Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-21
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER ALAN Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by MS
uncle. J. Y. as a moral failure. Clem
runs after him in a tangle OF snort
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER 1I-Captain 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
employers.
CHAPTER IV-Alan and AltN meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
Irritation. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from AllN.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, her
husband. for her conduct with A'an
and defies him.
CHAPTER VI-GerTy, as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything. and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER VlI--AliX leaves Aial,
on the train and goes home to hno
that Gerry has disappeared
CHAPTER VII1-Gerry leaves Fer
and goes to Piranhas. On
a canoe trip he meets native girl.
CHAPTER lX-The judge fails TO
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 a
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives heI
encouragement about Gerry.
CHAPTER XIII-Alan comes back
to town but does not 30 home. lie
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins tC
Improve Margarita's plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER XV-1n Africa Alan
reads Clem's letters and dreams OF
home.
CHAPTER NvI-Gerry pastures
Liebers 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 AliX
j. Y. and Glen, grown to beautiful
womanhood, IN the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER XIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER AX-Kemp and Gerry visit
laeDeT ana the tnToe eNllok are UTaWn TO-
gether by common tie.
CHAPTER xxT-Lieber tells his story.
Home is the anchor of a mans soul. I
want to go home"
CHAPTER xxIi-Yn South America
Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares
to send him TO the coast.
CHAPTER XxIII-AIan is carried to
Lieber's fazenda. almost dead, and Gerry
sees him. d.
Alan opened his eyes and looked at
him. "She is waiting. She has always
waited for you to come back. She
would not believe you were dead, be-
cause of the boy"
"The boyw groaned Gerry. "what
boy?"
yours" said Alan. "He Is a great
boy. There is a new Alix since he
came. She is as far from me and
what she was as the stars. She is a
steady star. But it's all right now.
You'll go back to her"
II can't" whispered Gerry hosrsely,
more to himself than to Alan. "I've
got a wife here. I've got child here.
To me he Is my f1rst-born."
Alan's eyes opened, this time in won
der. A twisted smile came to his lips.
Your he said. Your and then the
smile changed to faint disgust. He
turned his head on the pillow away
from Gerry and slept.
The next morning found Gerry still
at Lieber's. Outside the heavenly
bowl of blue was virgin of clouds. 1t
stretched and domed In a sphered eter-
nifty of emptiness. Through its de-
pressing void the sun swan slowly,
pitilessly, as though it were loatb to
mark the passing minutes. The whole
earth baked. Strong trees wilted and
turned up the wrong sides OF their
leaves on the sea of heat like dying
fish turning up their white bellies at
the last gasp. Not a breath of air
stirred. Heat rose from the ground in
an unbroken, visible wave. "My Cod
said Alan, gazing with wistful, far.
seeing eyes beyond the familiar, repel.
lent scene, ga homeward fever
parches up my tongue" There was
such an agony of longing in the words
that Gerry was frightened. He looked
questioningly at Lieber.
"No," said Lieber, 'he's not dying
He was dying, but he's changed his
mind. He's going to go home instead