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f M.tr of pn outrageous burst of gJSrTr u "What ara you going to dc with two tons'*" the storekeeper demanded. Tl UII ! ow all in simple A. B, C and ono, two. three." Daylight held op one *lr??er end began checking off. t number one: a big strike com? ing in I ;? - Oggejtry. Hunch number t?o Carmack's made It. Hunch num? ber three: ain't no hunch at eJL It's a cinch if one ami two is right, then flour just has to go sky high If I'm tiding hunches one and two. I just got to ride this cinch, which Is number three. If I'm right, flour T. balance gold on the scales this winter.' CHAPTER V. Still men were without faith In the strike When Daylight, with his heavy outfit of flour, arrived at the mouth of the Klondike, he found the big flat as desolate and tenantless as ever. Down close by the river. Chief Isaac and his Indians wore camped beside the frames on which they were drying sal? mon. Several old-tlmee were also In csmp there Hsvlng finished their summer work on Ten Mi's Creek, they had come down tho Yukon, bound for Circle City But at Sixty Mile they hsd learned of the strike, and stopped off to look over ths ground They had just returned to Their "boat When "Day? light landed his flour, and their report was pessimistic But sc hour Ister. at his own camp. Joe Ladue strode in from Bonanza Creek. He led Daylight awsy from the oamp and men and told htm things In confidence. "She's sure there." he said In con? clusion. "1 didn't sluice it. or cradle It I panned It, all In that sack, yes? terday, on the rim rock I tell you you can ehake it out of the grass-roots. And what's on the bed rock down in tho bottom of the creek they ain't no way of te'lin'. But she's big. I tell you. big Keep It quiet, and locate all you ens. It's In spots, but I wouldn't bo none surprised if some of them claims yielded as high ss fifty thou? sand Ths only troubls is that it's spotted'' A month passed by, and Bonanza Creek remained quiet. A sprinkling of men bad staked: but most of them, after staking, had gone on dowg to Forty Mike and Circle City. The few that possessed sufficient faith to re? main were busy building log cabins against the coming of winter. Car mack and his Indian relatives were oc? cupied In building a elulce box and getting a head of water. The work was slow, for they had to saw their < lumber by hand from the standing for est But fsrther down Bonanza were four men who had drifted In from up river, Dan McOHvary, Dave McKay, Dave Edwards, and Harry Waugh. They were a quiet party, neither ask* tag nor giving confidences, sud they herded by tbemaslves. But Daylight, who had panned the spotted rim of Carmack's claim and shaken coarse go'd from the grass-roots, and who had panned the rim at a hundred oth? er places up snd down the length of 1 the creek and foand nothing, was cu? rious to know what lay on bed-rock. He had nrted the four quiet men sink? ing a shaft closf by the stream, and he had heard tSSgf whip-saw going as they made lumbe.* for the slulco boxes. He did not wait for an invitation, but he waa present the first day they sjniced. And st the end of five hours' shoveling for ono man, he saw them take out thirteen ounces and a half of gold. It was coarne rold, running from genheads to a twelve-dollar i ugget. and It had come from off bed rock. Tho first fall snow was flying that day. ; ?nod the Arctic winter was closing * dowu: but Daylight had no eyes for I ths bleak gray ssduess of the dying, short lived summer. He saw his vis? ion coming true, and on the big fiat wee upreared anew his golden city of tho snows. Gold had been fou:ol on hod rock That was the blT thing Carmack's strike was aisurod. Day right stsked a claim In hii own name adjoining three be bad purchased with m\n* tobscco This gr.v? h'.m a block two thousand feet long and extending to width from rlm-rock to rim rock. Returning thn' night to his camp at the mouth of Klond'ke. he ,#~"nd in It Kimi. the Indian chief ho had left st Dyes Kama wa* trnv? Mng by ca noo. bringing is the la ' m ill of the year. In his possession was some two ti ? dollars In gold-dua'. which Dayl'r:ht Immediately borrowed In return V arranged to st;ike a claim for h'm. which he was |g rOOOfd WhSfl ho pasted taassjgSj Fatty vn When Kama departed next morning, he