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&'r "-i\ . . 4 ^ <• ^V; •"•• V..A? v -9- r * ••' ;'-v • •. '• - - .y.n • •„••>.•: i n s PL o T *£v," * -t jwr/f&j? or "mr cau ar mewia W//F rmcr x#A/?r/H £Dm~£rc. Man in "Grey Ghost" Is Terror ot Southern California Foothill Cities. {Copyright, WO, by th* New Tork Herald ComptarJ (Copyright. 1910, by the MacMlllan Company. "BURNS UP ROADS" Mysterious Pirate Sweeps About Night After Night Robbing as His Fancy Dictates--Valuables or Trifles Ap­ peal to Him AlHce. SYNOPSIS. Slam Rar&lsh, known all through Alaa- teas "Burning Daylight," celebrates hla h birthday with a crowH of minora at the Circle City TlvoH. The dance leads lieavy gambling. In which over JIOO.WR) staked. Harnish loses hla money and s mine but wins the mail contract. He ixts on his mail trip with dogs and •ledge, lelllng his friends that he will be in the bljr Tukon gold strike at the start Burning Daylight makes a sensationally Jap id run across country with the maJi, •appears at the Tivoll and is now ready to join his ffiends In a dash to t"e,,r 'eJv *Old fields. Deciding that (fold w>» b0 found in the up-river district Harms,i fuivs two tons cf flour, which he declares will be worth its weight in gold, but When he arrives with his flour he finds the big flat desolate. A comrade discov­ ers gold and Daylight reaps a rich har­ vest. He goes to Dawson, becomes the tnost prominent figure in the Klondike *nd defeats a combination of capitalists in a vast mining deal. lie returns to civilization, and, amid the bewildering complications of high finance. Daylight finds that ho ha» been led to invest his •leven millions in a manipulated scheme He goes to New York, and confronting Ills disloyal partners with a revolver, he threater.s to kill them if his money ts not returned. They are cowed, return their •teaJings and Harnish goes back to San Francisco where he m£ets his fate in Dede Mason, a pretty stenographer. He makes large Investments and gets into the political ring. For a rest he goes to the country. Daylight gets deeper into high finance In San Francisco, but often the longing for the simple life nearly over* comes him. Dede Maion buys a horse and ZHiyllght meets her In her saddle trips. One duy he asks Dede to go with mm «n one more ride, his purpose being to ask her to marry him and they canter •way, ehe trving to analvae her feelings. Dede tells Daylight that her happiness could not lie wltn a money manipulator. Daylight undertakes to build up a great Industrial community. He is insistent that she marry him and yet hopes to win her. Daylight falls back Into his old drinking ways. There Is a flurry in the money market. CHAPTER XIX.--Continued. "Dede. if I tell you. flat and straight, that I'm going up to live on that ranch at Glen Ellen, that I ain't taking a cent with me, that I'm going to •cratch for every bite I eat, and that I ain't going to play ary a card at the business game again, will you come along with me?" She gave a glad little cry, and he nestled her in closely. But the next moment she had thrust herself oat from him to the old position at arm's length. "How Is this possible? How can you leave your business? Has any­ thing happened?" "No. nothing's happened yet, but it's going to. blatne quick. I've taken your preaching to heart, and I've come to the penitent form. I've taken my last drink. You're marrying a whisky-soak, but your husband won't be that He's going to grow into an­ other man so quick you won't know him. A couple of months from now, up there in Olen Ellen, you'll wake up some morning and find you've got a perfect stranger In the house with you, and you'll have to get introduced to bim ail over again. You'U say, 'I'm Mrs. Harnish, who are you?' And I'll say, Tm Elam Harnlsh's younger brother. I've Just arrived from Alaska to at­ tend the ^funeral.' "What funeral?* you'll say. And I'll say, 'Why the fu­ neral of that good-for-nothing, gam­ bling, whisky-drinking Burning Day­ light--the man that died of fatty de­ generation of the heart from sitting In night and day at the business game.' *Yes, ma'am.' I'll say. 