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Show , - XMERICAN FORK CITIZEN : ; ' . " V.' sssisiaiaaa ; i i jiLWivuivoiiu ."RIGHT If BU SmWCATt Bu PETER D. IKYNE WN.USCRVICC 3MB DiBbJ, . joa hrij3 (hunt pat w For m a N'ER. Jwa Bill ddirmj ni jft toa, Utaiact era Star ? i Eastern ;:c. I rv BCHOOt" Salt Uitfc ' At 40flfi tah OJ ennir.r Pullorol licks I ItUW I .ml f SYNOPSIS - - Ifore Oatlln adopt a baby, pa." ta an affort to solva his tonlal troublaa. But bla wlfa r wan tad bar, and tbalr af-ud af-ud In tha elvorce court. Tan-Id Tan-Id Panalopa If slvan Into tba f of Mra. Oatlln. At baea-ama baea-ama a ball atrlkaa Panalopa inof and Mra, Oatlln ramovas font tha hospital and aplrlta I Europa. Oatlln la about to a aaarcb for hla daughter whan r accident nds hla Ufa. Soma aara latar. In San Franelaeo, in Burt la a rlalnf young atrial. Dan McNamara, ehlaf ilea, brings him a patlant v Belden. a girl whoaa tarrlbla ao4 ha left bar with, a dual. Mtllty, for which bar "aaddla la In part raaponalbla, McNa-sos McNa-sos not think tha la a crlm-nd crlm-nd obtalm Burt's azpart taatl-i taatl-i In court. Gran Lanny, tha ft faithful offloa nursa, la won tto-Nanca'a oauaaf but tba tlrl'a tal record outwalgha Doctor i explanation of her eaaa and aent to 8an Quentln ptnl-fy. ptnl-fy. Lanny visits her and Kaace Ides her to smurgle out a let- rhlch a confederate eteali. capes, although shot, and to Lanny'i apartment. Lanny Chief McNamara, who orderi k bring Nance to hla apart- 7 t f HAPTER VContlnud I -7-"a't got no wife, Lanny. Use f mine." p I ; st as good ai any. Get It ' ' VI takes care of you here?" CH001 I jf mother." "b7,l,k ;n he be trnited? lff'Joi' 88,11 ner t0 conntry for "t p i th," he evaded. "I d ileep- ire and eating downtown." d bless our home, Dan. Clear Hind watch for Stevle and let In." ran to the kitchen, turned on tot water and set an enameled under the faucet; then re- a, undressed the girl, in an i!ng bathroom she found clean and placed a cold one on her I When she returned to the tn. the enameled skillet was jg In the midst of a cloud of a, so she knew It had been ughly disinfected; she filled It I warm water, carried It Into foom and with a wet towel ed the two holes In Nance's and examined the wound, ilssed the bone," she decided. like a stuck pig, of course, t of her dress probably carried the wound." the medicine closet, Lanny dialed dia-led a small bottle of Iodine. So !' doused the wound with It, ?ed a cold towel around the shoulder and tucked her Into found a comb and brash In j McXamara's bureau and ed and smoothed the dank, m ixj uiaca ooo, ana wnen mat lU I done De unbent long enough ipiani a kibs on tne wmte Drow. F I f lambr she murmured. "No-C "No-C U f poor lost darling I" t glrl'i eyelldi flickered. that you, Lanny r the iiured faintly, ea. dearie. A , .w m.i I so don't worry. Nobody's goto go-to take you back to San Quen- $ cops chased us at the boat Ing. Lanny. Are van aura we )l k them off?" I f course yon did the big I ial Now, listen dearie. I'm eo to tell you something, but don't disturb vnn TaVa mw bmv! ! you're safe. Do you remem- -f ,n McNamira, the chief of f course. Old Daniel's my boy ell, you're In his bed. The were on your trail, dearie. f luspected you might come to Jjouse, so Dan tipped me off were coming and to beat it you out to his house." irror shone In the elrl'a dark "I'd never trust a cop that She walled "Oh Tnn. l 1 "UJ. juu c im make a sucker out of you." organ to weep hysterically. 2 you don't StOD that." (jnm fl t alsed Til bat you over the head ,1011 ! thU BklIlet'" n he picked "v . t f homely utensil up and shook It ,ri H 'it Jfanee. "Dan McNamara's rour uk,f ad." 1 i-s, and the chief of police, too. , I 111 dle ,f they take me back. ey a! ' " Put me 'n the dungeon I'm hrf6 aa ot tne dark." 3liiu a,,. You re hot afraid of ,uf' Tou've ot '"' Uttle ntl li"-'Ke of courage, you scara flj.'-wnei You afraid? My foot I w yo" FTh the gate and swim r tl'at srwdlmnt under flrer J 'Vaehlne-gun fire, at that." Dan Jiunmra ni.pplemented, from the itway. "TIipv oiMMied on hr n,i (t: ;if from tin. towera." e ramr MWo at tin. terrlficl Klrl. "ln't I l for ii for Hut rtificlal. hire. Ale Phon, CHEBIEt L t Slrfrt ' k atj.t kTCHEBT ( Eut J I Prore, L ID it J ihbul i. It t heir Lol VandmJ in FrMf 1 u ettn. you worry. Nance. Ton'rt safe. To a con. but I m Bot .witnoui . 