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Show a""" "' "TX'Jh' i'' (r.. v"M ll t r Ihn Nrw York llrM romps J '? Jf M jigjjtfrr' u'npvrtshl. 1I0. Iir II. Ma. Ulllkn runipaiiy. SYNOPSIS. Kliun ltarnUh. known nil thrmigli Alak-In Alak-In aa "liiirnlriac Daylight." i-eU-litlrk hl Mil birthday with a tmwl of mlnera nl :h lr.h- rty Tlvnll The dun..- linili u hmw gniiil.llriit. In which uver a MHkcfl llartiltUt l-wk hla mi.in-y and llii mine t.ut win tin- mall iititr.it. ll- llHrtk en hla mall lrli with ilnga anil il. .!. I.IIIiik hla rrleiiit thai In- will Im n llif l.lg Vuknn s-.ld strike kt lln- atari Kiirnlnpr illlit maai-a it -tiantluiially kl'lil run d'-T.iM cnuntry with the mull. iM-ina nl tin Tlvnll mill I tmw rea.lv i Inlii lil ftl-nda In k ilnah In Hie n I. ihl JM lighting that . .1.1 olll tr Found In lli in. rli-r dlatrh-1 llarnlait wivs two Inns nf Hnur. which hi rt.-.lan-a Mill tie w.irlh I1R wi-lKlit III ul.l. lilt lire he urrlvi-a with t.m Amir he ntxlk :m hlir Out riVfti.lnlf A enmrade dtkcnv-is dtkcnv-is k';l'1 i..l liayllglit reaps a ruh har-real. har-real. Hi- ..! In .... ii. iHimin II." II. ..I priinihii'til nrur" In Hi" Klumtlae mil ili fi-ntk H riimhlnktlutl nf rkellnlUMa n it vaat inlnlnic ileal. Iln rrtiinia In 'IvIIUktlm. kn.. amid the hew ll.lrrln nniillcatlnns nf hlKh finance. Iinvllsl.t lii.l. Hull I..' link ln-.n l-.l In lni.nl lila lleven nillllniiN In n manipulated scheme. II" g.iea In NrW Ynrk. CHAPTER VIII. Continued. Then the nrln died iy, nnil his "are grow bleak and serious. Ieuv-ng Ieuv-ng out his Interests tn tho gevornl A-'estcrn rorlnmutlon projects (which pro mill assessing hcavllyl, ho was a nl nod mull. Hut harder lilt limn this ae his pride He hnd been so easy, rhry Imil gold lirlrkoil hliu, und lis nil nothing In klinw fur It. Tho sltn-ylest sltn-ylest fnrinfr wniiM hnvo hml dnru-unnta, dnru-unnta, while h hnd nntliliiK but lunlli'innna nKri-fiminl, nnil a vvrbnl tie at tliHi. Ontiilriuan'a nKr'iinrnt! Ho annrtrU ovor It. John IHiwnctt'a rolco, Juki im he had hi'iiril It In the '.rlriihnno n-rnlvcr, iouikIimI In hla am the wanln, "On my lumur ai a (nntli'innn " Thoy r ani'iik lhlovea ind awlndlora, thut ua whiit Ihey iT. and they had Rlvin lilm I ho Inubltwroaa. The nrwiiairr were -iRht. He hod rnme to New York to M trimmed, and Meaara. Dowaett, Iel-:nn Iel-:nn and CJiiftKenhammer had done It. He was a little nh, and Ihi.y hnd llayed with him ten dnya ample time in which to awallow him. alonir with j y'"v leti 'mtlllmii. Of courae, they ad been unloading on him all the :lme, and now tboy were buying Ward Valley bark for a aong ere the mar-let mar-let Hunted Itself. And Daylight ant and conauraed ;orktalla and saw hack In hla life to Alaska, and lived over the grim years n which he had battled for his eleven millions. For awhile murder ate it his heart, and mild Iduaa and iketchy plans of killing his betrayers Hashed throunh his wind. Daylight unlocked un-locked his grip and took out his automatic auto-matic plalol a big Colt's .44. He re-eased re-eased the safety catch with his thumb, ind, operating the sliding outer barrel, bar-rel, run the contents of the clip through the mechanism. The eight sartrldges slid out In a si renin. He refilled the clip, threw a cartridge Into the chamber, and with the trigger nt fill cork, thrust up ibe safely ratchet. ratch-et. Ho shoved the weapon Into the Ide pocket nf his coat, ordered suit su-it hor Martini, and resumed bis seat. At ten o'clock he arose and pored aver the city directory. Then he put an his shoes, took a rub. and departed aj laillllf mm W "Now It's My Deal, and I'm Going to Set If I Csn Hold Thtm Four Acts." into the nlf-'tit. Twice he chniiged caha, sud finally fetched up at the night office of-fice of a dclortlve ugitnry. He super Intended the thing himself, laid duwu money In advance In prufuae quantities, quanti-ties, selected the sl men he needed, and gave them their Instructions. Never, for so simple a task, hud they been so wll paid; for to each In addition ad-dition to otbee rhargus, he gave a flve-hunilred flve-hunilred drrllur hill, with the promise of another If he succeeded. Home 1 time neit duy, he wus convinced. If i not sooner, his three silent purtnera i would come together. To eurh one two of bis detectives were' to bi at-1 at-1 tached. Time and place was all be anted to learn. "Htop at noihlng. boys," were Ms final Inatructlons. "I must have this iJifur nmtlon. Whatever you do, hntever happens, I'll see you through " Iteturnlng In hla hotel, he rhsnged cubs as before, went up to his room, and with one mure rocktntl for a nU'lit cup, went to bed and to sleep. In tho morning he drenaed and shaved, ordered order-ed brenkfnat and the newspapers sent up, and waited. Hut he did not drink. Ily nine o'clock hla telephone tele-phone begun to ring and the reports