Show GOLDEN DAWN L rno N theodore gatlin SYNOPSIS adopts a baby pe delope la in an effort to solve his matri mabrl mondal troubles but his wife has never rover wanted her and their affairs end in the divorce court at a baseball kame a ball strikes ten year old pe delope on the nose mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills pe delope all his money and Is about to begin a search tor for her when a motor accident ends his life some ten years later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with a new patient nance belden a girl with a dual personality tor for which her saddle nose Is in part dart responsible mcnamara does not think she Is a criminal and obtains burt burts s te testimony stimon y in court lanny the doctor doctors s office offic e nurse Is also won over nance s crim inal frial record outweighs doctor burt burts s explanation of her case and she Is sent to san quentin penitentiary nance escapes although shot and goes to lanny s apartment from which by me namara a orders she la Is removed to the chief a home prom from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped me namara learns that nance a real name Is penelope gatlin he also discovers that she Is heiress to fearful 01 of f mcnamara McVa mara in his official capacity nance flees lanny finds her in her apartment sound asleep curled up on the guest room bed CHAPTER VII continued 15 did your men scout the street in front of this house before pulling up in front of it asked mcnamara sharply certainly we circled the block twice 1 feed our nance lanny Me mcnamara Namara urged happily she ashes s a smart girl how hows s the shoulder dearie dearle tine rine it 11 be 0 1 in another week so am I 1 mr mcnamara grinned horribly rlynn s home eating his din ner now and angellotti Angel loti tl must be on guard in that alley I 1 im in going to mis take angellotti Angel loti tor for a suspicious charac ter lurking there in the dark and put a mark on him so I 1 can recognize him later lie ile just can cant t stand to mix it with me and get recognized of course so when he runs fire in the air hell he 11 know who I 1 am but hell he II 11 never suspect I 1 know who he Is mcnamara bade nance I 1 anny and stephen goodnight and hurried away in a tail taxi A block from his home he alighted and walked down the side of the street opposite his own house tie ile was whistling softly as he came abreast of angellotti Angel loti tig s hiding place where he turned at right angles apparently with the intention of crossing in the middle of the street to his own house A step from the curb jie halted turned bent his head in a listening attitude then stepped resolutely into the alley who s there he demanded re belving no answer he got out a small flashlight he seemed to have some difficulty flashing it on for he cursed softly and suddenly a beam from the flashlight illuminated his own face for an instant bat but long enough he decided to permit the watchful Angel Angello loti tl to rec cognize him ahe alley was empty but in a little garden strip a large syringa bush grew and instinct warned the chief that his prey was behind it so be he walked past it it his flashlight held close to the bush and as he ile had an it was snatched from him As he turned one of his stout legs was jerked from under him by a man crouching low so before permitting himself to topple backward Ue mcnamara Namara dropped his good right arm to the level of his knee and swung a short stab bing punch ue ile felt a cheekbone and the side of a nose so he punched again a little higher up tip and then fell over backward instantly bis his assailant rose and fled like a doe haiti im an officer mcnamara shouted and fired into the air but the running man did not even hesitate in the morning he sent for Angel Angello loti tl for a report on certain case and was charmed to note a faintly spot on the italians italian s left cheek and a very noticeable iridescence under the let eye the chief grinned what does the other fellow look like angle he queried innocently he have been moren more n a flyweight or he bed d have done more damage I 1 how come you let borne some runt one two you like that it was a dame I 1 picked up tor for drunkenness Ang angellotti Angel ellott loti lied with the glibness of long practice roii following owing some discussion of the report mcnamara dismissed him and eat sat down to decide what to do with nance belden that flynn and angel lot loti were keeping his house under sur yell vel lance liance he knew now undoubtedly they would enter his house at the ear rest favorable opportunity the chief wondered what he would do if he stood in the shoes of his two detectives 1 I d wait for a night when I 1 be disturbed for a couple of hours I 1 he decided what night would that be why thursday night when the board of police pollee commission era ers meet and I 1 am in attendance there stephen will make his usual early evening call and as soon as he leaves the house those two will slip into it the cellar door of course III make it easy tor for them ill III leave the door unlocked I 1 he ile concluded that until then nance would be safe at lanny s house