| Show GOLDEN u 0 L E N DAWN LAWN IL SYNOPSIS i theodor thedore gatlin adopts a baby pe Ps V delope top in an effort to olve hie his atri 1 3 lionial troubles but his wife haa has never ivr wanted her and their affair affairs end in the divorce court at a baseball fame items a ball strikes ten year old pe delope on the nose nom mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills pe fe aslope all bis his money and Is about to begin a search 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 chiel chief ol 01 police with a X new patient nance belden s a girl with a dual personality tor for which her saddle nose in I 1 in part responsible mcnamara does not think she Is in a criminal and obtains burt a testimony in court lanny the doctor doctors a office nurse Is also won over nance i crim inal 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 a apartment from which by me namara orders ehe she Is removed to the chief a home prom one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped me ale namara learns that nance s real name ie to penelope gatlin he also discovers that she Is to heiress to fearful of mcnamara in his official capacity nance flees lanny finds her in her apartment asleep knowing detectives are on her trail she disappears and mcnamara learns that she has sailed tor for france CHAPTER VIII continued 19 santa claus has been good to you two barnt t he well are you both willing to go back to your regular jobs now I 1 flynn threw the money on the chiefs desk we swore an oath he began but mcnamara cut him short so have 11 II he reminded rlynn fiercely we know every move you ve made in this case flynn shouted and I 1 knew every move you were going to make before you made I 1 it V angellotti Angel loti tl tucked his present tn in his pocket come on flynn he urged I 1 can cant t be called oft off tor for money plynn flynn persisted stubbornly dan mcnamara swept the money on his desk into the drawer the widows and orphans of the policemen s and protective association will be glad to get this on your way you and your oath rlynn sighed deeply and went out fifteen minutes later he came hack back and said humbly chief I 1 ve changed my mind alas I 1 mcnamara was irish too he glanced at the clock you re fifteen minutes late so III fine you two hun bun dred and fifty dollars tor for tardiness and impudence and disloyalty and housebreaking III get you for this mcnamara I 1 1 I don t think so my advice to you pat rat flynn would be to quit with TNT ive I 1 ve known detective ser geanes to be taken for a ride threatening me eh not at all I 1 wouldn t harm a hair of your red head and by the way red hair in the irish Is a sign that they breed back to the danes and swedes A purebred pure bred irishman would know enough to lay off a girl with powerful and implacable friends all you were after was a hundred and twenty five dollars half the reward for recapturing that girl and when she sends you double that youre you re not sport enough to meet her halfway 1 I took an oath plynn flynn mumbled you should have taken a physic well I 1 did take an emetic chief III never forgive you those tear and stink bombs well you shadowed my house and entered it unlawfully well I 1 found a lipstick belonged to the nurse I 1 had look ing after a sick friend of mine the chief lied tied glibly but flynn only grinned ferociously 1 I found stained bandages too well the pot cant can t get nowhere by calling the kettle black mcnamara decided clear outi give me the and off but dan mcnamara shook his head 1 I know your kind pat there s no tense sense wasting good money on you because you wont stay bought clear out I 1 tell you so flynn cleared out carrying with him infinitely more respect for his chief than he had heretofore enter tallied well some day he bed d collect heavy interest on that two hundred and fifty dollars the last patient had left stephen hurts burt s office for the day and the ever watchful lanny had bad locked the office door leTl vired red stevie she queried anxious ly IY as he loaded his pipe no of course not he replied abruptly what have I 1 done to be tired all r III you had another session with at at oe mrs merton I 1 sue doesn doean t weary me any more bei merely excites my sympathy still sleepless of course and still bothered about her poor devil of a husband sha had detectives on his trail for a month cost her ten dollars a day each and they haven t discovered anything to merton s discredit ite it 9 about time for mrs merton to commence hearing voices of sorts lanny commented dryly highball High balt stevie yes thank you lanny I 1 he said and deluged lanny with his sunny smile yes mrs merton Is hearing voices her first husband who Is dead keeps whispering through space to her ile lies s trying to tell her how sorry soy he Is I 1 understand he made a dirty will lie ile would if he had any common sense what a poor beaten devil mer t n Is I 1 lie ile t the courage of a by PETER B KYNE copyright by bell syndicate WITO service what can he do lanny his wife Is unbalanced but it if he swears out a warra warrant nt charging her with insanity shell snap out of her lunacy mrs merton isn t sufficiently insane to be incarcerated and she ashes s a beautiful woman well to todo do respectable mer ton t get to first base on an insanity warrant then why doesn doean t he divorce her on grounds of mental cruelty the mans man s chivalrous and profound ly IY sympathetic besides he t any witnesses to prove a charge of mental cruelty and he cant run away from her because he has a thriving busl bust ness he may not abandon I 1 told her again today not to come to my office any more that I 1 could do nothing for her that she was a nuisance and to try some other doctor she went out in a rage lanny jumped up now who do you suppose that la Is knocking tour your office hours are plainly printed on the door oh lanny don t be so hard boiled let the patient in chos there lanny shouted an oh ob I 1 so it s you Is it I 1 knew you were there the voice of dan mara boomed I 1 lanny anny unlocked the door I 1 lucky tor for you you re not a nut dan stevie and I 1 are just pinning one on I 1 11 join you it if that s the case mcnamara proffered his huge hand that resembled nothing so much in life as a bunch of bananas howdy sled med ico he planted himself in the vis igors chair you have news of nance belden stephen challenged gobs of it doctor