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ead. too, and tragic. Would tou care to road HT "Doos ba get herr Daylight de Banded. No; that's the point of It He wasn't?" "And he doesn't get her, and you've read all them rages, hundreds of them, to find that out?" Daylight muttered in ajnasement Miss Mason was nettled as well as amused Hut you read the mining and finan? cial news by the hour," she re? torted. "But I sure get something out of that. It's bualness. and Its differ The Cocktails 8srve<! as an Inhibition. ent. i get money out of it. What do 700 got out of books f" *pwtnta of view, new Ideas, life." v I orth a cent cash " Ve worth laore than cash," I ehe argtx?d. / | "Oh. weQ.'* bo said, with easy mas? on tins to) stensa, "no lomg as you cn .Joy it ThoA's whet counts. I suppose and Ihsjcfi no accounting tor taste." Dee pets hie own superior point of ?tew. he bed an Idea that she knew e lot, and he experienced a fleeting fooling lame that of a barbarian face to face wttb the eetdonee of some tre? ss sad ose emhure. Ti> Daylight cut? tere wee a worthleee thing, and yet oosaohow, ho woe vaguely troubled by o acnes that there wee more In culture than ho Imagined ?gain, ea her denk. In passing, he noticed a book with which he was fa natter Thai time he did not stop, for he hod recognised the cover. It was a ?agnetno correspondent s book on the KloodTks. and he knew that he and his photograph figured In It, and he knew, aJao, of a certain sensational I chapter eeoeet-ned with a woman's suicide, gad Witt one "T< Day I Mght" After thnt be did nc tat. wltt I her agslu shout hooks, lie glnei I whet srrorveoat ccMlteatoas she had I f-?. , . 'TTtifM' l aptST, I and H stung him the more In that they I were undeserved. Mo pumped Morrl-1 eon. the sears' who had first to vsnt I his personal grievance against Miss I MasoB before no could tell Waat little I he knew of her. "She coroee from aiskiyou County. I She's very nice to work with In the I oflce, 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 I works with. In the office here, for In-1 stance. She wont have anything to do with a fellow, you see. I've ask* I 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 slay up "ale, 1:~ baa to go sll the way to Berkeley? that's where she lives. But that's all hot air. She's running ?Ith the Uni I TOraity boys, that's what she's doing. She needs lots of sleep, and can't go to the theater with me, ? .t she can I dance all hours ?Ith them I've heard It pretty straight that she goes to all I their hops and such things. Rather] atyllsh und high-toned for a stenog rapher. I'd say. And she keeps a horse, too. She rides astride all over those hl?s'out there. I saw her one I Sunday myself. Oh, she's a high- I flyer, and I wonder how she does it Sixty tlve a month don't go far. Then she has a sick brother, too." 4 Ive with her people?" Daylight naked. "Ho; hasn't got sny. 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 Call fornla. 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 onre, played football, was greet on hunting and be? ing out In th?) mountain i <tnd such things. He s^t his accident break lag horsea, and then rheumatism or something got Into him Due leg Is shorter th~n the other, end withered up some He hss to wa,lk on crutches 1 saw her out with hlrn once -cross Ing the ferry The doctors bn% ? be?-n eiperlmenrtng on hint for years, and he's la the French Hospital now, I think ' All of which slde-llghts on Miss Ma? son went to Increase Daylight's Inter est In her Yet. much as ho desired, he failed to g t acquainted with her. He bad thoughts of asking her tc luncheon, hut h'.i was the Intin'e chlv airy 'f the f* ?nflersu nn. and the thoughts lever came to anything. He kaWW a a* Ifresr ec'lng. square dealing man wss not ropposed |o take hh stenokrapfcr to luncheon Such things did bspnen, be knew, for he heard the. chafflr g ro?*1n of the club; but he Mr. J Manly Smith, nf Bishop did not think much or such men ana felt sorry for the girls. CHAPTER XI. Daylight was In the thick of hip ?pectscular and intensely bitter Hght with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company, and the Hawaiian, Nica raguan. and Pacific-Mexican Steam i l ip Company. He stirred up a big? ger muss than he had anticipated, and even he was astounded at the wide ramifications of the struggle and i st the unexpected und incongruous in? terests that were drawn into it. Every newspaper in Sau Francisco turnel upon him. It was true, one or two of them had first intimated that they were open to subsidisation, but Day? light's Judgment was that the situa? tion did not warrant such expenditure. Up to this time the press had been amusingly tolerant and good-naturedly sensational about him, but low he was to learn what virulent scurrllousness an antagonised prsits was capable of. Every episode of his life wss resnr rected to serve as foundations for ma? licious fabrications. Daylight was frankly smssed at the new Interpre? tation put upon all that he had ac? complished and the deeds he hud done. From an Alaskan hero he was metamorphosed into an Alaskan bally, liar, desperado, and all-around "bad man." The whole affair sank to the deeper deeps of rancor and savage ness. The poor woman who had kUled herself was dragged out of her grave and paraded on thousands of reams of paper an a martyr and a victim to Daylight's ferocious brutality. He was like a big