Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-15
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SYNOPSIS


away from Red Hill, his home, by. his
uncle, j. Y. as a moral failure. Glenn
runs after him in a tangle of short
skirts to bid him good-by.
CHAPTER II--Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the failing of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
picture for AliX Lansing. The judge
defends Alan in his business with his
employers.
CHAPTER IV-Alan and AliX meet
at sea, homeward bound. and start
Irritation, which becomes serious.
CHAPTER V-At home, Nance Ster.
ling asks Alan to go away from AliN.
Alix is taken to task by Gerry, her
and defies him.
CHAPTER VI-Gerry, as he thinks
sees AliX and Alan eloping, drops
everything, and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER VII--Alix leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to fino
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VIlI-Gerry leaves Per
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. Or
canoe trip he meets a native girl
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails to
trace Gerry. a baby is born to AliN
CHAPTER N-The native girl take.
Gerry to her home and shows hin
the ruined plantation she is mistres
Of. Gerry marries her.
CHAPTER NJ - At Maple hous
Collingeford tells how he met Alan
Ten Per Cent. Wayne"-building Il
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-Collingeford meets
AliN and her baby and he gives heI
encouragement about Gerry.
CHAPTER NIII-Alan comes bach
TO town but does not 30 home. He
makes several calls in the city.
CHAPTER XIV-Gerry begins tc
improve Margarita's plantation an,
builds an irrigating ditch.
CHAPTER NN-In Africa AlaT
reads Clems letters and dreams
home.
CHAPTER NVI-Gerry pasture.
Lieber's cattle during the drought =
baby comes to Gerry and Margarita
CHAPTER XVII - Collingfor,
meets AliX in the city and finds her
changed.
CHAPTER XVIII-Alan meets Alix
j. Y. and Glen, grown to beautifu!
womanhood, IN the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for q
mess of pottage.
CHAPTER NIN-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
Lieber and the three eXiles are drawn to-
gether by a coplmon tie.
CHAPTER XXI-Lieber tells his story.
Home is the anchor of mans soul. I
want TO go home"
They did not speak. They were
nervous. Kemp made a cigarette.
puffed at it once or twice and then
threw it away, to roll another a mo-
ment later. His thoughts were wing
ing away to the fork of Big and Little
Creek where a three-room shack stood
in the shadow of the White mountains
of New Mexico. He had thought it
small, miserable, cramped. But out
here in the wilderness, thousands and
thousands of miles away, it came back
to his vision, glori6ed. 4 swelling
came into his throat. He tried to
cough 1t up. But as long as he thought
OF the mountain, the thickness stuck
In his throat. He took from his pocket
a treasured cake of tobacco and With
strong teeth tore off a generous Dor
ton. Then he rose and walked off to
the corral
Gerry sat on alone. Thoughts were
troubling him, too. What. was he do
ing here? Who was this Margarita
that had twlned herself into his life?
Was 1t his life? And her little boy
black-haired, black-eyed, olive-tlnted-
he was his boy, too. He. was Gerry
Lansing's son. No, not that-not Ger
ry Lansing's. Gerry Lansing belonged
to time that was far away, to hill
where white houses with green blinds
peered out from the darkness of
domed naples, from the long shadows
of appointing frs and from the caves
of haring elms, the wine-cups of heav-
en-. A sigh came quivering through all
his body and escaped from his trem-
bling lips. Il am alone" he breathed
to himself.