Show IK golden dawn by peter 13 kyne copyright by bell syndicate SYNOPSIS theodor Tl rodoro 0 gatlin gatlan adopts adopt a baby penelope in 11 ah effort to solve olvo hll his matrimonial Isi troubles but bin hi wit wife has ha mover wanted her and their affairs affair end and in the divorce court ten year old polope Po patio lope lops Is I 1 riven into th 0 keeping of mrs mr gatlin at a baseball base bali game a B ball strikes talk penelope on the nose mrs gattin spirits the child to europe gatlin wills will penelope all his hi money and Is I 1 about to begin i a search for dorher I 1 her when 1 motor accident ends end his hi life some bom ten years year liter later in sin san Pran clico stephon stephen burt bum rising young psychiatrist to I 1 presented by dan chief ot of pollee police with a now new patient nance belden a carl with dual personality for or which her meddle none noe in 1 in part mcnamara does doea not think she h Is I 1 a criminal and obtain burts burt testimony monr in court lanny the doctor office nurse none Is I 1 also won over nance ori criminal minLI record outweighs doctor burt explanation of her case and she tie to I 1 sent lent to san quentin penitentiary tanny lanny visits her and nance persuades persuade her to smuggle out a letter which a confederate of nance teals steals nance on el capes although shot and goes BOM to lanny nys apartment lanny tells chief thamara amara who orders her to bring biln nance to him hl apartment details of bances nances escape are made public CHAPTER IV continued 10 A throaty growl got to doc got to protect society moiety stephen looked puzzled so the chief continued it I 1 let that girl graduate from san quentin Quent ln shell come out with a broader knowledge of crime and trickery and a greater contempt for society than when she went in the only kind of criminal I 1 fear Is the smart one I 1 can always catch the boobs blobs promptly but sometimes it takes a long time to get acquainted with the artistic genius of a real craftsman like writers doc they have a style all their own and youve youre got to learn their style and about the time you think youve learned it you pick up some bird guilty and he the man you thought he was iles hes just stolen his masters stuff nance nanca belden Is too brilliant to turn loose on the world doc ashes a leader a leader ot of men shed make the balls and her crew would fire them and always be covered up he ruffled ruined his pompadour well doc ive gotten her away from her gang bang ashes lost them and lost her and they must never get her back would you like to know who they aberl are of course im normally curious 11 1 I can find out tor for you said stephen nowr how dan mcnamara looked doubt doubtful fill nance will tell mi me 11 youre crazy doc you dont know the code they die but they dont squeal there Is honor in their dishonor and in their weakness there Is a strength that amazes me she do it voluntarily of course but lust just now in her weakened state rm im sure I 1 could hypnotize her get her to look fixedly into a mirror you know like this once I 1 secure control of her subconscious mind shell answer my questions and after I 1 wa keher up shell have complete amnesia tor for the experience she will never know she beached on her pals CHAPTER V the chief smiled of course I 1 know that hypnotism Is being used by advanced psychiatrists and particularly by morton prince and william me dougall ive read their books the modern chief of pollee police modern doc if he a pretty good lay psychologist and psychiatrist I 1 dont know what a criminologist Is but I 1 suppose hes a bird that studies the criminal actions and tendencies of criminals and tries to reduce crime to its ita lowest common divisor the bunk the thing to do Is to know their minds and why they act like they do if you can cure what makes them go criminology becomes a dead science yes I 1 know all about hypnotism and I 1 know something youve forgotten your power of sugg suggestion on a patient in the hypnotic state powerful enough to make him steal or commit murder if hes an honest man hta hla acquired instincts of morality which lie ile to in his bis subconscious mind are too strong for you and the most powerful acquired instinct in the mind of a crook Is that he squeal thava his hl idea of Immortal immortality ityl 1 you try it on nance belden and shell tell you almost anything but who her friends are where they live and how they make a living well we shall sel sec at another time meanwhile what are you going to do with this girl you cant keep her here because dangerous unless you have her watched and whom can you trust to watch her ilow how abut lanny dannyl Lan Larm nyls my office nurse and I 1 can