Show U IL I 1 ING DAYLIGHT JA fACK LOND LONDON ON call of file 1 A r av jl if aills dan a by dearborn melva 1 I by r th he new I 1 ork k erald 1 ld cbs by the company H ae SYNOPSIS k all through alloh daylight paY light celebrates his burning at S crowd of miners day the dance leads voit wh 1 V I 1 in I 1 which over gambling willi the loses bia mail his contract money ind ile but trip with dogs 0 and ajit his thirds that he vill W his cold strike at the start brukl makes a sensationally with the mail 20 aaros tivoli country fh and lh a rl ow ready ie at tho W in a dash to friends hl deciding that gold will 1 be aja river district 13 the up lejour w aich be declaris dec larts t tons of but gold in its w ight borth arrives itt with hi nour he finds hs at desolate deB A COZ arade reaps a rich bar d ahn awson becomes to of 10 in the pom p rat om nent IL com favre I 1 nation of aut mining deal tie returns V tion and amid the of high finance TI h t he as been led it invest in a manipulated 11 scheme york a nd confronting asi 1 revolver he money in not CHAPTER R IX tx continued of three hours fol follow lONt the deciding factor was not the bitic pistol but the certitude aught would use it not alone the th three men convinced of thia this alight daylight himself was convinced firmly resolved to kill the men money I 1 as not forthcoming it antin lot iia easy matter on the spur of moment to raise ten mil 11 in paper currency and there dentious yent ious delays A dozen times lvalion lH alion and the bead clerk were ned into the room on these oc the pistol lay on daylights lap ed 1 carelessly by a newspaper he to yas was usually engaged in to roll jr lighting his brown paper cig but in the end the thing was aplIs hed A suit suitcase case was brought i ote otiest bi the berks from the wait r car and daylight snapped it on the last package of bills he bl it at the door to make bis his final trot i three several things I 1 sure t to tell you all when I 1 get out door you all 11 be set free to ind I 1 just want to warn you all thatto th what chatto atto to do in the first place larr nanta ints tor for ray my arrest i moneys mine and I 1 aint rob you a of it it if it gets out how you ite the double cross and how I 1 jou you back again the laugh it 11 be and it 11 II be sure an almighty luh youal you all cant afford that ti besides having go bad bael my ebbat that you all lobbed tabbed me of if you 1 it I ee and try to rob mo me a sec see toe ume III go gunning for douall you all grature lure get you no little arald like you all can skin burn daylight if you win you lose and til III ure sure be some several around this burg just in be la in the eye and you sav say I 1 mean business them stubs atins on the table Is all yourn 4 hayr day s the ioor door shut behind fol him na atton K 7 sprang for the tee tele gad hat at dowsett intercepted him demanded are you going to dov do dow I 1 police it 0 a g downright botand 04 ot land and it it i tell robbery d IL you I 1 wont ett ed krim grimly but at the 8 bore ore the slender financier ind aa down lown into bis big chair awk III talk it bover over he LIM said and sa ioui tily he found cheer ad botting ever came of t it the in a secret with the A E nea did daylight lla 1111 away blough 1 that ever aft IS bisback back in bis his stateroom 1 ree feet leth century Gen tury his shoes ind heartily bear heLS helse on A chair 1 be u chuckled tily vork new kd fer yorla remained puzzled it hit u la 10 upon over the affair sitt nor or DT by rational ra tonal ex plana all have hl t rights 8 ta bur rol n ing daylight it that he gone I 1 1001 broke yet it wab was 14 francisco Pran ciscO appeared reappeared 17 possessing nd an alpar pd capital cap tal this by th wae was the all to magnitude of the en an act panama engaged ln in such as tor for ht nt ts all br by abaer tilts tb money and fighting power ad lang ous control 01 away from out in n art two all interest months to ibe the at it a rumored od eor enor CHAPTER x akl akly to francisco daylight a his 1 it reputation wl a in ale nat an lable repute Z afraid of or him blyn la bag came known aa as a fighter a alend nd a tiger his play wae wag a ripping 9 and smashing one and no one ehnow where or bow his next blow mould fall tall the element of surprise waa was large he tle balked on the unexpected and fresh from the wild north bis his min mind d not operating in stereotyped channels be tie I 1 wan was able in unusual degree to devise new tricks and stratagems and once he won the advantage he pressed it remorselessly As relentless as a red indian was said of him and it was said truly he lie was a free lance and had I 1 0 no O friendly business associations S such uch alliances as were formed from time to time were purely affairs at of expediency and he regarded his allies as men who would give him the double cross or ruin him if a profitable chance presented in spite of this point of view he was mas faithful to his allies but he be was faithful just as long ns as they were and no longer the treason had to come from them and then it was ware daylight the business men and financiers of the pacific coast never forgot the les lea son of charles