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Y* NSlilS 8YN0P8IS. Harnish, known all through Alas "Burning Daylight," celebrates hla birthday with a crowd of miners at flto Circle City TJvoll. The dance leads •o heavy gambling, in which-over $100,000 fc staked, Harnliih loses hla money and Ma mine but wins the malt contract. He Malta on his mall trip with dogs and •Mfe. telling his friends that he will be la toe big Yukon gold strike at the start. Banting Daylight makes a sensationally *MM run across country with the mall, •ppears at the Tlvoli and Is now ready loin his friends In a dash, to the new fields. Deciding that gold will be sad In the up-river district Harnlsh two tons of flour, which he declares be worth Its weight In gold, but he. arrives with his flour he finds W desolate. A comrade dlscov *°He goes _. prominent figure In the Klondike defeats a combination of capitalists la •old and Daylight reaps a rich har tt_ to- DaWson, becomes the a vast mining deal. He returns to atvllix&tlon. and amid the bewildering •amplications of high finance. Daylight Sntfs that he has been led to Invest his -.gteven millions in a manipulated scheme, ge goes to New York, and confronting Ma disloyal partners with a revolver, he threatens to kill them If his money la not VMorned. CHAPTER IX,—Continued. A longaesslon of three hours follow liA. 'Tb« deciding factor was not the automatic plBtol, but the certitude BUit Daylight would use it. Not alone •era the three men convinced of this, ^••1 Daylight himself was convinced. JffK »u illrmly resolved to kill the mer '"If his money vas not fbrthcomlng. It not an easy matter, on the, spur of momenti to raise ten mil ln paper currency, and there vexatious delays. A dozen times 5 Mir. JJOwieon and the head clerk were MMit&oned into the room, oilthese oc aidQltl the pliitol lay on Daylight's lap, •craped carelessly by a newspaper, *Mlj» he was usually engaged in roll ing or lighting His brown-paper clg •rtttte. Bat v*n the end, the thing was *eeertp\l8h«&. A suit-case was brought fcJr one of the clerks from the walt |log'motor-car, and Daylight snapped it .. pkat o^tl^e, tas^ package of bills. He ftaoMd&t th« door to make his final ffiftoer'e's three several things I sure Wit to tell you-all. When 1 get out •M* this door, you-all'll be set free to •*!, and I Just want to warn you-all About what to do. In the first place. aggy»o:" warrants for my arrest—savvee? S ,TWs money's mine, and I ain't rob you of it. If It gets out how you »fe®*Te me the double cross and how I 4one you back again, the laugh '11 be «i you, and it'll be sure an almlghty i*«gh. You-all can't afford that -laugh. Besides, having got back my Make that you-all robbed me of, If you |i-«rrest' and try to' rob me a sec gunning .-for you-all. I'll wire get you. No little fraid shrimps like you-all can skin Burn Daylight. If you win you lose, and $ aure be some several unexpect S#^!iti0yall| arotind this burg. Just fe me in the eye, and you-all'll sav- I mean business. Them stubs receipts on the table is all yourn. ®ood day." At the door shut behind him, Na toanlal, Letton sprang few the tele #hojoe, afad Dowsett intercepted him. "What are you going to do?" ,Dow ^^p-eett-Amanded. irilNi "The police. It's downright robbery, won't stand It,, I tell you I won't it" ||S||E'Ppwsett smiled grimly,'but at the. Pyjfc&' «ame time bora the slender financier MfMik Nek and. down Into his chair "We'll talk It over," he said and Leon Guggenhammer be found an iftaxlous ally. And nothing ever came of It. The -/•Mng remained a secret with the men. Wor did Daylight ever 5 th« secret away, though that aft •**ooa, leaning back In his stateroom Twentieth Century, his shoes *®d feet on a chair, ha chuckled ^jJ.lWiMUid-heartily. New York remained awJ? pnwtod over the affair nor h^-l *tid it hit upon a rational explana iBf *11 rights, Burning Daylight gone broke, yet It was llM'wn that he immediately reappeared ^fijgan Francisco possessing an appar |*wr, unimpaired capital. Thia wm |f«tdcne«d by the magnitude of the en ho engaged In, auch aa, for 'QTTTv' Mall, by, sheer Itaoney and lighting power kL-).opntnd tMlawNK away fromSheft months to the Red Indian," was said of him, and was said truly. He was a free lance, and had no friendly business associations. Such alliances as were formed from time to time were purely af fairs of expediency, and he regarded his allies as men who would give him the double-cross