The Eye of Dread
“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
Payne Erskine
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CONTENTS
THE EYE OF DREAD
BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I
BETTY
CHAPTER II
WATCHING THE BEES
CHAPTER III
A MOTHER’S STRUGGLE
CHAPTER IV
LEAVE-TAKING
CHAPTER V
THE PASSING OF TIME
CHAPTER VI
THE END OF THE WAR
CHAPTER VII
A NEW ERA BEGINS
CHAPTER VIII
MARY BALLARD’S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER IX
THE BANKER’S POINT OF VIEW
CHAPTER X
THE NUTTING PARTY
CHAPTER XI
BETTY BALLARD’S AWAKENING
CHAPTER XII
MYSTERIOUS FINDINGS
CHAPTER XIII
CONFESSION
BOOK TWO
CHAPTER XIV
OUT OF THE DESERT
CHAPTER XV
THE BIG MAN’S RETURN
CHAPTER XVI
A PECULIAR POSITION
CHAPTER XVII
ADOPTING A FAMILY
CHAPTER XVIII
LARRY KILDENE’S STORY
CHAPTER XIX
THE MINE––AND THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XX
ALONE ON THE MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXI
THE VIOLIN
CHAPTER XXII
THE BEAST ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XXIII
A DISCOURSE ON LYING
CHAPTER XXIV
AMALIA’S FÊTE
CHAPTER XXV
HARRY KING LEAVES THE MOUNTAIN
BOOK THREE
CHAPTER XXVI
THE LITTLE SCHOOL-TEACHER
CHAPTER XXVII
THE SWEDE’S TELEGRAM
CHAPTER XXVIII
“A RESEMBLANCE SOMEWHERE”
CHAPTER XXIX
THE ARREST
CHAPTER XXX
THE ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XXXI
ROBERT KATER’S SUCCESS
CHAPTER XXXII
THE PRISONER
CHAPTER XXXIII
HESTER CRAIGMILE RECEIVES HER LETTER
CHAPTER XXXIV
JEAN CRAIGMILE’S RETURN
CHAPTER XXXV
THE TRIAL
CHAPTER XXXVI
NELS NELSON’S TESTIMONY
CHAPTER XXXVII
THE STRANGER’S ARRIVAL
CHAPTER XXXVIII
BETTY BALLARD’S TESTIMONY
CHAPTER XXXIX
RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XL
THE SAME BOY