Show w golden dawn dawl 1 auy by peter be kyne copyright by bell syndicate service SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin catlin adopts a baby penelope in an effort to solve his matri confal troubles but hla his wife liam ha never wanted her and their affairs end in the divorce court at a baseball game anic it a ball strikes ton ten year old penelope antl 0 pa on the nose mrs gatlin catlin spirits the child elk iid to europe gatlin wills w ills penelope till all his hia money and la Is about to begin a search for her when a motor accident ends enda tits his life some ten years later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief ahlet of pollee police with a new patient nance belden a girl with a dual personality for or which her aaddie nose Is in in part responsible mcnamara does not think she Is a arimina nd obtains burls testimony in cour lanny the doctors office nurse Is so won over bances nances criminal becort outweighs doctor burt burls eipl explanation of her case and she Is sent sent t to san quentin penitentiary nance escapes although shot and goes boes to dannys Lan nys apartment from which by mc kamaras Na marag maras orders orde rii the she Is if removed to the chiefs home from one ot of the men in the boat on which the girl esca escaped lied mcnamara learns that nance real name Is penelope gatlin gatlan lie he also discovers aliat that she Is heiress to fear fearful ful of mcnamara in his official capacity nance flees lanny finds her in her apartment asleep knowing detectives tire are on her trail she disappears CHAPTER VIII continued Is 18 mcnamara chuckled flynn and an would waste a grent great deal of time watching that apartment house in vain nance discovering ella gates cates had moved had sought quarters elsewhere what puzzled mcnamara however was the girls failure to cate with him or lanny and he be knew now that she did not intend to the fact that she had purchased a letter of credit was proof that she intended leaving the country and the more the excellent fellow contemplated this impending more moe the more inclined was he to regard it as a not unmixed blessing the more he thought the matter over the more inclined did lie he become to take a practical and policeman like ilke view of the situation while nance remained in san francisco she would be a constant menace to himself and lanny if captured she might during one of tier her uncontrolled moments consider it a great joke to tell the world how she had been enabled to escape capture so long iong 1 I cant baby the world he decided ill let tier her go shell probably live lice abroad and when her letter of credit Is gone she may remember who ho she Is long iong enough to draw more checks I 1 can always get a line on tier her through the bank and if steve and lanny still insist on salvaging this nut ill tell them where to find her me im through it I 1 keep this pace up ill be as big a nut as she Is there Is more than a modicum of truth in the ancient adage out of sight out of mind dan he Namara lived a cry full life and when nance belden had definitely passed beyond his ken and he knew himself safe at last from the prying of flynn and ang elloul into tits his private affairs he be forgot the girl irl for pressing barters marters of great importance claimed tits his attention and lie he required more first class assistance than he was receiving lie ile resol resolved reso hed Ned therefore to give flynn and Angello tl a week in which to make up their minds they had lost the trail then to call them in on the lie sixth day however houe vcr lie re celled information that the doughty pair were still as busy as two pups with a feather duster A beautiful lady culled called on him at his loftice and told him so and who might you be he demanded im susan engelbright 11 1 I sin ani not aware that I 1 have the pleasure of your acquaintance miss engelbright Ung elbright you I 1 was sent up from oakland ohl oh I 1 alias sapphire susler ive beard of you lately perhaps I 1 hocked chocked three twelve carat sapphire rings to raise money and the papers called me sapphire bule after that 1 I see you ou got them out of hock again susie ye the girl nodded nance belden got au va out for me part of the bargain for smuggling that letter out of san quentha for her I 1 suppose never neier mind want it was for sapphire smiled archly and unar unafraid 1 I earned it and she kept tier her word check or crish carlil mcnamara was frightened if sapphire alip hire susie hail had been given a check then she know knew nance beldena beldens real name and the name of her bank and that would be 1 I 1 don I 1 know I 1 gave gale tier hw the pawn rickets an and she not got back the rings I 1 dont know just hou ho when lie ile mus us relieved A week neck ago ton tonn arow irrow I 1 and you say sergeant flimin has been giving you a bad half hair hour yes he has well thata tits lila business busl ness nance celden belden escaped from san quentin and naturally lies hes interested in