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6iIIBNING UHUING DAYLIGHT DAYLIGHTElem Elam Har Harnish HarnishIs
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flm nishIs nish is introduced to the render as asbe ashe ashe
he enters a Circle City dance hall hallsaloon hallsaloon
1 saloon and gambling house like the whirlwindthat whirlwindthat whirlwind whirlwindthat
that he is All the others in the place are arepikers arepikers arepikers
pikers alongside this vast figure of a man manwho manwho manwho
who dares everything to win his own way wayPossessed
Possessed of a tidy fortune and sure sire re of mak making making maklug ¬
ing a vast one Burning Daylight proceeds to tostir tostir tostir
stir up the life of the gambling house The Themen Themen Themen
men and women all admire him for he is of the thetype th thtype thetype
type that dominates and he conscious that th t in ineverything ineverything ineverything
everything physical and mental he is the su superior superior superior ¬
perior of the assemblage undertakes to arouse arouseenthusiasm arouseen arouseenthusiasm
enthusiasm enthusiasmEssentially en enthusiasmEssentially thusiesm thusiesmEseentin1ly
Essentially a mans man Burning Daylight Daylightresents DaylightrCo Daylightrenents
resents rCo nts or rather fears the wiles of the women womenwho womenwho womenwho
who frequent the dance hall He is sought by byall byall byall
all of them persistently by one But he is isafraid isafraid isafraid
afraid to be even civil to a woman because he hedreads hedreads hef
f dreads the idea of being mastered by anybody anybodyor
or anything and to surrender to a woman meant meantin meantin meantin
in his mind that he was conquered conqueredCHAPTER conq1eredCHAPTER conqueredCHAPTER
CHAPTER IL ILConUnued ILConUnuedO ILConUnuedNOD Continued
NOB started it was a quiet game with little littleor littleor littleor
or no conversation though all about the play players players pay payers ¬
3 ers the place was a roar Elnm Harnish had hadIgnited bndignited ba baIgnited d
Ignited the spark More lore and more miners minersdropped minersdroppoo mine minedropped
dropped into the Tlvoli and remained When WhenBurning WhenBurning WhenBurning
Burning Daylight went on the tear no man cared to tomiss tomiss t tmiss o
miss it it The dancing floor was fall Owing to th thshortage the theshortage theshortage e
shortage of women women many of the men mtm tied bandana bandanahandkerchiefs bandnnahandkerchiefs bandanhandkerchiefs
handkerchiefs around their arms in token o ofemininity of offemininity otfemInInity
femininity and danced with other men All th thgames the thegames thegames e
games were crowded and the voices voi of the men mentalking mentalking me metalking n
talking at the long bar and grouped about the stove stovewere stovewere stov stovwere e
were accompanied by the steady click of chips and the thesharp thesharp th thsharp e
sharp whir rising and nd falling of the roulette ball bollAll ballAll ballAll
All the materials of a proper proper Yukon night were at athand athand a ahand
hand and mixing mixingThe mixIngThe mixingThe
The luck at the table varied monotonously no bg bghands bghnnds b bhands g
hands being out As a result high play pla went on with withsmall withsmall wit witsmall h hed
small hands though no play lasted long A filled filledstraight filledstraight flll flllstraight ed
straight belonging to French Louis gave him a pot of offive otllve o ofive f
five thousand against two sets of threes held by Camp Campbell Campbell Campbell ¬
bell and Kearns One pot of eight hundred dollars dollarswas dolJnrswas dollarI s
I was won by a pair of trays on a show down And Andonce Andonce An Anonce d
once Harnish called Kearns for two thousand dollaron dollars dollarson doUnTson s
on a cold steal st When Kearns laid down his bl handshowed hand It Itshowed Itshowed
showed a bobtail flush fius while Harnlshs hand proved provedthat praedtbat prove provethat
that be had had the nerve to call on a pair of tensBut tens tensBut tensBut
But at three In the morning the big combination of ofhands orhands o ohands t
hands arrived It was the moment of moments momentsthat momentsthat momentthat s
that men wait weeks for in a poker game The new newof news newsof newsor s
of It 1 tingled over overthe the Tlvoli The onlookers became becamequiet becameQuiet C Cquiet
quiet The men further away ceased talking an anS and andmoved andmoved d 1
S moved over to the table The players deserted the theother tbeother th thother e
other games and the dancing floor was forsaken so sothat sothat s sthat o
that all stood at last five score and more in a com compact compact co copact m ¬
pact and silent group around the poker table The Thehigh ThehIgh Th Thhigh e
high betting had begun begunbefore before the draw and still th thhigh the thehigh tbehigh e
high betting went on with the draw not in sight sightKearns sightKearns sigh sighKearne t
Kearns had dealt and French Louis had opened the thepot thepot th thpot e
pot with one marker markerIn in his case one hundred do doThu dol dollars d l llars
lars Campbell had merely seen It but Elam Har Harnlsh Harnish Ha Hanish ¬
nish coming next had tossed in five hundred dollars dollarswith dolIarswJth dollarwith s
with the remark to MacDonald that he was letting lettinghim lettingblm lettin lettinhim g
him In easy easyMacDonald e easyMacDonald y yMacDonald
MacDonald glancing again at his hand put Inthousand In a athousand atbousand 1