to come In. Nathaniel lotion was taking the train at Tarrylown. John Ilowaett wits coming down by the subway. Ien Oiiggeiihnmmer hnd not stirred out yel, though be was assuredly within And In this fnshlnn. with a mup of the city spread out before him. Daylight Day-light followed the movements of his three men as they drew together. Nathaniel Na-thaniel U-ttnn was at his (.dices In the Mutual Hi, lander llulldlnx. Not arrived (luggenhutiinier. lkiwsett was still In his own unices. Hut nt eleven enme the word thut he also had arrived, and several minutes Inter Daylight wns In a hired moinr-enr and speeding fur the Mutual Sulnnder llulldlng. CHAPTER IX. Nnthunlel letlon was tnlklng when the diHir opened; he censed, and with his two companions gated with con-I con-I rolled pert urhut Inn nt Hunting Duy light striding Into the room. The free, swinging movements of I he trull traveler trav-eler were unconsciously cxnggernled In Hint stride of his. In truth. II seemed lo him thut he felt the trail bctivulh his feet. "Howdy, gentlemen, howdy." be re-mnrkeil. re-mnrkeil. Ignoring Iho unnnturnl calm with which they greeted hla entrance. He shook hunlls Willi them In turn, striding from one to another and gripping grip-ping their hands so heartily that Nathaniel Na-thaniel 1etton could not forbear to wince. Daylight flung himself Into a massive chair and sprawled laslly, with an appearance of fatigue. The leather grip he had brought into the room be dropped carelessly beside blm on the floor. "I've sure been going some," he sighed. sigh-ed. "We sure trimmed them beautifully. It was real slick. And the beauty of the piny never dawned on me till the very end. It was pure and simple knock down and drag out. And the way they fell for It waa auiasln'." Icttoo mude a dry sound In bis throat. IXiwselt sat quietly and waited, wait-ed, while leon (luggcnhnmmer struggled strug-gled Into articulation. "You certainly have rulsed Cain," he said. Daylight's black eyes flashed In a pleasant way. "Didn't I, though!" he proclaimed, Jubilantly. "And didn't we fool 'em! I was leelotally surprised. 1 never dreniucd they would be that easy. "And now." he went on, not permitting permit-ting the pause to grow awkward, "we-all "we-all might aa well have an accounting. I'm pullln' West this afternoon on lhat Limned Twentieth Century." He tugged at his grip, got It open, and dipped dip-ped Into It with both his hands. "Hut don't forget, boys, when you all want me to hornswogglo Wall Btrcet another anoth-er flutter, all you all have to do la w hisper I he word. I'll aure be right there with the goods." His hands emerged, clutching a grent mass of atubs. check books, and brokers' receipts. These he, deposited depos-ited In a heap on the big table, and dipping again, he Hulled out the stragglers strag-glers and added them to the pile. He consulted a slip of paper, drawn from his cout piH-ket and read aloud: "Ten million twenty-seven thousand and forty two dollars and slsty-elght cents ia my flgurln' on my expense. Of course Hint-all's taken from the winnings before we-all get to flgurln' on the whark-up. Where's your fig ures? II must a' been a mighty big cleanup." The three men looked their beput-ilement beput-ilement at one another. The man was a bigger fool than they had Imagined, Imagin-ed, or else he waa playing a game which they could not divine. Nathaniel Ixttiui molatened his lips and spoke up. "It sill tuke some hours yet, Mr. Hurnlkh, Lefore the full accounting cun ho mude. Mr. Howlson Is at work upon It now. We iih as you say. It tins been a grntlfylug clean up. Huppone we have lunch together and talk 11 over. I'll huve the clerks work through the noon hour so that you will have ample time to catch your train." Ixiwsett and Uuggcnhammcr manifested mani-fested a relief thut was almost obvious. ob-vious. The situation was clearing. It was disconcerting, under the clrcuiu-stnuces, clrcuiu-stnuces, to be pent In the same room with this ht-uvy. muscled, Indian like in it n whom they had robbed. They remembered re-membered uiipleusuntly the ninny .lories .lor-ies of IiIh strength and recklvHHtiess. If Ix'tton could only put him off lung enough for them to escape Into the policed po-liced world outside the office door, all would be well; and Daylight showed all the signs of being put off. "I'm real glad to hear that," he said. "I don't want to miss that train, and you all have done me proud, gentle- For a While Murder AM I Hla Heart. men, letting me In on this deal. I Just do appreciate It without being able to eipress my feelings. Hut I am sure almighty curious, and I'd like terrible ter-rible to know, Mr. Letton, what your figures of our winning la. Can you-all give me a rough estimate?" Nathaniel 1-etlon did not look sp-pcallngly sp-pcallngly at his two frlenda, but In the brief pause they felt that