Show G L D DEN E N DAWN AW SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin gatlan adopts adopt a baby rene pene lope in an effort to solve his matrimonial n troubles bu but t his wl wife e ha has never never wanted her find and their affairs end in it the a divorce court at a baseball babe ball game a ball strikes ten year old alil po ile belopo on the nose tire mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills pe pa belopo all his money anti and Is about to ile begin gin a search for or tier her when a motor accident ends his life some ten years year a lter later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with ft a now new patient nance belden a girl with a dual personality tor for which ner her saddle nose Is in part responsible mcnamara does not think she la Is a criminal and obtains burts testimony in court lanny the doctors emco omco nurse Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs doctor hurts burts explanation ot of tier her case casa and she Is sent to san quentin penitentiary an lanny n y visits tier her and nance persuades her to fugate out a letter which a rate erato or of nance nanca steals nance escapes altho although ugh shot and goes to lannye apartment from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped me namara learns that nances bances real name Is penelope gatlin he also discovers that penelope gatlin Is heiress to CHAPTER VI continued 13 she had bad leased the house gatlin gave her in the divorce settlement and about two years ago when the lease expired and the old tenants departed the she come down here to have the place renovated and secure a new tenant it was only then that site she heard of gatins death she came to this bank with her husband making inquiries about Gat gallins lins estate and tried hard t get fet control of it but she was out of luck how we located thelie the heir Ir what were the conditions of the trust the income was to be permitted to accumulate and be reinvested and the child wits was to have two hundred anti fifty dollars a month until her eighteenth birthday when the total income from the trust was to be turned over to tier her she can never touch the principal however although gatlin did provide that site she might haie bas up to ten abo thousand usand dollars of jt it at any one time if in the judgment of the trustee the emergency requiring such withdrawal was deemed good and sufficient lelent gatlin had faith that the real estate it if held long enough would appreciate tremendously and it lias has the trust Is now worth three quarters ot of a million and the income is close to twenty thousand a year you say penelope gatlin has a checking account also yes we ve deposit the income from tile the trust sceal deml annually in her account aas she ever asked for an emergency g withdrawal of ten thousand dollars r no INO Is her checking account active not very the cashler cashier was spent speaking to ta me about it less than two weeks ago she draws checks sporadically ifer her checking account lias has interested us considerably for the past two years because tier her monthly statement and dead checks ha haie hae e all been returned by the post best office with the exception of about a doyen checks made out to local merchants and probably in payment of tier her bills miss Gat gallins lins checks haie all been in favor of one ella cates of san francisco we traced tile cates woman down through the indorsements endorsements indor on the checks but slie site stated she know miss gallins Gat lins address that miss gatlin her occasionally wrote out checks and asked tier her to cash thera them for her at the lie local grocery store or drug store these people boated that ella cates nener neer rece received led the money at once but that they collected tile the checks for tier her and then gave her the money I 1 dont like the looks of this chief ill soon find out all a il about it mcnamara promised aej aril I 1 know where penelope Ien elope gatlin Is only im not going to tell you now dow would you mind letting me look over her old bank bani statements and the dead cli checks ecks the banker readily granted him the privilege and mcnamara Hc Namara nent through the checks carefully noting those drawn in faor of 0 ella eila cates the laar one dra drana a was in tai abor or of a man inan named milt hugh 1 taylor in fit sum or of ove five thousand dollars and deposited by him to tile the credit of ills his account in the red fed oral cral trust company of san francisco 1 I have all tile the information I 1 w want adf with this exception ile he drew forth one of 0 the rogues gallery photographs made at the lie central station by the police photographer la Is that penelope gatlin the serl irl chief Is she in trouble with the pollee police dan mcnamara laughed not at nil all ashes the sweetest little thin thing on earth the only trouble ashes been in ip that