| Show golden dawn by peter be B kyne copyright by bell syndicate sortie service SYNOPSIS theodore gatlin adopts a baby penelope in an effort to solve olve his matrimonial troubles but his wife ha has never wanted her and their affairs end la in the divorce court at a baseball game fame a ball strikes ten len year old penelope on the nose mrs gatlin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills penelope all his money and Is about to begin a search for tier her when a motor accident ends his life some ten years later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist psych latr lit Is presented by dan mcnamara chief of police with a now new patient nance bemen belden a girl with a dual personality tor for which her saddle caddie nose Is in part responsible mcnamara does not think stio she Is a criminal and obtains burts burta testimony in court lanny the doctors office nurse Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs doctor burts burls explanation of her case and she Is sent to san quentin penitentiary nance escapes although shot and goes to dannys apartment from one of the men in the boat on which the girl escaped mcnamara learns that nances bances real name Is penelope guilin ile he also discovers that she Is heiress to fearful of mcnamara in his official capacity narce flees dees lanny finds her in her apartment asleep then she disappears and mcnamara learns that she Is living in paris CHAPTER VIII continued 20 this was too much lanny put her arms around him and kissed him on each cheek and a seal get by too dan was embarrassed lanny was too so she took a hasty departure the two men stared after her admiration mir mi ration atlon in their eyes A d d fine woman that none finer said mcnamara why dont you marry herr her the suggestion popped out of doctor burt as suddenly as it had occurred to him now theres an idea mcnamara mumbled dazedly now how long have you been mulling it over subconsciously since you entered the office I 1 caught a gleam in dannys eyes and when shi she kissed you the subconscious crystallized crystall zed into the conscious ill think it over not think it over mac make up your mind now and I 1 can IT A leevi R a V 4 pa AM 40 y il y ka 4 i L Y maw M 4 this was wa too much lanny put her arms arm around him and kissed him on each cheek get along without her although the going will be pretty skiddy but of course shell marry you if you ask her lanny never proffers her friendships or her loves on the halt half shell and theres still time my boy still time not it if she goes to paris ive heard of pollee police chiefs securing a leave of absence for six months 1 I 1 take a six months honeymoon to paris lad ive saved eight thousand dollars what you a chief of police and only worth eight thousand dollars god help me boy im honest stephen roared his merriment why you great jackass I 1 know that I 1 let every man have lanny but dont you worry about money lanny Is a business woman ashes managed me since I 1 was a boy and that includes my finances im loaded up with good dividend paying stocks you know I 1 could be a mighty good friend to the man who would be good to lanny ill consider the proposition the cautious celt replied although rd id rather be a bachelor than a disappointed is A lover tell you what to do mac stephen advised send her a nice photograph of yourself if she puts it in a silver frame you may proceed with conal dence A how will I 1 know my boy if its in a silver frame on the dressing table in her bedroom be a cinch Il lowll I 1 get In into her bedroom you blockhead ill steal her latchkey and have a duplicate made then you yon can investigate mcnamara rose and held out his hand it a pity stephen Step lien my boy you arent in my detective bureau good night the annual parade of the police force was but a week distant and during that week dan lived entirely on orange juice and spent his nights in a turkish bath As a result he dropped eight pounds off his northern elevation very erect and martial he sat on a milk white charger while a photographer took look several exposures of him and his bis command when the prints were delivered to him he sent them all to lanny with a note saying now that we are both in the same crooked conspiracy I 1 thought you might be interested in having the latest photograph of odthe the biggest crook of them all the following day stephen Step lien burt sent him a key and the following afternoon mcnamara let himself into lan nys house and discovered one of the photos on her dressing table and in a gold framel frame I 1 another print in a silver frame appeared in her drawing room holy oly moses he im in for it now I 1 god help me theres no do escape 1 CHAPTER IX upon his return to his office mcnamara mena na mara found in his mall mail a photograph of lanny indorsed endorsed Indor sed to dear old dan from his partner in crime lanny while he was gazing upon it and telling himself how little justice the portrait did the beloved subject stephen telephoned demanding that lie he come to the office lanny was in tears ive just fa had d another visit from mrs merton If