Show barme or at 0 abea vic al cop il 1910 by the now york company vo aright 1 by the St acMillan compana 17 V 1 SYNOPSIS elam harnish known all through alae alan ka as all burning daylight celebrate celebrates lila ills 3 aith th birthada birthday with a crowd of miner minors at the circled circle city it Y tt tie dance liada to heavy gambling in which or oer 1100 I 1 wo ta in staked loses his hi money a an n 1 11 his hi mine but wine wins the mall matt contract ila H starts on his hi mall trip with ds 1 g and sledge telling his that tie he will tie be in the bar lukon ulon go goll I 1 strike at the tart start burning bija make makes a sensation rapid run across cou wt with h the mall met appear appears at the lie tivoli and I 1 Is anuw remly to jc ic i hi hl friend in a dash to the new go koll I 1 I 1 it beldo e I 1 d Vc IdI that iroll goll will ill be found in the up tip river di I 1 harnley larnish bur to tons tuna of flour which he d claree clares will be b worth if its in g kola 0 ld but w when hen h he hk k arrles with his hi fl lour ou r h he e linds the big bl flat desolate A comrade ducov e ere got goir I 1 and daylight reaps a rich barto barvest vet vest he ire go a to dawson th the moet most prominent rel eminent figure in the Klon llon like and de a of 0 cap in FL vait vast mining deal lie ile return returns to civilization an art I 1 amid the bewildering complication of high finance daylight in Is I 1 that he h ha been led to I 1 oveat als eleven nil nii lion lions in a manipulated scheme lie broes roe to new york and confronting ats hi disloyal dit loyal partner witti with a revolver he thi alens ealena to kill ill them it hl money to 1 not return ei 1 they are art cowel return their Bt ealing and goes back to san ban T ranc leco co abere he meet hs hi ate fate in uede dede mason a pretty stenographer teno grapher CHAPTER xa daylight wae was in the thick of hia his spectacular and intensely bitter fight with the coastwise steam navigation comp compu uv and the Ita Ila wallan nicaragua ra gua slid mexican strain ship Comi he ile stirred urrea III A big ger muss than he bad had anticipated and even ba was astounded at the wide ramifications of the struggle and at the and incongruous in tekeste that were drawn into it every newspaper in san francisco turned upon him it was as true one or two of them had first intimated that they were to 0 o subsidization but day lights judgment was mas that the alatua tion du dil not warrant arrant such expenditure up to this time the press had been amusingly tolerant and good natu sensational about him but now he was to beirn what hat virulent an antagonized press was nas capable of every episode of hta his life waa as erected d to serve as foundations tor for ma fabrications daylight was vms frankly at the new interpret Inter pre tatton put upon all that he be bad or ar and the deeds be he lad bad done from an alaskan hero he was metamorphosed into an alajian bully liar desperado and all around bad man the affair sank to the deeper deeps of rancor cr md d savageness the poor woman who had killed herself was dragged out of her grave and paraded on thousands of reams of paper as a martyr and a victim to daylights daylight s ferocious brutality bi he lie was like a big bear raiding a beo bee bave and regardless of the stings he obstinately persisted pert isted in pawing for the honey lib ile drifted his teeth and struck back with a raid on two tuo steamship companies it developed into a pitched battle bottle with a city state and continental coast line al 1 led tied with him on a splendid alary salary with princely pickings thrown in was a lawyer larry blegan a young irishman with ith a reputation to make and whose hase peculiar genius had been un N I 1 ww A sidden si envy cf cl this young fellow follow came over daylight recognized until daylight hd picked up with him it was ilagan who guided daylight through the intricacies of modern politics labo labor organization and commercial and corporation law it was allegan prolific of resource and suggestion who opened daylights eyes to undreamed ot of possibilities la in century warfare and it was daylight rejecting accepting and elaborating who rianner the cam and prosecuted them with the pacific coast from puget sound bound to panama buzzing and bumming and with san francisco furiously bout bis his cars ars the two big steamship companies had all the appearance of winning it looked as if it burning daylight was b being beaten slowly to bis his knees and then be he struck at the steamship corn panics at 1 ban an francisco at the whole COW it was not much of a blow at first A christian Fude asor convention was being held in san francisco a to row waa as started by express drivers union no oer the handling of a small heap of baggage at ferry building A few heads were ere broken a score of arrests arresta made and the baggage as delivered iso no one would havo have guessed that behind this petty wrangle was the fine irise hand of blegan made potent by the Klon klondike like gold ot of hum durn log ing daylight it was an insignificant affair at beat best or so it seemed hut nut the teamsters union