thousand in n markers Kearns debating a long time timeover timeover tim timover ° J
over his hand finally saw It then cost French FrenchLouis FrenchLouis FrencLouis h 1
Louis nine hundred to remain In the game which be becontributed becontrlbu b bcontributW e
contributed contrlbu d after a similar debate It c cdst t Campbell Campbelllikewise Campbe11likewise Campbelikewise 11
likewise nine hundred to remain remain and draw cards but butto butto b bto nt
to the surprise of nil ho saw the nine hundred and andraised andraised an anraised d
raised another thousand thousandYouall tbousandYouaU thousandYou
You Youall all are on the grade at lost Harnish Harnishmarked re remarked remnrked ¬
marked as ho saw the fifteen hundred and raised raisedthousand a athousand atbot1sand
thousand thousand In turn Helen Breakfasts sure on top topthis topthIs to tothis p 1
this divide dlvl e and youall you aU had beat look out for busthv busthvharness bustinhnmesa busts bustsharness n
harness harnessMo hnmesaMo harnessMo
Mo for that same lady accompanied C panlcd MacDon MacDonaids MaoDonaids MaCDoaids n
aids markers for two thousand and for an additional additionalthousand addltfonalthouBand nddlttonthousand al i
thousand dollar raise raiseIt rnls rnlsIt raiseIt
It was at this stage that tho pl play pIllens era nat up and andknow nndknow an anknow d
know beyond peradventure that big hands were out outThough outThough out outThough
Though their features showed nothing each man wa wabeginning was wasbeginning wasbeginnIng °
beginning unconsciously unconsclou ly to tense Each l aeh man strove stroveto stroveto strovto e
to appear his natural solf and each natural self was wasdifferent wasdttrerent wa wadifferent s
different Hal Campbell affected his customary cau cautiousness cautlousness cattiousness ¬
tiousness French Louis betrayed bctru d Interest Mac MacDonald MacDonald i iDonald
Donald retained his wholesouled whole aouled benevolence though thoughit thongit h
it seemed to take on a slightly 1I11gh y exaggerated ton tone e
Kearns was coolly dispassionate and noncommittal noncommittalwhile noncommittalwhile noncommittalwhile
while Elam Harnleh appeared as quizzical and Jocu Jocular jocular jocular ¬
lar as ever Eleven thousand dollars was already alreadyin
in the pot and nn anal the markers were heaped In a con confused confused confused ¬
fused pile In the centre of the t table tableI ttible ttibleI ble bleI
I aint got no more markers Kearns remarked remarkedplaintively remarkodplalnUely remarkedplaintively
plaintively wed best begin I 0 Us UsGlad UsGlad UsGlad
Glad youre going to stay was MacDonalds cor cordial cordlnl cordial ¬
dial response responseI
I aint stayed yet Ive got a thousand In already11ow already alreadyHow alrcnl1yHows
How Hows s it stand now nowItll nowItll nowItll
Itll coat you three thousand for a look In but nobody no nobody nobody ¬
body will stop you from raising raisingRaise raisingRl1 raisingRaisehell
Raisehell Raise Rl1 ehell hell You must think I got a pat like likeyourself J1kcoursclr likeyourself
yourself oursclr Kearns looked at his hand But Ill tell tellyon teUyon tellyon
yon what Ill do Mac Ive got a hunch and Ill justsee just justsee justsee
see that three thousandHe thousand thousandHe thousandHe
He wrote the sum on a slip of
paper signed bt btname bid btename bidname
name and consigned nslgned it to the centre of the t table tableFrench tnbleFrench tableFrench
French Louts became the focus of all eyes He Hefingered Htfngered
fingered his cards nervously for a space Then with witha
a By Gar Ah got not one Icetlo beet hunch hung ho horegretfully h hregrettuUy heregretfully
regretfully tossed his hand Into the discards discardsTho discardsThe < lIscnrdsTho
Tho next moment tile hundred and odd
pairs of oyes oyesshifted OYC8shltted oyesshifted
shifted to Campbell CampbellI
401 I wont hump you Jack he said contenting hlm himself hlmiiolf hlmnelt
self with calling the requisite two thousand thousandThe thousandThe thousandThe
The eyes shifted to Harnlsh who scribbled on apiece a apiece apIece
piece of paper and shoved it forward forwardIll forwardIll
Ill Just let youall know kno this aint no Sunday school schoolsociety sohoolsociety schoolsociety
society of philanthropy he said I see you Jack Jackand Jackand
and I raise you a thousand Heres Hcl s where youall you alt get getaction getaction getaction
action on your pat MacActions Mac MacActions MacH
H Actions what I fatten on and I lift another thou thousand thousand thousand ¬
sand sand was MacDonalds rejoinder Still got that thathunch tl1atbunch thatbunch
bunch Jack JackI JnckT JnckTI
I I still got the hunch Kearns K lrnB fingered his cards along a along aJong
long time And Ill play it but youve got to know knowhow knowhow knowbow
how I stand Theres my steamer the Bella BeUaworth BeUaworthtwenty Bellaworthtwenty worth worthtwenty
twenty thousand if shes worth an ounce Theres TheresSixty TheresSixty TheresSixty
Sixty Mile with five thousand In stock on the shelves shelvesAnd shelvesAnd shelvesAnd
And you know I got a sawmill coming In Its at atLtnderman atLinderman atLinderman
Linderman now and the scow la building Am m I Igood Igood Igar
good gar garj T TDIg
goodDig
j Dig in youre sure good was Daylights answerAnd answer answerAnd answerAnd
And while were about It I may mention ntlon casual that thatI
t I got twenty thousand in Macs safe there and theres therestwenty therestwenty therestwenty
