Y 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 FETE 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

THE EYE OF DREAD

BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I

BETTY

Two whip-poor-wills were uttering their insistent note, hidden
somewhere among the thick foliage of the maple and basswood trees that
towered above the spring down behind the house where the Ballards
lived. The sky in the west still glowed with amber light, and the
crescent moon floated like a golden boat above the horizon's edge. The
day had been unusually warm, and the family were all gathered on the
front porch in the dusk. The lamps within were unlighted, and the
evening wind blew the white muslin curtains out and in through the
opened windows. The porch was low,--only a step from the ground,--and
the grass of the dooryard felt soft and cool to the bare feet of the
children.

In front and all around lay the garden--flowers and fruit quaintly
intermin