Show r af 1 fy assy 1 is K DON t or 0 MIT r CAU ff ani cwi MIZA Z I 1 len 0 00 90 copyright 1114 1216 by the ner tork sterald company copyright opy rIght 2910 by the th company U SYNOPSIS elam known all through alaska a as burning daylight celebrates ht his ath birthday with a browd of miners at the circle city tivoli the dance lead leads to heavy gambling in chien over 1 00 ow Is r staked loea loves his money and I 1 me Is mine min but wine wins the gnall all contract lie if tarts on an ha his mall mail trip with dogs and bedge telling lils friend friends that he will be b in the big tu yukon jk on fold gold strike at th the tart start burning daylight make makes a rapid run across country with the mal mall appear appears at the tivoli and la to now reads ready to join liti his friend friends in a dah dash to the new now bold wold fields 1 deciding that kold gold will be found in the upriver up river district 1 tarnish buy two ton tons of or lour flour which he declares will wl bur b 0 worth lla ila weight in fold gold out when he arches with his hour flour he rinds finds the big nat flat desolate Je A comrade discovers desolate rom cold and dayl fht reaps a rich harmut cat lie ile goes bors to pawson dawson bearnes the most prominent figure in the kinglike Kinn like and defeats a combination of capitalists in a vat vast mining deal lie ile returns to civil latton and amid the complication of high finance daylight finds that he h has been led to invest hilj J leven eleven million millions in it manipulated scheme he ile goes to new now fork york and confront confronting ln hia his disloyal I 1 tart partners nors with a ro revolver olver h threaten threatens to kill them it if hi his money Is nut re thor they are cowed return their and nd arnash goes bark back to san francisco 1 where he meets his fate in dede mixon mason a pretty stenographer he ila makes large investments and gets into the th political ring for a real rest he koff goes to the th country daylight keta gets deeper into high finance in san francisco but often the longing for the simple life nearly over him CHAPTER XIII one sunday late in the afternoon found daylight across the bay in tho the piedmont hills of oakland As usual he was in a big motor car though not hia his own the guest of swiftwater Swift water dill lucks own darling who bo bad come down to spend the clean up of the seventh fortune wrung from the frozen arctic gravel it was a merry party and they had made a merry day of 14 it circling the bay from san francisco around by san joae jowe and up to oak hamd having haying been thrice arrested tor for speeding the third time however on the Ilay wards stretch running away with their captor fearing that a tele phone to arrest them had been flatbed flashed ahead they had turned into the tack road through the bills hills and nov now rushing in upon oakland by a new route were boisterously dis cussing what disposition they should make of the constuble cons tible well come out at elair par part lo 10 ten minutes one of the men ar bounced look her hero there a a crossroad cross road clat ahead wita tots lots ol 01 gates but take Us back country into berkeley then we can come back into oakland from the oth er side sneak acroca on the ferry and siad the machine back around tonight with the chauffeur out but swiftwater Swift water pill failed to see why he should cot not go into oakland by way of blair park and so decided the next moment flying around a bend the back road they were not going to tace aphea ed inside the kile gile leaning out from her caddie saddle and just closing it was u young woman on a chestnut sorrel with hie his firlit 1 glimpse daylight felt there aa was tome thing strangely familiar about her the next moment straightening up in the saddle with a movement he could net fall to identify she put the u borse into a gallop riding away with her bar back tow rd them it wm dede mason he remembered what morrison Mor rleon had told him about her keeping a rid ing horse and he be was glad she bad not seen him in this riotous company intervening Interi ening trees at that moment shut her from view and Swift swiftwater water dill bill plunged into the problem of din dis posing of their constable while day tight light leaning back with closed eyes wae was still seeing dede mason gallop off down don the country road on monday morning coming la in tor for dictation be looked at her bar with new interest though by he gave no sign of it t and the stereotyped business pasted passed off in to the stereotyped way atut the following sunday found him on a horse himself across close the bay and rid tag ing through the Pled raol moAt hills lie made a long day of it but no glimpse did be catch c dede though be he even took the back road of rainy gates and rode on into berkeley Berk eleV it bad been a fruitless day so aartis farts she was concerned and yet not entirely fruitless for he had enjoyed the open a and the horse under him lo 10 such purpose that on monday bis his instruct jons were out ou t to the dealers to look for the belt best chestnut sorrel that money could buy at odd times during the week he examined numbers of chestnut otiela Ot rela tried several and waa was it as not till saturday that he came upon dob bob daylight knew know him for what ne ve anted tho moment be laid