lanny entered with a highball 1 I had a letter from nance yesterday dan ashes she s in paris can you beat that I 1 can mcnamara replied coolly she ashes s got an apartment at twenty seven rue st honore with a it cook and a maid and a chauffeur who drives her around in a citroen car and she s having her picture painted she ashes s written you too then divil a line I 1 have my information from the prefect of police of paris dan youre you re marvelous I 1 what s more lanny she ashes s living with her normal personality how do you know she registered as required by law under her real name of penelope gat I 1 I 1 4 ni I 1 get over to parts as quick as you can I 1 mcnamara Namara Me commanded tin I 1 ive ve known her name since the day after her escape from san quen quell tin mcnamara proceeded to relate the tale be he had previously related to stephen who had neglected to retail it to lanny well if this isn t a h 1 of a tale dan I 1 she said does it beat your news lann u beats it by a mile although wh ie le she was at my house she told me as much about herself as she could remember this morning mcnamara contin aed the president of the security trust company telephoned me that the girls girl s mother had called him up to ask it if penelope had been cashing any checks lately the banker gathered that the mother has a notion her daughters daughter s dead she doesn t like the idea of having to wait seven years to have the girl declared officially dead before she can lay claim to penelopep Pen Pon elopes estate did you find out the name of her mother stephen asked oh yes ashes married again you understand naturally she didn t get any information out of the banker he ile a on to her and it was none of her business whether penelope has been cashing checks or not get the girls case record lanny stephen commanded what Is her mothers name chief mrs rudolph merlon merton ashes she s a patient of Ste stevie s I 1 lanny yelled ashes such a nut the squirrels chase her stephen finished writing and laid down bis his pen I 1 told you lanny that mrs merton insane enough to be confined I 1 guess I 1 ve sot got lanny s new news beaten after all stephen this mrs rudolph merlon merton Is the girls foster mother hooray Hoo rayl 1 hooray I 1 hooray 1 cried lanny how do you know did the banker tell your you no I 1 dug the information up my self why how now why I 1 wanted to investigate the girls fortune so yesterday I 1 had a copy of the will and a copy of the appraisal of the estate made at the sin ln san jose and sent up to me gatlin stated in the will ill that he left all of his estate to his beloved adopted daughter penelope gatlin at the time of his death his estate was worth practically half a million dol lars and has since doubled in value nance belden Is a lost heiress not wholly lost stephen reminded him there are times when she remembers who she Is and that she has money 0 she t know anything about her mother lanny declared 01 1 I asked her but she could tell me nothing and she was penelope gatlin when I 1 asked her I 1 there Is a reason for that doctor B burt arts s scientific mind was already rac ing along this new trail penelope hag has had a wretched childhood she knew nothing but unhappiness up to the time she received the shock that threw her mental gears out of mesh she hated her mother with a terrible hatred feared her probably then she made up her mind to forget her mother and the will to forget was so strong that she succeeded not only did she forget her mother but her entire past life as well well she ran away and shell she 11 never find her way back until she acquires sufficient courage to face the old issues again surmount them and defeat them but Is that possible mcnamara asked quite she will have to have assistance si and the sort of treatment I 1 think I 1 can give her and she must mutt have assurance that never again will she be subjected to the old unhappy ness by the way I 1 wonder it if penel ope was a love child have you looked U up pher her parentage dan I 1 haven t t can t you ask mrs mer ton about the girl I 1 suppose I 1 could but it lunacy ran I 1 in n the family faintly of her father or mother I 1 in not going to bother with penelope if you decide to take her on we well 11 11 have ave to get her back into this city mcnamara mourned and flynn will pick her up we 11 fix her nose first lanny said mcnamara beamed her her criminal photographs and Ber bernillon Bertl tillon llon measurements are gone to glory lan ny what hat did penelope say in her let ter not a great deal she said among other things that after leaving my house she found two hundred dollars so she returned it give me that two hundred lanny stephen our little thief Is honest As one personality she would remember you gave her two hundred dol lars but as the other she couldn coulden t remember who gave it to her said lanny get over to paris as quick as you can mcnamara commanded dorshell or she II 11 be stealing the eiffel tower stephen cant spare me said lanny stephen can spare you he decided its it s got to be I 1 mcnamara Mc amara urged nance fled the town with a letter of credit for ten thousand but shell go through that like a weasel through a rat hole take a bankroll with you lanny and when you get there take C charge arge of her funds and have her nose done over while you re there stephen urged there theres s a hitch said lanny the girl evidently got a passport in new york not in new york in san fran cisco mcnamara interrupted well will a strange photograph on her passport get her bach back into the tho united states she can go to the american consul in paris parts and present proof that shea the same woman with a different nose stephen said shell do nothing of the sort mcnamara was very emphatic when her trail Is lost it will be lost forever lanny when you have that new nose built for the girl have half a dozen new passport photographs of her tak en and send them and her passport to me the seal of the united states of america Is on the passport and covers a part of the photograph I 1 know a man that 11 make wake me a seal that would fool the american eagle himself lvell we 11 fit I 1 it down over the old seal and stamp the new photograph then III send IL it back vack to you and may god have mercy on my soul tor for you can blackmail me for that the longest day I 1 live dan cried 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