took up the quarrel backed by the whole water 1 front aront federation step by step the strike became involved A refusal of cooks and alters natters to serve scab team or teamsters employers brought out the cooks and waiters the butchers and meat cutters reused refused to handle meat destined tor for unfair restaurants the combined employ era ers Asne associations lations put up a solid front and found facing them the 40 or laborers of san francisco the restaurant bakers and the bakery wagon drivers struck followed by the milk drivers and chicken pickers tho the building trades askerud its position in unambiguous terms and all san francisco w as in out nut still it waa was only sap jup 1 intrigue ere Ina terly and day daylights alta steadily devel aped the powerful fighting organ bation known ae as the pacific slope sea kaaa 8 union refused to tu work ork vessels the cargoes as of which sere ere to be handled by scab longshoremen and freight handlers the ablon presented its ultimatum and the i called a strike this had been Day daylights lightn objective all the time I 1 very ii toast coastwise wise vessel was as boarded by the union orl om dais and its crew sent ashore and w with ith the seamen went eat the firemen the engineers and the sea cooks and waiters dally daily the number of idle steamers increased it was impose ble to get scab crews for te tle men cl 01 the seamen a union we e fighters trained in the hard school ot 01 the sea and when they went out it meant blood and death to scabs thie this phase of the strike spread up and do down will the entire pacific coast until all the ports were ere tilled filled with idio idle ships and sea transportation was at a standstill the and weeks dragged out and he the t strike held the coastwise steam navigation company and the finwall an nicaraguan and pacific mexican steamship company were ere tied up tip corn com plemely the expenses of combating the strike were tremendous and they were earning nothing while dally daily he e situation went from bad to wore in til ill peace at any price became the cry and still there was no peace until daylight and his allies played out their hand raked in the winnings and allowed a goodly portion of a conti nent io to resume bu business sPiess daylight a e coming to civilization had not improved him true ho he wore oro better clothes had learned slightly better manners and spoke better eng liall hut but he had hardened and at the expense of bis his old time whole geniality even his human affiliations were descending P playing a lone hand contemptuous of most of the men with whom be he glayd lacking in sympathy or understanding of them and certain ly independent of them he found lit tie in common with those to be en countered eay say at the alta pacific in point of fact when hen tho battle with the steamship companies was as at ita its height and bis his raid wae was inflicting ble damage on all business interests be he had been asked to redga from he the alta pacific the idea had been rath er to his liking and he had found new quarters in to dubs clubs like the Ither side organized and pra practically main maintained tattled by the city bosses one ope weekend week end feeling heavy and de presed pressed and tired of the city anil and its ways he obeyed the impulse of a whim him that was lator to play an imbor tant part in his life the desire to tet set out of the c ctr fc for r it whiff of coun try air ani for or a change of scene was the cause yet to himself he made the excuse of going to glen ellen for the purpose of inspecting a brickyard which goldsworthy Holds worthy bad had sold him lie spent the night in the little country hotel and on sunday morning astride a addle saddle horse rented from the olen glen ellen butcher rode out of the village the brickyard was close at band hand on the fiat flat beside the sonoma creek resolving to have his fun first and rind to look lock over the brickyard afterward he be rode up the hill prospect ting for a way ar cross loundry to get to the knolls he lie let left tho th cc cr antry road at the first gate hs he came to and cantered through a hayfield the grain was waist wals high thigh on either side the wagon road and be ibis the warm aroma of it with delighted nostrils at the base of the knolls he encountered a tumbledown tumble down stake and rl aljer ler fence lie its tethered the tonie and wan dered on foot toot amock amon the knolls their top tops were crowned with century old spruce trees aid sit their sides bides clothed with oaks and madr onos and native holly bolly hut but to the perfect redwoods belonged the mall small but deep canyon that 17 IL 0 A 07 L t V 1 41 1 it sure beats country PIS alt es and bungalows Bui calow at menio menlo park he corn cuned aloud threaded tta its way among tho the knoll knolls here he found no passage oat for his horse and leading the animal an inal bo he forced bis his way up the hillside on the creet crest he came through an amazing thicket of young ma bronos pad end emerged on an open hill ulce mee that led down into a tiny taller valley the Buns LInc wag was at first dazzling in ite its bright brightness nese and he