Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-24
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Allan Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by ms
uncle, j. Y. as a moral failure. lem
runs after him in a tangle OF snort
skirts to bid him good-by. -.
CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tens
Alan of the failing of the Wayhes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on MS
birthday,
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
picture for Alix Lansing. The 1udse
defends Alan in his business with MS
CHAPTER IV-Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start d
Irritation. which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Rance Ster
ling asks Alan to go away from AuA.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry, hef
husband. for her conduct with Atah
and defles him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan eloping, drops
everything, and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER VII--AliX leaves Aian
on the train and goes home to I'M"
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIIl-Gerry leaves Fer
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. On
canoe trip he meets native Slrl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge falls TO
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AllN
CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows MN MN
the ruined plantation she is mistress
Of Gerry marries her.
CHAPTER XII - At Maple house
Collingeford tells how he met Alan
Ten Per Cent. Wayne"-buildlng
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-CoIlingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives her
encouragement about Gerry.
CHAPTER XIIl-Alan comes back
to town but does not so home. lie
makes several calls in the city:
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins to
improve Margarita's plantation and
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER XV-In Africa Alan
reads Clem's letters and dreams OF
home.
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 %VIII-Alan meets AliX
j. Y. and Glenn, grown to beautiful!
womanhood, in the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for o
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER NIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Iieber and the three exiles are drawn to-
gether by common tie.
CHAPTER XXI-Lieber tells his story
''Home is the anchor of a mans soul. I
want to go home"
n 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 disgustCd.
CHAPTER XXv-A flood carries, away
Margarita and her baby, despite Gerry's
attempt at rescue.
The worst Of the food was over.
Gerry engaged search party. All day
long they sought for Margarita and her
child. Towards night they found them,
the little boy tight clasped in his
mothers arms. Gerry laid them ten
derly in the canoe and in silence the
party crawled back up the river to
Piranhas. No one looked curiously at
the burden they carried up through
the familiar sight. The hour of Weep
ing, the allotted tears. were long since
spent. They buried them that night.
Gerry went back to his room. He
sat for long time looking out on the
starry river. Then unconsciously he
picked up the old tweed suit and hung
it carefully on a chair. The rest of
his scattered things he swept uncere-
moniously upon the floor and threw
himself full length on the bed. He
was exhausted and slept.
He was up early the next morning.
He made the old woman bring water
and bathed in his room. 1T is wise"
she said. For many days there will
be poison in the river" Gerry did not
answer. He closed the door and went
through his ablutions and toilet with
great care. His beard he had always
kept close clipped. Now he shaved it
off. The tan of his face looked like a
mask above the fresh white of his
newly shaved jowls and chin. He
picked out the best of his linen and
dressed. Lastly, he put on the old
tweed suit. 1t fell naturally to the
lines of his body all except the waist
band of the trousers. He drew the
back strap as close as it would 90.
Still the trousers were a little loose at
the waist. At first he was puzzled,
then he understood. He looked at him
self in the broken glass with a gor-
geous but sadly furnished frame that
hung on the wall. His shoulders
seemed to carry the coat better than
before. He could hear Jones & Jones
say. "a splendid At, sir. You can't
pick it up anywhere"
a Gerry turned from the glass with a
Sigh. He was restless. The heavy
tweeds seemed to bind his limbs and