SYNOPSIS.
—f Dee
Alan Wayne is
fils home, by his
failure.
birthday
fils busine
Alix, Gerry's
bound, and start a
Gerry. as he thinks,
«loping arops
Perr ambuc ix
train and 00s home
nambuco and goes
canoe trip he meet
Juage falls to trac
0 Alix. The HRI e
the ruined plant
Gerry marries her.
iingeford tells ! ow
Per Cent Wi \ t
Afric Collin get
baby Aa gives }
Gerry. Alan con
not go hom
Margarita's
rigatir Ig
Clem’'s letter rs
ry pastures
drought. A
Collingeford »
finds her changes
and Clem, grow
in the city and
his birt?
and Gerry
Lieber,
together
Nis
the
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CHAPTER XXiV—Co
with hi 8 en
wife, mee
rig
ta
Consider the men
an intelligent man when
comes to realize that he has
committed a great wrong, an
reparabie wrong against his
wife and against himself. Rev-
elation and a sort of terror come
to Gerry.
agony of
he
ntinued.
wy
cy
<all y
Lieber
) !
cail me
» heen 1 Ger
“Go and
1 if anythin
“Don’t fafl
my
rose re
to + he
! r open.”
loor op an.
Gerry
eave
sat down
aettle He had not
he was himself
head fell
‘ame to him
‘ame to his
from a night
awake, found
face
“Yon
Gerry
Ame a8 mask
mily Alan's
Alan that
spirit to his
Alan tried to smi!
an't you
noarsely
Gerry leaned forward
he had to stronger than he
It foreed thro Hi
“Alan, what did yon do th her? Tell
me that and I'll :
A troubled look came i
face. He frowned. “Do
with whom?”
“Alan,” said Gerry,
voice trembling, “You
Alix.™
© “Oh,” sald Alan
the verge of consciousness
Der I did nothing with
wouldn't go with me.”
“Alan,” groaned Ger
1 saw you and Alix on the
The frown was gone fr
forchead. He foit
to him and he
said, “she was
I remember. She
Kageman-—canght
off to sleep agein,
Iieber stepped cat
floor He caught
and with the hand over
mouth led him out of the room Gerry
went tamely, When they were on the
veranda Lieber looked at him, “Ro.”
Bie sald, his blue eyes blazing, “you
only want to kill him.”
“No,” sald Gerry, dazed. “not now ™
“Mr. Lansing,” said Lieber, “you get
out of here. We'll this busi
ness some other time.”
Gerry's lip trembled.
Lieber,” he said. “You're right. only
you don't know it all. That chap in
there—we were boys together, He ran
away with my wife. That's why —"
Gerry suddenly stopped. Alix had not
rin away She had jumped off the
train Where was she, then? What
had she done through years he
had been away? Why had she Jumped
off the train. He struck his hand to
fils head and stumbled off the ve
wanda,
Liebar's anger died
he turned and went back to Alan
Two hoursylater he enme out agnin
0 find Gerry crouched on the veranda,
The spirit had gone out of him, but
fie turned on Lieber with a determi.
@ation in his tired eyes. “You told me
fo get out and I haven't. There are
ings I've got to know. I'l walt.”
“l spoke In haste, Mr. Lansing.” sald
Lieber. “1 want you should forgive
me. You are all in, too. Come with
moe.”
He led alm into his own room, made
him le down, and closed the shutters.
Cierry threw himself across the bed,
oside the
tired
His
Sleen
Roon
forward
and trouble
! sl himself
Are
Alan's
eves
¢
Gewrs
bedside
“ye whispered
The question
ask was
its wa ght his s
nto
Ian's thin
th her? Do
Suppressed
10Ww With
still ling
I remem
her
on
She
“I saw
train.”
Al
ing back
“Yea” he
vith me
off. A
He dr
you
om in’s
sleep (
1d
train
on
was gi
the
fun
her”
on
ped bag-
opped
ike ncrosa the
ear,
his
Gerry by one
other
settle
You're right,
the
in him, but
face down Lieber
noiselessly shut
exhausted, Ie
A great
in The
it Als
an
tstretched,
and
Gerry lay
| irms ou
{ slipped out
i
i door could
{ not think any more welght
1 hig 1} tony
l Lis ten
ay
doze In the chair
not but
| ently he fell int
on
in's bedside
been rest, ghtmare
Pres
Oo sle
was all und
st night
awakening
his brain,
sth to thi
onsciousness
It was alm
the tt
ic Nn
‘Kk
stren
only now ie
nk in rit
spite 0
out in search of
Ame
the hall
Alan's
nodded
all
Lave i
(serry
room “It's
Heo
i didn't
his sleep
ight,
excit hin
He's
thy, bt
1sked fo
nethin
al
river,
you
sighed as thoug
head s
rested on
wa on
“where
His
hils elho
chin
his
sald,
he ia
a8 she done
“The
boy
“yy “He Iz a
x sin
great
hie
and
here | eo
‘ame S is a r fp
what sl stars
om me
She
iH right
red Gerry hoarsely,
Alan i've
ch I here
fl»
nrst
ned.
smile
born.”
