Show ri n ACK lf N D 0 N ral azz a rale mam C 0 al cop bight 1910 by the naw sterald company I 1 ht 1910 by the macmillan company SYNOPSIS aloan harnish harilah Harn lah known all through altilia as burning daylight celear celebrates tea his birthday avith witha a crowd of minem miners at the circle city the dance lewis leads to heavy gambling in which over 1000 ts Is staked loses hla his money anil and his mine mind tilt but wins the mall mail contract ile he starts larts on lils ills mall mail trip with dogs and pledge telling hta his friends alenda that ho he will tie be in the big gold bold strike at the start burning daylight makes a rapid run across country with the mall cinalt appears pears at tha and Is now ready t to 0 J join in its his friends in a aidash to the now new V kold 1 fields deciding alia t gold eold will be ba found in the upriver up river district buys two tons of flour which he declares will be worth its weight in gold but when he arrives with his flour he tl ads the WK big flat desolate A comrade disc discovers vers vera gold and daylight reaps a rich harvest ile ho goes to lawson dawson becomes the tha most moat prominent figure in the and defeat a combination of capitalists in a i vast mining deal lie ile returns xo ito civilization CHAPTER VII in no blaze ol of glory did 13 daylight descend upon san francisco not only had he been forgotten lut but the tha klondike along with him the world was interested in other things and the alaskan adventure like the spanish war was an old story ile settled down in st francis hotel was by the tao cub reporters on an the hotel run and received brief paragraphs or of notice tor for twenty lour our hours several months passed in san francisco during which time he be studied tha th game and its rules and prepared himself to take a hand etring TU ang ot of being merely an onlooker eri he ran up to nevada where the now new gold mining boom was vas fairly started just to try a flutter as ho he phrased it to himself the tha flutter on the to stock exchange lasted just ten days during which time hla his smashing wild bull ganie game played ducks and rakes drakes with the more stereotyped gamblers and at the end of which time having gambled floridel Florl del into his fist he be let go tor for a net profit ot of halt hali a million whereupon smacking hla his lips he departed tor for san francisco and the st francis hotel it tasted and his hunger for the camp game became 0 alore acuti acute i r f and onca more the ahe p n pe bertea ser tea him BURNING DAYLIGHT was a big letter be headline adlino again interviewers ter flocked about him old files ales of oe magazines and n newspapers were searched through ana and the romantic and historic elam Harril harnish sh adventurer of 0 the frost king of the klondike and father of the sour boughs strode upon the breakfast ta ble of a million homes along with the toast and breakfast foods even bo be fre fore his elected time he be was forcibly launched into the game financiers and promoters and all the flotsam and add jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of his eleven millions in self defence he was compelled to open offices ho he dabbled in little things at first stalling tor for time as he explained it to holds worthy a friend be had made at the alta club daylight was a member of the club and holds worthy had proposed him and it was waa well that daylight played closely at first for lie he was astounded by the multitudes of sharks ground sharks he ha called thern them that flocked about him ile he 6 ea aw w through their schemes readily adaily enough and even marveled that such numbers of them could find sufficient proy prey to keep them going their rascality and general dubiousness was so transparent that he could not understand how any one could be taken in by them so it was that he resolved to leave the little men the Holdsworth Holds worthya ys alone and while he met them in good fellowship he chummed with noie none and formed no deep friendships lie he did not dislike the little men the men of the alta pacific tor for instance ile he merely did not elect to choose them for partners in the big game in which he be intended to play what this big game was even he did not know ile he was waa waiting to find it and in the meantime he played small hands investing e ing in several arid lands reclamation projects and keeping his bis eyes open for or the big chance when it should come along and then he ha met john dowsett Dow sctt tho the great john dowsett it was the first big magnate daylight had met face to fare face and he was pleased and charmed there was such a kindly humanness human uasa about the man such a genial demo cratic ness that daylight found it hard to realize that this was the john dowsett president of a string of banks banka insurance tor reputed ally or of the lieutenants of standard dard oil off and known ally of the iera nor dt did his looks belle hla his and his manner physically he guaranteed all that daylight knew of him despite hla his sixty years and snowwhite hair hla his handshake hand shake was waa firmly hearty and he showed no signs ot of decrepitude walking with a quick step making all movements definitely and decisively it was waa not long afterward that day light came on to new york A letter arom rom john