twenty thousand more in tho ground on Moosehlde MoosehldeYou MoosehldeYou
You know the ground Campbell Is they teatail in inthe Intbe n nthe
the dirtyThere dirty dirtrThere dlrtTThere
There sure Is Daylight DaylightHow DayUghtHow DaylightHow
How much does it cost n nwT > w Koarns asked askedTwo askedTwo askedTwo
Two thousand to seeTeU see seeWell seeWell
Well TeU sure 8U bump you if It youall ou all come In Daylight Daylightwarned DayUghtwarned Daylightwarned
warned him himIfs WIDIrs himIts
Ifs an almighty good hunch Kearns said add adding addIng adding ¬
ing his slip for two thousand to the growing heap heapI
I can cnn feel her crawlln up and down my backH backHI back backI
I aint got a hunch but I got a tolerable likable likablehand JlknbJeband likablehand
hand Campbell announced as he slid In his h slip slipbut sUpbut slipbut
but itjs Us not a rising hand handMine hnnd1tlhle landMine
Mine Mine is Daylight paused nnd wrote I see seethat Beethat seethat
that thousand and raise her the same old thousandThe thousand thousandThe thousandTheVtrgln
The TheVtrgln Virgin standing behind him then did what a amans amans amans
mans best friend was not privileged to do Reaching Reachingover Reachingover Reachingover
over Daylights shoulder she picked up his hand and andread nodread
read it at the same time shielding the faces of the theflve thefive thelive
five cards close to his chest What hat she saw rcre verethree rcrethree cre crethree
three queens and a pair o of eights but nobody guessed guessedwhat guessedwhat
what she saw Every players eyes were on her herface herfac
face fac as she scanned the cards but no sign did she shegive ahegive shegive
give Her features might have been carved from ice itsfor icefor IC6tor
for her expression was precisely the same b re reduring oe oeduring c
during and after Not a muscle quivered nor was wasthere wasthere wasthere
there the slightest dilation of a nostril nor the slight slightest slightest ¬
est increase of light 11g ht In the he eyes She laid the hand handluce handtuce
face down again on the table and slowly the linger lingering Ungering lingerlug ¬
ing eyes withdrew from uer er having learned nothingMacDonald nothing nothingMacDonald nothingMacDonald
MacDonald smiled benevolently I see you Day Daylight Daylight Daylight ¬
light and I lump this time for two thousand Hows Howsthat Howsthat
that hunch Jack JackStill TacleStill
Still a acrawllng Mac You got me now but that thathunch thathunch thatbunch
hunch Is a ripsnorter perauadln p rsuadln sort of a critter crtt r and andits andIts
its my plain duty dut to ride It it I call for three thousand thousandAnd thousandAnd thousandAnd
And I got another hunch hunchDaYlights Daylights going to call calltoo cnUtoo
too
He sure Is Daylight agreed after Campbell had hadthrown hadthrown
thrown up his hand He knows when hes up u upIt against againstIt
It and he plays acconliu I see that two tnousand tnousandand tnommndnnd tnousundand
and then Ill see the draw drawIna drawInu drawFira
Ina dead silence save for the low voices of the thethree thethree
three players the draw was made Thirtyfour Thirtyfourthousand TWrtyrourthousand
thousand dollars were already 111read In the pot and the tli tliplay theplay
play possibly not half over To the Virgins amaze amazement amazement amazewent
ment Daylight held up his three queens discarding dl8cardin dl8cardinhis
his eights and rind calling for two cards And nd this time timenot tlmenot
not even she dared look at what he had drawn She Sheknew Siloknew
knew her limit of control Nor did he look The Thetwo Thotwo
two new cards lay face down on the table where wherethey wherttbey
they had been dealt to him himCards hImCards
Cards Kearns asked of MacDonald MacDonaldGot MacDonaldGot
Got enough was the reply replyYou replyYou
You can draw it you want to you Y ouknow Know know Kearns Kcarnawarned Kearnswarned Kearnswarned
warned him himNope hImNope himhope
Nope tblsIl do me meKearns meKearns
Kearns himself drew two cards but did not look lookat looka
at a t them themStill themStill themstill
Still Harnish let his cards lie lieI
I never bet In the teeth of a pat hand he said safeslowly saidslowly
slowly looking at the saloonkeeper Youall start Btarther
her rolling Mac MacMacDonald MacMacDonald
MacDonald counted his cards carefully to make makedoubly makedoubly
doubly sure It was not a foul hand wrote a sum OD ODa ODa
a paper slip and slid It t into the pot with the simple simpleutterance simpleutterance
utteranceFive utterance utteranceFive utteranceFive
Five thousand thousandKcarns thousandKearns thousandIieartie
Kearns with every eye upon him looked at his histwo histwo
two card draw < counted the other three to dlspnl lspol lspolany
any doubt of holding more than five cards and wrote wroteon wroteon
on a hotting slip slipIsoo sUpI
Isoo I aco you Mac he said and I ralso her a little littlathousand littlet1QUl littletltpusaad
thousand t1QUl > and just so as to not keep Daylight out outThe
The concentrated graze shifted to Daylight He like likeI Ukewise
wise examined his draw and counted Ids five cards callsI
I BOO that six thousand thoU5 Hl and I raise her five thou thousand thousand ¬
sand just to try and keep you you10ut i out Jack JackAnd JnckAnd JackAnd
And I raise you five thousand just to lend a hand handt hnndAt bandat
At t lapin Jack Jn k out outlfacDanald MacDonald said In turn turnHis turnHis turnHis
