Front matter
Reading edition
“Listen. Go with the love in your heart––for me.” Frontispiece. See Page 329.
The Eye of Dread
By PAYNE ERSKINE
Author of “The Mountain Girl,” “Joyful Heatherby,” Etc.
With Frontispiece by GEORGE GIBBS
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
114-120 East Twenty-third Street - - New York
Published by Arrangement With Little, Brown & Company
Copyright, 1913,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published, October, 1913
Reprinted, October, 1913
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Betty 1
II. Watching the Bees 9
III. A Mother’s Struggle 23
IV. Leave-Taking 34
V. The Passing of Time 49
VI. The End of the War 59
VII. A New Era Begins 69
VIII. Mary Ballard’s Discovery 87
IX. The Banker’s Point of View 97
X. The Nutting Party 110
XI. Betty Ballard’s Awakening 125
XII. Mysterious Findings 139
XIII. Confession 157
BOOK TWO
XIV. Out of the Desert 168
XV. The Big Man’s Return 183
XVI. A Peculiar Position 198
XVII. Adopting a Family 208
XVIII. Larry Kildene’s Story 219
XIX. The Mine––And the Departure 237
XX. Alone on the Mountain 252
XXI. The Violin 267
XXII. The Beast on the Trail 282
XXIII. A Discourse on Lying 295
XXIV. Amalia’s Fête 305
XXV. Harry King Leaves the Mountain 318
BOOK THREE
XXVI. The Little School-Teacher 331
XXVII. The Swede’s Telegram 342
XXVIII. “A Resemblance Somewhere” 354
XXIX. The Arrest 365
XXX. The Argument 376
XXXI. Robert Kater’s Success 387
XXXII. The Prisoner 408
XXXIII. Hester Craigmile Receives Her Letter 422
XXXIV. Jean Craigmile’s Return 433
XXXV. The Trial 445
XXXVI. Nels Nelson’s Testimony 453
XXXVII. The Stranger’s Arrival 463
XXXVIII. Betty Ballard’s Testimony 475
XXXIX. Reconciliation 487
XL. The Same Boy 499