THEN WHAT HAPPENED
An hour after Noreen Boyne had been laid in her grave, there was a
special issue of the principal paper telling all the true facts of the
death of Erris Boyne. Thus the people of Jamaica came to know that Dyck
Calhoun was innocent of the crime of killing Erris Boyne, and he was made
the object of splashing admiration, and was almost mobbed by admirers in
the street. It all vexed Lord Mallow; but he steeled himself to urbanity,
and he played his part well. He was clever enough to see it would pay him
to be outwardly gracious to Calhoun. So it was he made a speech in the
capital on the return of the general commanding and the troops from
subduing the Maroons, in which he said: "No one in all the King's
dominions had showed greater patriotism and military skill t