car? ried a number of letter* for Daylight, addresred to all the old timers do vn rtver. In which they were urged to corne up Immediately and ntske Also Kama carried letters of rln lh.r import, giv. n him by ihe other men on Ho "It will sure be the gosh-dangdest stampede that ever was.' Daylight ehiiokVd. as hg tftsd to vision the sj cited SS| ns of Forty Mile and Circle Cl'y fumbling Info pollngboatS and rscfng the hundreds of miles up thn Yukon for he ggstl that his word would be unquestlonl ?gly accepted. One diy In DsSSmbSf Dsytlgll filled s pan from t^d rock on 0W1 Bjsjsj and carried It Into his '.?Im lore a frre burned .md enabled hhu Id keep water unfrozen In a canva* tank. Ho Squatted over the tank and began to wash. Earth and grsv ' ? I to fill tho psn sj he Impart t ig K ? ?if> eulsr movement, tag i r ooarssf particles washed out At times lo d the with his fingers, raking out handful* of gravel The con'* nts of the pan di? minished. At is dr. bottom, for the ssjysj ??> g| lestli gad tentative exsi be gave the pan i emivvtng It of bottom showed gg If ry.<? ? ! v i sand us your job work. ?T. Tuns the yellow gold flashed up as the muddy water was filtere d It was gold?gold-dust, coar-c gold, nuggets, large nuggets, lie WOJ all alone. He set ihr pan down for a moment and thought long thought-. Tlx n he finish d the washing, am' weighed th^ result In his scales. / the rate of six ten doHgfl to the ounce Um pap. h ? l o mtnJi od seven hundi i I gad odd dollara It was beyond any? thing f. I even he had dreamed, fondest anticipations hid rone 00 further thai twenty or thirty thousan dollars U ? Claim; but here wer claims worth half a million each at tbv least, even If they were spotted. !!-? did not go back to work in tBa shaft that day, nor the nc\t, nor 19 next. Tnstcafl. capped and mlttenefl. N light stampeding outfit, including hi: rabbit skin robe, strapped on hia back he was out and away on a many-day*' tramp over, creeks and divides, in? specting the whole neighboring terr! tory. On each creek he was entitle! to locate one claim, but be was chary in thus surrendering up hlf chances. On Hunker Creek only did ho stake a claim. Bonanza Creek he lOund staked from mouth tC Houree, while every little draw ann pup and gulch that drained into it was likewise staked, little faith was had In these side streams. They bad been staked by the hundreds of men who bad failed to get ii on Bonanza. Thr most popular of these creeks Wgl Adams. The on? least fancied was Eldorado, which I owed into Bonanza. The Whole Bottom Showed as if Cov ered With Butter. Just above Carmr.ck's Discovery claim. Even Daylight disliked the looks of R]? dorado; but. still riding his hunch, he bought a half share in one claim on 11 for half a sack cf flour. A mouth later he paid eight hundred dollars fo< the adjoining claim. Three month, later, enlarging this block of property he paid forty thousand for a thin claim, and. though it was concealer in the future, he was destined, no* long after, to pay one hundred and fifty thousand for a fourth,claim on the creek that had Lcen the least liked of all the creeks. In the meantime, and from the day he washed seven hundred dollars from a single pan, and squatted over it an . thought a long thought, be never agaiii touched hand to pick and shovel. A ho said to .Ice Ladue the night of tint wonderful washing: "Joe*. I ain't never going to worl. hard agu.in. Here's where I begin t use my brains. I'm going to farm gold. Cold will grow gold If you-all have | the savvee and can get hold of some for seed. When I seen them sevc. hundred dollars in the bottom of the pan. I knew l had seed at last.' The hero of the Yukon in the younger days bofore the Carmack strike. Burning Daylight now became the hero of the strike. The story o! his hunch and how he rode it WSa told up p.nd down the land. Certain ' he had ridden it far and away beyond the boldest, for no five of the luckie held the value in claims that he held And. furthermore, he was still riding the hunch, and with no diminution 01 daring. B M k In Dawson, though he remained true to htl word and never toi chad hand ? <> pi< k and shovel, he worked a^ hard as ever in his life. He had B thousand irons in the fire, and the: i 0] I bin busy. Heavy as were h' oxpeunae, he won more bOOYlly, He took laya, bought half shares, shared with the noil bo grobatahed, and modi pereoual locatlont, hay and night bis dogs were re; dy, and bo OWOO I 1 ' I U "us; so that oben i? itanv pedc to a no \ di ? c try was on, if o i Burning Daylight to tho foro through the longost, coldeel nights till be bla/? d his st: !