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When the ferry system began to run, and the time between Oakland and San Francisco was demonstrated to be cut in half, the tide of Daylight's terrific expenditure started to turn.

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Sinopec is paying a 120% premium to Daylight's closing price Friday, essentially helping the target's shareholders make back nearly all the 56% drop in the company's valuation this year.

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Work on Daylight's dock system went on apace, yet was one of those enterprises that consumed money dreadfully and that could not be accomplished as quickly as a ferry system.

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"And when God Almighty washes Daylight's soul out on the last big slucin 'day," MacDonald interrupted, "why, God Almighty'll have to shovel gravel along with him into the sluice-boxes."

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One Simon Dolliver, with money to go in with, and with cunning and courage to back it up, bade fair to become a several times millionaire at Daylight's expense.

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Not that it was Daylight's way abjectly to beg and entreat.

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He scribbled the amount on a pad, and the weigher at the bar balanced fifty dollars 'worth of dust in the gold-scales and poured it into Burning Daylight's sack.

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"Burning Daylight's burning candlelight," laughed Dan MacDonald, as an outburst of exclamations and merriment came from the dancers.

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All this tended to a steady appreciation in value of Daylight's huge holdings.

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The waltz in the back room being finished, the three couples, followed by the fiddler and the pianist and heading for the bar, caught Daylight's eye.

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