The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-07-13
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CHAPTER I.-Returning home after a
days shooting. Dyck Calhoun, gifted young
Irish gentleman Of the time OF the French
and American revolution. meets Sheila Llyn,
seyonteeu-year-oId girl visiting In the neigh
borhood. They are mutually attracted. Shella
never knew her dlssipated father, Erris
Boyuc. her mother having divorced him ana
resumed her maiden name,
CHAPTER u-Reaching home. Dyek
finds Leahord Mallow, son OF "ord MAI
low. with Il message from the attorney gen
eral. snmmoning Miles Calhoun Dycka
father. to Dublin.
CHAPTER III.-They go to Dublin and
there Mallow quarrels with l'yck and a
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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 ana staDs her
faitttess husband TO the heart.
CHAPTER -Hou later the room lis
entered and Dyck arrested on a charge Of
murder. lie does not know II he killed
Boyne or not. he was 80 muddled with the
drugged wine,
CHAPTER vI.--sheila begs her mother
10 go 10 Dublin with her to help Dyck.
Mrs. Llyn opposes the idea. A letter from
Mrs. Llyn's wealthy brother in America
invites them to come and live with him,
and they decide to GO.
CHAPTER NII-Dyck refused TO enter
any plea to the charge OF murder except
mo Defense lie might have escaped
by revealing Boyne's treachory but re-
fuses TO do so on Sheila's account. lie Is
sent to prison for eight years. Sheila writes
Dyck, assuring him OF her belief In his in
rocence and urging him to come to America
CHAPTER NIIl.-Released after serving
four yenrs, Dyck Is welcomed TO freedom
BY his servant, Michael Clones. and a humble
friend Christopher Dogan. Those two &fe
all who care TO remember him. lie Is prac~
tically destitute, his father dead and his
estate swallowed by creditors,
on IVER IN-In London almost penni-
less, Dyck receives a letter from Sheila
inviting him to come TO America and send
Ing him money for the voyage. lie feels
he cannot in honor 80 to her
CHAPTER X.-With Michael Clones
Dyck joins the British navy as an enlisted
man. There seems nothing else 10 do. Bad
conditions in the fleet result In mutiny.
CHAPTER %It-Dyck, Joining the mu-
tineers, is chosen by them to comman 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, lie arrives In time
TO turn the tide OF victory In a battle be-
tween the French and English.
CHAPTER X~II-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
Mallow. is governor. With a companion.
Dyck secures a sunken treasure worth 5000
pounds from a sunken Spanish ship, and be-
comes "A wealthy and respected planter,
CHAPTER XIV.-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. llyn to
tell Sheila 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
to win her for his wife. Fearing she has
an affection for Dyck. he decides to tell
her about her father, but Calhoun antici-
pates him and tells Sheila the whole story
himself. Loving Dyck as she does, the girl
Is heartbroken over the situation.
CHAPTER XVI.-Lord Mallow informs
Sheila he has word from London to 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.
CHAPTER xvII.-The Maroons, unruly
blacks. rise In rebellion and devastate parts
of the island. Calhoun has seen the up
rising impending. as have others in the
island, but Lord Mallow has always made
light OF the possibility. Calhoun, against
the express order OF the governor, has sent
TO Cuba for bloodhounds, the only sane
means of fighting the blacks I'm that wild
and her mother. Dyck. with a party, rides
to their plantation. He finds both ladies
away, and goes to seek them, They have
been taken prisoners by the Maroons. Dyck
rescues them.