  CHAPTER III A BUSINESS PROPOSITION CHAPTER VIII THE ROAD TO NOWHERE CHAPTER VII THE PATH THROUGH THE WILDERNESS CHAPTER III THE TURN OF THE TIDE CHAPTER VIII THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE CHAPTER IX WHERE THE GIANT HARE-BELLS GROW BY ETHEL M. DELL The Way of an Eagle The Knave of Diamonds The Rocks of ValprÉ The Swindler, and Other Stories The Keeper of the Door Bars of Iron The Hundredth Chance The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories Greatheart The Lamp in the Desert The Tidal Wave The Top of the World The Obstacle Race The Odds and Other Stories Charles Rex Tetherstones
By Ethel M. Dell Author of “The Way of an Eagle,” “Charles Rex,” etc.
The Ryerson Press
Copyright, 1923 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Made in the United States of America I Dedicate This Book
TO VIOLET
The Dear Friend Who Always Stands By As A Token of My Ever-Loving Gratitude For All She Has Done For Me The lonely circle on the hill Where mist-wreaths float and rise Hither and thither, lingering still, Like smoke of sacrifice— Forgotten fires, forgotten rites, Forgotten agonies.
The heaven-blue flowers bloom below About the grim stone’s foot, The sweet hare-bells that always grow Where nought else e’er takes root. Of all that stony wilderness, The only fruit.
A presence in the moonlit night Unseen doth ever brood, As though it kept in silent sight The stones rough-hewn and rude; The shrine of which it was the god,— The moorland solitude.
And never shall that vigil tire, And never the great spell pass, Where the Druids built their altar-fire Over the dew-drenched grass, Till the last loud trump shall shatter The gates of brass.
And then forgotten priests shall wake And forgotten victims rise, And the old grey stones of the circle shake In the place of sacrifice. . . . But the heaven-blue flowers will bloom for aye As flowers of Paradise. CONTENTS
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