Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-15

. run tune 10 tune were purely at- 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 faitHfui 10 his allies But he was faithful just as long as they we're and no longer. i The treason had to come from them, and then 1t was Ware Daylight.
 The business nen, and fnanciers of the Pacifle coast never forgot the les son of Charles Klinkner and the Cali. fornia & Altamont Trust Company. Klinkner was the RTesident In part nership with Daylight. the pair raided | the San Jose IntRruFban The power ! ful Lake Power & Electric Lighting corporation< came to the rescue. and Kliukner. 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 t, and before he was | done with if ne saw the California & Altamont TrusA Company hopelessly wrecked. and Charles Klinkner a sui side in felon's cell
 So 1t was that Daylight became a successful financier. He 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 1 slaughtering fat, hand-reared pheas- ants on the English preserves he had read about. The sport. to him, was in waylaying the successful robbers and taking their spells from them. The grim Yukon life had failed 10 make Daylight hard It required civ ilization to produce this result In the fierce, savage game he now play. ed. his habitual geniality imper. ceptibly slipped away from him, as did his lazy Western drswl
 He still had "reminiscences of genial lty. but they were largely periodical and forced, and they were usually due to the cocktails he took prior to meal. time. In the North he had drunk deeply and at irregular intervals; but now his drinking became systematic and disciplined IL was an unconscious development. but it was based upon physical and mental conditions. The cocktails served as an inhibition. Without reasoning or thinking about it, the strain of the office. which was essentially due to the daring and au- dacity of his ventures, required check or cessation; and he found, through the weeks and months. that the cock tails supplied this very thing They constituted a stone wall He never drank during the morning, nor in oI-
 fee hours; but the instant he left the office he proceeded to rear this wall of alcoholic inhibition athwart his consciousness. I'm. .office became i'm mediately a closed 'affair. IL ceased 10 exist In the afternoon, after lunch. it lived again for one or two hours, when. leaving it, ne rebuilt the wall of inhibition Of course, there were eE- captions to this; and, such was the rig or of his. discipline, that f he had a dinner or a conference before him in which, in business way, he encoun- tered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campaigns, he abstained from drinking. But the instant the business was settled, his everlasting call went out for a Martini, and for a Martina a cShat, in long glass so as not to, excite dGOmment
 Into DaXlight's life came Dede Ma son. She came rather imperceuti5Iy he had accepted her impersonaIly along with the office furnishing. the office boy, Morrison. the chief. confi- dentisl. and only clerk, and all the rest Of the accessories of a super mans 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 demiblonde. there resid- ed dimly in his subconsciousness a conception that she was a brunette. Likewise he had an idea that she was 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 # for granted, in the lack of any impression to the contrary. that she was dressed somehow. He knew her as Miss Mason" and that wss all though he was aware that as a I stenographer she was quick and accU- rate. He watched her leaving one aft. erDoon, and was aware for the first time that she was well-formed. and that her manner of dress was satis- flying He knew none of the details 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 ; bis verdict. when the outer office door ], closed on her.. A
 ] The next morning. dictating. he con , eluded that he liked the way she did , her hair. though for the life of him | he could have given no description of it The ifuuresSiOn was pleasing that