in the meantime however be he must ar range to get her out of the city at an early eari date the detectives were 1 I th absolutely satisfied I 1 anny had once given nance sanctuary tor for a brief period trust them therefore to keep an eye on lanny s house he ile had in his office a telephone line ti stat at did not connect with the private exchange system in the central station so he called lanny on his phone at doit dot t r curts burrs office now by PETER B KYNE copyright by bell syndicate service dan speaking lanny tomorrow morning you had bet er buy our pet nuisance a lot of clothes so shell be all ready to get out of town when I 1 send fo for r her I 1 think I 1 it have to fly her out and down to tia till juana lower california what will she do there I 1 dont know we well 11 think about that when she gets there at least my two dicks won t be there and tia juana Is one place where that saddle nose of hers won wont t surprise anybody and when she acts rough and tough in tia juana nobody wl will 11 pay any atten con to her they have experts down there in that line i think that tia juana stunt over lanny decided it has Is there a good hospital there I 1 don dont t think so why you numbskull dan mcnamara maral I 1 we have to find a quiet hospital where we can have her poor nose operated on well if we can get her beezer restored and change that black bob of to a movie tone gold she could take flynn and angellotti Angel loti tl out to din ner and never suspect her stevie says her nose must be operated on first her present state of dissociated personality probably started in an inferiority complex and the inferiority complex probably arose out of the knowledge that her nose made her unlovely when its it s safe to bring her back to this city stevie will take her soul out and look at it dust it off put it back and do a little jack horner can he do that mcnamara s heavy voice was freighted with awe he ile can provided he can find a starting point for his investigation into her past life there Is always a rea son for a dissociated personality the ground for the mental shock that causes it Is usually prepared long before the psychosis occurs rebellious thoughts unhappiness brood ng n all these eventually have a serious effect upon sensitive and highly intelligent people and particularly women of the hysterical type all women are hysterical mena mara said with conviction you re a dear booby dan fight women out of ten can throw a fit of hysterics as easily as you d break an egg particularly if there Is a man to be impressed they never simulate hysterics to impress a woman how ever because they know better how ever over there are women who have hysterics that are real bur it has been the experience of this office that most of these are just a trifle balmy neu well you get our girl a trousseau and warn her to keep away from the window and not to answer the door bell or do any telephoning or leave the house until she has my bermis slon sion I 1 don t expect she 11 obey so to night when you go home have some hysterics to impress her dan dear I 1 couldn coulden t L I 1 in hard as a picnic egg did you stage your little comedy after leaving us last night I 1 did and it worked out exactly good gracious well I 1 in busy good by nance belden s personalities were a source of keen professional interest to lanny who regretted that for the present doctor burt was unable to share her observations with her she had as yet had no opportunity for ascertaining anything regarding he the girls girl s past history but she had bad a suspicion that nance had had advantages superior to most girls her hands were the very first thing with the exception of her poor wrecked nose that lanny had notice 1 they were soft shapely email and well kept decidedly not the hands of a factory girl alle her lary was a trifle salty running at times to the idiom of the III bred and ignorant her oice olee was soft with well ell bred intonations her clothing on the occasion of her visit to stephen B arts office had been in lanny a judgment in splendid taste rich but not flashy up to the mode but not beyond it then too nance had a slow leisurely walk she kne knew how to enter a room she was sure of herself at all times without display assurance to lanny the girl in his abandoned moments appeared to be amateurish a bit of a showoff unreal thus far she had observed the girl only in this showoff phase of her per sodality son sona allty lity she was amazed therefore on coming home from the office after her conversation with mcnamara to find her a complete changeling As she entered the house she caught the odor of cooking and going into the kitchen she discovered nance with one of lanny s kitchen aprons on her preparing dinner good evening lanny dear she saluted her hostess it occurred to me it must be a very great trial to you coming home night after night from the office tired and having to prepare dinner for yourself I 1 in sure you re too tired most of the time to prepare more than a very sketchy meal and that isn t good for you bhe smiled so I 1 thought I 1 id d have a nice dinner for you now I 1 call that real sweet seer nance my name isn t