Show 10 RH ACK 1119 of CAZZ ar C alor WAl FrIly Z zire 1 0 cp aright 1910 by the new york sterald company E 1910 by the company SYNOPSIS kimn lam karnash known all alaska as burning daylight celebrates h his Is ath birthday with a crowd of miners at the he circle city tivoli the dance leads lead to heavy gambling in which over Is beaked li arnish loses his money and his mine but wine the mall mail contract he starts on hla his mall mail trip with dogs dog and ana sledge telling hla his friends that he win will be ba in the big yukon gold strike at the tart start burning daylight makes a sensation sensationally all rapid run across country with the tha mair mall appears at the tivoli andas and la now ready to air join in his friends in a da dash it to the new gold fields deciding that gold will bo be round in the u upriver up river district harnish buys two ions tons 0 or flour which ht ho d declares clares will be worth its in gold but when he arrives with hla his flour b he finds I 1 the he big flat desolate A comrade d discovers gold and daylight reaps a rich harvest lie ho goes to dawson becomes the most prominent figure gure dawson in n the klondike and d defeats a combine combination ti on of capitalists c in a vast mining deal its ile returns to civilization and amid the complications com of high finance I nance D daylight ya vill finds that he has been led to Invest invest nan eleven mill millions lons in a manipulated scheme ire he goes to new york and confronting h hla lia disloyal partners part nera with a revolver he t threatens to kill them it if his money la Is not returned CHAPTER IX continued A long session of three hours followed the deciding factor was not the big automatic pistol but the certitude that daylight would use it not alone were the three men convinced of this but daylight himself was convinced he was firmly resolved to kill the men if hla his money vas tas T as not forthcoming it was not an easy matter on the spur of the moment to ralsa raise ten millions tn in paper currency and there were vexatious delays A dozen doen times mr bowlson and the head clerk cleric were summoned into the room on these occasions the pistol lay jay on daylights lap covered carelessly by a newspaper while he was usually engaged in rolling or lighting his brown paper cigarette but in the end the thing was accomplished A suitcase suit case was brought up by one of the clerks fronk tron the waiting motorcar motor car and daylight snapped it shut on an the last package of bills tie lie paused at the door to make tits final remarks theres three several things I 1 sure want to tell you all when I 1 get outside this door you be set free to act and I 1 just want to warn you all about what to do in the first place no warrants for fop my arrest sav veel this moneys mine and I 1 aint robbed you of it if it gets out how bow you gaye gave me the double cross and how I 1 done you back again he be laugh la ugh 11 it II be on you and be sure an almighty big laugh you all cant afford that laugh besides having go back my stake that you all robbed me of if you arrest me and try to rob me ma a second time ill go gunning for you all and ill sure get you no little arald cat shrimps scrimps like you all can skin burning daylight it if you win you lose and therell sure be some several unexpected funerals around this burg just juat look me in the eye and you sav veo vee I 1 mean business them stubs end and receipts on the table Is all yourn good day As the door shut behind him na thanuel letton sprang for the telephone and dowsett intercepted him what are you going to do dowsett demanded the police its downright robbery I 1 wont stand it I 1 tell you I 1 wont stand it dowsett smiled grimly but at the same time bore the slender financier back and down into his bis chair chaar well awell talk it over he be said and in leon he found an anxious ally arid and nothing ever came of it it the thing remained ra a secret with the three men nor did daylight ever give the secret away though that afternoon leaning back in ilia dis stateroom on the twentieth century his shoes oil off and feet on a chair ho he chuckled long and heartily new york remained forever puzzled over the affair nor could it hit upon a rational explanation by all rights burning daylight should have gone broke yet it was known that he be immediately reappeared in san francisco possessing an apparently unimpaired capital this was evidenced by the magnitude of the enterprises terp rises bp he engaged in such as for instance panama mall by sheer weight of money and fighting power wrestling the control away from shaft ty ly and nd selling out in two months to the harriman Harrl maa interests at a rumored enormous advance CHAPTER X back in san francisco daylight quickly added to his reputation in ways it was not an enviable reputation tren men were afraid of him he became known as aa a fighter a fiend a tiger ills his play baj wa a ripping and smashing one and no one knew where or how his next blow would fall the element of surprise was large ile he balked on the unexpected and fresh from the wild north his mind not operating in stereotyped channels he be yaa was able in n unusual degree to devise now new tricks aud and stratagems and once he won the advantage he pressed it realo uselessly ise lessly As relentless as