingforG
meets Alix in the city and finds her
changed.
CHAPTER XVIII-Alan meets AliX
j. Y. and Clem, grown to beautiful
womanhood. IN the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for q
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER XIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Lieber and the three eXiles are drawn to-
gether by common tie.
y.
Home is the anchor Of a mans soul.
want to go home"
CHAPTER xxII-In South America
Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares
to send him to the coast
CHAPTER xXIII-Alan is carried to
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 disgustDd.
CHAPTER XXV-A flood carries away
Margarita and her baby, despite Gerry's
attempt at rescue.
Her two hands were clenched and held
above her gray head. Thin wisps of
hair hung about her face. Her face
was distorted. She was cursing Gerry,
cursing the day of his birth, the day of
his coming, the day he had opened his
ditch. She swept her arms over the
terrible scene and called down the
curse of all the ruin and death on his
head. But Gerry was beyond hearing.
In all the world there was none to hear
the old woman. She stood alone: about
her the silent waters, above her the
blazing blue sky.
The tree shot out of the eddy. The
current, the main current from the
cleft, caught it squarely and swept it
away. It suddenly shook its long trail
of riffraff, and turning and turning.
more and more swiftly, swan out on
to the churning bosom Of the great
river.
The valley had disappeared. Squat
ting on the very level of the far-hung
waters, the old house still stood The
bright sun struck Il CLINT of light from
its white walls and gave rich colors to
its moss-grOwn tiles. The roof was
crowded with fowl and strange med
ley of heavy flying birds. glad of
perch on which to rest. Dona Maria
went into the house. She closed the
great board shutters The house looked