ashes been lost amnesia cant re member who she Is or anything about tier her past life has several sercial aliases she uses at will 1 bow interesting and how sad Nelt neither ber interesting nor sad to me wo we handle lots of cases like this curable be good enough to regard this interview as strictly confidential of course it would be very embarrassing for the girl it news of tier her unfortunate predicament should leak out foli foi of course after her mind has been restored to its normal functions site she will hane haie no memory of 0 the period in which sue she has been lost I 1 know a doctor that will fix her UP ui in jig time and after hes done that the th banker suggested haie a plastic sur by PETER B KYNE by bell syndicate geon fix up her no nose se she used to be as lovely its as A violet Is sorry viry about the nose mcnamara lied but ive had the best plastic surgeons in town examine it and theres no hope ue ile held out his ls courteny ehy bond band thanks for your court courtesy youve been it great help meanwhile dont send out any more of those blink bank statements and dead checks li mums furns the word back in san francisco mcnamara went directly to the city prison and looked over the blotter to see what strange ish his men had brought in during his absence ile he found a woman an old offender booked for drunkenness and ordered tier her sent to his bis ollice when she arrived arrive lie he locked the door and fingerprinted tier her on the appropriate card after lectured tier her on the error of her ways then he went upstairs to the identification bureau and asked the tiling filing clerk to hare pointed out to him the filing cabinets containing criminal records for the years 1914 15 and 1016 ne ile ans searching for a face that was photographed on his remarkable memory and at last lie he found it it yas was that of a young woman black haired and with a saddle nose but not quite so badly deformed as nance beldens beldena Bel dens nor did the contour of the face resemble nance beldens beldena Bel dens bow ever since the original of that photograph had to the chiefs knowledge been dead six months he decided it would do ile he slipped this record into his breast pocket and went back to his office here he be carefully removed the three photographs from the card to which they were pasted in a row across the top below the row of photographs appeared the typewritten criminal history of the subject and in appropriate spaces on the reverse of tile lie card appeared the subjects fingerprints mcnamara picked up the fresh card upon the reverse of which he had fingerprinted ger printed the woman who at times drank too much ile he placed this card in the t typewriter rewriter pe writer of his secretary who had gone for the day and carefully filled it in with nance Bel beldena beldens dens criminal record then he be pasted over the 4 id recognize that dame now if she was burned to ashes thus Angel angellotti Angello loti tl top of 0 tills this record the three photographs g of the dead woman lie had taken from the old files carefully burned all the evidence of the substitution went upstairs and handed tile the to the clerk cleric who replaced it in tile film files promptly at six thirty a knock sounded ott on his door and to its ills hearty come P flynn and A an entered ent cred 1 I sent for you two boys to tell you in no uncertain terms to lay oft off miss rebecca lanning Lim ning the chief began Ilo iloween weer I 1 owe onne it to you to tell you why anby miss danning I Is a friend of mine of long standing and I 1 know site she Is a worthy and depend dependable tible woman and absolutely sol truthful slie site interested in this girl nance belden it 11 happened tills this way I 1 regarded that girl as a nut see sec and I 1 any confidence in the hone one that does docs our medico legal work so I 1 took nance up to see dr stephen curt burl miss banning ft its his nurse she was very kind to the girl ery understanding and the ridden belden brat got stuck on her she has an affection complex understand flynn and Angello tl had had to listen many a time and ort oft to duo dan mena Now namarah maras iras dissertations on complexes in prisoners they nodded languidly now apparently the cliplef contin lied nance any friends tile the poor lonely kid remembered miss lanning so she wrote and asked her to visit tier her in the pen and now the warden swears site she smuggled out of san quentin a letter with nances bances plan of escape aeh well maybe she did but it if she did miss lanning know it now when the belden girl came to miss lannings home site she realized she harbor her within a minute after the girl entered coler cd miss bliss lanning had rae me on the phone ive just heard a thump out in the hall says the 1 I think the girls cahnt I 1 ed cd better let me put her to bed chief and have doctor burt come over to bandage her wound then the ambulance