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nll EVEXING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, | The Dagger - A Mystery Story By Mary Dahlberg Copyright, 1920, by Duffield and Company. (Continued From Yesterday's Star.) | CHAPTER XIX. NEW HOPE OF HAPPINESS. AGGER wasn't a person drift indefinitely or to shi responsibility, and as Jack drinking became increasingl pernicic she was moved to intervene i However objectionable his habits thore remained in him, inseparable from his disposition, the underlying Vein of affection he had inhérited from Bis father. Dréink or sober. ted her with 51 and i orst sprees y spells of transient con- trition and loving kindness. He wasn't, plain a sotl wa over, his mothe pride and thrown hers ger’s mercy “Alexandra, it's me to say, but he you than he will for Head was held hig Dagger's unflinching please! Do anythi The white d eyes me to him, ng him- the plea cost Mrs \g; her instinct was toward generosity. “I can't alone,” would she help him you influence “But if ssented her mother-in- e was assuaged by the wouldn't mind if he He'll never, here, > are so many temptation: “T should consent to that very read- * Mrs. Van recd. “Poor boy. his own good in went where in York Jim New Old fretful tak see her agai mind to carry Jac he might spend the day in- th riding and g the open alr. But when she suggested the plan next | morning he wouldn't listen to her “Bury-myself on a ranch, with Mexi- cans and cowpunchers for compan: Not much! You can go if you want to.” “But it would be so good for you,| Jack,” begged his mother. “The exer- cise and the change of climate. Your knee is well enough to ride.” | He scowled. “Your idea, too, eh? Want to get rid of me. Well, I won't go. I'm financing | this man Olny in building a big three- | motor plane for transatlantic flying and | I want to stand by and see the job through.” | “You can't be much use if you keep on drinking so heavil Dagger pointed out. “It's that that worries us, Jack.” “Oh, don’t be forever inhibiting me,” | he snarled. “You might think I couldn’t| lo%k after myself.” You can't,” Dagger answered curtly. | And his mother wailed: “I wouldn't mind if it did you any good, Jackie; but you are so strange | nowadays. And you drink all the time. | Cousin Charles told me two nights ago ybu were unable to leave the Stuy- veésant Club.” “Jack silenced her with a glare. “What does me harm is being made to feel that you two are picking me oyer behind my back.” he growled. “You might think I didn’t do any work at ajl, and the truth is that this aviation blisiness is more important than any- tBing in front of the country today.” {His dull eyes brightened, as they usually did when he launched upon his favorite topic. “I tell you, the time'’s coming, and soon, when ‘it will be an :terydny occurrence to fly the Atlan- , and people won't think any more of had been writing sger if he was ever was in _her , where | cash in.” * Olny ship or in this airw e saddle, | *° hopping to Chicago or St. Louis tha they do now of driving or going rain. The be money in flying tocks, and I'll be in a position to He lounged 1o his feet, stretching his arms over his head, good humor re- stored. “Don't talk to me, you two! The family made their big wad in rail- oads. Won't you be proud of me when Vaneering Airways are launched, and you'll be dodging spare parts from Ty busses in the sky?” Both wom:n had to laugh. He was like a small boy who has been caught out, but manages to produce a con- vincing excuse for his bad habits, And Dagger, if not his mothes conception of the validity of h for the future. room to him and dropped her hands n_ his shoulder T love to hear you talk like that, she said. “And I do believe in aviation, just as you do. I won't be- grudge you a moment you spend on t ys matter. It's because I want you to have plenty of energy for such ‘important things tha I ask you to cut down on your drink- ing He was touched. “You're sweet little thing. Not many girls would understand so well.” “I presume you felegate your mother to that class” complained Mrs. Va- neeri He reached out and patted her cheek. “Now, mater darling! You're a peach. I'll have a phonogfaph record made with a decla:ation of my unciymg love and appreciation and turn it on when- ever you start that -line” “But you will cut down tie drink- * insisted Dagger. sure will” he promised easily. “And after we find out if the Olny can fly we'll take a_trip. How'd you like to go abroad? You never had a real honeymoon.” Honeymoon! No, she'd never really had one, Dagger reflected—nor, in the s she had anticipated, a marriage T'd love that, . edged soberly. “Let “After Christmas,” mother won't mind.” “I daresay I shall be able to amuse myself,” Mrs. Vaneering replied stiffly. In: the last few moments the soggy. petulant expression _Jack _habitually wore at home had faded from his face He was again the hard-bitten, jovial had a visions ck,” she acknowl- 1 e agreed. do h “It LUMBAGO? A pain in the lower part of your back can torture you. 