Show Golden Dawn By By Peter B. B Kyne Copyright II by tarries Service Don Ben teat Find t SYNOPSIS Theodore Gatlin adopt adopts a bab baby Pena Pen p ns- ns top lope ope In an effort to solve his bli maul matri trouble troubles But Dut ht hie wife wit ha hu aster isTer wanted her and their attain en end In the divorce court At a baseball tarn tame a ball strikes ten year ten old ear Pe P. on the tho nose noe Mrs Mr spirits spirit the child to Europe Europ Gatlin will wills P. P all his hl money and la Is about to begin teg-ln a search for her when a motor accident ends end his hll life lIf Some ten years eara later In San Francisco Stephen Stphen Burt Burl t rising riling 55 run young psychiatrist Is It presented by Dan McNamara chief of police pollee with a K new patient patient patient-Nance Nance Belden Delden a girl g Irl with a dual personality for which her bel saddle nose Is I. In part responsible McNamara does dOli not think she Ih he Is I. a criminal and obtains obtain Burt Burt's testimony In In In- Incourt court t lanny the doctors doctor's office ome nurse Is I. also alto won o over er Nances Nance's crimInal crim trim inal record outweIgh outweighs Doctor Burts Burt's explanation of her ber case ee and she ebe Is I. sent to San Quentin penitentiary Lanny Lann I visits her ber and Nana Nance persuades her ber to smuggle mug out out a letter which a confederate confederate coated erate state of Nance Nante steals steal Nanc Nance escapes escapee although shot and got goo gou to Lann Lanny's apartment From one of the th men In the boat on en which the girl escaped Mc Ma Namara learn learns that Nances Nance's real name In Se Penelope Oaths Gatlin CHAPTER V Continued V-Continued 12 12 Flynn and Angelica needed no second second sec eec ond end Invitation They searched the house bouse thoroughly and returned to the little drawing room to finish their drinks Youve taken her away Flynn charged Where did you take her If It youre you're such good detectives defectives go find her Lanny was was getting her courage cour- cour age ige back again She did come here but butI I wasn't tool fool enough to receive her She came rame in tn a car with two men and she shedid shedid shedid did taint faint in tn my hallway waT and lie there for a little while Of course she exacted ex ex- ex- ex why acted why I cant can't Imagine that imagine Id I'd bide hide her herand and nurse her But she's shel neither a friend nor nor nora a relative of mine she met me once In tn Doctor Burts Burt's office where I am empl employed red and took a liking to me me-In me in her funny way waT She's She a psycho neurotic personality tT 8 She wrote me asking me to call upon her bet and d I a tool because C fool because I felt sorry for her ber She should be beta in a e sanitarium not a JalL JaiL Who bro ight her ter to Doctor Eurt's office Chief McNamara I Flynn and and sat lat up I They glanced slowly at each ach other The old old m mans man's ns n's be been n up op to his bis old tricks trick again said again said Flynn What became became be be- came o of Nance anc Belden after you refused refused re re- fused to receive her She left In tn the automobile Lanny was was careful not to state which automobile auto auto- mobile or whose Youre an accessory to her escape It was your duty duly as 81 a citizen to hold bold her here telephone police headquarters and have her taken down to the emergency hospital for treatment Youcan You Ton can ran go to the pen for Cor this Lanny commanded commanded commanded com com- Get out of my house fiercely Sure but you come with us Thus You cant can't arrest me without a warrant war wan rant rant I said before beCore you yon aint such a goot good lawyer We can always alway pick up anybody anybody anybody any any- body that carries a gun without a permit per pen mit Into your hat bat and coat Miss Lanning and come with us u. Ill telephone my ml lawyer and then go with you you ou said Lanny with dig dig- Nothing doing Flynn declared firmly You two dare lay hands bands on me and Ill Til have e you both broke understand Be careful Call up Chief before you get fresh Cresh with me The telephone Is le In the kitchen Flynn wen went I Into the kitchen and called up Dan Mc McNamara amara lie He was much subdued upon his bis return and Lanny smiled Well get you yet he be growled You must have ha a drag with the tte chief lies Ices pulled us off the case Good night When they ther had bad gone Lanny put out the hall light and watched them from behind the door curtain The They crosse crossed 1 the street to their car climbed In tn and settled down for Cor an all night all night vigil vigil vigil-at at least so Lanny decided So she dragged the hall runner Into the kitchen scrubbed the bloody spot pot thoroughly and dried It over the gas while stove reviling herself the e C To the surprise of the machine gunner gunner gun gun- ner Chief Dan McNamara fc amara did not ask him a single Ingle personal not question question not even his bis name Nor did he be question him bins regarding his wounded friend lie He and the chief partook of a breakfast which the Tommy man prepared and discussed marksmanship wounds battiel batUe bat bat- Ue ties and sudden ludden death As the chief the machine gunner gunner gun gun- wag waa leaving Le be gave ga ner net a list