paused and rested for be was panting from tl the exertion not of old had be he known shortness of breath euch such aa as this and muscles that so easily tired at a stiff litiff climb A u stream ream ran down the tiny valley through a tiny meadow that was wits carpeted knee high with grase grass and blue and white crossing be stream daylight aci lowd a taint faint catte cattle trail over a low rocky hill bill and through a wine wooded forest of manzanita and emerged upon another tiny valley down which filtered littered another spring fed meadow bordered streamlet etre amlet it eure sure beats country places and bungalow bungalows at menio menlo park be he corn com cuned aloud and if ever I 1 get the hankering for country life ite its me for thi this every time an old wood road led him to a clear ing where a dozen acres of grape grapes grew on online alne red boll soil A cow P pith ath more tree trees and thi keti and he dropped down a I 1 uldie to the southeast ex kosure here poised above a big for ested canyon and looking out upon sonoma valley was a small farm house with its barn and outhouse outhouses i it snug snuggle glee into a nook in the hill side which protected it from the west and north it was the erosion from this hillside be he Jud judged geil that had formed the little level stretch of vegetable garden the roll soil was fat tat and black ani ana there waa was atter w in plenty tor for ho he saw several faucets running wide open forgotten was the brick yard nobody was at home but day light dismounted and anti ranged tie vegetable garden eating eming strawberries and green peas inspecting the old adobe barn and rusty plow and barrow harrow and rolling and smoking cigarettes while he watched the antics of several broods of young chicks and the moth er hens nothing could satisfy his holiday spir it now but the ascent of sonoma moun tain and here on the crest three hours afterward he emerged tl ed and sweaty garments torn and 2nd face and hands scratched but with sparkling eyes and an unwonted zestfulness of expression ie lie felt the illicit ale pleasure as of a schoolboy playing anian the big gaming table of ban san Fratt leco seemed very far away nut but there waa was more than illicit pleasure in bis his mood it was as though be he were going through a sort of cleansing bath no room here for til 01 the sordidness meanness and viciousness that filled the dirty pool of ot city existence ila ai WILS was loath to depart and it was not for an hour that he be was able to tear test himself away and tako take the descent of the mountain working out a new route just for the fun of it late afternoon iras was tion birn bilin when be he arrived ack cl tt rt the wooded knolls I 1 daylight cast bout about for a trail and found one lea leatitia titi down the aldo side opposite to his decent circling the bo base of 0 the knoll be to picked up with hie his horse and rode on to the farm bouse house smoke was riling rising from the chimney and he was quickly in con cou ver venation with a necip nerv our slender young man who be he lAar learned ried wax was only a tenant rn en the ranch how ilow large waa was it k matter of one hundred and eighty acres though it deemed much larger this was became because it waa was so 0 o shaped yes it included the clay pit and all 11 the kno knobs and tta its boundary that rau ran along the big canon waa was over a mile lonh ob yes ye he and his wife managed to cratch scratch a living without working too hard they didn t have lo 10 0 o pay inich rent hillard the owne depended on the income from front the clay pit PIL hillard waa was well oil off and bad had big ranches and vineyards down in nn the flat of the valley the br brickyard ickard paid fen en bonts a cubic yard for the clay an As for the reel rest of the ranch the land laud waa was good in patches where it waa was cleared like the vegetable garden and the vineyard but the rest of it wall too much up and down youre not a farmer daylight said aid the young man laughed and shook his head no im a telegraph 0 operator hut the wife and I 1 decided to take a two years vr bralon aLon and here we are but tho th times about up I 1 m going back into the office this all fall after I 1 get the grape grapes off ao an daylight listened there came to him a cudden envy of this young fellow felt living right t in the midst of all this which daylight bad had trav coed through the lait last few hours what in thunder are ou going back to the telegraph office for ort he be demanded the young man smiled with a tain ulness I 1 because we cant get ahead here he hesitated an instant and because there are addel ex cj benses coming the rent email small as it Is in courts and besides I t m not street enough to effectually farra the place if it I 1 owned it or it I 1 wore were a real husky like you I 1 d ask nothing better nor r v would the wife again the ful mile smile hovered on his face you see were country born and after bucking with cities for a few years we kjol aln 1 of feel we like the country besl best weve planned to get ahead though and then some day we well it buy a patch of land and stay with IV 11 TO BE CONTINUED |