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STRAW 'HATS Panamas Leghorns Mallories Stets 1 C E She went across the | 1930. | Radio station, WNYC, of the same in- | formation. Commission merchants and produce | buyers at the wholesale vegetable mar- | kets saia there was a plentiful supply of all fresh vegetables, and that whole- Sale prices had mot been affected by New York Health Department|the drought. They said some retailers | were taking advantage of rts of Group Will Co-operate With | crop shortages to boost their prices. Housewives, 808 | s !d-redc\'fl Dagger had met on the st.|?umng through the din of the traffic, | (¢ Anthony roof. she seemed to hear the lowing of the She was drawn to him as she hadn't | cattle streaming down to the wate = “FAIR PRICE BOARD” e volcw o skeptitom whisperes | nossides ot the punchers sivoasing 1ow| 10 CUT PROFITEERING | that he'd made similar promises before. |in thelr saddles after a day's hard rid- [ | But this voice she mritued resolutely. | ing. |1t was unfair to doubl in advance of | It was verging on dusk when she { | performance. > | reached the Vaneering house and she | “Would you like to have'a party with | had begun to elimb the steps before she { me tonight?” she asked. “Dine out and | observed a knot of men standing on tffe |go to the theater? | curb. They started toward her at the She looked questioningly at Mrs. Va- |same moment. but a watchful police- neering, who hesitated and then finally | man pushed them back—— “Ain’t you | ind! indorsement. Jack kissed her, |got no sense?” she heard him growl with a gravity beyond his w “That's her.” | “Thats a swell idea, homey. And| An icy hand squeesed her heart. SIX-DAY Mountain Excursion To VIRGINIA and WEST VIRGINIA POINTS Saturday, August 23d, 1930 White Sulphur..... .$6.50 Ronceverte Alderson . Hinton e - - $8.25 Thurmond ......$9.00 One shipment of tobacco sent from Canada to England weighed 370,000 pounds, the Assoclated Press | NEW YORK, August 15.—The City | Gordonsville . ... Sbe | eailh Deparfment has moved to| (F YOU ARE TRAVELING TO Charlottesville .. | don't you worry about me, Maybe I do' Caught her breath and was about tol ‘. ..t possible food profiteeri 6, |1ifi" & few glaises over tfe mark, but |Seak to them when the front door ‘DIVRG, BISSGS J0pd (Profteering be-| PHILADELPHIA Waynesboro . SPEND THE HOT NIGHTS Staunton I'm the same old Jack, and one of |opened and James stepped forward, his| .%o iaplsh a “fair price board” to co- | Do Sl [ ON BAY AN 3 Goshen, Millboro. . $6. these days, when this infernal knee gets O'dinarily impassive features stamped | o orqte ‘with housewives, to where it won't throb in damp | With Srief. | "Edward F. Brown, deputy commis- Rooms$1.50 up—with Shower $3.50. Double . Room and Bath $5 and 6. DINNER $1. Covington .......$6. Montgomery ......$9.50 . e Hot Springs......$6.50 Charleston .......$10.00 weather, youwll be surprised what a| ( | sioner of health, named representatives . Tickets g0od on all trains, Saturday, August 334, and in sleeping cars on model husband I become | | of all New York newspapers 0 the | ‘That day"Dagger knew happiness. In | | board and asked them to publisil daily | payment of regular Pullman charges with return lmit August 20th. For full information and tickets apply te Clty Ticket Office, the morning she went shopping and | current prices for vegetables, fruits and | Y14 14th St. N, 'W., er Union Station, | lunched with an authoress whom she'd | other' fcod. He also arranged for a met at’ the Cosmopolitan Club; in the | CHESAPEAKE & OHIO RY. J. B. EDMUNDS, G. A. These two new arrivals among cities | dally broadcast from the Municipal | afternoon she attended a reception, | b1 National 0748-9 tinued tomorrow.) NEW CENSUS FIGURES |Jeaving early to be in time to grecf |Dumbering more than a million, Loa‘ | Jack and have a talk before they went ' Angeles and Detroit, were both aug- out to dinner, | mented by yesterdz;'s announcements She walked home up Fifth avenue in |of Census Brzeau revisions. | | the glow of an Indian Summer after- | o » noon. 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