Show bolatin bold tin I 1 S in LAU W 11 by peter 13 kyne copyright by bell syndicate service SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts a baby ba by pena lop lope in an effort to solve his hi matri moncal troubles but his wife has never wanted her and their affair affairs end and in the divorce court ten year old penelope in i given into the keeping of mr mrs gatlin at a baseball game a ball talks penelope on the nose mrs gat un lin spirits the child to europe gatlin will wills penelope all hie his money and la Is about to begin a search for her when ft motor accident ends his life some tn ten year years later in san francisco ste ohen F hen burt rising young psychiatrist M presented by dan mcnamara chief et of police with a new now patient nance belden a girl g arl with a dual personality perona lity tor for which her saddle nose la Is in part responsible 1 mcnamara does not think she he li to a criminal and obtain obtains burt s testimony in court lanny the doctor office nurse Is also won over nance g ari criminal minal record outweighs doctor burt burts s explanation of her case and sh she le li in lent sent to san quentin penitentiary ar lanny l anny visits her and nance persuades her to smuggle gle out a letter which a confederate of nance steals nance e as cape ape although shot and goes to ban ny a apartment lanny tells chief me namara who orders her to bring nance to his apartment details of nance a are mad made public CHAPTER IV continued 10 yeah V A throaty growl got to doc got to protect society stephen looked puzzled so the chief continued if I 1 let that girt girl graduate from san quentin ghe she 11 II come out with a broader knowledge of crime and trickery and a greater contempt for society than when she went in the only kind of criminal I 1 fear ie Is the smart one I 1 can always catch the boobs promptly but sometimes it takes a long time to get acquainted with the artistic genius of a real craftsman they re like writ ers ors doc doe they have a style all their own and you youve ve got to learn their etyle style and about the time you think you ve learned it you pick up some bird that a guilty and he isn t the man you thought he was he hes s just stolen his master masters a stuff ivanc nanc balden Is too brilliant to turn urn loose on the world doc doe ashes a leader a leader of men she d make the balls and her crew would fire them and always be covered up I 1 he ile ruffled his pompadour well doc I 1 ire ve gotten her away from her gang she s lost them and they ve lost her and they must never get her back would you ile 1 le to know who they ere are of course im normally curious 1 I can find out for you I 1 said stephen how dan mcnamara looked doubtful nance will tell me you re crazy doc doe you don t know the code they die but they don dont t squeal there Is honor in their dis honor and in their weakness there Is a strength that amazes me ahe wouldn t do it voluntarily of course but just now in her weakened state I 1 im in sure I 1 could hypnotize her get her to look fixedly into a mirror you know like this once I 1 secure control of her subconscious mind she 11 answer my questions and after I 1 wake her up shell have complete am nesia nests tor for the experience she will never know she beached on her pals CHAPTER V the chief smiled of course I 1 know that hypnotism Is being used by advanced psychiatrists and particular ly by morton prince and william me dougall ive lye read their books the modern chief of police isn t modern doc doe it if he isn t a pretty good lay psychologist and psychiatrist I 1 don dont t know what a criminologist Is but I 1 suppose hes he s a bird that studies the criminal actions and tendencies of criminals and tries to reduce crime to its lowest common divisor that a the bunk the thing to do Is to know their minds and why they act like they do if you can cure what makes them go criminology becomes a dead act enre yes I 1 know all about hypnotism and I 1 know something you ve e forgot ten tour your power of suggestion on a patient in the hypnotic state isn t pow erful enough to make male him steal or commit in murder if he hes a an honest man his ilia acquired instincts of morality which lie in his subconscious mind are too strong tor for you and the most pow erful acquired instinct in the mind of a crook Is that he t squeal that bis his idea of Immortal immortality ityl you try it on nance belden and shell tell you almost anything but who her friends ire where they live and how they make a living well we shall see at another time meanwhile what are you going to do with this girl tou you can cant t keep her here because that a dangerous un less you have her watched and whom can you trust to watch her bow how about lanny