not set get alone alons without her she tinder onder suspicion now and weve got to kill that shell be watched will she he not 1 I suppose so BO even it if I 1 passage ithe word to lay off her I 1 can never be sure one ot of my men wont watch her independently on a case where it would 1 be a big feather 1 in hla 11 cap and mean a lot ot of publicity to capture a celebrated criminal lots ot of dicks prefer to work alone and in secret then lanny must not come to your house again and yet this girl must b be parked somewhere until her wound b heals ata abes suffering from the shock of this emotional experience now ashes lost considerable blood and suffered some pain and forgive for five hours ashes suffered from exposure her garments are soaking wet rif if she forgot to tell those men to b bring r ing somo some dry clothing tor for her to hop bop into once she got cot aboard the boat my heart will just about break thaia that would be one flaw in a perfect job and I 1 cant stand flaws and dan mcnamara strode into the room where nance lay with her hand in dannys Lan nys why you tell your friend to bring you some dry e lothes clothes he demanded nance smiled up at lanny he thinks im a nut nul after all lanny why of course I 1 overlook that detail I 1 changed my clothes but when shen we crossed the bay it was rough and there was a police boat on our trall ne he had to outrun them and you do forty miles an hour through a mile of rips and all but drown in the spray 1 thank god for that the chief murmured im proud of you and your friends nance I 1 hope neither of them was hit for the barest fraction of a second nance hesitated then answered no they got through all right but how they did Is a mystery the boat was riddled dan mcnamara came back into the living room and on his heavy face was the faintest most cryptic of grins rm im going to get one or both of nances bances friends doc he exulted one of them was hit and hell have to have medical attention not that I 1 want to land either one cine of them for 0 a the tha chief watched stephen put up his car this job but because I 1 want to give them the once over at that they might be somebody were looking tor for did nance tell you one of them had been hit no but she hesitated half a second when she told me neither of them had been hit she never hesitates ordinarily her ordination coordination co Is lightning fast well you get so doc that you know when lying go to the telephone call up your home and ask it if youve had any telephone calls within the past hour stephen obeyed and was informed that a man who refused to leave his name bad called up three times and had bad left word he would call again that he had seemed very anxious to know when the doctor would return 1 I knew it I 1 knew lt nan dan me mc Na kamaras maras pride in his own perspicacity was wag almost juvenile 1 I figured nance would tell them to go to you and ill make another prophecy admit they are friends of hers and that she sent them there ashes told them youre her friend and that not turn them up to me A wounded c rook crook Is always up against it doc unless he knows a crooked doctor the hospitals and ninety nine and nine tenths of the doctors will report to the pollee police when they receive a call from a patient suffering from knife or gunshot ashot wounds and in this case the radios have broadcast the warning of 0 two hundred and fifty dollars out for nance too standing state reward for recapturing an escaped convict come on doc ill go to your home with you and pick dick these birds up no you shall not I 1 turn those two men over to you for ten thousand dollars too yes they have guts guta they can be trusted on a particular job I 1 want to put through word of honor steve rii ill not pinch them I 1 lust just want to talk with them A block from stephens home dan mcnamara got out of the doctor docto rs car he had already received from Step stephen ilen burt burl a description of toe the ground floor plan of his house and stephen hod had agreed to leave his latchkey under tte tie mat at the front door the chief watched stephen put up his hi car carand and enter his hi home boma A aught was shin shining ingin in the entrance hall ban aaa and this light stephen in accordance with the chiefs instructions twitched switched om off la in about five minutes the chief saw this light switched on and ott oft twice that meant the doctor had received another telephone message then the light was switched on and off ten times holes that meant the patient would arrive in about ten tell minutes so BO dan mcnamara hid bid himself in the deep shadow of a trades mans entrance at the side of a house across the streets street and waited in ten minutes almost to the