dowsett had bad been the caise asI a little typewritten ft veral lints but daylight had thrilled as ho he rend read it the bald sentences seemed gorged with mystery our mr bowlson will call upon you nt at your hotel ile ho la Is to bo be trusted vvo must not be ba seen to gether you will understand after we have had bad our talk daylight conned the words over and over that was it tho big game had arrived and it looked as it ho he were being invited to sit in and take a hand surely toi toe no i other reason would ono one man so peremptorily invite another man td to make a journey across the continent they aliey met thanks to our mr bowlson IIo up the hudson in it a magnificent ent country home daylight according to instructions arrived in a private motor car which had been furnished him dowsett was waa already there and another wan man whom daylight recognized before tho the introduction was waa begun it was nathaniel letton and none other daylight had seen hla his face a score of times in the magazines and newspapers and read about his bin standing in the financial world and about his endowed university 0 of baratona Dara tona ile he likewise struck daylight ms BS a man of power though he was waa puzzled in that he could find no likeness to dowsett except in the matter of cleanness a cleanness that seemed to go down to the deepest fibers of him Nat nathaniel hantel letton was unlike the other in every particular thin tain to emaciation ho he seemed a cold flame of a man not more than fifty thatched with a sparse growth of iron gray hair ho he looked several times the age of dowsett they drank that Is nathaniel letton took mineral water served by the smoothly operating machins machine ot of a lackey wbk inhabited the place while dowsett took scotch and soda and daylight a cocktail loop leop arrived in the madse midst of 0 the drink and ordered scotch daylight studied him curiously this was waa one of the great family a younger ono one but nevertheless one of the crowd crowd with which he be had bad locked grapples in id the north nor did teon fall to mention coral zance of that old affair ile he complimented daylight or oa his prowess the echoes of ophir came down to us you know and I 1 must say mr daylight er mr harilah Harn lah that you wl whipped lIpped us soundly in that affair affa lr leon was young and fat not a day more than thirty his lace face save tor for the adumbrated adum bated putt puff sacks under the eyes was as smooth s and as a boys the talk soon centered down to business dow bett broached the plan aided by an occasional remark from the other two chilo daylight asked questions whatever the tha proposition was be was wa s going into it with hla his eyes open and they filled his bis eyes with the practical vision of what he had la in mind I 1 they will never dream you are with us interjected as tho the outlining of the matter drew to a close his handsome jewish eyes flashing enthusiastically think you aro are raiding on your own in proper buccaneer style of courso course you understand mr harnish tho the absolute need for keeping our alliance in the dark nathaniel letton warned gravely daylight nodded his head and you also understand lotton letton went on that the result can only bo be productive 0 of good tho the thing Is legitimate and right and the only ones who may be hurt are the stock gamblers themselves it Is not an attempt to smash the market As you see yourself you are to bull tho the market T the be honest investor will pa be the gainer yes yea tho the very thing dow rett said the commercial need for copper Is continually increasing ward valley copper and all that it bands for practically one quarter of the worlds supply as I 1 have shown you la Is a big thing how hov big even we can scarcely estimate our arrangements arrango menta are ara made we have plenty of capital ourselves and yet we want more also there Is too much ward valley out to suit our present plans thus we kill hill both birds with ono one stone not only will you bull ward valley but you will at the same time gather ward valley in this will be of ines amable advantage to us whit you and all of us will profit by it as aa well and as mr letton has haa pointed out 04 the thing Is legitimate and square tire on the eighteenth the directors meet and instead of the customary dividend a double dividend will bo be declared clarell there will be all sorts of rumors on the street dowsett warned daylight but do not let them frighten you these rumors may even originate with us you can see how bow and why clearly but rumors aro are to bo be 4 J 0 1 1 C 7 0 4 it must say mr harnish that you whipped Us U roundly in that affair no concern of yours you are on the inside all you have to do Is buy buy buy and keep on buying to the tha last stroke when tho the directors declare the double d dividend ward valley will jump so eo that it alt be feasible to buy after that and one other thing mr hr harnish said if you exceed your available cash or the amount you care to invest in tho venture dont fall immediately to call on us no remember we are behind you I 1 yes ves we aro are behind you dowsett repeated nathaniel letton nodded hla his head in affirmation aff rma tion CHAPTER VIII back bach at hla his hotel though nearly two in tho the morning nR he be found the reporters waiting