Show ACK N D 0 N drw or of rw cu CAZZ 0 er C A copyright 1910 bt b the now york herald Clomp company anT 1916 1910 by the macmillan company SYNOPSIS marn harnish Harn lah known all through alana aa arnine daylight celebrates celeb tes hla his oth ah birthday birt with a crowd c row d ot of miners nt at ho circle city tivai the domce leads 0 heavy gambling in which over F 3 staked 11 arnish loses his money and its a mine b but ut wins the mall contract lie he gitarts on his matt mail trip with dogs and ledge telling his friends that he will be p the alfr yukon gold strike at the start turning byumon daylight makes a sensationally sensation alir fauld run across country with the mat i pe L rn at tn tho tivoli and ana Is now ready read to to 1 loin his friends friends in a dash to tho the new fold 0 id fields deciding that gold will be ba lo 10 found u nd in the upriver up river district ii arnish buys u ys two tons of 0 lour flour which he declares tv ill be worth its weight in gold but when he arrives with his fital fl lour au r he fanda a ride i the big flat desolate A comrade dincov ors na n a kold gold and daylight reaps EL a rich harvest hardest lie he poes foes to dawson becomes become the most prominent figure in the klondike klondike nd d defeats a combination of capitalists tn in B n vas vast t mining deal lie he return a to civilization and amid the bewildering of 0 high aleli finance fl nance cayll via t ands that lie he has been led to invest his eleven millions in it A manipulated scheme ac lieme tie ile poes to new york and confronting his disloyal partners with a revolver volver ro he be threatens to kill them it his money Is not returned they are cowed return their lings and ROCS goes back to san Fran francisco cimeo where he meets his fate n dede deda mason a pretty stenographer ho males larre large investments and gets into the political ring for a rest he goes to the mantry ou daylight gets deeper into high san ban francisco but 0 often the longing tor for the simple life n nearly ex t aly over omps him dede dado mason allison buys a horse borse and daylight meets her in her saddle trips one ne day he asks dede to to go with him D an one more ride hla his purpose being to ask her to marry him and they canter anway w she trying to analyze her feelings ee lings dede D ay ae tells daylight that her happiness lappine bap pIne rould not lie lie with a money manipulator daylight undertakes to build up a brent eat industrial community ile he Is I 1 insistent V tent that she matty marry him and yet hopes to win her daylight tails falls back into his old drinking ways there Is a nurry lurry tn in the money market CHAPTER continued dede it if I 1 tell you flat and straight that im going up to live on that ranch at glen ellen that I 1 aint taking a cent with me that im going to scratch for fo every bite I 1 eat and that I 1 aint going to play ary a card at the business game again will you come along with me she gave a glad little cry and he nestled her in closely but the next moment bad boeselt out from rom him to the om old position at arms length how la Is this possible how can you leave your bul business ness ilas haa anything happened no nothings happened yet but its going to blame quick ive taken your preaching to heart and ive come to the penitent form ive taken my last drink youre marrying a whisky soak but your husband wont be that lies hes going to grow into another man so BO quick you wont know him A couple of months from now up the thore we in glen ellen wake up some morning and find youve got a perfect stranger in the house with you and have to get introduced to him all allover over again say im mrs harnish liar I 1 h 1 who ho aro are you and ill say ra im elam younger brothers brother ive just arrived from alaska to attend the funeral what funeral say and ill say why the funeral of that good for nothing gambling whisky drinking burning day light the man that died of fatty degeneration of the heart from sitting bitting in night and day at the business game yes yea roadam ni ill say hes sure a gone coon but ive come to take hla his place and make you happy and now maam if allow roe me ill lust just meander down to the pasture and milk milic the cow while youre getting breakfast but you avent li answered my questions she reproached him as she emerged rosy and radiant from the embrace that hat bad accompanied the cu culmination Imi nation of his narrative now just what do you want to know he asked 1 I want to know how all this la Is possible ilow how you are able to leave 4 U it dear elam she WhIsp whispered irid dear elam your business at a time like this what 1 you ou meant by saying that something was going to happen quickly lots util go and get married he urged all the whimsicality it t hla hia utterance duplicated in his ayls ave been working like forty horses ever since bince this blamed panic set in and all the time some of