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Show r - -r- q SYNOPSIS. 1 r.nm llnrnlah. Known all tlirnueh Alaa K an "lluriiliia lyll(ht." , rl.-l.tatra h.a ! "th l.irtli.lav oltlt a -ron.l ,if rnlnrr. at lha l lr l City Tlv-.ll. Tn ilam-a l-a.la 1 t" li.nvv Knnil.llna. in ahi. n lrr Iiulkii ' I" Mk.-.l ll.trnl.n 1...-. hla ni-n.-v and Ma lulu.- Inn win. th- 11.1,11 M.ntt.i. t It- I atari, nn hla mall lrli llh .!. an.1 i. .iu... t. iiu.ar hia rn. n,i i. mil t III tha hla VuHmii ...1,1 ai,ik- at It.a alart. Ihitlilna llavhtfht iti nk a , a-ii.illn.illtf , MP. I run a-r..a rminlrv with lh" mull. I apl'. ara at II,- Tlv.,11 at,.l la r.nw r Iv , ti 1 -1 hla frl- n.la In a laah to lha Haw nol.la I I.lli.ar ti nt a.,1.1 lll ha ti.mid In lha ii. rK-r llalrn-l llarnlali hma lau h.na ef II. mr. wl.h-li ha ,h. larxa will ha wnrih Ha woiaht In a-. I.I. hnl whan ha arrtvi-a with hia rt.nir h- fln.la tha 1,1a O il ,l. ..ata A . ..iiira.la ilia. ,v. ra ai'l-t ami liavllitht r-a,a a rh-h har- rmt pr.imlnant lla'ira in' tha Kl.in.ttka and d'feata a r-tiii.iniiitiit ,,r rittiltallai In a vaat mlnlna 'l-nl. Ma r.-lurna lo ilvllliatlnn. and. amid tha ta w.l,l.-rln empllratlona .if hlah nn,. Imrllifhl fln.la that tia hna tao-n l,-1 In tini-at lila -lavrn nilllhina In n tn.-inliltid a. hi in-ll in-ll r,"-a t.i Naw V.Tk and r..,,fr.M.II,, hla ,li..,vnl tuirmrra ollli a ra..li.r. 1, thrratana In kill tham If hla ni....v la n,.I reliirnml. Tlirv ,u- ,wa.l. ratum Ih.lr -nltiiaa and ll,un,li ,. hi. k In 8 in trull, l-.-n. wl.ara ha I la hla fita In In-da Maaon, a pn-tty ati-nnriraiiliar. CHAPTER XI. PnyllKht waa In the ttihk of hla apartneulnr and Intensely hitler flaht wllh tha Cnflatwla Hti-ntii Nnvlgntlnn Compntiy, ntid the lliiniillnn, N'lea-taminn. N'lea-taminn. and I'm lfle Mi tlc.in Hteiim. ahlp riniaitiy. He atltri-d up a hla-gf-r nm thnn h hnd nntlt-lpnted, and even he waa nnliiuniled at the wide rmulnVatliiim nf the Htrmtitle nnd lit the uiit-xicrted nnd Itii-oiigriiiiiia In-tereata In-tereata Hint were ilrnwtt Into It. Kvery neBinier In Hn n rnitii-ln-o turned ntmn him. It wna true, one or two of them hnd flral liitlmnied Hint they were itan to aiilialdltitlnn, hut lny-IlKlit'a lny-IlKlit'a Juduii'ent wna that the altuu-llon altuu-llon did l.'.l wnrrnnt aurh rapetidllure. I'p to thla time the preaa had been nniualnitly telerunt nnd aood nnturedly aenatitlonnl about him, but now he wna lo liiirn what virulent acurrllnnanawa wn antnitmitKi'd preaa waa capuble of. Kvery pplaodo of hia life waa reaur rerti-d lo aervo aa foundation" for ma-llclnua ma-llclnua fnbrlentlotia. Dnyllxht waa frankly anuired at iho new liiterpre-t liiterpre-t m Ion put upon ull that he had ac rnmpllnhed and the deeda he had done. I'rrtn nil Alnakun hero he wna metnmnrphin'cd Into nn Alaakun bully, liar, deaperudo, and all-around "bad man." The whole affnlr aank to the deeper deepe of runror and aavuxe-neaa. aavuxe-neaa. The poor woman who bad killed heraelf waa drnKifd out of her grave and parnded on thouHnnda of reunia of paper aa a martyr and a victim to DnyllKhl'a feroiloua lirulnllty. Ilo waa like a hlg hear raiding a tier hive, and, reanrdleaa of the atlnga, he ohatlnately M-ralnted In pawing fur tho honey. He gritted hla teeth and etrurk biu-k. HeKlnnlng with a raid nn two aieuuiahlp eonipnnlea, It i;.