this time In won
came to his
You!" and then
faint disgust
on the
ips
OR
1d
and
he pillow away
Gerry slept
next mo: found
her's,
blue
ning Gerry still
heavenly
mds
ered eter
de
owly
pitilessiy, s ough were loath to
mark the p whole
and
their
Outside the
n of It
was virg
! domed in
ness 1
street
pity hrough
pressing vol he sun 100, A
spit
itn
ARs ng hie
Strong I
earth baked wa wilted
the
sides of
gen of heat ike
up their white bellies
gasp Not a breath of alr
Heat r from the ground in
wave, “My God.”
said Al gazing with wistful, far
seeing eyes beyond the familiar, repel
lent = a homeward
parches up my tongue." There was
such an agony of longing in the words
that Gerry was frightened. He looked
questioningly at Lieber
“No,” sald Lieber, “he’s not dying
He was dying, but he's changed his
mind. He's going to go home lustead.”
if he's right, Gerry,” w=ald
Alan with a faint smile ut [ didn’t
change my mind He did it for me.
He's in line for a life-saving medal.
Lieber's all right.” He stopped, tired
out.
Lisber
“How's the
Lansing?
“Mighty said Gerry. He spoke
almost absent-mindedly. For the first
time in months the ditch was far from
his thoughts
“It's hard ek,” sald Lieber. “The
river's never been so low before-—not
in the memory of man. We do not
Hear the fulls any more. The river is
asleep. Do you want me to send my
men down again?
“It's no use.” sald Gerry
dare deepen the ditch any more,
‘way below the normal level now."
Alan stirred. “What's that about a
ditch 7”
In unhurried phrases and a low
voice Lieber told him the history of
Fazenda Flores since Gerry's advent
and of the great part the ditch had
turned up
leaves on ti
wrong
ie
dying
fish turning at
the last
Ro
hile
in,
‘4
fever
one
.
*
»
hellove
talk
in the
began to
water
to Gerry
ditch, Mr.
low,”
“1 don't
it's
played in bringing resurrection to the
abandoned plantation and life the
neighboring stock.
Alan cast a curious glance at G
“Dangerous business,” he said,
Ing with the norma! in
country.”
Lieber nodded and went on He
told his tale well, He had seen more
than Gerry could have put into words,
Gerry listened for a while, but be soon
wearied. What had all that to do with
him now? He wandered off and start
ed to saddle True Blue. He must get
away from Alan. Alan was drawing
him, but he was bound in chains. He
must remember that. Then, too, what
Alan had said about fooling with the
normal level worried He must
and station guard at
reat slulee gate
A sudden puff of air, then a
gale, swept down
southwest The
blast from He
carried with it
dry sti and, finally
that hurtied along the
to
erry.
“fool
level flood
him
£0 back a
KX
breeze,
on Lieber's
wind
11
from the was
torrid
whirls
furnace
It
light,
pebbles
hot 1
of dust, ks,
sini
i
i
i
i
horse
Herders
ers and
randa The
dropped
The
18 not
herders all
lid not talk
ground Gerry and his sought
the house
from their
the vo
riter by came
out
hered in front of
ind suddenly turned
ceased The dus
bianzed as bef
loud In sky
wl at er
ning quart
old
settled
here w
I'he
ey
ire
} O the
Lie
were wa
ook
I'hey iting
Ha shoulders
with a
south west,
and that
and drove
He
Liebe; shrugged
Somewhere,” Le sald wave of
hand to the there has
and ha
thing Temperature
hot off
but
around
heen raid sort of
thin
ii
air the
they
in approac
the en
wns
What Did You Do With Her?”
rose a white, ad
rider rolled off his
“The 1." he
Never before has there been
the he
t. The
aw iy
vyancing
on Wwizon
mis
g horse loos
ga aped
such n flood.”
Before
month ti
hoofs an
off at a
the words were of h
a frenzied rattle
True Blue tore
down the trail
Almost at
motinted
they knew to
ahead of the
in
of
out
was
Gerry
mad gallop
thwards Fazenda Flores
his the first
of the herders, riding nll
cut across Uiranhae
wall of water
Lieber's eyes foll
ore
d
on
heels followed
to
owad Gerry’ 3 fils gt
Then he turned them on Alan “That
down there,” he sald, “will be
turned into a rushing river in half an
hour—perhaps less. We're just safe
here, and that's all. You see Mr. Lan-
sing? He's the spot farthest down the
trafll. I'm thinking we'll never see
him again.”
A faint
hollow
flush came into
cheeks. It was a flush of pride pride
In Gerry. Gerry had pot hesitated
He had not ridden off like a laggnrd.
Even now they could sce that he was
riding for life—riding with all his
might for the lives that shackled him
Alan's
——————_
Gerry had never ridden a horse to
death before. When True Blue first
staggered he put spurs to him and ald
on his quirt right and left,
The roar of the river was so loud
that be could not tell If he had really
beaten the flood or not. though he
could mee just before him the long,
snaky ridge of the main ditch banks,
He must get on,
But True Bive only came to a ring
gering stop under the quirt. With hie
forefeet he sti marked time as though
with them’ he would drag his heavy
body and master oue step nearer oie.
