Show daylight DAY LiHT author authol of the call car of th the alj jj fans fang ib martin W eden 11 etc by dearborn bl melvill elvIll 4 copyright 1910 by the new now aik jolk oik 11 hilj Co 14 might 1910 apy the Mac MilUn cay C ay SYNOPSIS ka flam as harnish 1 known all I 1 through alas oth bIrth M daylight 8 celebrates celebrate a his M birthday daZ with 1 a crowd ot of minera min the 0 circle 11 era a at t to cita the dance lead s beavy ram ling in aich Is 1 over staked 1 1 loses hia his and money hi ma his mine I R but win wins the mall mail contract lie ito 1 airi starrs on hah mal mail trip with doe dogs and 1 fsr cledge in the J telling 11 lits 1113 mends friends that he lit will be V bir yu suk 10 on gold strike at the start t Durni nir daylight i mabes a sensationally men sati onzill rapid run across country with th the ma malt r App earit at the tivoli and ie Is now ready kold gold to join 2 his mende friends in a a dash to the new held fields deciding that sold gold will be round found in n the upriver up river district bu 4 3 two tona tons ot of leour w will ri which he declares lc lare be worth tta its wright in gold but when en he arefes with tits 11 ou r he it md ads the big 1 hat flat de A comrade dincov era s cold told and daylight reaps a rich liar veal vest he ile goes to dawhon becomes the moat most prominent figure in the klondike and defeats a combination of capitalists in a vast mining B deal he ile returns to civilization and amid the com of high flonce daylight finds that he has been led lei to imset hi his eleven yen millions v in a manipulated scheme he ile noes to new york and confronting confront lne nia ha disloyal partners part nere ath ith a revolver volyer he threatens to kill chent if hn hl monel Is not returned U e they hev ore arp cowel coel return their and karnash goen back hack to san I 1 I 1 francisco where here tie lie meets hi his fate late in jede e a a pretty aa pher ite tie maltes a es clarize in P atmer ts and gets 1 into the political attical ring 1 for a ret he goes to the count country dallett Dal leht K arte rte is deeper into hah fleance nance in san franico Franf lico hut but often the longing for the simple life nearly overcomes him dede mason bu buia m a horae horse and daylight meets her in her saddle trips ono day he aska dede detle to go with mm him on one more ride hia his purpose being to mk amk her to marry him and chev canter away ehe she trying to 1 her feelings deda 4 teris 1 that her happl nees c could I 1 not lie with a money manipulator CHAPTER XVI continued you see I 1 gite the value to the land by building the rends then I 1 bell sell the land and get that value b back k and after that there theres s the roads all carrying folks back and forth and earning big money cant lose and theres all sorts of millions in it it am I 1 in going to get my hands on some of that water front and the tide landa lands take between bety veen where im going to build my pier and the old pier its shallow wa ter I 1 can nil fill and dredge and put in fit a system of docks that will handle hundreds of ships san francisco water front Is congested no more mare room for ships with hundreds or of ships loading and unloading loadIng tin on this bide side right into the freight cira cirs c ira of three big railroads factories will start up over here instead ansti ad of crossing to san francisco that means factory sites that means me biging in the factory sites before anybody guesses the cat Is going to jump much less which way ay factories mean tens of thousands of workingmen and families that mcana means more houses houles and more land and that mean me for or tit ill I 1 be there to sell them the land then theres the water come pretty clupp to owning the watershed why not the waterworks too there theres s two water now fighting like cats and dos dogs and both i about broke what a metropolis needs la s good water system they cant can t give it stick in the gobble them up and deliver lel lver the right article to the city there s money here there too money mom everywhere every thing works in with even thing else each improvement wakes the value ot of everything elsi els i jump up it its 8 people that are behind the value the big ger the crowd that herds in one place the more valuable Is to the real estate and this Is the very place for a crowd to herd look at it just look at tit it you could never find a liner site for a great city AH all it needs Is 1 the herd and ill stampede a couple of hundred thousand people in here inside two years and more it won OD t be one of these wildcat land booms it will be legitimate twenty years from now therell be a million people on this tilde he the bay another thin thing is 1 hotels there a decent one in the town ill build a couple of up to date onea ones make them alt sit up and take notice I 1 won wont t care if they dont pay for yeara years their effect will III more than give me my money back bock out of the other holdings and oh ob yes im going to eucalyptus millions of them OD on these hills dut how arc are you going to do UT 10 dede asked you enough money for or all that you vo planned ive thirty million and if I 1 need mol I 1 can borrow on the land and other things interest on mortgagee mortgages wont anywhere near eat up the in to crease in land alues and ill be