banny Is my office nurse aidt and T can not get along without her shee shea nn un der suspicion now and we weve ve got to kill that shell be watched will she not I 1 suppose so even it I 1 pass the word to lay off her I 1 can never be sure one of my men wont watch her independently on a case where it would be a bl big feather in his cap and anil mean a lot of publicity to capture a celebrated criminal lots of deks d acks pre fer to work alone and in secret then lanny must not come to your house again and yet this girl must be parked somewhere until her wound heals ashes suffering from the shock of this emotional experience now she s lost considerable b and suf sur some pain and tor for five hours ashes she s suffered from exposure her garments are soaking wet if it she forgot to tell those men to bring some dry clothing for her to hop into once she got aboard the boat my heart will just about break that would be one flaw in a perfect job and I 1 can cant t stand flaws and dan mcnamara strode into the room where nance lay with her hand in lanny s why didn dian t you tell your friend to bring you some dry clothes he demanded nance smiled up at lanny he thinks I 1 im in a nut after all lanny why of course I 1 wouldn t overlook that detail I 1 changed my clothes but when we crossed the bay it w was as rough and here there was a police boat on our trail he had to outrun them and you do forty miles an hour through a mile of tide rips and you 11 all but drown in the spray I 1 thank god tor for that the chief mur aured I 1 im in proud of you and your friends nance I 1 hope neither of them was hit for the barest fraction of a nance hesitated then answered no they got through all right but how they did Is a mystery the boat was riddled dan mcnamara came back into the living room and on hia his heavy face was the faintest roost most cryptic of grins I 1 im in going to get one or both of nance a friends doc he fie exulted one of them was hit and hell have to have medical attention not that I 1 want to land either one of them for the chief watched stephen put up his car this job but because I 1 want to give them the once over at that they might be somebody were we re looking for did nance tell you one of them had been hit no but she hesitated half a second when she told me neither of them had been hit lift she never hesitates erdl harily her co ordination Is lightning fast well you get so doc doe that you know when they re lying go to the telephone call up your home and ask if you ve had any telephone calls with in the past hour stephen obeyed and was informed that a man who refused to leave his name had called up three times and had left word he would call again that he had seemed very anxious to know when the doctor would return I 1 knew it I 1 knew know it dan me mc namara s pride in his own perspicacity was almost juvenile I 1 figured nance would tell them to go to you and make another prophecy they 11 ad mit they are friends of hers and that she sent them there ashes told them youre you re her friend and that you 11 not turn them up to me A wounded crook Is always up against it doc doe unless he knows a crooked doctor the hos and ninety nine and cine tenths of the doctors will report to the police when they receive a call from a pa tient suffering from knife or gunshot wounds and in this case the radios have broadcast the warning of two hundred and fifty dollars out fornance for nance too standen standing state reward for recap hiring turing an escaped convict come on doc doe III go to your home with you and pick these birds up no you shall not I 1 wouldn t turn those two tro men over to you for ten thousand dollars they re too I 1 yes they have guts they can be trusted on a particular job I 1 want to put through word of honor steve ill not pinch them I 1 just want to talk with them A block from stephens home dan mcnamara got out of the doctor a car he had already received from Step stephen ilen burt a description of the ground floor plan of his house and stephen had agreed to leave his latchkey under tie tre mat at the he front door the chief watched stephen put up his cat car and enter his home A light was shining in the entrance hall end and this light stephen in accordance with the chiefs chief s instructions switched off in about five minutes the chief saw this light switched on and off twice that meant the doctor had received another telephone message then the light was nas switched on and off ten times that meant the patient would arrive in about ten minutes so dan mcnamara hid bid himself in the deep shadow of a trades tradesman mans s entrance at the side of a it house across the street and waited in ten minutes almost to the second a car with drawn curtains drove up to the house