a red ked indian WM said cald 0 of him and it was sam said truly he was a free lance and had no friendly business associations such alliances as were formed from time to time were wore purely affairs of expediency and ho he regarded his allies as men who would give him the double cross or ruin him it a profitable chance presented in spite of this point of view h ho was faithful to his allies but he was falth faithful ful just as long as they were and no longer the treason had bad to come from them and then it was ware daylight the business men and financiers of the pacific coast never forgot the lesson of charles klinkner and the california fornia altamont trust company klinkner was the president in partnership with daylight tho the pair raided the san jose interurban the powerful lake power electric lighting corporation corpor alion n came 16 to tse be tei rescue eu 0 zid klinkner seeing what he be thought was the opportunity went over to the enemy id in G the ethic thick k of the pitched battle daylight lost three millions before he ha was done with it and before he be was done with it he bo saw the california altamont trust company hopelessly hopeless jy wrecked and charles Klin klinkner knor a sul side in a felons cell so it was that daylight became a ot of alcoholic inhibition athwart hla his consciousness the office became immediately a closed affair it ceased to exist in the afternoon after lunch it lived again tor for one or two hours when leaving tt it ho he rebuilt the wall of inhibition of course thero there were exceptions to this and such was the rig or of his bis discipline that if he had a dinner or a conference conte renco before him in which in a business way he encountered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campaigns ho he abstained from drinking but the tha instant the business was settled hla his everlasting call went out tor for a Ilar tInt and tor for a double martini at that in a long glass so BO as not to excite comment into daylights life carao came dede mason she camo came rather imperceptibly ho had bad accepted her impersonally along with the office furnishing the office boy morrison Morr lson tho the chief confidential dent ial and only clerk and all the rest re a t of the accessories of a super mans gambling place of business had he been asked any time during the first months sho she was in hla his employ he be would have been unable to toll the color of her eyes from the fact that she was a deml blonde there resided ia dimly in in hla his a conception that she was vas a brunette likewise he be had an idea that sho she ma aa not thin while there was an absence in his mind of any idea that she was tat fat and how bow she dressed he bo had no idea at all ile he had no trained eye in such matters nor was he be interested ile he took it for granted gran teC in the lack of any impression to the contrary that she was dressed somehow lie he knew 1 1 N h 4 7 the cocktails served as an inhibition successful financier he did not go in for swindling the workers not only did he not have the heart beah for it but it did not him as a sporting proposition tho the workers were so easy so BO stupid it was more like slaughtering fat hand reared pheasants on tho the english preserves he had read about the sport to him was in waylaying way laying the successful robbers and taking their spoils from them the grim ukon life had tailed failed to make daylight hard it required civilization to produce this result in the fierce savage game he now played his habitual geniality imperceptibly slipped away from him as aa did his lazy western drawl ile ho still had of geniality but they were largely periodical and forced and they were usually due to the cocktails be took prior to mealtime in the north he be had drunk deeply and at irregular intervals bet now his bis drinking became systematic and disciplined it was an unconscious development but it was as based upon physical and mental conditions the cocktails served as an inhibition without reasoning or thinking about st it the strain of the tha office which was essentially due to the daring and audacity of his ventures required check or cessation and he be found through the weeks and months that the cocktails supplied this tory thing they their constituted a stone wall ile he never drank during the moni morning ing nor in office hours but the instant he left the office be proceeded to rear this wall her as miss mason and that was all al though he was aware that as a stenographer she was waa quick and accurate ile he watched her leaving one afternoon and was aware for the first time that she aho was well formed and that her manner of tress was satisfying lie ile knew none of the details of womans comans dress and he be saw none of the details of her nat shirt waist and well cut tailor suit ile he saw only the effect in a general sketchy way she looked right this was waa in the absence of anything wrong or out of the way sties a trim 11 little atle good looker was his verdict when the outer office boor closed on an her the next rooming morning dictating he concluded that be liked the way she did her hair though for the life of him he could have given elven no description of it the impression was pleasing that was waa all she sat between him and the window and he be noted that her hair