erton dan stephen began it seems that after two years of inactivity during which time she had elected to believe penelope gatlin dead she has developed a crazy notion to prove it she wants to get penelopep Pen elopes fortune you questioned her about her daughter yes but she know it said stephen Step lien 1 I hypnotized her first and spent an hour questioning her and it appears that this morning she visited your captain of detectives and asked him to throw out a dragnet to lochte locate penelope gatlin she brought him film some snap snapshots of the girl told him her real name all about her money the girls habits babits and peculiarities evera everything thin when id discovered enough to put lanny in tears I 1 awakened mrs alerton and sent her away happy but bill with this command firmly planted in her subconscious mind midd she must not think of the name penelope gatlin when I 1 awakened her I 1 asked her it if she had bad an adopted daughter she replied surprised that she had bad I 1 then asked her the name of this adopted daughter and a look of terror came caDle over her face for the life of her she think of the name and begged me not to mention it if I 1 knew it its a pity you think of doing that before she went to the detective bureau with her information mcnamara cried and called up the security trust company the captain of detectives has pit flynn and ang Angello elloul tl on the case he be announced drearily when he be had hung up and flynn has already been to the bank making inquiries when be presented his credentials the cashier showed him everything identity identify that girl as nance belden trace her to paris as readily as I 1 did and the french government will be notified that penelope li Is an escaped convict they will immediately deport her and flynn will meet her at hoboken mut but cant you do anything about iti it dan lanny pleaded Not nothing hingl 1 flynn and Angello tl are on the trail officially now he stared at lanny tragically im out gut ot of the picture now and can do nothing but advise you send kwoi cables one to nance belden in paris and the other to penelope gatlin at the same address say come at once lanny dying cable name vessel on which leaving and sign it steve ill meet her at the dock stephen decided im due in new york next week do nothing of the sort said dan ill send that convict in my house ile he shuddered and grimaced in his distress 1 I could handle the with money but flynn has sworn an oath I 1 and because ive mado made a monkey out of him hell keep it hed rather make a monkey out of roe me now than acquire great riches and it if im broke most likely the captain of detectives tec tives will step into my shoes and flynn will stand a good chance of becoming captain of detectives oh mur de ration lanny darll darling ng have you a little whisky in the house im id faint so I 1 am youre suffering from heart trouble you egg lanny cried savagely yes 1 A weak heart a soft heart a human heart send that cable he roared yes get busy lanny stephen urged the bird of time has but a little way to flutter and the wretched fowl Is on the alie way after dan mcnamara had left his office doctor stephen burt gazed with mild disapproval upon lanny unlike you and dan mcnamara inara he said 1 I dislike havin having the peaceful tenor of my life disturbed this intal intrigue ue Is myrrh and incense to me stevie 1 I know it you and dan love a fight tor for its own sweet sake but I 1 do not I 1 have a particular aversion to grand jury indictments and it Is a possibility lity you and your boy friend have let me in for fiddlesticks lanny ill be angry with you in a minute now listen to me and whatever you do do not talk back dan mcnamara has run out on us I 1 mean you lies iles through dans rattled if he been hed never have ordered the sending of such a tool fool cablegram dan mcnamara knows his way about lanny defended iles hes more than nine years old so do L 1 lanny it will be highly dangerous to send that cablegram how Is she to know it a message to decoy her back to the if the she receives it while ashes penelope gatlin she Is extremely liable to cable for confirmation before acting on it agat th at would mean a delay of not less lesa than twenty four hours on the other hand band if she Is nance belden when she receives it 14 she will leave paris openly and walk right into the hands bands of the new york police im not much of a detective but tonight im a better one than that mcnamara SIc Namara idiot iles hes not an idiot hes one of the finest men I 1 ever knew 1 keep quiet he ordered severely you ditch my train of thought ue he drew a sheet of paper toward coward him I 1 and commenced writing while lanny glowered at him presently he sat up and read grave danger stop beat it some other country traveling by motor stop upon arrival cable address stop if need funds will cable them stop leave paris establishment going concern stop atop go out for walk and disappear stop unless these instructions followed you leave trail for persecutors to follow mae mac he looked up how do those instructions strike you TO BE CONTINUED |
