The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-08
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CHAPTER L-Returning home after a
days shooting, Dyck Calhoun, gifted young
Irish gentleman OF the time OF the French
and American revolution, meets Sheila Llyn.
seventeen-year-old girl visiting in the neigh
borhood. They are mutually attracted. Sheila
never knew her dissipated father, Erris
Boyne, her mother having divorced him and
resumed her maiden name
II-Reaching home, Dyck
finds Leanord Mallow. son Of Lord Nal
low. lin a message from the attorney gen
eral. summoning Miles Calhoun, Dyck's
father. TO Dublin.
CHAPTER III-They go TO Dublin and
there Mallow quarrels with Dyck and "A
duel is arranged. They fight with swords
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CHAPTER 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 Boyne. While the for
mer is 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 Dyck arrested on a charge Of
murder. lie does not know II he killed
Boyne or not, he was so muddled with the
drugged wine.
CHAPTER VI-Sheila begs her mother
to go to Dublin with her to help Dyck.
Mrs. Llyn opposes the idea, y letter from
Mrs. Llyn's wealthy brother In america
Invites them to come and live with him,
and they decide to go.
CHAPTER VII-Dyck refused to enter
any plea to the charge Of murder except
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by revealing Boyne's treachory 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 Vllt.-Released 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 remember him. He is prac-
tically destitute, bis father dead and his
estate swallowed by creditors.
CHAPTER IX.-ln London, almost pennl-
less, Dyck receives "A letter from Sheila
inviting him to come to America and send
he cannot In honor go to her.
X.-With 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-
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 XIII.-The British govern
ment gives Dyck the freedom OF the island
OF Jamaica, of which his old enemy, Lord
Mallow, Is governor. With n companion,
Dyck secures a sunken treasure worth 10000
pounds from a sunken spanish ship, and be
comes n wealthy and respected planter.
CHAPTER NIN.-Sheila, with her mother
comes to Jamaica to look after a plantation
she owns, but more than all else the girl
comes to see Dyck. lie begs Mrs. I.lyn TO
tell sheila that Boyne was her. father.
which she has never known. Mrs. Llyn
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