was light brown with hints of golden bronze A palo pal sun eun shining in touched the lie golden bronze into amoul dering daring fires that were very pleasing ile ho discovered that la in the intervals when she bad nothing to do she read books and magazines or worked on some sort of feminine fancy work passing her desk once he picked up a volume of kippings Kip lings poems and glanced be puzzled through toe the pages pages you like reading miss illas mason he be said laying the tbt book down oh yes VM the answer very much another time it was a book of wells the wheels of chance it all about daylight asked oh its ita just a novel a love story she stopped but ho he still stood waiting and she felt it incumbent to go on its ita about a little cockney drapers dr apera assistant who takes a vacation on his big bicycle and falls in with a young girl very much above him her mother is a popular writer and all tb that at and the situation is very curious cur loua and sad too and tragic would you caro care to read it does he be get her daylight demanded no the ile point of it lie ile and he be get gel her and bouvo read all them pages hundreds of ahem to find that out daylight muttered rod in amazement miss mason was nettled as well as amused but you read the mining and financial news by the hour sho she retorted but I 1 sure sura got get something out 0 of that its business and its ite different I 1 get money out ot or it what do you got get out of books points of view now new ideas life not worth a cent cash but lifes worth more than cash sho she argued oh well he be said with obay casy mas cullee tolerance so long no as you enjoy it what counts I 1 suppose and aad theres no accounting for enate despite hla his own superior point of view he had bad an idea that she knew a lot and lie ho experienced a floo fleeting ting feeling like that of a barbarian face td faco face with the evidence of somo some tremendous culture to daylight cut cul ture was a worthless thing and yet som somehow ebow he was vaguely troubled b by a sense that there was more in culture than he imagined again on liar her desk in passing he be noticed a book with which ho he was familiar this time ho he did not stop atop tor for lie he had recognized ole cover it was a magazine correspondents book ott on the klondike and ho he know knew that he and liia hid photograph figured in it and he knew also of a certain sensational chapter concerned with a womans comans suicide and with one to much daylight after that ho he did not talk with her again about books lie ho imagined what erroneous conclusions she had bad drawn from that particular chapter and it stung him the more in that they were undeserved lie ile pumped merrl morrl son the clerk who had first to vent rent hla his personal grievance against bliss mason arason before he ha could toll what that little he know of her bar she cornea comes from siskiyou you county ashes very nice to work with in the office of course but ashes rather stuck on herself exclusive you know how do you make that out daylight queried well she thinks too much ot of herself lier self to associate with those she eho works with in the office here for instance she wont have anything to do with a fellow you see ive asked ashad liar her out repeatedly to the theater and the chutes and such things but nothing doing says sho she likes plenty of sleep and cant stay up late and nd has to go all the way to berkeley where she lives out but all hot air ashes running with the university boys what ashes doing needs lots lota of sleep and cant go to TM the theater with me but she can dance all hours with them ive heard it pretty straight that she goes to all their hope bopa and such ouch things rather stylish and high toned for a stenographer id say and she keeps a horse too she rides astride all over those hills bills out there I 1 saw her one sunday myself oh ashes a high flyer and I 1 wonder how she does it it sixty five a month dont go far then she has a sick brother too live with her people daylight naked asked no got any they were well to do ive heard beard they must have been or that brother or hers have gone to the university of bt california her father had a big cattle ranch but he be got to tooling fooling with mines or something and went broke before he died her died long before that her brother must cost a lot of money tie he was a husky once played football was greaton hunting bunting and being ou out in the mountains and such buch things lie he got his accident breaking horses and then rheumatism or something got into him one leg Is shorter than the other and withered up some lie he has to walk on crutches I 1 saw raw her out with him once crossing the terry ferry the doctors have been experimenting on him for years and hes in the french hospital now I 1 think ok all of which sidelights side lido lights n miss alias mason went to In creaSo daylights daylight 9 inter est in her yet much as he desired de alred tie he tailed failed to get acquainted with her lie ile had bad thoughts of asking her to luncheon but his bis was the innate chivalry bl ot of the frontiersman and the thoughts never came to anything lie ho knew a self respecting square dealing t man was waa not supposed to take hla his stenographer to luncheon 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