| Show GOLDEN DAWN i SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts adopt a baby penelope li in an effort to solve alv his hi matri mental menial troubles trouble but his hi wit wife has bag never wanted her and the their I 1 r affairs end lo in the divorce court at a baseball game fame a ball sty strikes aft keg ten year old penelope on an the no nose mrs gatlin spirits spirit the child to europe gatlin will penelope all his money and to la about to begin a search tor for her when a motor accident ends endi his hi life some ten years later la in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of pollee police with a new patient nance beldea belden a girl bin with a dual personality for w which h her saddle nose to Is in part responsible mcnamara does not think she Is st a criminal and obtains burts testimony in court lanny the doctors office nurse Is also won over nances bances crl criminal record outweighs doctor burls explanation of her case came and she oho Is in sent to san quentin penitentiary nance escapes although shot and goes to dannys apartment from which by uc mc damaras Na maras orders she Is removed to the chiefs chief home prom from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped mcnamara learns learn that nances bances real name Is in penelope gatlin he also discovers that she Is heiress to fearful of mcnamara in his official capacity nance flees been lanny finds her in her apartment asleep knowing detectives are on her trail she disappears and mcnamara learns that she has sailed nailed for france CHAPTER VIII continued 19 santa claus has been good to you two he well are you both willing to go back to your regular jobs now flynn threw the money on the chiefs ahlers desk we swore an oath he began but mcnamara cut him short so have 11 II he be reminded flynn fiercely we know every move youve youre made in this case flynn shout shouted dd and I 1 knew every move you were going to make before you m made ade it Angello tl tucked his present in his pocket come on flynn he urged 1 I cant be called oft off for money flynn persisted stubbornly dan marn swept the money on his desk into the drawer the widows and orphans of the emens benevolent and protective association will be glad to get this on your way you and your oath flynn sighed deeply and went out fifteen minutes later he be came back and nd said humbly chief pre ive changed my mind alas I 1 mcnamara was irish too ile he glanced at the dock clock youre fifteen minutes late so ill fine you two hundred and fifty dollars tor for tardiness and impudence and disloyalty and housebreaking ill get you for this mcnamara maral 1 1 I dont doat think so sly my advice to you pat flynn would be to quit with TNT ive known detective ser geanes to be taken for a ride threatening me eh not at all I 1 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 state reward for recapturing that girl and when she sends you double that youre not sport enough to meet her halfway half halt way 1 I took an oath flynn mumbled you should have bare taken a physic well I 1 did take an emetic chief ill never forgive you those tear and stink bombs well you shadowed my house and entered it unlawfully well I 1 found a lipstick pa belonged to the nurse I 1 had bad looking after a sick friend of mine the chief lied glibly 4 but flynn only grinned ferociously 1 I found stained bandages too well the pot cant get nowhere by calling the kettle black mcnamara decided clear give me the money and ill lay oft off but dan mcnamara shook his head 1 I know your kind pat theres no sense wasting good money on you because you wont stay bought clear out I 1 tell you so flynn cleared out carrying with hla him infinitely more respect for or his chief than lie had heretofore entertained well some day hed collect heavy interest on that two hundred and fifty dollars 0 the th last patient had left stephen burts office for the day and the ever watchful lanny had locked the office door tired stevie Stev le she queried anxiously as he loaded his bis pipe no ko of course not he be replied abruptly what have I 1 done to be atred well you had another session with that terrible mrs merton she weary me any more she merely excites my sympathy still sleepless of course and still bothered about her poor devil of a husband shai had detectives on his trail for a month cost her ten dollars a day each and they discovered anything to mertens Mer tons discredit its about time for mrs merton to commence hearing voices of sorts lanny commented dryly highball nigh ball stevie yes thank you lanny he said and deluged lanny with his sunny smile yes mrs merton la Is hearing voices her first husband who Is dead keeps whispering through space to her ties nes trying to tell her how bow sorry lie he Is I 1 understand he made a dirty will ne ile would it if he had any common sense what a poor beaten devil mer ton nn Is ile he the courage of a ouse i by PETER be B KYNE by bill bell syndicate service Berv lc what can he do lanny hla his wife la Is unbalanced but if he swears out a warrant charging her with insanity shell snap out of her lunacy mrs merton sufficiently insane to be incarcerated and ashes a beautiful woman well to do respect respectable ab le merton pet get to first ba base se 0 on n an insanity warrant then why he divorce her on grounds of 0 mental cruelty the roans mans chivalrous and profoundly sympathetic resides besides he any witnesses to prove a charge of mental cruelty and he cant run away from her because he has a thriving bustness business 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 