or ruin him If a profitable chance presented. In spite of this point of view, he was faithful to his allies. But he was faithful Just as long as they were and no longer. The treason had to come from them, and then it wae 'Ware Daylight. The business men and financiers of the Pacific coast never forgot the les son of Charles Kllnkner and the Cali fornia & Altamont Trust Company. Kllnkner was the president. In part nership with Daylight, the pair raided the San Jose Interurban. The power ful Lake Power & Electric Lighting corporation came to the rescue, and Kllnkner, seeing what he thought was the opportunity, went over to the en emy in the thick of the pitched battle. Daylight lost three millions before he was done With it, and before he was done with it he saw the California & Altamont Trust Company hopelessly wrecked, and Charles Kllnkner a sui slde in a felon's cell. So it was that Daylight became a J. R.-\. ft I ID successful financier. lie did not go in for swindling the workers. Not only did he not have the heart for It, but It did not strike him as a sporting proposition. The workers were so easy, so stupid. It was more like slaughtering fat, hand-reared pheas ants on the English preserves, be had read about The sport to him, was in waylaying the successful robbers and taking their spoils from them. Tlte grim Yukon life had failed to make Daylight hard. it. required civ* ilifeatlon to produce this result In the fierce, savage game he now play ed, his habitual geniality imper ceptybly alipped away from him, as did his- lasy Western drawL He atlU had recrudescences of genial ity, hut they were largely periodical and forced, and deeply' and Daylight now £U.4«putat!0&> iii "t fiviabla reputa U«t*!oi. H«b». flea* r^ripping ttptf and dteelpfl&dL It waa an development, The Cocktails Served as an Inhibition. they were uausOly due to the* epektalla he took prior to meal*, time. lb the North he had drunk at Irregular intervals hut hla drinking became systematic unconscious hut It was physical and mental conditions. The eotfktalfe served as an da* to the dartpg and au 6fhlamtures.re«uiiedeheok par I* ten#, though the «^w^L^nTeTtr (Copyright. 191ft, by the New York Herald Company.* (Copyright, 1910, by the MacMillan Company, of alcoholic inhibition athwart his consciousness. The ofllce became im mediately a closed affair. It ceased to exist In the afternoon, after lunch, It lived again for one or two hours, when, leaving it, ho rebuilt the wall of Inhibition. Of course, there were ex ceptions to this and, such was the rig or of his discipline, that if he had a dinner or a conference before him in which, in a business way, he encoun tered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campaigns, be abstained from drinking. But the instant the business was settied, his everlasting call went out for a Martini, and for a double-Martini at that, In a long glass so as not to excite comment. Into Daylight's life came Dede Ma son. She came rather imperceptibly. He had accepted her impersonally along with the office furnishing, the office boy, Morrison, the chief, confi dential, and only clerk, and all the rest of the accessories of a super man's gambling place of business. Had he been asked any time during the first months she was In his employ, he would have been unable to tell the color of her eyes. From the fact that she was a deml-blonde, there resid ed dimly in his subconsciousness a conception that she was a brunette. Likewise he had an idea that she ./as not thin, while there was an absence in his mind of any Idea that she was fat. And how she dressed, he had no Idea at all. He had no trained eye in such matters, nor was he interested. He took it for granted, in the lack of any impression to the contrary, that she was dressed somehow. He knew -V* her as "Miss Mason," and that was ,all, though he was aware that as a stenographer she was quick and accu rate. He watched her leaving one aft ernoon, and was aware for the first time that she was well-formed, and that her manner of dress was satis fying. He knew none of the detalla of woman's dress, and he saw none of the details of her neat shirt waist and well-cut tailor suit. He saw only the effect in a general, sketchy way. She looked right This was in the ab sence of anything wrong or out of the way. "She's a trim little good-looker," was his verdict when the outer office Uoor closed on her. The next morning, dictating, he con