Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-31
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Alan 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 shol'
skirts to bid him good-by.
| CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the failing of the Wayhes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on MS
| birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
a picture for Alix Lansing. The 1u1Se
defends Alan in his business Win Ills
employers
| CHAPTER IV-Alan and Alix meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
/ Irritation. which becomes serious
CHAPTER V-At home, Rance Ster'
ling asks Alan to go away from Alix.
AliX is taken to task by Gerry he1 Ior,
/ husband. for her conduct with A'An
and defies him. ,.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks,
sees Alix and Alan g5oping, rIa g, ,baco GropS
| CHAPTER Vl1-AliX leaves Aad aad
on the train and goes home TO hliu
that Gerry has disappeared. ~.
| CHAPTER VII1-Gerry leaves 1 el. e.
nambuco and goes TO Pirannas' ;rI ~"
u canoe trip he meets native Shi.
CHAPTER IN--The judge rams 10
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AIN
/ CHAPTER N-The native girl tahes
Gerry to her home and SHOWS Ill Ill
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'--bulldins
bridge IN Africa.
CHAPTER NII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives hei
announcement about Gerry.
CHAPTER NIII-Alan comes oack
to town but does not so home. he
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins 70
improve Margarita's plantation ana
! builds an irrisating ditch.
CHAPTER NN-ln Africa Alan
reads Clems 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.
]. Y. and Glenn, grown to beautiful
womanhood, IN the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for a
CHAPTER NIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER NN-Kemp and Gerry visit
Lteber and the three eNiles are drawn to-
gether by common tie.
CHAPTER XXI-I.leber tells his story
Home is the anchor of a mans SOUL I
want TO go home"
CHAPTER XXIT-Tn South America
Alan gets fever and his foreman prepares
to send him to the coast.
CHAPTER XXIII-Alan is carried to
Liebers fazenda. almost dead, and Gerry
sees him.
! CHAPTER XXIv-Alan tells Gerry the
truth about Alix and Gerry tells him of
Margarta and the baby. Alan wonders
and is disgustLd.
CHAPTER XXV-A flood carries away
Margarita and her baby, despite Gerry's
attempt at rescue.
CHAPTER XXvI-Fever follows Ger
rvs exposure. He send note to AliN
by Alan when Alan and Kemp GO home.
He tells Lieber he can't go home.
CHAPTER XXvII-Alan gets back to
the city and sends Gerry's note to Red
HILL AliX calls on Alan, but he refuses
to tell her Gerry's story. Alan goes home
to Red Hi)l
health he builds a barrier between him
self and Glenn, who does not understand.
"All right, my boy" said J. Y, smil.
ing. There's only Glen and myself
here and We'll go and try to make
noises like the children" He came out
of the door in time to catch sight of
Clem's skirt as it whisked around the
corner Of the hall. He followed and
found her already seated at the piano.
Her fingers wandered over the keys
and then her soft. full voice broke out
in one old song after another. She was
happy because she felt that singing
she was with Alan.
Alan stirred in his bed and listened,
He determined that tomorrow he must
be well. Robbed of this afternoon, he
was being robbed of half of life. He
cursed the fever and then. as he felt
how near Clem's voice brought her to
him, he blessed 1t.
At night when all the rest of the
household had gone to bed, J. Y. softly
opened Alan's door and looked in.
Alan was awake and nodded. J. Y.
came in and pottered about the room.
He rolled bit of paper into an ampler
shade and further veiled the night
lamp. The lines in J. US rugged face
J were softened to lines of sweetness.
He asked If there were nothing he
; could do and then turned to leave the
room. With his hand on the door, he
paused and smiled down on Alan. "AIy
boy, you have been far. far away"
Far away" replied Alan drowsily,
'but have come back"
The bracing air of Red Hill and a
long nights sleep enabled Alan to keep
his word with himself. He was up and
out on the day following his arrival.
but he still felt delightfully."- lazy and
pitifully weak. Glenn took charge of
him. First she tried to settle him in
, hammock with many pillows. bu,
Alan shrank from the hammock. They
spread rugs instead in nook under
the trees, and Alan stretched himself
out amid riot of nany-colored cush-
ions, while Glen sat close by in a low
rocking chair and talked and read and
talked