- An adventurer, who goes by the nickname "Burning Daylight", strikes it rich during the Alaskan Gold Rush. After he achieves wealth and success in the Klondike, he sets out towards 'the lower 48' (the continental U.S.) to find new challenges, but his money making abilities do not prepare him for the vicious cons and manipulation of Wall Street. He is soon cheated out of his entire fortune, but the 'hero' now has learned the lessons 'of the street', and fights to become a success again, with the knowledge that it takes a scoundrel to beat a scoundrel.—anonymous
- Elam Harnish, one of the most daring prospectors in pioneer Alaska, had never rode his "hunch" to the tune of eleven millions before he pulled out for "the States" to sit in the big game in San Francisco. Accompanied by his faithful Indian servant, Kama, he waved good-bye to his friends in Dawson and started out with his dog-teams across the snows to civilization. Only one was missing from the group that cheered his departure. This was Nell, a dance-hall girl, to whom he had never given anything but friendship, but who had loved him so devotedly that she could not endure to have him go out of her life. Of her tragic end, he knew nothing till a later day, when his enemies attempted to use the story to his undoing. Sailing into the beautiful harbor of San Francisco, we see him gazing eagerly ahead, keen for adventure, with a sparkling determination to win out as completely in the game as played in the financial centers of the country as in the grim battle with Nature in the mountains. Breezily sure of himself, he is easy prey for the group of scheming financiers which use him for their tool, and he comes very near to losing all the money wrested from the grim years in Alaska. Only his daring and his contempt for his own life save him. but the experience was a valuable one, and he learns to meet his competitors in the money market on their own ground. The city's worship of wealth, to which he insensibly becomes a convert, makes him cruel and grasping. The ease of city life makes him soft and pleasure-loving. In the "big game" he comes to believe that Fate has dealt him three cards: battle, revenge and cocktails. These he plays ruthlessly. Meantime, without his knowledge, and even more emphatically without his wish. Fate has been dealing a fourth card, Love. At first his stenographer, beautiful Dede Mason, meant no more to him than any of the employees in his suite of offices, though he found himself deferring to her more and more. One Sunday he met her on a country road among the hills across the harbor, and caught the cool, appraising glance with which she measured him and his group of flashy, noisy friends. She was riding her thoroughbred, Fiesta, and passed quickly, but quite suddenly he realized what she had come to be to him. With characteristic energy he devotes himself to winning her with irresistible earnestness and devotion. But she is not easily won, and with the unique test that Love imposes on him. this drama comes to a close.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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