The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-22
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Irish gentleman OF the time Of the French
and American revolution. meets Sheila Llyn,
scycnteen-ygar-old girl visiting In the neigh
borhoOd. They are mutually attracted. Shcild
never knew her dissipated father, Erris
Boyne, her mother having divorced MIN ana
resumed her maiden name
CHAPTER I-Reaching home, Dyck
finds Leanord Mallow, son Of Lord NAL
low, with a message from the attorney gen
eral. summoning Miles Calhoun. Dyck's
father, to Dublin.
CHAPTER uI.-They 20 to Dublin and
there Mallow quarrels with Dyck and "A
duel is arranged, They fight with swords
LoloiA 81 H1Au pnG
IV.-ErrIs Boyne, secretly In
French employ, gets Dyck drunk and tries
TO persuade him to join In revolt against
England. They quarrel and Dyck Is over
heard to threaten Boync. While the for
mer 10 overcome with drugged wine, Boyne's
second wife enters the room and stabs her
faithless husband to the heart.
CHAPTER N.-Hours later the room is
entered and DyclS arrested on "A charge OF
murder. lie does not know II he killed
Boyne or not, he was so muddled with the
CHAPTER VI-shella begs her mother
to go to Dublin with her to help Dyck,
Mrs. Llyn opposes the idea. A letter from
Mrs. LIyn's wealthy brother In America
invites them to come and live with him,
and they decide to go.
CHAPTER NII-Dyck refused 10 enter
any plea to the charge Of murder except
INC Defense" lie might have escaped
by revealing Boyne's treachury but re
fuses to do SO on Sheila's account. He is
sent to prison for eight years. Sheila writes
Dyck, assuring him of her belief in his in
nocence and urging him to come to America
after his prison term.
CHAPTER NIII.-Iteleased after serving
-four years, Dyck is welcomed to freedom
by his servant, Michael Clones, and a humble
friend Christopher Dogan. Those two are
all who care to remembe him. He Is prae-
tically destitute. his father dead and his
estate swallowed by creditors.
CHAPTER IX.-ln London. almost penni-
less. Dyck receives a letter from Sheila
inviting him to come to America and send
gny kty, nnn fnr tho NnN1Nn hR feels
he cannot in honor go to her.
CHAPTER XVIII Michael Clones
Dyck Joins the British navy as an enlisted
man. There seems nothing else to do. Bad
conditions in the fleet result In mutiny.
CHAPTER XI-Dyck, joining the mu-
tineers, is chosen by them to command the
ship, the Ariadne. Dissatisfied with the
conduct OF the other ships crews, Dyck
breaks with them and sails the Ariadne
toward the West Indies. He arrives In time
TO turn the tide Of victory In a battle be-
tween the French and English.
CHAPTER XII-Calhoun is arrested FOR
his part in the mutiny but thanked by the
admiral for his work in the battle.
CHAPTER XIlI.-The British govern,
ment gives Dyck the freedom OF the island
Of Jamaica, of which his old enemy, Lord
Mallow. is governor. With a companion.
Dyck secures a sunken treasure worth 10000
pounds from a sunken Spanish ship. and be
comes a wealthy and respected planter.
CHAPTER XIV.-Sheila, with her mother
comes 10 Jamaica to look after a plantation
she owns, but more than all else the CIR
comes to see Dyck, He begs Mrs. llyn TO
tell Shella that Boyne was her father.
which she has never known. Mrs. Llyn
demurs.
CHAPTER Xv.-Lord Mallow, who had
known the Llyn's in Ireland, attracted by
Sheila's beauty and vast wealth, determines
10 win hNr for his wife. Fearing she has
an affection for Dyck, he decides to tell
pates him and tells sheila the whole story
himself. Loving Dyck as she does, the girl
is heartbrokeu over the situation.
CHAPTER XVI,-Lord Mallow Informs
Sheila he has word from London 10 keep
Dyck confined to his own estate. He also
asks sheila to marry him and she is tempted
seeing in the alliance a way out of the diff
Guilty. now she knows she can never marry
Dyck, but she evades giving him a definite
answer.
She was %deluding herself to believe
that what she was doing was all for
the best that the clouds were rising;
that her fate had fairer aspects than
had seemed possible when Dyck Cal
houn told her the terrible tale of the
death of her father, Erris Boyne. Yet
memory gave a touch Of misery and
bitterness to all she thought and did.
For twenty-five years she had lived in
ignorance as to her paternity. 1t sure
ly was futile that her mother should
have suffered all those years, with lit
tie to cheer her, while her daughter
should be radiant in health and with
a mind free from care or sadness. Yet
the b%itterest thing of all was the
thought that her father was a traitor
and had died sacrificing another man.
When Dyck had told her first, she had
shivered with anger and shame-but
anger and shame had gone. Only one
THING uoya Nor my npnnfnrt thn n,an
who knew Erris Boyne was a traitor,
and could profit by telling it, held his
tongue for her Owl sake, kept his own
counsel, and went to prison for four
years as h price Of his own silence.
He was now her %neighbor and he loved
her, and, if the shadow Of a grave was
not between them, would offer himself
In marriage to her. This she knew
beyond all doubt. He had given all a
man can give-had saved her and
killed her father; in love had saved
herself. What was to be done?
In a strange spirit Sheila entered
the room where the governor sat with
her mother. She had reached the limit
of her powers of suffering. Soon after
her mother had left the room, the gov
rnO said:
"Why do you think l have come here
today?" He added to the words a note
Of sympathy, even Of passion in his
voice.
'It was to visit my mother and N.Y.
self, and to see how Salem looked after
our stay on 1t, was 1t notT
"Yes, to see your mother and your
sell, but chiefly the latter. AS for Sa-
lem, It looks as though a master-mind
had been at work: / see 1t In every
thing. The slaves are singing. If you
look out on those who are singing,
you'll see they are resting from their
iabors; that they are fighting the ennui
which most Of M feel when we rest
from our labors. Let Us look at Them"
!: The governor stood up and came to
the open French windows that faced
~ fields Of sugar-cane. In the neal