8OTw sporting blood your getaway earn three rousing cheers from oia vn McNamara." Bis Wf hand strayed over her face. "Vnn'r a rood old hunk of cheese," she assured him. She turned her head toward Lanny. "Am X going to die, Lannyr ahe asked. "Not unless I kill you which Ta liable to do If you don't buck up and believe what I tell you. Tou've been shot, but It doesn't amount to much, TouTl be sH right In t week or two." "Then Hi be'good. Canny.' The tired eyes closed and while Lanny stood by. wondering what to say next Nance sank Into s sleep of profound exhaustion. "Let her alone until "Stevle comes." Lanny suggested. "The wound has stopped bleeding. . Come ont Into the living room snd If you're as crooked a cop as you ought to be you've got liquor In the house, and Tve got to have a drink of It" Her middle-aged face was very se rious. "Those cops at your house will stick around, Lanny, and when you return they'll want to know where you've been. What are you going to tell them?" "Tell them nothing. Let those two cops sit in their car In front of my house all night and watch It What do I care? At least they'll keep burglars away. And when finally they do round me up and waits me down to central station, to be questioned, you'll do the ques tioning, will you not?" "Lanny." said Dan McNamara, "If you were a man and on the force rd make you a detective sergeant You're s bear-cat, that's what you are. But you smuggled that letter out of San Quentin for Nance and turned It over to Sapphire Susie I "Maybe you didn't know It, but you gave Sapphire Susie a lift In your car from the main gate at San Quentln down to Greenbrae. The guard remembered seeing her hang lng around the main gate, as If she was waiting for somebody: later she got into a coupe with a middle- aged lady, who looted so respect able he took anotl.jr look at the pass she had just surrendered to him and remembers that the name on the pass was yours. The pass en titled you to visit Nance Belden. Guards may not remember such In cldents until something happens. Then they're fast on their feet. Lanny." "And who, If you please, la Sap phire Susie?" "She did a stretch In San Quentln Quen-tln for blackmail. 8he was discharged dis-charged a week before you visited Nance, and before Susie left the Big Bouse, Nance fixed it with her to lend a helping band. Apparently Nance didn't want to confide the minute details of her plan of escape to Susie. Susie's a swell looker but a little bit dumb-she levied blackmail through the mall, understand, under-stand, and signed her name, Instead of hiring a smart shyster lawyer. So Nance decided to send her written Instructions out by you, and Susie agreed to pick yon up, pinch the let ter and deliver It" -Dan, I assure you I wasn't In any plot to effect a prison delivery, If Td thought for an instant I was doing anything wrong why. Nance told me-to. read her letter and if I disapproved of Its contents to de stroy It I didn't see any harm In mat ron violated the rules of the prison and you could be punished for tt by a term In the same prison." "I'm s respectable woman" "That gets you nowhere, I was s respectable chief of police once and now look at me. If your part in this leaks out you can only be punished and you cant be convicted convict-ed unless you talk In your sleep. If my part In this should leak out 111 be punished snd disgraced and thrown out f the best Job I ever had. However" he raised his glass to ner "mud In your eye, Lanny." "Happy days, Dan. you gorgeous sony." ine QoorDcii rang. Dan opened it ana Doctor Burt stepped In. He paused In amasement at sight of Lanny, glass in hand ; she motioned mm wirn it aown the hall. "First door at the end, Stevle, You'll find your patient there." "That girl with the dissociated per onaiiiy, nance Belden, escaped rrom ban quentln late this after noon. Chief," Stephen began, and handed the lntrer a newspaper, 'Rig story. Hrst woman to escape rrom San Quentln." He gaied so -n-u iipvu winny. -nnt are you ilnltijr here, T.nimvr " A II I. I ... ..." ...... .... n kiv, cMKvie i:ir, nrn no ptt.