Show golden goldel 1 dawn by y peter be B kyne copyright by boll syndicate service SYNOPSIS theodore gaffin adopts a baby penolope penelope in an effort to solve sole his ina mabrl trl m moncal 0 mal troubled but hla his wife has hag never a e ver wanted hr and their affairs end lii IN jhc thc divorce court at a baseball same game lc bali strikes ten year old penelope on the noss none mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills penolope penelope all his money and Is about to begin a search tor for her when a motor accident ends his life some ten years year later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is in presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with a new patient nance belden a girt with a dual personality tor for which her saddle noso nose Is 13 in part responsible mcnamara does not think she Is a criminal and obtains burts testimony in court lanny the doctors office nurse Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs doctor burts explanation of her case and she Is sent to san quentin penitentiary nance escapes although shot and goes to iannes apartment from which by mena damaras maras orders she Is removed to the chiefs home from one of the in men en in the boat beat on which the girl escaped mcnamara learns that nance bances s real A name m 0 Is penelope gatlin he also descove discovers rs that she Is heiress to fearful of mcnamara in his official capacity nance bees ailees lanny finds her in her apartment sound asleep several days later her partially restored memory leads her to tell lanny of her wealthy father theodore gatlin ana no of her girlhood in france CHAPTER VII continued 16 quit that lanny commanded in her most ferocious manner if I 1 found you lovable I 1 have you in my house this minute id turn you over to flynn and Angello Angel loti tl by the way site she continued how did you get that sock on the beezer bc ezer father took me to a baseball game and a long drive flew into the bleachers and struck me on the nose dose lanny you nuis tnt use slang it polite 1 I wrap myself around a highball when im tired or want to be e sociable and I 1 smoke cigarettes lanny protested 1 I suppose a perfect lady do those things either A perfect lady may without marring her perfection old fuss budget a matter of personal liberty and only becomes distressing when carried to excess but theres no excuse for a highly intelligent and cultured woman to employ the language of the streets 1 I have my human moments lanny excused herself meekly ill set the table in the dining room wont you order some flowers and lanny ill do something for you some dry day 11 for instance well have you ever been to europe certainly not then ill take you 1 I accept the nomination in return ill do something else for you ill have that nose of yours split open the shattered bone of the bridge scraped out and a cute little piece of pliable cartilage whittled off one of your spare ribs and grafted into your tunny funny nose to form fora a new bridge then the doctor will sew your nose together again over I 1 it t all the difference between having baying a nose dose like a Pe kinese and a makeshift with a big scar on it id like to know oh there wont be any scar dearle dearie the surgeon will cut a strip of epidermis off your forehead and without detaching it from your forehead bring the flap down drape it over your new scarred nose and graft it there it will grow and cover the scar and when every things lovely that skin connection with your forehead will be severed and the ragged edges trimmed and presently nature will do the rest six months after the operation ill dery defy anybody but an expert to discover youve got a 4 custom made nose the girls yes shone Is it true lanny Is it true its so hard bard to believe in miracles science pulls em off dally daily my dear nance changed change the subject here here were gabbling babbling gab bling like a pair of geese the rhe linen woman wheres the linen on off with your hat and coat while youre getting it ill run up stairs and get your mules after dinner I 1 must do some more pumping thought lanny the information will be invaluable to stephen strange easel total amnesia sometimes mes only partial amnesia at others dreadful mixture when dan mcnamara came home about midnight from the regular weekly meeting fleetin ule etin of the police commission he found his ex guest up op and waiting for film 1 11 I had two burgin clars rs here bere tonight about ten chief he announced the chief wit sat down and loaded his pipe 1 I was expecting them my buy boy did they ask you any questions no they just searched abe house I 1 dont think they touched anything except the lipstick on the bureau over there be said did they take the lipstick dan asked they take it they looked at it Namara sighed th the case was getting a little thick for him when it became complicated with lipsticks lip sticks tic ne went to the telephone and got stephen burt out of bed did a certain party while a guest nt at my house ask you yon to bring out a lipstick when you called in the course of your professional duties doctor oh yes thanks goodnight Uc mcnamara Namara hung up and went to the room lately occupied by nance belden on tho the bureau he found a lipstick vanity Is always the undoing of a crook he sighed and went to bed greatly troubled in his mind at what was to him indubitable knowledge that flynn and Angel angellotti Angello loti tl even though they had bad failed to ond find their quarry must be convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that he had harbored an escaped convict la in his home ile he passed a sleepless night but he did some solid thinking so there v was as no do lost time ne ile had hoped by providing this sick convict as an excy excuse e for doctor burts burls nightly visits to throw flynn and Angello tl off the scent and now the scent was hotter than ever now viliam will they do morally certain she went to dannys house the night she escaped and that lanny got her out of there in the nick of time and took her here now that ashes escaped them here they nay may suspect shed doubled back to dannys house however those two dicks will never bother her without fortifying themselves with a search warrant be too afraid of me but with a search warrant and the girl to show for their pains have me foul I 1 open my mouth if they bring the girl into headquarters ill have bare to give them a cheer and congratulate them ile he decided flynn an and d Angello tl would sleep on their evidence and the suspicions it had aroused compare notes in the morning and decide upon a course of action they would have to adduce some nominal evidence to support their suspicion before the dis erict attorney would consent to issue the search warrant tor for a search warrant Is not issued lightly in the morning they would induce some stool pigeon to tell the district attorney that he had seen nance beldena beldens Rel Bel dens face at the window of dannys home possibly they might induce the patrolman on that beat to stretch the truth a little 1 4 a 4 az k lk li science pulls ern em off dally