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Show -V .im.m 111 a 3HT by BELL SYNDICATE WN.U. SERVICE here with a bullet hole In her shoulder; shoul-der; she's suffering from shock and submersion and chill and loss of blood and she's cold as a penguin's tall. I'vo given her a stiff noggin of Dan's terrible booze and a fortieth for-tieth of a grain of strychnin and an alcohol rub. She's sleeping. Did you bring those hot-water bottles?" "Yes," he said humbly, Indicating a bag he carried. Lanny fell upon the bag, and retired to the kitchen to fill the hot-water bottles and tuck them In alongside her child patient. "Lucky If she doesn't develop pneumonia, Stevie." Doctor Burt stood looking down at the sleeping Nance. "Out of the warden's arms and straight Into yours. You guessed she'd call on Lanny, eh. Dan, you're an old fox." "No, Doc, I'm not, A fox has brains." "He's a lamb, Stevie, just a big ram lamb." While Lanny was assisting Doctor Doc-tor Burt in dressing Nance Belden's wound, Dan McNamara sat In his plain little living room and read the story of her escape from San Quen-tln. Quen-tln. It appeared that throughout all of Sunday afternoon two men, In a motorboat, had been anchored In the cove off San Quentin apparently fishing for striped bass, which abound at this particular point In San Francisco bay. There were other oth-er boats anchored there also eight in all. The guard at the entrance to the women's quarters had observed ob-served them, until, about four-thirty p. m., Just before locklng-up time a guard In one of the lookout towers tow-ers on the hill had telephoned him that a boat had approached close to the shore. The guard had thereupon stepped out of his kiosk and around to the rear of It, which faced toward the beach, less than thirty feet distant. He had shouted at the men In the boat and warned them to be off, that they were not permitted to approach that close, that they were within the deadline. To this the men replied re-plied that they couldn't help it ; that tinge of red appeared on the water She was down about thirty seconds then her head emerged close to tin boat, and she swam with one ara to the side of it; a man reached over and grasped her under both arms and Jerked her Into the boat, which instantly turned, put on full speed and raced away close past two other boats. Fearful of killing innocent people, the guard In the watch-tower held his fire until the escaping boat was in the clear, then he and the guard In anothei tower came Into action again. Bu1 a target moving at a speed of forty five miles an hour Is not easily hit the fire was either over or short ant the boat did not stop. When it wat out of range, It turned and in th rapidly fading light of the wlntei day, headed up Into San Pablo bay, running close to the south shore to avoid the chop of the waves In this shallow expanse of water. They ran without lights. While the course they had taken would seem to indicate a desire to run up Oarqulnez straits to the Sacramento Sac-ramento or the San Joaquin rivers, land and escape in a waiting automobile auto-mobile Into central California, the warden realized that his quarry was not lacking In Intelligence ; that, fast as they fled, they would realize that the telephone Is faster; that the roar of their motor must betray them a mile away. He had, therefore, there-fore, taken the precaution to notify the chiefs of police of Pittsburg, Martinez, Sausallto, Richmond, Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco, Francis-co, leaving to these the task of notifying no-tifying Intermediate points. The warden had a suspicion the fugitives would double back to San Francisco, Francis-co, particularly since the girl was wounded and must be hidden in order or-der to receive medical attention. "And here she is," Dan McNamara Mc-Namara muttered. "Crlpes, what a woman I Lord, how I love a woman with brains and courage. Just a little lit-tle simple matter of taking pains and taking risks. She didn't go in to the dining hall for dinner with the other prisoners. Smart 1 Knew she couldn't make a fast swim on a full stomach. Smart enough to notice no-tice the warden's oversight to fill In with barbed wire topping that eighteen eight-een inch space at the top of his gate. Of course they figured they needn't