Show KW U te ACK f tz r f 0 r CAI Z 41 M Z A 4 y gr y 0 W C A J cop right 1910 by the now tork comay 1910 by the bl acMillan company V SYNOPSIS him known all through alas ka ain dun daylight celebrate celebrates his hi with 1 irthy w with ith a crowd of 0 miner miners at t the C carcle aci city lity tivoli the dance lead leads to heavy gambling in which over ie in staked fl arnish loa loses his hi money and fa wa mine but win wins thu the mail contra contract lie its tart tarts on hie him arnall trip with dog boic 5 band and belge telling his hi friend that ho atti be 1 in the big I 1 ukon fold cold strike at the tart start laurn ing daylight make makes a sensationally raph run across country with the mall mail appear appears at tta tra tivoli and arid la to now ready to join hi fr rend ends in a dash to the new jan ild fl beldi id deciding that kold aill will be found in the up river district tarnish buy two tons one of 0 flour cour which he declare delares bur ali be worth iti its weight in sold gold but when he arrive with his hi flour he h finds th the bt bin 1 flat A comrade discover ere g cold oll and Lay daylight light reap reaps a rich harvet harvest CHAPTER ye continued hack back it in dawson though be remained true to bis big word and never touched hand to pick and shovel he worked as a bard as ever in his life ho lie bad had a thousand iron irons in the faro clr and they kept him busy ae as were his hi expenses he won more heavily he ile tool took lays bought half shares shared with the men he grub staked and made personal locations day ani night his dogs were reedy ready and be he owned the fat battos tea team teams so that when a stam etam pede to a new discovery waa was on tt it as liurni ll ag daylight to the fore fare through the longest coldest nights till ho he blazed his stakes next to discovery in III one way or another to say nothing of the many worthless orth less creeks he came into possession of properties on the good creeks such ae as sulphur dominion cristo al and DoA dolittle ittle the thousands he poured out flowed back la in tens of thousand thousands dam aaion son grew grow rapidly that winter of money aloney poured in on daylight from the sale of town lots lie prompt ly invested it where it would gather more in fact he played the danger ous game of pyramiding pyram iding and no more perilous pyramiding than in a placer camp could be imagined dut but be he played with hi eyes wide open corner lots in da desirable locations sold old that inter winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for or the newcomers to brine down log rafts and as a result the summer of 1097 1997 saw aw bis his saw mills working day and night on three shifts and still he bad logs left over with which to build cabins these cabins land included sold at from one to several thousand dollars two story log buildings in the business part cf town brought him from front forty to ISM thousand dollars apiece these frash accretions of capital were immediately invested in oth er ventures he lie turned gold over and over until everything that he touched seemed to turn to gold li ith the summer rush from the out side came special correspondents for the lie big newspapers and magazines and one and all using unlimited space they rote tote daylight up so 0 o that so to tar far as the world wa was concerned daylight loomed the th largest figure in alaska of 01 course after several months the world became interested in the span ish war and forgot all about him but t in tha klondike itself daylight still rev ret ined the most prominent figure r I 1 v CHAPTER VI yas as held by the thousands of bf be that day light was visa man absolutely without fear ear dut but bottles and dan St macoonald acDonald and other sourdoughs shook their heads and laughed as an they mentioned women and they were right he lie bad had always been afraid of them from the time himself a lad of seventeen when quen queen anne antis of juneau made open and ridiculous love to him for that t matter he never had known women horn lo 10 a camp where they were rare and mysterious tous having no st sitters aters his mother dying while he be was an n he had never been in con tact act with them out but it was left to the virgin to give him bis big final right she was found one morning dead in her bar cabin A shot through the head had done it and sue she bad had left no message oo 00 ez ex plana tiou then thou came the talk some wit voicing public opinion called it a case of too much daylight she had killed herself because of bim livery every body knew this and said so the cor respondents wrote it up and once moe MOs burning daylight king ot of the klondike waa was sensationally featured in the sunday supplements of the united states the virgin had straightened up so the feature stories ran and correctly so never bad had she entered a dawson city dance danco hall when she first arrived from circle rity city she had bad earned her living by washing clothes clotho next she bad bought a stowing machine and made mens drill parkas fur caps and