Graham guardian., 1921-03-25
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I--Lonely and almost friend
! less Tonnibel Devon, living on q canal
] boat, child OF a brutal father and worm
| cut, discouraged mother, wanders into a
Salvation army hall at Ithaca, N. Y.
| There she meets a young Salvation army
captain, Philip MacCauley.
CHAPTER II.-Uriah Devon, Tony's ia
! ther, returns to the boat from a pro-
| tracted "spree," and announces he has
| arranged for Tony to marry worthless
| companion of his Reginald Brown. Mrs
Devon objects. and Uriah beats her. She
htlmates there is a secret connected
with Tonnibel.
CHAPTER III.--In clothes that Uriah
| has brought Tony finds baby's picture
with notification of a reward for its
return to Doctor Pendlehaven. She
goes to return the picture
CHAPTER Iv.--With the Pendlehavens
a family of wealth, live Mrs. Curtis, a
cousin. her son and daughter, Katherine
Curtis and Reginald Brown. Katherine is
deeply in love with Philip MacCauley.
CHAPTER V.-Tonnibel returns the
picture to Doctor John, and learns 1t be-
longs to his brother, DR.. Paul Pendle-
haven. 1t is portrait of Doctor Pauls
child, who had been stolen In her Infancy
and her loss has wrecked Doctor Pauls
life. Doctor John goes with Tony to the
canal boat and ministers to Mrs, Devon
while she Is unconscious
CHAPTER VI.-Returning to conscious
ness, Mrs. Devon is informed by Tony
of her visitor. She is deeply agitated
makes Tony swear she will never tell of
Devon's brutality, and disappears.
CHAPTER V1I.-Tony's personality and
her loneliness appeal to Doctor John and
he arranges to take her into his house as
companion to his invalid brother.
CHAPTER VIII.--Tony's presence in
the house has a good effect on Doctor
Paul. He begins to take new interest
in life. Visiting the canal boat. Tony
finds Reginald Brown there. He attempts
to kiss her. Captain MacCauley appears
and throws the man into the lake. Uriah
Devon orders MacCauley Off his boat.
CHAPTER Ix.-With the girl a captive
Devon insists that she shall marry Brown.
On her persistent refusal he beats her
brutally, throws her into the cabin, un-
moors the boat, and starts to leave
Ithaca. MacCauley follows In his canoe.
He takes the girl into the canoe through
the cabin window. The men believe Tony
has committed suicide MacCauley de-
clares his love, and Tony acknowledges
she returns 1t. The girl returns to the
Pendlehaveu home.
CHAPTER Kat dinner In the Pendle-
haven home MacCauley, not knowing OF
her presence in the house, meets Tony
and his affectionate greeting alarms
Katherine and her mother.
CHAPTER XI.-MacCauley calls at the
Pendlehaven home in his car, ignores
Katherine, and takes Tony for q drive
Katherine is heartbroken.
CHAPTER XII.-Determlned to bring
about the death OF Doctor Paul and SC
secure money he believes he would in
herit. Reginald procures a deadly poison
from Dr. Johns laboratory and places Il
IN the sick mans medicine Tony dis.
covers him In the act. Devon visits
the Pendlehaven house and with Mrs
Curtis assistance endeaVors to carry off
Tony. Doctor John thwarts the plan.
Devon Is arrested and Jailed for theft.
CHAPTER XIII. - Tonnibel discovers
that Reginald Is Mrs. Curtis son. and
denounces him for the attempted murder
of Doctor Paul. She agrees to say moth
ing If he will leave the town at once.
CHAPTER XIV doctor Paul formally
adopts Tonnibel as his daughter, and tn,
cup of bitterness is overnowing for Mrs
Curtis and Katherine
CHAPTER XV.-Devon serves his SEN
tence and is released from prison. He
and Reginald plot to kidnap Tony and
force her to marry Reginald. Devon
agrees to the deal for five thousand dol
lars, which Mrs Curtis IL to furnish
CHAPTER XVl.-Devon informs his
wife he has confessed to Doctor Pendle-
haven that she stole Tonnlbel from him
as an act of revenge, and that the Pen
dlehavens In their Joy at the girls recov-
cry have condoned the crime. The two
Of them visit the Pendehaven home.
Devon gets the Ave thousand dollars from
Mrs Curtis. Left alone In the library
Devon robs a safe of considerable money
and jewelry Unknown to him Reginald
Is In the room In drunken stupor. When
the girl appears Devon overpowered by
uer Dehulyt dChHOWleuSeS ne IL not neT
father and makes love to her. He is in
terrupted by Mrs. Devon Reginald,
awakened by the disturbance, learns OF
Devon's treachery and shoots him, escap-
Ing from the room Tony believes Mrs
Devon shot her husband, and hurries her
rom the house To save her. she insists
she shot Devon and also robbed the safe
Reginald appearing, the girl declares she
loves him and not MacCauley.
CHAPTER XVII. - Mrs. Devon has
escaped from the house, taking with her
the money and jewels Uriah had stolen.
Fearful of what may happen to her hus-
band, however, she returns and disproves
Tony's story by exhibiting the revolver
which the girl claims to have used. II Is
fully loaded, Reginald, In his fright, con-
victs himself. Mrs. Devon pleads for the
release of her husband, promising she
will reveal to Doctor Paul the where
lbOuts of his daughter. The Pendleha-
vens agree and the woman presents Ton
nibel to her delighted father. The Ave
housand dollars Devon had secured from
Mrs. Curtis are found In his pocket and
le tells the truth concerning the COM
)iicty of Mrs. Curtis and Katherine In
| he attempted kidnapping. Tho whole
| Curtis family is driven from the hous,
by the indignant Pendlehavens and Tony
s restored to the delighted MacCauley.
"Tve good news for you, child"
choked the woman, and Tony went
forward eagerly.
"What?" she demanded. as Phil
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