Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN
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SYNOPSIS


CHAPTER Allan Wayne is sent
away from Red Hill, his home, by MS
uncle. ]. Y. as moral failure. CleIn
runs after him in q tangle OF snort
skirts to bid him good-by. -.
CHAPTER II-Captain Wayne tells
Alan of the falling of the Waynes.
Glenn drinks Alan's health on his
birthday.
CHAPTER III-Judge Healey buys
a picture for Alix Lansing. The Judge
defends Alan in his business with MS
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 AIN.
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 eloping. drops
everything, and goes to Pernambuco.
CHAPTER VII-AliX leaves Alan
on the train and goes home to hnd
that Gerry has disappeared.
CHAPTER VII1-Gerry leaves Per
nambuco and goes to Piranhas. ON
canoe trip he meets native girl.
CHAPTER IX-The judge fails TO
trace Gerry. A baby is born to AK
CHAPTER X-The native girl taxes
Gerry to her home and shows him
the ruined plantation she is mistress
CHAPTER XI - At Maple house
Collingeford tells how he met Alan
Ten Per Cent. Wayne"-building Il
bridge in Africa.
CHAPTER XII-Collingeford meets
AliX and her baby and he gives hei
announcement about Gerry.
CHAPTER XIII-Alan comes back
to town but does not so home. He
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 XvI-Gerry pastures
Lieber's cattle during the drought. A
CHAPTER XVII - Collingford
meets Alix in the city and finds her
changed.
CHAPTER XVIII-Alan meets Alix
]. Y. and Glenn, grown to beautiful
womanhood, in the city and realizes
that he has sold his birthright for
Ihess of pottage.
CHAPTER XIX-Kemp and Gerry
become friends.
CHAPTER XX-Kemp and Gerry visit
IAeber 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
h'want to go home"
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.
Lieber nodded listlessly. "I'n look
out for them"
pI-
him off. There was wlstful look in
the old mans eyes as from the top
OF the cliff he turned and gazed down
the river. "Lieber," said Gerry, "you
can count on me to do what can for
you when I get home. Do you under
stand"
Lieber flushed. Their eyes met. He
gripped it hard. Then ne rode away
without word.
Lieber threw his horse into rapid
rack that was faster than a gallop. 1t
was killing pace, but he knew the
mettle Of his mount. Late in the after
noon he came to the confines of his
ranch. The broad-eaved house in the
Instance looked very still and deserted.
Beyond 1t loomed the solitary joa tree.
something had happened to the joa
Tree during the two days he had been
away. 1t had become a beacon He
remembered the giant Bougainvillea
vine that covered the tree. The Bou-
ga1nVillea had bloomed into a tower
OF mauVe flame. 1t stood out in dar-
ing contrast to somber desert and
DroWn-tiled roofs. Its single, defiant
and blaring note struck an answering
choro IN Lieser's heart. He took cour-
age OF that brave burst of color. so
Jarrlng in a garden, but in desert a
thing Of glory. Lieber passed into the
loneliness of his deserted house with
a firm STEP
Gerry spent many days at Piranhas
as he had planned in thought. He
went over his life in a painstaking
"etrospection. His mind fingered long
on the last three years, their fullness,
tneir even upward trend. Could a man
live three such years and lose them?
In a ghastly half hour the flood had
wiped out the tangible results of
three years of labor. But what about
the intangible? He had sinned against
Allx and against her faith, but had he
slnned against himself? He felt inf
nitely older than the first Gerry Ian
sing, but would he change this think
ing age for his unthinking youth?
What If he had learned three years
ago that Alix had saved herself and
his name? Would it have meant loss
Or gain to him today? Something
within him cried, "Loss Loss" but
he dared not take courage from the in
ward cry. He could not know, he rea-
soned, until he had seen Alix.
Twice, three times, the little stern
wheeler drove her nose into the mud
bank at Piranhas, called her hoarse
warning and departed. From some dis
tant cliff Gerry saw her come and 90,
or, miles away, walking himself tired
across the desert, heard her throaty
siren cry and did not heed It,
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