'he's sure a gone 'coon, but I've come to take his place and make you happy. And now, ma'am, if you'll allow me, I'll just me­ ander down to the pasture and milk the cow while you're getting break­ fast.' " ; "But yon haven't answered my ques­ tions," she reproached him, as she Emerged, rosy and radiant, from the embrace that had accompanied the culmination of hlg narrative. "Now Just what do you want to know?" he asked. "I want to know how all this is pos- aible? How you are able to leave She Whispered, El«m Elam, set foot In the office again. That's all gone, finished, over and done with, and I'm letting it slide clean to smash and then some. I'm wiping the slate clean. I'm letting it all go smash. When them thirty million dollars stood up to my face and said 1 couldn't go out with you in the hills today. I knew the time had come for me to put my foot down. And I'm putting it down. I've got you, and my strength to work for you, and that little ranch in Sonoma. That's all I want, and that's all I'm going to save out. along with Bob and Wolf, a suit case and a hundred and forty hair bridles. All the rest goes, and good riddance. It's that much Junk." A knock at the door Interrupted him, and he was left to stare delight­ edly at the Crouched Venus and on around the room at Dede's dainty pos­ sessions, while she answered the tele­ phone. , "It Is Mr. Hegan," she said, on re­ turning. "He is holding the line. He says it is important." Daylight shook his head and smiled "Please tell Mr. Hegan to hang up. I'm done with the office and I don't want to hear anything about any­ thing." A minute later she was back again. "He refuses to hang up. He told me to tell you that Unwln is in the office now, waiting to see you, and Harrison, too. Mr. Hegan said that Grimshaw and Hodgkins are In trouble. That it looks as if they1 are going to break. And he said something about protection." It was startling Information. Both Unwln and Harrison represented big banking corporations, and Daylight knew that if the house of Grimshaw and Hodgkins went it would precipi­ tate a number of failures and start a flurry of serious dimensions. But Day­ light smiled, and shook his head. He caught her by the hand and drew her to him. "You let Hegan hang on to that line till he's tired. We can't be wasting a second on him on a day like this." "But I know something of the light you have been making," Dede con­ tended. "If you stop now, all the work you have done, everything, will be de­ stroyed. You have no right to do it You can't do it" Daylight was obdurate. He shook his head and smiled tantalizlngly. "Nothing will be destroyed. Dede, nothing. You don't understand this business game. It's done on paper. All 1 stand for is paper. I've got the paper for thousands of acres of land. All right Burn up the paper, and burn me along with it. The land re­ mains. don't it? Nothing is going to be lost--not one pile* out of the docks, not one railroad spike, not one ounce of steam out of th» gauge of a ferry­ boat The cars will go on running, whether 1 hold tha paper or somebody else holds It" By this time Hegan had arrived In an automobile. The honk of It came in through the open window, and they saw It stop alongside the big red ma­ chine. In the car were Unwln and Harrison, while Jones sat with the chauffeur. "I'll see Hegan." Daylight told Dede. "There's no need for the rest They can wait in the machine." "Is he drunk?" Hegan whispered to Dede at the door. She shook her bead and showed him in. "Good morning, Larry." was Day­ light's greeting "Bit down sad rest your feet. You sure seem to be in a flutter." "I am," the little Irishman snapped back. "Grimshaw and Hodgkins are going to smash if something Isn't done quick. Why didn't you come to the office? What are you going to do about it?" "Nothing." Daylight drawled lazily. "Except let them smash, I guess. I've had no dealings with Grlmsbaw and Hodgkins. I don't owe them anything. Besides. I'm going to smash myself. Look here, Larry, you know me. You know when I make up my mind 1 mean it Well, I've sure made up my mind. I'm tired of the whole game. I'm letting go of it as fast as I can. and a smash is the quickest way to let h % / 'Use a Different Tonis of Voice, or You'll Be Heading for a Hospital. go. All you've got to dc is to protect yourself and all our friends. Now you listen to me while I tell you what to do. Everything is in good shape to do It Nobody must get hurt Every­ body that stood by me must come through without damage. All the back wages and salaries must be paid pron­ to. All the money I've switched away from the water company, the street cars, and the ferries must be switched back. And you won't get hurt your­ self none. Every company you got stock In will come through--" "What have you done to him?" He­ gan snarled at Dede. "Hold on there, Larry." For the first time Daylight's voice was sharp, while all the old lines of cruelty in his face stood forth. "Miss Mason is go­ ing to be my wife, and while I don't mind your talking to her all you want, you've got to use a different tone of