Show a MflLIO — HANS TUFT Pres A V HUISII Cashier Hans Tuft W HJlrown Chas Lammcrsdorf Farrell C Scorup Huish V A James P genaen CHAS LAMMERSDORF Jor Chris DIRECTORS— 2 ACK urso? or "rrr cm or mrmfr mrr rrm" wprN am "rrc (Copyright 1910 by tha Now York Herald Company) (Copyright by the MacMillan Company SYNOPSIS Elam Harnlsh known all through “Burning Daylight" celebrate! hli kith birthday with a crowd of miners at The dance leads thi Circle City Tivoli to heavy gambling In which over 1100000 Is staked Harnlsh loses his money 'and his mine but wins the mall contract He tarts on his mall trip with dogs and sledge telling his friends that he will be in the big Yukon gold strike at the start CHAPTER II— Continued "Of course he’ll make It" Kearns "And In Betties’ ear whispered back there’s five hundred Daylight's In Blxty days” he added aloud closed with the wager Billy Rawlins snd Betties hugged Kearns ecstatical' ly "By Yuplter I ban take that bet” Olaf Henderson said dragging DayKearns from Betties and light away shouted "Winner pays!" Daylight "And I'm” sure goclosing the wager ing to win and sixty days Is a Jong time between drinks' so I pay now Name your brand you hochlnoos! Name your brand!" Somebody opened the outer door A vague gray light filtered In Day"Burning Daylight Burning light” some one called warnlngly beadDaylight paused for nothing ing for the door and pulling down his Kama stood outside by the led a long narrow affair Blxteen Inches wide and seven and a half feet In length Its slatted bottom raised six Inches above the runners On It lashed with thongs of moose hide were the light canvas bags that contained the mall and the food and In front of gear for dogs and men It in a single line lay five curled dogs They were huskies matched in size and color all unusually large and all gray From their cruel jaws to their bushy tails they were as like as peas in ' their likeness to timber wolves Wolves they were domesticated It was true but wolves In appearance and in all their characteristics On top the sled load thrust under the lashings and ready for Immediate UBe were two pairs of Daylight was saying to those who clustered him around The Virgin wanted to kiss him and fuddled slightly though he was with the whisky he saw his way out without compromising with the lie kissed the Virgin but he kissed the other three women with He equal partiality pulled on his long mittens roused the dogs to their feet and took his place at the “Mush you beauties!’’ he cried The animals threw their weights on the Inagainst their breastbands stant crouching low to the snow and They whined digging in their claws eagerly and before the sled had gone half a dozen lengths both Daylight and Kama (In the rear) were running to keep up And so running man and dogs dipped over the bank and down to the frozen bed of the Yukon and In On the the gray light were gone river where was a packed trail and were where snowshoes unnecessary the dogs averaged six miles an hour To keep up with them the two men to run were compelled Daylight and Kama relieved each other regularly for here was the bard at the work of steering the flying sled and of keeping in advance of It The man relieved dropped behind the sled occasionally leaping upon It and resting had wall a As if through Daylight passed from the hum and roar of the Tivoli Into another world— a world of Hence and Nothing Immobility stirred The Yukon slept under a coat of ice three feet thick The cold snap continued Only men of Iron kept the trail at such low temperatures and Kama and Daylight were picked men of their races But Kama knew the other was the better man and thus at the start he was to defeat Not himself foredoomed that he slackened his effort or willingness by the slightest degree but that he was beaten by the burden be carried In his mind His attitude toward Stoical tacDaylight was worshipful iturn proud of his physical prowess he found all these qualities incarnated In his white companion doors were thrown the wide open crowd fell back They heard the eager whining of dogs the snap of a dog whip and the voice of Daylight crying as the weary animals encouragement capped all they had done by dragging the sled In over the floor wooden came In with a rush and with Three hours were consumed In cook They them rushed In the frost a visible lng repairing harnesses and making vapor of Bmoking through and breaking camp and the remaining which their heads andwhite showed nine hours dogs and men slept as If as they strained in thehacks harness till dead they had all the seeming of swimming The time came when Kama was un- In a river Behind them at the able to go in the lead and break trail came Daylight hidden to the and It was proof that he was far gone knees by the swirling frost through when he permitted Daylight to toll which he appeared to wade He was all day at the heavy snowsboe work the same old Daylight withal