mittens mit teu then she he lad gone as a clerk into the first yukon bank all this lid sud was known and told though oo 00 one and all were agreed that day lagl while the cause had been the aai of her bar untimely end and aad and th the wort of it was that day knew tt ft ws was true trite always would be he remember that last bight might he had seen her lie ile bad thought nothing of it at the bo time but looking back be he waa was haunted by every little thine thing that bad had happened ID in the light of the tragic tent event he could understand tand everything her quietness that calm certitude ai as it if all vexing questions of living had been smoothed out and were gone and that certain ethereal awes riess about all that she he bad had said and done that had bad been almost mater nal lie remembered the way aho she bad had looked at him how abe she had laughed when he narrated mickey dolan a mil mis take in taking staking the fraction on urn um gulch her ifer laughter had been lightly joyous while at the ame same time it had lacked ita its old time robustness not that she he bad had been grate grave or subdued on the contrary abe she had been so patently content to 0 o filled with peace she had fooled tooled him fool toot that be was he ile bad had even thought that night that her feeling for him bad had passed and be had taken delight in the thought and caught visions ol 01 the satisfying future friendship that would be theirs with this perturbing lore love out of the way and then when he stood at the door cap in to hand and eald said good night it had truck struck him at the time as a funny and embarrassing thing her bending over his band hand and kissing it lie ile had felt like a fool tool but he shivered 1 t A C al 6 now am aa op through it all moved daylight hell roaring burning daylight now when be looked back on it and felt again the touch of at her lip lips on hie his hand sue ste waa was saying gool good by an eternal good goodby by and he had never guessed at that very moment and for all the moment moments of the evening ening er coolly and deliberately aa as he well knew her bet way aha she had been resolved to dio die if it he had only known itt untouched by the contagion contagious malady himself bo he would have married her bar tt it he had had the slightest inkling ot of what she he contemplated and yet he knew know furthermore that bera hers wa was a certain stiff tiff kneed pride thal would not have permitted her to accept marriage a a an act of thropa there had really been no saying her liter all the had fastened fait ened upon her bar and ibe she had been doomed from the first to perish of it six thousand pent spent the winter of 1891 in dawson work on the creek creeks went on apace while beyond the paa pass ea an it was reported that one hundred thousand more were waiting for or the tpring spring late one brief afternoon day light on the benches between french hill and still caught a wider vision of things beneath him lay the richest part of Rl Eldora dorada dj creek while up aad lad down bonanza be he could sea ie tor for tajes it waa was a acene scene of a rait vast devastation the hills to their topa tops had been shorn ot at trees and their naked idee sides bowed showed signs of gor ing and perforating that oven the mantle of mow snow could not bide tilde ue ve neath him in every direction were the cabins of men dut but not many men were visible 11 A blanket ot of smoke filled the valleys and turned the gray day to melancholy twilight 8 make arose from a thousand boles holes la in the now snow where deep down on bed rock in the frozen muck and gravel men crept and scratched and dug and ever built more fire area to break the grip of the froit frost organization was what was needed be decided and ble his quick imagination sketched eldorado creek from mouth to source and from mountain top to mountain top in the hands of one ca pable management even steam thawing aa an yet untried but bound to come be lie saw would be a what should be done dome was to hydraulic the valley milan and benches and ahta on the creek bottom to uie use gold dredge dredges there waa was the very chance for another big killing lie bad had wondered just what waa was precisely the reason for the and the big english concerns sending in their high malar salaried led experts that was their scheme that WAS wits why they bad had approached him tor for the eale sale of worked doul out claims andrall and tall inga ing they content to let lot the cioll gopher out what they could tor for there would be mil lion lions in the leming leavings and gazing down on the smoky in terno ferno of crude effort daylight outlined the new game he would play a game in which the and the roat rest would bare hare to reckon with him dut but along with the delight in the new now conception came a weariness ho wai was tired of the long arctic years and he be was curious about the outside the great world of which be he had beard other men talk and a 0 which he was wax as Ig ooran aa an a child there were games out there to play