| Show GOLDEN DAWN SYNOPSIS theodore catlin gatlan baby which he b names name penelope in a final effort to solve hi big matrimonial troubles but his bl affo wa has never wanted her and their affairs end in the divorce court ton ten year old penelope Is given into the keeping of mrs catlin at a baseball came cam a ball strikes penelope on the nose mrs catlin spirits the child to europe catlin retires from business will penelope Pen clop all his hi money and Is a about to begin a search for or his dauch ter when a M motor 0 or accident ends his life some ten years year later in san francisco stephen burt rising young psychiatrist in I 1 presented by dan mcnamara chief ot of police with a now new patient nance belden a girl with a dual personality son sona lity allty for which her saddle 8 nose to Is in part responsible acnam mcnamara aa does not think she Is a criminal and obtains burts testimony in court lanny the doctor office nurse Is also won over nances bances criminal record outweighs outweigh doctor burts explanation of her ease case and she Is sent to san ban quentin penitentiary lanny visits her and nance persuades her to smuggle out a letter which a confederate of nance steals nance escapes although shot by swimming to a speedboat speed boat manned by friends and goes to dannys apartment lanny tells chief mcnamara Namara Uc who orders her to bring brine nance to his bis apartment CHAPTER IV continued 9 those cops at your house will stick around launy lanny and when you return want to know whore where youve been what are you going to tell them 7 tell them nothing let those two cops tit sit in their car in front of my house all night and watch it what do I 1 care at least keep burglars away and when finally they do round me up and waltz me down to central station to be questioned do the questioning will you not lanny said ald dan mcnamara it if you were a man and on the force id make you a detective sergeant youre at bear cat what you are but you smuggled that letter out of san quentin for nance and turned it over to sapphire susie 1 Inde indeed edl I 1 well let me tell you dan mcnamara that im a respectable woman and I 1 never associate it I 1 know it with ladles known to the police by such names maybe you know it but you gave sapphire susie a lift in your car from the main gate at san quentin down to Green brae the guard remembers seeing her hanging around the main gate as if she was walting waiting for somebody later she got into a coupe with a middle aged lady who looked so res respectable actable he took another look at the pass she had just surrendered to him and remembers that the name on the pass was yours the pass entitled you to visit nance belden guards may not remember such incidents until something happens then thea fast on their feet lanny and who if you please Is sapphire susie ashes did a stretch at san quentin for far blackmail she was discharged 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 want to confide the minute details of her plan of escape to susie susies a swell looker but a little bit dumb she levied blackmail through the mall mail understand der 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 letter and deliver it dan I 1 assure you I 1 in any plot to effect efrece a prison delivery it if id thought for an instant I 1 was doing anything wrong why nance told me to read her letter and it if I 1 disapproved of its contents to destroy it it I 1 see any harm in that you violated the rules of the prison and you could be punished for it by a term in that same prison im a respectable woman that gets you nowhere I 1 was a respectable spec table chief of police once and now look at me if your part in this leaks out you can only be punished and you cant be convicted unless you talk in your sleep it my part in this should leak out ill be punished and disgraced and thrown out of the best job rye ive ever had he raised his glass to her mud in your eye lanny happy days dan you gorgeous softy the doorbell rang dan opened it and doctor burt stepped in lie paused in amazement at sight of lanny glass in hand she motioned him with it down i the hall first door at the end stevie find your patient there that girl with the dissociated personality sona lity nance belden escaped from san quentin late this afternoon chief stephen began and handed the latter a newspaper big story first woman to escape from san quentin ne ile gazed severely upon lanny what are you doing here lanny all h I 1 to pay stevie dear and no pitch hot that celden belden girl Is here with a bullet hole in her shoulder ashes suffering buffering from shock and submersion and chill and loss of blood and ashes cold as a peng penguins julns tall tail ive given her a stiff noggin of dans terrible booze and a fortieth of a grain of and an alcohol rub ashes sleeping did you bring those hot water bottles yes he said humbly indicating a bag he carried L lanny anny 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 develop pneumonia stevie doctor DM lor eurt burt stood looking down at me sleeping sleep ln nance nalice out of the war by PETER be B KYNE copyright tr by bell syndicate service dens arms and straight into yours you guessed shed call on lanny eh dan youre an old fox no doe doc im not A fox has brains iles hes a lamb stevie just a big ram lamb while lanny was assisting doctor burt 1 in dressing nance Bel beldina beldens Beld dens cna wound dan mcnamara sat in his plain little living room and read the story of 0 her escape from san quentin Quent ln it appeared that throughout all of sunday afternoon two men in a motor boat had been anchored in the cove cov e off san quentin apparently fishing for or striped bass which abound at this particular point in san francisco bay there were other boats anchored there also eight in all the guard at the entrance to the quarters had observed them until about four thirty p m just before locking up time a guard in one of the lookout towers on the hill had telephoned him that a boat had approached close to the shore the guard had thereupon stepped out of his klosk kiosk and around to the rear of it which faced toward the beach less than thirty feet distant ue 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 that they help it that their motor had gone dead and that the tide had set them in that they were trying to make repairs and would be oft off its as soon as they could while the guard was in the rear of his station engaged in this conversation on nance belden had approached the gate kicked off her shoes and digging her toes