apprehending her you were reco by tho the guard at the main gate two weeks before nance escaped miss bliss lanning a friend of the belden girl bad visited tho the prisoner that day and since silas was the only visitor nance belden had in san quentin Quent ln naturally she was suspected of carrying a letter lor for delivery to the men who helped nance escape you rode down to Green brne brite with bliss lanning and she slipped the letter to you of 0 course flynn knows that cut but why come to we me with your tale of 0 woe ive ie run straight since getting out of 0 the pen I 1 served my time and I 1 want to be let alone thata cibyl flynn told me that it if I 1 come through and tell him where he could find nance belden hed see to it that something nasty happened to me I 1 dont know where nance celden belden Is 13 ald I 1 want protection from patrick flynn you seem pretty sure of me dont you I 1 well nance told me that you were one human being and I 1 called on hiss aliss lanning last night to tell tier her to warn nance that the dicks were after tier lier and miss bliss lanning told old me to see you about it it she said see I 1 got a square deal she did so now bowl now how did miss lanning lancing treat you otherwise she kissed hissed me and gave me a hundred bundred dollars and told me to be as 03 good as I 1 could the old girl Is sure a darling did you ask her for the hundred of course not the chief ebed her owlishly for he distrusted sapphire susie and wondered if she might not be working in the interests of flynn and Ang Angello ellott tl this Is Inte interesting g he be admitted heavily of course I 1 only keep in touch with the upper office through the captain of detectives if he be set ailynn on this job he should have interviewed you a couple of weeks ago seems to me he has overlooked a good bet if hed had you under surveillance a week igo ago hed have picked up tip nance belden then she came to you to deliver the rings ings flynns flynne a crackerjack detective he added sadly badly but this looks as is if hes slipping I 1 that bird dont slip very far take it t from me chiefs lie ile met me on the street the day das before yesterday and noticed I 1 was wearing my big ring and my teardrops eardrops ear drops ll hello ello kid he says 1 I see you got your sapphires sapp hires on again I 1 says to him fall dead you bum 4 hes got me scared to death sapphire susie declared and walked on and the next nest night he came up to my room nance celden belden got them sapphires sapp hires out of hoc 1 for you susie my dear he says kindly 1 I want nant that arall where Is she and you tell him even it you could a fact I 1 snatch on her you tou expect me to interfere in the work of a detective defective sergeant when lie he appears to be doing dking a good job would you susie but I 1 give you my word susie that if you run straight in this city ill see to it that youre not harassed of course you helped nance belden to escape from san quentin Quent ln and I 1 know it but I 1 cant prove it it I 1 could id put you in the birdcage this minute and ill not put flynn off the casp case although if he gets too rough ill stop him nes hes got me scared to death sapphire susie declared and commenced to weep a little whereat mcnamara Namara Uc realized she had been really frightened she shook his bis hand band warmly thanked him and departed for several minutes mcnamara SIc Namara sat gat thinking a smile faintly tender I 1 illuminating lumina ting his rugged counti mince so go lanny had kissed sapphire susie and given her a hundred dollars and begged her to be a good girl in the future what a rare good sport lanny jnnny wast and liow how good god had been to a nil concerned I 1 in their pursuit kif if nance flynn and Ang Angello ellott tl had followed such a liot hot trull trail they had find forgotten sapphire susie was a pal of nances bances Nan ces but afterwards when the trail grew cold they had suddenly remembered her that flynn was a marel man el and mcnamara sighed to think the fellow could not be promoted instantly in nil probability lie had no not at first connected nance belden with the glory of susies sapphires sapp hires undoubtedly lie had jumped to the conclusion that tile the girl had been up to tier her old trick of blackmailing some wealthy eal thy and socially Boc lally prominent masculine jacks juckas so he be had looked up her record in the police flies here he be had bad discovered som thing that must have convinced him of 0 susies total innocence of 0 sapphires sapp hires during her trial certain lyshe had not carried them to san quentin with her and the obvious conclusion was that she had bad pawned them to raise money to pay tier her attorney in the hope of discovering the identity of 0 susies latest victim who ho he assumed had redeemed them for her flynn had find thereupon made a round of the pawnshops find and located the one from which the jewels jec ls had bad lately been redeemed from the pawnbroker he had secured a description of the one