The Washington herald., 1910-11-27


operations and the fascination of TIE game
and the magnitude of it accounted for all the energy
that even his magnificent organism could generate
Such his absorption that the pretty senographer
slowly and impercepubly faded from the forefront
OF his consciousness. Thus the first faint spur, in
the best sense of his need for ceased prod
SO far Dede Mason concerned he possessed
than cOmplasant feeling Of satisfaction in
that he had a very nice stenographer
And, completely TO put the quietus any last lin
gerng hopes he might have had of her he was in the
thick of his spec ocular end intensely bitter fight
with the Coastwise Steam Navigation Company and
the Hawaiian, Nicaraguan and Pacifc-Mexican
Steamship Company. He stirred up a bigger muss
than he had anticipated, and vei he was astOuDded
the wide ramiheatons OF the struggle and at the
unexpected and incongruOus interests that were
drawn into it. Every newspaper in San Francisco
turned upon him. 1t was true one or two Of them
had first intimated that hey were open TO subsidZa-
ton but Daylights judgment that the situation
did not warrant such expenditure. Up TO this time
the press had been amusingly tolerant and good nat
uredy sensational about him, but he to learn
what virulent scurrilouSness antagOnized press
was capable of. Every episode of his life
rected to serve foundations for malicious fabrca
tons Daylight frankly amazed at the new in
terpretation put upon all he had accomplished and
the deeds he had done From an Alaskan hero he was
petamorph0sed into Alaskan bully liar desperate
and all around bad man." Not content with this.
lies upon lies out of whole CLOTH were manufactured
about him He never replied. though he went
10 the extent of dsburdening his mind to half dozen
reporters
aDo your damnedest" he told them. Burning Day
lights bucked bigger things than your dirty, lying
sheets Ane l don't blame you, boys-that is not
much You can't help il. You've got to live. There's
mighty lot OF in this world that make their
living i'm similar fashion to yours because they're
not able to do anything better. Somebody's got to do
the dirty work. and it might well be you. You're
paid for it. and you amt got the backbone TO rustic
cleaner jobs"
And the Journalists stung to the quick retaliated
rrifb tha
abuse The attack became bitterer than The
whole affair sank TO the deeper deeps of raneor and
savageneSs. The poor woman who had killed herself
was dragged out of her grave and paraded on thou
sands of reams of paper martyr and victim TO
Dayghts fer0ciOus brutality. Staid, statistical arti-
cles published proving that he nad made his
start by r0bbng poor miners of their Claims and that
the capstone his fortune had been put in place by
his treacherOuS violation OF faith with the Hammer
smiths in the deal Ophir And there were editorials
written in which he was called an enemy OF society
possessed of the and culture of cave man,
a fomenter of wasteful business troubles, the de-
stroyer of the city'S prosperity in commerce and
trade hist OF dire menace; and one editorial
gTavey recommended that hanging would De a lesson
TO him and his ilk and concluded with the feryent
hope bat some day his big motor car would smash
up and smash him with It,
He was like a big bear raiding a beehive and re-
CARELESS of the stngs he obstnatey persisted in paw
ing for the honey He gritted his teeth and struck
back Beginning with raid on two steamship com
panies it developed into pitched battle with city,
wanted fight and they would get it, Ii was what he
wanted and he felt justified in having come down
from the Klondike, for here he was gambling at
bigger table than the Yukon had supplied. Allied
with him. on splendid salary, with princely pckings
thrown in was IA lawyer, Larry Hogan, young Irish
man. with a reputation TO make and whose peculiar
genius had been unrecognized until Daylight had
picked up with him. Hogan had Celtic Imagination
and daring and 10 such degree that Daylights cooler
head was necessary a check on his wilder visions
Hegan's was a Napoeonic legal mind without bal
ance and il was just this balance that Daylight sup
oiled Alone the freshman was doomed to failure
but directed by Daylight he the high road to
fortune and recognition. Also he was possessed OF
no more personal civic conscience than Napoleon
II was Hogan who guided Daylight through the
ntrcacles of modern politics. labor organization and
commercial and corporation law. 1t was Hegan pro-
life of resource and suggestion, who opened Day
lights eyes 10 undreamed possibilities in twentieth
century warfare, and it Daylight rejecting &C
ceDtstg and celebrating, who planned the CAMPAIGNS
and prosecuted them. With the Pacific coast from
Puget Sound to Panama buZzing and humming, and
with Francisco furiously about his ears the two
big steamship companies had all the appearance OF
winning 1t looked as II Burning Daylight was being
beaten slowly TO his knees. Aud then he struck-at
The steamship companies. at San Francisco. at the
whole Pacific coast.
TO BE CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.