eyes on him A large horse for a riding tiding animal anix rat be was none too large for a big man like daylight la in splendid condition dobs bob a coat la in the sunlight was a flame of fire bis his arched neck a jewelled conflagration daylight exiled the mane and found it finer than thin any horse a hair bair be he bad ever cr teen seen also if its color was unusual tim usual la in that it waa almost auburn A bile 1 I ran bis his angers through it nob bob turned his hi head bead and playfully I 1 nuzzled daylights shoulder saddle him up and try him bimbo I 1 told the dealer it 1 I wonder if ir hes be us d to spurs no saddle mind give me a good mexican and a curb bit not too severe seeing as be likes to rear daylight saper superintended intended the preparation preparations adjusting the curb strap and the stirrup length and doing the cinching he ile shook Ms head bead at the martingale but yielded to the dealers adrice advice to allow it to go on and dob bob beyond spirited restlessness and a few playful attempt attempts gave no trouble nor in the hour holies riding that followed are WO for some permissible curveting and prancing did he misbehave day light was delighted the purchase was immediately made and dob bob with rid I 1 log gear and personal equipment was dispatched across the bay forthwith to take up bis his quarter quarters in the tables stables of the oakland riding academy the next day being sunday daylight was away early crossing cro eBing on the ferry and taking with him wolf the leader of his sled team the one dog which he be had bad elected selected to bring with him when he be left alaska quest as a be he would through the piedmont hills and along the many gated back road to berkeley daylight saw nothing of dede mason and her chestnut sorrel dut but he had bad little time tor for disappoint ment nent for hie his own chestnut kept him bugy busy at the end bf of halt an hour af p goodness daylight lured into conat deuce dance was riding along at a walk and rolling a cigarette with slack knee knees and relaxed scat seat the relus reins lying ore the animal a neck dob bob whirled abruptly ind tind with swiftness pivoting on his bind legs his fore logo luit just lifted clear of the ground day light kept his seat but beyond a fu tile rein across the neck did nothing to prevent the evolution well nob bob he addressed the ani dial mal at tho the same time wiping the sweat from his own eyes 1 I ra free to confess that you ro to suro sure the b amed eat all fired quickest creature I 1 ever saw I 1 guess the way to fix you Is to keep the spur just a touching ng ahl ou brutal for the moment the spur touched him his left hind leg had re lebed forward in a klok that struck tho the stir nip rup a smart blow several times out of curiosity daylight attempted the spur and each time dobs bobs hoof landed the stirrup then daylight following the horses example of tho the unexpected suddenly drove both spurs into him and arid reached him underneath with the quirt you aint never had a real licking before ho he muttered as dob bob thus rudely jerked out of the circle of his own impish mental processes shot ahead halt half a dozen times spurs and quirt bit into him and then daylight settled down to enjoy the magnificent gallop no lenrer punished at the end of a half halt mile dob bob eased down into a fait fast ca tauter liter wolf lolling tolling the rear was catching up and everything was going cicely nicely and when at lait last daylight decided that the horse had bad had enough be he turned him around abrupt lr ir and put him into a gentle canter on cc the forward after a time bo he reined in to a top to see if be were breathing painfully standing for a minute dob bob turned his head bead and muzzled his riders rider a stirrup la in a roguish ro gulah impatient way as much as to intimate that it was time they were golca on a well ill be plumb gosh darned darn edt I 1 was daylights comment no ill will no cc grudee grudge no nothing aad after that lambasting lam basting youre suro sure a bummer hummer dob bob he ile bad had aken faken a liking to the animal and repented not riot of bis his bargain lie its realized that dob bob waa was not vicious nor mean the trouble being that be was bursting with high spirits and was en dowed lowed with more than the average borass borses intelligence it was the spirita and the intelligence combined with inordinate that oat made him what he was what was required to control him J a strong band hand with tempered sternness tern ness and yet with the requisite touch of brutal dominance throughout the week daylight found himself almost as much interested in bob as in dede and not being in the thick of acy big deals he was probably more interested in both of them than in the business game dobs bobs trick of whirling was of special moment ment to him bint how to overcome it bat that was the thing suppose be he dlf of met wh with dede out in the bills hills sod and sv vose by some icky stroke of fate ile ie should coage to be riding along side of her then that whirl of dobs bobs would be most disconcerting and embarrassing barr assing he ito was dot not particularly amilos s for her to see him thrown for arl ard 04 0 4 bobs neck on the tb other hand suddenly to leave her and go bisbing down be the backtrack clyl plying