The Washington herald., 1911-02-26
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SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS

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ktR URNESG DAYLIGHr'-Elam Harnish-is m
troduced to the reader as he enters Circle
- City dance hail. saloon and gambling house like
the whIrlwind that he is.
Possessed of tidy fortune and Of making vast
one Burning Daylight proceeds to stir up the life
of the gambling house The and women all admire
him. for he is the type that dominates
or rather fears the wies Of the women frequent
the dance hall. He is afraid to be even civil to
woman because he breads the idea Of being mastered
by anybody anything, and to surrender to woman
means, in his mind, that he is conquered
Drink leads to boasting and in the turmoil that fol-
lows Burning Daylight shows his amazing muscular
strength. He wins all the tests and downs all the
giants that before him.
Then a poker game-the greatest ever played
in the Kondike Burning Daylight's luck deserts him
end and he rises from the table penniess-worse
Then the indomitahe courage Of this master among
shows itself He declares himself in readiness to
accomplish almost impossible task-to the mall
to Dyea and back with dog team and an indian
Il swore in SO never to go out till I'd made my
mill of he'll and the head OF John the Baptist I'll
never hit for the outside till make my pile and tell
He makes his journey, gets to Dyea and back to Cir
Gle City. where he punges into the Tvol winning his
depart his heartbreakng Journey.
Then. without rest, this amazing man makes wild
roulette. and then, still scorning sumber
cuperaon starts daybeak with three partners and
dog team for the newest gold strike in the upper
country along the Stewart. ...
Then comes the battle for gold. Strike after strike
along the Yukon and in the golden Dawson Discour-
frequently, refuses to allow fes loaded dice
beat him, and in the end comes victory-and millions
And so Daylight leaves the Yukon behind for
fields endeavor His departure is event of great
lrporrance ana as tle t1 S ts S ~ hi an snd
waves it "Goodby. you-all, he CRIED "goodby. YOU
In San Francisco Daylight becomes the sensation Of
the day. He is still woman-shy however, and reasons
that he has brought his millions to the States to play
mans game not a woman's. He meets the in the
big financial world, tries to polish his rough speech
and manners, runs over to Tonopah, makes big
cleanup there and then feels the call OF Wall street
He goes on to New York; gets into the clutches OF
he heat them at their game in the Klondike and
persuade him to go into big deal with them He has
an impression that he trim New York easily as
he has the other places and is led on and by the
willy fnanciers until his entire fortune is staked
Then the double cross. Daylight is cleaned out
again trimmed The fend ncarnate in him awakens ana
he determines either to get his millions back do
wholesale murder He ulls his false friends into the
belief that he does not understand the situation meets
them in wall street and. armed with automatic
revolver forces them to return the ten millions they
have taken from him Cowards at heart the financial
sharks hesitate at first, after matter of three
four succeed in raising the money in currency
and certified checks and Daylight returns to San Fran
CISCO his fortune intact, leaving New York puzzled
and his former friends overwhelmed
Back in San Francisco Daylight becomes financial
Robin Hood He becomes known as fghter fiend a
tiger. But he is square and is known to be 50! The
gambling side of business fascnates him and he plays
the game up the rules. but mercilessly. When he
gets a corporation down and either sQueals
is that he despises the men with whom he plays for he
believes not in hundred Of them Is the level
His fortune increases magically and he lives hard
life, when all Of sudden Dede Mason enters his
is his stenographer and she first attracts his
attention by Correcting some of the slips in his dicon
He that she is orphan and is supporting
crippled brother loves ride horseback and Is alto
gether just opposite of all other women Daylight
has known.
Constant association with Daylight and admiration
for persistence begin impress Dede Mason. and
one day they have a heart to heart talk, In
which practically takes the hide or the
She him fatty she does like his life his
business. There women who could marry a
like and be happy" she says. but couldn't and
the more I cared for such q the unhappy
should be-" So the prohigate Daylight begins
her meaning but after tame defence Of his methods
he resolves a plan, and to the amazement Of
his business associates, proceeds carry And
all because of Dede Mason.
Daylight has, meantime, doubled his fortune, but
the more money he possesses the more distant
Dede Mason. He at last proposes marriage to her.
twice is refused. He does not give up-that is
his way-and demands that the girl tell him just
what is amss, for she has confessed interest
him. Whereupon she tells him he has too much money,
is living the wrong kind of a life, and, short, is
owned by his wealth, and nothing else She shows him
how he Is taking on unhealthy flesh. Is becoming
harsh and cruel and brutalized and degraded And
Daylight listens, amazed
Her talk has its effect. Daylight decides get rid
OF his vast fortune, save only little ranch Glen
Ellen and reform his mode Of life He puts plan
before Dede Mason and she decides be his wife,
vided he means what he says She will not take him
and his money TOO, for his wealth Is his master.
And Dede Mason wins. Daylight deliberately entan-
giles himself in financial slough and refuses to lift
a hand to his millions His associates amazed
and enraged. do nothing with hiu-he has won his
their little ranch. and a complication