into the quarter luch inch wire mosli 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 telephoned to the guard tit at the main gate also to the guard arguing with the men in the motorboat upon hearing the telephone bell ringing in his station that guara had walked back into it at the same time keeping the klosk kiosk between her and 1 I 1 never picked him up doc the approaching guard nanc belden had dashed down to the beao beach and commence swimming rapidly toward t the he motorboat motor boat the motor of which instantly started and the boet boat commenced edging in to pick her up when the guard in the klosk kiosk apprised 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 motorboat motor boat promptly came into action against him ile he had not been hit but a shower of bullets 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 fired once at the belden woman and hit her but immediately thereafter fearful of being killed he had thrown himself flat on the ground the guard in the watchtower watch tower on the hill had then brought his machine gun into action ills first burst had been short and drew answering f alre ire from the machine gunner in the b boat oat although the range was four hundred yards the first burst from the ile 1 motorboat tore through the wooden n watchtower which rather distracted the at aim ul of the guard there nevertheless the latter stuck to his gun and continued to fire spattering bullets around the swimming girl and lato into the boat the men in the boat did not hesitate but came on through the hall hail of bullets the escaping prisoner had in the meanwhile either sunk or dived at any rate a widening tinge of red appeared on the water she was down about thirty seconds then her head emerged close to the boat and she swam with one arm to the side of it a man reached over and grasped tier lier under both arms and jerked her into the boat which instantly turned put on full breed and raced away close past two other boats fearful of killing innocent people the guard in the watchtower held his fire until the escaping boat was in the clear then he and tho the guard in another tower came into action again but a target moving at a speed of forty five miles an hour Is not easily lilt hit the fire was either over or short and the boat did not i stop when it was out of range it turned and in the rapidly fading light of the winter 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 adesime to run up marquinez carquinez straits to the sacramento or the san joaquin rivers land and escape in a waiting auto automobile mobil e into central california the warden realized that his quarry was not lacking in intelligence that fast as they led fled they would realize that the telephone Is faster that the roar of their motor must betray them a mile away lie had therefore taken the precaution to notify the chiefs of police of pittsburg martinez Martl nez Sau sausalito nich mond berkeley oakland and san francisco leaving to these the task of notifying intermediate points the warden haa had a suspicion the fugitives would double back to san fran francisco casco particularly since the girl was wounded and must be hidden in order to receive medical attention and here she Is dan mcnamara SIc Namara muttered cripes Cr lpes what a woman lord how I 1 love a woman with brains and courage just a little simple matter of taking pains and ta taking king risks she go in to the dining hall tor for dinner with the other prisoners smartt smart 1 knew she make a fast swin swim on a full stomach smart enough ta t notice the wardens oversight in falling to fill 1111 in with barbed wire topping that eighteen inch space at the top of 0 his gate of course they figured they bother with that because no woman could climb a sixteen foot wire mesh fence anyhow and it if she did shed 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 friends in the boat did that she knew shed keen been seen from the watchtower watch tower on the hill and the guard at the gates notified by telephone as be returned from the edge of the beach around the south side of his bis klosk kiosk nance slipped by him on the north side and was in the water as the guard took up the phone smartt smart she knew no guard will stick under 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 it all and I 1 know ashes a nut and then straight to lanny for medical attention straight to the one human being sho she knew she could trust no ill not send her back and I 1 dont particularly want to catch her friends either ill say friends I 1 wish I 1 had a couple of friends come on through machine gun fire for met mel I 1 had thought the world was selfish and cruel and thieving and lying but theres nobility left in it after all stephen burt came out of the bedroom and sat down and stared at the chief of police with grave interest well my good good javert he be said presently your good what 1 I called you javert dont you know who javert was dan mcnamara SIc Namara shook his head 1 I never picked him up doe doc 11 you lie he was a character in les Mise a novel by victor hugo lie was a fly cop in paris and lie he pursued an ex convict named jean valjean for twenty years because he believed the man was a crook once onca a crook always a crook was jagerts Ja verts 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 man which proved extremely embarrassing to javert 1 I understand how that could be all right doe doc what did javert do then theal lie he climbed up on the railing of a bridge over the seine gnp unpinned enned hla his shield threw it into the river and jumped in after it ile he committed suicide in order to give his man the breaks exactly well dan mcnamara Namara SIc decided after pondering this a halt half minute 1 I be boob enough to do that thal lie ile should have made a stool pigeon out of jean valjean and maybe hed have gotten somewhere in ills his job stephen smiled ue he liked this heavy man with the celtic face as inscrutable as a Chin amans As a specialist in mental diseases he be knew the part heredity plays in the formation of character and one did not have to look at the chief twice to know that he came of courageous ancestry no vague tears fears or anxieties in this fellow stephen thought courageous men are usually honest men even when they are not honert they are sufficiently courageous to pay the price no matter how high for the things they do with their eyes open to pay it cheerfully and retrain refrain thereafter from whimpering so youre going to protect this girl are you chief TO BE CONTINUED |