ana to try some other doctor she went out in a rage lanny jumped up now who do you suppose that Is knocking your office hours are plainly printed on the door oh ob lanny dont be so hard boiled let the patient in chos there lanny shouted angrily oil oh I 1 so its you Is it I 1 knew you were there the voice of dan mcnamara boomed lanny unlocked the door lucky for you youre not a nuts cut dan stevie and I 1 are lust just pinning one on ill join you it if the case mcnamara niara mars proffered his huge hand that resembled nothing so much in life as a bunch of bananas howdy medico lied ile he planted himself in the visitors 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 in paris can you beat that 1 I can mcnamara replied coolly ashes got an apartment at twenty seven rue st honore II onore with a cook and a maid and a chauffeur who drives her around in a cytroen car and ashes having her picture painted ashes written you too then a line I 1 have my Inform information on from the prefect of pollee police of paris dan youre marvelously more lanny ashes living with her normal personality how do you know I 1 she registered as required by law under her real name of penelope gat q get over to paris as quick as you can 11 mcnamara commanded lin ive known her name since the day after her escape from san quentin mcnamara proceeded to relate the tale he had previously related to stephen who had neglected to retail it to lanny well if this a h I 1 of a tale talc danl dan I 1 she said does ft it beat your news I 1 lanui nn beats it by a mile although while she was at my house she told me as much about herself as she could remember this morning mcnamara continued the president of the security trust company telephoned me that the girls mother had called him up to ask ash if penelope had been cashing any checks lately the banker gathered that the mother has a notion her laughters daughters dead she like the idea of having to wait seven years to have the girl declared officially dead before she can lay claim to penelopep Pen elopes esta estate te did you yon find out the name of her mother stephen asked oli oil yes ashes married again you understand naturally she get any information out of the banker lies iles on to her and it was none bione of her business whether penelope has been cashing checks or not gei get the girls case record lanny stephen commanded what Is her mothers name chief mrs rudolph merton merlon ashes a patient of St Stev evies lesl I 1 lanny yelled ashes such a nut the squirrels chase her stephen finished writing and laid down his pen 1 I told you lanny that mrs merton insane enough to be confined guess ive got cot lainys news new beaten after all stephen this mrs rudolph merton Is IB the girls girl foster mother hooray noo rayl I 1 hooray I 1 hooray I 1 cried L lanny a n 1 how 1 d do 0 you know knewt did the th derl ba banker n k tell e 1 1 ayou your r no I 1 dug the information up myself why how flow 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 courthouse in san jose and sent up to me gatlin stated in the will 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 dollars 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 she know anything about her mother lanny decla declared red 1 I asked her but she could tell we me nothing and she was penelope gatlin when I 1 asked her there Is a reason for that doctor 33 burts arts scientific mind was already racing along this new trail penelope 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 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 find and she must have assurance that never again wit will she be subjected to the old ness by the way I 1 wonder it if pen penelope el was a love child have you yon look looked ed up her parentage dan dana 1 I cant you ask mrs merton about the girl 1 I suppose I 1 could but if lunacy ran in the family of her father or mother im not going to bother with penelope it if you decide to take her on well have to get her back into this city mcnamara mourned and flynn will pick her up well fix her nose first lanny said mcnamara beamed upon her her criminal photographs and Ber bernillon Bertl tIllon llon measurements are gone to glory lanny what did penelope say in her letter 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 dollars but as the other she remember who gave it to her said lanny get over to parts paris as quick as you can mcnamara commanded or shell be stealing the eiffel tower stephen cant spare me said lanny stephen can spare you he decided its got to be mcnamara urged nance fled the town with a letter of credit for ten thousand but bill shell go through that like a weasel through a rat hole take a bankroll ban kroll with you lanny and when you get there take charge of her funds and have her nose done over while youre there stephen urged theres a hitch said lanny the girl evidently got a passport in new york not in new york in san francisco mcnamara interrupted well will a strange photograph on her passport get her back into the united states she can go to the american consul in paris and present proof that sites 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 tor for the girl have half a dozen new passport photographs of her taken and send them and her passport to roe 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 make me a seal that would too fool the american eagle himself well fit it dou don n over the old seal and stamp the new photograph then ill send it back to you and may god have mercy on my soul for you can blackmail me for that the longest day I 1 live dan cried TO BE CONTINUED |