-h hot. That Belden K!ri . L.nt iini In her ahoul w'" " r;;; shock and abmeralo. blood snd- sue s w -.i t... her a stiff noggin of Dsn's terrible boose and for tieth of a train U7C , n k ctha'a aleeolng. Did you bring thoss hot-water hotter ryes,' be saia numoit J"'V-V"" t bag be carried. Lanny fell upon the bag. and retired to the kitchen to fill the hot-water bottles and tuck tbem In alongside her cwia paum. "Lucky It aha doesm aeveiop pneumonia, Stevle." Doctor Burt stood looking down at the sleeping Nance. "Out f tba warden's arms ana arraign yours. Tou guessed she'd call on Lanny, ah. Dan, you're an old fox. "No, Doc, I'm not. A xox brains." . . . ' "He's a lamb, Stevle, just a oig ram lamb." While LaMJ wt M,,tJn Doe" tor Burt In dressing Nance Beldeh'i wound, Dan McNamara sat In his plain little living room and read the story of her escape from San Quen tln. It appeared that througnoui an of Sunday afternoon two men. In ft motorboat, had been anchored In tha cove off San Quentln apparently fl.Mna- tar atrtned bSSS. Whicb sbound at this particular point In 8an Francisco bay. There were om-er om-er boats anchored there also eight in all The guard at the entrance to the women's quarters had observed ob-served them, until, about four-thirty p. m.. Just before locklng-up time s guard In one of the lookout tow-ers tow-ers on the hill had telephoned him that boat bad approached close to tba shore. The ruard bad thereupon stepped out of bis kiosk and around to the rear of it, whicb faced toward the beach, less than thirty feet distant Be had shouted st the men In the boat and warned them to be off, that they were not permitted to approach that close, that they were within the deadline. To this the men replied re-plied that they couldn't help It; that ' r i Terror Shone In the Girl's Dark Eyes. their motor had gone dead and that the tide had set tbem In : that thev were trying to make repairs and would, be off as soon as they could. While the rusrd was In the rear of his station, engaged In this con versation, Nance Belden bad approached ap-proached the rata, kicked off her shoes and, digging her toes Into the quarter-lncn wire mesa of tba sixteen-foot gate, bad scrambled to the top with incredible rapidity. She was just climbing down the outside of th gate when the guard in the tower on the bin saw her and Im- mediately telephoned to tha guard at the main gate; also to the guard arguing with tha men in the motor. boat Upon bearing the telephone neu ringing In his station, that guard had walked back Into it. a the same time, keeping the kiosk oetween her and the approaching guard, Nance Belden bad dashed down to the beach and commenced swimming rapidly toward the motor-boat, motor-boat, the motor of which Instantly started, and the boat commenced edging in to pick her ud. When the guard in tha kiosk, in. prised of what was taking place. ran out wit a rifle In his hand, and shouted to Nsnce Belden to come back or he would shoot her, a ma chine-gun in the motor-boat vtmmnt. ly came into action against him. He had not been bit bnt a ahoi. t ki. lets had spattered the ground around ana in rront of him and another burst had gone over hla hai nt through the sentry box. The guard ua nrea once at the Belden woman and hit her. but Immediate after, fearful of being killed, be bad mrown nimseu flat on the ground. The guard In the watoh.t flVAS aV the hill had then brought his ma- cnine-gon into action. His firs: burst bad been short and draw an swerlng fire from the machine gun ner in tne Doat Although the range waa four hundred yards, the first oursi rrom the motor-boat tnrougn the wooden watch-tower, wmcn ramer attracted the aim of the guard there; nevertheless, the auer siuck to bis gun and continued contin-ued to Ore, spattering bullets around me swimming girl and Into the boat The men In the bont did not hol- tnte. hut mine on through, the of bullets; thO rsenplne ,,rs, 1" tne hioimuhMe either su t dUe.1; at any rate a widenl lull ner ik IE tinge af red appeared the water She WM dOWII aDOUt vunj ewonni then her head emerged dose to th. boat, and aha swam with one am to tha side of It; a man reached over and grasped her nnder both arms and Jerked her Into the boat. which Instantly turned, put on run peed and raced away close past two other boats. Fearful of killing Innocent people, the guard in the watch-tower held bla fire until the escaping boat was l the clear then ha and tba gusra m anomet tower cams Into action again. Bu-s Bu-s target moving at a speed of forty five mllee an boor la not easily hit tha lira was either over or short anc tba boat did not stop.. When it wai out of range. It turned and in th rapidly fading light of the wlnta day, headed np Into San Tabio bay, running close to tha south shore to avoid tba chop of tba waves in this shallow axpansa of water. They ran without Bgbta. While the course they had token would seem to Indicate a desire to run up Osroulnes straits to the Sacramento Sac-ramento or tha Ban Joaquin rivers, bind and escape In a waiting automobile auto-mobile Into central California, the