voice or you'll be heading for a hos­ pital, which will sure be an unex­ pected sort of smash. And let me tell you one other thing. Thls-all is my doing. She says I'm crazy, too." Dftde stepped forward where she oonfronted the two men. "Wait." she said. "I want to say something. Elam, if you do this in­ sane thing. I won't marry you. I refuse to marry you." Hegan, In spite of his misery, gave her a quick, grateful look. "I'll take my chance on that," Day­ light said. "And now, Larry, you'd better be going. I'll he at the hotel lu a little while, and Blnce I'm not go­ ing to step Into the office again, bring all papers to sign and the rest over to my rooms. And you can get me on the 'phone there any time. This smash is going through. Savvee? I'm quit and done." He turned to Dede as soon as He­ gan was gone, and took her by the hand. "And now, little woman, you needn't come to the office any more. Consider yourself discharged." "I'd cry, if I thought it would do any good." she threatened. "In which case I reckon I'd have to hold you in my arms some more and sort of soothe you down," he threaten­ ed back. As he stood at the top of the steps, leaving, she said: -- "You needD't send those men. There will be no packing, because I am not going to marry you." "I'm not a bit scared," he answered, and went down the steps. To Allay Eye Irritation Simple Wash Made From Saturated Solution of Boracic Acid Is Very Soothing. ir business at a time like this? What you meant by saying that some­ thing was going to happen quickly?" "Let'6 go and get married." be urged, all the whimsicality of bis utterance duplicated in bis eyes. "I've been work­ ing like forty horses ever since this blamed panic set in, and all the time some of those ideas you'd given me were getting ready to sprout. Well, they sprouted thlg morning, that's all. I knew I wanted to ride in the bills ikf- '-. with you Juet abou* thirty million , times more than i wanted to go to tbe office. And I knew all the time it X,' was impossible. And why? Because ••"of the office. The office wouldn't let me. And then I made up my mind ; * that I was to tbe dividing or the ways. I One way led to the office. The other way ted to Berkeley. And I took tbe 1 •• • Berkeley road. I'm never going to When one Is forced to work under a light that Is placed too high for eye comfort and cannot be readily ad- Justed it Is far better to use an opaque green shade over the eyeB than to al­ low the sight to become permanently injured. A good quality of these can be pur­ chased at your statlonea's for the modest sum of a quarter and the re­ lief you will find in them will be more than worth the small expense. Should the eyes become Irritated near the eyelash use a wash of luke­ warm sterilized water having diluted therein as much boraic acid as the water will take up. One can prepare a pint bottle of this and have It ready for use at any time. The only thing necessary would be to place the bottle in a cup of warm water so as to make It luke­ warm before using. Should a white sediment lorm a: the bottom is by no means spoiled, as this is only a very small extra quantity of the boracic asld which has been absorbed by tbe water and is in no way harmful. More than a certain quantity, say a Heaped teaspoonful to a pint of wa­ ter, will not be absorbed, so there Is no fear of making the water too soft, as only a certain degree can be achieved in this direction. 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Considerable quantities are exported The wood of tbe tung tree is used for making musical instruments, fine boxes and the framework or small houses It is believed that this tree might flourish in warmer parts or tbe United States.--Scientific American, Los Angeles, Cal»--"Grey Ghost," a low-swung racing car, with its gog­ gled, supposed owner at the wheel, and with the exhaust roaring and thundering a protest from its powerful ehgines, has been sweeping through Gleudora and surrounding towns up­ on a piratical mission that has spread terror in its wake. Along foothill boulevards, the stretch of well-paved road that leai^s from Los Angeles through Glendora, the pirate car and its owner have sped night after night upon marauding ex­ peditions. It is only when the car is out on the boulevards, where other cars are wending their way to and from the little cities near the foothills, that the "Grey Ghost" is let loose with all Its speed." Then it flashes by other automobiles, giving thp occupant3 a moving-picture view of a swift-speed- ing car with a driver huddled behind the wheel, a mere blur of a human being, whizzing