His voice was slightly husky hUHk and strained and a aOOFVOUS nUOlVOU8
OOFVOUS twitch In the corner of his mouth followed followedspeech follow followsItooch
speech speechKearntf sItoochKellrmt speechKearns
Kearns was palo and those that looked on notedthat noted notedthat notcc1toot
that his hand trembled as he wrote his hl slip But his hisvoice hl6volco hisvoice
voice was unchanged unchangedI unQbnnged unQbnngedf1
f1 I lift her alongNfor along for five t1v tlioueandr thoupanJ ho o said saidDaylight sJ1ldDaylfght
Daylight was now the cftc ClCfroa cstr ° Tho kerosene lamp
above flung ung high lights from the rash of sweu sweei on his hisforehead hIsforehead hisforehead
forehead The bronze of his checks was darkened by bythe bythe bythe
the accession of blood His black eyes glittered and andhis nm1hIs andhis
his nostrils were distended and eager ngcr They wero werolaree weroInrtc werelarge
large nostrils tokening his descent from savage ances ancestors ancestors ancestors ¬
tors tors who had survived by b virtue Irtuc of deep lungs aDd aatigenerous aDdcnerous andgenerous
generous cnerous air passages passagesYet lftllftgeYet passagesYet
Yet unlike MacDonald his voice olee was firm and cus customary custamar customary ¬
tomary tamar and unlike Kearns his hand did not tremble tremblewhen tremblewben tremblewhen
when he wrote wroteI
I call for ten thousand he said Not ot that Imafraid Im Imafraid Imafrnid
afraid of youall Mac Its that hunch of Jacks JncksI
I hump his hl hunch for live thousand just the same samesaid sllmcsnld samesaid
said MacDonald I had the best band before thedraw the thedraw tiledraw
draw and I still guess I got It ItMebbe It ItMlbbe t tMebbe
Mebbe this is n case where a hunch after the draw drawis dt ditwis w wIs
is bettern the hunch before Kearns remarked remarkedwherefore remnrltedwheretore remarkedwbereforeduty
wherefore wbereforeduty duty lut says Lift her Jack lift her and so soI 10111ft soI
I 111ft life her another live thousand thousandDayllpnt thousnndDA1UJot thousandDarligne
Dayllpnt leaned back in bis hischair chair and gazed nzcd up at attho utthe atthe
the keroiwuu keru U tumps which he computed aloud aloudI
041 I was as In nine thousand before the draw And I saw sawad IQWnd sawnd
nd raised eleven thousandthat makes thirty thlrh Im Imgood Imtood Imgood
good for only onl ton more He loaned forward forward and andlooked andlookcd andooked
looked l o4 Kearns So I call cal that ten thousand thousandYou thousanl1You thousandYou
You can raise If you want Kearns ICftr S answered answeredYour AnsweredYour answeredYour
Your dogs are good ood for five thousand In this game gnnieuKary gamewary Rme RmeIry
wary Iry lawg Youall can win my m dust and dirt4ut dirt dirtnt lIrtt
4ut nt t uary one of my dnwgs I just call callMaoDonald cftllMAcDonald taliMacDonald
MAcDonald considered for a long time No N one onemoved onemooo onemoved
moved or whispered Not a muscle was relaxed on onthe 011tll outhe
the tll part of the onlookers Not ot the weight wel ht of a body bodyshifted bodyshifted bodyshifted
shifted from one leg to the other It was a sacred sacredsilence sacredsl1ence sacredsilence
silence Only Onl could be hc h hert ml rd the th roaring drift of ofthe ortbe ofthe
the huge stove and an < 1from from without muffled by b the thelog thelog thelog
log walls the howling howling of dogs It was a not every everynight eorynight everynight
night that high stakes were played on the Yukon Yukonand Yukollundo Yukonand
and undo for that matter this was the highest in the his history bistoIJ hisory ¬
tory t ory of the country counlr The saloon keeper k eper finally InaU spoke spokeIf slKIkeIt spokeIf
If anybody else wins theyll have to take a mort mortgage mortg inertgage ¬
gage g tc on the TivoliThe Tlvoli TlvoliThe TlvoUTh
The Th two other players nodded noddedSo ncx1dcdSo noddedSo
So I call too tooMucdonMkl tooMucdonakl tooMacdonald
Macdonald added his slip for five thousand thousandNot thousandNot thousandNot
Not one of them claimed the pot and not one of ofthem otthem ofthem
them called the size of his hand Simultaneously Simultuneousl and andIn andin andin
In silence ty t they faced their cards ar < 1s on the table while whilea
a general tiptoeing and craning of necks took place placeamong pla placeamong e eamong
among the onlookers Daylight Da Jlsht showed four queens queensand queensand queensand
and an aco Macdonald four jacks j cks and an ace and amiKearns autIKeirns andKearns
Kearns tour kings and a tray Kearns reached for forward torward forward ¬
ward with an encircling movement of his arm and anddrew anddrew anddrew
drew the pot In to him his arm shaking as be did so soDaylight soDaylight soDaylight
Daylight picked the ace from his hand and tossed
tribal home In the service of the invading whites whitesKama whitesI whitesKama
Kama I fiml entered the Tivoll tall lean muscular and fur furclad furclad furclad
clad the pick of his barbaric race and barbaric still stillunshaken stillullsbnken stillunshaken
unshaken and unabashed by the revellers revellers tbat rioted riotedabout riotedabout riotedabout
about him while Daylight gave his orders ordersUrn ordersrn orderstin
Urn rn said Kama tabling his Instructions on his htefingers hisnnorl hisAngora
fingers Get um letters from Rawlins Ua wUns Load um urn on onsled onsJed onsled
sled Grub for SelklrK Selkirkou you think um plenty dog grub grubstop grubatop grubstop
stop Selkirk SelkirkPlenty T TPlenty rPlenty
