Payne Erskine

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 FeTE

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

“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

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