Burning Daylight  Part 2  Jack London  Chapter 25  Daylight had
made no assertion of total abstinence though he had not taken a
drink for months after the day he resolved to let his business
go to smash. Soon he proved himself strong enough to dare to
take a drink without taking a second. On the other hand, with
his coming to live in the country, had passed all desire and
need for drink. He felt no yearning for it, and even forgot that
it existed. Yet he refused to be afraid of it, and in town, on
occasion, when invited by the storekeeper, would reply: "All
right, son. If my taking a drink will make you happy here goes.
Whiskey for mine."  But such a drink began no desire for a
second. It made no impression. He was too profoundly strong to
be affected by a thimbleful. As he had prophesied to Dede,
Burning Daylight, the city financier, had died a quick death on
the ranch, and his younger brother, the Daylight from Alaska,
had taken his place. The threatened inundation of fat had
subsided, and all his old-time