Plenty dog grub Kama KamaUrn KamnTIm KamaUm
Urn Bring sled this place nine um clock cl k Bring Bringum Bringunl Bringunl
unl snowshoes No bring um tent Mebbe bring um umfly usnfly utnfly
fly Urn Ul little ly1 ly1Xo fly flyNo yr yrNoily
Noily Xo U fly Dayttjcht answered answereddecLslvely answereddecLslvelyUm decisively decisivelyUm decisivelyUm
Um much cold coldWe old oldWe Id IdI
We I travel llpht l lightsaaviee hts savree Icc We carry CArryplonty plenty letters lettersont l lettersmrt tters ttersmlt
ont plenty plnt letters back You are strong strongmIlJ wan Plenty Plentycold Plentycofd Plentycold
cold plenty travel all right rightSure I ISure f
Sure Sm all U right Kama muttered with resignation resignationMuch reshn rea lttlon lttlonIub tk n nMuch
Much cold no earea caret damn Dm ready nine um umdock urnMk umclock
clock clockIIe dock dockHe MkHe
He turned on his moccaslncfl heel and walked out outImperturbable outImJfrturbAbJf outimperturbable
Imperturbable sphlnxlike neither giving bag nor receiv receiving r receivlag pI pI1IIt ¬
lag 1IIt greetings nor looking to right or loft The Virginled Virgin Virginled Y rgJn rgJnled
led Daylight away Into a corner cornerLook corDerLook cornerLook
Look here Daylight she said In a tow w voice voicejrour voiceymtre Dice DiceyOUrf
jrour < > busted bustedHfcrhern bustM1R bustedHlghern
Hfcrhern R b rn a I kite kiteIve kite1e kiteIve
Ive eight thousand In Macs Iacs safe safeabe ebe 1Nt began beganBwt eeaDBut yeganBut
But DayI Daylteht Da U 1at Interrupted The ffftroB ros string Itrl loomed loomednear lOoDJetlI loomednear
near lI ar and he Ie shied like an unbroken colt coltIt coltIt oIL oILIt
It doat matter he said atd Busted I come fomo Into ato t tie tieworld iZeorld e eworld
world orld busted I go oat < mt and Ive e been basted most mo t of ofthe oftbe ofthe
the time since I arrived Come on lets tet waltzBut waltz waltzBut w ltz ltzRut
But H Uflltftn ten she urged My moneys doing BOth nothing nethlag ¬
lag 111 I could lend it to you ooa a grubstake site added addedhurriedly addedhurrlpdly addedhurriedly
hurriedly at sight of the alarm In his face faceXobcdy tateobGdy faceobody
Xobcdy obGdy grubstakes me was as the answer MI I stake stakemyself sakemyself statemyself
myself and when I make a killing k1UID Its sure all mine mtooNo u mineNo oca ocaXo
No thank you old girl Much obliged m get III IIIstake my mystake y ystake
stake by running the mall out and In InDaylfcrht InDajl InDaylight
Daylight Dajl ht she Ih murmured In tender < protest protestBut protestBut protestBut
But with ftb a sudden well assumed edulUtton of spirits spiritshe sp splrltshe lts ltshe
he drew tier toward the dancing floor and as they theyswung therBWU theyswung
swung BWU around and around in a waltz she pondered ponderedon
on the Iron heart of the man m n who held her In bis arms armsand armBAnd armsand
and resisted resl all A her wiles wilesAt wUetiAt wilesAt
At six In the he morning scorching with whiskey yet yetever yeteer yetever
ever himself he 11 stood at t the bar putting every very mans manshand m manshand ns nslumd
hand down The way of it was tbat two men faced facedeach fatedeach facedeach
each other across a corner their right elbows elbo resting restingon reatiulon
on the bar their right hands gripped together while whileeach whllpeach whileeach
each strove to press pn > gg the th others hand down Mae Maeafter MaRatter Manafter
after man came against him but no man put his band
He leaned forward forw rd and looked at Kearns uSo So I call that ten thousand
It over alongside alon dc Macdonalds ace saying sayingThats sflyln5Thats sayingThats
Thats what cheered me along Mac I knowod It Itwas Itwas itwas
was only kings that could beat me and an he hAd them themWhat themYhat themWhat
What did youall have he asked all Interest Interestturning Interestturning interestturning
turning to Campbell CampbellStraight CampbellStralght CampbellStraight
Straight flush of four open at both ends cndsa a good gooddrawing gooddra gooddrawing
drawing dra whIg hand handYou handYou bandYou
You bet You could amade a straight a straight straightflush ittrnhtush straightflush
flush ush or a flush out of it itThats it itThats itThats
Thats what I thought Campbell said sadly sadlyIt sadlyIt sadlyIt
It cost me six thousand before I quit quitI quitI
I wlsht youftlld onaUd drawn dra wn Daylight laughed laughedThen laughedThen laughedThen
Then I wouldnt acaught that fourth queen Now NowIve Now1e NowIve
Ive got to take Billy Bm Kawllns Ua wHns mall contract and andinush andmush andmush
mush for Dyea Whats the size of the killing Jack JackKearns JackIiearns JackKearns
Kearns attempted attemp ed to count the pot but was too tooexcited tooexcited tooexcited
excited Daylight drew It across ncros to him with firm firmfingers firmfingers firmfingers
fingers separating Bcp rlt1ng and stacking the markers and andI
I 0 Us and with clear brain adding the sum sumOne sumOne sumOne
One hundred and twentyseven thousand he an announced nnnouuccd anflounced ¬
flounced Youall can sell out now Jack and bead beadfor headtor beadfor
for home homoThe homeThe homeThe
The winner smiled and nodded but seemed incapu incapuble Incupnble incupcbe
ble ble of speech speechTM spee speeId speechId
Id TM shout shmit tlm the rlHnlrs drinks MacDonald fnrTmnldsaId said o ohouse only the tbthouse thehouse
house dont belong to me any more moreYes morrYes moreYes