ng avirt and spurs do other what was wanted was wait a method wherewith to prevent that lightning whirl he ile must stop the animal be fure ure it fot rol around the reins would not dr pis ats neither rould the spurs lew ed the quirt dut but bow how to acon ash it itt dob bob always whirled t 2 its tac right very well he its would double the quirt la in his hand and the instant of the whirl that double quirt 71 11 0 it was dade would rap bob on the nose the bors hor 3 live after it once learned he be leibon lesson that would whirl to in the a e of the doubled quirt more keenly thin ever during that week in the office did daylight realize that he had nonsocial no social ter even human contacts with dede the situation waa was uch such that he could not aak ask her the simple question whether or not she be van vais going riding next sunday thu thus he be found another card in the band baud the mad god had dealt him how ilow important that card was to become ho be did not dream yet he aided 44 elded that it was a pretty good car care sunday came and dob bob out in the piedmont bills behaved like an angel ilia goodness at time times was of the spirited pirl ted prancing order but other wise he be was wad a lamb but u dede did daylight encounter he ile vainly circled about among the bill hill road roads and in he the afternoon took the adeep grda grods over the divide of the second range and dropped into maraga valley just after basaing the foot toot cf the deacent descent he be heard board the hoot beats beat of a cantering hone horse it waa was from ahead and coming toward him what if it it were dede ile ie turned bob around and started to return at a walk rho canter came nearer but he be faced straight ahead until he be heard the horii horte behind check to a walk wait then he glanc glanced d over ble his boulder shoulder it waa was dede the recognition waa was quick and with her accod partied by surprise what more tat natural urial thing than that partly turn ing his hone horse be should valt wait till she b caught up with him and that when abreast abre ait they should continue abreast on up the grade gradet its could have sighed with relief teller tta atie thing was accomplished and BO so easily greetings had been exchanged here bere they were v ere side by ilde tilde and going in the th ame name direction with tulles miles and milea miles ahead of 0 them he ile noted that her eye wa was first for the horse and next for him oh what a beautel beau tyl tyll she abe had cried at sight of dob bob from tha shining light in her eyes and the face filled with delight be he would scarcely have Oell believed eved that it belonged to a the 1 yung woman be he had bad known in the 0 office ff ca tue ue young woman with the tb control lJ d subdued office face 1 didn dian it know you rode was wag one of her first 1 I I 1 imagined you were wedded to get there quick machines this and to his bit great relief they launched on a topic of mutual interest he told her about bobs tricks and of the whirl and his scheme to overcome oer com 4 it and he she agreed that horses horse had to be handled with a tain rational severity no matter bow how much one lo 10 loved id e them there A as AN mab blab which h she iad b ad had bad for eight years and which she had had bad to break of stall kicking the had bad beta 1 painful or ziab but it had cured her youre youve ridden a lov lot daylight said 1 I really cant remember tha arst time I 1 was on a horse she told him 1 I was bora torn on a ranch you know knos and nd hey keep me ina away from the tho hot hotis los and thereat the be tod told him more ot of her bar anch life in the dai dais before her arther died and daylight wae was hugely bleared with himself they were ketting acquainted the had bad not lapsed lagged in the full half hall hour they bed bad been torether tox ether ethar when she be talked talkad he listened nd rid followed her and yet all the while he wax follow ing hie his own thoughts and impressions Impre salona in welt well it was f P nervy for her to do this astride and he dlan t know after all whether ho he liked it or not III ideas ot of women were prone to b old fashioned toned they bey were the one ones be he bad imbibed in the he early day frontier life of his youth when no woman wai was been seen on anything but a si bide caddle lie its hid bad grown up to the tacit fiction that women on horseback ho were not hi bf it came to him with a shock this light of her eo so manlike in her saddle out but he bad had to confess that the light sight looked good to him just the same CHAPTER XIV another sunday min and horse and dog roved the nedia hills and again daylight an dede rode rods together but ahlo time her bar surprise at meeting him wai was fractured with BUS sus dicion or rather her bar surp surprise riso wa was of another order the pre previous virus sunday had bad ben been quite accidental lut bis his appearing the second time aluag her favorite favorita haunt hinted of were than the fortuitous for tulou daylight was made lo 10 feet feel thai that ahe she suspected him and be remembering that he bad had seen a big rock quarry near blair park stated offhand that he wae was think ins of buying it 11 ills cne crie time fa vestment in to a brickyard bad had 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