bear raiding a bee-hive, and, regardless of the stings, he obstinately persisted In pawing for the honey. He gritted his teeth and struck back. Beginning with a raid on two steamship companies. It develop? ed Into a pitched battle with a city, state and continental coast line. Al? lied with him. on s splendid salary, with princely pickings thrown In, was a lawyer, Larry Hegan, a young Irish? man with a reputation to make, and whoso peculiar genius had boon uo iwcognlsed until Daylight had picked up with him. It was Hegan who guided Daylight through the intricacies of modern politics, labor organisation, and commercial and corporation law. It was Hegan, prolific of resource and suggestion, who opened Daylight's oyjso to undreamed-of possibilities in twentieth-century warfare; snd It was Daylight, rejecting, aeceptlng, and els bor sting, who planned* the cam? paigns and prosecuted them. With the Pacific coast, from Pugst Sound to Panama, bussing and humming, and with Ban Francisco furiously about hie ears, the two big steamship companies j had all the appearance of winning. It looked as If Burning Daylight was be? ing beaten slowly to his knees. And then he struck?at the steamship com psnfot, at San Fran ceo, at the wtole Pacific coast. It was not much of a blow at first A Christlau Endeavor convention was being held In San Francisco, a row -an started by Express Drivers' Union No. 927 over the handling of a small h?ap of baggagu at Ferry Building. A few heads wero broken, a score of ar I rests made, and the baggage was de? livered. No one would have gueseed that behind this petty wrangle was the fine Irish hand of Hegan, made potent by the Klondike gold of Burn? ing Dsyllght. It was an insignificant affair at best?or so It seemed. But the Teamsters' Union took up the quarrel, backed by the whole Water Front Federation. Step by step, the strike became involved. A refusal of cooks snd waiters to serve scab team store , or teamsters' employers brought out the cooks and waiters. The butchers and meat ^utters refused to handle meat destined for unfair restaurants. The combined Employ ers' Associations put up a solid front snd found facing them the 40,000 or? ganised laborers of San Francisco. The restsuraut hak rp and the bakery wagon drivers struck, followed by the milkers, milk drivers and chicken pickers. The building trades asserted Its position In unambiguous terms, and all Ran Franolsco wss In turmoil. But still, *t was only Ban Francisco. Hegsn's Intrigues were masterly, and Daylight's campaign steadily devel oped. The powerful fighting organ! "it Sure Beats Country Places anc Bungalows at Menlo Park," He Com muned Aloud. xatlon known as the Pacific Blopo Bes man's T'nlon refused to work ressell the cargoes of which were to b? handled by scab longshoremen and freight handlers I he union presented1 Its ultimatum, and then called a strike This had hfjtB Daylight's objective al the time, fcvery Incoming coastwl t vessel was boarded he the nnlon oin Villa, WaS In town Friday morning I clals and its crew sent ashore. A no I with the seamen went the firemen, the engineers and the sea cooks and I waiters. Daily the number of idle steamers Increased. It was impossi ble to get scab crews, for the men ol I the Seamen's Union wore fighters trained in the hard school of the sea. and when they went out It meant blood and death to scabs. This phase of the strike spread up and down thf entire Pacific coast, until all the porti wero lined with idle ships, and sea transportation was at a standstill. The dayj and weeks dragged out, and the Itriki held. The Coastwise Steam Navigation Company and the Hawaii an, Xlearaguan. and Paciik-Mexicar. Steamship Company were tied up com? pletely, The expenses of combating the strike wero tremendous, and the> were earning nothing, while daily thf situation went from bad to worse, un til "peace at any price" became the cry. And still there was no peace until Daylight and his allies played out their hand, raked in the winnings, and I allowed a goodly portion of a conti nent to resume business. Daylight's coming to civilization hac] not improved him. True, he wore better clothes, had learned slightly better manners, and spoke better Eng llsh. But he had hardened, and at the expense of his old-time, whole-souled goniallty. Even his human affiliations were descending. Playing a lone hard contemptuous of most of the men with whom he played, lacking in sympathy or understanding of them, and certain ly Independent of them, he found lit? tle in common with those to be en? countered, say at the Alta-Paciflc. In pofnt of fact, when the battle with the steamship companies was at its height and his raid was inflicting Incalcula? ble damage on all business interests, he had been asked to resign from the Alta-Paciflc. The Idea had been rath er to his liking, and he had found new quarters in clubs like the Riverside, I organised and practically maintained by the city bosses, One week end, feeling heavy and de pressed and tired of the city and its I ways, he obeyed the impulse of a I whim that was later to play an Impor? tant part In bis life. The desire to I get out of the city for a whiff of coun? try air and for a change of scene was I tbe cause. Yet. to himself, he made I the excuse of going to 01 en Ellen for I the purpose of inspecting a brickyard whioh Holdsworthy had sold him. He spent tne night In the little country hotel, and