Yes it does doe Kearns replied first wetting his lipswith lips lipswith IIpcwith
with his tongue Your notes good for any length lengthof lengtbot lengthof
of time But the drinks drinks are on me meName meuName meName
Name your snakeJuice youall youallthe the winner pays paysDaylight paysDayUgbt paysDaylight
Daylight called out loudly to all about him at the thesame thesame thesame
same time rising from his chair and catching the theVirgin thtVirgin theVirgin > >
Virgin by the arm Come on for a reel youall youalldancers younUdancers youalldancers
dancers The nights young yet and Its Helen HelenBreakfast HelenBreakfast HelenBreakfast
Breakfast and the mail contract for me me in the morn mornIng mornIng morning
Ing Here youall Rawlins you youI I hereby do take takoover takpover takeover
over that same contract and I start for salt water waterat waterat waterat
at nine A M Sawee Come on onyouaU youall Wheres Wherestnntfidfllerr Wheresthnt Wheresthat
that tnntfidfllerr fiddler
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T wE wajs w Daylights night He was the centre andthe and andthe andthe
I the hand 1tondo of the revel unquenchably joyous a con contagion cantn eontnglon ¬
tagion tn lon of fun He multiplied himself and in so sodolng sodolng sodoing
dolng multiped multtp d the excitement No prank he sug suggested suggestod luggestcd ¬
gested was too wild for his followers and all fol followed tollowed followed ¬
lowed save those that developed into singing Imbeciles Imbecilesand ImbecJ1esnnd imbecilesand
and fell warbling by the o wayside Yet never did didtrouble didtrouble didtrouble
trouble Intrude It was known on the Yukon that thatwhen thatwhen thatwhen
when Burning Daylight made a night of it wrath and andevil nndevll andevil
evil were forbidden On his nights men dared not notquarrel nolquarrel notquarrel
quarrel In the younger days such things bad hap happenod httppcnod happenod
penod and then men had known what real rel wrath was wasand wasand wasand
and boon manhandled as only Burning Daylight could couldmanhandle eoulc1ml1nhnndlo couldmanhandle
manhandle On his nights men must laugh and be behappy behoPP1 behappy
happy or go home homeDaylight homeDayIfght homeDaylight
Daylight was Inexhaustible In between dances ho hoald hopaId
paId > aid over to Kearns the twenty thousand in dust and apdranflferred nudtranBtcrred andtransferred
transferred to him his Mboseblde claim Likewise Likewisehe
he arranged the taking over of Billy Rawlins mall mallcontract mallcop mallcontract
contract cop tract and made his preparations for the start Ho
despatched a messenger to rout gat < ut U Kama his dog <
drrra a l Banana In Indian Ola n till wandered from his
clown even Oiaf Olli Henderson and French Louis failing faUiDgdespite failingdespite failingdespite
despite their hugeness When Vb en they contended It was wasa wasI wa waa s
a trick a trained muscular knack kn k be challenged them themto thewto the theto m
to another testLook test testLook te t tLook
Look here youallt he cried Im going to do dotwo dotwo d dtwo °
two things thtngstlrst first weigh my sack and second bet It Itthat Itthat i ithat t
that after youall have lifted clean from the floor hour all allthe alltht al althe 1
the tht sacks of flour youall are able blo Ill put on two twomore twolDore tw twmore °
more sacks and Ilk the whole caboodle clean cleanBy deBitBy cleanBy
By Gar Ah take dat date French Fren h Louis rumbled rumbledabove rUMbledAboye rumbleabove d
above the cheers cheersHold rbeersHold cheersHold
Hold on Olaf Henderson cried rled I ban just y u8t uetgood as asgood asgood
good as you Louis I yump half that bet bettI
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They flew helter he Iter skelter out of his gripsAArawlln grips gripssprawling gripsaprawllng
sprawling in all manner manner c cf attitudes gro grotesquely gro4teaquely grotesquely ¬
tesquely and harmlessly in the soft snow snowJ
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Put on the the scales Daylights Dayll bts sack was found to tobalance tobaJan tobalance
balance baJan e an even 400 400 and Lonig and Olaf divided the thehat thebot thebet
hat between them Fiftypound sacks of flour our were werebrought werebrougbt werebrought
brought In from McDonalds cache Other men tested testedtheir testedtheir testedtheir
their strength strenb t first They rhe straddled on two chain cbfilrathe cb chainthe 1nJ 1nJthe
the flour sacks beneath them on the floor and held heldtogether held1otetber heldNether
together by rope lashings Many of the men were wereable wereable goreable
able in this manner to lift four or five hundred pounds poundswhile poundswhile poundswhile
while some succeeded with as high igb as six hundred hundredThen hundredThen hundredThen
Then the two giants took a hand tying tyln at seven aev n buntired bun hundred bundred ¬
dred French Louts then added another sack sack and andswung andswung andswung
swung 750 clear Olaf duplicated dupU ted the performance performancewhereupon performancewherpupon performancewhereupon
whereupon both failed to clear eight hundred Againand Again Againand faln falnand
and again a l they the strove ve e their foreheads beaded withsweat with withsweat withswent
sweat their franW Ira crackling with the effort Bothwore Both Bothwere Bothw
were w e able to skis skiff the eight and to bump it butclear but butclear butclear
clear the floor with It they could not notBy DOtUBJ notBy
