| Show GOLDEN DAWN DAW N SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin decides decide to adopt a baby in a final effort to solve alv his hi mabrl troubles trouble but his hi wife has ha mover wanted her and their affairs affair end la in the th divorce court ten year old Fati elope Is I 1 given into the keeping of ur mrs gatlin at a baseball hae ball game cam a ball bit into the th bleachers bleacher strikes penelope on the th nose nos mrs gatlin spirits the hald to europe gatlin retire from roni business bul will penelope Pene Jope all his hi money and aad Is 1 about to begin a search for or his hi daughter when a motor accident ends end him hi life some som ton ten years year later in san ban stephen burt is I 1 a rising riling young psychiatrist CHAPTER II 11 continued 3 F for or the next four years lanny did not see am lier her boy but he wrote her and remembered her at christmas nod and on her birthdays he was an honor grad ernd note from the leland stanford junior medical school and was immediately given an at the university hospital in san francisco inasmuch as a lanny frequently had patients patient a al that hospital they met several times a year lanny jnnny kept her ear to th ground round harkening bark hark ening to reports of his progress from worthwhile sources and learned that he was regarded as a young doctor of distinct promise one day after lie he had been two years an In terne they met in the cor car aldor ive been wanting to see you stevie lanny began without any pro pre fencing its time for your postgraduate course in europe impossible lanny sly my father bao ba had bad a frightful reversal of fortune hes be done a fat fathers tiers full duty by me and im not going to graft off him anti and perhaps sacrifice him in his old age rm self belt supporting now and even sur sav ing a little from my salary in a few years I 1 shall be able to afford a modest office and go in for general practice youve followed my program thu far and continue until its fin isba lanny announced ill loan you the money the live five thousand dol lars your father gave gare me has grown to seventy five hundred dollars and ive saved two thousand more so im going to bank you and you shall pay me six per cent on the money you you borrow and secure me by life insurance she was wac thoughtful for a few moments well perhaps three years abroad will benefit you more than thaD four years would an or binary man atan so well cut the program to three years after all you must have bare some comforts youve got to live like a gentleman you will resign here today and ill have bare the money for you tomorrow oh lanny you dear old sport I 1 cant do that thereupon lanny struck him in a 4 vital spot her stern and lonely soul was touched not often did she in bulge herself in the weakness of tears but they flooded her eyes now and her breast heaved lie he was always touched at the sight of suffering buffering the vast underlying lug sym pathy in his bis nature would never have bare it otherwise abruptly she left him she knew he be would seek her out later to protest at greater length to avow blin himself self her eternal debtor for the offer and again decline it me ile called upon her at her lodgings that night and lanny won it was a hard bard battle but when lanny so to speak lowered her head bead and went in to win usually she succeeded well she had her way and when he returned from europi europe she had an office ready for him she would be forty years old on her next birthday and after eighteen years of the drudgery of private nursing she looked forward to her position in stephen burts burls office with pleasurable anticipation she met him at the terry ferry depot and he be took her to his heart and kissed her live fire times twice on each cadi cheek and once on the lips well old pal lie he said almost immediately im a specialist neurologist and psychiatrist and youre to be my first pa alent I 1 must go over you thoroughly and see what makes you act the way you do success was stephens modest at first of course but of rapid growth and lanny knew why ills patients fell in love with him and advertised him to their friends in two years stephen eurt burt had repaid lanny with interest the third year he moved into new sunny roomy and beautifully furnished offices with a waiting room as large as all of his bli previous offices had been ile he joined the best club in town he joined a country club and resolutely lanny drove him out of the office on wednes day and saturday afternoons to play golf she denied him the privilege of naming bis big own fees because she knew they would be too modest she kept bis big free list to a minimum knowing all his friends she supervised his social duties she kept his bis books and was a very devil of a collector she wrote all al his business letters and signed then them for him she invested his money for him and since she was no mean psychologist ch chol olst she could read a woman patient as she would a book she was his big admirable crichton and he rewarded her with his confidence his bis affectionate friendship and a perfectly dazzling salary raise each christmas always kissed her at six on the twenty fourth day of december in each year for the alve years preceding the late winter afternoon when mr daniel Me mcnamara Namara called in behalf of the strangest patient dannys boy had ever been asked to accept it had boon been a R long iong hard bard day doe doctor hurt burt was tired fired and a mrs re ilesa 1 l cald merton alerton who was rich and idle noi ilot very intelligent and hence beuras by PETER be B KYNE copyright ty by salt bill syndicate nad had been fatiguing him with a recital of her imaginary aches pains and megrims me grims he pressed a button under the desk tapping a code message to lanny and waited patiently ile he knew she would appear momentarily and say im sorry gorry doctor burt but professor finnegan has just rele telephoned honed that thai you are fifteen minutes nit late to your engagement to meet the great german savant canant herr doktor lie ile waited three minutes and sent an other code message messi ige to lanny adding the hie word helal still brill lanny did not noi so EO he said with his disarming smile mrs merton alerton the five whistle has blown and I 1 cant listen to another word ive just kemem bared a most pressing engagement a so now if you do not go at once I 1 shall have to throw you out he had find her by the arm and out the door before she could think of another symptom bathen he be locked the door put pill both legs up on the desk and loaded and lighted his pipe just as the door to his nurses office odice opened and lanny said im so sorry but professor fanne gun gan ashes gone where did boti you so go leaving me here to suf suffer ferl 1 I was in the waiting room placating an insistent visitor I 1 told him you had gone for the day but he flashed some sort of police bodge badge at me said he nutty cutty nod arid that his bis business was private whenever you admit a person whose business Is private and personal I 1 am called upon for mental and physical effort sans gang a fee lanny im