it was as t larger table and there aras no to reason why be with bis big millions should W no sit it in and taka take a hand so BO it was that afternoon on skookum that he resolved to alay lay this last 11 belt best klondike band hand and pull for or the outside it took time however ilo ile put trusted agents to work on the heels of great experts and on the creek creeks where they began to buy he be likewise bought N heraver they tried to corner comer a dout creek they found him standing la in the way owning blocks of claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plans to naught followed wara wars cruces compromises victories and defeats oy 1898 sixty thousand men were on the klondike and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were at of fectea by the th battles daylight fought and more and mere the taste for the this larger game urged in daylight a mouth here late he was already locked in grapples with the great end and winning fiercely winning possibly the severest struggle was waged on ophir the tb verlest of noose moose pas tures whose low grade dirt ditt was able only because of its fastness the ownership of a block of seren seven claims in the heart of it gave daylight his grip and they could not come to terms the exports conal id ed ad that it was too big tor for him to handle and when they gave him an ultimatum to that effect be he accepted and bought them out the plan was bla his own but he cent sent down to the states for competent engineers to car ry bitout in the Rinka billy watershed eighty miles away he built bis his reservoir and tor for eighty miles ton huge wooden conduit carried the water across country to orber estimated at three millions the reservoir and conduit coat cost nearer four nor did he stop with this electric power plants were installed and W atla workings ork were lighted as well aa as run by electricity other sourdoughs who bad had struck it r ich in excess of all their dreams s shook their beads heads gloomily warned him that he would go broke and declined to invest in so ex trav trava gant a venture out but daylight smiled and cold sold out the remainder oc of his town fit cite holdings lie ile sold at the right time at the hegh height of at the placer boom when be he prophesied to his old cronier cron ler in the ehorn saloon that within five years town lots la in dawson could not be b given away while the cabins would be chopped up for firewood he was laughed at roundly and assured that the mother lode would bo be found ere that time out but he went ahead when bis his need for lumber was finished selling out bis his sawmills as a well likewise be he began to get rid of his scattered holdings on the various creeks and mind without thanks to any one be he finished bis his conduit built bis his dredges imported his machinery and made the gold of ophir immediately accessible aud and he who five year years before bad had cro crosien sed a over ver t the he ill divide v id 0 from I 1 indian n dl A n RI river y at and threaded the silent wilderness his dogs packing indian fashion himself hi living indian fashion on straight moose meat now heard beard the hoarse whistles calling bis his hundreds hun dreda of laborers to work and watched them toll under the whit white glare of the arc rc lampa out but having done the thing be he was ready to depart and when be he let the word go out the rs vied with the english concerns and with a new french company la in bidding tor for ophir and all its plant the bid highest and the th price they paid netted daylight a clean million it waa was current rumor that be vas worth anywhere from twenty to thirty millions but be bf abune knew just how he at stood and that with hit his last claim old sold and the table swept clean of blu winnings be he had ridden his bunch hunch to the tune of just a trifle over eleven millions his tits departure was a thing thai that passed into the history of the yukon along with ith bis his other deeds all the yukon was bis his guest dawson the th seat of at the festivity on that one last might no mans dust save bis his own was good drinks were not to be purchased every saloon ran open with extra relays of exhausted bartenders and the drinks were given away A man who refused this hospitality and persisted in paying found a dozen fights on bis his bands hands the rose up to defend the name of daylight from such insult and through it all on moccas ined feet moved daylight bell hell roaring burning duming daylight over spilling with good na ture and camaraderie howling bis his be wolf howl and claiming the night as bla his bending mens arms down on the bars performing feats of strength bis his bronzed face flatbed flushed with drink his black eyes flashing clad in overalls and blanket loat fils aim ear flaps flare dang ling and his gauntleted mittens swing in ing g from the cord across the sheild r dut but this time it was neither an ante nor a stake that he threw throw away bu bia ft a mere marker in the game that he who held so many markers would not miss TO BE UE CONTIN CONTINUED |