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"No, do,** i'ie cried. Out bet?re sbo could continue, a knock came oo the door. Hie eyes, quick with observation like an Indian's, darted about the room while the was cut. The impres? sion of wsrmth snd comfort and beau? ty predominated, though he wus un abls to soalyie it; while the simplici? ty de'lghted blm?expensive simplici? ty, he decided, snd mos. of it left? overs from the time her father went broke snd died. She re-entered the room, and as she crossed It to her chair, hi admired the way she walked, whhg the bronze slippers were maddening *Td like to ask you several ques? tions." he began Immediately. "Are you thinking of manning somebody else?" "There isn't snybooy else. I don't know anybody I like veil enough to marry. For that mattet, I don't think I am a marrying woman. Office work seems to s*x)ll me for that." "It strlkts me that you're the most marry Ingest woman that ever made a man alt and take notice. And now another question. You aee. I've just go: to locate the lay Ol the fund. Is there anybody you like ?ts much aa you like me?" But Dede had horself well In hand. "That's unfair." she said. "And If you stop and conilder, you wTl find that you are doing the very thin*- you disclaimed namely, nagging refuse to snswer any more of your questions. Let us tslk about other things. How hi 3obr Half an hour later, whirling along through the rain on Telegraph Ave? nue toward Oakland, Daylight ainoked one of his brown-paper cigarettes and reviewed what had taken place It was not st sll bad. wss his summing up, though there was much about it that was baffling There was that liking him the more she knew him nnl at the seme time wanting to marry him less. That wss a pastier. Once again, on a rainy Sunday, weeks afterward. . Daylight proposed to Dede. As on the flrrt time, he re? mained himself until his b inger for her overwhelmed him snd swept him sway In his red sutomoblle to Berke? ley. He left the machine several blocks awsy and jrocee 'ed to the house on foot. But Dede was out, the landlady's daughter told him, and added, on second thought, that sbs wss walking In the hills. Further? more, the young lady directed him where Dede's walk <vaa moat likely to ?stend Deyllght ol? ed the girl's in? structions, and soon the street he fol? lowed passed the lait house and Itself ossaad where begin the first steep elopee of the open hills. The air was damp with the on-coming of rain, for the storm had not yet burst, though the rising wind proclaimed Its Im? minence As fsr as be xnild see, caere was no sign of Dode Oat the eaeooia. grassy hlllt. To the right ->g down Into t holiow and rising again, was s la > -n eucalyp? tus grove. Here sll was noise snd movement, the lofty, slender trunked roes swaying bsck and forth In ths ?lad snd clashing their branches to? gether In the squalls, above all ths ulnor noises of creaking snd groan? ing, arose a deep thrumming note as of s mighty harp Knowing Dede ss he did. Deyllght wss confident that he would find her somewhere In this grove where the storm effects were so pronounced. And -Und her he did. across the hollow and on the exposed crest of the opposing, slope where the rale smote its nerceut blowa. "It'a the same old thing." he said "I went you and Tie come for you. You've hist got to have me, Dede, for the more I think at*>ut It the more certain 1 am that you've got a snesk In** liking for tue hat'a something mote fh n Just ordinary liking And you den t dsst any that It lau't; now dast youf "Please, please." she begged. "We can never marry, so don't let us dis? cuss it" Daylight de'-lded .hat action was more efficient than speech. So he stepped between her snd the wind and drew her no that she stood close In the shelter of hin. An unusually stiff squall blew about them and thrummed overhead n the tree-tope, and both inn cd to listen. A shower of flying leaves enveloped them, and hard on 'h? h? el of the wind came driving drops of rsln He looked down on her and on her hair, wind-blown about her face; and because of her closenens to him and of s fresher and more polen ant realization of what she meant to him. he trembled so that she was aware of It In the hand that he'd hers. She suddenly leaned against htm. bowing br ??ad until It rested lightly upon bis breast. And so tlx . stood while another squab with flying leaves and scattered drops, of rain, rattled past With equal suddenness she lifted her head snd looked at him ? l*> you know," she said. "I prayed last night about you. I prayed that you would fall, that you would lose everything?everything." Daylight stared his