cluded that he liked tho way she did her hair, though for tbe life of him he could have given no description of it. The Impression was pleasing, that was all. .She sat wa» baaed upon tthtfcition Without reasoning or thtaking about it, the.tiraln of the ofllce. which was some eort Mil between him and the^wlndoW, and he noted that her k*1* light brown, with hints of golden bronse. A pale sun, shining in. touched the golden bronse into smoul dering ^lres that were very He dtscovered that In the intervals, when aha had nothing to do, Bhe read books and magaslnes, or worked on fcf feminine fancy work. Passln* her desk, once, oock- he picked up volume of Kipling's poems and glanced beptfssM through the pages. 1 ACKIPMDON /U/RW# OR "R//£ CALL OR M£WLD*? HW/RE/TWO:' /IWR/M£DMNZRC.I I,R a book of Another time it was Wells', "The Wheels of Chance." "What's it all about?" Daylight asked, "Oh, it's Just a novel, a krrs-story." She stopped, but he still stood wait ing, and she felt It Incumbent to go on. "It's about a little Cockney draper's assistant, who takes a vacation on his bicycle, and falls In with a young girl very much above him. Her moth er Is a popular writer and all that. And the situation is very curious, and sad, too, and tragic. Would you care to read it?" "Does he get her?" Daylight de manded. "No that's the point of it He wasn't—" "And he doesn't get her, and you'vo read all them pages, hundreds of them, to find that out?" Daylight muttered in amazement. Miss Mason was nettled as well as amused. "But you read the mining and finan cial news by the hour,", sShe re torted. "But I sure get something out of that. It's business, and it's differ ent. I get money out of it. What do you get out of books?" "Points of view, new ideas, life.," "Not worth a cent cash." "But life's worth more than cash," she argued. "Oh, well," he said, with easy mas culine tolerance, "so long as you en joy it. That's what counts, I suppose and there's no accounting for taste." Despite his own superior point of view, he had an idea that she knew a lot, and he experienced a fleeting feeling like that of a barbarian face to face with the evidence of some tre mendous culture. To Daylight cul ture was a worthless thing, and yet, somehow, he was vaguely troubled by a sense that there was more in culture than he Imagined. Again, on her desk, in passing, he noticed a book with which he was fa miliar. This time he did not stop, for he had recognized the cover. It was a magazine correspondent's book on the Klondike, and he knew that he and his photograph figured in it, and he knew, also, of a certain sensational chaptcr concerned with a woman's suicide, and with one "To Much Day light." After that he did not talk with her again about books. He imagined what erroneous conclusions she had drawn from that particular chapter, and it stung him the more in that they were undeserved. He pumped Morri son, the clerk, who had first to vent his personal grievance against Miss Mason before he could tell What little he knew of her. "She comes from Siskiyou County. She's very nice to work with in the office, of course, but she's rather stuck on herself—exclusive, you know." "How do you make that out?" Day light queried. "Well, she thinks too much of herself to associate with those she works with, in the office here, for in stance. She won't have anything to do with a fellow, you see. I've ask ed her out repeatedly, to the theater and the chutes and such things. But nothing doing. Says she likes plenty of sleep, and can't stay up late, and has to go all the way to Berkeley— that's where she lives. But that's all hot air. She's running with the Uni versity boys, that's what she's doing. She needs lots of sleep, and can't go to the theater with me, but she can dance all hours with them. I've heard it pretty straight that she goes to all tneir hops and such things. Rather stylish and high-toned for a stenog rapher, I'd say. And she keeps a horse, too. She rides astride all over those hills out there. I saw her one Sunday myself. Oh, she's a high flyer, and I wonder how she does It Sixty-five a month don't go far. Then she has a sick brother, too." "Live with her people?" Daylight asked. "No hasn't got any. They were well to do, I've heard. They must have been, or that brother or hers couldn't have gone to the University of Cali fornia. Her father had a big cattle ranch, but he got to fooling with mines or something, and went broke