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Title: The Eyes of the World
Author: Harold Bell Wright
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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

I. His Inheritance II. The Woman With the Disfigured Face III. The
Famous Conrad Lagrange IV. At the House on Fairlands Heights V.
The Mystery of the Rose Garden VI. An Unknown Friend VII. Mrs.
Taine in Quaker Gray VIII. The Portrait That Was Not a Portrait IX.
Conrad Lagrange's Adventure X. A Cry in the Night XI. Go Look in
Your Mirror, You Fool XII. First Fruits of His Shame XIII. Myra
Willard's Challenge XIV. In the Mountains XV. The Forest Ranger's
Story XVI. When the Canyon Gates Are Shut XVII. Confessions in the
Spring Glade XVIII. Sibyl Andrés and the Butterflies XIX. The Three
Gifts and their Meanings XX. Myra's Prayer and the Ranger's Warning
XXI. The Last Climb XXII. Shadows of Coming Events XXIII.
Outside the Canyon Gates Again XXIV. James Rutlidge Makes a
Mistake XXV. On the Pipe-Line Trail XXVI. I Want You Just as You
Are XXVII. The Answer XXVIII. You're Ruined, My Boy XXIX. The
Hand Writing On The Wall XXX. In the Same Hour XXXI. As the
World Sees XXXII. The Mysterious Disappearance XXXIII. Beginning
the Search XXXIV. The Tracks on Granite Peak XXXV. A Hard Way
XXXVI. What Should He Do XXXVII. The Man Was Insane
XXXVIII. An Inevitable Conflict XXXIX. The Better Way XL. Facing
the Truth XLI. Marks of the Beast XLII. 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

The Eyes of the World
Chapter I
His Inheritance

It was winter--cold and snow and ice and naked trees and leaden clouds
and stinging wind.
The house was an ancient mansion on an old street in that city of
culture which has given to the history of our nation--to education, to
religion, to the sciences, and to the arts--so many illustrious names.
In the changing years, before the beginning of my story, the woman's
immediate friends and associates had moved from the neighborhood to
the newer and more fashionable districts of a younger generation. In
that city of her father's