bother with that, because no woman could climb a sixteen-foot wire mesh fence anyhow, and If she did she'd only drop down into the waiting arms of the guard, who is never absent, night or day. But Nance Belden knew she could climb that fence barefoot; she knew she had thirty seconds to do It and a drop on the other side from the top of the gate. Her Job was to induce the guard to turn his back and her friend3 In the boat did thatl "She knew she'd been scon from the watch-tower on the hill and the guard at the gates notified by telephone; tele-phone; as he returned from the edge of the beach, around the south side of his kiosk, Nance slipped by him on the north side and was in the water as the guard took up the 'phone. Smart! She knew no guard would stick under machine-gun machine-gun fire at fifty yards, merely to stop a woman convict escaping from prison. Smart! Sank and swam under water and then the zigzag course between the boats of the other fishermen, after they picked her up. Fine psychology she engineered en-gineered it all and I know she's a nut I And then straight to Lanny for medical attention straight to the one human being she knew she could trust no, I'll not send her back. And I don't particularly want to catch her friends, either. I'll say they're friends I Wish I had a couple of friends that'd come on through machine-gun fire for me!' Stephen Burt came out of the bedroom bed-room and sat down and stared at the chief of police with grave interest. in-terest. "Well, my good Javert," he said presently. "Your good what?" "I called you Javert Don't you know who Javert was?" Dan McNamara shook his head. "I never picked him up, Doc." you worry, Nance. You're safe. I'm a cop, but I'm not without some sporting blood your getaway earns three rousing cheers from old Dan McNamara." His big hand strayed over her face. "You're a good old hunk of cheese," she assured him. She turned her head toward Lanny. "Am I going to die, Lanny?" she asked. "Not unless I kill you which I'm liable to do If you don't buck up and believe what I tell you. You've been shot, but it doesn't amount to much. You'll be all right In a week or two." "Then I'll be good, Lanny." The tired eyes closed and while Lanny stood by, wondering what to say next, Nance sank Into a sleep of profound exhaustion. "Let her alone until Stevie comes," Lanny suggested. "The wound has stopped bleeding. Come out into the living room and If you're as crooked a cop as you ought to be you've got liquor In the house, and I've got to have a drink of it." Her middle-aged face was very serious. se-rious. "Those cops at your house will stick around, Lanny, and when you return they'll want to know where you've been. What are you going to tell them?" "Tell them nothing. Let those two cops sit In their car in front of my house all night and watch It. What do I care? At least they'll keep burglars away. And when finally they do round me up and waltz me down to central station to he questioned, you'll do the questioning, ques-tioning, will you not?" "Lanny," said Dan McNamara, "If you were a man and on the force I'd make you a detective sergeant. You're a bear-cat, that's what you are. But you smuggled that letter out of San Quentin for Nance and turned It over to Sapphire Susie! "Maybe you didn't know it, but you gave Sapphire Susie a lift in your car from the main gate at San Quentin down to Greenbrae. The guard remembered seeing her hanging hang-ing around the main gate, as if she was waiting for somebody; later she got Into a coupe with a middle-aged middle-aged lady, who looked so respectable respect-able he took anotl.r look at the pass she had Just surrendered to him and remembers that the name on the pass was yours. The pass entitled en-titled you to visit Nance Belden. Guards may not remember such incidents in-cidents until something happens. Then they're fast on their feet, Lanny." "And who, If you please, Is Sapphire Sap-phire Susie?" "She did a stretch In San Quentin Quen-tin for blackmail. She was discharged dis-charged a week before you visited Nance, and before Susie left the Big House, Nance fixed It with her to lend a helping hand. Apparently Nance didn't want to confide the minute details of her plan of escape to Susie. Susie's a swell looker but a little bit dumb she levied