appeal pass out from him. Dow sell, of sterner mold than the others, began to divine lhat the Klondlker was playing. Hut the other two were still under the blundlshment of hla child llko Innocence "It la extremely er difficult," I.eon (liiggenhanimer began. "You see. Ward Valley has fluctuated so, er " "That no estimate ran possibly be made In advance," Utlon supplemented. supple-mented. "Approximate It, approximate It," Daylight counselled, cheerfully. "II don't hurt If you-all are a million out one side or the other. The flgures'll straighten lhat up Hut I'm that ruri-nus ruri-nus I'm Just Itching all over. What d ye say?" "Why continue to play at cross purposes?" pur-poses?" Dowsett demanded abruptly and coldly. "Ijet ua have the explanation explana-tion here and now. Mr. Ilnrnlsh Is laboring la-boring under a fulre liuprtsslnn. and he should be set straight. Ily this lime Union was stiffened by the attitude Dowsett had taken, and his answer was prompt and definite. "I fear you are under a mlsappre-heiiMlon, mlsappre-heiiMlon, Mr. Hurnlkh. There are no winnings to be divided with you. Now don't get excited. I beg of you. I buve but to press this button ..." Fur from excited, Daylight had all the seeming of being stunned. He looked look-ed nt Dowsett and murmured: "It waa your deal, all right, und you-all you-all dolo them right, too. Well, I ain't kicking. I'm like the player In Hint poker gnme. It was your deal, and you-all hud a right lo do your best. And you dune It rli-uncd mo out slick 011 a whistle." He gnxed at the heap on the tublo with an air of stupefaction. "And thnt-nll ain't worth the paper It's written on. (iol dust It, you-ull can sure deal 'cut 'ruund when you got a chance. Oh, no, I ain't a kicking. It W'us your denl, and ymwill certululy done uie, und a man ain't hulf a muu thut squeals on another man's deul. And now Ihe hand Is played out, and the curds are on the table, and the deal's over, but . . ." Ills hand, dipping swiftly Into his In-side In-side breast pocket, appeared with the big Colt's automatic. "As 1 was saying, Ihe old deal's finished. fin-ished. Now It's my deal, and I'm a going to are If I can hold them four ures "Take your hnnd away, you whlted sepulchre!" he cried sharply. Nathaniel Iettons hand, creeping toward the push button on the desk, was abruptly arrested. "Change cars," Daylight commanded. command-ed. "Take that chulr over there, you gangrene-llvered skunk. Jump, ur I'll make you leak till folks'll think your father was a water hydrant and your muffta sprinkling rart You all niovs yo chair alongside, Guggenhamiiior; an4 yon-all Dowsett, tit right there, while I Just Irrelevantly explain tht virtues of this here automatic. Hhe'i loadrd fur big game and ahe goea oil elgbt tlmea. Hhe'a a sure hummer whej ahe gets started. "Preliminary remarks being over I now proceed to denl. Ketneinber, I ain't making no remarks about join deal. You done your darndeat, and II was sll right. Hut this Is my deal, and It's up to me to do my dnrmlrnt- Is the first plsce, you-all know me, I'm turning Daylight aavvee? Ain't afraid of God, devil, death, nor destruction Them's my four aces, and they sure rap per your bets Ixik at that there llvlni akeleton. tettn, you're aurs afraid In die. Your bones Is all rat lllng together you're that scared. And look at that fat Jew there. This little weapon's aure put the fear of Hod In his niart. He's yellow as a sick per Simmon. Dowsett, you're a cool one You sll ain't batted an eye nor turnec a hair. That's because you're great on arithmetic. And lhat mnkes you all dead easy in this deal of mine. You'rt sitting there and adding two and twe together, and you-all know I sure gol you skinned. You know me, and thai I ain't afraid of nothing. And you all adds up all your money and knnwi you ain't a-going to die If you cun hcl( It." "I'll lee you hanged," waa Dow aett's retort, "Not by a damned Bight. When th fun Blurts, you're the first I plug I'll hung all right, but you all won't live lo aee it You all die here and now while l lldie subject to the Inw'a delay ssvves? Helng dead, with gras growing out of your carcasses, you won't know when I hang, but I'll sure have the pleasure a long time ul knowing you all beut mo to It." "You surely won t kill us?" lotion asked In queer, thin voice. Daylight shook his head. "It't aure too expeimlve. You al uln'l win lh It. I'd sooner have my chips back. Ari( R11,.B yuu 'o sooner give my chips buck than go tc ihe deail-bouse." A lung illence followed. "Well, Ive done ileull. It's up tr you-all to play lilt while you're de liberating, I want to give yuiiull wain lug: If lhat door opens and any on of you cuaies leta on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sun slurt plugging. They ain't a soul 'I! get out uf the room except feel flrit.' ITO UR I'OXTINI'KII I |