on. Seven times the "auto pirate" and his gray streak of a car have been seen by orange growers who live along the boulevard. That he is the one who is committing the various depredations which have aroused resi­ dents along the mountain road has been made certain by traces that he has left after bold crimes. The men who have seen the driver of the "Grey Ghost" say he handles his car with all the skill of a professional racing driver, and that he evidently knows CHAPTER XX. Three days later. Daylight rode to Berkeley In bis red car. It was for the last tittle, for on the morrow the big machine passed into another's pos­ session. It had been a strenuous three days, for his sma^h had been the big­ gest the panic had precipitated in Cal­ ifornia. The papers had been filled with it, and a great cry of indignation had gone up from the very men who later found that Daylight had fully protected their Interests. It was these facts', coming slowly to light, that gave rise to the widely repeated charge that Daylight had gone In­ sane. It was tbe unauimous conviction among business men that no sane man could possibly behave in such fashion. On the other hand, neither his prolonged steady drinking nor his affair with Dede became public, so the only conclusion attainable was that the wild financier from Alaska had gone lunatic. And Daylight had grinned and confirmed the suspicion by refusing to see the reporter. He halted the automobile before Dede's door, and met her with bis same rush­ ing tactics, enclosing her In his arms before a word could be uttered "I've done It," be announced. "You've seen the newspapers, of course. I'm p-,umb cleaned out, and I've Just called around to find out what day you feel like starting for Glen Ellen. It'll have to be soon, for it's real expensive living In Oakland these days. My board at the bote' is only paid to the end of the week, and I ean't afTord to i >n after that And begtnnirfjp witI>y<l|m<)rrow I've got to use the street catiQMtad they sure eat up the nickels " He paused, and waited, and looked at her. Indecision and trouble showed on ber face. Then the smile he knew so well began to grow on her lips and in ber eyes, until she threw back her head and laughed in the old forthright boyish way. "When are those men coming to pack for me?" she asked And again she laughed and simu­ lated a vain attempt to escape his bear-like arms. "Dear Elam." she whispered; "dear Elam." And of herself, for the first time, she kissed him. "Now, I've got an idea," Daylight said. "We're running away from cit­ ies, and you have no kith nor kin. so it don't seem exactly right that we should start off by getting married In a city. So here's the idea: I'll run up to tbe ranch and get things in shape around the house and give tbe caretaker his walking-papers. You follow me in a couple of days, coming on the morning train. I'll have tbe preacher fixed and waiting. And here's j another idea. You bring your riding togs in a suit case. And as soon as the ceremony's over, you can go to the hotel and change. Then out you come, and you find roe waiting with "a couple of horses, and we'll ride over the landscape so aB you can see the prettiest parts of the ranch tbe first thing. And she's Bure pretty, that ranch And now that it's aettled. I'll be waiting for you at tbe morning train day after tomorrow." Dede blushed as she spoke. ^ You are such a hurricane." Well, ma'am." he drawled, "I sure hate to burn daylight. And you and I have burned a heap or daylight. We've been scandalously extravagant W# might have been married years (TO B8 CONTINUED.) / tvitf. Seems to Know Every Crook In the Roads. every turn of the roads in the sur­ rounding country. Evidence that the ' "Grey Ghost's" owner does not care what he takes and is as willing to commit a petty theft as a daring burglary of con­ sequence, is shown by the fact that on one occasion he went so far as to steal a drilling machine belonging to a ranchman, who owns a place at Grand avenue and Foothill boulevard. The tracks of the automobile tires showed plainly where the "auto pi- raffe" had hitched the machine to the back of his car, and then sped away. One of the strange features in con­ nection with the case is the fact that the "auto pirate" seems to know every crook and turn in the roads leading in and about Glendora, Covina, Duarte, Monrovia, Claremont and oth­ er towns. When shooting his car along over the smooth highways he never seems to hesitate at a turn or slow down for a railroad crossing or bridge. Tramp Runs Mansion. 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