Show DA aa ti t i jd j d ONDON call of th the e I 1 V ad fang 91 10 X arts aalt eden 10 etc lira tuBS by nar dearborn aura kampp 1 by the new yeok herald cv lw u by the company SYNOPSIS briwn all through alas u daylight celebrates his U 11 ing with a rod of 0 miner miners at arm the dance leads tivoli lw ty t r in which over t ling ga m and his money J 11 arnish loses mail contract 11 ins the tat and with dogs trip his friends that he will be telling 11 gold at the start n makes a I 1 sensationally country wit h the malt at across tivoli and ts now ready the at in a das dasa A to the no W ostos friends n his deciding that bold will be dolds li arnish dietr t in the upriver nour aich he declares df afe two ton but worth its wel V in gold lis ands be ai ar arrve yes A comrade comrade ha ducov reaps a rich hare d and danson becomes the mn 1 S ure in the P at ca inavon of capitalists fe tut nu ain eal ile return returns to taloo CHAPTER VII blaze of elory glory did burning S descend upon san francisco call had he been forgotten but klondike along with him 1 the d was interested loter eted in other things the a aliskan adventure like tho the ish ar was an old story he lie in st francis hotel was by the cub reporters on otel nin run and rece received led brief para hl of notice for twenty four arki in san fran laring daring which time be he studied ine line and nd it ito rules and prepared if to take u hand band let of 0 being 1 merely an looker rn ia a up to nevada wb albre ro the new lining mining boom was filfly started t to try a flutter aa he phrased lilai blin elf self the nutter flutter on the to h stock exchange lasted just juil ten during which time his smash wil dball iame game played ducke ducks and to i with the more stereotyped alers er ind and at the end ot of which e haying gambled floridel into lit t tie he let go tor for a net profit of billion whereupon smacking ulm s ha departed for san fraund ran and the st francis hot hotel it ed rood good and hie his hunger fo for the I 1 became more acute me more the papers senea sensa led hira BURNING DAYLIGHT A bi b letter gletter headline be adlino again in lewers er flocked about him blin old of t magazines and newis newspapers papers I 1 erched through and the ro ito od historic clam fl arnish barer aurer of rit the froat frost king of the adibe ke and father of the sour gour strode upon the tho breakfast ta million filion homes along with the A iad and breakfast foods even be Us elected time he wae wait forcibly caad ed into the game garne financiers Finan clora I 1 promoters and all the flotsam ard Z of the sea of speculation vol upon the shores of his eleven IOU in self defence be was com ea to open offices he tie dabbled in e tog at first stalling for as he be explained it to holds by I 1 friend he be had bad made at the I 1 C club lub daylight himself I 1 denber of the club and holds y had proposed him and it was 11 that itt daylight played closely at 4 for or be he was as astounded by the of sharks 1 ground round sharks coiled led them that flocked about har saw through lay their schemes enough oetigh and even marveled touch cb euln lars of them deao nf could find it prey to keep them was that t he resolved 1 to leave e men the 31 nd d ys 10 while he met them in good P he Chu chummed mined with farm none ed d ZIO deep d alke the little friendships he ile men the A ta men acetic for instance oil aid did he lie not elect to choose par them wa era in the lAtt ded ed to big game in which 1 was 4 ven even play what thia this big he 3 did not know he lie g t to 0 find it it and atit b he in the tz played small hands in everal several arid lands acta and keeping athe ts big bis his eyes chance when tome along it SD he ta nie john olin D dowsett Dowe dowsett the sett ett it wae wall the magnate first e D daylight a alight t d h had met face to t re w e waa s pilled pill 1 ed and charmed it uch a kindly humanness u in an such a enfil demo tap it T fund reis that found lt it hard eu deot big was the john dow 0 of f ll 11 armet c string of 0 bank banks man eulator Pu lator h ate 8 ot of reputed ally T of 0 at ly standard ard oil and of or ats the td 14 an n 12 looks 0 bel b 10 his hl reputation td luf ph be lu all that 1 l n cayll daylight abt know of nim him despite his sixty yeara years and enow snow white hearty hair tits his band handshake shako was firmly it was as not long afterward that day light came on to new york A letter from john dowsett had been tue tile cause a simple little typewritten letter of several lines out but daylight bad had thrilled as he read it the T tie bald sentences seemed gorged with ays mys tery our mr howleton Ilo will call u upon P you at your hotel lie ile Is to tie be 1 trusted we must not be seen together you will understand after we have had our talk daylight conned tho the words over oter and over ahat was it the big game had arrived and it looked as if he were being invited to sit in and take a band hand surely for no other reason would one man so bority invite another man to make inake a journey across the continent they met thanks to our mr 1 1 r bowlson up the hudson in a mag rang ent country home