blackmail through the mall, understand, under-stand, and signed her name, instead of hiring a smart shyster lawyer. So Nance decided to send her written instructions out by you, and Susie agreed to pick you up, pinch the let-ler let-ler and deliver It." list SYNOPSIS i v lch.r8 Gatlin adopts a baby, 5," In an effort to solve his ilal troubles. But his wife wanted her, and their af-In af-In the divorce court. Ten-iPenelope Ten-iPenelope Is given Into the r?;of Mrs. Gatlin. At a base-i,e base-i,e a ball strikes Penelope 2Jise and Mrs. Gatlin removes l the hospital and spirits ilurope. Gatlin Is about to earch for his daughter when " accident ends his life. Some Uira later, In San Francisco, i. t Burt Is a rising young 311 Mst. Dan McNamara, chief jj.i, brings him a patient lpiiilden, a girl whose terrible Bli. has left her with a dual 'intty, for which her "saddle Mn part responsible. McNa-not McNa-not think she Is a crim-pobtains crim-pobtains Burt's expert testily' testi-ly' court. Even Lanny, the 'althful office nurse, Is won Nuance's cause, but the girl's record outweighs Doctor "planatlon of her case and S?nt to San Quentin penl-cr, penl-cr, tlanny visits her and Nance ii her to smuggle out a let-Eiun;n let-Eiun;n a confederate steals. capes, although shot, and ytoanny's apartment. Lanny 't McNamara, who orders . ring Nance to his apart-stei: apart-stei: lie I : 1PTER IV Continued L tot no wife', Lanny. Use Eline." !nrnis good as any. Get It. ofiia g c.,re 0f vou hercj" ther." rcs'ie be trusted?" UT1;nt her to the country for ' he evaded. "I'm.sleep- und eating downtown." iless our home, Dan. Clear watch for Stevie and let to the kitchen, turned on ater and set an enameled n Ulder the faucet; then refill re-fill dressed the girl. In an e(j pbalhroom she found clean . placed a cold one on her fi"ien she returned to the Rhoddie enameled skillet was tock!,!t)ie midst of a cloud of it 6 she knew It had been any disinfected; she filled It Id" cm" water, carried It Into and with a wet towel HATCiie two holes In Nance's sunxamlned the wound. 'g Bi; the bone," she decided. h 7llr a stuck pig, of course, er dress probably carried "mund." Boopiedlclne closet, Lanny dis-mall dis-mall bottle of Iodine. So r Tfd the wound with It, 't cold towel around the ilder and tucked her into ill nil a comb and brush In 1 SN'amnra's bureau and 'hd smoothed the dank, jlack bob, and when that jjjsho unbent long enough a kiss on the white brow. b!" she murmured. "No- r lost dnrllng I" Jjs's eyelids flickered. you, Lanny?" the girl faintly. .I(cn,'lo. And you're all I & W'"11'' worl"y' Nobody's go-3 go-3 you back to San Quen tijis chased us at the boat jinny. Are you sure we lifj ii i i Rid II 1 - Terror Shone In the Girl's Dark Eyes, their motor had gone dead and that the tide had set them In ; that they were trying to make repairs and would be off as soon as they could. While the guard was In the rear of his station, engaged In this conversation, con-versation, Nance Belden had approached ap-proached the gate, kicked off her shoes and, digging her toes into the quarter-Inch wire mesh of the sixteen-foot gate, had scrambled to the top with incredible rapidity. She was Just climbing down the outside of the gate when the guard In the tower on the hill saw her and immediately im-mediately telephoned to the guard at the main gate; also to the guard arguing with the men In the motor-boat. motor-boat. Upon hearing the telephone bell ringing in his station, that guard had walked back Into It; at the same time, keening the kiosk "Tou wouldn't. He was a character charac-ter In 'Les Miserables,' a novel by Victor Hugo. lie was a fly-cop In Paris, and he pursued an ex-convlct named Jean Valjean for twenty years, because he believed the man was a crook. Once a crook, always a crook, was Javert's philosophy. And when he discovered at last he had the goods on Jean Valjean and It was his duty to arrest him, he discovered simultaneously that Jean Valjean was also a good and noble no-ble man, which proved extremely embarrassing to Javert." "I understand how that could be, all right, Doc. What did Javert do then?" "He climbed up on the railing of a bridge over the Seine, unpinned his 6hield, threw it Into the river, and Jumped In after It" "He committed suicide In order to give his man the breaks." "Kxactly.