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Title: The Eye of Dread

Author: Payne Erskine

Illustrator: George Gibbs

Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30031]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "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

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. LARR