nance lanny it s penelope penelope what penelope gatlin silly old lanny how could you forget you ve placed your finger on my dread secret penelope when I 1 im in tired my memory falls me lanny knew that during the day a psychological door had opened anil and nance belden otherwise personality B the abnormal had walked walled through it and emerged penelope gatlin or per sodality son sona allty lity A the normal A also Is 0 she knew now that penelope gatlin ably had more or less amnesia for her former personality as nance belden lanny had heard doctor burt discus discuss such rare cases and she glowed with pride in the knowledge that at least leat he had secured a perfect specimen I 1 decided we wouldn t have broiled lamb chops lanny the girl went on brightly so I 1 re ve madea ragout you mean in good old Amerl canese you ve concocted an irish stew you re so amusing lanny A stew of course the difference between a stew and a at ragout Is entirely geographic A ragout in I 1 ranee rance an irish stew in the united stites have you lived in france eight years lanny went to school in switzerland and learned french there are your people french I 1 think I 1 was there alone alon e I 1 the girl appeared puzzled I 1 doal don I 1 re memi er my mother but I 1 had a fa ther he ile was such a dear but he hes S dead were you happy there no I 1 was perfectly miserable why because my father gasn wasn t with me wed ed been such pals but you must have lived with ith somebody there was laurette the cook and babette the maid did you graduate no I 1 left school when father died he was killed in a motor accident en ell route to europe I 1 ive ve always had bad a feeling he was coming over to see his penelope he loved me very much lanny he was adorable he used to tell me that I 1 was all that made his life bearable somebody I 1 forgot who told me he wasn gasn t my real fa ther that I 1 was a foundling he adopt ed I 1 wouldn t believe that at first but when I 1 read his will I 1 knew it was so what sort of woman was his wife or did he have hae one I 1 haven t the slightest idea but I 1 remember the will stated very positively that I 1 e had settled with her t that hat she had accepted the sett settlement lemi 31 in full ull satisfaction of her dower rights and he made my income from the trust just sufficient to support me decently until I 1 should come of age he said in his will III that he did this not be baube of any lack of affection for me but because if he made me an evces sive allowance his divorced wife would hae haie control of it during my minority he ile must have despised her well if she could have control of your income during your minority she must have been your adopted mother the practical lanny reasoned and you must have lived with her following the divorce that s why you didn dian t see your father in europe you must have been there with your foster mother laurette the cook and babette the maid argue an establishment do you remember everything that has happened to you since chat that day dan mcnamara brought you to doctor burt burrs 3 office ever have funny thoughts about it the girl stared at her shrewdly how strange that you should ask that question lanny I 1 do have funny thoughts sometimes im hor horrified rifled at the memory and could die dle of shame at other times tt it seems perfectly all right but those are the times when ive ine been nervous and sleepless sometimes I 1 think there theres s something wrong with me because people often refer to me as nance belden an ani I 1 to things I 1 ve done and which I 1 know very well I 1 haven t done and ns yet it seems to me sometimes as if I 1 had just a wraith of memory like an old dream put still im strong and healthy B it a little given to spells of nervousness I 1 in moody woody the girl seemed in te rested in herself to an unusual de gree borne bome das I 1 like to do things that are perfectly intolerable to me on otter oti er days some days I 1 in so dem socratic I 1 could go out to dinner with a garbage man inan other times I 1 can t bear to be with anybody but nice people she sighed and turned to inspect her savory ragout I 1 wish I 1 knew what I 1 wanted in life and I 1 wish I 1 knew somebody that wanted me of course I 1 can pay ray my way through life but its terrible to be lonely I 1 anny she faced lanny again now when I 1 decided to cast myself on your hospital ty lanny it seemed to n e the most natural thing in the world to do but today I 1 in covered with confusion ive lye deliberately imposed myself upon your peace aad and privacy listen here penny my ray dear you arent aren t the only lonely woman in this world believe it or not the first spring butterly butteri butter Lp isn t a bit more wet wel come in old lady lanning s house than you are the lost one beamed upon her 1 I believe that lanny oh lanny when I 1 in happy I 1 in so happy and when I 1 in wretched I 1 in so wretched you think too much about that nose of yours my poor child the girls girl s hana han flew to that organ automatically lanny thought as if she would hide t lant in t it terrible she quavered I 1 in so ugly nobody can everlove ever love me TO BE CONTINUED |