Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-17
SYNOPSIS

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CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the falling 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 AhN.
/ AliX is taken to task by Gerry, ner
husband, for her conduct with Alan
and deiies him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks,
sees AliX and Alan clipping, drops
everything. and goes to Pernambuco.
! CHAPTER VII--AliX leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to nho
that Gerry has disappeared.
| CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves Per
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On
a canoe trip he meets n native girl.
/ CHAPTER IX-The judge fails TO
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AIN.
CHAPTER N-The native girl taxes
Gerry to her home and shows hin!
the ruined plantation she is mistress
of. Gerry marries her.
/ CHAPTER Xl - 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.
1 CHAPTER XIII-Alan comes back
to town but does not so home. He
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins t.
improve Margarita's plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER NN-In Africa Alan
laff #
CHAPTER NvI-Gerry pastures
Lieber's cattle during the drought a
/ baby comes to Gerry and Margarita.
CHAPTER XVII - CollingforC
meets Alix in the city and finds her
changed.
CHAPTER NVIII--Alan meets Alix
]. Y. and Glen, grown to beautiful
womanhood, in the city and realizes
that he has sold his biTthright for o
Ihess of pottagc.
CHAPTER NIN-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER, HX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Iieber ard the three extles are drawn to-
gether by common tie.
CHATTER XxI-Lieber tells his story
Home is the anchor of a mans SOUL I
want TO so home"
CHAPTER XXII-Tn South America
Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares
to send him to the coast.
When the cavalcade came within
easy view Gerry stood up and watched.
He could not hide his curiosity like
,Iieber and Kemp. In front of the
horses came four men bearing a sag
ging hammock on a pole. They were
running in quick. springy steps that
made the hammock sway gently from
side to side. The pace they kept up
under the burden was marvellous
They were followed closely by eight
horsemen. At the first signs of falter-
ing among the bearers, four OF the
riders would throw themselves of
their ponies and run under the pole.
The change of relay was made without
stop, without a pause. The freed
ponies stood with hanging heads and
straddled legs. Even from a distance
one could see that the burdened men
had run the wiry little beasts off their
feet. They were all in, but the men
were still erect-keen. With a final
squirt the cortege drew up before the
veranda. Lieber stood up. Dead or
dying?" he asked.
Master, we do not know" an
swered the oldest of the men, their
! leader.
"Fever or smallpox" asked Lieber.
"Fever."
With a look of relief Lieber went
down the steps to the hammock. A sheet
had been thrown over the pole to keep
off the worst Of the sun. He pulled
1t off. A ghastly sight met his eyes,
but he did not shrink. Bring him up
here" be said. springins up the steps
and sweeping a saddle harness and
some old magazines off a great raw
hide settle on the veranda.
They laid the sick man on the settle
and Lieber started to strip him with
gentle, deft hands. Kemp strobe for
ward and helped but Gerry stood by
powerless to move. He had recognized
Alan, the man he had sworn to break
IL ever he met him. Somebody else
had broken Alan, terribly. pitilessly.
Gerry's eyes shrank from the sight. A
lump came into his throat Alan was
dead. Alan with whom he had wan.
| dered barefoot through those quiet
lanes of home. with whom he had
fisbed and swum. and once had
fought. What a little fury Alan had
been in that boys battlc' 1t had not
been fought to finish. On one i'm
pulse they had stonped and looked at
each other and turned away, ashamed
to shake hands.
Lieber, once heavy, fiorid and clum-
81, was transformed. He worked
quickly, with sure hands. The body
lay stripped on the settle. Under 1t
still lay the hammock and dusty blan.
kets. The pillows and a board had
been tossed on the floor. Lieber ex
amined his patient minutely. without
haste. The spleen was frightfully dis.
tended and pushed out across the abb
domen. He could feel its hard, un-
yielding margins. The feet we're swol-
len. The face was yellow with the
sickly gray.yellow OF nodded straw.
Coma had set in.
Lieber dragged a great medicine
chest out from his room. With alcohol
ne rapidly washed out the dust-flled
nostrlls of the stricken man and
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