Show DAYLIGHT on sy JACK LONDON author ithe tj 11 betm filen 11 etc b by T bearb dearburn irn Al melvill elvill garfs r A Copy copyright rit t 1910 by the hew new Y york rk I 1 a tera d r co ra a 15 loio by it compary Com pamy synott SYN OPt elam fl harnish arnish known all through alas 1 km a l hurning daylight celebrates hie tits both fa aa birthday w with a crowd of miners at the carf cirle ae city tivoli the dance leaah leads ds to heavy gat gambling n b n g in which over W Is staked harnish 1 1 r n 1 loses ma bla money and his mine bui but wine the mall mail contract lie gitarts jl r n hla 1113 mail ma trip with doka docs and sledge it tiling il it friends that he will b be in the big I 1 uk n gold strike at the start tart burning daylight ikea a sensationally sensational rapid run country with the ma mall 1 ir appear appears at the and is now ready 1 10 0 adin hie his arl in a dash to the new i gold y 0 I 1 fields L aiding that gold v III be found round in it the up u river district duff buy two tone tons 0 of lour flour which he declare wl will I 1 I 1 be worth it wi wel belal it t in gold but hut when he lie arrives with aith 9 ahli it lour flour he hilda finda the big flit des desolate tf A comrade dincov era eris gold gol and daylight reaps a rl h har vest it goes to daw daacon son becomes the most prominent figure in the klondike anil and defeats a combination of 0 capitalists in a an amt mining deal he lie retura to civilization and amid the bewildering bewilder inq of hish high finance daylight fin finite finis Is that he has been let to invest daylert nl Is eleven millions in a manipulated theme lie he goer to new sew york vork and confront fur his its di cloval part nerr with a re rev oher he ahr threatens abens atens to kill them if it aiho i money 1 in not returned chev are codd return their teaH lings and harilah goes back to san francisco where he meets his fate in dede mason maron a pretty stenographer he lie makes 1 large investments and gets into the political ring aln for a reel rest he be goes to the country daylight gets deeper lito into high finance in san francisco Franc leco but oten olten the longing tor the ho simple life nearly comes him dede afa on buys a horse and find Tay daylight light meets her tier in her saddle tr trips one day he asks dede to go pro with h him IM 3 on one more ride his purpose belew 1 to aak P sk her to marry him and they canter away she trying to analyse her feeling feelings dede tells daylight that her haill happiness coul not lie with a money mone manipulator daylight undertakes to build up a preat great industrial community CHAPTER continued she led the any through the door opening out of the hall to the right and once inside he stood awl ardly rooted to the floor gazing about him and at her and all the time trying not to gaze in his perturbation bo be failed to hear bear and see her invitation to a beat wont you alt sit down seq repeated look here be said in a volca 1 that shook with pas passion slon theres one thing I 1 won wont t do and propose to you tn in the office why im here dede mason I 1 want you I 1 just want you so precipitate was he bat that she had bad barely ume to cry out her tary alarm and to step back at tho the same time catching one of bla his handa hands ax he attempted to gather her into bis his arms oh I 1 know im a sure enough fool too be he eald said 1 I 1 I guese guess III sit bit down dont be nilas 1 mason I 1 in not real dangerous dango rouB 1 im not afraid ehe she answered anew ered with a emile smile slipping down herself into a chair its funny tunny daylight sighed almost with regret here I 1 am strong enough to bend you around and it tie to knots in you here I 1 am used to bal ing my will with man beast or any thing and here I 1 am sitting in to this chair as weak and helpless as a little lamb you sure take the starch out of me 1 I I 1 wish you t asked astle tie eald said softly debbe its best yo you u should know a few things before you give me an 0 an n he went on ignoring the fact ct that tho the answer had bad already been given 1 I 1 never went after a women I 1 afore in to mv life all report reports to the b r 11 I 1 r 11 all 71 4 0 I 1 rt his HI aru are wn want W n about her or and nd helo held her closely aal abot aoth standing the tb stuff the pape papers a and n ou rou read road about me MO in ID Is books woks about me wo being be a lady killer ot 0 ot an iota ot ur at theres tong ng ae done M ore in it I 1 abess than my share of card playing play in and ing but ive 1 let alone there aa waa a noman that h ed herself but ba I 1 know she w anard me roethaw that bad or else rd id have married her not for lave love but to keap from P her bet killing herself she as the best of he the bollins but I 1 never gave her any encouragement I 1 lm in telling you an all tl it i Is because you ye read about it and I 1 want ant you to get it bt aleba tom rue me 1 I 1 cant can t marry you the said sald 1 I like you a great deal but he fie waited a moment for her to com tho sentence falling failing which he went nent on himself 1 I 1 lia livent ent an exaggerated opinion of u so I 1 know kno I 1 aint bragging 1 hen I 1 say zay III make a pretty good b husband you could follow your own sweet will and nothing would be loo od for you oki id give you your heart desired