<cs next to DI?jcov< ry In one way or another (to say nothir of t!?H in ry WOrthlOOl OfOOhl) 1" came Into poofloootoo of properties or the good ??-???';?, stich as Sulphur, I) \ 'nlon. Kxec'sls. Biwgah, CrittO, AI hambra. and DOoUttlo. Tin- thousand he pOOfOd <nt lowed back in to,is 0 thousands. DOWOOI grow rapidly that, winter ol 1896, Moncj poured In on Dayllghl frOBI tl I 'le ttt town lots, lie prompl ly invested it whoro it would gall gtOffO. In t'.ict. he played the dan ? 1 001 gJBBM of pyramiding, and no Diori erlloos pyramiding than In n placer I camp COIlld he haagin? d. Dot he played With bit tyof Wfcfc ODOO, Corner loll in desirable locttloni told that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dol'ars. Daylight sen! WO ; out over the trails and passes lor tin newcomers to bring down |og*raftf ? d. as a result, the summer ol 189 ?w his saw mills working day tn<1 || lit on three shifts, and Still be bl I ; If gs U fl OTOf 0 itlt which bt |i i bl The g cabins, l,c ? - ? ." told at from one to gotorit Hend us your Job work. dollars. Two??ton lo| buildings, I-? H:e business parte town brought him iron, fortj io fifty thousand dollar* apitco. These fresh aecreth t;a o? cap? ital wore Immediately Invcatel In oft? cv ventures. Mo turhad Ko!d >ver . over, until everything that be touch ' . t isut ?i <o tum t<> gold With t!ie gummer rush frotn the Out* Ilde ctiiue ipecle.1 correspondent* .*k I *j ? hi", ti ? i'ajMra and n.ui ? and ont h - ull, itaing unit ni* Iboy er? e Daylight up; <o thtit, so ?u) I :? tho world waa concerned Ijr'.v*?!?;;-* I loomed the largest Bgun In Aln- ? U*1 ooursOi aitei Icro a! m< n?? ib< a orid be cami Int? ?? In i ? Sp: n l&h War, and fori ? ? I a! oui . u; bu' in the Klondike I: e'l HayHfCht ^till re? mained the moti ; romlueut hgure, QHA^TEH Vi. it waa he'd by ihe thousands of barn-worshipping el echaouoi th;> Day* light was a nMfi absolutely without fear. But Bettle and Dan MacDonald and other sourdoughs shook their heads and Ignghed SB they mentioned women. And they were right. I Jo had alway; been afraid of them from the time, himself a lad of seventeen, when Queen Anne, of Junegu, made open and ridiculous love to him. For that matte", he never bed known women. Horn In a mlolnf-camp where they were rare and mysterious, having no aisters, his mother dying while he was an infant, he had fever been in con? tact with them. Hut It was left to the Virgin to give him his final fright. She was found one morning deud in her cabin. A shot through the head had done it, and she had left no message, no ex? planation. Then came the talk. Some wit, voicing public opinion, called it a case of too much Daylight She had killed herself because of him. Every? body knew this, and said so. The cor? respondents wrote it up, and once more Burning Daylight, King of tho Klondike, was sensationally featured in the Sunday supplement! of the United States. The Virgin had straightened up, so the feature-stories ran, and correctly so. Never had she entered a Daw son City dance-hall. When she first arrived from Circle City, she had earned her living by washing clothes. Next, she had bought a sewing-machine and made men's drill parkas, fur caps, and moosehlde mittens. Then she had gone as a clerk into the First Yukon Hank. All this, and more, was known and told, though one and all were agreed that Day? light, while the cause, had been tho innocent cause of hor untimely end. And the worst of it was that Day? light knew It was true. Always would he remember thr' last night he had seen her. He bad thought nothing of it at the time; kut( looking back, he was haunted by every little thing that had happened. In the light of the tragic event, he could understand everything?her quietness, that calm certitude as if al! vexing questions of living had boon n oothed out and were gone, and that certain ethereal sweetness about al! that she had said and done that lud been almost mater? nal. He remenjben'd the wny she had 1 mked at him, how she had laughed when