lIat of tradesmen who supplied hi his house bouse and told him to telephone when delivery was mad mad- hi his bis orders order table in to the theAnd they were to be left leCt on a basement And Aud dont don you lOll answer the telephone aad ad dont don't show bow yourself outside or near the front windows be he warned Th The f nodded Bi Dl the way Chief what whit's going to become of that speed boat It belongs to ro Nance She She bought It for forty are hundred dol dol- lars lara It McNamara sat cat down and looked his hla amazement She paid forty five hun bun dred Bred dollars for that boat boat and and yet let she sh h was doing time for tor pinching silk Illk stockings I 1 dont don't like to ask you any questions you rou might be embarrassed to answer boy but today will be a total los loss to me unless I find and out where she Ibe keeps her bank roll That Nanee's Nance business an Ill I'll not discuss It She sent the check out Inthe Inthe in inthe the letter her plan of escape es es- cape cape Who received the letter A friend nd who showed It to us usand usand usand us- us and we decided to help Nance lance out We both owed her a debt we couldn't see no po other way of But Dut didn't you rou figure out the risks Sure an Sure an discounted em Machine Machine- gun fire aint no new thing to to us u. We figured them guards wasn't top-notch top machine gunners gunners anyhow that anyhow that Is at I long ranges They never neter expect to I have hate to do anything but range close I work they know how to handle their guns but they dont don't have their regular periods of target practice on the range like a soldier does doe In our boat beaded beaded headed bead head ed straight away from the fire at forty five miles an hour bour It would take an expert to get on us UL An they wouldn't know for sure lure whether we were accomplices or not until Nance reached the boat and we we started her in tn then of course they'd let us os have it tt But Dut their first bursts burst on the boat were Just as liable to be overs and shorts and wed we'd have the girl aboard before they could correct There were eight other boats boat In Inthe Inthe the cove Sl Six of em was In our pay an they was strung along in tJI a line so close dose together that as we run down the line o 0 them the guards would hold their fire for fear o innocent parties partie An we had another advantage That speed boat throws a wide white bow wave an an the water for fifty feet behind her ber and twenty feet on each side is a smother of foam when she's shelI I doing her stuff stuff bullets bullets couldn't throw up any water that could be seen froma from froma a distance in tn the big spray When youre you're machine gunnin a fast movin target you got to see Ice where your shots are If It youre you're gotta goin to correct your range fast an accurately Then we bad had another advantage The guards guards' are in tn a watch tower on a hill or Ii a high wall nail an ant j the early ranges they'd be firm down hill bill Even the work of an expert gunner firma at a I i C a aI j I I- I a I 5 4 r ri i This Tag Tap Bore the Initials Initial N B B. B e.- e. down angle goes off considerable The cockpit was lined with steel teel so 10 after aCter the boy boyfriend friend got Nance aboard they theT flopped and were safe aate The only trouble was that the the edge of one burst buret got Cates before he be could flop The front cockpit was steel lined too The man grinned sheepishly I 1 wouldn't take that chance again Chief Those gunners were better than we figured them Youre both men after aCter my own heart beart Well take good care of your friends Ive I've got to be on the Job till Uhl midnight tonight How ilow long yo you to keep us here You can bet your sweet life it it If wont won't be very tery long Youre You're too dangerous to me l In It his bis official car driven by a police policeman man chauffeur McNamara motored down to central station where he be Immediately immediately immediately im Im- im- im mediately sent ent upstairs for Nance Beldens Belden's Bel Bela Beldens dens den's record and photographs and proceeded proceeded pro pro- to San Quentin Did that Belden girl who escaped yesterday leave anything in 10 her cell cem Letters photographs he asked the warden Ive been In such luch a stew over her ber escape I 1 haven't thought of Investigating gating that angle the warden confessed con leased Ten minutes later he be was in tn the cell carefully looking over the clothing Nance Belden had left teft behind her ber On Ona a slip he be found a small covered cloth metal tag rag such luch as 81 dry cleaners deaner clamp on garments to identify them ThU Thia tag bore the Initials N B. B Inside and just below the collar rallar of a worn tailored suit he be found the silk Illk tag which tailors tailor sew ew Into the garments arment they manufacture This tag tal carried the Ule name of L Abrahams Ladles Ladies Tailor San Fernando avenue Ea San Ban Jose He Ile snipped this tag out of the coat and rummaged through a suitcase ander under under un un- der the bed betL It contained a deck of playing card cards some om clothing yielded no DO clues and a blank check of the Security Trust company of f Sao San Jose Nothing of Interest in tn the girls girl's abandoned effects he h. reported to the tb warden