except yourself she interrupted suddenly almost sharply dont you see ehe she hurried on 1 1 I could auve far for easier married the elam flarnt harnish sh fresh from klondike when I 1 first laid eyes eye ou on him long ago than marry you sitting before me now me ile shook his head slowly one too many for me the more ou know and like a man the less you want to marry him camill arity breeds contempt 1 I guess that a ak hat you xou mean no no she he cried but lefore nhe he could continue a knock came on the door his ills eyes quick with ft ath observation like an indians darted about the room while ehe she was out the imbres slon ston of warmth nad comfort and beau ty predominated though he was unable to analyze it while the simplicity delighted him expensive sImplIc 1 ty be he decided and moal mogi t of it left overa overs from the time her father went broke and died she re entered reentered the room and as she crossed it 0 her chair he admired the way ebe she walked while the bronze slippers were maddening 1 I d liko like to ask you several ques eions be began immediately are you thinking of marrying somebody else there anybody clee else I 1 don t know anybody I 1 like well enough to marry for ait matter I 1 dont think I 1 am a marry ng woman office work seems to spoil ie for that it strikes me that youre the moat most marry ingest woman oman that ever made a roan man sit up and take notice and now another question you eee see ive just got to locate the lay jay atthe land Is there anybody you like ad aa much as you like me met but dede had herself well in band hand unfair she said and if it you stop and consider you wll will find that ou are doing the very thing you disclaimed namely nagging I 1 refuse to answer any more of your question questions let us talk about other things how flow Is bob half an hour later lator whirling along through the rain on telegraph ave nue toward Oa oakland klanO daylight smoked one of bis his brown paper cigarettes and revl reviewed eved what bad had taken place it was wits not at all bad was bis his humming summing up though there was much about it that was baffling once again on a rainy sunday weeks afterward daylight proposed to dede As on an the first time be he restrained himself until bis his hunger for her overwhelmed him and swept him away in ht his red automobile to berke ley fe he fie left the machine everal several blocks alpy and proceeded eded td the bouse house on fool foot but dede wa was 2 out the tile daughter told him and added on second thought that ehe she was as walking in the bills further more the young lady directed him bini where dedee dedes walk was most likely to extend daylight obeyed tho the girls birj and soon the street he followed passed the last bouse house aud itself ceased where here began the first steep lopea slopes of the open bills the air was damp with the on oncoming coming of rain for or be he storm had bad not yet burat burst hough though the rising wind ind proclaimed its imminence As far aa as he be could eee see here there was no do eign sign of dede dedo on the smooth grassy bills hills to the right dipping down into a hollow hallow and rising again was a large full grown eucalyptus grove here all was noise and movement the lofty slender trucked trees swaying back anil and forth in the wind and clashing their branches to i gethel in the squalls above all the minor noises of creaking and groaning arose rose a deep thrumming note as a i of ft a mighty harp knowlta Knowl tia dede a as i he did daylight was confident that be would find her somewhere in this i grove where the storm effects were eo so ite ito it o the aade manie 0 od d thing he ha aid said 1 I want yuu you and ive ivo come cr you youre youve just got to have me dede for the more I 1 thinie about it the more certain I 1 am that you ve got a ing liking for me ins something more than just ordinary king liking and you dont dast say that it BOW now dast YOU please she be begged we cen never marry eo so dont let lot ua us discuss it daylight decided that action wae was more effi efficient clent than that speech bo so ne to stepped between ber her and the wind and drew w her eo to tout t arf stood cloe close la in the belter shelter of him in tiff stiff squall bjelf ole abbit then them and d thrummed thrum md ov ernea it I 1 the treetop tree top JOP 4 V I 1 IA 3 aa 10 dedo dede mason I 1 want you I 1 juit just want you and both paused to listen A bower shower of flying leaves enveloped and bard hard on an the beel beet of the ind came cams driving drop drops of rain he ile looked down on her and on an her hair wind windblown blown about her face tote and because ot her bar closeness to him and ct a fresher and more poignant realization of what she meant to him he be trembled so that she was aware of it in the hand that held hers bers she suddenly leaned against him bowing her tier head until it rested lightly upon his breast prid nd so they stood while another squall with flying leaves and scat scattered drops of rain TRIO rattled past with equal suddenness nual she lifted her bead head a and n looked at him do you know she he eald said 1 I prayed last night about you I 1 prayed that you would fall that you would lose everything eve everything th ing daylight stared hii amazement at this cryptic utterance that