Show asna was Oso ow goldic ig jp in danwin by peter be kyne copyright by bell syndicate Syna icat service SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts a baby pe delope ope in an effort to solve his matri troubles but his wife has mover ever wanted her and their affairs end 1 in the divorce court at a baseball game a ball strikes teny ten year earold old pe lelone 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 hurt burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with new patient nance belden a girl t with ith a dual personality tor for which her j saddle nose la in in part responsible mcnamara does not think she Is a criminal and obtains burt butts s testimony in court lanny the doctors 4 office files nurse Is also won over nance s crim unal record outweighs doctor ru burt rt a rex explanation of her case and she Is sent luent to san quentin penitentiary N nance nee escapes and goes to lanny a apart ment prom from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped me namara learns that her real name Is penelope gatlin he ile also discovers that ahe she Is heiress to fearful of mcnamara in his official capacity nance flees lanny finds her in her apartment asleep then she disappears and mcnamara learns that she Is liv ing in paris he ile also discovers he Is in love with lanny stephen warns pe nelore by cable to leave paris as her are known CHAPTER IX continued 22 make up your mind now that yea you will never mention those two names again as long as you live you prom ise yes doctor now what is the name of the girl whose photograph you showed me A curious slight spasm of distaste flashed across flenna face he ashud dered I 1 don t know he replied what Is the name of the girl who escaped from san quentin 11 1 I don dont t know stephen struck flynn a smart slap on the top of the head wake up he commanded ilynn came awake instantly and looked extremely foolish well you didn dian t stand the test stephen assured mm win you were falling asleep so I 1 awakened you am I 1 pretty bad doc doe you re this bad that if you do not take treatment you will be in a bad way give you a prescription come and see me again thank you doc doe you re mighty kind good lord doc am I 1 going crazy I 1 don t remember why I 1 called en on you you asked me to identify this pass port photograph and stephen held bout ut the little photo to flynn who thrust it away bad luck doc doe never mind its it s a matter of no importance I 1 he picked up his hat bade stephen good night and left CHAPTER X when the cablegram sent to penelope gatlin had been delivered for at least three days dan mcnamara telephoned lanny to ask if the girl had answered upon being told she had na no he was so cast east down that lanny felt sorry for him so like all women who feel sorry for a man she decide to teed feed him and invited him tor for din ner that night she said stephen would be there that a no inducement mcnamara rumbled but III come anyhow shanks thanks mcnamara s thoughts kept shuttling back to penelope gatlin all that busy day finally he telephoned flynn to report to him how about that merton case I 1 sent up to the chief of de detect teethes lies recently he lie asked when flynn appeared me namara bade t sent the case up at all but he knew flynn did not know this oh yes said flynn I 1 did some work on that but dlan didn t get anywhere J called on the merton woman and tried to get her to identify the girls I 1 hoto holograph graph but she wouldn t or couldn coulden t D ii d you get a line on the girl sure traced her to an address la in I 1 ans aris under what name Is she registered with the paris police pollee chief I 1 can t just recall it IL it was penelope gamin gatlin it flynn flinched a little I 1 don dont t know you re as bad as mrs merton the matter with you I 1 don dont t know chief I 1 think we might as well drop the case I 1 I 1 very well then forget it if pat I 1 was mildly curious all he dis missed flynn I 1 by jupiter that tel fel lows getting too deep for me mel I 1 he soliloquized and he be telephoned the captain of detectives what about that case of the lost merton heiress he demanded I 1 we ve dropped it on flynn a advice mcnamara grunted and hung up launy lanny wearing a kitchen apron ceased cooking dinner long on enough t let him in that night stephen steohen had not yet arrived so mcnamara went out into the kitchen with lanny while he related the news regard ng the common nuisance lanny gazed upon him very benignly you re a good man dan me ale namara how come you ve never mar riedl ried I 1 if I 1 had my mother would have lived m with ith us he declared how flow come you ve never been married lanny sighed nobody ever asked me mcnamara Me Namara sighed gustily my poor mothers mother s very old and in bad health he said A man like you should have sons fine ine big strapping manly sons how old are you lanny tort two I 1 in forty six myself he ile sighed again you re a fine woman lanny devil a finer we ne might manage it manage what to put up with mother for the little time she has to live god bless her I 1 never could stand a left handed proposal dan lanny shook her head and gazed at him solemnly then here s my right hand on it 11 lanny and he laid his great right paw in hers if its it s sons you d have you old darlin US little time we have to waste A faint flush came to lanny s slight ly faded cheeks what would stevie do its been my observation lanny hat that a woman without something to occupy her mind Is in a poor way you could continue to look after the doctors office you ve a good theory dan but it lacks one ingredient name the lack and III get it you re not in love with me the h 1 I 1 im in not noti I 1 you re like all the women forever putting dogs in windows I 1 im in not used to passing words lightly on such a subject give me a yes or no answer you great lovable idiot 1 lanny yelled advancing swiftly upon the chief she kissed his pompadour III risk your mother dan she said soft ly all my life ive been looking for a man with a heart in his chest and the day you first came into the office with your big swaggering way and your blarney and your air of owning the world I 1 I 1 wondered if you were married I 1 in no longer young dan I 1 have peculiar ways and im bossy too mcnamara drew her face down and kissed it what a blessing I 1 im in used to that lanny and have learned learned to be kind to the aged here quit pulling my hair woman the door bell began ringing wrong with you lanny stephen demanded when lanny ad bitted him I 1 rang halt half a dozen times do