The Eyes of the World

Sibyl

Sibyl

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,"

"The ir 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.

The refore 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

His Inheritance

The Woman With the Disfigured Face

The Famous Conrad Lagrange

At the House on Fairlands Heights

The My stery of the Rose Garden

An Unknown Friend

Mrs. Taine in Quaker Gray

The Portrait That Was Not a Portrait

Conrad Lagrange's Adventure

A Cry in the Night

Go Look in Your Mirror, You Fool

First Fruits of His Shame

My ra Willard's Challenge

In the Mountains

The Forest Ranger's Story

When the Canyon Gates Are Shut

Confessions in the Spring Glade

Sibyl Andrés and the Butterflies

The Three Gifts and their Meanings

My ra's Prayer and the Ranger's Warning

The Last Climb

Shadows of Coming Events

Outside the Canyon Gates Again

James Rutlidge Makes a Mistake

On the Pipe-Line Trail

I Want You Just as You Are

The Answer

You're Ruined, My Boy

The Hand Writing On The Wall

In the Same Hour

As the World Sees

The My sterious Disappearance

Beginning the Search

The Tracks on Granite Peak

A Hard Way

What Should He Do

The Man Was Insane

An Inevitable Conflict

The Better Way

Facing the Truth

Marks of the Beast

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

"We ll, what do you want? What are you doing here?"

Still she did not speak

The Eyes of the World