lean Lake by lake they crossed the string and and his black eyes of lakes from Marsh to Llnderman were and brighter flashing sparkling and began the ascent of Chllcoot By than ever His parka of cotton drill all rights Daylight should have camped hooded him like a monk and fell In below the last pitch of the pass at the straight lines to hlB knees Grimed dim end of day but he kept on and and scorched by and fire over and down to Sheep Camp while the garment In Itself told the story of behind him raged a snow storm that his trip A beard covwould have delayed him ered his face and the beard in turn hours This last excessive 'strain broke was matted with the ice of his breathIn the morning he ing through Kama completely the long seventy-milcould not travel At live when called run he sat up after a struggle He experienced a thrill of surprise groaned did as the roar of welconte went up and and sank back again Daylight the camp work of both harnessed the as every familiar detail of the Tivoli dogs and when ready for the Btart greeted his vision — the long bar and rolled the helpless Indian In all three the array of bottles the gambling sleeping robes and lashed him on top games the big stove the weigher at of the sled The going was good they the the musicians the were on their last lap and he raced men and women the Virgin Celia the dogs down through Dyea canyon and Nellie Dan MacDonald Betties and along the trail that Billy Rawlins Olaf Henderson Doc led to Dyea post And running still Watson — all of them It was Just as Kama groaning on top the load and he had left it and In all seeming to It might well be the very day he bad Daylight leaping at the avoid going under the runners of the left The sixty days of incessant travflying sled they arrived at Dyea by el through the white wilderness sud- that be found nothing In knowledge her more than a good friend and an excellent dancer Small consolation It was to know that he never loved She was sick with love of any woman him and he danced with her as be would dance with any woman as he would dance with a man who was a good dancer and upon whose arm was tied a handkerchief to conventionalize him into a woman At one in the morning he saw Elijah Davis herding Henry Finn and Joe Hines toward the the door interfered Daylight l "Where are going?” be demanded attempting to draw them to the bar "Bed” Elijah Davis answered "Got to” Joe Hines added apolo"We’re mushing out in the getically mornin’” them Daylight still detained "Where to? What’s the excitement?” "No excitement" Elijah explained "We’re to play Just your hunch an’ tackle the Upper Country Don’t you want to come along?” "I sure do” Daylight affirmed But the question had been put in fun and Elijah Ignored the acceptance "We’re tacklin’ the Stewart” he "A1 Mayo told me he seen went on some likely lookin’ bars first time he come down the Stewart and we’re goin’ to sample ’em while the river’s an’ mark froze You listen Daylight the time’s cornin’ when my words winter all the go dlggin’s ’ll be in There’ll be men them days that’ll laugh at our summer scratchln’ an’ Elijah laughed gathered his two partners up and was making a second attempt to reach the door "Hold on” Daylight called "I sure Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Burope Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits New Train Service VIA & RIO DENVER In The Time Came When Kama Was Unable to Go In the Lead men pulled on from Sixty Mile with a fresh team of dogs on Daylight’s sled The following night they camped In the cluster of Islands at the mouth qf the Stewart Daylight the town sites and talked though others laughed at him be staked the whole maze of high wooded island “Just supposing the big strike does he come on the Stewart” argued ’ll be In on It and then l “Mebbp sure But won’t again mebbe ’d better reconsider and l will go In with me on It” stubborn were But they “You’re as bad as Harper and Joe “They’re alLadue" said Joe Hines You know that ways at that game big flat jest below the Klondike and Well Mountain? Moosehlde under thr reorder at Forty Mile was tellln’ me they staked that not a month ago —The Harper & Ladue Town Site Ha! Ha! Ha!