By Jack London

Dawson grew rapidly that winter of 1896. Money poured in on Daylight from the sale of town lots, and he promptly invested it where it would gather more.
"You all just wait till the news of this strike reaches the Outside," he told his old-timer cronies in the Moosehorn Saloon. "The news won't get out till next spring, then there's going to be three rushes: a summer rush of men coming in light; a fall rush of men with outfits; and a spring rush, the next year after that, of fifty thousand. You all won't be able to see the landscape for chechaquos1. What are you all going to do about it?"
"What are you going to do about it?" a friend demanded.
"I've already got a dozen gangs strung out up the Yukon getting out logs. You all'll see their rafts coming down after the river breaks. Cabins! They sure will be worth what a man can pay for them next fall. Lumber! It will sure go to top-notch. I've got two sawmills freighting in over the passes. And if you all are thinking of needing lumber, I'll make you all contracts right now—three hundred dollars a thousand, undressed."
Corner lots in desirable locations sold that winter for from ten to thirty thousand dollars. Daylight sent word out over the trails and passes for the newcomers to bring down log-rafts, and, as a result, the summer of 1897 saw his sawmills working day and night, on three shifts, and still he had logs left over with which to build cabins. These cabins, land included, sold at from one to several thousand dollars, and these fresh lumps of capital were immediately invested in other ventures. Everything he touched turned to gold.
With the summer rush from the Outside came special correspondents for the big newspapers and magazines, and one and all, using unlimited space, they wrote Daylight up; so that, so far as the world was concerned, Daylight loomed the largest figure in Alaska. Passing along the streets of Dawson, all heads turned to follow him. Not only was he the richest man in the country, but he was Burning Daylight, the pioneer, the man who, almost in the midst of antiquity of that young land, had crossed the Chilcoot2 and drifted down the Yukon to meet those elder giants, Al Mayo and Jack McQuestion3.

1. Native American term referring to Gold Rush newcomers to the land
2. a river in Canada
3. Al Mayo was an early American prospector in Canada n 1871. Jack McQuestion was a pioneer and explorer known as the "Father of the Yukon," who was prospecting at the same time.
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Based on the events in the passage, the reader can infer that Daylight
A.
is a selfish and greedy person.
B.
had few friends before he made money.
C.
is experienced in business ventures.
D.
makes abrupt decisions.