The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1922-07-20
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CHAPTER L.-Returning home after q
days shooting. Dyck Calhoun. lifted young
Irish gentleman OF the time of the French
and American revolution, meets Sheila Llyn,
seventeen ygar-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,
CHAPTER U.-Reach.ng home. Dyck
finds Leanord Mallow, son of Lord NAL
low. with a message from the attorney gen
eral. summoning Miles Calhoun, Dycks
father, TO Dublin.
CHAPTER IIL-They go to Dublin and
there Mallow Quarrels with Dyck and "A
duel is arranged. They fight with swords
and Dyck is victor.
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 tof-
mer is overcome with drugged wine, Boyne's
second wife enters the room and slabs her
faithless husband to the heart.
CHAPTER later the room is
entered and Dyck arrested on a charge or
murder. lie does not know II he killed
Boyne or not, he was 80 muddled with the
drugged wine.
CHAPTER VI.-Sheiia begs her mother
to go to Dublin with her to help pycR;
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 on Sheila's account: He Is
sent to prison for eight years shella writes
Dyck. assuring him of her beliet IN ms IN
nocencp and urging him to come to America
after ms prison term.
CHAPTER VIII.-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-
ticaily destitute, his father dead and his
estate swallowed by creditors.
CHAPTER IX.-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. 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. Bad
conditions in the fleet result In mutiny.
CHAPTER XI.-Dyck. Joining the mu-
tineers, Is chosen by them to the
ship, the Ariadne. Dissatisfied with the
conduct of the other ships crews. Dyck
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 a companion.
Dyck secures a sunken treasure worth 4O,ooO
pounds from a sunken Spanish ship, and be-
comes n 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, He begs Mrs. Liyn &c
which she has never known. Mrs. Llyr
demurs.
CHAPTER Xv.-Lord Mallow, who had
known the Llyn's in Ireland. attracted b,
Sheila's beauty and vast wealth. determines
to win h>r for his wife. Fearing she hai
an affection for Dyck. he decides to tel
her about her father. but Calhoun antici'
pates him and tells sheija the whole stor,
himself. Loving Dyck as she does, the CIR
Is heartbroken over the situation.
CHAPTER xvI.-Lord Mallow inform,
6heiia he has word from London to keeI
Dyck confined to his own estate. He also
asks Sheiia to marry him and she is tempted
seeing In the alliance a way out OF the diffi'
Guilty. now she knows she can never mar,
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, asains,
to Cuba for bloodhounds. the only sane
means Of fighting the blacks In that wild
and her mother. pyek. 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.
CHAPTER xyIII.-The ~bioodhounds ar
rive from Cuha Iord Mallow facing popu-
lar indignation for his supineness In connec-
tion with the uprising. gives Calhoun full
charge OF the operations against the Ma
rooms. In which the hounds are employed.
CHAPTER xIX.-The insurrection Is
quickly quelled when the hounds are put
to work. Mallow seeks an answer from
Sheila to his offer of marriage. She tells
him she cannot marry him. and informs
him Of her affection for Dyck Calhoun. AT
her solicitation, Mallow agrees to ask the
government to grant Calhoun a full pardon,
CHAPTER xx.-A ship arriving from
England puts ashore a woman in the
condition and goes to see II she can help her
The woman Is Noreen Boyne. She knows
Sheiia and confesses to the killing OF hei
husband. Erris Boyne. five years before
Sheila gets the confession In writing. She
shows Is to Dyck and together they &C
to Lord Mallow.
CHAPTER xxI.--Mallow receives Dycl
frigidly, feeling all the old emnity. Cal
houn's concerning the killing
OF Boyne disconcerts him.. They visit No.
reen and she tells her story. The governor
decides to announce Calhoun's innocence a
soon as Noreen has passed away. Sh'
dies q few hours later.
CHAPTER xxu.-with the faint on hi
name removed. Dyck seeks sheila and tn
reward OF his chivairy and devotion. The!
are married. Three months afterward
Mallow brings Dyck the offer from tn,
Erltish government OF q baronetcy for hi
spIendid work In quelling the uprising o
the blacks. Dyck refuses II, announcing hi
nurpose Of taking the first boat sailing 70
Tir9inia to q land where life IL larger an,
Brifain shall remake herself" Dyck's de
fermiuation 70 become an American citizel
l. of course. shsila's browning JOY.