The Glenwood post., 1916-06-10
GEORGE AGNEW cfIAMBERLA AIN
Continued from last weekly
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I SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-Alan Wayne is sent away
Hom Red Hill. his home, by his uncle.
J: Y. az q moral failure. Glenn runs after
him In tangie Of short skirts to bid him
good-by.
CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tells
Alan OF the failing Of the Waynes. Glen
drinks Alsn's health on his birthday.
CHAPTER II-Judge Healey buys q
picture for Alix Lansing. The Judge de-
tends Alan In his business with his en-
ployers.
CHATTER Iv-Aian and AMx meet Il
cea, homeWard bound, and start q di1ta-
taon which becomes serious.
CHAPTER Vat home, Nance stseiins
q taken to task By "eR Gerry. r her Thu hasesad.
lfor her conduct with Alan and dsnAs him.
CHAPTER yI-o>rry. ~ he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan elopang, drops every
thing and goes to Pefnambuco.0
CHAPTER vH-Anx leayse Alan on
the train and goes homs to ind that Ger
Try has disapoearad. 7Es a'a
CHAPTER vI1I-aerry lssves Psrnam-
buco and goes to Ptranhas. On . oanos
lt'ip he msets native aifL
CHAPTER Ix-The Judge fails to trace
'S3erry baby is born to ALE.
CHAPTER X-The native girl takes
GERRY to her home and shows him the
ruined plantation she Is mistress OF. Ger
iry marries her
CHAPTER xI-At Maple house Col
I!inseford tells how he met Alan-'Ten
Per Cent Wayne"-building q bridge in
Africa
CHAPTER xII-Collingeford meets Alix
and her baby and he gives her encour-
agement about Gerry.
CHAPTER xIII-Alan comes back to
town but does not go home. He makes
several calls in the city.
F.. CHAPTER xIv-Gerry begins to i'm
prove Margarita's plantation and builds
an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER xv-In. Africa Alan reads
iClens letters and dreams Of home.
CHAPTER xv1-.Gerry pastures Lie
comes to Gerry and Margarita.
CHAPTER xv1I-collingeford meets
-Alix in the city and finds her changed.
CHAPTER XvII1-Alan meets Alix. J.
7. and Glenn. grown to beautiful woman
hood. in the city and realizes that he has
sold his birthright fot q mess of pottage
CHAPTER x1x-Kemp aid Gerry be-
come friends.
Leber and the three exlles are drawn to-
igether by common tie.
Kemp had stayed in sole possession
at Lieber's. Digging was not in his
line, SO he had volunteered to hold the
fort against the return of the garrf-
son. He welcomed Lieber and Gerry
to supper of his own making in ap-
proved cowboy style: sour-dough bis
cults made by master hand, steaks
cut from freshly killed calf and fried
before toughness set in. pile of
creamy mashed spuds. There was a
LONELINESS about the meal that made
them eat In silence. They felt as
though for years they had been wor-
Shipping false culinary gods. The pile
of steaks, the heaped potatoes. the hot
biscuit were exotics, strayed into a
land Of pepper sauces and garlic. The
supper seemed to the three men to
take on personality and to be i'll at
ease, but 1t was they that were Ill at
ease for the supper reminded them
mat tney were exlleS.
The silence on the veranda that
night was even longer than usual Ger
ry's mind went back to French book
that he had bought in desperation at
Pernambuco. He had ploughed through
half OF 1t and with a catch in his
thoughts he remembered that it lay
open on the table when he left his lit
tie room in Piranhas on the morning
of mornings that had broken life in
two. Some of Its phrases, conned
over and over again In his struggle
with the half-forgotten idiom, came
back to him. LA parole est du temps.
lie silence de reternlte." He smiled to
himself at the twisted meaning the
long silence of his companions gave to
the words.
Then the smile left his face. He re-
membered the argument. The instinct
we all have for superhuman truths
tells NJ that 1t Il dangerous to be 81
lent with those we would keep at a
distance, for words pass and are for
I gotten between men, but silence-ac-
/ tive silence-is forever ineffaceable.
, True life-the moments Of life that
leave q trace-ls made up Of silence.
! Not passive silence; that Is but anoth
+, er name for sleep. But the active ST.
lence that breaks down barriers.
pierces walls and turns the life Of ev-
lery day into q, life where all is IN
| tense, where there ID no ban-nothing
; ;forbidden-where laughter dare not
enter. where subjection IL submerged
and where all-all. Is remembered.
Gerry felt that this active silence
had come upon them. These men were
being borne Into the silent sphere Of
his own SOUL He felt restless-afraid.
He decided to speak. He was on the
point of speaking when Lleber let
down his chair softly, clasped his