Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-20
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER ALAN Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by MS
uncle. ]. Y. as moral failure. Clem
runs after him in a tangle OF snort
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER 1I-Captatn WAYNE tells
Alan of the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on MS
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
a 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
filtration. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster.
ling asks Alan to go away from AUX.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, ner
husband. for her conduct with Alan
and defies him.
CHAPTER VI-Gcrry, 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 hno
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves FER
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. Oh
canoe trip he meets a native girl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails to
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AK
CHAPTER X-The native girl taxes e.,
Gerry to her home and shows MN
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"-buildlng a
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-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 Margaritas plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER XV-ln 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 NVIII-Alan meets Anx
J. Y. and elem, 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 a common tie.
CHAPTER xxI-I.ieber tells his story.
Home IL the anchor OF mans soul. I
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.
Gerry sat down in a chair beside the
settle. He had not known how tired
he was himself Soon he drowsed. His
head fell forward on his chest. Sleep
came to him and then a great trouble
came to his sleep. He reused himself
from a nightmare and, suddenly wide
awake, found Alan's eyes fixed on his
| face.
your murmured Alan.
Gerry did not answer. His face be-
came a mask. 1t seemed to him that
only Alan's eyes were alive, and to
Alan that Gerry had projected his
spirit to his bedside to watch him die.
Alan tried to smile in defiance.
Cant you speak?" he whispered
hoarsely.
Gerry leaned forward. The question
he had to ask was stronger than he.
1t forced its way through his lips.
"Alan, what did you do with her? Tell
me that and I'll so away"
| A troubled look came into Alan's thin
face. He frowned. do with her? Do
with whom?"
ALAN" said Gerry, his suppressed
voice trembling. you know. With
Alix."
"Oh," said Alan. still struggling on
the verge of consciousness. "I remem-
Der. I did nothing with her. She
wouldn't go with me-"
"Alan," groaned Gerry. 81 saw you.
saw you and Alix on the train"
The frown was gone from Alan's
forehead. He felt sleep coming back