warden realized that bla quarry was not lacking In Intelligence; that fast ss tliey fled, they would realize that tha telephone U faster; that the roar of their motor must betray them a mile away. He had, therefore, there-fore, taken tha precaution to notify tha chiefs of police Of Pittsburg, Martinet; Sausallto, Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland and Sen Francla-co, Francla-co, iaavloa; to these the taek of notifying no-tifying intermediate points. The warden had a uspldoa the fugitives would double back to San Francisco, Francis-co, particularly since the girl was wounded and must be hidden in order or-der to receive medical attention. And here aha Is," Dan Mc Namara muttered. "Ckipes, what a woman I Lord, how I love a woman with brains and courage. Just a lit tle simple matter of, .taking pains and taking risks. She didn't go In to the dining ball for dinner with the other prisoners. Smart I Knew the couldnt make a fast swim on a full stomach. ' Smart enough to no tice the warden's oversight to fill In with barbed wire topping that eight een inch space at the top of his gate. Of course they figured they needn't bother with that, because no woman could climb a sixteen-foot wire mesh fence anyhow, and If sht did she'd only drop down Into the waiting arms of the guard, who Is never absent,' sight or day. But Nance Belden knew she could climb that fence barefoot J she knew she bad thirty seconds to do It and a drop on the other side from the top of the gate. Her job was to Induce the guard to turn hla back and her friends la the boat did that ! "She knew she'd been seen from the watch-tower on the hill and the guard at the gates notified by telephone; tele-phone; as be returned from the edge of the beach, around the south side of his kiosk, Nsnce slipped by him on the north side and was in the water as the guard took up the "phone. Smart! She knew no guard would stick under machine-gun machine-gun lire at fifty yards, merely to stop a woman convict escaping from prison. Smart I Sank and swam under water and then the sigzag course between the boats of the other fishermen, after they picked her up. Fine psychology she en gineered It all and I know she's a nuti And then straight to Lanny for medical attention straight to the one human being she knew she could trust no, m not send her back. And I don't particularly want to catch her friends, either. HI say they're friends I Wish I bad a couple of friends that'd come on through machine-gun fire for met Stephen Burt came out of the bed room and sit down and stared at the chief of police with grave in terest "Well, my good Javert," be said presently. "Tour good what?" "I called you Javert Don't you know who Javert was?" Dan McNamara shook his head. "I never picked him up. Doc" Tou wouldn't He wss a character charac-ter in Les Mlserables,' novel by Victor Hugo. He was a fly-cop In Paris, sad be pursued an ex -convict named Jean Valjean for twenty years, because he believed the man was a crook. Once a crook, always a crook, was Javert's philosophy, And when he discovered at last he had the goods on Jean Yatjean and K was his duty to arrest him, hs discovered simultaneously that Jean Valjean was also a good and no ble man, which proved extremely embarrassing to Javert "I understand how that could be, all right, Doc. What did Javert do thenr "Be climbed up on the railing of a bridge over the Seine, unpinned bis shield, threw It Into the river, snd Jumped In after it' "He committed suicide in order to give his man the breaks." "Exactly." "Well," Dan McNamara decided after pondering this a half minute. "I wouldn't be boob enough to do that Be should have made a stool pigeon out of Jean Valjean and maybe may-be he'd have gotten somewhere In his Job." (TO BB CONTINUED ) BRAIDED "STAR" RUG PRACTICAL Bjr GRANDMOTHER CLARK ..''v-.'M-s,., X- '-"J!li',', x. nkberry Weed Clings ttian with ' stm grows lovingly to Accustomed Haunts nandchopperi Bleeplng In tba black Along the shady path beside Sprain IoBm of riocv. Lonesome, Once the lake, in Yonkers. close by the site of lovel coior.of the berries decorated an anc ient Indian village, grows the tne blankets of hundreds of warriors pokeweed. pigeon berry, garget or bout campflresr where now Boy Inkherry, Phytolacca deenndra, a Scnut. ,Ie6I) out -overnight" and lm- coarse smooth weed with acid poison- BgIne tbev are injuns. Old-fashioned ouh root and stem, Drancnmg some- herb (iW.x.wt thought the root an tJnirs nix fret or more tall. With emetC