Show Z HT LONDON or ral CAZZ el MNO I 1 ZAC 6 copyright 1910 by the ow york sterald company copyright by the Maci company SYNOPSIS rl known till all through ala alas ka is burning Hurn lin daylight celebrate celebrates hi his soth birthday with a crowd of miners at t the circle city lity tivoli the dance lea lead to heavy gambling in which over 00 Is taked lose loses his kits money and his hl mine but win wins the null mall contract lift 11 tarts starts on hit hi mail mall trip with ith dogs and ledge sledge riling telling his hi frienda friends that he tie will be in ih tho ble big yukon gold strike at the atari start burning daylight makre makos a rapid run biross country with the mall mat appears at the tivoli and in now ready to join hia his friends in a dah dash to tho new fold id fields deciding that cold gold will be found in the up river district dietr lct buy two tone tons of hour flour which he clarea dr burs wah be worth its it weight in gold but when he arrive arrives with ith hia his flour he finds the big flat desolate den A comrade discover era gold and daylight reap reaps a rich harvest lie goes to kawon dawson be become c omes the most prominent in the klondike and defeat defeats a c combination 0 or 0 capitalist capitalists in a vast mining deal I 1 ite te return returns to civilization CHAPTER VII in no blaze of glory did burning daylight descend upon san francisco not only had he beet forgotten but the klondike along with ith him the world was interested in other things and the alaskan adventure like the spanish war was an old story he ile set tied down in st francis botel Lo tel was viter interviewed viewed by the cub reporters on the hotel run and received brief pars graphs of notice for twenty tour four hours several months passed in san aran cisco during which time be he studied the game and its rules and prepared himself to take ii a hand tiring of being merely an onlooker be he ran up to nevada where the new gold mining room toom was fairly started just to try a flutter as he phrased it to the flutter on the T to 0 stock exchange lasted just ten days during which time bis his smash ing wild bull game played flayed ducks and drakes with the more stereotyped gamblers and at the end of time having gambled floridel Florl del into bis his fist he let go for a net profit of half a million whereupon smacking his big alp PC he departed tor for san k bran ran cisco and the st francis hotel it tasted good and bis his lunger hunger for the game became more acute and once more the papers sensa him BURNING DAYLIGHT was a big tetter letter headline again in flocked about him old files of magazines and newspapers were searched through and the romantic and historic elam sh adventurer of 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 be fore his elected time be he was forcibly launched into the game financiers and and all the flotsam and jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of his eleven millions in self defence he was corn com pelted to open offices he ile dabbled in little things at first stalling cg for time as be explained it to holds worthy a friend he had made at the alta pacific club daylight himself was a member of the club and holds worthy bad had proposed him and it was well that daylight played closely at alist ali st for be he was astounded by the multitudes of sharks ground sharks he called them that flocked about him he lie saw through their schemes readily enough and even marveled that such nu numbers tabers of them could tind sufficient prey to keep them going their rascality and general dubious nees was so go transparent that ho he could not understand how any ono one could be taken in by them so it was that he resolved to leave the little men the alone and while he met them in good fellowship he churn chummed med with none and formed no deep deop friendships he lie did not dislike the little men tho the mm of the alta pacific for instance he fie merely did not elect to choose them for partners in the big game la in which he h intended to play what this big game was even he ha did not know he fie was waiting to find it it and in the meantime he played small hands in testing vesting in several arid lands tion projects and keeping his eyes open oen for the big chance when it should come along and then he met john dowset Dowse tf the great john Dowe dowsett ett it was as the first big magnate daylight had met face to face and be he was pleased and charmed there was such a kindly humanness hum annesa about the man such a genial demo that daylight found it bard hard to realize that this was the john dow sett president of a string of banks insurance manipulator reputed ally ol 01 the lieutenants of standard oil and known illy ally ol 01 c the nor did bis his looks iks belle his reputation and his manner physically he guaranteed all that daylight knew of him despite his sixty yea and enow snow white hair hie big hand hake shake was firmly hearty and be he showed no signs of decrepitude walking with a quick snappy step making all movements nove ments definitely and decisively it wag was not long afterward that day light slit bauke on to new tork A letter from john dowsett had been the cause si simple little typewritten let lot tar