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THE COMING OF A MESSENGER.
When Dyck entered the library of Playmore, the first words he heard were these: "Howe has downed the French at Brest.

He's smashed the French fleet and dealt a sharp blow to the revolution.

Hurrah!" The words were used by Miles Calhoun, Dyck's father, as a greeting to him on his return from the day's sport.
Now, if there was a man in Ireland who had a narrow view and kept his toes pointed to the front, it was Miles Calhoun.

His people had lived in Connemara for hundreds of years; and he himself had only one passion in life, which was the Protestant passion of prejudice.