The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-02-09
CONTINUED from Last Week.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The ella sh of Race.

lin Kings house at Spanish Town
L. governor WIS troubled. All his
hans and prophecies had come to
knehf. lie had been convinced there
Lqld be no rebellion Of the Maroons,
Ipd he was equally sure that his ca
Ier would be made hugely successful
4 marriage with Sheila Llyn-but
L. Maroons had revolted, the mar
Enge Wis not settled
messages had been coming from the
lowest marshal general of reports
Em the counties of MiddleseX and
5nlWal, that the Mnr0ons We're raw
| ting everywhere and that bands of
| ,4eS had joined them with serious
Sasters to the plantation people.
banfers, their wives and children had
! ,en murdered, and in some districts
b. natives were In full possession
hi had destroyed, robbed and raw
led. He had summoned his com
jandcr of the militia forces. had Gro
! ed special conslableS. and armed
Dem. aud had SEM ii ship 10 the i;a
iamas 10 summon n small British
Pei there. He had also mapped out
campaign against the MarOonS
fhieh bad one grave demert-il Wat
hanned on a basis of ordinary war
re and not with .Iamaica conditions
mind. The provost marshal warned
1In ol the futility of these plans. hut
had persisted IN them He had
der been shocked. however, by news
III lhe best of his colonelS had been
bbnShed and killed. and that others
i been nude prisoners and treated
III barburity. From everywhere,
cept ole, had come either news Of
feat or setback.
One good thing he Immediately did;
threw open Kings house to the
bundled, and SET the surgeons to
brb. thereby checking bitter criti-
m and blocking the. movement rising
ainSt him. For II was well known
had rejected all warnings, had IWr-
ted in his view tint trust in The
iroons and fir treatment of them.
Ises and the slaves were All thar
S needed.
As he walked in the great salon or
Il Of audience whore the wounded
over seventy feet long ana thirty
ide. With great height, To which beds
nj eonYeniehees had been hastily
foueht-it seemed to him that he
as saving il barely saving. his name
tld career. Standing beside one of
be porie pillars which divided the
flen from an upper and lower gallery
communications. he received the
FllsioS of KINGSTON. The doors ut the
lnih end of the great salon opened
|"w and tlrn into the council cham
(frs heXond. and he could see the sur,
Pons operating on the cases returned
pom The plantations.
Your honor said the CuStos,
Fhin@S have suddenly improved. The
Funds hive come from Cuba and In
!" claree of ten men--ten men with
lNiy hounds That is the situation at
be moment All the people mt Kings
fn are overioyed, They see the end
tie revolt"
Tho hounds - exclaimed the gov.
bnor What hounds?'
"Ihe hounds seut for 10y Dyck Cal
pun surely Your honor remembers :"
Surely his honor did, aud recalled
lso thai he forbade the importation
the hounds; but lie could not press
PAT Prohibition HOW. Tile mltlnecr
~ murderer. Drek Calhoun :" he ex.
faimea. And they have come"
'lfS Your honor. and gone with
'allelhs man, Michael Clones, to
|reol"
Lord Malow was mt once relieved
Il nonplus>pd. M doubt the policy
lie hounds WIS useful, and il might
i'e his own goose, but il was. in
MS. nnEnglish to hunt the wild
ian with hounds.
"lel me about tlle lauling Of the
ouhds,' said Lord Mallow.
II MIS- last Might about dusk that
ord eane from the pilots station at
'ori katal HAT the vessel Vincent
rs mating for port. all sails stand.
x. and thai size came from Cuba.
rfseally Michael Clones, the servant
hEck Calhoun. came also to say
ai HE Vincent was the ship bring.
~ ,ahnun's hounds from Cuba. and
>ttl" permit for delivery. This he
M heease he Thought sou were op-
'f'l 10 The lnndins. In the light of
,'f position here. we decided IN grant
''f delivery, and it was SO done"
'urlhS the Custos' narrative, Lord
''aeoW was perturbed He had the
"iaoll sense to know that Dyck
"no'lli' ex-convict and muiineer as
+ "aS' had personal power In the is
|'u which he as governor had not
,o abe to get. and Dyck had not
'eed mat power as he might have
'"'' lie recalled that Dyck's
'e'hahltlon of an outbreak and can.
-, -" III sending for the hounds was a
''loAe of genius.
W ne ieit the time had come when
'i'sllt use Dyck for his own pur.
- That Dyck should he AT Salem
d hllter dose. but that could
'''OI't 10 nothing. for 'sleIla could
marry the man who had killed
+. 'alher, however bad ana mad