-veloi-ed Into a pitched bnttle -with a city, etntn nnd rontlnentiil count line. Allied Al-lied with him, nn n aplcndld aulnry, with princely plekltiga thrown In. wna n lawyer, Ijirry II, K"li. a young Irlah-limn Irlah-limn with it reputation to make, and whimu pei ullur getili.a hud heen un- -' V- j A buddon Envy of Thia Voung Fellow Cama Over Daylight. recognised until Dnyllght hnd plrketf up with him. It wua Hegun who guided Daylight through the lutrlcuclea of modem polltiea, labor orxnnliutlon, and romnieri-lul and corporation law. It wua ll Kan, prolific of ret, nin e and auKKOHilou, who oH-ned Imylighta eyea to undreamed of poaalblllilea In twentieth-century warfare; and It waa Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and elaborating, who planiwd the ram pnlgna and prtiMiciited them. With the Pacific const, from I'uxot Bound to Panama, hutting and humming, and with Sun Frunclaio furiously about hla earn, the two big atenmahlp couipunlea had ull the uppeuiuncn of winning. It looked an If Hunting Daylight waa being be-ing beaten alowly to hla knnea. And then lie atritrk at the teatnililp com-putilea. com-putilea. at Han Ktunclaco, at Uio whole t'UClhC CtKIHt. r. w-j.', """" It wa not much of a blow at flrat. A iirlllnn Kndeavor convention waa tieltig held tn Sun Kramiacn, a row wua etarU'd by Ktpreaa Drlvera' I'nlnn No. V27 over the hntidlliig of a amall hrnp of hnaKige at Ferry lltilldlng. A few henda were broken, a "core of ar-reata ar-reata made, and the baggage waa de llvered. No one would have gueaaed thut behind thla pi-tty wrangle waa the fine Irlah hand of lleann. made potent by the Klondike gold of Hum lug Dnyllrht. It waa an Inalgnlflcant affair at beat or ao II aeemrd. Hut the Teamatora' I'nlon look up the , 'luurrcl, barked by the whole Water ' Vont IVdernlloii. Htep by alep, the atrlko be, nine Involved. A refuaal of I eooka and waltera lo aerva arab team- I alera or teamatera' eniployera I brought out the rook", and waltera. The butrhi-ra and meat cutlrra retimed to handle inent deatlned for unfair realntirniita. I ho combined Km piny era- Aaanclntlniie put up a aolld front, and found faring them the 40, nun or- I (united In borer a of Hnn Krnnclaco. Tho reatauratit haki-ra and the luikery I wiigun drlvera atrurk. followed hy Hie I uillk'-ra. milk drlvera nnd chicken ! Plckera. The hiilldlna trndea aa.erted Ita pia-ltlon In iiniinil,lmi,,ua term., and 1 ull Hnn Kninclaco waa In turmoil, Hut "till. It waa only San Kriinclaco. ' HeKiin'a IntrlKiiei were nuilerly. nnd DuyllKht'a ciiinpalKn atendlly dev. I ; oped. Thn powerful flKhtltig oraunl tatlon known aa the I'm lib- Slope Sea nuin'a I'nlon ridua, d to work veaaeia the rnrxiu-a of which wero to be hundled by aenh louKxhoremen nnd freight handler, 1 he union preai nied 1 Ua iilllmnluin. and then railed n ntrike Thla hud bei-n Duyllglifa objective ull I 'ho ttnie. Kvery Incomltig conatwli-e 1 veanel wna boardpil by the union oil), ' dale and Ita crow aent aahoro. And , witn the aeatnen went tho flremi n, the eUKlneera nnd the aea cook" nnd wultvra. Dully tha number of Idle ateaiitera Inrrearcd. It wna Inipoaal-ble Inipoaal-ble lo get acab crewa. for the men of the Heamen'a I'nlon were llxhtera trained In the hurd achool of Hie aea. and when they went oul It mpnnl blood and death to arab". Thla phaae of the atrlke aprend up and down the entire Facirte ronat, until all Iho porta were filled with Idle ahlpa, and aca trniiKportntlon waa at a mnndatlll. The daya and weeka draxxed out, and the atrlke held. Tho Oiaatwiae Strain Navigation Company and the Hawaii nn, Niraraxuan, and I'ucinc-Mexlcan Hteanihhlp Company were tied up completely. com-pletely. The expenaea of combating the atrlke wero tremendoiia. and they were earning nothing, while dully the Dilution went from bad to worae, until un-til "ienre al nny price" heenme the cry And atlll there waa no peace, until Dnyllxht and hla alllea played out their hand, rnked In the wlnnlnxa, and allowed a goodly portion of a continent conti-nent to reauina bunlneaa. Dnyllxht a coming lo clvllltntlnn had not Improved him. True, he woro letter rlothea. hnd learned allxhtly better mannera. and "poke better Kng IIbIi, Hut he hnd banlened, nnd at thn expenae of hla old tlioe ht,. a,,l..,l geniality. Kven hla huiiinn nmilullona were dearendltig 1'lnylnx a