those ideas given MO me were getting ready to sprout L well they sprouted this morning all I 1 knew I 1 wanted to ride in the hills with you just about thirty million times more than I 1 wanted 0 o go to the office and I 1 knew all the time it was impossible and why because of the office the office let MO me and then I 1 made up my mind that I 1 was to the dividing ot of the ways one way led to the office the other way led to berkeley and I 1 took the berkeley road im never going to set foot in tho the office again thach all gone finished over and done with and I 1 im letting it slide clean to smash and then illen some im wiping the slate clean im letting it all go smash when them thirty million dollars stood up to my face and said I 1 go out with you in tho the bills today I 1 knew the time had come for me to put my foot down and im putting it down ive got you and my strength to work for you and that little ranch in sonoma all I 1 want and all im going to save out along with ith dob bob and wolf a suit case and a hundred and forty hair bair bridles alt all the rest goes and good riddance itle it that much lunk junk I 1 A knock at the door interrupted him and he was left to stare delightedly at the crouched venus and on around the room atsedes at Dedes dainty ps possessions while sho she answered the telephone it is mr blegan she said on returning ile he Is holding hol dirig the line lie ile says it la Is important daylight shook his head and smiled please tell mr air hegan to hang up im done with the office and I 1 dont want to hear bear anything about anything A minute later she was waa back again ile he refuses to hang bang up ile he told me to tell you that unwin la Is in the ofelea now waiting to aeo ee you tou anil 9 11 II arrison too mr hegan said that grimshaw and hodgkins are in tr trouble duble that it looks as if they are going to break and he said something about protection it was startling information both unwin and II arrison represented big banking banki fig corporations and daylight knew that it if the house of grimshaw and hodgkins went it would precipitate a number of failures and start stait a hurry flurry of serious dimensions but daylight smiled and shook his bis head bead ila ho caught her by the tho hand band and drow drew her to him you yon let blegan hang on to that line till hes bes tired we cant bo be wasting a second on him on a day like this but I 1 know something of the light fight you have been making dede con tendel tende L it if you stop now all the tha work you have done everything will be destroyed st you have no right to do it you cant do it daylight was obdurate ile he shook his bis head bead and smiled tantalizingly nothing will be destroyed destro dede nothing you dont understand this business game its dons done on paper all I 1 stand for to la paper ive got the paper for thousands of acres of land all right burn up the paper and burn me along with it the land remains dont it nothing Is going to be lost not one pile out of the docks not one railroad spike not one ounce of steam butof out of the gauge of a terry boat the cars will go on running whether I 1 hoad the paper or somebody else holds it by this time had arrived in an automobile the honk of it came in through the open window and they saw it stop alongside the big red machins machine in the car were and harrison while ahil c jones jonea sat with the chauffeur ill see hegan daylight told dede theres no need tor for tho the rest they hoy can wait in the machine Is he drunk hegan whispered to dede at the door sho she shook her bead and showed him in good G cod morning larry was daylights greeting sit down and rest your feet you sure seem to be in a rutter flutter 1 I am the little irishman mapped back grimshaw Grims baw and hodgkins ate are going cling 9 to smash it if something done dona quick why you come to abo office what are you going to do about tt it nothing daylight drawled lazily except let them smash I 1 guess ive had bad no dealings with Grima grimshaw haw and hodgkins I 1 dont owe them anything besides im going to smash myself look here larry you know me you know when I 1 make up my mind I 1 mean it it well ive sure made up my mind im tired of the whole game I 1 im letting go of it as aa last fast as I 1 van can and a smash Is the quickest way 0 fo o let go all youve got to do la Is to protect yourself and all our friends now you listen to me while I 1 tell you what to do everything Is in good shape to do it nobody roust must get hurt hum everybody that stood by me roust must como come through without damage all choback th XI use a different tone of voice or be heading for a hospital wagi waga an auda 7 acarl frei es HN t be pron to all then tho money ioney ive switched aw away Y from tho the water company tho the street cars and tho the ferries must be switched back and you wont get hurt yourself none every company you got stock in will come