he narrated Mickey Dolan's mis take in staking tho fraction on Skook r m On Ich. Her In ighter had been Hghtly joyou whilt a1 the same timo It had ba ked it:, old-time robustm s \ Not that she had been grave or sub? dued. On the contrary, she had be< n so patently content, so filled wit a peace. Slio had fooled him, fool that he was. He had even thought that night that her feeling for him had passed, and he had taken delight In tho thought, and caught visions of the i tatisfying future friendship that would ' be theirs with this perturbing love ' out of the way. And then, When he stood at the door, cap In hand, and said good night. It had struck him at the time as a funny and embarrassing thing, her j bending over his hand and kissing It. : He had felt like a fool, but he shivered now w hen he looked back ou It and fell SI kin the touch of her lips on his hand. She wi >- saying good-by. an eternal good-by, and he had never guessed. At that very moment, and for all the moment! Of the evening. ; coolly nnd deliberately, as he well ; knew her way, she had been resolved to die. If he had only known It! Un? touched by the contagious malady ! himself, nevcrthe: ? ? he would have ? married her If ho hnd had the slight- j est inkling of What she contemplated. And yet he knew, furthermore, that hers was a certain stiff-kneed pride : that would not have permitted her to accent marriage si an act of phiian- ; thropy. There had r> ally been no sav- j Ing her, after all. The love disease i had fastened upon her, and she had been doomed fi'in the lirst to perish of it. I Six thousand tpent Ihe winter of 1897 In Dawson, work on the creeks \"i t on apace, while beyond the pass 1 >s If was reported that one hundred thousand more wen? waiting for the spring, Late one brief afternoon, Day? light, on the benches between French Ulli an l Bhookura Hill, caught a wld ?r vision of things, Beneath him lay the richest part of Fldorndo Creek, while up and down Bonania he could see for mllei. It was n scene of a vast devaitation, The hills, to t;-? ir tops, bad been shorn of trees, and their naked sides showed sljms of gor? ing and perforating that even tho mantle ol snow could not hide. He neath him, in every direction, were the cabins of men. Bui not many men were visible, A blanket of smoke ! filled the valleys and turned the gray da> to melancholy twilight. Bmoke arose Irtan a thousand holes In tho ?now, where, deep down on bed-rock, in the frozen muck find gravel, men crept end (scratched ami dug, and ever I 1 'illt more flroS to bleak tho grip of the frost. Organisation wai what was -^needed, (live us your Job work. j : . dacid >1: and h's qu1< i- v.?':?nt)on I sketched Eldorado f!reei:, 'ora mouth tO SOUrCS, iliili rrOQI mOtltttS! tO|l tO j mounu.in lop, In the ban i????? I pable management. Bvoa ? : * v ? ? leg, at yet untrie*', but bound to - he saw would be a makesi ft. v. * m t pkould be done *vas to hydrant.: \\\* \ valley sides and bencb< :, and then, on the creek bottom, to use gold-drc.]*! ?'. There wai tbe ve y chance toi cuoiiisi' i big killing. He had wondered Jn i what wae precisely the reason tor ' . Guggenhammcrs and the bis i.ngiiEh 1 concerni sending In theh aigh laluid cxpei!/. That wat their sch< - 'hat was why they bad approached him ir the sale of worked-ou1 clai ns and ta I ings. They were content t. let ths small mine-owners gopher out what they could, for there would bo a 11 llons In the lcavl 1 And, gazing dewn 0:1 the smoky In? ferno ol crude effort, Daylight outlined the new game he would play, a game In which the Guggenha miners and the ! rest would have to recken with him. But along with the delight in the new jonooption came a weariness. He was tired of the long Arctic years, and he was curious about the Outside?the j great world of which he had heard other men talk and of which he was as ignorant as a child. There weio games out there to play. It was a larger table, and there was no reason 1 why he with his millions should not sit In and take a hand. So it was, that afternoon on SkOOkum Hill, that he resolved to play this last best Klon? dike hand and pull for the Outside. It took time, however. He put trusted agents to work on the heels of great experts, and on the creeks where they began to buy ho likewise bought. Wherever they tried to