“ Elijah and Finn joined In bis laughter but Daylight was gravely In earn- and had no existhe sea True to his promise Daydenly telescoped light did not stop An hour’s time saw tence In time They were a moment He had plunged out and the sled loaded with the Ingoing mall an incident and grub fresh dogs harnessed and Into them through the wall of silende est"There she Is!” he cried “The a fresh Indian engaged Kama never and back through the wall of silence It’s in the air hunch is working! spoke from the time of bis arrival till be bad plunged apparently the next tell What’d stake the moment Daylight ready to depart instant and into the roar and tur- the If for didn't get big flat stood beside him to say They moil of the Tivoli the hunch? With I’d staled It" shook hands He drew a deep breath and cried: The regret In hls voice was provoca“You kill um dat damn Indian” “The winner pays and I’m the wintive of a second burst of laughter l You ner ain’t I? Surge up Kama said “Savvee Daylight? you laugh! Why dang "Laugh and Slwashes and name your kill um" are your eyes ain't open yet There’s poison! your Dyea mall “He’ll sure last as far as Pelly" a bunch of little mewing kittens from Water no and Salt straight If that strikes come on tell Daylight grinned about It! Cast the lashings Klondike Harper and Ladue will be Kama shook bis head doubtfully and wade Into it!” And if It comes on Stewand rolled over on his side turning adrift millionaires CHAPTER III A dozen pairs of hands were at the art watch the Elam Harntsb his back In token of farewell when the Le young In them days when town site boom At Sixty Mile they restocked proviIndian same Barge the bending at makln' around come poor l A crowd filled the Tivoli — the old sions added a few pounds of letters task and limply straightsuddenly He heaved a sigh of mouths to their load and held steadily on crowd that had seen Daylight depart ened up In his eyes was a I’ll great sur- resignation "Well suppose two months before for this was the From Forty Mile they had unbroken He stared about him wild' prise or a l to of have the sixtieth and give day opinion fornight trail and could look they for the thing be was undergoing was or other” soup or something to ward unbroken trail was divided as ever as to whether or new to him only He wae profoundly (TO BE CONTINUED) the achieveto clear stood not he would compass Dyea Daylight struck by an unguessed He limitation but it magnificently the killing ment At ten o’clock bets were still shook as with a palsy and be gave at Wonde ful Baby being made though the odds rose bet the knees to tell on Kama pace was beginning slowly sinking down to fall "You say your baby doesn’t walk Down in Ills pride kept his mouth shut but by bet against his success “Mine does and suddenly across the sled and to know yet?” said Jones the result of the chilling of his lungs her heart the Virgin believed he had the smashing blow of darkness asross It's not so old as yours Your baby failed yet she made a bet of twenty his consciousness In the cold snap could not be concut bis teeth yet?” with Charley Bates cealed against They traveled till ten o’clock ouncesounces said “Not yet” said Bones Daylight “Take that Daylight would ar- him"Exhaustion” the night they reached Selkirk and at forty off and pvt him to bed some of of them" said “Ob mine six next morning they plunged ahead rive before midnight He’s sure a good Indian" l "Your baby talk?” Jones She it was who heard the first yelps of Into the next stretch of wilderness A few minutes later Daylight was “can “Not at" replied Bones nearly five hundred miles that lay be- of the dogs waltz- yours?” whirling around the "It’s “Listen!” she cried tween Selkirk and Dyea DayThere was And small won“Great Scott yes” answered Jones ing with the Virgin no in his pace Twelve bourq light!" "Uoei der it was that the Virgin yielded herThen Bones got desperate a day six In the twilight and six In There was a general stampede for self to his arms as they danced dance be use a safety razor or one of tht the dark they tolled on the trail th door but when the double storm- - after dance and sick at heart at the others?" he asked — ideas ROUTE BURLINGTON THREE FAST ROUTE ROCK ISLAND TRAINS MISSOURI PACIFIC EAST UNION PACIFIC THROUGH TWO NIGHTS 10 TWO NIGHTS TO ST LQUIS THREE SLEEPERS CHICAGO TO NEW YORK NIGHTS OF ROUTES CHOICE TO ST see any D For further information ent or address CHICAGO KANSAS CITY A LOUIS F A BENTON GAPDPDA R & G Ag- Salt Lake City Denver Colo WADLEIGH SAUSAGE Fresh and Fine Like utd Mother to make of Choicest line MEATS and GROCERIES Tke Wkite W G IV This time the trail was easier It was better packed and they were not carrying mail against tlmg At Forty Mile they laid over two days for the sake of the dogs and at Sixty Milo team was left with the Daylight’s Unlike after the trader Daylight terrible run from Selkirk to Circle City they had been unable to recup erate on the back trail So the foui With Connection SANTA FE ROUTE mean it” The three men turned back suddenly upon him In their faces surprise delight and incredulity “G’wan you’re foolin’” said Finn the other a quiet steady Wisconsin man "There’s my dawgs and sled" Daymake two “That’ll light answered teams and halve the loads though ’ll have to travel easy for a spell for them dawgs is sure tired” but The three men were overjoyed still a trifle Incredulous "Now look here” Joe Hines blurted out "none of your foolin’ Daylight Will you come?” We mean business and hand his extended Daylight ’shook CHARTER GRANDE Froit LONG Use Electric Lights Why not? 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