Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-11-08
CHAPTER VII.

In no blaze of glory did Burning
Daylight descend upon San Francisco
Not only had he been forgotten, but
the Klondike along with him The
world was interested In other things,
and the Alaskan adventure, like the
Spanish War, was an old story. He set
tied down in st. Francis Hotel, was
interviewed by the cub-reporters on
the hotel-run, and received brief para
graphs of notice for twenty-four
hours.
Several months passed in San Fran
cisco, during which time he studied
the game and its rules, and prepared
himself to take hand
firing of being merely an onlooker,
he ran up to Nevada, where the new
gold-mining boom was fairly started
"just to try flutter," as he phrased
1t to himself. The tiutter on the To-
nopah Stock Exchange lasted just ten
days, during which time his smash
ing, wild-bull game played ducks and
brakes with the more stereotyped
gamblers, and at the end of which
time, having gambled Floridel into
his fist, he let go for a net profit OF
half a million. Whereupon, smacking
his lips, he departed for San Fran
cisco and the ST. Francis Hotel. 1t
tasted good, and his hunger for the
game became more acute.
And once more the papers senSa-
tionalized him. BURNING DAYLIGHT
was a big-ietter headline again. In
reviewers flocked about him. Old
We're searched through, and the 70.
mantle and historic ELAN Harnish,
Adventurer OF the Frost, King of the
Klondike, and Father OF the Sour
doughs strobe. upon the breakfast ia
bic Of million homes along with the
toast and breakfast foods Even be-
fore his elected time, he was forcibIy
launched into the game. Financiers
and promoters, and all the flotsam and
5etsam of the sea of speculation
Surged upon the shores of his eleven
millions. In self-defence he was COM
PEELED to open Offices. He dabbled in
little things at first-"stalling for
time,' as he explained 1t to Holds
worthy, friend he had made at tho
Alta-Pacific Club. Daylight himself
was member of the club, and Holds
worthy had proposed him And it was
we'll that Daylight played closely at
first, for he was astounded by the
multitudes OF sharks ground sharks"
he called them-that locked about
him. He saw through their schemes
readily enough, and even marveled
that such numbers Of them could find
sufficient prey to keep them going.
Their rascality and general dubious
ness was so transparent that he could
not understand how any one could be
taken in by them.
So 1t was that he resolved to leaYe
the little men, the Holdsworthys,
alone; and, while he met them in good
Fellowship, he chummed with none,
and formed no deep friendships. He
did not dislike the little men, the men
of the Alta-Pacific, for instance. He
merely did not elect to choose them
for par~ners in the big game In which
he intended to play What this big
game was, even he aid not know. He
was waiting to find it. And In the
meantime he played small hands, In
vesting in several arid-lands reclama-
ton projects and keeping his eyes
open for the big chance when 1t
should come along.
And then he met John Dowsett. the
great john Dowsett. 1t was the first
big magnate Daylight had met face to
face, and he was pleased and charmed.
There was such a kindly humanness
about the man, such a genial demo
craticness, that Daylight found 1t hard
to realize that this vas the John Dow
sett, president of string of banks,
insurance manipulation, reputed ally 0;