B By the way wa I want to have havea a a. chin chin-chin with one of your lour prisoner prisoners Benny Beetle Number Will you IOU do me a favor Benny the chief asked him when he b. came In Only one Dan I owe you yon three Well forget the other two and collect col ral lest lect on one Do yon know the good conduct prisoner who works In the Identification bureau The Beetle nodded Know anybody whose time Is up op shortly My cell If he could bring me word that the photographs fingerprints fingerprint and Bertil Ion measurements of Nance Belden Belden- remember that name have name have mysteriously mysteriously disappeared Id I'd be Inclined to tobe tobe tobe be his hll friend If he got Into a Jam later on and It wasn't too serious Ill do what I can for you yon Chief Ill I'll ask ISk Bender Ices He's assistant to the file clerk I See him in the mess mess hall hall at noon And see somebody In the prison 1 print shop They're probably running oft off placards to send to all the postmasters postmaster In tn the state That's where they theT advertise ad vertise for escaped prisoners prisoners tn In post postoffice office once lobbies Cant Can't let those placards with the halftone photos and measurements get out you yon know Good-by Good Benny and thanks a lot From San Quentin Dan McNamara motored down to San Jose and called upon L Abrahams ladles ladies tailor Mr Abrahams have you yon ever made madea I Ia a tailored suit for a girl with a nose that something has haa smashed flat fiat in the middle Sure I have have Abrahams Abraham replied You mean Miss Penelope GatUn GatlIn dont don't you Abrahams looked In his ht card Index cabinet then opened a large book In which he be kept his customers customers' measure ments recorded together with a sampie sample sam Bam pie of the cloth doth from which each order has been cut Dan McNamara unhesitatingly un on- hesitatingly placed his finger linger on one of these samples That was waa the cloth It I Sure that was Will the suit I made for Miss Gatlin two years fear ago Did Miss Gatlin live Uve In this city If It so so Id I'd like to have her address Ten minutes later McNamara was pressing the bell belt at the door of the house In South Mariposa street Does Docs Miss Gatlin live here beret he queried Not any more She used to live Uve here with her mother but she disappeared about two years year ago and her mother sold gold this house to the lady I work fO toy for Where Is ts Sirs Mrs Gatlin now nowr We dont don't know Thank you you ane and McNamara directed directed di dl- his driver to go to the Security Trust company where be h. sent ent his card cardIn cardIn In to the president De w received promptly CHAPTER HAP ER VI VIDo VIDo t Do you yon happen to have bave an account In the name of Penelope Gatlin Chief McNamara asked the banker Doth Both a trust a checking check check- lag ing account Chief We lVe had her fathers fathers father's fathers father's fa fa- ther's account for years yeara before he was w. unfortunately killed In an automobile accident some eight years ago ao We had the account of oJ his divorced wife for quite a while too but Ih she has baa closed that Do you know where she Ibe lives live at present I do not lie Ie was Interested But ButI I remember her quite well well well-a a very beautiful woman Her lIer first husband was a splendid chap chap retail retail shoe dealer deal deal- er In tn this ibis city and very prosperous He lIe and his wife had bad a row and she divorced him and got the child Gatlin was permitted by the court to have havethe havethe havethe the child on two Sunday afternoons afternoon a month and one day daT he took her ber to a atau ball tau game came ame and they sat lat In tn the bleach- bleach ers era A long hard ball flew Into the bleachers end and flattened the little girls girl's nose Gatlin rushed the unconscious child to a hospital and his bis wife ex-wife came and took her ber home before anything anything any any- thing but emergency treatment could be given Gatlin suspected she he was going to try to cure that ruined nose by prayer so prayer so he be the child was caught arrested and did sixty days In tn the county Jail While he be was waa In tn jail Mrs Gatlin lied led to Europe with the little girl and abd Gatlin was desolated Subsequently Gatlin sold gold out his business made most of ot his bis estate liquid and established established lisped a trust with us os In favor of him self and his bis daughter He lie had made mads madea a settlement with Mrs Gatlin When his wife fled to Europe with the child Gatlin ed to deposit the monthly check to her ber credit In tn the belief belief belief be be- lief that shed she'd write to know why She didn't but In tn some come other manner be he located her and started for Europe with the Intention of ot stealing the little girl from her ber On the way to the station eta sta ta- ta tion Uon an automobile hit bit the taxi tad he be was In tJI and Gatlin was waa killed kl Did he leave a will f He De did His fils daughter was hi his sole lole beneficiary We were the executors executor nd probated It There was the ten thousand dollar letter of credit be he had purchased Just before starting on his fatal trip and half halt a dozen pieces piece of ot CU city r realty which has haa since Ince Increased enormously In |