corner a j worked-out creek, they found him standing in the way, owning blocks of claims or artfully scattered claims that put all their plant to naught. Followed wars, truces, compromises, victories, and defeats. By 1898, sixty thousand men wore on the Klondike, and all their fortunes and affairs rocked back and forth and were af? fected by the battles Daylight fought. And more and more the taste for the larger game urged in Daylight's mouth. Here he was already locked In grap? ples with the gre:it Guggenhammers, and winning, fiercely winning. Pos? sibly the severest tiruggle was waged on Ophir, the veriest of moose-pas? tures, whoso low-grade dirt was valu? able only because of its vastness. The ownership of a block of seven claims in the heart of !t gnve Daylight his grip, and they con1! not come to terms. The Guggenhammer experts conclud? ed that it was too big for him to handle, and when t?iey gave him an ultimatum to thai effect he accepted and bought them out. The plan was his own, but'he seut down to the States for comp? tent engineers to car? ry It out. In the Kinkabilly water? shed, eighty miles away, he built his reservoir, and for eighty miles the huge wooden cond dt enrried tne wa? ter across country to Ophir Esti? mated at three millions, the reservoir and conduit cost nearer four. Nor did he stop with tills. Klectric power plants were Installed, and his work? ings were lighted ns well as run by electricity. Other sourdoughs, who had struck it rich in excess of all their dreams, Bhoolt fheir beads gloom* lly, warned ulna that he would go broke, and declined to Invest in so ex Through It All Moved Daylight, Hell- j Roaring, Burning Daylight. travagant a venture. Itut Daylight smiled, and sold OUt the remainder 01 1 his town-site holdings. He sold at the j right time, at the height of the placer j boom. When be prophesied to his old cronies, in the .v >< horn Saloon, that within hvo years town lots in Dawson could not bo given away, while the cabins would chopped up for Are wood, be wi laugrt >d at roundly, and assured thai tbe mother-lode would be found ere that time. i\;t be went ahead, when bis need for lumber was finished, selling out his sawmills as well, Likewise, be began to gel rid; of his scattered holdings on the varl- ; oub creeks, and without thanks to any 1 I one he finished bis conduit, built his dredges, imported his machinery, and 1 made the gold ol Ophir Immediately 1 j accessible. And he. who five years before had crossed over the divide from Indian Riv< r and threaded the silent wilderness, his dogs packing In? dian fashion, himself living Indian fashion Clt stinl.:';t moose moat, now , I heard the hoar* whistles calling his i hundreds of laborers to work, and watched them toll under the white glare of the arc-lamps. Bui having done the thing, be was 1 i ready to depart And when he let the j word go out, the Quggenhammers vied with the English concerns and with a n? w French company In 1 id ding for Ophir and ail Iti plant. tuq 1 Send us your Job work. Quggenhammeri hid highest, and tho price they paid netted Daylight a oh to million, it was current rumor that he was worth anywhere from twenty to thirty millions. Rut he alone knew just how be stood, and that, with his last claim so'd and the table swept clean of his winnings, be had ride :i hia hunch to the tune of just a trine over eleven millions. His deprrture was a thing that passed Into the history of !:< Yukon along v/iih ills other deeds. ..!' the Yukon was his gueat, Dawaon the seat of the festivity. On that one last night no man's dust save his own was good Drinks were not to he p.'r chased. Every saloon ran open, with extra relays of exhausted bartenders, and the drinks were given away. A man who refused this hospitality, and persisted In paying, found a dozen lights on his hands. The veriest chochaquos rose up to defend the name of Daylight from such insult. And through it all, on moccaslned feet, moved Daylight, hell-roaring Hurning Daylight, oversptlling with good na? ture and camaraderie, howling his he wolf howl and claiming the night as his, bending men's arms down on the bars, performing feats of strength, his bronzed face flushed with drink, his black eyes flashing, clad in overalls and blanket coat, his ear-flaps dang? ling and his gauntleted mittens