lone hand, contemiituoiia of luoat of I be men with whom hn played, lucking In xympnlhy or underatunilliig of them, nnd rerlnln-l.v rerlnln-l.v Independent of them, he found little lit-tle In common with Hump to bo en-countered, en-countered, vny at the Alia I'liclllc. In point of fact, when the battle with Ihe atennuhlp cotnpnnloi wna at Ita height nnd hla rnld wna Inflicting Incnlciiln-bio Incnlciiln-bio diinuipn nn nil bualne-a Intorcnta. lip had been aked to realgn from the .Mln l'ncllle. Tho Idea hnd been rnlh-er rnlh-er tn hla llklnx. and he hnd found new iiniiiiera In cluba like tho Hlverklde. oixnileil and prniticiilly mulntulned by the city hnaaea. One week end. feeling heavy nnd de. Pi-eaaed and tired of the city nnd Ita wnva. he obeyed the ItuptilHo of a whim that wua Inter to piny nn Important Impor-tant part In hla life. The ilealro lo get out of the city for a whiff of country coun-try nlr and for a chunxe of arena wua the cnnae. Yet. to hlmaelf. he made Hie exruae of going to (lien l.ile,i for the purpoao of liiNpprtliig a brlrkyurd '"'n 1 1 Hwnrtny bad aold blin. He "pent Hie night In the little country hotel, and on Sunday morning, umrlde a auddle hnrae rented from the Olen Kllen butcher, rode out of the village. Tho brhkynrd waa rlore at hand on the (lilt beMlde the Sonoma Creek. Iteaolvlng to have hla fun flrat, and to look over the brickyard afterward, he rode up the hill, pmapcetliig for a way croaa country to get to tha knolla. He left Ihe country road at the llret gute he enme to and cuntered through a huyfleld. The grain waa wulat -high on either aide the wngon-rond, wngon-rond, end he anlffed the warm aroma of It with delighted noatrlla. Al the baae of the knolla he encountered a tumble down aluke ond-rlder fence. Ilo tethered the horae and wandered wan-dered on foot among (ho knolla. Their (opa were crowned wl(h century-old apruce treea, and their aldea clothed with onka and madronoa and native holly, lint to Ihe perfect redwooda be- Jliged tho amall but deep canyon that aa-,a-j. i4f ' "' '" " JLjftc or ) cau or rcwiD? tfurelaV 1'. l a (t-a Naw V .rk ItaraM t'enipanr ) (C.Prnaht. br lha Ma. Milan , ' 4-1 v - . ' v "It Sura Beau Ciuntry Placaa and Bungalowa at Manlo Park," He Communed Com-muned Aloud. threaded Ita way among tho knolla. Here he found no paaaaxe out for hla horae. and leading the animal, he forced hla way up tha billable. On thn rreat he came through an amazing thicket nf velvet tninked young madronoa, ma-dronoa, and emerged on an open hill-aide hill-aide that led down Into a liny valley. The aiinahlne wa at flrat dnttllng In Ita brlxhtnraa. and he pauaed nnd reated, for he wna punting from tbe exertion. Not of old had he known ahortneaa of breath aurh aa thla, and miiaclea that ao eailly tired at a ait I fT climb. A tiny atreitn run down tha liny valley through a tiny niendow Hint w na curpeted knee nigh with graaa and blue and white nemophlla. Crolng -.he atreani. Daylight followed fol-lowed a taint rattle trull over a low, rocky hill and Hirmiih a wine-wooded forent of mnuianlti, and emerged uiion another liny villey, down which filtered another aprlng fed, meadow-bordered meadow-bordered atrcutnleL "It "lire beuta country plurea and bungalowa ut Metilo I'ark," he com-niuned com-niuned uloud; "and If ever I get the hunkering for country Hie, It'a ma lor thla every time." An old wood mud led him to a clearing, clear-ing, where a doien arrea of grapea grew on wine-red mill A cow-pulb. more It era und thicket. ""I he dropped down a billable to tb aouthenat ex-poauro. ex-poauro. Here, poised above a hlg for-eated for-eated canyon, und looking out upon Sonoma Valley, waa a amull farm-houae. farm-houae. With Ita bara nnd outhotiaea It aiiiixxled Into a nook In Ihe hill-aide, hill-aide, which protected It from the went nnd north. It