bu larice can call lot for her in ID the morning 1 I thought that was a good idea when she came back nance was just going out of the door miss lanning tried to stop her but tier ter boy friends were still waiting and grabbed tier her and beat it the trouble wits was that miss lanning thought tile girl was unconscious I 1 but nance kanca beard her ter and beat it now its up to you two to find her ITOW how long am e you known miss Lan quite a while mcnamara lied well even it if site sho Is a friend friend ot of yours chief ashes tio no clinging vine well leave her alone from now on and dont waste your time watching tier her house the gelden belden devil wa wont U t come back there again another thin thins we have criminals loose in our midst who are more important than a poor nut dut of a girl that only swiped a mess of silk stockings so dont get excited excite d and waste much time that will be nil all boys outside of chief maras office door detective sergeants flynn and Angello ang ellott tl looked at each other iles hes up to his old tricks amadeo always feeling sorry for the under dog rat lie ile makes me sick ill bet a months mont lis salary lie he knows where the celden belden girl Is tills this minute 1133 1 ID not dot quitting such a hot scent rat well just split that two hundred and fifty dollar reward and see bow tile the chief lilies likes it that old lanny girl warned us to step softly or shed liae haie us its broke she well where does she get tier her drag with the old roan man A Angello tl jumped to the natural conclusion of tits ills kind ashes got something on oil mill him I 1 suppose sure she has she knows he knows where sites hid the body weve got to see the belden girls photograph and thumb prints and ker der tillou tillon measurements in the upper office they went up to the identification bureau called for the record of nance belden and studied it for a couple of minutes id recognize that dame now it if she was burned to ashes thus angel fell flynn drew his partner into a cortier corner the girl was wounded we know that from the guard that shot lier her and were sure of it after looking at the blood in that speedboat it if shed bled that much all by herself shed never have gotten ashore under tier her own power pat im lac inclined lIned to think one of the crew got lilt hit too theres hope for the dagges yet my boy youre ri right it stands stand s to reason some soine doctor fixed them up now then what doctor dr stephen cure burt an Angello elloul tl decided it stands to reason that it tills this doctor burt dressed their wounds last night liell hell call on tits his patients every day until our of danger if we catch him at tits his dirty work there ought to be a little something in this on the side amideo P ilynn flynn thought that a thousand each would be a very modest sum to charge stephen curt burt for their silence very modest roof lest an hour later they pulled up in front of Step stephens liens house and behind a coupe parked at tile curb flynn circling around it noticed a red cross on the radiator they circled the block and returned to park at the lower edge of tile the block at a quarter past eight they saw stephen come out ling bag in hand enter its ills coupe a and nd drive away so they followed him and came in time to dart dan maris house into which they saw him enter as they rolled slowly past ile he find a latch key ile he ring the bell an no lights in tile front 0 the house ang Angello elloul tl cried excitedly drive back pat and ill get the number that house flynn informed him dramatically is the habitat of ills his royal highness flightless daniel chief of police of san francisco I 1 always knew lip lie was as a fox but I 1 never suspected lie he ins fool enough to hide blile an escaped convict in tits his own house an Angello elloul tl was excited excite but like all smart Iral italians laus lie he was not impulsive except when he was in a light fight or angry this pinch flinch will keep several nights because some 0 these birds aint in no condition to be moved this situation Is ticklish an requite ulies calm an in mature deliberation waybe maybe youre right at that amadeo well well stick slick round a while they stuck around half an hour before doctor curt burt came out und and drove away drop off nn an watch the house flynn suggested to his part an ill follow ills his nibs ill be back later lie he trailed stephen hurt burt to the lat houle and saw jilin him pull up across the sidewalk preparatory to opening the door of tits his garage so flynn rolled past circled picked up angel loll 1011 at the end of the block after aou 1011 an the doe doc left I 1 went up tip to co tile alio corner drug store and phoned tile chiefs house but nobody answered Angello tl confided tile gangs in there all tight light im its as nervous as an old woman flynn confessed 1 I wish I 1 had a drink TO DB BE CONTINUED |