Show u 11 tir jeany H il T ACK LONDON www or rw or A C ulu br the new now tork flers II erald 14 company CoT grig ach ul hk br by the company 0 31 3 ow 11 clarn k known n n a all 11 through alia alas ka an a furnire t I 1 celebrates his hi birthday with a crowd cro wd of miner miners at the circle city tivoli the dance lead leads to heavy gambling tr in which over 1 to biked li tarnish loses loi hi his money mone and his hi mine but win wins the mall mail contract contract he lie starts tart on his hi mall mail trip with doe dogs ana no ledee sledge tel ing his hi friend friends that he h will N b in the bif yukon gold strike at the tart start burning daylight make ft son satio nall rapid run across country ith th the mall mat appear appears at the tivoli and is now ready to join his hi friend friends in a dash to the new now fold 0 d field fields deciding that kold gold will arnish ill b be fa found u nd in the u upriver up river district li buy t ano a tone tons or flour ur which he declare burs will cilibe be worth it its weight in told gold but when he arrive arrives with hi his lour he finds the ble big flat desolate dee A comrade era er fold gold and daylight reaps a rich harvet harvest vet lie its goes to bason ba son become becomes the most prominent aivre in the klondike anil and detent a com combination of capitalists in s vast mining deal he ile return ret r n to fa civilization and amid the bew d ran c complication om 0 ot hi ch finance daylight cayll tin N h fl fand ads that he h h ha am been ben t led to I 1 avest hi e eleven av m million to in a manipulated na P scheme chem he to new Y york to and nd hi dl loyl partner rt with ill a revolver he threaten N 1 to kill 1 them he I I 1 it f his hi money 0 y in I 1 not returned CHAPTER IX Continued along A long session of three hours follow eu ed the deciding factor was not the big automatic pistol but the certitude that dalight da tight would use it not alone wei a th i three raen men convinced of thia this but daylight himself wa convinced he lie waa was dawly resolved rei olred to kill the men if it hn money ras not for it not an easy matter on the spur of tb abe moment to raise ten n mil lions in a paper currency and there sere era vexatious deleye A dozen alm timea mr bowlson and abe head clerk were summoned turnmon ed into the room on these theta occasions the pistol lay lair on daylights lap covered carelessly by a newspaper while he be was usual engaged in roll ing or lighting his brown paper cig cin arette but to li the end the thing was accomplished A suit case was brought up by one of the clerks from the wait ing motorcar motor car and daylight snapped it shut on the last package of bills he lie paused at the door to make his final remarks theres three several things I 1 sure want to tel you all when I 1 get out side thia this door you all 11 be set free to act and I 1 just want to warn you all about what to do in the first place no warrant warrants tor for my arrest this moneys mine and I 1 slat ain t robbed you of it if it it gets out bow how you gave me the double cross and bow I 1 don dona apu baal again the laugh 11 lie ie on you and it it 11 be sure an almighty big laugh douall you all cant afford that laugh besides Des ldes having got back my stake that you all robbed mo me of if you arrest me and try to rob me a see ond and time ill go gunning tor for you all and ill sure let it you no little fiala cat shrimps like you all can skin durn burn leg ing daylight if it you win you lose and ther thero 11 cure sure be tonto several un expect E ed Q tinell tUne rala around round this burg just look me in the eye and you sav say reo veo I 1 mean business them stubs and receipts on the table Is all yourn good dayas the door shut behind him nathaniel letten sprang for the telephone anil and dowsett him I 1 what are you going to dot do I 1 dow sett demanded the police it a downright robbery I 1 won wont t eland stand it IL I 1 tell you I 1 wont stand if it dowsett smiled grimly but at the same time bore the slender financier back and down into Is chair we well 11 talk if it over he said and in leon he found an anxious ally and nothing ever came of it the thing remained a secret with the three men nor did daylight ner ver five rive the secret away though that aft ernson leaning back in his hil stateroom on the twentieth century bli his shoe shoes off end and feet on a chair he chuckled long and heartily now york remained forever puzzled over the affair nor could it hit upon a rational tiou by ell all right rights burning da ight hould should lm have gone broke yet it wa was known that bo he immediately reap eared in san Fran francisco cisro possessing an alpar antly unimpaired capital this was a evidenced by the mag of th tb en terp rises tie be engaged in suras for or instance panama batall by ehrer weight of n money and fighting anwer wrestling the control away from ly and selling out in two months to the harriman at a rumored enor mou advant ad vane e CHAPTER X hack back itt in san FrAu deco daylight quickly added aided to bli bit reputation in way ways it was not an eavia blo uon atu M a were afraid of him ratio lie bo caine came knoop as a fighter a hend a tiger ills lay 1 was a tipping and nd smashing cue and no one know knew where or how his next blow would all fall