daylight ac cording carding to instructions arrived in a I 1 private motor car which had bad been fur him dowsett was already there and another man whom day light recognized beffre the introduce Intro duc tion was begun it was nathaniel let ton and none other daylight had seen his face a score of times in the mag abines and newspapers and read about his standing in tle he financial world orld and about his university of j baratona Dara tona lie ile likewise struck day light as a map of power though he be was puzzled in that be he could find no likeness to dowsett do except in the matter of cleanness a cleanness that seemed to go down to tho deepest fibers of him nathaniel letton was unlike the other in every particular thin to emaciation be he seemed a cold flame of a man not more than fifty thatched with ith a sparse growth of iron gray hair be he looked several times the age ot dawsett Dav sett they drank that Is nathaniel letton took mineral water served 1 0 Q ol 01 N p C off e whipped Us roundly in that abfal r 11 you 1 I must say mr harnish that by the smoothly operating ma chine china or of a lackey who inhabited the while dowsett took scotch and eoda soda and daylight a cocktail leon arrived in the midst of the drink and ordered scotch day light studied him curiously thia this was one of the great tarn am but nevertheless nev erthelee lly fly a L younger oue otte one of the crowd with which be he bad had locked grapples in the north nor fal to men did leon tion cognizance of that old auiler he lie complimented daylight on hie his prow ess the echoes of ophir came down to us you know and I 1 must eay may mr er mr harnish that you whipped ua us roundly in that affair leon waa was youn and tat not a day more than thirty his hi face save tor for the adumbrated adum bated puff was is smooth oth k acks under otte ayea the talk and lineless za a I boys oon soon c centered down to business busto ees dow tt broach broached td the plan aided by a all remark from the other two awhile alle daylight asked qu nations whatever the wa be he waa was go ing into it with bis hi yen open and they hie his ay y with the practical vision of fht ha he had bild in mind they will owr vrr dream dreamt you are with ua Us interjected ae as the outlining of the matter drew to a 4 close bis his handsome jewish eyes flashing enthusiastically think you are raiding on your own in proper buccaneer style of course you understand mr str liar blah the absolute need for keeping our alliance in the dark nathaniel letton warned gravely daylight nodded bis his bead head and you also understated letton went on that the result cain only be e productive of good the thing Is legitimate oad and right and the only ones icho i ho may be hurt are the stock gara gam biers themselves it Is lot an attempt to smash the market As you see your seir you ar are to bull tie market the honest investor III be the gainer yea yes the very thing dow sett said the commercial tom mercial need for copper la Is continually increasing ward valley copper and all that it lands for tor practically one quarter of th the 10 world worlds a supply as I 1 have shown you Is a big thing how big even avert wo ne can scarcely estimate our arrangements are made mada W wo ae plenty of capital ourselves and yet we wint more also there Is too much ward valley out to suit butt our present plans thua thus we kill both birds with oni on stone not only will you bull ward valley but you will at the same time gather ward valley in this will be of ines advantage to us while hile you and all of us will by it as an well and ns as mr letton has pointed out the thing Is legitimate legIt imato and fauaro on tho eighteenth the directors meet and instead of the customary divi bend a double dividend will be declared there will be all sorts of rumors on the street dowsett warned day light but do not let lot them frighten ou theoe rumors may even oven origin ate ith ua you can see hov how and why clearly but flut rumors aro are to be n no 0 concern of yours Y you ou are on an the inside all you bare have to do ie Is buy buy buy and keep on an buying to the last stroke when the directors declare the double dividend ward valley will jump so that it wont be feasible to buy after that and one other thing mr mir fl Harn arnIsh leh mer said if it you exceed your available cash or the amount you care to invest in the venture venture dont fall immediately to call on us remember we are behind you yes we are behind you dowsett dowsed repta repeated ted Nat nathaniel hurdel letton nodded his head in affirmation CHAPTER VIII vill back at bis his hotel it though bough nearly two in tn the morning he found the reporter reporters wikliff to interview him a nell morn mom ft 3 thoro vare re more and thus with blare ot of paper tru wat A he received by new now york mora with beating of tom acma itzie nd wild balla balloo badloo his picturesque qu figure it strode rods across the printed bec the king kin of the klondike the haru of tb the A arcue the ol 01 the north had come to new york what had he come for to trim the now ne as he had hail trimmed the th I 1 tonopah crowd in nevada they were ere prepared