to interview him next morning there were more and thus with blaze blare of paper trum trumpet pot was he be received by new york tork once awe altu bealing beall ng f tom toms toma and wild his picturesque figure strode acoss across the printed sheet the king ot tt tl l klondike the hero of the arctic the thirty dililon collar millionaire of the north hid had como come to new york what had ho he como come for to trim the now new yorkers ns as ho he had trimmed the tonopah crowd in nevada they were cre prepared for him to play and when heavy buying of ward val leg began it was quickly derided decided that ho was the operator financial gossip buzzed and hummed bummed lie ile was waa after tho the once more tho the story of ophar was tod over again agaid and sensationalized until even daylight scarcely arcely Bc recognized it still I 1 it t i was all grist to his mill the stock gamblers were clearly befooled befouled be fooled each lay ilay he increased his buying and so eager agor were tho the sellers that ward valley rose but slowly A wildly ex citing time was his during the week preceding thursday the eighteenth j not only was ho he gambling as lie bo had never mover gambled before but ho he was gambling at the bogost table in tho the world for stakes so largo large that even the case hardened of that table were compelled to sit bit up in spite ot of tho the unlimited selling belling lila his persistent buying compelled ward valley steadily to rise and as thursday approached pro ached the situation became acute something had to smash how much ward valloy valley was this klondike gambler going to buy how much could lie he buy what was tho the ward valley crowd doing nil all this time daylight appreciated interviews Inter flows with them that appeared interviews delightfully placid and noncommittal non committal leon gug dug even hazarded the opinion that this northland croesus might possibly be ba making a mistake ml staka but not that they cared john dowsett explained pla ined it Is purely gambling gambll nR from beginning to orid end were Nath nathaniel anIcI lett let t tons words and wo we refuse to havo have anything to do with it or to take notice ot of it in any way during this time daylight had several secret meetings with his partners part nera one with loon leon ono one wit with OV john dowsett and two with mr bowlson Ho Ilo beyond congratulations they really amounted to nothing for or ad aa ho he was informed everything was going satisfactorily nut but on tuesday morning a rumor that was disconcerting came to daylights ears it was also published in the wall street journal and it was to the effect on apparently straight inside information that on thursday when tho the direct directors orp of ward ss dividend beloff declared on would be levied it ana he jerst check daylight bad received att camo to him with a shock that if the thing BO he wag a broken man and it also came to him that all this colossal operating of lis hla was being done dona on his own money dowsett gug dug gunhammer gen hammer and lotton letton were risking nothing it was waa a pwe short lived it was true but sharp enough while it lasted to make him remember holds worthy and the brickyard brick yard and to impel hm to cancel all buying orders while he rushed to a telephone nothing in it only a rumor came leon 0 throaty voice in tho the receiver As aa you know said nathaniel lotton letton 1 I am one of tho the directors and I 1 should certainly bo be aware of it were such action contemplated temp tem plated laed and john dowsett 1 I 1 warned you yen against just such rumors there to Is not an lota iota of truth in it certainly not I 1 tell you on my honor boner as a gentleman heartily ashamed of himself for hla his temporary loss of nerve daylight re turned to hla his task the cessation of buying had turned tho the stock exchange into a bedlam and down all the line of stocks the bears were smashing ward valley as aa the apex received tho the brunt of tho the shock and was already beginning to tumble daylight calmly doubled his buying orders and all through tuesday wednesday and thursday morning he went on buying while ward valley roso rose triumphantly higher still they sold bold and still lie ho bought exceeding his power to buy many times over when deil delivery verv was taken luto into account what of that on this day the double dividend would bo be declared he assured himself the pinch of delivery would be on the shorts they would bo be making terms with him and then the thunderbolt struck to the rumor ward valley levied the assessment daylight threw up hla his arms lie he verified verl fled the report and quit not alone ward valley but all securities were being hammered down by tho the triumphant bears As for ward valley daylight did not even trouble to learn it if it had bad etched bottom or was still tumbling not stunned not oven bewildered while wall street went mad daylight withdrew from tile tho field to think it over after a short conference with hla his brokers ho be proceeded to his hotel on the way picking up the evening papers and glancing at the headlines head lines BURNING DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT he ha read DAYLIGHT GETS III HIS ANOTHER WESTERNER F FAILS AILS TO FIND EASY MONEY ho he passed up to hla his rooms ordered a |