From his loins back he was paralyzed.
With a last desperate effort he
straddled his forelegs, but he could not
brace himself against the backward
sag of dead ht. Gerry felt him
sinking him and suddemly
found himself standing over his pros
trate horse. Of True Blue. his forefeet
outstretched, and breast
held high, left only a
spirit ch a fallen and
body.
A cry escaped Gerry's lips
at what had done
remembered why he had done
and ran not for the sluice gate but
the bridge. As he reached it the
beecan was a splin
that, meas
wely
beneath
head till
wis
to
his
great
dying
there
tined
a ery of
Then
it
horror
he
Le
for
roar
1@ deafening. There
tering, crackling
ured the
like the tinkle of a
ething
sound
hy great commotion, seemed
tiny tut there
Tedd
his
bell
r int} wand that ep!
n. He cast a gi
The mouster be
gate, hurled, ered,
* were still hangl
Under then
was som
ince over
ning of
into
his
the
matel
Bel
wood
yw held
3
Ae gas
pA
Tore Off in a Mad Gallop.
in water Khe tonk
Giorry,
£4]
who she thought
and
w
her, inoked
swift
rivulet hose t
fore the
tugged at
toward the
ing water and
She stopped
Gerry, who
harning {
her She looked
ankiecs
hundering wall of onco
m
knew that =he was lost
and fixed
was plunging
id effort to react
she Kor
With
, she he The
frigh His black
1 on his running father
d feel irgling with
he new Then suddenly
It waa a wall fright
cut short Broken in
two, it rang terribly her ears as
she went down,
The water had fell
the Man. Gerry
on
the
Khe
her Yes
down
her
he
arms street
inan
to Lim, b
~ ope
could
hed
called
not hear
their b
Man
eyes
Margarita
Joy In t
he eried out
The wail
11t w
her to
ghest
not
fi Ton
id up the Man
was tened
worn
con him g
Eame
0
was
in
od Margarita and
sfiw them flung down
the crest of the wave. They became
suddenly a twirling, sodden mass, in
animate for the fling of a loose
mb into clearer view against the blue
sky or the uncoiling of long black hair
on the seething water,
Gerry reached the torrent. Marga
rita and the Man had already been
whirled far towards the great river.
He plunged into the flood. The water
was thick with earth, sticks, uprooted
plants and debris of every sort. Cone
flicting. swirling currents tugged at
heavy stones, rolled them along and
sometimes cven tossed one to the suf
face.
Gerry's struggling body was harled |
hither and thither. A stray cugrent
thot him to the surface, but before he
could take breath other currents
sucked him down and dragged him
along the YOUED suriges of the crum
bling soil. He an though he were
being torn — di limb
Then suddenly he was cast inte an
eddy that in cempnrison with the mael.
strom wns alm peaceful, For an
Rave
ost
lnstaut be felt like one who awalue
bt
the
cine
with
Hips
from a terrible dream
igh that trembled to
realization,
From head to toe he battered
id bruised. His cotton clothes were
in tatters, His chest heaved in
spasmodic gasps. Brea
through his wracked ry
protruded His head
the verge of
miud plerced a
thought
With cl
the current
his
wins
itn
great
whistled
His ey
$3 Hi
But
ached
bursting
thought »
of Mar
hed
wemed on
§
to his harper
ti garitn
teeth he
mn pain-—the
and the Man
gtruck for
r away rose a
ad the head of
tt
“1
out
of
duaty
the {i
He
mnths {
of
ure
youd
lina
marke
ng of waiter wi
dust of
nized the
wid
be 1 the 1Hmy
lated ralnless me
reco tmne
where there in th
of the mad fi
the Pn
g aning
Some @
first rush
and
The
vam o
garita
them
he s
praachin
squarely
It suddenly shook its
of riffrafy and turning and
more and ore swiftly,
to the THF ing
river
The ley had disappeared
ting on the
waters, the
LAE
bosom of
va Squat
of the far-Jung
The
from
very leve
toond
bright sun struck a glint of light
ita white walls and gave rich col
its moss-grown tiles he
crowded with fow! and a strange med
ley of heavy flying birds, glad
perch on which to rest. Dona
went the house Bhe cl
great board shutters
as If It had
renunciation
Gerry's tree floated down the river
It swung slowly along near the north
shore Just it were honses
They were perched on the eliff. Below
them more houses and under
the tiled roofs of still other
Just topped the flond. Thu
houses were what was left of Piran:
hae,
From chore
of loot began to
quictening waters.
pened upon
old house still st
ors to
roof was
of a
Marla |
thi
into send
closed Its eyes in a last
below
were
the canoes in search
shoot out the
One of them hap
Gerry's tree and then
upon Gerry. Gerry's eyes opened and
then closed again, He scarcely felt
the arms that lifted him. They ear
ried him to the old inn, the miserable
little inn he had left behind on that
glorions morning of so long ago
a.
on
Would it not be a sort of
poetic justice if Gerry should
die now without ever being
able to make amends to’ Alix
for his dreadful suspicion and
without ever seeing his son and
heir?
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