Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1921-10-08

man was like one who had come from
hanging, who had seen his dearest
swinging at the end of a rope. Ills
face was set In coldness; his hair was
streaked with gray; his forehead had
a line in the middle; his manner was
rigid, almost frlgid, indeed. Only in
his eyes was there that which denied
all that his face and manner said-a
hungry, absorbing, hopeless look, the
look of one who searches for friend
in the denying desert.
Somehow, when he bowed low to
her and looked her in the eyes as no
one in all her life had ever done, she
had an almost agonized understanding
of what a man feels who has been
imprisoned-tha he is never the same
again. He was an eX-conyict and vet
she did not feel repealed by him. She
did not believe he had killed Errls
BOyne. AS for the later crime of mu-
tiny that did not concern her much.
She was Irish; but, more than that,
she was in sympathy with the mu-
tineers She understood why Dyck
Calhoun, enlisting as a common sailor
should take up their cause and run
risk TO advance it. That he had ad-
vanced 1t was known to all the WORTH 4;
that he had paid the price of his mu-
tO;J by saving the kings navy with
stolen ship; and that he had won
wealth was but another proof of the
mans power.
'You would not come to America
so / came here, and.-" She paused
her voice trembling slightly.
There is much to do at Salem" he
added calmly, and yet with his heart
beating as 1t had not beaten since the
day he had first met her at Playmore
You wouldn't take the money /
sent to Dublin for you--the gift Of q
believing friend, and you would not
come to America 90
81 shall have to tell you why one day"
he answered slowly, but I'll pay my
respects to your mother now"
SO SAYING he went forward and
bowed low TO Mrs. Llyn. Unlike her
daughter, Mrs. Llyn did not offer her
hand. She was pale, distraught trou-
bled-and veXed. She, however, muir
INJURED his name and bowed
you did not expect to see me here
in jamaica he said boldly.
FRANKLY, l did not. Mr.. Calhoun.
she said.
you resent my coming here to see
you? You think 1t bold, at least"
She looked at him closely and firm
~. You know why cannot welcome
you"
"Yet l have paid the account de
handed by the law. And you had no
regard for him. You divorced him"
Sheila had drawn near. and Dyek
made gesture In her direction. "She
does not know he said, and She
should not hear what we say now"
Mrs. Llyn nodded, and in low tone
told Sheila that She wished to he alone
with Dyck for little while. In
Dyck's eyes, us he watched Sheila 20.
was a thing deeper than he had ever
known or shown before. In her white
gown and with her light step Sheila
seemed TO float away-a picture grace
full, stately, buoyant, keen ana small. q"
AS she was about TO pass beyond a
clump of pimento bushes, she turned
her head toward the two, and there
was that in her eyes which few ever
see and seeing are afterward the
same. 1t was a look of inquiry Of
revelation, of emotion which went to
Dyck's heart.
mo she does not know the truth 8"
Mrs. Llyn said. But It has been hard
hiding it from her. One never knew
whether some chance remark. some
ahusion in the papers would tell her
you had killed her father"
did ! Kill her fatherYf asked Dyck
helplessly. Did ]? | was found guilt
ty OF it, but On my honor, Mrs. Llyn
dc not know and | do not thlnk ]
did. have no memory of IT, We
quarreled drew my sword on him
then he made an explanation and I
madly stupidity drank dru9ged wine
in reconciliation with him. and then
remember nothing more-nofhng at
all"
"What was the cause Of your guar.
relf"
Dyck looked at her long before an
swcring. Il hid thaG from my father
even, and hd it from the world did
not even mention # ia court at the
trial II | had, perhaps should not
have gone TO jau, If I had perhaps
| should not be here 10 jamaica. II
! had" BE paused, a Hood Of re-
Election drowning his face, maHug his
eyes shine with black sorrow.
"Well. If you ha'l, .. Why ala
you not? Wasn't IT your duty to save
Yourself and save your friends, if you
could? Wasn't that your plain duty"
Yes. and that was why / did not
ten what the quarrel waa. e 7 had.
even had / Killed Erra Boyne. the
jury would not have convicted me. Of
that l am sure. Il was d loyaljst
jury"
"IheH why did you notf7
"lsnt It strange that now, after an
these years when / have settled the