for him to play and when heavy buying of ward val leg began tt it wis quickly decided that he be was aa the operator financial gossip buzzed and hummed lie was nas after the once more the etory story of ophir was told over again and sensationalized until evon day light scarcely recognized it still it wag was all gilst to his mill the etota gamblers bere iere clearly befooled bofo paca day he increased his buying and 4 f eager were the seller sellers that waru ward valley roe ro e but slowly A wildly ex citing time was his during the week preceding Thu thursday the eighteenth not only was nas he gambling as a he bad had never neer g gambled before but he was gambling at tho biggest table in the world for stakes so large that even the case hardened of that ta ble were compelled to sit bit up in spite of the unlimited sel linx his persist ent buying compiled comp bled ward vard valley steadily to raso and as an thursday ap preached the situation became acute Somi something thing had to smash how flow much ward valley was this klondike gara gam bier bler going to buy how much could he buy what was vms tho the ward valley crowd doing all this time daylight appreciated interviews with theiu that appeared later interviews views delightfully placid and committal noncommittal non leon l eon dug hammer gen even hazarded the opla opinion loll that this northland C croesus roes u a might pos sibly bo be making a mistake out but oot not that they cared john dowsett ex planned it Is purely gambling from beginning to end acro era nathaniel lot let tons words nords and ve ae refuse to have anything to do with tt it or to take notice of it binany way during this time daylight had say oral eral secret meetings with his partners partner one with leon on one with john dowsett and two with ith mr Ilo howleton beyond congratulations they really amounted to nothing for as be he was informed everything was going satisfactorily hut on tuesday morn ing a rumor that was disconcert disconcerting luR came to daylights eara ears it was also published in tho the wall wal street journal and it was to the effect on apparently straight inside information that on thursday when tho the directors of ward valley met instead of tho the custo customary marl dividend being declared an assessment would be levied it was the first heck daylight had received it came to him with ith a shock that if it the thing were so to be he was a broken man and it aico also caroo came to him that all this colossal operating of his was being done on his fits own money dowsett Dowe ett gug gunhammer gen bammer hammer and letton were risking nothing it was a panic short lived it was wits true but sharp enough while it lasted to make him film remember holds worthy and tho the brickyard and to im pel him to cancel cincel all buying ordera orders while ho he rushed to a telephone nothing in it only a rumor cime leon throaty throat Y voice in the receiver As you know said eald nathaniel lotton 1 I am one of the directors and I 1 should certainly be aware of it were such action con templates tem plated and john dowsett 1 I warned yon against just such rumors there Is not an lota iota of truth in it certainly not I 1 tell jou on my honor as a gentleman heartily ashamed of ot himself for bis his temporary loss of nerve nome daylight returned to his task the cessation of buying hat turned tho the stock exchange into a bedlam and down fill all the line of stocks the bears beio we smashing ward valley as the apex received the brunt of the shock and was already beginning to tumble daylight calmly doubled bis his buying orders and ull through tuesday wed and thursday morning he went on buying while ward valley rose triumphantly higher still they sold and still be bought exceeding his power to buy many times over when delivery was taken into account what of that on this day the double dividend would bo be declared he tu au himself the pinch of delivery would be on the abort shorts they would be making terms with him and then afie thunderbolt etric tue tae T ue to the rumor ward valley levied the assessment throw up bis his arms he lie verified verl fled tho the report and quit quil not alone ward valley but all securities were ere being hammered down by the triumphant bears As for or ward valley daylight did not even trouble to learn if it bad had fetched bottom or was still tumbling not stunned not even bewildered while wall street went mad daylight withdrew from the field to think it over after a short conference with his brokers be he proceeded to his hotel on the way picking up the evening papers ani an glancing at the head headlines linen bunning DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT be he read DAYLIGHT GETS HIS ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND EASY MONEY he ile passed up to his rooms ordered a martial cocktail took off his aa choe and at sat don down to think after half an hour be he roused himself to take the drink and as bo he felt the liquor pass warningly glY through hie him body hie his features relaxed into a it blow slow dellb dellbert dell brt emte yet genuine grill diaco Du aco by godal be h mutt wed fan 22 |