amazement at this gfffgejg u'f?rance. "Thst sure beats me. I always said I got out of my depth with worn*eV snd you've got me out of my depth now \\'r" you've just got to ex? plain th??r? h11" His srms went around her and htM her closely, and this time she did not resist. Her h? id was bowed, and he could not see her face, yet he had a premonition that S*sg was crying. He had learned the virtue of silence, and he waited her will In the master. Thine* h d r< me to such a papa that the was bourn! to t, \\ him something now. Of that he w; h confident. "I would desrly like to marry you." 4he falten d ' but I am afraid. I am proud and handle at the saun- time thst s man Ilk. wm should < are for a- hit you hsve too much rnosk | There's where mv abominable oonv Mr. J. V WUson. <f Columbia, mon Benre steps in. Kven ir we old marry, you could never be my man? my lover and my husband. You would be your money's man. I know I am a foolish woman, but I want my man for myself. And your money destroys you; It makes you less and less nice. I am not ashamed to say that I love you, becauso I shall never marry you. And I loved you much when I did not know you at all, ? when you first came down from Alas? ka and I Ant went Into the office. You were my hero. You were the Burning | Daylight of the gold-diggings, the dar? ing traveler and miner. And you looked IL I drj't see how any wom? an could have iooked at you without loving you?then. But you don't lock it now. You, a man of the open, have been cooping yourrelf up In the cities with all that that means. You are becoming something different, some? thing not so healthy, not so clean, not so nice. Your money and your way of life are doing It. You know It You haven't the same body now that you had then. You are putting on flesh, and it is not healthy flesh. You are kind and genial with me, I know, but you are not kind and genial to all the world as you were then. You have become harsh and cruel. I do love you, but 1 cannot marry you and de? stroy love. You are growing into a thing that I must In the end despise. You can't help It. More than you can possibly love me. do you love this business game. This business?and it's all perfectly useless, so far as you are concerned?claims all of you. I sometimes think It would be easier to share you equitably with another woman than to share you with this business. I might have half of you, at any rate. But this business would claim, not half of you, but nine-tenths of you, or ninety-nine hundredths. You hold tack nothing; you put all you've got into whatever you are doing?" "Limit U the sky," he grunted grim sfflrmat'on. "But If you would only play the lover-husband that way. And now I won't say another word," she added. "L'xe delivered a whole, sermon." She rested now, frankly and fairly, in the sheUer of bis arms, and both were oblivions to the gale that rushed past them in quicker and stronger blasts. The big downpour of rain had not yet come, but the mist like squalls were more frequent. Daylight was openly perplexed, and he was still per? plexed when he began to speak. "You've left me no argument. I know I'm not the same man that came from Alaska. I couldn't hit the trail with the dogs ae I did in them days. I'm soft in my muscles, and my mind's gone hard. I used to respect men. I despise them now. You cee. 1 spent all my life In the open, and I reckon I'm ? an open-air man. Why, I've got the prettiest little ranch you ever laid eyes on up In Qlen Ellen. That's where 1 got stuck for the brick yard. You recollect handling the correspon? dence. I only laid eyes on the ranch that oue time, and I so fell In love with it that I bought it there and then. I just rode around the hills, and was happy as a kid out of school. I'd be a better man living In the coun? try. The city doesn't make me better. You're plumb right there. I know It Put suppose your prayer should be answered and I'd go clean broke and have to work for day's wages? Sup? pose I had nothing left but that little ranch, and wa? satisfied to grow a few chickens and scratch a living some? how?would you marry me then, Dede?" "Why, we'd be together all the time!" she cried. Then was the moment, among the trees, ere ?hey began the descent of the hill, that Daylight might have dra**> her closely to him and kissed her oi ce. But he was too perplexed with the new thoughts she had put Into Ms head to take advantage of the situation. He merely caught her by the arm and helped ber over the rougher footing. At the edge of the grove he suggested that it might be better for them to part there, but the insisted that he accompany her as far us the house. "Do you know," he said, "taking it by and large, It's the happiest day of my life. Dede, Dede, we've Just got to get married. It's the only way. and trust to luck for it's coming out all right." But the tears were threatening to rlie In her eye.