sell inc frig land right along in the weeks that followed day awat as a busy man it meant quick work on a colossal ecale scale for oakland and the adjacent country was not alow slow to feel the tremendous buying but daylight bad the ready cash and it IL bad always been his policy to strike quickly before be the others could get the warning of quietly the boom be b many thing things the at same time that his agents were a ere purchasing corner lot lots and blocks in the heart of the entre entire business bu alnesa section and the waste lands antis for tac fac tory wry elles sites daylight was rushing frao fran chases through the city council cap turing the two to exhausted water ater com bantes and the eight or nine inde pendent street railways rul bullay lAY and getting his grip on the oakland creek and the bay tide lands for his dock system I 1 the tide landa lands bad been in litigation for years and he be took the bull by the horns horna buying out the private owner owners j and at the came same time leasing from tue city fathers 11 the time that oakland was aroused by this unprecedented activity in every direction direct loc ioa and was questioning excitedly tha the meaning of it daylight secretly bought the chief republican newspaper nes paper and nod toe the chief democratic organ and moved boldly into bla his new of necessity they ft ere on a large scale male M ale occupying four floors of the only modern office build ing in the town lown the be only building that nt be torn down later on aa as daylight put it there was de pArt meu after department it score of them ani an i hundreds of clerk clerks and As he be told dede ive got more mare companies than you enn shake a stick it theres tho the ala meda ae contra costa land syndicate the consolidated street nall Ralli the yerba buena ferry Comp imy the united water company the pled leont realty company the i and portola hotel company and half halt a dozen more that ive got to refer to a notebook to remember theres the piedmont laundry barta and rod red modern m method winding boole vardis and g tripe trip a of park broad streets tret well traded graded were made with sewers ewer and water ready laid and nia tua from hie his own on quarried rIep ce ment sidewalks elde walka were alo also laid 0 io i o that all tho the purchaser bad to do uan ue to 10 select hie tits lot and architect and tart start building the quick service of day lights new now electric road roads into nio oak land made thip big district immediately accessible and before the fer ter i ry hysein as la in operation hundred of 0 residences vere v ere going up the proult on thia this land vaa aa enormous in i ii day his onslaught of ot wealth bad had turned open opan farming hirni lug country into one of the beat best residential district of the city lut but this money that flowed in upon MM fad immediately poured back into his ether other investments the need for electric cars nas to great that he Ina installed hie his own shops for building them out but no mailer matter what pressure was on daylight hn sunday sundays he be reserved for his riding in the bills it was not the rainy winter weather however that brought there rides with dedo to an end one saturday afternoon in the effice abe she told him not to expect to rheet her next e t day arnd hen be he pre used for an explanation ive cold sold mab daylight aas aa speechless for the roo mo ment her act meant one of so 0 o many serious things thai thal he 11 fy it it smacked eui ached almost of treachery she might have met with financial die aster it might be her er way of letting him know she bad had enough of him or the to atter he to aak ask 1 I 1 you a just let ole me tsuy her back nood consolidated quarries starting in ith our quarry I 1 just kept a going till I 1 got them all and there a the shipbuilding building company I 1 ain t got a name for yet seeing as I 1 lad to have ferryboats ferry boats I 1 decided to build them myself be done by the time the pier Is I 1 ready for or them I 1 for or mouth 4 daylight vae was burled buried in work the oklay was terrific and there was nothing coming in beyond a general rise in land values oakland bad had cot not acknowledged bia his irruption on the financial scene the city was waiting wafting for him to show what ho he was going to do and he lost no timo time about it the best skilled brains on tho the market were hired by him for the different branches of the work ellal mistakes be he had no patience with and he be was as determined to start right as hn he be engaged Wil wilkinson kinmon almost doubling his big salary and brought him out from chicago to take charge of the street railway organization night and day the road gangs tolled on the streets and and day pile drivers hammered the big piles down into th the e mud of san francisco day bay the pier was to be three miles long and the berkeley Der keley hills were denuded of whole groves of mature eucalyptus for the piling at the same time bat bla his electric roads were building out through the hills bills the hay fields were being sur ur vered and broken up lato city squares with here and here there according to beat 1 I 1 afford to 0 o keep her with bay hay lorty forty alve dollar dollars a ton dedo answered my brothers expenses expense 3 bare been higher as well ello