The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-06-01

you"
yet / have paid the account de-
manded by the law. And you had no
regard for him. You divorced him
Sheila had drawn near, and Dyck
made a gesture In her direction. she
does not know he said, and she
should not hear what re say now
Mrs. Llyn nodded, and in a low tone
told Shei!a that she wished to be alone
with Dyck for a little while. In
Dyck's eyes, as he watched Sheila go,
was a thing deeper than he had ever
known or shown before. In her white
gown and with her light step Sheila
seemed to float away-a picture grace
full, stately, buoyant, keen and small"
AS she was about TO pass beyond a
clump Of pimentO bushes, she turned
her head toward the two, and there
was that in her eyes which few ever
see and seeing are afterward the
same. 1t was a look Of inquiry, of
revelation, Of emotion which went o
DyCk's heart.
"No. she does not know the truth"
Mrs. Llyn said. but it has been hard
hiding il from her. One never knew
whether some chance remark, some
allusion in the papers would tell her
you had killed her father"
"Did | kill her father?' asked Dyck
helplessly. Did /? | was found gull
" of it, but on my honor, Mrs. Llyn,
| do not know and | do not think l
lid. | have no memory of ii. We
quarreled. | drew my sword OF him,
then he made an explanation and l
madly. stupidity drank drugged wine
I'm reconciliation with him, and then
/ remember nothing more-nothing at
ALL"
what was the cause Of your quar-
rel?"
Dyck looked at her long before an
swering. IL hid that from my father
even, and hid 1t from the world-did
not even mention it in court at the
trial. If l had, perhaps | should not
have gone to Jail. If had, perhaps
l should not be here in Jamaica. If
/ had" He paused, a flood Of re-
Election drowning his face, making his
eyes shine with black sorrow.
swell, If you had! ... Why did
you not? Wasn't 1t your duty to save
yourself and say your friends, if you
could? Wasn't that your plain duty?"
"Yes, and that was why | did not
tell what the quarrel was. If l had,
even had / killed Erris Boyne, the
jury would not have convicted me. OF
that l am sure. 1t was a loyalist
jury"
"Then why did you not?"
isn't 1t strange that now, after all
these years, when l have settled the
account with judge and jury, with
tell you the truth? Madam, your ex-
husband, Erris BOyne, was a traitor,
He was an officer in the French army
and he offered to make me an officer
also and pay me well In French gov
eminent money, If l would break al
legiance and serve the French cause
All, don't start! He knew l was on
my last legs financially. He knew l
had acquaintance with young rebel
leaders like Emmett, and he felt l
could be won. SO he made his pro-
pOsal. Because of your daughter /
held my peace, for she could bear 1t
less than you. l did not tell the cause
of the quarrel. If l had, there would
have been for her the double shame.
That was why ! held my peace-a
fool, but so it was
The woman seemed almost robbed
Of understanding. His story over
whelned her. Yet what the man had
done was so quixotic, so Celtic, that
her senses were almost paralyzed.
$50 mad-sO mad and bad and wild
you WERE" she said. could you not
see 1t was your duty to tell all, no
matter what the consequences? The
man was a villain. But what madness
you were guilty of, what cruel mad
ness! Only you could have done a
thing like that. Erris BOyne deserved
death-I care not who killed him-you
or another. He deserved death, and
1t was right he should die. But that
you should kill him, apart from all
else-why, indeed, oh, indeed, 1t Is q
tragedy. for you loved my daughter.
and the killing made a gulf between
you! There could be no marriage In
such a case. She could not bear 1t,
nor could you. But please know this,
Mr.. Calhoun, that she never believed
you killed Erris Boyne. She has said
SO again and again. You are the only
man who has ever touched her mind
or her senses, though many have
sought her. Wherever she goes men
try to win her, but she has no thought
for any. Her mind goes back to you,
Just when you entered the garden ]
learned-and only then-that you were
here. She hid it from me. but Oar.
ius Boland knew, and he had seen
your man, Michael Clones, and she
had then made him tell me. l was
incensed. l was her mother, and yet
she had hid the thing from me. ]
thought she came to this island for
the sake Of Salem, and I found that
cha oc,o not For Nolopn h,rt Cor won