on Sunday morning, astride I a aaddlc horse rented from the Olen Ellen butcher, rode out of the village. The brickyard was close at hand on tbe flat beside the Sonoma Creek. Resolving to have his fun first, and to look over the brickyard afterward, he rode up the hill, prospecting for a way cross country to get to the knolls. He left the country road at the first gate he came to and cantered through a bayfield. The grain v. wstst-hlgh on either side the wagon road, and he sniffed the warm aroma of It with delighted nostrils. At the base of the knolls he encountered a tumble-down stake-and-rider fence. He tethered the horse and wan? dered on foot among the knolls. Their tops were crowned with century old spruce trees, and their sides clothed with oaks and madronos and native holly. But to the perfect redwoods be? longed the small but deep canyon that threaded its way among the kno!ls. Here he found no passage out for Ms horse, and leading the animal, he forced his way up the hillside. On the crest he came through an amazing t ticket of velvettrunked young ma? dronos, and emerged on an open hill? side that led down Into a tiny valley. The sunshine was at first, dazzling in its brightness, and he paused and rested, for he was panting from the evert Ion. Not of old had he known shortness of breath such as this, and mm lei that so easily tired at a stiff climb. A tiny stream ran down tho tiny valley through a tiny meadow that whs carpeted knee-high with grass and blue and white nemophlla. Cropslng the stream, Daylight fol? lowed a faint cattle trail over a low, rocky hill and through a wine-wooded forest of manzanlta, and emerged upon another tiny valley, down which filtered another spring-fed, meadow bordered streamlet. "It sure beats country places ami bungalows at Menlo Park," he com? muned aloud; "and If ever I get the hankering for country life, it's me for this every time." An old wood-road led him to a clear? ing, where a dozen acres of grapes grow on wine-red soil. A cow-path, more trees and thickets, and ho dropped down a hillside to the southeast ex? posure. Here, poised above a big for? ested canyon, and looking out upon Sonoma Valley, was a small farm? house. With its barn and outhouses It snuggled into a nook In the hill? side, which protected it from tho west and north. It was the erosion from this hillside, he Judged, that had formed the little level stretch of vege? table garden. The soil was fnt and black, and there waa water In plenty, for he aaw several faucets running wide open. Forgotten was tho brick? yard. Nobody WAS at homo, but Day? light dismounted and ranged tho vege? table garden, eating strawberries and green peas, Inspecting the old adobe barn and rusty plow and harrow, and rolling and smoking cigarettes while he watched tho antics of several brood I of young chicks and the moth? er hens. Nothing could satisfy his holiday spir? it now but tlie ascent of Bonoim Moun? tain. And here on the crest, threo hours afterward, he emerged, tired and aweaty, garments torn and face and hands scratched, bul with i parkllng eyes and an unwonted sestfulnesa of eipreeslon lb- fell the Illicit pleas* tiro of a schoolboy playing truant. The big gamin* table of San Francisco > eeun d vciy far ;r\ sn I'ut there was 1 f<?r a short while. more than TTflcTt pleasure Tn Tils mood". It was as though he were going through a sort of cleansing bath. No room here for all the sordidness meanness and vioiousness that filled the dirty pool of city existence. He was loath to depart, and it was* not for an hour that he was able to tear himself away and take the descent of tha mountain. Working out a new route just for the fun of it, late after? noon was upon him when he arrived back at the wooded knolls. Daylight cast about for a trail, and found one loading down the side opposite to his ascent. Circling the base of the knoll, he picked up with his horse and rode on to the farm? house. Smoke was rising from the chimney, and he was quickly in con? versation with a nervous, slender young man, who, he learned, was only a tenant on the ranch. How iarge was It? A iHatter of one hundred and eighty acres, though it seemed much larger. This was because it was so irregularly shaped. Yes, It included the clay-pit and all the knolls, and its boundary that ran along the big can? yon was over a mile long. Oh, yes, he and his wife managed to scratch A Sudden Envy of This Young Fellow Came Over Daylight. a living without working too hard. They didn't have to pay much rent HUlard, the owner, depended on the income from the clay-pit. Hillard waa well off and had big ranches and vine? yards down on the flat of the valley. The brickyard paid ten cents a cubic yard for the day. As for the rest of the ranch, the land was good in patches, where it was cleaved, like the vege? table garden and the vineyard, but the rent of it was too much up-and-down. "You're not a farmer/' Daylight said. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Shocking Sounds In the earth are sometimes heard be? fore a terrible earthquake, that warn of the coming peril. Nature's warn? ings are kind. That dull pain or ache in the back warns you the kid? neys need attention if you would escape those dangerous maladies, dropsy, diabetes or Blight's disease. Take Hlectric Bitters at once and see backache fly and all your- best feel? ings retura. 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