second a car with drawn curtains drove up to the house and two men got out the chief could see that one of them had to have hare assistance so BO the driver got out and helped the other man half drag half carry the wounded man up the steps stephen opened the door and the three men entered immediately mcnamara ran across the street and up the front steps behind them found the latchkey under the mat opened the door ana and stepped inside ile he could hear bear voices in stephens stephena reception room so he drew his pistol and stepped silently up to the entrance of it put em up boys he ordered cheerfully he drew back his left lapel and revealed his bis blue and gold shield no necessity to argue in the smoke this a hanging matter he forced the two unwounded men to stand with their backs back toward him while he ran his facile hands bands over their persons and relieved each of a pistol he broke both guns and placed the cartridges in his pocket 1 I beg your pardon doctor for entering your house unannounced but you left your front door un latched and I 1 resist I 1 had bad a notion these men might call upon you just a hunch because the warden tipped us off to watch the home of your office nurse miss Lan lanning alrig so while watching the home of the servant I 1 concluded to watch that of the master also sit down boys never mind us ua doc the man on the table needs all of your attention fix him up nicely and let him lie he there until I 1 come back ile he cant run away and it if he tries dont you let him you other men come with me down to the central office till I 1 see it if we have anything on you I 1 dont appear to have the honor of your acquaintance but well look the rogues gallery over and compare fingerprints while theres life theres therea h hope pe I 1 youre all wet chief the driver of the car replied pertly perhaps but not as wet as your friends and mcnamara chuckled at his little joke you cant do forty an hour through the tlde tide rips off alcatraz Alca trai island without throwing some spray you got an open fireplace in your house doctor stephen saw raw that mcnamara was pretending they had not previously met yes calfin calef rin the drawings drawing room irs all set 1 I want to warm these boys up and dry them out they did good work this afternoon and they deserve good treatment drop that wounded man long enough to dig up a couple of stiff jolts of frumenti trumen tl for my lads will you doc I 1 always warm a cold man from the outside in and from the inside out thank you chief both men muttered the three retired to the drawing room and the chief tossed one of the men a box of matches fire up he commanded then draw yourself up to the blaze and drink the gro grog the doctor will give you wheres your your pal hit bit top of the right shoulder calf of the left ae leg and biceps of the left arm so hes the chap that dragged N nance ance out of the water eh ue ile was in the rear cockpit but you were up front driving the boat there are forty bullet holes in the rear of that boat boal he sighed these machine guns certainly spray things you drop your own machine gun overboard either too valuable and hard to get A thompson I 1 suppose eup pose A tommy gun and a tommy man danl I 1 visiting vl bret brethren bren from chicago I 1 suppose why we met before pardon me a minute while I 1 look for the tommy gun in your car and if you want to die in a hurry just try beating it out the back way while im gone ile he returned in less than a minute with the one man machine gun la in his hands weve got nance belden where you dropped her he announced so while youre lapping up that whisky tell me all about it so nance told you where to look for us eh the man who had handled bandied the motor boat spoke with withering contempt and hatred instantly dan mcnamara cuffed him viciously on the side of the head apologize tor for that he roared youre ere so dd d d crooked you think everybody else Is too the man mumbled an apology no nance tell me you rat mcnamara went weilt on and I 1 ask her because I 1 knew she tell but I 1 did think shed tip you off to call on this doctor you dropped her at the home of his office nurse I 1 put two and two together and decided to investigate vesti gate all by myself and here we are got any idea why I 1 came alone no because I 1 wanted to save you from the consequences of the job you pulled off this afternoon im in sympathy with that and as far as im concerned nance belden going back to sao quentin Quent ln and she going back to your gang either now you play the game with me and ill play it with you double cross we me and ill liao ban something hard on you ou and you and your friends wont be heard of in pub lie ile for a long time TO BE |