who had redeemed them no pawnbroker would be likely to forget nance beldena beldens Bel dens nose I 1 mcnamara shuddered it if nonce nance should visit sapphire susie now a she he would undoubtedly walk straight into the arms of the waiting flynn or an galloti gel loti well nance belden had stolen a dozen pairs of silk hose but apparently penelope Ien elope gatlin paid tier her debts the chief wondered it if be had loaned nance belden or penelope Ion elope gatlin two hundred bundred dollars for of course they were two separate and distinct persona personalities I 1 I 1 ties inhabiting the same body if nance belden had bad accepted the loan then mcnamara could kiss the money goodby good by it if on the other hand penelope gatlin alln had bad accepted it then some da day Y v lien nance had changed places with penelope be would get it back well lie he could trace her progress through the world by the drafts she would cash tier her bank in san jose would give him that information lie took down the telephone and called the bank yes tee a draft had just come in drawn for four hundred arid and thirty five dollars in favor of the french line dated three days previously nt fit new york it had come across the continent by air mail mcnamara aari thanked the president of the bank and called up the lie french lines san francisco office after some difficulty lie he discovered that four hundred and thirty five dollars was payment of one first cabin passage to havre find and that tho the ue ile de france had sailed from new york tork during the past three days instantly dan Alc Namara shot a straight telegram to police headquarters in new york requesting that the tha passenger list of the ile he de france be checked to see whether nance belden or penelope gatlin had taken passage on her four hours later he received a reply to the effect that nance belden was not aboard but that penelope gatlin was nothing Is lost it you know where it Is mcnamara MeNar oara decided happily and sent a cable to the prefect of police at havre requesting him to pick up penelope gatlin on her arrival at that port shadow her and report by cable collect the girls destination the names dames ond and addresses of those who should meet tier her and tiny any other information that would bould aid tn in keeping track of the girl the following day mcnamara sent for detective sergeants flynn anil and an gello tl As they ranged themselves more or less at attention in front of his desk the chief leaned back in his bla chair and bent unon the pair a long iong severe and penetrating look they grew a little fidgety before lie spoke well bellboys boys how are your private affairs prospering both shrugged unwilling to be definite they are the chief challenged so I 1 have called you in n to express the hope that you nie are now quite willing to abandon your private practice and return to work for the city and county of san francisco you draw salary from the taxpayers you know I 1 may have been mistaken an geI gello loti tl but I 1 thought I 1 saw you out in blis mission slon recently when you were supposed to be working on that racketeer killing over in north reach beach however ill overlook that on the assumption that you permitted yourself to be led astray by flynn rlynn you lay off sapphire susie until that enterprising young woman vroman does docs something you can pin on her then bring her in ashes done something and ill pin it on her yet flynn growled and you know what it Is flynn being irish was unwilling that hla his chief should regard him ns as deficient la in intel and enterprise we understand each other thoroughly flynn youve been after that belden girl and youve made a mess of it lie he opened his desk drawer and drew out two envelopes one was addressed to flynn and the other to an and both envelopes bore the return address of a prominent new york hotel hut were neither stamped postmarked nor these two envelopes came in a large envelope add address reigA d to me mcnamara explained sealed ile he handed each detective ills fits letter and watched as they opened them and drew forth typewritten letters and two hundred and fifty dollars in bills flynne flynns letter was undoubtedly a carbon copy of 0 Angel angellotto lotts flynn perused his letter and banded it to the chief who read dear mr flynn you poor dear you have worked so hard and so intelligently and tn in such dreadfully hard luck that my heart goes out to you you were working for 1 the reward of 0 cou course arse no doubt because you needed the money you and mr Angello tl would have had bad to divide two hundred and fifty dollars had you recaptured me but just to prove im it a sport and not holding any mean little im sending you each two hundred and erry dollars please be good and try to forget till all the unpleasant incidents you will never got get me now so do give up tip your attempts like good boys the letter was unsigned how much did you get Angell nil Alc mcnamara Namara queried softly two fifty bofty chief TO OE BE |