and two men got out the chief could see that one of them had to have assistance so the driver got out and helped the other man half halt drag halt carry the wounded man up the steps stephen opened the door and the three men entered immediately mcnamara ran across the street and up the front steps behind them found the latchkey under the mat opened the door and stepped inside he ile could hear voices in stephens stephen a reception room so he be drew his pistol and stepped silently up to the entrance of it put em up boys he ordered cheerfully he ile drew back his hi left lapel and revealed his blue and gold shield no necessity to argue in the emoke smoke this isn t a hanging matter he forced the two unwounded men moll to stand with their backa backs toward him while he ran his facile hand hands over their persona persons and relieved each of pistol he ile broke both gun guns and placed the cartridges in hi his pocket 1 I beg your pardon doctor for en on fering your house unannounced but you left your front door unlatched and I 1 couldn coulden t resist I 1 had a notion these men might call upon you just a hunch because the warden tipped us off to watch the home of your office nurse miss banning lanning so while watch ing the home of the servant I 1 con eluded to watch that of the master mister also sit down boys never mind ua us doc doe the man on the table need needs all of your attention fix him up nicely and let him lie ile there until I 1 come back he ile can cant t run away and if he tries don t you let him you other men moll come with me roe down to the central office till I 1 see if we have anything on oil you I 1 don t appear to have the honor of your acquaintance but we 11 look the rogues gallery over and compare fingerprints while there x life there is hope you yours re all wet chief the driver of the car replied pertly perhaps but not as wet as your friends and mcnamara chuckled at his little joke you can t do forty an hour through the tide rips off alcatraz Al catTai island without throwing some spray you got an open fireplace in your house doctor stephen saw that mcnamara wa was pretending they had not previously met tes yes chief in the drawing room its all set I 1 want to warm these boys up and dry them out they did good work this afternoon and they deserve good treatment drop that wounded man long enough to dig up a couple of stiff jolts of spirl fus frumenti tt tl for my lads lade will you doc doe I 1 always warm a cold man from the outside in and from the inside out thank you chief both men mut mat the three retired to the drawing room and the chief tossed one of the men a box of matches fire up he commanded then draw yourself up 0 to o the blaze and drink the grog the doctor will give you where a your pal hit top of the right shoulder calf ot of the left leg and biceps of the left arm so he hes s the chap that dragged nance out of the water ell he was in the rear cockpit but you were up front driving the boat there are forty bullet holes in the rear of that boat he sighed these machine guns certainly taint y spray things you dian didn t drop your own machine gun overboard either they re too valuable and hard to get A thompson I 1 suppose A tommy gun and a tommy man I 1 via biting brethren from chicago I 1 suppose that a why we haven t met before pardon me a minute while I 1 look for the tommy gun in your car and if you want to die la in a hurry just try beating it out the back way while I 1 in gone he returned in less than a minute with the one man machine gun in hie his hands were weve got nance belden where you dropped her he announced so while you re lapping up that whisky tell me all about it so go nance told you where to look for us eh ell the man who had ban died the motor boat spoke with withering contempt and hatred instantly dan mcnamara cuffed him viciously on the side of the head apologize for that he roared yours you re so d d crooked you think everybody else Is too the man mumbled an apology no nance didn t tell me you rata rat mcnamara went on and I 1 didn dian t ask her because I 1 knew she tell but I 1 did think she it d tip you off to call on this doctor you dropped her at the home of his office nurse I 1 put two and two together and decided to in all by myself and here we are got any idea why I 1 came alone no I 1 because I 1 wanted to save you from the consequences of the job you pulled off this afternoon im in sympathy with that and as far as I 1 in concerned nance belden isn t going back to san quentin and she isn t going back to your gang either now you play the game with me and play it with you double cross me and ill hang something hard on you and you and your friends v on t be heard of a n pub lie he tor for a long time to BB BID ICU |