the eitt elero ment eat of surprise ur price was lare large he lie balked on the unexpected and fren fresn froia from thi wild forth hie his mind not op erat ting in stereotyped channel channels he nas able ift unusual tinus uil decree degree to derlie devise 1 new tricks find and strata geins and once be he won the advantage he premed pree fled it I 1 remorselessly As A relentless relent lei as a lied red indian waa was said of him and it was said tal truly lie was a free lance and bad had no friendly business associations such alliances as were formed from t me to time were purely at fairs of expediency and be he re regarded gardett bis his allies as men who would give him the double cross aruin him if a Prati profitable chance presented in spite of this point of view he be was faithful to bis big allies dut but hc hk waa faithful jul just as long as they were and no longer the treason had to come from them and then it was ware daylight the te business men and financiers of the pacific coast never forgot the letton of charles klinkner and the call fornia altamont trust company klinkner was the president in ia part with daylight the pair raided the san jose interurban the power ful lake power A electric lighting corporation came to the rescue and klinkner seeing sing what be thought was the opportunity went over to the en eroy emy in the thick of the pitched battle daylight lost three millions before be was done with it and before be was done with it he saw the california altamont Al lamont trust company hopelessly wrecked and charles klinkner a sul side in a felons cell so it was that daylight became a of alcoholic inhibition athwart his consciousness the office became im med mediately lately a closed affair it ceased to exist la in the afternoon after lunch it lived again for one or two tuo hours when leaving it be he rebuilt the wall of inhibition of course there were ex to thie this and such was the rig or of hie his discipline that it ho he had a dinner or a conference before him in which in a business way he ered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campal grit he from drinking but the instant the business sas aa nettled his everlasting call ent out tor for a martini artini Al and for a double martini at a that thit in a long glass so as not to comment into daylights life came dede ma va eoa sou she came rather imperceptibly I 1 lie a had accepted her impersonally it along ong with the office furnishing the office boy morrison Morr lson the chief conal dentist dent lal and only clerk and all the rest of the accessories of a gambling place of business had be he been asked any time during the first months she was in his employ he would have been unable to tell the color of at her eyes from the tact fact that ehe she was a demi blonde blonds there resta td d dimly in bis his a conception that nhe she was it brunette likewise he had an idea that she aa not thin while there wae was an absence in his mind of any idea that she the was fat and how bow she dressed he bad no idea at all ho lie had DO no trained eye in such matters nor was he be interested lie ile took it for granted gran teC in the lack of any impression to the contrary that ehe she was dressed somehow ho ile knew 16 I 1 7 the cocktails served as an inhibition successful financier lie did not go 1 in for swindling the worker not only did he be not have the he heart for it bit it did not strike him as a porting sporting the worker workers were so easy a so stupid it was more like slaughtering fat hand reared cheat ante ants on the english preserves pre servos he bad had read about the sport to him was it in waylaying the successful robber and taking their spoils from them the grim yukon life bad had failed to make daylight bard it required chiv 1 to produce this result in the fierce earnee savage game he now play ed his habitual babl tuat geniality imper slipped away from him as a did hie his lazy western drawl lie ile still till had of genial ity but they were largely periodic periodical and forced and they were usually due to the cocktail he took prior to meal time in the north he had bad drunk deeply and at irregular intervals Inter rals but now his drinking became systematic matic and disciplined it was an development but tt it waa was baled based upon physical 11 and mit in al conditions the cocktails served as an inhibition without reasoning or thinking about it the strain of the office which wae was essentially due to the daring and su u daulty of his hi venture ventures required check or cessation ceet atlon and he found through the weeks and months that the cock tails supplied this very thing they constituted ft a tone stone wall he its never drank during the rooming morning nor in of hours but the instant he left the office bo he proceeded to rear this will as maeon wason was all though be ho wai was aware tb that tbt t as a stenographer abe ho wait wall quirk and acau rate lie watched ber her leaving one aft ernson and was aware for the first time that she be was well formed and that her banner manner of drea dress as sails tying he ile knew none of the be details of wo woman matis dress and nd he jav jaw none of abo detail details of ber her neat calit alst anil and well cut I 1 tailor ilor ull he ile aw saw only the effect in a ameral A fc meral