UBJ By Gar Daylight DJU bt dls tam you mek one beegmeestake beeg beegmeestake beogmHltake
meestake French Louis said straightening up and andstepping an anstepl1n anddstepping
stepping down from the chairs Only one dam ironman 11onman iron iconman
man can do that One hundred porn meremy mere my
fries not ten porn more moreThe moreThe
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The sacks were unlasbed but wb when n two sacks sackswere aackewere lckswere >
were added Kearns interfered interferedOnly InterferedOAI interferedOnly
Only OAI one sack more moreTwo DloreTo moreTwo
Two some ome we one cried Two was the bet betThey beLHTberddnt
HTberddnt They didnt lift that last sack Kearns protested pr t
hThe Tn Theyy y only lifted seven hundred and fifty
But Daylight grandly brushed aside the confurion confurionfWbats confnonWuts
fWbats the good of youall botbrhV around that thatmore tAdway thatway
way Wbat1i ODe more sack It I CAnt tit three threemore tlIreemore
more I sur sure cant lift two Put em in inHe InBe inle
He stood st tl upon the chairs squatted and bent Ms hisshoulders Msshoulders ItIssJaotrklere
shoulders down til till his hands closed clo ed on the rope He Heshifted Hesbl Heshifted
shifted sbl his feet slightly tautened his muscles wi with a a atentative atNtat1t atentative
tentative pull then relaxed again questing qUeiJtln for a perfect perfect per penPeet ¬
fect adjustment of ail the levers of his body
French Louts looking on sceptically cried out
Pool lak hell Daylight DayU ht Pool Poollak lak bell bellDaylights bellr bellrnU heUrDaylights
Daylights nU bts muscles tautened a second time and this thistime thistime thistime
time m III earnest Slowly and steadily all the energy energyof energyof energyof
of his splendid sple dld body was applied and we quite Imper Imperceptibly h imperceptlbly per pereepUbly ¬
ceptibly without jerk or strain the bulky nine hundred hun hundred ltundred ¬
dred pounds rose ro e from the floor and swung swu back and andforth andttb andforth
forth pendnlnmlike between his hisOlai logsOlaf logs logsOlaf
Olaf Henderson sighed sI hed a vast vast audible sigh b The
Virgin Vlr tl1 who 00 had tensed unconsciously till her muscles muscleshurt m muscleshart l6S l6SlIrt
hurt her relaxed While French Louis Louis murmured murmuredreverently Taurmoredreverently rm < ared aredreerentJy
reverently reverentlyMsteu reerentJyjraleu reverently3i
Msteu 3i eleu Daylight saint at ut Ay am one beeg baby
You are one beeg man manDaylight manDarU manDaylight
Daylight DarU bt dropped his burden leaped to tne flooand flooandbeaded floor n and andheaded ant anth08de
headed < l for the bar barWeigh blarWeJgh barWeigh
Weigh h in he cried tossing his sack to the weigh weigher ¬
er who transferred to it four hundred dollars from the thesacks thesacks thesacks
sacks of the two losersSurge losers losersSurge losersSurge
Surge up everybody Daylight went on Name Nameyour Nameyour Nameyour
your snake snak juice The winner pays paysThis paysuTbls paysThis
uTbls This Is my night he was shouting ten minutes minuteslatar minuteslater minuteslater
later Im the lone hewolf and Ive seen thirty thirtywinters thirtywinters thirtywinters
winters This Is my birthday my one day in the theyear theyear theyear
year and I can put any men on his Us back Come OB OByonall OByouaU onyouall
yonall Im going to put youall in the snow Comeon Come Comeon Comeon
on you chechaquos and sourdoughs and get yourbaptism your yourbaptism yourbaptism
baptismThe baptism baptismThe baptismThe
The rout streamed out of doors oors all save the bar barkeepers barkeepers barkeepers ¬
keepers and the singing Baccbuses S Some fleeting fleetingthought tteetlngthOUght fleetingthought
thought of saving savin his own dignity entered MacDoa MacDoaaWs MacDonaids Iaclonaids
aids bead for be approached Daylight with out outstretched outstretched outstretched ¬
stretched hand handWbat handWhat
Wbat You firstr rstr Daylight laughed I nghed Shed clasping claspmgthe claspingthe claspingthe
the others hand as if In greeting great1nNo N NNo
No no D the other hurriedly h ledly disclaimed Just Jnatcongratulations JU3tcongratulations Justcongratulations
congratulations on your bir birThday ay Of course you can canput canput canput
put me in the snow What hat chance have I against againsta
a man that lifts nine hundred pounds poundsMacDonald pouJKkTfacDoookl poundsMacDonald
MacDonald weighed one hundred and eighty eightypounds pJghtrpounds eightypounds
pounds and Daylight had him gripped gr pped solely by Ms Msband 1H 1Hhand binhand
hand yet by a sheer abrupt jerk be took the so soloonkeeper soloonkoeper soloonkeeper
loonkeeper off his feet f t and flung him face downward downwardin
in the snow In quick succession seizing seizin the mennearest men mennearest mannearest
nearest him be threw half a dozen more Resistance Resistancewas Resistaneewas Resistancewas
was useless They flew helter skelter out of hisgrips his hisgrips hisgrips
grips landing in all manner of attitudes grotesquely grotesquelyand grotesquelyand tesquely tesquelyand
and harmlessly in the soft snow It soon became becamedifficult becamedlfiltult becamedifficult
difficult In the dim starlight to distinguish between betweenthose betweenthose betweenthose
those thrown and those waiting their turn and bebegan Be hebegan Beoogan
began feeling their backs and shoulders sbou1d rs determiningtheir determining determiningtheir determla lg lgtheir