daily my dear 1 I cant get nance out of lainys house tonight and I 1 cant get her out in daylight tomorrow but I 1 must get her out tomorrow night he be decided but how US ue was at his office at eight next morning at eight thirty he looked into the detectives room and saw flynn and Angello tl lit ID profound conference half an hour later he stepped out of a taxi two blocks from dannys house and nhen hen the cab had disappeared he made his way to the house bouse and was admitted by lanny nance has got t to I 1 make a clean getaway he be assured her earnestly because tonight flynn and his pal may come with a search warrant the district attorney will probably call me up before he issues it and ill have to tell hint him to go ahead and issue it in order to allay suspicion now here are half a dozen harmless hand grenades that burst on impact three of them are tear gas bombs and three are stink bombs now ill tell you exactly how bow make the pinch not come during the day because anuw you arent at home and that nance t answer that bell anyhow but tonight one of thern them will ring the ibe front doorbell and shove shore the search warrant under your nose and step inside the other will in the meantime have gone g one around to your back door to pre prevent y ent the girls escape to in that durec direction tion theres a cement floor around your kitchen door Is there not yes well when the doorbell rings you it that will be nances bances lip III to peek peck out the second story window anil and lot lob three bombs down on the cement beside whoever she sees standing there they explode with a sound like a gunshot and diffuse their gas almost instantly over a considerable conslo erable area now whichever one goes tu to the back door will never be expecting a citizen to shower this sort of bomb down on hint him because they are arc not accessible ces sible to citizens so lie he will th think ink electric light bulbs tossed down to scare him away ry by the way have nance toss one electric light bulb down do first it and then follow with two tear bombs here ill make a mark with my pencil on the tear bombs before lie ho realizes what lias has happened hell be weeping like alobe and unable to see anything any thin in the darkness cut but bear this in mind lanny hell not desert his post hell hug the back door and be ready to grab her when she comes hell stick it out the time nance must drop a stink bomb beside him meanwhile the man in front will hear the explosions it the one in back cries outs out the one in front will figure be has been shot and will run to tho the back door to help him As he opens the back door his bis pal will grab him you must follow at his heels and shut and bolt the door instantly or get yours too there will be a momentary struggle between flynn and Angello Angel loti tl in the dark because the front door man will think lie he has the scoundrel that hurled the bombs and by the time they discover each others identity the front door man will be as sightless and ill as the back door man nance a word to you now sly name Is penelope gatlin dan ily error penelope the instant you drop those first two bombs shut down the window and remember all the lights lp ln the rear of the house and particularly in the kitchen must be turned off when the front door man Is struggling with his pal and lanny has closed the door her scream will be your cue to open the window again just long enough to ro pay the rest of 0 your eggs on the scrimmage you must be dressed for the street and have some money in your pocket got any no I heres leres two hundred ill send you my check thanks and she took the money immediately after tossing the last of the bombs close the window and beat it downstairs and out the front door ill leave leae a coupe with the motor running parked at the curb across the street can you drive 1 I can drive dan very well then climb into the car and beat it beat it where los angeles san diego anywhere keep on going and when you get there send me a wire to the central station merely giving your address then lay low until somebody comes after you keep off the street lanny you must disguise her nose clamp a wadding of cotton and a neat dressing over it to hide bide the dish la in it any lady la Is liable to have an injury to her nose and wear a dressing on it now Is everything understood nance nodded and dannys alence sl ence gave consent probably get a whiff of good for flynn and Angello tl 11 mcnamara advised lanny but get over it when you lob over the last of your rotten eggs penelope do not breathe and ca close 0 se your eyes tightly until you have closed the window again then out of the house like a shot this plan of mine Is foolproof fool proof if followed absolutely but its you for san quentin again if it roy my brave lassle lassie and all the chiefs of police in town cannot help you rou then CHAPTER VIII thank you sir said eald nance politely and with quiet dignity you are most kind to take this trouble for a stranger and I 1 shall never forget it and she held out her hand mcnamara looked in puzzlement at lanny happened to her he demanded I 1 ill explain to you some time youre loure a brilliant chief of police and youve figured everything out to a gnats gnata eyelash for penelope but going to happen to me the concoction of the plan ive just outlined has given me brain tag fag lanny its cost me a nights sleep I 1 dont know going to happen to you and I 1 dont care much youre a smart woman and if you cant figure a way out of your end of the mess dont I 1 call on me for help 1 I wish I 1 could relish that compliment lanny retorted dryly however it if you think im not going to dagil laugh myself sick over this youre a poor judge of women goodby good by you old crook and god bless you kiss kim him Pe penelope Delope A becoming modesty caused the it ie girl to hesitate just a little then she came cama to the chief and implanted a most ladylike kiss on his blue blite jowl youre very kind mr mcnamara she assured him again cripes Cr lpes he muttered and went off dan estimate of uie the ability of detective sergeants flynn arid and Angello tl did them no injustice indeed they proved even smarter than their chief credited them with being adventure with dan sie me namara they passed over as an unavoidable accident Angello tl was ce certain mcnamara had not recognized recognize tl hint him ue lie felt certain mcnamara Namara Uc had no suspicion that his bis house bouse was under surveillance although flynn had mental reservations on that point for the irish are a psychic race after watching doctor burt enter and leave the chiefs house bouse on thursday night when tamy knew the chief would not dot be home until midnight night they decided to investigate the unlocked cellar door gave them pause flynn whispered that he be was always suspicious of things that came too ton easy they crept upstairs and found dan maras ex guest reading lit in bed both detectives recognized him so while Angello tl guarded him biro flynn made a hurried but thorough search of 0 the premises they were not in the house more than ove dve minutes TO BE CONTINUED |