tired fired what you need dearle dearie said lan oy ny to la a nice long cool highball and while youre on the fhe job get me one too a deep voice rolce spoke from the door behind her its ita that police person lanny cried it Is the police person agreed witti without ont mallm malice and even it if I 1 am a L oh lanny you dear old sport I 1 cant do thail cop rm fm too smart to be fooled by the alb abs s of any woman how are you doc tired he murmured worn to a razor edge talking sanely sandy to the insane and the semi sane sane the subnormal sub normal and the abnormal you appear sane officer are you id be afraid to take a bet I 1 am doe doc I 1 handle my share 0 nuts too and theres umes times they make me think im buss bugs instead 0 them my names dan mcnamara mars and im the chief of police sit down chief drag over that armchair he smiled at lanny and held up two fingers that smile melted her it always did for five years she had bad been trying to bully him film and ills his smile bad at al ways defeated her for which reason she often had bad a brainstorm and threat ened to resign his service and she would have done it too for she was a forceful woman only for the fear that lie he might replace her with a nurse who understand him a la de la young tiling thing half baked professionally who would fall in love with him and make him marry her ile he was so kind and sympathetic lanny knew he would marry her just to keep her from feel ing bad D n his sympathy she growled as she prepared the drinks lo in ao an inner room why hes worked to death hell die young overwork angina the young foell that big fresh heavy footed copl how flow dare he force his way to in the big bum I 1 and getting a drink for his dirty work I 1 she sniffed and served the highballs high balls youre mighty sweet lanny doctor burt told her now run along home lanny did not go she knew that big b ig moodier moocher of a chief of police would praise such old liquor and his bis host would offer him a second helping ive got a girl down at central sta tion don dan mcnamara was saying shoplifting detail picked her up to in a department store where shed pinched a 8 dozen and a half silk stockings petit larcen larceny Y and caught with the goods I 1 sent a good man around to try to square the case with the department store people but they insist on pressing charges charge and that too bad because ashes got a couple of priors prior against tier her out on probation suspended sentence you understand doe doc and now shell do two years year in the big house IS S tough on the girl Wl iata your interest in her if thes hes ft a confirmed thief well maybe she be a thief if shed had the breaks he de fended bended somebody must have given her a sweet bust on the noso nose because her beaks been broke and nothings left of it but a saddle Is she tough 7 Is she tough doe doc shea so tough I 1 know it aint natural A girl as tough as her must be looney but it there ere aint nothing tough about her eyes or her mouth and where you can always ond find toughness been bred in the bone theres something about this girl different doe doc I 1 dont know what it la Is but I 1 know this much she always tough I 1 want you to give her the once over 1 I understand there Is a psychologist and psychiatrist doctor blethen who does nil all of the medico legal work for the department chief I 1 care to examine the girl except on his yes I 1 know question of lot ethics and while the question Is being debated this girl gets hauled into court and takes the rap on the old charge of grand theft I 1 know blethen ive tried him and he says this girl Is a narral natt iral hoodlum and mentally and physically healthy ue he says ashes got more intelligence than any ten girls in vassar she must be smart too because she told him he be was a fool and I 1 agree with her doctor burt burl was silent for he was intensely In ethical and would not criticize a fellow doctor ive heard a lot about you the chief of pollee police continued youre regarded as the best psychiatrist and neurologist eur in san francisco so dont talk to me about the capable doc blethen Blet ben I 1 want you to look this girl over ills huge face brightened as he summoned a thought that would bolster up his plea she dont cuss me doe doc ive asked her all about herself and im sure she tells me all she knows but she dont know anything ashes bound to like you doc and when she tikes likes anybody now doe doc ive got a notion you can get her confidence to such an extent you can prong down into her soul and locate the trouble I 1 bear men like you do things like that nowadays doctor burt smiled sometimes we uncover complexes or mental reflexes frequently we do not and when we have uncovered them we cannot always cure them you ton toy this girl has a ruined nose does it affect ter her appearance pe arance greatly ashes ugly when you look at her the first time doc but after youve talked with her and looked some more more the shock sort of wears off I 1 got a notion that if her nose could be straightened up shed be a good looking girl and maybe if her mind could be straightened shed be a good girl know anything about her antecedents ce her background 1 I dont know and I 1 cant find out she wont tell me it may be doctor burt suggested that she know has blethen finished with the case yes sir ile he told me not to bother him about her no do more doctor burt indicated his telephone call him up chief and ask him if be has any objection to having me give her an unofficial M caal exam examination I 1 n aaion mcnamara did so following a brief conversation he turned the telephone over to stephen stephen took the telephone doctor blethen burt speaking the chief came to my office about that girl he has at the central station notwithstanding your report he has asked me as a personal favor to see gee the gar garl you understand however yes I 1 understand burt ashes a bad lot something the chief said has mildly aroused my curiosity if you would care to invite me to discuss her case understand I 1 have no DO desire to intrude im through with her burt help yourself old man however take a up tip from roe me and dont let that fellow man 8 mar sell bell himself to you if you do hell keep you busy I 1 doubt it if any man on earth can run a criminal down as promptly as mcnamara he has a photographic brain and never forgets a face or a fact but after hes landed a in his cooler lie he develops an abnormal yearning to find out what made him act that way macs a softy exactly thank you blethen still a 8 blind pig will sometimes find an acorn and something he be sald goodby lanny entered theres a young woman in the waiting room site ilie announced noun ced she said to me where the h ls that bonehead of a chief gone lanny looked at dan sic me namara severely over the rims of her spectacles friend of yours she queried witheringly yes mcnamara Namara Uc admitted and docs new patient bring her in and hell give her the once over but lanny shook her head this nut shop Is closed for the day she told him bring her around at one ant oclo elt tomorrow the doctor nas nag fifteen minutes then TO BB an fl |