swing? ing from the cord across the should? ers. But this time it was neither an ante nor a stake that he threw away, but a mere marker in the game that he who held so many markers would not miss. CHAPTER VII. In no blaze of glory did Burning Daylight descend ipon San Francisco. Not only had he been forgotten, but the Klondike nloiwith him. The world was intere-ted in other things, and the Alaskan adventure, like tho Spanish War, was an old story. He set cfed down in St. Frahcll Hotel, was interviewed by tho cub-reporters on the hotel-run, and received brief para? graphs of notice for twenty-four hours. Several month-- passed in San Fran? cisco, during which time he studied the game and Its rules, and prepared himself to take a hand. Tiring of being merely an onlooker, he ran up to Nevada, where the new gold-mining boom was fairly started? "Just to try a flutter," as he phrased it to himself. The Mutter on the To nopah Stock Exchange lasted Just ten days, during which time his smash? ing, wild-bull game played ducks and drakes with tho more stereotyped gamblers, and at the end of which time, having gamblod Floridel Juto his fist, he lot go for a net piuttt of half a million. A'hereupon, smacking his Hps, he departed for San Fran? cisco and the St. Francis Hotel. It tasted good, and his hunger for the game became more acute. And once more the papers sensa? tionalized him. BURNING DAYLIGHT was a big-letter headline again. In? terviewers flocked about him. Old files of magazines and newspapers were searched tarough. and the ro? mantic and historic Klam Harnish, Adventurer of the Frost, King of the Klondike, and Father of the Sour? doughs, strode upon the breakfast ta? ble of a million homes along with the toast and breakfa.st foods. Even be? fore his elected time, he was forcibly launched into the game. Financiers and promoters, and all the flotsam and Jetsam of the sea of speculation surged upon the shores of hi? eleven millions. In self-defence he was com? pelled to oy>en offices. He dabl led in little things ;t first?"stalling for time," r.i be ^: \ lr. d it to Holds worrny, a friend be had made at tho Alta-Paciao Club. Daylight himself was a member of the club, and llofds- ? worthy had proposed him. And it was I well that Daylight played closely at first, for ho was astounded by the multitudes of sharks?"ground-sharks," he called them?that flocked about him. He saw through their schemes readily enough, and e\en marveled that such numbers of them could find sufficient prev to keep them going. Their rascality and general dubious? ness was so transparent that he could not understand how any one could bo taken in by them. So it was that he resolved to leavo the little men, the Hoi Jsworthys, alone; and, while he mot them In good . fellowship, he chummed with none, and formed no deep friendships. He did not dislike trm little men, the men of the Alta-Paciflc, for instance. He merely did not elect to choose them for partners in the big game in v. hlch he intended to play. \\ hat this big game was, oven he did not know. Ho was waiting to fnd it. And In tho meantime be played small hands, in? vesting In several arid lands reclama? tion proje* * and keeping his eyes open for the big chance when It Should come Pl?n? And then be met John Dowsett, the ;:roat John Dowaeit. It was the first big magnate Dnyllght had met face to . and he was pleased and charmed. There was pitch a kindly hutnannesa about the man. such a genial demo cratlcness, that Daylight found it bard to realize that this was the John Dow? sett. prenldoni of a string of bank?. Insurance manipulator, reputed ally of the lieutenants of Standard Oil, and known ally of the Ouggonharamers. Nor did his looks belle his reputation and ids manner. Physically, he guar> nnteed all that Daylight knew of htm. I I i -*plte his sixt- years i nd snow white hair, his hand-Flmke w;:s firmly hearty, r,\y<\ h. showed no Blgns of d< erepitude, walking with a quick, snappy s?, >>. making all movements definitel} and <i? cisively, Ti was not long afterward that Day? light anme on lo New York A letb from .lohn Dowse I bad been ti. cause?n simple llttl typewritten let* ler of several lines But Daylight Send us your Job work. had thrilled as he read it. The bald sentences seemed gorged aitn Btyg* tery. "Our Mr. Ho I on v. ill