their status by whether or not be found them powdered pow powdered powderpd ¬
dered with snow snowBaptked snowBaptked snowBaptlAed
Baptked yet became his stereotyped question questionas
as he reached rl bed out his terrible baad baadSeveral hand bandjSeveral handSeveral
Several score lay down In the snow in a long row rowwhile rowwbUe rawwhile
while many many others knelt in mock humility scooping scoopiapsnow BcoopiDsnow scoopingsnow
snow upon their heads and claiming the rite accom accomplished accompUshed accomplished ¬
plished But a I group of five stood upright uprlghtb uprighthack uprighthackwoodsmen back backwoodsmen ck ckwoodsmen ¬
woodsmen and frontiersmen they eager to contest contestany contestan contestany
any an mans birthday birthdayGraduates birthdayGraduates
Graduates Graduates of the hardest of man handling schoolsveterans schools schoolsveterans schoolsveteraus
veterans of multitudes of rough and tumble battles battlesmen battlesmen
men of blood and sweat and endurance they never nevertheless nevertheless ¬
theless lacked one thing that Daylight DayU bt possessed In Inhigh inbi Inhigh
high bi b degree degreenamely namely an almost perfect brain aDd aadmuscular aDdmuscular andmuscular
muscular coordination It was IS simple In its its way wayand wayRDd wayand
and no virtue Irtue of his He had been born with this thisendowment thisendowment
endowment His nerves carried messages more morequickly morequlckl morequickly
quickly than theirs his mental processes culminating culminatingin
in acts of will were quicker than theirs his muscles musclesthemselves musclsthemselves
themselves by some 8Om immediacy of chemistry obeyed obeyedthe obeyedthe obeyedthe
the messages of his will quicker than theirs He was wasso wasso
so made His muscles were high power explosives explosivesThe explosivesThe explosivesThe
The levers of his body snapped into play like the jaws jawsof jawsor jawsof
of steel traps And in addition to all this hIs was wasthat wasthat wasthat
that superstrength that is the dower of but one onehuman onehuman onehuman
human in millions milliona a strength depending not on size sizebut sizebut sizebut
but on degree a supreme organic < excellence residing
In the stuff of the muscles themselves Thus M Mswiftly asswiftly I IswlUy
swiftly could he apply a stress that that before an oppo opponent op opnent oppoy oppoynent
nent could become aware and resist the be aim of the thestress thestress
stress had been accomplished In turn so swiftly did didhe didhe didhe
he become aware of a stress applied to him that he hasaved hesaved hesaved
saved himself by resistance l 1stance or by delivering a light lightning lightnlng lightping ¬
ping counter stress stressIt stressIt stressIt
It aint ain t no use youall standing there Daylight Dsyilghtaddressed Daylightaddressed DsyUghtaddressed
addressed the waiting group up Youail might as well wellgot wellgot wellgot
got right down and take your baptising Youall Youallmight YouallmIght Youallmight
might down me any other day In the year but on my
birthday I want youall to know Im the best man manIs manIs manIs
Is that Pat Hanrahans mug looking hungry and andwilling andwllUng
willing Come on Pat PatPat PatPat
Pat Hanrahan esbareknuckleprizeflgater and androughhouseoxpert androughhouseoxpert androughhouseexpert
roughhouseoxpert stepped forth The two n men mename mencame n ncame
came against each other In grips and almost before beforehe betorehe befordbe
he had exerted himself the Irishman found himself himselfIn
In the merciless vise of a calfNelson half Nelson that burled him himjead h1mead himead
jead ead and shoulders In
the snow Joe Hines ex exlumberjack exlumberjack exlumberjack
lumberjack came down with an impact equal to a
fall from a two story building buildinghis his overthrow a ac accomplished aecompllshed < s scompllshed
compllshed by a crossbuttock delivered he claimed c1a1m
before he was ready readyThere readyThere readyThere
There was nothing exhausting in all this to Day ¬
light He did not heave and strain tnrough long
minutes No time practically was occupied His
body exploded abruptly and terrifically 1n m one instant In Instant instant ¬
stant and on the next instant was relaxed Thus ThusDec
Doc Watson the graybearded ironbodied man with without without without ¬
out a past a fighting terror himself was overthrown
In the fraction of second
a preceding his own
on onslaught ontdaugbt onslaught ¬
slaught As he was in the act of f gathering himself
for a spring Daylight was npqn him and with such
fearful suldennoss as to crush him backward and
down Olaf Henderson Hondo Son receiving his cue from this
attempted to take Daylight unaware rushing ru hlng upon
him from ono side as he stooped with extended hand
to help Doc Watson Wat on up Daylight dropped on his
hands nnd knees receiving in his side Olafs Olaf s knees
Olaf OInts B momentum carried him clear oVer the obstruc obstracm
tion In a long flying fiying fall Before he could rise Day Da
light bad whIrled him mover m over on his back and was W8 rub ¬
bing hla face and ears with snow sno and shoving sbo1n hand
fuls down his nock nockH nockHI
H HI I ban yust as good a mAn as you ban Daylight Daylightby
OJa Olaf sputter sputtered lIS ho pulled himself to his hl fect feet but hut
by Yuplter Iban I ban aavvec see se a grip like that thatTO thatTO thatTO
TO BH CONTINUED CONT D NEXT v T SUNDAY SUNDAYI
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