Klin klinkner knor and the call furnia fornia altamont trust company klinkner was the president in part n enship with daylight the pair raided the san jose interurban the powerful lake power electric lighting corporation came to the rescue and klinkner seeing hat he thought was the opportunity went over to the en tn emy in the thick of the pitched battle daylight lort three millions before be he wae was done with it and before he was done with it 11 he tie saw the california altamont trust company hopelessly hopel esaly wrecked and charles klinkner a sul side in a felons cell so it was that daylight became a successful financier he ile did not go in for swindling the workers not only did be he not riot have the heart for it but it did not strike him litra as a sporting proposition the workers were so easy so go stupid it was more like slaughtering tat fat hand band reared pheas ants on the english preserves he be had read the sport to him was wits af 0 N 4 A I 1 N too the cocktails served as r an inhibition in waylaying the tue SUC successful robbers and taking ther spoils polls from them had failed to I 1 0 the grim yuon yulon life make daylight hard it required cia 1 to produce this result in game be now play the fierce savage ed hia his habitual babl tabi geniality imperceptibly slipped away from him as did his lazy western drawl ile hestell still had ence or genial ity fly but they were largely periodical d due ue and forced and they W were ere usually to the cocktails h ho took prior to me meal at time lo 10 the north be had ad dru drunk interval intervals but deeply and at irregular now his drinking bec became am systematic and disciplined it was wag 11 an n unconscious development but it w was Is based upon physical and mental conditions trie cocktails served as an inhibition about without reasoning or thinking it the tile strain of the office which wai was and au essentially due to the daring check of his ventures required and ho he found through cessation or cessa cock the and months that tho the weeks they talle tails supplied this very thing a 11 stone sall all he never constituted at ln in no drank durt durlik 19 the moraine morning flee tice hours but the instant he left the office he proceeded to rear this wall of alcoholic inhibition athwart hit consciousness tho th office became clotede immediately m med lately a closed affair it ceased to exist in the afternoon sitter lunch tt it lived again for one or two hours when leaving it hr he rebuilt the wall 0 of inhibition of course there ere ex captions to this his and euch such was the rig or of hia his discipline that if it he had a dinner or a conference before him in which in fn a business wa lie hered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campaigns be he abstained froia from drinking but tho the instant the business was bottled settled hia his everlasting call nent vent out for a martini martin and for a double martina at that in a lone long glass so na as not to excite comment into daylights life came dede mason she came rather imperceptibly he lie bad accepted her impersonally along with the office furnishing the office boy Morr morrison lson the chief conti dent lal ial and only clerk and all the rest of the accessories of a gambling place of business had be he been asked any time during tho the first months she was in his employ be would haie been unable to tell the color of her eyes from the fact that she was a demi blonde thero there reald ed dimly in tn bis his a conception that she was a brunette likewise be he bad had an idea that she itis as not nut thin while there was an absence in tn his mina of any idea that ehe she was fat and how bow she dressed ho he had bad no idea at all he ile had no trained eye tn such matters nor was he interested he tie tooh took it for granted Is fr the lack of any impression to the contrary that she was dressed somehow he ile knew her na miss mason and that was all though he be was awara aware that as its a stenographer ehe she was quick and accurate he watched her leaving ono one afternoon and vas was aware for the first time that she was well formed and that her manner of dress was satis dying genew none of the details of woman oman a dress and he saw none of the details of her neat shirt waist and wel tailor suit ho tle sa saw w only tho the effect tn n a ce general way she looked right this was as in the ab sence of anything wron I 1 or out of the way shea a trim little rood looker waa was hie his verdict when th tho 3 otter olter office nor closed on ber her the next morning dictating he con eluded that he liked tte way nhe she did her hair though for the life of him ho he could have given no description of it the impression was pleasing that was all she oat rat between ulm and the window windo and he noted that ber her with hints of hair wa was g light brown golden bronze e A pale sun bining in 11 touched the golden bronze into emeul dering fires that were very plea pica slug eing tie ile discovered that in the intervals when ehe she had nothing to do she bhe read book a and magazines or worked on some eort sort of feminine fancy ancy work passing he her r desk once be lie picked