- "Well," Dan MeXamnra decided after pandering this a half minute, "I wouldn't be boob enough to do that. He should have made a Mool pigeon out of Jean Valjonn and maybe may-be he'd have gotten somewhere In his Job." (TO EC COXTINTrD) "Dan, I assure you I wasn't in any plot to effect a prison delivery. If I'd thought for an instant I was doing anything wrong why, Nance told mo to read her letter and If I disapproved of Its contents to destroy de-stroy it. I didn't see any harm In that." "You violated the rules of the prison and you could be punished for It by a term In the same prison." "I'm a respectable woman " "That gets you nowhere. I was a respectable chief of police once and now look at me. If your part In this leaks out you can only be punished and you can't be convicted convict-ed unless you talk In your sleep. If my part In this should leak out I'll be punished and disgraced and thrown out of the best Job I ever had. However " he raised his glass to her "mud In your eye, Ijinny." "Happy days, Dan, you gorgeous softy." The doorbell rang. Dan opened It and Doctor Burt stepped In. He paused In amazement nt sight of Danny, glass In hand; she motioned him with It down the hall. "First door at the end. Stevie. You'll find your patient there." "That girl witb the dissociated personality, per-sonality, Nance De'den, escaped from fan Quentin late this afternoon. after-noon. Chief." Stephen began, and handed the latter a newspaper, "r.ig story, first woman to escape from San (luentin." He pared severely se-verely upon I.anny. "What are you doing here, I.anny?'' "All h 1 to pay, Stevie dear, and no pitch hot. That Belden girl Is Orso you did the big w, listen dearie. I'm go--you something, but don't irTjirb you. Take my word rrfyj-'l'c safe. Do you remem-ifJ'4cNamnra, remem-ifJ'4cNamnra, the chief of 'so. Old Daniel's my boy . ' '.ni'ro In bis bed. The irar'Jon your ' trail, dearie, lies eted you might come to so Dan tipped me o(T Trintcoml"K n,ul t0 bent 11 lr'p it to his house." ia b tone In the girl's dark , never trust a cop that !', lulled. "(.Hi, Lanny, you've i Ans'lie n sucker out of you." Io weep hysterically. 2fn '"'"'t stop that," I.anny ENS. f' " !lllt 5011 ovrr the 1,011,1 n gt.. f-'illot," and she picked -' utensil up and shook It jg crf "Dun MeN.'imara's your of f rowin? the chief of police, too rst nlie If they take me back. .me In the dungeon I'm dark." pci 'r" You're not afraid of n"..,iiYou've got your little , nlod' J)f courage, you seara-.-d rj'j.'ou afraid? My foot! "i 55 '!"" the gate and swim app'".',' pdboat under lire?" ' " iTun tire, at that," Dan -j-'iipplemented, from the V,' They opened on her and --n the towers." He came of the bed and grinned i terrified rL "Don't between her and the approaching guard, Nance Belden had dashed down to the beach and commenced swimming rapidly toward the motor-boat, motor-boat, the motor of which Instantly started, and the boat commenced edging In to pick her up. Wiien the guard In the kiosk, apprised ap-prised of what was taking place, ran out with a rifle In his hand and shouted to Nance Belden to come back or he would shoot her, a machine-gun In the motor-boat promptly prompt-ly came Into action against him. He had not been hit, but a shower of bullets bul-lets had spattered the ground around and in front of him and another burst had gone over his head and through the sentry box. The guard had llred once at the Belden woman and hit her, but Immediately thereafter, there-after, fearful of being killed, he had thrown himself flat on the ground. The (ruard In the watch tower on tho hill had then brought his machine ma-chine gun Into action. His first burst had been short, atid drew answering an-swering fira from the machine gunner gun-ner In the boat. Although the range was four hundred yards, the first burst from the motorboat tore through the wooden watch-tower, which rather distracted the Rim of the guard there; nevertheless, the latter stuck to his g;:u and continued contin-ued to tire, spattering bullots around the sw imming girl and Into the boar. The men In the boat did not hesitate, hesi-tate, but came on through the hail of hiiilets; the escaping prisoner had in the n'.e.mwhi'.e either s;:r.!c or dived; at any rate a a idenlng |