you good to wait once in a while she snapped back at him mac he declared you have a proprietary air about you and well I 1 may mcnamara replied pertly ive I 1 ve just popped the quest question lon to lanny and weve agreed to jump over the broomstick to together ether ive been expecting this dan she hasa t been worth a canceled postage stamp to me since she met you but I 1 im in not going to leave you stevie darling oh I 1 couldn coulden t leave my boy boyl stephen held out his arms and lanny ran into them and then stephen warned dan that if he wasn gasn t good to lanny he would hypnotize him as he had hypnotized P flynn and sell him the idea he was a pet poodle so lanny could kick him around at will you what mcnamara yelled you put the on flynn certainly and stephen told him the story three hundred years ago in salem massachusetts said dan mcnamara you would have been burned for a witch the door bell rang insistently now who can that be I 1 lanny exploded dan rolled out of the kitchen and down the hall then stephen and I 1 anny heard the door slammed violent ly there was a scuffle and something crashed to the floor he came into the kitchen a moment later leading by her handcuffed wrist none other than penelope gatlin she t kiss me first he announced so I 1 put the cuffs on her the little vixen oh lanny you dar darling lingl and stevie you sweetheart I 1 penelope cried and extended her manacled arms lanny dodged in under them and fold ed the girl to her heart you next stevie penelope ordered and obeal antly stephen lowered his head and the looped arms came around his fits neck and drew his face down and now dan the girl cooed and turned her face upward mcnamara laughingly her why you cable us stephen demanded a trifle severely I 1 adore surprises that a why why did you come baal mara demanded the proper place to hide oneself Is in the spot one Is supposed to have fled from lanny don t let them stand around staring at me and asking me questions moaned penelope 1 I in hungry and so tired can I 1 have my same little bed tonight you can have anything and every thing you want my dear 1 I want stephen came the answer faintly tired and the girl went to him and leaned her sleek black head against his breast 1 I ive ve missed you so stephen stephen I 1 beld eld her close with hia his left arm and his right hand came up and cautiously fingered her poor nose god s on our side lanny he told his nurse tomorrow I 1 want you to ar range tor for a room in st dunstan s hos pital well we 11 get boyd to operate please stephen do I 1 have to go away any more asked nance no not any more my dear and you 11 us fix my coset nose I 1 wanted to have it done in paris but when ohen you yon sent me that cablegram I 1 couldn t of course can I 1 have just the nose I 1 want stephen yes little wanderer and when that s done you shall have the kind of home you want you ve been lost in the woods poor bibe but III lead yon you out into the loveliest sunshiny meadow imaginable mcnamara had throughout this scene felt a lump jump in his throat he ile glanced at lanny and saw the tears of sympathy in her brave kindly eyes so to avert a scene he growled huskily when do we eat 0 a a a 0 0 for the first time since penelope gatlin alias nance belden had come under his notice stephen burt had a it reasonable opportunity to namine the girl when following dinny dinne at lanny s house penelope lanny dan mara and stephen retired to the draw ing room despite the strain of her record breaking journey from europe penelope was not so tired that she wished to retire early she joined la in the general conversation and stephen noticed that she seemed inclined to be argumentative but her arguments in dilated no cogent thought frequently she employed the patois of the u under world her language was racy and idiomatic he noticed that her laugh was sudden loud the blugh of a garlan she nas nervous her hands twined and intertwined continuously she moved about the room a great deal and finally came to rest on stephen stephens s knees she looked into his eyes search angly for a long time and then said 1 accusingly you don t care for me why do you think that penelope because nobody could love a girl with a nose like mine did you bring back the sketches that parisian artist made of you she bounced off his lap and hurried upstairs to return presently with a portfolio filled with sketches there was one crayon drawing of her as she was A halt half dozen additional sketches were copies of the first with the ex caption of the nose the artist had fitted into her features a nose of his own design and viewed in profile some of his creations lent to the girl girls s face an aspect of singular beauty and sweet ness I 1 like this one best stephen decad ed the patrician nose does you jug jus tice going to come over tomorrow and give you the most searching ghyst cal examination you ve ever had he decided he drew her over to him and kissed her on the cheek paternally you re a nice sweet lovable girl penelope he assured her as it if sho she were a little girl and the shape of your nose iset isn t taken into consIder consideration atlon by the eort sort of people whose love and ap you desire and 3 sou ou can get along very well without the love and approval of any other sort dan and lanny and I 1 all love you and we want you to love us were we re your only real friends and you t do anything to hurt us would you 1 I d rather die stephen fine you re tired now so suppose you run upstairs to bed and tomorrow when you wake up you 11 be refreshed a aw FD lanny sighed nobody ever asked me 9 and happy and well we 11 be able to discus the mal ing over of this poor nose kiss us all good night len I 1 envelope elope dutifully obeyed and as she was starting up the stairs stephen said and dont don t forget to say your prayers she grimaced disdainfully you must think I 1 in a nut baying saying my prayers ive I 1 ve been prayed to death by whom 1 I I don dont t know but by somebody it makes me III that was the subconscious revulsion to her adopted mother coming out stephen told mcnamara mrs merton has a strong religious mania that girls s mighty healthy specimen he continued I 1 noticed when I 1 was dressing the wound in her shoulder that her skin Is soft and silky not rough and dry as in the case of apsy chop cho athle personalities everything about her seems to indicate sound an bestry and I 1 in more than ever con vinced that her mental disturbance Is not organic however that 14 a lead we ran can run down after we ve fixed her nose TO BB BE CONTINUED |