up a volume of kipling j poems and glanced be through the pages jou ou like reading radl ng he aid laying the book down ob yen waa was the aneser very bi ura L jl J another time it was a boote ot of wells the wheels of chance it all about daylight asked ked oh ite its just a novel a love story she stopped but bt b still stood wall sit ing and she felt it incumbent to go an i ite its about a little cockney draper 3 assistant who takes takis a vacation cation a 0 on n his bl bicycle eyele and falls ii in with a antl young ng i girl very much above aboe him illin her tier cioth cr er Is a popular writer and a nd all that and the situation Is ve curious and sad too and tragic would you care to read it does he be got her berv daylight demanded no the point of it he ite aint and he get her and youve read all them pages hundreds of them to find that out da light muttered in amazement miss mason was nettled as well as amused but you read the mining and financial news by the hour she re ported but I 1 sure get something out of that its business and ua its differ ent I 1 get money out of it it N what v t do you get out ot of books points of view new ideas life not worth a cont cent cash but lifes worth cuore than cash she argued oh well ho he eald said with easy mae cullee tolerance so long as you enoy enjoy joy it what counte counts I 1 suppose eup poso and theres no accounting tor for taste despite his own superior point of view he bad had an idea that she know a lot and be he experienced a fleeting feeling like that of a barbarian fac ace e to face with the evidence of come some tremendous culture to daylight cul cut ture was a worthless thing and yet somehow he was vaguely troubled by a sense that there was more in culture than be he imagined again on her desk in passing bo he noticed a book with which he was familiar this time be did not stop tor for he had recognized the cover it waa was a magazine correspondents book on the klondike and he knew that be he and his photograph figured in it and he knew also of a certain sensational chapter concerned with a woman suicide and with one to much aluch day tight light after that be tie did not talk with her again about books he tie imagined what erroneous conclusions she bad drawn draun from that particular chapter and it stung him the more tn in that they were undeserved he lie pumped morrison the clerk who bad had first to vent hia his personal grievance gri evince against misa miss gasn before bo he could tell what little he know knew of her she comes conies from siskiyou you county very nice to work with in fn th the office of course hut but rathe rather stuck on herself exclusive you know fl how do you make that out daylight queried well she thinks too much of herself to associate with she works with in the tho office here for instance she wont have anything to do with a fellow you see ive asked her out repeatedly to the theater and the chutes and such things but nothing doing says she ste likes plenty of sleep and cant can t star up late and has to go all the way to berkeley where she lives but all hot air running with the enli varsity bos what ah sh doing she needs lots of sleep steep find and ant go 90 to the theater with me but she can dance all RII hours fours with them ive beard heard it pretty straight that she goes to all their hopa hops and such thing things nather 1 stylish and high toned for a eapher id say bay and she keeps a horse too she rides astride all over those hills out there I 1 saw her sinday myself oh abe s a high flyer and I 1 wonder bow she does it IL sixty five ili e a mouth dont go far then she has a nick brother too live with her people daylight asked no hunt got any they were well to do ivo ive beard they must have been or that brother or hers couldn coulden t have gone to the university of call fornia her tier father r had bad a big cattler ranch but he got to fooling tooling with mines or something and aud went broke before he died her tier mother died long before that her tier brother must cost a lot of money he ile was a busk husk once played football root ball was great on hunting and being I 1 ng out in the mountain moun mount aim and such he ile got bb bli accident breaking horses and then n rheumatism or aoi something got into him one leg log 1 Is shorter than the other and withered up some he lie has to walk on crutches I 1 saw her out jitu him once crossing the ferry the doctors have beu experimenting on him for years and hes bes in tho the french hospital now 1 I thick think all ot 01 which sidelights side lights on mies miss mason to increase daylights interest in her tier yet much aa as he be desired red de tie failed to get acquainted with er he tie bad had thoughts of asking her to funche duncheon un cheon on but bis big was the innate chivalry of the frontiersman and the thought thoughts noer never came to anything he knew a self respecting square squar dealing ealing man was not supposed to u uke ike bid stenographer to luncheon bucit a things did happen be he knew know for be he beard the chaffing gossip ot of the club but he be did not hank think much of such men and felt 4 w the tarl TO ITO US a CONTINUED aa |