before he.died. Her mother died long before that Her brother must cost a lot of money. He was a husky once, playpd football, was great on hunting and be ing out in the mountains and such things. He got his accident break ing horses, and then rheumatism or something got into him. One leg is shorter than the other, and withered up some. He has to walk on crutches. I saw her out with him once—cross ing the ferry. The doctors have been experimenting oq him for years, and he's in the French Hospital no ft, I think." AH of whigh sidelights on Uiss Ma son went to increase Daylight's inter est in her. Yet much as he desired, he fettled to get acquainted, with her. He had thoughts of aaldng her to luncheon, but his was tUe innate chiv alry of the frontiersman, and tha thoughts never came to anything. He knew a self-respecting, square-dealing man was not supposed to take «hla stenographer to luncheon. Such thinga did happen, he knew, for he heard rthe chafing goaalp of the club but be did not think much of soch sorry for tho girls. O0BI mm IN LESS STRENUOUS TIMES Explanation of the Difference Be tween Domestic Standards Now and Those of Long Ago. In the Woman's Home Companion there Is an Interesting presentation of the difference that exists between tbe domestic standard of young married women of today and tbose of the past generation. How did the women of the middle class of a generation or two ago manage when they could not keep help? Following Is the answer quoted from a Companion editorial: "They lived according to their means they did not set up impossible standards, and they knew much less about the science of bringing up chil dren. They had no special style to keep up gave the children a weekly bath kept the table set between meals did not serve their meals in courses, but put all the food on the table at once confined tbelr social affairs to evening calls and parties, and church suppers, at which they wore the same black silk dress for at least two seasons in short, every woman did only what she could, and her friends made it easier for her by doing likewise." BACK YARD COMMUNINGS.! 1 0 The Dog—Is this a free concert? The Cat (pausing in bis contented" monologue)—No, I get so much pur. Why He Couldn't Sit Down.' Harry, aged six, is an orphan but an indulgent grandmother and kind maiden aunt have taken care of him. Tne first pair of knickerbockers were secured recently, and it was a proud moment for the boy when his aunt put them on him on Sunday morning and he was permitted to go to church with his grandmother. Naturally maiden aunts know very little about the arrangement of knickerbockers, and there was a suspicious fullness in front and an equally mystifying tight ness in the back to be observed, as the little chap trudged happily along. In church Harry sat down, but did not appear comfortable and stood up. "Harry, sit down," whispered his grandmother. He obediently climbed back on the seat, but soon slipped off again. "Harry, you must sit down." "Grandma, I can't. My pants Is chok ing me." She looked more closely than her dim sight had before permit ted, and discovered the new little knickerbockers were on hind side be fore. Harry stood up during the re mainder of the service. Where the Fruit Grows. Michael Casey, a politician in San Francisco, who has been in ofllce and on the city payroll for many years, was addressing a meeting of his fel low-citizens. It was a labor meeting. "You men must know," spouted Casey, "that you are the great body politic in this city. You are the roots and trunks of our great municipal tree, while we who represent you in office are merely the branches on that magnificent tree." "True for you, Mike," piped a man in the back of the hall, "but did ye ever notice all the fruit grows on the branches?"—Saturday Evening Post S fc————— I, A Fright. "Lady," said Meandering Mike, "would you lend me a cake of soap?" "Do you mean to tell me you want soap?" "Yes'm. Me partner's got de hic cups an' I want to scare him." FILES CUBED IN 6 TO 14 DATS It is the common lot of man not to get an uncommon lot. There Is a difference between being useful and being used. ^jBairio, N. Y. Dispensary BAKING SEE bow economical—and SEE that yon get Calumet Je ING POWR MADE BY THE TRuSi Baking Genuine KIDNEY TROUBLE fll Mrs. Wtnalow's Soothing Syrup for ChUdr«a teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 35c a bottle. 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