of out dut bad had thrilled as he read it the bald 8 sentences enten ces seemed gorged with mystery our mr IIo will call upon you at your hotel he lie Is to bo be trusted e must not be seen together you will understand after we have had our talk daylight conned the words over and over that 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 mango man so peremptorily imite another man to make a journey across the continent they met thanks to our mr lar flo up the hudson in a mag country home daylight according to instructions arrived in a private motor car which had bad been furnished him dowsett was already there and another man whom daylight recognized before the introduce Intro duc tion was begun it was nathaniel let ton and none other Ilay daylight light bad had seen his face a score of times in the mag mines and newspapers and read about his big standing in the financial world and about his endowed university of baratona Dara tona he likewise struck day light as a man of power though be he was va as puzzled in that be he could find no likeness to Dowe dowsett ett except in the matter of clea cleanness a cleanness ce anness that seemed to go down to the deepest fiber fibers of him nathaniel letton waa was unlike the other in every particular thin to emaciation he seemed a cold flame of a man bot ot more than fifty thatched with ith a sparse growth of iron gray hair he be looked several times the age of Do dowsett sett k they drank that Is nathaniel letton took mineral water ater served they will never dream you are va with ith us interjected as the outlining of the matter drew to a close hia handsome t aish A ish eyes flashing they 11 think you are raiding on your own in proper buccaneer style ot of course you understand mr ir liar iler nish nigh the absolute need tor for keeping our alliance in the dark nathaniel letton warned gravely daylight nodded bis his head and you also understand letton bent ent on that the result can only be productive of good the thing Is legitimate and right and the only onee ones who may be hurt are the block stock gain gam alers blera themselves it Is to not an attempt to smash the be market As you see your self you are tire to bull the market the honest Invest investor oe vill be the gainer gainor yea yes that the very thing dow sett said the commercial need for copper Is continually increasing ward valley copper and all that it stands for practically one quarter of the world a supply as I 1 have shown you Is a big thing how big even we can sea sc acely cely estimate our arrangement arrangements are made wo we have plenty of capital ou ourselves rs elves and yet we wa want mora more also there la Is too much ward valley out to suit our present plans thus we kill loth both birds with one tone atone not only will you bull ward valley but you will at the same time gather ward valley in this will be of inestimable advantage to us while you and all of us will profit by it as well all and as mr I 1 etton has pointed out the thing Is legitimate and square on or the eighteenth the directors meet and instead of the customary divi bend a double dividend will be declared clar C d there will be all aorta of rumors on the street dowsett warned lay light but do not let them frighten you these rumors may even origin ate with ua us you can see how and why clearly but rumors are to be Q r lift 1 I must say mr me harnish that alou ou whipped Us U rou roundly idly in that affair by the smoothly operating ma chine of a lackey who inhabited the place while Dowe donnett ett took scotch and eoda soda and daylight a cocktail cock talL leon uon arrived in the midst ot of the drink and ordered scotch DAY MY light studied him bila curiously this was as one of the geat zeat fam lly ily a younger one but nevertheless one of the crowd with which he bad had locked grapples in the north nor did leon laon fait fall to men tion cognizance of that old affair lie ile complimented daylight on his prow ess cos the echoes of ophir came down to us you know and I 1 must say mr bir daylight cr er mr that u whipped us roundly in that affair leon uon was young and fat not a day more than thirty bis his face save for the adumbrated adum bated puff sacks under the eyes was as smooth and lineless as a boys the wac soon centered down to business dow sett broached the plan aided by an occasional remark from the other two while daylight asked questions what ever over the was be was going into it with bis his yes ilea open and they filled ailed hs eyes with the practical vision 11 what be he bad la IA mind no concern of fourr you are on tho the inside all you havo bayo to do la in buy buy buy and keep on buying to the last stroke when the directors dir ectore declare 11 the double dividend ward valley will jump so that it wont be feasible to buy after that and one other thing mr tr lla kamleh ralah mer said it you exceed your available cash or the amount you care to invest in tho the venture don t tall fall immediately to call on u us ber her we are behind you repeated yes we are behind you nathaniel betton nodded hie his head in to AM CHAPTER VIII vill back at his hotel though nearly two in the morning be foi im nd the reporter reporters waiting to interview him next morn las ing there