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Burning Daylight

CHAPTER XIII
10/15

The Guggenhammers bid highest, and the price they paid netted Daylight a clean million.

It was current rumor that he was worth anywhere from twenty to thirty millions.

But he alone knew just how he stood, and that, with his last claim sold and the table swept clean of his winnings, he had ridden his hunch to the tune of just a trifle over eleven millions.
His departure was a thing that passed into the history of the Yukon along with his other deeds.

All the Yukon was his guest, Dawson the seat of the festivity.

On that one last night no man's dust save his own was good.


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