sketchy war way she looked right this wa was in the absence of anything wrong or out of the war shee a trim little good looker was his verdict when the outer office oar closed on her the next morning dictating he con eluded that he liked the war way the be ud ber her hair though for the IVA 11 of him he could hare have giren siren no description of it the was pleasing that wai was all sho she sat between bin and the window end and he noted that her hair was wa light brown with hind hints of golden bronze A pale pate sun uti shining in touched the golden bronze into smout dering fires that ere very pleasing lie ile discovered that in the int intervale ovals when ibe she had nothing to do the be read book books and magazine magazines or worked on come some sort ort of feminine work passing her dek desks once he b picked up a i volume of KIP kipling lIngs poem poems and glanced through the pages you reading all ali he aid said laying the book down I 1 oh yes wa was the th anwer answer terr very another time tt it WAS a book of sell bells the wheels of chance what a it 11 all avoult daylight asked oh it i a jut just a novel a love story she topped stopped but be still till stood wait ing 1 and she felt it incumbent to go on it its a about a little cockney drapers draper a assistant who take takes a vacation on an his bicycle and alls falls in with a young girl very much above him her iter moth er 1 Is a popular writer and all that and the situation is ery curious cur loui and ead sad to too and tragic would you aoi cre c re to read icv does he get herr daylight demanded no the point of it IL he ile gasn wasn tj t J and he doean doesn t get her and youve ead read all them pages hundred hundreds ot of them to find that autv out daylight muttered in amazement imai ement miss alias mason was wa nettled to a well as amused nut but you read the mining and einart cial lal nes news br bir the hour aho she re arted I 1 but I 1 sure get something om ething out ot at hat that it its a business busl nesi and its differ ent nt I 1 get money out of it what do you on get out of books point points ot of view new ideal ideas life not worth a cent cant cash out but ittes worth more than cash she he argued oh well he said with easy mae cullee tolerance so 10 long ai an you en joy it that s what counts I 1 suppose and theres DO no accounting for taste despite hia his own superior point of 0 view he be bad had an idea that she knew a lot and ho he experienced td d a fleeting feeling ike like that of 0 a barbarian face to face with the evidence of some tremendous culture to daylight culture was a worthies worthless thing and yet somehow bo be was vaguely troubled by A sense that there was more in lu culture than he imagined again on her desk in passing be noticed a look took with which be he was A millar thi th time he did not aop slop for be he had recognized the cover it was a magazine naga ilc correspondent book on an thu the klond lio lie and be know that be and hta his photograph figured in it and bo he knew aleo also of a certain sensational chapter concerned with a homana wom anft suicide and with one to much daylight after that be did not talk with her again about books ito 10 lo imagined what erroneous conclusions she had drawn from that particular chapter and it t stung him the more la in that they were undeserved lie ile pumped morrison marrison the clerk who had first to vent bli personal grievance against miss mason before ho he could tell what litile little he kiev of her she come comes from siskiyou you county she a very nice to woric with in the office of course but rather sit at ck on herself exclusive you know how illow do you make that out attl daylight queried well the he thinks too much of herself to asso associate citte with those she the wo ka ks with in the om here foi to in stance she bont on t have anything to do i ith a fellow yon you see I 1 a ask ed her tier out repeal repeatedly edly to tho theater and the chulas alati a ld such things hut but nothing doing says ebo she likes plenty of sleep steep and cant stay up late and has to go all the way N t berkeley where ehe she lives but all hot air shea shoe running with the TIM errity boyi 4 tufts what hes bes doing she needs iota tots of sleep and cant go to the theater with me but she coin dance all hours with them I 1 ve beard heard it pretty straight that she goes to all their hops bops and such things rather stylish and lagh for lop a sterios eapher I 1 d say and she k keeps beeps a horse too she rides astride all 11 over those hills out there I 1 saw her one sunday myself ob oh a high flyer dyer and I 1 wonder how she ea ts it clity five a morth don t go far fat then she has a lick hick brother too n live with her people daylight asked so a gut any they were well to du do I 1 ve hec her d they auit have been wen or thai ana brother or hers couldn coulden t have gone to the university of call fornia her father had a big cattle ranch but be got to fooling with mines or something and went broke before be he died her tier mother died loic lonc before that her tier brother must cost a lot of money he ile was a husky once played football was as great on hunting bunting and being out in the mountains and inch ouch things ho ito got his accident break leg ing horses and then im or something |