* again, as she shook her head and turned and went up the steps. v\ ben the ferry system began to run, and the time between Oakland and San PmneUoO was demonstrated to be cut in half, the tide of Daylight's terrific expenditure started to turn. Not that It really did turn, for he I rornptly went into further Invest? ments, Thousands of lots in his resl denes traetl were SOld, and thousands of homes was being built. Factory sites also were selling, and business proper? ties In the heart of Oakland. All this landed lo ? s< dy anpfeolntlon m fee value of Daylight's huge holdings But, as of old. he had his hunch and was riding it Already he had begun bor rowing from the hanks The mag Qlfleent profits hi made on the land he sold ere turned Into mote land, Into more development; and Instead of paying off old loans, he contracted new ones As he had pyramided in Dawsoa <'ity. he now pyramided In Oakland; bol be did it with the knowledge thai It was a stable enter i rise ratsM r ihag i risky plneer*mlr> ing boom Work (?n Dnyllfjht'i d*n k system went on gpaot ; vet it was one of those enterprises thnt consumed more . dreadfully gad that could DOt be aoeompllshed as quickly as a ferr> ? system Not content ulth manu I r*?r?M-;- m V-r'.??'. for his street rnl!? was In the city Friday morning. CHAPTER XVIII. ways In the ol<uuas4*ioneu way, in pow. er-houses, Daylight org. nized the Sier? ra and Salvador Power Company. This Immediately assumed large propor? tions. Crotllng the San Joaquin Val? ley on the way from the mountains, and plunging through the Contra Cos? ta hills, there were many towns, and even a robust city, that could be sup piled with rower, also with light; and it became a street-and-house lighting nroject as well. As soon as the pur? chase of power sites In the Sierras was rushed through, the survey par? ties were out and building operations tegun. And so it went. There ">-ere a thousand maws Into which he pour cd on costing rftreami or money. In the spring of the year the Great Panic came on. The first warning was when the banks began calling in their unprotected loans. Daylight promptly paid the first of several of his personal notes that were present \_y Mis Arms Went About Her and Held Hor Closely. ed; then he divined that these de? mands but indicated the way the wind was going to blow, and that one of those terrific financial storms he had heard about was soon to sweep over the United States. How terrific this particular storm was to be he did not anticipate. Nevertheless, he took every precauftou in his power and had no anxiety about his weather* lng tt out (TO BE CONTINUED.) Two Questions Answered. Editor The Item: Two questions have been recently asked me: First. What is the status of the members of the Federal Su? preme Court? Second. What place has China In the modern catalogue of nations? I sought and procured ans? wers from one high in authority In national affairs and, thinking that these answers may be of interest to others besides the two gentlemen who asked the questions, I ask that you publish them. Respectfully yours, S. H. EDMUNDS. The two answers follow: "As to the Supreme Court, I find in the history of Supreme Court by Hampton I* Carson. published In 1892, that It originally consisted of a Chief Just'ce and live Associate Jus? tices. In 1807 the number of Asso? ciate Justices was Increased to six; and in istl.'i it was increased to nine. in 1860 for soms reason Congress provld d that no vacancies should be filled until the number had bee'n reduced to SlX. The language of that statute is aa follOWO! 'That no vacancy In the office of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court shall be filled by appointment until the number of Associate Justices shall l?e reduced to six; and thereaf? ter the said Supreme Court shall con? sist of a Chief .Justice of the United States and six Associate Justices, any four of whom shall be s quor? um.' *'ln lM'.'.t the law changed again Creating S Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices ami that is still the law? it has always been an arbitrary number lined by the judgment of Con? gress." As to the classification of China among the nations: "One of the most commonly ac? cepted classifications (,f races and natloni la that originated In is?7 by Louis Morgan in his "Ancient So? ciety." 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