waa tlie eroalon from thla billable, he Judged, Hint hnd formed the little level "trotch of vego. table garden. Thn Mil waa fat and black, und there win water In plenty, for hn anw aeverul fuueeta running wlilo oH-n. Korxot'en waa the brlrkyurd. brlrk-yurd. Nobody wuh al home, but Dnyllxht Dny-llxht dlamnunied nnd mnxed the vcxe-tuble vcxe-tuble garden, eat lug itrawberrlea and green petui, Inapecllnl the old ndohe burn und ruaty plow md harrow, and rolling and atnokliir rlxarettea while he wul'-hed the iiiHlra of aeveral brooda of young rhlrki and Iho mother moth-er hem. Nothing could aatlafy hla holiday aplr-II aplr-II now hut the aacent of Sonoma Mountain. Moun-tain. And here on tlie Croat, three hoiira aftorward. he emrrged, 1 1 red and aweaty, garmeiita Kirn and fare and banda acrntched, but with aparkllng eyea and an unwonted teatriilucaa of expreaalon. He felt tlie Illicit plena ure of a eehonlhoy playing trunnt. The big gaining table of San Krar.claco aeemed very far away. Hut there waa more than Illicit pleumire In hla mood. It waa aa though he were going through a aurt of cleurvlng bath. No room here for til tbe aordldneaa, meanneaa and Tlclouancia that tilled tha dirty pool of city Mlatence. He waa loath to depart, and It waa not for an hour that he waa able to tear blmielf away and take the deacent of the mountain. Working out a new route Juat for tha fun of It, late afternoon after-noon waa upon hlin who he arrived back at tha wooded krjolU. Daylight mat about for a trail, and found one leading down thn aide oppoatte to hla aacent. Circling the bare of tho knoll, he picked up with hla horae and rodo nn to the fiirm-hoiiae. fiirm-hoiiae. Smoke waa rlalng from tho chimney, and he waa quickly In con-vernation con-vernation with a nervoua, "lender young man, who, he learned, waa only a tennnt on tha ranch. How large waa It? A matter of one hundred and eighty arrea, though It aeemed much larger. Thla waa became It waa ao Irregularly ahnped. Yea, It liicluded the day pit and all the knolla, and Ha houtidury that ran nlonx the. big enn-yon enn-yon wua over a mlln long. (lb. yea. he and hla wife managed to arnilch a lit lug with, nit working tm hard. They didn't have to pay much rent. Illllurd, the owner, depended on the Income from the dny-plt. Illllurd waa well off and bad big rniichea and vineyard" vine-yard" down on the flat of thn valley. Tho brickyard paid ten n ut a ruble yard for the clay. Aa for the real nf the ranch, the hind wna guild III pui, he, where It wna cleared. Ilkn Hie vexie table garden nnd tbe vlneyiiid. but the reat of It waa too much up and down. "You're not a farmer," . PnyllKht aid. The young until laughed and ahook hla heud. "No; I'm a (elexrnfih operutor. Hut tho wife and I derided lo luke a twie yeura' vacation, and . . . hero wn are. Hut thn lluic'n about up. I'm going bnik Into the olllce thla lull after I get Ihe grnpea off " Aa DayllKht lUtened. there cutne lo him a ciuldcn envy nf thla young fellow fel-low living right In Ih- nililxt of ull thla which liu.vllght hud traveled through tho Inat few hnura. "What In Ihundor ure you going back to the telegraph olllco for?" he deinnnded. Tho young mnn emllod with a certain cer-tain wintfulneaa. "itccuuan we rnn't get nhead here. . . ." Hie hexllaied nn Inatuntl, "und becinnie them lire added expenaea ex-penaea coming. I ho rent, amull ua II la. count"; and bealdea. I'm not atrong enough lo effectually farm the plueu. If I owned It. or If I were a real huaky like you. I d ak nothing better Nor would thn wife." Again tho wiat fill aitille hovered m hla fure. "You aee. we're rnuntry born, and after burking wllh clllre for a few yeura. we kind of feel we like tho country beat. We've planned to get abend, though, nnd then aome day we'll buy a patch of land end tnv with It" (TO UK CONTtNltKD V |