The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-29
SYNOPSIS


CHAPTER I.-ReturninB home after a
days shooting. Dyck Calhoun, gifted young
Irish gentleman of the time OF the French
and American revolution. meets Sheila Llyn,
seventeen-y0ar-old girl visiting in the neigh
borhood. They are mutually attracted. Sheila
never knew her dlssipated father. Erris
Boyne, her mother having divorced him ana
resumed her maiden name
CHAPTER II-Reaching home, Dyck
finds Leanord Mallow. son of Lord NAL
low, with a message from the attorney gem
eral, summoning Miles Calhoun, Dycks
father, to Dublin.
CHAPTER HI-They go to Dublin and
there Mallow quarrels with Dyck a.i "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 V-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
druRged wine.
CHAPTER VI.-sheila begs her mother
10 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 TO enter
any plea to the charge Of murder except
mo Defense" He might have escaped
by revealing Boyne's treachery 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 10 America
after his prison term.
NIII.-Relcased 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. lie is prac-
tically destitute his father dead and ms
estate swallowed by creditors.
CHAPTER I%,-ln London. almost penni-
less, Dyck receives a letter from Shella
inviting him to come TO America and send
ing him money for the voyage. lie feels
he cannot in honor 60 TO her
CHAPTER N.-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 NI-Dyck, Joining the mu-
tineers, is chosen by them 20 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. lie arrives In time
to turn the tide Of victory in a battle be-
tween the French and English.
CHAPTER N~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
OF Jamaca, 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, ana 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 CIR
comes to see Dyck. lie begs Mrs. llyn 20
tell Sheila that Boyne was her rather
which she has never known. Mrs. Llyr
demurs.
CHAPTER XV.-Lord Mallow, who had
known the Llyn's In Ireland, attracted 10y
Sheila's beauty and vast wealth, determine
10 win h~r for his wife. Fearing she has
an affection for Dyck. he decides to tel
her about her father. but Calhoun antici'
pates him and tells Sheila the whole story
himself. Loving Dyck as she does, the CIR
is heartbroken over the situation.
CHAPTER XVI.-Lord Mallow informs
sheila he has word from London to keeI
Dyck confined to his own estate. He als'
asks Sheila TO marry him and she Is tempteC
seeing In the alliance a way out OF the diff
Guilty. now she knows she can never MARI,
Dyck, but she evades giving him a definite
answer.