and a tincture of the ripe racemes of flowers, white with green berries was once used as s popular centers on angulnr peduncles, two Kmeiy for chronic rheumatism, to four inches long, they become W1I(1 birds use the fruit for food, clusters of scarlet Juice berries In ., .M.ina with their bills atained the autumn. The Indians used the lctriet jn August or October are not red Juice to stain their deerskin and uncommon sights. Its chief benefit paint their faces In wartime. WMte t0 humanltv la its beauty In fruit people settling on farms among the j. otls Swift in the New York World- Weatchester hills and writing nome Telegram. to relatives in England about the i ' A star rug with points on the out er edge Is not practical, because the points are easily turned up when the rug Is in use. This has been overcome In the braided rug shown here, and a round rug can be used in many places. This model is mnde in six shades of blue but many other color schemes can be used to set off the pattern. Size Is 33 Inches and re quires about three pounds of mate rial. Three strips are used In braid lng. The six diamonds to form ..ar are 4 Inches wide, 7 Inches long Fill In space between points of star to make round. Sew about 20 row? around in colors desired. This Is one of the 20 braided and crocheted rugs shown In rug book No. 25. Directions are given with each rug; also, how to braid and prepare the material for working. If you want to make a good-look lng rug, send 15c to the Home Craft Co., Dept. C, 1900 St. Louis avenue St Louis, Mo., and receive this rug book by mail postpaid. Enclose a stamped addressed en velope when writing for any infor mation. Dr. Pierce's Pelleta are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative three for a cathartic. Adv, Historic Precedent "Nero fiddled while Rome burned,' said Mr. Growcher. "But that's no excuse." "For what?" "Our cook playing the piano while the turkey scorches." hardness of their lives and the sav ageness of the country, wrote with quill pens dipped' In Inkberry Juice. The Indians are gone from the hill. but the weed the squaws used to dye Opie, Art Art Ii more godlike than science. Science discovers; srt creates. J. Bittersweet Faade Birds Bittersweet the highly decorative decora-tive wild plant much prized for Its brilliant red berries. Is an Important food of game and song birds that have to scratch hard for a living during the winter. The berries cling to the vines after other natural foods are gone, sustaining wild life In the period of greatest scarcity. Classificatioa of the Hindu The Hindu is brown, but practically practi-cally all suthoritles agree that he Is a member of the subdivision of the white or Caucasian race. As far as the United States government govern-ment Is concerned, however, s nindu Is not s white person, the Supreme' court tavlfig ruled to that effect on February 19, 1923. Live la Holes la Rocka Mountainous rock spires near Mt. Argeus, In the heart of Asia Minor, have been honeycombed and hollowed hol-lowed by the hand of man for human hu-man habitation. Used hundreds of years ago as churches and monasteries, monas-teries, these hard rock apartments are now Inhabited by modern troglodytes. troglo-dytes. Quick-Growing Tree The fastest growing tree In the world is said to be the balsa whose seed Is not much larger than the head of a pin. In five" years the tree grows to a height of 75 feet with a diameter of two feet or more, The BaIldog Although the bulldog is no longer s utility animal, nis innuence on the canine race has been consider able. It Is said that even In Its most diluted form the blood of the, bulldog transmits its qualities to every descendant, and that his Indomitable In-domitable courage has been passed on to every breed with which be has been crossed. Valley Ferge Valley Forge received Its name from Valley Forge Creek, and the creek received Its name from the Mount Joy Iron Works, which were built on the stream, 19 miles northwest north-west of Philadelphia. The foundry was Itnown- locally 1 as "the -Talley forge" and In time the stream was called that too. The site of the camp Is now s state park. Proof Coins Proof coins sre coins especially struck from polished blanks snd dies, and finished by hand, which gives them s mirror-like, smooth, reflective surface, the most nearly perfect condition known. The mint makes s small charge for the proof coins, and they can be had only during the year of the Issue. 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