were more and thoi thus blare of paper trumpet wae was be he received by new york once more with beauna of ot torn tome and wild hulls balloo badloo his pictures picturesque quo figure acro abrou the this printed sheet abo th king aln the klondike the beo be he o ci of the arcue the thirty million dollar millionaire e the north had come to new york 1 hat bad had he come tort for to trim the new workers as he had trimmed the tonopah crowd la a nevada they were prepared for him to play and when heavy buying of ward val leg log bogan l parn it wax was quickly decided that he was the operator financial gossip buzzed and hummed lie ile was after the once more the story of 0 ophir wae was told over again and sensationalized until even day light scarcely arcely ec recognized it still it was all grist to his will 41 the took tock gamblers were ere clearly befooled each day he increased his buying and so eager were ere the that ward valley roe rove but slowly A wildly ei ez citing lime wae was hie his during tho the wo we preceding thursday the eighteenth not only was be he gambling aa as he ld L d never gambled before but be he was gambling at the biggest table in the world for stakes LO large that even I 1 e ca hardened e of that ta ole ale were compelled compel cd to alt sit up in spite of the unlimited belling selling his persistent buying compelled ward valley steadily ft tri rife rive and as thursday approached pro ached the situation became acute something hd bad to smash how much ward valley waa was this klondike gam garn bier bler goto to buy how much could he buy what wae was the ward valley crowd doing all this time daylight appreciated interview interviews with them that appeared interviews delightfully placid and committal hen ton gug gen Bonham hamner oer even hazarded hazar led Jed the opinion that this northland croesus might pos sibly be making a mistake hut but not that they cared john dowsett ez ex it Is purely gambling from beginning to end were nathaniel let ton tons a words and wo we refuse to have anything to do with tt it or lo 10 take notice of it in any way nay I 1 during this time daylight had eor ser cral eral secret meetings with hta his partner one with leon uon one with john dowsett and two with mr beyond congratulations they really amounted to nothing for as he be as informed everything was going satisfactorily but on tuesday morning a rumor that was disconcerting came to daylights ours it was also published in the wall street journal and it was to the effect on apparently straight bt inside information that on 1 thursday I hurs day when the directo a 8 of ward valley met instead of the cua customary tomary dividend being declared an assessment would be levied it was the first baeck daylight had received it came to him with a shock that if the thing wor wera so be he was a broken brokon man and it r alao iso came to htiu him ahat all this colossal operating of his was being done oa on bis his own money dowsett Dowe ett gug and lotion letton were risking nothing it was a aa it wai was true but sharp enough salle bile it lasted to make him remember holds worthy orthy aud the brickyard brick yard and to impel him to cancel all buying orders while he rushed to a telephone nothing la in it only a rumer came leon leon throaty voice in the receiver As A you anor bald said lotion letton I 1 am one of the directors and I 1 should be aware of it were such action contemplated tem plated and john dowsett 1 I 1 warned you against just such rumors thee la Is not an iota of truth in tt it certainly not I 1 tell you on y honor as a gentleman 1 heartily amed of himself for his temporary loa of nerve daylight returned tt bis his task the cessation of buying had turned the stock exchange into a bedlam and down all the line of stocks the bears w were cre smashing ward valley as the apex received the brunt of the shock and was already beginning to tumble daylight calmly dc doubled bis his buying orders and all through tuesday wednesday and thursday morning be went on buying while ward valley valler rose triumphantly higher still they sold and till be he bought bis his to buy many times over when delivery was taken into mccoull what of that on this day the double dividend would be declared he as himself the pinch of delivery would be oa on the shorts they would be making terms with him and the thunderbolt struck true to the rumor word valley levied tbt tb assessment daylight threw up bis his arms he lie verified the report and quit not clodo ward valley but alt all securities were being hammered down by the triumphant bears As for ward valley daylight did not even trouble to I leara earn if it it had fet hed bc tom 0 or wax as still tumbling not stunned not even bewildered while wall street went mad daylight withdrew from the field to think it over after a short confer conference enre with bis his brokers be list proceeded to his hotel on the way picking up the evering papers and glancing at the bead lines BURNING DAYLIGHT CLEANED OUT he read DAYLIGHT GETS HIS 1118 ANOTHER WESTERNER FAILS TO FIND TIND EASY MONEY he ile passed up to his rooms ordered Is martini cocktail took oa off bis his shoes oboes and sit down to think after half an hour be he roused himself to take |