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Yet you let an innocent man go to prison, and be kept there for years, and his father go to his grave with shame, with estates ruined and home lost and you were the guilty one you all the time." "It was part of my madness. I was a coward and I thought then there were reasons why I should feel no pity for Dyck Calhoun. His father injured mine oh, badly! But I was a coward, and I've paid the price."
"Here, Alfonso," said Leo, "is encouragement for you, for Van Dyck like yourself was the son of a wealthy man or merchant of Antwerp. He was educated in Italy, where he executed several fine portraits which I saw in Genoa as I journeyed to Paris." Charles I. of England appointed Van Dyck court-painter and knighted him.
It did not even startle Dyck that all the planters, and the people generally in the island, from the chief justice and custos rotulorum down to the deckswabber, cultivated amplitude of living. But let Dyck tell his own story.
At his dinner-parties he gave her first place nearly always, and even broke the code controlling precedence when his secretary could be overruled. Thus Sheila was given honour when she did not covet it, and so it was that one day at Salem when the governor came to court her she was able to help Dyck Calhoun. "Then you go to Enniskillen?"
First, clearly, he must not apply the order to confine Dyck to his plantation; also he must give Dyck authority to use the hounds in hunting down the Maroons and slaves who were committing awful crimes. He forthwith decided to write, asking Dyck to send him outline of his scheme against the rebels. That he must do, for the game was with Dyck.
The years had gone on and then had come the happy visit to Loyland Towers, where she had met Dyck Calhoun. Her life at that moment had been free from troublesome emotions; but since the time she had met Dyck at the top of the hill, a new set of feelings worked in her.
She called to her to wait, and Mrs. Llyn stood still, anxious. As Sheila came near she kept her eyes fixed on Dyck. When she reached them, she held out the paper to him. "It is wonderful," she said quietly, "that which you have written, but it does not tell all; it does not say that you did not kill my father.
"Bring him to me, and I'll form my own judgment though I have some confidence in yours." "You could go further and fare worse, as the Papists say about purgatory," answered the old man with respectful familiarity. Captain Ivy and Dyck grinned, but the head of the house seemed none too pleased at the freedom of the old butler. "Bring him as he is," said Miles Calhoun.
The other picture is "The Holy Family," in which the fair Anna posed for the Virgin, and her parents and kinsmen are grouped around her as the Magi and attendants. Both pictures reveal the true Van Dyck touch, and are highly prized by the people of the village and the good priests of the church.
You are punished for the crime, and we must abide by it, even though you did not kill Erris Boyne. It is the law that has done it, and we cannot abash the law." "We shall meet no more then!" said Dyck with decision. Her lips tightened, her face paled. "There are some things one may not do, and one of them is to be openly your friend at present."
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