Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-09
SYNOPSIS


CHAPTER ALAN Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by his
uncle. ]. Y. as a moral failure. Clem
runs after him in a tangle or snort
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER II-Captaln Wayne tells
Alan of the failing OF the Waynes'
Glenn drinks Alans health on MS
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
a picture for Alix Lansing. The luoee
defends Alan in his business with MS
employers.
CHAPTER IV-Alan and AliX meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start a
Irritation, which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from AK.
AliX Is taken to task by Gerry, her
husband, for her conduct with Alan
and defies him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry. as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan oloping, drops
everything, and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER VII-Alix leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to find
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIII-Gerry leaves Per-
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. ON
a canoe trip he meets a native girl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails to
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AliX.
CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
Gerry to her home and shows him
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"-building a
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-Collingeford meets
Alix and her baby and he gives her
encouragement about Gerry"
CHAPTER XIlI--Alan comes back
to town but does not go home. lie
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER NIV-Gerry begins to
improve MargaritR's plantation and
builds an irrigatng 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 10 Gerry and Margarita.
CHAPTER XVII - Collingford
meets AliX in the city and finds her
changed
CHAPTER XVIII-Alan meets AliX,
j. Y. and Glenn, grown to beautiful
womanhood, in the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for a
mess of pottage.
They sat and looked at each other
for a moment and then j. Y. arose
and held out his hand again. 'If that's
the case" he said, Il won't keep you.
Good-by and good luck"
"Good-by, SIR" said Alan.
AS he reached the door ]. Y. spoke
again. "Alan," he said, I'm glad you
dropped in"
~ am too, SIR" said Alan.
He was just leaving the sedate old
office building, sandwiched in betv cen
modern towers of Babel, when cab
drew up at the curb. The door opened
and girl stepped out She suddenly
stood still. Alans eyes were drawn to
her and found hers fixed on him. He
drew a quivering breath. Glen stood
before him. She saw his hesitation
and a cloud came over the light in her
face. Her moist lips trembled Their
hands met.
"Alanw she said and he answered,
"Clemw
And so they stood his eyes fixed in
hers that were blue and deep. He felt
his soul sinking, sinking into those
cooling pools. He did not wish ever
to speak again-ever to think again.
And then Glenn laughed. Her eyes
wrinkled up. There was a CLEAN of
even teeth. The wind blew her ft1rs
about her and lit the color in her
cheeks. How solemn we are after
three yearsw she cried Three years.
Alan. Aren't you ashamed?"
Alan felt sense of sudden insula-
ton as though she had deliberately
cut the current that had flowed so
strongly between them. 'I am going
away" he stammered weakly and
waved at an approaching four-wheeler,
piled high with travelling kit and con-
voyed by his hurried but never furried
servant.
But Clem stuck to her guns. Real
typ she said with a glance at the
loaded cab and with arching eyebrows.