suri beats me I 1 always aid said I 1 got out of my depth v ith women and youve got me out of my iny depth now well youve just got to ex oz plain that all lie ills arma arms went around her and held bold her bar closely clo eely and this time tima she be did cot not her tier head was bowed and he could not etc her face yet bo he had a premonition that ehe she was wa crying II 11 had learned the virtue of hence silence and he waited her will in the matter things bad had come to such a paa pans that ebe be waa wait bound to teil tell him tiow of that be he waa was confident 1 I would dearly like to marry vou abo faltered but I 1 am afraid 1 I am proud and bumble humble at the game same time that a man like you should care for me ma but you rou have too much money therea there where my mv abominable corn com mon sense steps la to even if it we a did marry you could never be my man my ivy lover and my husband you would be b your money moneys man mari I 1 know I 1 am a forill foolish sh woman but I 1 want my man for myself and your money destroy destroys you it makes you lea au and lees less nice I 1 am not ashamed to ta say ay that I 1 love you because ishall never cover marry you and I 1 loved you mach when hen I 1 did not know you at all when you first came down from alaska and I 1 first went into the office you were my hero bero you were the burning daylight of the guld diggings the lar dar ing ins traveler ar and ard d miner minor and you looked it I 1 dont eee see how any worn wom an could have looked at you without loving you then but you dont look it now you a man of the open have been cooping yourself up in to he the clues with all that that means you vou are becoming something different som something not xo healt healthy hr not so clean no not t so nice your money and your way of life are doing it IL you know it you barent the came same body now that you bad then you ara putting on flesh and it U ie Is not healthy flesh you are kind and genial with me I 1 know but you are not kind aril genial to all the world as a you ere are then you have havo beco become me and cruel cruet I 1 do love lovs you but f cannot marry majr you and dei doi troy stroy love you are growing into a thins thing that I 1 must in I 1 the end despise you cant help it IL more than you can possibly love too do you love this business buel noaa game this business anil ita we all perfectly useless UBe leaa so far an you arg concerned claims nil all of you I 1 sometimes think it would bo b easier tc share you equitably with anathol woman than to ebare share you with ahill business noea I 1 might have half hall of you any rate out but this bun ineas would claim not half ball of you but nine tenth of you or ninety nine hundredths yo 04 bold hold back nothing you put all louv got into whatever you are doing limit to the sky be he grunted grim affirmation dut but if it you donld only play mhd th lover husband that way and now I 1 wona any ny another word the she added ive delivered a whole sermon she rested now frankly and fairly in the shelter better of his hi arroa anns and both were oblivious to the gale that rushed past ast them in quicker and tron ngoi gei blaetz el aate the big downpour of rain had not yet yot come but he be inlet liko squalls were more frequent daylight wa was openly perplexed and he be was still tilt per flexed when he began to spead peak 4 aa youve left me no argument I 1 AJ know im not the some man main that cam came from alaska I 1 hit bit the trail with the doge dogs ai an I 1 did to in them day days IM oft soft in my mir muscles and my mind minds gone bard hard I 1 used to reaped respect men I 1 despise them now you see I 1 spent all my life in the open and I 1 reckon im an open air man why ive got aha prettiest little ranh ran h you ever laid eyes on up in olen glen ellen where I 1 got stuck for the brick yard you recollect handling the corrosion corre corr spon ospon dence deuce I 1 only laid yes eyes on the ranch that one ino time and I 1 0 so o fell in lov lovo it that I 1 bought it there and bind then I 1 just rode around the hills and was happy as a a kid out of school id be a better man living in the court try the city make me better your yourt plumb right thero I 1 know it but suppose your prayer should be bf answered and id go clean broke and have to work for daye days wages suppose I 1 had nothing left but that attle ranch and antl waa was satin satisfied fled to grow a few chick chickens and scratch a living some ho how would you marry me then dede why wed be together alj all the aimel she cried then was the moment among the trees ere they began the descent of 0 the bill that daylight might hav have drawn her closely to him and kissed her once but be was wits too perplexed with the new thoughts ehe jibe bad put into hi bl bead bend to take advantage of the situation ajo merely caught her by the arm and helped her over the aa rougher tougher footing tooting at the edge of th the W giove be suggested that it might be bo better for them to part there tharo but sha i I 1 insisted that he ba accompany her as far at ae as the bouse house do you know he said taking ti it by and large lle its the happiest day ot at my life dede dede weve just got to get gat married 11 ls a the tb gull ou way and 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