and I 1 was driven to the conclusion that since I 1 could not afford both id better lei let the mare go and keep the brother who bought berv her lie asked dedos dedes eyes flashed in ibe the vay way ion long 9 since 1 familiar to him when ben she was angry dont you dare buy her back for roe me ebe she cried and dont deny that that was what you had in a mind 1 1 I I wish you would reconsider miss alapont he be eala said softly not alone for the maree mares sake but formy take aleney dou don t cut any ico fco in this for me to buy that mare mean sa as much ax as it doea does to most men to gend send a bocquet boy of flowers or q i box of candy to iii young lady theres nobody I 1 fel teof chummy wibb except you ond and you enor bow how little weve chum med once f week if it it rain on sunday ive grown kind of to depend on yoi yoila if lf juet just let me buy her back no no I 1 tell you no deda veda arose impatiently but ber her ejel were moist with the comery ot of her pet please dont mention her to me again ft you think it war easy to part wit with ber her you are mistaken dut but ivo een seen the last of her bar and I 1 want to forget ber her daylight roade made no answer and che the door closed behind ber her half an hour bour liter later no an s uon on borring ith jones an erstwhile ie ator tor boy and rabid proletarian holu daylight long before had grubstaked 0 to o literature for a year the resulting norel novel had been a fal failure litre editors El llor and publishers would nit oot A I 1 00 it at it and tind skylight was now using the die we tuther ir a little private secret becnice he had been compelled to for himself jonca jones who affected to bo surprise at nothing after bla his rushing krushing experience betrayed no surprise 4 novy no when the task ft aas as given him to locate the pur our chaser of a certain sorrel mare how illow high shall I 1 pay for or her he h asked I 1 any price youve got to get her the point drive a harp sharp bar gain 1 so as not to excite but get bei be then you deliver dellyer her to that address up tip in sonoma county the he mans the caretaker on a little ra ranch h I 1 have there tell blin him hes bes to take takie whacking good caro care of her and after that forget all about it dont tell tali 1114 m the namo name of the man you buy bu 7 her it of from dont don tell roe we anything about it except that youve got her bar and nod dei delivered livered her ber sa V vea 1 nut the week had not passed when daylight noted the flash in aedita ded eyes that boded trouble Some Soine things gone wrong what ll 11 IL itt I 1 he eald arld boldly mab she he eald maid the tits tuan a wt b bought 0 aught her ban has sold her already II 11 I 1 thought you had anything to do it 1 I 1 dont even know who you eol her to was daylight daylights nos and more iro im not bothering m TOJ head about her bho she was your mare and ard its none of my business bu elneas what you did with her you got her eure sure and worse luck and now while wore were on an subjects A im itu going to 0 o open another one witt you and you get touchy touch about bout a it for ue its not really your youir buel bust ness at all its bout that brother ol 01 yours tie lie freds la more than you can do for him 84 belling miling that mare ol 01 youra yours wont send him to germany and arid what hia life own doctor doctors ea be he needs that crack german P clallen who rips a man mans bones and muscle into pulp and then than mould woul dill them all over again well I 1 want Is send him to germany and give that crack a nutter dutter ull if it it vero only she said half hall breathlessly and wholly without anger only it lant and you know it I 1 cant accept money from ou now look here miss hilan mason atas youve got to get some foolish notion ott of your head hand thia this money woney notion nation la Is ono one of the funniest things ivis een seen suppose you was falling ove over A e cliff it be all right for me x reach out find catch you by the aral sure it would your standing in to your brethers way no matter what notions youve got in your head youve got to get out ont of the way and give bin him a n chance will you let ift roe MG go and see him and aa talk it over with him make it a R bard and fast last proposition ill stake him to jet I 1 el well and alt all and nd chare him In Inter terent cut 4 she sho visibly hesitated dixi J and lust just reme hiber one thing mis alason 8 ivi t his leg not yours tours stilt still eho sho refrained from train giving her answer and daylight went oo 00 strengthening hir pg position and remember I 1 go over to see him alone hes iles a roan man and I 1 cat cau deal with him better without women folks around ill 30 0 o over tomorrow afternoon I 1 CHAPTER for six weeks han hand running drunning day light bad had een seen nothing of dede ex copt in the lie office and there he reso cutely refrained refrain id from making av pro ulies ce hut flut by the seventh sunday his hubeer for her balul it waa wait a stormy day A heavy south cast gale fiad was blowing and equall aft er equal squall of rain ond and wind swept over the oty ilu ile could not take his mind off of her and a picture came lo 10 him of her bar bitting sitting b a wd wid dow and sewing feminine fripperies of some 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