call up? on you a( your hotel. He Is to be trusted. We musi not be toes to? gether. You arlll i lerstaad a tar we have I &d our talk.' Daylight conaad the woids over ami over. That was it. The i ie game bad arrived, and it looked ; b if he were being invited to sit in and take a hand. Surely for no other reason would one man so peremp? torily invite another man to main a journey a( rosa the continent. They met?thanks to "our' Mr. Howl son?up the Hudson, in a mag> nilleent country home. Daylight, ac cordlng to instructions, arrived in a private motor car which had been fur? nished him. Dowsetl was already there, and another man whom Day? light recognized before the irtroduc tion was begun. It was Nathaniel I>>t ton, and none other. Daylight h.*d seen his face a score of times in the mag azines and newspapers, and read about his standing in the financial world, and about his endowed University of "I Must Say, Mr. Harnlsh, That You Whipped Us Roundly In That Affair/* Daratona. He, likewise, struck Day-, light as a man of power, though he was puzzled in thIt he could find no likeness to Dowsctt. Except in the matter of cleanness?a cleanness that seemed to go down to the deepest fibers of him?Nathaniel Letton was unlike the other in every particular, fnin to emaclaVlon, be "seemed a cold flame of a man. Not more than fifty, ^hatched with a sparse growth of Iron ?ray hair, he looked several times the *?ge of Lowsett. They drank?that is, Nathaniel Letton took mineral water served by tin smoothly operating ma? chine of a lackey who inhabited thel place, while Dowsett look Scotch and soda and Daylight a cocktail. Leon Guggenhammer arrived in the midst of the drink, and ordered Scotch. Day? light studied him curiously. This was one of the great Guggenhammer fam? ily; a younger one, but nevertheless one of the crowd with which he had locked grapples in the North. Nor did Leon Guggen hummer fail to men? tion cognizance uf that old affair. He complimented Daylight on his prow? ess?"The echoes of Ophir came down to us, you know. And I must say, Mr. Daylight?er, Mr. Harnlsh, that you whipped us roundly in that affair." Leon Guggenhammer was young and fat. Not a day more than thirty, his face, save for the adumbated puff sacks under the eyes, was as smooth and lineless as a boy's. The talk soon centered down to business. Dow sett broached the | Ian, aided by u:i occasional remark from the other two, i while Daylight asked questions. What? ever the proposition was, he was go? ing into it with his eyes open. And they f iled his eyes with the practical vision of what he h:.d in mind. "They will never dream you are with us," Qugg en hammer interjected, as the outlining of the matter drew to a close, his handsome Jewish eyes flashing enthusiastically. "They'll think you arc raiding on your own in proper buccaneer stye ." "Of course, you und? rstand, Mr. Har? nlsh, the absolute nerd for keeping our alliance in the dark," Nathanh 1 Letton warned, grave1} Daylight nodded his bead. "And you also understand," letton went on, "that the result can only be prcductlve of good. The thing Is legitimate and right, and the only ones Who may be hurt are the str^k gam? blers themselves. It is not ggj attempt to smash the market. As you see your? self, you are to bull the market. The honest investor v ill be the gainer." (TO BB CONTINUED.) Improvement on Trolley Cars. Electrical engineers are proposing that trolley cars be equipped with ball bearings in order to let the cars eo.is! as much as possible and thus reduce the consumption of energy Disjf rcus Curiosity. The rurtostt) of some peasants as to what Was Inside an unexplodod shell they found In I field near the artillery station at the village of Mil osna, near Warsaw, the other morn ing, proved disastrous When they at tempted to open the shell it exploded, killing three of them and wounding 16 Electro Power for Housework. The total coat of power tor sowing washing and wringing, mangle iron ing. chopi Ing meat, grinding coffee, and polishing silver would be a sum that gin o t a iv hour keeper would he willing to pay :er a few hours more to call her own. oi tor being able to take a more ladt pendent stand on the servant question Rlectrtctt] has ad vanced far enough now to give her the opportunity she has longed for.? Electrical Rv view