The Eyes of the World

By Harold Bell Wright

Author of "That Printer of Udells,"
"The Shepherd of the Hills,"
"The Calling of Dan Matthews,"
"The Winning of Barbara Worth,"
"Their Yesterdays," Etc.

To Benjamin H. Pearson

Student, Artist, Gentleman

in appreciation of the friendship that began on the "Pipe-Line Trail," at the camp in the sycamores back of the old orchard, and among the higher peaks of the San Bernardinos; and because this story will always mean more to him than to any one else,--this book, with all good wishes, is

Dedicated.

H. B. W.

"Tecolote Rancho,"
April 13, 1914.

              "I have learned
To look on Nature not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The sad, still music of humanity,
Not harsh or grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt,
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is in the lights of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.
A motion and a spirit that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts,
And rolls through all things.

              Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods
And mountains.........
....... And this prayer I make,
Knowing that Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her. 'Tis her privilege
Through all the years of this one life, to lead
From joy to joy; for she can so inform
The mind that is within us--so impress
With quietness and beauty, and so feed
With lofty thoughts--that neither evil tongues,
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men,
Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
The dreary intercourse of daily life,
Shalt e'er prevail against us, or disturb
Our cheerful faith."

William Wordsworth.

Contents

1. His Inheritance
2. The Woman With the Disfigured Face
3. The Famous Conrad Lagrange
4. At the House on Fairlands Heights
5. The Mystery of the Rose Garden
6. An Unknown Friend
7. Mrs. Taine in Quaker Gray
8. The Portrait That Was Not a Portrait
9. Conrad Lagrange's Adventure
10. A Cry in the Night
11. Go Look in Your Mirror, You Fool
12. First Fruits of His Shame
13. Myra Willard's Challenge
14. In the Mountains
15. The Forest Ranger's Story
16. When the Canyon Gates Are Shut
17. Confessions in the Spring Glade
18. Sibyl Andrés and the Butterflies
19. The Three Gifts and their Meanings
20. Myra's Prayer and the Ranger's Warning
21. The Last Climb
22. Shadows of Coming Events
23. Outside the Canyon Gates Again
24. James Rutlidge Makes a Mistake
25. On the Pipe-Line Trail
26. I Want You Just as You Are
27. The Answer
28. You're Ruined, My Boy
29. The Hand Writing On The Wall
30. In the Same Hour
31. As the World Sees
32. The Mysterious Disappearance
33. Beginning the Search
34. The Tracks on Granite Peak
35. A Hard Way
36. What Should He Do
37. The Man Was Insane
38. An Inevitable Conflict
39. The Better Way
40. Facing the Truth
41. Marks of the Beast
42. Aaron King's Success

Illustrations from Oil Paintings

By

F. Graham Cootes

Sibyl

A curious expression of baffling, quizzing, half pathetic, and wholly cynical, interrogation

"Well, what do you want? What are you doing here?"

Still she did not speak