through what have you dono done to him hegan snarled at dods dede hold on there larry for the first time daylights voice was sharp while all the old lines of cruelty in his bis face ace stood forth aleso mason la Is going to lie be my wife and while I 1 dont mind your talking to her all you want youve got to uso use a different tono tone of voice or be ba heading beading tor for a hospital which will sure euro bo be an unexpected sort of smash and lot let me tell you on one eother other thing this all ts Is my doing she says im crazy too dede deda stepped forward where she confronted the two meu men wait sho abc said bald 1 I want to say something elam it if you do this ingano thing I 1 wont marry you I 1 refuse to marry you blegan in spite of his misery gave her a quick grateful look ill take my chance on an that daylight said and now larry better be going ill be at the hotel in a little while and since im not going to step into the tha office again bring all papers to sign and the ohp rest over to my iny rooms and you can get me on the phone there any time this smash Is going through I 1 im im quit and done ile ho turned to dede as soon as ile gan was gane and took her by the hand and now little woman you come to the office any more consider yourself discharged id cry it I 1 thought it would do any good she threatened in which case I 1 reckon id have to hold bold you in my arms anna some more and sort of soothe you down lie he threatened back As aa he stood at the top of the steps leaving she said you send those men there w will ill be no packing 1 because I 1 am not going to marry you im not a bit scared ho he answered and went down the steps CHAPTER three days later daylight rodo rode to berkeley in his bis red car it was for the last time for on the morrow the big machine passed into an others possession it had been a strenuous three days tor for ill ahli smash had bee been a the biggest the panic had precipitated in cia 0 the papers bad been filled with it and a great cry of indignation had gone up from the very ver men who later found that daylight had bad fully protected their interest it was waa these facts coming slowly to light that hat gave gava rise to the widely repeated charge that daylight had gone insane it was the unanimous conviction among business men that no sano sane man could poss luly behave in w mu fashion on oil the other band notier nel iber his prolonged steady drinking dahis n bis affair with dedo deda became public babii so BO TEB me anty Z 0 nn re hiis that the wild financier front from alaska had bad gone lunatic and daylight had bad grinned and confirmed tho the suspicion by refusing to sea geo tho the reporter lie ho halted baited tho automobile before dedes dedas door and met her with hla his samo same rush ins ing tactics enclosing her in his bis arms before a word could be uttered ive done it he announced youve seen the newspapers of course im plumb cleaned out and ive just called around to find out what day you feel like ilka starting for olen glen ellen have to bo be for its real expensive living in oakland these days my board at the hotel la Js only paid to the end pt of the beok and I 1 cant afford to stay ou on after that and beginning with tomorrow ive got to uso use the tha street cars and they sure eat cat up tho nickels nic kelo Z I 1 10 lo ito paused and waited and looked at her indecision and trouble showed on her face then the tha smile ho he know knew so eo well began to grow on her lips and in her eyes until she throw back her head and laughed in the old forthright boyish way when are those men coming to pack for me she asked and again she laughed and almu a vain attempt to escape hla his bear like arros arms dear elam she whispered den deal elam and of herself for the first time she kissed him now ive got an idea daylight said were running away from cit fes and you have no kith nor kin so it dont seem exactly right that we should start off by getting married d in a city so heres the idea ill run up to the ranch and get things in shape around the house and give the caretaker hla his papera you follow we me in a couple of days coming on the morning train ill have the pr preacher eachor fixed and waiting and heres another idea you bring your riding togs in a ault case and as soon as the cere monys over you cak can go to tho the hotel and change then out you come and you find me waiting with a couple of horses and well ride over the landscape so as you can see ct e the prettiest parts of the ranch the first thing and abas sure pretty that ranch and now that its 16 settled ill be waiting for you at the morning train day after tomorrow dede blushed as aa she spoke youage you are such a burrI hurricane cane well maum maam he drawled 1 I suil suii hite hate to burn daylight and you ind have burned a heap of weve been scandalously extravagant we might have been married years ago TO HG CO COSTIN UnD D |