The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-07-06
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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.
seyenteen-y0ar-old girl visiting In the neigh
borhood. They are mutually attracted. Shella
never knew her dissipated father, Erris
Boyne, her mother having divorced him ana
resumed her maiden name.
CHAPTER u-Reaching home. Dyck
finds Ieanord Mallow. son OF Lord NAL
low. wi h a message from the attorney gen
eral. 5, mmoning Miles Calhoun Dychs
father, TO Dublin.
CHAI TER III.-They go to Dublin and
there Mallow quarrels with Dyck and a
duel Is arranged. They fight with swords
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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 and stabs her
faithless husband to the heart. :.
later the room IL
entered and Dyck arrested on a charge OF
murder. He does not know IL 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. A 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
mo Defense" He might have escaped
by revealing Boyne's treachery but re-
fuses to do SO Oh 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 IIf.-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. his father dead and his
estate swallowed by creditors.
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less, Dyck receives n letter from Shella
inviting him to come to America and send
ing him money for the voyage. He feels
he cannot In honor go to her.
CHAPTER with Michael Clones
Dyck Joins the British navy as an enlisted
man. There seems nothing else to do. Bat
conditions In the fleet result In mutiny.
CHAPTER XI.-Dyck. Joining the mu
tineers, is chosen by them to IN
conduct OF the other ships crews, Dyer
breaks with them and sails the Ariadn'
toward the West Indies. He arrives In tins
to turn the tide of Victory In a battle be
tween the French and English.
CHAPTER XII.-Calhoun is arrested 70
his part In the mutiny but thanked by tn
admiral for his work in the battle.
CHAPTER XIII.-The British govern
ment gives Dyck the freedom of the islant
of Jamaca, OF which his old enemy, Lore
Mallow, is governor. With n companion
Dyck secures a sunken treasure worth 1000
pounds from a sunlSen Spanish ship. and be
comes a wealthy and respected planter.
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comes to Jamaica to look after n plantation
she owns, but more than all else the CIR
comes to see Dyek. He begs Mrs. I.lyn e
tell Sheila that Boyne was her. father
which she has never known. Mrs. LlyI
demurs.
CHAPTER XV.-Lord Mallow, who hat
known the Llyn's In Ireland. attracted b,
Sheila's beauty and vast wealth, determines
TO win hNr for his wife. Fearing she ha;
an affection for Dyck, he decides to tel
her about her father, but Calhoun anticl
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 keel
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 In that wild
country Fearing for the safety of Sheila
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.